Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 47
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 2, 1907
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SHORT NEWS COMMENTS.
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Items of Current Interest in State
and Nation.
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S. J. Small, president of Commercial Telegraphers' Union, has called off the
strike.
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An export tax of 3 cents per bunch of bananas will be effective after November
1, in Honduras.
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Inorder (sic) to reduce his weight Judge Peter Kiels, of Aurora, Illinois, whose
weight beams at 565, lives on peanuts for 60 days.
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Governor Campbell is booked to open the Austin fair Monday, same at Brownwood
next day and at San Antonio the Saturday following.
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Amount of payment of interest on school lands, $115,000, was received into the
state treasury in one day, which is a record breaker.
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Secretary Root will probably be elected president of the Central American Peace
Conference to be held in Washington, November 19.
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D. A. Keys, a switchman on T. & P. railway at Fort Worth, Texas, was taken from
beneath the ponderous wheels of a heavy loaded car, lifeless.
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The train, bearing the king and queen of Spain, ran off the rails just before
entering Cherbourg, from Paris. None of the royal party was hurt.
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A team of cadets from the annual husbandry of the A. & M. is at work judging the
stock at the Dallas fair; also another team from the same college is there to
judge corn.
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Mrs. Roger Q. Mills, wife of the former United States Senator, died at her in
Corsicana at an advanced age. Mrs. Mills was in her time a woman well
known for her many traits of heart and mind.
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A quarrel at Cardenas, Mexico, between a drunken conductor and the chief
dispatcher is the cause of the strike now pending. Not a wheel is moving
on the Tampico division of the Mexican Central. After this fight, three
Americans were taken to prison, the entire operating force walked out and
refused to work unless they were released.
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William J. Payne, president of the Newport News Gas Company of Richmond, Va.,
while on his way from Washington to New York, lost a leather grip containing
$14,000 in bonds and stock certificates.
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Gen. Von Moltke, said to be one of the most sagacious war-generals alive, has
just been beaten by a newspaper man in Berlin in a suit for defamation of
character, and also the general was assessed the costs of the trial.
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