For Sale Local Real Estate Near Allen Academy
South half of block near Allen Academy priced 550 dollars. About 1.25 acres near the schoolhouse in southeast town. Swallow cottage tenant house and well on premises. Brick cistern on premises. One quarter block near Allen Academy east front price 250 dollars. Lots near school house at 100 dollars each. Also other city property and parts of Otto Boehme's property for sale four blocks from Mn Street.
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Allen Academy
Swallow
Price
Allen Acaemy
East Front
Forces trapped in Somaliland fighting with scarce water
A Somaliland expedition officer describes a brutal ambush with dwindling water, supplies, and ammunition. He notes many losses, camels killed, blacks flanking, two maxims captured, and hopes India troops arrive. Foreign Office blamed for not establishing a permanent post at Curao. Swayne’s force faces growing tribal reinforcements. Second Bombay Grenadiers ordered to Somaliland with more troops likely to follow.
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London
India
Foreign Office
Col. Swayne
Mullah
Simla
Bombay Grenadiers
Somaliland
Heart Sealed by Rare Surgery at Bellevue Hospital
In New York on October 21 Bellevue Hospital surgeons performed a nearly unheard of procedure sewing shut a severed left ventricle in Annie Kingsley after a stabbing. The team of two led the operation with aides watching as six stitches halted life threatening bleeding and the patient began to recover.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Annie Kingsley
Mutual Life of
A. D. M’gonnigo
Bank Blown Open In Summit Robbery
Robbers blew open the Bank of Summit early Monday and looted the vault. Loss estimated between $10,000 and $20,000. proprietors insured against burglary. Robbers escaped after triggering explosives that wrecked the building.
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Minneapolis
George W. Smith
Casualty Company
New York
Summit
Ll. D
Bank of
Two 18 Year Old Suspects Arrested In Jewelry Case
In New York on October 21 two eighteen year olds were arrested at the Fifth Avenue hotel on suspicion of possessing valuable jewelry. They claim to be cousins from Butler Pennsylvania and have occupied suites in several top hotels during a ten day stay. A pearl necklace worth 1000 dollars was recovered among the gems. Police say they ordered goods to their apartments from major jewelers and dry goods firms without paying.
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York
Fifth Avenue
Butler
Reddick on trial for outraging Mrs. Lewis found guilty
A large crowd gathered as Reddick was found guilty on both charges in the trial here. Citizens who had pledged not to hang anyone urged the law to take its course, with saloons closed and no extra measures yet announced.
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Reddick
Lewis
Relations Strained Between Venezuela and Great Britain
Oct. 21 diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Great Britain are severely strained. Caracas protests the hoisting of the British flag on Palos Island and President Castro voiced displeasure in talks with the British envoy. The issue centers on the Ban Righ revolutionary steamer and a 30 percent surtax on goods from the British West Indies.
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Venezuela
Great Britain
Caracas
Palos
Castro
Trinidad
British West Indian Islands
British West Indies
Pachano
Haggard
Revolutionary Party
Vatican balks at sending a Pole to Washington
London reports Monsignor Zaleski has sought the Washington post for a year but the Vatican refuses a Pole to the United States to avoid angering Americans over the McKinley assassin link. In New York railroads resume coal transport with 4500 to 5000 workers recalled on the anthracite lines and up to 10,000 more on other lines.
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London
Cabling
Rome
The
Daily Chronicle
Monsignor Zaleski
Canada
Washington
Vatican
United States
McKinley
New York
Philadelphia
Reading
Jersey Central
Bloodshed Along Kara Su River Reported
A dispatch from Constantinople to Novoe Vremya confirms Arnaut organization in Macedonia and reports heavy bloodshed along the Kara Su river with several hundred killed or wounded. In Philadelphia delegates at the Protestant Episcopal missionary council opened at St James Church with Bishop Gallor of Tennessee preaching.
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Kara Su
St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremya
Constantinople
Arnauts
Macedonia
Philadelphia
Missionary Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. James’ Church
Gallor
Tennessee
Prominent Terrell Lawyer Dies of Typhoid Fever
Terrell Texas October 21 Judge Angus J Alexander prominent local lawyer died in this city after more than three weeks illness from typhoid fever He was a native of Louisiana and well known in legal circles.
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Terrell
Tex
Angus J. Alexander
Louisiana
Labor unions to be incorporated in next legislature
Boston October 21. A bill will be introduced in the next legislature to incorporate labor unions. The movement grows from the coal strike.
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Boston
Burned at the Stake After Jail Break in Arkansas
Charles Young, a Black man accused of assault and murder in Forrest City, Arkansas, was seized from the county jail by an infuriated mob and burned alive despite a promised immediate trial. Deputies and Sheriff Williams opposed the mob, but the crowd forced entry and carried out the execution. The mob then sought a second suspect in the killings of Mrs. Ed Lewis, but had not found him by midnight. In Texas, a gubernatorial dispute in the Choc taw nation ended with Green McCurtain recognized as governor by the Interior Department.
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Arkansas
Forrest City
Ark
Charles Young
Ed Lewis
W. E. Williams
Hutton
Murphy
Sherif Williams
Young
Lewis
Hunter
Denison
Tex
T. W. Hunter
Green McCurtain
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
Tuskahoma
Murder Charge Arises After Gueydan Killing
In Gueydan, Abbeville County, Joseph Mousivie was shot three times in the back and killed. An inquest led to John C. King, a Black saloonkeeper, being jailed on murder charges based on the coroner and jury findings.
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Abbeville
Gueydan
Joseph Mousivie
Edwards
John C. King
Young Hunter Shot in Sherman Firearm Accident
Will Smith an 18 year old son of a widow from West Sherman was likely fatally wounded when a gun discharged as he and 18 year old companion Fred Grider walked home from a day of hunting in the creek bottoms. The charge struck his side and tore the right hand.
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Sherman, Tex
Will Smith
West Sherman
Fred Grider
South Travis Street
Wheat Prospects Excellent for Denton County
Denton Texas October 21 reports that national wheat prospects are very favorable with expected good winter rains. Increased acreage compared to last year boosts optimism for a large Denton County harvest next year amid improving conditions. In another item, F H Flaning a Chicago school supply collector was fired upon near Ryan Oklahoma Territory. he escaped with bullet holes in hat and clothing after a gunman opened fire from a bank above a washed-out road.
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Denton, Tex
Denton County
Ryan
I. T
Post Office opens bids for New York Havana and Tampico routes
Bids opened for mail contracts between New York Havana and Tampico. Only bidder, the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship company, offered $1 per mile for each route. The bid is expected to be accepted.
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Washington
Post Office Department
New York
Havana
Tampico
Mex
New York and Cuba
Sandbagged Robbery in Chickasha Leaves Man Severely Wounded
Terral of Duncan Oklahoma was attacked in an alley in Chickasha while passing through. He was struck on the head with a heavy instrument and robbed of 65 dollars.
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Ryan
I. T
Terral
Duncan
Chickasha
Millionaire Edward Butler Indicted Over City Bill Bribe
St. Louis dated Oct 2 reports millionaire politician Edward Butler indicted by the grand jury for paying Delegate Charles F. Kelly a 47500 bribe to secure support from a combined house of delegates for the ten year city fighting bill enacted November 28, 1899.
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St. Louis
Edward Butler
Grand Jury
Chas. F. Kelly
House of Delegates
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Brazos County
Otto Boehme
J. N. Goodwin
James & Hart Drug Stars
Bryan, Texas
Enchange Shaving Parlor
H. B. Dorsey
San Antonio
Pain
Texas Railroad
L. Trice
D. J. Price
V.P
G.M. G.P
T.A
Hack
Madisonville
Bryan
Daily Hack Service
Lelve
S. W. Buchanan
Episcopal Church Council
FORD
W. 7. Ford
Franklin Brothers
Gse Eupion
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
Texas
McConnico
General Insurance Agency
Bryan, Tex
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