Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 21
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 24, 1902
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NEWS IN NUTSHELLS.
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Oklahoma crop prospects are good.
Bay St. Louis, Miss., is thronged with
visitors.
Jamaica planters do not like sugar bounty
offered.
Arkansas sheriffs held their 1902 session
at Little Rock.
A private bank has been established at
Roswell City, I. T.
Seven parties charged with murder are in
jail at Tecumsck, OK.
Citizens of Beaumont tendered Congressman
Cooper a banquet.
Nearly 5000 people attended the old
settlers' picnic at Sulphur, I. T.
A party of Mexicans have found a quantity
of turquoise near Teel, N.M.
Maj. Glenn says water cure saved many
American lives in the Philippines.
Fakirs travel through Oklahoma pretending
to vaccinate for Texas fever.
Tecumset, Ok., is to have one of the
largest cotton oil mills in the country.
Ex-slaves of Grayson county hold their
annual reunion at Whitewright Aug. 7 and 8.
Democrats of the Eighth district, in
session at Houston, renominated Congressman Ball.
John Loflens was attacked in a pen at
Malone, N. Y., by an angry bull and gored to death.
Eleventh Texas Cavalry association will
hold its 1902 reunion at Mount Vernon on Aug. 7 and 8.
The bodies of three unknown men, supposed
to have suicided, were fished out of East river at New York.
Dr. John Ganz of Groveton was assassinated
while on his way to see a man wh had been shot.
Mrs. Maggie Hemphill, wife of Hon. J. B.
Hemphill of Ellis county, departed this life near Avalon.
Govs. Jelks of Alabama and Candler of
Georgia will address organized labor men or Labor day at Anniston, Ala.
While endeavoring to defend his little
daughter from a dog, Congressman Wachte was badly bitten by the infuriated
animal.
William Ody, a negro, was tied to a tree at
Clayton, Miss., satuated with oil and cremated. He was accused of
outraging a young woman named Virginia Tucker.
A man walked into the office of the
Southern Pacific Railway company at New York and calmly departed with a box
containing $25,000 in cash and $50,000 of negotiable papers.
A bridge on the Texas and Pacific railway
gave way five miles west of Mineola. H. M. Peck, an express messenger, was
killed. Mr. Peck had run out of Texarkana as a messenger twenty-seven
years.
Fire, caused by the explosion of gasoline,
damaged the Salisbury and Senside hotel at Salisbury Beach, Mass., to a large
extent. Nine cottage was swept away. Loss $50,000.
Henry Phillips, a railway ticket agent at
West Hoboken, N. J., created quite a ripple of excitement by handing each
purchaser of a ticket souvenirs in the way of $1 bills. He a thought
insane.
Andrew Jursea fell from a third-story
window of his residence at Pittsburg, Pa., and sustained injuries that produced
death a few hours afterward. The presumption is he was sleep walking.
John D. Rockefeller has joined hands with
the general public at White Plains, N. Y., in condemnation of acts perpetrated
by certain automobilists in running their machines at high speed.
Wm. Wortley wiped the blood off the victim
of a street car accident at Carnegie, Pa., and discovered that corpse was that
of his step-father, James S. Grayson.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas