Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

 

 

 

 

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 61

Marlin, Texas, Saturday, December 21, 1907

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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Items of Interest Condensed for

Busy Readers

 

    Pros in the Waelder country section won a victory by a majority of 64.

 

    Lieut. Clarence Scott of the Twelfth cavalry in South Dakota in connection with the Indian tribes and son-in-law of "Buffalo Bill," is dead.

 

    Religion and socialism have made C. R. Lawrence of Kopperl, Texas, a raving lunatic and officers had much trouble in subduing him.

 

    Sixteen hundred Polish schools in all parts of Russian-Holland have been closed in consequence of an order issued by Gen. Skallon suspending Polish schools.

 

    L. F. Parker, general solicitor of the St. Louis and San Francisco Company railroad, was found dead in a bath tub in St. Louis as a result of heart disease.

 

    Jesse Walling, a carpenter of Corsicana, has been arrested and placed in jail, charged with robbing George Aheam of Dallas of $50, a gold watch and overcoat.

 

    John Greenleaf Whittier, poet is just past his hundredth year.  The oration in this celebration was delivered by Gov. Guild of Massachusetts.

 

    James Foster and William Dorson, who plucked the tail feathers out of the ostrichs (sic) during the Dallas State Fair, have been fined $100 each with a ten-day jail sentence for good measure.

 

    Genaro Pena, a Mexican at Richmond, in attempting to cross the track in front of a moving train, was killed instantly by a Southern Pacific west bound train.

 

    Frank Palmer, at Pottsdam, was convicted of murder in the first degree and he thanked the jury for the death sentence.

 

    J. W/ Hogette sued the Northern Texas Traction Company for $100,000 and the jury returned a verdict, not giving him a judgment.

 

    E. J. Kiest, general manager of the Dallas Times-Herald, has been elected president of the Dallas State Fair.

 

    Albert Wagner, while returning from Rockwall, took three ounces of carbolic acid and was found dead under a bridge between his and that town.

 

    Postmaster Sloan Simpson, of Dallas, has been away from duty ever since President Roosevelt's famous bear hunt in Louisiana, is reported to be in Panama on a special mission for the president.

 

    County Attorney Neff of Waco has filed a suit against Bomar Hardware and Implement Company of Waco for violation of anti trust law.  Evidence point that company as a branch of the Racine Sattley Company of Racine, Wis.

 

    After twenty-five years spent in the New York lunatic asylum, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, aged 86, has been declared sane and able to care for her estate by the jury.  Her wealth is about $200,000.

 

    Captain J. W. M. Hughes, ex-Confederate soldier and ex-mayor of Whitesboro, fell dead of heart failure in the First Baptist church at that place Tuesday just at the close of services.  Captain Hughes served the county as commissioner and the city for six consecutive years as mayor. He was 64 years old.

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