Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 52
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 20, 1907
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CURRENT NEWS IN BRIEF.
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World's Doings Condensed for
Busy Readers
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Corn is selling at 50 cents per bushel in Hill country.
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Up in Kansas, Missouri and Michigan turkeys are so scarce that they bring 35
cents per gross pound.
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The first annual exhibition of poultry given by the Hill county Poultry and Pet
Sock associations will be held in Hillsboro on Dec. 19.
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The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress is in session at Muskogee, I. T. Chief
feature of this conference is to work against the passage of any resolution by
the congress favoring the parcels post.
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Mexico has granted the United States the privilege of maintaining two coaling
ships at Magdalena Bay on the coast of Lower California for a period of three
years, providing a like concession was made to Mexico by the United States.
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The Houston Clearing House Association got together and passed a resolution for
the issuance of clearing house certificates in the shape of scrip payable to
bearer in denomination of $1.00 and up.
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The jury in the murder case of Maj. Hackler at Greenville, was discharged after
two days' wrestling over an attempt to reach a decision. Hackler was tried
for the murder of a farmer named Johnson, near Campbell.
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The spell of inclement weather, accompanied by steady drizzling rains, is
reported throughout the state and Southern states. No serious damage has
so far been reported. In some sections floods and washouts are reported,
which disturb the railroad operations.
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The machinery for the textile department of the Austin high school has been
installed by an expert, who will teach those who are assigned to use it how to
handle the works. It is considered quite an addition to the school.
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Capt. W. J. McDonald bagged nearly $9000 from the San Antonio liquor dealers
under the Baskin-McGregor law and expressed it to the state treasury. This
is the first installment of $40,000 alleged to be due from that city.
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Ill feeling of a long standing existing between Robert Boyd, Jr., commisioner
(sic) of Laurel county, Kentucky, and James Sparks, one of the ablest lawyers in
that state, led to the killing of the latter by the former in the circuit
clerk's office.
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Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company has sued the American Sugar Refining Company
in the United States court of Southern New York for damages in the amount of
$30,000,000, ex-Gov. Black being retained as atterney (sic) to conduct the case.
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The widely circulated impending strike of pressmen at Dallas has been thwarted
by the decision of Judge Thompson of Cincinnati, covering the same points all
over the United States. The judge gave as his opinion that under the
contract the pressmen could not strike until Jan. 1, 1909.
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Aroused by the increasing boldness and abuse on the part of the "black hand"
upon the law of the country, the professional and business men in the Italian
section of Chicago have formed a society to be dubbed "White Hand" for the
purpose of eliminating the black hand from existence, with aid of officers of
the law.
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F. F. Sturgis, manager of a Houston moving picture theatre, was arrested in that
city for opening the theater on Sunday. The performance was said to be
absolutely free, a contribution box being placed at the entrance door into which
customers might drop money for some charity. A policeman mixed with the
crowd and the scheme was then discovered, as the policeman was made to pay for
his pass that way.
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Mrs. L. W. Meredith of Palestine died after great agony. While seated at
her fireside her skirts, in some manner caught fire.
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