Yellow fever outbreak expands at Rio Grande border
In Laredo Texas on October 20 the epidemic worsened with 36 new cases and five deaths raising total to 436 cases and 32 deaths. Dr Tabor investigated a Hondo Medina county case confirmed as yellow fever. Dr Guiteras reported a mine worker near Canal died, possibly from fever. Governor Arguelles and experts arrived to aid Nuevo Laredo and support the relief effort while US Consul Garrett's condition improved.
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Laredo
Tex
Ta' Boon
Tabor
Hondo
Medina County
McKnight
Cannel
Jaquimo Ranch
Guiteras
Thompson
Victoria
Mex
Nuevo Laredo
United States
Garrett
Restraining Order Issued Against Railway Express Men
Judge Jacob Trieber in Little Rock granted a temporary restraining order against members of the local Brotherhood of Railway Express Men to stop violence against new employees of Pacific Express Company. A hearing for a permanent injunction is set for Oct 21. Two new messengers were forcibly ejected from cars at Wynne Oct 17, hindering service.
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Little Rock
Ark
Pacific Express Company
United States
Jacob Trieber
Brotherhood of Railway Expressmen
Defendendanta
Wynne, Ark
Well earned AP praised by London paper
The London Daily Telegraph editorializes on the Associated Press exclusive about boundary arbitration. It states the AP has earned a reputation for accuracy on international questions centered in London and deems the Telegraph's view that the AP statement is likely substantially correct.
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Associated Press
London
London Daily Telegraph
Eight Halle prisoners escape after murder of guard
Eight convicts from Halle central prison overpowered two guards in the insane ward on Saturday night. They smothered one guard, wounded another, took keys, and fled to a nearby forest. Pursuers recovered them after a pursuit ending with a guard shot. they were captured in a nobleman’s villa.
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Berlin
Halle
Prussia
Louisiana Lynching at Taylortown Shocked Shreveport
In Taylortown near Shreveport a mob of about 100 men lynched George Kennedy after an alleged attack on Valley Road conductor Brittain. The mob dispersed quietly as the victim was slain. In London a missing doctor Miss Hickman was found dead in Richmond Park with severe decomposition and a severed head, a case shrouded in mystery.
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Shreveport
George Kennedy
Taylortown
Here
Kennedy
Brittain
Valley Road
London
Miss Hickman
Richmond Park
Pacific Express guards clash as strikes ripple west
Oct 20 dispatches report violence against a messenger at Marshall with officers halting a mob. Superintendent Russ says Pacific Express offices from Dallas to Fort Worth are returning to normal as striking workers complicate staffing. Other notes show Ton per cent demand and messengers beaten at Longview.
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Marshall
Dallas
Russ
Pacific Express Company
Longview
Fort Worth
Texas Central
Houston
San Antonio
Galveston
Plating Stops Over Funds Halt Choctaw Nation Projects
Ardmore Oklahoma October 20 1888 platting of town sites in the Choctaw nation has closed due to insufficient funds. Officials chose to fund town lot appraisals rather than plotting new sites and expect to complete the latter later. Investigation Begins Ardmore Oct 20 inspector Leigh Chalmers of the department of justice opened a probe into charges against Suthern district officials with several witnesses summoned.
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Ardmore
I. T
Leigh Chalmers
Department of Justice
Suthern
Boy Killed When Shotgun Tangled in Wagon Wheel
Noyse Silvester aged fourteen was killed near Bridgeport Oklahoma while riding to hay fields when his shotgun became entangled in a wagon wheel and discharged.
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Guthrie
Okla
Noyse Silvester
Bridgeport
Kit Carson's Grandson Mentioned in Lawton
Lawton Oklahoma October 20 Kit Carson's grandson identified as an assayer.
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Kit Carson
Lawton
Okla
Disorder at Dowie Meeting in Madison Square Garden
John A Dowie opened his second night gathering at Madison Square Garden before a large audience that slimmed to a few hundred as he fretted and used epithets. Several hundred left as the host from the west continued his heated confrontation.
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Dowie
New York
John A. Dowie
Madison Square Garden
West
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