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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
3
Erath County voters defeated prohibition in the countywide election held across precincts on the 27th inst. The defeat marks a shift in local policy for the area reflected in the state collated Texas news summary.
Newspaper reports a deadly shooting in Dangerfield Morris County where seven men called Jim Mason a negro and his wife from their home. Jim Mason was killed while his wife and one child were wounded as the couple fled into a house. The wife is expected to die while the child will recover. State Comptroller Finley issues blank occupation tax receipts to aid collectors for insurance agents under the Twenty fourth Legislature. Local text notes a five cent sample price and seventy cent per agreement for a local area.
S H Mayfield, a Bay City resident, shot and killed himself with a pistol while riding with W L McCamby on a Bay City Caney road. Deceased, son of Dr J C Mayfield of Alvin, worked in Day City insurance. In Yoakum two burglaries netted about 580 value. suspects fled. Governor Culberson posts rewards for three Burleson county murder suspects from 1891.
A Washington dispatch notes continued complaint over slow responses from Texas National Banks to the July 11 call for statements of condition. Texas is consistently among the last states to submit reports, unlike California, Oregon and Washington which reply earlier.
Lawrence Sellers, an elderly resident of Austin for many years and a former French soldier, leapt from a bridge into the Colorado River on the first instants and drowned. He had served under Maximilian in Mexico and later under the Rucar Aumile sud McMahon in Algeria, ending as a Sorist. He leaves two grown children in Austin.
Miss Susan Duff, poor but generous, helps neighbors and supports missions despite having no cash to give. A roadside accident brings hospitality and a gift of fruit trees named Goodness and Mercy, which prosper and fund her charitable work as rivers of local support grow.
A wife suspects her husband Jack is unfaithful as their marriage dulls. She shadows him to his club and discovers him with a companion at a militia armory where a secret illicit outing unfolds, revealing a past flirtation and a hidden relationship.
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