Galveston Daily News, January 25, 1886
Sherman, January 24. – Sam Houston, a colored namesake of the illustrious
Texan, was taken to Dallas this afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal
James Spangler. He is charged with having passed counterfeit coin on a
fellow-countryman at Paris. He was kept in the Jones street jail last night.
The weather has moderated considerably, and the thermometer
registers 35 against 28 at the same hour (2 o’clock) last evening.
Charles Gaines, a colored man, broke his ankle this afternoon
while demounting from his horse, near the residence of Colonel Elliott,
on north Broughton street.
Denison, January 24. – A little child, a year-old, of Simon Wartz,
living in Sugar bottom, while playing too near the railroad track
of the Missouri Pacific this afternoon, was struck on the head by the truck-box
of a passing train, receiving a severe scalp cut and other bruises about
the head.
