The Daily Eagle notices and notices nonelected
The article notes a lack of political excitement during the campaign. It mentions Capt Riche a government engineer recommending a survey of the Brazos to determine navigability. It reports Galveston News trade edition inviting Texas and the west to engage with the port. It cites Texas Christian Advocate claiming eighty six divorce suits filed in Dallas in April June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt. Riche
Brazos
The
Galveston News
Texas
West
Texas Christian Advocate
Dallas
A G Steele Remembered as Leading Planter and Gentleman
A Friend eulogizes Gus Steele noting his demotion of life to service of his county, praising indomitable energy and business acumen. He is described as fearless, generous to foes, loyal to friends, a devoted husband and father, and a benchmark of integrity in the state's agricultural and business circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Steele
A. G. Steele
District Court Opens Regular September Term in City of Brazos Valley
District Court opened with Judge W. G. Taliaferro and District Attorney J. C. Scott present. Bailiffs appointed included Dan Zimmerman and J. E. Farquhar among others. A grand jury was empaneled for the term. The report notes Brazos Valley’s growth with a 5,000 population, electric light, water works, opera house, multiple churches, cotton ginning and compress facilities, hotels, cotton plantation homes, wealth, and competing railroad lines per the Palestine Daily Visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
W. G. Taliaferro
J. C. Scott
Nunn
Dan Zimmerman
J. E. Farquhar
C. E. Buchanan
C. L. Baker
F. W. Yeager
Albert Schultz
Louis Reed
J. D. Jones
Powell Harvey
Bryan
Brazos Valley
Palestine Daily Visitor
Music Pupils Sought by Miss Lilian Parks in Sherman
Miss Lilian Parks a Nash College Sherman graduate seeks a few music pupils. She offers proper instruction and advancement. Also trains to Bryan September 9 at 3 am with H and T C round trip fare 2 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilian Parks
Nash College
Sherman
Houston-Galveston
Bryan
T.C
Houston
Galveston
W.S. Wilson
None Spared in War Office Casualty Letter
A London war office incident reveals the Boer war's reach as a journalist, who has covered losses nightly, discovers his own son listed among the killed on a casualty sheet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Murderers Compete At Sing Sing In Checker Games
Roland B. Molineux, a noted poisoner convict, is among eight candidates for the electric chair at Sing Sing. Each inmate plays checkers with a board in his cell, and moves are signalled by shouts as games unfold.
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Roland B. Molineux
Sing Sing Prison
Molineux
London Journal Offers Prize For Six Best Obsolete Words
A London journal invited entries listing six old English words that could regain usefulness. The winning list includes commorient meaning dying together and algate meaning at any risk.
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London
Algate
Sailor Statesmen From New England to California
Two current congress members began life as sailors, both New England natives who ran away to sea and settled in California. One is Senator Perkins and the other Representative E. I. Loud.
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Congress
California
Senator Perkins
E. I.’. Loud
Yale in Congress Seventeen Yale Men in Present Congress
Sixteen Yale graduates serve in the current Congress led by Senators E O Wolcott W M Stewart T C Platt C M Depew and G B Wetmore as key figures in the House and Senate.
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Yale
Congress
E. O. Wolcott
W. M. Stewart
T. C. Platt
C. M. Depew
G. 2. Wetmore
Thirteen Dead in Hatfield Train Wreck in 1900
A rear end collision on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Hatfield Pennsylvania killed thirteen people and injured over eighty others. The first Bethlehem Allentown excursion train struck the milk train at speed damaging cars and trapping victims. The coroner vowed a rigorous investigation.
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Philadelphia
Bethlehem
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Hatfield
Charles McGonigle
Allentown
Thomas Day
Mamie Kaelin
Telford
Godfrey Kaelin
William Blackburn
Ambler
Harold Landis
Mr. Ackerman
Atlantic City
Union Depot
Montgomery County
British delays in Pekin shape China policy amid evacuations debate
London reports slow progress as the British minister in Pekin delays publication of policy remarks until Sir Claude MacDonald reports. Public opinion heats against evacuation while some press and officials trend toward withdrawing from Pekin to Tien Tsin, not full China evacuation.
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London
Pekin
China
Claude MacDonald
Ekin
Tien Tsin
Hong Kong
Comete
Han Kiang
Peace talks in Pekin amid palace safety fears
Three Foreign Office members Na Tung Chung Li and Ching Shin seek terms via Sir Robert Hart to spare the Forbidden City as Russians seize the palace. Americans urge destruction and beheading of Na Tung and Chung Li over the Ketteler murder. British forces report clashes five miles west of Pekin with 300 boxers and 2000 troops. the Chinese troops retreat after 70 Boxer casualties.
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Pekin
Shaghai
Ching Shin
Na Tong
Chung Li
Tsung Liuamen
Robert Hart
Imperial Customs
Forbidden City
Na Tung
Baron von Ketteler
Three More Executed by the Empress in Pekin
Dispatches report three more foreign office members executed by the Empress in Pekin as allied forces approach. Hen Tun Li Shan and Li Yien Yuan were killed just before relief troops arrived.
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New York
The
Herald
Pekin
Shanghai
Foreign Office
Hen Tun
Li Shan
Li Yien Yuan
Chaffee
Seige
Humorous Exchange Over Committee Chairs
A Middle West member thanked the speaker for Tam on a fine committee and joked about also chairing another committee. Henderson smiled, noting he preferred pleasing the “boys” and shared the light moment about holding multiple chairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Middle West
Speaker
Tam
Henderson
Boer Servants and Livingstone Describe Boer Raids
Boer observers quote Dr. Livingstone describing how mounted Boers use friendly tribes as shields during expeditions. They force tribes to accompany raiding parties and fire over the heads of natives until the locals flee, abandoning cattle wives and children to captors. He notes nine such attacks occurred with no Boers wounded.
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Dr. Livingstone
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W. R. Sanders
Forman
Walter Wipprecht
J. H. White
James Wilson Jr
W. A. Withers
L. F. Battle
W. E. Cloud
John Ferguson
J. J. Cahill
J. A. D. Robinson
M. &. Freeman
McDuff Simpson
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S. W Buchanan
Pennsylvania
Princeton Ind
Henry L. Bachner
Chicago
Pantons
Santa Fe
Topeka
Edward Wilder
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Austin
Rogan
Arkansaw
Little Rock
Jeff Davis
H. L. Remmel
A. W. Filer
Remmel
Denmark
Copenhagen
Glasgow
Washington
Post Office Department
Brandon
Tex
Great Britain
MacDonald
War Department
Barry
Taku
Salina
Kan
John W. Hussey
Union Pacific
Cape Town
Assembly of Roberts
South African Republic
Transvaal
Cincinnati
Walter Bell
Annie_ Bell
Avenue
Franklin County
Newton
Jasper
Lutcher & Moore
Alexander Gilmer
Hall’s Drug Store
Candy Kitchen
Lowney’s
Gunther’s
Borghuns Livery Stable
Jas. O. Kernale
J. V. Brogdon
Brogdon’s
Trant’s
R.L. Brocdon
B Hudson
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