General News In Brief - December 4, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

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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