Gate man of driver at fault in fatal Valley crossing
In Spring Valley New York on February 25 a runaway pair of horses pulling a wagon carrying nine people collided with an Ontario and Western express at a west Nyack crossing. Four were killed instantly two died at Hudson Hospital Hoboken three were seriously injured. The wagon was splintered and the gate torn but the horses escaped uninjured.
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Spring Valley
N. Y
George Young
Nyack
West Nyack
Ontario and Western Express
Hudson Hospital
Hoboken
N. J
Wind Storm Hits Northwest England and Ireland
A hurricane force wind and hail swept northwest England and northern Ireland on Saturday afternoon. A Mersey schooner capsized with eight dead, multiple small steamers reported in distress off Holyhead, and numerous grandstands collapsed injuring spectators at football matches. A Burtonport Donegal train derailed, plunging into a bog. passengers were rescued.
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London
England
Ireland
Mersey
Holyhead
Burtonport
Donegal
First New York Tube Opens Under North River
The century-old barrier between Manhattan and the mainland is bridged by a traffic tunnel under the North River. President Roosevelt signaled the opening from Washington while New York and New Jersey governors attended the ceremony marking the completion of the ice season’s first under river tunnel.
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New York
Manhattan Island
Roosevelt
Artive
Washington
New Jersey
Philip E. Chappell, Former Missouri Official, Dies at 70
Philip Edwards Chappell, once Missouri State Treasurer and mayor of Jefferson City, died Sunday night at his home at age seventy. He was renowned for expertise in Missouri River steam boating and was involved in cattle ranching in Western Texas.
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Philip Edwards Chappell
Missouri
Jefferson City
Texas
Death from Dirty Bills in New York Hotel Boss
John McD Hopkirk, manager of the Mills Hotel and cashier, died after handling pass money. Physicians tie the fatal illness to contaminated bills from slum lodgings and says malig nant scarlatina likely caused by the dirty currency. The case centers on the infection spread through money.
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New York
John
Hopkirk
Mills
Purse Snatch on Train Near Dallas Station
Dallas S Posey of Alabama reported on an early Sunday that a purse was snatched on the Texas and Pacific Railway westbound train between city depots. He said a hurried man grabbed his pocketbook and the money inside, with several train passengers witnessing the act.
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Dallas S. Posey
Alabama
Texas and Pacific Railway
Crazy Anarchist Shoots Priest at St Elizabeth's Denver
A crazed anarchist named Alio Guuppe shot and killed Father Leo Hein Richs as he administered the sacrament at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Denver Colorado. The incident occurred at 6 o'clock Sunday morning as the priest knelt at the altar rail between two women and received the consecrated water before being shot through the heart.
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Denver
Colo
Leo Heinrichs
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Alio Giuueeppe
Insurance Commissioner Summons Dallas Lawyers in Austin
Austin February 25 1908 Commissioner of Insurance Love sends a formal summons to Maurice E and Eugene P Locke of Dallas to appear February 27 in Austin. The letters accuse the firm ofgrave charges about vacancies and a horde of irresponsible companies filling Texas and demand evidence and answers in the Metropolitan Life Insurance case.
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Austin
Tex
Insurance
Love
Messrs
Locke & Locke
Dallas
Commissioner Love
Supreme Court
Locke
Maurice E
Eugene P. Locke
Texas
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Et al
Thomas B. Love
Robertson
City of
Nogi sympathizes with Stoessel over Port Arthur verdict
Cincinnati Ohio May cable to General Nogi on General Stoessel conviction and death sentence elicits a brief reply. The Japanese commander says as a soldier he deeply sympathizes but cannot state his views.
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Nogi
Stoessel
Cincinnnati
Ohio
Port Arthur
Cincinnati Times-Star
Arkansas Farmers Secure Loan Deal with Memphis Banks
Memphis based agreement will loan 2,250,000 dollars to Arkansas farmers. Six0 thousand bales of stored cotton in Arkansas will be stored and sold directly to spinners through the Memphis market. Negotiators include R. H. McCullough of Bee Arkansas and B. C. West of the Farmers Union Cotton Company Memphis.
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Arkansas Farmers
Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
R. H. McCullough
Bee, Ark
Farmers’ Union
B. C. West
Farmers’ Union Cotton Company
Rule Now a Factory Town with Oil Mill In Operation
Rule has opened its oil mill as a full manufacturing enterprise with electricity waterworks and round the clock operation. The company bought substantial seed stock for continuous production and is rapidly expanding with about thirty houses under construction and a new brick business block completed.
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Rule
Boy Dies From Neck Break While Riding Near Thorndale
Three boys rode south from Thorndale when one horse pulled ahead and the group lost track of the rider. They found Walter Melde dead beside the horse with his neck broken. The Melde family had been working on a newly purchased place nearby.
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Thorndale
Walter Melde
Ardmore farmer dies after tree accident near Ardmore Ok
Squire Haggard an elderly farmer near Ardmore Ok suffered fatal injuries when a burning tree he was felling fell on him Sunday afternoon. He died Monday morning. Ben Sloan, 22, was shot and killed Sunday at 2 pm near Palestine at the salt works. N D Norton claimed the shooting was accidental. Dallas seeks major balloon race. Dr Julian P Thomas who bought the Pommern balloon may attempt world record time and distance from Dallas.
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Squire Haggard
Ardmore
Ben Sloan
N. D. Norton
Salt Works
Palestine
Dallas
Julian P. Thomas
Surrender at Port Arthur costs Lt General Stoessel life
A Russian military court sentenced Lieutenant General Stoessel to death for surrendering Port Arthur to Japan. The court commuted the sentence to ten years in a fortress and removal from service. General Fock was reprimanded for a disciplinary offense, while General Smirnoff and Major General Reiss were acquitted.
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St. Petersburg
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Fock
Fourth East
Vodar
Smirnoff
Reiss
Seige
Southern Cotton Association elects Harvie Jordan President again
Dallas Feb 21 Harvie Jordan of Atlanta renewed as President of the Southern Cotton Association with a 1000 yearly salary plus expenses. Walter Clark of Mississippi named Vice President and E D Smith of South Carolina elected general organizer. Next meeting in Wilmington in August. The group endorsed cooperative marketing and explained price as a function of organization and production costs. A cotton certificates system for financial stringency was approved.
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Dallas
Harvie Jordan
Atlanta
Southern Cotton Association
Walter Clark
Mississippi
E. D. Smith
South Caroline
Mr. Smith
Europe
Paris
France
Wilmington
N. C
Hatton W. Sumners
South Carolina
South
C. H. Jenkins
Senator Latimer Dies After Illness in Washington
Senator Asbury Churchwell Latimer died at Providence Hospital from peritonitis after an appendectomy. He had been hospitalized since last Sunday, when his condition worsened and surgeons discovered twisted bowels making recovery unlikely.
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Washington
Asbury Churchwell Latimer
Providence Hospital
Peritontis
Hosva
Looney withdraws from race for Attorney General
B F Looney, who had been a tentative candidate for Attorney General, announces his withdrawal from the race, leaving the field without his candidacy and changing the contest dynamics.
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B. F. Looney
Texas Frontier Pension Bill Moves Through House
On February 22 the Texas frontier pension bill, favored by the House Committee on Pensions, would pension surviving officers and enlisted men who defended Texas between 1855 and 1860 against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations. Initiated by Mr. Burleson, the measure follows years of work begun to reimburse Texas for defense costs, now enabling men to have their names placed on pension rolls as the federal government accepts the claim.
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Texas
Burleson
Austin-Lockhart Interurban Plan Reinvigorated
The Business League committee for the Austin-Lockhart interurban line will launch a funds drive Monday. Lockhart is ready to donate at least $20,000 at the initial appeal as normal conditions resume.
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Austin-Lockhart
Austin
The
Business League
Lockhart
Society Leader Found Dead in Bed From Gas Poisoning
New York society figure Mrs. William Proud fit Burden, also Natha Rives daughter of O H Belmont, a noted society favorite in New York Newport and Washington, was found dead in her home Friday. Coroner ruled accidental death due to gas poisoning from a disconnected gas tube from a chandelier to a drop light, left to read in bed.
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New York
William Proudfit Burden
Natha Rives
O. H. P. Belmont
Newport
Washington
Whiskey seized at Frisco Depot in Oklahoma
Five large barrels of whiskey were seized by the Sheriff and deputy at the Frisco Depot in Chickasha Oklahoma. Deputy Ross detected the liquor as it arrived about dusk and it is to be destroyed by order of the County Court after a legal dispute over disposition. The whiskey reportedly originated from Quanah Texas and is described as eight year old fine goods.
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Oklahoma
Chickasha
Frisco
Ross
Quanah
Texas
American Fleet Arrives At Callao Peru Under Admiral Evans
American battleships under Rear Admiral Evans anchored at Callao early Thursday amid salutes. Crowds from Callao and Lima gathered to catch a first glimpse of the advancing fleet in tropical sun, signaling a major maritime arrival.
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Callao
Peru
Evans
Lima
Text Book Awards Made in Austin
The Text Book Board awarded contracts valued at about 3 million dollars for five years. Next week the contracts will be signed and executed. Some companies must resolve one or two gross receipts tax matters. Five contracts were chosen conditionally based on recommended changes or improvements by the board.
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Austin
Text Book Board
Use Money on Dams Passes House to Fund Trinity Lock
Washington House approves Beall concurrent resolution allowing use of unexpended citizens' fund balance for lock and dam No 2 on the Trinity River. Representative Keifer of Ohio questioned Congress authority to divert funds but did not oppose passage.
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Washington
House
Beall
Citizens
Trinity River
Keifer
Ohio
Congress
Labor Scarce in Louisiana Warns of Shortage
Secretary Dykers of the Louisiana Immigration Association says unemployment among men in Louisiana is so low that planters cannot secure labor even now. He notes immigration has fallen as the general industrial mood sags, predicting plantations will face a serious labor shortage soon.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Dykers
Louisiana Immigration Association
Dvykers
Train collision kills one and injures seven at Elyria
One man died and seven people were injured when a Baltimore and Ohio freight train collided with a Lake Shore passenger train in Elyria Ohio on Friday night.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Lake Shore
Elyria
Ohio
Miscellaneous early 1900s Texas briefs on officials and incidents
News items note a Hopkins County treasurer salary set at 1200 a year and Williamson County trimming the same post to 1200 from 2000. Other reports include Andrew Carnegie funding tuberculosis research, a fatal Mexican-Vardo incident near Karnes City, an oil derrick collapse in Cash, and an upcoming Grand Falls to Pyote rail service. Also mentioned are a navy recruitment in San Antonio, a police chief killed in Fayetteville, a Missouri line expansion to Texas, a large orange shipment from Riverside, and various local fires, deaths, and appointments.
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Commissioners’ Court
Hopkins County
Andrew Carnegie
Robert Kock Institute
John L. Wortham
C. B. Coluitt
Cash
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Maximo Valdez
Karnes City
Emilio Canno
Grand Falls
Pyote
Ward County
Navy
San Antonio
Albert Canton
Williamson County
Midland Valley
Muskogee
Riverside
Cal
Texas and
New Orleans
Liberty
G. W. Baty
Elmore
Macgruder
Harry Payne Whitney
Dorothy Itney
Paul Esterhazy
Vanderbilt-Szechenyi
New York
Kaufman County
Kenefick
Missouri
Oklahoma and
Gulf
Texas
Committee On Appropriations
James H. Benton
Fayetteville
N. C
Sam Murchison
Chicago University
Texas News Highlights From Across the State
A collage of Texas items reports deaths and accidents in Collin, Garrison, Mart, and Denison. lumber fire at Barton & Sons. tree mail delivery planned in Denton. a Mart shooting. college transfer bids. weather bureau site at Abilene costing 15000. John H Reagan monument work in Palestine. lawsuits in Waco. Stamford school building bid award. Rio Grande City suicide. West Dallas death. Galveston shooting. Austin switchman death. Roscoe district school bond plan. Kl a vein mine explosion in Washington. Georgetown University debate selection. Wichita Falls to establish free mail delivery in June with four carriers.
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Silky Pkort
Arthur Aye
A. G. Chandler
Collin County
Barton & Sons
Garrison Jaw
Denton
Simmons
Frank H. Hitchcock
Mart
Agricultural and Mechanical College
College Station
State University
Agricultural Committee
Weather Bureau
Texas
Abilene
Smith
Commissioners’ Association of Texas
Dallas
Knights of Columbus
Austin
Father Samon
St. Edwards College
Hubbard City
F. Klopp
Denison
Denisom
John H. Reagan
Palestine
Houston Street
Avenue A
S. E. Nickey
Nineteenth District Court
Waco
Cotton Belt Railroad
Axtell
Stamford
William Lewis
Rio Grands City
William Woods
John Debois
Galveston
Emma Groos
Jean van de Abbieller
Bidis White
International
Great Northern
Roscoe Independent School Distri
Clebepitim Beg
Washington
James Spiller
Jacksboro
Georgetown University
Notre Dame University
Wichita Falls
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New York Tube
Priest
TO Save Organization
A. C. Latimer
Texas Frontier
Pelican State
John Alcorn
Milam County
Washita
Clinton
Heston Bradley
A. A. Bradley
Granbury
J. S. Goodell
Cleburne
Riobt
China
Canton
Shanghai
Santa Fe
Texas News
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