Wires kept busy over emergency rate dispute in Texas
Austin reports telegraph wires buzzed Friday as traffic manager Dunlap sought through rates from New York while officials argue over cancellation of through rates. Colquitt and Oden exchange messages about local mile rates and the Houston Texas City route. Judge Pol Ganeral and Paul Haynes aged twenty one, editor of the University Cactus, died of diabetes in Austin.
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Sunsetral
Houston
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Oden
Dunlap
New York
Ice Commission
Iveston
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Iquitt
Paul Haynes
University
Alderman Haynes
Democratic Campaign Fund Reaches About 220000 Dollars
New York October 9 The Democratic national committee will announce next week the campaign fund and individual contributors of 100 dollars and over. Chicago lists show a fund a little over 220000 with over 180000 from contributors and 42000 from the Denver convention fund. Fourteen people gave 1000 dollars and eighteen gave 100 dollars. Major funding comes from dollar contributors and Democratic press.
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Democratic National Committee
Chicago
Denver
Democratic Treasury
Guy B. Tucker
Little Rock
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Democratic Press
FourYearOld Girl Injured by Horse in Bonham
Esther Jamison aged four in Bonham October 9 was kicked by a horse after striking it with a switch. A hoof struck her head fracturing the skull. The girl remained unconscious an hour later and her prospects for recovery are reported as slight.
First dry-farmed watermelons marketable at El Paso
J F Reeves brought in two carloads of watermelons from a dry farm twenty miles from El Paso marking the first marketable melons grown there. In Dublin Texas notes threaten night riders after authorities deny prior threats and gins refuse to close. Deep Water convention in New Orleans closes with Shonts as speaker and final committee reports. Forgan retires from the board of governors, Conway succeeds him.
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J. F. Reeves
New Orleans
Chicago
Gulf Deep Waterways Association
Theodore P. Shonts
Clover Leaf-Alton Railroad
Panama Canal Commission
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B. Ss. Conway
Missionary Convention Opens in New Orleans
The Church of Christ convened in New Orleans with about 1,000 delegates expected for the annual meeting of the Board of Missions. The first business and opening services featured address by Mrs. An dianapolis and other noted speakers during a Christian Women program.
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Church of Christ Convention
New Orleans
Missionary Conven of Christ
An’s Board of Missions
Andianapolis
Elcome
Under Control cholera update and local crime notes
The cholera situation is under control in St. Petersburg with 74 new cases in municipal hospitals in the last 24 hours, a drop of 50 from the prior day, 57 deaths, and 124 cured. In Belton Texas Tom Stidman and George Kellough escaped jail by forcing out two bars. In Springfield Illinois Abe Rayner was acquitted of destruction of property after rioting, following a prior acquittal for murder tied to a lynching. In North Tonawanda New York G Walck died after falling from a tree.
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Belton
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Tom Stidman
George Kellough
Rayner
Springfield
Abe Rayner
A Donegan
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