La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LAGRANGE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
This woman says she was saved
from an operation by Lydia U.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Lena V. Henry, of Norristown, Ga.,
writes to Mrs. Pinkliam:
“ I suffered untold misery from fe-
male troubles. My doctor said an opera-
tion was the only chance I had, and I
dreaded it almost aB much as death.
“One day I read how other women
had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and I decided to
try it. Before I had taken the first
bottle I was better, and now I am en-
tirely cured.
“ Every woman suffering with any
female trouble should take Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid, tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear-
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health- Address, Lynn, Mass.
OFFICIAL BALLOT.
Chairman Carden Gives Pledge
and the Two Tickets.
Dallas, April 10.—Hon. George A.
Carden, chairman of the state Demo-
cratic executive committee, has given
out the following as the official ballot
for the primaries of May 2:
Pledge: I am a Democrat and
pledge myself to support the Democrat-
ic presidential electors nominated by
the Democratic party In 1908, and the
nominees of the Democratic party to
be nominated in the primary election
to be held In Texas in July, 1908.
For delegates at large to the Demo-
cratic national convention:
No. 1. J. W. Bailey.
No. 2. M. M. Brooks.
No. 3. James L. Storey.
No. 4. Andrew J. Baker.
No. 1. Cone Johnson.
No. 2. O. T. Holt.
No. 3. Cullen F. Thomas.
No. 4. Lee Young.
For alternates at large to the Demo-
cratic national convention:
No. 1. B. F. Looney.
No. 2. J. R. Kubena.
No. 3. J. R. Bowman.
No. 4. C. Lj. Brachfield.
No. 1. Marshall Hicks.
No. 2. R. C. Dial.
No. 3. Alvin C. Owsley.
No. 4. Walter Tips.
STATUS IS ASKED.
Assistant Attorney General McCord Re-
quests Some Information.
Austin, April 10.—Assistant Attorney
General Felix J. McCord has written
Barclay & Fauntleroy of St Louis ask-
ing If the Henry Clay Pierce habeas
corpus appeal is certain to be argued
before the Federal circuit court of au-
peals at St. Fhul on May 4, which date
was set some time ago. If the answer
Is in the affirmative it is more than
likely that Judge McCord will go there
and assist the St. Louis lawyers who
have been engaged to represent the
state of Texas In its efforts to bring
Pierce back to this state and answer
the Indictment in Travis county of
false swearing.
Judge McCord made one fruitless
trip and the case was not called, and
he does not care to repeat it The Fed-
eral district judge of St. Louis held
againBt Pierce, and the latter appealed
to the United States circuit court of
appeals and to the United States su-
preme court.
Dallas, April 13.—Chairman Carden
of the state Democratic executive com-
mittee has filed with Secretary Me-
Nealus the official announcement of
Hon. O. B. Colquitt as a candidate for
state railroad commissioner and Mr
Colquitt's application for a place on
the official ballot to be voted In the
state Democratic primary on July 25,
1908.
Mr. Colquitt’s application Is the first
for a state office.
Secretary McNealus states that an
erroneous Impression seems to have
become prevalent that the primary
election la to be held July 28. The
date prescribed by law la the fonrth
Saturday In July, which falls on the
25th day of the month this year. Two
years ago the date was on the 28tb.
INSULT AVENGED.
Negro Who Mistreats Girl Soo®
Loses Hit Life.
Longview, Tex., April 10.—For hav-
ing Insulted May Morris, a twelve-year-
old white girl, Albert Fields, a negro,
aged twenty years, was lynched about
one hour after he committed the of-
feae. The execution took place at
10:05 o'clock Thursday night.
Fields was captured near town and
made a full confession. He was pos-
itively Identified by the girl and by an
old negro man who went to the rescue
when she screamed when Fields grab-
bed her.
The negro was taken to the court
house yard after the confession and
Identification, a rope was placed
around his neck and fastened to a tree
and a horse was driven from under
him, leaving him dangling.
The crowd consisted of many hun-
dred people, all of whom were quiet
and unmasked. They quietly dispers-
ed, leaving the body of the dead negro
hanging In the court yard.
At about 6:15 o’clock in the evening
May Morris was coming from a visit
to a near neighbor. Just outside the
city limits, on a thickly settled coun-
try road, but at the only stretch of
nearly a quarter of a mile of heavy
woods she was met by the nee,ro, Al-
bert Fields, who asked her name, age
and weight and started to life her into
his arms when she screamed, and an
old negro man came up and the other
negro ran Into the timber.
Miss May says Fields came Into the
road from the woods Working at his
suspenders, as if repairing them.
Two negroes, brothers, Were arrest-
ed soon after, but were released and
the trail of Fields was taken up. Ex-
citement was Intense and a great
crowd, armed with all manner of
weapons filled the streets.
’ The girl was badly scared.
EDITOR FOUND DEAD.
In the Right Temple of Albert Tyson
Was Fired a Bullet.
Rising Star, Tex., April 11.—On his
father's farm, two miles from here, the
body of Albert Tyson, editor of the
X-Ray Record, was found. In his right
temple was a forty-one caliber bullet
hole. The coroner’s verdict was death
by big own hand. /
Mr. Tyson had been ailing for two
weeks from neuralgia, and an hour be-
fore the tragedy told’a friend that he
was suffering untold misery. He was
unmarried and about forty years of
age.
“Thirty” For Harry H. Lee.
Oklahoma City, April 13.—Harry H.
Lee, a well known telegraph operator
In the employ of the Associated Press,
died here suddenly, aged forty-three.
He had been In 111 health1 for several
months, but was believed to be on
the road to recovery. He was attack-
ed suddenly while at work and soon
became unconscious and died within
a few hours. He leaves a widow and
three children.
Cancels Orders.
Austin. April 11.—The railroad com-
mission issued an order cancelling an
order issued In February requiring
railroad companies to keep under op-
erating expense accounts the gross
amounts paid and received for freight
and passenger train cars, mileage and
per diem, under head of "Fire and
Equipment.” The cancellation of this
order has the effect of making the
commission adopt the present method
of the insterstate commerce commis-
sion In keeping these accounts.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING,
Prominent Sherman Citizen Laid
Low at Club House.
Sherman, Tex., April 11.—At the
club house of the Sherman County
club Albert R. Richards, forty-eight
years of age, a native of this city, pres-
ident, of the Commercial club, and
member of the Elks and United Com-
mercial Travelers, was killed by light-
ning Friday afternoon.
In company with Harry Barnes, C.
C. Rountree and Eugene Cherry, Mr.
Richards went out to the club pre-
serves, intending to spend the night
and engage in a duck hunt. After
reaching the lake Mr. Richards decid-
ed to remain at the house, while the
others went Out on the lake In boats.
Shortly after 5 o’clock to escape a
sharp thunder storm, the others of the
party came In and ran into the club
house to find Mr. Richards stretched
on the floor, his feet near the hearth,
upon which a fire he had built was
blazing. He was given attention at
once, but was quite dead and the evi-
dences that he had met death from an
electric bolt found.
Beginning with the right side of the
face and going down the right arm
and leg the current had left a dark
discoloration. Just above the mantel
two small holes had been torn through
the flue cap and a calendar that had
hung over It was badly riddled, which
indicates that he was standing In front
of the fireplace and the bolt came
down the brick chimney and passed
out through the cap near his head. In
his hat a small hole had been burned
through the rim. The chain of his
watch, which was in the right pocket
of his vest, had been melted, but the
watch was still running. The body
reached the city at 9 p. m.
He leaves a widow, but no children.
Mrs. Richards left for a visit to Honey
Grove Just a short while before the de-
plorable accident occurred. She was
notified.
DALLAS DRUGGIST WARNED
W. 8. Kirby the Recipient of a Threat-
ening Epistle.
Dallas, April 10.—W. S. KJrby, a
leading druggist and a personal oppo-
nent of Senator Bailey, received the
following letter:
“Dallas, Tex., April 8, 1908.—Mr.
Kirby, Dallas, Tex.: You are marked
for death by the ‘Black Hand society’
If you do not stop cussing Joe Bailey.
Take warning!!! A MEMBER."
The letter Is written evidently upon
a piece of an ordinary business letter
head, the caption of which is torn off,
and was enclosed in a sealed envelope.
The postmark shown that It was mail-
ed, through the Dallas postofflce on
April 8 at 9:30 p. m. In the upper left
hand corner of the letter Is the sign
of the skull and cross bones, and the
caption has In pen print, “Death-
Black Hand Society."
Fined and Ordered to Jail.
Lawton, Okla., April 11.—Judge Wol-
verton of Comanche county passed sen-
tence on the soliciting agent for a Kan-
sas City liquor house for violation of
prohibition law, giving him thirty days
In jail and a $50 fine.
8unday Liquor Law Sustained.
Montgomery, Ala., April 11.—The Al-
abama law imposing hard labor for
selling liquors on Sunday has been
sustained by the supreme court. W.
A. Harrison of Anniston, who appealed
from a sentence of o short time to
test the act, must serve his sentence.
State Archives Favored.
New Orleans, April 13.—Members of
Camp Beauregard, United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, announced here
that at the reunion in Birmingham
they would urge that resolutions be
passed calling on the legislatures of
all southern states to pass laws creat-
ing departments of archives and histo-
ry similar to that of Alabama.
Women Plowing.
Maud, Okla., April 13.—While their
husbands are making ties for the rail-
way companies the wives of numerous
farmers in this locality are doing the
plowing and preparing the land for
spring planting. A determination has
been made to keep out of debt, and for
this reason the work is being divided
among the sexes. Cotton is the chief
crop to be planted.
Noted Physician Passes Away.
Louisville, April 13.—Dr. George W.
Griffiths, for forty years one of the
most prominent physicians of Louis-
ville, died as the result of a stroke of
apoplexy. Dr. Griffths was sixty-seven
years old.
Dallas Brewery Pays Tax.
Austin, April 11—The Dallas Brew-
ery company paid to the treasury de-
partment $294 tax on gross receipts
of $58,862 for last quarter.
HANGED AT NORFOLK.
Murders Roommate, Packs Body In
Trunk and Leaves Country.
Norfolk, Va., April 11.—Leo Thur-
man of West Point, Ky., was banged
here for the murder Feb. 19, 1906, of
Walter P. Dolson of Michigan, his
roommate, whose body was packed In
a trunk. He fled, being captured
eighteen months later at Vancouver, B.
C. The execution was one of the
quickest and most successful that has
ever occurred In Virginia.
• _
Appropriation Exhausted.
Austin, April 13.—The comptroller
says that the appropriation of $2,000
made by the last legislature to pay spe-
cial judges was exhausted. From now
until Aug. 31, 1908, special judges will
have to hold their claims for action by
the next legislature.
Two-Thirds Destroyed.
Snyder, Tex., April 13.—Two-thirds
of the business bouses on the west
side of the square were destroyed by
fire. All the buildings were wooden.
Nearly all the merchandise was saved.
There 1b no Insurance.
I DR. KING'S !
FOR COUGHS and COLDS.
FOR WEAK, SORE LUNG8, ASTHMA,
BRONCHITIS, HEMORRHAGES
AND ALL •
THROAT and LUNG
DISEASES.
PREVENTS PNEUMONIA
I regard Dr. King’s New Discovery ae the grandeet medicine of
modem time,. One bottle completely cored me of a very bad
cough, which was steadily growing worse under other treatment!.
EARL SHAMBURG, Codell, Kae.
PRICK 500 AND 51.00
3 SOLD AND GUARANTIED BY C.
J. Meyenberg, Jr., Druggist.
Wedding Invitations,
Announceaent, At Hoae
and Calling Cards
THE VERY LATEST STYLES
Society Printing a Specialty
Journal Job Office
LAGRANGE, TEXAS
Plant Resumes.
Gadsden, Ala., April 13.—After hav-
ing been closed for three months the
plant of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company here was put
under blast Sunday. Three hundred
men have been put back to work, and
the force will be Increased at once.
Monster Maaa Meeting.
Pensacola, Fla., April 1$.—A m.nster
..... meeting for street car strikers
was held Sunday. There are several
military companies here.
Burned Gumbo For Ballast.
Greenville, Tex., April 13.—A plant
for burning gumbo to be used for bal-
last has been established here by the
Cotton Belt railway. The plant cost
about $50,000.
Considerable Campaign Literature.
Denison, April 13.—Fifteen sacks of
Bailey campaign literature were re-
ceived here through the malls from
Fort Worth.
Makaa Breakfast Firs and Suicides.
Nashville, April 1$.—Near Smith-
land, Lincoln county, Charles Baker,
twelve years old, made fire for break-
fast, took carbolic acid and died.
“I was a total wreck,” writes Mrs. Beulah
Rowley, of Champoeg, Oregon, “from pains 1 had
suffered, for 4 years, every month. Sometimes I
would be unconscious for 12 hours at a stretch, t
did not know that anything could stop the pain
entirely, but Wine of Cardui did. I advise all
women suffering with painful periods to use Car-
dui and be relieved.”
It does this by regulating the functions and
toning up all the Internal female organs to health.
It is a pure, specific, reliable, female remedy, with
a record of 70 years of
success. It has bene-
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Why not you? Try it.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1908, newspaper, April 16, 1908; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004131/m1/3/: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.