Real Estate Listings Near Alles Academy and Schoolhouse
South half of block near Alles Academy priced at 550 dollars describes ne and one quarter acres near schoolhouse in southeast part Htown with small cottage tenant house and well. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern listed at 1250 dollars. One quarter block near Allen Academy with fast front priced 250 dollars. Terms easy 9 feet front on Railroad steer out Otto Boehme's property. Will sell part of all. Lots near school house at 100 dollars.
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Alles Academy
Htown
Snall
Main Street
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Miners Stand Firm in Prolonged Strike
Reports from the hard coal belt show local miners unions voting to stay out until concessions are granted. President Mitchell sent a reply to President Roosevelt and left for New York with district presidents, while unions denounce railroads and troops. A general strike in Switzerland is declared in sympathy with street car workers, with troops on standby.
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Newfruit
Hard Coal Belt
Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
United States
Strik
Ers
Washington
New York
Roosevelt
Stone
Switzerland
London
Geneva
theWorkmen’s National Committee
President Webb seeks retirement after thirty years
Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb has resigned as president of the College of the City of New York effective December 1 after three decades of service. The City College retirement fund provides $5000 for presidents and $3500 for professors, with Webb's current salary listed at $8500. Two other items note coal crisis talks and Mexican government control of the national road from Laredo to Mexico City with Diaz aiding train movement.
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New York
Alexander Stewart Webb
The
College of the City of
City College
General Webb
Laredo
Tex
Thomas W. Dodd
Mexican National Road
Mexico City
Diaz
Tragedy in Washington and Tamaqua Labor Incident
In Washington Miss Alice Gisher at the government printing office was shot and killed by William Dougherty who then killed himself amid jealousy. In Tamaqua a striker, James Burnham, was shot and killed by a soldier on guard duty near a non unionist house dynamited recently. Burnham refused to disperse and the soldier fired.
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Washington
Alice Gisher
Government Printing Office
William Dougherty
Dougherty
Tamaqua
James Burnham
Brownsville
Burnham
Immense Pears on Exhibition at Sulphur Springs
An exhibit at O. M. Pate’s store in Sulphur Springs showcases six Keffer pears weighing combined five pounds and twelve ounces. The largest pear weighs eighteen ounces and spans twelve inches in circumference. Grown by J. P. Bauman three miles southwest of town, the fruit has already earned 17 from a single tree.
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Sulphur Springs
Tex
O. M. Pate
J. P. Bauman
Grand Army Meeting Sees Pension Report and Growth Concern
The Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Washington reviews the Evans pension office inquiry finding many meritorious claims rejected while some meritless complaints existed. Commander-in-Chief Torrance urges legislation for 200,000 veterans not on pension rolls and notes few fraud cases among veterans. Adjutant General Towler reports 263,745 good standing members across 6511 posts as of June 30 with a membership drop of 1,804 from last year.
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Oeral Committee On
Pension Clarm
Washington
Grand Army of Republic
H. Clay Evans
Torrance
Grand Army of the Republic
Silas H. Towler
Grand Army
Two Negroes Hanged After Lynch Mob Action in Tennessee
In Newburn Tennessee on October 9 a mob of about 500 lynched Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown two Black men who were jailed in Dyersburg after Burley killed farmer D Flatt near Cyrsburg over a horse trade dispute. Brown was named as an accessory.
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Tennessane
Newburn
Tenn
Garfield Burley
Curtis Brown
Burley
D. Flatt
Cyrsburg
Flatt
Dyersburg
Duel to Death on Spur Range Near Clairemont
Pink Higgins and Billy Standifer fought a deadly duel on the Spur range about seventeen miles northwest of Clairemont. Standifer fired seven shots from a 44 Winchester and Higgins five from a 30-80 rifle. Standifer was fatally wounded and Higgins surrendered. Higgins' horse was killed. Both men were well known in west Texas.
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Clairemont
Tex
Pink Higgins
Billy Standifer
Lonesome Spur Range
West Texas
Standifer
Higgins
West
Texas
Texas Man Honored by Alabama Episcopal Diocese Election
The Episcopal Church in Alabama elected Rev Chas N Beckwith D D as Bishop successor to the late Barnwell on the third ballot. A Virginia native, he is about 50, general missionary for the Texas diocese, based in Galveston, with past roles in Houston Galveston parishes and Sewanee school leadership.
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Beckwith
Houston
Episcopal
Alabama
Montgomery
Episcopal Church, Diocese
Bishop Gregg
Texas
Galveston
University of the South
Sewanee
Miss Tobin Weds Dr. Hunt in Austin Residence
Miss Margaret Emily Tobin daughter of Dr. William H. Tobin of Austin and Dr. Edward Cursington Hunt of New York City married at high noon Wednesday. The ceremony occurred at the bride's aunt Mrs. Nellie Faulkner’s home with Rev. J. B. Lee officiating and a small gathering of invited guests and relatives.
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Miss Tobin
Austin
Margaret Emily Tobin
William H. Tobin
Edward Cursington Hunt
New York City
Nellie Faulkner
J. B. Lee
Passenger Trains Collide Near Menlo Park NJ
One man was killed and 12 injured in a rear end collision of passenger trains on the Pennsylvania railroad near Menlo Park New Jersey. None of the injured were reported to have serious injuries.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Menlo Park
N. J
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