Texas to Own Sugar Plantations and Use Convicts
The Texas Penitentiary Board votes to buy 7000 acres on the Brazos River eight miles above Velasco in Brazoria County for 75000 cash to raise sugar and cotton. The operation will use state convicts and rail water access. Governor is to decide. The penitentiary fund shows a large surplus with sizable crop incomes expected.
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Austin
Penitentiary Board
Norton, Campbell & Sewell
Brazos River
Velasco
Brazoria County
Five Years in the Penalty for Murder in Wharton
Frank Fleming, a colored man, was found guilty in district court of murder in Wharton Texas and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for killing Jimnny Watson after an incident at a camp fire where the victim was cooking breakfast and died from fatal burns.
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New York
Fannie Sanger
Alex Sanger
Sanger Bros
Dallas
Tex
Savoy
Sanger
Europe
Gainesville
Tuck
Carmen
Utopia
Uvalde
Wharton
Frank Fleming
Jimnny Watson
Lunatic Runs Amuck Wounding Nine in Beaver Dam
In Beaver Dam Wisconsin Adam Hammer suddenly went insane seized a gun and wounded nine men before he shot himself to end the threat. In Washington the treasury reports public debt at 1 110 966 922 dollars as of Oct 1 less net cash. Commander Snow to relieve Admiral Schley sails from Norfolk aboard the Solace for San Juan naval station.
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Beaver Dam
Wis
Adam Hammer
Washington
Treasury
Snow
Admiral Schley
San Juan Naval Station
Norfolk
San Juan
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Young Brooks
Terrell
James Orr, Jr
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B. Mike
Bayle
Swift
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James Drugstore
the American Laundry
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ITY Bakery
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