Regional Briefs From Texas And Nearby Areas
Mitt Dorman is shot to death by L F Smith in Groveton and Smith is jailed on murder charges. In Houston Col J B Brockman and George Stief clash with a negro involved in a knife attack. Brockman a prominent attorney, Stief a piano dealer. Local shippers push a petition against railroad freight-rate hikes in Texas and Louisiana. Range hosts a six month old colt show with first prize. Government rations and seed are distributed to negroes in Texarkana after storms and floods. El Paso faces drought plans. crops not bright. Corpus Christi prepares a slaughterhouse and packing plant. Temple sees W H Hill announce a broom factory. Waco Elks protest Dallas parade judges ruling alleging discrimination. Yoakum court stenographer McCarthy resigns to join Houston business. Georgetown awards Henry Schubert ten thousand dollars in an I G N Railway damages suit. Smithville Confederate veteran Robert Priest dies of heart disease. Victoria couple Sample hurt in buggy runaway. collar bone fracture. Fort Worth gas vault explosion injures Major C O Elliott. Weatherford man Charles Thompson killed by a Rock Island train. Dallas Gas Company under investigation over possible New York Gas Trust ties. Del Rio rains boost range and farms. prospects bright. Temple street car collision injures Mrs J B Watters and son. El Paso rain saves crops. river flows. Gonzales Rufus Murphy gets two years for public gaming fare violation. Linton Emmett Gafney stabbed to death. son of County Surveyor Gafney.
Labor leaders cited for contempt in Buck Stove case
Washington dispatch reports Justice Anderson summoning labor chiefs Gompers Morrison and Mitchell to explain why they should not face contempt penalties over a boycott of Buck Stove and Range goods in defiance of Judge Gould. Citation set for September 8.
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Washington
D. C
Gompers
Morrison
Mitchell
Anderson
District Supreme Court
Buck Stove and Range Company
Gould
Fairview
Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
United States
Not What They Wanted
A Western town seeks a schoolteacher and rejects a tall New England candidate whose focus on lineage and ancestors clashes with the district’s need for competent teaching. The trustee emphasizes practicality over pedigree.
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New England
Harper’s Weekly
Night of July 27 Opens Independence Party Convention in Chicago
Chicago to host the first convention of the new National party in the morning hours with Mr Hearst presiding. The report notes other items from Natchez and Washington, including a fire destruction and a statue installation in Statuary Hall.
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Chicago
Afi
Independence Party
Hearst
New
National Party
Washington, D. C
Robert E. Lee
Statuary Hall
Virginia
Uncertain Job. Callahan mocks sleeping section hand
Michael Callahan, a section boss for the Southern railroad in Ludlow Kentucky, finds a section hand asleep beside the rails and bluntly tells him he has a job only while he slapes. The Gaelic remark implies the worker will lose his job upon waking.
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Michael Callahan
The
Southern Railroad
Ludlow
Callahan
Man Sees Train For First Time In Boone County
A Boone county youth with no prior railroad exposure visits a Missouri Kansas and Texas station near Clayville. He runs along the track as the locomotive approaches, fearing it will catch him, and only calms after reaching the station.
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Clayville
Boone County
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American Shoe & Hat Co
San Antonio, Texas
General News
Groveton
Mitt Dorman
L. F. Smith
Smith
Houston
J. B. Brockman
George W. Stief
Richelieu Cafe
Stief
Brockman
Austin
Texas
Louisiana
Henry Pullins
Texarkana
el Paso
Corpus Christi
Coleman- Fulton Pasture Company
Ytemple
W. H. Hill
Bartlette
Temple
Waco
Waco Elks Lodge
Dallas
J. E. ‘Farnsworth
Committee On Awards
Yoakum
McCarthy
Georgetown
Henry Schubert
International & Great Northern Railway
Smithville
Robert Priest
Mr. Priest
Wash. Jones
Victoria
Fort Worth
Charles Thompson
Weatherford
Rock Island
Thompson
Dallas Gas Company
New York Gas Trust
del Rio
J. B. Watters
Gonzales
Rufus Murphy
Linton
Emmett Gafney
San Patricio
Gafney
Colorado
Springs
Colo
Hitchcock
National Committee
Cecil A. Lyon
Rockford, Ill
I. W. Bess
Manufacturers’ National Bank
Bess
New Orleans
Hot Springs
William H Taft
Taft
New York
Cardinal Gibbons
Archbishop Farley
Rome
Pius X
Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham
Alabama National Guard
Chickamauga
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
W. S. Buchanan
Bacon
Central America
Natchez, Miss
Ewarts V. Depew
San Antonio
Trust Bros
M. E
T. Ry
Lamar St
Texev
Hunt’s Lightning Oil
A.B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman, Texas
Bonn
Avon
School For Girls and Young Ladies Conservatory of Music
Oakland Street
Julia Catherine Hall
Ave. C
J. B. Franklin
Nelson & Draughon
Business College
J. W. Draughon
Alamo Plaza
Ft. Worth
Main St
St Mary's Hall
A. W. Burroughs Principa
SAN Antonio Academy
San Pedro Park
America
Tulane
Washington and Lee
Wim
Walton Bondurant
S.A. Machine & Supply O
Continental
Atlas
Eclipse
Star
S. A. Machine & Supply Co
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