Williamson county convention to nominate prohibition candidates
Prohibition party officials in Williamson County plan a county convention at Georgetown on April 9 1 to nominate candidates for county offices. A full county ticket will be prepared if endorsed. the party may field a full slate, potentially saving divisions in the field. Local news notes include an accident at the Taylor public school, childbirth at the Melnters home, hog purchases by Howard Blend, and a touring Dixie Concert company benefiting the Jefferson Davis Monument association with dates in Georgetown Burnett and Lampasas.
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Georgia T P A Aims To Educate Hotel Men At Convention
Georgia T P A holds its second annual convention in Columbus with President Max Kobingon presiding. Reports show hotel proprietors increasingly educated on commercial realty. proposed editorial work for Commerce. plans for interchange miles. membership up over 100 percent since last April. nine incidents recorded. Georgia Alabama Railroad praised for toll rate move. W C Glynn elected legal adviser. Also reports on sensational infant murders in Reading sex scandal case and rumor of Consul General Williams murdered in Havana without confirmation.
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Georgia
Georgia and Alabama Railroad
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Atlanta
Intira Georgia Division
Columbus
Sewpay Lressr
Mapnip
Williams
Havana
Sacco
State Gapetal News Reports Prosperous Conditions
State Gapetal News reports receipts for the first four days of April totaling 243,261 against 67,818 for April last year. Hardy county settled today with a delinquency of 17. BH. The state land offices say land leasing is slow due to insufficient land. Forfeitures next November may rise after attorney general rulings. The state printing board met to consider printing court reports with Clark & Courts. no final decision taken. Complaints claim reports not printed as per the 216th legislature. Attorney general advice allows warrants for school and apportionment to be withheld when counties default on payments, stirring Travis county. Travis county’s average annual apportionment is 88,000, with 177 due to the Austin Independent School District. County bond redemptions today were 17,886.
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Travis County
Austin Independent
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition to Be Held in Taylor
Taylor Fair directors announce the fifteenth annual livestock and poultry exhibition to run May 6 to 8 in Taylor Texas. Local business leaders vow afternoon closing and substantial prizes, with G I Root as president and Ed A Roberts as secretary guiding a program including a state access bicycle event. Directors include J L Woodward and J B Pumphey among others.
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Taylor
Williamson County Live Stock and
Taylor Fair Association
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Ficars
Boen
G. I. Root
Honard Bisnd
Ed. A. Roberta Boas
J. L. Woodward
G. E. King
J. J. Black
B. Pumphey
Jon B.pamphrejy
Hugh Burns
Sol. G. Yakey
Minister Willis Auctions Household Effects Before Departure
Passengers aboard the steamer Mariposa report United States Minister Willis held a large sale of his household effects shortly before the vessel’s disaster. The auction was described as general with Willis selling out in preparation for an early return to the United States.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
United States
Willis
Thay
Lost City of Dallas Laments for Safety at Sea
Mixed dispatches report the steamship City of Dallas at anchor forty miles from Colon Colombia with broken machinery awaiting aid after a five day voyage toward Bocas Del Toro. Nearby, political notes cite Buck’s mayoral bid in Louisville Nashville trek and a Cumberland forest fire in April with losses over $100,000. Reports deny Turkish missionary expulsion rumors as Chamberlain presses Kruger amid Transvaal diplomacy. Democratic primaries show sound money gains limited to three wards. A Texas case notes a wife murderer to hang in Unteville with April 11 details.
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Francis
Tramp Strikes 12-Year-Old Girl Near School
BuochTon N April 11 A 12 year old daughter of Wm L Swell land district was attacked by a tramp on the way to school. She was badly injured and wandered nearly a mile home before fainting. Searches by country residents are scouring the area to find the assailant.
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Death of John A. Cockerill Reported In Cairo
Special wires confirm the death of John A. Cockerill a well known American newspaper man who recently arrived in Cairo from Japan as a New York Herald correspondent. He had worked with many large American papers since youth and helped shape the profession.
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South Germany
Counterfeiters Arrested in New Orleans House Raid
In New Orleans on April 1, Hilan Bay, E. Leagan and W. B. Matheny were arrested at 205 Southeast Street by Deputy U S Marshal Galbreth. Authorities seized two plain raicparls many tools and a furnace used for counterfeiting. The men, railroad workers from Central America, confess involvement with Longon. they face US commission charges and $2,000 cash bond.
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Longon
United States
Magazine Explosion Claims Seven at Lawrence Mine
An explosion near the Lawrence mine magazine on the 81st level killed seven men: G Lawney Jobe Quinlan Ed Shields J Dyer John McVeigh and Patrick O Rourke all unmarried. Several factors suggest they were near the magazine when the blast occurred and foul air may have contributed to the deaths.
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Storekeeper Murdered by Desperate Robbers Near Puente
Los Angeles April 14. Thomas F Hayes storekeeper at Puente twenty miles east of the city was murdered in his store by robbers Thursday night. Two masked men entered while he was alone, demanded the safe, and after he unlocked it fired, killing him. Four additional robbers then fled. the sheriff and posse pursued them.
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Local militia guard election amid unrest in St Landry parish
The St Landry militia was recalled to Orleans area to relieve Company A and protect the registrathon office during last week’s municipal election amid rising tensions. Gov. called out the militia at the sheriff’s request to prevent bloodshed as political tempers flare.
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Wreck of Fishing Boat Near Virginia Beach Claims Captain Faunce
A coastal wreck off Virginia Beach near Virginia coast ends in tragedy as Captain John Faunce, mate Porcey Washington, and seven crewmen drown after a heavy offshore swell capsizes their fishing boat while renewing nets. Faunce's son Frank attempted rescue but all perished. bodies unrecovered. Also notes a legislative committee in Washington and various dispatches from Athens and Gladewater on unrelated items.
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John Faunce
Gon Porcey Washington
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Percy
Fatal Business Quarrel Ends in Slaying in Texas
In Hartford issues and early 1900s style copy, A Rathbold, manager of Barton farm, shot and killed Wm. Flagg, a local gambler, in a dispute over business matters near Austin Texas. The event, described as a fatal quarrel, marks a violent turn in a community of respected citizens including members of Masons and Knights of Pythias.
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