Local notes and shopping picks from Bryan area
W P Bryan visiting Giddings and J Allen Myers returning from the San Antonio fair. Plaid ginghams for dresses. Norwood's 309 Lee Berryman of Palestine leaves for Italy Texas after visiting relatives. Voltair kid gloves 98 cents per pair guaranteed to wear. colors include tan blue green navy. Wilson Edge 307 displays Lord Taylor hosiery and holiday neckwear and lace collars. Rev B B Hall preached in Terrell then heads to Navasota for Texas Woman's College work. I E N special football excursion train to Austin departs Bryan at 7 15 tomorrow morning return 8 o'clock tomorrow night fare 1 50.
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Lee Berryman
Palestine
Italy
Texas
Voltair
Cts
Bryan
Wilson & Edge
Lord & Taylor
B. B. Hall
Terrell
Hall
Navasota
Texas Woman's College
Austin
College
Mutiny aboard Otchakoff prompts new commander in Sebastopol
In Sebastopol on November 28, the cruiser Otchakoff is now led by Lieutenant Schedt who was removed for revolutionary leanings after a crew mutiny. The town council implored assistance to save the city.
Recount granted for five ballot boxes in New York mayoral race
New York voters face a five box recount after the supreme court granted Hearst's application to open the boxes and recount ballots from the contested mayoralty election. Additional votes were ordered counted for Hearst. In Pittsburg, Captain Samuel S. Brown remains in serious condition after a coal operation and horseman profile.
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New York
Supreme Court
W. R. Hearst
Hearst
Jerome
Pittsburg
Samuel S. Brown
Seized Offices In Myytelene After Ultimatum
Eight warships of the combined fleet arrived and Admiral Ritter von Jedin with the American consul delivered an ultimatum to the governor. By 1 PM six hundred sailors and marines had landed and seized the customs and telegraph offices, with conditions described as quiet.
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London
Daily Man
Myytelene
Ritter von Jedin
Government House
Favorable ruling for Timmons in Oklahoma land case
The U S Supreme Court decided in favor of William M. Timmons in the Estes versus Timmons land dispute over a quarter section in Potta watomie county Oklahoma once part of the Sac and Fox reservation. Estes claimed status as a sooner when the reservation opened in 1881 but the Oklahoma court ruling was upheld.
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William M. Estes
William M. Timmons
Suprem Court of the
Territory of Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Timmons
Pottawatomie County
Oklahoma
Estes
Keating Reports Strong State Fair Profit in Dallas
C A Keating president of the State Fair of Texas told the board of directors profits from the recent fair would reach about forty thousand dollars. He noted receipts around one hundred fifty nine thousand dollars and expenditures about one hundred sixteen thousand dollars though no formal financial statement was issued.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
C. A. Keating
State Fair of Texas
Keating
American Attacked in Paris on Fashionable Street
Robert Woods Bloss, second secretary of the American embassy, returning from Paris, was attacked by rowdies on a fashionable street in Paris. Police arrived in time to prevent a fatal beating. Bloss is a New Yorker and former American consul at Vienna.
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Robert Woods Bloss
Paris
Mr. Bloss
Vienna
Doubt dispelled on Hill control of Missouri Kansas and Texas
A Denison dispatch reports Great Northern inspector Frank Josmer reviewing the Missouri Kansas and Texas line. He joins several inspectors gathering reports for J. J. Hill. The MK&T is expected to come under Hill control on January 1, 1906.
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Dallas
Times-Herald
Denison
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
J. J. Hill
Frank Josmer
Great Northern
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Jasmer
Judge Brooks Rules Attorney General Prosecutes Tax Suits
Judge V L Brooks of the Twenty sixth district court ruled the attorney general alone has authority to prosecute Kennedy and Love gross receipts tax suits, overruling county and district attorneys. The decision postpones further litigation until Dec 7 while higher courts decide, with mandamus appeals filed in the supreme court. An order also extends waiting margins for international and Great Northern at Longview Junction to align with Katy and Cotton Belt.
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Austin
V. L. Brool
Twenty-sixth District Court
Court of Civil Appeals
Moore
Brady
Supreme Court
Brooks
Kennedy
Railroad Commission
International
Great Northern
Longview Junction
Katy
Cotton Belt
Burglars Fail to Rob Maypear Bank in Waxahachie Area
In Waxahachie Texas on Monday night burglars bored into the Citizens bank of Maypear at a small southern county town, destroyed the vault door, but could not reach the safe. They stole a horse and buggy, unhitched the horse, and left the animal and vehicle near the press.
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Texas
City National Bank of
Bryan
Brazos County
Lars
Citizens’ Bank
Maypear
Isis County
Cor Press
Family's Sad Plight in Sulphur Springs
In Sulphur Springs Texas on November 28 a man named Gober and two daughters were judged insane and confined in the county jail by Judge Russell Monda. During the night one daughter Mrs Felts hanged herself after tearing up a blanket she used to strangle herself. Another daughter is in the asylum at Terrell.
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Fore
Russell Monda
Gober
Infant Falls Into Tank. Throat Slit Body Found Near Tishomingo
Lampases Texas reports a fifteen month old child of John Matchen five miles from the city fell into a tank and drowned. In a separate incident near Tishomingo Indian Territory the body of Charles Chishire was found with throat cut from ear to ear.
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Lampases
Tex
John Matchen
Charles Chishire
Tishimingo
I. T
Railway HQ to Open in McKinney Texas
McKinney Texas November 28 headquarters of the land department of the Texas New Mexico and Pacific railway will be established here with plans for local administrative operations and site setup.
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McKinney, Tex
The
Land Department of the Texas, New Mexico and Pacific Railway
Texas State Builders' Exchange selects Beaumont for next meeting
In San Antonio on November 28 the Texas State Builders' Exchange chose Beaumont as the site for its upcoming meeting, outlining plans and logistics for the gathering.
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San Antonio
Texas State Builders’ Exchange
Beaumont
Two Persons Shot in Dallas Near Elm Street
Dallas dispatch reports Frank Meyers and Minnie Mitchell both shot twice in the early Tuesday hours near 763 Elm street. Meyers was taken by city ambulance to his Williams street home while the injured woman, a colored negress, was admitted to the city hospital after being assaulted with a revolver and beaten. The gunman fled after the attack.
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Minnie Mitchell
Meyers
Williams Street
Elm Street
WilllieGettman Kicked by Horse in Krum
Denton Texas November 28 Willie Gettman nine years old was kicked by a horse at Krum and sustained a broken jawbone Several tests were knocked out and his face badly cut The animal was an old family horse and thought to be perfectly gentle.
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Denton
Tex
Willie Gettman
Krum
Plantation Tragedy Near Rochelle Plantation
Long Locke, a Black tenant, was shot and killed by another Black man on the Rochelle plantation ten miles north of Texarkana. Tom Jones, also Black, faced a preliminary hearing before Justice Henry and was admitted to bail set at $500.
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Shreveport
R. B. Martin
Andrew Patterson
Belcher
Texarkana
Long Locke
Rochelle Plantation
Here
Tom Jones
Henry
Cody Set Adrift
A frail birch bark canoe containing the remains of an Indian girl washed ashore near Grand Rapids Michigan on November 28. Indigenous fishers spotted the vessel as a wind shift drove it in and the bones rested on a rich blanket with heavy silver bracelets. The body was buried by the locals who believed the corpse had been set adrift as part of a red men religious rite.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Miner Bailey Taken From Jail To Avert Mob
Edmund J. Bailey, a miner, shot and killed Lawder, secretary of the Lawder Peterson Coal Co. He was hurried from the county jail to avoid a mob expected to hang him as Sheriff Johnson faced warnings of an attempted lynching down town.
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E. J. Fountain & CO
California
Elgin
Coats
Hunter
Chatham
W. P. Bryan
Giddings
J. Allen Myers
Norwood’s
Martin
Louisiana
United States Supreme Court
Washington
St. Petersburg
Katy Railway
City National Bank
Bryan, Texas
ED Hall
G. S. Parker
A. W. Wilkerson
Cashifer
Davidson
Waxahachie
Emmel & Maloney
McKinney
Frank Meyers
Cody
Bones
Mexico, Mo
Edmund J
MO. M. Lawrence
Telmo
Allspice
Cinnnamon
Mace
Higgs & McCulloch
Phonkea
Houston
Corsicana
City OF
H. O. Boatwright
J. W. Howell
Guy M. Bryan
L. L. McInnis
F. M. Law
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