Riggins Loses Out in Impeachment Case Appeal
The Court of Civil Appeals affirms against J. W. Riggins in his impeachment bid against Waco mayor W. H. Thompson and the McLennan county board. Court rules no equity remedy. case to proceed by quo warranto or legal means. Riggins may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge due process and property rights.
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Austin
Court of Civil Appeals
J. W. Riggins
W. H. Thompson
McLennan County
Riggins
Waco
Board of Aldermen
City Council
Waco Council
Supreme Court of the United States
Smuggling attempt over eighty pounds opium on Gedney
Eighty pounds of opium found in the Gedney stewards quarters at Seattle. Gong Gee, the steward, jailed awaiting trial for attempting to smuggle a countryman between Victoria and Seattle aboard the coast survey ship. Aged oddity noted as Secretary Shaw's son was present on board during the incident.
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Seattle
Wash
Coast Survey
Gedney
Victoria
Steward’s Department
Gong Gee
Shaw
Mutinous Crew Leaves Wreck Crew on Ladrone Island
The bark Gayhead, from San Francisco nearly a year ago, reported mutinous conduct by a Chilean and Mexican crew. They left the ship at Guam and were replaced by Ladrone islanders, while the ship continued on its voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Ladrone Islands
Guam
Chase to free Miss Stella Teller ends at depot
Porter County Sheriff Lacount races Jacksonville doctor J C Sharpe and Valparaiso City Marshal Billings to the Pennsylvania depot to recover Miss Stella Teller from a private asylum. A habeas corpus writ arrived just before the train sped, sparing her capture and ending the dramatic pursuit.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Lacount
Porter County
Billings
J. C. Sharpe
Jacksonville
Pennsylvania Depot
Miss Stella
Josephine Teller
United States
Teller
Colo
Miss Teller
Ill
Sharpe
Telegraph firm owns news rights beyond publication
A U S court of appeals opinion held that the Western Union Telegraph company retains property rights in the news it gathers and that those rights do not end when the news is published or leased to patrons. The ruling affirms lower court decisions and blocks National Telegraph News Illinois Commission and others from using the quotations in question.
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Chicago
Jenkins
Grosscup Baker and Bunn
United States Court of Appeals
Western Union Telegraph Company
Principe
Court of Appeals
National Telegraph News Company
Illinois Commission Company
Samoan King Influence Ties to Deers Case at Washington
A Stockholm report suggests King Oscar’s Samoa decision was swayed by three jurists including M. Cederkrans former Samoa chief justice and his clashes with Judge Chambers. Separate dispatches note Waxahachie health officer’s report of smallpox exposure near Ennis and a $20,000 verdict for J. W. Owens in a Missouri Kansas Texas railway damage suit after Owens lost his left leg.
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Ormer
Samoa
Oscar
Washington
Stockholm
M. Cederkrans
Judge Chambers
Ennis
Tex
Shydle
Waxahachie
Telico
Rosser
Sherman
J. W. Owens
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Peterson Dies After Yoakum Street Stabbing
Yoakum Texas October 29 James R Peterson died at his mother's home after being stabbed on a street Sunday at 8 30 pm R A Hamby is jailed in Cuero following the arrest. Protest Against Wage Cut Shipyard Workers Strike in London Northeast Boast. Thanksgiving Proclamation Roosevelt designates November 27 as Thanksgiving Day in Washington.
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London
Washington
Roosevelt
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PTUL
Batavia
Brazil
Nute
Onds
Orta Barre
Olives
Sugar House
BADIA
Howell Brothers
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan
Texas
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
J. M. Boriskie
Houston
Texas Central
B. Morse
Traf
Mgr
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
Denison
Houston, Corsicana
T. J. Anderson
M.L. Robbins
Pass
Court of Appeal
Watertown
N. Y
Louis Richman
New York
Delabarre
Alexandria Bay
Richman
Fort Worth
Rock Island
McGann
Durant
I. T
Jim Hatcher
Here
Robert Robinson
Telegraph Company
King
Enlis
Cook Store
JO. B
Mike
C. M. Proctor
James & Hart
D. Mike JR
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