Southern Cotton association considers building a $100 million company
An Atlanta meeting of the Southern Cotton association executive committee launched a plan to form the Southern Cotton company with $100,000,000 authorized capital to store, buy, hold and sell cotton to maintain profitable prices against Wall Street speculation. A 35 member board would set fair prices, with initial capital around $10,000,000 and stock at $5 a share. Final action is postponed to January.
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Ganized
Atlanta
Wall Street
Southern Cotton Association
Southern Cotton Company
Wsa
Messrs
J. P. Allison
North Carolina
E. D. Smith
South Carolina
S. A. Witherspoon
Mississippi
J. L. Maxwell
Louisiana
J. A. Hickey
Texas
Riogrande City election dominated by armed men
In Rio Grande City Texas on November 9 armed men controlled the vote with Democratic voters barred from the courthouse by force. About 125 left unable to vote as Republican leaders and peace officers brokered a guard plan that collapsed after two hours. Rangers and militia were requested to prevent bloodshed with a 50 man Corsicana cavalry unit ordered to Fordyce.
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Rio Grande City
Tex
Court House
Welch
Save Life
Seabury
Democratic Party
Joseph Pina
Brownsville
Corsicana
Fordyce
Aldrich Interred After Fatal Tragedy In Baton Rouge
About 1000 mourners attended the funeral of Dr. R. H. Aldrich who was killed by Congressman elect Favrot. Friends say Favrot acted on the unwritten law and followed an affair of honor for his family. Favrot resigns from his judgeship. Governor Blanchard to order a special election.
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Favrot
Baton Rouge
R. H. Aldrich
Elect Favrot
Judge Favrot
Dr. Aldrich
Blanchard
Lacey Defeated in Des Moines Political Shift
Des Moines reports Congressman Lacey losing to Democrat O W Hamilton. Democrats gain six senators and eleven representatives in the legislature. The Illinois race notes Speaker Cannon’s plurality at Danville at 10 188, up 2 000 from two years ago. Bailey’s mother ill prompts Bailey to go to Crystal Springs Mississippi.
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Lacey
Des Moines
O. W. Hamilton
Danville, Ill
Cannon
Bailey
Gainesville
Tex
Mississippi
Bailey Ee
Crystal Springs
Tragedy Across Nations Recurring Suicides and Murders
In Johnstown Pennsylvania Jacob Hauser Sr the father of a man executed for murder is found hanged in his yard worried about his son's fate. In Albuquerque New Mexico government detective A J Caldwell is murdered with skull fractured. In Galveston Texas Mrs Thomas Malland commits suicide by chloroform due to bad health. In Lodz Poland seven nationalists are shot by a socialist forces on November 9.
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Johnstown
Jacob Hauser, Sr
Jacob Hauser, Jr
Galveston
Thomas Malland
Oklahoma News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Brevities report Frank James set to locate in the Big Pasture. Five thousand horses and a mule shot dead at McKinney. B F Yoakum elected Rock Island board chairman. A baby boy left at Santa Fe depot in Alvarado. Over 300000 bales of cotton to Japan from Oklahoma. Pickpockets stole 450 from Katy passengers St Louis to Denison. A wild cat injured three men near Lawton. Natural gas to Duncan nine miles at 60 cents per thousand. Ed Lamb found with rifle and head wound near Eagle Pass. Douglas the porter found near Kingfisher. Three Riga robbers executed. four others die. Mob near Spring Green failed to hang Thomas Ball. Diavolo, rail wreck victim, dies in New York. James W Thomas dies at McKinney, long Texas resident and publisher.
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Frank James
McKinney
B. F. Yoakum
Rock Island
Riga
Russia
Spring Green
Wis
Thomas Ball
Edward Frank
Robert Vandervoort
Diavolo
New York State
James Wallace Thomas
Texas
Clarksville
Pierce
Buchanan
Johnston
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Collin County
Incendiary Fires Trigger Panic in Midtown Manhattan
A series of five fires from midnight to 3 am in two blocks near Six tieth and Sixty-first streets and Columbus and West End avenues left one woman dead, Adrian Tompkins badly burned, and 2 000 residents evacuated. Firefighters rescued many as crowds filled streets and hotels near Lincoln Square awoke. incidents, mostly in white and Black flats, spurred widespread fear until dawn.
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New York
New Wx
Sandsmore
Caroline Swain
West Sixtieth Street
Adrian Tompkins
Broadway
Marie Antoinette
Ansonia
Empire
Lincoln Square
St. Paul
Sixty-first Street
Columbus Avenue
Hudson
Sixty-second — Street
Malady at Marfa prompts state health probe
Governor Lanham ordered Assistant Health Officer Shaver of El Paso to travel to Marfa to investigate a malignant disease spreading from Marfa to Presidio county. Alpine business leaders had urged a state health officer be sent to determine disease nature and halt further spread.
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Austin
Lanham
Business Men's Club of
Alpine
Brewster County
Marfa
Presidio County
Shaver
el Paso
Deeds of Negro Fatally Wound Farmer Child Shot
In Shreveport Louisiana on November 9 William Martin a Negro fatally shot Ben Johnson a farmer of Bossier parish and seriously wounded Johnson's seven year old child. The shooting followed a quarrel over cotton picking. Martin was arrested and jailed.
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Little
Shreveport
Ben Johnson
Bossier Parish
William Martin
Johnson
Martin
Automobile Line From Pecos to Fort Stockton
Pecos Texas November 9 A $10 000 stock company will operate an automobile line from Pecos to Fort Stockton sixty one miles James O Brien promoter and source notes the venture as a local transportation project developing regional links and business
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Pecos
Tex
Here
Fort Stockton
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