Storm's damage hits Texas crops and stock in hurricane span
The agriculture department reports vast losses from the West Indian hurricane in Southern Texas. Cotton losses about 68 000 bales and 3 400 000 dollars. corn 1 000 000 bushels and 500 000 dollars. rice 73 000 barrels worth 219 000. prunes 2 500 000 pounds worth 100 000. farm animals valued at 490 000 dollars. Separate Paris Texas note: after a church sexton harassment, a Negro sexton was shot at Roxton by unknown assailants. no arrests.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Department
Anti-Horsethief Association Holds Session in Oklahoma City
The grand lodge of the Anti-Horsethief Association adjourned in Oklahoma City and scheduled next year’s meeting in Perry. Reports say many thieves were caught and punished with member aid. finances are solid. James Kirkwood of Osage elected grand president, J S Johnson of Kickapoo grand vice president, O C Listen of Edmond secretary treasurer. An executive committee of J Lealum, J H Shacklford, and J I P Moorequandt was named.
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Anti-Horsethief Association
Oklahoma City
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Grand Lodge
The
Anti-Horse Thief Association
Perry
James Kirkwood
Osage
J. S. Johnson
Kickapoo
O. C. Listen
Edmond
Messrs
J. Lealum
J. H. Shackleford
J. I. P. Moorequandt
Chicago inmates aid Texas relief effort with $84
Inmates of the Dunning poor house and insane hospital in Chicago raised 84 for the Texas relief fund and formed a relief society. Thirty residents gave up luxuries to help. Commissioner Reynolds of Galveston relief committee reported a $30,000 draft mailed to chairman McVitie. Governor Sayers was notified of a $1,162 draft for relief outside Galveston.
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Chicago
Ill
Dunning Poor House and Insane Hospital
Texas Relief Fund
Reynolds
Galveston Relief Committee
McVitie
General Relief Committee
Galveston
Sayers
Texas
Corsicana Postal Service Expands Deliveries
The Corsicana postal business adds a regular carrier as Officer War. Storey of the police force promotes to substitute letter carrier, resigning from the force to take the new position.
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Corsicana
Texas
Storey
Pursuit of Whisky Peddler Near Colbert Denison TX
In Denison area on October 19 Deputy U S Marshal J B Davis tried to arrest a whisky peddler in Colbert. Shots were fired as the man fled northward weaving through the route. The fugitive abandoned his buggy three miles from Colbert, leaving the team and 77 pints of whisky captured. whisky spilled during the chase.
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Denison
Texas
Indiana Territory
Colbert
United States
Marshall J. B. Davis
Two Suspects Held for Red River Crossing Murder
Two negroes charged with killing Bridge Watchman Edward Evans at the Red River crossing were brought to Texarkana to escape a mob. They are held in Miller County jail awaiting Red River County grand jury action. each claims the other struck the fatal blow.
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Texarkana
Texas
Edward Evans
Kansas City
Red River
Richmond
Kent
Mikle County
Red River ‘County
Evans
Kruger Ships Out To Dutch Cruiser Gelderland
Lorenzo, October 20. Mr Kruger was secretly taken at 5 AM aboard the Dutch cruiser Gelderland where he will sail for Holland. Officials say he fled to escape a Boer attack while refugees express hostility to his departure. He left the governor’s house with Dr Hayman and the governor in a private carriage, then boarded at the custom house pier as the Gelderland is reported to sail today.
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Marquez
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Custom House Pier
Pasper gin seed and cotton house fire in Denton
In Denton Texas at 5 30 am the Pasper gin seed and cotton house, part of the American Cotton company network, burned likely from incendiary cause. The iron building housed 250 bales of cotton seed and several tons of seed. most was burned. Estimated loss runs to about 10000 with 3000 coverage on cotton and 500 on the plant. other buildings and machinery included.
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Denton
Texas
Pasper Gin Company
American Cotton Company
Soldier in China Letter From Barron Brother in Army
A Texas resident reports a letter from his brother X Barron serving in the Fourteenth United States infantry at Tien Tsin China. Dated August 1 the letter mentions only one woman seen since arrival and notes Boxers killed women and children and mutilated bodies. The unit was to begin its march toward Pekin the day after the letter.
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China
Tyler
Texas
A. M. Barron
X. Barron
Fourteenth
United States Infantry
Tien Tsin
Cotton price drop chills Texas farmers cashholdings
In Cosicana Texas on October 18 farmers report cotton prices sinking from over cents to 8.50 cents causing a drop in receipts with wagon-loads under 500 bales. Navarro county producers mostly cash and holding for spring. A negro farmer notes he can hold ten more bales and will not sell at current prices.
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Cosicana
Texas
Navarro County
Bridge Crash Kills Two On Texas Freight Run
A Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio freight train derailed three miles west of Findlay near El Paso due to a undermined bridge from last night's high waters. Engineer John Schaffer and Fireman W B Tidson died. Officials left for the wreck at 5 am but washouts delayed them. Schaffer left a wife and child in El Paso. Tidson's family is in Houston.
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el Paso
Texas
Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Findlay
John Schaffer
W. B.tidson
Martin
Garrick
Borcher
Houston
Two Negroes Held After Fatal Blows at Red River Crossing
In Wapade Texarkana Arkansas October 18 two negroes are jailed after a crossing incident on Red River last Thursday night. One man was arrested after confession naming the other as the attacker in the killing of Evans. Preliminary hearing date not yet set.
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Texarkana
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Red River
Ash
Evans
District court in Chickasha dismisses United States case
The United States versus Lizzie Isaacs was called and dismissed in Chickasha district court. The long standing indictment dates to 1893. Her brother John Ellis killed William Elder and is serving a Paris court sentence. Isaacs faced accessory charges with earlier trials, verdict stated as guilty, a death sentence miswritten, and a new trial granted.
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Chickasha
I. T
District Court
United States
Lizzie Isaacs
John Ellis
William Elder
Paris
American Contracts in Africa War Row Sparks Industrial Fury
The Daily Express says America will likely secure railway contracts in South Africa, sidelining British manufacturers. Indignation grows in industrial circles over perceived British exclusion, with fears a postwar storm at the War Office will eclipse the Atbara bridge uproar.
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Africa
London
The
Daily Express
Amarica
South Africa
Sirach
America
War Office
Atbara Bridge
Fire damages fourteenth floor of Postal Telegraph Building
Fire in New York last night caused about 40 000 dollars damage to the Hardware club rooms on the building’s fourteenth floor. The twelfth and thirteenth floors house the tele graph company. Water flooded rooms from ceilings and operators were forced to evacuate, with all but twenty leaving their instruments.
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