Prosecution Claims No Cessation in Standard Oil Case
Findlay Ohio October 17 Prosecutor David argued in the Standard Oil Company of Ohio case that there had never been an actual cessation of the Standard Oil trust since 1882, citing ongoing control and consolidation as evidence of persistence.
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David
Standard Oil Trust
Findlay
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Standard Oil Company Trust
William L. David. Dence
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Cattle Thieves Battle Mexican Gendarmes Near Layula
Four bandits were killed seven captured and twelve escaped after a clash with state gendarmes on an open highway near Layula, Guada lajara. The gang, driving about 500 cattle, opened fire. none of the gendarmes were wounded and leaders are believed captured. Prisoners await in Guada lajara penitentiary.
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Mexico
el Paso
Herald
Guadalajara
Mex
Layula
Another Slain Near Sullivan's Hollow Murder Scene
State Treasurer Miller found an unidentified man dead on a public road about ten miles from Raleigh after a fusillade of shots. The victim is believed to be a witness in the Sullivan's Hollow murder case set for trial in Raleigh next week.
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Jackson
Miss
Sullivan's Hollow
Raleigh
Miller
Sullivan Hollow
Peabody Denies Coercion Claims in Mutual Life Case
President Peabody of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York denies charges of coercion and misuse of company funds for a trustees election. He says Colonel Hindman was dismissed as Kentucky Tennessee general agent for openly attacking company management and failing to perform duties properly.
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Mutual
Frankfort, Ky
Peabody
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York
Hindman
Kentucky
Tennessee
Frazier's Frenzy Ends in Fatal Shootout at Kimberly Store
Ira Donley, a miner, was killed and Mrs Angeline Boggs wounded by John Frazier in the Sunday Creek company store at Kimberly, near Nelsonville Ohio. Donley leaves three children. Frazier says the shooting was in self defense. Raunch caption includes a bystander and a brown boy react to the tragedy.
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Nelsonville
Ira Donley
Angeline Boggs
John Frazier
Sunday Creek Company
Kimberly
Here
Frazier
Tragedy in Maysville: ORegan Kills Wife Then Dies
In Maysville on Oct 17 Thomas O Regan a baker after quarreling with Mrs Becky Bradford shot and killed her He then fled and before officers could reach him threw himself in front of a moving freight train and was instantly mangled to death In London Ky jail saved after over twenty prisoners were liberated following a fire that destroyed a grocery block with losses exceeding 100000 In New York Roseben set a new seven furlong track record at Belmont Park finishing in 1 22
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Maysville, Ky
Thomas O'Regan
Becky Bradford
O'Regan
London
F. B. Mason
New York
Roseben
Belmont Park
Plea of Privilege Sustained in Dallas Ticket Case
Fort Worth Oct. 17 In the injunction suit of Grant Decker against the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad and the city of Dallas Judge M E Smith sustained the city's plea of privilege to be sued in its county and dismissed the case as to the city He also held the Dallas ordinance prohibiting ticket brokers from doing business there absolutely void noting the state constitution denies such power to any incorporated city The court enjoined M K T railroad officers and others from aiding in prosecutions for violating the ordinance
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Dallas
Fort Worth
Grant Decker
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
City of
M. E. Smith
Fort Worth to have a Negro college modeled after Tuskegee
Plans are completed for a Mechanical and Industrial college in Fort Worth. Twenty thousand dollars is subscribed and J Ogden Armour of Chicago has promised more aid. Backers include the Baptist Educational and Missionary Society of Texas. The college will follow Tuskegee Institute as a model and will enroll several hundred students at commencement.
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Fort Worth
Alabama Institute
Mechanical and Industrial College
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago
Baptist Educational and Missionary Society of Texas
Tuskegee Institute
Indians Head South to Mexico in Advance Guard
The advance guard of Dakota and Delaware tribes passed through Fort Worth on Wednesday en route to Mexico to scout new locations. They say they are crowded out in the Territory and expect many more to follow once a suitable site is found.
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Fort Worth
Mexico
Kreugel Loses Mandamus Bid Over Dallas Clerk Nomination
Texas Supreme Court refused Herman Kreugel’s request to file a mandamus petition against the Dallas county Democratic executive committee. He sought to force placement of his name on the ticket for district clerk to create two clerks for the two district courts.
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Texas Supreme Court
Austin
Supreme Court
Herman Kreugel
Democratic Executive Committee
Dallas County
Kreugel
American Bankers Association Opens General Convention in St Louis
In St Louis on October 17 the American Bankers' Association began its sessions with President Hamilton of Hoopeston presiding. Delegates from various branches were consolidated into a single general convention as the Olympic theater venue filled with attendees across the lower floor.
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St. Louis
American Bankers’ Association
Hamilton
Hoopeston
Olympic Theater
Two Large Cash Consignments Lost in River Wreck
A Chicago Rock Island passenger train wreck near Dove Oklahoma buried in Cimarron river quicksands. Over $6,000 in two consignments disappeared. one registered package valued at $5,000 is being traced by Iowa insurance agents. Search focuses on the riverbank and surrounding quicksands.
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Cimarron River
Oklahoma City
Rock Island and Pacific
Dove
Okla
Iowa
Immense engines ordered by Erie Railroad for freights
The Erie Railroad company announced an order for three colossal freight locomotives weighing over 200 tons each. Each engine will carry sixteen driving wheels and a tractive power of 98 000 pounds, capable of pulling a train of 225 loaded freight cars on level track.
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New York
The
Erie Railroad Company
Train Ditching Causes Tank Roll and Fatal Boiler Explosion
Frisco local No. 23 derailed between Denison and Sherman causing a one million gallon oil tank to plummet down an embankment. Track damaged for miles and hours needed to clear wreck. Engineer and fireman killed. In Alamogordo a Fl Paso and Southwestern locomotive boiler exploded nine miles from town, killing Engineer Dobbins and Fireman Brandon, with Brakeman Gallagher badly hurt.
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Denison
Frisco
Sherman
Alamogordo, N. M
Fl Paso
Southwester
Dobbins
Brandon
Gallagher
Here
Texas Company Doubles Capital Stock in Beaumont
Capital stock of the Texas Company of Beaumont is increased from 6 million to 12 million dollars by amendment to its charter. The Beaumont based oil firm is described as the largest in the state.
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Austin
Texas Company of
Beaumont
Saluting a Ghost in a Scottish Ghost Story
An old dean recounts a famed ghost tale with a Canton folk flavor. The speaker greets the revenant with humor asking if the apparition is gathering a general rise or strolling from its grave alone.
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Maister Ghaist
Death announced in Mobile Confederate veterans note Varina Davis
Mobile October 17 William E Mickle adjutant general of the United Confederate Veterans arrived after news of Mrs Varina Jefferson Davis death in New York at over eighty years. General Order No 57 directs Major General Theodore Garnett to arrange suitable observances honoring her as a southern author wife mother patriot and beloved figure among Confederate survivors.
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Mobile
William &. Mickle
United Confederate Veterans
City
New Orleans
Jefferson Davis
Varina Jefferson Davis
New York
South
Davis
Theodore
Garnett
Virginia
Stephen D. Lee
William E. Mickle
Homecoming Week Opens in Alabama at Fair Grounds
Birmingham October 17 Gov Jelks welcomed visitors at the state fair grounds officially inaugurating homecoming week. Judge J ds Banks of Denver spoke for the home comers. Among registrants were former Alabamians from Calcutta South Africa and Norway. Festivities expected to be a big success.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Gov. Jelks
State Fair Grounds
J. Ds Banks
Denver
Calcutta
South Africa
Norway
English visitors travel to probe Kansas City packing houses
Sir Walter Foster of London and H. Radcliff Kidner, British chemist, arrived in Kansas City on October 17 to investigate working conditions in local packing houses. Foster declined to confirm official government business when asked.
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Kansas City
Sir Walter Foster
London
H. Radcliff Kidner
Walter
Laborers of Servia: Simple farmers in rugged dress
The description portrays Servian laborers as plain, frugal farmers in coarse homespun clothes. They wake at dawn drink raki, work from sunrise to sunset, fatten hogs, and live a primitive rural life on stubborn, unproductive soil near the Danube. In neighboring Roumania and Bulgaria grain lands are richer.
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Servia
Roumania
Bulgaria
Europe
The Swiss Fourth of July Celebration Tale
A traveler recalls celebrating Switzerland’s August 1 national fete at a Valais climbing center. Guests enjoy a complimentary hotel dinner, fireworks, and a mountain bonfire while shouting Hourra at a patriotic speech about Swiss military and republican history. The next morning the keynote speaker cannot recall the Swiss president’s name.
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Valais
Switzerland
Illinois
Milk processing in Turkey yields curd called yaghorn
A London Academy of Medicine paper notes buffalo cow goat and sheep milk in Turkey is rarely used in natural state. After slow cooling the milk is fermented from the prior day to form a curd named yaghorn. The preparation is preferred for its pleasant acid taste and nutrition. Calumet etymology traced from Norman pipe of peace terms among several tribes.
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Turkey
London Academy of Medicine
Panama Isthmus Submersion Would Halt Gulf Stream
The article explains that submerging the Panama Isthmus and adjacent territory would redirect the equatorial current into the Pacific, preventing the Gulf Stream from emerging into the Atlantic and altering Western Europe’s climate.
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Europe
Panama
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Watch Jewels and Prison Writings in Literary History
The text discusses the value of jewels in watches, noting jewels cost only 10 cents and rarely exceed 15 dollars per gross in modern times. It then quotes prison writings by Bunyan, Raleigh, James I, Smollett, and Defoe, highlighting their literary works created during confinement and closing with Addison on inconsistency.
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Bunyan
Bedford
Holy
Raleigh
Tower
James I
Scotland
Windsor Castle
Smollett
King’s Bench
Launcelot Graves
Newgate
Defoe
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Tnttam
United Confedaecte Veterans
Mic
Addison
DR. C. F. Andrews
Jenkins’ Drug Store
Bryan, Texas
W. H. Lawrence
A. L. Mondrick, M. D
James’ Drug Store
Zemo
E.W
BrooxheLp
Rose Mephine Co
W. P. Tubbs
E. W. Rose Medicine CO
Olive Street
M. H. James
Carvian Feed
Wilson Grain & Coal CO
Paul
Jones
Ford's Saloon
STEV
Sss
Bryan Street
Nat'l Bank
Monroe Edge
Foley
Bright’s
John Wittman
W. C. Fountain
Burt Norwid
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Jave
Brazos County
Bryan
Price
H. D. Evans
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