Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CARTOUTON CHRONICLE
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The heaviest mail that the post-
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aide of the Christmas season, wae
that which St. Valentine brought to
the letter carriers Thursday.
Oscar Smith Dives on a Hores at San
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DAL,LA®ITE FELL TO HIS DEATH
John C. Hart, a Popular Dallaa Bar-
ber Killed in Chicago.
Chicago, Ill., Feb. 20—John C.
Haft, aged 85 years, a barber, em-
ployed in the Postal Telegraph
building, last night fell a distance of
eleven stories of the building and
was terribly mutilated, crushing a
hole through the marble floor when1
he alighted. He was climbing up i
small spiral stairway at the top of
a light shaft when he missed his
footing. He came here from Dallas.
Texas, and papertf"on his person also
show that he hail recently lived at
Houston.
John Hart was one of the best
known barbers in Dallas. For a long
while he had the first ehair ih a shop
located on Main Street, near Lamar,
and had a large acquaintance and
many-friends in Dallas.
Bryan Eulogize. Roosevelt.
Chicago: Of the President's
Democracy. Mr. Bryan, in conver-
sation here,’ where he delivered a
lecture Tuesday niriit before the Y.
M. C. A_ said: “He has advocated
so much more that is Democratic
over what his platform led us to ex-
pect, that 1 am glad to commend him
whenever 1 can. He has sought to
educate the public up to a consid-
eration of a number of economic
qut'stions, and 1 am sure good will
com of his efforts in this direction,
even if he does not go as far as the
Democrats would like to have him
go. His recommendations of rail-
road regulation were in line with the
Democratic platforms of 1896, 1900
and 1904. But he does not go far
enough.’’ -■ ‘
Farmer Thrown nto a Fire.
Denison : M. G. Armitage, a farm-
er residing four miles north of Den-
ison, was badly burned Monday in
a strange manner. He was driving a
team of mules over a cornfield, rak-
ing up cornstalks and. burning them.
Tlie team ran away and Mr. Anning-
troui was thrown into a pile of the
burning stalks. His clothes caught
fire and his hands, legs, body and
face were burned. The team, when
found, was badly burned.
Trinity River Progress.
Work on the concrete masonry of
dam No. 1 on the Trinity River is
being prosecuted vigorously during
the bright weather, (’out rat lor Mc-
Cord expects to have this dam com-
pleted so as to stop the water by the
end of the present year. This will"
render the river navigable for a dis-
tance of thirty miles below the citv
and several miles above, and will
mark the beginning of steamboat
traffic. , -
Killed by Locomotive Explosion.
Houston: Early Tuesday morn-
ing, after taking water at Strang,
twenty miles south of Houston, ths
boiler of an engine drawing a freight
train on the-Galveston, Houston and
San Antonio Railroad, exploded with
terrific force. Engineer George
Merchant was blown one hundred
and fifty feet, and his body mangled
and torn. His death resulted in-
stantly. B. Elliott, the fireman,
was painfully, but not fatally,
bruised.
Five men employed on the Tjouis-
villtf and Nashville Railroad in lay-
ing track near Hassel Patch, Ky.,
were killed Monday by the explosion
of 100 sticks of dynamite which they
w< re thawing around a fire.
A small son of Mr. and Mrs. Bag-
gerly of the Minerva community, six
miles south of Cameron, accidental-
ly shot himself through the head
with a target rifle while out hunt-
ing and died half an hour latd-.
Hany Corbett, the well known
sporting man and brother of James
J. Corbett, ex-chambion heavy-weigh
J. Corbett, ex-chambion heavy-
weight pubilist, was found dead in
San Francisco Saturday morning.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, it u
reported, is suffering from influenza
in London. His physicians advised
him to go abroad for a week or two,
but his official duties at this time
make this impossible. , . s . « • ■ -
A committee representing several inK ®ver roa^ an< locked
thouAand trackmen em[
atrnction and repair wori
ern railroads met recently and pre-
pared, wage demands which include al ’
&
rapher, employed for the occasion,
took the picture of his last leap.
Om Killed and Several Injured.
cern at Plainfield, N. J., John Bara-
crushed fatally and several other
un.icu .m.v ..... ...» —. men were b*dly hurt. All were mem-
sou ri. Kansas and Texas Railway *^Op'
and went th sleep, remaining en- *<® "J*""* u .
tombed six days and five nights. when ** h«V
— - - ■ - - mass of metal slipped. The casting
fell on them. , ...
AMd-SS-Kgled. -J,
Ferris: An old -^1-
SgiCy"
Muskogee, L T., F<b. 18.—It be-
came known here Sunday that Clif-
ford Green, a lad 8 years of age, in
this city last Monday morning,
drifted into the yards of the M is-
-
I acrosswhich was fillet! with people, but
ley had time to get out, out had
to leave all of their belongings,
many of them appearing on tnc
streets dressed only in night attire.
The full extent of the loss cannot he
estimated. The fire extended from
the hotel about 200 feet north to the
planing mill, where the flames got
in their work.' The place’ was filled
with lumber and burned rapidly.
At 2.30 a. m., the two men who
were supposed to be in the gooming
house over the Wilcox saloon are
still missing, and the heat of the
smoldering ruins is too great to per-
mit a search. The fire is practically
under control and it was stopped on
Rusk street just at it got .to the new
Exchange livery stable.
The City Planing Mill is gutted,
and only the walls are left. The St.
Elmo Hotel is very badly damaged,
but no one was injured. The Ban-
ner furniture store, which is OQ_the
first floor of the Knights of Pythias
building, is considerably dainaked.
MADE THE LEAP OF DEATH
back the horse made a beautiful dive.
The horse hit the water nose first,
with Smith sitting gracefully on his
back. The crowd broke into cheers
as the horse and rider went under
the water. The horse came up, but
no rider. The crowd stared horror-
stricken.
After five minutes, and still Smith
did not appear at the surface, one of
the employes of the show dived into
the water after him. It was twenty
minutes before his body was recov-
ered. When taken out of the tfatei
it was found that be had a groat
bruise over his left eye, evidently
ie horse. As
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James Nichols, pit boss of No. 10
shaft, property of the Texas and Pa-
cific Coal Company, at Thurber, was
instantly killexi Friday afternoon at
2 o’clock by being caught and
crushed by the cage. He evidently
misunderstood the signals for K6ist-
•ng. ~.......
The clerk of the supreme court
has given notice to the attorney
general's department that the case
an appeal entitled State of Texas
vs. the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway, for taxa under, the Love
law, will come up for hearing Feb.
80.
Owing to a misunderstanding of
train orders, two freight trains met
in a head-on collision on the Katy
near Caney, I. T., Wednesday night.
Conductor Charles Burckel was in-
stantly killed ; one engineer, one fire-
man and one brakeman were hurt,
and both engines were utterly demol-
ished.
John W. McKinney, grand master
of the negro Masonic fraternity of
Texas, has awarded the contract for
the temple to be erected in Fort
Worth, at a cost of $50,000. The
structure will be thoroughly mod-
ern. Mwsw-wi
Albert Johnson, a negro porter,
fall between the can of an incom-
ing Santa Fe train at Paris Wed-
nesday night and his leg was cut
'. Rock Island passenger train No.
' 7, southbound, crashed into a switch
engine in the east end yards at Ok-
lahoma Citv. The engineer and fire-
man of the passenger train were se-
riously hurt. Twenty-four pasaen-
r. gers were slightly hurt. .
The plant of the Economy Butter
Company at Chicago, was raided by
eight deDuty internal revenue col-
lectors, who seized 25,000 pounds of
oleo, said to be colored in violation
of the Federal law.
The City Council of Waco has
purchased ten blocks of property In
the northern portion of that city and
will convert it into a park, for which
it is peculiarly well adapted by na-
ture.
A london dispatch says Lloyds has
added to its many odd insurances
one on Thaw’s life, agreeing to pay
a total loss if the prisoner is exe-
cuted. The premium is thirty
guineas per cent.
The cotton platform at Blossom,
a town of 2000 people, was burned
Friday. Three hundred bales of cot-
ton were on the platform. A pass-
ing T<*xas and Pacific passenger
train started the fire at 10 o’clock.
A special from Sulligent, Ala.,
says the vault in the county treas-
urer’s office at Hamilton, Marion
County, was blown open Friday
morning and looted of between
$6000 aad $8000.
Contract has been let for erection
of a $20,000 hotel at Teague. The
Structure will be of brick, modernly
equipped with electric lights, priv-
vate telephones, baths, etc. Work
will begin at once and be rushed to
early completion.
Dr. Franz Von Rottenburg, cura-
tor of the University of Bonn, is
dead. He was chiefly known by the
influential part lie took in German
politics as chief of the imperial
chancellery and as confidential ad-
viser to Prince Bismarck for nearly,
ten years.
Friday afternoon Dr. Beachom,
formerly of Mangum, now of Law-
ton, shot and killed Dr. Thomas,
formerly of Mangum. The tragedy
occurred in a smoking car of the
westbound Rock Island train just as
it stopped at the station at Hoban,
Oklahoma.
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 18.—In
the presence of 5,000 spectators Os-
car Smith rode one of Dr. Carver’s
diving horses, Powderface, to his
death yesterday afternoon. The per-
formance was being given at the
baseball park and an immense audi-
ence was present.
“The Girl in Red,” being ill, was
unable to ride.
Smith, known as the “boy bron-
cho buster,” an attache of Carver’s bruise ovex his left ey<
show, volunteered to ride the diving caused by a kick from the horse. "As
horse, which leaps from a forty-foot Smith made the dive a local photog-
platform into' a pool of water four- —1— ---uv
teen feet deep. With him on his
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FABT TROLLEY TRAIN JUMP®*——
TRACK IN NEW YORK.
And a Score are Dashed to Death
While Half a Hundred are Pain,
fully Injured. -
New York, Feb. 16.—Sixteen
passengers were killed outright, four
*s » * w» a • il _j . 5-1
midnight and at least fifty npore
were hiore or less seriously injured
following the wreck of the White
Plains and Brcwsler Express on- the
Harlem division of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
in the Bronx of Greater ’New York
Saturday night.
The train was filled wjth matinee
crowds and commuters and was made
up of two electric motors, a combin-
ation baggage and smoking car and
four passenger coaches. It left the
Grand Central Station at 6:18
o'clock, the first scheduled stop be-
ing at White Plains.
At Woodlawn Rood the four
tracks run through a rocky cut and
take a sharp curve. When the train
reached the curve it was, according _
to passengers, running at a very high jured.' Another man was pulled out
speed, and estimated at some sixty --------------J:i:— - — —
miles an hour. Both motors and the
smoking car swung safbly around the
curve, but the cars following left the
rails and plunged over on the sides
with a terrific crash and tore up the
tracks, and after sliding a hundred
yards collapsed in one mass. Of
those instantly killed, by far the The flames then spread just
greater number were women. Many the alley east to the St. Elmo
were mangled beyond recognition. ul'‘
Many of the injured . were quickly fh<
extricated from the wreckage, while
others were so pinioned that thev
could not be taken out for some time.
Those most seriously injured were
hurried to the hospitals, while Cor-
oners took charge of the dead as fast
as the bodies were recovered.
Of the large number injured, fifty
are, according to hospital and police
reports, seriously hurt, and the death
list may be increased.
Most of the others are suffering
from lacerations or shock, and will
recover. ’ . ’
Fire destroyed the wire fencing
factory of the Oklahoma Moline
Plow Company. The loss is estimat-
ed at $1,200.
Will Besser, a lad 19 years old,
was shot and instantly killed with n
shotgun at Sanders, a little town
near Stigler, I. T., Saturday night
L. J. Mason, a merchant, gave him-
self up to the authorities at Stigler.
re
and climbed into a
and went to sleep,
Whe* he awoke the car was bump-
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Flamoo—Four Bulldingo Do-
- stroyod.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 16 —Fire
. w originating in a Mexican chile stand
others had died of their injuries at] jn tfje middle of a half a block of
shacks between Second and Third
streets on Main, destroyed four
frame buildings, seriously damaged
the four-story Knights of Pythias
building, badly damaged the St El-
mo Hotel, gutted a house belonging
to George Gause and occupied by
Mrs. Maples, nearly destroyed th;
plant of the City Planing Mill and
threatened the new Exchange livery
stable, which is owned by George
Carter.
Six men were sleeping over a sa-
loon in the building on the corner,
winch is occupied by Ed Wilcox, and
as yet but four’of thorn have-been ac-
counted for.
Two of them, J. H. Haley and
another man, jumped from the sec-
ond story window and escaped unin-
in an unconscious condition.
The wind was from the south and
swept the flames across the street,
where the Knights of Pythias hall
caught fir®,, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that it was stayed.
Tlie loss on this building and con-
tents is about $1000.
trouble, who estoblMMM a W
consumptive.JPina Wo
there*’have attracted great ati
from th® medical world, says th
! ha)f ounce of the Pure Virgin
Pine, mixed with two ounces <
cerine and one-half pint of good
. ky and used in teaspoonful do*
I heal and strengthen the lungs,
. np a cold in twenty-four bom
- cure any cough that la curable
Ingredients can be secured fro
prescription druggist at small
Inquiry at the prescription <
rnent of a leading local druggist
gin Oil of Pin* is put up only i
ounce rials for dispensing. Km
is securely sealed in a round i
case, with engraved wrapper, al
the name—Virgin OQ of Pine
guaranteed under th* Food an<
act. June 30. INK. Prepared o
the Leach Chemical Co., Cfncim
—plainly printed thpreon. Th.
many rank Imitations of Vlrs
of Pine (Pure), which are bed
out under various names, such i
eentrated Oil of Pte*. F* “
etc. Never accept these
tute for the Pure Virgin O
they will invariably pro
and never effect the desir
A Mortifying Answer.
Richard, aged seven years, in com-
pany with his parents, was visiting •
friend. At th* dinner tabla he was
asked to have some cake. Be heat-
tated. .
“Say, quickly, Richard! Will’ yew
have some cake?’* said his mother.
Imagine ber chagrin when Richard
replied: “If it’s the kind we haveM
home. I don’t want any."
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BABY TORTURED BY ITCHINdL
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Rash Covered Face and Feet—Would
Cry Until Tired Out Speedy ^
- Cure by Cuticur*. ’ j - *4
“My b«by wm about atom months
sld when she had rash <m> her fans
and feet. Her feet seemed
her most, especially night*. They
would cause ber to be Woken in her
rest, and sometimes she would cry
until she was tired out I had alwayn s
used Cuticura Soap myself, and had
heard of so many cures by the CMl-
-ura Remedies that I thought I would
give them a trial The improvemene/ h '
■as noticeable in a few hours, auto
before I had used one box of the C
Jcura Ointment her feet were wt
and hav* never troubled her r
also used it to remove what is
as "cradle cap” from her he*
it worked Hke a charm, i
cleansed and healed the scalp
i’ tame time. Now I keep C
Jintment on hand in case of as
little rash or insect bite*, as It takt
nit the Inflammation at once. Pe
.bps this may be the means of het
ng other suffering baMee. Mi
ie Currier, Thomaston, Me., .
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Prof. Korn, of tb* Munich
? atty, has greatly improved his
tus for transmitting photograi
telegraph wire* He has succi
sending photographs and sket
or seven inches square in this
from Munich to Nuremberg, a
oglto miles, to from 18 to Ml
dick was killed, Frank Manten was Te,t H“
- - ---- Simmons Liver Purifier to tl
valuable remedy I ever tried I
t^ywi imd DJ IaJ
aug ju uie iiiuiuing suop. .. , - -- ; —
engaged in lifting a five- X l’k
’ with the aid of a crane Ljter. I
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Risien, John T. Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1907, newspaper, February 22, 1907; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1267527/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carrollton Public Library.