Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 25
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 21, 1902
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Only two attempts at
burglary were made in Houston last night and the "cops" are shaking hands with
themselves.
A piece of a falling meteor struck a
Mexican on the head while he was hearding sheep near San Antonio. The
Mexican is dead.
C. M. Schwab of the steel trust is a very
sick man. He has made many other sick in mind and purse and he is getting
a taste of the other kind.
There is a row brewing over the contents of
the republican campaign book. Roosevelt does not like its contents in some
import and particulars. Teddy is "de boss."
Miss Alice Roosevelt is going to attend the
races at Saratoga. Well, suppose she does? This is a free country
and the occupants of the White House enjoy the pleasures of life about like the
common herd.
The railroad commission has granted the
application of the International & Great Northern railroad for authority to
register @280,000 bonds on 14 miles of new completed road north of Waco.
The bonds were registered by the secretary of state's department.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas