Anderson Co, TX - Wills Point Chronicle

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From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, August 9, 1894:

Bit by a Dog

Palestine, Tex., Aug. 3. - A vicious slut bit the 6-year-old 
boy of ?lex Bruile at their home in this city in the face, 
her teeth passing entirely through the fleshy part of either 
jaw, inflicting an ugly wound. Mr. Bruile had an officer to 
kill the dog and is not apprehensive of hydrophobia resulting 
from the bite, as there was nothing about the actions to 
indicate that she was mad.

From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, September 13, 1894:

Caught Up With.

Palestine, Tex., Sept. 7. - George Penoc, a young man about 
30 years of age, was arrested and jailed here yesterday evening 
charged with prying open one of the inner tills of the iron 
safe in Ed Erwin's livery stable. A watch chain which was 
found on his person was taken from the till. The money, over 
a $1000, had been taken from the safe the morning before. He 
came here and was employed by the stable as a hostler, but was 
discharged a few days ago. His father, he says, lives in 
Texarkana and is a prominent real estate man.

From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, September 13, 1894:

Was He Murdered?

Palestine, Tex., Sept. 8. - Albert Bosse, a German about 30 
years of age, was found dead in the public roadway, three 
miles from this city yesterday morning. He left here Sunday 
on horseback to go to his farm. He was raving in a delirium 
yesterday and the attention of a physician put him in a 
condition to return to the city. A negro man claims that he 
saw him at the place where he was found, on horseback, and 
that he looked suddenly up toward the sun, reeled in his saddle 
and feel dead to the ground. There was quite a gash over each 
of his eyes and other bruises. The surface of the ground where 
he fell is smooth and free from anything that could cut or 
bruise him. This coupled with the absence of a watch and chain 
he always wore, had led his friends to strongly suspect foul 
play. Bosse was a baker and was employed in the Lone Star 
bakery of this city for the past nine years. He was single, 
and his relatives live in Germany. He owned a good farm near 
here and his life was insured in the Sons of Hermann of which 
order he was a member.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Dec. 6, 1894:

At Palestine, recently, a large and representative mass meeting 
of citizens was held for the purpose of inviting certain 
objectionable characters to leave town. A committee of five was 
appointed to carry out the will of the meeting. The committee have 
been relieved of their duty, as the birds have flown.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Dec. 20 or 27, 1894 
(date is missing but it is between issues of Dec. 13 & Jan 3, 1895):

At Palestine Mrs. McDonough, wife of Mike McDonough, roadmaster of 
the International and Great Northern, went out to the lot with her 
husband and their buggy horse playfully ran at her, when she 
whirled to run from the horse and fell down, fracturing her left 
arm and dislocating the elbow joint.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Jan. 10, 1895:

At Palestine, recently, Bob King, aged 16 years, whose parents 
reside two miles from that city, was riding on the rear end of a 
switch engine, and while the engine was backing up at a moderate 
speed he attempted to pass from one end of the running board to 
another. His foot slipped and he fell across the track, the engine 
passing over him, literally cutting him into threads.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Jan. 17, 1895:

At Palestine, W. M. Veasy, who was employed by the International 
and Great Northern railroad as stockyard foreman there, started 
from the freight depot to the stock pens the other night, and when 
at the westend of the depot he was noticed leaning over from the 
platform against a car bleeding at the nose. He spoke to one of the 
clerks of the depot and told him to send word to the stock pens that 
he was sick and could not get there. He was led to a box near by and 
sat down, the blood gushing from his mouth and nose, and he died in a 
few minutes. His death was evidently the result of a broken blood 
vessel, as he had been complaining of his heart hurting him for several 
days. He left a wife and several children.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Feb. 7, 1895:

Judgment has been rendered against the city of Palestine in the county 
court of Anderson county for the sum of $65 in favor of a farmer by 
the name of Baker, whose horse was injured, by its foot slipping through 
a defective bridge. The same judgement was given plaintiff in justice 
court a few days ago and an appeal was taken by the city with the 
above result. The city will appeal the case to the court of last resort.