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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth year - Number 56
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907
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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest Condensed for Busy Readers.
During the
Beaumont carnival, an Indian connected with one of the shows was seriously if
not fatally stabbed by a white man.
Rufus
Williams, charged with robbery by assault on Sallie Gibson and taking $61,000,
has been discharged since the jury failed to agree on a verdict at San Antonio.
The
convicts of the Huntsville penitentiary, under a new rule are barred from the
use of the daily papers, but they are permitted periodicals and magazines only.
Cadets A.
J. Smith, C. E. Jones, R. W. Faust, G. W. Norton, J. W. McCown and---Muller of
the A. & M. College are in Chicago attending the International Livestock
exposition and contesting for the valuable prizes given for excellence in
judging stock.
A. A.
Bouis, in charge of the dining room of the male annex No. 1 of the Terrell
Insane Asylum, was attacked and stabbed by a Mexican patient and auso (sic) his
throat was cut. The knife used in slicing lightbread was the weapon used.
The injured man is believed to be fatally hurt.
Three
thousand Chinese resident of San Francisco attended the funeral of How Kong,
late president of the Yung Wo association. The deceased was said to be the
mot highly educated Chinaman in America. His body has been shipped to
China for burial.
Attempt
will be made by Capt. C. W. Johnson of Delaware, J. E. Phillips of Colorado, and
S. F. Phillips of Illinois to find the gold that went down to the bottom with
the "Golden Goose," an American ship, sunk off the coast of Mananillo, Mexico,
on July 24, 1862, with a cargo of $2,000, 000 gold and 300 persons.
A
60.000,000 feet gas well was brought in by Galbreath-& Chestnut, 24 miles west
of Muskogee, I.T.
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