Endurance Run Ends in Houston Fatality and Wrecks
An automobile endurance test near Houston under the Houston Automobile Club ends with one death and three injuries. John Trenthem of The Houston Post is killed when a car loses a tire and rolls at a curve. Wounded are Ray Weiss Brown Botts and B D Kemp. The event aimed for 112 miles, but speeds rose and one car completed the course in 36 minutes.
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Houston
Tex
Esterday
Houston Automobile Club
Cypress
John Trenthem
The
Houston Post
Ray Weiss
Brown Botts
Trenthem
Will Hogg
H. C. Nosehart
E. A. Crosser
Ae Chadfeur
Simmons
Enterix
Eugene Bender
B.D. Keep
Bontag
Panic Eases as Banking Credit Flows Rebound
New York officials report rapid clearing of the banking crisis helped by a $6,000,000 surplus in the latest bank statement. The improvement sparked renewed lending across money markets worldwide as funds returned to central reserve points. The Bank of France cut its official discount rate from 4 percent to 1.5 percent, with discount rates easing in foreign markets.
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New York
Bank of France
American Fleet Makes Good Headway In Rio Welcome
The American fleet of sixteen battleships entered Rio de Janeiro at 3 PM on Sunday after a long voyage from Port of Spain Trinidad spanning over 8000 miles. The ships weighed anchor at 4 PM and received a royal welcome from thousands of spectators.
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Rio de Janeiro
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Last Rail Laid for Orient Railroad Line
Kansas City dispatch reports the last rail on the Oklahoma branch of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad means trains will run over 273 miles of track between Wichita and the Red River early next week. A new section north of Sweetwater Texas is next, giving the Orient 433 miles of continuous track south of Wichita.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad
Wichita
Red River
Sweetwater
Texas
Orient
Cotton warehouse fire damages Delta County farm storage
The Delta County farmers association cotton warehouse burned Monday. About 240 to 300 bales were stored. forty to fifty bales on the platform burned or were damaged.
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Delta County
Great Theater Fire Tragedy Rocks Boyerstown
A devastating blaze at Rhoads Opera House in Boyerstown Pa during a local performance killed nearly 100 people and injured about 60 as a moving picture tank exploded causing panic. Stage lamps toppled, a floor collapse trapped patrons, and a stampede in the exits led to mass casualties among families and residents.
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Boyerstown
Rhoads’ Opera House
Monroe
Washington
Bucket Brigade Growing in Pittsburg District
Twenty five thousand skilled workers in the Pittsburg district, idle nearly three months, began returning to work Monday. Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Works restarted on near full time while Reasemer Mills held back but resumed 140 or 42 inch w ills. the third open hearth department also used.
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Pittsburg
Homestead Steel Works
Carnegie Steel Company
Navasota Lawyer Assassinated in Stabbing of Prominent Citizen
Navasota reports the shooting of George W. L. Carr, a lawyer and local figure, as he walked into his stable on Monday evening. A large caliber revolver was used, the bullet entering the lower rib area and lodging near the bowels. Doctors express little hope for recovery.
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Navasota
George W. L. Carr
Taft Backs Wider Panama Canal to 110 Feet
Secretary Taft writes to the President urging widening the Panama Canal from 100 to 110 feet. The change would add about 5 million dollars, align with naval needs for larger battleships, raise locks cost from 52 million to 57 million, and push total project cost to about 200 million.
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Washington
Taft
Panama Canal
Theft From Riverside Home Affects Heldens Jar of Cash Taken
D C Helden of Riverside reports to Fort Worth police that R800 vanished from the Tielden residence between twenty and four o clock Sunday. The funds were in a glass fruit jar on the pantry top shelf. Forty rands belonged to Mr Holden. the remaining sum belonged to Mr Guthrie who lives with the Holdens.
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Fort Worth
D. C. Helden
Riverside
Tielden
Twen
Holden
Guthrie
Taft pledges Cuba withdrawal and canal widening proposal
Secretary Taft has pledged the U S to withdraw from Cuba early in 1909. He also recommends widening the Panama Canal from 100 to 110 feet. Joe Smith, injured by a Friday night accident at Encinal station, died at Mercy Hospital in Laredo from his injuries.
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Taft
United States
Cuba
Panama Canal
Joe Smith
Encinal Station
Mercy Hospital
Laredo
Farmers Union Meets Adopts Political Rules and Bagging Factory Plan
The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union, after adjourning sine die, adopted rules forcing officers seeking public office to resign from the Union and urged denouncing future in farm products. A proposal to build two cotton bagging factories east and west of the Mississippi was approved with a state-by-state canvass for funding and board discretion on locations.
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Memphis
Tenn
Farmers Educational and Co-Operative Union
Farmers’ Union
National Congress
Mississippi River
Board of Directors
Census Cotton Report Shows 1908 Bale Totals Rise
The Census Bureau reports 9,955,427 bales gained from 1907 growth to January 1, 1908, versus 11,741,039 last year and 9,725,426 in 1905. Round bales count as halves, with 179,291 for 1908. Sea Island includes 73,628 bales for 1908 and 54,275 for 1907. Active ginneries for 1908 total 27,276.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Powder Factory Fire Sparks Mass Escape Near St Louis
In St Louis Missouri area residents fled to woods as a phosphorus powder plant of the Phamix Powder Company caught fire and exploded. The blaze destroyed the building with an estimated loss of ten thousand dollars. Fourteen workers inside reportedly escaped. no injuries to the public were reported.
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St. Louis
Pheynixville
Phamix Powder Company
Texarkana Woman Found Dead in Cabin Ax Murder Suspected
Nancy Smith, a Negro woman about sixty, lived alone five miles south of Texarkana. She was found dead Thursday afternoon in her cabin with her head split open by an ax. A serious public safety item was found near the body. She owned the cabin and a few cultivated acres.
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Texarkana
Nancy Smith
Here
Sunset Express wreck deaths and injuries at Rucked
San Jose reports the Sunset Express train No. 10 southbound on the Southern Pacific wrecked Thursday night at Rucked, twenty five miles south of here. Mrs. A. P. Floyd of Portland and her son were killed, a tramp reported dead, eighteen injured treated at Gilroy Hospital. Two coaches overturned and one thrown into a country road.
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Cal
Southern Pacific
Here
A. P. Floyd
Portland
Ore
Gilroy Hospital
Island
New York
Denton
Andrew Green
Miller's Saloon
Houston
Tyler-Canton
Barely
England
Justice
Big Sindy # s
Hawkins
Wood County
Z. V. Payne
A.J
A. D. Payne
Colorado
Plateau
Sierra Blanca
Brownwood
Holland
Lamar County
Johnson
Minnesota
John S. McDonald
Pearl Wight
Internal Revenue
Caliph
Central Park Zoo
America
Salt Lake City
Utah
Dallas
Tol W. G. Sterrett
Dallas News
Congress
Mississippi
Jackson
CO. D
State Legislaire
Knife St. MW. le Breton Des Chappeles
New Orleans
Marshall Smith
W. A. Watson
Thornton
W. W. Harris
Traton Rouge Landing
Hare
Harris
J. ©. Curry
Cameron Water, Power and Light Company
Little River
Roy Kornegay
Michigan
Bay City
J. W. Shanks
Girartia
Blouse
Sealy Hiospital
Emanuel Roos
Fayette County
Roos
Eagle Lake
Vincent Maspin
Louvain
Belgium
Fairhoven
Conn
Molokai
Hawaiian Islands
Wallace Sehell
Prohibition Party to Campaign in Texas This Year
Dallas report states the State Executive Committee of the Prohibition party will actively campaign for state prohibition in Texas this year. The panel plans two conventions, one in May to choose delegates for the National Convention at Columbus, Ohio, in July, and another in August to select a Texas party ticket. About fifteen committee members from across the state attended the conference.
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Dallas
Prohibition Party
Texas
Columbus
Ohio
Train worker injured in siding accident near Taylor
R R Smith a brakewan on a Missouri Kansas and Texas freight train with home in Smithville sustained a crushed foot after cars were switched at a siding six miles south of Taylor on Saturday afternoon.
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Taylor
R. R. Smith
Smithville
Winds Blow Terribly Across Texas In Storms
Reports to The News describe extremely high winds across Texas on Friday with the upper half of the state affected. Much of the area saw rain sleet or snow in addition to the wind, and weather remained unsettled late at night with warnings from New Orleans about a storm moving eastward along the Gulf Coast.
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Dallas
Texas
Tate
Associated Press
New Orleans
Florida
Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Mississippi
J jail break in Sherman frees three prisoners
Jailer Ed Hatfield fed the prisoners yesterday morning when Fad Gash from Fort Worth grabbed the jailer's pistol and knocked him unconscious. Gash along with Harry Fairless and Bob Trammell escaped but were captured within three hours by a posse led by Sheriff Sam Rich near Cotton Tail Mountain, two miles south of Sherman.
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Sherman
Texas
Ed Hatfield
Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Gash
Henry Cato
Alvin Frizzell
Pilot Grove Creek
Collin County
Grayson
Collin Counties
Harry Fairless
Bob Trammell
Sam Rich
Farless
Trammell
Rich
Cotton Tail Mountain
Hatfield
Woman fatally gored by cow in Rockdale
Rockdale reports Mrs. Pinkie Mitchell a longtime local restaurant figure was gored and killed by a cow Thursday afternoon. The animal, driven toward a calf pen, struck her with its horn under the beast bone as she moved the animal. She leaves two grown children.
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Rockdale
Pinkie Mitchell
Iron Works to Resume Soon in Birmingham Worthwhile Relief
Announcement notes pig iron surplus shrinkage from 90,000 to under 455,000 tons since October due to a collapsed market. Production curtailment to be lifted shortly with one Birmingham furnace restarted since last Monday, signaling easing shortages and renewed activity in the iron industry.
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Birmingham
Ala
Fourteen Hour Law Unconstitutional in Texas
Bastrop Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial District rules the fourteen hour limit clashes with federal law capping work at sixteen hours in twenty four. County Attorney Jenkins objects and appeals to the Third Court of Civil Appeals.
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Bastrop
Fd Ut. Sinks
Carpenter Falls to Death at Dallas Brewery
Dallas carpenter John G. Graham died Friday after the brace he used to nail a plank over a crack in the engine room failed. He fell about twenty five feet and struck a dead electric dynamo, suffering a fractured skull and multiple rib fractures. He died within minutes.
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Dallas
John G. Graham
Babe Born on a Train in Fort Worth Denver Trip
A train from Fort Worth and Denver arriving Friday morning carried one more passenger than advised. After leaving Decatur a baby was born to Mrs. G. B. Williams who rode with her husband aboard the train at Amarillo. In Bowie the conductor wired Decatur for a physician who met the train. All are reported doing well.
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Babe
Fort Worth
Fort Wort
Denver
Decatur
G. BE. Williams
Amarillo
Bowie
Paris of Oklahoma Endures Blinding Snow Saturday
A heavy snowstorm hit Paris, Oklahoma on Saturday blanketing streets and delaying activities. Local residents reported intensely bright, white conditions, with drivers urged to stay off roads as crews began clearing snow and monitoring conditions.
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Paris
Oklahoma
Multiple events sweep through Texas and the South
Lock gates at Trinity River No 1 near Dallas signal flood controls while Gulf Coast shipping suffers heavy damage from recent cold and storms. Fort Worth police chief Mullkey rules out another run. Hebron Fire destroys its business district. Dallas sees a Star and Crescent Iron Company deal for 250000 with W J Hogue. Lincoln birthday plans in Kentucky proceed with Roosevelt invited.
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Trinity River
Dallas
Gulf Coast
East Texas
Tyler
Mulkey
Fort Worth
Chickasha
C. R. Willing
Star and Crescent Iron Company
Rusk
Texas
W. J. Hogue
New Orleans
Davidson
Waxahachie
Lincoln
Lincoln Farm Association
Larne County
Roosevelt
Dennis Headley
Alexander Thomas
S. Bremeon
Minden
Walsh
Clark & Boren
Jefferson
New Planet
District Court
Bowie County
New Boston
Will Leonard
Jim Jones
Charles Smith
Everett Reed
Matt Moore
Sanger
Mr. Thomas
Georgia
Charles Hackenschmidt
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Walter Evans
Knoxville
Tenn
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Bucket Brigade
Mr. Taft
Farmers’ Union Cuts Office
Census Bureau Cotton Report
Carpenter
Senate Interoceanic Canal Committee
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