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Dallas Morning News
25 August 1887
SHERMAN SHAVINGS
Sherman,
Tex., Aug. 24 - A horrible accident occurred near the Klausman beer
warehouse in the Texas and Pacific yards this evening at 5 o'clock in
which a little colored boy named Arthur Sikes, aged 5 years, lost both
his left arm and left leg and still lives. Arthur and two or three
other colored boys a little older than he were playing near a car which
was being unloaded at the warehouse. They were told repeatedly to go
away but did not do so. The car was pushed up about a half car
length and the first intimation that anything had occurred was a cry of
pain. The car was stopped and the mangled body of the little fellow
dragged out. He was taken home and the doctor found it necessary to
amputate both limbs, and at this hour the little fellow is still alive.
Dallas Morning News
6 May 1889
Whitecaps in Grayson County.
WHITESBORO,
Tex., May 5 - A negro living a few miles northeast of Whitesboro was
taken from his home and terribly whipped by a party of about twenty men
disguised as whitecaps. It is claimed that the negro addressed
insulting remarks to a lady residing in the vicinity. The negro
is said to be in critical condition.
Dallas Morning News
11 June 1891
SHERMAN,
Tex., June 10 - ....The transcript in the case of the negro Ingram, who
took an appeal from a term of ninety-nine years given him for criminal
assault, were today forwarded to the court of appeals.
SHERMAN, Tex., June 10 - ....John Nickerson, colored was arrested to-day on the charge of whipping his wife.
December 31, 1896
Colored Teachers
Sherman,
Tex., Dec. 30. - J.B. King, superintendent of county public schools,
has appointed Prof. L.J. Williams conductor of the Grayson county
colored teachers' institute, which will convene in Fred Douglass public
schoolhouse in Sherman on Jan. 22 and 23 at 9 a.m. Prof. Williams has
gone to work with a will to awaken interest in the institute among the
colored teachers in Grayson county and has hopes of a good attendance.
Dallas Morning News
19 February 1898
SHERMAN SIFTINGS
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Colored Boy's Heroism
Sherman,
Tex., Feb. 18. - Grayson county has a 7-year-old colored hero whose
name the correspondent unfortunately could not learn to-day. The
story of his heroism was told to-day by Mr. W. O. O'Neil of Whitesboro,
who came in to-day from Whitesboro, in substand as follows: "As
Mr. O'Neil late yesterday afternoon was driving by the residence of Mr.
John E. Everhart, five miles west of Whitewright, he was astonished to
see a little negro boy rush out of the house with a little child in his
arms, and in a moment more Mr. O'Neil perceived the clothing of both
was in a blaze. The boy seemed perfectly oblivious to his own
danger, but manfully succeeded in extinguishing the blazing dress of
the child, which proved to be Mattie, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr.
Everhart, whom he had been left to watch. Mr. O'Neil went to his
rescue and found the little girl practically uninjured, but before the
boy's clothing could be put out he was very painfully burned about the
sides and breast. During the momentary absence of her nurse the
little one tipped over a bottle of gunpowder into the fire and her
dress was ignited in the flash. Hearing the child scream, the boy
ran in, and clasping her in his arms, ran toward Mr. O'Neil for
assistance, all the time fighting the blaze vigorously.
Dallas Morning News
July 1, 1900
OLDEST
WOMAN IN GRAYSON.
She is a Negress and the Census Taker Put Her Down at
112.
Special to THE
NEWS.
Sherman, Tex., June 30. - The census enumerators found
the oldest person in Grayson County at Pilot Grove in the local parsonage of the
M. E. Church South. She is an aged negress commonly known as Aggie Clark,
having been a faithful servant in the family of Rev. Fletcher Clark for more
than forty years. Rev. Mr. Clark was in the city today and, speaking of the
case he said:
"While I am fully satisfied that Aunt Aggie is at
least 115 years old, and perhaps older, to be certain it was given at 112
years. She is, of course, very weak physically, but one of her eyes retains
remarkable strength and mentally she seems to be all right. She is a native of
Virginia, but she came to our house before the war in Georgia."
Van Alstyne Leader
April 10, 1919
One Negro in Grave, One in Jail.
B.
C. Stone, a young negro man of Sherman, better known as "Dude" was shot
and killed by Homer Murphy, another young negro, in front of the
Andrews building, 215 East Mulberry street, at 1:30 Thursday afternoon
of last week.
Murphy used a 38-calibre revolver and while he fired
four or five times at stone, only one shot took effect striking Stone
in the small of the back to the left of the spine. Stone was taken into
the rear of Goodson's drug store, a negro establishment in the Andrews
building, where he died about 1:45.
Murphy was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Allen, and is now in the county jail. The cause of the shooting
is unknown, though it is said to have arisen from a quarrel over a dice
game. Both negroes were about 2_ years of age. Stone was the son of
Bill Stone and lived on South Montgomery street near the Texas Nursery.
Murphy lives on the farm of john McKinney two miles southeast of town,
but had been working at Nall's drug store, the Binkley hotel and other
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