Mortality rates 1906 show racial gap and regional diversity
Washington reports 1906 death rate at 16.1 per 1000, down from 25 earlier, with five-year average 16.3. Only 15 states register deaths, yet data reveal whites dying at 17.2 per 1000 versus Negroes 28.1, highlighting higher vulnerability and the persistence of consumption as a major killer.
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Washington
Bureau of the Census
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Indiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Vermont
Union
Rhode Iland Andennsylvania
Diamonds May Be Dehaper London Contract Ends This Month
London reports a suspected break up of the diamond monopoly if the Premier Diamond Mining Company does not renew its contract with the diamond syndicate this month. The syndicate has long controlled output from Premier and DeBeers. If the contract lapses, war may be declared by the Premier Company against DeBeers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Debeers
New Party Seeks Governors Candidate in Illinois
A labor movement in Chicago aims to form a labor party in Illinois politics. Representatives from major unions are circulating a petition urging Daniel A. Cruce, a known attorney, to run for Governor. Cruce has been active in city and state politics for years.
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New Party
Chicago
Illinois
Daniel A. Cruce
Fort Worth Road Offices Closed Over Nine Hour Law
Eleven offices of the Houston and Texas Central between Fort Worth and Ennis were ordered closed Saturday as train order points, with about twenty telegraph operators laid off. The company says the action results from the nine hour law, arguing it can cancel offices rather than hire more operators under the new regulation.
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Fort Worth
Houston and
Texas Central Road
Ennis
the Road
Mob hanges man after knife attack in Navasota
John Campbell a Negro charged with slashing County Commissioner J T Barry with a knife was seized from the city jail by a mob Saturday night and hanged to a telephone post. Several shots were fired into the body. Sunday morning the body was cut down and there was no excitement. Saloons were asked to close after the Saturday incident.
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Navasota
Tex
John Campbell
J. T. Barry
Calaboose
Congressman Adolph Meyer Dies in New Orleans
New Orleans Louisiana congressman Adolph Meyer former assistant adjutant general in the Confederate Army died at his residence Sunday after months of illness. He served in the first district of Louisiana and was sixty five years old.
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New Orleans
Adolph Meyer
Meyer
Congress
Louisiana
Thayer Case Remanded By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reversed and remanded the United States v Thayer. Ed ward S Thayer faced indictment for soliciting a Republican campaign fund contribution from a Dallas post office employee. The ruling rejects the lower court's view that written solicitation isn’t coverage under the Civil Service Act. The court held that solicitation by letters falls within the act and is a political abuse similar to spoken solicitation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Edward S. Thayer
Thayer
Civil Service Act
Post Office
Dallas
Texas
Meek
Justice Holmes
Navy fleet sends urgent call from sea to Pensacola
Washington reports surprising wireless link from Pensacola station to the Atlantic fleet tenaciously spanning gulf Texas land and ocean. A message from Rear Admiral Thomas aboard the Minnesota asks for home news while another dispatch shares the fleet’s position at latitude 14.37 north longitude 102.01 west.
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Washington
Navy Department
Atlantic
Pensacola
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Thomas
Minnesota
Wheat and Corn on Hand at March First Washington
Wheat in farmers hands on March 1 stood at 23.5 percent or 148,721,000 bushels of last year’s crop, down from 28.1 percent or 206,644,000 bushels for March 1, 1907. Corn and oats totals also show 37.1 percent or 962,429,000 bushels for corn and 35.5 percent or 267,476,000 bushels for oats, of last year’s growth.
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Washington
Bank Burglars Fail to Crack Horatio Vault
Bank of Horatio in Horatio Arkansas was entered by burglars who dynamited the vault but failed to reach the money. Damage to vault and safe estimated at $500 and insured. Bandits spent about $40 in pennies and left no usable clue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texarkana
Ark
Bank of Horatio
Horatio
Here
Kansas City Southern
Collinwood Snow Burying Cremains and School Board Blaze
In Collinwood Ohio during a snowstorm funeral processions for Lakeview School fire victims proceeded with streetcars used as hearses as the school board pledges to find responsibility. Also reports a Sunday Karnes City fire destroyed multiple insured stores totaling sixteen thousand dollars and a fatality at Marlin home from kerosene burn. Antonio Strollo died in Sing Sing electric chair after admitting guilt. Monday damage hit Magee drug store and western Drug Company with near total stock loss.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Collinwood
Lakeview
Collinwood School Board
Karnes City
Tobin Brothers
F. van Wagner
L. G. Bailey
Karnes
A. C. Dietz
Josephine Elliott
Marlin
Antonio Strollo
Antonio Torsilla
Cortlandt Park
New York
Sing Sing
Cain Ton
J. D. Magee
The
Western Drug Company
Rogers
Nebraska Democrats Rally Behind Bryan for National Nomination
Omaha March 6 delegates from Nebraska endorsed voting as a unit to back William J Bryan for the presidential nomination at Denver in July. A mass gathering hailed Bryan as the next president, praising his platform and recognizing his debt to the Populist party while defending his stance against private monopolies and trust influence in politics. Bryan urged unity and cautioned Democrats against prejudice toward Populists, urging them to vote their party ticket.
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Omaha
Neb
William J. Bryan
Denver
Nebraska
Bryan
United States
Taft
Oklahoma
Denison man dies at home from shotgun blast
At noon Thursday in Denison, Adam Hornbeck, his wife, and his mother in law found George Miller aged seventy, dead on the floor beside a fired double barrel shotgun in a room of the Hornbeck residence three miles north of town. The death is attributed to self-inflicted gunfire.
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Denison
Adam Hornbeck
George Miller
Strauss to Visit Texas to discuss export trade
Oscar Strauss secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor will visit Texas next fall to discuss extending Texas export trade with state commercial bodies. He announced the plan to Representative Gregg and Colonel Gresham after an invitation from the Galveston Chamber of Commerce was extended to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Oscar Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
Texas
Gregg
Gresham
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Spur tracks to warehouses signed in Fort Worth roads plan
Announcement at Farmers' Union headquarters states a contract with railroads to build spur tracks to warehouses within 100 feet of main lines has been signed and work on many warehouses will resume. The insurance clause was adjusted so the railroad assumes insurance when it takes over cotton, enabling payment for incurred risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Farmers’ Union
Denison Farmer George Miller Dies From Gunshot Wounds
George Miller a well known farmer of Denison died Thursday from gunshot wounds sustaining his injuries. He leaves a family. The treasury report shows total state government and institution disbursements for the three months ending February 29 amounting to 3 820 784.
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George Miller
Denison
Treasury
Red River Oil and Gas Company organized in West Virginia
News from Sherman Texas March 7 reports oil and gas prospecting in the Grayson Cooke and Fannin counties with the formation of the Red River Oil and Gas Company in Wheeling West Virginia. Capital stock is 100000 dollars. Officers are C Ferguson W H Hoyt and B D Tillinghast. Drills ordered for Cooke County near Gainesville with material for Fannin County fields. City councils of Sherman Gainesville Bonham and Denison may grant gas franchise rights.
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Sherman
Tex
Middle River
Grayson, Cooke and
Fannin
Wheeling
W. Va
Red River Oil and Gas Company
West Virginia
North Texas
C. Ferguson
Hallidays Cove
W. H. Hoyt
Wellsburg
Eastern Realty
New York City
B. D. Tillinghast
McDonald
Tillinghast
Texas
Gainesville
Bonham
Denison
River Gas and Oil Company
Bralley to Head Trinity University in Waxahachie
Dr. L. Hornbeak will resign as superintendent of the State Institution for the Blind on September 5 1908 to become president of Trinity University at Waxahachie. Governor Campbell will nominate F M Bralley, general agent of the Conference for Education in Texas, to succeed him pending Board of Trustees approval.
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Bralley
Trinity
Austin
8S. L. Hornbeak
State
Institution For the Blind
Trinity University
Waxahachie
Campbell
F. M. Bralley
Conference For Education In
Texas
Hornbeak
Board of
Prospects of Electric Line To Fort Worth and Mineral Wells
A Fort Worth committee member appointed by the Board of Trade says the Fort Worth and Mineral Wells interurban line via Weatherford is assured. Within ten days a bidder to construct the line will be announced and no trouble is expected renewing the bonus notes.
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Fort Worth
Board of Trade
Fortorth
Mineeral Wells
Weatherford
Found Dead in 2 Tank Near Goldthwaite
Will Evans aged forty five was found dead in a small tank four miles south of Goldthwaite late Friday evening after leaving town Wednesday morning to fish. Officials note sudden illness and possible drowning with no marks of violence. Brother John Evans resides in Comanche and another relative in Houston.
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Goldthwaite
Will Evans
John Evans
Comanche
Houston
Former Detroit Postmaster Shoots Self in Home
Elwood T. Hance, first vice president of Union Trust and former Detroit postmaster, shot and killed himself at his residence. Friends report long battles with financial troubles and poor health. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Detroit
Mich
Elwood T. Hance
The
Union Trust Company
Texas contract inked by Chicago publishers
Atkinson Menzer and Grover of Chicago have secured a Texas operating permit with 100000 dollars capital and headquarters in Dallas. The firm is among those awarded a contract to supply textbooks to the state.
Balloon lost by San Antonio group tested by Holland Forbes
The Business Men's Club of San Antonio reports a missing baby balloon sent there by New York aeronaut Holland Forbes to test the lifting power of local gas. The club urges its recovery and notes the balloon bears the test mark for the San Antonio area.
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Business Men’s Club of
San Antonio
Holland Forbes
New York Aeronaut
Items for Business People Breviary of News
Wu Ting Fang arrives in San Francisco as new Chinese minister. John Gary Evans elected U S Senator on the earth ballot to succeed Latimore of South Carolina. Poultrymen in Johnson County say Cleibur ne shows boosted breeding and rearing interest. A brisk March wind disrupted downtown Chicago. Tom Wolfe acquitted in Wortham shooting case. Amalgamated North Butte and Coalition mines in Butte start with 5500 workers. Weir Lumber mill restarts after downturn. B F Arthur resigns as dispenser receiver. Governor accepts. George Wilson executed in New Jersey for murder of Orange undertaker. Brunswicke-Balke Callender gets Texas permit with 1.5 million capital. Dallas HQ. filing fees 1619. Interstate Commerce Commission denies hours law extensions. Proposal to form new county from Wood, Smith, Upshur discussed in Big Sandy. Powder cargo explodes near Litchfield Illinois. two fatally injured. wreckage included. Willie Williams shoots Mary Williams then commits suicide near Waxahachie. Sheriff preparing private execution of John Brown in Cuero. Ward County votes dry in county election. Arts and Expositions Committee favors 500000 for Tokio expo 1912. Boiler at Jennings Louisiana oil field injures two. several others slightly hurt. Bay City frame buildings burned. loss about 12500. Hill County orders twelve four-horse graders. precinct allotments. Cecil Kinser found dying in Dallas bathroom. Knickerbocker Trust resumes March 26 after panic. Ohio rejects Akers wing. Taft delegation dominates state committee.
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Wu Ting Fang
San Francisco
John Gary Evans
Eurth
Lattimore
South Carolina
Johnson County
Cleiburne
Chicago
Tom Wolfe
J. Underwood
Wortham
Freestone County
Fairfield
Litchfield
McCalpin
Rush Hickman
Waxahachie
Willie Williams
Mary Williams
Jesse Farris
Cuero
John Brown
Ward
House Committee On Arts and Expositions
United States
Tokio
Japan
Jennings, la
Ismeric Oil Company
Bay City
Commissioners’ Court
Hill County
Cecil Kinser
Dallas
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Ohio
Foraker
Republican Party
Taft
Texas News Roundup of Local Happenings and Deaths
A collage of short items from North Texas and statewide news. Topics include society meetings in Blossom, onion acreage in Collin County, cotton production cuts, first tarpon at Aransas Pass, two Dallas deaths from natural causes, Bailey affair investment note, Stanton bank formation, a mad dog incident in Temple, a Clinton bond vote for a school, Dallas-Denison rail work, Garner’s re election bid, a family tragedy near Bristow, anti labor letters in San Antonio, a Beaumont tetanus death, a Collin County school burn, a deadly railroad wreck near Mexia Nava soma, seed corn distribution for Denton farms, church union adjournment in San Antonio, a Bonham drowning, Julian Thomas balloon plans, Blaylock's death, Temple hospital expansion, a Sabine Pass lighthouse bill, and a San Antonio death from heart disease.
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North Texas
Collin County
C. B. Kennedy
Laredo
Texas
Aransas Pass
Fred Myers
Denison
Fort Worth
Florence E. Russell
Dallas
Senator Bailey
Washington
M. Jayne
Home National Bank of Stanton
Charles Ebbersol
J. B. Garrett
Temple
Austin
State Pasteur Institute
Clinton
John N. Garner
Uvalde
Fifth
John Curry
Bristow
Curry
San Antonio
Helen Bruce
Bruce
Beaumont
Rock Hill
Will Krantz
Dave Briggs
Houston and
Texas Central
Mexia-Navasota
Ennis
Denton
Baptist Young People’s Union
Southwest Texas
Seguin
Marcus
M. C. Watson
Bonham
Julian P. Thomas
W. B. Blaylock
J. A. Herring
Texas Penitentiaries
J. R. King & Company
Huntsville
Kings’ Daughters’ Hospital
Cooper
Sabine Pass
Lighthouse Board
Cora B. Mulholland
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Grayson-Cooke
Amalgamated
North Butte
Coalition
Butte
Montana
Weir Lumber Company
B. F. Arthur
S. C
Pritchard
Ansel
George Wilson
Frederick Romer
Orange
N. J
Brunswicke-Balke Callender Company
Delaware
Interstate Commerce Commission
Big Sandy
Wood, Smith
Upshur
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