Internal strife overshadows Texas Farmers Union meeting
The Texas Farmer Union discussion in Dallas ends with de facto officers resigning under a legal plan while Texarkana officials resist changes. The paper urges orderly reform and discipline, criticizes gender bias in labor, and calls for school expansion and unity to advance the cotton industry. Vice President J A Wheeler mourns ailing wife and receives sympathy.
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State Union
Dallas
Texarkana
Empress Opposed to Change Over Queues in China
The article reports that under new Chinese military laws soldiers may wear shorter queues but the question remains sensitive. Prince Ching sought the Empress Dowager’s view through the head eunuch Li lian ying, who suggested wartime exigency warrants removing queues. The Empress Dowager angrily refused, saying to wait until she dies before cutting queues.
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Prince Ching
Li-lien-ying
China Review
Water Reply Stuns Wine Expert In Dime Novel Bet
A famed wine taster faced a bet to identify twenty five wines blindfolded. He correctly named all but the last glass which contained water, then guessed Henry Clay from portraits in the Capitol when a foreigner mistook Webster for the cigar-smoker.
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eiGeswou
Henry Clay
Capitol
Senate
Daniel Webster
Webster
His Modest Request Causes Dramatic Music Room Incident
A great pianist at a drawing room function interrupts the chatter to request quiet for his own hearing. He then shatters three strings and a plate glass window as the room falls silent.
Not Yellow Fever Says Autopsy In Ebrenz Case
In New Orleans the autopsy on Jules Ebrenz, who died at Charity Hospital, found cirrhosis of the liver with jaundice and acute nephritis. Physicians from several states concur there was no yellow fever, prompting discussion of quarantine policy and inter-state health coordination.
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New Orleans
Jules Ebrenz
Louisanna State Board of Health
Charity Hospital
H. A. Gr
Mississippi
Board of Health
Texas
Missisippi
Alabama
C. H. Irion
Jana
J. H. Florence
W. T. Lanham Austin
Florence
Allin
Thompson
Sabine
A Louisiana Mob Lynches Negro Man Carr in Plaquemine
A crowd of about thirty five masked men overpowered two constables and hanged William Carr, a Black man accused of stealing and killing a white calf, from a railroad bridge near Plaquemine. Judge Sehwing called the grand jury for extra sessions to probe the outrage.
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Plaquemine
William Carr
Walter Marionneaux
W. M. Patureaux
Tve
Bayou Plaquemine
Eighth Ward
Plantation Canal
Sehwing
Grand Jury
Carr
Sleet storm hits Oklahoma wheat boon risks peach crop
Enid Oklahoma reports a sleet storm covering ground nearly an inch with temps around zero. The weather will aid wheat but likely devastate early peach blooms. Communications lines were badly crippled across northern and central regions.
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Enid
Okla
Oklahoma
Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee
Kentucky
Alabama
Caldwell Grocery Store Fire in Ennis Causes Total Stock Loss
A Caldwell Grocery Company store in Ennis Texas burned Saturday night around nine o clock. Dense smoke filled the store but the blaze was checked. however water flooding ruined the stock, valued at 1500 dollars and insured.
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Ennis
Texas
Caldwell Grocery Company
Charles H. Smith Found Dead in Gainesville
Charles H. Smith longtime cashier for the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway at Gainesville shot himself yesterday morning leaving a wife and one child. No motive was found. He was well regarded in local business circles.
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Gainesville
Texas
Charles H. Smith
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Snowslide Kills Twelve at Shenandoah Mine
Twelve miners employed at the Shenandoah mine near Silverton Colorado were swept to their deaths by a massive snow slide that struck their boarding house during dinner. Nine others dug out injured as the avalanche buried the mountain trail.
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Silverton
Colo
Shenandoah
Howardsville
Cole
Controversy Over Medical Diagnosis Sparks Broad Backing
The text notes a dispute over a fever versus catarrhal jaundice diagnosis by Dr. Hamilton P. Reed, with Drs. Martin and Batchellor opposing. Support pours in from Dr. Jones’s advocates, including Dr. Irion, the New Orleans executive committee, and Dr. White, while Tulane doctors dispute the autopsy finding. A separate incident reports Ed Johnson’s lynching by a mob in Chattanooga with no disorder observed.
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Hamilton P. Re
Martin and
Batchellor
Jones
Gulf States
Irion
State Board of Health
Dr. Jones
New Orleans Association
Chas. Janvier
J. H. White
Marine Hospital
John B. Elliott
J. T. Halsey
Tulane Medical College
Mississippi Drenched Halted Rail Traffic Reported Crashes
Memphis reports heavy rains cripple traffic on the Ya Zoo Mississippi Valley and Illinois Central lines. Serious washouts near Vicksburg and Port Gibson delay trains from the south and hinder west side river crossings.
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Memphis
Tenn
Zoo & Mississippi Valley
Illinoise Central
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Port Gibson
Burglar Robs Sulphur Store Steals $100 Dynamite Blast
In Lake Charles area a burglary at A R Gossen’s Sulphur store saw thieves move a safe 300 yards to a vacant lot blow it open with dynamite and haul away about $100 while a storm raged and the town remained unaware until late day. Also Rennes council of war sentences Major Henry to a year for defying orders in a church inventory case. Berclair school to close Friday March 23 with concert and picnic. T C Meek building on Commerce St to house a furniture store.
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Journal
Southland
South
Lake Charles
A. R. Gossen
Sulphur
Rennes
France
Henry
Berclair
Texas
T. C. Meek
Commerce Street
Beaumont Player Gerald Hayes Returns From San Antonio
Gerald Hayes of the Beaumont baseball club came back from San Antonio today and attended the South Texas League meeting yesterday.
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Beaumont
Texas
Gerald Hayes
Beaumont Baseball Club
San Antonio
Decatur Snowstorm Paralyzes City and Rail Traffic
Eighteen inches of snow fell Sunday night and yesterday, the heaviest here on record. All business suspended and streetcar service halted. some railroads reported no passenger trains. Trains could not move without two locomotives.
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Decatur
Ill
Inquest Finds Bridge Fall Caused Sam Henders Death
Waco Texas justice held an inquest into the death of Sam Hender son a colored brickmaker and found he fell from the Cotton Belt bridge breaking his neck after mis stepping on approach to the span.
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Waco
Texas
Justice Wood
Sam Henderson
Cotton Belt Bridge
Garcia Arrested on Embezzlement Charge in Shreveport
A. M. Garcia was arrested in Shreveport last night on embezzlement charges for $11 500 from Whitehead Francis and Co a brokerage firm where he worked in Atlanta Georgia He admitted losing money in cotton futures dealings.
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Shreveport
A. M. Garcia
Whitehead, Francis & Co
Atlanta
Fatal self harm near Hut to on Bland Harrison farm
Miss Ida Jos lin of Georgetown Texas committed suicide by taking four doses of strychnine last night while living on the Bland Harrison farm eight miles from town near Hut to.
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Georgetown
Texas
Ida Joslin
Bland Harrison Farm
Here
Hutto
Forest fires devastate Northwood village and mill
In Bellington Washington a forest fire yesterday swept through Northwood destroying the village and mill and leaving thirty families destitute. A large crew fought the blaze all day and finally brought it under control.
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Bellington
Wash
Northwood
Wreck on Burlington Keokuk Iowa Train No 6 Kills Engineer
A Burlington passenger train No 6 wrecked at Lock Bridge in Iowa yesterday. Engineer RP Frick of Burlington was killed and nine persons were injured.
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Burlington
Keokuk
Iowa
Lockbridge
R. .P. Frick
Ien
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