Train Robbery and Mail Theft Across Two States
Reports detail a late night Illinois Central mail train holdup near New Orleans with one conductor shot and a mail clerk injured while robbers seized registered pouches. A separate Cotton Belt line robbery near Bassett Texas left Mail Clerk Dennis wounded as officers chase suspects. a Texas posse is organized. A third item notes a New York world preview on alleged Jesuit safe robbers, with $50,000 stolen and misrepresented funds.
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New Orleans
Illinois Central
Durant
Miss
Cairo
Kinnebrew
J. C. Parker
Kenner
R. E. Goldsby
Goldsby
Parker
Carrolton Avenue
Texarkana
Texas
Cotton Belt
Waco
Memphis
Bassett
Pacific Express Company
John M. Dennis
Dennis
Basset
Stanley Edwards
Bowie County
State
New York
Italy
Turin
World wide events flood the news reel
The bulletin lists diverse incidents from around the world and United States. Bulgaria's cabinet resigns while Marion Indiana plans a $70000 hotel. Mass protests and battleship leaks, plague scares, Boer relocations, and multiple local crimes are reported along with political shifts and economic notes.
Field and Flock Shows Texas Farm Activity Across Counties
A survey of Texas agriculture notes strong cotton, pecan, and grape yields in fields around Huntington and Junction City. Raisin and potato crops, bale outputs, and mules shipped from Navarro County are reported amid plans for rice planting. Government reports promise a cotton bulletin December 10, and industry moves include broom corn, cattle feeding, and grain trade with Turkey.
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Navarro County
Turtle Bayou
Wilburn
Robert Miers
Sonora
C. M. Rawls
Sterling County
McCall
Concho County
Cotton Seed Oil Mill Company
Denison
Kansas Association of Millers and Grain Dealers
Turkey
Kansas
Texas News Roundup Reflects Violence and Commerce
A compilation notes smallpox in Nacogdoches, thefts in Dallas and Corsicana, deaths from injuries and accidents, a Denison flour trade with Europe, oil and gas production in Corsicana, and a 2,000,000 acre public lands survey in El Paso. It includes congressional and state officers, court actions, bankruptcy filings, and railway labor claims.
Chosen Friends Insolvent. Receiver Sought in Indiana
Indiana Attorney General to file for a receiver in Marion county Superior Court to wind up the Order of Chosen Friends. Claims exceed $300,000 and cover thirty states, with councils in Texas and elsewhere. The move follows an insolvency finding after an insurance action by George Brougham. Auditor Hart alerted supreme recorder Lina to the condition.
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Chosen Friends
Indianapolis
Ind
the Sentinel
Taylor
Indiana
Marion County
Order of Chosen Friends
George Brougham
Indiana Insurance Association
Hart
T. B. Lina
The
Texas
Sentenced to Be Shot in Juarez Extradition Case
El Paso reports Blass Aguierre, extradited from Mexico for the a murder, was today sentenced to death by the Juarez judge. Aguierre, involved in the killing of Juan Jose Escajeda across the river two years ago, was transferred to Juarez last March under the U S Mexico treaty as the second American extradited. execution date not set.
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el Paso
Texas
Blass Aguierree
Mexico
Juan Jose Escajeda
Letters
Juarez
Aguierre
Escajeda
United States
Rich
Workman Badly Injured in Texas Mill Gear Accident
Orange Texas December 14 About 530 o clock J J Farrell an oiler at L Miller and Shingle Co s mill was caught in the live roller gear his leg mangled from knee to thigh the gear was stopped and taken apart before he could be freed physicians were summoned he may lose the leg as the bone is crushed
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Orange
Texas
J. J. Farrell
L. Miller and Shingle Co
Texan killed in Leesville Louisiana shooting
John Fagan formerly of Lufkin Texas was shot and killed in the streets of Leesville Louisiana by Lee Boyce. About nine shots were fired by both sides. Witnesses dispute the first shot. Boyce fled and is pursued by the sheriff and deputies. Siegel Cooper Co.'s great department house, New York, the largest in
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Louisiana
Leesville
John Fagan
Lee Boyce
Fagan
Lufkin
Texas
Boyce
Siegel, Cooper Co
New York
Chocolate cup judgments and moral massage rituals
A literary line discusses judging a cup of chocolate by whipped cream and notes moments when women need moral advice to ease emotional wrinkles. The passage blends whimsy with a hint of guidance on female experiences.
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Bulgaria
Marion, Ind
Massachusetts
San Francisco
Holland
Transvaal
Huntington
W. Va
Long Island
Shreveport
J. T. Alexander
Greencastle
Muncie
Trowbridge
Vicksburg
Green
Thirty-third Infantry
Wigan
Island of
Luzon
Schnabele
Metz
France
Germany
Nancy
James G. Stowe
Cape Town
London
South Africa
Shan Hai Kuan
Mr. Wohl
First Presbyterian Bu
T. F. Stokes
Stokes
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Charles B. Galloway
Arkansas
South
Methodist Episcopal Church
William B. Dunton
Union National Bank of Chicago
McKinley
Marion Walcher
Nashville, Tenn
Walcher
Griggs
Missouri Pacific Railway
Arthur, Tenn
Joe Henson
Harry Hatfield
Johnson
Hatfield
Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Hoosier
Frank Luzano
Hackensack
N. J
Luzano
John Cambola
Fulton
Kirk
Bidek
Grayson Eorn
Junction City
Huntington, Tex
Franklin County
I. W. Collier
T. J. Hooks
H. W. Turner
Beaumon
Matagorda
Misses Slocum
Page
Manila
T. P. Hamilton
Trinity Valley
Bridgeport
Wise County
W. H. Pate
R. W. Prosser
Sutton County
R. A. Williamson
Juno Country
Hatesville
Tex
John Hyde
Illinois
Frank Ribbons
San Angelo
New Mexico
Jas. Hamilton
Pecos
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Montgomery County
Georgia Senate
Nacogdoches
Dallas
Harry Neal
Rice
J. E. Lynch
Liverpool
Eng
Glasgow
Scotland
Corsicana
Wills Point
J. H. Smith
Steve Davis
Lavaca County
Martindale
Lockhart
Burke
Southern German Methodist Church
Joyce
Austin
Dallas County
John Tarleton
Supt
Kendall
Otto D. H. Pfeuffer
Sayers
Roger A. Edmonds
Houston
Galyggyton
O. M. Lipper
Angleton
Elizabeth Smith
A. P. Smith
First Presbyterian Church
Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway Company
Mineral Wells
Graham
Lamar County
C. R. Porter
Llano
General Land Office
John T. Smith
Love
Adjt
Scurry
Washington
Inspector Grant
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Boston
Jose Wilson
Forney
Texargana
Katy
R. M. Green
F. N. Green
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