Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 03, 1902
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HIT WITH AN AXE.
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Negro Fatally Wounded In A
Fight With Another Negro.
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Trouble Over a $4 Board Bill
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       Two negroes, Neal Davis and M. M. Faris on the section force of the I. & G. N. became involved in trouble Sunday night with the result that Neal Davis is in the railroad hospital at Palestine suffering from a wound in the head, and not expected to live, caused by an axe and Farris is in the county jail.
       The trouble ws a dispute about a board bill amounting to four dollars.

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