Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth year - Number 55

Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 30, 1907

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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

 

Items of Interest Condensed for

Busy Readers.

 

    The recent telegraph operators' strike cost $20,000.000.

 

    Hillsboro is to have brick street crossings in the business district.

 

    Shorty Birch has been given a life sentence for criminal assault and highway robbery at Lufkin.

 

    Austin Baker, who had his legs cut off while switching in the M. K. and T. yards at Nocona, is dead.

 

    Samuel Gompers has been unanimously re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor.

 

    Louisville, Ky., has got the next meeting of the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association.

 

    A farmers' union warehouse, 100x108, will be erected at Mt. Calm, with brick foundation, iron walls and felt roof.

 

    A tenement house in New York City was destroyed by fire, resulting in the death of thirteen Italians and their children.

 

    The Gainesville firemen are to have a third annual carnival on December 2 at that place with a fine line of attractions.

 

    The second Thaw trial, which was scheduled to begin next week, has again been postponed until some time in January.

 

    H. Gross of Fort Worth, who was in Smithville with a fine German stallion for sale, was found dead in a hotel there.

 

    Guadalupe Perez, of Alice, Texas, aged 13 years, looked into the barrel of a shot gun when it accidentally discharged, splitting his head open.

 

    Weston Cook, Aged (sic) 83 years, was found hanging by a halter in a barn near Archer City, Texas.  Recently Cook and his wife separated, which was the cause of his self-destruction.

 

    While loading his heavy six-shooter, John Moore, night watchman of the Diamond Roller Mills at Taylor, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen and is in a critical condition.

 

    John Bradley, a section foreman on the Santa Fe at Drum, Texas, shot and killed himself in an out house.  He was buried under the auspices of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

 

    Gen. F. M. Kelso, a prominent citizen of Knoxville, Tennessee, who was a distinguished character in the Confederate army in the 60's, is dead at that City.

 

    Prof. W. C. Welborn, vice director and agriculturalist of the A. and M. College, is writing a book on Texas agriculture, intended for public schools of the state.

 

    Edourd Berlin, a young Frenchman, who has been experimenting with telepho-tography, has successfully demonstrated his system.  He says by next spring he can send pictures by cable from France to the United States.

 

    Alienated affection was the result of a severe negro carving match in San Marcos.  Two of them, Mattie Jefferson and Jim Johnson, were fatally slashed.  Leonard Boyes, who it is alleged did the work, made his escape.

 

    D. C. Shell of Bell county, who is charged with numerous forgeries and fraudulent transactions in Temple and that county, has been apprehended at Ada, Indian Territory, and brought back to Belton.

 

    The First Methodist church of Texarkana was burglarized and $30.00 was taken from the study of the pastor.

 

    Four postoffices in Hill county, Files, Hammell's Branch, Peoria, and Calern are to be discontinued and superseded by rural routes.

 

    William Jennings Bryan has a pleasant chat with President Roosevelt and the topic was about the financial situation of the country.

 

    United States Senators C. A. Culberson and J. W. Bailey have gone to Washington to attend the opening of Congress.

 

    Ex-President Grover Cleveland is again stricken with the old case of intestinal trouble and the trip to Auburn, N. Y., has been abandoned.

 

    Richardson, Mason and Harle, the three Americans under death sentence for murdering two men for insurance, five years ago, will be shot December 6 in Chihuahua, Mexico where they are in jail.

 

    The M. K. and T. passenger depot, with dining hall and division headquarters, was destroyed by fire and E. B. Kinney of St. Louis, a cook, perished.

 

    An innocent joke in a laughing and jesting crowd of boys led to the stabbing to death of Garfield Hill, aged 20 years, near Chattanooga, Tenn., lby Nathan Dixon.  Bloodhounds are on Dixon's trail.

 

    Emile Shirosky, a Bohemian, was struck over the head with a scantling by another of his nativity at a dance at Kirby, near Smithville.  He is dead.  Joe Krehneck and Anton Elias are in jail at La Grange.

 

    Mrs. C. P. Johnson, wife of a member of the Big 4 Ice Company of Waco, is held in New York under bond as a witness.  A negro grabbed her purse and ran.  A policeman gave him a chase, and the negro shot and killed the policeman.

 

    Constable Stevens and his deputies of San Antonio are raiding the gambling dens and dives of a lower type every day and night.  They confiscate the gambling paraphanalia (sic) and are threatening the owners of the houses in like way.

 

    About seventy-five of the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western railway across the Trinity river had to be dynamited in order to afford the accumulated drift occasioned by recent rains to pass away.

 

    A negro convict made good his escape from the Johnson county poor farm, after the blood hounds were set tracking him.  The dogs were out of hearing of the officers and the negro made friends with the dogs and skipped the county with them

 

    The entire property of the late Charles H. Deere, the implement manufacturer, valued at $20,000,000, composing the control of the huge factories at Moline, Ill., has gone to his two grand sons, Charles Deere Wyman and Dwight E. Wyman.

 

    At Slate Shoals, Lamar county, Will Womack, while raising a heavy timber above his head to place on a house, sneezed violently and being unable to lower his arms, dislocated one of his shoulders.

 

    Commisisoner (sic) Colquitt ordered the free transportation of a corpse on the H. l& T. C. railroad from Hempstead to Elgin, contrary to the opinion of the attorney general.  A deceased son of a section formen of that road was the subject of the wrangle.

 

    Ambassador Creel, from Mexico to the United States, has saved the lives of the three condemned Americans now in jail at Chiahuhua,(sic) Mexico through his influence with the gov. their death sentence to life in the prison.

 

    Jim Cooley, a notorious negro, who has been giving the officers so much trouble for some time in Lavacca county, is now behind the steel bars of the jail at Hallettsville.  His last stunt was in shooting at the sheriff and his deputy while resisting arrest.  He has served five years in the penitentiary.

 

    Two young men of Point City Cove, N. J., Charles Lesser and George Goff, started out fishing in a small sloop, and did not bring along provisions, expecting to return at the usual time.  They were caught in a squall and were blown to the sea where they endured much suffering until they drifted to the shore half dead from starvation, thirst and cold.

 

    Clarence L. Bush, telegraph operator, and Tom R. Goodfrey, a lumberman had a fight with Bert McCartney, manager of the Bluff City lumber mills at Cilio, Ark.  As a result, Bush, Goodrey and A. R. McEwen, a singing school teacher, a bystander, were shot down from someone in the commissary building in the lumber plant.  They have since died.

 

    A mysterious box reached Marshall over the T. & P. railroad, checked as "tool box."  A small, swollen faced man re-checked the box there over the same road for Alexandria, La., where it was re-checked over the Iron mountain Road to Little Rock, Ark., where by some way it proved to contain a corpse.  The officers took the box in charge and detectives are investigating.

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