TO WORK ROADS Two Convicted Negroes Will Have This Labor to Do
In San Antonio on November 29 fifty two African American men captured in raids were tried and convicted in county court on gaming charges. They were fined ten dollars each with costs totaling 27.85 dollars and a grand fines total of 1,458.20 dollars. They will be put to road work. In Terrell also on November 29 the local oil mill halted operations several days due to fuel shortages marking a historic plant disruption.
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San Antonio
Terrell
Tex
Resignations and renaissances span a turbulent week
Spanish cabinet resigns amid political shifts. Guatemala’s Tutupec battered by hurricane. Chicago’s claimed 1609 founding noted. Hon. W. W. Imboden becomes Austin Statesman editor. A Dublin Tex to Chicago load of turkeys ships by rail. Mrs Dodge endows home for New York friendless boys. Major Penrose to testify for War Dept. Boy loses right leg in accident near Shreveport. Bailey elected president at Trotting Horse Breeders’ Association in New York. Large East St. Louis negro school burned amid suspected incendiary action tied to race tensions.
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Tutupec
Guatemala
Chicago
W. W. Imboden
Austin Statesman
Robinson Crusoe
Dublin
Tex
William E. Dodge
New Yor
War Department
Penrose
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Shreveport
John Dillard
Tragic Train Accident Kills Two in Houston Fifth Ward
In Houston on the Texas and New Orleans line two men named Spencer Johnson and John Stafford were killed when struck on two crossing tracks. Two others Will Stafford and Aaron Byers were severely injured. The group had been laboring in Brookshire's rice fields. one member escaped.
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Houston
Texas
New Orleans
Fifth Ward
Brookshire
Spencer Johnson
John Stafford
Will Stafford
Aaron Byers
Rail road agent killed in Verda Louisiana incident
Agent Gray of the Louisiana Rail road and Navigation company at Verda Louisiana was killed by Section Foreman Robertson. In St. Petersburg the Associated Press denies a report that Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevitch and Anastasia Duchess of Lüchtenberg married on November 25 or will celebrate soon.
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Gray
Louisiana Railroad and Navigation Company
Verda, la
Robertson
St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Ministry of the Court
Nicholas Nicholeavitch
Anastasia
Reading Railway Workers Receive Ten Percent Wage Increase
Reading Pennsylvania November 29 All Reading railway employees have had wages advanced ten per cent. Crawfordsville Indiana November 29 Information reached here Wednesday afternoon of the death of Dr William P Lane president of Wabash College at a health resort near Hot Springs.
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Reading
Reading Railway
Gene
Crawfordsville
Ind
Wedenday
William P. Lane
Wabash College
Hot Springs
Immense Robbery at Fashionable New York Boarding House
Two boarders at 33 East Twenty-second Street report jewelry worth ten thousand dollars stolen during dinner. A hall boy stepped away to answer a phone after a caller at the door, then returned to find the visitor gone and later discovered the rooms entered.
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New York
East Twenty-second Street
Marie Hudgins
Miss Schism
Julius Henry
Miss Hudgins
Miss Eherman
Three Convicted In New Mexico Train Robbery Case
James Black John Black and John Murphy were found guilty of holding up a Logan New Mexico train in July 1904 after days of trial and two mistrials. The jury recommended clemency though train robbery is a capital offense in New Mexico.
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New Mexico
Las Vegas
N. M
James Black
John Black
John Murphy
Logan
Murphy
Oklahoma
Tom Boswell
Miss Yeamans Dies Ill Actress and Singer in New York
Jennie Yeamans, once a popular singer and actress, died after a long illness of tuberculosis at the Hotel Gerard in New York. She had been with her mother Mrs Annie Yeamans at the hotel, where they were familiar figures for years. Yeamans was born in Australia and came from theatrical lineage on both sides.
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New York
Jennie Yeamans
Hotel Gerard
Miss Yeamans
Annie Yeamans
Courageous Ladies Repel Burglary Attack in Hot Springs
Mrs John Simms and Miss Florence McKeehan fought a negro for twenty minutes to stop burglary and a lynching. Mrs Simms was choked and bloodied before her husband arrived, sending the assailant fleeing. Police and deputies searched Hot Springs, with both women giving a detailed description.
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Hot Springs
John Simms
Florence McKeehan
Forty-Seven Councilmen Named in City Fraud Plot
Pittsburg November 29 report claims forty seven councilmen are involved in a conspiracy to defraud the city of seventy thousand dollars.
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Pittsburg
Waters-Pierce Oil Indicted on 72 Counts for Rebating
Two indictments with a total of seventy two counts allege Waters-Pierce Oil company violated interstate commerce laws and the Elkins act. Charges center on rebates and freight rate discrimination on shipments from St Louis to Alexandria and other points via Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific lines. Maximum penalties possible amount to 1 250 000 if convicted on all counts.
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St. Louis
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Missouri Pacific
Southern Pacific
Alexandria
Desperate Battle Ends With Outlaw Chief Killed
Manila reports Governor Currie of Samar says a fierce clash near Albalate on November 26 left outlaw chief Pedro de La Cruse dead and twenty of his followers wounded. The remaining Cruse band dispersed.
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Manila
Currie
Island of
Samar
Albalate
Pedro de la Cruse
Cruse
Mule Theft Charged in Shawnee
Shawnee Oklahoma November 29 J C Mole and W P Huddle are charged with stealing three mules The animals were recovered and returned to their owner
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Shawnee, Okla
J. C. Mole
W. P. Huddle
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Emmet
Maloney
Fomggomrom and Service
Buwitr & Chathan
N. Jametta
James & Nunn
Bryan
Bohanon Hack Line
Burt Norwood
C. Bohanon
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
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Bryan Steam Laundry
E.J. Jenkins
Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Dallas
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Neerd Soccity
Joe B. Rehd
W. C. Fountain
Dr. W. H. Lawrence
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