Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 53
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 23, 1907
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WEEKLY NEWS RESUME.
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The ruling price of cotton in Marlin has been 10.25, basis middling. Very few
bales.
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Senator Bankhead of Alabama, who has been critically ill for some two weeks, is
improving.
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Attorney General Davidson is seeking evidence to sustain a petition to sue the
Texas Oil Company.
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The simultaneous explosion of four boilers in a lumber company's yards near
Norfolk, Va., killed seven persons and destroyed much property.
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The Japanese government will undertake the self-imposed task of limiting
immigration within the bounds described by both the United States and Canada.
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Cotton seed oil has been firmer on speculative buying and light offering in New
York. Quotations for November, prime crude 21 and prime yellow 33.
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The cotton market continues steady in spite of some sales which have been made
and the late inclemency of weather, which had but a little sustaining influence
on prices.
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The grain market has been rather weak owing to the depression in stock market.
At Chicago wheat went 1 3-8 lower; corn 5-8 to 3-4 down; oats off 5-8 and
provisions 15 to 32 1-2 down.
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Hon. Chales A. Graham of Hillsboro resigned his position as one of the board of
trustees of the public schools in order to be able to use his free pass, being a
railroad conductor.
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The attorneys for Caleb Powers are making a very desperate fight for Powers and
have scored a victory in his favor when the judge ordered the discharge of the
second venire.
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Note: sentence starts this way-lsc. -been elbowed out of Tennessee by the
rendition of a decree by Judge J. W. Stout in favor of the State of Tennessee.
The Standard will appeal.
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Colonel T. N. Jones of Tyler and Editor Ousley of Fort Worth Record have passed
the pipe of peace with Governor Campbell over the thrust made by Senator Bailey
in his San Antonio speech.
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Following are the new postoffices in Texas just established: Aldie, Yoakum
county; Calera, Hill; Eulalie, Rusk; Files, Hill; Hammels Branch, Hill:
Hood, Cooke: Kendleton, Fort Bend; Orlena, Cooke; Peden, Tarrant; Reliance,
Brazos; Stilson, Liberty.
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The Farmers Union Cotton Company has sent a representative to Liverpool,
England, for the purpose of looking after the interests of the farmers who
consign cotton to Liverpool and Brenen under recent arrangement made for an
advance of $30 per bale.
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At a joint meeting of the executive and advisory committees of the Ohio League
of Republican Clubs, United States Senator James Benson Foraker was indorsed for
re-election to the United States. This endorsement was the result of
Forsaker's attitude on the Brownsville affair.
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The widow of the late J. N. Rushing and an adopted daughter named Florence will
contend in the court for their parts of the estate left by the dead, the
original will having been destroyed and the penciling on a slip of paper
rejected by the judge. The sum of $75,000 is involved in the case, $20,000
of which has been bequeathed to schools.
General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, says that two millions of London
population has never entered a church, and that it is the same in Europe and and
(sic) even in the heathen country.
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The importation of diamonds and other precious stones into the United States for
the first ten months has shown a decrease of more than $10,000,000 as compared
with the corresponding period of last year.
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An outbreak of yellow fever has occurred in the Island of Barbadoes, where four
cases of the disease have been found, two of which proved fatal. The
information was obtained via Kingston, Island of St. Vincent.
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The Texas and Pacific Railroad Company has received two locomotives, the first
installation of the forty ordered and has tested them. The engines cost
approximately $18,000 each, and one point of special superiority is that they
are fitted with the latest Westinghouse air equipment. No. 361,
illustrated herewith, has a maximum height of 15 feet 7 inches, with drive
wheels 5 feet 2 inches, cylinders 10x33x28, tractive power 36,000 pounds.
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The famous Austin bogus
bond case, the trial of which was long drawn out and continued through a period
of nearly two weeks, was finally brought to a close, when the jury returned a
verdict in favor of the Houston Fire and Marine Insurance Company against Mrs.
Mary F. Swain for $63,247.50 and against the insurance company in favor of the
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, the surety on Mrs. Swain's bond, as
survivor in community of the estate of herself and her deceased husband, Colonel
W. J. Swain.
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