Big Blaze Destroys Major Macon Planing Mill
Fire at the Central City Planing and Lumber mills in Macon wipes out all machinery and lumber piles stretching 100 yards beside the Southwestern railroad. Adjacent Central City Ice plant buildings catch fire from sparks and are nearly destroyed. Loss estimated at 100000. In Nashville fire at Lieberman Loveman O'Brien lumber yards destroys 5900000 feet of oak and poplar. Loss estimated 125000 to 150000.
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Macon
Central City Planing
Southwestern Railroad
Central City
Nashville
Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien
Death on Fort Worth Sidewalk After Suspected Robbery
Found on Sept 24 near 13-16 Lincoln Avenue in North Fort Worth, the body of James P. Stacey, likely from Dallas, lay on the sidewalk with a shotgun wound to the back and a bruised head. Police found two men in a nearby house who heard a violent quarrel and a shotgun blast. The victim had money and valuables, suggesting robbers were not the motive.
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Fort Worth
Lincoln Avenue
North Fort Worth
James P. Stacey
Dallas
Senator Bailey Plans Dallas Trip For Written Reply
Gainesville Texas September 24 Senator Bailey said he would leave for Dallas to prepare a written statement addressing attacks made upon him He refused to be interviewed.
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Gainesville
Tex
Bailey
Dallas
Poisoned baby linked to fire setting by Indian nurse
Fourteen year old Jennie Burch, an Indian nurse, confessed to poisoning a two and a half year old infant in Brewster area after starting an incendiary fire. She said her act aimed to prevent separation from the child and to escape punishment.
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New York
Brewster
N. Y
Jennie Burch
Cowles Corners
Jennie Bureh
Wilbur Winship
Murder Mystery at Fort Worth Cleared by Confession
Lee Rendal of Eagle Ford surrendered to Constable Bud Douglass at Arlington and confessed to killing James P. Stacey in North Fort Worth over relationship with Rendal's wife. Stacey was found with a shotgun wound. Rendal was jailed in Fort Worth on a $10,600 bond.
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Fort Worth
James P. Stacey
Eagle Ford
North Fort Worth
Lee Rendal
Bud Douglass
Arlington
Randal
R. A. Randal
Dr. Harvey
J. A. Hightower
Stacey
Lee
Engle Ford
Body Found In Burlap Sack In New York Excavation
A burlap bag stamped Z. K. Mano was found in a 25 foot deep hole in a Thirty sixth Street excavation for a brewery. The sack contained a nearly dismembered male body with a woman’s skirt and an oil cloth showing a crude Columbus sketch.
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New York
Deputy Sheriffs Stationed at Dover Bridge Tie Up Traffic
Deputies guard the approach to the temporary Cimarron river bridge at Dover where the Rock Island wreck blocked trains. Traffic stands still as a dispute over removing bodies from submerged cars pits Territory officials against the railroad company. Governor Frantz says the company must handle the task.
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Guthrie
Cimarron River
Dover
Rock Island
Frantz
Notable deaths and incidents in Texas listed
Luke Brown a 350 pound Black man dies in Millican Herbert Stone Brenham financier dies. At Del Valle M Burch killed in a runaway Will Richmond Black man commits suicide in Caldwell jail. U S exports for year ending Aug 31 total 3 013 817 633 An International engine ran away from Austin twenty miles before steam exhausted.
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Luke Brown
Millican
Tex
Herbert Stone
Brenham
del Valle
Travis County
Texas
M . Burch
Will Richmond
Caldwell
Austin
Body of Zeb Long Found Hanging Near East Point
The body of Zeb Long, an African American man, was found hanged in the woods west of East Point, eight miles south of Atlanta. Long had been detained in East Point jail after a disorderly conduct arrest. The incident follows a wave of recent assaults on white women, with authorities reporting numerous unconfirmed deaths and secret burials as military patrols tighten in the city.
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Atlanta
Zeb Long
East Point
Long
East Point Calaboose
State Infantry
Pike’s Peak Centennial Parade Opens in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs greets Pike centennial events with military displays and a large parade. Infantry cavalry artillery units, Grand Army of the Republic, Colorado national guard and Spanish war veterans march past crowds as Vice President Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks arrive escorted by Thomas F. Walsh.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo
Pike
Pike’s Peak
Grand Army of the Republic
Colorado National Guard
Fairbanks
Antlers Hotel
Thomas F. Walsh
Startling statistics claim 4000 executions in 25 years
The World reports a startling statistic claiming 4,000 persons were put to death without legal warrant in the U S over the last twenty five years. It asserts 95 percent were Black men accused of assaulting white women. Methods listed include hanging shooting flogging and burning at the stake.
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New York
United States
Helena Safe Arrival Amid China Sea Hurricane Report
Commander Cutler cables from Shanghai that the US gunboat Helena reached port safely aboard the Galveston. Earlier reports claimed the Helena was lost in the great hurricane that swept the China Sea. In New York, Neil Gray stage veteran Cornelius B. Cammyer dies at 20 years onstage in Brooklyn after performing with Booth Cushman Fiske and others.
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Navy Department
Cutler
Galveston
Shanghai
United States
Helena
China Sea
New York
Cornelius B. Cammyer
Neil Gray
Brooklyn
Booth, Barrett
Felcher
Charlotte Cushman
Miss Neilson
Mrs. Fiske
Locomotive Explosion Injures Engineer Lightfoot and Six Others
In Ferriday Mississippi a locomotive exploded injuring engineer Lightfoot and six other men. The incident occurred during a blast that damaged the engine and nearby crews. Rescue teams responded and transporting the injured to local facilities is underway.
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Natchez, Miss
Ferriday
Lightfoot
Pate Falls From Window At Lufkin Hotel
Lufkin Tex Sept 24 Frank Pate fell from a second story window of an Avenue hotel breaking his neck and suffering injuries.
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Lufkin, Tex
Frank Pate
Avenue
Oppenheimer Dies In Navasota At Sixty Four
Governor Lanham received a telegram announcing the death of General L. M. Oppenheimer in Navasota at age sixty four after illness. A prominent Texas figure in military circles, he served on the national rifle promotion board, was a retired major general of the National Guard, and took roles as chairman of the state sanitary board and the Austin water and light commission. He was a Hebrew and formerly a banker in El Paso. He survived by a widow and several relatives.
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Lanham
Ueal
Navasota
L. M. Oppenheimer
Texas
National Board For
National Guard
State Sanitary Board
Water and Light Commission of
Oppenheimer
el Paso
State board to buy 450000 in bonds from Chicago holders
The state board of education proposes to purchase a 450000 issue of state bonds held in Chicago for the permanent school fund. The fund holds about 3.6 million worth of state bonds with roughly 550000 remaining. The bonds carry 5 percent interest.
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Austin
State Board of Education
Chicago
Bryan declines Houston visit after New Orleans meeting
In New Orleans on Sept 24 Mr. Bryan met with a Houston committee led by R M Johnston Democratic national committeeman and Congressman T H Ball. Johnston said the gathering held no political significance and Bryan could not accept an invitation to Houston.
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New Orleans
Bryan
Houston
Tex
R. M Johnston
T. H. Ball
Johnston
Mr. Bryan
Tomboy Report of Police Official Wounding in Russia
Prefect of Police Tomushan of Borissoghebsk near Mme Marta Spiridonova’s home was shot and seriously wounded by terrorists on Monday in the street. The attackers also wounded the prefect’s wife and two guards. the assassins escaped. Chief of Secret Police Lutenoffsky had been killed earlier.
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Tomboy
Russia
Tomushan
Borissoghebsk
Mme
Marta Spiridonova
Lutenoffsky
Tracey Engaged To Miss Collins After Vanderbilt Win
New York reports the engagement of Joseph Tracey the chauffeur who won the Vanderbilt Elimination race on Saturday. The betrothal follows his victory and the announcement names Miss Fannie Collins of New York as the bride elect. The couple’s engagement stems from Tracey’s triumph.
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New York
Joseph Tracey
Vanderbilt
Fannie Collins
Tracey
Police halt twenty round welterweight title fight
In Leavenworth Kansas on September 24 authorities stopped the scheduled twenty round welterweight bout between Joe Woolcott and Billy Rhodes before it began in a move that prevented the match from taking place Sunday afternoon.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Joe Woolcott
Billy Rhodes
Miller Appointed to Confederate Home Board
Austin governor appoints Colonel Joel H. B. Miser of Austin as a member of the Confederate home board to succeed Judge W A McIver, who is deceased. The move fills the vacancy on the board of managers.
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Austin
Joel H. B. Miser
The
Confederate Home
W A. McIver
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