The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1908 Page: 6 of 8
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WOMAN JUMPS FOR LIFE.
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we havo.di
of 'Texas.** tu
, > wa» perfect)/ wit
. . the result of the conyeu
f°r b‘" -......»rter* win be
i that four-fifth of idem. who faced » mob that had at
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here from Mtaeourl about a month
A aearch of hla root* at, 216
a lot of over-
turf other article*
>1. The abaence of outbreaks
aright and Monday bare act
to discuss hi* the pcsst-
Witty or an early evacuayon of the
«fty. by the trfop*.- It la practically
Certain, however, that the military will
remain here until the special grand
Jury, summoned today, has completed
Its report and returned the Indict-
ments which State's Attorney Hatch
The force on' hand will not be added
to, however, the 4,*b<> soldiers now en-
camped In the public squares and
•treats being sufflrtont to oover the
city on thoroughly that, there la alight
chance for a, mob to storm any point.
Thomas Richardson a brother of the
accused of attacking Mrs. Mabel
led to Mississippi after he
had been attacked by white men In
Harr and Park
Another victim Is the three weeka
•Id Ctrl baby of Lawrence Paine, a
gro. who rarrtmrnM —
“nr exposure
when the child's parents started to
walk from Springfield to Pittsfield In
an effort to avoid persecution.
Over the end of the town la the vi-
cinity of the stale hotiie and arsenal
there were several cages of revolver
filing by rowdies.* The- marauders
traveled in groups of two df. three.
•haying that Orders of militia patrol to
h«ep movtng. but ereoon as they wmrw
well passed the groups of soldiers,
they drewl revolvers, fired Into the air
and fled down side streets, escaping
in the dprknesa -
Two small ffje* apparently not con-
nected with the rioting, added to the
•settoment and several to frighten the
IWSidenU, 77—-'-"—— . —!-----------•
Following the adlton of two ifetlms-
at
eg
lion ol
of the laws ol
In the wholesale
the hands and the wanton
of these poor def/enselee*
by the white people of Spring
It seems more abhorrent to
that these burnings and killings
transpire beneath and to the shadow
of the mar iment of the great emanrl
pator. ’*.ff
“Resolved, That the these rOeolu
tlona be placed In oor mtnutes nndi
given to the preen and a copy sent to
the governor of Illinois.
“J. B. CARNAHAN.
n. lawson.
Jji R w. FAKRELI,
the greets
of the situation,
k, gentlemen, or Ml shoot
yon who touches thl*
the words cf Eugene W
i VrohfMflun candidate for pres
St-S" )*> Supreme lodge KnlghU of Pythias j
meets nest time at Milwaukee. 7 j Arthur L snd Mr>. Ni.dl»Sg»r Meet
Kingfisher, Okla.. ftlt adorn “The
Galveston commission form of govern
■sent. '• V
are with Go.m tacked a negro whin, \t. omri,.
delivering a public address on the east holt/ bad hla neck broken by a steam
*111 wet a large zfde of the square Friday night 'F«,i • cotton Picker.
for prohibition; be Also
number of negro votes. He also pre-
dicts a sweeping victory when, the to-
ene Is submitted to tbe people.
Attorney general’s department has
held that under the Terrell elec-
tion law when two candidates for the
same office'get same number Of votes
no second primary shall bo held hut
tMt contest be decided by tot; that
the name of both candidates cannot
either be placed on the ballot for elec-
tion. A question came up over the
office of county treasurer of Haakell
county where both candidate* got the
orhtutes :ind | *am® *omber of votes In the primaries
OFFICER DISEMBOWELED.
"Commit tee."
Injured, Third In Jail.
CUTTING AT VICTORIA.
One Lad May DiZ Another Seriously W»k who was afterwerd Wiled
Negro Murderer Flees to Dlplng Car
and Thara Shot to Oaath.
New Orleans. Aug. lb.--John J. Oar
roll. a‘ veteran member of the local
police force was out to death by a
by police In a^ train of the Louisville
Victoria, Tex., Aug. IS.—A baseball *nd Nashville railroad In The depot at
game .here was followed J>y a cutting the head of Canal street. The negro
affray at the depot. In which two boys,
sons Of prominent famine* are Mere-
ly wounded, one fatally and another
boy as welt connected te In jail on two
Was quarreling with another negro
end When the officer entered the dtn-
lug enr he was disemboweled The
__ murderer then., ltd Into tb drawing
charges of assault wlib Intent to. mur t*oom car, where he waa surrounded
dev, • j and killed Carroll fired at the negro
OUl« Mundt of thf* clt*. son of. Pro- *■ running and badly wound
feasor Mundt, principal of the Hawij^ another negro. ^
thorne high school of Houston, and1 “--—-:
Lawrence Hanes of Portland. Tex.1 HOLDING HANDS UP.
whose father la a prominent dtizen ol ' . ———• ' ..
Kaufman county, were both dan. j Woman Marches Two Fort Worth Po-
geroualy wounded. Hanes la not ex- f Iceman to 'Station Houst. .
ported to live , Hanes .received a tor-| Fort Worth, Aug. 111.—Mrs. F. 6.
rlble cut across
Awful Fee Fist Shot and Receives
Two Knifo Wounds, Latter P|to|st
Through Window.
—Feet week nearly nidi,non +*nh.il» of —----— -■——— -......
Texas wool wae sold on tha fjoston . , Ctjltimhus, . Q„ Aug. 17.—Arthur I*
arket.
Near M fust ha ns, -Xaju,
FaMa gUihun
—* hetdlattder, aged tJMy-fmir. and hto
this act Mr. Chafln was struck on the 1 ^ Mark Zelgler. a veterinarian, tiled
left side of the face with a brickbat a horM1 **• sautalned two weeks
Chafln was well along In hie speech
when a negro pursued by a mob came
toward tha apeaker’a stand from FTfth
and Washington streets, where he had
keen pulled from a street cafr. The
crowd/cloeed in on the negro and had
him on the ground, besting him with
tbefr flats and clubs The negro final-
ly got away and jumped on tbe plat-
form. It was at this point that Mr.
Chafln stepped to the front of the
mob, put h|s hand to his hlppocket snd
Threatened to shoot anyone who time i
•d the negro
Mr ChaflD'e threat had the deslrrd
before hla demise.
Town of Taft. Mtont, except the poet-
off tee, a grocery store and saloon, was
destroyed by fir*.
Jake Ringer was jailed at Bonham,
Tex., on charge of assault on a girl
under fifteen years of age.
Taxable value* of Dallas coukty for
1F08 are estimated at fB4,7*4.800, an
Increase of |*M7S,700 over 1»07. *
Hard times are ascribed as tb*
reason for an epidemic of wife deser-
tions In New York's poor districts.
>»i<e. s**it uiin i w*i s»i* found dead,
th<- forme)- ip a room above hto gro-
, i-ery store, near the western corporation
-line, shd tbe woman In the street-ad-
Jolnlug the store. Tbe man's body
lay in bed He had been shot through
the left nipple There were two knife
Wounds In the heart.
The womaa had been shot In the side,
th* bullet passing tbrougu both lungs.
She la believed to have been shot
while In- the-grocery. and then to have
plunged headlong through a glass door
and made her way to the street, where
she fell dead. Like her husband, she
was stabbd In th* heart.
The police have made one arrest, taht
of John isewklrk. aged thirty, a paint.
effect, although he -had no weapon. New York Ctty banking firm of Speyer
During the fight the ueuro pulled a A Co., died at Oananoqug, Canada,
knife from hla pocket and slashed sev
oral white -men Mr Chafln was not
seriously injured.
James Scott was struck hy a stray
bullet and almost instantly killed. .
"Total death list in 8i>riu*ftetd riot
la five. — .....-......——• -
ATTACKERS FLED.
Three Wagonload* of Soldiers Are
Sent to th* Scene.
number of the er> lives with his parents nor far
“ *” from the Neldlander grocery. He Is
said to have threatened to kill the
. . . fj* ““d Rainey, proprietress of a down town
Mundt an ugly knife wound In the _f . . - t______ 4___________
back of th* neck, nearly aeverlng tbe
jugular vela. r
Banka Bards*, son of Judge J, B.
rooming house, forced two po’lcemea
leave her home at the point of a re-
volver. Tha officers started to- aearefc
it a wa/rant when
Bardee of Wharton, was plared in jail her bouse wl
and charged with the assault. He hex the women got the drop on them. She
been deled bell. ' marched the Mio the police station
Bardee wae manager of the Wharton with their handg up, where abe prefer-
have been tbe work of a (bw Individ'
HSla. . ' ' .
With the arrival Of tbe Second and
Seventh Infantry regiments and two
baseball team, which played Victoria .red charges of ! entering her home
here this morning. Hanes played first, without a warraht, as required by law.
base for Victoria and Mundt was an ar ' ---'
dent rooter for the home club. It :f»| Found Hanging to Tree,
aald that, hard words passed betwein Bnfdy. Tex„ Au*. 17.—William
Bardee and Mundt at the game, ml ~
min a ting In the trouble at tbe station
Raone was found hanging from a tree
In a pasture near Stdcy. Hu had gone
A crowd was at the station waiting out Into the pasture to drive up the
for an excursion train from Port La-; horses, and not coming back to a rea-
vaca. The factions esme together and .enable time, .search was made for
Bardee to said to have drawn a knife him. and he was found dead, aa stated
and made at Mundt. Hanea~*tepped to He was about thirty yean l of age,
htoJBfgbabto Ahath »• M attempt to and had been married only a few
•eparete the combatgnta. , • j months. He was the son Of J. T
Ratine of Roehelle, where he had lived
from boyhood. A few weeks ago he
iwlng ws nuiuin Wl ivd IIIUIUI'I --- - - — „ — j«. ■' - ' 1 «• 'wiiiiii
to the J.-ath list, sporadic outbursts of .provement In the new state. But con- the Improvement of the public roigto
dltlon to Texas Is 1n the middle west leading Into Whitney. • Grading hWs
lawlessness to various parts of the city
and Increased symptom* generally
Utaf the mob spirit still roles Spring
Held. Governor Deneen Issued six pro-
clamations oferlng rewards aggregat-
ing 11.100 foF the arrest and convic-
tion* of tjie murderers of the vlctlnis
death tost now numbers seven.
nlni e one death was due only Indirect-
ly to th* disturbance*, no official no-
**■“ haFb**n taken of It,
Wound Proves Fatal.
Springfield, III., Aug. tg — O W.
BcoU,' shot to the Innc* Friday nlgbL
'w lM • imid.
Cotton Condition.
Dallas. Aug. It.—Reports of over 800 moved lo a ranch near Stacy.
correspondents of the News give con- \ -1—-— .........
dltlon of cotton on Aug. 14. aa com- Doing Qood Work,
pared with the crop of the correspond Whlfnr/, Tex.,, Aug. IS.—The Pro-
Ingjlay of ti»07 219.5 In Texas and^ 98.3 gresglvu league, recently organized
to Oklahoma There I* a marked lm- here, has just let several contracts for
nrnvomant In t he num ailnto Out onn. Jl. - to_________a - .i ...
section. BoD worms are active to been done, grades are being reduced
northeast Texas and to spots else-, Bnd culverts sre being put to where
where... • | needed The league has committees
—--— on every road, and other contract* are
BBREV1TIES BUNCHED. | being let as fast As possible. The
— I county la bearing two-thirda of the
Majestic Ik—ter at Houston was- expense but the work to muter the
fire damaged |S (to<t t control Of the league's committee*
Oil Still Burn*.
City of Mexico, Aug. 18.—Tha great
fire which has been raging to tbe Dee
Bwecas oil ftebt* welt wear Tamptro
tor forty-three days has baffled alt at-
tompta which hare been made to ex
ala
Mogul*h It and It-to new greater In vol-
nme than ever befdFa
From a hole eight Inches la to dlam-
•tor, the well has widened Into * vol-
cano with a crater 1 no metres across
It la eotlmatod that the name* roach
• height over MS feet, while the black
column of some continues Into the
•toads. ' - ■
A report received from tbe student*
o«nt tp tha scene by the Mexican gov
mamsiut oatlaiatd th amount of otl con-
•umed at loaat *0,000 gallons per min
ttto. Ag the oil 1* partly consumed
the rooidua rolls down the aides of tbs’
>r. Masses ef black substance re-
bllng pitch splutters and foams
d explodes aver th* tided.
Remarkable Grits
Chicago. Aug. II.—A remarkable ex-
hlbltlon of grit and nerve Waa witness-
od when Ooorge Nagle, twenty-two
years old. carrying hla left arm. which
had been severed by a Chicago. Mi)
wankee snd Ft Paul t(aln staggered
Into a policeman and then fainted af-
ter telllns hla story Nagle had car-
ried the grewsome bundle of mangled
flesh' for two blocks in sn effort to
find s phywl< Ian's office. He had at
tent [Red (n heart) a passing freight
train, but had slipped ou the wei
runners of the ladder hpd fallen be
death 'he tracks, .lie was taken to
a.h^pbf1-,
Two miles from Randlett. Okla, A.
j. Rich waa found dead.
Maximum temperature at Tolsa.
Okla-.. Monday waa 98 degrees.
Almost Beaten to Pulp.
San Antonio. A 4. 17—Guillermo
_ Huerto. a painter, Was assaulted by
Standard Otl company has declared ,our Mexicans on S*n Antonin Raso
a quarterly dividend of 8 per cent | •**"'*« •n,‘ '*•««“ ‘° '*•«“>■ The at
w,.. ,, l _ ,'tack waa made with !rocks ead clubs.
Mlller-I.lnk Lumber company ot
r^mro^o^e^I-H-to
Roberto Rodriguez and 8. C. Motftelvo
1. ^ t
Mrs Clifton Freepian of Rattan,' have been arrested.
ttelta county, Texas, suicided; carbolic __. , . —_______
A< ld | Resign* and Bacemas a Democrat,
Intense beat at Tulsa. Okla, Monday | fort Worth, Aug. 15.—Dr. C. P.
caused a young woman to become In- Brewer, special penaldn examiner here,
s*oe. i wired Cecil A. Lyon nnd the Washing-
Mrs. l-ula May Hanna, wife of the ) ton authorities resigning and do-
Amerlcan consul at Montarey. died. nouaclng the action of the Republt-
nt El Paso t can ,/convention at Dallas In adopting
Th* body of Jim l-ee. * negro farm | » Prohibition plank He joined the
er, wa* cut to pieces by a train uear Democratic forces
Bastrop. Tex
Bprtnxfleld*. Ill, Aug. 17-.—"Shortly
after midnlvht Monday morning's pla-
toon of police was scot lo Harvard
Parle, a suburb on the southeastern
side of the city, to qtiell an incipient
riot. Shota had been fired at a house
Inhabit) i.r by negroes, but no one was
Injured, and on the approach Of three
wagonloads of aoldlers tbe attackers
fled The district la soar a shaft of
the Central coal mine, many negroes
being employed - to the woililogs. It
V. Read Admiral Cogswell, who made
tbe famous trip around Cape Horn
with the Oregon, died at Milwaukee,
Wl*. ,
In address at Oklahoma City before
tbe Kpwortb league R- T. Burge assert-
ed lRl> joints were being operated at
that place. -.1.
Texas State Cotton Olnners’ associa- 1 ’ I'?,'/.-
tton held a two daye' session at Byn- Nun* °n Th«lr Wgy From Ban Antonio
A. A. Rosa of Chico was elects^
couple because their dog bit bis moth-
e> recently.
The police say a section of the paint-
er’* ladder, found at hla home. 0t»
a section of a similar ladder found
leaning against tbe store.
PRE6ENT FOR POPE.
der.
president
In a pistol duel on a train between
/Muskogee and Waganer. Okla, Officer
John Given ahot and kflled Bert Jami-
son ,a negro. The latter was drinking
and fired at the officer.
Father Leonardl of Chicago has pur-
chased for $150,000 7,000 acres In Tom
Green county, Texas. A Roumanian
colony will be located, 260 families
from Chicago soon to settle.
A while cap notice Informed negro
loafer* at Yoakum. Tei., that It
has been sonsldered a dangerous spot, ,would * * lhe‘lr P*r»°nal Interest to
but this1' demonstration is thought to *•**• wl,hln twenty-four hours
squsdrons of the First cavalry, all S°n
from Chicago, the entire National
guard of Illinois, with the exception
of the Sixth Infantry and the Eighth
Infantry (negro-, was on duty In the
Iddegi districts Sunday nlgtt.
rrot riddep^dlstrlcls Sunday nlgto. In
all. 4.2W guardsmen were In the city.
Two deaths due to the violence of
Friday and Saturday occurred at St.
John’s hospital. William Donalgan.
the aged negro whose throat wa* cut.
expired. Frank Drtmore, who was sho(
through the lungs on Friday night.
ItBed aw hour later. This brings tbe
F. J. Lewis, treasurer of the Sav-
ings Life Insurance company of Pe-
oria, IU., suicided by taking poison.
He waa a thirty-second degree Ms-
___ v • . - —
By tb* burning of the barn at Dallas
of the Americas District Messenger
Service 120,000 loss was sustained
Four mule* and fo/ir horses were ere-
mated.
Tom Brown of Cleveland, Okla., sup-
posed to have drowned to the Valencia
With Exqulslt* Album.
Sari Arifnitto; Am* If.—"Mother Flor;
ence and Slater Rhllftthcii of tills city
•ailed from N w York < 4* the La Bre-
tame for lluvre. They will visit rel-
atives of Mother Florence at her for-
mer home In Alsace, the mother bouse
of the Coseregstlfm of Divine Prori-f
dence at St, Jean de RaHel, the famed
shrine of Our Lady at • txjurdes, *Vid
then proceed to Rome, where they will
remain about throe weeks. They will
present to the holy father a-auperh ju-
bilee gift on the part of the Congrega-
tion of Sisters of Divine Providence
Thla gift t* In the form.of a large al-
bum. 18x24 Inyhes In slxe, containing
thirty five pages It contain* photo
graphic views of the mother house and
novitiate of the congregation* and of
tbe sixty four educational institutions
conducted by the Sisters In Teens.
Louisiana and Oklahoma, together with
portraits of th* resident pastor* and
•f groups of students at each school
A Mr.-
The fir*:- peg* contains-a .ftoe por-
tralt of Pope 'Pitta,X. surrounded by
portraits of the^btshops of this prov;
1 nee, 7he father superior, the chaplain
wreck off tbe Washington coast in | and the spiritual director of the con-
1BW, WB jugt returned home. He was grerulpn “— --------- —r* ^
An another vessel. j The album is defiantly bound and
By-the capsizing on the Wisconsin embossed to a ljeuutlful traveling case,
riUcr, near Kllburn. Wla, of a plea* . ----—_
I- .1 .r -virs ?'”0zr ■s.Z Cightning slays girls.
trouble* to five. - »n orTSTiSiArawWOT*. ---1 —-----------------
A council ot. war was hold at the
capitol at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon :
by OorernoF Deneen. Adjutant Oepcrar
8cott, General F. P. Well* and Colonel !
H, B. Sanborn. A plan was adopted
*fc
Deaths by duel. ,
bJioC, «l T-O M.n Fi*hl With K„i««,
demon etrattona Improbable , , | *nd Both Corpses.
A genuine scare was caused at thej CTiillleothe. Tex., Aug 15.—As tbe
n«*A(1quart«rn Id the arsenal after a * ,
squad had been sent to disperse a re“ult ot mtsutiderstandtog dal
crowd at Allen and Springs at reel* | *nK hack s*-vui'al months, Tom Robbins
Five minutes later a report reached and Ernest Smith are both dead, after
Lieutenant Colonel Eddy that shots a duel with knives on s street. They
had been fired In the threatened dls- . , ,, , .
, . , ,, ,_____,, ..... ^ ' were brother* In law Robblris was
trlct. He Immediately aent a full
platoon lo tbe place to reinforce the unmarried. Mrs Smith witnessed the
squad When the additional aoldlers death of her‘husband , and brother An
apeared the crowd broke and ran. The inquest mu»s held by Justice of the
soWler* pursued them tot several , ,
blocks and the dlatrlct, which Is near
the scene of Saturday night s lynch- th»' "*"* »« ‘Delr deaths by
tng. wss In an uproar for a few min- knife wounds inflicted upon each other.
utes. | ------
The arsenal waa crowded with negro
refugees from Springfield and sur-
rounding towns. About 200 men.
Pai»ei ThroL'jjh Body of Their
Father Fir*t.
J5I Paso. Aug. 17.—Jirnna Diaz, aged
eight, and her sister. Natalia, aged
nine, were.Instantly killed by lightning,
hrhich struck their father. Santiago
Dlnz The father Is expected lo die
Santiago nta£ wa* sitting Itr the
front of hl» home holding In his arms
an Infant of a few months Lightning
struck the corner of the house,'passed
through the body of the man and
struck the little girls, who were stand-
ing Indoors. The baby was unhurt.
BROTHERS DROWN.
WATCHMAN MURDFRED.
One Slips In Oam and Other En-
deavors to Save N<m
Dallas, Aug 17.— WRille Joseph Rus-
sell. a youth. In company wtth James,
his brother nnd the latter.'* wife, was
at Bachman's dam, above the city sev-
eral rtlles. fishing. Joseph slipped oE
\
l.adls of Muskogee. Okie, have *P
peeled to Governor Haskell to behalf
of e state jeformalory -
Secretary of Wsr Wright, a Gold
Democrat, ha* offered to take the
stump tor th* Republican tick*!
Third Anniversary. •
Austin, Aug. 15.—Friday waa the
third anniversary of tbe etate banking
law and the report -made shews that
841 books have been organized since
the law went Into effect and out or
that number 828 are now operating
Texas state health department ha* and art to fin* condition
been advised ef several addition*, yel-
low fever cases to southern Mexico.
For tbe first tlmp lo many waeki
Dallas and vicinity were Monday night
vtotted by a heavy and much appre
Hated rain
KbiHag to comply with Ahe law re
latlve to escapemeut abaft* Carry This
mine No 77 at M^Aleater, Okta , ia re
ported closed.
Tb# four year old son of Thomas
Raylor*T^ nesr Paris, Tex, wa* prob-
ably faiatty hurt by being run over
by' a buggy *
Deputy Stale Gam*. Warden Lorance
cans"attention to tpe fact thit the
Reeatar Attack* Child.
Baton Rouge. Aug IS.—A Shanghai
rooster attacked Infant of Dr I.emor-
gan and was drtve%.joff after bringing
blood to seveVal places from the child.
Oreaaes to Whit* end B^icldea.
Tullahoma Tenn, Au* 15.—Array-
ing herself to white. (Mrs. Stella Hamil-
ton suicided with carbolic acid.
About Sept. 1.'
Austin, Aug. 15.—Hon R. T Mil-
ner say* he expect* to assume thg* a barricade of furniture.
woman and children sought the shelter Charles L. StewArt Shot to Death
•** SB* .m.» h~.... >...)»... *}ss
', the yards'. A bullet from a forty-five recovered, Mr. Russell was
BEATS WOMAN TO DEATH. Colt's hid gone ibrough hto brain building contractor.
-- j Hla own gun near tbe body was not
Undsr Impression That Bhi Wa* Con, fired. One ahot was heard aboet an
local
Grot* Receipt* Collection*.
i ureu. vine mini we* nearn mom an << «, ,, „
I _ „ ... . ^| Austin, Au*. 17.—The comfltronor *
( bOur before the finding (of the body department has announced that the ac-
near the spot. j tuel cash collected from the gross re-
A Mexican wa* arrested. Hla toot- | celpt* law for tha quarter beginning
ptrtna match those found near (he July 1 and ending Sept. SO, 1908, based
Mr' 7 '*■. I on the previous quarter to >55,202
The examination showed that tha Time la yet to collect >10,507, -of. which
bullet was tired from above, presum- ‘ amount >7.712 it due by the Wnter*-
_________ _ ______________ ably from the top of aome ear* on tb# Pierce Oil company which failed to
woman to death with a rocking chair ) aide track. f pay Its tax Thla does not Include
after dragging her Into a bedroom 1 T*® deceased was twenty-nine year* press and Insurance companies
from tha kitchen, where ahe had been of (be aoa of C. M" 8 tow art, a ______
preparing a meal. " . special detective tor the Santa Fe. He F*|l* Long Distance
He wae arrested a few minutes later , w“ excellent young mae. with Cameron. Tex., Aug. 17.—Paul Millie
• ' ' IroTtod by Evil BpIrlL
Chicago, Aug. 17.—The negro sec-
tion of Chicago wa* thrown Into a
state of excitement Sunday by th*
murder of Lucy Briggs, ilxty-flve year*
of age, a nagraaa. In her home at 2112
Dearborn street, by Clayton N. Will
Clayton
lame, also a negro. William*"Beat the
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after a desperate resistance. At near tn*B7 friend*, apt) a former resident ton into a mining shaft near Milano.
ly*aa the polk* were able to learn, - ot Cleburne. _ ■ f a distance of 110 feet, but regained
William* wa* a religious fanatic, and ---- consciousness when recovered and
had become excited over the race troti Qlrl Beats Away Assailant. lived several hours. He had pushed
bles st Springfield. He became pos Duncan, Okla., Aug. 17.—While pass- a car Into the shaft, thinking the cage
___________ ____ _______presidency of the agricultural and me-
dove killing season In Texas doeri not chanlcsl college Sept. 1.
begin until Nov 1 . - I T- '' —r*
Ix>uis V Taft, cousin of Hon W. H,! ■_ T L,r*e F,rr Lo‘,,
Oswtse Tow Awe;)?-The Hyoele
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gr«pMrn| iinJoii ttak appllrttifm nfuntnit mill ard I5*» ’ft rbanr^l with th#* ahrodH upoa th«*
_ p*c Afle C»tos<4*rabto.
.Tqyjut-lton < Au*.--W—-Tlif* kiss to
th* Rd-:' c "#■ 1 !
tievr -ptnr-<~4 n4 4'-
fM'kie'.As
aessed with the Idea that the Rrlggs lag through an alley near her home was there to.receive It. Tbe car went
woman, with whom he boarded.'"was here Mist Frankie May Frenslay, thlt- to the bottom, and Mnlll* with II.
controlled by evil splslls, of which teen yearn of ago, waa assaulted by --——-—.
he derided to rid her The chair with a young negro giving tha name of J. Cocaln* Found
which Tie had brained the woman was M Matthews Mias Frensley had aa Denton. Tex, Aug 17.—Dr J S Atv
found splintered and blood-stained umbrella In her hands, and when the b0tl stale pure food commissioner,
when (he pbHce broke dowp the door negro seized her she commenced bear neciired samples of a popular soda
behind whlchWIIIIamr had contrived tog him with the umbrella, and fright- fountain drink from locnl fountains
,ond him off. Th negro was captured nnd will analyze them for the presence
7 , *nd lodged In jalk A mob gathered^ jof cocaine arid other harmful drugs
Awful Crime Charged. about the structure. . ftr AbJitott stated that he had found
Summerville, Oa , Aug. ‘ t7.-j,R. Ik cocaine in three soft drinks.
Williams, while,fifty years old. owner Carload of Citizens Cited.- 1 ■
Kniirinnii,
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“Tpt^ Aug. is.—
vridiMfru Flimm walk.
. '
mEjua..'., , Becbmtz 9tat» Bank.
Gulbrle, A.Tg."T». The Biil* Nation
has liquidated, surrendered Its nation
at < barter and reorganized under the
dtato guarmutyTaw Ten other nation-
W R. Atsrn«r of th>)las discovered a
strange young man going through'his
19 or uMwee-o" ww. r— drggucr. 1L coioicd U.c buiqlar with
tc* lake out stale chkrters to ,a pistol sod aJaki-m il fhc .ofber o<
. .. —k-— -* o- , .ipanto of t)« ........ 11„ ix.lf«* b.i k
ed up the lotnidcr
of Oklahoma si. now pra-
te talto UdvanLige
:TDe crlrae, IL.IS «ttd. wns cojnmltted
while Wrnila«iv was returning with the
little girl from a plcplc Saturday aft;
Srnoon. Williams claims he knows
Gn-irlr comnahv ig I ntlthln* of the affair, except that he
, T.XJve,! 1A >.'hw4 town dr Inking. Anticipating trou,
iTpicnts ses"; » ■ hTe toe sheriff took Williams tb Romo.
etlons of property owner* of Kaufman
Go, for safe keeping.
greotly raised by tha
commissioners' court. A carload ot
Terrell citizens were cited te appear
before that body and show cause why
their renditions should not ba raised
A tow —--
hul a
■fourt. and
ed substantially.
Mex Icq. Mo,,
riyirtr-firrm y^gra
sLutoduu fubtlrotn Son Ant»nl.,. Te«,,.
jjavl. winter, has arrived here.
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Adams, Jesse M. The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1908, newspaper, August 21, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009119/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.