Varied Texas News Highlights From Beaumont Enterprise
The Beaumont Enterprise reports Pierson Ridley an eight year old boy injured by a gar fish while fishing on the riverbank. It notes lawsuits over community property and a Dallas dispute through attorneys Williams and Turney and J B Simpson. Also mentions a drowning at Big Lake near Palestine and penitentiary board purchases and offers. Additional items cover a disappearance near Gainesville, cattle relocation orders for Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands, an arrest of a fugitive murderer in Woodville, a Dallas federal building janitor resigning, a train incident at Ingersoll, a land sale to colonize the Staked Plains, a Dallas murder bail grant, a proposed Rio Grande bridge at Laredo, a shooting near Weatherford, a fatal stabbing at Matthews mill near Texarkana, and a circular on teen vax collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont Enterprise
Pierson Ridley
T. J. Ridley
Calamar Battle Contradicts Government Claim in Colombia
Late dispatches from Calamar show the Prime government victory report to be disputed as heavy losses fall on both sides. Rebels returned to their steamers in good order and remain opposite the government camp, while generals Camargo and Gaitan quarrel over strategy amid disease and disorder in both camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Calamar
Rafel Keyes
Barrancua
Surveyors in Texas Plan State Association
County surveyors from Dallas and Tarrant counties propose forming a Texas Association to strengthen the profession, seek better pay, reduce land boundary disputes, and coordinate activities. A meeting is called for August 6, 1885, at 2 p m in Fort Worth to organize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strong
Dallas
Tarrant County
State of
Texas
County’ Surveyor's Office
Fort Worth
G. M. Williams
J. M. Strone
Dallas County
Unfounded Rumors of Hostile Indians in Texas
The article states no hostile Indians are in Texas. A false alarm followed a telegraph inquiry from General Cervantes in Saltillo to San Antonio about frontier hostiles. General Stanley notes the Seminole scouts from Fort Clark near Fort Davis may have been misread as enemies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Cervantes
Saltillo
Wfex
Department
San Antonio
Rio Grande
Coahuila
Stanley
Fort Clark
Fort Davis
San Vincente
President refuses cattlemen extension on Indian lands
The president declines to modify his order requiring cattlemen to vacate the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reservations within forty days. In a cabinet decision the interior secretary relayed the refusal after consulting Gen. Sheridan, noting no extension to April will be granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Department of the Interior
Washington
George R. Blanchard
New Otk
Gen. Sheridan
Cherokee Nation Opposes Lands Sale West of Meridian
Cherokee leaders rally against U S purchase of lands west of the ninety six mile line. Mass meeting at Delaware district town adopts resolutions declaring no sale of Cherokee soil, pledging support for candidates opposing the measure. Warnings that sale would bring white settlers and statehood pressure, threatening the nation’s existence. Similar resolutions reported across the nation as anxiety grows.
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Ninety-Sixth Meridian
United States
Delaware
Congress
Cattlemen Claim Government Move on Indian Grazing Leases
Major Rainwater of St. Louis argues Sheridan misrepresented the issue over Indian Territory grazing leases. He says beef-contract disputes and rail interests fuel the conflict, while Indians favor cattlemen and plan a Missouri Kansas stockmen meeting in St. Louis to protect interests.
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Indian Territory
Rainwater
St. Louis
Sheridan
Kansas City
United States
Arapahoe
Missouri and
Kansas Stock Men
The New Terrorizing Movement of the Russian Nihilists
Fires in Moscow supposedly mark a new terrorizing tactic by nihilists. Four warehouses burned in one day with wind-directed spread, causing millions in damage. Police seek confessions to trace conspirators and halt the arson campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Moscow
Moscow Fire Department
Davitt Refuses Irish Parliament Candidacy
Irish patriot Michael Davitt declares in a public letter that he would never sit in an English Parliament and that doing so would compel him to forgive past wrongs done under the queen. He also denies offering to help Joseph Chamberlain stump Ireland on a radical platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Davitt
Fifeen
British Colonial Secretary Signals US West Indies Treaty Revival
Colonel Frederick Stanley, Britain’s colonial secretary, tacitly backs reviving talks toward a commercial treaty between the United States and British colonies in the West Indies. He did not publicly promise, but privately indicated support after meetings with a deputation led by Charles Fennant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Stanley
Lord Derby
United States
West Indies
Col. Stanley
Charles Fennant
Perkinshire
Peebleshire
Colonial Office
Washington
Postal Schedule Changes in Texas Routes
Texas transit updates list changes to three routes. Route 31515 runs Jasper to Cairo with 8 am departures Mondays Fridays and 8 am Cairo departures. Route 31527 runs Belmont Beaumont to Cairo with 6 am departures and 7 pm arrivals. Route 31737 links Bonham Wolf City with 6 am departures and 5 pm arrivals and 7 pm return. All adopt August 1885 dates.
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Texas
Jasper
Cairo
Belmont
Beaumont
Bonham
Wolf City
Grant's Death Ends a Nation's Civil War Echoes
The report records General Ulysses S. Grant's death on July 23 1885 at 8 08 am after a calm passing at his bedside His family physicians and friends attended The obituary traces his birth April 27 1822 at Pleasant Ohio his West Point entry his Mexican War and Civil War service culminating in his 1865 surrender of Lee It notes embalming plans removal to New York and possible post mortem funeral decisions and burial location by Colonel Fred Grant
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Mr. McGregor
Gener
Grant
Althor
New York
Washington
Fred. Grant
of Pleasant
Ohio
West Point
Hiram Ulysses
Ulysses S
Mexico
Palo Alto
Texas
A de la Palma
Monterey
Vera Cruz
Molino del Rey
Chapultepec
Julia Dent
Potts Henry
Beauregard
Johnston
Iuka
Corinth
Vicksburg
United States
Virginia
Lee
Appomatox Court House
Chicago
Philadelphia
Longs
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State News Notes
Robert H. Laws
Williams & Turney
J. B. Simpson
Mesquite
Big Lake
Palestine
Sinclair
Penitentiary Board
Wiggins & Simpson
Huntsville
Woodville
Jim Griffin
Federal
Tom Wright
Cotton Belt
Ingersoll
Gordon
Wright
Reichert
Plains
Jim Hunnicut
Frate Humphreys
Hurt
Laredo
Mexican National
International and Great Northern Railway
Weatherford
J. Criste
L. Smith
Criste
Smith
Matthews’ Mill
Texarkana
Bud Arnold
William Montgomery
Arnold
Arkansas
Swain
Surveyor’s Union
THE
Davitt
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