Charles Lelinton Death in Palestine Texas after arrival
An elderly man named Charles Lelinton died in Palestine Texas shortly after arriving. the cause was heart trouble. Separate item notes Joe Gans plans a $30,000 hotel in Baltimore for African American members of his race. Also reports that fees for special counsel to prosecute and investigate trusts total $270,000.
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Charles Lelinton
Palestine
Tex
Joe Gans
Baltimore
Uncle Sam
Yoakum Optimistic On Texas Population And Rail Lines
Houston May 20 B F Yoakum president of the Rock Island railway in Texas said Texas is the greatest state in the Union and urged a ten million population. He discussed the Fort Worth Houston line, through service to Galveston by September, and noted the Colorado and Southern extension to the gulf and the Rock Island Frisco system to Houston. He praised Texas legislature for defeating unwise measures despite higher taxes.
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Texas
Houston
B. F. Yoakum
Rock Island Railway Lines
Union
Fort Worth
Baker
Green
Dallas
Galveston
Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Gulf
Fort Worth Office Building Loan Sought At Four Hundred Thousand
Insurance reform debate cited as Milner receives a Fort Worth citizen’s plan to finance a 400000 building loan with a reputable Texas insurer. State tax board meets to estimate and apportion intangible assets of railroads and other corporations under the new law.
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Austin
Milner
Fort Worth
Texas
State Tax Board
Hill County Farmer Shot Six Times Near Hillsboro
Information reached the sheriff that six bullets from a six shooter struck J. C. Robertson, a farmer near the James schoolhouse five miles west of Hillsboro. He was believed fatally wounded with no hope of recovery. A man named Redman was arrested. The shooting is said to stem from family troubles.
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Hillsboro
Tex
Sheriff's Office
J. C. Robertson
James Schoolhouse
Here
Robertson
Redman
Name Burke Burnett as Wichita county post office
News from Fort Worth reports President Roosevelt will name the new Wichita county post office Burke Burnett despite department objections. Other items include Dallas Dairy Kitchen clearing 10758.85 for charity, Panama Canal agent resigning, Mexico grain elevator project costing 400000 for 200000 bushels, Rev Levi Tenny passing in Brownwood, Fay Templeton retirement remarks, and Rosa Anne Behre dying after refusing to break a vow.
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Burke Burnett
Fort Worth
Roosevelt
Wichita County
Postoffice Department
Length
Texas Hardware Jobbers’ Association
Galveston
Charles F. Nash
D. W. Bass
Panama Canal Commission
Mexico
City of
Levi Tenny
Brownwood
Tex
Central Texas Presbytery
Grand Opera House
New York
Fay Templeton
Rosa Anne Behre
Philadelphia
Presbyterians Clash Over Mission Work In North South Rift
Birmingham May 20 The fourth session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States opened with Devotional services led by Rev Dr N Keff. Dr McF Alexander reported on home missions noting interference by Northern Presbyterians with Southern missionaries and urging a telegram to Columbus Ohio to appoint a committee to review correspondence between Rev S L Morris and field missionaries. The report was adopted and Dr Morris spoke of frontier missionaries receiving letters about Northern evangelists appearing where Southern missionaries operated.
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Birmingham
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
United States
N. Keff
Georgia
Howerton
McF. Alexander
Committee On Home Missions
Northern Presbyterian Church
Northern Church
Columbus
L. Morris
Southern Assembly
Alexander
Morris
Bravest and Brainiest Doctor Praises Roosevelt
Rev Dr MacArthur of New York commemorates the Baptist Young People's Union meeting in Washington. He called President Roosevelt the bravest and brainiest ruler in the world. The convention session also heard sermons and discussions on Outlook and Opportunities by Revs Porter and Gambrell.
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MacArthur
Washington
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
General Baptist Convention
R. S. MacArthur
New York
President Roosevelt
Baptist Convention
H. A. Porter
Oklahoma
J. B. Gambrell
Texas
Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly Reports Big Membership
The Cumberland Presbyterian church general assembly met in Dickson Tennessee to clear a busy Monday session. The stated clerk’s report counted 77 presbyteries 113 synods 600 ministers and 80000 members as visitors departed on morning trains.
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Dickson
Tenn
General Assembly
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Trackmen Strike Tied to Wage Demands Across Lines
About 5,000 Italian track workers on the New York New Haven and Hartford system walk out after the road refuses a 10 percent raise on $1.50 daily wages. The stoppage is said to affect routes from New York to Boston.
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New Haven
New York
Infernal Machine Kills Odessa Police Officials
Odessa reports the police superintendent and two chief detectives killed by an infernal machine in the central police bureau. Seven others are seriously wounded. The incident occurred Monday morning as authorities investigate the blast. Departed For New Haven. General Kuroki and his party left New Haven on Monday.
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Ama
Odessa
Central Police Bureau
New Haven
New York
Kuroki
Confiscations and Developments Across Texas and Oklahoma
In Mexia forty eight cases of beer were seized. First National Bank of Lawton Oklahoma plans a 75000 dollar building. A woman in Mexico City admits selling people into peonage at 100 dollars each. Oklahoma to send large delegation to ex Confederate reunion in Richmond. City National Bank of Walter Oklahoma begins with 25000 dollars capital. After five months rain fell mainly in Eagle Pass Texas. General Kuroki laid a wreath at Grant's grave in New York. Six girl stowaways nearly suffocated during fumigation of the ship Canada at Port Townsend. Texas Comptroller Stephens estimates gross tax receipts around 600000 dollars this year. Aline Oklahoma horse accident leaves owner dead. Mrs Otto Loson of Galveston suffers severe burns washing clothes when her apparel ignites. Mount Pleasant farmers plant peanuts reducing cotton acreage by ten percent. Sheriff raids a Denison joint. liquor sent to Sherman and proprietor jailed. Claude S Wilson of Sulphur Springs to become traveling freight agent for Cotton Belt Railway from Waco.
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Mexia
Tex
First National Bank of
Eagle Pass
Kuroki
President Grant
New York
Canada
Port Townsend
Wash
Texas
Stephens
Aline
Okla
J. H
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