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Thursday January 7, 1904
The Interurban (electric) road between Dallas and Fort Worth did an immense business
during the holidays.
Thursday January 7, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Near Mountainview, Ok., Dick Gerber (?), aged 14, was accidentally killed while on Rainey (?)
Mountain hunting.
While returning from a social gathering near Rockwood, eighteen miles south of Santa Anna,
Tuesday night, Willie Livingstone‘s horse fell and fatally injured him.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tate, living in the Caddo Mills community, died
Friday from the effects of burns received Tuesday by falling into the fire.
T. Sisk, a farmer who lives eleven miles west on the Benbrook road, killed a large black eagle.
The eagle measured seven feet one inch from tip to tip of the wings, and the talons measured
eight inches in the spread.
Jim Hamkins, a popular young merchant at China Springs, died and his place of business
was closed, pending arrangements for winding up the business. Burglars entered the place
and took a part of the stock away.
William Johnson, negro porter for the Southern Pacific, who was shot while his train was
standing at the depot of El Paso city, died of his wounds. State Ranger J. B. Bean, after a
preliminary hearing, was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of shooting the negro.
The gunboat Bennington and the torpedo boat destroyers Peeble and Paul Jones and the
transports Sherman and Buford, have sailed for Panama in accordance with instructions
received from the navy department.
Sam Knox was killed by shooting at Ewing‘s store in the Brazos bottom.
Mrs. Amanda Bentley, for many years United States commissioner for this district, died at her
home in Dallas Friday, aged 78 years.
The Central Texas ‗Possum and Tater Club‘ pulled off its annual feast in Waco Tuesday night.
Many State notables were present and ―much heap big talk‖ was mixed with the eating and
drinking.
Thursday January 7, 1904 Gen. Longstreet Dead.
Atlanta, Ga.: Gen. James Longstreet, soldier, statesman and diplomat, and the last
lieutenant general of the Confederate Army with the exception of Gen. Gordon, died in
Gainesville, Ga., Saturday from an attack of acute pneumonia. He had been ill two days. Gen.
Longstreet was a sufferer from cancer of one eye, but his general health had been good until
Wednesday, when he was seized with a sudden cold, developing later into pneumonia of a
violent nature. He was 84 years of age. He is survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter.
He was buried in Gainesville, which has been his home since the Civil War.
Thursday January 7, 1904 Three Brothers Die of Pneumonia.
Sulphur Springs: Pneumonia is still fatal in this town. A. J. Brinker died Saturday night
and W. E. Brinker Sunday night. These make three deaths in the Brinker families in eight
days. The three brothers were prominent in business and old settlers in this town and
country. Mrs. Avinger died with the same disease Sunday night. She was a near neighbor of
the Brinkers and assisted in the sick room. She was sick only about forty-eight hours.
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Thursday January 7, 1904 HOLIDAY MATINEE TURNED IN FEW
MINUTES TO FEARFUL TRAGEDY
564 PERSONS DIE IN FIRE IN CHICAGO THEATER
Men, Women and Children Burned, Suffocated or Trampled Beneath Rushing Feet---
People in Galleries Cut Off from All Escape and Await an Awful Fate---Firemen and Police
in Heroic Rescue Work---Bodies Found Piled in Heaps.
(There follows a long descriptive story of the Iroquois theatre fire of December 30,
1903. 602 died in the panic rushing for the exits. Comedian Eddie Foy heroically tried to
calm the crowd.)
Thursday January 7, 1904 Touching Incident in a Theatre.
St. Louis: Between the acts Saturday night at the Century Theater C. H. Congdon, who said
that he was from Chicago, arose from his seat and related incidents of the Iroquois Theater
tragedy. He had proceeded only a few minutes when some one in the audience began to sing,
―Nearer, My God, to Thee,‖ which was immediately taken up by the whole audience, the
orchestra joining in with an accompaniment.
Thursday January 7, 1904
J. W. McNeal, a resident of Curtis, in Woods county, Ok., was struck by an extra Santa Fe
freight train at Curtis and instantly killed, both legs and his neck being broken. He was a
Civil War veteran.
Thursday January 7, 1904 A TEXAS BENEFACTOR DEAD.
Venerable Editor, A. A. Pittuck Turns in Last Copy
Dallas: Alfred Aldredge Pittuck, aged 71 years, died Sunday afternoon at his home. An
only son survives him, Prof. B. C. Pittuck, professor in charge of the agricultural department of
the University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge.
Alfred A. Pittuck has a history bound up with the history of Texas. He was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y., Slept. 16, 1832. Shortly after his birth his father, George Pittuck, moved to Texas. He
joined the Army of the New Republic at San Patricio. Little Alfred (unreadable) saved his
father‘s life by running between an upraised Mexican sword and his father‘s body. The sword
cut the hand of the boy, and his hand bore the scar to his death.
In the year 1859 young Pittuck began his newspaper career, working for the Central Texan,
published at Anderson, Grimes county. He worked for several years on the old Austin Gazette
and published the Southwestern Poultry Journal at Galveston. In 1885 he was called to
assume the editor in chief‘s chair of Farm and Ranch. He held that position up to his death.
He was reputed one of the best agricultural writers of the Southwest.
When the Civil War began Mr. Pittuck joined the Confederate Army, fighting in the cavalry
division of Greene‘s Brigade. He was in the fight at Galveston and in the ill-fated expedition to
New Mexico. He was captured at Santa Fe, and marched overland to Chicago, Ill., where he
was imprisoned at Camp Douglas.
Thursday January 7, 1904 ‗Twasn‘t Loaded as Usual.
Muskogee, I. T.: The only casualty that has occurred in the vicinity of Muskogee happened
Tuesday at Enterprise, I. T. Will C. Davis and Miss Lulu E. Smith went to the photographer to
have their pictures made, carrying a target gun, which as usual was not loaded. In some way
the gun was exploded, the ball entering the breast of the young man, and as a consequence he
is in a precarious condition.
Thursday January 7, 1904 Mysterious Murder and Suicide.
Greenville: Late Wednesday afternoon Constable Henry Rowsey went to a house in North
Greenville and there shot Mary Leftwich, also known as May Green, to death. Rowsey fired
two shots and the woman was killed instantly. The officer then turned his weapon on himself,
inflicting a wound from which he died a few minutes later. Rowsey was accounted a good
officer and was generally liked. A wife and two children survive him.
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Thursday January 7, 1904 Brakeman Killed.
Temple: At the Santa Fe stone quarries near Belton late Thursday afternoon Tom H.
Lipscomb of Temple, a Santa Fe freight brakeman, was almost instantly killed by being run
over by the engine attached to the train he was working with. The train was setting some cars
at the quarry and Lipscomb was riding on the pilot of the engine for the purpose of uncoupling
a car that was being shoved onto the siding in front of the engine.
Thursday January 7, 1904
Henrietta oil wells are finding a ready sale for their product at $1.25 a barrel.
Thursday January 7, 1904
D. M. Rogers, who lives near Sunset, had two children bitten by one of his dogs Sunday,
which went mad and ran off without being killed.
China regards war between Japan and Russia as an immediate certainty, and is actively
reorganizing her army so that if she is drawn into the conflict she will not be unprepared.
Thursday January 7, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE
Hugh A. Mullen, one of the proprietors of the Sunday Philadelphia World was killed by being
struck by a train. Among the papers found in his pocket was an accident insurance policy for
$5000.
The immigration record of New York has been broken in 1903 by more than 100,000, the
heaviest immigration being from Southern Europe, while Ireland and Germany are only slightly
represented.
There seems to be an epidemic of slow fever sweeping over Roby and Fisher county, and
attended with much fatality. In the family of M. L. Simmons there have been four cases and
one death.
The independence of Panama has been recognized by Great Britain. Upon receipt of the news
at Colon, the town went wild. The bands paraded playing English airs and a torchlight
procession sang ―God Save the King.‖
Frank White, a negro, was put to death in the electric chair at the state prison at Auburn, N.
Y., for the murder of George Clare, a farmer, of Oswego county. Six contacts, each of 1740
volts, or seven and one-half amperes, were applied.
Seven Kentucky feuds have resulted in 850 murders and but two hangings. Justice, while
she winks at crimes.
Otto Ahlman, president of the Bank of Staten Island, Stapleton, S. I., committed suicide. The
bank was closed by the state bank examiner pending an investigation.
Skeekity Tehee, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, while trying to ride a wild horse, was thrown
violently to the ground and instantly killed. His head was crushed almost into a pulp.
Former Congressman James B. Belden died at Syracuse, N. Y., after a short illness. He was
largely interested in New York city real estate, among his valuable holdings being the
Manhattan Hotel.
Thursday January 7, 1904
The annual rabbit hunt by the citizens of the Lucas community, Collin county, took place
Wednesday. A barbecue and splendid feast was given in connection, and between three and
four hundred people were present. A total of 1143 rabbits was killed, the largest number slain
by Wm. Dean, who was awarded a handsome cake. He ―put a quietus‖ on 122 rabbits.
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Thursday January 7, 1904 CITY IN MOURNING.
Gay Chicago Meets the New Year in Sad Silence.
Chicago, Ill., Jan. 1. – For the first time since Chicago has possessed bells to peal, whistles to
shriek and horns to blow, the old year was allowed to silently take its place in history and the
new year permitted to come with no evidence of joy at its birth.
In an official proclamation issued yesterday afternoon by Mayor Carter H. Harrison he made
the suggestion that the usual New Year‘s Eve celebration for this time be omitted. The idea
found a ready impulse in the hearts with the people.
The appalling calamity in the Iroquois Theater has cast Chicago into deepest grief and gloom
and for the time being, at least, seems to have chilled and deadened all the ordinary ambitions
of life. Business was performed with the sole view to actual necessity, and that en was carried
out in a perfunctory manner. Ordinarily, on New Year‘s Eve the streets of the city are filled
with merry-makers, but last night the only throngs to be found are those around the morgues,
ordinarily, numbers of fashionable restaurants in the heart of the city are filled with light-
hearted revelers. These places were comparatively deserted and some of them closed entirely.
Usually among these gay people are found, many members of theatrical profession. Not a
single one of them was in evidence.
Thursday January 7, 1904
It is reported that W. H. Johnson a brother to H. O. Johnson, former editor of this paper is
reported to have lost his life in the great Chicago Theater fire.
Thursday January 7, 1904
Mrs. F. R. Wallace was called to Mansfield Tuesday to attend the funeral of little Elizabeth
Graves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Graves. Mrs. Grave‘s many friends here join in
extending their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved parents.
Thursday January 14, 1904
On next Sunday evening at 7:30 o‘clock, memorial services will be held at the C. P. church in
this city in memory of the late lamented Brigadier General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, who
died at Miami, Fla., on the 9th instant. The public generally and all pastors specifically are
invited to be present to pay a last homage to this valiant son of the chivalric south.
J. C. Herndon, Com.
Thursday January 14, 1904
Gen. John B. Gordon, the last great hero of the ―lost cause‖ died at his home at Miami,
Fla., at 10:05 p.m. on the 9 inst. Gen. Gordon was a native of Georgia being born in Upson
County, Ga., February 6, 1832. He was educated at the State University of Georgia. At the
beginning of the conflict between the north and the south he was one of the first to offer his
services and was rapidly promoted for valor on the battle field. Since the war he has served as
United States Senator and Governor of Georgia. He has also been a successful lecturer and
business man, and leaves a handsome fortune. All over the nation his name has been but
another name for honor and fidelity of purpose, while in the south he has been idolized with all
the devotion of true southern manhood and womanhood, and copious indeed have been the
tears shed, and deep the sorrows felt, at the news of his death.
Thursday January 14, 1904
Gins, wagons, warehouses, store rooms, and every available empty room has been filled for a
week with cotton bolls, waiting to be threshed and ginned. It is proving a big job.
The grand jury at Fort Worth in its final report makes the usual declaration that gambling
and debauchery exists to a frightful extent in the city, but that they are unable to reach the
matter. It is always that way.
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Senators Bailey and Culbertson have both, after mature reflection, decided that they cannot
support the Panama robbery. Gov. Lanham and John H. Reagan are both also opposed to it.
As a rule the older democrats oppose, while the younger favor it.
Thursday January 14, 1904
Miss Ruth Cleveland, 15 years old, eldest daughter of Grover Cleveland and once the ―pet of
the nation‖ died last week after a few days sickness from diptheria; and thus the sorrows of life
come to us all. No honors of office or emoluments of wealth can take away the sting of such a
bereavement. It is only a matter of time when sorrows and bereavements will knock at every
door. ―Little Ruth,‖ as she was known during her father‘s last term in office, was a great
favorite at the white house and goes (unreadable)... the genuine sorrow of a whole nation.
Thursday January 21, 1904
Will B. Hiett of near Kenedale was in town Saturday and when we suggested the possibilities
of leap year to old bachelors, he said he had been thinking about that himself and that he
expected to attend Sunday school some in Arlington this spring and offer some young lady a
chance to better her awful condition.
Thursday January 21, 1904
Roy Good, a promising young man of Grapevine prairie, died last Friday and was buried
Saturday. He was a nephew of Mrs. J. M. Moore of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Moore attended
the funeral Saturday. Mr. Moore returned Sunday but Mrs. Moore remained a few days with
the grief stricken family.
Thursday January 21, 1904
The Houston Chronicle besides being one of the best newspapers in the state has always stood
for principles of honor in its editorials. In a recent editorial on ―International sympathy‖ (it)
attempts to say that most international sympathy these days is prompted by selfish motives.
The Chronicle does not spare our own country but hits it thusly:
As for ourselves, to our shame be it said, any sympathy which we may manifest is necessarily
spectacular and pertains to the Pecksniffian role which we must inevitably play when we express
it. Therefore it becomes us, in the name of dignity and sincerity, to be silent.
What do we care for Japan, or for Japan‘s difficulties, save that our trade interests are involved
in the ultimate settlement. If we had no interest in the matter, consistency forbids our
remonstrating with Russia for conduct quite in keeping with our own. We can‘t shed enough
crocodile tears over Japan‘s wrongs to obscure the fact of the Isthmus of Panama.
There was a time when our hands were so clean, and our record so clear, we might have faced
a frowning world, in the cause of justice and of right. But that time was long ago; we were a
younger and a better people then—a people not blinded by the greed of personal interest, nor
beguiled by sophistries as to the difference between public opportunity and public trust.
Thursday January 21, 1904
A bread wagon, fixed up in City style is the latest agony on our streets. It was put on by
Huffmyer the new restaurant man. More and more our city is conforming to the ways of the
larger Cities. Arlington has more fancy delivery wagons of any town of her size, that we know
of.
Thursday January 21, 1904
On last Saturday night J. T. (Dutch) McFaden (sic) died at his home near Carlisle Academy
of Apoplexy. Saturday, when it was learned that he was dangerously low, some of his friends
appeared before Judge King and made complaint against Frank Brummett for inflicting a blow
in an altercation with Mr. McFadden out at his (McFaddens) farm on New Year‘s day, which
they alleged caused his death. Constable Bob Feemster went out and arrested Mr. Brummett
and he was placed under a $500 bond to await further developments. Sunday morning Drs.
Cravens and Jones held an autopsy and upon their evidence Brummett was held under $100
bond to await the action of the grand jury. Mr. McFadden was an old and well known Citizen
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and his death is much deplored. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss. He was
buried Sunday evening at Watson Cemetery, funeral services being conducted by Brother D. C.
Sibley of this place.
Thursday January 21, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Alonzo Cushman, formerly county attorney of Hunt county, died at Mineral Wells.
The German cruiser Gazelle will attend the celebration of the completion of the seawall at
Galveston on Jan. 25.
Arthur Curry, a Cleburne youth, while walking a picket fence with a playmate, fell, sticking
two of the pickets in his body. His injuries are very serious.
John Perry, aged 77, a Mexican war veteran and a prominent merchant of Del Rio, died at
that place Friday. He leaves a wife, four sons and one daughter.
Mr. Ramsey, a farmer in the southeast corner of Fannin county, took a load of cotton to Dial
Saturday to be ginned. While unloading it he fell over in the wagon and expired.
Mrs. T. N. Waul, widow of the late Gen. T. N. Waul, died at her country home at Neyland, Hunt
County, Tuesday. The deceased was a devoted wife to Gen. Waul and went through the war
with him.
Talefero Rodriguez, a Mexican, was shot and killed Tuesday on Bob Lane‘s ranch in Webb
county. C. Marsden, a cowboy of the T. O. ranch, surrendered to the Rangers at Fort Hancock
and was brought in.
Rev. W. A. Jarrell and Lizzie Jarrell have sued the Armstrong Packing Company for $8000,
alleging actual depreciation of property to the amount of $2000, and physical discomfort and
mental anguish to the amount of $6000 on account of the disagreeableness of the packery,
stock pens, glue and soap factory and other parts of the defendants‘ plants.
Robert Casey, an old gentleman, who has resided in Rockwall for a number of years, was
found dead in bed at his home Thursday evening. He was living by himself and went home
Wednesday complaining of not feeling well. Nothing more was seen of him until he was found
dead.
Heino Staffel, aged 86, pioneer German citizen, of San Antonio, died after a short illness. He
was a learned man and one of the founders of the Casino and other German institutions of San
Antonio.
Fooling with a supposed empty pistol, Callin Jones, a Dallas negro, shot and killed Maggie
Porter, another negro.
Capt. C. B. Decaussey, a watchman at the state capitol, is dead of pneumonia, following his
wife, who died a month ago. He was a gallant Confederate soldier and at one time had
possessed much wealth.
Thursday January 21, 1904
The contract for the new Catholic Church in North Fort Worth has been let and work on the
foundation has begun. The building will be a frame structure to cost about $3000.
Thursday January 21, 1904
At Estada Friday morning Rufus Bedfield, a young man who had just returned from a
medical college in St. Louis, was riding a pitching horse, which fell to the ground with him. His
brother, only a few steps away, ran to his assistance, only to find that Rufus was dead.
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Thursday January 21, 1904
Colorado Springs, Colo.: Col. John H. Bacon, aged 75, mayor of Colorado Springs in 1880,
and prominent as a business man in the early days here, committed suicide Sunday by
shooting, because of illness. He left a note saying that he had suffered so much from
rheumatism and insomnia that it more than offset the pleasure of this world. His estate is
valued at a quarter of a million dollars.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Succumbs to Burns.
Decatur: Mrs. Fannie Cooper of this place, who was reported as having her clothes burned
from her body while starting a fire under a wash pot in the yard Thursday, died that night from
the effect of her injuries. Mrs. Cooper was a sister to State Land Commissioner John Terrell,
who resides at Austin, also a sister of C. V. Terrell of this place, ex-Senator of the Thirty-first
District of Texas.
Thursday January 21, 1904 LYNCHERS GET BUSY.
Gainesville, Fla.: A negro by the name of Jumbo Clark was lynched at High Springs
Thursday afternoon. Clark had criminally assaulted a white girl about 14 years of age, while
she was on her way to school. The matter was reported to the authorities and a posse
immediately went in search of the offender. He was captured several miles from High Springs
and brought to High Springs and there was confronted with his victim who identified him.
Officers left with the prisoner to bring him to Gainesville, the county seat, but they were
overtaken by a mob some miles from the place and the negro was taken from them and hanged
to a tree. The mob included fifty men and no masks were worn.
Thursday January 21, 1904
Petersburg, Va.: Information has been received here of the lynching in Sussex county, Va.,
of a negro named Elmore Mosely by a mob of negroes. Mosely was tried for killing another
negro on the public highway in the presence of the victim‘s wife and child. He was acquitted.
A mob of negroes, the dead man‘s friends, went to Mosely‘s house, it is said, and hung him to a
tree and riddled his body with bullets.
Thursday January 21, 1904 A MADMAN‘S DEED.
A San Antonio Cripple Murders His Family, then Suicides.
San Antonio: Edward Everett Bourne, a crippled fireman who formerly worked on the
International and Great Northern Railway, was called from a game of cards in a saloon at 8:30
o‘clock Monday (?) (unreadable)... and asked (unreadable)... Mrs. Bourne then jumped
(unreadable)... buggy and drove to her mother‘s (unreadable)... Bourne hobbled after her on his
crutches, vowing he would (unreadable)... up the family. He rushed into his room with a pistol
and shot his wife through the heart and his wife‘s mother, Mrs. Henrietta Beatty, also
through the heart. The two women were found afterward clasped in each other‘s arms, and
Bourne‘s 4-year-old child crying between them. After killing the two women Bourne shot W. S.
Beatty, the stepfather of Mrs. Bourne, through the breast, narrowly missing his heart and
inflicting a probably fatal wound. Bourne then leaned his crutch against a wall and, standing
in front of a mirror, shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Mrs. Beatty was the
widow and Mrs. Bourne the daughter of a wealthy German brewer, William Esser, who died
some ten or twelve years ago. W. S. Beatty is a former Southern Pacific engineer. Twelve years
ago Bourne came to San Antonio as a private in the Eighteenth Infantry, his home being
Coatesville, Ind. He married into the Esser family nine years ago. He was a fireman on the
International and Great Northern up to a year ago, when he was injured in an accident and has
pending (in) the courts a suit for damages.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Negroes Must Serve On the Grand Juries
Washington, Jan. 19. – The United States Supreme Court to-day reaffirmed the ruling made
some time ago in the case of Carter vs the State of Texas to the effect that the exclusion of
negroes from Grand Juries in cases involving criminal charges against members of their race is
in violation of the Constitution and therefore not permissible.
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The decision was delivered by Justice Holmes in the case of a resident of Alabama named
Rogers who was indicted for murder by a jury composed entirely of white men, and from which
it is charged that all negroes were excluded because of their color. The Supreme Court of the
state upheld the regularity of the proceeding, but Rodgers (?) brought it to the Federal Court on
a writ of error with the result that the decision of the State court was reversed and the case
remanded to the State courts for further proceedings not inconsistent with today‘s opinion.
The decision was based on a former case in which it was held that exclusion of all persons of
the African race from a Grand Jury which finds indictment against a negro in a State court
when they are excluded solely because of race or color denied him equal protection of the laws,
in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, whether
such exclusion is through the action of the Legislature, through the courts, or through the
executive or administrative officers of the State.
Thursday January 21, 1904 More Pensions.
Washington: The Grand Army service pension bill, which has been introduced in the senate
and house, provides for the expenditure of not less than $200,000,000. Under the bill it is
proposed to give a pension of $12 per month to each survivor of the civil war who served ninety
days with an honorable discharge and who has reached the age of sixty-two years. It also
proposes to pay every widow who was married to a soldier prior to June 27, 1890, a pension of
$12 per month.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Fatal Burnings.
Shreveport: Mrs. C. E. Parker was probably fatally burned Saturday as the result (of)
stepping upon a match, igniting her clothing. She sustained severe burns upon her hips, right
shoulder and back. Her condition today is precarious. This is the third similar case reported
within the past two weeks, the victims in each instance being women whose clothing became
accidentally ignited, resulting in burns that produced death.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Negro Shot and Killed at Dallas.
Luther Collins, colored, was shot and killed Monday night. The negro was about 18 years of
age. It is claimed by witnesses that the negro and a young white man had words and the negro
threw a brick or bottle at the white man. That friends took him away and he returned with a
large knife, and was shot. Detectives Gunning and Pegues found a large knife at the place.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Another War Straw.
Port Arthur: The Japanese banks are rapidly closing up their accounts in Manchuria and
are stopping business. Japan is seeking for agents in Manchuria and Korea to supply the
government with information of the Russian movements in view of the hurried departure of the
Japanese residents. The Russian occupation of Sin Min Tun, thirty miles west of Mukden, is
now reported to be an accomplished fact.
Thursday January 21, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
New telegraph rates, it is said will close 300 of New York‘s 400 pool rooms.
F. M. Jackson, a stockman living near Wynnewood, I. T., was accidentally killed by falling from
a horse. His neck was broken.
The Turkish powder magazzine (sic) in the Kumanova District, sixteen miles from Uskub, has
been blown up by Bulgarians. Thirty Turks were killed.
The grand jury is making a most thorough search into the Iroquois theater looking to those
responsible for the fire and other causes of death from the disaster.
Police Officer Howell Cobb shot and instantly killed Robert O. Emma, a Mexican, at El Paso.
Emma was resisting arrest, and after knocking the officer down, slashed him with a razor,
inflicting ugly wounds.
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At Bastrop August Bering pleaded guilty to shooting in the house of Mr. Bumbartner, near
Rosanky, last fall, and killing his little daughter, and was given twenty-five years in the
penitentiary.
Mr. Meehan, who has been for several years superintendent of the Meehan Foundry in
Monterey, was killed in a street difficulty with a party who had recently been discharged from
the foundry.
In front of a negro restaurant in Tishomingo, Richard Dillingham, colored, aged 30 years, was
stabbed in the left breast, and instantly killed. Kid Kelley, a negro, was arrested charged with
the killing.
Thursday January 21, 1904 Johnson Station.
Mrs. Walter Jopling who has been visiting here the past week, Monday received the sad news
of the death of a friend, Miss Annie Fonier. Mrs. Jopling went Tuesday to Fort Worth to
attend the funeral services.
Thursday January 28, 1904 An Antiquity.
Newton Moore was in town Tuesday and after liquidating for (unreadable)... presented the
office with a copy of the Arlington Democrat, ten years old, published by W. M. Warlick.
The exact date of the paper was January 6, 1894. The following locals are taken from the
issue referred to:
City Marshall Bud Douglass went aboard the east bound accommodation train Wednesday and
arrested three little boys, charged with burglarizing the store of J. A. Allen at Manchester Mills.
They were taken to Fort Worth. The conductor gave them away.
Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Day, a girl.
Ben Rupyard has returned to Terrell.
Miss Lula Williame is at Mansfield.
Dr. L. C. Page is back from Honey Grove.
R. Q. Mills spent New Year‘s day in Denton.
Andy J. Rogers went to Mansfield this week.
Chas. McLane has returned to school at Dallas.
Miss Maud Capps went to the Fort to see her brothers.
Miss Mattie Beggs of Handley was here visiting Mrs. W. F. Elliott last week.
Rev. J. D. Crockett has returned from a holiday trip to south Texas. (Never knew before that
Uncle Davy used to be a preacher.—Ed.)
Go to Mahaney Bros. for your holiday photographs. No better can be had anywhere.
E. E. Ranking has just received a car load of the celebrated John Deere black land and sandy
land plows.
I have 1000 pieces of sheet music cheap. R. S. Cravens.
Mesdames I. L. and Will Hutcheson visited relatives at Ft. Worth this week.
Misses Mattie and Sallie Trigg spent the holidays with their aunt, Mrs. M. J. Boals, at Italy.
Joe Burney Esq., the talented young attorney of the Fort spent the holidays here with his
mother.
If you want the best shave on earth, call on W. L. Sweet. Work guaranteed or no pay.
W. M. Boulding and Mrs. J. K. Mothershead are back from a holiday trip to Tupelo, Miss. Their
sister came with them.
Pure apple vinegar, three years old, guaranteed at R. W. Collins.
Mrs. E. E. Finley left on the evening train Thursday for Lancaster, her old home, where she is
visiting relatives and friends.
In this issue we notice the following advertisements:
J. T. Hastings, meat market.
Dr. L. C. Page, drugs.
Spruance & Finley, lumber.
Moreland & Thomas, dry goods.
A. W. Fife, drugs.
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Wilkins & Wilkins, dentists.
Malone & Morgan, blacksmiths.
Ed Rector, livery stable.
Thursday January 28, 1904 The Bank Cashier Gone.
Our City has been in the throes of a genuine sensation since yesterday (Wednesday)
morning. W. R. Eaves, bookkeeper and (unreadable)... cashier of the Citizins (sic) National
Bank is gone, and the bank is out $8,000. Mr. Eaves left last Saturday night ostensibly for
Palo Pinto where his wife and son were visiting. He reported here that he had a telegram
announcing the illness of his wife at Palo Pinto, and that he was going to see her. Monday
morning the time clock on the safe failed to respond. Money was secured elsewhere and the
business of the bank proceeded as usual. Tuesday morning at eight o‘clock the combination
yielded, and then the shortage came to light. The matter was kept a secret Tuesday in an effort
to have the fugitive apprehended, also to make ready for a possible run on the bank.
Arrangements were made with Dallas and Fort Worth to supply money to meet all emergencies.
Wednesday morning the announcement was given to the public, and no town was more
completely shocked. It did not stop at this. To many, it was a genuine sorrow, bitter as that
felt at the grave of a friend. W. R. Eaves was a man not only respected, but loved as one friend
loves another, and when it was known that he had committed so grave a crime, forsaken his
family and become a fugitive from justice, many were prone to forget the banks loss and weep
over the downfall of a friend.
During the day, Wednesday, about $15,000 in deposits were called for. Many others came
forward and deposited more liberally than ever. Those who knew the bank best stood by it
firmest while smaller depositors and those who have done little banking business were
naturally most nervous.
W. M. Dugan, the Cashier, was in Ky. at the time, to be present at the funeral of an only
brother. He was informed of the trouble, by wire, and left at once for Arlington.
Thursday January 28, 1904 A Skyscraper Fire.
Chicago, Ill.: Fire in the Masonic Temple, a Twenty-story building Saturday, caused a panic
among the 4000 occupants of the building and damaged the stock and fixtures of tenants to
the extent of $20,000. All occupants of the building escaped without serious injury,
through the bravery of the elevator men, who remained at their posts and operated their
cars while dense clouds of smoke filled the building. The fire originated on the fifth
floor.
Thursday January 28, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A series of experiments with radium, startling in their scope, has been undertaken at the
University of California. An attempt will probably be made to turn the skin of the negro white.
Ice in the White River at Indianapolis carried off the house boat occupied by John Schowe and
wife which has been anchored on the overflowed lands. The boat was battered to pieces and
Mrs. Schowe drowned.
Mrs. Louise A. Ellen was found mortally injured by a pistol shot at her home in New York
Wednesday, dying soon after. Her two young children were found dead, both having been
shot in the abdomen. It is believed the woman first shot her children and then herself.
Robert F. Hall of Portland, Ore., has suddenly found himself heir to an estate of $3,750,000.
The property was amassed by Charles Belden Hall, a New York broker, who died in 1871,
leaving his son and daughter in ignorance of the wealth he left behind.
E. A. Erlock, a banker, who claimed that Mystic influences were at work on him through the
agency of his stomach bidding him kill the President, was committed to Bellevue Hospital for
examination as to his sanity.
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Thursday January 28, 1904
Marshall: James C. Scott died at the residence of his nephew, R. R. Scott, in Scottsville, at
an early hour Saturday morning. Mr. Scott was born in Mississippi in 1815. He settled in
Louisiana in 1837 and afterwards lived in Victoria and Marion Counties, Texas, and in Mexico,
but lived the last twelve years at Scottsville. Deceased was the oldest white citizen of this
county, with the exception of Uncle Billy Allen of this city.
Thursday January 28, 1904 TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN A MINE EXPLOSION.
Nearly Two Hundred Men are Buried in the Bowels of the Earth.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 26. – From all that could be gathered at a late hour last night, between
180 and 190 men are lying dead in the headings and passageways of the Harwick mine of the
Allegheny Coal Company at Cheswick, as the result of a terrific explosion. Cage after cage has
gone into the mine and come up again, but only three miners of all those that went down to
work yesterday morning have been brought to the surface. One man is Adolph Gunia, and he
is still alive, but in a semi-conscious condition, at the temporary hospital at the (unreadable)
school house on the hillside above the mine. Henry Mayhew, check weigh-man, and George
Waltman, tippleman, died of their injuries.
In addition to the miners who were at work when the explosion occurred, it is now believed
by practically all of the men of the rescuing party who have come up the 220-foot vertical shaft
for a warming and breathing spell, that Selwyn M. Taylor, the mining engineer, who plotted
the mine, and who was the first to reach the bottom after the explosion happened, is also now
among the list of dead.
Of those in the mine all are probably dead.
The explosion occurred at 8:20 in the morning, and the first warning was the sudden rumble
under ground, and then a sheet of flame followed up the deep shaft. Both mine cages were
hurled through the tipple, twenty feet above the landing stage, and the three men on the tipple
were hurled to the ground. A mule was thrown high above the shaft and fell dead on the
ground.
The injured men were brought at once to this city, where two of them have already died.
As soon as the explosion and the crash at the pit mouth startled the little village, the wives
and children of the men below rushed to the scene of the disaster, but gained no
encouragement. There was no way to get into the deep workings. The cages that let the men
into the mines and brought them out again when the day‘s work was done were both
demolished.
All day long there was a jam of women and children waiting about the mouth of the pit.
There were calls for assistance and for surgical aid from th men in charge of the mine, but it
was not until 4 o‘clock in the afternoon that the first attempt at rescue was made. This was a
failure as the two men who volunteered were driven back by foul air.
Shortly after 5 o‘clock Selwyn M. Taylor and one of his assistants signaled for the engineer to
lower them into the shaft. Taylor is still down there. Three times efforts have been made to
reach him, but so far without avail.
At 12:15 o‘clock this morning Robert North and Michael Caine of the rescue party came to
the surface and reported that Selwyn Taylor had been found alive, and that seventy-five of
the miners had been located, the majority of them, it is believed, alive.
Thursday January 28, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
G. B. Gay, an aged farmer living about three miles west of Bolivar, shot himself Thursday
from the effects of which he died the following day.
It is stated that W. T. Waggoner, the cattleman who owns large landed interests along the
Denver road, is arranging to plant 10,000 acres of land in cotton this year.
A telephone message from Mount Enterprise states that Lee Lankford, a young single man,
was killed Thursday night in the store of T. J. Scoggins at that place. He was shot from
ambush by an unknown party.
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Mrs. Mary R. Bernard is dead at Del Rio. Her husband, George Barnard (?), was the first
white settler in McLennan county, and built the first house in the country, and was the
first settler in Waco. Mrs. Barnard was a sister of Governor L. S. Ross. She was seventy-
three years old.
Bessie Dean died at the Sealy Hospital at Galveston from morphine poisoning, self-
administered. She had been a resident of Galveston for several years and had led a wretched
life for the past three years.
City Attorney Henry of Dallas has been instructed to submit an ordinance compelling all
theaters and public halls to put in fire-proof curtains and this ordinance will be ready at the
next meeting of the council.
C. W. Shriver, manager of the Scottish fruit farm near Marshall, has a number of plows now
at work on the farm, and will plant 700 acres of watermelons this season for shipment to
Northern markets.
Thursday January 28, `904
Capt. J. N. Keeran, a wealthy stockman of Southwest Texas, and a former ranch owner at
Victoria, died at his home in San Antonio. He was 79 years of age, and leaves a widow, a son,
Claude Keeran, and a daughter, Mrs. T. A. Coleman.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Call Boy Drops Dead.
Denison: While engaged in the discharge of his duties as caller for the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railway, Henry Klein, aged 18 years, fell dead Monday from heart failure, at the
residence of Engineer Edward Smith. He had signed Mr. Smith to go out on a run and walked
to the front gate of the Smith residence when he was overcome by heart failure, fell and expired
instantly.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Uncle Sam‘s Auto.
Laredo: One of the largest automobiles now manufactured has arrived here. It belongs to
the United States government and it is to be used between Hebronville, on the Texas-Mexican
Road and Fort Ringgold, near Rio Grande City, a distance of ninety-five miles, for facilitating
communication with that isolated post. The machine was a curiosity and a revelation to
Laredo people, few of whom ever saw an automobile.
Thursday January 28, 1904
Sunday a three-year-old son of James Tarpley at Smithfield, while playing in a room by
itself, pulled down a gun which was discharged, killing the child.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Indians Getting Restless Again.
Muskogee, I. T.: The Snake Indians and part of the Creek tribe are again in revolt and this
time it seems that there will be bloodshed. They have been in constant communication with
the Keoowahs of the Cherokee Nation holding councils of war, and as a result the Keoowahs
have left their homes, stock, grain and everything and gone up in the Green Leaf Mountains,
where they will hold their war dance and they say on their return they will kill every white man
in sight. This was learned through three couriers who came in from Texana, I. T., the seat of
the Keoowahs tribe. The Snakes have gone to Flat Rock, where their medicine is made, and
the residents of that section await the result with anxiety.
Thursday January 28, 1904 THIRTY-EIGHT DEAD
STORM SWEEPS AWAY AN ENTIRE TOWN.
More Than One Hundred are Injured. The Ground is Swept Perfectly Bare.
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 23. – The most disastrous tornado that has ever swept over this
section visited Moundville, a town of 300 inhabitants, 15 miles south of here yesterday
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morning at 1 o‘clock, and as a result twenty-eight persons were killed, and more than one
hundred injured, and every business house, with the exception of a small drug store, was
completely destroyed.
The tornado struck the city from the southwest, dealing destruction as it made its path, a
quarter of a mile wide, through the town.
By the force of the storm persons were blown hundreds of feet from their beds in the
blackness of night. Through terror, a father, mother and three children fled from their home to
seek refuge, and in their excitement left a five-year-old boy in bed. Yesterday he was pulled
from beneath some timber, and thus far it is impossible to find any other member of the family.
Bedding, carpets and wearing apparel are scattered a distance of ten miles through what was
a forest, but which is now as clear as if it had been cut by the woodman‘s ax. Freight cars
were torn to splinters, the trucks from them being hurled hundreds of feet from the track.
The depot, warehouses, gins, thirty homes and store houses occupied by R. L. Griffin, A. W.
Wiggins & Son, W. J. Domenick, A. D. Griffin and W. P. Phifer, together with their stocks, were
completely destroyed. Where they stood it is impossible to find even the pillars, upon which
these structures rested.
Bales of cotton which were stored in warehouses, were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint
lodging in trees making it appear as if that section had been visited by a snow storm. Heavy
iron safes were moved by the storm, the doors of which were torn from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by W. P. Phifer, hearing the terrible roar approaching, let himself
into a well. He had no sooner found his place of safety than the store was completely
demolished. In the morning he was drawn out uninjured.
Thursday January 28, 1904
Frank A. Biggs, aged sixty-seven years, died at San Antonio Friday. He was injured
December 23 by an emery wheel breaking while he was sharpening a chisel, a piece of the
emery striking him on the forehead and fracturing his skull.
Mrs. Nannie Hawpe, wife of J. R. Hawpe of Cleburne, died very suddenly in a coughing fit
Tuesday afternoon.
While crossing a track from his work, August Schoenberg, a cotton screwman at Galveston,
was run over, necessitating the amputation of his right leg just below the hip. The chances of
his recovery are doubtful.
J. M. Stout of Bardwell, charged with shooting young Creech several days ago, went before
Justice Stovall and waived examination trial and made bond to await the action of the grand
jury.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Col. W. D. Wilie (?) Dead.
Dallas: Remains of Col. William D. Wylie, for years identified, with the progress of Dallas
and this section of Texas, first commander of the Texas department of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and otherwise distinguished in civil and political life, whose death occurred at
Danville, Ill., Wednesday night, will reach here Sunday morning for interment. Burial will
probably be made that afternoon.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Pete Cash Found Dead.
Rockland: Pete Cash was found dead at an early hour Friday morning. The body when
found was in a sitting posture, against a machinery warehouse, near the lumber yard of
Cameron & Co., at this place. Cash was a section man. It is supposed that he died about 8
o‘clock, as some workmen saw him early in the morning and at that time he was alive.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Insane Woman‘s Dire Deed.
Patterson, N. J.: Returning home late Wednesday night, Arthur Oswald was horrified to
see the headless body of his 8-year-old son lying on the floor. Near-by lay the body of his
pet dog, which also had been beheaded. His wife was lying in bed with her young baby in her
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arms. She was singing softly to the infant. Near the bed her two other children lay sleeping in
a crib. The woman did not recognize her husband nor seem to understand what was said to
her.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Found Dead in Bed.
Fort Worth: George L. Adair, aged 50 years, died Wednesday night from taking carbolic
acid. His remains were found in a room at a hotel on Fifteenth street at 10:30 o‘clock. He was
thought to have been a railroad man, and came here Wednesday. He has a brother, who is a
railroad man, at Houston. He leaves a $4000 paid-up life insurance policy.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Mexican Veteran Dead.
Stockdale: Capt. John Baker died Wednesday, aged 94. He was a Mexican War veteran
and during the war between the states he was sheriff of a county in Texas. He was one of the
famous Mier prisoners but did not draw a bean because he was wounded and it was
thought he would die, and made (no?) effort to escape. He was one of the men who took
part in the Saltillo expedition and was in the Masterly retreat mentioned in history.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Found Mortally Ill.
Dallas: While driving along the road four miles east of Dallas Saturday evening Charles
Mandalla discovered by the roadside an aged Mexican in a serious condition. He was taken
home by Mandalla, and becoming unconscious, it was decided to bring him to town for
treatment the following Friday morning. When several miles out of town the aged man slid
from the seat and was found dead.
Thursday January 28, 1904 Took Carbolic Acid.
Dallas: Ike Brower, aged about 60 years, was found dead in his bed. He was last seen on
Monday night. Wednesday morning calls at his door received no response, the door was forced
and his body found, fully clothed, and lying on the bed. He had in his hand a newspaper and
seemed to have died while reading. The dead man had been a carpenter, and for more than
twenty-seven years had been connected with the City Planing Mill as a stair builder.
Thursday January 28, 1904 A Letter from Geo. A. Byus.
Alamagorda, New Mex.
Jan. 20, 04.
Editors Arlington Journal,
Arlington, Texas.
Gentlemen: I have just read in Dallas News that you have passed into your eighth volume.
Reading this bit of news brings back to memory those pleasant days of old when I started the
Journal. I had made up my mind that Arlington was in a good section of country, and knowing
the people to be among the best (unreadable)... ... upon my first visit in the town I was
informed that it would take grit and nerve to make a paper go there, as some six or a dozen
had died in so many years. Not having any money I concluded that I must be possessed with a
sufficiency of grit and nerve, hence I founded the Journal, and as it prospered I dreamed of
future greatness in the shape of a power plant and a daily issue. The hand of fate was against
me and misfortune forced me into this country to seek health for an invalid wife, but the
Journal lives and prospers and no one on earth wishes for it more prosperity than I do.
Some day I fancy that I will live in Arlington again, for better people I have never known
elsewhere. Yours for prosperity,
Geo. A. Byus.
Thursday February 4, 1904
Mrs. Lane who was tried last week on a charge of murdering old Mr. Coke last spring came
clear on a plea of insanity, and returned to her family south of this City. She had been in Fort
Worth Jail nine or ten months during which time she gave birth to a babe.
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Thursday February 4, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
McKay & Vick have gotten up a directory of the city of Hillsboro. They place the population of
Hillsboro at about 8500.
The Governor has appointed Dr. C. J. Bell of Tyler, a member of the Board of State Medical
Examiners, to succeed Dr. John C. Jones of Gonzales, deceased.
Jesse H. Booth, or Paris, was found dead in bed at Gainesville. He was an old and well-known
resident of Paris, and left a family there. The remains were shipped there for burial.
W. M. Hunter, an old citizen of Austin, aged sixty-four years, died suddenly Wednesday
morning. He was a merchandise broker and at one time journal clerk in the Texas Senate.
Monday afternoon the 16-year-old daughter of Fritz Marquot, living near Plum, was so badly
burned that death resulted in a few hours afterward. She was burning cotton stalks in the
field when her clothing caught fire.
A negro boy, barefooted and thinly clad was found in an unconscious condition on the streets
of Oak Cliff Sunday. It was thought that he was an escaped inmate from the county farm. His
condition is very critical.
Rev. T. J. Duncan, pastor of the Methodist Church at Ennis, died after a short illness. Rev.
Duncan had been a member of the Northwest Texas Conference about twenty-five years, during
which time he served several districts as presiding elder.
Broeton Baker Bledsoe died at his home in Village Mills of the burns received from an
exploded lamp. Mr. Bledsoe was born in Cobb county, Georgia, in 1844. He was a
Confederate veteran.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Died at One Hundred Years.
Chicago, Ill.: Sprightly and active until within two days of her death, Mrs. Julia Flynn is
dead, at the age of 100 years. Bronchial trouble and weakness of the heart brought to an end
her century of existence. Mrs. Flynn was born in 1804, in County Mayo, Ireland. Three of six
children survive her and twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are living.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Tragedy at Wilmer.
Dallas: At Wilmer Saturday night D. H. Weaver was shot and killed and Osa Tyre, aged
about 28, received a pistol wound through the fleshy part of his shoulder. Weaver, who was an
elderly man, 53 years of age, was instantly killed, being shot in the breast above the heart.
Another ball entered his hip, while a third cut a hole through his hat. Tyre was arrested and
brought to Dallas.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Killed by Fire Damp.
Waco: Sam Bell, a farmer, descended into a well near Hewitt, Mclennan county, to put in a
blast, intending to go deeper to get a better flow of water, and was overcome and killed by
carbonic acid gas, commonly called fire damp. His friend, Charles Johnson, descended to the
rescue, and was overcome. A third man went down and got both men out, to late to save Bell,
but in time to save Johnson.
Thursday February 4, 1904 ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
Miss Nannie Bryan, sister of the Silver Apostle, died at Lincoln, Neb., Saturday.
The Postmaster General has four horses and three carriages maintained by government
expense for his private use.
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Jacob Allen, a wealthy farmer of Wellington, Kan., was swindled at Wichita by gold brick men
who sold him a worthless combination of tin and copper for $10,000.
In a difficulty between negroes two miles south of Howland, Rufe Morgan was shot three
times with a double barreled shotgun and killed. Dave Crook went to the home of Justice of
the Peace W. C. Brackeen and surrendered, claiming self-defense.
Miles Yarborough, for the last twenty years a resident of Paris, died of heart failure while
seated in a chair at the home of his daughter at New Boston. He had just recovered from the
grip. The deceased was a Union soldier in the Civil War and was a member of the George
Wright Post, G.A.R., in Paris.
A negro boy, riding on a freight train at Camden, fell off and was run over by the train,
which cut his body in two.
The Commissioners‘ Court appointed Ambrose Gibson of Wichita Falls, county treasurer to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. R. Gibson, his father.
A recent telegram states that the Trans-Siberian Railway has refused to accept merchandise
freight since the 2
nd
instant, the line being used solely for transportation of troops and stores.
Thursday February 4, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
W. C. Vanlandingham, a pioneer citizen of Hunt county, died at his home in Lone Oak of
paralysis. He was seventy-seven years old.
William Webb, the oldest artist‘s model in this city, has been found dead in his room from
heart failure. He was eighty years old, and owing to his remarkable physique, was widely
known among artists.
Frank Dawson has been convicted of murdering Anna Hartman and sentenced to be hanged at
Paris, Mo., March 17. Dawson killed Miss Hartman as the result of a broken engagement at a
dance six weeks ago.
Under Gen. Black, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a raid on the
United States Treasury under the guise of pensions is to be made that will surpass even the
imaginings of a few years ago.
Mrs. Katherine Kendall Stell, the oldest woman in New Hampshire and cousin of President
Franklin, is dead at her home, Lyndeboro, N. H. She was 103 years old.
Internal troubles are increasing on account of increased taxes. Organized bands are resisting
laws and officers all over the county. Some officers have been captured and robbed of
government funds.
Isaac Hatfield fell dead on his farm near McLeod, Ok., Thursday, while feeding his hogs. In
the same locality, the barns of Henry Pickard were burned, together with considerable feed, all
his farm machinery, two cows and three mules.
The President has appointed W. B. Martin to succeed Minnie Cox, postmaster at Indianola,
Miss. This postoffice was closed some time ago, the white inhabitants of the place refusing to
accept mail from the Cox woman, who is a negress.
The German municipal authorities have decided to make attempt to exterminate microbes in
public libraries, Prof. Koch having called attention to the danger of spreading infections
diseases through books loaned indiscriminately from libraries.
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J. W. Crook, a switchman, was struck and instantly killed by an engine at Shreveport, while
switching cars in the yards of the V. S. and P. Road. The body was frightfully mangled.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Couldn‘t Stand the Shock.
New York: Henry Schmidt, Jr., dropped dead at the door of his sweetheart‘s home. In his
pocket was found a wedding ring. Schmidt planned to wed some time ago, but did not owing to
religious differences. He was determined to marry the girl, and after several days called at her
home. He was told she had gone out for a drive with another suitor. Schmidt started back and
fell dead.
Thursday February 4, 1904
Saturday night the officers found an unknown negro dying on the street at Hillsboro with
consumption. He was sent to the pauper farm and died before day and without having been
able to tell who he was. He was about 22 or 23 years old.
A man named Egbart confined in prison at Dawson Springs, Madison county, was burned to
death in a fire in the structure which was of wood and heated with a stove.
Forty persons were killed by an explosion of ten tons of gunpowder at Fort Bratinda,
Punjab, India.
The Earl of Devon, (Rev. Sir Henry Hugh Courtenay), rector of Powderham, Devon, is dead.
He was born July 15, 1811, and held an extensive estate.
Lake Michigan is frozen over, an occurrence that seldom happens. The average temperature
has been lower than since 1876.
Ex-County Treasurer Wm. Bagley, aged seventy-three years, a pioneer settler of Collin
county, died Friday at McKinney.
Mrs. L. J. Clayton died suddenly Friday morning of heart failure at Fort Worth. She retired
in good health at night. Deceased was a pioneer of this county, from Alabama.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Aged Citizen of Collin Dead.
McKinney: W. M. Bagley, aged 72, died of pneumonia Friday. Deceased was born at
Fayetteville, Tenn., Nov. 9, 1831. He came to Texas in 1851 and located at Clarksville. Later
he engaged in business at Ladonia. He came to Collin county in 1871 and located at Mantau.
He moved to McKinney in 1873. He was elected Treasurer of Collin County three successive
terms. He held the position of postmaster of McKinney under President Cleveland.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Man and Wife Both Dead.
Eagle Pass: The wife of Antonio Sanchez, a miner, was burned to death Thursday evening.
She was cooking over an open fire, when her dress caught fire, and before aid could be given
was mortally injured. Her husband was notified, and while ascending the shaft of the cage,
swooned and fell, his head striking the wall of the shaft and his neck was broken. He was
brought up dead. His wife lingered till midnight.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Dead Body of Missing Man Found.
Temple: The dead body of James Green, an Englishman about 65 years of age, was found
by a Santa Fe train walker lying in Kobb Creek, near the switch shanty. The face and head
were in the water and the body frozen stiff. Death resulted from strangulation and cold. Green
was employed at the Scully House and had been missing since Tuesday. Several dollars in
money were found on his person.
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Thursday February 4, 1904 (editorial)
After being without Post Office service for a year or so, the people of Indianola, a small town in
Mississippi, are again enjoying the luxuries of a post office. It will be remembered that Roosevelt
persisted in putting in a negro wench at this place for P. M. and the people refused to let her
handle their mail and the P. O. was closed. Last week the negress, over the earnest
protestations of the president, resigned, and a white man was appointed. The inhabitants claim
they scored a victory over the president in forcing him to appoint a white man to the place.
Thursday February 4, 1904
D. H. Weaver of Willmer, one of Dallas County‘s most prominent farmers, and for several
years a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of that county, was shot and killed late
Saturday evening at Willmer, by a drunken man named Tyree.
Thursday February 4, 1904 West Fork Community
Miss Dollie Carter has resigned her position as telephone operator and Miss Ella Walker has
been appointed in her place.
Thursday February 4, 1904
Wm. C. Whitney, ex-secretary of the navy under Cleveland, died in New York this week.
Thursday February 4, 1904 Barnard Conine Dead.
Banard Conine a most exemplary and most unfortunate young man paid the last debt and
ended his sufferings last Thursday night at 9:30 o‘clock. Mr. Conine was only twenty-seven
years old, and for ten years has been a great sufferer from epilepsy. He was a devout member
of the Methodist church, greatly admired by those who knew him best. Owing to the nature of
his affliction he has led a very retired life since he came here.
The remains were interred in Arlington Cemetery Friday evening, Rev. J. W. Lee officiating.
His sister Miss Lois who administered to him so faithfully and tenderly during his last hours,
and other friends and relatives have much sympathy in this sad bereavement.
Thursday February 11, 1904
They had a novel experience with a skunk at Z. T. Melear‘s this week. Saturday night one of
the boys brought in a hollow log and put it on the fireplace where it remained all night. Next
morning soon after they had built up the fire the varmint crawled out and ran through the
door. They succeeded in killing the animal.
Thursday February 11, 1904
Mrs. Tom Lawing Jr. had a narrow escape some days since. While stooping over in front of
the fire place to lay her baby down her dress caught on fire and the whole side of her skirt was
aflame before she knew it. With rare presence of mind, she grasped and extinguished her
burning clothes, also the baby‘s dress which had caught by this time. Then she called her
husband who was working some distance from the house. Her hands are burned seriously.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Jos. L. Loving Suicides.
Fort Worth: Driven to desperation by despondency caused by a miscarriage of plans, Joseph
L. Loving, 33 years of age, son of the late George B. Loving, ended his life Thursday afternoon
by sending a bullet from a revolver into his heart. Joseph L. Loving was well known in Fort
Worth, San Antonio, Dallas and other cities in Texas, where he did newspaper work on live
stock papers and where he was connected with live stock commission concerns.
Thursday February 11 All a Family Quarrel.
Houston: Howard Coughlan, son of the constable of Harrisburg, was shot and killed
Thursday. Emmett Carter surrendered himself and is charged with murder. Mrs. Emmett
Carter, wife of the slayer, is under arrest, charged with assault to murder her husband. Family
troubles are assigned as the cause of the tragedy. Witnesses state that when Coughlan was
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shot down Mrs. Carter snatched a revolver from the dead man‘s pockets and fired at her
husband.
Thursday February 11, 1904 W. C. Whitney Dead.
New York: William Collins Whitney, former Secretary of War, died a few minutes after 4
o‘clock Tuesday afternoon at his home in this city. He died while under the influence of ether
administered preparatory to a second operation for appendicitis. By his bedside were his son
Harry Payne Whitney, and his daughter, Dorothy Whitney, as well as Dr. William T. Bull, the
chief surgeon in attendance. Mr. Whitney was in his sixty-fourth year.
Thursday February 11, 1904
The will of the late Hugh Stowell Scott, better known as Henry Seaton Herriman, the
novelist, shows that he left an estate of $250,000, says a Times dispatch from London.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Depressing Sentiment in Korea.
St. Petersburg: Advices from Korea say that the feeling of panic is general and general
depression prevails at all the seaports where massacres of foreigners are apprehended. The
Europeans are preparing to send their families to Shanghai. Every steamer from Japan
conveys to Korea many Japanese officers and soldiers in disguise, and their presence in such
numbers is regarded by the Russians as being a secret occupation of Korea.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Man and Wife Burned to Death.
Marlow, I. T.: News was received here that the residence of Will Copenbarger of Ara, I. T.,
was destroyed by fire and both he and his wife were burned to death. The full particulars
were not learned, but it was said that he rose early, started a fire in the stove and returned to
bed and fell asleep, and was awakened by the fire which held them both in its grasp without
any way of escape.
Thursday February 11, 1904
Greenville, Miss.: One negro was hanged at Doddsville, Wednesday night, suspected of
being implicated in the killing of James Eastland there Tuesday. A posse of over 500 men is
scouring the country in search of Luther Holbert, who is accused of doing the shooting.
Bloodhounds from Greenville and the Barchman (Parchman?) state farm are being used in an
effort to apprehend the negro. The community is in a high state of excitement. Further
lynchings are feared.
New York: Captain Charles C. Cornwall, commander until recently of the United States
cruiser Chicago, is dead at his home in Scarsdale. He was appointed an acting midshipman at
the United States naval academy in 1864, was graduated in 1868 and at once ordered to the
European station. After the war with Spain he was made commandant of the naval home in
Philadelphia.
While running at forty miles an hour the Colorado flyer on the Missouri pacific was derailed
near Miller, Kan., killing one man and injuring thirteen persons. The wreck was caused by
the snapping of a rail, due to severe weather of the past week.
Thursday February 11, 1904
To Arlington Journal:
We wish to thank the many friends who gave their loving sympathy and help to our daughter,
Mrs. W. R. Eaves, and her little son during their late hour of need. In such trials, a friends
earnest sympathy is indeed a boon and may the God who said ―Love ye one another‖ and ―Bear
ye one anothers burdens‖ sustain you in your hour of need, is the earnest prayer of her father
and mother.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hazelwood,
Palo Pinto, Texas.
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Thursday February 11, 1904
Goodwin and Turner have put down twenty deep wells since they formed a partnership for
this business. They have two complete outfits both driven by gasolene engines, and are
prepared to turn out water on short notice.
Thursday February 11, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Don Crenshaw and Dan Perry have been arrested at Palestine charged with the murder of
Sam Bickerstaff at Bryan Switch on Jan. 24.
W. L. Keller, a white farmer recently located near Conroe, from Kansas, accidentally shot
and killed himself as per verdict of the coroner‘s inquest.
W. T. Seely, aged sixty-one years, a resident of Grand Prairie, was kicked by a mule at his
home last Tuesday, dying the following day from the effects.
It is reported that W. R. Eaves, who left Arlington a few days since in company with some
$8000 of the bank‘s money, has been located in Torreon, Mexico, and will be extradited.
The residence of Jeff Layfield at Justin was destroyed by fire, burning up two children, the
baby and a girl six years old, and his wife and two other children receiving bad burns.
An old colored woman named Mary Porter, living with old Uncle Bob Foster in the Brazos
bottom, was washing. Her clothes caught fire and she was burned to death before the flames
could be extinguished. She was 80 years old and had resided in Brazos county since 1854.
A tenant house of S. E. Lonier, at Marquez, occupied by his cook, Lela Whitaker, colored, was
burned. Two children, aged 3 years and 3 months, respectively, were burned to death.
Francis, the 3-year-old daughter of Jeff J. Davis, living about two miles north of Forney,
was burned so badly Tuesday morning that she died in the afternoon. The mother had left the
children in the room while she went to the cow lot and the children began playing with the fire.
Alvo Bryan, of Amarillo, who was shot on Jan. 23, died early Tuesday morning as a result of
the wounds.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Forty Millions Dollars and
A Score of Fatalities
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8. – The fire which broke out a few minutes before 11 o‘clock yesterday
morning in the wholesale dry goods house of John E. Hurst & Co., has raged with unrestrained
fury continuously ever since, and at midnight was still unchecked, but is still steadily
consuming its way eastward on Baltimore street, after having destroyed almost all of the large
stores and warehouses in the wholesale district around Hopkins Place and all the buildings on
both sides of Baltimore street, from Charles and Baltimore to Charles and Lexington, and on
Fayette street from Charles to Homday (?), including a total of about twenty blocks of the most
modern and substantial buildings in Baltimore, involving a loss which can not now be
estimated, but which has certainly already reached thirty or forty millions of dollars.
Ever since about 6 o‘clock, when darkness came, the fire department, although aided by
engines from Washington, Philadelphia, Wilmington and the surrounding suburbs, has been
utterly powerless to make any effective resistance to the consuming element, though for hours
as many as 100 streams of water were thrown into the flames. Indeed, so terrific has been the
heat ever since the fire started, and so dense and suffocating the volume of flying sparks and
burning cinders, that it was difficult for the firemen to stand long within fighting distance of
the flames, while early in the afternoon several trucks and engines were hopelessly disabled by
timbers.
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A terrible wind is raging and the fire department, reinforced by corps from Philadelphia,
Washington, New York and other points, is a pigmy battling with a giant. The city is under
martial law and the authorities are fighting the conflagration with dynamite. Tons of dynamite
are being used and rows of buildings are being blown up in the path of the flames.
Thursday February 11, 1904
Washington, Feb. 8. – A telephone message from Baltimore over the Baltimore & Ohio wires
at 2:15 o‘clock, says the fire has reached Jones Falls, the stream that divides Baltimore from
East Baltimore, and that a high wind is blowing. The East Baltimore section consists of
residences. The fire at this time is three-quarters of a mile long and two to eight blocks wide.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Too Much Practical Joking.
Plantersville: Baker Stephenson was severely stabbed in the left lung by Keely McWilliams,
a negro, who was killed while resisting arrest. Jan McWilliams was also shot in the right arm.
An inquest was held on Keely McWilliams. Baker Stephenson is resting fairly well, though
there is fear of internal hemorrhage or pneumonia. What was intended as a joke in playing
with fire crackers, resulted fatally.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Tennessee Miners Fatally Clash.
Knoxville, Tenn.: A bloody tragedy in the little mining town on Coal Creek, forty miles
northwest of Knoxville, ended four lives and three persons were wounded, one perhaps
fatally. The clash was the culmination of trouble between union and non-union labor, and
the excitement which followed rivaled that when nearly 600 lives were crushed out in an
explosion in the Fraterville mine in May, 1902.
Thursday February 11, 1904
Doddsville, Miss.: Luther Holbert and his wife, negroes, were burned at the stake here
Sunday by a mob of over a thousand persons, for the killing of James Eastland, a
prominent white planter, and John Carr, a negro, on Wednesday morning at the Eastland
plantation, two miles from this city. The burning of Holbert and his wife closes a tragedy
which has cost eight lives, has engaged 200 men and two packs of bloodhounds in a four-
days‘ chase across four counties.
Thursday February 11, 1904
San Angelo has ordered an $800 hose wagon and 1000 feet additional fire hose.
Powell Alley, white was arrested at Conroe, charged by complaint with the murder of Willis
Little, colored. He was admitted to bail in the sum of $500.
Oscar Black, a young brakeman in the employ of the Mexican Central Railway, died at El
Paso from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid. Black had been there only a few weeks.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Jack Knew Better Than to Do It.
New York: Jack London, a writer who recently went to Japan to report events in connection
with the threatened hostilities between that country and Russia, has been arrested and
imprisoned at Shimoneski, according to an American special from Tokio. He is charged with
photographing Japanese fortifications shortly after his arrival at Shimoneski, an important
strategical point, commanding the entrance to the Korean Strait.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Arthur Lane Dies.
Georgetown: Contractor Arthur Lane of the Katy railroad construction to Austin, who was
shot through the lungs on Monday night, died at 3 o‘clock Wednesday morning. Z. B. Jones is
in jail charged with the murder. Lane was formerly a citizen of Georgetown and Jones is from
Wyoming. The grand jury has been reconvened to investigate the affair and many witnesses
summoned.
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Thursday February 11, 1904 Heavy Fine for Wife Beater.
Fort Worth: One of the heaviest fines ever imposed in a county court in Texas was
administered by a jury in Judge Milam‘s court Wednesday against W. G. Bray, a barber. A fine
of $1000 and two years in jail was the penalty assessed, with seven other similar charges
against the defendant. The charge was for wife beating. It is believed the full limit will be given
in the additional cases.
Thursday February 11, 1904
Charlie Spivey, who lived ten miles from Checotah, I. T., was murdered, robbed of $3000 in
money and his body burned in his house.
Nellie, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hayzle of Sherman, died from
blood poison, the result of a nail wound in the foot.
It is announced that beginning the first of March five rural free delivery routes will be put on
out of Cleburne and all arrangements are now being perfected for that purpose.
At Council Bluffs the residence of Peter Christiansen was burned early Tuesday morning
and his five children perished in the building and his wife was so badly burned that she
will die.
William Burgess, who brought the Marschal Neil rose to this country, is dead from
pneumonia. His greenhouses on Long Island were among the largest in the United States.
Mrs. Melinda Adamson, aged eighty-two years, a resident of Collin county for over fifty
years, died at her home near Chambersville, after an illness of several months duration.
Two freight trains on the Kansas City Southern collided near Minden, La., smashing both
engines and crushing Engineer Craig and scalding Fireman Macklin, both of Shreveport.
The last vestige of the American occupation of Cuba disappeared Thursday when the flag was
lowered from the barracks and the last battalion of American soldiers marched to the
Triscornia pier and boarded the United States army transport Sumner.
In a fight at Wilton, a Kentucky mining town, Deputy Matthew T. Melton shot and killed
David Thomas Fletcher and fatally wounded a man named Brock. The trouble was over
serving a writ. Melton fled.
The three-year-old child of John Barber of Norman, Ok., and the three-year-old child of
Edward Reuter of Ingalls, Ok., were burned to death. The former was playing with matches,
and the latter was with children about a bonfire.
Rome Christian, a negro, was shot and killed two miles south of Campbell, a shotgun being
the weapon used. Sam Vintas, colored, surrendered.
Wilson Frederick of Dunellen, N. Y., it is said, has been paid $45,000 as a compromise to a
damage suit for injuries in a railway accident. His life was saved only by skin grafting his
scalded body, in which process 4500 pieces of cuticle were used.
Dave Crook, charged with the homicide of Joe Morgan, below Howland, waived an examining
trial before Justice of the Peace Long, and his bond was placed at $4000. Both of the parties
are negroes.
Two firemen lost their lives in the fire at Knoxville, which entailed a property loss of
$4,000,000.
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Thursday February 11, 1904
Col. Ed Trigg of Euless was here this week with specimens of coal taken from a mine on his
place. The vein is sixteen inches thick and sixteen feet below the surface. Some of the coal
was put in a stove here and burned readily. The Col. will take steps to have it developed at
once. This coal mine is near where they are now drilling for oil and where the drillers last week
encountered a stratum of iron ore. A Trinity of iron, coal and oil ought to give that part of the
country a pretty good send off.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Hostilities in the Far East Opened (editorial)
-- Japan Scores the First Victory.
The unfriendly feeling that has so long existed between Russia and Japan has ripened into
actual hostilities. Monday night Japanese torpedo boats attacked the outer vessels of the
Russian fleet lying at Anchor in the Harbor of Port Arthur, and damaged three vessels and
escaped without injury. Next day two Cruisers were captured (unreadable...).
The indications now are that this is going to be the most important and far reaching war of
recent times. No one can foretell the results of the conflict, or to what extent other nations may
be drawn into it. Japan seems to have more friends, and especially so in this country. The
Russians are of Caucassian descent, while the Japs are of Mongolian type, and for this reason
some prejudice is felt towards Japan.
On this point the Dallas Times Herald says:
―Sympathy in this country is largely with little Japan, but men who fear the Yellow Peril, who
believe that some day the yellow hordes of the East, under a fanatically inspired leader, will
overwhelm European civilization, will be disposed to turn their sympathy in another direction
and hope for intervention when the crucial moment in the struggle shall come.‖
Thursday February 11, 1904 Baltimore Fire. (editorial)
The beautiful old historic City of Baltimore has been visited by one of the most destructive
fires the world has ever known. The fire broke out Sunday night and raged until afternoon
Monday. A strong wind was sweeping over the city, at the time and it was utterly impossible to
check the march of the fiery demon. The loss in money is appalling, amounting to something
like $125,000,000.
Baltimore is one of this countries most honorific cities, noted for its magnificent situation,
beautiful homes, honorable and cultured citizens. It is a city that has many friends and
admirers to sympathize with it in this great calamity. The high sense of honor of its citizens is
beautifully illustrated in the way they have met proffers of assistance. These offers of help
poured in from every side, but so far they and the governor of the state have declared that help
is not needed—that they can take care of themselves.
The fire was in the business part of the city, and hence meant a loss of property, and not a
loss of homes. Few were left homeless and having their homes left them they feel equal to the
emergency of taking care of themselves. This is commendable, it is like Baltimore, and
presents a pleasing contrast to other places that have suffered less and asked more.
Thursday February 18, 1904
John Stell died on the 16
th
and was buried on the 17
th
. Young Stell was raised here but the
past few years has lived in Fort Worth. He came home to his aged parents a week or so ago
sick, and never recovered. Funeral services were held by Rev. J. W. Lee.
Thursday February 18, 1904
Mrs. D. S. Rider, mother of our townsman J. W. Rider, died at her home in Upshur Co. on
the 7 inst. Mr. and Mrs. Rider went out to be present on the sad occasion, returning on the
10
th
. Mr. Rider‘s many friends here sympathize with him in his loss.
Thursday February 18, 1904
Senator Marcus A. Hanna is dead. Death came on the evening of the 15 inst. after an
illness of several days. In the death of Senator Hanna the Republican party loses its strongest
man, and the country at large, a man who has few equals as a business man, and manipulator
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of industrial and material affairs. Few men have been so prominently before the public for the
last eight years, as senator Hanna, and his death will be felt in all the great avenues of
business and politics. That he was a great American all are agreed. His friends are many, and
his enemies such as all great men naturally incur, especially when they have led an active
political life.
Thursday February 18, 1904
Wm. J. Lemp, the great brewer of St. Louis, committed suicide last week by shooting himself
through the brain. Mr. Lemp was a native of Germany, aged 78 years and reputed to be worth
over a million dollars. Continued grief over the death of a favorite son, and depression on
account of the recent death of his friend Pabst of Milwaukee, another great German brewer, is
given as the supposed cause of the rash act.
Thursday February 18, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
The six-year-old son of Widow Gibson, twelve miles southeast of Paris, was instantly killed by
falling from a pile of wood, a large stick rolling across him and breaking his neck.
While a little son of B. W. Hooks, a farmer and merchant at Towson, Red River County, was
standing in front of the fire Wednesday morning dressing, his gown was ignited and he was
fatally burned.
D. C. Fanning, Jr., a brakeman on the Llano branch of the Houston and Texas Central
Railway, was probably fatally injured in a freight wreck on the road Wednesday night thirty
three miles west of Austin.
Mrs. John Young, the wife of a farmer near Deport, was found dead in bed Wednesday
morning. She was sleeping with her babe, a month old. Her husband was awakened a little
before daylight by hearing the baby crying. Noticing that the mother paid no attention to its
cries, he went to the bed and discovered that she was dead.
News has been received of the death of J. H. Stephenson, an aged and highly respected farmer
of the Mountain Peak County, Ellis County. He was seventy-eight years old and had been in ill
health several months.
Brakeman J. M. Shrivers of Greenville, who was working with a Katy work train at Gilmer,
was killed at that place. He was knocked from the top of the caboose by being struck, while
passing under a bridge, by a piece of the timber.
Thursday February 18, 1904 Anti-toxin in Chicago.
Chicago: Proof that anti-toxin saves hundreds of lives in Chicago each year is offered by the
health department in its weekly bulletin. The use of anti-toxin in the treatment of diphtheria
was begun by the city nine years ago and since that time the mortality has been 6088, while
during the nine years before 11,488 persons died. The decrease has been 5400, or 47 per cent,
while the population has increased nearly 600,000, or 52 per cent. Considering population,
the decrease in deaths is given as 63 per cent. The recent action of manufacturers in
increasing the price of the serum to $1.33 a thousand units led the department to ascertain
the cost of manufacture, which, it declares, is less than 20 cents.
Thursday February 18, 1904
At Pittsburg Ambrose Black, the 14-year-old son of H. Y. Black, was accidentally shot in the
abdomen Saturday afternoon while playing with a toy cannon. Blood poisoning followed, and
hopes of his recovery have been abandoned.
Thursday February 18, 1904 H. H. Colclazer Dead.
San Antonio: H. H. Colclazer, special agent in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma for the rural
free delivery system of the postal service and formerly managing editor of the Philadelphia
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Record, died Monday night after a brief illness from malarial complications. Deceased was 52
years of age and leaves a wife. The interment will take place in San Antonio. Mr. Colclazer was
appointed to his position in 1899 by Emory Smith.
Thursday February 11, 1904 Prominent American Dead.
New York: Col. Henry Granberry, a ninety-six years old, who in 1831 put down an
insurrection at South Hamden, which became known in Virginia history as Knapp‘s war, is
dead at his home here. He owned a large tobacco plantation in Virginia, but had lived here
since 1841 and claimed to have voted at every presidential election since the Jackson
campaign. Col. Granberry was known as Gen. R. E. Lee‘s double.
Thursday February 18, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A street car full of people at Paducah, Ky., was struck by an engine and almost demolished.
A dozen were injured, one, it is thought, fatally.
Andy Gray, a locomotive engineer, died suddenly Thursday at Ennis from heart disease. He
was in the cab of his engine in the switch yards looking out of the window for a signal, when he
suddenly expired.
In a shooting at Lane, twenty-three miles north of Shreveport, between Lester Willis and Harry
Dorsey, negroes, a bullet from Willis‘ pistol struck and instantly killed Dorsey‘s eight-year-old
daughter.
Two persons lost their lives and four others were injured, one probably fatally, in a fire
that destroyed a three-story brick apartment house at Kansas City. There were several narrow
escapes.
It is learned that Russia is in the American market for mules, as was England during the Boer
war. It is stated that two train loads of mules were shipped from Kansas City last week and
that more are being sought.
Mrs. J. D. Layfield and her five-years-old daughter, who were burned at the residence fire a
week before, lingered till Thursday, making four deaths as a result of this fire.
Henry Fugett, a negro, who killed his wife at Cleburne some time since, was hanged there
Friday.
Thursday February 18, 1904 Oldest Engineer Dead.
Leadville: Wm. Miller, probably the oldest engineer in the United States, has been crushed
to death under his engine while making some repairs. He was employed by the Rio Grande
road. The switching crew ran some cars against the engine and the wheels passed over Miller‘s
body, killing him instantly. Miller began railroading fifty-two years ago on the Reading. He
brought the first Rio Grande engine west. He was seventy-one years of age.
Thursday February 18, 1904 Two Children Incinerated.
Haskell: About 10 a.m. Friday the barn of Dr. J. B. Ragan at Pinkerton, in this county, was
destroyed by fire. When it was about burned up the bodies of Leah, the 4-year-old daughter
of Dr. Ragan, and the 10-year-old daughter of T. R. Gordon were discovered. The children
were missed during the fire, and it is supposed must have started the fire that burned them.
The bodies were badly charred and burned.
Thursday February 18, 1904 A Girls Horrible Death.
Galveston: Thursday night at 6:30 o‘clock Bessie George, the fourteen-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. George, was fatally burned. The little girl was dressed in light, flimsy
clothing and cotton batting, and was about to leave the house to accompany her father to the
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opera house, where she was to lead the march in the winter scene in the World‘s Fair
entertainment, when the accident occurred. She died before midnight.
Thursday February 18, 1904 Watson Community.
Henry, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith died Tuesday and was buried in the Ford
Cemetery.
Thursday February 18, 1904
Mrs. Lee Clark east of town, the wife and mother of a most estimable family, died on the 15
inst. of measles and pneumonia. The bereaved family has the sympathy of a large circle of
friends and relatives in their hour of sorrow.
Thursday February 18, 1904 Johnson Station.
The four year-old son of Luther Young who lives near Handley was buried in the Cemetery
here Tuesday.
Thursday February 25, 1904
Mr. Ben Houston, a most estimable young man, is reported sick beyond any hopes of
recovery with pneumonia at his fathers home on Grapevine Prairie. Ben clerked in the Model(?)
here last Summer and fall and made many friends in Arlington who will regret very much to
learn this.
Thursday February 25, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
W. E. Best, prominent grocery man of Dallas, died of pneumonia Wednesday.
While crazed by liquor J. L. Hopkins, a white city prisoner at Beaumont, cut his throat with a
pocket knife Wednesday morning. He will probably die.
Sam Brock, who was bitten by a mad dog near Tabor, Brazos county, last Tuesday, left
Saturday for New Orleans to be treated in a Pasteur Institute.
Sam Clenden, a Dallas negro man about 35 years of age, was shot and seriously wounded
Saturday night. The affair occurred at the corner of Marilla and Portland streets.
Dan C. Crenshaw and Uan Peavy are in jail at Palesine, having been remanded without bond at
the examining trial. The charge is the killing of Sam Bickerstaff near Elkhart last month.
The four-year-old son of Solomon Woodring of Barnes, in Woods county, Ok., was burned to
death Friday. He climbed out of bed while other members of the family slept, attempted to
start a fire and was burned almost to death before the family knew of the accident.
In the death of Jas. M. Hall in Austin, aged 86 years, there is left but two survivors of the
battle of San Jacinto. Deceased not only served in the memorable conflict, but was a
veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars. He leaves a family of grown children and grand-
children.
While out duck hunting before daylight J. J. McCain of Burton, was accidentally shot by his
son. It is thought he will recover.
Thursday February 25, 1904
Sam E. McDermitt, of Hico, was accidentally shot with a pistol Sunday, and died from the
wound.
Mrs. Hill, the widow of the late Senator Benjamin Hill of Georgia, died at Washington
Sunday in the 79
th
year of her age.
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A child was recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Hinson, living southwest of Clarksville, that
weighed one and one-quarter pounds. It is described as being perfectly formed and healthy. It
is the smallest child in the history of the county.
Thursday February 25, 1904 Twenty-Five Killed by Dynamite.
Ogden, Utah: Twenty-five persons have been killed, fifteen others injured, several it is
believed fatally and a great amount of property destroyed by the explosion of a carload of
dynamite at Jackson, a station on the western end of the great Ogden-Lucien cut-off on the
Northern Pacific Railroad. The explosion was caused by a collision between two freight trains
due, it is said, to the failure of the air brake apparatus to operate. Eight of the dead and five of
the injured are Americans.
Thursday February 25, 1904 Preferred Death to Separation.
San Antonio: Mrs. Carrie Shield, wife of Fred Shield, of the Gaskill Carnival Company,
committed suicide in the presence of her husband Sunday. She sealed a letter to her brother
saying that her death was preferable to a prospective separation from her husband, and
swallowed a large dose of chloroform before any one could interfere. Deceased was 19 years of
age and was married to Shield at Fort Worth a year ago.
Thursday February 25, 1904
Muscovites Get Licked and Lose 2,000 Men.
Incompetence in all Departments Is Everywhere Evident in the
Russian Military Organization.
New York, Feb. 22. – Advices from St. Petersburg are positive that the Russian advance
guard on the Yalu River have been driven back and that at a loss of more than 2000 lives to the
Russians. The defeat is charged to defective organization of the Russian forces. It seems that
the transport of troops to the front was figured upon at a rate of 7000 a day, while the utmost
has fallen to 3000. The commisary department has proven utterly inadequate to meet
anything like the demand, and while a blanket and a handful of rice is housekeeping and living
for a Japanese trooper, Russian soldiery use the heaviest of feeders, require an abundance of
clothing, and their accoutrements are a load to an ordinary man under favorable
circumstances.
(The article continues describing Russian incompetence in managing the far east War.)
Thursday February 25, 1904 An Old Time Shooting Bee.
Fort Worth: An early morning shooting took place in a lower Main street restaurant Friday,
as a result of which Kid Barrett was shot in the right groin, and it is thought received
serious if not fatal wounds. Gus Bader was arrested for assault with intent to murder, and
was released on bond. He will have an examining trial before Justice Terrell. Several shots
seemed to have been fired and dishes and bottles were freely used in the melee, which is said
to have been participated in by four persons.
Thursday February 25, 1904 Caught Breaking Into a Store.
Tishomingo, I. T.: Thursday night a negro man broke into the department store of De
Cordova & Co. The noise in making the entrance awoke Messrs. Adams and Robertson, who
sleep in the store. As the negro ascended the steps leading to the office, Mr. Adams shot at
him wounding him in the left hip. Adams ordered him to throw up his hands or he would kill
him and the negro at once obeyed.
Thursday February 25, 1904
Gulthrie, O. T.: Following an old-time custom, a bevy of Otoe Indian squaws wrapped Sarah
Ely, a young squaw, in blankets until she smothered to death, thus ending a supposed fatal
illness. The physician was necessarily absent from the house when the squaws decided upon
this procedure. He had announced his patient‘s ultimate recovery but the old Indian women
prognosed the case different. She was one of the best educated young women of the tribe.
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Thursday February 25, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
At McKinney the jury in the case of T. E. Ball, charged with the murder of N. T. Shatley
two years ago, could not agree on a verdict, so they were dismissed.
Tom Lindley, a farmer of Wood County, was shot and instantly killed in the public road
about two miles southeast of Winnsboro Monday evening near sundown.
While out hunting Albert Dabney, a young man of Thorp Springs, was accidentally shot by
his little brother. One side of his head was blown away, the brain oozing out.
A young man named George Shaw was killed by a Santa Fe freight train near Valley Mills
Tuesday. He was crossing the track with a wagon when the train caught him.
At Basin in Pawnee County, Ok., occurred the death of Miss Sylvesta Mitchell as the result
of burns received by her dress catching fire from an open stove draft.
Miss Caroline Duboise, who was a member of the staff of the Kansas City Star, died at the
Mercy Hospital at Laredo Saturday night, and the remains were shipped to Kansas City.
Thursday February 25, 1904 A. Twister.
The German Salzbacher, who has charge of a nearby wine cellar, is noted for his unique
usage of the English language, especially when he becomes excited.
The other day one of the little boys who fills bottles for him asked Salzbacher for some corks,
receiving instead this answer:
―When I tol‘ you vot you vant, you ask me no; now I don‘t got some, you vant any, yes?‖
--Philadelphia Telegraph.
Thursday February 25, 1904 Stingy to Teachers.
Iowa pays women school teachers less than any other state, the average salary being $36.91
a month.
Thursday February 25, 1904
We desire to thank the good people of Arlington for the many acts of loving kindness
extended to us and our dear boy, during his recent illness and death. May the Lord reward
them all.
Affectionately, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Stell.
Thursday February 25, 1904
Geo. W. Coulter of this place has received news of the death of his only brother R. L.
Coulter, of Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 18 inst. Uncle George feels the loss keenly the more so
as he did not have an opportunity to see his brother, before he died. His many friends here
sympathize with him in his great loss, as much as it is possible for one who has never lost an
only brother, to do.
Thursday March 3, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Mrs. Adaline Lambright of McCloud, O. T., aged fifty-eight years, died of pneumonia at
McKinney while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. W. M. Glenn
James Warden, aged 102 years, supposed to be the oldest expounder of Methodism in the
world, is dead in the Baltimore county alms house. He was born in England and was licensed
to preach in 1824.
Camphor is rapidly advancing in price, owing to the war in the Far East. Within a week the
price was raised from 77 cents a pound by the barrel; to 85 cents, and is said to be extremely
scarce even at that figure.
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Thursday March 3, 1904 A Pitiful Story.
Little Rock: Mrs. H. G. Allis, at one time a prominent society leader in this city, committed
suicide at the county hospital by hanging herself with strips of bedclothing. Her husband was
at one time president of the First National Bank and was given five years in the penitentiary for
wrecking the bank. The disgrace of her husband sent her into seclusion. Her husband was
pardoned after serving three years.
Thursday March 3, 1904 (editorial page)
Roosevelt sustains the same relation towards the Panama government, that the old maid did
toward her lover. For years she wanted him to propose, had hoped he would propose, had
encouraged him in every way she knew how, had watched the indications with intense, even
painful, eagerness. Every time he came and left without making the coveted proposal, she was
disappointed, and gave way to tears. Finally he proposed, and she said ―O! this is so sudden, I
never thought of such a thing.‖
Thursday March 3, 1904
Ben P. Dresser, a painter was shot and killed at his home at Texarkana Monday afternoon,
the weapon used being a shotgun. His wife said to the officers that she accidentally fired the
fatal shot.
It is stated that former President Kruger of the Boer Republic is slowly dying in exile at
Mentone, France, and that Dr. Rietz, State Secretary under President Kruger, is also an exile in
Holland and a constant sufferer from nervous prostration.
George Allen, a negro of Dallas, was shot through the neck with a 45 caliber Colt‘s Sunday
night by his wife who claims that the shooting was an accident. It is thought that Allen is
mortally wounded.
At Cleburne James Smith was seriously and it is thought fatally injured by a vicious horse
which kicked him in the stomach, on the head and in the face. He was unconscious when
found and physicians say his chances for recovery are slight.
Sam Douglass, a young farmer near Emberson, who was shot in the leg by accidental
discharge of a companion‘s gun while they were camped on the creek hunting ducks near
Round Prairie, died Saturday night from the injuries received.
Wednesday night about two miles west of Atlanta John W. Sims was killed by being struck
on the head with a pine knot. George Esterbrook surrendered and claims he acted in self-
defense.
Thursday March 3, 1904 Col. Jere Baxter Dead.
Nashville: Col. Jere Baxter died Monday morning after an illness of over five weeks. He was
operated on a week ago for an abscess and death was directly due to exhaustion consequent
upon his inability to retain nourishment. Col. Baxter was one of the best known and most
progressive citizens in the State and played a conspicuous part in its military, martial and
political annals.
Thursday March 3, 1904 (editorial page)
There was a man named Rosenthall,
that bought a goat just for his stall.
One day the goat became inclined
to eat red shirts from off the line.
Then Rosenthall to the goat did say,
―You must die this very day.‖
He took him to the railroad track,
and there he bound him on his back.
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The train it came, the whistle blew,
the goat he knew his time was due,
with a terrible shriek of pain,
coughed up the shirt and flagged the train.
--Nashville American.
Thursday March 3, 1904 Negro Kills Mail Clerk on Car.
Birmingham: Monday Jim Paris, a negro, boarded a train in the Meridian yards as it was
pulling out. Before it was under good headway Paris entered the postal car and opened fire on
Clerks J. T. Stockton and A. J. Bass, killing Stockton instantly and wounding Bass in the
arm. The negro then seized a package of registered letters and jumped off. In leaving the train
he fell and one leg was crushed under the wheels, but he managed to drag himself three miles.
Blood hounds were secured at Meridian, the train having backed to that place, and they traced
Paris, who, when found had a number of registered letters in his (unreadable). He is now in
jail at Meridian. Railroad officials say that three or four negroes were involved in the plot to rob
the train, although only one of them appears to have entered the postal car.
Stockton, the dead clerk, resided at Meridian, while Bass‘ home is in this county. Detectives
are on the scene.
Thursday March 3, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
In a row between the Mexicans on F. M. Green‘s plantation, nine miles east of Atlanta, on
Sulphur River, one Mexican was shot and killed. Names unobtainable.
M. F. Adams of Taylor, Tex., who was attending a meeting of the Bartlett Lodge of Odd Fellows
died suddenly in the lodge room of hart failure. Aged about fifty years.
Jeff Hunter, a negro, was found dead in his bed in a cabin in which he lived alone. He was old
and a familiar character in Corsicana.
Thursday March 3, 1904 Killed While Out Hunting.
Houston: John Schluplinsky was accidentally shot and killed at Lynchburg Sunday while
out hunting with Phillip Hudson. Young Schuplinsky is the fifth son whose death has occurred
within the last two years, three others with their mother having been burned to death
about eighteen months ago in a hotel in San Angelo. The family lived many years in this
city.
Thursday March 3, 1904 Killed His Lawyer and Himself.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Henry D. Schwartz of Baker & Schwartz was shot and wounded in his office
by H. A. Knowles, a well-known business man of Buffalo, who ten minutes later shot himself
dead in the presence of two detectives. Schwartz died soon afterward. The shooting is said to
have been the culmination of business troubles. Mr. Schwartz was the attorney for the firm of
Knowles & Gardner, which failed some time ago.
Thursday March 3, 1904
Will Doddrell, a prominent farmer living near McCloud, Ok., was killed Saturday by a tree
falling on him. He was clearing land when the accident occurred.
Thursday March 3, 1904 Prominent Educator Passes Away.
Dallas: Prof. William A. Bolles, for years prominent in educational affairs of the city, died in
Denver, Colo., where he had resided for seven years. He was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
coming to Texas in 1881. He lived in Dallas from 1883 to 1889, and removed to Glen Rose to
become principal of the Collegiate Institute. He was a widely known in educational and church
work.
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Thursday March 3, 1904 SAVES DISGRACE TO HIS STATE.
Vardaman, Mississippi‘s Strenuous Governor Gets Busy.
(unreadable) ... Vardaman, who a few weeks ago was inaugrated Governor of Mississippi.
Thousand and thousands of blacks confidently believed his ascension to the Governor‘s chair
meant their return to slavery, and when he was elected hundreds fled the State. Vardaman‘s
anti-negro policy was the talk of the country.
Saturday the first threatened negro lynching since his inauguration was sprung way up in
Panola County, at Batesville, on the Mississippi Valley Railroad.
The Governor ordered Sheriff Johnson of that county to protect the negro, Albert Baldwin,
charged with the murder of Engineer Fogarty, at Tutwiler, and toward night he called out the
militia, ordering the Greenwood and Brookhaven companies to the scene instanter.
Special trains were hired. Later Gov. Vardaman summoned his staff, employed a special
train from the Illinois Central and left for the scene to assume personal command of the State
militia and save Baldwin from being burned.
Sunday night the special train returned to Jackson, the capital, bearing Gov. Vardaman, the
militia and the negro. Baldwin, he having been rescued from the mob. He was safely locked
up in the Jackson jail.
Thursday March 3, 1904 John Spivy (sic) Declared Insane.
Marlin: The jury in the case of Jno. Spivey, charged with the murder of Albert Huffman,
returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity. The defendant made a long
statement to the jury in a rambling sort of way, in which he alleged that Huffman had
destroyed his family, but all the evidence went to show that he is crazy and was when he did
the killing. Spivey was taken to the asylum at once.
Thursday March 3, 1904
Dewey Heywood, thirty-six years old, of the Heywood Oil Corporation of Jennings and
Baumont, died at Lafayette, La., of typhoid fever after an illness of three weeks. He is survived
by a wife, mother and three brothers, Alba, Otho, W. and Scott.
Thursday March 10, 1904
Mrs. E. V. Bell, a sister of Uncle Geo. Coulter, died last Saturday at Dallas, and was buried
Sunday evening. Mr. Coulter was with his sister when the end came. His sons Charley and
Leslie went up Sunday to attend the funeral. It will be remembered that Mr. Coulter‘s only
brother died in Tennessee about a week ago, and this second death in the family in so short a
time makes it a peculiarly sad one.
Thursday March 10, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
R. E. Waddell, freight conductor on (unreadable...) was stabbed and perhaps mortally wounded
at Okmulgee, I. T., by (unreadable).
W. H. Goodwin, an old time citizen of Laredo, committed suicide by shooting himself through
the heart with a sixshooter. He left a note saying he was tired of living.
Euesbio Escobebo, a boy of 16. while bathing with three companions, near the coal mines at
El Paso, was seized with cramps and drowned. The body has not been recovered.
A big steel skeleton of a ten-story apartment hotel that was being erected in New York collapsed
Thursday, carrying a score or more of workmen down in the wreckage. Eleven persons were
killed and twenty-five or more injured, and four more have since died.
Charles Spalding of Chicago, in order to reach the bedside of his mother who was dangerously
ill at San Antonio, ran a special train from his home to the latter city covering the 1885 miles
in 33 ½ hours, a little over 41 miles an hour including stops.
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Grover Arnold, lately of Greenville, was killed by his horse falling on him in a round-up in
Shackleford County.
Thursday March 10, 1904 Prairie Fires Rage, Leaving Death and Ruin
Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska Suffer from Furious Fires
Wildly Driven by Maddening Borean Blasts.
Lawton, Ok., March 1. – Five persons were burned to death and 3000 square miles of
territory in Kiowa and Commanche Counties were swept by prairie fires Wednesday, according
to reports received here. Hundreds of people are homeless and it is impossible to estimate
accurately the financial loss owing to the wide extent (unreadable) ....
At Hobart, the county seat of Kiowa County, the fire approached from the east, destroying the
stables of fifteen ranches, fifteen residences, two business houses and various small buildings.
Spreading to the southwest the fire swept 75,000 acres of Government, military and timber
reserve and Indian school reserve, destroying several Indian houses and forty head of
Government cattle. Spreading westward, the flames covered miles of the homestead district,
destroying houses, barns and stock. It was in this district that five persons are reported to
have perished in attempting to protect their property. The names of three have been learned.
They are: Dock and John Harmon, brothers, and a man named Fisher. The other two were
women and their names have not yet been learned. Late at night the fire began moving
southward toward this city.
At midnight 5000 people of the city were up to do battle with the approaching monster of
destruction. The advance line of the fire was fully two miles in length and coming in a semi-
circular form. A thousand men turned their efforts to checking the flames in the grass borders
of the reservation at the city limits. Water from every source, carried in every conceivable way,
was distributed along this line, and carried all around the city limits. This served the purpose
of checking the advance of the fire, but was of little avail in hindering the continued rolling of
the fire brands into the streets of the city. In more than a hundred places flames arose from
dwellings, barns and outhouses, but wherever a blaze grew men were present to quench it with
water. As a result of the cool judgment of the fighters, the city‘s loss was only $10,000.
Stories are coming in of how families lay out on the prairie throughout the freezing night
after the storm had passed with only the thin clothes on their backs as reminders of their once
prosperous homes. Hundreds of people are destitute and are suffering intensely from the cold
and with excruciating pain occasioned by their burns. Clothes, medicine and physicians are
being sent out from all the cities and towns of the district to relieve the suffering. Cavalry from
Fort Sill and officers from this city are searching for missing men, women and children.
The names of six persons dangerously burned have been learned and reports persistently
continue from various districts to the effect that a large number of persons were injured in
fighting the flames.
I. C. Strickland, the sexton of the Lawton cemetery, and his wife and two children were
seriously burned. The mother and one little daughter may die. J. Denny, a farmer seriously
injured. R. E. Prosper, living three miles out of Lawton, lost all of his property, a herd of
cattle, and was burned seriously, but with his entire family in night clothing escaped to
ploughed ground and remained in the cold night air until dawn.
A report has been received at Fort Sill that an entire Apache village was swept clean. The
report has not been verified.
The soldiers at Fort Sill were ordered but to fight the flames and rendered great assistance.
At Anadarko many buildings were burned. No lives are reported lost, but there were
numerous escapes. Women and children scantily clad fled to ploughed ground, while the men
remained in an endeavor to save property.
Thursday March 10, 1904 (additional news items regarding the Prairie Fires are filed
from Topeka, Kansas, Lincoln and Lexington, Nebraska. From Topeka: ―Many narrow escapes
from death are reported, but as far as known only one person—Frank McGrew of Bird City—
was burned to death.‖
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Thursday March 10, 1904
A farmer seven miles north of Paris reports the plowing up of the body of an unknown man
with a bullet hole through the skull. Mystery surrounds the find. The neighborhood is excited.
The body was buried for a long time only a foot under the ground.
Thursday March 10, 1904
Six men were drowned, and four others injured, as a result of the collapse of a bridge
spanning Yellow Creek, near Irondale, on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad. The men were
on two locomotives that attempted to cross the bridge together.
Thursday March 10, 1904 SHOT TO DEATH AND THE CORPSE STRUNG UP
A Springfield, Ohio, Mob Cooly and Deliberately Shot a Negro Murderer to Death.
Springfield, Ohio, March 8. – Great excitement is felt here over the shooting of Police
Sergeant Charles Collis by Richard Dixon, a negro, early Sunday morning, and who died
Monday.
At 11 o‘clock the negro, Richard Dixon, was taken from the jail and shot to death in the
jail yard and the body was taken from there to the corner of Main and Fountain avenue
and hanged to a telegraph pole, where the mob spent the next half hour riddling the body
with bullets from several hundred revolvers.
The mob forced an entrance to the jail by butting in the east door with a railroad iron. At
10:30 the mob (unreadable) rapidly and it was the general opinion that no more attempts
would be made to force an entrance. Small groups of men, however, could be seen in the
shadows of the court house, two adjacent livery stables and several dwelling houses. At 10:45
the police were satisfied that there was nothing more to fear, and they with other officials and
newspaper men passed freely in and out of the jail.
Shortly before 11 o‘clock a diversion was made by a small crowd moving from the east doors
around to the south, a bluff was made at jostling them off the steps leading up to the south
entrance. The crowd at this point kept growing, while yells of ―Hold the police!‖ ―Smash the
doors!‖ ―Lynch the nigger!‖ were made, interspersed with revolver shots. All this time the party
with the heavy railroad iron was beating at the east door, which shortly yielded to the battering
ram, as did the inner lattice iron doors. The mob then surged through the east door,
overpowered the Sheriff, turnkey and handful of deputies, and began the assault on the iron
turnstile leading to the cells. The police from the south door were called inside to help keep the
mob from the cells, and in five minutes the south door shared the fate of the east one. In an
incredibly short time the jail was filled with a mob of 200 men with all the entrances and yard
gates blocked by fully 1500 men, thus making it impossible for the militia to have prevented
access to the negro, had it been on the scene. The heavy iron partition leading to the cells
resisted the mob effectually until cold chisels and sledge-hammers, which were only two or
three minutes later in arriving, were brought into play. The padlock on the turnstile had been
broken and the mob soon filled the corridors leading to the cells. Seeing that further resistance
was useless, and to avoid the killing of innocent persons, the authorities consented to the
mob‘s request for identification of the man. The man was dragged to the jail door, then down
the steps to a paved court yard. Fearing an attempt of the police to secure him, the leaders
formed a hollow square. Some one knocked the negro to the ground and those near him fell
back four or five feet. Nine shots were fired into his prostrate body, and, satisfied that he was
dead, a dozen grabbed the lifeless body and with a triumphant cheer, the mob surged into
Columbia street and marched to Fountain avenue, one of the principal thoroughfare‘s of the
town. From there they marched south to the intersection of Main street and a rope was tied
around Dixon‘s neck. Two men climbed a pole and threw the rope over the topmost crossarm
and drew the body about eighteen feet above the street.
They then descended and their work was greeted with a cheer. The fusillade then began and
for thirty minutes the body was kept swaying back and forth from the force of the rain of
bullets which was being poured into it.
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Thursday March 10, 1904 Old Resident of Gatesville Cremated.
Gatesville: Sunday afternoon the barn and large warehouse of W. H. Hanks in the suburbs
of the town was burned. Mrs. Hanks, enveloped in flames, was discovered flying from the
burning building by those who first saw the fire. Before aid reached her, she fell face
downward, and died almost instantly. It is supposed that she missed one of her little boys and
fearing that he was in the barn, had rundown to ascertain.
Thursday March 10, 1904
At El Paso George Lender, a negro, shot and killed his wife and then turned the pistol
upon himself, dying instantly. He shot his wife while she was asleep. Lender was a
bootblack.
Thursday March 10, 1904 Escaped the Gallows.
St. Joseph, Mo.: Mark Dunn, convicted of murder, got possession of two revolvers that were
smuggled into the jail and forced the death watch to submit to being bound. He held the
watchman prisoner all night and forced him to call the jailer soon after daylight. When the
jailer came Dunn threatened to kill the death watch unless the jailer turned him out through
the wheel. The jailer to save the watchman, did as ordered.
Thursday March 10, 1904 An Arab Spy Outwitted.
Once at least, in Egypt, the loss of his eye in an earlier campaign proved a great service to
Lord Wolseley and his army. He could get no information of the enemy‘s strength of position,
says the London Onlooker. An Arab was captured prowling around our outposts and was
brought before him. It was ten to one the sullen fellow knew everything. Lord Wolseley
questioned him. The fellow answered never a word, standing stolid between the two soldiers.
At last a happy idea struck the general. He said in Arabic: ―It is no use your refusing to answer
me, for I am a wizard, and at a wish can destroy you and your masters. To prove this to you, I
will take out my eye, throw it up, catch it and put it back in my head.‖ And, to the horror and
amazement of the fellow, Lord Wolseley took out his glass eye, threw it up, caught and replaced
it. That was enough; the Arab capitulated, and the information he gave the staff led to the
Arabi‘s defeat.
Thursday March 10, 1904 ARLINGTON EXPERIMENT FARM.
Is Selected and Operations Will Begin at Once.
Dallas: Dr. W. J. Spillman, special representative of the United States Department of
Agriculture, now engaged in establishing diversification farms throughout the Southern States,
went out near Arlington and selected the farm of A. J. Brown as the land on which farming the
way the United States Government would have it done will be conducted. Mr. Spillman was
accompanied by Capt. Brown, and the two spent the forenoon going over the place with a view
in arranging for the crops to be grown as soon as cultivation can be undertaken. At the close
of his inspection he announced that the farm suited the purposes for which (unreadable)...
utilize it much better than any that thus far he had placed.
After lunch Dr. Spillman spent an hour and a half to a big assemblage of farmers at
Arlington, explaining the work which he is undertaking in the interest of the farmers. He urged
upon them the necessity of diversifying their work as much as possible in order that they might
not be dependent exclusively upon the raising of cotton for a livelihood. He also repeated with
special stress the need of every inch of ground on the farms being kept at work as nearly every
minute of time as is possible. (the article continues in this vein)
Thursday March 10, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
John Terry, under charge of murder for killing Lawrence Batt, was acquitted at Marshall.
A young man named Strasner, living at Shilo, in Wise county, was hurt about a month ago.
In jumping over a stump he fell, causing injuries from which he died a few days since.
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Ed Tate, a young freight brakeman of the Katy, was run over and killed near Bastrop by his
train. Deceased was reared in Belton and was a son of Tom Tate, an old engineer in the Katy
service and at present running on the Belton branch.
In a difficulty between James Mobley and William Henry at Minter, 20 miles southeast of
Paris, Henry was shot in the arm, which was shattered, and he is in a critical condition.
Mobley surrendered and will be held pending the result.
A report from Ozona says that N. C. Rogers, a substantial woolgrower of Sheffield, was shot
and dangerously wounded by a Mexican sheep herder in his employ. The Mexican was
afterward shot and killed while resisting arrest by a sheriff‘s posse.
At Sherman the jury in the case of Mary Gilmore, a negro woman charged with the murder of
Hanna Smith last fall, returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter and
assessed her punishment at two years in the penitentiary.
Elnora Bivens, a negro woman, was arrested at Waco on a charge of poisoning her husband,
Jim Bivens, by putting the deadly drug into his food. Jim Bivens is in dangerous condition
still and may not recover.
Thursday March 10, 1904 A Fatal Saloon Affray.
Dallas: Tom Abernathy, aged about 52 years, was shot and instantly killed at 12:15 o‘clock
Saturday morning by W. H. Diggs, barkeeper at Sam Curtis‘ saloon. The shooting took place
in the saloon. Diggs, who was at once arrested by the police, admitted that he did the
shooting, but stated that it was done in self-defense. The room was filled with broken glass
from tumblers and from the globe of an electric light, which Diggs indicated as evidences of the
attack. He also showed his shirt torn to ribbons at the collar and sleeves, and a ripped place at
the lobe of this left ear. Witnesses say that as Abernathy grasped the bartender‘s collar,
reaching across the counter, Diggs reached below and seized a revolver, firing one shot at such
close range that Abernathy staggered back through the door and fell on the sidewalk, with his
clothing on fire.
Thursday March 10, 1904 Contract Let.
At a meeting of the School Board Wednesday evening, the contract for erecting the new
brick school building was awarded to W. C. Weeks of this place for $11200. Work is to begin
in ten days and be completed in 100 days. E. H. Silven of Dallas is to be supervising architect.
This is going to make things lively for the next 4 months. There will be 50 or 60 car loads of
brick, lime, cement and other structural material to handle, a vast amount of masonry work,
carpenter work, painting, etc. Besides it will give a new impetus to the building boom now
going on all over town. But best of all will be the big new brick school building itself. This (is)
a necessity that we have worked so long and hard for that its consumation will be much
appreciated by all, and especially the school children when they start to school again next fall.
Thursday March 10, 1904
J. L. Johnston was called to Arlington Monday night to see his sister, Mrs. R. L. Ditto, who is
ill, and not expected to recover.
Thursday March 17, 1904 The Watson Community.
Reed—at his home, on the morning of March 14, Mr. Frank Reed passed peacefully away.
With sad and broken hearts, his devoted father, mother, brothers and sisters, and a large
company of friends followed the remains to the grave.
He was a motorman for the North Texas Traction Co., and there were thirty-four of his fellow
motormen and conductor friends to pay their last tribute to their loved friend. There was not,
perhaps, a young man in the entire community more generally loved and highly respected than
was Frank Reed.
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He realized that he was going to die and gave expressions of positive assurance that he was
not afraid to die and that he was ―going home to die no more.‖ The funeral services were
conducted by Rev. D. C. Sibley at the cemetery, after which he was laid to rest in the Watson
cemetery.
May God bless and comfort the sorrowing family and give us all a spirit of submission to our
Father‘s will.
Thursday March 17. 1904 Johnson Station.
The little three months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Roy, died Saturday of pneumonia,
after an illness of five days.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Murray died Friday of measles, and was buried
in the cemetery here Saturday.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Ohio Race Riots. (editorial)
The race riot at Springfield, Ohio, last week was one of the fiercest conflicts that has ever taken
place between the blacks and whites. At the same time there was a like disturbance at
Tempson, Texas, but the Texas affair was tame when compared to the Ohio trouble, and this
again demonstrates the fact that the blacks and whites can never live together on equal footing,
theoretical though it may be, in peace and harmony, it also demonstrates the fact again, that it is
no matter of geography, of north and south, it further demonstrates the pernicious influence of
republican agitation of the race question. Ohio people have shed floods of tears over wrongs
inflicted on negroes in the south, yet when it comes to a practical solution of negro outrages, they
resort to the bullet, the rope, and the torch, with a cruelty and vengeance, seldom equaled and
never excelled in the south. These thing sought to teach the people of the north some valuable
lessons, and but for ―office blindness‖ they would.
Thursday March 17, 1904 (editorial)
Dallas lost a lot of sweetness on the desert air last week, trying to get the cattlemens
convention for 1905. They also lost wholesale lot of cigars, beer and stronger stuff, but it was no
go. Other cities may secure every other kind of plum. Conventions, Colleges, Masonic temples,
benevolent and state institutions, but never the Cattlemens Convention. That belongs to Fort
Worth, and there is no power able to pluck it out of her hands. And it is nothing more than is just
and equitable. It is merely a rendering unto Caesar the things which belong to Caesar. As a
Christian when he dies wants to go to heaven, so does a cowman while he is alive want to make
pilgrimages to Fort Worth, and it would be the veriest and most wanton cruelty, to exile him to
some other city.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Norton Hammack.
At 7:30 A.M. on the 11 inst. the spirit of sweet little Norton Hammack left the fever racked
body and wended its way to a home in the mansions above where the dear Savior had prepared
a place for it. A sweet little bud born on earth to open a full flower in the garden above where it
will ever live. No blighting frost to nip it there. Christ said, ―suffer little children to come unto
me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.‖ It is sweet to think our darling is a bright angel
now. He was so loving and beloved by all, how much we will miss him; yet ―not our will, but
thine be done.‖ The little darling was taken with measles on Friday and on the next Friday he
left us. May God comfort the sorrowing parents, grandparents and friends. He was born in
Arlington, Texas, to his parents, T. R. and Effie Hammack on Jan. 19, 1901. His stay on earth
was short, but O, how sweet! His little body was placed in the Oak Lawn Cemetery Friday
afternoon—Funeral services at grave by Rev. Little.
Aunt Lydia.
Thursday March 17, 1904
Frank Reed, a young man about twenty five years old, died at the home of his parents three
or four miles northeast of town, Monday morning at 3 o‘clock, and was buried Monday evening.
Mr. Reed was working on the street cars at Fort Worth until last Wednesday week when he
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came home suffering from cold and la gripp. This rapidly developed into pneumonia and death
followed. He leaves many friends and relatives to mourn his death.
Thursday March 17, 1904
Thirty six fellow Union Carmen came down from Fort Worth to conduct the funeral of Frank
Reed who was buried at Watson Chapel Monday afternoon. Rev. D. C. Sibley of this place held
the religious exercises.
Thursday March 17, 1904
A telegram was received here Tuesday afternoon from New York announcing the death of
Mrs. A. J. Rogers in that City on the morning of the same day. Mrs. Rogers left Dallas a
month ago with her husband who was going east to buy goods for his several houses at
different points in Texas. The body will be taken to St. Louis for interment. Mr. Rogers has a
large circle of friends here and elsewhere who will sympathize with him in this sore affliction.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Buffalo Bill Would Unhook.
Denver, Colo.: A petition for divorce filed in the District Court of Big Horn County, Wyoming,
January 9, last, by Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) has just been made public. The
complaint charges cruelty and alleges that on December 26, 1900, Mrs. Cody attempted to
poison the plaintiff. Another ground on which plaintiff asks a decree is that the marital
relation has become intolerable to him by his wife‘s refusal to entertain his friends at his
former home at North Platte, Neb.
Thursday March 17, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
The decomposed body of an unknown man was found on the banks of Walnut Creek, a short
distance from Austin.
At Argyle, Denton County, Lee Sconce was thrown out of his wagon by his team running away.
He was seriously, if not fatally, injured.
I. A. Dry, aged seventeen, died Wednesday from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid. He was
afflicted with appendicitis and grew despondent.
At San Antonio Mrs. Caroline Schlingman, aged fifty-five died Wednesday morning from the
effects of burns caused by her clothing catching fire.
George Buffidy, a fleeing negro, was shot in the back by officers in Sherman, and killed. The
officer claimed to have shot to frighten the negro to induce him to stop.
Vince Hudec, a Bohemian farmer living in the Osabe community, near Weimer, died from the
effects of poison taken with suicidal intent. Deceased was about 70 years of age.
Mrs. Sarah Stiff died at the home of W. W. Scott, in North McKinney, after a ten days‘ illness.
She was in her eighty-third year, and was one of the pioneer residents of Collin County.
The electric clock which is to be placed in the city hall tower at Waco has arrived and will be
put up at once. The face will be illuminated by electric lights, enabling all to get the time.
The Floto Shows that have spent this winter in Dallas have decided to erect permanent winter
quarters there on account of the equable climate and railway and commercial advantages.
Charles A. Easterwood, who was run over and killed by a train in Fort Worth Monday was well
known in Waxahachie, having recently moved from that place to Fort Worth.
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Thursday March 17, 1904 Secret Society of Italian Murderers.
Altoona, Pa: The delirious ravings of an Italian boy who had been stabbed and left for dead,
gave a clew to what detectives here believe is the most dangerous Italian society in existence.
Thirty murders in three counties are ascribed to this society and no conviction has been
secured. The murders were committed among the Italians working on railroad improvements
in this county, and in every case the detectives were baffled.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Preparing to Hang Smith.
Waxahachie: Preparations for the hanging of Brozier Smith, the convicted wife slayer, will
begin here this week. The hanging will not occur in the jail, which has no suitable place, but
will probably take place near the National Compress, on the outskirts of the city. The rope
with which Fred Sawyer was hanged here about five years ago, and which has been used
in sixteen hangings in the State, will be used by Sheriff Binnick in this execution.
Thursday March 17, 1904
Miss Mary Sherrill, aged 17 years, was severely burned at her home near Tota, Parker
county, a few days ago, and died Saturday from the effects. She was the daughter of a
prominent farmer.
Dallas pool room men are planning a scheme to re-open the pool rooms so as to evade the
recent laws against their operation.
Thursday March 17, 1904
Wood Smith was tried in the Dallas County courts in 1898 on a charge of having murdered
H. J. Spillers, a Garland merchant. Smith was adjudged insane and ordered sent to the
asylum at Terrell where he has remained until he escaped Thursday night.
Signora Guiseppina Reina, a wealthy woman who has just died at Milan, has demonstrated
her profound veneration for Pope Pius by leaving His Holiness $50,000.
Selma La Desma, a Mexican farmer, who lived six miles east of Austin, was going to that city
Saturday with a load of cotton when the team took fright, ran away and killed him. He was 47
years old and left a family.
William P. Beach, of Missouri, for the last twenty-five years known as ―the hatless man of
Macon,‖ is dead of pneumonia, a victim to his theory, that a man will enjoy better health by
discarding headwear in all kinds of weather. For a quarter of a century Beach has never,
under any circumstances, worn a hat.
Thursday March 17, 1904 New Cabling Arrangement.
New York: Following an arrangement effected by the Associated Press the war news collected
by the great European news agencies from Japan, Korea and Chinese territory will be
transmitted to London via the Pacific cable and the United States and will be delivered en route
to the Associated Press newspapers. Hitherto this matter has been transmitted from the Far
East via India and has been repeated from London to New York.
Thursday March 17, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
An immigration steerage rate is on between Scandanavian ports and New York of $18.
Representative George W. Croft of Aiken, S. C., died at his home there Thursday of blood
poisoning.
In a difficulty Louis Green was shot and killed at Bastrop. The parties fell out over a small
piece of land. Both are negroes.
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William Alexander, a well digger, while being rescued from a well full of ―damp,‖ near Austin
fell back and crushed his skull, from which he died a few hours later.
President Roosevelt has fixed the salaries of the Isthmian Canal Commissioners at $12,000 per
year, and in addition thereto $15 a day while they are on the isthmus.
W. T. Mahan of Corning, Ark., died in the International and Great Northern station at Tyler
while waiting for a belated train. Deceased was thirty-five years of age and was en route to his
former home after having sought restoration of health in San Antonio.
E. W. Wallace, living four miles north of Venus, lost his barn by fire, together with two mules,
three good mares, two new buggies, one surrey, one binder, one mower, one grain seeder, two
Cassady plows, 200 bushels of corn, some oats, three tons of hay and saddles and harness to
the amount of $125. Origin of fire unknown. Total loss 2000 with no insurance.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Eased into Elysium by Electricity.
Ossining, N. Y.: Thomas Tobin was put to death Monday in the electric chair at Sing Sing
prison, for the murder of Captain James B. Craft in New York City. He walked to the chair
uttering a prayer that his mother taught him when a child. Three shocks were given before he
was pronounced dead. Tobin was an ex-convict employed in a tenderloin saloon in September,
1902, when he killed Craft for his money.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Loved Her Country Better Than Life.
New York: A Japanese woman at Takasaki, learning that her only son had been expelled
from service because she was dependent on him, committed suicide. In a letter she stated that
she was about to kill herself that her son might be free to fight for his fatherland. Then she
plunged a dagger into her heart. Withdrawing the weapon she handed it to her son who
immediately volunteered for active service.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Colombia Has Cooled Down.
New York: A French steamer which arrived at Colon brought the news that the Colombian
government has finally desisted from any movement to recover its lost territory, and prohibited
any further attempts to attack the Panama frontier. Nine hundred Colombians are returning to
Bogota. Several hundred officers from Carthagena have arrived at Colon, probably on their
way to Cauca.
Thursday March 17, 1904
San Antonio: H. Negbauer, a former well-to-do farmer of Bexar County, seeing his last cash
money gradually passing from him wrote a curse on the world, and then, seated in a rocking
chair in his apartments put an end to his life. He put the muzzle of the pistol into his mouth
and fired. A family occupying part of the building did not hear the report, and the corpse sat
up in the rocking chair, for perhaps eighteen hours before it was discovered.
Thursday March 17, 1904 Found Dead in His Room.
Mineola: A. Beard, a policeman of Mineola, was found in his room dead Sunday. The cause
of his death is supposed to be heart trouble. Mr. Beard was last seen alive Friday. His
sleeping apartment is a room so arranged that he may be alone, as he sleeps in the daytime,
and it is thought that he died last Friday evening, and his body was in a decomposed
condition.
Thursday March 17, 1904
The Carter gin closed its year‘s work Saturday. This gin, ginned 3,600 bales during the
season.
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Thursday March 24, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Eleven cars of seed potatoes have been planted around Omaha, Texas, this crop largely
supplanting cotton on some farms.
Miss Rosa Finster, of Iowa Park, aged 18, was thrown from a horse, and suffered concussion
of the brain, and her recovery is doubtful.
At Cisco Mrs. Wm. Kliner shot John Walker in the head, with a shotgun. Walker killed her
husband about a year ago. Walker is still living.
Frank Schorer, a well known gun locksmith of Galveston, was accidentally killed in the yard at
his home by a bullet from a parlor rifle, the trigger of which was sprung by a pet dog.
Last Sunday some boys were throwing stones at some quail, near Graham, when Ottie Smith
accidentally struck and killed Luther Moore.
While painting a smoke-stack on the engine room of the Slayden-Kirksey Wollen Mills, a negro
answering to the name of ―Dan‖ fell to the ground and was almost instantly killed.
County Judge B. H. White, of Donley Clounty is dead. He was the first elected judge of
Donley County and served continuously from 1882 until the day of his death, and had no
doubt served longer continuously than any other County Judge in all the great State of Texas.
At a birthday party near Kinston, I. T., on Saturday night Sid Chaffin was shot in the shoulder
near the heart and may die. Nat Vincent was cut in the neck and back seriously, but he may
recover.
Two negroes from Belton went to Killeen to do Scavenger work, under contract with the
authorities. At 11 o‘clock at night they were assaulted by a gang of armed ruffians and
severely beaten and driven out of town.
A timberman named Fletcher was run over by a freight train on the Texas and New Orleans
near Mahl Tuesday afternoon. Both legs were cut off. It is thought that he will succumb to the
shock.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Denton Man Killed by Storm.
Denton: Henry Berg, a prominent farmer, was killed near Bolivar Saturday night during the
storm. He had gone out to the barn to look after stock, when the wind struck the barn and
demolished the structure. He was killed by falling timbers. His body was found about forty
feet from the barn, with part of the timbers on top of him. A straight wind at Pilot Point
unroofed a dwelling, but did no other damage.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Chas. W. Thompson Dead.
Washington: Representative Chas. W. Thompson of Alabama died Saturday in this city of
pneumonia. Mr. Thompson had been sick just a week, having been attacked first last Sunday
night. Toward the end he suffered intensely. Accompanied by his son, Charles W. Thompson,
and the Congressional committee, the remains left Monday night for Tuskegee, where the
interment will take place Wednesday.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Perhaps Fatally Shot.
Paris: John Harmon, a young man about 20 years old, whose relatives reside in the
Territory and in Arkansas, was shot at Tigertown, this county, at noon Monday. The bullet
passed entirely through his body, inflicting a wound believed to be fatal. Deputy Sheriff Hogue
and Terry left for the scene of the tragedy. Joe Ike Malton, a young farmer, came in before the
officers arrived at Tigertown and surrendered.
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Thursday March 24, 1904 Horrible Tragedy at Temple.
Temple: A bloody tragedy was enacted Monday afternoon in the office of the manager of the
Independent Telephone in this city. Mm. McLaughlin, the manager, was shot in the breast
with a 38-caliber pistol three times and instantly killed. W. R. Chandler is under arrest. After
shooting McLaughlin Chandler turned to the next room in the telephone office and sent two
bullet holes through his (Chandler‘s) wife, whose life hangs on a slender thread.
Mr. McLaughlin was manager of the Independent Telephone Company here, and has been
since its organization two years ago. Mrs. Chandler was the chief operator of the company,
which position she has held for a year or more. The shooting occurred in the company‘s office
(unreadable) Haamill‘s (?) drug store. Mr. Chandler immediately gave himself (unreadable).
Thursday March 24, 1904 Victims of a Depraved Taste.
Bremond: Saturday Albert Kawalski purchased a bottle of carbolic acid, and he and Martin
Stopauski also purchased a bottle of whisky. While coming back to town, they took a drink
from the bottle containing carbolic acid, thinking it to be the whisky. Both men dropped dead
in a few minutes after they reached the city. Both were leading members of the Polish race
here.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Territory Tragedies.
Tahlequah: Friday night, while out with a party of young people on a possum hunt,
Christian Gulager, a prominent young cattle man, was shot and mortally wounded. He was
driving a surrey in which was another young man and two young ladies, when fired upon by an
unknown person in ambush, one shot taking effect in his back.
South McAlester: Mine inspector William Cameron found the body of William Tucker, the
shot firer who lost his life in the fire in Samples mines on February 12. The mine was sealed
for twenty days and then a fall of slate was found to have shut off ingress. It had been feared
that Tucker had been shut up alive, but the condition of his body proved that he had died
instantly.
Guthrie: The small son of John Jamison fell underneath the wagon wheels and was
crushed to death while the family were moving overland through the Oteo Reservation to
Cleveland, Ok. At Hobart, Robert Balls, an eighteen months old child, fell backward into a
tub of boiling water and was killed.
Thursday March 24, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
One of the street cars of the Houston Heights line ran over and killed Miss Sacks, daughter of
Martin K. Sacks. She was about 12 years old.
The Railroad Commission has approved to date thirty-four interlocking plants which are now in
operation protecting railroad crossings in the State.
A. S. Cox, a farmer whose home was about five miles southeast of McKinney, was found dead
in the rear end of a Jackson street saloon in Dallas Saturday morning.
William G. Flake, aged about 35 years died suddenly of heart failure at Fort Worth just as he
had stepped from the bathroom, where he had washed his hands for breakfast.
Theodore Holder, a resident of Iredell community for thirty years, worked on his farm until
noon, was taken suddenly ill and died in the evening.
Leading citizens of Killeen have denounced the hoodlums who whipped the two negroes from
Temple who were employed to do sanitary work in that city, and asked the press of the State to
publish the fact.
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Oscar Jones, a negro man, shot and instantly killed Albert Conley, his father-in-law, Tuesday
evening. Two shots were fired, both taking effect. No cause is known except that they were
both drinking and had been quarreling.
A negro well digger at Temple named Sam Houston was killed while being drawn out of a well
which he had just finished. His hold gave way and he fell to the bottom, striking on his head,
death occurring instantly.
Thursday March 24, 1904
Former Mayor William R. Grace died of pneumonia at his residence in New York. He was
in his seventy-second year.
All New England was agitated by an earthquake Sunday night.
A.W. Colgate, the wealthy soap manufacturer of Massachusetts, dropped dead at Pasadena,
Cal., a few days since.
John Maynard, a negro, was lynched by a mob at Montgomery station on the Santa Fe
railroad. He was charged with being one of a party of negroes who robbed several
Bohemians, and after beating them, killed one.
Michael Brush, a New York burglar, shot Officers Hugh Enright, who died on the way to
the hospital, and Jacob Bachman, mortally wounding him, and then shot himself through
the head.
The clothes of the eight-months-old child of F. A. Drinkard, of Cleburne, caught fire from a
match and the child was so badly burned that its recovery is very doubtful.
Francisco Garcia, aged 20, living on Garcitas ranch, near Victoria, in accidentally dropping
his pistol was shot in a vital place, dying in fourteen hours.
Francisco Villyjas, aged 20 years, a brakeman on the Mexican National, was found dead in
an outhouse at Laredo with a bullet hole in his body.
Thursday March 24, 1904 A Missouri Town Laid Waste.
Kansas City, Mo.: A special from Higginsville, Mo., says that fifty buildings are partly
wrecked, one man is mortally wounded and several others hurt, the town is in darkness and
the streets strewn with debris as the result of a tornado and hail storm. The hail on the streets
was a foot deep with five minutes after the storm came, and some of the stones were as large as
hen eggs. Dozens of trees in the town were blown down and several horses killed on the
streets.
Thursday March 24, 1904 In a Cyclone‘s Fury Ride Death and Ruin.
Greenville, Texas, March 18. – During the rain and hailstorm that prevailed in this section
before daylight Thursday morning, a tornado or cyclone swept through the Neyland
community, six miles east of Greenville, leaving death and destruction in its path.
The first point in the path of the cyclone was at the country home of John W. Haney, some
two or three miles northwest of Neyland. His two-story residence was demolished and his
brother-in-law, Bob Sinclair, was instantly killed. A scantling was (unreadable)...
Mrs. Haney had her collar bone (unreadable...) Ethel, were quite severely but not seriously
injured. Mr. Haney had his night clothing stripped from his body. The dining room and
kitchen of the Haney residence were left standing, while the main portion of the building was
torn away. His barn was also demolished.
(The article continues with details of destruction of homes, schoolhouses, offices, barns,
animals, etc, and injuries to persons.)
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Thursday March 24, 1904
Wm. Bellamy an old citizen of Watson community was stricken (with) paralysis Friday night,
and fears entertained that the result may be fatal.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Watson Community.
Mr. Bellamy died Monday and was buried in the Ford cemetery Tuesday. Mr. Bellamy has
lived in our community for a number of years and his absence will be felt by all. Rev. Sibley
conducted the funeral services.
Thursday March 24, 1904 Major Bean Suicided.
Omaha, Neb.: Major William H. Bean of the United States army, committed suicide
Thursday. He was ordered to the Philippines and had his trunks packed and taken to the
depot. Immediately afterwards he asked his wife to play the piano. While she was playing he
thrust an army revolver to his right temple and fired. The bullet lodged in his brain and he
died almost instantly.
Thursday March 24, 1904
General H. H. Thomas, who was recently outside as federal appraiser for the port of
Chicago, dropped dead in that city. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause.
Thursday March 31, 1904
In an insane frenzy Rudolph F. Sigel, son of the famous soldier, the late Gen. Franz Sigel,
has tried to kill Mrs. Uriah, the elderly wife of a neighbor, at Egg harbor, N. J. He had been
lately discharged from an insane asylum.
Hagop Bogigian, a wealthy importer and exporter of Boston, has decided to colonize at least
one hundred Armenian families in the Panhandle of Texas within a year. He believes this
nucleus will be the foundation of a great Armenian population.
Mrs. Susia Cole Flinn, of Hico, aged 53, died Friday night. Death came unexpectedly, for
she had been quite well and had partaken of supper as usual. Mrs. Flinn, wife of Capt. J. W.
Flinn, is an old resident of this county.
The 4-year-old son of Western Houston, a farmer living near Colton, was riding a horse
hitched to a harrow, when the animal became frightened and ran away. He was thrown off and
a tooth of the harrow penetrated his skull from which he died.
Dr. C. H. Roberts, one of the leading physicians of Wolfe City dropped dead in his residence
Saturday morning from heart failure.
George Collins, alias Fred Lewis, was hanged Saturday, at Union, Mo., for participation in
the killing of Charles J. Schumacher, a St. Louis detective, on January 25, 1903, at the home
of William Rudolph, Collins‘ partner, near Stanton, Mo.
Thursday March 31, 1904
It has become quite a custom with the T. P. trainmen who ran through Arlington to go
to the public well (artesian) and fill a jug with water to carry along for medical effect.
Several go to the well regularly every day. One of these is W. A. Graham and he reports
having gained 5 pounds in ten days, from using this water.
Thursday March 31, 1904 (editorial)
The scene of the race war has shifted to Arkansaw where at least a dozen negroes have
been killed during the last week or so. The troubles were precipitated by a negro who
attacked two white men with a table leg; beating one so severely that it is thought he can‘t
recover.
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Thursday March 31, 1904 Euless Items.
Mr. Editor, having seen nothing from Euless lately, we place a bid for space to mention a few
passing events.
Mrs. J. D. Uselton, who has been very sick for some weeks and at whose bedside relatives
and friends have watched for several days with serious anticipation, Wednesday night passed
beyond the reach of the cruel pangs of earthly pain, leaving a sorrowing husband, and four
little boys, who in their bereavement, have the sympathy of the entire community.
Thursday March 31, 1904
Carroll Reed an old and highly respectable citizen of Watson community died Wednesday
morning after a short confinement of pneumonia. The remains were interred at West Fork
Cemetery Thursday evening at 2 o‘clock. Rev. D. C. Sibley conducted the funeral exercises.
This is the second death in this family from pneumonia, a son having died about ten days ago.
The surviving members of the family have much sympathy in these sad bereavements. The
Reed family is a large one and have been highly favored heretofore, as to sickness and death.
But sooner or later the call comes to all.
Thursday March 31, 1904 Elijah W. Campbell.
The people of Arlington, read in yesterdays papers with genuine sorrow, of the death E. W.
Campbell, division superintendent of the Texas and Pacific railway. Mr. Campbell was well
known and greatly respected by the people of this city. His son Ray Campbell married in
Arlington and he and his wife have much sympathy among our people. Mr. Campbell was
much trusted and revered by the T. P. people from the president of the road down to the
humblest trackman. His place will be hard to fill.
Thursday March 31, 1904
News was received here this week of the death of Mrs. Ran Hammack at Amarillo on the 25
th
inst. Mrs. Hammack was a daughter of Uncle Press Miller, south of town, and had a large
circle of friends in and around Arlington.
Thursday March 31, 1904
The two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Steed died at the home of its grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. James Hitt, 3 miles southeast of town, on the 30 inst. Interment at the West Fork
Cemetery at 3 o‘clock p.m, March 31. Services conducted by Rev. D. C. Sibley. Mr. Steed is an
employee of Swift & Co., Fort Worth.
Thursday March 31, 1904
Henry Williamson, Manager of the Southwestern Telephone Company at this place, has an
auto-cycle which attracts much attention on our streets, especially among horses from the
country.
Thursday March 31, 1904 YOUNG CORBETT BESTED.
In a Twenty Round Bout – Britt was Winner.
San Francisco, Cal., March 26. – At 9:40 last night Young Corbett was the first to enter the
ring. He was clad in blue and white sweater and had both hands bandaged. After being
cheered he at once took his seat and proceeded, to read numerous telegrams which had
preceded him.
At 9:45 p.m. Britt entered the ring.
Britt was accorded an ovation, which lasted several minutes. Jimmy looked a bit worried,
but it was seen that his physical condition was good in spite of the low weight. Immediately
afterward Corbett was introduced. His reception did not suffer in comparison with the ovation
accorded the local favorite.
Referee Graney entered the ring and after shaking hands with both men, brought them to the
center of the ring and gave them their instructions.
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It was announced that the fight would be a twenty-round contest, Marquis of Queensberry
rules, the men to break by order of the referee.
Britt was given the decision in the twentieth round.
Thursday March 31, 1904
Young Corbett, who lost the fight to Britt, says he was unjustly deprived of the decision, and
will challenge Britt to a fight to take place toward the latter part of April, at which the winner
may have all the receipts.
R. B. McBee, aged 28 years, formerly of Sherman, Tex., bookkeeper for Tyler & Simpson,
was drowned in the Chickasaw Lake, three miles east of Ardmore.
Mrs. T. R. Hackley was appointed by the Commissioners‘ Court to fill out the unexpired term
of her husband as County Treasurer. Mr. Hackely died at his home Tuesday at Bonham.
Herman Nagel, nightwatchman at the Union Traction Company‘s car barns, Leavitt street
and Blue Island avenue, Chicago, has shot and fatally wounded Charles Crosby, one of three
men who, he says, were attempting a hold up.
Thursday March 31, 1904
DeWitt, Ark.: Five negroes who had been arrested as a result of the race troubles at St.
Charles, this county, were taken from the guards by a crowd of men last night and shot
to death. The five victims were Jim Smith, Charley Smith, Mack Baldwin, Abe Bailey
and Garret Flood. This makes nine negroes that have been killed within the last week
within the vicinity of St. Charles in connection with racial troubles, arising over a trivial
quarrel.
Thursday March 31, 1904 UXORCIDE HANGED.
Brozier Smith, Negro Wife Murderer Hanged.
Waxahachie, Tex., March 26. – Brozier Smith, colored, was legally hanged here yesterday for
the murder of his wife in this city on the night of Feb. 24, 1903. Smith maintained his
nerve and composure to the last, and was one of the coolest persons on the scaffold during the
preliminary work of preparing for the execution.
Sheriff Minnick and party arrived at the scaffold with the prisoner at 11:25 o‘clock in the
morning. Upon arrival Smith calmly mounted the scaffold steps unassisted, and asked for a
cigar, which was given him. He smoked this as he listened to the religious services, and, when
his pastor, Rev. (unreadable) ... upon his knees and joined in the prayer.
(unreadable) ... the negative and signified his readiness for the preparation for the execution
to begin. He stooped and pulled off his shoes and stepped upon the trap, when he was bound
and the noose adjusted around his neck. After the black cap was placed he told all the officers
and friends present good-bye, shaking hands with them.
Just before the trap was sprung he asked Rev. Hill to tell his mother good-bye for him.
Sheriff Minnick sprung the trap at 11:37 and Smith shot down to his death. Though there
was a seven and one-half foot fall, his neck was not broken, but he died of strangulation. After
hanging for ten minutes, County Physician Simpson announced that he was dead and after
hanging for nineteen minutes he was taken down and the body delivered to his mother and
friends for burial.
A large crowd, estimated at 1500, was present around the enclosure, though only those who
had permission were admitted within.
The rope used belonged to ex-Sheriff W. A. Stewart of Cleburne, and was (unreadable) ...
Cleburne, about six years ago, since which time it has been used in the execution of
seventeen men, one of whom was Fred Sawyer, hanged in this city in January, 1899.
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Thursday March 31, 1904 TORNADO IN MISSOURI.
Six Lives Lost with Great Destruction of Property.
Memphis, Tenn., March 28. – A special to the Commercial Appeal from Caruthersville, Mo.,
says:
A tornado swept the country twenty miles north of here Saturday night, causing a great loss
of life and destroying thousands of dollars worth of property.
The wires have been down all day and authentic news has been hard to get, but as belated
reports come in the loss of life and property increases. It is now known that six lives have been
lost and thousands of dollars worth of property destroyed.
The lives of the Shuemaker family, living near Portageville, four in number, were blotted out
and their home demolished.
Wesley Miller and wife, living two miles north of Mount Pleasant, were killed and their home
demolished. Their bodies were found 200 yards away, badly mutilated. Mr. Miller was a
wealthy mill owner and planter. Fifteen hundred dollars in money belonging to him was found
scattered over the ground.
Much stock was killed and wounded. Chickens were found with their heads blown off and
stripped of their feathers. Fence posts were blown from the ground, and giant trees were
twirled aside like straws.
It is feared a full report will reveal greater loss of life. Yesterday was very hot, and just after
dark the cyclone burst its furious wrath from a funnel-shaped cloud, sweeping a path 300
yards wide.
Thursday March 31, 1904 Floods in the North.
Grand Rapids, Wis., March 28. – Unprecedented floods are sweeping down Grand River,
engulfing property of untold value. Some estimated damage to business property at
$2,000,000. Homes have been flooded and hundreds are cut off from food and fuel. Practically
no trains are adhering to schedule on the roads that have their lines open. The city lighting
station is entirely cut off and the city is in darkness again. The work of rescuing inhabitants of
the flooded houses has continued throughout the day. Fifteen thousand men are unable to
work. Two thousand homes are flooded on the west side.
Indianapolis: The city street railway and interurban system are without power because of the
flooding of their powerhouse near White River. Communication with North and West
Indianapolis is cut off by the flood, which has swept away bridges. The city is without water,
owing to the flooding of the waterwork‘s pumping station. Many houses have been carried
down White River and shattered against the stone bridges, which connect the city property
with the suburbs.
Thursday March 31, 1904 Shooting a Mile Away.
Brackett: Seventeen hundreds yards is the present range for the new Springfield rifle and
some fine records have been made at this distance, ten shots varying not more than about five
feet vertical and the center of impact, missing the line only three to ten inches. The sight
adopted for the rifle is a half sight which prevents the most accurate marksmanship, but which
is regarded generally as best for army use.
Thursday March 31, 1904
Vinita, I. T.: Fort Gibson has the oldest person living in Indian Territory. Mrs. Mimay
Poorboy is now 103 years old and has the distinction of having lived in three centuries. Mrs.
Poorboy is now very feeble. She was born in the old Cherokee Nation, east of the Mississippi
River, and, being a slave for nearly seventy years of her life. People who are considered old
remember that she was an old woman when they were children.
Thursday March 31, 1904 Prominent Temperance Worker Dead.
Mexia: Mrs. Mary Prendergast, wife of Judge D. M. Prendergast, died at her home in this
city Sunday morning at the age of about 73 years. Her husband, aged 86, and a large family of
children, survive her. She was married to Judge Prendergast fifty-four years ago. Deceased
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was an enthusiastic worker in the temperance cause and was well known to members of the W.
C. T. U. all over Texas.
Thursday March 31, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Brainard Howell, a well known railroad man, formerly general Eastern freight agent of the
West shore line, is dead at Tenafly, N. J. He was deputy surveyor of the port of New York
under General Grant‘s administration.
Gen. Nicholas Aras, an insurgent leader, who gave the firing order which resulted in the
death of Machinist J. C. Johnson on the American gunboat Yankee February 1, at Santa
Domingo, has been recaptured. After a drumhead courtmartial he was sentenced to death and
immediately shot.
Mrs. S. A. Irwin, great-grand-daughter of Alexander James Dallas, is dead at her home in
Philadelphia. She was born on November 14, 1815.
Two negroes engaged in a duel with double-barreled shotguns in the dark at Texarkana. One
of them, named Toler Thornton, received several buckshot in the face and is very painfully but
not dangerously wounded. The other negro escaped.
Col. Vincent Marmaduke of St. Louis died at Marshall, Mo., Friday, aged 73 years. He was
a Confederate and was member of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the Civil War.
Thursday March 31, 1904
Andrew Jansen, aged forty, a Norwegian, died at San Antonio from the effects of a bullet
wound self-inflicted. He was despondent, due to financial stringency and ill health. He leaves
a wife in Chicago.
A man named Wooly, whose home was in Magazine, Ark., was found dying in a box car at
Wynnewood. He received medical attention, but never regained consciousness.
At Columbus Henry Homes, a negro, was tried for the murder of Emil Bell, a Mexican boy, 3
years old, and after deliberating fifteen minutes the jury returned its verdict of guilty, assessing
the death penalty. There is another indictment for murder against the defendant, which
case has been continued.
Thursday March 31, 1904 Thirteen Victims to a Feud.
Little Rock: Two more negroes have been killed in the clash between whites and blacks at St.
Charles, Arkansas County. This brings the total of dead negroes up to thirteen, all of them
being killed within the past week. The last two negroes killed were the Grin brothers, Henry
and Walker, who were the cause of the trouble. The negroes were reported to have escaped,
but it is known that they are dead and it is believed they were killed Saturday.
Thursday April 7, 1904
Mrs. Mary L. Campbell, wife of A. Campbell, died at her home 1 ½ miles south of town, and
was laid to rest at West Fork Cemetery April 6 at 11 o‘clock. She was born Jan. 13, 1825 in
Franklin Co., Tenn., professed religion and joined the Methodist Church in 1838, was married
to A. Campbell in 1846. She lived a consistent Christian life, and died in the triumphs of a
living faith. May God bless and sustain her aged companion who is left behind.
D. C. Sibley.
Thursday April 7, 1904 Pantego.
Owing to the high price of cotton there will be much early rising this spring. A man not far
from here who is a great rustler recently hired a hand, next morning breakfast was announced
at half past three and about the same time the hired man was seen going out at the front gate
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with grip in hand. The proprietor called him to come back and have some breakfast but he
shook his head and said: ―H___ no, I‘m going somewhere to stay all night.‖
By the way, we would like for some man with about four hundred dogs to come out for a
rabbit hunt. They are numerous here.
Thursday April 7, 1904
J. B. Martin, Sr., an old and highly respected citizen of Forest Hill community, this county,
died on the 1
st
inst. and was interred on the 2
nd
, inst. Mr. Martin was 77 years old, was the
father of 8 boys and two girls, all of whom, except one, live in this County. All the children
were present at the funeral. W. S. and D. R. Martin, two sons of this place, and families and J.
C. Herndon attended the funeral.
Thursday April 7, 1904 She Nearly Murdered Four Men.
Chicago: The reversing of a little girl‘s testimony in a murder case has saved five men from
the gallows, and the defendants were released. In explanation of the remarkable change of
front the child declared that she had been instructed how to testify by the widow of the
murdered man. Charges against the prisoners were withdrawn on the spot by the State‘s
attorney and the five men walked out of the dock free by order of the court.
Thursday April 7, 1904 Building Exploded.
Marshalltown, Iowa: An explosion in the Citizens National Bank Building at Alba Sunday
morning caused three deaths and injured several. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but
it is supposed to have originated in the heating plant. Besides the bank building, a clothing
store and two grocery stores were destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000.
Thursday April 7, 1904 Will Block Harbor at Any Cost.
Nagasaki, March 31. – The Japanese Government is determined to complete the sealing of
Port Arthur.
Admiral Togo‘s latest effort (to close the) small gap in the barrier of sunken ships: To insure
the choking of this passage, twenty-eight old steamships are in course of preparation. They are
being stripped of all but their machinery and will be driven full tilt at the harbor in squadrons
of six until the gap is filled.
If any one of the steamers gains entrance to the roadstead between the sunken Yohiko and
the Yoneyama Maru, the act will be accomplished and the Russian fleet will no longer be a
factor in the war.
In any event, although the whole twenty-eight vessels have to be sacrificed, ships will be
sunken so thickly about the harbor entrance as to make it impossible for anything larger than
a torpedo boat to thread its way out.
Thursday April 7, 1904 Prominent Business Man Dies.
Corsicana: J. K. Huey died after a brief illness. He was born near Pittsburg, Pa., May 26,
1827. Early in the fifties he came to Texas. After the close of the war he opened up a
hardware business at Navasota, with which he had been connected until his death. He was a
director of the National Exchange Bank of Dallas and in the Central Grocery Company of
Dallas and Corsicana. He was one of the founders of the hardware firm of Huey & Philip of
Dallas.
Thursday April 7, 1904 ―A Tooth for a Tooth.‖
Before artificial teeth were created deficiencies had to be made good by the real article, so
body snatchers ravaged the cemeteries at night, breaking up the jaws of the dead to extract
their teeth to sell to dentists for insertion in live men‘s mouths. An army of these ghouls
followed Wellington‘s army. They were licensed as sutlers, but once night fell, out came their
nippers and they prowled over the battlefield extracting the teeth of the dead or dying.
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Thursday April 7, 1904
Mark Alexander, one of the pioneer settlers of Ellis County and an old Confederate soldier,
dropped dead at Waxahachie Sunday in a street car while on his way to the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Harry W. Meek. It is supposed the cause of his death was heart disease. Mr.
Alexander was about 65 years of age and was a native of Tennessee.
Dr. J. W. Garnett died at his home in Greenville. Deceased had lived there for a number of
years and was one of the oldest practicing physicians of the country.
Ethel, the 9-year-old daughter of Sid Martin, manager of the Head of the River Ranch,
accidentally caught her dress on fire one day last week while near an open fireplace at the
ranch, and was severely burned, from the effects of which she died Wednesday night.
Mrs. Mary Cook, who was perhaps the oldest person in North Texas, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. P. B. Maddrey, in Bonham. Mrs. Cook was born in Tennessee in 1807, and
moved to where Bonham now stands in 1853. Had she lived until April 21 next she would
have been 97 years old.
Thursday April 7, 1904 THINGS IN BRIEF.
Thos. McGuire, a New York theatrical treasurer, has had his tongue removed to stop a
cancerous growth induced by smoking.
Charlie L. Marlin, a Confederate Veteran, aged 64 years, died. Dr. B. H. Carroll of Waco
officiated at the funeral which took place at Itasca.
Gen. William H. Payne, counsel for the Southern railway, a distinguished Confederate
officer and commander of the famous Black Horse Cavalry of the first Bull Run, died at
Washington, aged seventy-three years.
Tandy McDaniel was accidentally killed near Naples in Cass County while out hunting. His
gun fell from his shoulder, caused by his jumping a gully, and was discharged. The load took
effect in his back, instantly killing him. He was a man of family.
Thursday April 7, 1904 Killed His Father-in-Law.
Cleburne: Bob Taylor, who lives two miles west of Venus, came in and surrendered to
officers, saying he had killed W. W. Clements. Clements was Taylor‘s father-in-law and lived
in Ellis County. He was killed in Taylor‘s field with a singletree and there were no eye
witnesses. After telling his story Taylor waived examination and was allowed bond in the sum
of $2500 by agreement with the County Attorney.
Thursday April 14, 1904
A five months old child of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Cobb died Saturday out on Arkansaw lane of
meningitis and was buried Sunday evening at Johnson Station.
Thursday April 14, 1904 Johnson Station.
A child of Mr. Cobbs was buried in the cemetery here Sunday.
Thursday April 14, 1904 Two Babes Burned.
At Candon, four miles north of here on last Saturday morning at ten o‘clock, the five
months old twin babies of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Smith were burned so severely that both died
in a few hours. The family were living in a tent and while all were out the tent caught on fire
from the stove pipe, and in a few seconds fell down on the bed where the babies lay, with fatal
results. A Mrs. Collins was the first to reach the burning tent and succeeded in rescuing the
babes, before life was extinct; she herself being severely burned about the hands and face. The
pathetic sadness of such deaths can but touch the heart of every father and mother specially,
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and workers in a general way. The little fellows were interred at Calloway cemetery Monday
evening.
Thursday April 14, 1904
Horace Copeland who was called to the bedside of his aged mother in Tennessee has
returned. His mother died while he was with her. The many relatives in and around Arlington
have the sympathy of a large circle of friends, in which the Journal joins most heartily.
Thursday April 14, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Bryce W. Custer, former sheriff of Franklin County, and a half brother of Gen. George A.
Custer, died suddenly at his home in Columbus, O., last Wednesday, aged 73.
Mrs. Cordella Botkin was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning by poisoned
candy sent by mail from San Francisco. The penalty is imprisonment for life.
John Troy, a stonecutter, at Shreveport, killed himself by cutting his throat in his room.
The remains were viewed by the Coroner, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above
facts.
The mingling of sexes at public bathing places has been declared by leading members of the
W. C. T. U. of New Jersey to be ―vile, revolting and corrupt.‖ These terms were applied during a
discussion of the subject in the State convention at Newark.
Walter Lee Brown, Chicago, a well known chemist, bibliophile and author of a number of
text books on assaying is dead at his home in Evanston, Ill. He was fifty years old and had
been an invalid for three years.
Thursday April 14, 1904 Death of the Queen.
Madrid: The official Gazette merely announces the death of former Queen Isabella and
makes no statement regarding the funeral arrangements. King Alfonso desires that every
honor shall be paid to the dead, but the remains will not be met at the frontier by the members
of the Cabinet and Minister of Justice Toca alone will go to El Escorial, which is twenty-six
miles northwest of Madrid, for the interment.
Thursday April 14, 1904 Tragedy Near Texarkana.
Texarkana: A tragedy took place on the Cut-Off plantation, twenty-five miles west of here
Saturday. I. Z. Rice, one of the best known plantation managers in this section, was shot and
instantly killed. J. H. Hobson surrendered to the officers. It is said the parties were close
friends, boarded at the same place, and that the tragedy was the result of a dispute over some
very trivial matter. Both men are well known here.
Thursday April 14, 1904 A Solemn Scene.
Chicago, Ill.: A fast mail crashed into a passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad near Maywood Thursday morning, causing the death of three Indians and injuries to
twenty-three others, who were on their way to New York for exhibit purposes. After the bodies
had been placed in a row on the prairie beside the tracks, the uninjured among the Indians
gathered about and, led by Chief Iron Tail, solemnly chanted the Indian ―death song.‖
Thursday April 14, 1904 A Deadly Breath.
Mexia: A severe storm passed over this section Thursday afternoon. At Shiloh, south of
here, Kerze‘s gin and a tenant house were blown down. At Prairie Grove the tenant house on
Mrs. Powell‘s place was wrecked. At Mills, in Freestone County, two children are reported
killed and a woman hurt, all colored, and Ben Di?gs‘ house blown down.
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Thursday April 14, 1904
Eugene Willis, a bridgeman on the Katy, was run over by a hand car Wednesday near Dallas
and died from his injuries that night.
In a difficulty at McKinney between Levi Young and Bill Hardison, negroes, following a game
of ―craps,‖ Young was shot by Hardison Sunday night and instantly killed.
Dot Noblett, a young man about 21 years of age, killed himself at the residence of W. T.
Worthy, three miles north of Terrell Monday night by taking an overdose of strychnine. The
young man worked that day and came home at night as usual and ate supper.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. Maggie Dudley was bitten by a snake Thursday afternoon
and died from the effects of the bite Saturday afternoon. They are residents of the south
portion of Taylor County.
A street car ran off the track at Santa Barbara, Cal., and was turned over. Three people
were killed instantly and two were so badly injured that they died soon after the
accident. Twenty were more or less injured, sustaining bruises and broken bones.
Thursday April 14, 1904 Settled the Case Out of Court.
Birmingham, Ala.: Capt. W. W. Milliken, placed in jail here on the charge of assaulting Miss
Snyder of Dothan, broke jail, and, closely pursued, fired several shots at the persons who were
trying to overtake him. Finding he could not escape, he shot himself through the heart, death
taking place immediately. Capt. Milliken was postmaster at Abbeyville, and, stood high in
Republican politics.
Thursday April 14, 1904
Fort Worth: William O. Wilhelm, age 42 years, foreman of the hide department of Armour &
Co., dropped dead from heart disease at 11 o‘clock Saturday morning, corner North Main street
and Exchange avenue, near the (line missing) ... in the employ of Armour & Co. for a number of
years, and was seemingly in good health when he died. He leaves a wife and one child. The
body was shipped to Muscatine, Iowa, for burial.
Texarkana: Lem Jefferson, a negro man residing on the east side, was arrested on a warrant
charging him with kidnapping a 13-year-old negro girl. He is in jail and will have a preliminary
trial Tuesday. The complaint alleges that the kidnapping took place about a year ago, since
which time the victim has been kept by the accused at his home. The girl died Wednesday,
and the arrest of Jefferson is the result of agitation among the colored population.
Thursday April 14, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Ennis is making a move to secure free mail delivery.
A boy named Sperry, about 7 years old, died in Denton from the effects of being kicked in the
stomach by a horse.
Mrs. S. E. Phillips, who works for the Texas Telephone Company of Childress, shot herself
through the left breast with a pistol. She may recover.
Miss Eula Wallace, a member of the faculty of the State University, died suddenly Wednesday
night. The flag on the university was at half mast Thursday.
Sam Fedder, of Yoakum, aged 22 years, son of Mrs. B. Fedder, died from lockjaw, the result of
having been thrown from a wagon and his face badly bruised.
The three-year-old child, Josephe Francis, of Mr. and Mrs. Szchminski, of Chappel Hill,
went up a ladder to the top of the cistern and fell and drowned before his mother missed it.
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Pat Dorgn and Pat McBride, two miners of Thurber, attempted to drive across Palo Pinto Creek
while a big rise was on. Dorgan escaped, but McBride, who could not swim, was drowned.
Leona Johnson, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson of El Paso died as a result
of burns received accidentally. The child was playing with another when the little ones found a
match which they ignited, setting fire to the Johnson girl‘s garments.
Thursday April 21, 1904
Work is progressing nicely on the public school building. The sleepers for the first floor have
been passed. Several car loads of materials arrive daily, all the teams in town are busy hauling
brick and other material to the grounds, and so many brick masons are at work that we
couldn‘t count them at all. In a short time carpenters, and painters will be in demand.
Thursday April 21, 1904 Every Town Has
A liar.
A sponger.
A smart alec.
A girl who giggles.
A weather prophet.
A neighborhood feud.
A woman who tattles.
A man who knows it all.
One Jacksonion Democrat.
More loafers than it needs.
A boy who cuts up in church.
A few meddlesome old women.
A stock law that is not enforced.
A ―thing‖ that stares at women.
A widower who is too gay for his age.
Some men who make remarks about women.
A preacher who thins he ought to run the town.
A few who know how to run the affairs of the country.
A grown young man who laughs every time he says anything.
A girl who goes to the postoffice every time the mail comes in.
Scores of men with the caboose of their trousers worn smooth as glass.
A man who grins when you talk and laughs after he has said something.
Thursday April 21, 1904
W. P. Gee, an old and well known citizen, died at his home a mile west of town Sunday night.
Interment took place at Johnson Station Cemetery Monday evening.
Thursday April 21, 1904 Johnson Station.
The remains of Mr. Gee who died at his home near Arlington Monday morning were interred
in the cemetery here Monday evening. He leaves a wife and three children, two of whom, Mrs.
W. G. Melton and Mrs. W. C. Noah, reside here.
Thursday April 21, 1904
Quite a number of K. P.‘s and friends went up from here Sunday to attend the memorial
services of the late E. W. Campbell, at the Broadway Presbyterian church at Fort Worth. It
was as pretty a service as one often sees.
Thursday April 21, 1904
Daniel Sweet died yesterday afternoon at the home of his brother W. L. Sweet in Arlington,
after long suffering from cancer of the face. Mr. Sweet and family have the sympathy of the
town in this bereavement.
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Thursday April 21, 1904
The best investment any man can make is a judicious compliment here and there.
--Reflections of a bachelor.
Thursday April 21, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
A. S. Fields, who has been District Clerk of Harrison County ever since reconstruction days,
died at Jefferson Thursday.
Mrs. (unreadable) Shinn, wife of J. R. Shinn of Mill Creek, Pope County, Ark., killed herself
in (unreadable) ... razor. No cause for the act is known.
While playing with a target gun Thursday evening Lonnie Mitchell, at Gainesville, aged ten,
was shot by an older brother, the wound producing death Friday morning.
Russia has given it out that all newspaper correspondents using wireless telegraphy will be
treated as spies, and vessels carrying wireless apparatus will be considered prizes of war.
―Johanna,‖ a mule with a well established age of forty-two years, died Thursday north of
Denison. The mule served throughout the Red River campaign with General Dick Taylor,
Confederate commander.
Andrew W. Scoble, superintendent of the municipal water plant, died at Fort Worth
Thursday morning. He was a native of Devon county, England, and came to Galveston in 1859
and to Fort Worth in 1880.
Edward Stubblefield, formerly tax collector of the city of Georgetown, died and was buried at
the Odd Fellows‘ cemetery, Rev. T. G. Alfred officiating. Mr. Stubblefield had lived there a
quarter of a century.
Company H, Twenty-Sixth Infantry, has left Eagle Pass to march overland to Laredo, thus
definitely abandoning the post at Eagle Pass. A detachment of twelve men remain to guard the
property.
Fort Hancock, the abandoned military post on the Mexican border, has been sold to Charles
B. Shedd of Chicago for $2600. The site contains 500 acres and thirty-eight brick buildings.
The property will be converted into a ranch.
Thursday April 21, 1904
C. C. Rather, an old pioneer of Texas, died Saturday evening at Belton. Mr. Rather moved to
Texas in 1849 and settled in Smith County. He moved to Bell in 1869 and has lived there
since that time. He was 66 years old.
William Gentry was shot and instantly killed Monday near the International and Great
Northern Railroad at Conroe. J. H. McPherson, who started to run, was shot to the ground,
but it is thought McPherson was not killed. J. W. Hardy gave himself up to the sheriff.
Thursday April 21, 1904 Well, Dog My Cats.
We arn‘t no greenhorns, we don‘t blow out the gas, we don‘t scratch our heads with a fork,
and yet ain‘t so plaguetaked citified as to see a great big red an‘ yaller automobile come tearin‘
into town without getting powerfully wrought up over it, and that‘s just what we (unreadable)...
Messrs. M. P. Bewley, Ben O. Smith and W. G. Turner, all of Fort Worth, driv up in Mr.
Turner‘s Tonneau de Luxe which looked big and strong enough for Sim Emmons to move
houses on, and pretty enough to go in a parlor.
These gentlemen are interested in the new bank here, and were down to see how the building
is coming on, and to get better acquainted with our people. – Mansfield Sun.
Wonder if that is the first auto that ever hit Mansfield.
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Thursday April 21, 1904 Negroes Fearful Deed of Death.
Waelder: Saturday night Jim Pullin, a negro, went to the house of John Thornton, his
father-in-law, and shot and killed his (Pullin‘s) wife and also her sister, Dora Thornton. He
shot twice at his wife‘s mother, missing her. Pullin‘s wife died in the room. Dora ran out into
the woods and down to the creek, Pullin following her and shooting. Dora was found dead on
the creek. Pullin made his escape.
Thursday April 21, 1904 Deed of a Fiend Incarnate.
As the passengers were leaving the depot to board the train on the Iron Mountain, some
unknown person fired from the darkness and shot and wounded three of the crowd. Oscar
Nugent was shot through the bowels and will die. His brother, Bob Nugent, was shot through
both legs and is badly wounded. Fuller Thompson was wounded in the hand. The shooting
was done with a pistol.
Thursday April 21, 1904
The citizens of Granbury and Hood county participated in a picnic Saturday to celebrate the
completion of the opening of the new suspension bridge across the Brazos River two miles
north of town. It is said to be the longest wagon bridge in the State measuring 1210 feet.
At Brownwood Saturday night Albert Kelton, a negro, shot a negro woman, Anna Moore,
twice, once in the breast then in the right ear. He then shot himself in the right ear. Officers
forced the door open and found both dead. A note was found on Kelton saying he had spent
his money on the woman and she refused to marry him.
Thursday April 21, 1904 An Unusual Accident.
Buffalo: About 8:30 o‘clock Saturday night Jim Haynie, Edgar Bentley and Col. Reeder went
through a farm, traveling a trail. Near the trail was an old well, curbed with rough stones from
top to bottom, the curb projecting about eighteen inches above the ground. The night was
intensely dark and the young men lost the trail. Young Haynie struck his knees against the
curing of the well, falling head foremost into the stones, killing him instantly.
Thursday April 21, 1904
The citizens of Weatherford made up by voluntary subscription $110 and gave it to Mrs.
Marshall Minnick, who left for St. Louis with her little five-year-old girl, who was bitten by a
mad dog Saturday. The parents of the unfortunate were unable to send her to St. Louis for
treatment.
Thursday April 21, 1904
Chicago: Peter Neidermeyer, one of the car barn bandits, attempted to commit suicide
Monday and when unconscious from loss of blood his condition was noticed. He was taken at
once to the hospital, and revived. His condition is serious, but the physicians said his attempt
would not prove fatal. The heads of matches were eaten as one method by which the bandit
attempted to cheat the gallows. The other method was by opening an artery in his left arm.
Thursday April 21, 1904
El Paso: Fire destroyed the Mount Riley, N. M., section house and cost the life of Section
Foreman William Hill, who was burned. Upon being awakened Hill escaped from his home,
but returned to secure some money, which he had on hand. He was pinned to the floor by
falling rafters and could not get out again. Mrs. Hill, who was also badly burned, was brought
here. Mount Riley is thirty miles west of El Paso in the midst of a desert.
Thursday April 21, 1904 Want Some Cucumbers.
Waco: Proprietors of the two pickle factories here have placed large advance orders for
cucumbers, in this section, and more of the cumbers will be grown than ever before. The two
factories are under agreement to take $30,000 worth of the cucumbers, and may require even
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more than that. This is a pretty fair illustration of the manner in which diversification is
working its way to the front in McLennan County. (Other news articles on the page refer to ―The
farmers are preparing to market considerable quantities of Irish potatoes,‖ and, ―A great interest
has been awakened in poultry breeding by people of this section....‖)
Thursday April 21, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A shooting occurred about six miles north of St. Joe in which (unreadable) Tuck lost his life.
Lem Dowd gave himself up to the officers at Montague.
Friday William Jones, a negro, was hanged at Walnut Ridge, for the murder of another
negro. At Helena Pink Williams, a negro, was hanged for murdering his wife..
Three lives were lost and over $100,000 damage done by a runaway coal train on the Erie
railroad near Rock Junction, Pennsylvania, Friday. Two section men and a fireman were
killed.
George Hancock, of Gassaway, Tenn., fell from a moving train near Corsicana and was
instantly killed. The remains were shipped to his home. Deceased was an Odd Fellow in good
standing.
Bertha Montgomery, the young Owensville, Ind., school teacher who went insane about six
weeks ago after witnessing the whipping of thirty-one of her pupils, died at the hospital for the
insane at Indianapolis.
Col. G. M. Casey, who was until his business failure last November, the largest raiser of fine
Shorthorn cattle in the West, is dead at his home near Clinton, Mo., aged seventy years.
Thursday April 28, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Dr. H. C. Whitehead, former City Physician of Fort Worth, died after a lingering illness of
several months. He was a prominent member of the Fraternity of Eagles.
Ottis Hughes of Indianapolis killed himself at El Paso with a shotgun. His brains were blown
out.
Citizens of Cleburne have been notified by proclamation to clean up all filth and to store no
wagons or machinery on the streets. The sanitary laws will be rigidly enforced.
Mr. Wilkerson, a blacksmith at Fort Worth, fell while attempting to get off a moving street car,
fracturing his skull, from which he died in a few hours.
By freight trains colliding in the Santa Fe yards at Guthrie, Ok., a cab was torn from an engine
and Engineer Downey of Arkansas City was pinioned underneath, with both legs crushed and
broken and escaping steam cooking the lower part of the body.
R. L. McMillan, Dallas, bitten by a small dog Wednesday night, has gone to St. Louis where he
will receive medical attention in the Pasteur Institute. Mr. McMillan was bitten on the hand
while trying to prevent his dog and another from fighting.
Thursday April 28, 1904 Judge Schuetze is Dead.
Austin: Judge Julius Schuetze died at his home here Saturday, leaving grown children and
grandchildren. Deceased was possibly the most prominent German-American in the State and
well-known throughout the country in German circles, being president of the National Order of
Hermann Sons, which honorable position he has held for several years. He was particularly
prominent in his writings in Texas Vorwaerts, a German weekly, he had been publishing for a
number of years. He was prominently identified with the German singing societies. Judge
Schuetze was a native of Germany, born in 1835 and came to Texas in 1850, and since then
has been prominent in the affairs of the community. Death was due to pneumonia.
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Thursday April 28, 1904 CAR BARN BANDITS HANGED.
Three Murderers Pay the Death Penalty in Chicago.
Chicago, Ill., April 23. – Compelled to be carried to the scaffold, Peter Neidermeier, leader of
the car barn bandits, was hanged here yesterday at 10:35 o‘clock.
Weak and pale, but with a slight suggestion of a smile, the bandit failed to carry out his oft-
repeated boast that he would die before reaching the gallows. The hanging of his associates,
Gustav Mark and Harvey Van Dine, quickly followed. Although it was at first expected that
Neidermeier would be able to walk to the gallows with little or no assistance, it was found at
the last moment that he was too weak. He was placed on a truck and wheeled to one of the
lower floors of the jail, after which he was carried to the scaffold and placed in a chair on the
trap. He was not asked the customary question if he had anything to say, and the rope was
quickly placed around his neck. The body shot through the trap and for twenty minutes after
it moved convulsively, the physicians at first being of the opinion that he was strangled to
death and that the rope had been placed too low. After an examination, however, the
physicians announced that his neck had been broken.
Neidermeier appeared on the scaffold wearing a red rose, but without a coat. Previous to the
execution and during the reading of the death warrant he snatched the paper from the chief
deputy‘s hands and placed it in a pocket, making remarks in anger at this time and also once
or twice while being taken to the scaffold.
Shortly after 11 o‘clock Marx was led to the scaffold, neatly dressed and wearing a white rose
as a boutonniere, which had been given him by his small sister the night before. He was pale,
but his courage never left him while he stood on the scaffold. He made no statement. Two
priests of the Roman Catholic Church of which Marx had become a member, accompanied him
to the scaffold. He repeated a litany with them and kissed a crucifix, after which the jailer
adjusted the noose and sprang the trap at 11:17. He was pronounced dead at 11:34, his neck
having been broken.
Van Dine was hanged after a short interval. Incidents in his execution were similar to those
that characterized the execution of Marx. Like Marx, Van Dine was composed preceding his
execution. He made no statement of any kind.
The hanging of the youthful car barn bandits followed closely a period of crime of less than
six months. In that time eight murders were committed, all attendant upon robberies or efforts
to escape arrest.
It was during an attempt to escape on a stolen train after an extraordinary battle in the
swamps of Northern Indiana, just east of Chicago, that on Nov. 27 of last year the capture of
the gang was completed by the arrest of Neidermeier, Van Dine and Emil Roeski, their
associate, Marx, having already been placed behind the bars to await trial.
Thursday April 28, 1904 Killed by Lightning.
Healdton, I. T.: During a thunderstorm Saturday night John See got up to shut a window,
and while standing at the foot of his bed lightning came down a stovepipe, killing him instantly.
The same bolt that killed Mr. See struck the headboard of the bed, demolished the bed post,
and passed out at the corner of the room. Mrs. See and baby, wife and child of deceased, were
lying on the bed, and were not shocked nor injured in any way.
Thursday April 28, 1904 Four Killed by Wind.
Sapulpa, I. T.: A terrific cyclone, coming from the south, struck Fairland, I. T., Sunday,
followed by a heavy rain. The dead are: Mrs. Mary Lamar, Mrs. Will Leamaster, Mrs. John
Dial, and a child of Mr. Honk. Seriously injured: Mrs. Pendergraft, J. Harden, A. Brough
and a child of J. Lewis. The injured are not expected to live. Some thirty others were
injured, but on account of the excitement it was impossible to learn the extent of the injuries.
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Thursday April 28, 1904 Father of Bartlett Dead.
Bartlett: Capt. John L. Bartlett died Monday morning after an illness of five days, aged
sixty-five years, six months and ten days. He was formerly a citizen of Missouri. He came to
Texas about thirty years ago and settled on land part of which is occupied by the present town
of Bartlett, which was named for him. Capt. Bartlett enlisted in the Confederate army in
Missouri and served through the war in the command of Gen. Joe. Shelby.
Thursday April 28, 1904
Galveston: A report was received at the police station by telephone that P. E. Engler, about
thirty-five years old (white), was found dead two miles northeast of Virginia Point. From the
condition of the body the man had been dead about a week. Prior to his disappearance Engler
had been employed as a timekeeper by the contractors at Texas City. At the time the report
was telephoned Esquire Snowball had not completed his inquest.
Fort Worth: Col. W. A. Maddox died Monday at the age of 79 years. Col. Maddox was the
father of Walter T. Maddox, a prominent citizen of this city, also of E. T. Maddox and James H.
Maddox, chief of the fire department, of S. P. Maddox, a detective on the city force, and R. E.
Maddox. Besides these there are two more sons, John E. Maddox of Phoenix, Ariz., and Pike
Maddox of Pensacola, Fla. Col. Maddox was born in Troupe County, Ga., in 1825.
Wortham: A cyclone passed over the Yelldell settlement about five miles southeast of here
Sunday afternoon, killing one young lady, injuring several and completely demolishing several
buildings. It is learned that the girl killed was a Miss Shanks, and the injured, W. E. Bonner
and daughter of Mexia. The latter were blown out of a buggy and the vehicle blown into the top
of a tree. For a space everything was swept clean, large trees being torn from their roots.
Thursday April 28, 1904 Negro Paris Legally Executed.
Meridian, Miss.: James P. Paris was hanged here Monday for the murder of Postal Clerk
John T. Stockton on February 29. Stockton was murdered by Paris and his pals while they
were attempting to rob a train on the Alabama Great Southern. The murder at the time
attracted much attention through the prompt action of Governor Vardaman, who prevented the
lynching of Paris.
Thursday April 28, 1904 Resolutions of Sympathy.
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W. O. W. of Arlington Camp 407
Resolved, we tender our heartfelt grief and sorrow in behalf of the relatives and friends of the
deceased E. W. Campbell, whose death was caused by being crushed between the cars at
Dallas, Texas, about April 1
st
.
Soy(?), Campbell was a member of the Marshall Camp of the W. O. W. and once a citizen of
Arlington. In his death we feel we have lost a true Woodman who was always ready to help a
falling brother and the widows and orphans in every hour of trouble and need. He was a true
law abiding citizen who had the interest and welfare of his town and country at heart, ever
ready to make and execute good laws of government, he was also a true kind servant of the T.
& P. R. R. Co., and its employes who loved him for the faithful performance of his duties and
kind treatment to all.
Then last; but not least of all, he was a Christian, ever ready to follow and help in the
Heavenly Masters cause, who said well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been
faithful over few earthly things. I will make thee ruler over many, and bid him come up higher.
And while we mourn for him here below:
There is a brighter world we know,
And if his hopes were bright and fair
We know his soul is resting there.
His name and fame spread wide and fair
And we hope to meet him over there.
Committee: W. J. Bell, W. L. Street, W. T. Robinson.
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Thursday April 28, 1904 THE MANOR FIEND IN JAIL.
Henry Simmons in Jail Under Military Guard.
Manor, Tex., April 26. – Henry Simmons has been captured and is now in the Austin jail and
twelve representative citizens have been sent to see the Governor and District Judge and
demand a speedy trial.
The Grand Jury has been called in special session to meet at 10 o‘clock today at Austin.
A thousand men threaten to storm the jail if the request is not granted.
Henry Williams, alias Henry Simmons, charged with being the slayer of Lula Sanberg, near
Manor, is in the Travis County jail guarded by over one hundred soldiers.
At 8:25 Monday morning Williams was captured in the loft of a barn on the Oliver Brush
place, 710 Colorado street, within a few hundred feet of the central police station.
Austin: Everything was quiet at midnight. The crowd had dwindled to about 150 men, and
all are orderly.
At midnight the fifty men of Company E were withdrawn from picket duty and placed in the
court house quadrangle, immediately in front of the jail entrance.
They are resting on their blankets and guns, but not sleeping.
It was learned that the Houston and Texas Central refused to charter a special train from
Manor to Austin last night and that the Katy and the International and Great Northern were
sought, but also refused.
There is some fear that tomorrow‘s early trains on the Houston and Texas Central will bring a
large crowd from Manor.
The good effect of the early closing of the saloons was apparent last night, there being little
drunkenness.
Several parties carrying concealed weapons were arrested.
Thursday May 5, 1904
Mrs. B. B. Stell an aged lady of this city died Sunday evening after a sickness of several
weeks. Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. W. Lee were held at the Methodist church
Monday at 11 o‘clock, after which the remains were interred in Arlington Cemetery. Only the
aged and afflicted husband is left, an only child, a son, having died a few weeks since. Mr.
Stell has much sympathy in this trying hour of bereavement.
Thursday May 5, 1904 Will Examine the Stomach.
Dallas: Mrs. S. E. Richardson died suddenly on Thursday morning under circumstances
which Coroner M. C. Cullen thought it proper should be investigated thoroughly. The stomach
of the dead woman was removed and its contents will be analyzed. The body was buried Friday
afternoon. An affidavit was sworn out charging with murder Z. D. Bourne. Bourne was
arrested and placed in the county jail.
Thursday May 5, 1904
All Eskimos living in the McKinzie basin except ten families have been killed by
ravages of measles, says the Dawson City News. Before the epidemic there were forty or fifty
families, with a total of 150 to 200 or more persons.
Thursday May 5, 1904
One of those sad episodes in human experience occurred last week in the way of the death of
Mrs. Bill Miller, called away in the prime of life, leaving a husband and four children in the
midst of life‘s battles when the counsel of a mother is needed as much if not more than at any
other time. The funeral services were held at Rehoboth church and was conducted by Rev. W.
B. Fitzhugh. Mr. Miller and children have the sympathy of the whole community in this sad
bereavement.
Thursday May 5, 1904
Sunday afternoon W. B. Fitzhugh went over to Mansfield and conducted the funeral of Miss
Minnie Bratton who died at Fort Worth Saturday. It was the close of a beautiful christian life,
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the floral offerings were as pretty as is often seen, the services were just as pretty and in all
was but a fitting tribute to a life spent for others.
Thursday May 5, 1904 HENRY WILLIAMS TO HANG.
The Execution Will Take Place Monday.
Austin, April 30. – Henry Williams, alias Simmons, was tried yesterday, convicted of murder,
or rather pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be hanged, the day of doom being fixed for next
Monday.
On the outside of the court house, the five military organizations stood guard, while within
the court room there were stationed about 150 Deputy Sheriffs and as many spectators as
could crowd into the large court room. It was packed as close as sardines. There was no
disorder or incidents of any kind.
Ten o‘clock was the time set for trial, and amid a large crowd the negro was brought into
court by Sheriff Matthews, accompanied by deputies. There was no cheering or jeering—all
silence. Williams was then placed in the prisoner‘s dock to answer for the murder of Lulu
Sanberg, which was committed just a week ago Thursday. Beside him sat Charles Stephenson
and J. Bouldin Rector, whom the court appointed to defend the prisoner.
The negro showed fear, but pleaded guilty without quivering. When he was convicted he
would not say when he desired to be hanged or would waive his rights for the thirty days‘ time
between sentence and execution.
After an hour he made up his mind that Monday would do, as he wanted to see his wife
before dying and to be baptized on Sunday, so as to be prepared to meet his Creator and
Judge.
He was brought into court and Judge Brooks pronounced sentence, and indicated that he
should be hanged on Monday.
Williams had led his attorneys to believe that he would make a statement, but he did not.
Thursday May 5, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Geo. Kenney, the negro convicted of rape at Elkhart last year, was Monday (unreadable)... by
Judge (unreadable) at Palestine to be hung on May 28.
Officials of the health department report an alarming spread of measles. Many cases have
proved fatal, being followed by pneumonia.
An emery wheel burst last night in the Southern Pacific shops, instantly killing Fred Russell,
aged eighteen, a portion of the wheel striking him in the lower part of the abdomen.
The Lantry rock quarry, near Belton, which has recently been turning out such an immense
amount of ballast and rock, is to be closed down on account of the death of the owner, H. E.
Lantry.
Kendall Farmer, the 13-year-old son of Joe Farmer, who accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen with a parlor rifle near Kennedale, died Friday morning from the results of the
wound.
Sam Henderson, the young man who was supposedly accidentally shot in the right groin on
the afternoon of the 13
th
, inst., while at work on the Shoestring District, died Thursday night.
His leg was amputated several days ago.
Contract for the construction of a water purifying plant for the stock yards packing plant at
Fort Worth has been awarded and the work of building the plant will be rushed with dispatch
until completed.
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Thursday May 5, 1904 HENRY WILLIAMS HANGED UNTIL DEAD.
A Strangler is Strangled On the Scaffold for the Direst Crime.
Austin, May 3. – Henry Williams, alias Simmons, was hanged in the county jail here
yesterday until he was dead, for the murder of Lulu Sanberg, near Manor, just thirteen days
ago.
The capture, trial and execution of Williams was almost record-breaking. The memory of the
horrible crime is still fresh on the minds of the readers. Williams having murdered a beautiful
girl, Lula (sic) Sanberg, near Manor. He slipped up behind her buggy, as she was driving
about in Manor, from her home in the country, and dragged her from the buggy into the
adjoining woods. When found her body bore evidence of attempted criminal assault. Her
throat was cut from ear to ear and a cord was found pulled tightly around her neck.
It was but a little while until the body was discovered by a cousin of the dead girl, who gave
the alarm. There was found near the body a barber‘s kit which had belonged to Williams, and
also a blood-stained coat, which was identified as having belonged to Simmons or Williams.
His chase through the eastern end of Travis County and the thickets of Onion Creek was
strenuous, but he made his way into Austin and was captured in a loft near the central police
station. He gave as his reason for coming to town a fear that the mob would capture and burn
him, the Swedes and other citizens of Manor having been relentless in their search.
Upon being placed in jail a mob formed which caused the Governor, upon the request of the
Sheriff, to call out the militia and prevent a lynching under the shadow of the dome of the State
Capitol, and within a stone‘s throw of the Executive Mansion.
The negro waived all legal rights, except the constitutional trial by jury, pleaded guilty and
accepted the punishment at the earliest time convenient, which he fixed as Monday. The law
provides that the condemned shall have thirty days from date of sentence to execution, but
Williams waived this right.
He went upon the scaffold with a firm step and needed no assistance or stimulants. Upon
reaching the scaffold Williams was asked, in fact pressed, to make a statement, describing how
he murdered the girl or if he committed assault, but he refused to make a statement, stating
that he was going to meet his Jesus. Further, pressed to explain his crime, Williams said that
if his own mother were to rise from the dead and ask him to make a statement he would refuse.
He did say that the white people are negroes‘ friends and advised all negroes to live as good
citizens and not bring disgrace on themselves as he had done.
He also asked the white people not to be hard on his race on account of his crime, which he
would now give his life in satisfaction of.
At 11:05 Sheriff Matthews sprung the trap as Williams was saying good-bye for the tenth
time. At 11:19 the attending physician pronounced him dead, his neck having been broken by
the fall, and quick retribution came to the criminal.
The Sheriff permitted about two hundred and fifty persons in the jail rotunda, about one
hundred of whom were from Manor, the scene of the crime.
Thursday May 5, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Ernest Moore of Hennessy, Ok., was dragged to death near Minco; he fell from a mule, which
he was riding from the field and caught his foot in the harness.
Jane Godwin of Hoxbar, I. T., the oldest negro in the territory is aged 112. Aunt Jane is
hearty, well and strong. She has twelve children, 72 grandchildren and about 100 great
grandchildren, all fullblood negroes.
A westbound special train carrying several carloads of soldiers bound for the Presidio, San
Francisco, was wrecked at Harloum station, the first station west of Needles, Cal., on the Santa
Fe railroad. One soldier, Jas. M. Bowers, was killed and about a dozen injured.
Charles A. Dilg, artist and historian, is dead from Bright‘s disease. Mr. Dilg was fifty-nine
years old and born in Nierstein, Germany. He was in the civil war as a member of the
famous Iron Brigade.
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A shotgun was placed behind the barn door of George Patterson‘s farm near Weatherford,
Okla., and so arranged that it would discharge when the door was opened. Not knowing this,
Louis Patterson, a son, opened the door and was killed.
Papers have been signed dissolving the theatrical partnership between Joseph Weber and
Lewis Fields. This brings to an end the stage association of the comedians which began
twenty-five years ago.
W. J. Stevens of Norfolk, Va., an aeronaut known to the professional world as Prof. Charles
Raymond, died at St. Paul‘s Sanitarium Tuesday night as a result of injuries sustained in a
balloon accident at Smithville Last Friday.
The collapse of a cage in the Robinson mine at Johannesburg precipitated forty-three
natives 2,000 feet to the bottom. All were killed. The bottom of the shaft is a quagmire of
human remains.
A Chicago Swedish Society have appointed a committee to prepare a history of the monitor
type of vessels, placing the honor of the invention where it belongs—as they believe on Ericson.
Daniel Fox was shot and mortally wounded by Deputy Marshal George Odom of Muscogee
(sic) while resisting arrest at Coweta, I. T. He has been wanted by the authorities for a long
time, but has been successful in eluding them until now.
Thursday May 5, 1904 Died by His Own Hand.
Fort Worth: John H. O‘Meara, a traveling man of this city, Monday morning at about 6
o‘clock shot himself through the brain. The tragedy was enacted in the bathroom at the
residence where he lived with his father and mother, sister and two of his small children. He
was thirty-one years of age and was well known among the cattlemen of the State. Deceased
was a member of the Fort Worth Elks Lodge.
Thursday May 5, 1904 Believed to Have Been Burned.
Grand Prairie: Monday morning the barn of J. T. Johnson, a mile from here, was burned to
the ground, together with fifteen or twenty tons of hay, a jersey calf and farm machinery,
vehicles, etc. The loss will be about $3000. Loren Daniels, 18 years of age, employed by Mr.
Johnson is supposed to have been burned to death in the barn. Monday evening bones,
thought to be those of the young man, were found by searchers in the debris.
Thursday May 5, 1904 Passing of Aged Pioneer.
Trenton: Jackson J. Morrison died in the ninetieth year of his age Monday morning at his
family residence three miles southwest of here. ―Uncle Jackie‖ came to Texas from Tennessee
in 1832 and has been a resident of this community for seventy-two years. It was interesting to
hear him tell of his experience in early days of Texas when he would gather buffalo wool from
brush and briars to have his socks made. He said he had plowed many a day when it took
three men to do the work—one at each end of the row with a gun to stand guard against
Indians while the third did the plowing. He has lived on the same farm sixty-six years—forty
years in the same house. He was twice married and was the father of nineteen children, four of
whom are still living.
Thursday May 5, 1904 Relic of Long Ago.
Newlin: G. W. Helm of Childress County has found the skeleton of a prehistoric animal. Its
frame was fifteen feet in length and the hip joints were as large as a man‘s head. The ribs were
about five feet in length and six inches in circumference. The skeleton is in a partially petrified
state. It was found about ten feet under the surface of the ground on the bank of a small
stream. The washing of water had exposed it.
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Thursday May 5, 1904 Pantego Paragraphs
We seldom write testimonials, but will say that we have tried Dr. Red Eye‘s Tarantula juice
and the marvelous effects of same are symply astounding, dumfounding and bewildering. To
get best results we find that as many as seven doses per day are necessary and the bigger the
dose the better for the patient.
Thus far only one jug has been used in our case and our improvement is so great that we feel
at this writing like unto one loaded for bear and are in full fellowship with Jeffersonian
Democracy. Dr. Red Eye deserves great praise for this timely preparation.
Monroe Boatwright killed a nice beef Tuesday and sold it out among the people. Beef, new
Irish potatoes and Dr. Red Eyes preparation is all the go now.
Our venerable poet comes to our rescue for this weeks eruption. He renders the following:
Ain‘t no better place on earth
Than grand old Texas.
Folks don‘t know just what they‘re worth
Here in Texas.
Got the soil, got the clime,
Got the melons on the vine,
To tell the truth, we have a time
Here in Texas.
That better place has not been found
Than here in Texas.
Good times always loafin‘ round
Here in Texas.
We‘ve got the nerve, got the gall,
Got the brains and that ain‘t all,
Here in Texas.
The skies are blue and friends are true
Here in Texas.
Scallawags, we have a few,
Here in Texas.
We‘ve got the grit, got the vim,
Take no time to why and, and whim,
Because we‘re always in the swim,
Here in Texas.
For highest place our men compete
Here in Texas.
The women folks are all so sweet,
Here in Texas.
We‘re building fast, building high,
Our aspirations scrape the sky,
And we sing Sweet By and By
Here in Texas.
L. Kase.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Prominent Politician Dead.
Beaumont: Joe Lee Jameson died at 11 o‘clock Monday at his home in this city as the
result of an attack of typhoid fever, which seized him on his return from the recent Travelers‘
Protective Association Convention at Austin. Mr. Jameson was an officer in the J. M. Guffey
Petroleum Company, was interested in the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad, a director in the
Fort Worth Record, past president of the Travelers‘ Protective Association, having been elected
at the Beaumont meeting last year, a high official in the Elks and a member of numerous
fraternal and social organizations. He took up his residence in Beaumont about a year ago.
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Thursday May 12, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Asa Conner, a negro about twenty years of age, was killed by a freight train near the stock
pens at Weimer between 3 and 4 o‘clock Thursday morning.
The Mayor of Fort Worth has issued a proclamation ordering all premises put into sanitary
condition 23 or suits will be instituted against all who fail.
An old man named Hope and his wife were struck by lightning, killing him and injuring her
to the extent that she is not expected to live. They lived on S. J. Stallworth‘s place, about three
miles from Lott.
The body of Job Washington, a negro, drowned in Tuesday‘s overflow of Mustang Creek, was
found Thursday lodged beneath the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway bridge, a half mile
southeast of Taylor.
Mrs. Golden, an old lady 70 years of age, who lived three miles north of Howland, dropped
dead Tuesday night. She had been complaining a few days previous, but was able to be up and
about.
Frank Kennedy, aged about forty-two, a saddler working for Paddgitt Bros. Saddlery Co.,
Dallas, in a fit of despondency, cut his throat with a razor Friday dying in a few minutes. He
leaves a wife.
During the month of April there were ninety-five births and thirty-six deaths in Navarro
County.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Crushed by a Train.
Denison: W. H. Maratta of this city fell under the wheels of a passenger coach at Vincennes,
Ind., Friday afternoon and was so badly injured that he died with a few hours. The remains
arrived in Denison Monday Morning. The funeral was held at 10 o‘clock Tuesday morning.
The interment was at Preston Bend Cemetery. Rev. G. P. Fry, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, conducted the services.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Critically Injured by a Dive.
San Antonio: Howard Y. Steif, an enlisted man of Troop B, First Cavalry, lies with a broken
neck at the post hospital, Fort Sam Houston. He has been living with his neck broken since
last Tuesday night. Last Tuesday Steif was diving in a pool of water near the Leon Springs
target range, where a battalion of the First Cavalry is at target practice. He was with several
others and dived into a shallow pool, his head striking bottom with great force.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Ends His Life.
Cleburne: W. B. Heflin, a well-known railroad man, being a member of the local order O. R.
C., was found dead in his room near the Santa Fe passenger station Monday afternoon. His
friends found him while his body was yet warm. In his hand was a revolver. All the cartridges
had been snapped except the one which had fired. His mouth was powder burned from which
the blood was oozing. In his pockets were cards showing membership in several railway
orders.
Thursday May 12, 1894 To Suppress Whitecappers.
Mineral Wells: The leading citizens of Mineral Wells have circulated a petition asking that a
mass meeting be called by which some action be taken toward preventing any more
disturbances in the colored district of this city. Recently some unlaw abiding person put up a
notice in the colored church warning all negroes to get out of town within a very few days, and
since then some one attempted to blow up the colored pavilion with dynamite, and the citizens
of Mineral Wells have commenced to take action toward putting a stop to such work.
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Thursday May 12, 1904
Measles has resulted in the death of several children in Waxahachie and vicinity in the
past few weeks. Three children died in the family of Geo. White, a negro last week.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Died at Worship.
Taylor: Sunday morning, while worshiping in the German Lutheran Church three miles west
of Taylor, and singing peans and praise to his Master, John Christopher Miller, aged 66
years, and father of P. D., L. H. and C. D. Miller of this city, dropped dead in his seat while
singing from a hymnal held in hand himself and a church brother at his side. Deceased leaves
a family of five sons and one daughter, Mrs. George Dollinger.
Thursday May 12, 1904
Nacogdoches: J. C. Dickerson, a carpenter working at the Hayward mill here, fell from a
house upon which he was working about noon Monday, and had his skull crushed, from which
he died in a few minutes after the accident. Another carpenter, named Pipkin, who was also
working at the mill, had his leg broken and his collar bone mashed in by a falling piece of
heavy timber, only an hour or two before the Dickerson accident. It is feared he will die.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Drowned in Oil.
Beaumont: Harvey Bradley in some mysterious way fell into an oil tank at Batson Monday
and was drowned. He was missed by his fellow workmen, who instituted a search and finally
found his hat floating on the top of the oil in a wooden settling tank containing about two feet
of oil, and further search revealed his body at the bottom. He had evidently fallen through a
small opening in the top where a twelve inch board was off.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Horrible Double Tragedy at Luling.
Austin: A sensational double tragedy occurred at Luling Saturday, twenty miles south of
here. Maston Nixon, a prominent banker, shot and killed Robert F. Malone and Capt. John
Veasey. An old feud is said to have existed between Nixon and Malone. Nixon approached
Malone in front of his store and after a few words shot Malone, killing him almost instantly.
Capt. Veasey, a clerk in Malone‘s store, grappled with Nixon. Another shot was fired in the
scuffle and Veasey fell dead.
Thursday May 12, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Curtis Jett, who murdered J. B. Marcum in the court house of Breathitt County, Ky., has
accepted a life sentence rather than face a new trial.
A switch engine collided with a freight train on the International and Great Northern siding
north of Phelps, killing one engineer and one fireman. Another fireman is probably fatally
injured.
The Apache Indians, held in a sort of nominal imprisonment on the Fort Sill reservation, held
a grand dance Thursday and Friday nights, headed by the old fighter Geronimo. This is the
first dance in a long time.
The inspector general of the army has given permission for the removal of the body of the
Cherokee wife of Gen. Sam Houston from its present resting place at Wilson Rock to the
National Cemetery at Fort Gibson.
A watchman discovered the body of an unidentified man in the settling basin of the St.
Louis city water works. It had evidently been in the water some time. The only means of
identification is that the fourth toe on the right foot is missing.
Eugene V. Debs was nominated for the Presidency and Benj. Hanford of New York City was
nominated for Vice president by the National convention of the Socialist party. Neither of the
candidates had any opposition for the nomination.
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Thursday May 12, 1904 Caldwell County Treasurer Killed.
Caldwell: Saturday night at 11:30 o‘clock County Treasurer Ben B. Hunt was shot and
killed at the court house steps at close range with a gun loaded with buckshot, two shots
entering the right eye, one in the forehead and all passed through the head. He fell on his face
with his Winchester by him and died in about twenty minutes. Clint Stuart, Constable of this
precinct, at once went to County Attorney L. O. Fraim and surrendered, alleging self-defense.
Thursday May 12, 1904
St. Louis, Mo.: Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Groesbeck, U. S. A., retired, died Sunday of
pneumonia at the home of his brother-in-law here. The origin of an illness of several months
was traced to exposure in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Gen. Groesbeck served
with distinction as a Union volunteer in the Civil War and was prominent as a regular
army officer in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War.
Thursday May 12, 1904
Washington: Secretary Shaw has signed a treasury warrant for $40,000,000 on account of
the Panama Canal purchase. The warrant is dated May 9 and will be delivered by Secretary
Shaw personally on Monday next. This warrant is many times larger than any warrant ever
before issued by this government. The largest sum previously covered by a single government
warrant was for $7,200,000, paid to Russia in 1868 on account of the Alaska purchase.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Hugh L. Henderson Dead.
Waco: Hugh L. Henderson, manager of the Western Union at Waco for the last twenty-one
years, died of apoplexy Sunday morning. He was stricken about midnight and fully realized
that the end was near. He gave minute directions for future conduct of his business
affairs, and just before his death called for a pencil and paper and wrote out the
combination for the Western Union safe. Mr. Henderson was very popular in Waco.
Thursday May 12, 1904
St. Petersburg, May 9. – The gruesome figures in the Russian losses on the Yalu are
higher than had been reported by Major Gen. Kashtalinsky, who himself appears to have been
wounded by a flying stone.
The casualties show that one-fifth of Ge. Zassalitch‘s command was placed out of action.
The Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments lost more than half their men in the fight. The Third
Battery of the Third Artillery Brigade was almost annihilated, losing eighty-eight in killed or
wounded and seventy-two out of 110 horses. The Second Battery of the Sixth Brigade lost in
killed or wounded (not stated) and 108 out of 110 horses. The Third Battery of the Sixth
Brigade lost twenty-four killed or wounded and forty-one horses. Of the machine gun
detachment only twenty-six were not killed or wounded.
Gen. Kuropatkin says that no prisoners were taken by the Japanese, but he admits that
seven officers and 679 men were left on the field, but it is not known whether they were
wounded or killed.
The only gleam of brightness in the dark cloud‘s overshadowing the East lies (in) the
official information from Major Gen. Pflug that Port Arthur is not yet blockaded by the
Japanese. How this information was obtained the officials will not say, but they insist that it
is reliable and are satisfied that the defenders will prevent the success of the further efforts
which the Japanese will undoubtedly make to bottle up the harbor.
Thursday May 12, 1904 DEATH RIDES THE STORM.
Three Are Killed in a Cyclone in Mills County.
Hamilton, Texas, May 7. – Night before last a cyclone struck the section of the country about
Star Mountain, located about twenty-five miles south-west of this place in Mills County, and
blew away five houses, killing George Mason and blowing away one of his children. The child
was not found until next morning. The child is still alive but has one of its thighs broken, and
is also otherwise injured. It is not expected to live.
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Cebe Hooker and his house were blown away. One child was killed, and other members of
his family were slightly injured.
The house (unreadable)... also destroyed, injuring four of the family, but none seriously.
John Mason was also injured, but to what extent was not reported.
Heavy rains have fallen throughout this country for the past ten days and prospects for all
kinds of crops were never better.
The tornado wrought havoc in the country west of Chico. Half of the roof of the big barn on
Bar O Ranch is gone. The residence of J. S. Berry, C. F. Bray, Charles Hunter, Luther
Etheredge, Mrs. Ogle, George Strain and Silas Denny were either completely demolished or
badly injured. Mr. Bray and family was badly cut about the head. Her (?) recovery is
doubtful. The grocery of W. C. Bass was unroofed.
Thursday May 12, 1904 LIFE‘S TAVERN.
In this old Tavern there are rooms so dear
That I would linger here.
I love these corners and familiar nooks
Where I have sat with people and with books,
The very imperfections and the scars
About the walls and ceiling and the floor,
The sagging of the windows and the door,
The dinginess that mars
The hearth and chimney, and the wood laid bare
There on the old black chair.
The dear dilapidation of the place
Smiles in my face,
And I am loath to go,
Here from the window is a glimpse of sea,
Enough for me;
And every evening, through the window bars,
Peer in the friendly stars,
--And yet I know
That some day I must go, and close the door
And see the House no more.
--Mary Burt Messer, in the Atlantic.
Thursday May 12, 1904 Meets Sudden Death.
Vincennes, Ind.: Caleb Marratta, aged 55, of Denison, Tex., who in company with a sister
80 years old, was on his way to Pittsburg to visit relatives, fell under the wheels of a train here
and sustained injuries which resulted in his death a few hours later. The accident occurred
when he ran out of a depot lunchroom and attempted to board a moving train. His aged sister
witnessed the accident and is seriously ill at a hospital as a result of the shock.
Thursday May 12, 1904
Henry Judge, Joe Delph and John Evans were hanged at Winchester, Tenn., Thursday for
the murder of Simon Bucher and wife last August.
Seymour Knox was killed by lightning while plowing on his farm, a mile north of Whitney.
He formerly lived there and was in the livery business.
Will Hawkins, the 16-year-old son of J. D. Hawkins of Franklin was drowned in Cedar Creek,
five miles from there Wednesday evening.
After a struggle of several weeks duration, in which non-union man was killed and much
other violence done, the striking hack drivers of Kansas City have admitted defeat and the
strike has been declared off.
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Thursday May 19, 1904
Bunyan, the little five year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Collins of Fort Worth, died at
their home in that city Monday. The bereaved family have the sympathy of a large circle of
friends and relatives at this place, their former home.
The Electric Light Co., has put in a system of fans in all the principal business houses,
and also placed street lights on all the principal streets of this city.
Thursday May 19, 1904
A great deal of complaint is being heard of stock running loose on the streets, especially at
night. We had thought the trouble magnified, as most troubles are, till a taurus appeared on
the scene one night last week and ruined a five dollar tree for us. After which, we became a
violent reformer. It all depends on whose tree is gored. Late of evenings and early of mornings
are good times to catch stray stock.
Marshall Douglass killed a mad dog and eight of his associates Friday, and still there are
more worthless curs in town than is necessary. Let the good work go on.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Coffee in Wartimes.
In the civil war there were numerous coffee substitutes. The principal was potatoes, which
were cut into small cubes and parched. The beverage was potable. Many regiments used corn,
parching till blackish brown. It was common to make coffee out of rice and other cereals
besides corn. Many of the Southern troops made a drink of the tender roots of the sassafras by
boiling them in water. Many a gallon sassafras tea have I drunk, and the effect is gloriously
stimulating.
Thursday May 19, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Frank J. Calwell, a well known newspaper man, died at San Antonio Thursday morning. He
was for many years on the news staff of the Daily Light.
At Marshall Leon Lancaster was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon at his brother‘s store
while endeavoring to repair a loaded revolver so as to make it work.
A little boy on the Nueces near Brackett was bitten by a bug the shape of a vinegaroon. The
bitten place turned black, the arm became swollen and death soon resulted with intense
spasms.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Dipping Vats Are Opened.
Fort Worth: The ban that has so long existed preventing the shipment of Texas cattle north
of the quarantine line has been removed. The die was cast Monday morning when the new
dipping vat of the stock yards was put in use and eleven head of cattle dipped as required by
the regulations regarding the same. The occasion being an auspicious one the baptizing was
done with due ceremony.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Died from Blood Poison.
Paris: George Foster, in the employ of the Texas and Pacific Railway for the last fifteen
years, who had charge of the pump at Lake Gordon, died last night from blood poison. A few
days he became troubled cutting a wisdom tooth, which caused such pain that he had it
extracted. Blood poison set in and pus formed on his brain. A small hole was cut through the
skull and the pus removed, but he failed to recover.
Thursday May 19, 1904
Three negro tramps attempted to wreck an express train twelve miles from Wilburton, I. T.,
by the use of nitro glycerine. A hand car set the explosive off, and three men on the car were
seriously injured. The negroes are in the hands of the United States authorities.
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John A. Revier died at Hillsboro Thursday night. He was eighty-one years old. He was a
veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars. He was born in Richmond, Va., and moved thence to
Texas.
On the line of Madison and Leon counties, Bob Blackwell was waylaid and killed. He was a
prominent farmer and good citizen. Blackwell started home from Middletown, but was
intercepted and killed, being fired upon with a shotgun and pistol.
A negro named A. D. Smith, aged 48, a cook in a Fort Worth restaurant, took an opiate
through mistake Wednesday and died in the afternoon. The doctors worked on the patient for
five hours but were unable to ascertain what the poison was, the patient being unable to
speak.
Thursday May 19, 1904 A Duplicate Suicide.
Cleburne: W. T. Heflin was found just after dinner Tuesday at his room with a bullet in his
brain. Heflin was in bad health and despondent. His hands were folded across his breast and
in one the pistol which did the deed. He had placed the pistol in his mouth and sent a bullet
into his brain. This is an exact duplicate of the suicide of Mr. Parsons, who suicided a week
ago. Both men were railroad conductors and in bad health, both between the ages of 40 and
50 years, both placed a pistol in the mouth and sent a bullet to the brain and then clasped
their hands over the breast.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Firemen Killed by Powder Explosion.
Carbondale, Ill.: In an explosion Wednesday at the shaft of the Big Muddy Coal and Iron
Company, in Herrin, five men were killed outright, five seriously injured and twenty others
slightly injured. Six kegs of powder had been placed in the mine during the time intervening
between the night and day shifts, for distribution to the men in the morning. John Miller, a
driver, had charge of the distribution of the explosive. Ten minutes after Miller was supposed
to have accomplished his task the electric current which runs the machines was turned on and
the explosion followed. It is supposed that through some mistake the current was switched on
before Miller had distributed the powder.
Thursday May 19, 1904 WORLD‘S FAIR‘S SECOND WEEK.
Great Increase in Attendance for the Second Week.
St. Louis, Mo, May 16. – The total attendance at the World‘s Fair for the second week ending
Saturday night showed an increase of over 50,000 over the total attendance for the opening
week. The official statement of the total attendance for the second week and the attendance for
the same period during the Columbian Exposition was given out last night. It showed a total
for St. Louis of 188,371 against 220,614 for Chicago. It is pointed out that no excursions have
been yet run to bring in visitors and the attendance at present is largely local and also that the
population of Chicago far exceeds that of St. Louis.
The National Editorial Association convention will begin today in Congress Hall at the
exposition to continue during the week. The World‘s Press Parliament will convene on
Thursday and it is expected that the total attendance of newspaper men for the two
conventions will number about 3000 from all parts of the world. Almost every press
association and news organization of the United States will be represented as well as the larger
newspapers. The General Federation of Women‘s Clubs will hold its biennial convention here
this week, beginning on Tuesday, and the National Good Roads Association will hold its annual
convention this week, beginning today.
Many foreign journalists arrived last night. The French pavilion will be formally opened
today.
The stone court that has been erected in the Igorrote village for settling all disputes that may
arise between the natives during the exposition was dedicated yesterday according to the
savage rites of that tribe. After the ceremonies the occasion was brought to an end by a feast
on dog meat.
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Thursday May 19,1004 Detective is Assassinated.
Denver, Colo.: Lyle Gregory was assassinated early Sunday morning. No positive trace of
the assassin has been found. John Combs has been arrested on suspicion. Gregory recently
had been in the employ of a detective agency and was one of the men accused by William
Wardon, the National Committeeman of the United Mine Workers of America, of assaulting him
on a railroad train near Salida, Colo., recently.
Thursday May 19, 1904
El Paso: John L. Huerr, a hardware clerk, was shot through the head and instantly killed at
2 o‘clock Sunday morning on one of the principal streets in the business section of the city
while returning with Mrs. Selma Wunderwalt, a widow, from the Sons of Hermann ball. At 9
o‘clock Henry Hierholtzer, a bartender, was arrested by the police, charged with the killing. He
denied all knowledge of the crime. The bullet entered Huerr‘s head from the rear.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Passing of a Pioneer Negro.
Nacogdoches: Uncle Ned Simpson, an old negro pioneer, well known in nearly every county
in East Texas, and especially in Nacogdoches and Beaumont, is dead. Uncle Ned was 96 years
old, and a hero and survivor of the ―runaway scrape‖ of ‘36, when he assisted in putting the
women and children across the Sabine in response to the false cry, ―Santa Anna is coming!‖ In
the hurry, baggage and all personal effects were thrown helter skelter and left along the
roadside. Uncle Ned picked up the trunk of a wealthy lady, Mrs. Engledow, containing $8000
in gold, and kept it several days before he could find the owner, returning it to her in safety.
Honest, reliable, truthful and polite to all he held the respect and esteem of the white people.
For years he had been blind and paralyzed, and was cared for by his faithful white friends, who
saw that his remains had a respectable burial.
Thursday May 19, 1904 Wants Soldiers Taught to Swim.
Gen. Leonard Wood is pushing a reform in the army. He wants all soldiers taught to swim.
There are something like fifty deaths a year in the enlisted strength of the army from drowning.
This is in time of peace. Gen. Wood regards it as ridiculous for soldiers, who are liable to be
ordered to ford rivers or disembark from transports through surf during war time, not to be
able to take care of themselves under these circumstances. The responses from the army to
his suggestion that swimming be made a part of the private soldier‘s education have been all
along the one line of hearty approval.
Thursday May 19, 1904 BIG OIL FIRE.
Four Acres of Batson Field Devastated.
Batson, May 14. – By far the most destructive fire that ever visited the Batson oil field took
place Friday afternoon.
At 2:30 the Darbyshire & Crawford well, being drilled by Kirk Hammil, came in as a gusher.
While they were attempting to shut it off the fire in the boiler bucked and the flam ignited the
great volume of gas which was issuing from the well. Tom Walker, a derrick man, was up in
the derrick on the platform where the man stands who handles the pipe aloft. He was at once
forced down, but when he reached the bottom of the derrick it was surrounded by flames and
gas. He advanced about two feet, when he was overcome by the flames and rolled into the
ditch, which prevented his being burned to a crisp. As it was, he was burned beyond
recognition.
Mr. Walker was a native of Leavenworth, Kan., and came to Jennings, La., to work in the oil
field. He leaves an 8-year-old daughter, and two brothers in that place. One of the brothers
will arrive here today.
No sooner had the Darbyshire gusher took fire than the flames spread to the surrounding
derricks and tanks and quickly all was enveloped inflames and smoke.
About four acres of the east center of the field was devastated. Hundreds of men with
shovels worked heroically, risking life and limb, under the good management of F. M. Gilbough,
the leader in firefighting. Steam, as it always does, played the leading part as an oil fire
extinguisher.
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At 6 o‘clock the fire was fully under control and the smoke-begrimed fire fighters turned
homeward.
The portion of the field burned is one of the best producing and will be rebuilt at once. The
total loss will approximate $125,000.
The following tanks were lost: Buffalo Oil Company 2, Ninety-Nine pumping Company 2,
Moonshine Oil Company 4, Honeymoon Oil company 4, Haywood Oil company 2. Three
standard rigs were burned and one damaged. Derricks destroyed: Buffalo Oil Company 2,
Darbyshire & Crawford 2, C. D. Reeves & Co. 2, G. W. Armstrong Company 4, Haywood 1,
Producers‘ 3, Moonshine Oil Company 2, Bentley 1. Drilling rigs burned: Kirk Hammil 1, Ben
Harper 1, Jake Miller 1, Lane & Trammell 1, C. D. Reeves 1.
Thursday May 19, 1904 AMONG WORLD‘S GREAT MEN
Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, died at London May 10.
Stanley‘s Place in History.
There are in Africa four great rivers. In connection with the exploration of the Nile the world
will remember Bruce, and Burton, and Speke, and Baker, and Grant. In connection with the
explorations of the Niger it will remember Mungo Park. In connection with the explorations of
the Zambesi it will remember Livingston. In connection with the explorations of the Congo it
will remember Henry M. Stanley. As long as the discovery of the earth by its inhabitants is
studied, Stanley and the Congo will go together in the human mind.
But Stanley‘s work was even greater than this. He labored at a time when exploration had
come to have a political as well as a geographical value. Bruce and Park and the rest have
their place in the history of adventure and of science. For Stanley was reserved the distinction
of being the first of the African explorers whose travels led directly to general exploitation and
whose personal career is itself entwined with the partition of African territory among European
powers.
J. Scott Keltie, the great English authority on the colonization of Africa, is sustained by the
facts when he says that in the descent of Europe upon the newest, as well as the oldest of
continents, Stanley‘s memorable journey across Africa and especially his discovery of the great
waterway of the Congo may be regarded as the initiatory episode.
While Stanley was still in Africa on the journey which took him through undergrowth and
dwarfs from the headwaters to the estuary of the Congo, King Leopold of Belgium, his
imagination fired by the prospect of a new continent split down the middle and exposed to the
view of civilized mankind, had convened the Brussels conference of 1876. Here the
International African Association was organized for the aggrandizement of geographical science.
So iridescent had this science become, that subsidiary African associations were organized
even among the mountains of Switzerland and along the plains of Hungary, far from the
European coast line and equally far from maritime ambition.
As soon as Stanley landed at Marseilles on his return from Africa he was saluted by King
Leopold‘s emissaries. Then came the establishment under Belgian auspices of the committee
for the exploration of the upper Congo. Shortly afterwards came the reincarnation of this
committee as the International Congo association, still controlled by the head of the Belgian
government, and largely supported by his private purse. Stanley was about to assist in the
unique enterprise of creating an empire on behalf of an ambitious royal millionaire and thereby
drawing the wolf pack of Europe into combined but mutually hostile attack upon the regions by
which that empire was surrounded.
In 1879 Stanley was back in the basin of the Congo, this time not as an adventurous
newspaper correspondent, reaping thrills and stories, but as a politic diplomatic representative,
making treaties and laying the foundations of sovereignty. Up the Congo he went, fortified by
his unrivaled skill in rough travel and by his equally unrivaled acquaintance with native
manners of the country and of the stealings and butcherings committed by the Arab slave
traders convinced an avaricious and humanitarian Europe—both characteristics being
(unreadable) ... longer be allowed to go its own way to the everlasting bonfire.
The result was the Berlin conference of 1884(?). At this conference the nations of Europe
drew up rules for the game of scramble which was about to begin. Stanley had traversed the
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(unreadable) ... separated the better known regions of the south from the still better known
regions of the north. He had brought the period of curious, investigatory exploration to an end.
He had taken service under Leopold. He had transformed the International Congo association
into a sovereign landed estate. Sir Francis de Winton had been sent out as territorial governor.
The United States had recognized the blue fielded and gold starred flag of the International
Congo association as, ―that of a friendly government.‖ If the other nations of Europe were not
to be left on the cold edge of conquest it was time for intervention.
The Berlin conference, rendered inevitable by Stanley, meant intervention. The International
Congo association became the Congo Free State, with its territory roughly defined and with its
territory roughly defined and with its sovereignty lodged in the person of the king of the
Belgians. The rest of Africa was manifestly destined to be gradually rounded up into spheres of
influence, the centers of gravity of which would be at London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon and Rome.
The laws governing this process were constructed in skeleton and were left to be provided with
flesh and blood by subsequent conventions between the governments particularly concerned.
The year 1884 must, therefore, be taken as the epoch of the modern partition of Africa and
Stanley must be taken as a compelling figure in that epoch.
This is the reason why only an inadequate conception of Stanley‘s work is secured when he is
studied only as a member of the (unreadable)... fellowship of African explorers. He ranks with
Diaz and Vasco da Gama and Livingston, and his affinity is mainly with them. But
circumstances gave him a right to be counted with also another group of men. He is included
in the history of politics as well as in the history of exploration. He occupies a minor but
indubitable place among the organizers of Africa along with Kitchener and Cromer and Rhodes.
Thursday May 26, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Mrs. Noah Howard, who lives near Spanish Fort, was accidentally shot and killed by a target
gun in the hands of her 15-year-old son.
D. Corley, for many years a resident of Dallas in the early days, died at Ardmore, I. T., after a
short illness. He had been for some time in Central America prospecting.
Mrs. P. A. Bonner, mother of Mrs. C. H. Coffield of Rockdale and J. S. Bonner of the Harpoon,
died at the residence of her son-in-law, C. H. Coffield, at Rockdale at an advanced age.
Bud, the 10-year-old son of J. W. Seay or Killeen drowned in a well. He and another boy
were playing near the well and he accidentally fell in, remaining under water thirty-four
minutes before being rescued.
Mrs. Louie Moorehead, a well-known widow living in Denton, died Wednesday with a disease
that the physicians were unable to diagnose. Several days ago she began bleeding at the gums,
and the doctors were not able to determine the cause of the bleeding nor to stop it until she
bled to death.
Mrs. Irene Vandenbruck, aged twenty-six years was found dead in her room on San Jacinto
street, Dallas, Thursday night. An empty bottle of carbolic acid and a note was found beside
her. The note stated that she was tired of living and wanted to leave. Her husband was killed
in a wreck about a year ago and she has been despondent ever since.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Three Deaths Follow a Jest.
Meyerdale, Pa.: In a dispute over dandelions at Elk Lick mines, one mile east, three Italians
met death. An Italian named Louie was gathering dandelions in the rear of a boarding house
run by Dominick Bills. Bills ordered Louie away. Jestingly, Louie cursed Bills, at which Bills
shot him. An unknown Italian then shot Bills and his cousin, Samuel Bills, who was coming
on a bicycle. The unknown Italian escaped.
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Thursday May 26, 1904 Child Killed by Accidental Shot.
Waelder: The four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Horn, who live about twelve miles north
of here, was shot and instantly killed. It seems that some one had carelessly put the gun in
the rack and that while the children were playing in the house the gun fell striking the hammer
against the bed post and was discharged, the whole load striking the child square in the face,
tearing away a greater portion of his head.
Thursday May 26, 1904
One man and two boys were killed and six men and two girls seriously injured by an
explosion which occurred Monday in a fireworks factory at Jose Sclone, on the outskirts of
Camden, N. J.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Dead Negro On the Track.
Marlin: The train crew of the north-bound passenger train that arrived in Marlin Monday
morning reported finding the lifeless body of a negro man across the tracks of the International
Road just over the Robertson County line. The body showed evidences of the negro having
been shot. The body was left lying near the track and the matter reported to the officers.
Thursday May 26, 1904 NEW YORK POOL ROOMS.
Determination to Stop their Operation.
New York, May 24. – Twenty-seven places suspected of being pool rooms were visited,
fourteen persons were taken into custody, and ninety-four telephones and two telegraph
instruments were confiscated in police raids in New York. Fifteen of the raids were made in the
Tenderloin district. The other raids were made in various parts of the city.
One of the places visited in the lower section of Manhattan, it is said, was a racing exchange
and had nine telephones, and many racing sheets were confiscated by the police.
In another place twenty telephone (unreadable)... taken out.
The Tenderloin police visited the place said to be kept by ―Honest John‖ Kelly, and found
Kelly on the steps.
―You can‘t get in here unless you have a warrant,‖ said ―Honest John.‖ ―I‘ve had too many
visitors lately, and I‘m tired of showing people the house.‖
The officers made no attempt to enter.
In one place on Broadway, opposite the postoffice, the police were forced to climb from the
roof of a building down to the third floor on a fire escape. They found twenty-one telephones,
but no person inside. The place had been vacated in haste, evidently.
The raids were the most extensive made in this city in years.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Found Dead in Bed.
Dallas: The dead body of an old man was found in the Arlington Hotel Thursday afternoon.
The man came in about 10 o‘clock Wednesday night, and after registering as ―J. S. Moyen,
Cleburne,‖ was shown to his room. He failed to show up for breakfast or dinner, and in the
afternoon Manager Gwynn, finding the door locked, looked through the window and saw the
body lying on the bed. The Chief of Police was notified and an examination revealed that the
man had been dead ten or twelve hours. The sum of $2.80 and a letter, to the address given
above, was found on his person.
Thursday May 26, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Eighteen new cases of bubonic plague were reported Thursday in Antafogasta, Chile. Five
have proved fatal. There are fifty patients in the lazaretto.
Rev. Dr. Malcom McVicar, president of the Union University of Richmond, and who was
connected with the Baptist Home Missionary Society, is dead at Cato, N. Y.
W. K. Moore, of the Millwood community, Collin County, died suddenly Tuesday. He had
gone to his field to plow when he was taken violently ill and expired in a short time.
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Mr. W. L. O‘Bannon of Greenville has just recovered from the government a claim for cotton
destroyed by federal troops during the civil war. The original claim was for $17,785, but
interest and expenses swelled the amount to $30,000.
John Hathway, the noted negro jockey, has been sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, July 19,
for the murder of Ella Thomas a few months ago. She left him and on her refusal to again live
with him, he shot her through the heart.
Charley Roberts, a Creek freedman who wife is still living, has twenty-three living children.
The entire family have been allotted about 4000 acres of land near Tulsa, worth $80,000. The
holdings are in a block.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Melon Crop Enormous.
Sherman: The railroads of Central Texas are looking for cars in which to move the
watermelon and cantaloupe crop of that section. The immensity of this class of shipment can
be approximated by the statement of Assistant Superintendent Rowe of the Houston and Texas
Central that a conservative estimate on the demand of Hempstead station alone is 800 cars.
The movement of refrigerator cars into Southeast Texas has begun.
Thursday May 26, 1894
At Tehuacana while playing with an ―unloaded‖ pistol Tom Womack shot his 8-year-old
brother, Clifford, in the neck, inflicting a dangerous if not fatal wound.
Zack A. Slough was caught in a belt at the power house of the electric light plant at
Cleburne Tuesday and killed. He was not an employe of the company.
The body of Jim Holley of Dublin was found dead in his wagon near that place. No marks of
violence were found on his body, indicating that his death was due to natural causes.
Capt. E. H. Hervey, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Navarro County, fell dead while at
his woodpile Friday afternoon at his home five miles from Corsicana on the Chatfield road.
Deceased was 76 years of age.
The 2-year-old son of F. Emmert, a prominent merchant and farmer near Corpus Christi,
was accidentally shot and instantly killed Tuesday by his 9-year-old brother with a 22 target
rifle.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Negroes String Up a Fiend.
Welden, N. C.: A negro tramp was lynched at Seaboard, N. C., Wednesday night by a crowd
of his own race, who swung him up for an alleged assault upon a seven-year-old colored child.
A policeman was on his way to jail with the man, who gave his name as Dick Whitehead, when
he was taken by an infuriated mob of blacks, who took the prisoner from the officer‘s buggy
and hanged him to a near-by tree.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Barely Saved Himself.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.: John Sabolick has narrowly escaped a terrible death in a hole 150 feet
deep, cause by a cave-in near Stockton. While returning from a fishing trip he fell into the hole
and rolled nearly to the bottom, where an old prop saved him from drowning. The sides of the
cave-in were at an angle of 80 degrees and Sabolick was only able to get out after eight hours‘
struggling, during which he cut steps up the side with a sharp stone.
Thursday May 26, 1904 A Fatal Kick.
De Leon: A fatal accident occurred one mile east of town Monday morning. Charley Morgan
went to A. J. Harvell‘s on business, and when ready to leave walked up behind the mare he had
ridden when she kicked him in the stomach with both feet. Mr. Morgan died within one hour
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and twenty minutes after the injury. Deceased was about twenty-five years of age, the son-in-
law of James Terry. He leaves a wife and one child.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Got Him Sooner Than Usual.
Philadelphia: A coroner‘s inquest upon the death of ten-year-old William Black, who on
Sunday smoked his first cigar, has shown that the lad died in convulsions at a hospital after
having been given an emetic which brought to light the stump of a cigar. The boy recovered
consciousness shortly before he died and said he had swallowed it accidentally while
attempting to smoke for the first time.
Thursday May 26, 1904
J. W. Huff, a well-known farmer living east of Temple, started to town for medical treatment
and on his way stopped at a barber shop in Oenaville to be shaved. He had scarcely taken a
seat in the chair when he fell over dead.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Mexican Boiled to Pieces.
Laredo, Tex.: A Mexican employed at the waterworks in Nuevo Laredo has been missing for
several days and no clew to his mysterious disappearance was had until Tuesday night, when
the engineer drew the water from the hot water tank and was horrified to find the dead body of
the missing man lying at the bottom boiled all to pieces. The victim was subject to fits, and it
is thought he fell into the hot water during one of his spells.
Thursday May 26, 1904 Mrs. W. D. Turner.
The hand of God has again visited our community which so forceably reminds us of the
uncertainty of life and the vanity of all human pursuits.
His hand rested this time upon Mrs. Sally Turner the wife of W. D. Turner. She departed
this life at her home May the 18
th
at 3 P.M. She was conscious to the last. She was a
consistent member of the Baptist church, and lived a devoted Christian life and was a devoted
wife and mother, and lived so before them that they had the utmost confidence in her.
(unreadable)... ones, when the shades of night fall. Her voice will be hushed and there will be
a vacant chair, for there will be no mother there. She was confined to her bed only a short
while, she suffered much but always seemed to be cheerful. Our loss is her eternal gain, we
can but say to the husband and children, there has never been a cloud so dark that did not
have a silver lining, look on the bright side.
Loved ones dry your tears; for mother‘s sleep is sweet, as she sleeps in Jesus. Just as softly
as fades the light after the sun is gone, just as sweetly as through the night the stars shine on,
passed her soul out from her earthly home to rest with the redeemed of God.
The last words she said was ―Let me go to sleep.‖
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep,
A calm and undisturbed repose
Unbroken by the last of foes.
Mrs. Georgia Gray,
Cain, Texas.
Thursday May 26, 1904 The Country. (editorial page – severely edited)
The country is looking good now.... Corn is beginning to tassle and is good. Cotton never
looked better and is in a fine state of cultivation. There is lots of fruit, berries and vegetables....
We have been out in the country this week and know whereof we speak....
...Then we went on up through the Euless dewberry belt and pulled (up) at A. N. Cannons for
dinner; the place where all pilgrims, agents, tramps and dead beats pull up for grub. Cannon is
the berry king of the state....
Afternoon we attended a burying at Calloway graveyard. A great many country people were
out, and we thought on the great difference in country buryings, where the neighbors gather and
dig the grave, lay the body away, bathe the grave with their tears, and cover it with flowers from
their own yards; and a city burying where they hire the grave dug, hire the carriages and
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sometimes even the mourners, and cover the grave, if covered at all, with flowers bought from the
conservatories.
The correspondent from Pantego also reported his musings:
...Speaking of the kids reminds us that many of our citizens are overwhelmingly successful in
that line. In most cases a two horse wagon is sufficient to carry the family but some have to put
on trailers or leave part of the crowd at home.
The Pantego school house will be moved a mile south from where it now stands. The Hollis
well is the place agreed on and the people will endeavor to do this before school time comes
again....
...Last Sunday afternoon...ye scribe and J. B. (Hatch) proceeded to Fort Worth where we spent
five minutes with relatives. We then canvassed the thorough fares of that city and informed the
inhabitants that we were it, etc. After which we put the whip to J. B‘s. wild horse and hit the
road for home. Along the route we encountered 17 automobiles, numerous steam and electric
cars and a few aristocrats who had no regard for wild horses nor the safety of newspaper men....
Thursday June 2, 1904 Johnson Station.
The infant child of Bob Lewis was buried in the cemetery here last Tuesday.
Thursday June 2, 1904
Mrs. D. B. James, mother of our townsman Ed James died at Denison on the 20 of May.
She was seventy-five years old, and is survived by nine children. Ed went up for the funeral.
All the children except two were present. The Journal extends condolence to the bereaved
relatives.
Thursday June 2, 1904
We will have a new depot at last. Work has actually begun. The old depot has been pulled
out west and work is going on, on the new building. We understand that the new building is to
be a strictly modern and up to date building; one in keeping with the progressive spirit of the
town along other lines. There could be no improvement of a public nature more acceptable to
our people. A depot where twenty passenger trains carrying thousands of passengers pass
daily, and that right in the center of the town, exerts a wonderful influence on the opinion of a
traveling public as to the status of the town and surrounding country.
Thursday June 2, 1904
Leonard Mahaney has forsaken the plow and is now proprietor of a cold drink and
confectionery establishment in west Arlington, sometimes called Fort Worth, 168 blocks from
the public square here, directly on the street car line. Mr. Mahaney is rather far out, but he
wanted to get out where he would have plenty of room; besides he says Fort Worth is growing
all the time, and he expects by and by to build up a nice trade out there.
Thursday June 2, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE
The Farmers‘ Hotel at Lawton, Ok., was burned early Friday morning. John Brennan and
Pat McCabe were burned to death and some others were injured.
Albert Bettis, white, aged twenty-five, has been arrested, charged with threatening to white
cap negroes on the farm of L. C. Penry and Captain Sedberry, near Elm Mott.
Ed Blackman, a nine-year-old Shreveport negro, shot and killed Arthur Cook, a playmate,
aged fourteen while at play, the weapon used being a shotgun. Blackman claims the killing
was accidental.
Wall street is having such a period of business depression as it has not experienced in
several years, and one result of it is that hundreds of clerks have received notice of reduced
pay. There have been many dismissals.
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After having toiled thirteen years at $2 a day as a custom house weigher in a sugar refinery,
Patrick J. Hennessy of Brooklyn, has suddenly found himself heir of $400,000 left by an uncle
who died in Australia.
Thursday June 2. 1904
Batson: Sunday closed with a tragedy. Graham Jones was shot and killed while at the
supper table in Mrs. Jones‘ boarding house. He was shot from behind with a 38-caliber Smith
& Wesson revolver. One ball entered between the eighth and ninth ribs and another between
the ninth and tenth ribs on the left side, the third between the fifth and sixth on the right side.
Another ball struck the radius of the left arm. All the balls passed through the body.
Thursday June 2, 1904 (editorial)
It sounded good to see the farmers (come to town) Monday morning, and hear them talk about it
being too wet to plow or cut grain. Some of them had been too busy for weeks to come to town
after groceries, even on Saturdays, and if it hadn‘t rained some of them might have worked on
and starved to death. The rain saved them. But, after all, they did not stay long. The sun was
beaming down nicely, and by noon the town was cleared of country people, all gone home and at
work again. Crops are just simply humping themselves now and so are the farmers, and the
Journal man is hot on their tracks—ready to credit them five years without security, in fact we
have increased our order for paper and are going to print a paper for every farmer that comes
here to trade, and if he will not subscribe for it we are going to cram it in his pocket and make
him take it anyway. After this week we will be on the streets on Friday and Saturday with an
arm full of extras to distribute. We should be pleased to have you try us even for a short while,
say three months for 25c. Even this would do us good and would not hurt you, as the girl said
about letting her sweetheart kiss her.
Thursday June 2, 1904 Baltimore‘s Mayor Suicides.
Baltimore: Mayor Robert M. McLane of this city shot and killed himself in his bedroom at
his home Monday. His bride of two weeks was at the time asleep in the adjoining room, and
was awakened by the discharge of the revolver, which Mr. McLane evidently used while
standing before the mirror of the dressing case. No cause can be assigned for the act by the
members of the Mr. McLane‘s family.
Thursday June 2, 1904 FLYING CHIPS.
John Stattle, aged eighty-five, of Oleta, Ok., was killed by a savage bull. Stattle tried to
defend himself with a steel cane which he carried. His breast was crushed and both legs were
broken.
Peter Dohl, aged about forty years, was run over and killed by a Houston and Texas Central
train. He was asleep on the track. He was a bridge labor for the Katy now building into
Austin.
Thursday June 2, 1904
Wednesday evening a son of Frank Woods, Clairmont, shot his little sister, Maggie, six
years old, and Grace Houston, also six years old. Maggie was shot just under the heart
and is dead. A ball passed through Grace‘s lungs. The little boy thought the gun was empty.
Ten men were suffocated by gas from a small locomotive in a mine tunnel near
Williamstown. Fifty others were brought out unconscious, but will recover.
Mrs. C. I. Tyree died at Sherman at the advanced age of eighty years, leaving six children, all
of whom reside in or near the city except one, Tim Tyree, who is in Mobile, Ala.
Nick Koster, of Houston, a man of seventy years, was found lying dead by the side of the
highway near Hunting Bayou with his neck broken. Near the dead man stood the horse
hitched to the wagon from which he fell.
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The saw in the Schlinter-Whiteman Lumber Company‘s mill at Winsboro, broke to pieces
Tuesday morning while in rapid motion, and one piece of it hit Ed Deadman, a negro, on the
head, splitting his skull and instantly killing him.
John Henry Davis, a negro man of Greenville died from the effects of injuries received by
being run over by a freight train at the Kellogg switch, between this city and Kingston.
While Vale Gonzales, a lawyer, and Daniel Madrigal, a merchant, were conversing in the
patio of Iturbide Hotel at Monterey, Gonzales, it is alleged, drew a revolver and shot Madrigal
through the heart. No cause is assigned for the shooting.
Thursday June 2, 1904 Popular Farmer Shot and Killed.
Rogers: Silas Guess, a farmer, twenty-five years old, living north of this place, has been shot
and instantly killed near his home. Mr. Guess has a large number of relatives throughout this
county who have good standing, and he was not an exception. He leaves a young wife
prostrated with grief, his father, who is in business at this place, and several brothers and
sisters.
Thursday June 2, 1904 BITS OF BREVITY.
Amos Stillman, who claimed the credit of running the first ferry boat between New York and
Brooklyn, and the first stationary engine in Chicago, is dead. He was born at Troy, N. Y., in
1818, and at sixteen commenced firing an engine on the old Boston and Maine.
At Houston Thursday morning a negro named Walter Alexander was precipitated from a car
and instantly killed.
Thursday June 2, 1904 TO SAIL ON PRAIRIE
―SCHOONER‖ THE INVENTION OF GAIL BORDEN.
Difficulty of Controlling it Made Vehicle Too Dangerous To Be Popular.
Early-Day Texan Had Stormy Journey Through Life.
A man from Texas was talking with a New Yorker when a wagon with the name Gail Borden
painted on it passed by. The name is retained by Gail Borden‘s successors, though Gail
Borden himself is dead.
―I do not know when Borden came to New York,‖ said the Texan, ―but the sight of his name
recalls a bit of interesting history which, I venture to say, few if any, New Yorkers ever heard.
―Gail and his brother used to be editors in Texas. They were the founders of the Texas
Telegraph. (Line obscured) ... first newspaper published in Texas. It was printed in San Felipe
in 1835.
―On the approach of the Mexican army, President Burnet and his cabinet fled to Harrisburg,
and were followed by the Bordens with their press and type, and they were there working off a
form of the paper when the advance of Santa Anna‘s army appeared at that place.
―They were forced to abandon the work and flee for their lives. The type and press were
thrown into the bayou and the printing office destroyed.
―After the victory at San Jacinto the publication of the paper was renewed at Columbia, but
was, with the government, transferred to the new town of Houston, and soon afterward was
sold. Thomas was older than his brother Gail, and, besides being a partner in the paper, was
also engaged in surveying and selling lots in Galveston.
―Gail invented the steam gauge and also a vehicle called a prairie schooner. This was much
the same as an ordinary covered wagon, but was made to run by sails, and it would run, but
too much so.
―It was not easily controlled, and it would do unexpected things, and was dangerous. It
would run into the gulf up against things, and the model was finally wrecked in a drift on
Galveston Island, the project abandoned. Borden intended these vehicles to be used on the
great, level, dry plains; hence the name he gave them.
―This idea of his afterward caused the great trains of covered wagons in the west to be called
prairie schooners.
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―Gail Borden filled a number of civic offices and was a member of the convention at San
Felipe in 1833. He was also the agent for the Galveston City Gas Company and the first
Collector of the Port of Galveston.
―After annexation he distinguished himself as an inventor, first securing a valuable patent for
preserving meat in a form which he called meat biscuit. He also invented and secured a patent
for a process of condensing milk which is a staple article of commerce.
―He made the first condensed milk where the town of Glidden is now, in Colorado county, but
then called Borden. As late as 1887 his sign was still to be seen there.
―At that time a postoffice and Borden‘s place were about all there was there in the way of
business. The county of Borden, at the foot of the plains, was named for him, as was also the
county seat, which is Gail.‖ (The ―man from Texas‖ is not identified.)
Thursday June 2, 1904 Fort Worth‘s Great Growth.
Fort Worth: Fort Worth‘s new city directory for the year 1904-05 is being delivered by the
directory company. It shows the most favorable situation for this city in its history. It covers
the entire field of the city‘s industry and commerce, which represents 22,464 names, and a
population, by actual count, the editors say, of 46,290, showing an increase of 4,985 names
and 10,808 population since the issue for 1902-03.
Thursday June 2, 1904 (editorial page)
Several of our people went up to Fort Worth last week to hear Bryan speak, but we did not
think enough of W. J. to inquire after particulars. To us his talk is less than ―sounding brass or a
tinkling cymbal.‖ We want him to let us alone and let us elect a democrat president.
Thursday June 2, 1904 (editorial page)
Uncle Sam has paid big bills abroad before now, but this Panama payment tops them all. Six
years ago he paid Spain twenty million for the Philippines, but the amount was sent in four
warrants of five million each. Previous to that the most historical warrants were eight million
issued to Russia for Alaska in 1868 and five million five hundred thousand paid England for
awards in Halifax fishing infringments.—Honey Grove Signal.
Uncle Sams financial liabilities have just begun to germinate. No telling what the full crop will
be; especially if that bull headed Roosevelt is to rule this country four years longer. One thing
looks certain, that is, there is to be no material internal improvement. All is to go to building
warships, strengthening the army and navy, paying officers, pensioners, and soldiers, building
fortresses and various foreign schemes. Millions and millions for all these but nothing for peace
and prosperity at home.
Thursday June 2, 1904
Willie Kennedy, the eight year old and only son, of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Kennedy died
Wednesday night after a protracted attack of typhoid. Interment took place Thursday evening
at 2 o‘clock, Rev. G. T. Carter conducting the exercises. The death is a peculiarily sad one in
that the Kennedy‘s came here only a short while ago, and are practically strangers at this
place. After coming here Mr. Kennedy at once bought him a lot and erected a comfortable
cottage and he and his family, consisting of a wife, son and daughter settled down to what gave
promise a most happy way of living, but alas for human hopes and human plans, their dear
boy is gone, the ideal is shattered. The Journal extends its heartfelt sympathies to the
bereaved family.
Thursday June 2, 1904
Prof. H. L. Graham who formerly taught school here died at Smithfield today. The remains
will be sent here for burial. The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow at
11 o‘clock. Choir singers especially requested to be present.
Miss Georgie Acott of Corsicana, a sister to Mrs. J. N. Johnston of this place, died last
Friday afternoon.
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Thursday June 9. 1904
Work on the new T. & P. depot is getting under good way and in a short time longer Arlington
will have a depot that will be alright. The company is putting up a pretty depot and is sparing
no pains to make it safe as well as comfortable and convenient. The foundation is solid cement
about two feet thick. Bolts are fastened in this cement and the sleepers are bolted to the
foundation. When the new depot is finished it will make a fine place for Walter Hutchinson,
Mike Ditto and several others to hang out when a cloud comes up in the north west.
Thursday June 9, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Jefferson Davis‘ birthday was observed in several places in a quiet way Friday.
Frank Sisler, a rejected suitor of Chicago, dangerously shot the object of his affection and
turned his pistol fatally upon himself.
Joe McFadden, a negro, working around a Shreveport hospital, has been sentenced to ninety
days on the road for robbing the dead.
Three children were killed, one man fatally injured and a woman and child seriously
injured by lightning, which partially destroyed their home near Booneville, Ind.
J. C. Ware, a well-known cotton buyer on the Arkansas side of Texarkana, was found dead
in bed at his home Friday morning. When discovered he had been dead several hours.
Mrs. Elizabeth Keil, sixty-three years old, has been found dead in the kitchen in the rear of
her store in Chicago by the police. An examination of her stomach revealed arsenic.
T. M. Myers, who killed George Brownlee and wounded Wallace Bennett, near Brooks
Corral, three weeks ago, has been taken from a party of officers near White Bird, Idaho, and
lynched. The mob was masked and outnumbered the officers three to one.
Six persons were killed and a dozen or more badly hurt as the result of a collision between
an eastbound fast electric car and a westbound ―package freight‖ car at Wells Corners, a few
miles east of Norwalk, O.
Thursday June 9, 1904 A Two Million Dollar Loss.
Peoria, Ill.: Fourteen men were killed, a score injured, 30,000 barrels of whisky destroyed
and 3,000 cattle burned as the result of an explosion at the plant of the Corning Distillery
Company Saturday evening. The warehouse in which the explosion occurred was destroyed,
and three other buildings were gutted by flames. The property loss is $2,000,000. It is
thought that the death list will be increased. The plant is said to be the second largest in the
world.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Negro Burglar Killed.
Palmer: Between 1:30 and 2 o‘clock Sunday morning a negro broke into the store of the R.
Smith Mercantile Company, and Chester Brown, a clerk, who was sleeping in the store heard
the noise and began to shoot at the intruder. After being shot the negro attempted to shoot Mr.
Brown, as he had a pistol in his hand when he fell dead in the door. This was supposed to
have been a transient negro, as he was a stranger here.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Didn‘t Need Any Bull Fight.
St. Louis: Maddened by their failure to see a bull fight, which had been much advertised,
and the failure of the management to return gate money, a majority of the crowd of 7,000
persons gathered at the arena outside of the city Sunday afternoon engaged in a riot, which
ended in wrecking of every building about the place and a complete destruction by fire of the
grand stand, which was built to accommodate about 18,000 persons.
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Thursday June 9, 1904
A tipple at shaft of one of the coal mines at Strawn burned Saturday morning. Two men
were killed by falling timbers.
Thursday June 9, 1904 TWELVE MEN ARE KILLED.
An Infernal Machine Kills Twelve Non-Union miners.
Cripple Creek, Colo., June 7. – Twelve men were killed by the explosion of an infernal
machine at the railroad station in Independence yesterday and seven others were seriously
injured. Eleven men were killed outright, and one died later from wounds. All the killed and
injured with the exception of two men from the Delmonico (unreadable).... miners employed on
the night shift of the Bandley mine. The men had quit work at 2 a.m. and were waiting to
board a suburban train on the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad and return to their homes
in Cripple Creek and Victor. Just after the engineer of the approaching train blew his whistle
as a signal to the miners, according to a custom, a terrific explosion occurred beneath the
station platform on and near which twenty-six men were gathered. The platform was blown
into splinters, the station wrecked and a hole twenty feet in circumference and about as many
feet deep was torn into the ground. Fragments of bodies were hurled through space for several
hundred feet and later were picked up still quivering.
A squad of soldiers under command of Major Naylor notified all hardware and gun stores in
Victor not to sell any firearms or ammunition without a permit from him or the police
authorities, and then to take the name and description of purchasers. The demand will be
complied with.
Among the mines that have already been closed down are the Stratton, Independent, the Lost
Dollar, the Theresa and the Shurtleff. These properties employ nearly one thousand men. The
streets of Victor are filled with an excited mob, and much loud talk is being indulged in.
The infernal machine which caused the explosion was one of the most simple ever
constructed for such a terrible purpose. It consisted of a loaded revolver with a long, slender
steel wire attached to the trigger. The revolver was fastened to the ground so that the pulling of
the trigger would not draw it away. The (unreadable) ... under the depot to the cribbing of the
Delmonico property, about 400 feet away, and its end was fastened to the rung of a chair. The
dynamiter had placed the powder close to the muzzle of the gun, and when he pulled the wire,
the ball from the revolver entered the explosive and set it off.
Thursday June 9, 1904 A Gruesome Discovery.
San Antonio: Will Wyatt, a young railroad man, who works at the Sap roundhouse, made a
gruesome discovery Sunday morning. In the dense hackberry thicket which fringes the Sap
right of way, a man, or what was once a man, was hanging by the neck from a tree. The
body had evidently been hanging for months, and the discolored clothing covered a skeleton,
from which almost all the flesh had rotted. The body could not be identified.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Terrible Deed of a Maniac.
Roselle, N. J.: After killing three of his children and wounding a fourth, Joseph M.
Pouch, at one time an undertaker, shot himself, through the head Monday and died.
Pouch lived in a cottage with his four children. Sunday he shot two of them and embalmed
their bodies. He took the other two to an upper room with him. Meanwhile he had mailed a
warning to County Physician Wescott, who upon receiving the letter, notified the police.
Thursday June 9, 1904
Jacob Bossler, a well-known farmer of near Shiner, shot himself Saturday.
Arrangements have been perfected on the Green demonstration farm at Terrell to irrigate.
Several large tanks have been constructed and windmills put in operation, with a view to
irrigating the farm.
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J. N. Everett, whose home was at Decker, Tex., was killed by lightning near Paint Rock
Sunday morning. He went to Concho County hunting for grass for his stock and camped near
Ballinger when killed.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Boat Capsizes and Occupant Drowns.
Texarkana: John Aarons, a painter, whose home has been in Texarkana for the last five
years, was drowned in Clear Lake, nine miles north of here on the Iron Mountain Railroad. He
and three companions were boat-riding on the lake when the boat turned over and he being
unable to swim, sank and was drowned. His companions swam safely to shore. The deceased
was a man of 25 years and leaves a wife and one child a year old.
Thursday June 9, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
At West Commerce Street, San Antonio, the remains of a child were found under a house and
an investigation is on.
The Fort Worth Telephone Company are putting up poles between Ft. Worth and North Ft.
Worth. The company expects to begin stringing the wires the early part of this week.
The last car of Laredo onions has been shipped and the total amounts to 106 cars, averaging
24,000 pounds to the car, making a total of 2,500,000 pounds, including the onions shipped
by express.
Joseph Deleo, a fifteen-year-old New York boy, aboard a street car, leaped out to catch a lady
passenger‘s hat, which had blown away, and was struck by an approaching car and was
instantly killed.
F. I. Williams of Paris has started a hog ranch of eighty acres five miles east of town. He feeds
his hogs on cornmeal and peanut hay. The peanut vines are pulled up with peanuts on them.
John Dalton, a carpenter, employed on the new Fort Worth National Bank building, fell from a
scaffold fifteen feet Friday morning and was fatally injured. He was taken to his home in an
unconscious condition.
According to an estimate compiled in the general office of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass
Railway, the watermelon crop in Sap territory will net one thousand cars. Three-fourths of
these will go to Northern markets.
Joe McComb at Van Alstyne at 2 o‘clock Friday morning was found dead. His wife was
awakened by a pistol shot and the husband was found dead on the front walk. It is supposed
that he shot himself accidentally.
The total enrollment of Baylor College, Waco, for the year was 953, representing twenty-four
States and foreign countries. In the graduating class this year eighteen men and sixteen
women.
At Shreveport M. Lewin, the proprietor of a confectionery and fruit store, killed himself by
shooting. Lewin was about 60 years old and unmarried. He was a veteran of the Franco-
Prussian War.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Woman Under Arrest for Murder.
Chicago: When Mrs. Rebecca Bailey called at the Wesley hospital to see her fiance, Louis
Miller, who had been taken to the institution probably fatally wounded by a bullet, she was
arrested on a charge of shooting him. At the time of her arrival the man was making an ante-
mortem statement accusing her, and the police were searching for her. With Mrs. Bailey was
Miss Sophia Grabner, who was held as a witness of the shooting. Mrs. Bailey and Miller were
to have been married within a week.
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Thursday June 9, 1904 Identified by False Teeth.
San Antonio: A set of false teeth was one of the important means that led to the
identification of the dead body found hanging to a tree near the old San Antonio and Aransas
Pass gravel pits Sunday morning. His name was Schimmelpfenning, a day laborer. He had
made frequent threats to kill himself and about three weeks ago left the house, carrying with
him the rope with which he hanged himself and the sack found near his body. He was sixty-
three years old. (See Page 526)
Thursday June 9, 1904 Passing of a Pioneer.
Sealy: Jacob Hill, one of the pioneers of Austin County and Texas, died at his home here
Saturday morning after a long illness. Mr. Hill was born on Sept. 15, 1827, and had been a
citizen of old San Felipe since the early days, only removing to Sealy about six years ago. His
wife, nee Davidson, preceded him in death only four days. The deceased leaves four sons
and one daughter, besides a lot of friends and relatives.
Thursday June 9, 1904
T. Jefferson, a negro, aged thirty years, fell from the engineering building of the University
at noon Monday while at work and killed himself. He struck a gas pipe in falling, which
hastened his death. The body was badly mangled.
Mrs. Joseph Keehn was killed and sixteen others seriously injured by jumping from a
runaway street car at Burlington, Iowa. The brakebeam broke just as the car started to
descend a long hill.
Thursday June 9, 1904 A Farmer Found Dead Near Home.
Brenham: R. R. Ramsell, a prominent farmer of Latium, Washington County, was found
dead near his home Thursday evening with a 32-caliber Winchester rifle by his side and a
bullet hole in his brain. His relatives think that he accidentally shot himself while trying to get
over a wire fence, near which he was found. He was about 28 years of age and leaves a family
and many relatives.
Thursday June 9, 1904 The Rains Hit Texas.
Dallas: From all over North Texas and from the Territory come reports of heavy rains and
severe winds early Friday morning. At Aberfoyle, Hunt County, the Baptist Church was
destroyed, and George Davis and two children were seriously hurt. The Baptist Church at
Kingston was destroyed. At Ladonia two mules and a horse were killed by lightning. Lightning
followed a wire enclosing a paddock at Sherman and killed nine hogs.
Near Howe Ed Archer, standing in his door holding his 2-year-old child in his arms, was
instantly killed by lightning, and the child badly hurt. At various places people were shocked
by lightning. Crops have been damaged in sections from Baird to Greenville and from Cleburne
to far into the Territory. Wheat has been blown down and much will be lost while some in
shocks has been washed away.
Thursday June 9, 1904 A Ghastly Discovery.
Runge: T. J. Ray, a farmer living seven miles south of town, killed himself with a shotgun.
It seems that he had placed the muzzle in his mouth, muffling it with one hand while he pulled
the trigger with the other. The entire head was blown to an almost unrecognizable mass. The
affair took place in his own yard, but for some reason the shot was not heard by his family and
his body was not discovered until daylight.
Thursday June 9, 1904
Indianapolis, Ind., June 1. – A special cable from a staff correspondent of the Indianapolis
News at Chefoo, dated June 1, says: The Japanese land attack on Port Arthur was begun
yesterday morning.
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Russian forces that were driven southward from Dalny and Kinchou by the Japanese are
assisting the garrison at Port Arthur, and the Russian navy has joined in the movement to
repulse the enemy.
There may be several days of skirmishing and outpost work before the Russian city is taken,
but it is the opinion of refugees who have arrived here that the Russians eventually must
succumb to overwhelming numbers.
Dalny, Kinchou, Talienwan and Nanshan have already fallen before the Japanese.
Thursday June 9, 1904
John Lewis, a Choctaw Indian, died at Caney, I. T., May 28, 105 years old and up to the
week of his death he could walk or ride the six miles between his cabin and Caney without any
discomfort.
Alex Thigbein, a dairy employe near Houston, was shot and killed by Gilbert Roos, who gave
himself up. Both are Negroes.
Mrs. L. A. G. Randall, an octogenarian died a few days since at Conway, Ark. She was the
mother of Congressman Randall of Texas, and had been married sixty years.
The Worcester Spy, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, has suspended publication
on account of financial troubles. The Spy was founded in 1770, the first issue appearing in
Boston.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Horrible to Contemplate.
Berlin: Ali Nouri Pasha, the Turkish reformer, contributes an article to the Volks Zeitung in
which he states that the Sultan of Turkey is planning a final massacre of Armenians, the
result of which will be the total annihilation of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. This,
says Ali Nouri, has been the Sultan‘s lifelong ambition, and he believes a suitable time for the
deed has arrived. (There were troubles before this, and troubles after this. The genocide
commenced in 1915 and continued through much of 1917, when 700,000 Armenian men, women
and children were marched into the Mesopotamia desert to die of thirst and starvation.)
Thursday June 9, 1904
J. M. Grogan has received the sad intelligence of the death of his sister, Miss Roxie Grogan,
at Attalla, Ala., on last Sunday Evening at 6 o‘clock. Miss Grogan was only twenty years old
and the news of her death came as a great shock to her brother, and other friends and relatives
in Arlington.
Thursday June 9, 1894
A letter from our old friend and one time Arlington citizen, B. F. Sawyer, of Walter, Okla.,
tells of the great storm up at that place last week. One lady was killed about twenty hurt,
twenty-five or thirty houses wrecked. The gin of Mr. Sawyer and sons was damaged $500.00.
All the family except Mr. Sawyer and Dick are here visiting friends, and escaped the ordeal of
passing through the terrible storm. Mr. Sawyer and Dick went to the cellar, and came through
safe but scared.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Home.
Whether in the Artic circle
Or on India‘s coral strands,
Where the winds are perfume laden
And warm waves caress the sands,
Whether eastward, whether westward,
When the daylight fades to gloam,
Where a baby runs to meet you,
And to kiss you, this is home!
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Where a baby runs to meet you
That is all there is in life!
All there is at all worth winning,
Worth the slaving and the strife;
Two wee dimpled arms stretched to you,
Two expectant eyes that wait,
It is home for you wherever
There‘s a baby at the gate.
It is home—sweet home—forever,
Where the lilts of laughter run
Of a tousel-headed baby,
Sitting playing in the sun;
It is home where every night-time,
As the evening shadows creep,
A wee nightrobed figure whispers:
―Now I lay me down to sleep.‖
J. M. Lewis in Houston Post.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Prof. H. L. Graham.
The subject of this sketch was born July 16, 1863, and died June 2, 1904, of typhoid fever at
Smithfield and was buried at Arlington June 2.
Prof. Graham was one of the most successful teachers in Tarrant county. He taught in the
college at this place with W. M. Trimble while Mr. Trimble had charge of that institution. Prof.
Graham had many friends in all parts of Texas, who mourn the loss.
Rev. A. P. Collins of Fort Worth said that to know Bro. Graham, was to love him, that there
was a sweet heartfelt prayer always upon his lips and a song of praise for Christ and his
kingdom; that, when Bro. Graham entered a home the entire family rejoiced at his coming for
both old and young feel that a righteous soul was in their midst. The preacher said that the
church had lost one of its noblest christian characters; the Sunday school, one of its chief
supports; the Baptist Association, one of its most efficient secretaries; the Tarrant County
Teachers Association, one of its professional teachers; the South Tarrant County Singing
Association, one of its most thoughtful and helpful members.
Doubtless all of these social, religious and educational organizations will pass suitable
resolution of condolence and respect at their next regular meetings.
As a private citizen Prof. Graham was modest in his pretentious, conservative in his opinions
yet firm and upright in his business affairs, loyal to his friends, kind to his family and
charitable to the sick and the afflicted either in body or mind. He yet, loveth in the hearts of
those (unreadable)... impress upon the hearts of both old and young. We are a part of all we
meet. He wielded an influence for good, so good is that heritage bestowed upon us by the
worthy brother who has passed over the river.
We extend condolence to all who mourn the death of Bro. Graham.
J. N. Johnston.
Thursday June 9, 1904 (editorial page)
A man was caught out in a snow storm and in order to protect himself he crawled into a hollow
log. While the storm raged he thought what a good man he had been, and of the good things he
had done, and became so full of enthusiasm that when he came to extricate himself he was
wedged in there so tight he couldn‘t move. Try as he might he seemed doomed to die in that log.
As he lay there thinking of his past life, a sudden thought passed through his mind, that he had
not paid the local editor for six years, and he felt so confounded small that he crawled through a
knot-hole.—Ex.
Thursday June 9, 1904 Passing of Gas in New York.
Electric lighting will entirely eliminate gas in the business districts of New York within the
next five years. A canvas of the leading architects and real estate firms resulted in a
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unanimous statement that 100 per cent of the business buildings and 98 per cent of the
resident buildings erected within the last two years in New York city have been equipped
exclusively with electrical fittings. Seven-eighths of the sky scrapers erected within that period
maintain their own plant.
Thursday June 9, 1904 W. M. Bardin Dead.
W. M. Bardin of Fish Creek died Sunday morning and was buried Monday at Rehoboth. Rev.
Tom Clark, a primitive Baptist minister from Burleson, conducted the funeral exercises. Mr.
Bardin was a member of the primitive Baptist church and a leading man in all the affairs of the
(unreadable). He was a man of great kindliness of heart. His handshake did one good, his
smile disseminated sunshine wherever he went. He was prosperous in business, had a fine
wife, a good home, and an excellent family. He is survived by a wife and seven children, several
brothers and sisters. Few men were more sincerely loved, and few would be more sadly missed
than he. Mr. Bardin has suffered several attacks of lagrippe and last December had a severe
attack of Typhoid, and these brought on complications that terminated fatally. The Journal
feels a personal loss in his death and joins its sympathies to those whose loss is so much
greater.
Thursday June 9, 1894
For the first time in Arlington history her newspaper has reached a circulation of 1000 copies
weekly. Since we came here less than two years ago we have pushed the circulation from 315 to
1000; nor do we expect to stop here but aim to go on until every family in Arlingtons trade
territory is visited by the Journal each week. The vast benefit of this increase to our advertisers
is apparent, for with more than three times the readers we still stick to the same old prices.
Thursday June 16, 1904 A Cowboy in New York.
Chas. M. Russell, a Montana cowboy artist, who visited New Jersey recently, has returned to
his Montana home and in an interview says: ―I‘d rather live in a place where I know somebody
and everybody is somebody. The style in some of those New York saloons is something to
remember. The bartender won‘t drink with you even. Now, I like to have the bartender to
drink with me occasionally, out of the same bottle, just to be sure I ain‘t getting poison. They
won‘t even take your money over the bar. Instead, they give you a check, with the price of your
drink on it, and you walk yourself sober trying to find the cashier to pay for it.‖
Thursday June 16, 1904
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Casstevens were riding in a new rubber tire buggy Sunday evening.
Thursday June 16, 1904
Dr. Jno. Grant of Sherman, one of the leading republicans of the state died suddenly at his
home in Sherman at 6 o‘clock on the 13 inst. Dr. Grant was 52 years old. He was appointed
by President McKinley as Marshall of the eastern District of Texas.
Thursday June 16, 1904 Dr. John Grant Dead.
Sherman: Dr. John Grant, former United States Marshal of the Eastern District of Texas,
died suddenly at his residence in this city Monday morning. He was rapidly convalescing from
the effects of an accident at Roff, I. T., in which the bones of his hip were fractured, and had
but recently been removed home from St. Vincent‘s Sanitarium. Today he was more than
usually cheerful, and expected to leave his room on crutches.
Thursday June 16. 1904
Paris and Honey Grove are rival towns in the same county. Here is the way the Honey Grove
Signal hit Paris last week.
The Paris papers tell of a man who recently moved to that city from Honey Grove, walking the
streets and square of that city arrayed in his sleep clothes. We are not surprised. Paris looks so
much like a bed room to a man from a real town that any Honey Groveite is liable to parade the
streets in a night shirt or take a nap in one of the stores.
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Thursday June 16, 1904
Two years ago W. T. Eldridge of Eagle Lake, vice-president and general manager of the Cane
Belt railroad, shot and killed Capt. William Dunovant on a train near Eagle Lake. A year ago
some one attempted to assassinate Eldridge, by firing at him as he entered his residence at
night, the ball barely missing its mark. Last week the attempt at assassination was repeated.
Eldridge was shot from an upper room in a building by some one in hiding. The ball passed
through his body penetrating one lung, but it is reported he will get well. He resigned his
position with the Cane Belt and will quit Eagle Lake where he was reared and where he has
risen from the humbler walks of life and amassed a considerable fortune.
Thursday June 16, 1904
The session of the city council last Thursday night was about one of the warmest of the
season, the main feature of which was the discussion of the sanitary conditions of the city.
Numerous nuisances in the way of hog pens, et cetera, were reported and ordered abated. The
alley and vacant lot back on the block on the south side of Main street between Center and
Mesquite come in for severe criticism and the owners of the property were ordered to clean up
in short order. Besides this a general cleaning order was issued and the new sanitary
committee composed of Lasater, Coble, and McKnight were instructed to look after the work.
Mayor Bailey has been working along this line ever since he came into power, and all the town
is yelling, go to it T. G.
Thursday June 16, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Mart V. Vowell, aged sixty-one, and who served in the Confederate army during the Civil
War, was hanged at Paragould, Ark., for the murder of W. F. Lovejoy.
Mrs. William Asselimia, bride of four weeks, is dead of brain fever at La Cross, Wis.,
brought on by an almost incessant charivari and serenade by persistent friends.
Mrs. Samuel M. Clemens, wife of ―Mark Twain,‖ the American lecturer, died of syncope at
Florence, Italy, Sunday morning. Half an hour before she died she conversed cheerfully with
her husband.
J. E. Ashcroft bishop of the Mormon church and manager of the co-operative store has been
accidentally killed while blasting rock in the construction of an irrigation ditch for the Navajo
Indians near Fruitland, N. M.
H. L. Farmer, a well known citizen, who had resided in the Bone Grove neighborhood near
Ardmore, I. T., for about three years, in a fit of desperation shot and killed his fourteen-year-
old son Emmet. He then blew his brains out.
In a fit of temporary insanity Robert R. Miller, aged fifty-eight years, who went to St. Louis
with his wife and daughter from Tampa, Fla., to visit the World‘s Fair, has ended his life at his
boardinghouse, but cutting his throat and wrists with a razor.
Thursday June 16, 1904 The Suicidal Thirteen.
New York: George Wagner, a wealthy German resident of Bridgeport, Conn., committed
suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at the Morton House Sunday night. Mr. Wagner
was the moving spirit of a club of well-known German residents, first organized as a ―13 Club.‖
Later on one after another of the congenial spirits began to die by suicide. Practically all of the
men who were formerly identified with that organization have died by their own hand.
Thursday June 16, 1904 A Texas Pioneer‘s Passing.
Dallas: Mrs. Maragaret M. Bachman died Sunday morning at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. James H. Smith. The deceased was the wife of the late John Bachman, with
whom she came to Dallas County in 1854, and settled on the old Bachman homestead near the
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site of what is now known as Bachman‘s reservoir, and has made Dallas County her home for
fifty years. Mrs. Bachman was born in Murray County, Feb. 14, 1824.
Thursday June 16, 1904 Ended It all.
Houston: William Meyer, a German, poet and musician, Thursday night climbed to the
third balcony of the fire escape in the rear of the opera house back of Fannin street, between
Preston and Congress avenues, placed the muzzle of a revolver against his head and died by
his own hand. At 8 o‘clock in the morning the lifeless body, lying high in the air upon the
grating, was discovered. The pistol was still held tightly in his hand.
Thursday June 16, 1904
Levi Z. Leiter, of Chicago, died suddenly Thursday at Bar harbor, Me. He was the father of
Lady Curzon of Keddleston, and Joseph W. Leiter, a well known speculator and investor.
Israel Segol, of Jefferson, Tex., died on a westbound International and Great Northern train
near Lake station Thursday morning. With him was his wife and three children. They had
been at Boerne for the past year on account of Mr. Segol‘s health. Finding he had
consumption, they started home.
Thursday June 16, 1904 Fooling With An ―Unloaded Gun.‖
Bryan: Grover McDonald, the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard McDonald, who
reside at Macy, in the northern portion of Brazos County, was accidentally killed Wednesday by
his 6-year-old brother. An old gun, supposed to be unloaded, with which they were playing ,
was discharged, the load taking effect in the young man‘s neck and killing him instantly.
Thursday June 16, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
A Bohemian farmer near Buckholts set his gun in his barn to shoot parties that were stealing
his corn, and his 11-year-old son was fatally shot when he went to feed the stock.
It is reported that William Arthur Earle, telegraph operator at Yorktown for the Aransas
Pass Railway was killed by robbers Tuesday morning. Ten dollars were secured.
During a heavy rain and electric storm at Paint Rock Sunday morning Jesse N. Everett, a
camper on the Concho River, a mile below town, was struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Lum Woodruff, an eccentric character, living the life of a hermit, near San Antonio, was
found dead near his hut. He was between seventy and eighty years of age, and was much
given to scientific study.
A red-haired, light complexied man named C. P. Sims sued the Santa Fe for $10,110
damages, alleging that he was a negro, and that he had been compelled to sit in the white
coach while travelling on that road and that he had contracted an illness thereby. The jury
decided favorably to the company.
The Irish Potato crop of Hill County is the largest that has ever been raised and the farmers,
fearing that the same will rot on their hands, are arranging to ship them in carload lots to the
Eastern markets.
At a dance on Steeps Creek, about six miles east of Brownwood, Pat Wells, the fiddler, was
seriously if not fatally cut. Wells was cut in four places on the face and head, his clothing
was cut in several places. Charles Scott was arrested.
Thursday June 16, 1904 Waterspout in the Territory.
Mill Creek, I. T.: An immense waterspout occurred at this place Thursday night, inflicting
great damage to the railway, washing out crops and drowning three women. The drowned were
Mrs. R. H. Wilson and baby, Miss Fay Davis, a lady who was spending the night with them.
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Their house was in the Three Mile Bottoms just west of town. When the raging torrent struck
it was crushed like an egg shell and the occupants rushed out only to be swept away.
Their bodies were discovered early Friday morning by searching parties, the baby being
wedged between two trees about one half mile below where the house stood. The husband of
the family can not be located up to date, he having left two days before in a wagon to work in
the Kansas wheat harvest. Several narrow escapes are reported.
Thursday June 16, 1904 The First Victim.
Dallas: Friday afternoon, about 5 o‘clock a negro riding a wheel northward on Ervay
street was struck and knocked down by an automobile proceeding rapidly westward on
Commerce street. Capt. Hugh Berry of the police department happened to be passing,. He
says that the wheel was practically demolished, but that the negro was not very much hurt.
Thursday June 16, 1904 It Was Gasoline.
Kansas City: A mistake of a grocer in filling a jug with gasoline when vinegar was asked for
resulted in an explosion causing the death of Mrs. Barbara Schoen, aged 62 years, and the
injuring of Helen Schoen, aged 4 years, burning in right side, condition serious. Antone
Schoen and Charles Schoen, hands severely burnt.
Mrs. Schoen, in preparing dinner, poured a portion of the jug‘s contents in a hot skillet.
Instantly, there was an explosion, which enveloped her in flames and set fire to the house.
Thursday June 16, 1904 FLOODS IN THE TERRITORY.
Crops Damaged, Trains Stopped and Lives Lost.
Antlers, I. T., June 13. – The flood situation just passed has been the worst in the history of
Antlers. At this point the river was nearly two miles wide, and for a time communication of all
kinds has been cut off. Antlers has had no mail since Saturday, the 4
th
inst., and it is hard to
say when service will be re-established.
A section crew in from Wadena reports the drowning of a family by the name of Smith at
that place. The father, mother and three children were caught and could not be rescued.
At Kosoma the water is reported to have risen fifteen feet in fifteen minutes. Deputy Cal
Berry and Constable F. D. Copping crossed the river Monday at this place. Firing and shouting
had been heard on the other side and they found a negro family on an island, badly frightened,
but safe. In getting to the river they passed through the tops of the trees, and myriads of
insects and vermin crawled into the boat. In mid-stream the velocity of the current was almost
beyond belief, trees, a foot thick being snapped like pipe stems by the water.
The water is rapidly receding, and every effort is being made by the railroad company to
repair the track.
Northbound No. 6 on the Frisco, which has stood in the water near Tuskahoma since
Saturday, came back Sunday night and went to Paris. The train was loaded with passengers,
many of them bound for the World‘s Fair.
The damage to crops and other property can not be estimated. Scores of horses and cattle
are drowned, and practically all the hogs that were in the bottoms.
Thursday June 16, 1904
Jack Parker, under arrest for horse theft, attempted suicide in the jail at Eastland. He
fastened one end of the cot strap to the cell, then standing on a bucket, tied the other end of
the strap around his neck and kicked the bucket from under him. He was in a critical
condition when discovered.
At Bend Fred Stamford, a boy 13 years old, was bitten by a moccasin, or cotton-mouth
snake, a few days ago. All medical aid failed to relieve him and he died shortly afterward.
Thursday June 23, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Joe Ruma, an Italian boy, fifteen years of age, who has been in Galveston four or five months
was drowned Thursday night, while bathing in the bay.
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Mrs. Inez Sattle, the 16-year-old wife of J. A. Sattle of (unreadable) ... died at New Orleans
Thursday night. The girl succumbed to death while on her (unreadable) tour.
In Grayson County scores of binders at work in the wheat fields at night, lanterns being used
in profusion. The grain is ripening rapidly under the influence of warm weather.
Albert Koepping, who murdered John Martin in Port Jervis, and Oscar Bergstrom, who
killed his wife in Mount Kisco, were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison
Monday.
A cyclone of unusual severity, accompanied by unprecedented rain, has caused great damage
to Santiago, Cuba, and surrounding country. The death list is over one hundred, and is
increasing.
Robert Hall, a negro, shot at his brother, Levi, below Waco, missing him, but shooting a
Winchester ball clear through a small son of Levi Hall and also shooting a horse. It is
thought the boy will die.
Reports come from Robinsonville, seven miles south of Waco, where the mad dog showed up
some three weeks ago, to the effect that two or three more rabid dogs have been seen there in
the past few days.
John L. McAfee, aged 61, for seven years United States District Judge of the Fifth Judicial
District of Oklahoma, with residence in Enid, died Monday morning at Chicago of paralysis.
While crossing Pecan Creek, about three miles west of Brandon, with a load of oats, Boone
Spalding, a son of Dan J. W. Spalding fell from the wagon. The wheels passed over his chest,
killing him instantly.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Old Resident Found Dead.
Marlin: John Reynolds died suddenly Friday evening while working in his garden. When
found the rake with which he was working was laying by his side. He was born at
Nicholsonville, Ky., in 1829, was married to Miss Anne Eliza Burris at Somerset, Ky., in 1850.
He had resided in Marlin since 1870, was once Mayor of Marlin, and for many years engaged in
the saddlery business there. He was the father of eight children.
Thursday June 23, l904
St. Louis: Zach Mulhall, the noted frontiersman, director of the Cowboys‘ Band and
Congress of Rough Riders, shot and wounded three men on The Pike Saturday night. As a
result of the shooting John Murrah, a cowboy, is in the hospital suffering from a serious
wound in the stomach; Frank Reed, a stableman, is wounded in the left wrist and neck, and a
man named Morgan, a bystander, received a bullet in the stomach. Morgan‘s condition is said
to be critical.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Two Killed In a Collision.
Sherman: Sunday morning at 1:30 o‘clock there was a head-on collision on the Frisco at a
point about two miles south of Sapulpa, I. T., and upon the trestle of Pole Cat bridge.
Information as to the cause is meager, but it is known that Conductor Fisher, acting as pilot
on the light engine and Fireman Wade on one of the freight train, were both killed, and that
Fireman Gillis of the light engine is in a critical condition from scalds.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Raising Cucumbers.
Texarkana: The cucumber is rapidly developing in this locality. During the past week the
farmers living in this vicinity have shipped an average of fifty sacks a day over the Kansas City
Southern to the pickle factory at De Queen, Ark., and it is expected they will increase this
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amount to a carload per day during the present week. From Hooks, fifteen miles west of here,
two car loads were shipped from there to De Queen on Wednesday.
Thursday June 23, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
The two-year-old child of Mrs. Bessie Shackley, of Dallas, was run over by a street car
Thursday, and was so badly hurt that it died a few hours later.
A negro named Ike Bledsoe insisted on eating at a restaurant table in El Paso with Charles
McBride. In the melee McBride was hurt and the negro killed.
Mrs. Jake Males of Cumby has died from the effects of burns. Mrs. Males was engaged in
canning beans when her dress caught fire, burning her to such an extent that she only lived a
few hours.
Jim Irwin and Pink McCarty, engaged in a bloody encounter with a knife and an ice saw at
Sherman. Both are resting well and it is believed both will recover.
While on their way to the picnic at Walnut Springs, a number of young men were trying the
speed of their horses when the horse ridden by Geo. Smith, a young man about 18 years old,
fell, fatally crushing young Mr. Smith.
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Vatter at Houston possessed himself of a shotgun and while he was
pretending to go through military tactics the gun was discharged and blew off the head of his
seven-year-old sister, Sofa Vatter.
Thursday June 23, 1904
John T. Sullivan, for fifteen years one of the most popular American actors, is dead at his
hotel in New York from rheumatism which finally attacked his heart.
A westbound passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern ran into an open
switch, colliding with a freight train near Vincennes, Ind. Sixteen persons were injured, three
of whom may die.
Judge J. Soule Smith, attorney, jurist and perhaps the best informed Mason in the United
States, dropped dead at his home at Lexington, Ky., Monday of heart disease. He was a writer
under the nom de plume of ―Falcon.‖
About 9:30 o‘clock Monday night Henry Hopkins, a negro about 30 years of age, dropped
dead on the porch of a grocery store on Elizabeth street, Fort Worth.
The Court of appeals at Frankfort, Ky., overruled the petition for rehearing in the case of
James B. Howard against the commonwealth, given a life sentence on the charge of murdering
Gov. Goebel.
Anna Movatski, nineteen years old, and Fritz Wolf, forty-five years old, were burned to
death and six others injured in a fire that partially destroyed a saloon and boarding house at
Cleveland, O., Monday.
Thursday June 23, 1904 A Mystery Clearing Up.
Waxahachie: Two young men, Fred Morrow and Will Birt, were arrested and brought here
from Bell County and lodged in jail, charged with the murder of Josh Reagor at Ennis last
winter. The prisoners were in the county farm of Bell County, serving out fines in
misdemeanor cases. Young Reagor was knocked in the head about daylight one day last winter
and died without revealing his assailants.
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Thursday June 23, 1904 Prominent Telephone Man Dead.
Dallas: E. K. Baker, at Austin, superintendent of the Southern Texas division of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, died Monday. For a number of years up to
1890 Mr. Baker was superintendent of the North Texas division, his headquarters being at
Dallas. He had a great many friends in this city. Mr. Baker was born in Mississippi sixty-
seven years ago. He leaves a wife and two daughters.
Thursday June 23, 1904 With Unloaded Weapons.
Cameron: On the farm of Hon. Hillary F. Smith, a few miles south of here, a negro by the
name of James Jones left his children at home Wednesday while he and his wife were at work
on the farm, and on hearing the discharge of a gun, they returned home, to find that their
thirteen-year-old boy had been shot to death by their eleven-year-old boy. The parents
thought the gun was unloaded and left it and a pistol where the children could get them and
after they had left the house the children thought they would have a fight with the gun and
pistol.
Thursday June 23, 1904
Union printers in the district surrounding Chicago have started a movement for the
establishment of the eight-hour day for their craft throughout the United States.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Children With a Gun.
Plainview: Garrett, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Estes, near Running Water,
and a neighbor‘s daughter, aged 12 years, had walked out with a shotgun to shoot a rabbit.
They had started back to the house, when the boy handed the gun to his companion and asked
her to take it to the house. On being told that it was not loaded she said she would shoot him.
She playfully pointed it at him when it was discharged, tearing the top of his head away and
killing him instantly.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Rival Kentucky Gentlemen.
Bryantville, Ind.: As the result of a street duel, three men are dead and two others wounded,
one of whom will die. The dead are James Rout, aged 32; Charles Rout, aged 36; Hilton
Tow, aged 24. Fatally wounded: James Tow, aged 32. Severely wounded: Frank Tow, aged
26. The fight is the culmination of a feud between the Rout and Tow families which has existed
for several years. The Routs reside at Bedford, eight miles east of Bryantville, and the Tow
boys are farmers here.
Thursday June 23, 1904
Unparalleled Catastrophe, Six Hundred Are Dead.
A Sunday School Excursion Meets Horrible Fate on a Burning Boat.
New York, June 16. – One of the most appalling disasters in the history of New York, tragic
in its immensity, dramatic in its episodes, and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of its
victims, took place yesterday in the East River within a short distance of the New York (pier)
within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of whom were powerless to minimize the
extent of the catastrophe. By the burning to the water‘s edge of the (General Slocum, a three
decked) excursion steamer, the largest in these waters, more than 600 persons, the majority
of whom were women and children, were burned to death or drowned by jumping overboard or
by being thrown into the whirlpools by the lurching of the vessel and the frantic rush of the
panic stricken prisoners.
Approximately 500 bodies have been recovered and are now being tagged at the morgues of
Bellevue Hospital and Harlem.
Divers are still busy taking bodies from the hood of the vessel which they say is choken with
the remains of human beings, while the bodies of scores who leaped or were thrown into the
river have not been recovered.
Great preparations had been made for the seventeenth annual excursion of the Sunday
school of St. Mark‘s German Lutheran Church. Gen. Slocum had been chartered to carry the
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excursionists to Locust Grove, one of the many resorts on Long Island Sound. It is variously
estimated that there were between 1500 and 2500 persons on board.
The scene on the decks of the steamer as she proceeded up the East River was one of
merrymaking customary on such occasions. The mass of flags fluttered in the June breezes,
the bands were playing and the children were singing, dancing and waving handkerchiefs in
answer to the salutations of those on shore or from passing steamers. At the extreme end of
Randall‘s Island, off One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, there is a stretch of water known as
the Sunken Meadows. At this point just as crowds were watching the gayly decorated steamer
from the shore, the Gen. Slocum took fire, and as the age of the vessel—she was built in
1891—had resulted in the thorough seasoning of the woodwork, of which she was almost
entirely built, she was soon a mass of flames.
The fire is said to have broken out in a lunch room on the forward deck, through the
overturning of a pot of grease. The wind was high and all efforts to subdue the fire were futile.
At 134
th
street, there are several lumber yards and oil tanks and as Capt. William Van
Shaick, in command of the General Slocum, started to turn his vessel toward the shore, there
he was warned that it would set fire to the lumber and oil and so he changed his course for
North Brother Island, one of the twin islands near the entrance to the sound, some half a mile
away, where the boat, partially burned, was beached.
The race to North Brother Island was horribly dramatic. It was made while the flames, which
had been fanned into a fury by the strong headwind, were consuming hundreds of persons, old
and young. The scene was one of frightful panic, with women and children jumping overboard,
and being dashed by the channel whirlpools against (the) vessel‘s sides. Women and children
were crowded together on the hurricane deck, which soon burned away and fell and it is
believed that most of those on this deck were burned.
The after rail gave way and the people who had crowded against it were pushed into the river.
Mothers and children became separated and frantically sought each other, while in several
cases fathers and mothers gathered their children together and jumped with them into the
water. Little children, holding each other by the hand, jumped together and were afterward
found clasped in each other‘s arms. It is alleged that men fought with women to escape,
resulting in the trampling under foot of scores of children.
During her flame-enveloped run to North Brother Island the General Slocum‘s whistles kept
blowing for assistance, but before the whistles began to blow several tugs, the captains of
which had seen the outbreak of the fire started after the vessel, joined by a yacht, while
rowboats put out from the shore. The number of these craft constantly grew, and not the least
dramatic incidents of the catastrophe were the efforts of the people on these boats to rescue
those who had jumped overboard from the burning vessel. Men crowded to the rails of the tugs
and caught up the drowning persons as they were borne by the current. There were many
thrilling rescues by this means.
All the bodies of the living and the dead were taken out of the water, those alive were taken to
hospitals on Manhattan.
Thursday June 23, 1904
More than 100 children of the four hundred in this district were not in school last year more
than a few days. More than fifty never entered any school.
Thursday June 23, 1904
The T. & P. Depot now nearing completion, is going to be the most ornate depot between
Texarkana and El Paso. There are 5 rooms; a smoking room, baggage room, agents room, and
white and colored waiting rooms. The sills and sleepers are all tied to the cement foundation by
long iron bolts that come up through the cement. The floors and outside walks will all be cement.
On the east porch will be two massive columns of solid cement and even the seats for bums on
the outside will be cement. And here is where we draw the line. What fun can loafers have
sitting on a bench they can‘t whittle on? As for us we will stick to the old pine bench at the
corner drug store.
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Thursday June 23, 1904
Mrs. R. L. Ditto died Saturday evening after a long illness. She leaves a husband and
several small children. The remains were interred Sunday evening in the Arlington Cemetery.
Rev. D. C. Sibley conducting the funeral services. Mrs. Ditto was a woman who was held in
very high esteem by those who know her well. The Journal extends sympathy to the bereaved
family.
Thursday June 23, 1904
Boone Spalding, who was in Carlisle school here last winter was killed near Brandon Friday.
He was hauling grain and in some way fell off the wagon, both wheels passing over him. He
lived only a few minutes.
Thursday June 23, 1904 Card of Thanks.
To those who so patiently and long administered to my wife in her illness, I extend my
sincere thanks. I shall ever be grateful for the kindness and sympathy shown me and my
children.
Respectfully, R. L. Ditto.
Thursday June 23, 1904
There is a case of charity in the east part of town that the Journal believes deserves
the attention of those charitably inclined. The party is an old wood peddler by the
name of Turner. Most of our people, the business men especially have noticed him and
his wife peddling wood here for a year. The old man has long been almost helpless
from paralysis, and is now completely so. J. W. Ditto raised a small amount for them
last week, but this is gone and the aged couple are in want. Some one suggested the
poor farm to them, but the old woman objected, saying her last husband was sent to
the poor house and they did not take good care of him and let him die, and she did not
want this one to go that way. They are old, and poor, and obscure but they are in need,
and they are human, and the Journal believes a man will feel better for helping them
in their last sad extremities.
Thursday June 23, 904 A Cloud With No Silver Lining.
A tinge of sadness hangs about the Journal office like a great pall.
For nearly a year Miss Mattie Lyon has been with the office, and has been our light in
darkness, our joy in sorrow, and by her pleasant manners and proficient help has done much to
help and cheer the office force. Even the devil grew less satanic when in her presence. But she
is with us no more, for the present at least, and as we look at the ―vacant stool,‖ we feel how
fleeting are the ties that bind us. A pleasant feature of the Journal office is the good fellowship
and friendly feeling that has always abounded within its ink besmeared walls, among the
yokefellows of the craft. Here has been peace and plenty and ―liberty of the press,‖ a place
where good will abounds perpetually, and where none dare molest or make us afraid.
Thursday June 30, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Six miles east of Lewisville, Adolphus Isom was shot and killed and his brother, Shack Isom,
wounded. The man who did the shooting escaped.
Charles Griffin, a bridgeman on the Southern Pacific, fell from the Rio River bridge at
Chatfield, a distance of twenty feet, and his neck was broken. He died instantly.
A 21-month-old boy of Mrs. E. A. Collins, of Cumby, succumbed to an operation for a nasal
condition.
In a train wreck in the province of Tereul, Spain, thirty persons lost their lives. The train
was derailed on a bridge over the Kiloca River and the bridge took fire and the engine fell into
the river, dragging a number of coaches behind it.
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Wednesday morning, between West and Abbott, near the county line, O. G. Hudnall and
Charles Diehl, fought, the former being instantly killed by Diehl, who stabbed him. Both have
families.
Captain William Harris, a pioneer Dallas County citizen, died Tuesday morning. Capt. Harris
was born in Alabama in 1830 and moved to Texas in 1836. He was a graduate of the Dalon
University at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and the Lebanon Law school.
The jury in the Swartz case at Cuero, out but a short time, gave him the limit, assessing his
punishment at death. His crime was the killing of Operator Earle at Yorktown, three weeks
ago.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Resort to the Lash.
Lexington, Ky.: In accordance with Police Judge John Riley‘s whipping post decision,
recently delivered, John West, a 14-year-old negro boy, was given five lashes in the public
square. The lad was whipped with a buggy whip in the presence of over a thousand citizens.
Injuring private property was the charge against him. This is the second lad whipped. The
negroes are restive, and there are threats of a legal test of the decision.
Thursday June 30, 1904
Three persons lost their lives and a half dozen others were injured as the result of the
explosion of a small bundle of fireworks in the storeroom of the Diamond Fireworks Company
at Philadelphia.
Thursday June 30, 1904
On last Sunday at Mansfield Theo Stewart shot Jno. Whaley with a 38 calibre pistol. The
wound is not serious. Stewart was released on a $750 bond.
Thursday June 30, 1904 (excerpt from editorial page following an Arlington picnic))
The country boys who have been too busy to come to town much lately hardly took time to tie
their bronchos, ‗till they made a rush on the melon and confectionery stands, all of which did a
driving business all day. One conception of the highest type of earthly happiness has always
been a country boy with fuzz on his face, a good girl that he knew no other fellow could take
away from him, and six bits pocket change, working hard all week and on Saturday fix up and
take his girl to the picnic in town. We saw lots of such happy couples, and were convinced more
than ever that the world is not growing older or worse. It is just as young and sweet and
(replete) with promise to all such as it ever was. The world may be growing older to us, but not to
the boy with a fizzy lip, a good sweet heart (and all sweet hearts are good) and six bits.
Thursday June 30, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Robert Logan, Mayor of Poteau, I. T., shot himself above the heart and is in a critical
condition. It is not known how it happened.
R. F. Chaffee, aged 28, a druggist in Houston, blew out his brains with a revolver rather
than answer a summons to testify in court in a case wherein he was accused of having
unwittingly purchased stolen medical instruments.
Hickalachee, aged 76, and Theresa Roubideaux, aged 94, were married near Perkins, O.,
Thursday. Both are members of the Iowa tribe of Indians. Theresa is the youngest daughter of
the founder of St. Joseph, Mo. The bride has been married to six men in her life.
Ex-Governor R. M. Harris of the Chicasaw National, was seriously if not fatally hurt by
being thrown against a tree while out riding. For several hours he was unconscious. He is one
of the best known men of the tribe.
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Overcome by the news that his wife, who is an invalid, must undergo a dangerous operation
to save her life, Carl Schmidt, a wealthy mine promoter, killed himself in his home in New
York.
W. D. Terrell, a popular McLennan County farmer between 50 and 60 years of age, was busy
in the harvest field when a rain coming up suddenly, he ran to the house at a pretty rapid gait,
falling dead, as he reached his door, from heart disease.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Thirty-Three Are Drowned.
Kingston, Jamaica: Thirty-three persons were killed by an accident which took place near
Spanishtown, ten miles west of Kingston, in the main conduit of the West India Electric
Company. Nearly 100 laborers had been detailed to remove sand from the enormous pipe,
which is a mile long, and which conveys water from the intake on the Rio Cobre to the turbines
of the powerhouse. The work had practically been completed when orders were given to allow a
small quantity of water to enter the conduit. Through misapprehension, accident or
carelessness, the full force of water was turned on and a mad struggle to escape by means of
the manholes ensued with the result that thirty-three persons were killed.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Sudden Death of W. H. Firth.
Fort Worth: William H. Firth, general passenger and ticket agent of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Texas Railway, died suddenly Monday morning. He had been ill for the past year
and a half from heart trouble. He was sitting up in his room, and Mrs. Firth was preparing his
breakfast, when he began coughing, and in a few minutes he expired. Mr. Firth was sixty-one
years of age, having been born at Medina, N. Y. He leaves a wife and four children.
Thursday June 30, 1904
A. R. Bourne of Atlanta, Tex., and Miss Emma Childers of Crisp were married Sunday
afternoon on the Texas Midland train en route from Ennis to Crisp. Rev. W. K. Penrod
performed the ceremony while the train was running at a rate of forty miles an hour.
The son of J. R. Scott, a prominent stockman of Wills Point, was bitten by a dog Friday that
later developed hydrophobia. A madstone was applied and adhered to the wound for about five
hours. Mr. Scott has gone to St. Louis for treatment in the Pasteur Institute.
The death sentence was passed on Jim Black, convicted of the murder of City Marshal Riley
Jordan, of Howe, last fall. August 26 is the date of the execution.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Fell Down Dead.
Muskogee, I. T.: A. J. Nelson, a resident of Denver, Colo., fell in the street here and died in
one minute. He had 39.90 on his person. He had been here for about a week, taking orders
for photo buttons, and had $200 in orders which he had not delivered. He was about 40 years
of age, and leaves a wife and one daughter. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World,
and carried $2,000 insurance in that order.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Killed on the Track.
Denison: A young man named Thomas, aged about eighteen years, was run over and killed
six miles north of Denison on the Katy by a northbound Katy freight train, his head being
completely severed from his body. Wash Ritter, a young man accompanying Thomas, was also
struck by the train and considerably injured, but not fatally hurt. They had grown tired, sat
down on the track and went to sleep.
Thursday June 30, 1904 A Sickening Spectacle.
Cleveland, O.: Christopher Frese, an ex-City Councilman, and his wife, Louisa, both over
60 years old, were struck by a Lake Shore electric car while crossing the tracks and killed. The
husband was killed and the wife died within a few minutes. Mr. Frese‘s heart in some strange
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manner was severed from its tendons, forced from the body, and was found lying at the side of
the dead man.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Farmers Near Cleburne Do Better With Potatoes and Cabbage.
Cleburne, June 25: -- J. I. Richardson, who resides a few miles east of the city, was here and
stated among other things that he would not again plant cotton, and furthermore, that if any of
it came up on his place that he would cut it up the same as he would of if it came up on his
place that had put in fifteen acres of Irish potatoes this year, and that his neighbor, Jeff
Beasley, had in about fifty acres. For some reason a good stand could not be secured, but
notwithstanding the disadvantages they shipped two car loads to Northern markets. They also
had in about 10,000 head of cabbages and other truck and were fairly successful.
John Fine, who resides east of the city, was here and stated that the fruit prospect for the
county was very good. In the peach line the Mamie Ross, Greensboro and Elberta were best.
In the plum line the Wild Goose and Tenaha were best. He also said the Gold Standard and
White English peach family were showing up very well. He was of the opinion that considerable
money was made on the berry crop in this county, but could not furnish the exact figures.
Both of the above gentlemen seemed to encourage the desire for better fruit and vegetable
crops in the county, and said that there should be some concerted action among the farmers so
as to bring better results. They are confident the soil here, which has a mixture of iron in it,
will raise as fine fruit and vegetables as the soil in other portions of the State. The only thing
that is necessary is to plant the stuff and work together for the good results which are sure to
come.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Dragged to Death.
Terrell: J. D. Stevenson, an old citizen, had been plowing Saturday, and in the evening
started to lead his horse with a rope. In some way unknown the animal became frightened and
ran away, dragging Mr. Stevenson about thirty yards. One of his legs, one arm and his nose
were broken, and his head frightfully cut up, besides internal injuries. When found he was
unconscious, and never regained consciousness.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Negro Hanged.
Euporia, Miss.: Starling Dunham, a negro, charged with assaulting the 14-year-old
daughter of John Wilson, a white man, near Bellefontaine, and attempting to criminally assault
three young ladies named Dunn near this city during the course of the same day, was hanged
in the public square by a mob. The noose was placed about the negro‘s neck by the little
Wilson girl, who positively identified him as her assailant.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Fooling With a Pistol.
Knoxville: Mrs. Avery Owensby, a bride of two months, was accidentally shot and killed by
Miss Blanche Cole, aged 16. Mrs. Owensby was paying a call to the mother of the woman and
opened a drawer. Spying a pistol the girl picked it up and pointing it at Mrs. Owensby, said,
―Look here,‖ when the weapon discharged and the ball entered Mrs. Owensby‘s forehead and
caused instant death. Miss Cole has not been able to utter a word since.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Russia Throws Another Fit.
St. Petersburg: Novoe Vremya devotes a long editorial to the speculation regarding the
object of the enormous naval expansion of the United States, saying: ―It is difficult to
suppose that it is for pacific purposes, and more difficult to imagine that it is due to fear of
aggression on the part of an European power.‖ Continuing, the paper declares that the only
presumption left is that the United States is preparing at no distant future to make an attack
on some one, and warns statesmen to ―beware of the boundless appetite of American exporters
for markets, which, other means failing, must be won by force of arms.‖
Thursday June 30, 1904 Hanged Himself.
Beeville: J. W. Beckert ended his life by hanging. He was a painter and has been a resident
of Beeville for about fifteen years. He leaves a wife and one child about seven years old. He
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was missed by his family about 7 o‘clock, as they were ready for supper. On passing his barn,
which stands near the paint shop, some one looked through the lattice work of the barn door
and discovered his body cold in death. No cause can be assigned for the act.
Thursday June 30, 1904 Reminiscent.
Joe Wright and family of Lawrence, Kaufman County, were here Saturday and Sunday
visiting the family of John Davis.
When a reporter met him, he and Will Collins were sitting on a goods box recounting the
good old times they used to have going to dances around Arlington, when as they said, they
pulled off their coats and hung them up and danced the good old square dance and went after
it right; and if the girls didn‘t have any shoes, it was alright anyway. Joe told about a dance
over on the river where he danced with a girl that had been bitten on the big toe by a Trinity
river bottom rattlesnake, and wore one shoe only and had a bad impediment in her hop. Will
informed him with tears in his eyes that all those good old times were gone, and that now the
boys all had to wear picadilly shoes and white jackets, and thought of nothing but going to Fort
Worth or Handley, and that the dear old barefooted girls of the happy long ago had been run
out of the country by the pesky little old Interurban railroad. Here the conversation became so
affecting that the reporter moved on.
Thursday June 30, 1904
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
―My trade of late is getting bad,
I‘ll try another ten-inch ad.‖
If such there be, go, mark him well;
For him, no bank account shall swell;
No angel watch the golden stair
To welcome home a millionaire.
The man who never asks for trade
By local line of ad displayed,
Cares more for rest than worldly gain
And patronage but gives him pain.
Treat lightly, friends, let no rude sound,
Disturb his solitude profound.
Here let him live in calm repose.
Unsought except by men he owes.
And when he dies, go plant him deep
That naught may break his dreamless sleep;
Where no rude clamor may dispel
The quiet that he loved so well.
And that the world may know its loss,
Place on his grave a wreath of moss;
And on a stone above, ―Here lies
A chump who wouldn‘t advertise.‖
--A. Eugene Bowles, manager of Hardware, New York.
Thursday July 7, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Judge Robert Synington Gold, professor law at the University of Texas, died at his
residence in Austin, aged seventy-eight years, Wednesday.
A negro named Bud Bennett, together with a mule team, was drowned in Bois d‘arc creek,
twenty-five miles northwest of Paris. Bennett was accompanied by another negro, who escaped
by swimming.
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About 25,000 new life preservers have been put in service on New York excursion boats since
the Slocum disaster. All the manufacturers are working overtime, and the preservers are being
added to the boat equipment at the rate of 1000 to 1500 a day.
While walking in his sleep the son of S. A.Wilson, a farmer living six miles north of
Waxahachie, fell out of a second story window. He was considerably stunned—and sustained
several painful bruises.
Under the Kinkade law, which permits homesteaders to file on 640 acres of land, nine million
acres of land has been thrown open to homesteaders in Nebraska. The land opened is known
as semi-arid land and is mostly adapted to grazing.
Mrs. M. A. Roberman, wife of Moses Roberman, a wealthy fruit dealer of Chicago, has been
found in a room at the Sherman house suffering from the effects of laudanum. She died a few
hours later. Domestic troubles are responsible.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Twenty are Killed.
Litchfield, Ill.: The Chicago Limited on the Wabash Railroad, was wrecked Saturday night
inside the city limits. The train struck an open switch, was overturned and seven of the nine
cars were burned. It is believed that twenty persons perished in the second and third
coaches and that forty were injured. The engine after running into the switch struck a string of
freight cars and with the first three coaches was piled into a heap across the track and caught
fire immediately.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Father Killed, Son May Die.
Paris: In a difficulty at 5 o‘clock Saturday evening, a mile and a half northwest of Roxton,
Winston Maroney was shot in the intestines and fatally wounded, and Al Maroney, his son,
was shot in the hip and groin. He may die. Constable Frank McFatridge left for the scene in
search of a nephew of Winston Maroney.
Thursday July 7, 1904
R. G. Williams and L. B. Curd, of Fort Worth, engaged in a fight Saturday night and
Williams was killed.
Mrs. M. F. Hooper, of Sherman, aged 76 years, retired apparently well Friday night, and was
found dead in bed Saturday morning.
Jeff Burleson, Jr., a prominent young man at Weberville, near Bastrop, was found dead in
his room Saturday night with a bullet hole in his head and a revolver at his side. The shooting
is supposed to have been accidental.
August F. Harbough of Cost shot himself through the head with a target gun Friday.
Deceased leaves a large family.
A frightened horse driven by two daughters of D. M. Calvin, of Paris, aged 11 and 14 years,
dashed against a rapidly moving train and was instantly killed and both girls sustained
fractured skulls. The injuries are believed to be fatal.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Killed By Falling Scantling.
Sour Lake: John Vickers died from the effects of a blow received on the head while at work
for the Heywood Oil Company Friday afternoon. He was about 25 years old, lived formerly at
Mexia, where he was lieutenant in the local military company of that city. He served in
the Spanish-American war with the Mexia Company. Deceased had lived in Sour Lake
about a year and was a general favorite. He was single.
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Thursday July 7, 1904
Seven Hundred Persons Go Down in Vasty Deep
London, July 4. – Over seven hundred Danish and Norwegian emigrants bound for New
York are believed to have been drowned in the North Atlantic on June 28. Out of nearly 800
souls on board the Danish steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen June 22, only twenty-seven
are known to be alive, and for the rest no hope is held out.
When last seen, the Norge was sinking where she struck on the islet from a deadly Atlantic
reef some 290 miles off the west coast of Scotland.
(unreadable) ...day the Norge, which was out of her course in heavy weather, ran on to the
Rockall reef which, in the distance, looks like a ship under full sail.
The emigrants, who were then awaiting breakfast below, ran on deck. The hatchways were
scarcely built for the hundreds of souls and became clogged.
The Norge quickly began to go down by the hold. Eight boats were lowered and into these the
women and children were hurridly put. Six of these boats smashed against the side of the
Norge and their helpless inmates were caught up by the heavy seas.
Two boat loads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and many of the emigrants
who were left on board, seizing life belts, threw themselves into the sea and were drowned.
Capt. Cundel, say the survivors, stood on the bridge of the doomed vessel until it could be
seen no more.
The Norge foundered suddenly and some six hundred emigrants were thrown into the water
or drawn down with the sinking of the ship. Those (who) could swim tried to reach the boats,
but these were already too full and their occupants beat off the drowning wretches with oars.
The boats kept together for some hours. Practically all of their (occupants?) handling such
(craft?) were passengers and were unused to handling such a craft. The boat occupied by the
survivors landed at Grimsby was a lifeboat.
One account says that three boats were successfully launched, the other two holding about
ten persons each.
The life boat made faster progress and fell in with the Salvia. What became of the other
boats is not known.
The rescue of those on the lifeboat took place at 8 o‘clock of the morning of June 29, the
survivors consisting of twenty men, one of them a seaman, six women and a girl.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Three Killed in a Runaway.
Texarkana: While Mrs. William K. Pugh and several relatives were out driving late Monday
afternoon their horse took fright and ran madly away, finally overturning the surrey with the
occupants still in it on West Broad street on the street car track, and directly in front of a
rapidly moving electric car. In a second or two the car was plowing through the vehicle and its
occupants with fearful effects. The car was heavily laden with passengers, tendering its force
that much greater. Miss Sybil Pugh, aged 15, had chest and abdomen crushed and died
instantly. Little Birdie Bell Pillow, aged 4, had skull crushed and brains scattered along the
track for twenty or thirty yards. Miss Maude Pillow, aged 14, had both legs cut off above the
knees. She was taken to a sanitarium and died in an hour. The other four occupants of the
surrey were badly bruised, but none of them seriously hurt.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Cattle Dying from Thirst.
El Paso, Tex.: In many parts of the country west of here cattle on the ranges have died by
the hundreds as a result of the long drouth. Leo Bryant, who has just returned from the
Paradise gold camp in Arizona, states that at numerous places along the road he counted
scores of dead cows which had gathered around the dried up water holes to perish. At the
same points the odor from carcasses strewn around the desert was sickening.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Duel to the Finish.
Boston: A difficulty of long standing between Lee Best, a white man, and Joe Munec, a
Mexican, terminated Monday morning about 5 o‘clock in a pistol duel, which resulted in the
death of both men. The shooting occurred in the saloon in the negro quarter of this town.
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Seven shots were fired by the two men. Best died almost instantly, but Munec lived about two
hours.
Thursday July 7, 1904
Jacques Weinand, aged 52, killed himself Monday near Guthrie, Ok., by blowing his head off
with a shotgun. Weinand was a wealthy widower with four children.
A difficulty occurred in a field between Dr. Ernest Starks and a man named Bob Spence,
near Direct, a postoffice in North Lamar County. The latter was shot with a 38 Colts and
instantly killed. Dr. Starks claims self-defense and delivered himself to the sheriff at Paris.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Boy Instantly Killed.
Waco: Lillard Wallace, the eight-year-old son of George Wallace, who travels for the Tom
Padgitt Company, was instantly killed at 1 o‘clock Monday afternoon. The boy was riding in a
furniture wagon and got out suddenly in front of a negro hack driver named Will Brooks. It is
thought the tongue of Brook‘s hack struck him on the head. The boy never spoke. Brooks was
placed under arrest.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Met Sudden Death.
Belton: About 8 o‘clock Harry Meyer, the 17-year-old son of a prominent citizen, was killed
by the machinery at the power house of the Electric Light Company. Just in what manner the
accident occurred will probably never be known, as when young Meyer was discovered he was
lying dead beneath the shafting and a large wheel. His right leg was severed from his body, his
neck and jaw broken and his body bruised in several places.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Shot His Head Off.
Texarkana, Tex.: Sam Easley, a farmer and cattle trader, was shot Tuesday night in bed at
his home in the suburbs. He has been mixed up in the courts here for several years on
charges of cattle theft, but has always come clear. He and a neighbor filed complaints against
each other on like charges recently and Easley‘s examining trial was to have taken place
Tuesday. The assassin cut the wire screen from the window and blew the head of the sleeping
man off.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Lineman Meets Death.
Austin: W. E. Bridges, a Western Union lineman, was almost instantly killed as a result of a
wire which he was stringing across Congress avenue coming in contact with the street car
trolly wire. He was knocked off of a pole and fell to the sidewalk, a distance of thirty feet, and
died before a physician could reach him. The unfortunate man is from Brandsville, Mo., where
a widow survives him.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Crushed Under a Train.
Waco: John Williamson, a laborer recently employed by a cotton-seed-crushing concern at
Bartlett, Williamson County, was crushed beneath the wheels of the delayed southbound Katy
passenger train Thursday afternoon when he attempted to board it as it was pulling out from
the station. One leg was severed from the body and the other crushed into a pulp. The man
will probably die.
Thursday July 7, 1904
The Mayor of Dallas has directed the Street Superintendent to report all ponds of stagnant
water, that can not be drained, so that arrangements can be made to sprinkle them with oil for
the purpose of killing mosquitoes.
W. F. Brazell, a carpenter at Dallas, about thirty-two years of age, died some time between
the hours of 10 o‘clock Monday night and 2 o‘clock Tuesday morning. It is stated that he fell
from a moving car, and was taken to his house where he complained of his head hurting him
but nothing was thought of it until he was found dead.
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Thursday July 7, 1904
Miss Dollie Carter after a few months rest is back with the Southwestern Telephone Co.
again.
Thursday July 7, 1904
The tabernacle at the Methodist church is being lighted with electric lights. Rev. Lee has had
dirt hauled and filled in the low places so the water will not stand under the tabernacle. With a
nice coat of straw on the ground the place will be more pleasant and attractive.
Thursday July 7, 1904
The Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church have had the doors and windows of their
church screened to admit air and exclude insects. A great comfort and convenience.
Nearly every farmer that comes to town brings a lot of cotton bolls along to show what fine
cotton he has. Like married people about their children each one thinks he has the best.
Thursday July 7, 1904 To The White Citizens of Arlington.
We, the colored Baptists of Arlington, are striving to erect a church building and will
appreciate any aid gived us by you, little or much.
Respectfully,
R. S. Watson
Chr. Bldg Com.
P. R. Squire
Pastor.
Thursday July 7, 1904
A little child of Geo. Lampe was struck by an Interurban car coming in from Fort Worth
Wednesday morning and narrowly escaped death. Where the track passes Mr. Lampes the
grade is pretty steep and it is difficult to stop a car. In this instance the motorman handled his
car with great skill. He saw the child in time to reverse his car and had it almost stopped
before it hit the little fellow, then leaping out in from of his car he dragged the child from the
very jaws of death, at imminent peril of being crushed to death himself. The child was not
seriously hurt.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Would-Be Rapist Punished.
Scooba, Miss.: Albert Rea, a negro, was lynched Tuesday for attempted criminal assault
upon Miss Lavina Poole, 18 years old, daughter of Henry Poole, a well-known farmer of that
section. The girl‘s screams frightened the negro off, who escaped for the time. Later he
returned and was hanged by a posse in daylight. This is the second lynching in Mississippi
within a week, Starling Dunham having been hanged by a mob last Sunday at Eupora.
Thursday July 7. 1904 Got His Windjammer Back.
Shreveport, La.: Julian Renfro, the negro who has been dumb for some time, having lost his
voice in a sensational manner in Chicago, announced to relatives and friends that he would
begin talking again Thursday afternoon at 3 o‘clock and promptly at that hour he shouted out
the words, ―The Lord be praised.‖ The recovery of Renfro‘s voice was marked by prayer and
thanksgiving among his relatives and friends.
Thursday July 7, 1904
A Mexican horse thief and a negro confined in jail at Athens attempted to overpower the
jailer and escape. The Mexican was killed in the attempt, but only after a life and death
struggle by the jailer.
Discouraged by an examination for life insurance which showed he was afflicted with an
organic disease that would terminate his life before long, Allen T. Simpkins, secretary of the
Renault Lead Company, of St. Louis, shot and killed himself.
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There are 7160 names on the State Confederate pension rolls, and the amount paid for the
quarter ending July 1 was $900.
Gustave R. Schwartz, manager at Chihauhua, Mex., for the New York Life Insurance
Company, killed himself by shooting himself through the head. Despondence over bad health
was the supposed cause.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Horribly Brutal Murder.
El Paso: At Tucson Charles Erickson twice shot his divorced wife who is the daughter of a
prominent Nashville jeweler named Gunnerson. She was about to leave for California and
Erickson entered the house and pretended to caress her, when he shot at her. She ran and he
then knocked her down on the sidewalk and shot her in the head then kissed her and shot her
in the breast, kissed her again and then tried to shoot himself but the gun failed to work.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Weber and Fields‘ New Alliances.
Those persons who are watching the fortunes of Joe Weber and Lew Fields, the two funny
Dutchmen who made the world laugh for over twenty years, may be interested to know that
since the dissolution of the partnership each of them has taken up with a woman star of
national reputation. Weber is to appear with Anna Held and Fields is to have for his leading
woman no less a person than Marie Cahill, who has been a successful star for three years past.
There was a report that Lulu Glaser was to join in with Weber, but this has been discredited by
the manager of the brilliant young Pittsburg comedienne.
Thursday July 7, 1904 Drowned in the Bay.
Corpus Christi: Arthur Langridge, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Langridge, was
drowned in Corpus Christi Bay Friday afternoon. He, with his mother, was fishing on
Sadbury‘s lumber wharf, the boy having his cast net, which he had thrown out the second
time, when he was pulled into the water, which is about nine feet deep. The mother was on the
other side of the wharf and did not hear him fall or call.
Thursday July 14, 1904 A Venerable Father Gone.
Early last Tuesday morning Uncle I. L. Hutcheson, one of the oldest, most venerable and
most loved men in the county passed out into the great unknown.
For nearly half a century he has been prominent in business, church (unreadable) ... the
state.
He came to A?????? from Tennessee soon after the war, and for several years was engaged in
business at that place. From there he came to Johnson Station in 1869, bought the general
merchandise business of Col. Thos. Spruance, which business he conducted for many years.
It was while living here with a large and cultured family about him that the best and happiest
part of his life was spent. The Hutcheson home at this place was known far and near as the
seat and center of refinement and hospitality.
Later, viz., 1892 he came to Arlington to live and for several years was engaged in business
here. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and was not only a member
of, but a worker in the church. He was one of the seven charter members of the Mason Lodge;
organized here in 1874; the other six being, Thos. Spruance, Geo. Joplin, T. B. Matlock, John
Roy, Rev. A. S. Hayter, and A. K. Middleton. Of this number only three, Spruance, Roy and
Middleton, survive.
Eight children, three boys and five girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hutcheson. Of these only
three, W. T. Hutcheson, Mrs. Jno. Watson, both at this place, and Mrs. H. M. Furman now of
Ardmore, I. T., survive. The aged widow also survives.
Mr. Hutcheson has been very feeble a long time, and his death, while much deplored was not
unexpected. His was a life of lofty example, his was a life of benediction to the world, his was a
life that the young might well imitate, his was a life free from the political or commercial taint
that attaches to so many lives in these strenuous times. His was a life to be held in grateful
memory by surviving friends and relatives.
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Funeral services conducted by Rev. W. B. Fitzhugh, were held at the C. P. church at 9 o‘clock
Wednesday morning after which interment under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity, was
made at Arlington Cemetery.
Thursday July 14, 1904
The baby child of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Carlisle died Sunday night bout 12 o‘clock after
several weeks suffering. Services were held at the home at two o‘clock by Rev. J. W. Lee, pastor
of the Methodist church, after which the little form was carried to West Fork cemetery for
interment. The Journal extends to the bereaved parents, grand parents, and other friends and
relatives its sincerest sympathies in this dark hour of bereavement.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Germans Celebrate.
A German celebration of the glorious fourth was held in Lampe‘s pasture out near Harrison
school house, at which time and place about 75 people from ―de faderland‖ met to celebrate the
day according to their own conceptions of a good time. The affair was got up by Messrs.
Lampe, Peters, and Lubke, and was a day long to be remembered.
There was music, speech making, graphophone, games, etc. The table that was spread was
furnished with everything dear to a German‘s heart, even to cheese, balongna and sour kraut.
This was washed down with a foaming beverage that Mr. Lampe thought best not to speak of in
a prohibition town. Several attended from Fort Worth and Dallas. After returning to town the
company repaired to the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lampe where the festivities of
the day were continued far into the night.
Thursday July 14, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Joe Hughes pulled a gun on a Waco officer Sunday night, and, but for a bystander, who
knocked the weapon aside, would have killed the officer.
Anarchists at Houston are dynamiting street cars. Two cars were dynamited Wednesday and
one Thursday but no one was seriously hurt.
Albion Brooks, of Shafter, twenty years old, concluded there wasn‘t any (unreadable)... family,
and blew his brains out.
Mrs. E. J. Lavender, living near Garland, gave her four-year-old son a dose of quinine and
followed it with a drink of whisky. The child died in a little while.
John Younger, aged thirty-two years, bookkeeper for a large establishment at McKinney, died
suddenly late Thursday afternoon. Heart failure was the cause.
An eleven year old boy, son of W. M. McCrary, near Blossom was fooling with an ―unloaded‖
pistol and shot his four year old sister through the body and it is thought she will die.
Porter, the little five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gamewell, of the Rabbit Hill
community, near Thornton, was drowned in a tank while bathing with some other boys.
Eliza Gallagher, one of San Antonio‘s pioneers, died there Wednesday. Deceased was 78 years
of age, having been born in Queens County, Ireland, January 1, 1826. She was the wife of
Peter Gallagher, one of San Antonio‘s foremost citizens, and a leading spirit in the early history
of the State.
Lloyd Bonner, a Waco boy, carried loose-powder and matches in his pants pocket. He was
struck on the pocket by another boy and an explosion followed. He tells the doctor that he will
carry his powder some other way hereafter.
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The dead body of Perry Simpson was found in a room at the home of L. Ward, near
Midlothian, a few days ago. Death is supposed to have been due to an overdose of chloroform,
as an empty bottle was found in the room.
The property of the Juliette Fowler Orphanage, consisting of 200 acres of very valuable land
near Grand Prairie, has been deeded to the National Benefit Association of the Christian
Church.
George T. Turner, general freight agent of the International and Great Northern, says that the
peach shipment from North Texas would reach 800 or 900 cars. This movement is the largest
in the history of Texas and will be over in about three weeks.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Confess to Four Murders.
Pittsburg, Pa.: John Johnson, a negro, who with Frank Ousley, also a negro, will hang
Thursday for the murder of James Donnelly has confessed to four murders. Johnson says
he was born in Georgia. Two of his victims were with him, traveling in a box car, and he
murdered them for the $5 and threw their bodies from the car while the train was going. His
other victims suffered a like fate on a Georgia railroad.
Thursday July 14, 1904
Jesse Tucker, a negro, entered the sleeping room of Mrs. J. E. Johnston at Houston, Miss.,
and attempted an assault, but was frightened away. His body was found suspended from a
trestle on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad next morning.
Thursday July 14 Two Sudden Deaths.
Temple: John F. Batla, well known citizen of Temple, died very suddenly Sunday afternoon
after an illness of but a few days. He was about forty years of age and leaves a wife and child.
Another sudden death was that of J. F. Culp. Deceased had been troubled with heart failure
for some time. Without warning he fell over dead Sunday afternoon. A wife and large family of
children survive him. Deceased was fifty-four years of age.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Claims Self-Defense.
Texarkana: Robert Daniels, a negro youth of 18 years, was shot through the back part of the
head and instantly killed in the College Hill suburb on the Arkansas side of town at 9 o‘clock
Sunday night. An hour later, Green Thompson, another negro of about the same age,
appeared at the police station and surrendered to the officers, saying that he had fired the shot
in self-defense. He was placed in the county jail.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Barkeeper Killed.
Lufkin: R. W. Collins, a bartender at this place, was shot to death here. The trouble
occurred at Root Bros. meat market where Van John, a Frenchman, was employed as a cutter.
Van John was arrested immediately after the shooting and had an examining trial on Tuesday.
Four shots were fired, only one taking effect, entering the body just below the heart.
Thursday July 14, 1904
At South McAlester the eight-month infant of A. C. Booker fell into a bucket of water and
was drowned.
W. J. Leach, who was injured by a thresher near Greenville on Thursday, died Sunday and
was sent to Ennis for burial. His wife and daughter were scalded to death three years ago
by the bursting of a steam pipe in the electric light plant, of which he was at that time the
engineer.
F. G. McPeak & Co., of Fort Worth and Dallas are arranging to install a DeForrest system of
wireless telegraph between those towns. Instruments have already been received.
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In a jealous rage Williams Noerling has probably fatally wounded his wife and then
committed suicide at his home in Brooklyn. The couple had five children who were huddled
in an adjoining room when the crime was committed.
Santa Fe officers have received information from Silsbee on its Beaumont branch that a
freight engine was blown up and Fireman Tony Applewhite Halamoody of Temple was killed.
It is supposed that the crown sheet of the engine blew out.
Thursday July 14, 1904 A Mississippi Steamer Sinks.
Natchez, Miss.: The magnificent side wheel steamer Chalmette struck a hidden
obstruction at Legans Landing, thirty-five miles below this city, Monday afternoon at 3:30
o‘clock and sank out of sight. T. J. Hardie, one of her owners, and his family of New Orleans
were on the boat. All of her crew and passengers escaped. The boat left New Orleans Saturday
evening with a large passenger list. The passengers saved their effects.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Horses and Mules Go East.
Waco: Dealers in this city have forwarded ponies and mules to Atlantic ports, purchased, it
is believed, for the use of the Russian or the Japanese army, probably for the latter, as Japan
is lacking in horse flesh, the Russians being better supplied in that respect. The order
specified horses and mules not under fifteen hands high and not over seven years old, sound
and suitable for the saddle and pack saddle.
Thursday July 14, 1904 Senators Bailey and Tillman Hurt.
St. Louis: Senator Tillman of North Carolina, and Senator Bailey of Texas, had a narrow
escape from death at Jefferson avenue and Chestnut street Sunday afternoon. An automobile
in which they were riding collided with a Jefferson avenue car. The automobile was wrecked.
Senator Tillman sustained a sprained ankle and Senator Bailey was bruised about the body.
Neither was seriously hurt.
Thursday July 14, 1904 DEATH OF CENTENARIAN.
Mrs. Thornton Passes Away Near Jardin.
Greenville: Mrs. Thornton, the Hunt County centenarian, died Saturday at the home of her
grandson, Hosea Giddings, near Jardin. Mrs. Thornton was 102 years old on the 5
th
of last
March. She was the mother of J. J. Thornton of Cooper.
Mrs. Thornton was born when Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States. When
she was born Texas was a province of Mexico and was under Spanish rule. She was a young
lady when Mexico was freed from Spanish dominion. The United States increased during her
life from fifteen States to the present number of forty-six. She has lived under every President
except Washington and Adams.
Deceased had a wonderful recollection and it was very interesting to hear her talk of the way
people lived and different ways they had to amuse themselves when she was a girl. All the
great inventions were made during her lifetime and the only way she ever traveled until she
was an old lady was on horseback or in a two-wheel cart.
On her 101
st
birthday a dinner party was given, among the guests being County Treasurer
San Husbands of this City. On her birthday last March another dinner was given, and she sat
at the table on both occasions, taking part in the conversation.
She was a member of the Methodist Church and had been for many years. The large circle of
relatives has the recollection of her long and useful life as something to be cherished.
Thursday July 14, 1904
Uncle Joe Collins one of the pioneers of the country is seriously ill at his home a mile
northeast of town and fears are expressed that he will not recover.
Thursday July 14, 1904
A young infant of Mr. and Mrs. Logan Britton died Tuesday night and was interred at
Watson Cemetery Wednesday evening.
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Thursday July 14, 1904
The heat this week has been intense literally burning up all vegetation except cotton.
Thursday July 14, 1904
Mrs. E. W. Kreger died at the home of her father J. C. Coleman down below Rehoboth on the
11 inst. The remains were interred the following day at the Rehoboth Cemetery. Mrs. Kreger
leaves a husband and two small children, one only six weeks old. She had not been well since
the birth of her last child, and two weeks ago she was carried from here down to her fathers
that she might be better cared for and everything possible done for her but to no avail. The
Journal extends its sympathies to the bereaved.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Light And Power Company Incorporated.
The Light and Power Company heretofore owned and operated by A. W. Collins has
been absorbed by the ―Arlington Light and Power Company,‖ a new incorporated
company with a capital stock of $10,000.
At a meeting of the stock holders Tuesday morning the following officers were elected:
A. W. Collins, President; W. L. Sweet, Vice-President; W. C. Weeks, Secretary; and W. M.
Dugan, Treasurer.
The plant will be enlarged and its service extended as demand increases.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Drops Dead at Mass.
New York: Very Rev. Stephen Kealey, provincial of the Passion Order of the United States,
dropped dead Sunday while celebrating mass in West Hoboken. He was stricken with apoplexy
and fell on the altar steps, dying immediately. Father Kealey was born in Ireland, Septembe
22, 1843, and celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination a year ago. He was elected to the
head of the Passionists August 2, 1899.
Thursday July 21, 1904 A Duel on Corsicana‘s Streets.
In a street duel between Tim P. Woolen, a blacksmith, and Constable William B. Grantham
Sunday morning, H. A. Dodson, a deputy of the constable was so badly wounded in both hands
that amputation of left thumb and little finger of the right was necessary. Grantham was shot
through both thighs. Woolen was uninjured, though two bullets passed through his clothes.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Gas Fire at Liberty, Kan.
Vinita, I. T.: A gas well at Liberty, on the Kansas side of the Kansas State line, blew the cap
off a few days ago and has since been burning fiercely. All efforts to quench the flames have
been of no avail. The light is plainly visible from Edna, Kan., seventeen miles distant, and the
roar can be heard almost constantly. It shoots up a flame fifty feet high and at night it is light
as day for miles around the well.
Thursday July 21, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
John Hubbard, a well known farmer, who lived one mile from Cotton Plant, Ark., was struck by
lightning during a terrific thunderstorm, and instantly killed.
B. Parker, aged 24 years, recently from Hardeman County, Tennessee, was killed almost
instantly at the Denton pressed brick yards while picking clay when the bank caved in on him.
Harry Sainer was shot twice with a Colt‘s pistol Thursday evening close to Tennyson, which is
near San Angelo. He is expected to die. Officers are looking for a party charged with doing the
shooting.
Bad weather continues in Central Chile. Floods have destroyed thirty-seven houses and
caused the death of nine persons. There are more than 10,000 harbor laborers unable to
work at Valparaiso because of the floods.
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Mrs. Kate J. Sullivan, of McKinney, aged seventy-two years, died Wednesday afternoon at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. E. D. Heard. She had been a highly respected resident of that city
nearly fifty years.
Homer F. McLeary, the eight-year-old son of F. C. McLeary, of Fort Worth, was driving with
his mother and struck the horse with a whip. The animal lunged forward, jerking the boy out
of the vehicle. He struck on his head, breaking his neck.
In a difficulty in the Brazos Bottom three miles south of Waco Sam Bass, a negro, was fatally
shot by another negro.
Wagon loads of negroes, bound for the country, continue to leave Waco, there being more work
than is customary at this particular season. These negroes are plowing, chopping weeds out of
cotton and putting Paris green onto the plant.
Thursday July 21, 1904
Wm. T. Richards, station operator, and Earnest Heller, rear flagmen, were found responsible
for the wreck of a train on the Greenwood Lake Division of the Erie Railroad at Midville Station
a week ago, by which sixteen persons lost their lives and fifty were injured.
The two-year-old son of Agent Taylor at Scullin, a station on the Sherman-Sapulpa division
of the Frisco, was struck and instantly killed by a southbound express train Saturday.
Two prostrations from heat, both resulting in death, were reported at Hammond, Ind.,
Monday. Fred Sobleski, nine years old, succumbed while playing ball in the street. Henry
McKnight, thirteen years old, was prostrated while crossing a field. Several horses dropped
dead.
E. H. Wilson, about thirty-five years of age, killed himself at Fort Worth by taking a dose of
strychnine. He left a note asking that his father and mother at Alvin be notified.
Thursday July 21, 1904 The Gun ―Wasn‘t Loaded.‖
Fort Worth: The 9-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Carey picked up a target rifle, and
pointing it at his 14-year-old sister, told her that he was going to shoot her. The sister
remarked that the rifle was not loaded, whereupon the little boy replied that he would show
her, and pulled the trigger and a report followed. The ball from the rifle entered on the left side
of the body, just above the kidneys, and made its exit below the right shoulder blade. The
doctors say that it will be a day or two before the seriousness of the wound can be known.
Thursday July 21, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Last Thursday evening Harry Sainer was shot and fatally wounded at Tennyson, near San
Angelo. The man who did the shooting has been arrested.
Four prostrations from heat are reported from Denison.
Santos Dumont, whose balloon was ruined by some one cutting the gas bag to pieces, is now
at Havre, France, and says he won‘t come back to America.
Edgar T. Washburn of the firm of Heathfield & Washburn of the Board of Trade, Buffalo, N.
Y., shot and killed his wife and daughter Friday at his residence and then committed
suicide.
John R. Rossiter, who since he came to this country in 1867, as an Irish political refugee,
had been prominent in Irish and Catholic societies, is dead at his home in Newark, N. J.
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Francis Willis, 11 years old, a farmer‘s son, was shot and killed after returning from a
fishing trip near Guthrie. John Smith, aged 11 years, has been arrested and jailed at Cordell.
The twelve-year-old son of John Grimes of Leon, I. T., was kicked by a mule Thursday
afternoon and instantly killed. The boy was trying to catch the mule.
It was a dying request of the unfortunate Kruger, President of the South African Republic,
that his body be laid in the land of his love. At a privy council meeting England formally
granted the request.
Thursday July 21, 1904 John Paul Kruger Passes Away.
Clarens, Switzerland: Paul Kruger, former president of the Transvaal republic, died here
Thursday from pneumonia and supervening heart weakness. Mr. Kruger lost consciousness
Monday. His daughter and son-in-law were with him at the time of his death. He had been
out only once since his arrival here, at the beginning of last month. On several occasions Mr.
Kruger expressed a desire to be buried beside his wife, in his own country.
Thursday July 21, 1904 (editorial page)
Were you ever tempted to think that the editor was indulging in personal ―digs‖ when you saw
something in the paper which seemed to fit your case? Discard that thought. Remember the old
saying that ―Many a shaft at random sent, finds marks the archer little meant.‖ Why,
only the other day we read of a Texas editor who published the ten commandments in his paper
by request and he lost half of his subscribers before he could have time to explain in the next
issue that no personal reflections were meant. — Ex.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Sidney Mathers Dead.
Sidney Mathers, aged 54 years old, died at the back of the Interurban depot Monday
morning about nine o‘clock. He made his home with his brother, B. A. Mathers, and was
walking down to the depot to take a car to Fort Worth, and when he reached the rear of the
depot he was seized with an epiliptic fit and expired in a few moments. Mr. Mathers has
suffered from this terrible affliction all his life, and because of his unfortunate condition he
seldom left his brothers house.
Indeed many of Mr. Mathers (B. A.) friends did not know he had a brother. He was carried to
the house of his brother, and from there taken Tuesday morning to Arlington cemetery for
interment.
The death is a peculiarly sad one and the surviving friends have the sympathy of many
friends here and elsewhere.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Doukhobers Start Out Again.
Chicago: A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man., says: Destitution and death for the Doukhobers
is feared again, as most of the sect have started on another march in search of the Redeemer
and refuse all assistance, including food. Most of the women and children are without clothes,
except for a few rags which can hardly be called clothing, and it is feared, unless the journey
can be stopped immediately, many will die.
Thursday July 21, 1904
Dallas will have an up-to-date auto livery company in full operation within the next few
weeks, similar to the system which has been operated in San Antonio for the past two years.
Thursday July 21, 1904 Sickness Among Old Citizens.
During the past week two old citizens, Uncle Fate Hutcheson and Sidney Mathers have
passed away. Col. Rudd is still very low. Uncles Milo Coulter and Joe Collins have both
been very sick, and Col. Roy has not been as well as usual. Mrs. Hutcheson, wife of the late
I. L. Hutcheson, has also been confined to her room. The Journal hopes cool nights may soon
come to their relief and that they may all be speedily restored to health.
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Thursday July 21, 1904
We have received a catalogue of the Indianolo-Synodical College at Wynnewood, Ind. Ty., and
among the pictures of the faculty on one of the front pages, we notice a familiar face, that of
Miss Eliza Hayter of this place, who is to be one of the teachers next year.
Thursday July 21, 1904
News has been received here of the death of Herbert Linney at Danville, Ky., on the 14
th
inst. Mr. Linney was a brother to Prof. H. H. Linney who was one of the teachers in Carlisle
Academy at this place last year; and he himself spent a few months here last spring. He was a
young man of great promise and his early death is much deplored by his friends here and
elsewhere.
Thursday July 21, 1904
A. W. Collin‘s buggy horse scared at a hog, down at the corn sheller Saturday morning and
overturned the buggy, precipitating the occupant, Ernest Collins to mother earth, after which
he demolished the buggy considerably and pulled up in front of Collins-Yates Co. store with
shafts and cross bar dangling at his heels.
Thursday July 21, 1904
The coolest loafing place in town is the open east porch, or whatever you call it, at the new
T. P. depot. Go up and try one of those cool cement seats. If only they would let us carry a pillow
up there and lie down on them and sleep, our cup of joy would be full.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Another Aged Citizen Gone.
On Wednesday morning at six o‘clock Uncle Milo Coulter passed away at the home of his
sister, Mrs. I. L. Hutcheson. Mr. Coulter was 76 years old, and for years has been a familiar
figure on our streets. He was never married. He came here many years ago with the other
Coulter‘s and Hutcheson‘s from Tennessee, and has always been admired and respected for his
genial, pleasant disposition. He was a friend to everybody, the soul of honor and courtesy. He
was liked by all, and hadn‘t an enemy on earth.
Interment took place at Arlington Cemetery at 5 o‘clock Wednesday evening.
Thursday July 28, 1904
The Journal office is under obligations to G. F. Thomas and Mr. Silvertooth for melons—shall
be glad to record other like obligations.
Fort Worth and Dallas both registered a killing Sunday.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Teamsters Won‘t Join Packinghouse Strikers.
Chicago, Ill., July 25. – Totally unexpected action was taken last night by the joint teamsters‘
council, which may yet result in peace in the packers‘ strike. The council refused to ratify the
strike ordered yesterday afternoon by the packing teamsters, and appointed a committee to
wait upon the packers to-day and try to effect a compromise. The teamsters constitute the
largest and most powerful labor body in Chicago, and it is said they considered the strike ill-
advised as far as a general sympathetic movement is concerned.
―The opportunity is here for one of the greatest struggles in the history of labor troubles,‖
said Chief of Police O‘Neil last night, after making the rounds and seeing that all his men were
properly placed. ―Apparently there is no hope of averting the battle. No one knows what will
happen. However, the police will be able to handle the situation without any assistance.‖
On the eve of what promises to be a battle to the death between the meat packers and the
unions, the city is preparing for industrial war. Inside the yards there are about 400 policemen
to handle 38,000 men. At each of the packing houses there is a sergeant of police with a detail
of men, chiefly to keep the non-union men inside and the union men from entering. Other
hundreds of police are scattered all around the yards. Heavy reserves are within speedy call.
Vacations and nights off have been abolished in both the police and fire departments pending
the determination of the struggle. Inside the yards there are the fire companies. New reels of
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hose have been placed on all the stand pipes and water towers. Fire is the dread of the
packers.
(unreadable) ... concerned the packers have been able to continue in business and are
bringing in fresh assistance every day.
In anticipation of a long struggle the packers yesterday rushed long trains of coal into the
yards and filled their bins to the limit. Commission men were busy all of the day advising their
agents everywhere to suspend shipments to Chicago.
Mayor Harrison returned to the city yesterday morning. He is confident that the police will
be able to handle the situation.
Thursday July 28, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Tom ?. Baldwin, an aeronaut known in Texas, is building an air ship at San Juan, Cal., which
is soon to be tested at San Francisco.
A servant and the wife of Blas De La Torre, of Brownsville, who was found murdered in his
bed, have been arrested charged with the crime.
Mrs. Wilmuth, wife of a farmer living some twenty miles southeast of Paris, was found in the
yard in a dying condition. Her neck was found broken, presumably by a fall.
O. P. Bradshaw, manager of the Mistrot store at Waxahachie, died at that place Monday of
typoid fever.
A horse that he was riding slipped and fell, then ran away with Henry Randell, a negro boy at
Dallas, dangling by the stirrup. His skull was crushed and he died without regaining
consciousness.
The Wichita Falls irrigation company claims to have empounded sufficient water to irrigate
14,000 acres of land. The company now has 2000 acres under cultivation and will add 2000
acres more next season.
J. C. Price, a citizen of Caldwell County, had accidentally shot and killed himself near
Comanche, Texas. Mr. Price was on a fishing and camping trip and had with him his wife and
three children.
Louis Salek, aged 35 years, shot himself through the head with a pistol at his house about
four miles from Caldwell. He was unmarried and lived alone, and no one knows exactly when
or why he committed the rash act.
Thursday July 28, 1904 There Was Some Trouble.
New York: ―There‘s trouble at Fourteenth street and Second avenue,‖ was a message which
was telephoned to police headquarters. The information was conveyed to the police station,
and squads of men hurried to stop the reported disturbance. They found a car of the
Fourteenth street line in the possession of Mrs. Annie Steinmetz and her two baby boys, who
had just been born. The trio was transferred to a hospital.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Most Foul Assassination.
Liberty: John White, a farmer, who resided within the town limits near the Trinity River, was
shot dead Saturday morning at his door. Mr. White was about 40 years of age and unmarried.
He lived with his aged mother. The assassin evidently was at close range, the weapon used
being a shotgun, the shot entering the breast of the deceased. Deceased was not known to
have an enemy.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Two Were Killed.
Indianapolis, Ind.: Two persons were killed and several injured in a collision between
southbound Big Four passenger train and a westbound Prospect Lake Electric car Monday
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night. The dead: An unidentified man, about 50 years old, white, crushed beyond
recognition. Mrs. William J. Harris, a negro, 40 years old, badly mangled about the head and
body. The locomotive struck the front end of the car, throwing it twentyfeet to one side, its
direction being reversed.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Sunday Saloon Killing.
Dallas: Bert Kirkpatrick, about 25 years of age, was shot and almost instantly killed
Sunday in a saloon on the corner of Ross avenue and Griffin street. Immediately after the
shooting Tom F. Hendricks, a bartender, aged 27 years, surrendered himself to Policemen
Westover and Fanning.
Hendricks talked but little of the matter, but said that he felt justified in the action.
Hendricks lives with his mother at 244 Caruth street. Kirkpatrick lived with his mother and
sister at 131 Emma street.
Thursday July 28, 1904
At the Alba coal mines, a spark dropped from Cleburne Hilburn‘s cap lamp into a keg of
powder which exploded, killing him instantly.
After many months of negotiations the three street car companies of Monterey have merged
into one organization and the result will be that that city of over 70,000 inhabitants will have
an electric street car service to replace the present antiquated mule service.
Henry Williams, an old negro living in the Brazos bottom, was drowned near Hearne while
fishing in the river, caused by the bank caving in, throwing him in the river. Being quite feeble,
he was drowned before help could reach him.
Revelations show that fiends incarnate planned wholesale destruction of life at Houston
Saturday night. Besides dynamiting one car and badly injuring several passengers, dynamite
was found in several other places, and a carnival of death was avoided only by the refusal of
the company to run the late cars.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Duel to the Death.
Trinidad, Colo.: Two guards employed by the Victor Fuel Company at Hastings, twenty miles
north of here, became involved in a quarrel and decided to fight a duel. According, they armed
themselves with revolvers and began firing at each other. When the guns were emptied the two
men drew knives and fought until both dropped dead. The names of the duelists were not
given to the Coroner here, who was notified of the affair.
Thursday July 28, 1904 White Man Killed at a Negro Dance.
Waco: In a street duel at Mart, in this county Wednesday night, Edgar Persons, a white
man, was killed by a negro, Jim Scott, and the negro was also killed. The trouble came up at
a negro dance, to which two or three white men had gone. Only three shots were fired, the
negro being hit in the back and Persons in the back of the head. It is supposed that the two
dead persons did the shooting, though others are implicated.
Thursday July 28, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
John Thrasher was shot and killed at Woolsey, ten miles east of Comanche, I. T., Sunday.
The roller skate is again becoming popular, and a Dallas amusement caterer will build a rink
costing $10,000. The rink will also be used as a dance hall.
Charley Scott, a young man, while putting a gun into a wagon at Antlers, I. T., was
accidentally fatally shot, his shoulder being nearly literally torn from his body.
Senator Vest is very low at his home at Sweet Springs, Mo., and it is thought that he will not
live through the summer. He seems to grow weaker day by day.
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A specimen of the sequoia tree has been found which measures 36 feet in diameter, and is
estimated to be 400 feet high. It is thought to be the largest tree on earth.
W. C. Sanders, who is engaged at Eagle Lake with the Vimo ball team, was accidentally shot
by Harbert Phillips, with a 22-caliber target rifle and is in a critical condition.
Ed Albright of Mill Creek, I. T., was thrown from his horse Saturday. His skull was
fractured. He regained consciousness Wednesday morning, but the doctors say he cannot
recover.
Jack Tolliver Cass, an old-time negro, dropped dead at his home at Weatherford Friday
night. He had drawn a pension from the United States Government for many years.
W. M. Plaster, a well-to-do farmer and stockman, died at his ranch near Maysville, I. T., as a
result of injuries received Tuesday afternoon when he was kicked in the breast by a mule.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Reckon We‘ll Git Thar Yit.
He wuz always a-sayin‘, when trouble come roun‘
―I reckon we‘ll get thar yit!‖
Ain‘t enough rain for lily to drown—
Reckon we‘ll git thar yit!
Its‘ jest human natur‘ to growl an‘ complain;
Ruther have sunshine than oceans ‗o rain;
But—spite o‘ wild weather, I‘m tellin‘ you plain,
―Reckon we‘ll git thar yit!‖
An‘ we carried that counsel the rough way along --,
―Reckon we‘ll git thar yit!‖
It lightened the burden—made sorrow a song—
―Reckon we‘ll git thar yit!‖
He wuz only a toiler in bloom an‘ in blight,
With Hope‘s star a-shinin‘, full blaze, in his sight;
But he looked to the light, friends—he looked to the light—
―Reckon we‘ll git thar yit!‖
--Frank Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Coffins as Presents.
When Chinese parents arrive at about the age of 55 their affectionate sons and daughters
club together and give them each a coffin, and wish them many happy returns of the day.
When death comes these receptacles are used for the purpose for which they are intended.
Coffins are to be seen in many houses in China, some of them being utilized as wardrobes.
Thursday July 28, 1904 (editorial page)
Marshall Douglass and Deputy Huffmyer is making it hot for the town cow these days, to which
everyone, except he whose cow is pulled, gives hearty assent. The Journal hopes to see the town
cow utterly wiped off the streets of Arlington. The war now on brings to mind the following ode:
O thou gentle heifer! Daughter of thy mother and despoiler of garden truck! Thou
bringest grief to our heart and Blue John to our coffee. We hail thee—with a fence
board and things like that. Thou wanderest in and by forbidden paths beside the
unripe cumber. Thou smellest of the blushing beet and trompest on the lettuce.
Moreover thou peepest into the rain barrel and drinkest thereof, with none to molest or
make afraid. The maid neither the woman, wotteth not of thy goings and comings.
Thou spiest out the onion bed and liest down thereon while thou chewest thy cud like a
summer girl. Bimeby thou liftest up thy voice and bawlest. Then trouble suddenly
overtaketh thee. The man riseth up in anger and a balbriggan suit. He hiketh out and
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seteth the dog on thee. He gathereth up an old hoe handle and smiteth thee sore on
thy porter-house. ‗Tis then thou histest thy tail and gettest thee out p. d. q. Thou
skootest up a darksome alley and makest thy get away. The man seeketh after and
desireth thy postoffice address, but findeth it not. ‗Tis well. Hadst he discovered thy
abiding place he would have chewed the rag with the inhabitants thereof and gone
home with his nose on bias and a purple dural under the eye.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Notice.
The linen table spread that belongs with the Communion Set at the Christian church, has
been taken out of the church by unknown parties. If the spread is put back in its proper place
by next Sunday morning, the matter will end. If not we will proceed to prosecute the guilty
parties.
Church Members.
P. S. The window will be left so you can raise it as before.
Thursday July 28, 1904 (editorial page)
There is no use in dodging the question or in trying to play at double dealing. The Saxon race is
the superior race and was created to rule, and rule it will, no matter what Roosevelt and his
party may say or do. One of two things are so: President Roosevelt is either deceiving the negro,
and is playing them false, for political preferment, or he is false and disloyal to his race, lost to
shame and dead to honor. Such a scene as was witnessed at Chicago is infamous and
scandalous, and is a stench in the nostrils of decent white people (and ought to defeat any man
for office who will even dare to condone it,) and has all been brought about by the republican
boss.
Some of us have not forgotten the days of ―Reconstruction‖ and ―Carpet bag‖ rule, when those
generous (?) negro-loving, infamous wretches attempted to fasten upon this fair Southland negro
supremecy in order that they themselves might enjoy the richness and beauty of our beloved land
and homes. –Granbury Graphic Truth.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Mrs. Nation Knocked Down.
Elizabethtown. Ky.: A. R. Neighbors, a saloonkeeper, struck Carrie Nation twice with a
chair, knocking her down and producing a scalp wound. The assault occurred at Neighbor‘s
saloon after Mrs. Nation had delivered a lecture against whisky and tobacco. She had
appeared at the saloon during the afternoon and berated Neighbors, and returned at night to
resume her denunciation of him at a time when the place was crowded.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Killed by a Policeman.
Galveston: Jim Hughes, a negro, was shot and killed about 5 o‘clock Friday morning by
Officer Tom Moore. The negro had been pointed out as having stolen a broadax and other tools
from the marine ways, and Policemen Moore and Tull attempted to arrest him, when the negro
drew the broadax to strike Moore, who pulled his revolver and shot him. Moore waived
examination, and the Grand Jury is investigating the case.
Thursday July 28, 1904 Big Blowout at Ardmore.
Ardmore, I. T.: Ardmore will celebrate her seventeenth anniversary on the 28
th
and 29
th
. A
great program has been arranged and speakers from all over the Territory and some from Texas
will occupy the speakers‘ stand during the two days. On the night of the 28
th
there will be
given on the grounds one of the grandest Indian green corn dances ever seen in this country.
At least 500 Indians will participate in this dance.
Thursday July 28, 1904
The following regulations concerning R. F. D. Carriers went into effect the first day of July:
Rural Carriers are required to permit post office inspectors or other duly authorized agents of
the Post Office Department to accompany them over their Routes. They must not carry other
passengers nor permit any person other than authorized postal officials to ride with them, or to
have access to the mails. Heretofore carriers have been permitted to carry passengers, but this
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order absolutely forbids it. The public and patrons of Rural Delivery will please bear this in
mind, and don‘t blame your carrier when he refuses to let you ride. The new regulations
affecting the carrying of parcels or articles by carrier do not permit him (to) carry for hire any
parcel or article for any one except a patron of his Route, and then the parcel or article must be
of the class designated as unmailable. The carrier is not permitted to leave his route to receive
or deliver such parcel or article.
Respectfully, J. I. Carter, Post Master.
Thursday August 4, 1904
The finishing touches are being put on the two new depots this week. They will likely be
thrown open to the traveling public next week. The school building will also be completed in a
few days longer.
Thursday August 4, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Tage Nelson, a Swede, was drowned while swimming in a gin pond with a (unreadable) of
others near Manor. The pond is about 14 feet deep.
Al Brite, a negro farmer, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded at a rent house on his farm,
near Lockhart. Joe Smith, colored, the renter, is in jail charged with the shooting.
Denison, who recently fell heir to $20,000, and was making his last trip over the road, fell
under the wheels of a freight train at South McAlester and was instantly killed. His body was
horribly mangled.
Thomas Taylor, was brought to Denton from Coleman, on a warrant charging him with the
murder of Joe Beard near Pilot Point, about twenty-nine years ago. Taylor has been living in
Western Texas most of the time since he left this county.
Geo. Boyd, about seventy-eight years old, who resided at Veal Station, was thrown from his
wagon three miles east of Mineral Wells and had one leg and his collar bone broken, and
received internal injuries from which he is not expected to recover.
The body of W. L. Lawrence, aged forty, a merchant of San Antonio, was found dead Friday
morning at 2 o‘clock on Guenther street. There was a gash in his head, also a bullet wound. A
pistol lay on the breast. The police suspect foul play.
S. Quesenbury, one of McKinney‘s most prominent and highly respected citizens, died
Thursday night of heart failure. He had for over twenty-five years been station agent for the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad.
Nannie Johnson, the young negro woman charged with the murder of Della Wright, another
negress at Farmersville last Christmas night, was found guilty of murder in the second degree
by the jury and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary.
Thursday August 4, 1904
The Strike Wearing Out. Big Riot Closes Sunday
Chicago, Aug. 1. – Just as the police were congratulating themselves that violence in the
packers‘ strike was on the wane the worst riot of the season broke out last night, and was only
quelled after an hour‘s hard fighting, in which many persons were injured. A mob of five
thousand strikers wrecked two buildings in an attempt to capture and kill two non-union men,
and in the ensuing riot they fought with clubs, stones and knives. The mob was made up of
Poles and Lithuianians, and several volleys over their heads finally dispersed them.
In order to offset the effects of violence upon the public mind the packing house strikers gave
the cost of killing of stock at the yards and many details of the work there showing by their
figures that the packers are able to pay much higher wages than demanded by the unions.
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The day was marked by many more desertions from the unions. Hundreds of strikers have
returned to work, and it is understood that many of the new arrivals are union men from
Kansas City and other points, who come here to lose their identity. Following the same rule, it
is said Chicago strikers will emigrate to the other centers and obtain work in order to avoid the
execration and persecution of other unions here.
In order to keep their workmen from straying outside and starting trouble, the packers
permitted unusual features to prevail at the yards yesterday. In one of the halls three negro
preachers from the South were exhorting the men, while upstairs a monster poker game was in
progress. Behind every box car crap games were flourishing. There are many prize fighters in
the yards and pots of $5 a round were made up by the white men for lively fights. Special
trains brought the wives and sweethearts of the men into the yards. Eleven hundred more
non-union men and 100 women arrived yesterday. The receipts of live stock were small, but a
flood is expected today.
Among other incidents at the yards yesterday was a murder. Following a quarrel between
Andrew Simms of New Albany and B. A. Davis of this city, negro waiters at the Nelson Morris
plant, Simms was fatally stabbed. There were several cases of non-union men being pursued
and beaten by strikers.
Thursday August 4, 1904 North Texas Pioneer‘s Passing.
Sherman: James S. Porter, aged 71 years, died Sunday after a long illness. He was a
pioneer citizen and member of the bar. He was a former Mayor of the city and served in the
Constitutional convention just after the days of reconstruction. He served the Confederacy
gallantly as captain in Whitfield‘s Texas Legion.
Thursday August 4, 1904
Jess Hall was shot and instantly killed three miles north of Merkel Sunday morning. H. F.
Richards came in promptly and surrendered to the officers.
While building a silo on the Holt ranch 15 miles from Abilene a scaffold fell and W. B.
Stockton, a carpenter, was killed; Jim Griff, a painter, fatally hurt; W. P. Chastain, a
carpenter, had a leg and three ribs broken, and Abdon Holt, the owner, had a wrist broken and
three teeth knocked out.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Experimental Wireless Installation.
Fort Worth: H. A. Betorp, electrician for the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph
Company, is here for the purpose of installing the first wireless plant to be erected in the
South, with the exception of the one at Key West. The Wheat Building in this city and the Linz
Building in Dallas will be used to work from. The company does not expect that commercial
business will be accepted for some little time after the plants are installed.
Thursday August 4, 1904 An Old Baptist Dead.
Waelder: Died, Saturday morning, Mrs. Sarah J. Hopkins, aged 82 years, wife of Dennis S.
Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins were married in Georgia sixty-five years ago and she was the
mother of fifteen children, of which thirteen are still living, and her direct descendants number
227. She was a member of the Baptist Church nearly seventy years, and a resident of
Gonzales County fifty years. Her husband is 85 years old.
Thursday August 4, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
On a bet, William Hoyt drove from Moline, Ill., a distance of 315 miles, to the World‘s Fair, on a
sulky plow, carrying himself, wife and child.
At Pueblo John Anderson shot and instantly killed Mrs. J. J. Affley, and then blew his own
brains out. Jealousy was the supposed cause of the insane deed.
At Derby, Conn., James Barrett started through a 24-inch water main. At 300 feet from the
entrance he was found insane, the darkness and stillness having driven him to madness.
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Wesley Allen, the 10-year-old son of S. H. Allen, a farmer, living near Keim, died after suffering
the most intense agony for several hours with an attack of lockjaw, caused by sticking a rusty
nail in his foot.
White Felix and Fountain Gray, two negro boys on the Aldridge plantation, on the Brazos, near
Bryan, were out squirrel hunting. Felix‘s gun was accidentally discharged, shooting Fountain
and killing him instantly.
The movement over the Cotton Belt this year totals 1476 cars of fruits and vegetables. This is
divided in 565 cars of potatoes, 459 cars of tomatoes, 336 cars of peaches, 51 cars of
cantaloupes, 16 cars of watermelons and 17 cars of cabbage, about 200 per cent over last year.
The ranch of Thomas A. Ball, near Fort McKavett, has just been furnished with a large
irrigation plant. A centrifugal pump run by a fifty-horsepower gasoline engine supplies 3,000
gallons of water per minute.
Thursday August 4, 1904 The Coal Oil Burned.
Paris: Ella Dodson, the wife of Josh Dodson, a negro farmer, seven miles south of town in
the Ozark community, attempted to start a fire under a wash pot with a can of coal oil. The
can exploded, setting fire to her clothing and burning her body to a crisp from her knees up.
She was still alive at last accounts, but cannot recover.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Whole Family Murdered and Burned.
Savannah, Ga.: A special from Statesboro says Henry R. Hodges, his wife and three
children, living about six miles from Statesboro, were killed Thursday night and their home
burned. The remains were found in the ruins of the house. There were blood stains outside
the building, and investigation showed that Hodges, his wife and one child had their skulls
broken, apparently with an ax.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Killed His Wife and Himself.
Dallas: Friday morning two pistol shots announced the death of Samuel H. Cordell and his
wife. After neighbors were aroused it was discovered that Cordell had shot his wife then
himself. He left a letter directing his affairs and the care of his two children, a girl twelve years
old and a boy ten. In the letter he gave no reason for his terrible deed, and no reason is known
to his acquaintances.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Young Lady Drowned.
Marlin: Miss Annie Lee Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford of Marlin, with a
number of others went to the falls to spend the night. She, with several companions, was
wading in its stream when they stepped into deep water. Miss Crawford was first to sink and
the others had difficulty in saving themselves. Cries for help were at once given, but when
others arrived the body of the unfortunate victim had sunk.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Madman‘s Wild Work.
Philadelphia: Seized with a fit Joseph Heiser went on a rampage through Andalusia, on the
Bristol pike. He frightened a little girl to death, terrorized the barroom of the Red Lion Inn,
smashed furniture at his home and ended by throttling a motorman on a passing trolly car,
who finally succeeded in overpowering Heister and turned him over to the police. Six-year-old
Marian Rankin was the victim of Heister‘s dementia.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Lightning‘s Deadly Work.
Hazleton, Pa.: Five persons were killed Wednesday night during a severe electrical storm at
Oneida. Three foreign-speaking miners and a boy were instantly killed by a bolt of lightning
while sitting at a table. All four were terribly burned and their clothing almost completely torn
from their bodies. At Quakake valley lightning struck the home of Miley Hinkle, instantly
killing Mrs. Hinkle and seriously injuring her daughter.
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Thursday August 4, 1904 Horrible Death Under Wheels.
Fort Worth: P. Williams, a prosperous farmer, met with an accident at Newark, which
resulted in death. He was struck by a Rock Island passenger train and both legs were crushed
off. He lingered until morning, when he died. He was fifty years of age and married. Williams
was at the station when train 98 backed on a siding to permit the southbound passenger to
pass. When train 98 started to move off the siding Williams was directly in front of the engine.
Thursday August 4, 1904
Two white men sleeping in a haymow near Arlington were held up by two negroes and robbed
of $35 in cash and a suit case full of clothes.
Everett Russell, the 12-year-old son of L. F. Russell, a well-known farmer of Navarro County,
was thrown from a mule and instantly killed near Malakoff.
Gustave Wilkering and his fifteen-year-old son, who conduct a gunsmithshop, were horribly
mangled and instantly killed, and five other passengers were slightly injured in the wrecking of
a street car at Houston by a freight train. The motorman had a narrow escape by leaping.
Lewis Mitchell, a day laborer at a local sawmill at Rhonesboro, was accidentally killed by a log
rolling over him while attempting to place it on a skidway.
While a number of little boys at Hugo, I. T., were pulling a rope attached to a derrick it toppled
over and the end of a long pole struck Paul Daughtry, a 6-year-old boy, sitting on a rock pile a
few feet away, on the top of the head, crushing the skull. He died in thirty minutes.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Try This Plan.
If one could have a cent the first day of the month, two cents on the next day, four cents the
next, and so on, doubling the amount each day, he would have nearly $3,000,000 at the end of
a month of 31 days.
Thursday August 4, 1904
T. B. Collins and Major Hodo went to Kellar Sunday to see the Rev. Mr. Boulin who has been
sick for so long and who is now in a precarious condition.
A. D. Boulin an old and respected citizen of the Kellar community died last Monday morning
at 7 o‘clock. Mr. Boulin has friends around Arlington who will be pained to hear of his death.
Thursday August 4, 1904 Mrs. F. W. Craddock Dead.
Early Tuesday morning Mrs. F. W. Craddock, wife of F. W. Craddock operator at the T. & P.
depot in this city, died after several days suffering. Mrs. Craddock was a young married lady
with what promised to be a long useful happy life before her. She was a lady of most amiable
and lovable disposition, and her death is an irreparable loss to her husband and little baby,
less than a year old.
The remains were taken to Eagle Ford Tuesday evening for interment.
The blotting out of such a bright happy life so early in the morning of existence is sad to
contemplate. The bereaved husband and (little) baby have the sympathy of a large (circle) of
friends, in fact the whole town can but join in sympathy with them over their great loss.
Thursday August 4, 1904
The newly incorporated light and power company are preparing for great improvements
right away down at their plant. A deep six or eight inch well is to be put down at once,
and pipes laid for watering the business portion of the city, and the next season an ice
plant is to be added; ice to be made from the water of the new well. Fans and motors will
also be supplied next season. The machinery has already been ordered, not such as is
now needed, but in the language of Mr. Dugan, one of the projectors, machinery that will
answer the demands of twenty years hence.
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Thursday August 4, 1904 Teddy And The Coons.
Written by a local amateur. (unidentified)
Our Teddy is a nice young man;
You know he‘s President.
He kills the bears and hugs the coons,
And lives on the scent;
He takes the lambs to his embrace,
His arms about their belt--
Then yum yum yum, smackety smack,
Their darling Roosevelt.
Of all the presidents we‘ve had,
He‘s first to have the gall,
To ask the kinky-headed race
Inside that sacred hall.
But then, you see, he saw a chance
To hit the South a welt,
And all the colored gals went in
To dine with Roosevelt.
The damsels in their long-tail gowns,
Cut too short at the top,‘
Made goo-goo-eyes at Teddy, dear,
(And no one made them stop.)
The president—God save the mark
With pride before them knelt;
And then and there they harmonized,
The coons and Roosevelt.
A lane is very straight indeed,
That never has a bend;
This promenading with the coons
Will someday have an end;
His epitaph will be in fun,
Each word correctly spelt;
―Here lies two hearts that beat as one,
A coon and Roosevelt.‖
(President Theodore Roosevelt invited George Washington Carver to dine at the White House.)
Thursday August 4, 1904
J. A. Hamaker handed us a Huntsville, Alabama, paper Tuesday in which there was the
notice of the death of Wm. R. Rison, one of the most prominent citizens of Huntsville. There
are several people in this community who will hear of his death with sincere regrets.
Thursday August 11, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Albert Yoes, 25 years old, was drowned while bathing in a lake in the Center community,
fifteen miles north of Terrell.
Mrs. Elizabeth Poll, 44 years old, the wife of a machinist, was found desperately wounded at
her home in El Paso. She told neighbors that she had shot herself to end her suffering having
been ill a long time.
One hundred cases of typhoid fever in Mounte Savage, Md., with 2,200 inhabitants,
causes great alarm. Nurses are being imported from several points. The epidemic is traceable
to a spring where workmen and children drink.
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Thursday August 11, 1904 Sickening Case of Infanticide.
Waco: The remains of a murdered infant was found in the bed of Harrows Branch, two men
making the discovery Sunday morning. The Waco Humane Society took the matter up and
caused an inquest. Dr. R. W. Park testified that the child came to its death from violence, a
cord having been bound about its temples and twisted with a stick until the bones of the skull
were shattered.
Thursday August 11, 1904 Negroes Hang a Negro.
Selma: Edmond Bell, a negro, was taken from three Constables by a masked mob of about
300 of his own race, eight miles from Selma, Saturday afternoon, and hanged to a tree and his
body riddled with bullets. On Tuesday night Bell, it is alleged, assassinated Houston Scruggs,
another negro. Saturday at Sardis, in preliminary examination, Bell was bound over, and it
was while en route to jail that the lynching took place.
Thursday August 11, 1904
A Santa Fe train pulling into Kansas City from Chicago crashed into a trolley car and ten out
of fourteen passengers were more or less seriously hurt and a man standing near the track
killed by the debris of the wrecked car.
Thursday August 11, 1904 Killed by Crushing.
Lake Charles, La.: John J. Shannahan, master mechanic of the Loxley Marlin tram, was
killed at the tram six miles north of Lake Charles. Mr. Shannahan was superintending the
unloading of a new set of drivers for a locomotive used on the tram road when the timbers gave
way. He was caught beneath the heavy drive wheels and crushed to death. His home is in
Selma, Ala., whither his remains were shipped.
Thursday August 11, 1904
Ennis: A party of men went out to the City Lake Sunday afternoon to take a boat ride.
About 1:30 o‘clock the boat was capsized and T. M. Tanner, a member of the party, being
unable to swim, was drowned before his companions could rescue him. He is about thirty
years of age and was a railroad man. It is learned that deceased came to Ennis about three
weeks ago and was working in the Houston and Texas Central machine shops.
Thursday August 11, 1904 Horrible Tragedy of Insane Husband.
Rockwall: A terrible tragedy was enacted here Sunday, resulting in the death of J. T.
McCain and the serious injury of his wife. Several days ago Mrs. McCain swore out a
complaint against her husband, charging him with insanity. He was acquitted and released.
Sunday, while his wife and children were seated on the rear porch, Mr. McCain entered the
front door and started back to where his family were seated. One of the children saw him
coming with an open knife in his hand and called his mother‘s attention to it. She arose and
turned toward him, when he stabbed her in the breast and cut a deep gash. She broke loose
from him and ran out the side door. McCain then went into the front room and placed muzzle
of a shotgun to his breast and stooped over and pulled the trigger, the entire charge entering
his left breast, killing him almost instantly. After the wounds of Mrs. McCain had been
examined by physicians they were pronounced serious, but not necessarily fatal.
Thursday August 11, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
On the wharf at the foot of Travis street, Houston, Nelson Horton, a laborer, was chopped in
the head with an ax and may die. His assailant escaped.
In an accident on board a piledriver at work in Galveston Bay two workmen were seriously
scalded by escaping steam. Two others received scalds, but nothing serious.
Mrs. Agatha Bohl died at Castroville at the advanced age of 94 years. She was one of the
original pioneers who settled in this section, and leaves a large number of descendants.
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Thursday August 11, 1904
Deacon Jas. Alspaugh of ―Hog Waller‖ was in town Tuesday and informed the Journal that
there would be a big Sunday school convention out at his church next Saturday and Sunday
and invited us out. The editor knows some thing of the hospitality of these people and shall try
to be on hand to help dispose of the pies, chicken, etcetera.
Thursday August 11, 1904
An awful calamity occurred Sunday night near Pueblo, Colo., when a passenger train, a
―flyer‖, fell into a raging mountain torrent drowning and killing over a hundred people.
Bodies were washed ashore in Pueblo, over 8 miles below the scene of the disaster. Such
disasters are entirely too frequent. Ones nerves hardly become composed after one disaster till
another is upon us.
Thursday August 11 1904
J. B. Clopton was out at Stephensville the first of the week looking after some real estate he
owns out there. He also inspected the ice plant, electric plant, and steam laundry, all of which
he thinks Arlington should have. He says a company put in a water system for the business
part of the town for $2500, and operates it for $500 a year, and saved the town $3000 the first
year on insurance. He also thinks such a steam laundry and ice plant as they have would be
practical in Arlington.
Thursday August 11, 1904
Geo. Perkins was called to Weatherford last week to attend the funeral of a little boy of his
sister, Mrs. W. M. Long formerly of this city. The boy got a fall from a horse from the effects of
which he died. George returned and got his wife and children and left again this week to take
his midsummer vacation at Weatherford, Mineral Wells and other points west.
Thursday August 11, 1904
Senator George Graham Vest of Missouri one of the prominent men of this country died at
his home at Sweet Springs, Mo., last Monday.
Thursday August 11, 1904 Westhausen‘s Body Found.
San Antonio: The dead body of Fred Westhausen, the missing man, was discovered on
Thursday lying under some bushes on Columbia Heights, about 150 yards south of the
residence of Dr. Hight. Beside the body lay a shotgun, and the supposition is that he was the
victim of his own act. Westhausen must have been dead several days. Westhausen was a
German, about 68 years old, and had been missing since last Friday.
Thursday August 11, 1904
At Winnipeg, Man., a crowd got on the roof of a shed to see a fight between a negro and big
black bull. The shed gave way, precipitating the crowd onto a crowd underneath. Fourteen
had to be taken to the hospital and two were fatally hurt.
Thursday August 11, 1904 Fell To His Death.
Athens: Dr. D. McD. Withers, while trying to walk over the Trinity River railroad bridge last
night near Trinidad, Henderson County, fell from the bridge and was killed by the fall. He went
down on the evening train and got off at Daniels Lake for the purpose of looking after some
landed interests in that vicinity. He came to Athens to live only a few weeks ago. His
professional cards show that he once lived at Jonesboro, N. C.
Thursday August 11, 1904
During a heavy rainstorm lightning struck and killed Hiram Hall, a single man, aged about
35, near Jacksboro. The same bolt also killed one of the horses he was driving and shocked
two children passing along the road.
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Thursday August 11, 1904 Murdered a Sleeping Man.
Marshall: Joe Rossi, an Italian, was murdered, at his home on Thursday morning. He was
shot in the back of the head and twice in the left breast. He was shot about 1 o‘clock while
asleep in bed. An Italian who signs his name as P. P., and the wife of the murdered man, have
been arrested. The Governor has ordered the Marshall militia to meet Sheriff Curtis at the
train returning with the Italian accused of murdering (Rossi).
Thursday August 11, 1904 One Who Did Not Laugh.
―Mark Twain‖ once expressed the following sentiments to a young woman who had not
smiled at a thing he had said during an impromptu reception in his honor at Bryn Mawr
college, to which his daughter had invited him. All the young ladies but one were in a state of
great glee during the humorist‘s address—all but one had laughed heartily at every witty
remark. Just as ―Twain‖ finished he turned to the young woman who had not laughed and
said, in an undertone: ―You are the only sensible one here. I have not said a single amusing
thing. If it were not for the conspicuousness of it I would like to press your hand.‖ – Success.
Thursday August 18, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Holly Bell, a merchant of Spindle Top, committed suicide Tuesday morning by shooting
himself. Bradly Bell, a commission merchant of Beaumont, is a brother of the deceased.
While in bathing in the river some five miles from Longview, Jim Birdsong, a boy about twelve
years old, was drowned by being drawn under the water by a small suction hole in the river.
There are 446 known survivors of the Mexican War, and of these 100 reside in Texas. In
commemoration of that historical struggle and its results, the Mexican Government has invited
these survivors to be their guests at the World‘s Fair on September 17.
Mrs. J. L. Lindsey, wife of Dr. J. L. Lindsey, a physician at Witt and a prominent citizen of the
county, shot herself through the temple with suicidal intent at her home at Witt. Death
resulted instantly. The deed is attributed to a fit of temporary insanity.
Thursday August 18, 1904
Capt. Andrew J. Byars of St. Louis, 70 years of age, one of the few remaining ante-bellum
Mississippi river men, is dead as the result of wounds inflicted by himself with a revolver. He
took his life because he believed he had outlived the business he had followed for sixty years.
Thursday August 18 Veteran of Two Wars.
Wortham: Capt. John A. Lilly, a veteran of two wars, the Mexican and Civil, died at the
home of H. B. Stubbs after a short illness at the age of 79. He was a Mississippian by birth.
He went to Mexico with Taylor‘s command, and served with him during the war with that
country, after which he came to Texas and settled in Dallas County. When the Civil War broke
out he went to the field with Terry‘s Texas Rangers.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Two Noted Characters Meet.
Muskogee, I. T.: Registered at one of the hotels in this city are Cole Younger and Henry
Starr. Younger is registered from Lees Summit, Mo., while Starr hails from Tulsa, I. T. The
meeting here of the two men was accidental, and one would never guess, to see them together,
that each has a history rarely equaled in the annals of the world. One is now an old man and
the other has passed the border line into middle life.
Thursday August 18, 1904
James P. Ashcroftt, one of the original settlers of Texarkana, died at his home Saturday
night, aged 62 years. He was the first City Marshal of the Arkansas side during the years 1880
and 1881.
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Thursday August 18, 1904 REUNITED SOLDIERS
Having a Good Time in Steady Old Boston.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 16. – For the Thirty-eighth time since the Civil War the veterans who
fought in the Union Army assembled yesterday in annual encampment in Boston. The
encampment of the veterans, as well as the subsidiary organizations, were formally opened
yesterday.
The parade comes today, with business sessions later in the week.
One of the striking features of the day was a reception which Governor Bates held in honor of
a party of distinguished Southerners, all ex-Confederate officers, who are attending the
encampment. Capt. Edward S. Gay of Atlanta, Ga., responded for the Confederates, expressing
the deep gratification that exists through the South at the friendly act of a Northern Grand
Army Post (Edward W. Kinsley No. 13 of Boston) in inviting himself and comrades to come and
break bread with them.
The most potable gathering of the G. A. R. in the evening, aside from the campfire, was the
banquet in historic Faneuil Hall, tendered by Edward W. Tinsley Post No. 13 of Boston, to a
score of former Confederate officers, and to Lafayette Post No. 140 of New York City.
Commander J. J. Little of Lafayette Post, the first speaker, paid a tribute to the guests from the
South, who, he said, had joined hands with the North in supporting Old Glory—one country,
one flag, one citizenship.
Before introducing Rev. E. A. Horton, the chaplain of Tinsley Post, Toastmaster Taylor
declared it was worth all the ―gold brick‖ Philippine Islands had cost to see reunited by means
of the Spanish War the people of the North and the South.
The succeeding speakers, including Governor Bates, who offered the welcome of
Massachusetts; Col. J. A. Anderson of Kinsley Post; Commander in Chief John C. Black of the
G. A. R., who extended a greeting to the Confederate officers, who declared that every trace of
hostility between the North and South had been obliterated, and Gen. John B. Castleman of
Louisville, Ky., who dwelt upon the spirit of union between the North and the South.
About all the Grand Army of the Republic delegates from Texas, Indian and Oklahoma
Territories are now in Boston and are making themselves comfortable at the New Lexington,
their headquarters. It is not known just how many will be in line for the review on Tuesday, as
there are still a few to report and register. The ex-Confederates from Texas and the others from
the South are quartered at the Victoria. They were tendered a reception at the new Algonquin
Club, the most aristocratic club in the city, by Kinsley Post No. 13 of Boston, yesterday
afternoon. They were escorted to the club house by the Kinsley veterans in full uniform, with
the Boston Cadet Band. The reception committee comprised George F. Hall, Chairman; James
Bruerton, C. D. Stillings, John C. Watson, J. C. Cook, G. W. Brooks, Ira B. Goodrich, Walter
Burns, Gustavus Swanderson, Benjamin H. Tickner, George E. Henry and F. P. Marsh, all
prominent business men.
Among the Confederates present were: John N. Simpson of Dallas, Frank H. Thompson of
Dallas, E. W. Taylor of Fort Worth and Col. Trezevant of Dallas. Earlier in the day they called
upon Governor Bates at the State House. The Texans expressed themselves in unstinted terms
of praise of the reception accorded them in Boston and anticipate further pleasure during their
stay here.
Thursday August 18, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Former Premier Waldeck-Rousscatt (?) died in Paris as the result of an operation.
Persia is undergoing a siege of cholera. At Teheran, the capital, there have been thirty to
forty deaths per day reported, and the disease is on the increase.
Miss Kate Robbins, sister of State Treasurer Robbins, died at the home of her brother, A. S.
Robbins, one mile south of Athens. She had been in ill health for some time.
The Corsicana Refining Company has posted bulletins quoting the price of light crude oil at
80c per barrel and heavy oil at 45c. This is an advance of 10c and 5c, respectively.
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Sam Green, a negro laborer at the tie plant at Somerville, in attempting to pass between cars
while switching was being done was caught between the bumpers and almost instantly killed
Friday morning,.
Mr. and Mrs. John Skinner have arrived at South Chicago on a trip from California with a
horse and buggy. They left Los Angeles on December 2 and will go to Akron, Mich., where Mr.
Skinner, who is seventy-eight years old, will visit Frank Lewis, an old comrade.
M. Lichtenstein, one of Corpus Christi‘s leading business men, died on Thursday after a
five weeks‘ illness. He was horn in Witlstock, Germany. In 1835 he came to Texas, and served
as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
David Kelley, member of the ―boy band quartette,‖ has been found guilty of complicity in the
murder of John Lane, stage carpenter at the Illinois theater, by a jury court, and he was
sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the killing of Lane.
Since the death of Senator Vest, Samuel B. Callahan, of Muskogee is the only surviving
member of the Confederate congress. Mr. Callahan, who is of Indian blood, is sixty-eight years
old, and he and the late Senator Vest were the best of friends.
That the New York rapid transit subway would be opened to public traffic next month is the
assertion made by Frank Hedley, an official of the Interborough Railroad Company, as only die
laying and painting are unfinished.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Two Mexican Policemen to Be Shot.
El Paso: Police Commandant Torres of Aguas Calientes, a village in Sinaloa, and two
policemen, who killed Clarence Way and Edward Latimer, Americans, have been sentenced to
be shot. Torres is said to have ordered the arrest of Way and Latimer because they refused to
speak to him while he was intoxicated. They resisted arrest and both were shot down.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Drowned in Clear Fork.
Fort Worth: Friday afternoon a young white man, about 19 or 20 years old, was drowned
while bathing in the Clear Fork of the Trinity River, about 150 yards below the Texas and
Pacific bridge. He was 5 feet 1 ½ inches tall, had a light brown hair, wore a soft black Alpine
hat, size, 7 1/8, and about No. 8 shoes. The suit of clothes worn by the deceased was a brown
mixture with a small white stripe. He also wore a blue striped shirt.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Killed at Church.
Texarkana: Andrew Wright, a negro, was shot and instantly killed while attending service at
the Mount Zion Colored Baptist Church in Swampoodle Thursday night. Wright was sitting on
one of the front seats at the time and his slayer fired from the seat behind him, the bullet
taking effect in the back of the head, penetrating the brain and causing instant death. A
warrant has been sworn out against Onie Mimms, another negro.
Thursday August 18, 1904 (editorial)
The Russo-Jap war has been furious both on land and sea for the last ten days, with victory for the Japs in every
engagement. They have been especially victorious in all naval engagements and now have the Russian fleet in
eastern waters almost annihilated. It now looks like Russia will have to abandon her Manchoorian possessions.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Johnson Station.
Miss Mary Henderson of Wautauga who was visiting with the Misses Thornton, received a
message Monday afternoon that had her father dying, and hurried home to find him already
dead. Her friends at this place deeply sympathize with her.
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Thursday August 18, 1904 W. J. Glazner Dead.
FROM TUESDAY RECORD.
―Fairfield, Texas, August 15. – (Special.) – W. J. Glazner, county clerk of Freestone county,
died at the home of his son, Lee Glazner, and was buried at Post oak cemetery, four miles
southeast of Fairfield, yesterday. He was a Mason and was buried by Fairfield Mason lodge
and the funeral procession was the largest that ever attended a burial at Post Oak.
The county commissioners‘ court today convened in special session and appointed E. R.
Glazner, the eldest son of W. L. Glazner, to fill the unexpired term. E. R. Glazner gave bond
and was properly qualified at once.‖
Mr. Glazner was a cousin of S. B. Glazner of this place and was a visitor here last summer.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Cemetery Cleaning at Watson.
The annual cleaning up of the Watson cemetery three miles northeast of town, took place
last Friday and was participated in by five or six hundred people, including the editor who did
double service from 12 o‘clock to near one.
The year past has witnessed many new made graves at the old cemetery, prominent among
which are the graves of the elder Reed and his son, Frank, both of whom were present, well
and happy a year ago.
The cemetery is a very old one and contains the ashes of some of nearly all the older families
of this part of the country. There has probably been as many interments there the past year as
has been done in the city.
The scene Friday was a peculiar one. Here was an aged lady whose heart was in the past,
kneeling at the grave that had closed above all her earthly hopes. There is another, and a
younger one, bathing the grave of an infant child with affection‘s dewy teardrops. Yonder is a
strong rugged man cutting the weeds from a grave and shaping it up with tenderest touch,
while his voice takes on an unusual modulation, and one can only conjecture what his heart
feels.
But outside the scene changes. There the young country yeomen strolls about with his best
girl, or reclines upon some rustic seat, seemingly just as happy and as completely blessed as
young folks used to do and be when we were young, while the older men sit in groups and talk
of boll weevil and other topics of mutual interest.
All the older set talk of early days, tell who was the first person buried at Watson, and how
the first father Watson always fed all who came to dig graves, bury their dead, or preach the
gospel.
At dinner time such a feast is spread as one seldom sees and all seem to forget any solemnity
that may attach to the occasion, for all eat like people who have laid all sorrow aside for the
time being. Appetite like many other human feelings and emotions is wonderfully contagious,
and many who approached the feast complaining of not feeling very well, soon forgot having
made such declaration and ate like a hired hand.
At 1:30 volunteers were called for to go back and finish up the work of cleaning the cemetery.
Many responded promptly, others had to be dragged out and made to work, but none were
excused, all had to come to time, no difference how much he had eaten, or how much ice water
he had drunk.
At 3:30 the work was completed and soon after the crowd began to break up.
This was a great day; one of the greatest of the kind Watson has ever had. Besides the
cleaning of the cemetery it was a day of great social recreation, a day when old friends come
together to renew the friendship of many years growth, and when even the stranger within the
gates felt the warm healthy thrill of such spontaneous and abundant friendship and universal
brotherhood.
Thursday August 18, 1904 Pantego.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Noble died Saturday and was buried Sunday at
the Harrison cemetery.
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Thursday August 18, 1904 (editorial page)
One of our exchanges tells of the three stingiest men on record.
The first will not drink water unless it comes from a neighbor‘s well; the second forbids
his family to write anything but a small hand, as it wastes ink to make large letters; and
the third stops the clock at night to save wear and tear on the machinery. All of them
refuse to take a newspaper on the grounds that it is a terrible strain on their spectacles
to read.
Thursday August 25, 1904 A Good Citizen Dead.
W. J. Bell, a highly respected man of middle age, died Tuesday morning at 10 o‘clock after
an illness of two or three days.
Mr. Bell was well-known and highly respected. He was a man that had been very successful
in business at other places, having acquired considerable property. Since coming to Arlington
he has never engaged in any business. For some time he has been talking of going into
business here, but being a very careful man he kept waiting and watching for some favorable
opportunity.
He was a very useful member of the church and of the lodges to which he belonged,
especially the W. O. W. lodge of which he was secretary. He was one of the most faithful and
devoted members of the Baptist church, always present and ready to do his part, especially in
music, of which he used to be a teacher. Few men got more out of their religion than did
brother Bill.
Funeral services were held at the family residence by his pastor, Rev. M. C. Jackson, at 10
o‘clock Wednesday morning, after which the remains, followed by a long train of sorrowing
friends and relatives, were interred in the Arlington cemetery.
He leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter.
Thursday August 25, 1904
At the same time that Mr. Bell was being laid to rest here Wednesday: Slim Harkreader,
another member of the Woodman lodge at this place was being buried at Greenwood cemetery
at Dallas. A. J. Church, Burl Patton, and W. J. Eaton of this lodge acted as pall bearers. Mr.
Harkreader was injured in a wreck in west Dallas and died Tuesday.
Thursday August 25, 1904
Mayor Bailey had the pool at the public well cleaned out and replastered this week, causing
temporary inconvenience about watering stock but insuring good service for the busy season.
Thursday August 25, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Twelve-year-old Rosa Byrd, of Ardmore, I. T., who attempted to light a fire (unreadable) ...
seriously burned that she died from the injuries sustained.
Burt Morgan, a young man about twenty-seven years of age, was found dead in bed at his
home at Sunset. He is supposed to have died from heart trouble.
While in swimming in the grade-raising canal, James Frost, the fourth steward on the
steamship Yucatan, a British vessel, was drowned. The home of the deceased is at Accriton,
England.
Esau Roberts, a negro, was shot and killed at Boynton, I. T., Friday morning while asleep.
Another negro entered the room and fired two bullets into Roberts‘ breast. The slayer made his
escape.
At the Frisco bridge across the Colorado River at Winchell, a young man from Itasca, Texas,
was walking across when he fell a distance of sixty feet and received injuries which will very
likely prove fatal.
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Judge Hamilton, of Indianola, I. T., who was accidentally shot by City Marshall Montgomery at
Crowder City, I. T., Sunday, will likely die. The bullet passed through the skull, causing a part
of the brain to ooze out.
Emily Lewis, a negro woman of Ennis, died Friday at the age of 108 years. She used to belong
to the family of Mrs. Frank Templeton, and was the house servant of Mrs. Templeton‘s mother.
At Herford, twenty miles north of El Paso, two cowboys employed at Newman‘s ranch engaged
in a fight with pistols, and one of them, Ben Lewis, was killed. His assailant was a Mexican.
Walter Crumb, a typewriter repairer of Galveston, 38 years of age, died from an overdose of
morphine. A mother and widow survive him.
W. L. Neal was shot and instantly killed at his home near Burnet on Saturday night. Frank
Motley came in and gave himself up, stating that Neal had assaulted his wife at her home while
he was absent.
Thursday August 25, 1904 DEATHLY TORNADO AT SAINT PAUL.
A Tornado Destroys Sixteen Lives and $2,000,000 in Property.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 22. – Sixteen are reported to be dead, scores injured and property
loss estimated to reach $2,000,000, are the results of a fierce tornado which swept down on
the city shortly after 9 o‘clock Saturday night. The Tivoli Theater was demolished. The Empire
Theater razed. The high bridge, an immense steel structure across the Mississippi River at a
height of 200 feet was almost totally destroyed and 200 buildings are more or less damaged. A
report at 12, midnight, is that the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic institution, was
wrecked, and twenty-five injured there. All communication with outlying districts is cut off. It
is impossible to say what the extent of damage is.
The storm was of short duration, lasting not more than fifteen minutes. The devastation it
wrought was terrific. The wind, according to the Government weather observer, blew at the
rate of eighty miles an hour, coming from the southwest. Buildings were unroofed and fronts
blown in, the interiors being flooded by the rain, which came in great waves along with the
wind. Electric wires were prostrated and many persons injured by contact with currents from
electric light and trolley wires.
An excursion steamer, towing a barge on the river below St. Paul, is reported to have been
wrecked. Relief parties in steam launches have been dispatched to the rescue. It is said many
lives were lost there.
William Donaldson & Co.‘s big department store in Minneapolis was badly damaged by the
storm. The loss is said to be $300,000. Later reports from Minneapolis are to the effect that
no one was killed, but many injured.
Practically every building on the north side of East street is wrecked. The Abighorst block,
seventh and Wacouta, was unroofed and the Economy department store is reported to have
been damaged to the extent of $20,000.
The front wall of the building occupied by Lindeke, Warner & Son was shattered and the
stock and fixtures damaged to the extent of thousands of dollars.
St. Anthony elevator in Minneapolis was leveled to the ground, the wreckage blocking the
Great Northern tracks. One person is reported killed in one wing of the House of the Good
Shepherd, which was blown down. A little girl was killed and some ten to twenty women were
injured. Reports come, it is believed, that the list of dead will be materially increased.
The Pioneer Press building, a fourteen-story steel and brick structure, was considerably
damaged by the storm. The windows on the top floor were blown in and a number of printers
who work in the composing room were seriously cut by flying glass. The work of getting out the
Sunday edition, however, was not interfered with.
The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha roundhouse building collapsed. Five engines
and a steam wrecker were damaged. Numerous cars were blown from the track. The damage
is estimated at $30,000.
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Thursday August 25, 1904 Shot a Negro to Death.
Marshall: A negro by the name of John Bledsoe was shot and killed Thursday night at the
electric light and ice plant. The shooting was done with a 38-caliber revolver, and four shots
were fired. The wounded man was found lying with his head against a car wheel behind the
main building and died within twenty minutes after the shooting. Henry Wilson was arrested
and lodged in jail.
Thursday August 25, 1904 Japs Steam Into Shanghai
They Capture Pigeon Bay
China Claims Helplessness So Japs Must Move On.
Shanghai, Aug. 22. – Shanghai was thrown into a fever of excitement this afternoon by the
arrival of a Japanese torpedo boat which was sighted coming in from the south at 4:30 o‘clock.
She passed Woo Sung at full speed and started up the river Ju for Shanghai. The United
States torpedo boat destroyer Chauncey slipped her cable and followed the Japanese
destroyer.
The Japanese boat was cleared for action. She anchored off the Cosmopolitan dock, where
the Russian cruiser Askold was undergoing repairs. The Chauncey came to anchor practically
between the dock and the Japanese destroyer. A foreign pilot ship reports having seen a
Japanese battleship and two cruisers cruising sixty miles out of Woo Sung.
There are at present no Chinese men-of-war in this port, but the Tao Tai has telegraphed and
asked that a Chinese cruiser be sent immediately. The Russian Consul General here flatly
refused to disarm the Askold or the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi or to leave the
harbor.
The Tao Tai has notified American Consul Goodnow, who is general of the consular body,
that China can not protect the foreign settlements. He contends that Russia ignores the orders
issued by China and China has not the means of making her obey them.
Consul Goodnow has called a meeting of the consular body to take joint action for the
protection of foreign inhabitants. The Askold has docked adjacent to the warehouses here of
the Standard Oil Company, which are valued at over $1,000,000. The Standard Oil Company
has demanded protection for its property from Consul Goodnow.
The dock where the Askold lies is owned by British interests. On one side of this dock is
German and Dutch property and on the other side American property.
Thursday August 25, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A move is on foot to pave the main business streets of Gainesville. The property owners are
almost all in favor of it.
Alex Arachina, the son of a prominent Italian business man of Denison drowned in the Red
River Friday morning.
Joe Jefferson, the great actor, lies dangerously ill at his home near Buzzards Bay. He is
suffering from a complication of diseases.
Herman Hicks, aged eighty-seven, who had lived on the same farm, three miles from Ann
Arbor, Mich., for the past seventy-nine years, died a few days since.
The Panama Canal Commission has made requisition for a large amount of dynamite, which
indicates that active work will soon commence on the canal proper.
Miss Clara Bourland, the 16-year-old daughter of Hon. W. F. Bourland of Dixon, Ky., was
killed by lightning while talking over a telephone during a heavy thunderstorm.
Col. Prentiss Ingraham of Chicago, who enjoys the distinction of having written more than
1,000 novels, died a few days since at Beauvoir, Miss., at the age of 60 years.
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Saturday night at Lavada in the northeast corner of Franklin County W. H. Thomas was
killed. It is stated he was attempting to elope with George W. Martin‘s sixteen-year-old
daughter. Martin was released on bond after an examining trial.
Thursday August 25, 1904 A Ghastly Record.
El Paso: H. C. Cliffe, a well-known mining man, says he has at last solved the mystery of the
disappearance of Anthony C. Gordon of Dallas County, Texas. Thirty miles south of
Guaynopa, Cliffe found the skeleton of Gordon, and nearby was a memorandum book, which
served to identify the remains. Gordon left Casas Gardens, Mexico, three years ago to go into
the wilds to examine a mining claim, since which time he had never been heard from.
Thursday August 25, 1904 The Baby Was Killed.
Decatur: Mr. and Mrs. W. Seaburn and baby, Laura, were returning home from a visit to
Mr. Seaburn‘s father, who lives three miles from Springtown, when the team became frightened
at some cattle by the side of the road and the wagon struck a stump and threw Mrs. Seaburn
and the baby out, and the wagon running over them killed the baby instantly and bruised
Mrs. Seaburn considerably about the arms and shoulders.
Thursday August 25, 1904
Poteau, I. T.: Jim Crenshaw, who has a wife living in Howe, I. T., and Florence Shennell,
who has a husband living in the same place, were run over and cut to pieces by a passenger
train on the Kansas City Southern about 4 o‘clock Thursday morning. The engineer says he
saw the bulk of some object on the track, but before he could adjust his brakes the bodies were
mangled. No explanation is given as to how the parties came upon the track.
Thursday August 25, 1904 Noted Texas Lawyer Dead.
San Antonio: Col. E. R. Lane, one of the most noted lawyers of Texas, and a Confederate
veteran, died at his ranch, Laurafield, near Millett Station, of appendicitis. An operation was
performed, but his malady was of a number of years‘ standing, and his life could not be saved.
Col. Lane was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1838, and came to Texas when ten years of age,
settling with his parents at Goliad.
He educated himself and went to school in Bastrop with Joseph D. Sayers. In the war he
joined Sibley‘s Brigade and participated in the Louisiana and New Mexico campaigns. He was
in some of the most noted law cases of the Southwest, successfully conducting the defense in
the celebrated Dr. Brazil murder case and defeating the Dennis O‘Conner $100,000 forgery
case. He represented Goliad, Victoria and adjoining counties in the Senate in 1879.
Thursday August 25, 1904 Reeves‘ Slayer Surrenders.
Austin: Walter Hoffman, aged about 22 years, has surrendered to the officers in answer to
the charge of causing the death of William Reeves. Late on Tuesday night Reeves was struck
on the head with a socket wrench at the Houston and Texas Central roundhouse, and
Hoffman, a fellow laborer, fled. He successfully eluded the officers, but finally gave up. Reeves
died on Wednesday and Hoffman is being held on a charge of (murder).
Thursday August 25, 1904 CHICAGO POLICE FINALLY WAKE UP.
Chicago, Ill., Aug. 19. – Mob violence accompanied by the fire brand broke out with renewed
fury in the stock yards district yesterday. This was the climax of numerous minor
disturbances all during the night and morning hours.
The strike pickets and mobs are now attacking noncombatants, persons who have no interest
one way or the other in the controversy, and this has so angered the police that war was
declared this evening upon the pickets. Capt. Clancy, under command of Inspector Hunt, has
formed a ―flying squadron‖ of picked officers. ―Every picket must get out of packing town or we
will pack the police stations so full of them their feet will stick out of the transoms,‖ he said.
―This thing of attacking innocent people simply through a brutal desire to see blood flow, or to
destroy property, must stop, and stop right now.‖
William Pastor, ‘05, and Blaine Evans, ‘05, seniors from Harvard University, who are
studying sociological conditions, got some knowledge firsthand yesterday when they were set
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upon and badly beaten by a mob of strikers. They finally escaped on a street car, bruised and
bleeding. Thomas Handy, an English tourist, who fancied he would like to visit the stock
yards, was mistaken for a strike breaker and fearfully beaten. He took refuge in the office of a
physician and the place was immediately besieged by a howling mob demanding the life of the
Englishman. The police eventually took him to the station.
A peddler, whose wagon was loaded with vegetables, was attacked by strikers, his horse cut
loose, the driver badly beaten, and the wagon burned. A squad of police clubbed their way to
the peddler and saved him from being kicked to death. Another peddler attempted to escape a
mob but was beaten and all the contents of his wagon stolen.
Strike leaders took a step yesterday that may endanger the health of the entire city.
Members of the Grease and Tallow Teamsters‘ Union were ordered by their officials to stop
hauling refuse away from the retail markets.
Assurances were received from Washington yesterday that President Roosevelt has no
intention of interfering in the strike.
Thursday August 25, 1904
Clarence De Ryder, a cyclist killed himself attempting to loop the loop at Salt Lake City.
Thursday August 25, 1904 Fell Off the Earth.
Tyler: Arthur McCloskin, a young farmer living four miles from Tyler, suddenly disappeared
from his home a few days ago and has not been heard of since. Officers fear foul play and have
made a diligent search. Believing that he had been murdered, they removed the dirt from
several large gullies near his home, but still there were no traces. It is suggested that he may
have lost his mind and is wandering about the country.
Thursday August 25, 1904 A Mistake.
For a week we have been watching the excavations being made at the electric light plant,
long trenches and cross trenches which we supposed were to be the foundation for the walls,
also a large quantity of brick being stacked up which we supposed would be for building the
wall, but on investigation we learned that it was only the bed for the boilers and engine, and
that it would take 30,000 brick to put up the boilers alone. There are two 70 horse power
boilers. They are here now and are being put in place. The engine and dynamos will arrive in
a few days and it is hoped to have the plant in operation by September 15.
This is not a new enterprise, only an enlargement of the old one. To be sure everything will
be new, but Arlington has had electric lights for some time, and this is only an enlargement to
meet present and even future demands.
Thursday August 25, 1904
This morning the city team with a wagon load of dirt started to run from the public well, but
were headed off and crashed into a lot of buggies in front of Collins Yates Co., knocking the
hind sights off of Tom Rosebrough‘s buggy and turning Fate Normans fat buggy pony two
―somesets.‖ This is bad on bachelor Tom, especially as it is protracted meeting season and he
has special use for his buggy.
Thursday September 1, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Mrs. E. D. Turner, relict of one of the leading Federal judges of Texas in its early days,
dropped dead at Austin, Thursday, at the residence of Mrs. T. H. Gregory.
(unreadable) year-old boy named ???? Matthews died near Fort Worth from injuries received
by being thrown from a horse on Saturday and causing a fracture of the skull.
F. G. Wootten, better known as Pete Wootten, the oldest newspaper man at Texarkana in
point of age or service, died suddenly Thursday afternoon of congestion.
J. S. Knowles, a former employe of the El Paso Southwestern Railway was locked in a cell at
the police station at El Paso and died twenty minutes later from heart failure.
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The 10-year-old son of John Miner, who lives three miles southwest of Van Alstyne, fell off
a mower on the spout of an oil can and sustained an injury that may cost him his life.
Rev. J. R. Wages, pastor of the Kavanaugh Methodist Church, Greenville, was presented a
cane a few days since made from a sill of the First Methodist Church ever built in Texas. The
church was in Sabine County. The cane is a beautifully polished piece of oak.
Jim Woods, a well-known and industrious negro of McKinney, was tamping a charge in a
blast in a well one day last week, the charge was exploded, and Woods was injured for life. It is
thought that his eyesight is permanently lost.
J. D. Tucker, who lives six miles from Hillsboro has found onions a prolific crop. He planted
65 cents worth of sets in the spring in six rows fifty feet long and reaped six bushels from the
planting. He will plant an acre next spring.
Thursday September 1, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Jim Woods, the negro well digger who was so seriously injured in the premature powder
explosion in a well at McKinney on Thursday, died the (unreadable)....
Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans capitalists are arranging to construct new palatial
steamboats after a new pattern and will attempt to revive the old time river traffic.
It is reported that Samsonoff, the assassin of M. Von Plehve, has been sentenced to death.
Reports which have been circulated about Samsonoff having escaped and also that he is dead
are declared to be false.
John Burley, a negro, 40 years of age, was hanged at the District jail in Washington on
Friday for criminal assault on a 4-year-old negro girl, committed in July, 1904. It was the first
death penalty in the District for this offense.
Peter Sells, the well-known showman, has suffered a stroke of paralysis. It seemed slight at
first, but soon affected his speech and he failed to recognize his daughter and other members
of the household.
Wm. Wightman, member of the firm of Powers & Wightman, one of the largest
manufacturing chemist concerns in this country, has died. He was said to have been the
largest individual land holder in this country.
Announcement is made by the officials of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad that
telephones will soon replace the telegraph on the line for the dispatching of trains and the
carrying on of the business of the road.
Thursday September 1, 1904 FOUGHT LIKE A BABY.
Jack Munroe Battered Out in Just Four Minutes.
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 27. – Like the veriest amateur in the prize ring, Jack Munroe of
Butte, Mont., went down and out before Champion James Jeffries last night in the second
round. The man from the mining district made such an extremely sorry showing that the great
throng in Mechanics Pavilion roundly hissed him as he protested to Referee Graney against the
decision that had been given in favor of Jeffries.
The two giants had not been in the ring two minutes when it was foreseen that the
aspirations of Munroe would be quickly disposed of. The miner was scared and awkward, and
Jeffries in the first round had him twice on the canvas taking the count.
Jeffries directed his bombardment against the stomach of his opponent, and each shot was
followed by a blow on the jaw that sent Munroe to the floor.
Jeffries went back to his corner after the opening round with a sneer and a laugh on his
swarthy face, while Munroe‘s seconds busied themselves with smelling salts and restoratives.
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When the two came together for the second round the laugh on the champion‘s visage changed
to a look of determination that boded ill to the miner. Forty-five seconds after the gong
sounded Munroe was lying on the floor, a bloody, bruised mass of humanity, with Jeffries
standing over him, ready, if necessary, to put on the quietus to the championship ambitions of
his adversary. The miner was too dazed to rise to his feet, and the timekeepers counted him
out, but the husky man from Southern California did not understand that the victory was
already his, nor did Munroe realize that his pugilistic star had so early set, and the two men, in
a moment or two were facing one another and Jeffries landed a terrific blow on the jaw,
staggering his opponent.
Munroe tottered to his corner with blood streaming from his face and fell into his chair,
dazed and helpless. His seconds immediately began working on him to freshen him, and when
he came to a realization that the fight had gone against him he arose, and going over to Referee
Graney began to protest. The huge crowd understood, from his protesting gesticulations, etc.,
the purpose of the talk to Graney and a mighty volume of jeering and hissing evidenced the
sentiment of the spectators, many of whom had placed money on the miner that he would stay
at least double the number of rounds before the champion.
The question of whether or not James J. Jeffries, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world
has deteriorated, was emphatically answered in the negative. The ex-boilermaker not only has
not gone back, but seems to be better than he ever was. Munroe was considered by many to
be a wonder. Almost as heavy, regarded as practically as strong and possessing a reach nearly
as great as that of the champion, he was looked upon as a tough proposition for Jeffries. This
was notwithstanding the fact that the miner was a man of little ring experience.
Thursday September 1, 1904 Death Under the Wheels.
Bastrop: The dead body of Howell Byrum, a young man about nineteen years old, who had
been hauling logs for the McPhaul sawmill, eight miles east of Bastrop, was found lying under
the wheels of his wagon. The wagon came uncoupled, throwing him under the front wheels,
where he became entangled in a chain, dragging him a considerable distance. He was thrown
against a tree, crushing his skull, his neck being broken.
Thursday September 1, 1904
It is currently stated that Sanger Brothers Department store at Dallas is to be enlarged so as
to include the corner of Main and Lamar streets.
Thursday September 1, 1904 Killed His Father.
Paris: At Oak Grove, in the west end of Bowie County, Thursday morning while John
Watson, a farmer about fifty years of age, was chastising one of his children, a girl of ten, he
was shot and killed, the contents of both barrels of a shotgun entering his head. Bud Watson,
a son of deceased, fifteen years of age, surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Dinwiddie of De Kalb ,
and was taken to New Boston for trial.
Thursday September 1, 1904 Unknown Body Found.
Houston: The dead body of a man was found at Greens Bayou switch, near the Southern
Pacific track. His skull had been crushed in the forehead and back head by a blow from a
heavy weapon of some kind. His pockets had been turned wrong side out, which made it clear
that robbery was the object in view. Papers showed that he had been to Sour Lake, but did not
give his name.
Thursday September 1, 1904 Four Children Drowned.
Cleburne: News has just reached here of the death by drowning of three children of
James Franklin and one child of Harry Goodloe. The two families were camping on the
Brazos in this county, and the children were out in the river in a boat, which capsized, and its
four occupants, being unable to swim, were drowned. The sad funeral of the little victims of
the tragedy took place at Joshua, north of this city Friday afternoon.
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Thursday September 1, 1904
Dr. S. Hopkins, 76 years of age and a resident and practicing physician of Leona, Freestone
County, since 1852, is dead. He was a Mexican War veteran. He leaves a wife and five sons
and one daughter.
Sunday evening Joe Weaver was shot and killed by another negro at a baseball game in
Nacogdoches County.
Thursday September 8, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
James Morris, living near Numa, in Kay County, Ok., was found dead on the highway, with
his team near by. No cause is assigned at this time for his death.
The Westinghouse Machine company has recently developed a new system of electric train
lighting, which consists of a steam engine, electric generator and a storage battery equipment.
At Yellow Creek, O., six persons lost their lives in an oil explosion. A house was fired by a
street lamp and the heat of the house fired a derrick and exploded an oil tank, resulting in the
disastrous loss of life.
The secretary of the interior has made advertisement for bids for the construction of court
houses, jails and school houses in the counties of Comanche, Caddo and Kiowa, formed from
the Kiowa Comanche country, opened to settlement on Aug. 6, 1901.
Charles Hoskins, an American and a man of temperate habits and mild disposition, has
been killed in a lumber camp near Tenoosique, in the State of Tabasco. The local authorities
are investigating the matter.
Philip Caldwell, an elevator conductor, was killed and eight persons were injured by the
falling of a passenger elevator in the store of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Friday. The car
fell from the fifth floor to the basement.
While Constable O. L. McDonald of the Tigertown Precinct was attempting to arrest a party
Friday on a charge of affray at a sawmill near Direct, he was struck three times with a
blacksmith‘s hammer and received injuries that may prove fatal.
Five people were killed on the westbound imperial limited at Sintaluta, Manitoba Thursday
night. The switch was left open by a train crew which had just left town and the Trans-
Continental express dashed in upon a freight train.
Thursday September 8, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
The first damage suit growing out of an automobile accident in San Antonio was filed
Friday morning in which W. L. Davidson sues Staake Bros. for $10,000 for personal injuries.
Minnie Dooley, a twelve-year old pupil at St. Patrick‘s academy, Paris, was burned to death,
Friday. Her clothing caught from a kitchen range and every vestage of wearing apparel was
burned. She lived only one hour.
The town of Leroy, on the International and Great Northern, in the northern edge of Ellis
county, is getting ready for a big ‗possum supper about October 15, and it is intended to have a
number of prominent men from outside points.
A white girl baby, reposing in a large basket, was discovered on the front porch of the
residence of A. H. Hall, of Dallas, early Friday morning. The basket contained a supply of
wearing apparel. Mr. and Mrs. Hall will adopt the baby.
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Albert Runge, a German farmer living near Redwood, was found dead in a cistern Wednesday
morning by his son, who had been to a dance, and upon returning home at 3 o‘clock found
that his father was nowhere to be found, and began a search.
Rev. J. B. Buchanan, while seated at the breakfast table of his son, about five miles east of
Sherman Tuesday morning, suddenly dropped dead. Deceased was 65 years old, and had
resided in Grayson County for the past forty years.
Fayette Holland of the Pottsboro neighborhood was found dead sitting in a chair in his
bedroom. He retired early, but when found was partially attired, which indicates that he had
some warning of the seriousness of his condition.
Albert Cheatham, residing near Day, Grayson County, felt a little ill from malaria, and took a
dose of quinine. In ten minutes he was seized with paroxysms and died in a very few minutes.
Thursday September 8, 1904 Schoolboy Fight That Was Fatal.
Fort Worth: Marshall Billington, the boy of Watauga, who is charged with causing the death
of another boy named Chester Hustead as the result of an encounter on the school grounds at
Watauga, had an examining trial before Justice Terrell. The bond of the defendant was fixed at
$750, which he readily gave and was released. There were many witnesses examined.
The age of the defendant, it was shown on the trial, is 14 years, while that of the deceased
was 10. The trouble between the two boys occurred on the 28
th
of January last. It is charged
by the State that injuries received in the side by the deceased inflicted by the defendant caused
death a few days ago. There is considerable feeling over the matter.
Thursday September 8, 1904
The little son of Rev. Upson Price (colored), pastor of the Mount Zion Church, Gonzales,
while riding on a loaded wagon fell off and the wheels passed over him, crushing his skull and
killing him.
Twelve hundred dozen Texas chickens passed through Denison en route to Chicago and New
York. The two cars were fitted up especially for the chickens, and a man is in charge of each.
Thursday September 8, 1904 Uncle and Nephew Fight a Duel.
Austin: Jesse and Jack Burdette engaged in a bloody duel with pistols Thursday morning
at their home place five miles north of Austin. Several shots were exchanged on both sides
with the result that Jesse struck Jack twice, one bullet taking effect in the groin and the other
in the leg. The shot in the groin may prove fatal. Jack Burdette is an uncle of Jesse Burdette.
Jesse Burdette is not injured. Family affairs caused the duel.
Thursday September 8, 1904 Dead Body Found in the Weeds.
Caldwell: While hunting cattle Jud Harris found the body of a dead man about a mile from
town among thick weeds, near the road. The body proved to be that of an aged negro man and
had been there for a month. All the flesh was off the bones. It is almost certain that it is the
body of Peter Gains, about 80 years old, who was nearly blind and had been missing for over a
month.
Thursday September 8, 1904 THE FARMER AND THE AUTOMOBILE.
FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN Forum conducted by M. J. Wragg.
August us a very good month to consider some of the problems which the farmer is facing,
and will have to settle, and we know of no question that is interesting them more at the present
than the automobile. We are having evidence, both ―ocular‖ and from letters received from
writers to this department, which leads us to believe that the automobile, as it is operated on
the highways at the present time, is a menace to ―life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.‖
One of our correspondents not long ago in writing says: ―The automobile is a nuisance on
the public roads. We are not building roads for machines of this kind, and we will never have
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roads here in northern Iowa if they continue to use our roads as they do at present. We have
had several runaways and severe accidents and I would sooner meet the ------ than an
automobilist. When the roads are muddy these machines cannot use the roads, which gives us
farmers an opportunity of doing a little hauling with a feeling of security.‖
We have lately had occasion to talk to a doctor, who said that the ―automobile was all right‖
and that in the use of one for over nine months he had not had an accident, nor had he caused
anyone any inconvenience. Our observation is that when automobiles are owned in our small
towns that they are dangerous to the public. No woman or child dare drive even the gentlest
horse, for fear of meeting the strange thing. Hence it makes a prisoner of every woman in the
neighborhood, and when a spirited horse is driven there is great risk of meeting one of these
machines on the road at any time, and the result, with few exceptions, is a runaway.
The whole fault lies with the operators of these autos. They do not consider that the farmer
or anyone else but the automobilist has any rights on the highway. We have seen them urging
their machines, and running their gasoline engines at a terrific rate over good roads, regardless
of the fact that the rural public is taxed to maintain them.
This is a question that every farmer wants to give more than passing thought, and should see
that there is proper legislation along these lines. See that the man asking your vote at the
coming election is in sympathy with the rural population, and is in favor of a law regulating the
speed and setting forth the rights of the automobile on the public highways.
Thursday September 8, 1904 Watson Community.
Irma, the infant of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Brewer was buried at the Ford cemetery Monday,
the funeral services were conducted by Rev. D. C. Sibley.
Thursday September 8, 1904
A small child of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Brewer died Sunday evening and was buried at Watson
Cemetery Tuesday morning. Services were conducted by Rev. D. C. Sibley. The bereaved
family has the sympathy of many friends in their great loss.
Thursday September 8, 1904 The Public School.
The corps of teachers employed to teach in the public school this year, opened school this
week. The school, however will run as a ―pay school‖ for the first two months, if there is not
sufficient funds to run it as a public school the full nine months, and it was thought that it
would suit better, especially the farming portion of the district, to have the free part later on.
The incessant rain of Monday interfered very materially with the opening but Tuesday it was
better and more than a hundred pupils enrolled. Taken altogether the opening is propitious
indeed.
The two new male assistants Profs. King and Chambers are both here and at work. Every
department is now open.
(December 25, 2005, The Star-Telegram reports: ―The Arlington school district has 63,179
hungry, growing students.‖)
Thursday September 15, 1904 Mrs. M. H. Cravens Death.
Mrs. M. H. Craven, wife of Dr. M. H. Craven of this city, died at Linton, Indiana last Monday
at one o‘clock, P. M., after a few days illness. The remains arrived here Tuesday at four o‘clock,
P. M. Funeral exercises were held at the family residence, conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. H.
Fitzhugh, after which interment took place in Arlington Cemetery. Most of the business houses
were closed during the funeral and burial services.
No death has ever occurred in this city that touched hearts more generally or deeply.
Deceased was a woman greatly loved by all who knew her, a fact attested by the long
procession that followed her to her last resting place, and heaped the new made grave with
their sweet southern flowers. In church and charitable work, in the home and social circles,
she hadn‘t a peer.
The sadness of death was rendered greater by her being away from home at the time.
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About three weeks ago she, her husband and two children, Miss Mary and Tom, both now
just about grown, left for St. Louis to attend the fair. After seeing the fair the children returned
home, while the Dr. and Mrs. Cravens went up into Indiana to visit the Doctors relatives. Here
she was taken sick and died.
Her mother Mrs. M. I. Burney and only brother, Joe Burney, left Friday night in response to a
telegram announcing her illness, arriving only a few hours before her death. Mrs. Cravens was
about thirtyfive years old. She leaves a mother, brother, husband, and two children. The
Journal joins in the general regret over the death of this excellent lady.
Thursday September 15, 1904
John Cravens of Linton, Indiana, a brother of Dr. M. H. Cravens, of this place, returned with
the funeral Cortege bearing the remains of Mrs. Cravens, and will remain several days. Rev.
Will Cravens, another brother, of Chandler, O. T., was also here for the funeral, and will remain
over some time, and will fill the pulpit at the C. P. Church next Sunday.
Thursday September 15, 1904 (editorial page)
Honey Grove needs a curfew law, or some other kind of law that will keep a number of strong
lunged, mischief-making kids off the streets. We have known what is styled the ―board law‖ to
give very satisfactory results in such cases. The plan is about like this: Tell the boy to stay home
at night and go to bed. If he complies with the request no further efforts are needed, as the boy
will come out all right. But if he declines, secure a good tough board, place the boy‘s head
between your knees with such incline of the back that his caboose end will point to the north
star. Apply the board with all your might for two minutes, then rest long enough to catch your
second wind and apply again with increased vehemence. Six applications are guaranteed to
cure the worst case of night loafing and the beauty of the treatment is that it doesn‘t cost a
cent. – Honey Grove Signal.
Thursday September 15, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
After fifty-six years‘ service as a locomotive engineer, John Christian of Temple has
relinquished his position and will retire to spend the balance of his days in peace and quietude.
Jack Fife, a negro, charged with beating his wife to death with a club at their home three
miles east of Jonesville, Monday night, was arrested on a warrant charging him with murder
and lodged in the county jail to await the action of the Grand Jury.
Rivers and Charles Lash, brothers, living six miles east of Hillsboro, are champion cotton
pickers. They averaged 500 pounds each every day for a week and carried the cotton to the
gin.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Japanese Baby Born in Dallas.
Dallas: Probably the first Japanese baby born in Dallas County and likely the first in this
part of the State was an infant girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Kinta Tsukahara, living on a farm
three miles southeast of Dallas, Friday evening. As a rule, not many babies of this nationality
get their first glimpse of the world under the Stars and Stripes, the unmarried Orientals
usually coming to this country.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Found With a Broken Neck.
Houston, Tex.: Late Sunday afternoon the dead body of Willie Fisher, a negro, was found in
the woods near Pin(e) Oak Grove. He left the home of his mother Friday to hunt persimmons
and was not seen afterward until the body was found today by a negro man, who promptly
reported it. The sheriff went out to ascertain the facts about his death. Undertaker Wright on
examination found that his neck was broken.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Killed By a Train.
Mount Pleasant: The Cotton Belt train which arrived here Friday morning from Fort Worth
killed a young man named Thornton at Winfield, eight miles west of here. The train passes
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Winfield at 4 o‘clock in the morning, but does not stop there. It is stated that Thornton and his
brother arrived here on the midnight train from Texarkana and started to walk to their home,
near Winfield, and must have sat down and gone to sleep on the ties.
Thursday September 15, 1904 A Horrible Confession.
Topeka, Kan.: B. F. Slagel, alias Robert Romaine, a deported Colorado miner under arrest
charged with burglary, has confessed to his complicity in the Independence depot and the
Vindicator mine explosions in the Cripple Creek district last June, by which fifteen non-union
miners were killed. Romaine says he helped to place dynamite and wire under the depot, in
his confession he implicated twelve other men.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Elder Jarrett Finney Dead.
Sherman: At his home near Luelia, Rev. Jarrett Finney, aged 75 years, died after an illness
of three days. The deceased was a native of Alabama; came to Lamar County, Texas, in 1850.
At the out break of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served until the
surrender. Shortly after the war he moved to Grayson County. He was a ―Hardshell‖ Baptist
minister, and had organized more churches of that faith than any man in Texas.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Two Negro Preachers Shot.
Marshall: Thursday night as Rev. R. Curry, of Sherman, and Rev. P. R. Washington,
pastor of Liberty Church, were riding along in a lane in a buggy near the church, twelve miles
south of this city, they were fired upon from ambush by unknown parties and both badly
wounded. The shooting occurred as they were on their way home. Rev. Curry had his lower
jaw shot off, Rev. Washington was wounded in the left side and face and both are in serious
condition.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Conductor Stricken With Paralysis.
Temple: While standing in Crawford‘s jewelry store Friday morning about 9 o‘clock John C.
Murphy was afflicted with a stroke of paralysis that rendered him incapable of movement or
feeling in any portion of the body. Mr. Murphy is perhaps one of the most widely known
railroad men in Texas, having run a passenger train for the Santa Fe between Temple and
Purcell for the past fifteen years.
Thursday September 15, 1904 Alleged Murderer Lynched.
Huntsville, Ala.: Setting fire to the jail and holding the fire department at bay with guns, a
mob smoked Horace Maple, a negro, from his cell and strung him up to a tree on the
courthouse lawn. Maple was accused of the murder of John W. Waldrop, a white man, and
he had confessed the crime and implicated others. The mob, which was composed of 2000
people, outwitted the militia and the sheriff.
Thursday September 15, 1904 WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
While making a parachute descent from a balloon ascension at Tuscola, Ill., Joseph Isle, an
aeronaut, whose home was Louisville, Ky., fell 100 feet and was instantly killed.
Two men were killed and another seriously injured in a freight wreck on the Southern
Railway between Dogwood and Wonton on the Birmingham and Selma division Friday
afternoon.
Wednesday night G. T. Sayers of Jacksonville, a brother of the Governor, fell from a window
of the second story of his house and sustained injuries that will likely prove fatal. Besides
being hurt internally, several ribs were broken.
Major Henry Seton of New York, a veteran of the United States army in the Civil and
Spanish-American wars, a noted Indian fighter with General Crook, a brother of Archbishop
Seton of Rome and a grandson of Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton, founder of Sisters Charity in the
United States, died at Baltimore, aged sixty-three.
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While kneeling beside a grave in Washington Cemetery at Gravesend, New York, Yetta
Beikowitz, 18 years of age, was crushed to death by the family monument, a heavy granite
shaft, which toppled over.
Four women passengers and three trainmen were killed and about thirty-five persons
injured in the Seaboard Air Line wreck at Catawba Junction, N. C. An engine following the
express plunged in on top of the shattered cars.
Thursday September 15, 1904
The following is a letter from a Fort Worth boy to his father who is in Colorado trying to forget
business:
―dere father: skule begins soon. i wisht i dident haf tu go. woodent it be mutch better for
me to go to wurk Willie White he isent going back this yere. he has a job and gits fore dollars
a weak, yu are gitting old, father, and sumday i wil haf to support the fambly besides i kno
enuf and dont need tu go tu skule eny more. Your obedunt sun, A R T H U R.
Fort Worth Telegram.
Thursday September 22, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Isaac Toliver, a negro man, reputed to be 105 years of age, died from senility at Galveston
Thursday.
Ed Carter, night operator at Langtry for the Southern Pacific, was drowned in the Rio Grande
while fishing.
(unreadable)...apparently 26 years old, has been taken from the lake near the Columbia Yacht
club house, Chicago. Her identity is a mystery.
Prince Herbert Bismarck‘s condition is most grave. His sister, the Countess Von Hamezau, has
been summoned to join the rest of the family, who are already at Friederichsruhe.
At Beaumont, after deliberating for half an hour the jury in the case of John Davis, charged
with the killing of Ed Gilder four years ago, returned a verdict of not guilty. This was the
third trial of the case.
Claude Sessions of Austin, a negro boy, 14 years old, while snapping a supposed empty gun at
his 8-year-old sister, accidentally shot her and she died in a few minutes. The ball struck her
in the forehead.
Rex McCleau, a boy of 13 years, was shot and instantly killed by accident on the farm of H. B.
Leonhard near San Antonio. With a young Mexican the boy was hunting when a shotgun in
the Mexican youth‘s hands was discharged, the load tearing through the child‘s head.
A British sailing vessel, supposed to be the British bark Lucia, struck a mine recently off Port
Arthur. One person of those aboard her was rescued. It is considered probable the vessel
was running the blockade.
Samuel Slack was killed at the Clear Fork rock quarry near Abilene last Monday afternoon.
The derrick fell and crushed the victim to death.
Artic Explorer R. E. Peary has signed a contract to start on another north pole expedition
next summer.
A steam pleasure launch containing twelve people was cut in two by the steamer Columbia,
about one hundred miles north of Philadelphia, and eight of the occupants of the launch
were drowned.
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E. J. Garver, who was accidentally shot with a revolver on W. A. Conifor‘s farm near English,
Red River County, a few days ago, died from the wound.
The grand jury has indicted Mayor T. W. Smith and Sheriff A. D. Rogers of Huntsville for
dereliction in duty in allowing a mob to lynch Horace Maples a few days since. Other
prominent citizens are also under indictment for participation in the act.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Lightning‘s Deadly Freak.
Marietta, I. T.: Sunday afternoon there was a terrific rainstorm, during which five boys and
two horses were struck by lightning. Tom Rose, aged 14; Ed Parker, aged 15, and Burrell
Howard, aged 15, were all on one horse, and Jeff Settle, aged 13, and Frank Kisselberg, aged
17, were on another horse in the order named. Both horses were killed instantly. Four of the
boys were picked up for dead and carried into the Baptist Church. The other boy was slightly
shocked. In a short time Ed Parker had regained consciousness. His right arm is badly
burned. At 9 p.m. Burrell Howard has sufficiently recovered so that he is believed to be out of
danger. Tom Rose died at 7 p.m., with no relatives but a sister at his side, his father and
mother having gone to the country on a visit and returned about one hour after his death.
Frank Kisselberg is still unconscious and his life is hanging by a thread.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Henry Swink Mortally Wounded.
Smithville: A shooting occurred about a mile across the river from here late Saturday
evening as a result of which Henry Nink (?) is dead, and a warrant has been sworn out against
Land Toxell, charged with murder. The two young men had a fight in town in the afternoon
and had both been arrested and fined. Nink (?) and some friends were on their way home.
Nink lived until 8 o‘clock Sunday morning.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Prince Herbert Bismarck Dies.
Friederichsruhe: Prince Herbert Bismarck, whose death has been expected several days,
died Sunday morning. Since he ceased to be Foreign Minister on the retirement of his father in
1890 Prince Herbert Bismarck has taken part in public affairs only as a member of the
Reichstag. His attitude has been that of a man not appreciated by his sovereign and who was
waiting in the background to resume his career.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Killed a Negro Cotton Thief.
Victoria: John Anderson, a negro, was killed at Tucker‘s gin, at Mission Valley, by Fred
Schlein and W. H. Gisler, while stealing a load of cotton from the gin. Schlein and Gisler at
once surrendered and were brought to town. Anderson was driving away from the gin with the
cotton when halted. He made a motion as if to reach for his gun, whereupon both Schlein and
Gisler fired, killing him instantly.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Mexican Veterans to Meet in Dallas.
St. Louis, Mo.: The national Association of Mexican War Veterans Saturday elected the
following officers; President, James C. Carlton, Bedford, Ind.; vice-president, Louis Beeler,
Baltimore; secretary, Mrs. Moore Murdock, Fort Worth, Tex.; assistant secretary, John A.
Hobson, Greensburg, Ky. The convention adjourned to meet in Dallas, Texas, May 23, next.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Death from Supposed Poison.
Marlin: J. W. Helms, a farmer who resided near Marlin, died Thursday from the effects of
poison, supposed to have been produced by eating preserved fruits. Soon after eating the fruit
he became violently ill, and grew worse until he died. Deceased was a native of Alabama, and
came here early in January, 1903. He was a Mason in good standing. The remains were
returned to his old home in Alabama for burial.
Thursday September 22, 1904 They Don‘t Pay Dog Tax.
Fort Worth: An ordinance was recently enacted by the City Council requiring the payment of
a tax on canines over three months old. It is officially given out that between $600 and $700
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has thus far been paid under this ordinance by those owning dogs, and it is estimated that
there are between 2,000 and 3,000 dogs in this city whose owners have not responded to the
demand for the official dog medal issued at $1 per dog.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Late Train Wrecked in Chicago.
A through passenger train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad from Toledo to
Chicago was wrecked Saturday afternoon at Root Street. Some of the railroad people claim the
train ran into an open switch, and others say the locomotive jumped the track because of a
broken flange. Twelve persons were injured, several of whom may die.
Thursday September 22, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Judge T. W. Morris of Brenham, a leading lawyer of that section of the State died Thursday.
L. V. Wharton, a cattleman of Motley County, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday night on
a train en route to St. Louis.
A nude man was arrested walking the streets of Oak Cliff Sunday night. He was a stranger
and offered no resistance to arrest.
W. F. Mallory, who was injured in a runaway accident just outside the city limits of Denison
Thursday morning, died Friday morning of internal injuries.
John C. Murphy, the railway conductor who was stricken with paralysis at Temple on the
10
th
, died Friday without ever having regained consciousness.
J. S. Lawrence fell from his horse at Van Alstyne Tuesday morning and sustained injuries
which may prove fatal. Wednesday he was at his home in an unconscious condition.
Uncle ―Dad‖ Jordan, a negro, said to be 100 years of age, died southeast of Denison
Sunday. He was a former slave of Unites States Senator Rhett of South Carolina, before
the war.
Howard, 13-year-old son of J. P. Brown, a prominent merchant of Gainesville, was
accidentally shot by the discharge of a double-barrel shot gun while returning home from duck
hunting. Both barrels of the gun being discharged in the abdomen.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Russian Losses Around Liao Yang.
Paris: Exact figures of the Russian losses in killed, wounded and missing in the operations
before Liao Yang from Aug. 13 to Aug. 26 have been received by the general staff, according to
the Journal‘s St. Petersburg correspondent. These amount to two Generals, 256 officers
and 21,800 soldiers. In addition 133 guns were lost. The material loss include fortifications
costing $30,000,000.
Thursday September 22, 1904
Galveston: Charles Vidor, one of Galveston‘s oldest business men, was found dead in bed
Wednesday at the home of his son, where he had gone to spend the night. The inquest was
held over the remains by Coroner S. T. Fontaine and his verdict was that death resulted from
natural causes. Mr. Vidor was a man seventy years of age, and for the past forty years had
been a resident of Galveston. He was originally from Hungary.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Statue to Gen. Forrest.
Memphis, Tenn.: A permit has been issued authorizing the removal of the remains of Gen.
Bedford Forrest, the noted Confederate cavalryman, from Elmwood Cemetery to a plot in Forest
Park set aside for a heroic equestrian statue of the dead leader. The statue, which has arrived
in New York from Paris, will be put in place in October and the remains of Gen. Forrest and his
wife will rest directly underneath the bronze figure.
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Thursday September 22, 1904 Killed by a Street Car.
Dallas: Abram Ruckasin, the little two-and-a-half-year-old son of H. R. Ruckasin who
resides at 215 Caroline street, and who was mangled by a street car Wednesday afternoon, died
that night at 11 o‘clock as a result of the accident and of the amputation of the left leg which
followed. It was thought that the operation would save the little one‘s life, but he gradually
grew worse with the result stated.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Resolutions of Respect.
At a regular meeting Camp 407 Woodman of the World, held in their Forest on September 15,
1904, the following resolutions were drafted by the committee and approved by the Camp.
Whereas, the sad news has reached the confines of our Forest, that our esteemed Sovereign
W. J. Bell has been taken from us by the Angels of God and borne by them to his home in
Heaven, therefore be it Resolved, that we as Sovereigns tender our sincere sympathy to the
bereaved wife and family of Sovereign Bell.
It was Gods will to call him up higher. Sovereign Bell was a true Woodman, and did all he
could for the advancement of the order. He was prompt to attend the meetings and always had
a kind word for the Sovereigns.
We as Sovereigns submit to the will of God and our loss is his gain. We all hope bye and bye
to meet Sovereign Bell, where partings never come and Sabaths have no end. We would say:
―Weep not for he has gone to be with the Angels, where all is peace and happiness.
J. W. Rider, J. B. Hatch, C. B. Berry, Com.
Thursday September 22, 1904 Resolutions of Respect.
At a regular meeting of Arlington Camp No. 407 Woodmen of the World, held in their Forest,
on September 15, 1904, the following resolutions were drafted by the committee and approved
by the Camp.
Whereas, the sad news has reached the confines of our Forest, that our esteemed Sovereign
B. S. Harkreader has been taken from us by death, therefore be it,
Resolved, that we as sovereigns tender our sincere sympathy to the wife and child of
Sovereign Harkreader. It was Gods will to call him away from our midst.
Sovereign Harkreader was a true Woodman and was loved by all who knew him. We regret
very much to lose him but we submit to the will of God.
Rest on, rest on, in peaceful rest
Eternal life God gave
Here Mortals yet unborn will stand
Beside his lonely grave.
Nor shall his goodness be forgot
While time its record keeps
But Sovereigns mark the sacred spot
Where the faithful Woodman sleeps.
Com.: J. W. Rider, J. B. Hatch, C. B. Berry.
Thursday September 22, 1904 To Extend Wireless System.
Fort Worth, Sept. 14. – Fort Worth is to be headquarters for a vast western territory for the
De Forest wireless telegraph. F. G. McPeak is in receipt of instructions from St. Louis to
secure a site for a monster tower to be erected, which will be tall enough and sufficiently
isolated to prevent possible interference with other electrical appliances. Mr. McPeak thinks he
will locate it on the north side. Operations at Fort Worth are suspended for the time being.
Thursday September 22, 1904
Mrs. Susan Hook an old and highly respected citizen died very suddenly at her home six
miles south west of town Friday evening. She was related to the Subletts and other old settlers
in this part of the state.
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Thursday September 29, 1904 Johnson Station.
Mr. and Mrs. Meek and Mr. Drury Smith, were attendants at the bedside of their kinsman
Mr. Wiley Smith, who died at Arlington Monday night.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Foot Ball.
It is more evidence were needed to establish the fact that Arlington is rapidly appropriating to
herself all the airs and customs of the larger cities, it could be furnished by the fact that we
now have a foot ball team. This team is of course among the Carlisle boys; and if they are as
invincible at foot ball as they were at base ball last year the public may expect something extra
in the way of broken limbs, cracked skulls, and bruised and battered faces.
The first game of the season, and the first in the history of Arlington comes off between the
home team and Oak Cliff next Saturday evening at 4 o‘clock on the Carlisle athletic fields. The
admission will be 25 cents. The line up is as follows:
CARLISLE OAK CLIFF
Childress, Clyde Center Brown
Morley R. Guard Bartlett
Kerr L. Guard Freasaar
Daffin R. Tackle Roach
Graves, Paul L. Tackle Duncan
Graves, Rufus R. End Guy Lewis
Lewis L. End McCabe
Childress, C. R. Half Back Letchworth
Delaney L. Half Back K. Lewis
Carlisle Quarter Back Penn
Looney Full Back Smith
Thursday September 29, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
At Pleasant Mound, I. T., Luther Ray, aged 5 years, was smothered while playing in a wagon
full of seed cotton.
The Russians are using war balloons southeast of Mukden for the purpose of observing the
movements of the Japanese in that direction.
Felipe Meringo and another Mexican engaged in a quarrel with Atilano Remeres on a farm in
Travis County, and Meringo was struck by Rameres (sic) and instantly killed.
While gazing at the dead face of a life long woman friend, the coffin lid having been re-
opened at her request, Mrs. Mary Reeves of Brooklyn, fell dead across the casket.
During a very heavy electric storm and rain Thursday evening two children of Mat Edwards,
living seven miles north of Athens, a boy and a girl, six and eight years old, were killed by
lightning.
The mangled body of J. R. Anderson, aged twenty-eight years, was found lying besides the
track of the Texas and Pacific railroad at Dallas early Friday morning with the greater part of
his head mashed off.
Rev. C. Laxon, who was an honored local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
in Tennessee for half a century, died in McKinney Thursday night. He was 87 years of age.
Two men were instantly killed by an engine in the freight yards at St. George, Staten Island.
The dead men were workmen engaged in carrying steel rails across the track, four others
narrowly escaped.
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George Davis, said to be a wealthy ranch owner of Kansas City, was found dead in bed at a
London, England, hotel Friday. An artery of his arm had been cut with a razor. It is supposed
that Davis committed suicide.
A special from Grove, I. T., says that through the falling of a scaffold on a bridge three miles
west of there three men were killed outright and three fatally and four seriously injured.
H. M. Magill of Cincinnati, while responding to a toast celebrating the 25
th
anniversary of the
Western Union of Underwriters, at Frontenac, N. Y., fell forward and died soon afterwards.
Commissioner of Immigration Frank P. Sargent of the Department of Commerce and Labor has
gone to San Antonio for the purpose of beginning an active warfare upon the smuggling of
undesirable immigrants across the border.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Rare Cause of Death.
Paris: A singular death is reported from Union Grove, Delta County, the victim being a 3-
year-old boy, Ira Ellis Thrift. Whenever he received a wound that caused the blood to flow it
was difficult to stop it. He fell against the corner of the dining table, knocking two or three of
his teeth loose and causing the gums to bleed. A physician was sent for, but failed to staunch
the flow of blood, and the child bled to death.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Resolutions of Respect.
Whereas, in the sad bereavement of Bro. Dr. M. H. Cravens, in the death of Mrs. Cravens,
his wife and companion, a kind, Christian and charitable woman, we offer our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy.
To loving, human hearts, this bereavement is strange to understand, and hard to bear. Yet
God knows best. His will not ours, be done. May we all live, so that when we come to cross
the river to the unknown shore, may our hands like the one departed be filled with deeds of
charity, the golden key that opens the Palace of eternity.
Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be given our bereaved brother, a copy spread on the
minutes of the Lodge, and a copy published in the Arlington Journal.
C. A. Hargett, J. P. Jones, Jho. W. Fitzhugh, Com.
Unanimously adopted by Lodge No. 217 Knights of Pythias.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Seventy Person Killed
Through Fatal Mistake
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26. – Fifty passengers were killed and 150 more or less seriously injured
in a frightful wreck on the Southern railroad at Newmarket, Tenn., Saturday morning, when a
passenger train en route from Knoxville to Bristol collided head-on with a passenger train
running in the opposite direction. The accident was caused by the misreading of a train order
by Conductor W. B. Caldwell of the Bristol train. Hospital and wrecking trains rushed to the
scene of the disaster. It will be hours before the wreckage is cleared away.
Train orders were given to Conductor Caldwell of train No. 15, bound from Knoxville to
Bristol, to meet a local passenger train, No. 12, at Hodges station.
Conductor Caldwell misread the order and his train ran past the meeting place. One mile
and a half (unreadable) of Hodges station the two trains met head-on while running
(unreadable) at a high rate of speed. The impact was terrific and (unreadable) coaches and a
baggage car on the eastbound train were totally wrecked and the passengers either killed or
injured. The four Pullmans on the eastbound train remained on the rails and their occupants
were unhurt. Both engines were overturned and demolished. Oddly enough, none of the
passengers on the westbound train were killed. The engineers were pinned under their
engines. The dead and injured were piled in heaps in the wrecked eastbound train.
Passengers on the Pullmans alighted and assisted the train crews in rescuing and aiding the
injured. Word of the disaster was sent to Knoxville and a wrecking and a hospital train were
soon on the spot.
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Superintendent Loyall, who was in Chattanooga, arrived on a special train and at once took
charge of the work of clearing the wreck, which will take eight or ten hours. Passengers on
train No. 12 were sent to Knoxville and forwarded to their destinations from there.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 26. – The death list as a result of the fearful wreck on the Southern
Road near Newmarket Saturday had grown Sunday night to sixty-two, and it will probably
exceed seventy before Tuesday, as many of the injured are in a serious condition and more
deaths will occur at the hospital. Sunday there were six deaths at that institution, the last one
at 8 o‘clock, when M. T. Gant, a prominent North Carolinian, who resided at Shelby, passed
away. Others who died Sunday at the hospital were the two firemen, two little girls and Nep
Miller. To the list of dead there must be added an unknown infant found at the scene of the
wreck and two other unidentified bodies.
A force of 150 men toiled all day long at the scene of the wreck. Before 2 o‘clock Sunday
morning the track was cleared for through trains, but it required many hours to clear the
debris.
Engineers Parrott and Kane were found beneath their engines, but their bodies were not
crushed badly. Small fragments of bodies were found in many instances today, but it is
thought they belong to the bodies already found and brought to this city. One little baby was
found by the wreckers, but that was all.
The cause of the terrible loss of life in the heavy eastbound train was explained today. It
seems that the second coach plowed its way into a bank in such a manner that the other cars
were jammed into it and, pushed on by the weight of the heavy Pullman‘s, were crushed like
eggshells.
Physicians at the hospital state that of the long list of injured, which they have in their care,
it is probable that not more than four will die. The complete list of injured as given out by the
railroad officials shows a total of 163, but this includes all persons who were only slightly hurt
or scratched.
Thursday September 29, 1904 NINE DIE HORRIFYING DEATHS.
Innocent Little School Girls Precipitated Into Privy Vault.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 24. – School closed yesterday at Pleasant Ridge, seven miles north of
Cincinnati, with the first quarter of the session, when nine, possibly ten, school girls were
suffocated in a vault during the forenoon recess and over a score of others narrowly escaped
the same horrible death.
The large building is used for a high school as well as for all lower departments. All the
victims were from primary grades.
On opposite sides of the spacious ground in the rear of the school are outhouses. When
recess was given about thirty of the smaller girls were on the side assigned to them, when
suddenly the floor gave way, precipitating them into a vault of filth. This vault is twelve feet
deep and walled up with stone like a well. There are four feet of water or filth that would have
been over the heads of the girls falling in it, but since falling foremost filled up the vault
partially (unreadable)... were not entirely submerged. The girls fell, eight feet from the flooring
before hitting the filth, and the struggles of those who were on top kept at least nine
underneath until they were dead.
Those able to climb out on the ladders themselves were rescued by Principal Zimmerman,
who finally fainted. Then others went into the vault and kept bringing dead bodies from the
filth until the vault was cleared. The firemen drained the vault so as to be sure the rescue was
complete.
Those engaged in the rescue work recite the most ghastly experiences.
Even those rescued alive presented such an appearance as to make many in the crowd of
spectators faint, but the sight within the vault beggared all description.
Thursday September 29, 1904 A Wagon Load of Dynamite.
Cumberland, Md.: Fast freight No. 94 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck a wagon
loaded with 750 pounds of dynamite four miles east of here Friday afternoon. Two persons
killed and nine were injured, three of them seriously. The Baltimore and Ohio tower was
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wrecked, as were several residences near by. James Laing, who drove the wagon, escaped with
only trivial injury, as did the two horses, although the latter were blown fifty yards into a field.
According to witnesses, Laing, hearing the train, became terrified and stopped on the track.
The engine was overturned and stripped and seven cars following, loaded with high grade
merchandise, were broken, several being demolished. The tracks were thrown out of bed, while
rails were snapped like pipestems. The wires were torn down and relief was telegraphed for
after going to Patterson Creek on a hand car.
Engineer Pike was held under scraps on top of the boiler while being slowly cooked to death.
It required four men to extricate him. The explosion knocked every person in the neighborhood
down, hurled Hunter Bowen through a roof but did not hurt him, and threw parts of the engine
200 yards.
Thursday September 29, 1904
A new ordinance recently passed by the Waco city council has cleared the streets of popcorn
and peanut stands.
F. L. Thomas, aged 70 years, died at his home about fifteen miles west of Crowell. About six
weeks ago he was thrown from a wagon by a runaway team, but was not thought to have been
seriously hurt. Two days before his death it was found that the fall had caused concussion of
the brain.
Pearl Freeman, a little girl at Waxahachie, was so horribly burned Saturday morning while
kindling a fire with coal oil, that she died Saturday afternoon.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Four Men Killed by Boiler Explosion.
Raleigh, N. C.: -- The boiler in the engine department of the mammoth cotton mill, Erwin No.
2, at Dukes on the Cape Fear and Northern Railroad, about twenty-five miles from Raleigh,
exploded with terrific violence early Friday, partially wrecking the engine room, instantly killing
three white men, one of whom was the superintendent of the mill, and one negro. Another
negro was scalded so badly that he will die.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Engineer Killed and Three Hurt.
Clinton, Mo.: A passenger train northbound on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, known
as the ―Flyer,‖ was wrecked yesterday at Lewis station by a misplaced switch. The engineer
was killed after having reversed his engine, and three others injured. Among them is T. L.
Jonnson of Seguin, Texas, whose shoulder and arm were hurt. The switch light had been
removed.
Delmar, Del.: A northbound passenger train on the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
railway ran into freight at Bloxom, Va., demolishing both engines, killing Engineer Brown and
Fireman Donoway of the passenger train, and severely injuring Engineer Clark of the freight
train. The fireman of the freight escaped by jumping. The accident is said to be due to the
carelessness of an inexperienced brakeman who threw the wrong switch.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Practical Joker Will Die.
Estacado: Dr. J. W. Carter of Emma, Texas, was shot by C. L. Lockwood, a druggist, at
Estacado. Mr. Lockwood sleeps in his drug store, and at 1 a.m. Dr. Carter went to the window
of Lockwood‘s drug store, with the shell of a watermelon on his head, with a lamp inside, and
on Lockwood awakening and seeing the apparition at the window he immediately shot with a
45-caliber pistol. The doctors in attendance hold out no hope for his recovery.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Charles F. Martin Dead.
Fort Worth: The announcement was received here Thursday of the death near Greeley, Colo.,
of Charles F. Martin of Denver, secretary of the National Live Stock Association. The news
was received with sincere regret by a host of friends of deceased in this city, where Mr. Martin
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and his wife visited many times. The death of Mr. Martin is looked upon by cattlemen as a
great loss to the National Association.
Thursday September 29, 1904
Miss Ola Licett was killed by lightning near Meridian Wednesday. She formerly lived in Hill
County. She was 16 years old.
A two-year-old son of R. O. Nobles, at Deport, was run over by a heavily loaded wagon and
received injuries that are believed to be fatal.
S. S. Clark, a prominent pioneer of Denison, died Monday night at the age of seventy-seven.
He was one of the first business men to locate there when the town was incorporated.
Bob Credille, a negro preacher, fell dead in a pulpit near Leesburg, Cass County, a few days
ago while delivering a sermon. Heart trouble is assigned as the cause of his death.
A gang of white men and negroes engaged in a crap game below Cairo, Ill., and a white man
lost at the game. Summoning his friends, they attempted to overpower the negroes and take
the money away from them. Before the melee ended three whites and three negroes were
killed.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Boy Fatally Shoots Himself.
Texarkana: While out hunting squirrels five miles north of town Thursday afternoon,
Herman, the 13-year-old son of R. L. Griffin, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen with
a 20-caliber rifle. He rode home not thinking he was much hurt, but after the wound was
dressed by a physician he suddenly grew worse, and died at midnight. The boy was a leader of
a local juvenile military company, known as the Woodmen Guards.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Samples of Our Importations.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: In the Justice Court John Tisor and Peter Smirlies admitted being
parties to the virtual sale of Tisor‘s two stepsons to Smirlies, proprietor of several shoe-shining
parlors. All the parties are Greeks. Smirlies testified that he paid $380 for the two lads, who
are still in his custody. Smirlies is suing Tisor for $40 which he claims he loaned him at the
same time he paid the $380 for the boys.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Negroes Fight to the Death.
Waco, Texas: Tom Lee, yardman, and John Moten, second cook at a hotel, fought Tuesday
on a trivial quarrel, the former using a carving knife and the latter a metal egg beater. Lee was
severely bruised on the head and Moten was stabbed in several parts of his body, dying in a
few minutes. Both are negroes. Tom Lee is the champion chicken picker in Texas, having won
first prize in a noted contest.
Thursday September 29, 1904 CAR STRUCK DYNAMITE.
Six Blown Into Eternity and Many Hurt.
Melrose, Mass., Sept. 22. – An outwardbound Boston electric car was blown to pieces last
night in this town. Nine persons were killed outright, several were fatally injured and at
least fifteen severely hurt.
It is thought that the car struck a charge of dynamite left on the track. The front dashboard
of the car was hurled more than fifty feet. The immediate vicinity presented a terrible scene.
The ground was strewn with legs, arms and other portions of human bodies.
Such was the force of the explosion that two men went through a door fifty feet away, while
every window within a range of a quarter mile was broken.
The car contained mostly working (unreadable) ... way to their homes (unreadable).
At 9 o‘clock last night five of the dead had been identified, while in the confusion it was
impossible at the time to get a list of the injured. At the scene of the accident the sight was
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appalling. The ground was covered with torn and mangled bodies of the dead and writhing
forms of the injured.
The police announced that the cause of the wreck was the striking of a fifty-pound box of
dynamite, which had fallen from an express wagon just ahead of the car. The express wagon
was driven by Roy Fenton, who discovered that the box had dropped off, and rushed back to
take it off the track, but before he got within a hundred yards of the box the car came along
and was blown up.
Thursday September 29, 1904 FIVE ARE KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
An Oil Tank at Port Arthur, Texas, Struck by Lightning.
Port Arthur, Tex., Sept. 22. – Between 7 and 8 o‘clock yesterday morning during a severe
electrical storm one of the big 50,000-barrel steel storage tanks at the Texas Company‘s
refinery, just outside the city limits to the West, was struck by lightning and exploded, almost
instantly killing five men, seriously, perhaps fatally, injuring another.
The shock from the bolt was felt all over the city, and a moment later smoke was seen arising
from the nearby refinery. Those who happened to be looking in that direction say the top of the
tank was thrown high in the air.
At the time the lightning struck six (unreadable)... on a roof of tar paper and shells. Four of
the men came down with the roof, falling inside the burning tank. (Unreadable)...fell outside
the tank to the ground. One of the latter has since died. It is scarcely to be hoped the bodies
of the men who fell into the tank can be recovered, although every effort is being made to do so
by the management of the refinery.
The tank contained about eleven feet of oil when it was struck, which immediately ignited.
Water was pumped into the tank as soon as possible, with the hope of saving the bodies from
consumption by fire.
The ill-fated men are: F. N. Lawrence, Willia Gloff, R. Cooper, Port Arthur: J. F.
McDonald, Beaumont; G. W. Sailes, Dubuque, Iowa. All married except Sailes.
Lawrence is survived by a wife and two sons and one daughter. He was 40 years old; Gloff by
two daughters and one son, originally lived at Clifton, Texas; McDonald by a wife and two
children, aged 32; Sailed aged 42, single; Cooper, aged 50, a wife and three children; Wukasch,
married about a year and a half aged 25, right hip broken, both hands burned, head bruised
and cut.
The body of Cooper when taken from under the roof and examined it found that nearly every
bone of any size in the body was broken. The bodies in the tank are not yet recovered.
The estimated damage is about $25,000.
Inquiry at the office of the Texas Company last night brought out the information that the fire
in the oil tank was out at 4 o‘clock, and that the work of cooling it had begun so that the
bodies, if there were any, could be taken out today.
It is thought that Wukasch, who was only injured may recover.
Thursday September 29, 1904
Mrs. B. F. Harkreader and daughter were awarded a judgment for $2,500 by the Fourteenth
District Court at Dallas against the Texas and Pacific Railway Company for the death of Mr.
Harkreader who was fatally injured while in the employe of the company.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Buried Alive Under Sand.
Belton: Tuesday, on the Wedemeyer farm, south of Belton, Henry Merritt was killed by being
caught by the caving in of a sand bank and his brother, Dr. John Merritt, made a narrow
escape. The men were loading a wagon with sand from the pit when, without any warning
whatever, the sand caved in, completely burying Henry Merritt, who was in a stooping posture.
Thursday September 29, 1904
W. W. Smith who has been running a delivery wagon here for some time died Monday night
after a short illness from Meningitis. Mr. Smith was highly respected by all who knew him, and
his death was much deplored. The body was embalmed and prepared for shipment by
undertaker, J. P. Jones, and accompanied by the bereaved and little children, and a brother,
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left Tuesday evening for Tennessee, his old home, where the body will be laid to rest. The
brother arrived from East Texas Monday night just after he died.
Thursday September 29, 1904 Negro Equality. (editorial)
Northern people and republicans are always taunting us with being (unreadable)...that we are
needlessly alarmed about the matter. This is a misinterpretation of facts. No one in the South is
afraid of negro equality. No one anticipates the possibility of such a condition. Every respectable
southern in satisfied that negro equality will never be. This is not why we object to eating with
them, riding in crowded cars with them, or associating intimately with them in any way.
Such practices are in and of themselves nauseating and repulsive. Respectable caucasians do
not associate intimately with Indians, Mexicans, Chinese or any of the lower races. They do not
do it with the lower classes of their own race, much less would they with the negro race. They
hold that it is better and more respectable in every way to keep these races, sporadically
different, separated where it is possible, not because they are afraid of any of these inferior races
becoming equal or superior to them, but because it is more congenial and agreeable to each class.
Really, every right thinking person would be glad to see any of these lower races becoming our
equals or even superiors if they could do so by legitimate effort, but we don‘t want it done by the
ipse dixit of a republican congress or a lawless president. If the negro or any other class can
outstrip the caucasian race in the great march of progress, the Journal bids him god speed and is
ready to take a back seat with the white brethren. But until he does this or approximates to the
position we shall still refuse to occupy a seat on the electric cars with one of these perspiring and
loudly scented blacks, or let our daughter go to school and sit at the same desk and recite in the
same classes with their ragged pickaninnies. Don‘t let‘s elevate the negro above his deserving,
or object, per se, to his becoming our equal—if he can.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Change Contemplated.
The Journal contemplates putting in a big four page cylinder press in the near future. In fact
the deal has already been closed, and the press will be installed as soon as it can be got here
from the factory, which however will be some ten days yet. The machine with all
appurtenances will cost us considerable money; but once installed, it settles the problem of a
first class newspaper plant for all time to come.
This course has been forced upon us. Last week we printed six pages, and left out enough
matter standing in the galleys to fill another page, and till we get our new press we shall have
to actually refuse good paying matter, and neglect local news. This we regret but can‘t help it.
With the new press and other new machinery and new material the Journal will be in shape to
accommodate all and do vastly more for itself and friends than ever before.
This outlay has involved us considerably but our faith in the future of Arlington and
surrounding country is strong. Our agreeable relations with our subscribers is another point
on which our faith is strong. If we can give them a better paper we believe they will give us
correspondingly a better patronage. We want to whisper to you and tell you that when we get
this new press in and get everything hooked up to the engine, and get into the new addition,
and get the devil another ―gallus‖ we are going to have an opening at night and want you all to
come out and see us do business. Pi(e) will be served.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Arlington‘s Wonderful Growth. (editorial)
The Journal is becoming actually excited over the prospects and possibilities of Arlington.
The Journal has always had faith in the town and has always advocated liberal action, and
endeavored to help build up the town, but our most sanguine hopes and most extravagant
dreams, are being so far surpassed that we are, as we said in the beginning, actually becoming
excited.
We have been here only twenty-five short months. The year we came here the wheat and
corn crop had both failed and cotton was short, and, naturally everything was on a standstill.
More money is paid out for building every week these times than was paid out in twelve
months just before and after we came here.
Two years ago little did we dream of two new, up-to-date depots, a $15,000 school building, a
$8,000.00 electric light and power plant, a $10,000.00 brick where the Citizens National Bank
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stands, two new bricks near the Interurban depot, and three over next to Coulters. Little did
we dream of three lumber yards instead of one and each one doing double the business the old
one was doing, of two banks instead of one and last of all did we dream of a $3000 newspaper
office in the place of a two bit one, and yet even this is to be a fact inside of the next two weeks.
It is safe to say that no one anticipated improvements of such gigantic proportions, and yet we
have them in all reality. And this growth is legitimate. It is no fake, fungus, or skin game
growth. It is merely a meeting of the demands of the times.
Sometimes a newspaper arrogates to itself much credit for such a growth of its town. Not so
with the Journal. True we came here two years ago when the town was dead, and have seen
the resurection of the dead and all this wonderful improvement, and really have done what we
could to help the procession along, but to be honest about it we have been kept pretty busy
trying to keep up with the procession.
Prohibitionists point with pride to the fact that prosperity came in right on the heels of the
departing saloons, but the Journal is not ready to conceed the prosperity all to the voting
saloons out of our town. The prosperity would have come any way; it was inevitable.
Just what a few more years may bring, we confess our inability to imagine.
Thursday October 6, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Near McCravens, in the northeastern part of Washington County, Si Potter was shot and killed
Wednesday night.
Aunt Rosa McClellan, a negress aged 104 years, is dead at her home near Terrell. Her
youngest son is seventy-four.
Hon. W. R. Hearst will be renominated to succeed himself in Congress, Judge Parker having
suppressed Tammanys‘ opposition to him.
Capt. George W. Eddy of the Weather Bureau at Abilene has been transferred to the New York
weather bureau, and will leave for his new post in the next few days.
C. L. Terrell, living twenty miles south of Victoria, reported that lightning struck a pecan tree
on his ranch and killed two Mexicans who were camped beneath it and paralyzed two others.
In the recent attack by Indians on the camps of chewing gum gatherers in Sopuithern Mexico,
seventeen persons were killed, eighteen wounded and fifty-seven more either murdered or
carried into captivity.
The apportionment of Confederate pensions made by the Controller for the quarters beginning
Oct. 1, 1904, and Jan. 1, 1905, has been fixed at $9 for each quarter. There are now 7,385
pensioners on the rolls.
C. W. Davies, one of Brownwood‘s oldest citizens, died suddenly Wednesday morning while
dressing. Mr. Davies had been in feeble health for two weeks or more and is supposed to have
died from heart failure.
Married to the secretary of the first vice president of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
three weeks ago, with their honeymoon trip just ended, Mrs. Mary Landis has met death by
falling from the third story of her home in Philadelphia.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Was He Drowned?
Corpus Christi: A little before dark Saturday Mifflin Hawley found a man‘s suit of clothes
lying on the beach in the northern part of the city. They have been identified as belonging to G.
E. Francis, a prominent farmer of this County. Friday, Mr. Francis informed a friend that he
intended going to the northern part of the city to take a bath and that was the last seen of him.
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Thursday October 6, 1904 Illinoisians Looking Over Texas.
Fort Worth: Homeseekers from Northern Illinois, a substantial looking body of men, came in
Sunday. They spent Monday in the city and then went to Clay County to look at lands. Among
the number are the following: George Staff, Philip Atwood, R. D. Liddle and Joseph Atwood of
Roscoe, Ill.; Joseph Buchanan and Andrew McGregory of Rockford, G. H. Halford of Bingham
and R. F. Rex of Bloomington.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Madman Kills Five People.
Memphis, Tenn.: A special to the Commercial Appeal from O‘Brien‘s Landing, Mo., says that
four men and a negro woman were killed Saturday night by Charles Geterell, a Memphian
employed as a clerk in a commissary store at that place. Geterell, it is said, was mad from
fever and rushed from his bed to the street in his night robe. Having obtained possession of a
gun, he later escaped into the woods. A sheriff and posse are in pursuit.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Prominent Business Man Missing.
Waco: Max Lebrecht is looking for his brother, F. C. J. Lebrecht, a prominent German
merchant and business man of Dot, Falls County, who disappeared last Tuesday. The missing
man was seen in Waco Tuesday night and was complaining of feeling bad. He had
approximately $4,000 on his person when he left Marlin Tuesday morning. All his affairs are
in good shape and his relations all are harmonious. His disappearance is a mystery.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Died of His Wounds.
Glen Rose: S. W. Stewart, who was shot at Rainbow Sept. 27, has died and was buried by
the Odd Fellows, F. U. A. and Woodmen, of which orders he was a member. Mose Arnold, who
is charged with the shooting, was captured in a cotton field near Brazos Point on the Brazos
River by Somervell County officers. Arnold made no resistance and was placed in jail here
Saturday night.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Arm Torn Off.
Belton: Saturday morning at 7 o‘clock, while working in the oil mill, Henry Pinkston, a
young man twenty-five years old was caught in a cog wheel and before he could extricate
himself his right arm was torn from his body at the shoulder and his scalp severely lacerated,
causing injury which will likely prove fatal.
Thursday October 6, 1904
Montevideo reports received from Brazilian frontier say it is rumored there revolutionists shot
their former Chief, Basilio Munoz, accusing him of treason, because he signed peace.
Tom Nelson, a negro, who carried the mail from Bryarly to Harris across the river from
Clarksville, while attempting to cross the river fell from his boat and is supposed to have been
drowned.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Believed to Have Been a Texan.
St. Louis: The dead body of a well-dressed man supposed from a laundry mark on the collar
to have been from Austin, Texas, has been found near the shore of Creve Coeur Lake twelve
miles west of here, with the skull crushed in. Physicians state that the body must have been
there for more than a week. The police believe that the motive of the killing was robbery, as no
pocketbook or papers of any kind were found.
Thursday October 6, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
John Ficke, aged 14, was instantly killed at Chandler, Ok., while riding, being crushed
under his falling horse.
John Taylor and James Wilson of Taylor are in jail at Georgetown charged with killing James
Perez, a Mexican of San Antonio.
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Two freight trains crashed into each other near Eastwood, Ont., Wednesday, killing both
engineers and mortally wounding a brakeman, a conductor, and one fireman.
William Ross, a young man of Roland, was found dead on his father‘s front porch Thursday
evening when the family returned from the field, where they had been picking cotton. He died
from dropsy.
Justice Charles E. Hendrickson of the supreme court of New Jersey has been stricken by
paralysis at Ocean Grove, N. J. His entire left side was affected and recovery is doubtful. The
justice is sixty-five years old.
Black jaundice has caused the death of three members of a single family at Tool within the
last year. The victims were Miss Annie Flatt, Oct. 16, 1903; Miss Zona Flatt, Aug. 30; W.
M. Flatt, Sept. 15.
Glover Weiser at Trinity, colored, in the employ of Dr. F. T. Walker, while gathering flowers
in Walkers fish pond fell out of the boat and was drowned.
Nelson Faught, a veteran of the Mexican War, 84 years old, killed himself at Pittsboro,
Ind., Wednesday.
Jack Madden of Chicago, knocked out Jack Dempsey of Pueblo, in the second round of what
was to have been a twenty-round go at Denver.
At Middlesboro, Ky., Jefferson Etter killed Max Wolff in a fit of jealous rage and also shot
and slightly wounded his own wife. In his dying agony Wolff managed to shoot Etter through
the bowels.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Drowned in Oil.
San Antonio: Pedro Castro, assistant oil pumper of the Southern Pacific, was drowned
Friday in an oil tank he was cleaning. He had descended on a ladder and was overcome by
gas. His assistants tried to aid him and one of them had his clothes torn from him in the
struggle, narrowly escaping a similar fate. The body was recovered at night only after groping
for hours in the oil, it being impossible to place lights near.
Thursday October 6, 1904 Run Over and Killed.
Marshall: P. G. Rose, a freight brakeman on the Louisiana division of the Texas and Pacific
Railroad, was run over and killed Wednesday evening near Greenwood, La. He was last seen
walking on top of his train, which was headed west. His mangled body was afterward found
lying along the track by a light engine crew. Deceased was about 35 years of age. The remains
were brought to this city, and his widow notified at Elkton, Ky.
Thursday October 6, 1904 NOT THE SAME.
―Goin‘ shoppin‘, ‗pears to me,
Isn‘t what it used to be,
Used to drive up to the store,
Leave the team out by the door,
Trade our truck for calico,
Tea and sech; and off we‘d go.
Nowadays ye‘re at a loss
To pick out the real boss,
They don‘t stop to tell you jokes,
Never saw sech dressed-up folks,
An‘ the goods that they display
Fairly takes your breath away,
Everything‘s trimmed up so grand—
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Looks to me like fairyland.‖
Thursday October 6, 1904
Lightning struck Jessie Jackson, a girl twelve years old, near Georgetown at 4 o‘clock
Wednesday and killed her instantly.
A negro man named Jim Williams, while asleep on his gallery on J. S. Hefly‘s place near
Cameron, was killed. A heavy piece of iron was used, his skull being mashed in.
Wednesday night the six-months-old baby of W. A. Brown, of Travis County, fell from a bed
and was strangled to death before its mother could reach it. She was in the field at the time
the child fell.
Thursday October 6, 1904 SENATOR HOAR DEAD.
Senior Senator Passes Away at Seventy-eight.
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 30. – George Frisble Hoar, senior United States Senator from
Massachusetts, died at his home in this city at 1:35 o‘clock this morning. The end followed a
period of unconsciousness that had continued since early Tuesday and come so gently that
only the attending physicians were aware of the exact moment of dissolution.
The attending physicians despaired of the Senator‘s life six weeks ago, but such was the
vitality exhibited by the distinguished patient that even they were surprised, and the public
was at times led to cherish a faith in an ultimate recovery. At last, however, all hope was
abandoned, after a last unsuccessful attempt to administer medicine and nourishment. Brief
intervals were followed by longer durations of unconsciousness until Tuesday morning, when
the venerable statesman sank into a state of coma from which all efforts to rouse him proved
futile.
During the last hours there was not a movement of the body and only a scarcely perceptible
pulse evidenced the final struggle. There were present at the bedside when death came the
Senator‘s son, Gen. Rockwood Hoar, his daughter, Mary Hoar, and Dr. Warren R. Gilman, who
for weeks had been in almost constant attendance upon the Senator.
Intelligence of Senator Hoar‘s demise was first communicated by phone from the residence to
the press by Dr. Gilman. Immediately after a prearranged signal was transmitted on the fire
alarm system and the long dreaded tidings were conveyed to the people of the city by the tolling
of the church bells.
Thursday October 6, 1904
Battleship Connecticutt Successfully Launched
New York, Sept. 30. – Despite the sensational rumors of threatened vandalism, the battleship
Connecticut was successfully launched at the New York navy yard yesterday.
The huge red hull slid into the water at 11:16 to the accompaniment of creaking timbers,
shrieking sirens, booming cannon, screeching whistles and playing bands.
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Thursday October 6, 1904 Four Are Killed.
Frederick, Md.: At Catoctin Switch on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near here, four men
were killed and one seriously injured by an engine. Three of the victims were killed outright,
while the fourth was so badly hurt that he died shortly afterwards. The victims are supposed
to be tramps. They were walking on the railroad track. At Catoctin Switch they all stepped
from the track to avoid an approaching westbound freight.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Resolutions of Respect.
Resolved that in the death of Mrs. Cravens, one of our Charter members, we the Cemetery
Society has lost one of our strongest and most efficient members.
Resolved that to all the needs and demands of the society she was ever willing and faithful.
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Resolved that our loss is the loss of the entire community and the radiance of her presence
and the joy of her life can never be replaced.
Resolved that we extend to the stricken family our sincere sympathy in their great
bereavement, and pray that He who giveth and he who taketh away, and who doeth all things
well may comfort and sustain them.
Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved family, a copy spread upon
the minute book of the society, and a copy given the Arlington Journal for publication.
Mrs. E. E. Roy, Mrs. C. S. Taylor, Mrs. M. C. Gill, Com.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Mount Pelee Again Active.
Kingston, St. Vincent: The captain of the British steamer Sibun, which has just arrived,
reports that when the steamer passed the island of Martinique on September 30 Mont Pelee
was in full eruption. The spectacle was seen by those on board. The volcano emitting
stupendous black clouds and balls of fire. Early in May, 1902, Mont Pelee broke into eruption,
wiping out the city of St. Pierre. The loss of life was estimated at 40,000.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Peter Sells Dies Suddenly.
Columbus, Ohio: Peter Sells, the well-known showman, died Wednesday evening at his
home in this city of appoplexy, aged 55 years. He, with his brothers, Ephraim, Allen and
Lewis, established the Sells Bros. show in 1872. He retained his interest when the Sells Bros.‘
show was consolidated with the Forepaugh shows in 1896. Only one of the four brothers,
Lewis Sells, survives.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Passing of Another Pioneer.
Burkeville: The death of Daniel H. Youngblood, at his home four miles east of Burkeville,
Tuesday night, marks the passing away of another Newton county landmark and Texas
pioneer. Uncle Dan Youngblood, as he was familiarly known all over this and adjoining
counties, came to Texas in 1834, and settled in what was then Jasper, but now Newton county,
near where he died.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Liberati is Coming.
Dallas: Liberati is coming. The famous cornet virtuoso, who in years past has fascinated
Texas audiences at the State Fair here, has written that he will be pleased to donate his
services to the management of the Texas Grand Festival and Kaliph‘s Celebration from Oct. 12
to Oct. 16. Acceptance of the same was given by Secretary Sydney Smith of the Fair
Association.
Southern Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 3. – Capt. Sydney Smith, Secretary, Dallas, Tex.: Dear
Sir and Friend – Appreciating the fact that all of your attractions for the Texas Grand Festival
and Kaliph‘s Celebration are already secured, and believing that my reputation and services as
a cornet virtuoso will be an additional attraction to your grand entertainment, I beg herewith to
tender through you to your association my services as soloist free of charge Oct. 12 to 16. I
make this offer as a token of thanks to the management of the fair for the reference it has
shown me in former years and of the esteem I have for the music loving people of Texas.
Very truly yours, A. LIBERATI.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Confederate Monument at Bonham.
The contract has been let to a local firm for the erection of the Confederate monument in the
courthouse yard in Bonham. It is to be completed by July, 1905, and will cost $2500. The
base of the monument is to be 10x10 feet, the shaft reaching a height of 31 ½ feet. There will
be four pedestals, on which will rest the busts of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Albert Sydney
Johnston and Sterling Price.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Charged with Murder.
Waco: Will Rice, a young white man of good family, is in jail here charged with being one of
the men who killed the man Templeton at Batson Prairie some two weeks ago while trying to
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take money from Templeton. The killing of Templeton was sensational. Rice admits that he
was in Batson at the time of the murder, but denies any connection therewith.
Thursday October 13, 1904
Rome, N. Y.: Mrs. Emma Ewing Palmer, is dead at Sherbourne, aged fifty, owing to a
disease of a rheumatic nature, which baffled the skill of many prominent physicians. Mrs.
Palmer has lain motionless totally blind and with every muscle rigid for the last twenty-five
years. The disease manifested itself within a few days after her marriage at the age of twenty-
three. Her sister, Miss Stella Ewing, who died two years ago, was afflicted the same way.
Thursday October 13, 1904
Mrs. Annie Greenwald, the only woman forecast official employed by the United States
government, is dead at her home near Hanover, Pa., aged fifty-seven years.
Dr. F. M. Pitts, father of Hon. John D. Pitts of Hillsboro, ex-mayor and representative, died
at Highland, Cal., Sunday. He was seventy-six years old and was well known throughout
central Texas.
Thursday October 13, 1904
People have been so busy picking cotton that it has been impossible to get the corn gathered,
hence the shellers are not running full time. In another week shelling and shipping corn will
be all the go. Corn still brings 45 cents a bushel.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Pantego.
The Liars Club met last Tuesday evening with a good attendance. Several subjects were
discussed among which was the Kicking Qualities of the Mule. Some good arguments were
produced on both sides of this subject, but brother Gilhooly capped the climax when he
testified that he had three brothers in Glory who were indebted to the mule for transportation.
The poet of this corner takes little stock in politics, but he says at this particular time he
feels deeply interested. Speaking of the forthcoming election he used the following language:
Now let me tell you, brethren,
The outlook is simply grand,
Ther‘s going to be rejoicing,
All over this broad land.
I‘ve studied the matter closely,
And it‘s going to be a sin,
The way we‘ll lift old Teddy out,
And lift Judge Parker in.
And when we‘ve gained the victory
We‘ll dash and cut a figure:
Just to know that man of ours,
Won‘t sip with Mr. Nigger.
Thursday October 13, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS.
Carroll Sturdevant, a young man near Ben Franklin, Delta County, was thrown from his horse
and killed Sunday evening.
A Delta County farmer named Black fell from becoming overheated on the way to the oil mill
at Cooper and died within an hour.
A negro woman and an eight-year-old child were burned in a shanty in Brazos bottom, near
Caldwell, Wednesday night. No evidence of foul play.
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Such is the demand for stamps at the Dallas postoffice that it was necessary for the office to
order by telegraph 2,000,000 2c stamps to be hurried forward.
J. W. Barr of Kingston, died there Tuesday. He was a leading business man of that town, a
deacon in the Baptist Church, and a trustee of Burleson College of Greenville.
By the explosion of a boiler at the Stratton Ice Works at Pensacola, Fla., five persons were
injured seriously, and it is believed several employes are dead beneath the wrecked
building.
Mrs. Susan Deam, a pioneer settler of Dallas County, died at Lancaster, aged seventy years.
A special feature of the Dallas Festival this week will be the automobile races, which will be
the most important ever held in the South. Many new machines will be entered and some fine
time is expected.
The general cool spell that swept over North Texas Wednesday night was a most welcome
change from the hottest October weather ever.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Found Dead in Bed.
Belleville: Fritz Palm, father of Sheriff William Palm of Austin County, was found dead in
his bed about 3 o‘clock Saturday afternoon and appears to have died some time during the
night before. He was born in Prussia in 1818 and moved to Austin County in 1846 and lived in
Belleville for more than half a century. In 1868 he served as Sheriff of Austin County when
Waller County was part of Austin County.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Fifteen Sudden Deaths.
New York, Oct. 9. – Fifteen deaths within eight days in the neighborhood known as Strikers‘
Farm, on the West Wide, have started an investigation by the police and coroner‘s offices.
Coroner Scholar says that the deaths were caused by impure liquor. All the victims knew one
another, and the curious circumstance was that the men had attended their friends‘ funerals
until all were dead.
Of all the fifteen deaths in the eight days four were in one house and two each in three
others.
All were reported to the coroner as sudden deaths.
Capt. Hussey, commanding the police precinct in which the deaths occurred, says that he
has detectives (unreadable) ... the deaths of these men with any kind of whiskey and find out
where they bought this cheap stuff I will take immediate action.‖
Coroner‘s Physician Watson, who performed an autopsy on the body of Adolph Lehman,
later said he would have the contents of the stomach analyzed.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Six Men Perish in a Tunnel.
Port Huron, Mich.: Six employes of the Grand Trunk Railroad were suffocated by coal
gas early Sunday in the St. Clair Tunnel, which runs under the St. Clair river, from Port
Huron, to Sarnia, Ont. A coal train broke in two while passing through the tunnel and three of
the train crew were suffocated while part of the train lay stalled in the tunnel. The engineer
lost his life when he returned and endeavored to push the stalled cars back to safety, and two
other rescuers perished in vain attempts to penetrate the gaseous atmosphere of the great
tunnel.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Double Killing Near Houston.
Houston: A fatal pistol duel took place about four miles south of here on Bray‘s Bayou near
its crossing of the Telephone Road. The parties to it were Herman Ottman and Henry
Schilling. Ottman was shot three times, and died almost instantly. Old man Schilling, father
of Henry Schilling, was also killed. It is believed that he was killed by accident, as he was
trying to stop the shooting when he received the fatal shot. Fred Schilling was wounded in the
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thigh, the bone being grazed, and Ernest Schilling was wounded in the heel. Both wounded
men were brought into the city for treatment.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Fell Thirty Feet.
Dallas: Wayne Downs, a bricklayer, about 40 years of age, fell from the top of the wall of the
new building in course of erection for the Murray Gin Company and sustained injuries from
which it is believed his chances for recovery are slight. The skull was fractured above the eyes,
the bones of the nose crushed, the lower jaw bone fractured, the right hip dislocated and
hemorrhages from the nose indicate internal injury.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Nebraska is Launched.
Seattle, Wash.: In the presence of a teeming multitude of onlookers and christened by a
daughter of the Governor of the State for which she is named, Uncle Sam‘s latest and largest
battleship, Nebraska, was successfully launched from the ways of the Moran Bros. Company
at 2:02 Friday afternoon. Gov. John H. Mickey of Nebraska and his party, including prominent
State officials and their wives participated in the ceremonies.
The Nebraska is the first battleship constructed on the Pacific coast north of San
Francisco. She has a displacement of 15,000 tons. Her length is 441 feet 3 inches, beam 76
feet 2 ½ inches, draft 23 feet 9 inches, speed 19 knots, indicated horsepower 19,000. Her
main battery consists of four 12-inch guns, eight 8-inch and 12 6-inch guns, and her
secondary battery consists of fourteen 3-inch guns, twelve 3-pounders, sixteen small guns and
four 21-inch torpedo tubes.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Murder in Houston.
Houston: Sunday afternoon about 3 o‘clock a most deplorable killing occurred on the fourth
floor of the Mason building over Main street and Rusk avenue. The victim was C. W. Jones,
secretary of the Houston Fire and Marine Insurance Company, who was just leaving his office
on that floor at the time. Later in the afternoon Hugh N. Swain, an attorney, was placed under
arrest charged with the killing.
Thursday October 13, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Four persons lost their lives during the burning of the Tracy Hotel, in South St. Joseph,
Friday.
Henry Lewis of Lorena, was killed at Waco Monday. His horse ran away and threw him from
the buggy and he struck on his head. He leaves a wife and one child.
(unreadable) ... on the Augusta(?) Southern railroad ran into a burning trestle near Mitchell,
Ga., Wednesday and one man was killed and eight others injured.
About one hundred miles of the Long Island Railroad system will be equipped with electricity,
it is stated, and will be ready for operation with that power next spring.
In a difficulty five miles south of Garvin, I. T., John Hayes was probably fatally stabbed with
a pocketknife. Frank Shields, his half brother, went to Garvin and surrendered.
Word is received from Chaperito of the drowning in the recent flood of the wife and three
children of Francisco Lucero, formerly a member of the Legislature from Las Vegas County,
New Mexico.
Charles, alias ―Shotgun‖ Foley, was hanged at New Orleans Friday. This was the first
execution in a number of years. The crime was murder.
A Dallas baby, born after seven months gestation, is growing up in an incubator, built after
the style of the incubators at the World‘s Fair.
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Frederick Bartholdi, the Parisian sculptor, died at 8 o‘clock Tuesday morning.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Three Killed, Six Injured.
New York: Driven at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, a three-seated touring car
containing nine persons, four men and five women, dashed over an embankment at the
southern end of Jerome avenue, landing on the southbound track of the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad. Just at that moment a southbound local train, running fast to make
up time, struck the automobile. Three were killed, two instantly, and two seriously injured.
The other four were badly bruised.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Prominent Arkansan Found Dead.
Little Rock, Ark.: A special to the Gazette from Pine Bluff, Ark., says that Sheriff B. A.
Meroney of Lincoln County was found dead in his home Wednesday night with a bullet hole
through his heart. A pistol was found by his side and the indications are that he was self
slain. Meroney had been sheriff eight years and was recently elected County and Circuit Clerk.
The particulars of the tragedy are meager.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Brakeman Killed a Tramp.
El Paso: An unknown white man was shot and killed while stealing a ride on the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio at Malones, eighty miles east of here, in this county. Louis
Bourgeoise, a brakeman, surrendered and said he did the shooting. Bourgeoise claims that the
tramp drew a sixshooter on him and that he shot in self-defense.
Thursday October 13, 1904 Resolutions of Respect From The Arlington
Chapter of The Order of The Eastern Star.
Resolved that in the death of our beloved sister Elizabeth Cravens, Our Chapter has lost one
of its most ardent workers and faithful friends. While her life has been cut short in the glory of
her womanhood, it has not been vain. She has scattered seeds of sunshine all along the way
and every lite is happier for having known and loved her.
Resolved, that her life has been an example of the shining virtues of masonry, a feeling of
kindness and love toward all our fellow travelers on the journey of life, and an earnest endeavor
to make this world better and brighter.
Resolved that we tender the bereaved family our sincerest sympathy in this dark hour, but
we can only point them to that beautiful home above where our Savior has prepared a place for
all who love him. Our loss is Heavens gain.
Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be given the family, a copy spread upon a page set
aside in our chapter record and a copy furnished the Arlington Journal for publication.
W. B. Fitzhugh, Mrs. M. S. Mickle, Mrs. Chas. S. Taylor, Com.
Thursday October 13, 1904 SUCKING CIDER THROUGH A STRAW.
When the corn begins to ripen
And the ears hang ‗cross the blades,
And the pumpkins turn to yellow
Ready for the kitchen maids,
When the orchard drops its pippins
Every time the wind is raw,
Then I think, how, when a youngster,
I sucked cider through a straw.
Fall was when the seedling apples
That weren‘t fit to keep or sell,
Went to pomace at the cross-roads
In the quaint, old cider mill.
How the fragrant juice ran slowly
From the cheesey mess—but pshaw!
Times have changed since I, a youngster,
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Sucked sweet cider through a straw.
Cider mills in vogue at present,
Made of steel and run by steam,
Turning out a doubtful liquid
In a steady, rushing stream,
May, perhaps, suit other people—
Folks who never heard or saw
Amber juice drip as it used to,
Nor sucked cider through a straw.
Crushed without a taint of metal,
Straw-bound in a pile boy-high,
Left to season and to color
Till in richness ‗twould defy
Every innocent potation—
Drink without a single flaw—
Then to cap the splendid climax
Suck it through a clean Tye straw!
Pumpkin pies as mother made them,
Apple dumplings, steaming hot,
Succotash or watermelon,
May, with some folks, touch the spot.
None of these, though, to my dreaming
Such a memory-picture draw,
As a country boy in denims
Sucking cider through a straw.
EUGENE SECOR.
Thursday October 20, 1904 What Arlington Has.
2500 people, two national banks, three gins and oil mill, $3,000 Newspaper plant, $15,000
new public school building, $20,000 Military Academy, with over 100 cadets in attendance,
four churches and four Sunday schools, best kindergarten school in the state, $30,000 worth
of bricks built this year, 40 brick business houses every one full. Two general merchandise
companies, four dry goods houses, ten groceries, four hardware houses, three drug stores, one
confectionery, one jewelry house, four blacksmith shops, one dentist, one lawyer, six doctors.
Two new depots, rural delivery of mail. Electric light and power (unreadable)... corn shellers,
both now running, three restaurants, one bakery, two livery stables, three furniture houses,
telephone, steam and electric cars to the cities every few minutes day and night, two express
companies, two barber shops, three meat markets, two hotels, a wagon yard, and one dairy.
Thursday October 20, 1904
Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Rudd‘s little fourteen months old baby died at their home at
Aspermont away out in west Texas, Sunday night. The remains accompanied by the sorrowing
young parents arrived here Monday night and were carried out to the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Elliott, parents of Mrs. Rudd. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning by Rev. M. C.
Jackson after which the remains were interred in Arlington Cemetery. The little fellow was
much idolized, being the first born to the parents, the first and only grandchild on each side of
the house, and the first and only great-grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Collins. The parents
have much sympathy in this dark hour of bereavement.
Thursday October 20, 1904
Today is the editor‘s birthday and he is celebrating it by getting out the first edition of all
home print on the big, new press. How old did you say? That‘s another question altogether,
not at all pertinent to the occasion.
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Thursday October 20, 1904 Up! Up! Up!
A year ago C. F. Ward bought five acres of land from J. D. Cooper on the pike just outside the
city limits on the west, paying for it, $500. Lots of people thought he paid too much for it. A
few days ago Mr. Ward sold two acres of it for $700, no improvements.
Prof. Carlisle says he was offered a block over near the college for $350 when he came here
two years ago, but wouldn‘t take it, and he says Mr. S. Yates who did buy it has retailed it out
for $1400. It is the same all over town and well out into the country.
Thursday October 20, 1904 W. R. Eaves Captured.
W. R. Eaves former bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the Citizens National Bank of this
city, who absconded about the first of this year carrying away about $8000 of the bank funds,
was captured in St. Louis last week by Sheriff John Honea of this county and detective Cordell
of St. Louis and brought back to this county where he is now incarcerated on a charge of
embezzlement by the state. There is also a charge against him in the federal court.
When arrested Eaves had on his person $2695 which he has returned to the bank.
The hearing of his case is set for today at Fort Worth.
Thursday October 20, 1904 Notice By Publication of Final Account.
No. 1811. State of Texas, To the Sheriff or any Constable of Tarrant County—
Greeting:
Mrs. Callie M. Welch, adminiatratrix, the Estate of Percy L. Welch, deceased, having filed in
County Court her final account of the condition of the Estate of said Percy L. Welch, deceased,
together with an application to be discharged from said administratrixship.
(remainder not printed)
No. 2363 State of Texas, To the Sheriff, or any Constable of Tarrant County, Greetings:
C. Von Carlowitz administrator of the Estate of Joseph Hadfield, deceased having filed in
our County Court his final account of the condition of the Estate of said Joseph Hadfield,
deceased, together with an application to be discharged from said administratorship.
(remainder not printed)
Thursday October 20, 1904 The Inkstand Battle.
BY S. W. FOSS.
We are making smokeless powder
And big bombs to throw a mile,
That will blow the foe to chowder
In the true dynamic style.
We‘ve a whirling gun; you start it,
And the myriad bullets fly,
And a hundred men a minute
Roll their stony eyes and die.
Let us stop this wild deaths revel;
Martin Luther, so ‗tis said,
Threw his inkstand at the devil,
And the black fiend turned and fled.
Smite your world-wrong; don‘t combat it
With a fusillade of lead;
Simply throw your inkstand at it;
Come tomorrow, it is dead.
When the world upon the brink stands
Of some crisis steep and dread,
Like brave soldiers seize your inkstands,
Hurl them at the devil‘s head.
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Pour your ink-pots in a torrent
Till the strangling demon sink,
Till the strangling fiend abhorrent
Drown in oceans of black ink.
For the man who‘s born a fighter,
For the brain that‘s learned to think,
There is dynamite and nitre
In a bottle of black ink.
Though it makes no weeping nations,
And it leaves no gaping scars,
Placed ‗neath error‘s strong foundations,
It may blow them to the stars.
Thursday October 27, 1904
The little two year old baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Post out south west of town died and
was buried Friday. Friday night the bereaved young parents went to stay with a friend and
next morning when M. Risinger, father of Mrs. Post, went over to feed the stock he found a
good mare dead in the lot.
Thursday October 27, 1904 The Trolley Line And The Town.
We have heard all kinds of roars about the trolley line shocking horses and these
roars are mostly well founded. Several farmers east of town have their teams almost
ruined on account of it, as many of the horses absolutely refuse to cross the line,
especially at Stop 17. As a result of this some of the people out that way have to come
to town on the car or go to Grand Prairie. There is one dangerous place though which
we could (enter the city and that is on Abram) street near the residence of W. C. Weeks.
At (this place the street is) so narrow that there is hardly room for a buggy on either
side of the line and one never drives through this place without placing their lives in
peril. If there is anything reasonable that will widen this street it should be done as
every day the town is imperiling the lives of its friends by having this place in the
condition it is.
Tuesday of last week there was a lady and a little girl here shopping from near
Grand Prairie who had to come in on the car. They have three buggy horses but they
could not drive them as they refuse to cross the car line. And then even if they were
across the line it is dangerous for ladies to drive anything but a blind, deaf horse up
the narrows on Abrams street.
The officials of the road say they are rebonding the track. If they are and render it
less dangerous, lets rebond the street and make it safe.
Thursday October 27, 1904 Doke Murphree Heard From.
Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 22. – Word was received here today that Doke Murphree, who four
years ago lived in this county, and who shot and killed Sherman Gauldin, but was acquitted,
got into a street duel with the sheriff at Bell Buckle, Tenn., recently and shot several times at
the officer and later as Murphree was returning home he was waylaid and seriously injured,
his left arm being torn off by a gunshot wound. Murphree was once a leading man for the
great Italian tradegian Salvini, and is well known all over the country. He is now practicing law
at Bell Buckle. – Houston Chronicle.
Many people here remember Murphree. He was a brilliant man but his eccentricities
always kept him in trouble. In the murder case he was acquitted on the plea of insanity,
and was later tried for insanity and acquitted. In both cases he plead his own case.
Thursday October 27, 1904
Fights on the fair excursion train from Dallas Sunday were numerous and the
excursion was attended with the usual boisterousness. When the train stopped at
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Ladonia a fight was pulled off between Mr. Oscar Davis of this city, and a young man
named Day of Ladonia, in which the latter was hit on the head with a beer bottle and
seriously hurt. – Honey Grove Signal.
That‘s the way it goes. Fill a man with whiskey and load his pockets with beer bottles and
put him on a crowded excursion train, especially on Sunday and he is a nuisance and an
actual danger to all on board. And the custom is growing. Some young men actually have no
higher ambition than to beat somebody, no difference who, over the head with a beer bottle. It
is the dream of their life. A few steps below the drunken bully, is the excursion train or
crowded car loud mouthed bully of any kind. We often see otherwise respectable young men
get on crowded cars and trains, and play the bully or sharp Alec. This is not best by a long
jump. In fact it is always best, far the best and safest to be a gentleman. And it is so little
trouble to be nice and gentlemanly. No difference whether any one is noticing you or not, no
difference whether you are attracting the attention of the whole car or not, you are all right,
and will win out in the end. Just how to act on crowded cars is a subject that we of Arlington
are going to need to study closely, if we would avoid broken heads and cases in court.
Thursday October 27, 1904
The editor in chief has had the distinguished honor (?) of serving his state as a juryman this
week and the Journal has been turned over to the office force.
Everybody has been erecting stoves, examining flues, and bringing out cloaks and overcoats
this week.
The Jury in the case of W. R. Eaves charged with embezzlement gave him three years in the
penitentiary, on plea of guilty. No appeal will be taken.
Thursday November 3, 1904 The Editor on the Jury.
The editor had the exalted privilege of sitting on a jury last week all week, and learned a lot
and failed to learn a whole lot more. On the whole he was not favorably impressed. There is too
much trickery, too much dishonesty, too much disregard for the (unreadable) ... too much
browbusting of timid witnesses. Instead of trying to get them to tell the truth the lawyer does
everything he can to make them swear lies. Some lawyers may be honest, we suppose they are,
but they are brought in such close contact with those that are not, in such close contact with
litigants who are over anxious to win out, that they can hardly walk the straight and narrow
path. There is always one side wrong in lawsuits, generally rottenly wrong often both sides are
far wrong. In fact there is so much that is wrong in court and court matters, not the courts or
officers or lawyers altogether, but they together with those who bring their troubles into the
courts, that we would prefer to see a son spend his life between a pair of plow handles, to being
a lawyer, even though the most brilliant. In fact, speaking for ourselves, we never saw a man
during the whole week with a job that we would prefer to a good little farm and quiet country
home of our own. Of course that is all a matter of taste, we prefer a purer atmosphere than
hangs about court houses and jails. To our mind the boy makes a great mistake when he leaves
the farm for a court house job of any kind. Even though he should achieve fame and fortune, we
should still consider it better to be an honest intelligent tiller of the soil. No law or politics for this
editor. One thing that did impress us favorably however, was the disposition of juries to deal
honestly as between man and man. In every case we tried we saw no disposition whatever to
do otherwise.
Some of the things we couldn‘t understand was why lawyers hold cigars and cigar
stumps in their hands all day and nibble at them and put them in their mouths and take
them out a thousand times, and nibble off little specks of tobacco just to spit out, and
lose their papers, and lose their eye glasses, and lose their pencils, and hunt them all up
and lose them again, and hunt them all up again and then lay them all down and run
across the room to spit, and on the way back stop to buttonhole a fellow lawyer on some
apparently grave matter, and then hunt for their papers again, and then put their eye
glasses astride their noses, then take them off, then sit down, then get up, then walk
briskly up to the judge, then frisk off to the other side and spit again, then walk up and
down the court room in awful and solemn meditation, then consult their papers and look
for their eye glasses and adjust them to their nasal organs but without looking at
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anything take them off again, then nibble the cigar again, and spit, yes siree, they can all
spit beautifully, most of them can nibble cigars and poise them aloft between their
pretty white fingers in a way that greatly impresses a juryman from the forks of the
creek. And when one crosses his hands behind and knits his mighty brow and
promenades up and down the court room the seedy juryman barely breathes, so greatly
is he impressed. Mixed in with all this foolishness and put on, they have a little
―courting,‖ about as much as there is ham in a society sandwich.
Thursday November 3, 1904 The Journals Reception.
Two weeks ago the proprietors of the Journal put in a big quarto cylinder press and other
valuable and up-to-date machinery. It was their intention to hold a formal reception that week
but the event was crowded out with the work of putting in the machinery and getting the paper
out. Then we aimed to have it last week, but Jupiter Pluvins thought a week of rain for wheat
sowing purposes was best, so we let him have his way, and reign and rain, but this week we
were determined to have our way about things, and so we had our reception Tuesday night.
And to say it was a success would be a very feeble way of putting it. The only thing that we
regret was that we couldn‘t let everybody know of it in time to come. The matter was not
decided on till Tuesday noon. After deciding we got out hand bills and hired a ―boy on wheels‖
to bill the town, and if any one failed to get the invitation we assure them that it was
unintentional and that we are sorry of it. True we had a house full, yea two houses full, all we
could accommodate and more too. No we could not accommodate all of our 5000 readers at
once, but we should have liked for them to have been invited. But for the real estate office of
Moore and Platt, just across the hall from us we would have been more over-run than we were.
In anticipation of the big crowd the office had been secured and seated with chairs from the
wholesale warerooms of J. P. Jones‘s ―Old Curiosity Shop.‖ A fine phonograph was also
furnished by the same house for the occasion and was operated by Tom Blackwell, an
employee of the house.
There wasn‘t a bit of trouble about the Modus Operandi of entertainment. There never is
about an Arlington crowd. They have sense enough to entertain themselves anywhere. And
this is well. A person that has to be entertained is a great nuisance. The heroic little engine,
the clanging presses, the phonograph, and hundreds of busy tongues, lent color of life to the
occasion. Everything worked nicely. Even the devil and his twin brother the gasolene engine,
both behaved beautiful on the august occasion. As for us, we just sat back, listened to the
phonograph, watched the press boys feed the presses, nursed the baby and looked at the
pretty girls, and thought about how many good friends the Journal had made for itself in two
years, and felt like we didn‘t care a snap if we did owe a whole lot of money, that as long as
other people had so much money and were so anxious to loan it to us we would be all right.
The Journal was especially glad to see so many bright boys and girls out taking an interest in
―The Art Preservative.‖
Thursday November 3, 1904 Society Gossip.
On all Hallows eve at ―ye house of ye sign of ye Jack o‘lantern‖ which being interpreted was
the pretty home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Weeks, the Monday Maids very charmingly and very
spookily entertained their friends, the mortals and their friends, the spooks, witches and
hobgoblins.
The house was converted into a veritable spirit land with Jack-o‘lanterns, bats, owls, devils,
skeletons, and cats and sprites ghastly, and witches ―witchey‖ greeted the guests at every turn.
―The planets struck, the fairies took, the witch had power to charm,‖ and charms she worked
and fates she read from her mysterious ―cavern under the rocks‖ before her caldron in her
wigwam. Here came the lover ―sighing like a furnace‖ and the bashful maiden, fearful of her
fate, to learn their future joys and sorrows.
In the parlor and on the porch young and old alike were trying their best at biting and
bobbing at apples, going blindfold to the fortune stick and grabbing their future wife or
husband.
The girls walked backward down the stair and saw at the bottom through a mirror their
partner for the first dance of the evening. The ghosts retired to the realms of the dead and the
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Monday Maids appeared and everyone made merry until 11 o‘clock when they were ushered
into a bower of autumn leaves, vines and flowers, illuminated with Jack-o‘lanterns, and served
with cider, nuts, candy and fruit in the true old Hallowe‘en fashion.
After this Miss Rogers played snatches of ragtime selections and everybody guessed what
they were. Mr. Delaney carried off the honors and a spooky little skull cup and saucer in a cut
with Mrs. Dugan, Mrs. Logan and Miss Dyer.
Miss McCorkle and Miss Dyer sang irresistable rag time melodies, and the time flew by on
angel wings till it was ―midnight‘s holy hour‖ before one knew it and the guests had to say
goodnight before the Hallowe‘en spell was broken.
The out of town guests were Mrs. Logan and Miss Binyon of Fort Worth, Miss LaGrande of
Weatherford and Misses Roe, Dyer and McCorkle of Dallas, Messrs. Hull, Taylor, Hardin,
Logan, Webb of Ft. Worth.
Thursday November 3, 1904
A lady living on Main street asked the Journal to again suggest that owners of cattle be
requested, required and compelled, to pen their stock at night, especially so as the cold
weather is coming on and chasing festive bovines in the dead hours of night in dishabille, is
not only unpleasant, but actually fraught with danger. The Journal sympathizes with the good
lady and seconds her move. But it seems that talk does no good. Suppose we try something
else, throw rocks, pull hair, scratch out eyes or do something that some one will notice.
Thursday November 3
Jno. Griffin, sometimes known as Fishtrap Griffin, has bought him a house and lot in town
and quit the country. Who would have thought it? Already John is acquiring city habits. He
talks about feeling bad, and about his age just like Dan Yarbrough used to when he lived in
town and had nothing to do and felt ―kinder‖ ashamed of himself. By the way, Dan has been
hitting it like a good fellow this fall. He couldn‘t hire any hands and he just rolled up his
sleeves, forgot his lame back and lit into it, and we imagine John will soon tire of goods boxes
and go back to his farm. He has been making some good land trades the last two years, and
made lots of money; almost as much as he used to make catching fish in the Trinity in the
good old days when he won the nom de plume of Fishtrap Griffin, before the Fort Worth
packing houses polluted the Trinity and all the inhabitants thereof, days when a Trinity river
cat fish found a hearty welcome in every home.
Thursday November 3, 1904
Kiss is a noun, it is a name; proper noun because it is the proper thing to do if they are
both ready and willing; plural number because two persons perform it; common gender
because it is performed by one of each sex; possessive case because it possesses a
delicate, infatuation for the human race and agrees with the parties performing the act.
Kissing is closely connected with ―buss,‖ which is a good, old backwoods expression
meaning a kiss that is highly enjoyed by two greenhorns who have powerful urges with
which to perform the act. In this case buss means one kiss, rebus means kiss again;
pluribus means a number of kisses, horribus means caught by the old folks; merribus
means caught to steal a kiss; simplebus means to kiss the hand instead of the lips;
blunderbus means to kiss an old maid by mistake, while omnibus means to kiss all
present including the mother-in-law. –Ex.
Thursday November 3, 1904 Eulogy On Man.
Man is a funny little cuss
and hasn‘t long to stay;
He flies around and makes a fuss,
then he hikes away.
Some men imagine they are great,
and try to tear up Jack;
But each meets the same old fate
and trots the same old track.
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Great Caesar‘s dead and turned to clay,
and so is Cicero;
And Alexander, gone the way
the rest of us must go.
The sages, heroes, poets, all the
men of wealth and worth,
into an open grave must fall and
(unreadable) ...
Then let‘s not join the mad affray
(unreadable) ...
And agonize our life away, for
really, what‘s the use?
Let‘s live and love, and sing the
while, and work some now and then.
And give to every one a smile that
cheers the hearts of men.
And whether we are crowned with
flowers or chilled with winter‘s snows,
With happiness lets fill these hours
‗ere we turn up our toes.
Thursday November 3, 1904
Mildred Clifton, who shot and killed young Ab Patterson last Christmas, was given four
years in the pen last week in Judge Dunklins court. The sentence is generally considered light.
Jeff McLean represented the defendant while County Attorney O. S. Latimore and Hon. W. D.
Odell of Cleburne represented the state.
Thursday November 10, 1904
A Collin County young man took his girl out for a drive. She fell out of the buggy and he drove
two miles before he missed her. You can bet your life that such a thing never happened in
Richardson. The horse might fall out of the shafts, the stars cease to tinkle and the moon become
extinct and never be missed, but the girl—no never. – Richardson Echo.
We try to believe everything we see in newspapers, but this is a little too much for our
credulity.
Thursday November 10, 1904
The corner stone of the Missouri Avenue Methodist church, which was laid yesterday afternoon
contained besides the contents of the old stone, the following articles: A bible over fifty years of
age given by Mrs. O. Speer; a list of the members of the foreign missionary society and of the
home missionary society of the church, a list of the officers and teachers of the Sunday school, a
copy of the Christian Advocate, a card of the Panther City Hardware Company, several small
coins and a cop of the Fort Worth Telegram and Record and also a copy of the discipline of the
church. – Fort Worth Telegram
Thursday November 10, 1904 Hence Poe Dead.
Hence Poe, an old and well known citizen living between here and Mansfield, died Tuesday
after several weeks sickness. The interment took place Wednesday evening at Johnson Station.
Several people came down here from Fort Worth, who with others from here drove down to the
funeral. Mr. Poe was a man of strongly marked personality. He was a wholesouled generous
man; one who made many friends and always stuck to them through thick and thin. During
his long residence here he has acquired considerable property. He was a stockholder and
director in the Bank of Mansfield at Mansfield and in the Arlington National Bank of this place,
Notwithstanding all this, he always preferred his farm and country home to city life. He had a
magnificent country home, was fond of the hunt and chase, always kept a pack of fine dogs,
and was a great entertainer of his friends from the towns and cities when they found time to
get off for a hunt. Many will hear with sorrow of the passing away of this unique character.
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Thursday November 10, 1904 A Small Boy on Editors.
Newspapers are sheets of paper on which stuff to read is printed. the men look over the paper
to see if their names is in it and the women use it to put on shelves and sich. I don‘t know how
the newspaper came into the world. I dont think God does. The Bible says nothing about editors
and I never heard of one being in heaven. I guess the editor is the missing link them fellers talk
about. The first editor I ever heard of was the fellow who wrote up the flood. He has been here
ever since. Some editors belong to the church and some try to raise whiskers. All of them raise
h__l in their neighborhood and all of them are liars, at least all I know and I only know one.
Editors never die. At least I never saw a dead one. Sometimes the paper dies and the people
feel glad, but some one starts it up again. Editors never went to school because editors never got
licked. Our paper is a mighty poor one but we take it so ma can use it on the pantry shelf. Our
editor don‘t amount to much, but pa says he had a poor chance when he was a boy. He goes
without underclothes in winter, wears no socks and has a wife to support him. Pa hasn‘t paid
his subscription in five years and dont intend to. – Ex.
Thursday November 10, 1904 Next Monday is The Day.
Money is so plentiful and the craze for horse trading so great, that the Journal expects to see
a big crowd here next Monday—traders day. People have so much money they don‘t know
anything to do with it only to buy hosses and razors. The last time a razor peddler struck the
town people bought from one to three razors each—even boys with nothing at all to shave
except their heads bought razors. But the hoss day—don‘t forget it—next Monday, and
anything else, razors and such like, that you may have for trade, bring it along. Everything
goes. Nothing reserved.
Thursday November 17, 1904 John C. Roy Dead.
John C. Roy, an old and highly respected citizen, passed away Saturday at one o‘clock.
For nearly a year Mr. Roy has been practically confined to his room as a result of a paralytic
(stroke from which he suffered much). Much (affection has been felt for him in his long) suffering,
and when the announcement was made Saturday morning that he had passed away the whole
city took on a tinge of sadness, while relatives and those intimately acquainted with the fine old
gentleman, bowed in deepest grief. Mr. Roy has lived a long, useful and successful life among
this people. Raised a large family of honorable children, amassed a nice fortune, has aided
vastly in the material development, was a mason of high standing, and during the sixties
served in the defense of his south land against the northern foe.
The high esteem in which he was held by his neighbors of a half century‘s acquaintance was
attested by the large concourse of people that gathered at the C. P. church Sunday morning to
pay their last tribute of respect to the departed one, and the lavish floral offerings that
wreathed the bier at the church, and later the grave at the cemetery. The funeral services at
the church were conducted by Rev. W. B. Fitzhugh, after which the remains were carried to
Johnson Station and laid to rest by the side of his wife who preceded him several years ago.
The Masons conducted the burial according to the beautiful ritual of the order, occupying
almost two hours. All his children, eight in number were with him during his last illness, Will
Roy of Mississippi arriving only a short time before his death.
Quite a number of friends came down from Fort Worth to attend the funeral, among whom
were Judge and Mrs. Mike E. Smith, Mrs. James Anderson, Senator Will Hanger, Chief of
Police Will Rea, Sheriff John Honea, deputy sheriff Walter Roark, County Attorney Jeff D.
McLean, Congressman O. W. Gillispie, Atty. W. B. Scott, J. K. Winston, Atty. T. W. Dunn, Ed
Elliott Deputy County Clerk, R. C. Armstrong Jr., Mr. Renfro Cushier of the American National
Bank, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Roy, Judge Terrell, District Clerk Martin, County Clerk Rogers,
and J. K. Winston.
Thursday November 24, 1904
The verdict in the District court giving W. R. Eaves three years for embezzlement, was set
aside last week and he was turned over to the federal authorities to be tried in the federal
court, and on a plea of guilty last Monday was so adjudged by a jury in that court. The lowest
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term that can be given by this court is five years in the penitentiary, and it is supposed this will
be the penalty assessed by the judge.
Thursday November 24, 1904
The enlarged electric light and power plant is now in full operation.
Turner & Godwin are putting down a new well at the Electric Light and Power Plant.
Thursday November 24, 1904 How Monkey Wrench Got Name.
Charles Monchy invented the ―monkey‖ wrench, which is so indispensable in mechanism.
The name monkey is a corruption of the name Monchy, which is the proper name. Mr. Monchy
sold his patent for $2,000 and built a two-story brick house in Williamsburg, N. Y., near
Brooklyn, where he now lives at an advanced age.
Thursday November 24, 1904
Following out the Journal‘s suggestion about hitching posts, Geo. Lampe has put in posts in
front of his new brick. Let the good work go on.
Thursday November 24, 1904 Immigration Figures for 1904
The number of immigrants entering the United States in the fiscal year ending June 30,
1904, was 812,870. This is a larger record than that of any year except 1903, when the total
was nearly 55,000 greater. Of Austro-Hungarians there was a decrease of 28,855, of Italians
37,326, of Sweden 18,265, and of Japanese 5,704, while there was an increase of Germans
6,294, of Russians and Finns 9,948(?), of English 12,407, and of Scotch 4,949. Italy sent over
193,296, Austria-Hungary 177,156, Russian empire and Finland 145,141, Germany 46,380,
and England and Ireland 74,768.
Thursday November 24, 1904 Back to His Native Land.
The body of Paul Kruger will be conveyed to South Africa by a vessel now being specially
prepared in Holland for the purpose. The last resting place of the famous Boer president is to
be in the Transvaal.
Thursday November 24, 1904 Rehoboth.
Last Wednesday the little babe of Mr. and Mrs. Wad Lummis was buried in the Rehoboth
grave yard.
When it northers we will kill hogs and have sausage to eat.
Thursday November 24, 1904
Now that the cotton‘s gathered
And the money‘s safe in bank,
The children are all shod again
From Mame to little Hank,
And popper‘s got his slicker
And mommer‘s got her shawl--
Come in and pay the printer,
Kind subscribers one and all.
For the editor is needing
The little dollar that you owe.
He has given you your reading,
Now you give him his dough.
For the paper needs a new ―dress,‖
And our wife she needs one, too.
While the pressman wants his wages
And the ―devil‖ asks his due! –Dallas News
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Thursday December 1, 1904 To Our Correspondents.
Write on one side of the paper only. Sign your name, not necessarily for publication but so
we may know whom to send people to who get mad at what you write, and want to fight. The
editor has fighting enough to do of his own. It is well to have a ―nom de plume‖ or something of
the kind and also sign your own name. Write short newsy items (L. Kase excepted—The
columns of the journal are wide open to him.) Have your communication in Wednesday,
Tuesday would be better. We can‘t use much ―editorial matter‖ from correspondents. We want
a half dozen correspondents, but think one editor is enough. It will help your community
greatly to be kept well before the public in the papers of the county. In fact it is the next thing
to having a paper of your own. So study the matter and do your best and we will do our best.
Thursday December 1, 1904 It Would be an Accommodation.
On the first of January it is our custom to prepare and present bills for subscriptions due the
Journal. This takes time, and especially so in cases where we do not know the subscribers. So
to save ourselves trouble we ask all to call and settle, or make arrangements for further time.
Most of you know the editor when you see him on the streets—―The man what has a wart by
the side of his nose‖ you know, and a bundle of papers under his arm. He may not know you,
but if you see such a man on the streets, please speak to him about subscription. And
especially if you want your paper stopped, come in and pay up, and don‘t run away and leave
the country just because you owe the home paper a dollar or so. We had rather give it to you
than have you leave the country.
Thursday December 1, 1904
A great many people from here attended the Ben Hur engagements at Dallas last week.
Mrs. J. T. Crimm returned Monday from Kemp where she went last week to be with her
father, E. H. Baker, in his last illness. The old gentleman passed away Saturday night and
was buried Sunday.
Thursday December 1, 1904 Thanksgiving
Arlington people celebrated thanksgiving day variously last Thursday. Services were held at
the Baptist church at ten o‘clock. So far as we know everybody had a good dinner. Afternoon
most of the stores closed and the clerks went to Dallas to see the great Dan Patch pace, or to
Fort Worth, or out in the woods, or stayed at home as suited each ones fancy. Everybody
seemed happy and contented and were no doubt grateful for the blessing of life with which we
are so abundantly blessed this year.
Thursday December 1, 1904 Monthly Public School Entertainment.
The entertainment given at the public school building by the pupils of the school followed by
a lecture by Judge J. C. Smith of Fort Worth on last Friday night was largely attended and
much enjoyed.
Prof. Johnston is doing much to bring the people and the school into closer relationship.
These public occasions come on the last Friday night in every month. It is hoped to have
electric lights in by next meeting, the last of the year when a program of special merit will be
presented. Among the many interesting features of last Friday night‘s entertainment, the
music, Miss Gladys Millars recitations, and Miss Mattie Crockett in ―The Train to Mauro‖
deserve special mention.
Thursday December 1, 1904 A Day Among The Cannanites.
Last Friday bright and early the editor, who is also field manager, general solicitor and
collector, and janitor at the office, hitched his noble steed to his buggy and lit out for Cain and
Florence Hill. It was our avowed purpose to round up delinquent subscribers and solicit new
ones, but after dashing into about a half dozen houses where they were not taking the Journal
the last time we were down that way about a year ago, and finding that they had all been
caught on the streets of the town and were now regular readers, we decided to cut new
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subscribers out and look after old ones. Most of these we found away from home, so that we
did not do very much in that line either, but we are not complaining; not by a jug full.
The dinner we ate with Col. Dan Yarbrough and his good lady more than repaid us for all
time and effort, to say nothing of all the beauties of the country. That which is prettiest just
now is the young wheat and oat fields. So pretty and green and hopeful—ever notice how
vendure and hope always go hand in hand? Then there were droves of turkeys, flocks of
chickens, big porkers just waiting for the weather to get a little colder, big fat milk cows that
looked like they could give milk to throw away. The largest flock of turkeys we noticed was at
Jas. Alspaughs, and the nicest flock of chickens was a lot of Plymouth rocks at John Davis‘. G.
V. Millar, Sr., wanted to show us some fine hogs, Texas hogs that he says are just as good as
the Doty herd of Illinois, show hogs now in charge of G. V. Millar, Jr., of this place, but Mr.
Millar‘s hogs were off the road some distance and so we did not go to see them. While talking
to him we noticed smoke from an engine a couple of miles south and asked him what it was.
He said it was J. W. Martin‘s steam plow, and we concluded to drive over and see something
that we have always been hearing and reading about, but never saw—a steam plow, but when
we got there it proved to be Henry Burch and the Turek boys shelling corn. Then we back
tracked and soon after passing Cain we cast our eyes across the valley to the house of Col. Dan
Yarbrough upon whom we had been harboring evil designs all the forenoon. As we looked we
saw the Colonel and another man unharnessing their teams at the barn, and we perceived that
our time had come. So up we drove and found the Colonel in a great stew, breaking some wild
mules and sowing oats; had a lot sowed down and it looked like raining before he could get
them plowed in. He informed us that he would feed us and our horse, but had no time to talk
to us. This suited us all right for we were in about as big a hurry as he was. We proceeded to
unharness, water and feed, the while the Colonel was contending with his young mule and
fogging around worse than an old hen with a brood of young chickens, and wondering if it
would rain, and talking about his oats that were sowed down.
We began to feel uneasy about the time he would allow us for eating dinner. Up to the house
we went, hung up our hat, marched back right through the good lady‘s kitchen to the back
gallery and bathed our face. And right here we could stop and write a whole book on the
excellence of a lady who always keeps her kitchen neat and tidy and don‘t kick when a friend
drops in for dinner right at the dinner hour. Mrs. Yarbrough‘s kitchen was nice enough to
sleep in and the dinner good enough for a king. If Dan gets that kind of a dinner every day he
ought to be a better man than he is. Once at the table we got the Colonel strung out on politics
and the new woman as compared to the old, and he forgot all about his mule and his oats and
ate to our hearts content, just put in a word once in a while to keep him going. But sure
enough when he got through dinner he grabbed his hat and lit out. After bidding the good lady
good by we hooked up and drove on over to Florence Hill where they have a new gin and a
store. The store is now owned by J. W. Moseley & Co. with Mr. Moseley as general manager.
He reports a good business this fall. He had 14 bales of cotton in his yard and says there is
lots of it down that way. There is much more cotton being held than we had any idea there
was. Nearly every house has some. Some farmers are holding as much as 20 bales. The gin at
Florence Hill has ginned over 700 bales. A large part of the seed are fed to cattle down there,
the rest comes to the oil mill at this place. Practically all the cotton is marketed there. We
noticed several nice improvements through the country, one of the prettiest of which is Z. W.
Gray‘s new home. The whole country is in fine shape, and the land is in fine fix now for
plowing. In the morning the sun was shinning and as we saw the loose mellow earth being
turned up we felt like we would rather be a farmer and plow and listen to the lark‘s song than
to be anything on earth, even a newspaper man; we actually wanted to get hold of a plow and
wear off some of our boyish enthusiasm and get an appetite on us like a hired hand. (I bet
when Dan Yarbrough reads this he will say ―what in the thunder does the man want with more
appetite‖) but in the evening as we returned the day had grown exceedingly dreary and the man
away off in the field plowing all alone, he and his team both doubtless tired, looked the very
picture of lonliness, and we thought that if that was us we would take out and go home and
build a big blazing fire and play hossy with the baby. Guess the morning and evening of the
day is much like the morning and evening of life, we start out full of hope and energy; life is
one animated picture to ceaseless action, but as the evening comes on and shadows gather
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about us, our energy relaxes, hope no longer beckons us on, and finally we long to lie down
and close our eyes in rest.
Thursday December 8, 1904 A Pair of Blokes Run In.
Tuesday night at about half past seven as Marshal Douglas was standing in front of the
Interurban depot he saw a couple of strangers come around the corner, one of them wearing
detective‘s badge, and at once sized them up as crooks and began questioning them. While
talking to them L. P. Boatwright, a lumber dealer here, came up and informed Douglas that his
office had been burglarized, and at the same time recognized his overcoat carried by one of the
suspects. Douglas promptly arrested the pair, relieved the ―detective‖ of his gun, and the pair,
of a couple of screw drivers, a rattail file, a hammer and a lot of powders. E. F. Douglas‘ shop
had been broken into and the tools taken therefrom. They were taken to Fort Worth where it
was learned that each had served a four year term in the Texas Penitentiary, and one had
served a two year term at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It was very fortunate, indeed, that the
pair were safely bagged, as they were doubtless bent on mischief.
Thursday December 8, 1904 Evett Schoolhouse.
Last Friday a norther blew up very unexpected and the result was hog killing in this
community so we have plenty of spare ribs and backbone to eat.
Thursday December 8, 1904 Johnson Station
Mrs. Whitaker, an elderly lady, who lived near Arlington, was buried here Sunday.
Thursday December 29, 1904
A widow washerwoman with three small children was kindly remembered by a band of
little neighbor girls who voluntarily went around and got up $7.00 cash, $5 in groceries
and a big box of clothing, etc. The Journal is glad to see such acts of charity, is even
glad to help in such a work. And who can do it more acceptably than a lot of sweet little
girls. If we were poor or sick and in need we can think of no class of beings that would
cheer us and reconcile us to a seemingly hard lot more than such a band of little girls.
The Journal hopes as the years go by, they may know more and more of the joy of
making others happy, especially the poor, the purest, the best, and the most practical
joy ever found, or that ever will be found by any human being.
Thursday December 29, 1904
Mrs. H. W. Sanders was called to Smithville a few days ago on account of the death of her
brother, B. W. Park, who has been in poor health for a long time.
Thursday December 29, 1904
Last Thursday a stranger came to A. K. Collins livery stable and hired a horse to ride out into
the country a few miles. Saturday morning he had not returned, and it then dawned upon
Kelly that his horse had been stolen. When last seen the young man was passing through
Handley going toward Fort Worth.
Jozaf Burkway, a poor German baker and restaurant keeper, was arrested last Thursday
and taken to the jail at Fort Worth charged with selling whiskey. There are several cases
against him which if sustained will keep him away from his family a long time. He leaves
a wife and several small children, the woman and children should not be forgotten while
the husband and father is away. They are poor people, recently here and can barely
speak the English language, and our people might do well to help them along a little in
some practical way.
Thursday December 29, 1904
Riley Newman who runs a job wagon says he carried 75 trunks to the depot last Friday.
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The higher courts refused to give Mildred Clifton, the slayer of Ab Patterson, a new trial. Her
sentence is for four years.
Thursday December 29, 1904 JOHNSON STATION.
Mrs. John Ralston, who died of pneumonia, was buried here Friday.
Mrs. Bursen and daughter, Miss Caroline, and son Claude, arrived at home Tuesday from
Denison where they went last week to attend the burial of their husband father.
Thursday December 29, 1904
Word has been received here that Mrs. M. E. Chappell, wife of Rev. M. E. Chappell, died at
Brownwood on the 24
th
inst. The remains were carried to Indiana for interment. She is
survived by a husband and one daughter who have many friends in Arlington who will
sympathize with them in their deep affliction.
Thursday December 29, 1904
On November 29 a white man and negro entered a restaurant at Dallas at night and
attempted to hold the proprietor up and rob him. He resisted and was shot and killed. Last
week they were both tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. The name of the white man is
Holly Vann, that of the negro Burrel Oats. This is pretty swift justice. The very kind we need
in all such cases.
Thursday December 29, 1904 Clippings From Our Exchanges.
Just as we were going to press word came to us that Wm. Sikes of Florence Hill died this
morning at six o‘clock. Mr. Sikes was one of the best citizens and the whole community is in
sorrow because of his death. – Grand Prairie Hustler.
Thursday December 29, 1904 The Growth of a Year.
Below we give, as nearly as we could get, a correct list of houses built during the year 1904
and cost of same. If any have been overlooked we will publish same on receipt of information,
if slight errors occur as to the values just call it ―a newspaper lie‖ and let it go at that. Besides
the buildings here enumerated there has been a great deal of building done in our trade
territory which is almost as much a part of the town, for all practical purposes. as the houses
built within the corporation.
BUSINESS HOUSES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Brick school building $12,000
Weeks brick, three stories 7,000
Cooper-Lampe brick, two stories 6,600
Texas & Pacific depot 3,000
Interurban brick depot 1,500
―The Arlington‖ furnished, built
by Mrs. Carrie Rogers 4,000
Arlington Lumber Co. brick office 4,300
Farmers Lumber Co. office and sheds 800
Electric light and power house 500
Carlisle Military Barracks 2,000
J. P. Jones wagon yard, houses
and sheds 300
Seed House at Oil mill 500
Negro Church 500
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TOTAL $40,000
NEW RESIDENCES.
John Ditto $3,000
R. W. McKnight 3,300
W. B. Fitzhugh 2,500
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J. N. Cooper 1,800
R. A. Randall 1,500 ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
J. T. Trammel 1,400 D. C. Sibley $1,000
L. P. Boatwright 1,400 R. N. Jones 1,200
J. H. Miller 1,500 J. W. Burney 1,000
Geo. Gooden 1,200 W. M. Stanbury 700
Mrs. Duckett 1,400 W. M. Dugan 500
Walter Carter 1,300 M. S. Mickle 800
John Spears 1,200 W. P. Brewer 400
W. S. Putman 1,400 W. W. McNatt 800
W. R. Milton 1,000 Mrs. Hutcheson 400
L. L. Kennedy, 2 houses 900 Ed James 300
S. M. Falls 500 Dr. B. F. Brittain 200
Mrs. T. E. Wood 500 Mrs. S. R. Smith 200
Mrs. Coleman 800 Mrs. McVeigh 300
J. J. Watson 800 Will Pulley 200
J. W. Carter 600 Mrs. S. J. Hansen 300
W. C. Weeks, 2 houses 500 ======
V. A. Kennedy 400 $8,300
Rufus Putman 600
J. M. Grogan 800
W. P. Brewer 600 RECAPITULATION
J. R. Brewer 700 14 Business Houses and
J. H. Douglass 300 Public Buildings $40,000
D. R. Foust 200 64 New Residences 35,000
Riley Newman 200 15 Improvements and Additions 8,300
Jim Muse 200 =======
Bob Goens 200 $74,100
Mrs. Nancy Taylor 400
Clark 700
Patton 200
Mrs. Roxie Collins 300
R. W. McKnight 800
Henry Hood 800
J. A. Hamaker 400
Hil Carlisle 200
W. E. Crimm 400
C. Lindsay 800
C. F. Nelson 400
Robert McK???ey 400
Mrs. Ruth Berry 400
Jim Hennessee 200
Warren Devote 200
Jas. Chrisman 400
Henry Childs 300
W. A. Nichols 800
Mrs. Carrie Rogers, 13 houses 5,000
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TOTAL $35,800