Congress Debates Eight-Year Appropriation Increases
Lawmakers from both parties discuss the rising federal expenditures over the past eight years. Chairman Tawney warns of extravagance risking bankruptcy while noting total appropriations surpassed by executive estimates. Livingston calls the rise stupendous and Culberson details 51 to 63 percent increases since 1902.
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Tawney
Livingston
Congress
Culberson
Texas
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Non-Payment of Poll Taxes Lands Man in Jail
A county man known as Doc is jailed for refusing to pay the constitutional $1 poll tax for county schools. He was tried before Magistrate Smoak, convicted, and fined $10 to cover taxes, costs, and penalties. He cannot pay and remains in custody, likely to be released upon payment.
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Aiden
Doc
Death by Own Action at Elloree
Elloree March 6. James H. Till a twenty four year old local youth died yesterday at his mother's home after drinking carbolic acid diluted with whiskey. Till had shown despondent moods but appeared well earlier that day. He spoke to his mother before dying and left a note indicating despair. He had recently failed in business and was known for dissipation.
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H. Till
Till
Sensational Trial at Laurens Arraignment for Murder
Wade Cothran Pinson is to be arraigned in the Court of Common Pleas tomorrow for the killing of Thornwell Boyce near Cross Hill on November 7 of last year. At the inquest Miss Mary Brown testified Pinson drew a pistol and fired twice, hitting Boyce in the back of the head while Boyce sat on Pinson’s lap. The case involves prominent families and is expected to be highly sensational in Laurens history.
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Laurens
Maren
Court of Common Pleas
Wade Cothran Pinson
Thornwell Boyce
Loth
Cross Hill
Pinson
Boyce
Mary Brown
Rockwall lynching burns accused attacker at stake
In Rockwall Texas Anderson Ellis identified by Mrs. Arthur McKinney as the man who assaulted her was seized from Rockwall County jail and burned alive at an iron stake before about a thousand spectators. Earlier Will Clark, a negro, was shot when a posse was refused access to a home. Ellis confessed guilt but spoke no words as flames consumed him. he died nine minutes after the torch was lit.
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Will Clark
Andrew Clarke
Dallis
Collin and
Hunt
Rejected lover shoots widow in Beaver
Mrs Mamie McKee, a widow who ran a boarding house, was shot four times by William G Wilmer a rejected suitor at her Beaver Pennsylvania home early this morning. Wilmer then killed himself by poison and a final gunshot. Wilmer aged 25, Mrs McKee 30, authorities report no chance of recovery tonight.
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Pittsburg
Beaver
Here
Mamie McKee
Wm G. Wilmer
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