Express Messenger Stops Train Robbery in Nebraska
Express Messenger Charles Baxter halted a hold up near Council Bluff by refusing to open the door and firing on one robber, killing him as another fled after dynamite was used to blow the express door. The surviving thief escaped on foot. the train backed to town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluff
Charles Baxter
Burlington
Union Pacific
Mosquito Creek Bridge
Donnelly
Baxter
Wife Gets The Divorce In Texas Court
In Fifty third district court Austin on October 4 an interlocutory judgment granted Edith M. Daugherty a divorce from W J Daugherty with custody of their child and restoration of her maiden name The husband admitted the falsity of his charges and withdrew them The case cites cruelty and pending property settlement valuing the estate at $15 000 The defendant is daughter of Judge W H Lessing of Waco and the shooting affray in court is noted as context
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Fifty Third District Court
W. J. Daugherty
Edith M. Daugherty
W. H. Lessing
Waco
Daugherty
Morris
Conservatives Hold Power with Large Parliamentary Gains
London October 4 Conservatives retain power with vast gains as Captain Lamberton of the Powerful cruiser loses to his Liberal opponents and falls to the bottom of the poll. James Laurence Carew loses in College Green Dublin amid anti Levee of the duke of York controversy. Total MPs returned reach 309: Ministerialists 220 Liberal 54 Nationalists 35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New Castle
Lamberton
James Laurence Carew
College Green
Dublin
Duke of York
Still Finding Bodies at Galveston Tragedy
The Galveston wrecks yield a daily average of 25 recovered corpses. Death toll in city may exceed 5000, with 1200 beyond limits and over 1000 on the mainland, totaling more than 7000. Police ordered to arrest idle men. city expects work for all. Cotton and grain moving in. conditions improve. New York report: Edwin Gould and railway directors faced injunction attempt to halt annual director election at St Louis. calendar relief denied by Justice Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
New York
Edwin Gould
St. Louis and Southwestern Railway Company
St. Louis
Supreme Court
Lawrence
Ruling in Puerto Rico on marshal and deputy pay
Washington Oct 4. Comptroller Tracewell issues a decision on court expenses, compensation of United States deputy marshals in Puerto Rico, funds disposal, reporting, books and blanks. Salaries and expenses fall to the Puerto Rican treasury, with fees remitted to the U S, while operating costs are borne by the United States. One class of deputy marshals may be Puerto Rico funded, and the Justice Department must supply blanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tracewell
Comptroller of the Treasury
United States
United States District Courts of
Puerto Rico
Comptroller
States
Territories
Treasury of
Treasury
Attorney General
Department of Justice
Aftermath in Transvaal and Free State described by Stowe
United States Consul General Stowe reports from Cape Town dated Aug 17 describing widespread destruction in the Transvaal and Free State after the war. Telegraph poles and fencing are down, timber scarce, iron posts necessary, farming reduced, and a future cereal market anticipated. Johannesburg faces meat shortages but authorities plan railway expansion, new bridge and electrical machinery demand, and a committee to reopen mining towns amid debate on returning labor.
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Washington
Transvaal
Free State
State Department
United States
Stowe
Cape Town
Cape
Johannnesburg
Harrismith
Orange Colony
Netherlands
Roberts
Johannesburg
Williamsport Fire Destroys Big Four Shoe Factory
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on Wednesday a devastating blaze wiped out the Big Four shoe factory owned by J. E. Dayton & Co occupying nearly a city block. Other tenants Royal Brandhcom pany and L. E. Whiteman & Co book binders suffered total losses. Total loss about 300000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsport
Big Four
J. E. Dayton & Co
Royal Brandh Company
L. E. Whiteman & Co
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C. M. Proctor
Candy Kitchen
Iceream
Lowney’s
Gunther’s
Yan
Xas
Hall’s Drug Store
Bryan Water, Ice, Light & Power Company
Bryan
American Laundry
X. O. Seacn
Otto Boehme’s
Texas Bakery and Boarding House
Otto
Bryan, Texas
Jackson
Baltimore
Mary A Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
Church
Waxahachie
South Texas
Milford
Milford, Tex
Milford Gin and Cotton Company
Paris
Nicholas Anderson
Ben Anderson
Antlers
I. T
Dallas
Willis & Coleman
Exchange Hotel
Maryland College OF Pharmacy
Baddlet Moor
North
South
North Texas
New Orleans
Houston
Denison
F. B. Morse
Texas
M. L. Robbins, G. P &, T
Bongo S Livery Stable
Jas. O. Kernale
Positere
J. V. Brogdon
E. C. Harder
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