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Newspaper
Los Cerrillos Rustler
Location
Los Cerrillos, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1891
Page
3
A severe flood event in Texas caused substantial property damage and fatalities. Officials report multiple counties affected as crews search for missing residents and assess homes ruined by rising waters. Emergency services coordinate rescue efforts and tally casualties.
News from Frazier Greer county reports a deadly waterspout and windstorm Tuesday night flooding streets to four feet. Turkey and Salt creeks overflowed, drowning three in Turkey creek Pomp Poindexter, a sister, and Albright. The Phillips house was lifted off its foundation, with survivors clinging to debris. Many homes blown down, livestock lost, and hundreds homeless as Red River floods devastate farms in Warren and Siver’s Bends.
A Mexican man, about 25, five feet tall, 140 pounds, rode away on a stolen horse after assaulting a boy. The boy fainted from blood loss, dragged home, and a night pursuit by farmers ended near the Colorado line with the suspect captured and held by the sheriff. He confessed in defense, claiming language barriers. The case travels to Garden City with strong local anger and possible lynching if the boy dies.
The jury in the Mira Rauteatin case near Seavenwont, Kan, on June 11 returned a unanimous verdict of guilty murder in the first degree against Charles A. Henson. Henson, a man with many names and deeds of blood, faced the court as the shadow of trouble darkened his features. The penalty will be hanging, not life imprisonment, due to trial in U.S. court. The fate of the Mrs Mary Rauteamn case remains uncertain with little corroborating evidence beyond her own statement.
Five of six young ministers were expelled from the Reformed Presbyterian Church by a 65 to 57 vote after charges of scandalous libel and divisive actions including supporting franchise rights at a city meeting. E. M. Milligan W. H. Teed W. L. Samson J. C. Miligan named. A. W. McChurkin’s appeal sustained. K. R. Burnet charged with heresy not yet tried. The suspended ministers left as peers offered fellowship outside. The voting scene was tense with some planning to appeal the synod’s decision.
William J Lingow a prominent farmer near Maize Kansas is accused of bigamy after two families were discovered. Married to Mary Henry in Kansas City Missouri twenty years ago he reportedly has lived with a Arkansas wife in Van Buren for about three years while maintaining a life with his first family in Tr bie. Sheriff inquiries from Crawford County Arkansas led to his arrest.
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