The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Dallas-Greenville Interurban Matters.
Dallas: J. Mercer Carter says that
the local organization which iuas
charge of his franchise expects to be
ready by January 1 to. apply for a
charter for an interurban railroad be-
tween Dallas and Greenville'. He has
franchises for twenty-three miles of
street railway in Dalles and five to
Greenville, and the interurban to con-
nect the two street railway systems
will be sixty miles in length, making
a total of eighty-eight mil^s.
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to England he would have a rousing
welcome.
Dallas—Waxahachie Interurban.
Dallas: Work is to be begun on
the Waxahachie interurban railroad
earty in the spring. M. M. Phinney
states thtft two surveys had been made
for the line, and that the engineers
are now engaged dn putting their data
in proper shape. Both surveys are
through Lisbon and Lancaster, and
through Waxahachie to Ennis, a dis-
tance of about forty miles. The com-
pany hopes to have the road in opera-
tttm by the end of the year.
Two Victims of a Wreck;
Danville, in.: Two persons were
killed and two injured in a freight
wreck on the Southern Railway at
Chatham, seventeen miles northof *
here, Sunday afternoon. The dfcf&u are
Grover Franklin, Archie-' Wyatt, two |
young men of Danville, and the injured
are PhH White and Stanbury Mays of
this county.' While rounding a sharp
curve eight cars of a southbound
through freight jumped the track and
were piled in a heap.
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King Edw-..
New York: I
of the Ninth British Lan
of Parliament, has brout
King Edward would visit Canada. J
offered it as his opinion that a me
ing could be arranged with- Preside
Roosevelt on United States soil. “O
side the King, President Roosevelt *»
the most popula- man in England
today,” said1 he. “If such a visit could
be arranged as that of your President
Colonel E. H. JR. Green has sold his
640-acre farm near Terrell, ahd Is mov-
ing his greenhouses from that place
to his farm near Dallas.
The lives of four men were crushed
out instantly and four others were
Injured as a result of a wreck at Haw-
ley, Minn.. Friday night on the North-
ern Pacific.
Maurice Rose, a young man of sev-
enteen years of age, living with his
parents in Dallas, was electrocuted
Saturday evening in attempting to
turn on an electric light in the barn.
A strong effort is to be made by the
friends ot Harry Arthur McArdle, the
well known Texas artist, to have an,
appropriation made by the next legis-
lature to purchase the painting now
An the senate chamber of the battle of
San Jacinto.
The question of an electric traction
line to connect Marlin and Temple has
been recently revived, “4 there are
said to be excellent prospects for the
line being constructed. ''
The railroad reached Plainview Sat-
urday at twelve o’clock, and the cit-
izens of the surrounding country cel-
ebrated the event by a barbe-'”“ Jl1"-
ner. speeches and firing off a
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in one important respect
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DISASTER GROWS IN HORROR.
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With seats on the New York Stock
exchange selling at 982,000,‘ brokers
remarks the Pittsburg Press, should
now execute their orders standing.
THIRTY-FIVE ARE KILLED
INSTANTLY—MANY WOUNDED
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BWiwciv,of their most; distinguished
to thelr^ratlon.
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Knows When Ho Is Right, and Will
Stand for It
Washington, Jan. 1.—Overshadow-
ing perhaps the continuous roll of
thunder that was emitted from the
White House and that reverberated
over the country during the seven
month’s battle last session over the
railroad rate bill, la President Roose-
velt’s declaration ait this moment that
he will stand by bis order discharging
the negroes of the Twenty-fifth Infan-
try who shot up the city of Browns-
ville, Texas.
There is no question that President
Roosevelt’s defiant answer to his crit-
ics that he would .stand by his order
even at the risk of impeachment by
congress has electrified the whole
country. And yet, on sober reflection
there Is not a man who can conceive
of such a thing as congress impeach-
ing Theodore Roosevelt, even though
It be proven that he has oversteppea
his authority In kicking out of the
service a pack of murderers and those
who are in league with them to the
extent of shielding them from the law.
The president knows that congress
knows that congress knows that the
country would not stand for It
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An Alton woman who asserts she
was married while stupefied by pois-
oned confections now realizes that she
■ made a mistake in her “candy man.”
The Question of how long It will
take to exhaust the coal deposits In
the earth is not of as much import-
X’! trice as that more intimate problem,
k how long the deposit in the cellar will
last
On bearing from Professor Lowell
that the people of Mars are suffering
from thirst, the Kentucky colonels
request him to extend to them the as-
says Count Boni, “It is immaterial
to me what the American press say
about me.” The proud Indifference of
B superior soul, doubtless.
years ago an Italian was con-
to ten years’ imprisonment
slaughter. He escaped, and
heard of until recently, when
ound that he had built a cell
■wn house,'had constituted a
J sentence upon himself.
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jailer, and had *althfully
The
that the government will
is years as amateur pris-
vill have to begin now to
rm in official Incarceration.
~000 feet deep in New Or-
encountered nothing more
Dud, sand and a little thin
■ the problem of making
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ages to exceed the product.
The New York authorities are car-
rying out a scheme for giving each
class of animals a scenic background
reminiscent of Its native habitat. So,
by and by, the too will be not only a
menagerie but an art gallery.
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John Holland, submarine torpedo
boat Inventor, reports that he is now
at work on a submarine monster
against whose attack there can be no
defence, and which will put all war-
ships out of business. He ought to
be made an honorary member of the
universal peace society, remarks the
Boston Herald. ;
Commercial travelers’ licenses in
the Britsh South African colonies
and protectorates amount to 9600 a
year.
If Dr. <Osler will head off the winter
weather recollections of the oldest in-
habitant which are about due, we wiU
forgive him.
Even nature seems in league with
Croesus. Klondike’s Increased out-
put adds Its golden stream to the tide
of prosperity. »
Glidden Party In Mexico.
City of Mexico: After having driv-
en his autimobile from Boston to
within a few miles of his destination,
Charles J. Glidden who Is traveling
over the forld In an iron-wheeled ma-
chine just for fun, was forced to aban-
don a wrecked automobile and finish
his trip to City of Mexlcon in a spe-
cial train. Nope of his little party
were injured, but his automobile is
lying in a ditch about fifty miles from
this city.
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French Spinners Prospecting.
New Orleans: Both England and
France are prospecting for Southern
cotton lands on which to raise the
staple to feed their spindles direct
from the plantation, thereby cutting
out the many middlemen now in-
volved. J. L. Knoefler of the Louisi-
ana Department of Agriculture, has
completed a tour Of the Red River
Valley and North Lodfsiana, having
piloted a party of wealthy French
>f a I spinners over the cotton district
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The national debt Is 9925,159,350,
so this is not a billlon-dollar country
Leading Citizen of Louisiana Ends Re-
markable Career.
New Orleans, La.. Dec. 31.—Ex-Unlt-
ed States Senator Donelson Caffrey
died at 10:20 last’ Sat. night. Don-
el son Caffrey of Franklin, St Mary
“Parish, La., had a remarkable, career.
Leaving the United States Stnate al-
most penniless, he returned to Frank-
lin to take up the practice of Jaw, his
son. Don Caffrey Jr., becoming asso-
ciated with film. Just then, or shortly
after, the oil boom developed at Jen-
nmgs, La. The Caffreys made some
judicious Investments In that field
and Senator Caffrey was one of the
first to utilise oil in the manufacture
of sugar from sugar cane. They in-
troduced oil on their place and in the
short apace of a few years Senator
Caffrey, through his shrewd oil in-
vestments and his Ingenuity to turning
, one of sugar cane into sugar by means of |
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DONE IN A TWINKLING
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A Washington Special Train is
Wrecked in a' Fog.
Washington, December 31.—An ap-
palling disaster occurred last night on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Terra Cotta, about three miles from
this city, and about thirty-five persons
were killed and over sixty injured,
some of them so seriously that they
are likely to die.
The accident was caused by the col-
lision of a train due here at 6:05 from
Frederick, Md., known as the Freder-
ick special, with a dead passenger
equipment train of eight curs. Two
hundred passengers were aboard the
ill-fated train. The railroad officers
last night were unable to assign any
cause for the collision.
It has been proved that the danger
signal at Takoma Park, a short dis-
tance from the place of the accident,
was set when -the train of empty
freight cars passed. The train was
going at the rate of sixty miles an
hour and Engineer Hildebrand stated
that on account of the heavy fog he
could not see the signal. His train
ran into the Frederick train-just as
the latter was pulling out of Terra
Cotta, where it had stopped to take
on four or five passengers, two of
these being among the killed.
The wrecked train was composed of
an engine, a smoker and two day
coaches. The two rear coaches were
,reduced to kindling wood and the rear
of the smoker was telescoped.
Nothing since the Ford theater dis-
aster, which occurred about fifteen
years ago, when a large number of
Government clerks were killed by the
collapse of a portion of the building,
has produced such a shock as the-
wreck at Terra Cotta last evening.
No railroad accident within a great
many years in the District of Colum-
bia has approached it in magnitude.
A dense fog and a drizzling rain
prevailed throughout the day and last
night and to the inability of the en-
gineer of the rear train to see the
signal, showing that another train was
in the block, is attributed the cause
of the accident. The grade at the
place where the tragedy occurred is
downward, and the tracks were slip-
p«fy. •
EX-SENATOR CAFFREY DEAD. ■
IE NOCONA NEWS
B. A. CARTMt, Publlsher
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™>nds are reported to be going
’Ri price. This is probably due
to the fact that general prosperity
has made it possible for so many
people lb have diamonds that they
have become common.
A woman who is going to Java in
quret of the missing link probably
will not find it, but, says the Phila-
delphia Ledger, she may learn how
the .consumption of Java coffee man-
Fifty-three Are Dead, and at Least
Sixty Injured.
Washington, Jan. 1.—The Baltimore
and Ohio wreck at Terra Cotta Sun-
day night grows in magnitude as the
hours pass. The most conservative
estimate of the dead last night is fif-
ty-three, with three scores of injured
in the hospitals or at their homes
suffering from wounds and fractures
sustained in the rear-end collision
which completely demolished the two
coaches and the smoker attached to
the local Fredericksburg, Md.,
press No. 66, Sunday night.
Several of the most seriously in-
jured are expected to die, and the
death list may reach sixty or more.
Pitiful were the scenes at the city
morgue, where hundreds of people
have flocked to assist the police in
the identification of the dead. Wom-
en, girls, and even men with iron
nerves shrieked, sobbed and fainted
as their relatives or friends were
found among the thirty-two corpses
strewn about the floor.
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GREAT DISASTE
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Carter, B. A. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1907, newspaper, January 3, 1907; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1372471/m1/4/?q=WAR+DEPARTMENT: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.