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Lena Stone
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THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth year - Number 55
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 30, 1907
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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest Condensed for
Busy Readers.
The recent
telegraph operators' strike cost $20,000.000.
Hillsboro
is to have brick street crossings in the business district.
Shorty
Birch has been given a life sentence for criminal assault and highway robbery at
Lufkin.
Austin
Baker, who had his legs cut off while switching in the M. K. and T. yards at
Nocona, is dead.
Samuel
Gompers has been unanimously re-elected president of the American Federation of
Labor.
Louisville, Ky., has got the next meeting of the Retail Clerks' International
Protective Association.
A farmers'
union warehouse, 100x108, will be erected at Mt. Calm, with brick foundation,
iron walls and felt roof.
A tenement
house in New York City was destroyed by fire, resulting in the death of thirteen
Italians and their children.
The
Gainesville firemen are to have a third annual carnival on December 2 at that
place with a fine line of attractions.
The second
Thaw trial, which was scheduled to begin next week, has again been postponed
until some time in January.
H. Gross
of Fort Worth, who was in Smithville with a fine German stallion for sale, was
found dead in a hotel there.
Guadalupe
Perez, of Alice, Texas, aged 13 years, looked into the barrel of a shot gun when
it accidentally discharged, splitting his head open.
Weston
Cook, Aged (sic) 83 years, was found hanging by a halter in a barn near Archer
City, Texas. Recently Cook and his wife separated, which was the cause of
his self-destruction.
While
loading his heavy six-shooter, John Moore, night watchman of the Diamond Roller
Mills at Taylor, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen and is in a critical
condition.
John
Bradley, a section foreman on the Santa Fe at Drum, Texas, shot and killed
himself in an out house. He was buried under the auspices of the I. O. O.
F. lodge.
Gen. F. M.
Kelso, a prominent citizen of Knoxville, Tennessee, who was a distinguished
character in the Confederate army in the 60's, is dead at that City.
Prof. W.
C. Welborn, vice director and agriculturalist of the A. and M. College, is
writing a book on Texas agriculture, intended for public schools of the state.
Edourd
Berlin, a young Frenchman, who has been experimenting with telepho-tography, has
successfully demonstrated his system. He says by next spring he can send
pictures by cable from France to the United States.
Alienated
affection was the result of a severe negro carving match in San Marcos.
Two of them, Mattie Jefferson and Jim Johnson, were fatally slashed.
Leonard Boyes, who it is alleged did the work, made his escape.
D. C.
Shell of Bell county, who is charged with numerous forgeries and fraudulent
transactions in Temple and that county, has been apprehended at Ada, Indian
Territory, and brought back to Belton.
The First
Methodist church of Texarkana was burglarized and $30.00 was taken from the
study of the pastor.
Four
postoffices in Hill county, Files, Hammell's Branch, Peoria, and Calern are to
be discontinued and superseded by rural routes.
William
Jennings Bryan has a pleasant chat with President Roosevelt and the topic was
about the financial situation of the country.
United
States Senators C. A. Culberson and J. W. Bailey have gone to Washington to
attend the opening of Congress.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is again stricken with the old case of intestinal
trouble and the trip to Auburn, N. Y., has been abandoned.
Richardson, Mason and Harle, the three Americans under death sentence for
murdering two men for insurance, five years ago, will be shot December 6 in
Chihuahua, Mexico where they are in jail.
The M. K.
and T. passenger depot, with dining hall and division headquarters, was
destroyed by fire and E. B. Kinney of St. Louis, a cook, perished.
An
innocent joke in a laughing and jesting crowd of boys led to the stabbing to
death of Garfield Hill, aged 20 years, near Chattanooga, Tenn., lby Nathan
Dixon. Bloodhounds are on Dixon's trail.
Emile
Shirosky, a Bohemian, was struck over the head with a scantling by another of
his nativity at a dance at Kirby, near Smithville. He is dead. Joe
Krehneck and Anton Elias are in jail at La Grange.
Mrs. C. P.
Johnson, wife of a member of the Big 4 Ice Company of Waco, is held in New York
under bond as a witness. A negro grabbed her purse and ran. A
policeman gave him a chase, and the negro shot and killed the policeman.
Constable
Stevens and his deputies of San Antonio are raiding the gambling dens and dives
of a lower type every day and night. They confiscate the gambling
paraphanalia (sic) and are threatening the owners of the houses in like way.
About
seventy-five of the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western railway across the Trinity
river had to be dynamited in order to afford the accumulated drift occasioned by
recent rains to pass away.
A negro
convict made good his escape from the Johnson county poor farm, after the blood
hounds were set tracking him. The dogs were out of hearing of the officers
and the negro made friends with the dogs and skipped the county with them
The entire
property of the late Charles H. Deere, the implement manufacturer, valued at
$20,000,000, composing the control of the huge factories at Moline, Ill., has
gone to his two grand sons, Charles Deere Wyman and Dwight E. Wyman.
At Slate
Shoals, Lamar county, Will Womack, while raising a heavy timber above his head
to place on a house, sneezed violently and being unable to lower his arms,
dislocated one of his shoulders.
Commisisoner (sic) Colquitt ordered the free transportation of a corpse on the
H. l& T. C. railroad from Hempstead to Elgin, contrary to the opinion of the
attorney general. A deceased son of a section formen of that road was the
subject of the wrangle.
Ambassador
Creel, from Mexico to the United States, has saved the lives of the three
condemned Americans now in jail at Chiahuhua,(sic) Mexico through his influence
with the gov. their death sentence to life in the prison.
Jim
Cooley, a notorious negro, who has been giving the officers so much trouble for
some time in Lavacca county, is now behind the steel bars of the jail at
Hallettsville. His last stunt was in shooting at the sheriff and his
deputy while resisting arrest. He has served five years in the
penitentiary.
Two young
men of Point City Cove, N. J., Charles Lesser and George Goff, started out
fishing in a small sloop, and did not bring along provisions, expecting to
return at the usual time. They were caught in a squall and were blown to
the sea where they endured much suffering until they drifted to the shore half
dead from starvation, thirst and cold.
Clarence
L. Bush, telegraph operator, and Tom R. Goodfrey, a lumberman had a fight with
Bert McCartney, manager of the Bluff City lumber mills at Cilio, Ark. As a
result, Bush, Goodrey and A. R. McEwen, a singing school teacher, a bystander,
were shot down from someone in the commissary building in the lumber plant.
They have since died.
A
mysterious box reached Marshall over the T. & P. railroad, checked as "tool
box." A small, swollen faced man re-checked the box there over the same
road for Alexandria, La., where it was re-checked over the Iron mountain Road to
Little Rock, Ark., where by some way it proved to contain a corpse. The
officers took the box in charge and detectives are investigating.
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