Lynchings Increase as Year Passes in U S
The item notes that ninety nine lynchings have occurred in the United States this year. It references a Houston Post article by Dr J J Pugh of Bryan arguing the president did not receive proper medical treatment. It also mentions a ransom demand of 110000 for Miss Helen H Stone, an American missionary held by Bulgarian brigands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Houston Post
J. J. Pugh
Bryan
American Board of Foreign Missions
Helen H. Stone
Chelsea
Mass
Letters Remaining in the Bryan Post Office Advertised List
The list names letters pending pickup for the week ending September 30 and includes many names such as Anderson Collins Bob Fincher Richard Fridel Val Green Lewis Hall JT Hill John Inghram Pat Kimble and more. A one cent charge is added per piece and callers should say advertised when requesting mail. Signed by Tyier Haswell P M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Arrant
Adline Chatman
Ella Cooper
Lizzie Davenport
Mary Dickerson
Leona Elmore
Addie Holston
Anna Kezzee Matthey Levingson
Mary Medlock
Bettie Marshall
Sallie Meekins
Mrs . Philips Sallie
Eddie Reed
Alice Stearné
Dinah Wale Annie Shirley Florence Illiams
Eddie Watson
Pable Ward Hattie Wood Richie
Bryan
Tyler Haswell
P. M
Venezuela sinks into debt as regime faces revolt
Caracas struggles as 88 months of unpaid interest/mounting shortages push civil salaries cut in half and food scarcity widens. Discontent with President Castro grows while revolutionary sentiment spreads, despite government attempts to shore up frontier defenses and deny forced loans reports.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Colon
Colombia
Republic
Castro
Gen. Castro
Rio Hacha
Guajuira
United States
Harmony Lacking Officers Split in British South Africa War
London Oct 1 British officers reportedly quarrel over private matters more than strategy, undermining unity in South Africa while Botha and Kitchener clash with home authorities. Boers under Botha resist guerrilla labels as they defend Natal forts and Zululand, with strategic border moves and cattle raids at issue. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, 82, New York, born 1819, died. famed for collecting 22,000 Indian remains now at the American Museum of Natural History.
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London
Kitchener
South Africa
Botha
War Office
Pretoria
Natal
Zululand
New York
Andrew Ellicott Douglass
West Point
N. Y
G. B. Douglass
Andrew Ellicott
Kenyal College
Douglass
Hazard Powder Company
American Museum of National History
Constable James Knight Fatally Shot at Cherokee Junction
Fort Smith Arkansas October 1 James Knight a constable was killed Saturday night near Cherokee Junction while responding to a disturbance along the railroad track. He challenged an armed man who fired, striking Knight in the left breast. The assailant fled, identity unknown. Knight died several hours later.
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Fort Smith
Ark
James Knight
Cherokee Junction
Cherokee Nation
Knight
Rural Free Delivery fund to rise in 1902 estimates
The official estimates for the fiscal year starting July 1 1902 project rural free delivery costs at 6 250 000 dollars, up 2 750 000 from the current year. City delivery expenditures total 18 745 000 dollars, up nine percent.
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Washington
Smith
Congress
Crusade Against Territorial Jointists Begins in Ardmore
Acting under orders from U S Marshal Hammer deputies opened arrests against several individuals as a liquor spill and confiscation of wine barrels unfolded on Ardmore streets amid a territorial jointists crackdown.
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Ardmore
I. T
United States
Hammer
Wagon accident kills Rev. W. W. Slaughter in Oklahoma
Rev. W. W. Slaughter of Francis Oklahoma formerly Bowie Texas was killed when thrown from a wagon while driving down a rough hill on Saturday. In Denison Texas cows near Westville Indian Territory die suspected of Spanish fever.
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Guthrie
O. T
W. W. Slaughter
Francis, O. T
Bowie
Tex
Denison, Tex
Westville
I. T
Prominent Chelsea Citizen William Brown Dies by Own Hand
In Vinita Oklahoma Territory on Sunday night William Brown a notable Chelsea resident died by his own action. In McKinney Texas reports from the county south part note cattle dying of blackleg.
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Vinita
I. T
William Brown
Chelsea
McKinney, Tex
Blackleg
Negro lynching reports and ensuing arrests across Texas
Dispatches from Marshall Luling Corsicana Beaumont and other Texan towns detail lynching suspicions in Hallsville and Mulberry, beatings of Deputy Hall and Dan Darling near Luling, a jail arrest in Long Leaf Louisiana, a shooting incident at Montfort and a paralysis death in Corsicana. Detective Spelling Trapped Him in Cincinnati over a spelling error case.
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Luling
Tex
Dan Darling
Here
John Hall
Hall
Darling
Soul &5
Two More Warships Launched at Nixon Yard New Jersey
The torpedo boat destroyer Nicholson and the Holland submarine Porpoise were launched at Nixon shipyards in Elizabethport New Jersey. The Nicholson is of the same class as the O'Brien and is expected to exceed 26 knots. The Porpoise belongs to the Holland company design for the government.
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New York
Nicholson
United States Navy
Nixon
Elizabethport
N. J
O’brien
Holland Company
Clarksville and Northern railway survey opens in Oklahoma
Col John Cody starts survey from South McAlester to Clarksville Texas for a Clarksville and Northern line. Route passes Carbon Hartshorne and Goodland Oklahoma and extends south toward Beaumont fields. E. H. Harriman elected president of Southern Pacific after Hays resignation. Deputy Marshal Gates dies from gunshot wound while attempting to arrest Granderson Allen.
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South McAlester
I. T
John Cody
Clarksville
Tex
Carbon
Hartshorne
Goodland
Beaumont Oi Fields
New York
E. H. Harriman
Southern Pacific Company
Charles M. Hays
Southern Pacific
Huntsville
Marshal Gates
Granderson Allen
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the Daily Facie
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Dick Etheridge
Grays Shelton Goodwin
Weauae Hubbard
Sam Johnson
Bill Lane
Frederick Murphy
Orlean McCallum Arch Peebles
J F Robinson Jake
Togers
BR Smith
Peter Shaw
Shirley WM . Taylor
F Truer
Jimmie Toombs
Oscar Williams
Robt Warren
Harry Wynns
Wash- Woods
E Lington Wilson
JB Wilson
Frank
Andrew Douglas
Eumels Prescription Pharmacy
Jowneys
EmmMe
S Prescription Pharmacy
Realdon
Hallville
Muckelroy
Lake Charles
A. Jenkins
Long Leaf
Rufus Climer
Jenkins
Climer
Corsicana
Joseph Middlebrooks
Montfort
Jim Finch
B. D. Doyle
Doyle
Number Wells
Beaumont
Robert E. LeBeau
Spelling
Cincinnati
John Posey
Posey
Plese
AL D. mcConnico
Gin ‘Insurance
Penn Mutual Lif Insurance Company
Philadelphia
Fidelity & Casualty
Maryland Casualty Accident Insurance Co’s
John Wittmann
Bryan and Vacinity
Kline, Kohn & Co
Chicago
C. M. Proctor
GLE _ FCPION
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros
Cot Cole Bros
Thos. W
New City
E. Grieser
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