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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.
Newsy Notes Condensed for Busy
Readers.
Congressman Burleson will again introduce the bill to prohibit dealing in cotton
ftures (sic), and he expects that it will pass the next session of the congress.
Captain
Louis E. Trezevant, a member of the Galveston bar for fifty years, and one of
Texas' prominent jurists, is dead at the Confederate at Austin.
The
Gravity Canal Company are in the hands of W. C. Carpenter as receiver and W/ M.
Hallan as master in chancery. The offices of both companies are in Bay
City.
Twelve
banana trees were grown by W. Duesk, of Flatonia, each bearing a large and
nicely matured bunch. This man says he will increase the number to forty
next year.
Two and
hundred and twenty-two Japanese ticked to Victoria, B. C. made out for points in
the United States, were rejected by the Canada authorities and the steamers
bearing them proceeded to Seattle.
Sam Fitch,
former guard of the county convict farm of Tarrant county, was released on $500
bon. He is charged with murder of Bob Salmon, a convict who, its is
alleged, was made to work while he was very sick.
A party of
young men were invited to a birthday party in Houston. While on the way to
the house they were attacked and assaulted, resulting in the loss of young
Byrne's eyes. The police are on the hunt for the guilty parties.
General
Leon Jastremski, candidate for governor of Louisiana, is dead at Baton Rouge,
La. He was well known in the newspaper field and in the Confederate army.
Under President Cleveland's first term he was minister to Peru.
Eduardo
Zschlesche has jut been captured and is in chains. He is badly wanted in
Cuba, Mexico, Canada, England and the united States for procuring money under
false pretense, forgeries and embezzlement. He was captured in the City of
Mexico.
The latest
innovation planned by Police Commissioner Mulkey of Fort Worth is the rock pile
treatment for negro women convicted in the Fort Worth corporation court and will
be put in effect within a few weeks.
At
Rosenberg a negro man came in town on horseback with two bald-headed eagles on
each side of his horse. They were a pair, male and female. They were
killed on the Brazos river about that place. They measured seven feet from
tip to tip of wings and weighed 50 pounds each.
For a
home-made spade for weeds, take a piece of narrow wagon tire about a foot long
to a blacksmith and have him sharpen one end and drill two holes in the other,
procure two bolts and fasten it to a fork handle. A very useful tool for
eradicating weeds.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated by 10,000 Americans in Mexico City. At
various clubs, cafes and hotels the customary turkey was served and all the
American business houses were closed. A gorgeous charity ball was given,
prominent among those present was President Diaz. $25,000 was raised and
will be turned over to the American hospital in City of Mexico.
The
appointment of S. M. Felton, former president of the Chicago and Alton, to that
place of the Mexican Central railway, it is reported, gives great satisfaction
among the railroad and business men of the City of Mexico and Mexico generally.
After
shooting his wife as she lay asleep in their on the ninth floor of the hotel
Belle Claire, New York, John Whitney, one of the leading stove dealers, leaped
from the window and fell to the pavement. Fragments of his body were
picked up and put in a pile.
The trial
of George A. Pettibone for the alleged conspiracy in the murder of former
Governor Frank Stunenberg of Idaho, in the district court at Boise, Idaho.
This is one of the celebrated cases involved in the troubles between the
Federation of Miners and the mining companies.
District
Attorney Morris Stuart of Calcasleu parish, Louisiana, filed a writ of contempt
in the supreme court against Judge J. B. Lee, of Sabine parish, judge ad hoc in
the case of the state of D. J. Reid, sheriff of Calcasieu parish. It was
claimed in the writ that the judge was daily intoxicated on duty and permitted
the jurors to be influenced.
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