The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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KNOX COUNTY NEWS
E. B. ATTERBURY, Jr, Editor
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TEXAS NEWS ITEM
Friday at San Angelo the temper-
ature was 109.5 degrees, the highest
of the season.
Thursday morning at 7 o'clock the
measurements of the Trinity river
at Dallas showed a stage of 26.5 feet.
Henrv A. Cunningham, cashier of
the John Deere Plow Co., at Dallas,
died Thursay in St. Paul' Sanitar-
ium.
Wm. J. Bradley, foreman of the
Tinners, at work on the Elk's arch
at Dallas, was killed by falling from
a scaffold one day recently.
The Third United States Field
Artillery passed through Austin Fri-
day, en route from Fort Sam Hous-
ton to Chickamauga, Ga. They are
marching on foot.
Miss McPherson, living near Itas-
ca, accidentally shot herself with a
rifle, Wednesday, which she had got-
ten out to shoot a chicken. The hall
struck her in the head.
Bobert Smith, a voung man work-
ing in the machine foundry at Wax-
ahachie got his hand caught in the
machinery recently and one finger
was torn completely off.
A mass meeting of the farmers
and business men of Palestine will
be held Saturday for the purpose of
organizing a branch of the Texas
Home Canners' Association.
In a decision handed down recent-
ly the supreme court of Arkansas
sustained the constitutionality of the
Amis law, which is the bill that put
out of business the big races.
Two physicians at the Boosevelt
Hospital, in New York, performed
the delicate operation of sewing up
the human heart, recently, that had
been cut open by a dagger thrust.
Mrs. A. L. Stairs, Parkershurg,
Va., killed her children and slashed
her own throat Thursday. She used
a large carving knife. The woman
is «aid to be subject to dementia.
At a barbecue held near Granger
Friday 2500 people were present.
At Temple Friday Mrs. A L. Al-
lison was severely injured in a run-
away accident. A trolley car fright-
ened the horse.
On request of Adjutant General
Newton, M. H. Mahanan, in charge
of the flood suffers' relief commit-
tee at Dallas, had 300 tents ship-
ped hack to Austin last Friday. Maj.
Roach and Captain Spears had ac-
tual charge of this matter.
Lothgrove, the 13-year-old son of
Jesse Hord, was killed on Lackey's
ranch in Presidio County, about fif-
ty miles southwest of Alpine. The
boy's horse stumbled, throwing him
from the saddle. His foot caught in
the stirrup and he was drugged to
3eath.
Several of the strong trunk lines
if the State have petitioned the Rail-
way Commission for a suspension of
the commission's equipment orders,
requiring large amounts of equip-
ment to be purchased during the en-
ming three years, hut thus far the
commission has made no orders.
In order to keep County Tax Col-
lector T. J. Dean from taking pos-
jession of all its offices and property
in Grayson county, the Western
llnion Telegraph Company through
its local manager paid its state and
iounty taxes amounting to $352.88.
Wallace Patman of Stamford, a
foung man who was learning to be
i brakeman on the Texas Central
Railroad, fell from a car Thursday
ind was bo seriously injured that he
lied.
While walking from his car to his
iome Tuesday morning, Ira M.
Lewis, a motorman, of Waco, plung-
id forward on his face and died in-
itantly of heart failure. He wa
.wenty-one years of age and leaves a
rife.
Tennessee Man C ho son for Now War
Secretary.
Washington: Secretary Taft has
presented to the President his resig-
nation to take effect June 30, and it
was announced at the White House
Friday that Luke E. Wright of Ten-
nessee will be appointed Secretary of
War to succeed Mr. Taft. In making
this appointment the President was
influenced somewhat by the desire to
recognize in an emphatic way that
there is no longer any dividing line
between the North and the South
and that all good Americans are in
thought and deed one, and the presi-
dent was influenced still more by the
fact that Gov. Wright's personal at-
tributes and experince pre-eminently
fit him for this particular position.
Mr. Wright was a captain in the
Confederate Army and is one of the
leading attorneys of the whole South.
He was appointed by President
McKinley as one of the Philippine
Commissioners and enjoyed Presi-
dent McKinley heartiest confidence,
being selected as one of the three
southerners who were in sympathy
with his administration. By Presi-
dent Boosevelt he was promoted to
be Vice Governor and then Gover-
nor of the Philippines and afterward
made first Ambassador to Japan. In
all positions he served with signal
fidelity and ability, and has been in
hearty and outspoken agreement
with the administration in all its
main policies.
Receiver Hao Charge of Bank.
Little Bock, Ark.: The Capital
Savings Bank, the only negro bank
in Arkansas, went itno the hands of
a receiver Friday on request of Chas.
B. King, the cashier. Marvin Har-
ris was appointed receiver. An il-
literate negro overdrew his account,
the check was turned down, starting
the report that the bank was insol-
vent. Several hundred negro deposi-
tors appeared before the institution
clamoring for their money. There
was only $2,000 in cash on hand and
the doors were not opened.
Liabilities are about $75,000 and
assets considerably in excess.
Noted Editor Pasteo Over.
Los Angeles, Cal.: The death of
Donaldson C'affery Jenkins, who
died at Sierra Madre Friday removes
one of the last of the great ante-
bellum editors of the country. His
newspaper career began in New Or-
leans when he was proprietor and
chief editor of the Delta, and later
the Picayune. During his connec-
tion with these papers some of his
noted comrades and fellow workers
were George W. Cable, James B.
Bandall, Breman, the exiled Irish
patriot, Mary Bigney, ,7. O. Nixon,
Durant da Poute and Alexander
Walker.
A MONSTER GATHERING
Mooting of About Haifa-Million of
8uffragista.
London, June 22.—The suffra-
gettes' demonstration in Hyde Park
yesterday was an unparallelled suc-
cess. Never before was such a politi-
cal scene witnessed in London. Fully
500,000 people in and around Hyde
Park were active or passive partici-
pants in the great meeting, while for
hours the whole center of the city
was in a ferment Various proces-
sions appeared, each about a mile in
length, and the routes were densely
crowded with spectators.
The suffragettes from the prvin-
ces were met at the various railroad
stations by delegations from the Lon-
don organization, and these, formed
into line, marched from different
points of the compass to Hyde Park.
After arriving there, the leaders and
the speakers for the various sections
had literally to fight their way to the
platforms. Probably there were about
twenty speakers in all, and these har-
rangued the masses on the rights of
women to vote and the necessity of
force in Parliament to adopt a reso-
lution on the question. These wom-
en's demonstrations are far more at-
tractive from a spectacular stand-
point than those held by men. Al-
most all of the suffragettes wore
white dresses with sashes of their
colors, green, white and purple, in-
scribed "vote for women."
Secretary Taft in Accident.
Dennison, Ohio: Secretary Taft
had a narrow escape Sunday from
being involved in a serious wreck on
the Pennsylvania flyer, which was
carrying him East. As the train was
speeding along at the rate of fifty
miles an hour the piston rod on the
left side of the locomotive broke
short off. Instantly, almost the cyl-
inder of the engine was cracked by
the unmanageable rod. The train
was just approaching a signal tower
east of Coshocton. The operator saw
that something serious was wrong
and threw down a signal to stop the
train. The engineer applied the
emergency brake and the train of six
cars came to a stop on a sharp curve.
There was a delay of an hour before
a new engine was secured.
A R!
X CITY!
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Temperance Congress in Session.
Saratoga, N. Y.; Delegates attend-
ing the World's Temperance Conven-
tion unveiled a monument to mark
the spot where the world's first tem-
perance society was founded by Dr.
Billy J. Clark, one hundred years
ago. The congress in session here is
being held in honor of the one hun-
dredth anniversary of this society,
which was organized in Moreau, a
hamlet.
Five Indictments Returned.
New York: Five indictments were
handed to Justicc Goff in the su-
preme court Friday by the special
grand jury which lias been investi-
gating the American lee Company.
Several bench warrants were issued,
but no names were made public.
Chinese Have Outbreak.
CTiicago: A fresh outbreak of war
among the Chicago "Tongs" is
threatened. J. J. Kelly, attorney for
a Chinaman recently acquitted of
murder, has received a death threat
for his activity. An unknown per-
son called Kelly to the telephone,
told him to order his coffin as he
would need* it in three days. The
police arc guarding Chinatown to
prevent a bloody outbreak.
Child Drowned at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth: The 17-months-old
baby of Mrs. J. U. Shirley climbed
into a tub Thursday and was drown-
ed while the mother was hanging
out clothes nearby. Its 3-ycar-old
sister, Grace, vainly tried to pull out
the infant. The mother's efforts to
restore life proved futile.
The surveying crew of the Abilene
and Northern railway is at work on
the proposed line to Winters.
Lynching Conducted by Negreases.
Hamburg, Ark.: A mob of en-
raged negro women dragged a man.
a negro, to a telegraph pole on tlio
outskirts of Parkdale, a town in tl.ih
county, and lynched him one night
íeccnily. Negro women of tlif.t town
it is reported * have formed a
league to tiiiorca better ínorr.l o .in-
duct bv their race and tj protect
themselves from negro men. It is al-
leged that Williams' conduct was of-
fensive to some of them and they
captured him one night and took his
life, it has caused a sensation both
among the negroes and whites.
Pays $300 for Bale Cotton.
Galveston: Three hundred dollars
for a bale of good middling cotton,
weighing 455 pounds, or at about GGc
per pound was paid by Albert Kuhn
at the auction of first bales at the
Cotton Exchange Saturday morning.
This is the record price for cotton
since war times, and the highest price
ever paid for the first bale in Texas.
Two other bales, arriving on the
same train were disposed of, one for
$150 and the other for $105.
The bans for the marriage of Mm&
Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sa-
gan were published Saturday morn-
ing at Paris.
Case. Nearing End.
College Station: The taking of tes-
timony in the investigation of the
charges preferred agsinst President
Harrington of A. & M. College by
the Alumni association was closed
Saturday. President Legctt an-
nounced that the board would con-
sider the testimony and render a ver-
dict upon it, but it might decide to
press the inquiry further upon its
own account at some future time.
The board will meet at Marlin at 9
o'clock Monday morning to consider
the case.
Hon. A. A. Wiley Dead.
Hot Springs, Va.: Bepresentative
A. A. Wiley of Alabama, who served
in Cuba as General Lawton's chief
of staff and civil governor of thft
Eastern Province and a member of
the last four congresses, died at hia
hotel here Wednesday. He suffered
for weeks with inflammatory rheu-
matism and a general physical break-
down.
ITEMS FORÍIISÍNESS m
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
A negro boy ran into the way of
an automobile at Marshall Friday
and was instantly killed.
Mrs. Lucy A. Clark of Brigham,
Utah, was the only woman delegate
to the Bepublican National Conven-
tion.
Postoffices at Albion and Leflore,
Ok., were robbed Friday, and the
Sheriff and a posse are after the
bandits.
Two men, one a student, were elec-
trocuted while at work on the new
engineering building of the Kansas
University building at Lawrence a
few days ago.
Five unidentified Italians em-
ployed by Burke Bros., contractors,
on the Lackawanna Bailroad cut-off
at Lattleheigh, Pa., on the Poconome
Mountains, were killed Friday by a
premature blast.
Frank Smith, a negro ex-convict,
was shot and mortally wounded by
W. H. Stewart, a newspaper editor
of Salisbury, N. C., who surprised
the negro, who was attempting to
burglarize the editor's home.
Bepresentative A. A. Wiley of Al-
abama, who served in Cuba as Gen-
eral Lawton's chief of staff, and
Civil Governor of the eastern prov-
ince, and a member of the last four
Congresses, died at his hotel in Hot
Springs, Va., Wednesday.
Twenty persons were seriously in-
jured in a collision between a passen-
ger train and a freight on the Wa-
bash Bailroad Friday near Pendle-
ton, Mo. The passenger train was
behind time when the wreck oc-
curred. There were 140 passengers
and all were more or less bruised.
By the explosion of a car load of
dynamite near Sargent, Colo., Fri-
day, a freight train on the Denver
and Bio Grande Bailroad was blown
to pieces, two tramps were killed,
and several trainmen were injured,
one fatally. A hole forty feet deep
was blown in the ground.
Counsel representing nearly all
the paper mills included in the mem
bership of the Fibre and Manilla
Paper Manufacturers' Association
appeared in the United States Cir-
cuit Court and pleaded guilty to in-
dietnients chargirfg them with viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust act,
Friday.
William H. Young, manager of
the Washington office of the Western
Union office, and known to newspa'
per men as Colonel Ham Young,
died Friday at the home of his son,
Frank M. Young, in Chicago, where
he was on duty connected with the
Bepublican Convention. He was
taken ill at the Coliseum.
Three miners are dead, two others
fatally burned and fifteen entombed,
many of whom are supposed to be
dead, from an explosion at the Ells-
worth mine No. 1 of the Pittsburg
Coal Company, near Monongahela,
Pa. Of the victims taken from the
mine, John Beal is the only one iden-
tified. The others are foreigners.
Eugene Pringle, who died at Jack-
son, Mich., on Tuesday, was one of
the original organizers of the Be-
publican party in 1854. He was a
very prominent member of the Mich-
igan bar.
At Shelby, Ohio., fire destroyed
the mammoth plant of the Shelby
Steel Tube Company Friday. The
building wiped out covered several
acres. The loss is estimated at from
$750,000 to $1,000,000. When op-
erated at full blast, the plant em-
ployed 800 men.
The state police are guarding the
mines at Pardee, Pa., to prevent £
serious labor clash. The miners are
on a strike. Non-union men were
imported from Virginia. The strik-
ers have dynamite and threaten to
blow up the mines and kill all non-
unionists.
With her throat slashed three
times, each time severing the wind-
pipe, Mrs. J. C. Bice was found in
the bathroom of the family resi-
dence at Oklahoma City Friday. She
will die.
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lie United
n resumed
ans the em-
pppment oi^uOO
, The Frisco resume? through Sher-
man-St. Louis traffic Saturday, the
first train crossing over the Washita
bridge, recently disabled.
At the sound of the Santa Fo
whistle Monday morning several
hundred men in the Cleburne shops
resumed work after a layoff.
The Attorney General's Depart-
ment has advised the Bailroad Com-
mission that railroads can make spe-
cial rates exclusively for negro excur-
sionists. '
Lightning struck the plant of the
Victor Bubber Company at Snyder-
ville, O., Saturday morning and it
was completely destroyed. Loss is
$100,000.
The Vigorit powder plant at Pi-
nole caught fire Thursday morning
and the powder magazine exploded.
It is believed there has been heavy
loss of life.
Sparks from the engine set fire to
a wagon loaded with wheat at the
thrasher on the W. B. Bice farm near
Brady. Marion Bice came near be-
ing badly burned.
An assistant engineer, Frank Gil-
bert, employed in the construction of
the government dam at Engle, N.-
M., was blown to atoms by the explo-
sion of dynamite.
An explosion at the Dupont pow-
der mills at Loucers, 20 miles from
Denver, Colo., Saturday, killed sev-
eral, maimed many and did great
damage to the plant.
As a result of a dispute for the
possession of some money a white
man and his wife became engaged in
an altercation in Dallas Saturday,
and both were arrested.
New Philadelphia, O., is aroused
over the murder of Charles Stach
and Miss Arline Knisley, who were
shot while buggy riding in the heart
of the town Saturday night.
The Navarro County Commission-
ers, sitting as a board of equaliza-
tion, agreed to fix land values for
taxation at $25 per acre for the best
lands and the cheaper at $8.
Planters of Louisiana are arrang-
ing for a state convention to adopt
ways and means to care for the 180,-
000 persons thrown out of work by
the Bed Biver valley floods.
Hon. Mason Cleveland, a promi-
nent resident of Cleburne, died at his
home in that city on Saturday. He
was an attorney, a member of several
secret orders, and a nátive Texan.
Mark Twain is now occupying his
new $140,000 Italian villa in Bed-
ing, Conn., called "Innocence at
Home." The entire population of
forty-three persons welcomed him.
Near Beyersville, Tuesday, .little
Nora Wendmeyer, the 5-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Wendmeyer, was bitten by a rattle-
snake. She died three hours later.
A car load of whiskey in case lots
of half pints, was confiscated at Tul-
sa, Okla., by the officials of the
county Saturday. The shipment was
consigned to two local jointists under
assumed names. It was the first ship
ment of a large order of Fourth of
July whisky.
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, who
was a member of the Confederate
Congress, and also several terms as
a representative from Tennessee in
the United States Congress, died at
his home in Paris, Tcnja., Sunday,
aged 84 years.
An insane negro man escapcd from
the guards at the asylum at Terrell
and went eleven miles into the coun-
try, entering a house while the oc-
cupants were absent and went to bed.
The family returned at night and
found the negro in bed.
Friends of W. R. Boggs, Jr., who
was killed in Durango, Mexico, last
year, have written the attorney gen-
eral at Auston to use hia influence
with the Mexican government to see
that his murderers are properly pun-
ished.
Suit for $40,000 has been filed by,
Mrs. Pearl Daniels of Temple,
against the Moser Safe company of
Waco. Mrs. Daniels alleges that her
husband was working for the com-
pany and a safe door fell on and
killed him.
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Atterbury, E. B. The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908, newspaper, June 26, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth178944/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.