Battle of San Jacinto Report to Mexico by Santa Anna
Santa Anna recounts the San Jacinto battle and its disastrous outcome. He details troop dispositions, delays, and failures by Castrillon and others, the pursuit by Gen. Filisola, and his own escape and capture after the Texan victory led by Houston.
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San Jacinto
Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Castrillon
Thompson
Lynchburg
Rio Grande
Buffalo Bayou
Samuel Houston
Santa Anna
Filisola
Lexas
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Black Cannibals On Go liad Street Duel Over Wife
About noon Nelson Nickerson and Granville Carter met on Goliad Street near Richter's store and fought with a cart pin bludgeon. Carter struck Nickerson and caused severe injuries. Nickerson suffered clawed arm and nearly severed thumb. Officer Zenk arrested Carter. pursuit continued. Police court tomorrow.
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Nelson Nickerson
Granville Carter
Goliad Street
Richter
Nickerson
Carter
Zenk
Bat Cave
Recorder's Court Fines Summary
Sophie Miller fined five dollars or five days for vagrancy. Galvino Fausta fined five dollars for drunkenness. J M Flores fined five dollars for insulting language. A Sebolz case dismissed for sanitary violation compliance. Remaining eight cases continued.
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Sophie Miller
Galvino Fausta
J. M. Flores
Senator Maxey on convict labor in Texas reports
In St Louis Senator Maxey argues that Texas supports convict labor and there is no public backlash against hiring convict labor. He says convicts are abundant, wages are good, and the incident of wholesale release involved friends of convicts rather than labor concerns.
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New Orleans
Justice Poche
Supreme Court
Ford
Pat Ford
Murphy
Caulfield
Buckly
Curiaco
Bridgeport
Ill
Reilly
Washington Dispatch
Trades Assembly of Chicago
St. Louis
Maxwell
Preller
Auckland
New Zealand
Marmaduke
Washington
James ‘Tracy
Frank R. O'Neal
Post-Dispatch
Sorwokieep
United States
Fuller
Senate
Orrorr
Spring Wells
Michigan Central Car Shops
Detroit Car Wheel Works
Cuiiaco
George M. Pullman
Jeffrey
Illinois Central Railway
New Orleans Exposition
Pullman
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Issouri
Sims
State and of Agriculture
Maxey
Texas
Lone Star
Counting the Treasury Cash in a Dark Vault
From Washington on May 12 1885 reporters describe the Treasury counting money amid awe and mystery. About 100 people tally gold and silver vaults containing 24000 pounds of precious metal and millions in paper currency. The vaults hold heavy bags of silver and vast stacks of gold coins, with precise weighing on fine scales.
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Washington
Treasury
Solomon
United States
Horses In Ambulance Run Cause Collisions At City Corner
An ambulance horses startled in front of Wolff and Marx at Alamo and Commerce ran down Alamo street about noon, colliding with a fire hydrant at Villita and Alamo. One horse was badly injured and the driver was arrested.
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Wolff & Marx
Alamo and
Commerce Streets
Alamo Street
Villita
Alamo Streets
Court session convicts Mexican killer of Hodges murder
Captain Joe Shely reports from Cotulla that the court disposed of much business including the conviction of Jose Maria Mendiola for the murder of Station Agent Hodges at En cinal and sentencing him to hang. He has appealed the case.
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Joe Shely
Cotulla
Jose Maria Mendiola
Hodges
Encinal
The Fence Cutters Lawsuit Filed In Medina County
Robert S. Davis sues Ferdinand Niggli and several others for 10000 alleging large stock pastures in Medina and Frio counties caused fence cutting and legal disputes. The suit claims organized bands attacked fences and that Davis acted as a detective with Sheriff W. B. Foster to identify fence cutters, surviving threats and imprisonment during the operation.
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District Court
Robert S. Davis
Ferdinand Niggli
John Lytle
Thomas McDaniels
George J. Wilson
J. R. Skates
Joseph Carle
B. L. Crouch
James Speed
Stephen Speed
E. R. Lane
Lee Nlall
Medina
Frio
Atso
Texas
W. B. Foster
Medina County
Railroad boom brings large crowd to Fashion theatre
The Fashion theatre drew a large audience last night with the Forrests making a welcome return as the principal feature. Miss Annie Howard debuted in a new role while Dooley and Coburn entertained the crowd with their eccentric comedy. Misa Alice also showed versatility and Miss Aggie Wells sang well among many other items.
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Forrests
Annie Howard
Dooley
Coburn
Misa Alice Wao
Aggie Wells
Joke About Insurance Agent and Colonel
A humorous tale recounts an insurance agent pestering a colonel who refuses life insurance citing gout. The colonel quips that the agent would have given up sooner if told earlier, and the agent later finds clients decline coverage for their friends whose health has worsened.
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