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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1882
Page
2
The Republican State Convention will assemble in Austin on the 23rd instant. The Missouri ex confederate reunion met in Sherman on the 10th instant with many present to take part in the deliberations.
A Texan critique warns against Chinese immigrant labor replacing white workers for railway construction, arguing white labor supports government and taxes, while Chinese labor is seen as cheap and detrimental. The piece also notes incidents from Matamoros to Hempstead, and reports on railway surveying and per mile ticket rules, with a mordant closing on Congress as a candidate factory.
The first district congressional convention in Houston on the eighth nominated Hon. Charles Stewart after Capt. J C Hutcheson withdrew following thirty four ballots. The long and bitter contest ended in acclamation for Stewart, uniting the party for the November campaign.
Thomas, a colored man, was executed privately on the 11th in Palestine Ches for the murder of Mc Means on March 5, 1881. He was found guilty of premeditated murder, appealed unsuccessfully, and after Governorial refusal paid the debt to the law.
The article notes Comptroller Brown's friends urging him toward independence, but he respects the old party that honored him and opposes new candidates. It also recounts a violent interracial incident in St. Louis politics with a fatal stabbing after a love triangle.
The Philadelphia Press notes Brady’s brief defense claim that rival Key tempted him, while Key’s poor credibility leads to a bench role and Brady’s likely fate in a penitentiary. The piece contrasts Key’s good character testimony with Brady’s implied honesty. A Red River rise shifts water, drying 200 acres of timber in Fannin County on the Indian Territory side, with Indians claiming the land but Texas ownership upheld by the General Land Office commissioner.
Weimar Texas August 12 A Bohemian resident four miles north of Weimar in Fayette county named Raerich was shot and killed by Ben Wollich a freed man who, with his brother Heath, lured him from his bed to assist after a neighbor’s boy fell into a well. Wollich fired wounding Raerich’s lower jaw and causing his death the next morning. The brothers were captured and a posse pursued toward LaGrange amid fears of lynching since Raerich was a respected citizen.
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