Bailey Health Probable Will Keep Senator From Convention
New York June 23 Friends of Senator Bailey fear health may prevent his attendance at the wet convention. A Chicago dispatch said Bailey was under consideration for chair of the resolutions committee, but he remains in bed at the Wal Astoria and may not be able to leave room for at least ten days.
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Bailey
New York
Sen+ Bailey
Chicago
Demotic National Committee
Senator Bailey
Committee On
Wal Astoria
Six Lepers Cured Report Highlights Leprosy Care
A Louisiana leper home biennial report shows that out of sixty one residents over two years six were finally cured. The figures, part of a medical update to a state assembly, reflect outcomes among lepers receiving care and not a finding of a cure for leprosy.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Louisiana Institution
Mbly
Legislator I G W Jones Killed in Railroad Wreck
June 23 New Orleans reports a Red River Valley wreck kills Dr G W Jones Denham Springs a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and injures Lewis Regan Rodgers John Lobll and others. The crash occurred when a freight train failed to yield to a passenger train on the Rouge and Hammond line.
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Ibr
G. W. Jones
New Orleans
Red River Valley
Denham Springs
House of Representees
Lewis J.regan
House of Repretatives
St. Tammany’s Parish
Rodgers
Conductor River Valley Railroad
John Lobll
Theton Rouge
Hammond Road
Taft to Visit Texas Cities This Summer
Commission Davidson and delegates report results from Chicago. Davidson says Taft promised to visit Texas this summer with a route partly mapped through Fort Worth Dallas San Antonio Beaumont and other cities.
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Fort Worth
Davidson
Chicago
Seery Taft
Cecil Lyon
Texas
Dallas
San Ang
Beaumont
One Fare For Round Trip Austin June 23 Texas National Guard
At a conference with Ad General Newton railroad agents and chief clerks the Texas National Guard troops will be transported to Leon Springs for joint maneuvers July 2 to 11 at a rate of one fare for round trip. The state sought a cent per mile but the roads did not agree.
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Austin
Newton
Texas
Texas National Guard
Leon Springs
Rebels Headed For Border From Mexican Uprising
A staff correspondent reports that Mexican authorities say sixteen rebels were captured in Nueva Casas Grandes. Three leaders of the aborted uprising are on the run, headed toward the United States, pursued by rurales.
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Border
el Paso
the Herald
Mex Officiala
Nueva Casas Gran
Frustra
Leaps to Doom Reported In Split Local Incidents
Fragmentary notes describe two violent incidents. B G Beyers faces a personal crisis in Barn qotay on June 22 while James Smith reportedly shot himself in his barn with a rifle.
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B. G. Beyers
Qotay
James Smith
Borah Indicates Chicago Pick for Headquarters
Senator Borah says Chicago has been chosen for the headquarters after a Cincinnati conference with Taft and Sherman. He spoke in Chicago on June 23 confirming the decision and indicating the city’s selection.
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Borah
Chicago
Senator Borah
Idaho
Cincinnati
Taft
Sherman
Bashful Matthews Fails Four Times to Wed Bride
In Jerseyville on June 23 Daniel Matthews twenty four notorious for bashfulness again failed to marry Miss Mary Frazier. For an hour and a half Rev J H Jones and 150 guests waited as he did not appear at the church. He later claimed he intended to wed but something unknown prevented him. The couple agreed to another trial.
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Jerseyville
Daniel Matthews
Ilinois
J. H. Jones
Matthews
Mary Frazier
Daniel
Miss Frazier
Matthewa
Mary Miller
Rosedale
Jersey County
Misa Frazier
Joke May Cause Death in Mt Carmel Attack
Ora F. Havell editor of Havell's Every Morning was attacked by Cody Bedell a liveryman as he walked carrying papers. Bedell struck with a brick knocked Havell down and beat him until others dragged him off. The assault followed the publication of a joke in the newspaper.
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Mt. Carmel
Ora F. Havell
Havell
Cody Bedell
Liveryman
Negro Monument Planned at Arlington Cemetery Site
Secretary Taft directs the quartermaster general to reserve a ground plot at Arlington national cemetery for a monument honoring Negro soldiers who died in the Civil War. The Colored Soldiers' Monument association is raising funds to erect the tribute.
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Washington
Taft
Quartermaster General of the Army
Artington National Cemetery
Colored Soldiers’ Monument * Association
Lorenzo Dow Baker Dies At 68 In Boston
Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker founder of the United Fruit Company died suddenly of heart failure at the Parker House in Boston. He was 68 and had been in poor health for two weeks. He chaired the Cuba Fruit Company and led the Cape Cod Steamship and Weelfflett Oyster companies.
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Lorenzo Dow Baker
Boston
United Fruit Company
Parker House
Cuba Fruit Company
Cape Cod Steamship Company
Weelflett Oyster Company
Homeopaths Open Sixty Fourth Institute Meeting in Kansas City
The sixty fourth annual meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy opens in Kansas City on a Monday. Nearly 800 prominent homeopathic physicians from across the country attend the opening session.
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Seasion
Kansas City
American Institute of Homeopathy
Nine Die In Explosion At Arsene Coal Mine
Officials report nine deaths after a blast at the Arsene coal mine near St. Etienne on June 23. Rescue teams worked through debris as investigators began inquiries into the accident.
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St. Etienne
Fatal Window Accident Shocks San Augustine County
Aaron M. Johnson, a young planter of Sabine County, was fatally injured when a passing bullet struck him through a window at his San Augustine residence. He sat with his wife and three month old baby after supper when the tragedy occurred near Geneva. Local authorities arrested a Black suspect amid a tense mob as rangers escorted evidence from the scene.
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San Augustine
Vex
Geneva
Sabine County
Aaron M. Johnson
Johnson
Hemphill
Noble
Hamer and
Latti
Heroic Mother Drowns Saving Son in Texas Branch
Mrs Bes sie Meyer and her six-year-old Julius Meyer drowned near Sharp Texas while the mother washed in a farm branch. The boy cried for help after his brother encountered a deep hole, and the mother is believed to have jumped in to save him but could not swim. Neighbors reached the scene as the mother was sinking and the boy had already disappeared.
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Cameron
Tex
Bessie Meyer
Julius
Sharp
Here
Four B Cotton Bales Reported at San Antonio Reception
Four cotton bales of this year's crop were received Saturday in San Antonio. Two bales came from Alice and one each from Ben Bolt and Falfurrias, reflecting the as yet modest harvest levels and regional sourcing reported in the dispatch.
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San Antonio
Ben Bolt
Falfurrias
Alice
Senator Bailey Confined to Bed in New York
Senator Bailey remains in bed in New York on June 23. He hopes to rise within a few days.
Mixed 1910s News Fragments From Texas Oklahoma And Elsewhere
A scattered news summary notes a whisky seizure in Tulsa and a depot seizure in Oklahoma City, wheat sold at Plano for a dollar per bushel, and Arkansaw club formed at San Angelo. Incendiary fires in Berlin linked to a night watchman. a train trestle death near Haileyville. a child bitten by a rattlesnake near Taylor, Texas. Randolph county Missouri votes dry. a lynching near Hamburg Arkansas. Heir to ten thousand from a San Antonio peddler after his father’s death in Egypt. French and Spanish regions suffer floods and crop damage. New York Nationals defeat Chicago 4 0 with Christy Mathewson pitching. An eight year old girl shot by a gun accident near Proctor Texas. Sheriff Garrison at Oklahoma City seizes whisky and beer from a depot. Albert Kuhn pays 200 for one bale of cotton in Galveston. Ruby Kendrick dies in Seoul while on missionary work. Red River Improve ment association meets at Shreveport electing Morris Sheppard president and Denison as next meeting site.
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Tulsa
Okla
Plano
Tex
Arkansas
San Angelo
Arkansaw Club
Berlin
Haileyville
James McCann
Taylor, Tex
Nora Windmeyer
Huntsville
Randolph County
Missouri
Hamburg
Ark
Ernest Williams
Egypt
Alexander Barnevita
San Antonio
France
Spain
New York National League Baseball Club
Matthewson
Chicago
Proctor
L. A. South
Oklahoma City
Galveston
Albert Kuhn
Ruby Kendrick
Seoul
Korea
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Congressional
Red River Improvement Association
Shreveport
Morris Sheppard
Texarkana
Denison
Prisoners attempt hanging in Fort Smith Arkansas
On October 1 in Fort Smith Arkansas seven prisoners tried to hang Elijah Skages who had been jailed for assaulting a woman and given twenty one years. Skages led a religious cult and had urged jail mates to hang him. Separately Tom Jones was hanged at Richmond Texas for the self confessed murder of Morris Lemon an eighty year old Black man. Jones killed Lemon and burned his home to seize livestock.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Elijah Skages
Assaint
Skages
Tom Jones
Richmond
Tex
Morris Lemon
One Hundred Pulpits Fill Louisville Temperance Meeting
Louisville hosted a large temperance event with speeches by national leaders at a drama of 100 pulpits. The International Sunday School association held its twelfth triennial session as Mrs. Lillian Stevens and Rev J P Love addressed crowds at the armory and Trinity Methodist Episcopal church.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Superintendents and Teachers Congress
International Sunday School Association
Lillian M. N. Stevens
P. A. Barker
Anti-Saloon League
Alexander Allison
New York
National Temperance Society
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
J. P. Love
Atlanta
South
Roosevelt Attends Christchurch Service in Oyster Bay
President Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt attended morning services at Christchurch in Oyster Bay. Rev. Henry Homer Washburn spoke on confirmation. Less than 150 people gathered as the Roosevelts arrived in the family carriage and sat in the rear pew.
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Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Christchurch
Henry Homer Washburn
Noted Southerner Gene. Paris Tennessee Civil War figure dies
Paris Tenn June 28 D C Atkins a Confederate congressman and long time Tennessee representative died at his home aged eighty four. He organized a Confederate regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War and later served as United States commissioner of Indian affairs under Cleveland's first administration.
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Paris
Tenn
D. C
State Tax Board to Enforce Stock Transfer Law
State comptroller will compel corporations to obey the stock transfer act taxing transfers of capital stock. About 75,000 companies fall under the provisions of the act. The move follows the June 23 report from Albany New York.
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Albany, N. Y
Track Walker Murdered in Washita Canyon
Ardmore reports a Santa Fe track walker named Anderson was found dead in Washita canyon. His body showed small-shot wounds. Local authorities opened an investigation into the homicide.
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Ardmore
Santa Fe
Anderson
Washita Canyon
Wife Killed. Husband Held in Texas Beating
Corsicana Texas June 23 The wife of Will Harris a negro was beaten to death with a stall statue of Columbus used as the weapon blows to the head Harris was arrested
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Corsicana
Tex
Will Harris
Columbus
Harris
McMurtry Dies Suddenly During Wichita Falls Visit
Fort Worth news reports L B McMurtry a prominent ranchman from Wichita Falls died suddenly Sunday while visiting his mother Mrs D W Harcrow. The death occurred in Fort Worth and details of the cause were not disclosed.
First Cotton Bale of Season Bought in Nuecea County
The first bale of this season's cotton crop was raised in Nuecea county and sold for 270 dollars by W. D. Cleveland & Sons. London reports a Hyde Park suffrage demonstration drew about half a million people.
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Houston
Nuecea County
W. D. Cleveland & Sons
London
Hyde Park
Secretary Appointed for American Commission to Tokio Exposition
Oyster Bay June 23. President Roosevelt appoints John C. O Laughlin of Washington secretary to the American commission for the Tokio exposition in 1912. Salary set at $5,000 annually.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
John C. O'Laughlin
Washington
Tokio
Heat Toll Rises in Chicago With Two Deaths
Two deaths and seven prostrations were reported in Chicago up to noon Monday due to intense heat. The hot spell persisted with a slight dip over the past twenty four hours.
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Chicago
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Temperance
A. M. Ellsworth
the Palace
Jack and
Johnny Bull's Place
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Prescott. Ark
Langford & Clemmons
E. J. Taliaferro
Old Picayune Building
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