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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1890
Page
2
A column argues lax railroad supervision and urges American carriage reform over cheap foreign mail rates. It critiques Rash spirit in public actions, praises measured resolve, and jokes about cosmetics and politics. It notes Utah youth moving away from polygamy and mocks cigarette pictorials aimed at youth.
Patser Mercer a Jesuit of Banga India claims an electro homeopathic cure for leprosy charging 10 rupees per patient and says he has cured several lepers. He notes no electric method for moral lepers. A tax proposal hints at rewarding discovery of a fatal contagious dog disease saving millions.
The piece contrasts American dominance in popular magazines with English tastes. It notes Idaho hunting and fishing abundance, Russia's punitive penalties, a census based electoral reapportionment next session, and the rising cost of modern warfare and armies.
Fragmentary OCR text provides no clear events, names, or locations to summarize. readable portions are insufficient to identify a person, organization, date, or outcome for a coherent news item.
English man Wm Grimes aged about 42 is found drowned in Buffalo Bayou near McGregor Texas after a note promising his belly would be found near the International and Great Northern railroad bridge. Police recover rope and towel tied around his neck suggesting deliberate self-harm led to death in the bayou.
In Arixetos Texas on June 24 a fatal shooting ends when Claiborne Brinson, 17, shoots Les Ditto, who returns fire and dies. Captains Tom Ditto and M J Brinson fire after, but miss. the two families are closely related through marriages and prior nuptials. About seven or eight months earlier Lee Ditto had married Roxie Brinson, a cousin of the slayer. roughly thirty seven buckshot struck Ditto.
A mob of about forty men went to Anderton jail demanding the prisoner Brown who allegedly assaulted a young woman. The sheriff refused to surrender him and left with Brown for Houston after threats against his family, but the crowd dispersed after warnings to spare Mrs. Scott.
A tramp burglarized a Holmes store seven miles south of Conruact Texas. He grabbed Miss Garrie Holmes while she carried sardines, threatened to cut her head off, and fled as bystanders, plowing nearby, reported the incident. Officials seek the assailant and the public is alarmed.
Terre, Tex., Jia Williams, colored, from the Elm Creek vicinity, was brought to town Saturday about 10 p.m. with deep gashes on his mouth and neck from a knife. Details and assailant unknown. The carrier fled after arrival. no clue to Williams’ identity. Dr Hawkes treated him. prognosis favorable.
Word reached the sheriff that a serious affray occurred yesterday at Basin Springs in the county interior. Sam Jumper was shot and painfully wounded by Ove Kinslow, both under 22, with no clear aggressor named. The altercation stemmed from the recent school trustees election.
In CLangsville Texas on Monday evening a 12 year old daughter and a year old son of James Young a white farmer living six miles east of the city died in a coal oil fire set in a field to burn onions. The mother suffered burns but is expected to recover.
Five miles east of Fannensville Texas on June 25 a deadly accident killed Willie Howell, son of J. K. Howell. The boy, leading a mule with a rope around the animal’s neck, was unable to free himself as the mule bolted and the rope tightened, resulting in a fatal entanglement.
A fragment from a Dallas scene notes A pair and Dal in a local event. The readable text is sparse and unclear about dates or outcomes. No further details are available from the excerpt.
The Texas fair organizers announce two new purses of at least 3000 each to boost racing. A running Texas derby opens the event on opening day, first of its kind in Texas, with top flying horses expected. Grand stand seating with backs and cushions, national reputation judges, and a music hall are planned to enhance attendee comfort. A delegation led by Gov. Rossard invited Grover Cleveland and wife to attend the indental exhibition in Dallas, and they accepted.
At Hillsnone Texas on June 23 a burglar removed clothing from a house inhabitant, slipped a shirt and pants out of the room to escape, was fired upon as he fled, and fled without entering the home after taking some articles of dress from women in the house.
Jan Cameron of Henderson fell from a coal chute at Longview Junction while stepping aside for a passing car on the International and Great Northern line. The 90 year old, nearly blind man died at 10 p m Saturday from head injuries. he had come to attend his brother in law F J Young’s funeral. The remains were sent to Henderson for interment tomorrow.
A June 21 ceremony in Whrrrestone joined A. V. Winter and Miss Mary Nunnally after their trains met. The couple wed before continuing to Henrietta to start their life together.
Ramp Texas June 26. J S Utley a longtime switchman in the Texas and Pacific yards lost his left leg above the knee after a lumber car ran over him as he attempted to set the car in the rail yard. He leaves a wife a child and many friends who mourn the tragedy.
Mary Lewis aged about nineteen from three miles outside Kavenaux Texas was drowned at a spring Wednesday after an epileptic seizure. She fell into the two foot deep spring while resting for water. A witness child raised the alarm but she died before aid arrived.
News from Rocnwats Texas recalls 11 year old Wallace McDougold son of Rev J W McDougold shot by accidental gun discharge while boating with companions. He died instantly from the wound to his breast near their home eighteen miles southeast of town.
Mr Lea Olive, three miles west of town, reported his child poisoned Monday at 1.00 pm and dying Tuesday morning. A bread crumb with Rough on Rats was left on a kitchen shelf, accidentally knocked down, the child found it and ate most of it before discovery.
A young man named Ament, living with his brother eight miles west of Meti econ, was riding to the field on a mule with plow gear. The mule was frightened, threw him, and in the ensuing struggle he became entangled in the gear. The mule then ran and kicked, killing him.
Boxham Texas June 25 Capt H Randall once a leading county citizen and politician was placed in sheriff custody as a lunatic. He is reportedly helpless and was returned to relatives. He is said to be a first cousin to the late Samuel J Randall.
Dr. Paul Gibler treats Jas W Tomlinson of Augusta Georgia who survived a fatal dog attack at a wedding scene in New York on June 10. The would‑be bride Helen Caldwell’s ceremony was halted as Tomlinson saved the groom Robert I Stone but was mortally wounded by the dog’s bite. The marriage was postponed.
In crowded Leonard street and Broadway a man from Italy, three weeks in the country, seized a rope on a truck and attempted to hang himself as bystanders and a driver struggled to stop him. He cursed and threatened others before police subdued him and recovered papers identifying him.
A mysterious deadly illness chills the British Honduras colony and neighboring republics. Belize wakes to quarantine on the steamship Aguan after reports of victims including a 32 year old Stancreek resident. Passengers flee to England or the United States as ships depart for the steamer.
Bark-on-a-Tree wed Little Chief and a companion, two Comanche leaders from Fort Reno region, arrive in Kansas City. Once captured after a Kiowa raid, they were imprisoned then assigned to the nearby reservation and will travel to Pine Ridge with Sioux delegates to seek the Indian Messiah at Black Hills.
In Dunran Pennsylvania rescuers close in on the imprisoned miners. A faint tapping signal “peck peck” was heard yesterday as the team worked toward the line from the Ma honing to the Hill mine. Rescue progress remains uncertain with heavy coal to breach.
Reports say rescuers reach sixty feet to entombed miners in Meboniog Hill farm mines with hopeful but cautious sentiment. Earlier a Kansas City incident left a mother fatally struck during a quarrel, and a court of appeals decision was reported after a prisoner finished a meal amid dispute.
Dr Wilder, a Cornell anatomist, has assembled hundreds of brains from philosophers, artists, businessmen, and murderers to study brain basis of ethics and crime. He hardens brains for handling and seeks bequests from prominent professors, claiming nerve function links to cerebral nutrition and blood circulation.
Supervising Surgeon General John B. Hamilton warns the cholera outbreak at Pueblo de Rugat in southern Spain resembles Asiatic cholera seen before in 1885. He says the disease could enter Europe via the Spanish peninsula, possibly overrun Spain, but with prompt precautions it should not cross the Pyrenees, and French officials are expected to act to prevent its spread into France.
Sunstroke deaths rise to five in the city with several others prostrated. Early morning thunder showers cooled the air and a lake breeze lowered temperatures. Dispatches from Chicago Bloomington and Lispois state temperatures reached 28 to 100 in the shade yesterday.
A mob of about forty gathered near Cameron Missouri at 1 a m on Wednesday and attempted to tar and feather Bud Squires for allegedly ruining a neighborhood young woman. The crowd exchanged roughly forty shots, injuring Watts Squires in the stomach and fatally wounding Will Moland, as intense excitement spread.
Kansas City reports Camille Turnett a Frenchman with 700 acres near Povnan l, Ore. He lies each night on bare ground in Union cemetery beside his wife and son, undeterred by rain. He has no shelter or bed, only the ground and a naive setup.
In a moonlit scene Sydney Loraine and Count Lindenheim debate love and independence amid music and a magic mood. Mr. Loraine remarks on memory and art as solace while Sydney guides a tender reconciliation with her father and the guest.
Esme von Lindenheim remains at Hayes as Sydney Loraine spends long afternoons with him. They read, discuss poetry, and stroll the terrace with peacocks, while old Mr. Loraine grows fond of the visitor and shares memories in the twilight.
An obituary note recalls a Medfor druggist who recently died. The reverend praised the man as honest and skilled, noting he always traded at the store and recognizing past clerical favors, with no clear hint of discounts or succession motives.
London papers state the contract with Lieut Zalinski does not cover buying pneumatic cups but grants no right to produce the guns itself for army and navy. Woolwich area begins factory work as fifty or sixty guns are to be made. Edward Bellamy argues Nationalism shows growing opposition to the movement.
A narrator recounts encounters with Ituri forest pygmies, detailing their height from 39 to 50 inches, intelligence, forest skills, and banana plantations. Dwarfs guide quests, warn of strangers, trap game, and trade peltry, meat, and honey with nearby communities.
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