Broad World News Briefs From 1900s Era
A roundup of scattered international, national, and local notes: Iowa Senator Gear dies in Washington. Houston telephone girls strike. Minnesota Blanket Indians threaten outbreak. more troops sought for the Philippines. Allied forces claim Tien Tsin arsenal taken. Prescott Arizona endures a $1.5 million fire. Cincinnati hosts B Y P A tenth assembly. Bryan-area A and M College students to study in Bryan. Japan appoints Kogoro Takahita minister to Ashington. Indiana railroad wreck from boiler explosion injures two. Grover Cleveland urged to run on Gold Democratic ticket. A and M College canning factory a success. Paris voters approve $30,000 in bonds for new schoolhouses. Pekin massacre reports confirmed with foreigners said to be dead. L W Habercomb resigns from German bureau to join democracy. E T Miller colored fellow at State University earns fellowship. Galveston endures 14 inches of rain in 24 hours. Boers capture 500 more Englishmen amid English doubts. Evangelist Fife stirs Corsicana audience prompting exits. Atlanta Universalist youth union rejects radical liquor ban. Oklahoma grain stack accident kills man by eye-penetrating fork stroke.
Five Die as War Transport Returns to Port
On a homeward voyage from Manila, 541 soldiers faced five deaths and two personal crisis reports aboard. A morale crisis is described as harming brave troops. Separately, the National Educational Association adjourned in Charleston praising the common school as the nation’s hope for character, intelligence, and information diffusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Sociation
Charleston
Strange North London Bedstead Burial And Coal Miner Coffin
A deceased London woman wished to be buried in a four poster bedstead but cemetery authorities objected. The bedstead was dismantled and a box coffin crafted from its timber. In mining towns eccentric funerals recur with Jack Hustler buried in a pitch pine coffin with a coal pillow and pipe. Cornwall tin miners habitually include an umbrella in coffin furniture. An incident at a police office describes a man trying to prepay a fine to avoid police interference before assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jack Hustler
Tong
Leeds
Cornwall
London Express
Photography Prompt Sparks Threats From Curmudge
A young man recalls taking a snapshot portrait of Mr Curmudge. Curmudge responds by saying he could whip the man who made that picture, revealing a tense moment over a photograph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Curmudge
Curmudge
Camp G. R. Christian U C V Annual Session at Antelope
Camp G R Christian U C V will hold its sixth annual session one and a half miles north of Antelope in Jack County Texas in H B Bowens pasture on August 9 10 and 11. Prominent speakers will address the camp each day. A beautiful camp ground has been selected. All are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R. Christian
U.C. V
Antelope
Jack County
Texas
H. B. Bowen
Belle Boyd and her wartime exploits told in brief
The article recounts Belle Boyd as a Confederate spy who survived false death reports, aided Stonewall Jackson, and served as an amateur actress after the war. It notes her capture and escape, marriage to Lieut. S. W. Hardinge, and later life as Nina Benjamin. Also included are local notes on crops, cattle losses, school progress, and residents planning travel to Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Boyd
Belle Boyds
Dumas
West Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Gen. Shield
Jackson
Banks
Gen. Jackson
Lee
Longstreet
Winchester
Lord Harrington
Duke of Devonshire
Jefferson Davis
Washington
Lieut
S. W. Hardinge
Navy
England
Hardinge
Ocean
Nina Benjamin
Atlanta Journal
Markley Heads Toward Busy Harvest and School Opening
The community notes sorghum hay work, a singing school finish, and painting of the Markley schoolhouse. The Markley private school opened September 9 with 36 pupils, led by C. W. Rasure and Miss Pearl Harbour, while teachers praise the district as a strong country school. Local families attend events, visits, and travel to Cameron creek and Comanche county as schedules allow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Harbour
Malley Wallace
Cameron Creek
Mr. Harbour
Malley
West Fork
Markley
C. W. Rasure
Miss Pearl Harbour
Joe Cross
James Newman
Lacy
Lena
Clara Hudson
Archer County
Wright
Gee County
Dehlia Butler
Graham
Andy Tinney
Comanche County
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Senator Gear
Iowa
Houston
Minne
Philippines
Tien Tsin
Prescott
Arizona
Cincinnati
Bryan
A. & M. College
Japan
Ashington
Kogoro Takahita
Indiana
Grover Cleveland
A. & M. College At
Paris
Pekin
L. W. Habercomb
Republican National Committee
E.T. Miller
Weatherford
State University
Galveston
Transvaal
Fife
Corsicana
Young People’s Christian Union of the Universalist Church
Atlanta, Ga
Oklahoma
the National Educational As
Odd Burtale
Chilus Chilonides
Nero
Miller Bend
George Hunt
Drummond Farm
E. G. Reeves
R. Lindsey
Wm. Cummings
J. M. Hughes
Howell Dozier
Ed. Reeves
John Blair
D. M. Hughes
Young
Fisher County
Ovid
Standard
OLL CO
Markley Matters
Bro. Waggoner
Emma Tinney
Callahan County
Waggoner
Tinney
I. J. Tinney
J L. McDaniel
D' Tabler
Buckeye
James F. Ballard
Main Stret
ST. Louis
Graham Drug Co
Norman
P. As . Tt
Ris
W. D. Craig
J. M. Norman
Ass't
The
Beckham National Bank
Lyon & Matthews
Jacksboro, Texas
A. C. Anderson
J. E. Dowdle
Grafei AD
T. G. Black
Graham, Texas
U.S. Mall
Jacksboro
J. J. Gallaher
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