Pierce's Position on Extradition and Bond
District Attorney James R. Hamilton says Pierce’s $40,000 bond will be forfeited if he does not surrender in St. Louis. If he returns, he will be held for trial. if not, Texas will seek extradition from Massachusetts. The Pierce false swearing case requires showing links to Standard Oil and Waters-Pierce. Sheriff Matthews has no update from St. Louis or Washington.
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Pierce
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Hamilton
Texas
Standard Oil
Waters-Pierce
Matthews
Washington
Re-arrest Follows Federal Indictment of Araujo
Waco on October 20 followed El Paso instructions as the Federal grand jury indicted Antonio Araujo an alleged Mexican revolutionist for violation of neutrality laws and he was re arrested to be taken to El Paso for trial. Other cases were transferred to the Del Rio district.
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Waco
el Pas
Federal Grand Jury
Antonio Araujo
Araujo
el Paso
Antonio
del Rio
Anderson Man Charged in Bedias Killings Granted Bail
L O Barnes charged with killing Cecil and E L Hall at Bedias thirty miles north of Anderson is placed under two thousand five hundred dollar bail at his examining trial. Barnes was wounded after quarreling with Cecil Hall and meeting at E L Hall s store where a bullet damaged part of the lip and teeth. The parties are prominent. Lockhart Tex Oct 20 Chairman Storey says the state Democratic executive committee will keep headquarters at the Oriental hotel Dallas Nov 3 and asks county chairmen to send returns that night.
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Lockhart
Tex
Storey
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Oriental Hotel
Dallas
Head Severed in Train Yard Accident at Ennis
Andy Welsh aged eighty a longtime Houston and Texas Central employee recently retired attempted to crawl under a freight train in Ennis yards Tuesday when cars moved his head was completely severed He leaves a widow and a son who is at Cleburne Texas
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Ennis
Tex
Andy Welsh
Houston
Texas Central
Cleburne
Chief Quanah Parker Plans Texas Hunting Trip
Austin reports Chief Quanah Parker now at Cache Oklahoma will journey to Texas for a hunting expedition. Game Warden Lorance received 120 dollars for eight non-resident hunters licenses including Parker and seven other Indian braves. Parker states he will go direct to Quanah in Hardeman County where the hunt will begin. Quanah is a notable figure in Texas history born in Wichita County.
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Austin
Quanah Parker
Cache
Okla
Texas
Lorance
Parker
Quanah
Hardeman County
Wichita County
Dowager Queen Approves Abruzzi Marriage in Rome
Special Rome dispatch reports Margherita, dowager queen of Italy, consented to the marriage of Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins. King Victor Emmanuel plans to present a $100,000 diamond tiara to the groom in ceremony plans.
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London
Rome
Margherita
Italy
Duke of Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Victor Emmanuel
Galveston Cotton Receipts October 20
Galveston reports net cotton receipts Monday totaling 22 538 bales.
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Galveston
Caboose Blown Away In Lone Tree Creek Accident Near Cheyenne
A Union Pacific work train caboose was torn from its couplings by a gale at Lone Tree Creek thirty miles west of Cheyenne. It dropped thirty feet with its forty occupants, killing six laborers and injuring twenty five to thirty others, many seriously, as wreckage piled up after the fall.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Union Pacific
Lone Tree Creek
Prohibition Candidate Chafin Attacks Platform and Leaders
In New Haven on October 20 Eugene W. Chafin the Prohibition candidate for president ridicules the Democratic platform calling it a Mother Hubbard dress and notes his campaign mileage and weight gain He jokes about other party leaders and mocks the Socialist labor candidate tauntingly. Separately reports from Trenton and Nashville recount the murder of Captain Quinton Rankin and the disappearance of Colonel R Z Taylor with a body found near Reel Foot Lake.
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New Haven
Conn
Mother Hubbard
Eugene W. Chafin
Taft
Socialist Labor
Bryan
Trenton
Tenn
Quinton Rankin
Walnut Log
Reel Foot Lake
R. Z. Taylor
Reward For Murderers In Heel Foot Lake Case
Governor Pat Patterson has offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest of those responsible for the murder of Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin on Heel Foot lake.
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Memphis
Pat Patterson
Colonel Taylor
Rankin
Writ Dismissed in Thaw Case in Pittsburg
Pittsburg news reports Judge Young dismissed the writ of habeas corpus in the Thaw case on Tuesday. The ruling means Louis Thaw will not be brought to the city at present for further proceedings.
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Pittsburg
Young
Prussian Parliament Opens in Berlin
Berlin on October 20 reports King William opening the Prussian parliament on Tuesday. The session marks the formal start of legislative deliberations in the kingdom.
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Berlin
William
Colonel Tucker Improving in Hot Springs
In Hot Springs Arkansas on October 20 Colonel William F. Tucker is reported to be improving.
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Tucker
Hot Springs
Ark
William F. Tucker
Elgin Butter Sales Figures for Week
Elgin Illinois reports butter sales in the past week totaling 675700 pounds.
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Elgin Butter Sales
Elgin, Ill
Portrait row halts Texas postmasters meeting
Texas post masters in Fort Worth refused to be called to order until a wall portrait of Thomas L. Hisgen, presidential candidate of the Independence party, was torn down. Sixty attended. only Democratic official present was Grand Prairie Postmaster Tuflor. Ardmore reports J B Wall sold 500 two and three year old steers to Percy Webb of Ryan. price not disclosed.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Thomas L. Hisgen
Independence Party
Tuflor
Grand Prairie
Ardmore
J. B. Wall
Percy Webb
Ryan
Webb
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