Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 50
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 13, 1907
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NEWSY ITEMS CONDENSED.
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E. H. R. Green wants to extend the Midland railroad to Waco.
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Glanders is expanding with fatality in Navarro county.
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J. D. Lentz of Austin wants $10,000 from the H. & T. C. for the loss of four
toes.
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France has granted a pension to Major Dreyfus in the sum of $470 annually.
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Nine of the Kirby saw mills in East and Southeast Texas have suspended business.
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Governor Campbell is on a missionary tour through East Texas, speaking at
several places.
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Police of El Paso caught two men in the act of passing $10,000 worth of bogus
clearing house certificates.
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The United States has secured the whole 60,000 pounds sterling gold available in
the open market of London.
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King Edward of England has passed his 66th mile post of life and received the
largest diamond on earth as a gift.
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Carpenters in the employ of the city of Waco are out on strike as a result of a
reduction of 25 cents per day.
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The extensive plant of Means Machinery Co. at Shreveport, La., was destroyed by
fire, loss $40,000. Insurance about 75 per cent.
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Undaunted by the recent destructive fire, the Marshall car wheel foundry will be
rebuilt immediately. The working force numbers 215 men.
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The Third session of the Russian parliament has been opened by M. Goluboff
without reception of deputies by the Czar at his winter palace.
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The Maya Indians, near Nohbec, Mexico, surprised a detachment of federal
soldiers while at breakfast and killed seven soldiers and an officer.
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A man supposed to be Arthur Newton, formerly of Lampasas, was struck and
instantly killed by Los Angeles-Pacific line near Sherman, California.
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The submarine and torpedo boats in the United States navy are to be under
separate heads, so recent rumor from the department of secretary of war says.
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The feverish race for the construction of sky scrapers in New York City has been
put to a stop by drastic regulations adopted by the building commission of that
city.
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Assistant Attorney Pollard has rendered an opinion that will probably quash the
indictments against the Southwesten Telephone Company recently entered at Waco.
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The stunt of an unruly negro in offering an insult to a white womannd drawing a
knife on the officer, drew a crowd of 1000 spectators in Houston. Finally
the negro found a resting place in jail.
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J. B. Hubbard, former tax assessor and collector at Smithville, has been located
at Bisbee, Ariz. He will be brought back to answer the charge of
embezzlement.
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The cotton men of the state, by making drafts on W. L. Moody of Galveston to
advance money on cotton at prices lower than 15 cents, have been unsuccessful.
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Comptroller of Currency Ridgely says that the financial crisis has passed away
since the increase of $11,000,000 from Nov. 1, coupled with gold coming from
Europe.
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The union farmers throughout Texas are still adhering to their determination in
holding cotton for 15 cents a pound. A few bales of cotton have been
turned loose, however.
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Henry Watterson is being urged to run for senator in Kentucky in order to defeat
former Governor J. C. W. Beckham, who is held by some democrats of that state as
the direct cause of the recent defeat.
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J. M. Waterbury completed the feat of playing a piano for 25 hours and 45
minutes without stopping--a record in Cincinnati. Judges of this stunt
declare that Waterbuy never left the piano or stopped playing for a moment for
that period.
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Mrcus (Marcus) M. Marks, Archibishop Ireland, Samuel Gompers and Commissioner of
Labor Neill have been appointed a committee on laws and regulations in the
Industrial Peace foundation to which President Roosevelt has donated the noble
prize of $25,000.
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James G. Carter, a negro porter on a Pullman car on the T. & P. , who was
indicted for attempted assault on a white woman at Marshall and allowed bail in
the sum of $10,000 made by Mississippi bank, has jumped the bond. The bond
has been declared forfeited.
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Five thousand marriages of couples which have been peformed at Hammond, Ind.,
within the last five years, have been declared illegal there by the clark of the
circuit and superior courts, whose opinion is based on the assurance that
licenses issued by the superior court in the county in which it is situated are
without legal authority.
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W. C. Boyett and others, charged with intimidating negroes, "because they are
negroes," were acquitted by the supreme court of the United States at
Washington. The alleged offense was committed in Bradley county, Ark., in
1905, when Boyett and others were charged with driving negroes out of the
section.
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More than 100 people who ate in the same Houston restaurant during the carnival,
in a few hours took violently ill, but some critically. The cause was
traced to milk, said be "doped," and is supposed by the pure food officers to
contain some sort of preservative fluid, or salicylic acid of formaldehyde.
In some cases the "doped" milk acted as an emetic, accompanied by violent
retching, while in others it merely brought on a case of acute cholera or
cramps.
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Hon. Frank Maddox, mayor of Austin, on the witness stand, declared that the
signatures on the bonds that were put in the vault of the T. W. House bank as
the security upon which a great corporation was founded, were forgeries.
He also testified int he case of the Houston Fire and Marine Insurance Co. vs.
Mrs. Mary J. Swain, now being tried in the Eleventh district court at Houston,
that the bonds were bogus.
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The plow operated by a gang of farmers on the public road leading from Oenaville
to Botton in Bell county, unearthed four human skeletons. It was near
Tally spring, which had been a well known watering and camping spot during the
50's and it is the supposition that the skeletons belonged to a company of
immigrants or prospectors, killed by the Indians.
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An elevator owned by the Great Northern Elevator Company located in Superior,
Minn., was destroyed by fire, altogether with 600,000 bushels of wheat.
Total loss is estimated at four millions, which is also sustained by other
elevators and flour mills and many other concerns.
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Columbia, the first elephant born in America, has been executed, account of lack
of safety and sanity. The body was cut up in small pieces, the hide, feet
and teeth will be utilized into useful articles, the teeth for paper weights,
feet for umbrella stands and the hide for leather covering of furniture.
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The attorney general has filed antitrust suits against 120 flour mill concerns
in Texas for penalties, the charges being that the defendants are alleged to be
in conspiracy to restrain the flour trade in the state. The attorney
general alleges that they have violated both the laws of 1899 and 1902, asking
penalties against each concern in the sum of $75,000 for alleged violation of
the law of 1899 and $5,000 and further asking for a judgment of forfeiting the
charter rights and franchises of each domestic corporation and canceling the
permits issued to foreign corporations and for an injunction to perpetually
enjoin them from doing business in the state.
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