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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