Hempstead negroes urged to join reform drive in Bryan
The Galveston News urges white friends to back law abidance and reform efforts among Bryan’s Negroes. It notes strict law enforcement, a white-funded school, and charities, and calls out pistol-toting, unlawful living, and vagrancy as reform targets. Nearby Fort Worth notes two miles away for I L G N service and a silver bullion wreck feared near free silver.
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Eagle
Hempstead
Galveston News
Bryan
Bryant
Trip to Texas and Bryan's Rising Trade
The Chicago business men’s trip to Texas highlights Bryan as a sprightly county seat of Brazos County in central Texas. It notes strong rail links from Houston and Texas Central and International and Great Northern, a thriving cotton and cattle trade, Central Texas fair, and key educational institutions including Texas A and M College, Villa Maria Ursuline, Allen Academy, and Free Baptist Academy. It mentions planned Carnegie library and public-spirited improvements.
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Chicago
Texas
Bryan
Brazos County
Houston and
Texas Central Railroad
International
Great Northern Road
Central Railroad
Millican
Central Texas
Reinforcements Crush Miner Strike and Jail Break
Reinforcements have arrived at coal mining centers including Lens as authorities vow strict action to quell strike violence. In Canama jail Tucson, forty prisoners overpowered the jailer and escaped, with offenses ranging from petty larceny to murder, amid plans for a new prison.
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Hanoi
Paris
Lens
Tucson
Ariz
Canama
Roosevelt Attends New York Chamber of Commerce Dedication
President Roosevelt arrived in Jersey City at 6 45 am and traveled by carriage to Manhattan for breakfast with Dr. Butler at the University Club. The New York chamber of commerce formally dedicated its Liberty Street building with former President Cleveland delivering the oration.
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New York
Roosevelt
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Twenty Third Street
University Club
Cornelius Bliss, Jr
West Twenty-third Street
Dr. Butler
Columbia University
D. Robinson
Union League Club
United States
New York Chamber of Commerce
Liberty Street
Nassau Street
Broadway
Morgan Dix
Trinity Church
Morris K. Jessup
Chamber
Cleveland
Hypnotism Tests Skeptical Former Convict’s Confession
Savannah November 11 Hypnotism was used on former convict Miller who confessed to murdering Gugie Bourquin claiming a white man hired him. The trance produced alleged details of the crime but the account is dismissed as fabrication and no corroboration exists despite hypnotic "proof."
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Savannah
Miller
Gugie Bourquin
Bourquin
Hickey Seeks California League Consolidation
T. J. Hickey, president of the American Association of Baseball Clubs, spends weeks in California aiming to induce the California league to join his group. This would weaken the Association of Minor League clubs which includes most small leagues except the new Southern league, now forming. If the Southern league joins, the local California league would be the only major outsider, with Secretary Farrel pushing to complete the organization and bring California in.
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Hickey
San Francisco
T. J. Hickey
American Association of Basebal Clubs
California
United States
Farrel
Collapse Kills One In Wilkes Barre Demolition
Floor gave way in the old Phelps building during teardown in Wilkes Barre Pa Charles Price was killed James Ross fatally injured and three others slightly hurt when the floor collapsed trapping workers beneath Stolen silverware and jewelry valued at several hundred dollars were taken from Samuel Bendil’s Lake Charles home while absent.
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Wilkesparre
Charles Price
James Ross
Phelps
Lake Charles
Samuel Bendil
Tragic suicide by Englewood officer in hospital
Edward Niland of the South Englewood police station slashed his throat in a crisis at Englewood Union hospital after tearing open wounds he had inflicted hours earlier. He resisted staff and police for about an hour before his death Monday night despite all efforts to save him.
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Chicago
Edward Niland
South Englewood
Englewood Union Hospital
Niland
Generals Botha and Delarey Meet Chamberlain Privately
London on November 11 reports that General Botha and General Delarey had a private interview with Colonial Secretary Chamberlain at his office.
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London
Botha and
Delarey
Chamberlain
Walnut Springs to Incorporate in Texas
News in brief reports Walnut Springs Texas to incorporate. Other items note General Chaffee's optimistic Philippines outlook, General Wood's European reception, and several local tragedies and legal rulings including a Mississippi back taxes case affirmed by the supreme court.
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Walnut Springs
Tex
General Chaffee
Philippines
S. L. Gordon
Dallas
Texarkana
Ark
General Wood
Germany
England
Scotland
Texas
Lloyd
Charles Dean
Evansville
Ind
William Evans
Joe Brown
Lizzie Brown
Greenville
Miss
Galveston
Mississippi
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company
Haseen
Supreme Court
Prominent Tusumbia Citizen Ends Life in Alabama
Athens Alabama report states John Edmundson aged 53 a well known figure in Tuscumbia politics died by cutting his throat with a razor early Monday morning. He was a man of wide influence and active in local affairs.
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Birmingham
Ala
Age-Herald
Athens
John Edmundson
Tuscumbia
Perry Held in Bail in Waverly Somerville Murders
George L. O. Perry, who admits pawning watches taken from Clara A. Morton and Agnes McPhee, murder victims in Waverly and Somerville, was ordered held as a witness against Mason after a conference with state officers and Judge Co. Almy. Bail was set at 1000 dollars in Cambridge court.
Shiras Beats Graham in 29th District Race in Pennsylvania
Pittsburg election returns show George Shiras fusion Republican defeating incumbent W. H. Graham for Congress in the Twenty ninth district by a plurality of 18 as of the official count from last Tuesday's vote.
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Pittsburg
Congress
Pennsylvania
W. H. Graham
George Shiras
Wardrobe of Madame Humbert Auctioned in Paris
An auction of Madame Humbert's wardrobe, tied to the note swindle case, drew a large curious crowd but few bids. Proceeds were small, with most attendees as onlookers rather than buyers.
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New York
Madame Humbert
Times
Paris
London
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Whittier
Wilson & Jenkins
the Daily Eagle
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Ft. Worth
Prince von Hohenlohe
Miss Goelet
The
Galveston and
Dallas News
Alfred Wrights
Thelma
Powell
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Hunter
Chatham
Allphin
S. Hi. Allohin
James & Hart
Irs
Franklin Brothers
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W
Sowwboou
McConnico
General Insurance Agency
Bryan, Tex
Mutual Life of
A. D. M’connico
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