Legislature adjourns sine die after 1905 session end
Twenty ninth Texas legislature closes after passing the general election bill and a $6 008 662 two year appropriation with total session outlays of $7 530 662. Willacy elected senate president pro tem. Speaker Sea bury endorsed. governor Lanham thanks members as session ends.
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Austin
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Free Conference Committee
Senate
Willacy
Faulk
Seabury
O'Bryan
George W. Barcus
Waco
Jacksonville Independent School District
Gulf Coast
Colorado River
Lanham
Party in Panhandle Tour by Secretary Wilson and Experts
Secretary Wilson and agricultural department experts on a southwest tour pass through the Texas Panhandle. The party traveled by day from Oklahoma City on a Rock Island special train. At Amarillo they inspected a proposed government experimental station and then visited Channing where a station already operates, showing strong interest in local experiments.
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Channing
Tex
Agricultural Department
Southwest
Panhandle
Texas
Oklahoma City
Rock Island
Amarillo
Storms Crush Homes In Texas County Watch
A May 15 storm in Titus County Texas killed a boy named Bounds and injured twenty others. The grandmother Mrs Justiss lost her house and several families suffered wrecked residences. A nurse sustained a scalp wound and a daughter broke a limb. In Daingerfield a boy was gored by a cow, losing a throat wound from a horn strike.
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Tex
Titus
Bounds
Justiss
Daingerfield
J. W. Phillips
Rooster Attacks Eggs in Mexican Farmer's Nest
Set Rooster Van Alstyne May 15 Faustine Delgado, a Mexican, watched a rooster on sixteen eggs. As a chick pipped the shell the rooster grabbed it by the head and threw them from the nest.
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van Alstyne
Tex
Slain by Lightning and Other Local News in Texas
Three miles south of Hearne a little negro girl was killed by lightning, another had a limb broken and a third severely shocked as the house was wrecked. Mae Yates of Prairieville bitten by mad calf and seeking Pasteur treatment in Austin. T D Todd and his niece struck by lightning near Denton and left unconscious. J B Clifton of Pilot Point fatally trampled by a horse. Kansas City marks the last day of the Southern Baptist convention after three sessions and much business.
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Kansas City
Southern Baptist Convention
Ex-Confederate Prisoner Mac Stewart to be Freed in Mexico
Mac Stewart, long jailed in Chihuahua's state penitentiary for life for killing a Mexican policeman, is to be pardoned by President Diaz and deported to the United States on June 1. Governor Lanham says the move follows a Twenty-ninth legislature resolution urging Stewart's pardon. In other state news, the deficiency bill funds newspaper notices on Confederate pension amendments, and railroads report heavy rain damage from Waco to Tyler with several washouts and track diversions.
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Mac Stewart
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Mexico
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Diaz
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Nine Wounded in Collision Between Patrol Wagon and Street Car
In Chicago on May 15 a patrol wagon rushing to quell a riot collided with a crowded street car injuring nine people and bruising about a dozen. Police arrested fifteen rioters as officers fought through the mob. President Shea of the Teamsters International reportedly refused a AFL executive board meeting request.
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Shea
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Skirmishers Hold Front as Reinforcements Arrive
May 15 reports from Gunshu Pass indicate ongoing light skirmishing in the Olocuma region along the Russian left, with a calm on the right. About 30 000 Japanese reinforcements reach the front, cavalry strengthened, and a pontoon bridge is being laid at Tounziakou.
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Liao
Fifty Horses Die In Atlas Brewing Stable Fire
Chicago May 15 Fifty horses were killed in a fire that broke out early Monday in the Atlas Brewing company stable. The two story brick barn housed eighty horses and a night watchman saved thirty before the smoke forced him out. The building suffered slight damage.
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Atlas Brewing Company
Ex Governor Churchill Dies in Arkansas
Little Rock May 15 General Thomas J Churchill former Arkansas governor and commander of the Arkansas division United Confederate Veterans is dead in this city after a lingering illness. Train Ditched Emporia Kan May 15 Santa Fe passenger train was ditched near here. Six injured, two perhaps fatally
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Little Rock
Thomas J. Churchill
Arkansas
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United Confederate Veterans
Emporia
Kan
Santa Fe
Banker and Broker W E Strong Dies in New York
W E Strong, a well known banker and broker, dies at his New York home from pneumonia. Born in Chillicothe Ohio in 1836 he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1868.
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W. E. Strong
Chillicothe
New York Stock Exchange
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