Notable Parker Summers Robbery and Prison Return
The report recounts Charles O Summers and Tom Murray’s 1880s Meridian Southern Express robbery, their arrests, guilty pleas, five-year sentences, Summers’ two escapes, and restitution. It includes additional brief items from Ducktown strikes to local incidents in Texas and Arkansas dated Sept 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mins
Charles O Bummers
Qanviet
Pinkerton
Ale Owa Volition
Southern Express Company
Meridian
San Frances
Canaries
C. Savavnet
Pinkerton Agency
Pagene Burch
Southern Express
Hawmond
Yer
Chicago
Rob der Summers
Meridian Misa
Tom Murray
Express Company
Summers
Murray
New Orleans
Express
Murry
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Ducktown, Tenn
Ducktown
Philippine Advice Aims at Manila and Cebu Developments
The American in Manila reports on Cavite under military rule with concessions to civilians. Cebu is restless. Twenty-third Infantry camps at Sibonga as Chinamen relocate goods to the hills. Manila schools show strong English progress. a Formosan tea merchant plans Negros land for tea culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Manila
War Department
Philippines
Cavite
United States
Islands
Simplicio Sameningo
Don Jose
Philippine Islands
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Cebu
Sibonga
Twenty-third Infantry
Formosa
Gilmore and party Captured at Bigau by Filipino forces
Washington reports from a Spanish planter Garza describe Lieutenant Gilmore and 14 American enlisted men held at Bigau after capture near Baler. They subsist on scant rice while 2000 Spanish prisoners suffer, as 4000 Filipinos arm and loot ships. Navy officials plan relief actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gilmore
Yorktown
Baler
Garza
Manila
Bigau
Jarza
Luzon
Navy Department
Yellow Fever Reports Thirty New Key West Cases
Key West reports thirty new yellow fever cases and one death on Friday. No new cases in Louisiana and Mississippi. Savannah imposes quarantine against New Orleans due to yellow fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Savannah
New Orleans
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Charles Sawmers
Galveston
Louise de Carlo
Galveston City
Rendon
Ball
Corsicana
Tex
Ed Rendon
Dick Holland
Kerens
Newport
Ark
Fayette Wilson
Cumby
Ruff
Wess Adams
Philippine Advice
Gimore
Homes
Woolson Spice Company
Toledo
Ohio
Jerry S
Bryan
Postal
Hall
Nature
Halls Drug Store
Bryan, Texas
Straight
Joe B’ Reed
W. J. Wallace
Geo. W. Higgs
Main Street