Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 60

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 18, 1907

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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF

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Items of Interest Condensed for

Busy Readers.

 

    A colony of Bulgarian immigrants took up an abode near Corpus Christi.

 

    Frank Palmer, at Pottsdam, was convicted of murder in the first degree and he thanked the jury for the death sentence.

 

    The Santa Fe railway has just contracted for  5,000,000 ties from Hawaii.  The Southern Pacific railways may do likewise.

 

    J. W. Hogsette sued the Northern Texas Traction Company for $100,000 and the jury returned a verdict, not giving him a judgment.

 

    In spite of the anti-pass law in existence and enforcement, all the Texas railroads are offering low holiday rates throughout the state.

 

    The Fairbanks bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, has closed its doors owing to lack of currency, but it will resume business in the spring.

 

    E. J. Kiest, general manager of the Dallas Times-Herald, has been elected president of the Dallas State Fair.

 

    Albert Wagner, while returning from Rockwall, took three ounces of carbolic acid and was found dead under a bridge between his and that town.

 

    A sack of about $500, half in checks and half in currency, disappeared from the desk of the dock office of Swift & Co. in Fort Worth.  Some nimble fingers plucked it unseen.

 

    Bill of exceptions in the appeals of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana from the fine of $29,240,000 has been signed by Judge Landis and filed in the court of appeals.

 

    John Willogreen, a negro of Fort Worth, who was alleged to have undertaken the discovery of hidden riches, is in jail, charged with swindling.  His case will be threshed out at next term of district court.

 

    Pastmaster Sloan Simpson, of Dallas, who has been away from duty ever since President Roosevelt's famous bear hunt in Louisiana, is reported to be in Panama one a special mission for the president.

 

    Two almond-eyed men of oriole tinted color, were fined $10 each for betting on a game of dominoes, which the possessors of the querque claim to be merely raising "a pot to deray the expenses of the Thanksgiving. Names:  Sue Lee and Ah Sue.

 

    The mail train running between Tiflis and Baker (Trans-Caucasia) with a large sum of money, was derailed and attacked by sixty robbers.  The robbers were repulsed by the train guards.  Many passengers and soldiers were wounded.

 

    County Attorney Neff of Waco has filed a suit against Bomar Hardware and Implement Company of Waco for violation of anti trust law.  Evidence point that company as a branch of the (last line missing-lsc).

 

    The American seven-masted schooner, Thomas W. Lawson, was turned turtle and is now floating bottom up off Sicily Islands.  Only three of the crew were saved and three dead bodies were picked up off Arnett, an uninhabited island of the Sicilly Islands.

 

    Married twice at 17 years, the ceremonies occurring less than two weeks apart, both knots tied by the same official, and traveling under five separate and distinct aliases, Nellie Rogers, alias Nellie Troup, alias Nellis Bass, alias Lillie Davis, alias Jennie Davis, was arrested and jailed at Fort Worth. Uncle Jim Blake, a negro who by himself near San Felipe, was found on the bank of the river bogged down and died.

 

    With but 24 hours to his term to expire, Convict Polk Mackey, in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn., committed suicide with a shoe knife.  His mind suddenly became unbalanced.  He was in prison for murder.

 

    Lee Daniels, a farmer of Grayson county, on his way from town, encountered a woman footpad with a double barreled shot gun leveled at him, who demanded him to deliver his valuable or she would shoot the top of his head off.  He handed her 35 cents.

 

    W. Van, the millionaire naval stores operator now under arrest in El Paso, Texas, on the charge of deserting his wife, is fighting his extraditionn from Texas and has so far been successful in getting the write of extradition suspended by the governor pending a hearing on habeas corpus proceedings.  He was released under bond of $1000.

 

    President Roosevelt has appointed Gen. W. C. Oats successor to Col. Elliott as commissioner to mark Confederate graves.  Gen. Oats was formerly governor of the state of Alabama, a colonel in the Confederacy and brigadier general in the Spanish-American war and also former member of the house of representatives.

 

    While riding through the town of Kimball, a small town near Kopperll, Howard Kinchelo was shot and fatally injured.  The weapon used was a shotgun and the entire load, consisting of nine buckshot, took effect in the side of Kinchelo's head, passing entirely through and penetrating the wall of a store across the street.  The killing is the result of bad feeling which has existed for some time.

 

    The bodies of two men, one of whom is thought to be J. P. Ross of Kansas City, and the other unknown, were found near Lake Charles, La., ion a cave alongside the Colorado Southern railroad track near De Quincy.  The men had sought shelter in the cave and the roof had collapsed, burying them alive. It is thought that the men had been in the cave for several weeks, as passersby were attracted to the spot by a flock of buzzards, and the bodies when found were in a decomposed state.

 

 

 

 

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