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SAM C. HOLLOWAY. Publuhor
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TRINITY RIVER ITEM $270,000
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AERONAUT FALLS 2.000 FEET.
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HUNTING SEASON'S DEATH TOLL
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watch It and smoke at the j 760.992 for the whole country. The
I hoisse bill will be round $35,000,000.
ESTIMATES FOR TEXAS
RIVERS AND HARBORS
The discovery that typhoid fever Is,
carried also by bugs and roaches adds
a few more things to be swatted.
That man who pleads for anesthet-
ics for rats would probably want chlo-
roform administered to the fly before
■watting him.
912,817,000 AMOUNT RECOMMENDEC
FOR WORK TO JULY, 1914.
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Work has begun on the Tyler Elec-
tric! street railway system.
Waco has raised a bonus of $50,000
for a new hotel in that city.
It is reported that parties at Gaines-
ville have secured a site for an Iron
foundry there.
Contracts for street improvements
at Sherman have been let that call
for an expenditure of over $100,000.
A large warehouse containing about
X00 sacks of rough rice, 2 000 bushels
of corn and a number of farm imple-
ments. on the Harmon rice canal, six
ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE CONDEN-
SED FOR QUICK
READING.
Affairs Given Here In Tabloid Form
for Busy Readers In City
and Country.
Some people fail to win because oth-
ers do not lose.
"I told him the name of the build-
ing.
•' 'Thanks,' he said. ‘I was just lt>
It. and I wanted to check it off.' ”
New York’s barroom
Is variously considered,
eent observers are envious and some
’ are not
About the only thing that can be
■aid for the eclipse of the moon is that
one may
same time.
An Increase of more than one-third
tn the number of cigarettes consumed
In three months Is another proof that
advertising pays
A DOCTOR’S SLEEP
Found He Had to Leave Off Coffee.
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The citizens of San Antonio are or-
ganizing and planning a campaign to
carry the $5J)00.000 proposed bond is-
sue for public improvements.
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Jacksonville, Fla.—Richard Frayne,
aeronaut, fell i,000 feet here and
Three thousand
A taxicab in Athens, according to
an <
Itoclnetharmoxaxe.
It is understood that Beaumont will
get a five-story modern brick office
building to cost about $200,000.
A workman at the Armour & Com-
pany's plant at North Fort Worth was
killed in the beef department. He had
gone to the loft to start a motor, alone,
and later was found dead, crushed by
the fiy wheel. The man was named
Polansky, aged 25 years, unmarried.
Some men smile In the face of ad-
versity, but they don’t mean IL
' The trouble with the man who says
* smart thing Is that he always books
It for a return date.
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A southern aviator
Estimate for Whole Country Aggro
gates $6,766,992—House Bill to
Carry About $35,000,000.
The Carnegie Library commission of
New York has agreed to donate $15,000
for a library in Gainesville, provided
the city raises $1,500 a year as main-
tenance.
The city council of Paris has em-
ployed an engineer to draw plans and
specifications for a garbage disposal
plant in that city, to cost about $1,500.
We may be sure that it Is a
hen which eats a c-----------
der to lay hard-shelled eggs.
becoming cheaper, but then one can- I
not eat even the costliest cuts of an
automobile.
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my 76th
The trustees of Baylor college at
Waco have decided to expend $20,000
for additional dormitory room anil oth-
er needs.
File destroyed 200 bales of cotton
on the platform of the Wichita com-
press at Wichita Falls. Six thousand
bales were saved. The damage totaled
about 510.000.
The World of Elegance.
"We never buy anything In this ex-
pensive store. Why do you gaze for
hours at those dummies?’’
"Well, Edward, one learns
America’s oldest doctor says modern
physicians are not much better on
eurea than the healer of a half cen-
tury ago But the old fashioned doc-
tor didn't have all the ailments and
diseases to treat they have nowadays.
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by fire.
The machinery and building of the
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad
shops with two new locomotives burn-
ed at Muskogee, Okla., causing a loss
of $25,000. Insurance was carried to
the amount of $20,000.
that section has
Fifteen men were
hospitals, suffering
burns and injuries from which a num-
ber may die, and several persons on
the scene at the time were missing,
but late reports discredited earlier be-
liefs that several lives had been lost.
An area of three blocks was swept.
The interstate commerce commission
has suspended until May 30. 1913, the
proposed increase in minimum weights
on corn between St. Ixiuis and Kansas
City to Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana
points.
According to a dispatch received at
the Insular Bureau from the governor
general of the Philippines the typhoon
which swept. Vhisayas Nov. 25 prac-
tically destroyed three-fourths of the
I town of Tacloban, capital of l-eyte. The
I dispatch said that the typhoon was the
most destructive in the islands’ his-
I nry?
the Mexico Northwestern Rail
Some troops, with two mortars
proceed overland to the ass is
♦ ance of Federate beseiged at Aecei
cion by Salazar’s rebels.
Japanese Cabinet Crisis Over Army.
Tokio. Japan.—A cabinet crisis has
arisen over the refusal of the minis-
ter of war. Lieut. Gen. Uyehera. to ac-
cept a cabinet decision rejecting the
scheme for increasing the military
forces In Korea. After a number of
extraordinary sittings. Premier Saionji
Informed the war minister that lhe
cabinet adhered to Its position. Gen.
Uyehera then indicated his intention
to resign. It is doubtful whether the
emperor will accept hte resignation.
The press and general public support
the cabinet.
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleans** and bcautiAee the hate.
FTomotee a luxuriant growth.
Never Falla to Beatorw Oray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
[prevents bajr falling.
Constipation causes and seriously aggra-
vates many diaeasea. It is thoroughly cured:
by Dr. Pierce s Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated!
granules. Adv.
Beef Is probably going higher, but
rabbits will soon be on the market.
At the same time they will not be
widely popular until someone Invents
s device to dig shot out of the teeth.
Evergreen Cemetery near here,
sicians r " ‘
body was broken.
Together with Jack Crosby, his com-
panion. Frayne started an ascension at
the Tri-County fair. Both men had
Individual parachutes attached to the
balloon. Crosby severed his parachute
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later saw Frayne's body dash by him.
Eyewitnesses of the tragedy say
Frayne’s parachute opened successfully '
anti It is believed his fall was duo
to his failure to place his hands in
the wristlets, the jerk attendant upon
the opening of the parachute hurling
him from his scat.
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That the stlngless bee te the pre-
cursor of the singless mosquito te the
earnest prayer of New Jersey people.
A playful person threw a melon into
a passing taxicab in Brooklyn the oth-
er night. Many an actor along the
great white way is praying that mel-
ons do not become popular substitutes
for hen fruit
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston favors
a law limiting hatpins to six Inches.
.The county will await with Interest
his attempt to enforce it.
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Beware of a meek looking man or
■sale It may not last
purpose of keeping her temper warm.
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Many persons do not realize that a
bad stomach will cause insomnia.
Coffee and tea drinking being such
an ancient and respectable form ol
habit, few realize that the drug—caf-
feine—contained in coffee and tea, i»
one of the principal causes of dys-
pepsia and nervous troubles.
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rest of his days wondering why be
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Moat people manage to get stuck
on themsei'-es without the aid of any
adhesive.
A story from Chicago says there are
calves there worth $< ,000. That’s noth-
ing; there are calves on Fifth avenue.
New York, worth $5,000,000.
Worif is progressing on the new
Cleburne post office, which will cost
$77,815, not including furniture or lock
boxes.
Temple's new postoffice building has
been completed and occupied. The
st-ucture cost $66,884.91, exclusive of
the site, furniture or lock boxes
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As n summer tonic there is no medicine-
flint quite compares with OXIDINE. It not
....! ".I.i up the system, but taken reg-
ularly. prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste-
less formula at Druggists. Adv.
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Bible for the other casualties,
dead are women, as are two ol
wounded.
There are Borne things we do not
understand. One of them is the mad j froIn the balloon
and almost universal desire to change
the color of a meerschaum pipe.
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El Pas^, Texas.—A machine gun bor-
rowed from a Mexican gunboat is be-
ing used to protect a troop train which
left Juarez to patrol railway between
the state capital and the border The
gun 1s mounted on a flat car. The
train, carrying 500 soldiers, departed
over
way.
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Eloping in an aeroplane accomplish-
es the seemingly Impossible by In-
creasing the hazard of matrimony.
An explosion which wrecked the dry
Jtarch housJrof the Corn Products Com-
pany’s plant at Waukegan, Ill., killed
twenty-three workmen, injured twen-
ty-seven others, several of whom will
die, and caused about $100,000 proper-
ty damage.
March Brothers, wool commission
dealers at San Angelo sold 100,000
pounds of fall wool to Boston dealers
at prices ranging from 11 %c to 14c.
They also sold to the same firm 10,000
pounds of mohair at prices ranging
from 28c to 31c.
Fire destroyed the provision house
of Armour & Co. at the Union Stock
yards in Chicago, causing a loss of
$200,000. The building was a three-
story brick structure and was separ-
ated by fire walls from half a dozen
other buildings comprising the Armour
plant. The blaze started in the base-
ment of the provision house and rap-
idly spread through the structure.
Albert T. Patrick, on his first day
out of prison, where he was serving a
life sentence for the murder of Wil-
liam Marsh Rice, until pardoned by
Gov. Dix, has decided to seek to have
the old millionaire's second will, which
at the murder trial had been declared
a forgery, probated and proved gen-
uine.
an
was instantly killed,
people saw the accident.
The aeronaut was thrown from his
seat in the parachute just after he
had cut loose from the balloon,
body landed in the driveway of the
Phy-
eay that every bone in his )
i broken
King George Superstitious.
An incident which occurred while-
the king was out shooting recently
over the Hon. John Ward's preserve*
at Woolley shows that the monarch'
shares with many other persons the
superstition about the number thin
teen. The eight guns were joined at
luncheon by five women of the party-
ctaying at Chilton, and the king no-
ticing the unlucky number would no$
tit down until Donald Harding, the
acting agent upon the estate, wae
called in to make the number up tc
fourteen.—New York Herald.
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who jiimoed Harbor island, $50,000;
from a biplane proved that it cannot
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3 wise s Chocolate and Bastrop
cement floor In or-
A Los Angeles youngster stood on
hte head on the tqp of skyscraper to
’ ’'test hte nerve.” He was arrested
for shattering the nerves of oassers-
by.
i auie mat me new ivauiwiivii »•••■ >c- i
handling loaded weapons aro respon- | quire the wrapping of every loaf and i
wo of i package in clean paper before being
loaded into the wagons which take it
to the consumer.
On behalf of the Longview Motor and
Good Roads club, the county commis-
sioners' court and the Longview cham-
ber of commerce, an Invitation will be
extended to the county judges of sev-
eral East Texas counties to meet at
Lmgview December 10 to hold a good
roads convention.
The board of municipal commission-
ers of Dallas gave Its approval to a
petition submitted by the Dallas Au-
tomatic Telephone company to increase 1
Its capital stock $200,000 and to issue
additional bonds to the extent of $250,-
000.
The Texas and Pacific railroad has
established an agricultural demonstra-
tion farm near Marshall. The farm
will consist of 40 acres.
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November has no hay fever, no
Christmas rush, and no spring fresh-
ets. Yet very few poets sing 1—
praise.
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Accidents in New York.
Saranac Lake, N. Y.—Ten have been
Milk makes an excellent tonic for killed and twenty-six people injured
the hair, according to the prlma donna I in hunting accidents this fall. Two
who discovered the $15,000 lump of
ambergte. Those press agents do
have to work hard for tbefr money.
Compared with the Balkans affair
Mexico’s war looks like the comic
opera kind.
for women
Some Inno-
be changed all over Texas if the pur- i
| poses of Dr. James S. Abbott, state |
chemist, are not frustrated. It is prob-
able that tho new regulation will re-
makes the most of hen
self’’ says an “ad” writer for a de
" partinent store. But that doesn t pre
vent the department store from offer
Ing her all the aid sbe will accept.
Sometimes a man tries to please his
wife just the opposite way he would
•ny other woman
llRnBCY TRUATSIX Olv«qnlc*»w
UnUrSI nef, u.ually remote •wel-
ling and short breath In a few days and-
entire relief In 15-46 days, trial treatmonv
FKKK. ua saaassboss, »u*s,AUs*i*,u*.
the blaze witli her
feet, when her clothing ignited and
fatally burned before adult
members of the family could reach
her.
Miss Julia V, Sullivan, one of Chica-
go's few licensed women chauffeurs,
was found shot to death in her apart
ments. Although the police were told
she committed suicide, detective®
were assigned to investigate. She wae
42 years old. Miss Sullivan is said
to have held the woman s ice skating
championship of Canada and the arch
cry championship of the United States.
She was employed as a chauffeur by
a taxicab company until three weeks i
ago, when she left her position.
Shawnee, Okla., has voted bonds to
the amount of $50,000 for park pur-
poses.
Ed Williams, an Indian, was hanged
in San Quentin, Cal., after the prison
band had given a three hours' concert
in the death chamber for his benefit.
Williams murdered his squaw, Inez
Brooks, In a drunken frenzy and shot
several other persons. He had been
reprieved several times, and a few
days ago announced that he did not
want any more reprieves—that he
wished to be hanged promptly if at
all
Harry Raney of Handley was in
stantly killed at Grand Prairie when he
came in contact with a live wire used
for power by the Northern Texas Trac-
tion Company. He was making some
repairs at the substation there. Raney
was 30 years old.
Andrew Carnegie, in a statement has
announced that all but $25,000,000 of
his fortune, which will be disposed of
under liter will, will be left to lhe Car-
negie Corporation of New York, which
has been made his residuary legatee
and which will carry on hte education-
al and charitable work.
The first snow of the season fell
at Amarillo Tuesday night. It was of
the moist variety, melting as it fell.
The storm was also marked with sleet
flurries.
From a reliable source it is learned
that Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., te in
tho vicinity of San Antonio de los Ala-
mos with 900 followers, and it te said
that he te making hte way toward Ojin-
1 alaga. Ixm Alamos is in the north-
1 east part, of the state of Chihuahua.
■ close to the Coahuila line and not far
from the Rio Grande, the international
border line. *
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exchange, is called a pollpolytan- j
That’s what a
taxi chauffeur te called In this country Ten Killed and Twenty-Six Injured in
when he presents hte bill.
The dictates of fashion has put the
ban upon switches and puffs. We will
soon know what our best girl really
looks like without her disguise.
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Washington.—The estimates of
chief engineer of the army for rivers
and harbors improvements calls for
a total expenditure of $2,817,000 for the
waterway projects of Texas. This e»
timate is to carry the work through
to June 30, 1914 The Texas appro-
priations recommended are as follows:
Trinity river, improvement and main-
tenance, $270,000; Brazos river, Waco,
to Old Washington, $250,000; Galves-
ton harbor, $50,000; Galveston chan-
nel. $325,000; Texas City channel. $200.-
000; Port Bolivar channel, $200,000:
Port Bolivar channel, $50,000; Sabine
Pass and Port Arthur channel, $600,-
Aransas Pass and bay, $50,000;
Sabine-Neches
canal, $290,000; West Galveston bay
channel, Turtle bayou, Trinity river.
Anahuac channel, Oyster bay, Cedar,
bayous and
monuths of adjacent streams, $25,000;
West Galveston bay and Brazos river
channel, $10,000; Channel between
Hrazoi. river and Matagorda bay, $25,-
000; Guadalupe river, $15,000; Channel
from Pass Cavallo to Port I-avaca, $5,-
I 000; channel from Aransas Pass to
Corpus Christi. $10,000; Cypress bay-
i ou in Texas and Ixtutsiana, $5,000; Red
| river, between Fulton, Ark., and Wash-
| ita River, Texas, $42,000.
As to the Houston ship channel, the
engineer's estimated cost fqr comple-
tion is $950,000, of which an equal sum
is to be raised by Harris county. A
payn»-->t of $852,612 is reported and
the total amount appropriated to Oct.
1, 1912, te $3,577,766.
The estimated cost for completion
of the Galveston channel is $194,794.
For the Sabine-Neches canal the es-
timated amount for completion is $336,-
500, to bo contributed equally by the
government and local interests.
The engineer's estimates total $56.-
766.992 for the whole country.
Without their usual portion of cof-
fee or tea, the caffeine topers are
nervous, irritable and fretful. That®
the way with a whisky drinker. He
has got to have bls dram "to settle hte
nerves"—habit.
Tq leave off coffee or tea te an easy
matter if you want to try it, because
Postum gives a gentle but natural
support to the nerves and does not
contain any drug—nothing but food
Physicians know this to be true, ae
one from Ga. writes:
"I have cured myself of a long-
standing case of Nervous Dyspepsia
by leaving off coffee and using Post-
urn," says the doctor.
“I also enjoy refreshing sleep to
which I've been an utter stranger fox
20 years.
"In treating dyspepsia in Its various
types, I find little trouble when I can
induce patients to quit coffee and
adopt Postum.”
The Dr. is right and "there’s •
reason.” Read the little book, “Ths
Road to Wellville,” in pkgs.
POstufn now comes In concentrated
powder form called Instant Postum
It te prepared by stirring a level tea-
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream t®
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum is convenient;
there’s no waste; and the flavour is
always uniform. Sold by grocers—50
cup tin 30 Ct®., 100-cup tin 50 cts.
A 5-cup trial tin mailed tor grocer’®
name and 3-cent stamp tor postage
Postum Ceroal Go., Ltd, Battle Creek
, Mteh—Adv.
With an additional $3,000,000 assur*
ed tor completing work on the Texas
and Pacific terminals at New Orleans,
La, Judge T. J. Freeman, first vice
president of that road, returned from
a trip to New York. There he was
in conference with capitalists who are
finajicing the' $10,000,000 enterprise.
He declares the conference was sat-
isfactory in every detail.
John Robinson, negro, was sentenced
by Judge Seay in the district court at
Dallas to pay the death penalty upon
January 10, 1913, having been convict-
ed of firist degree murder upon a
charge of murder of Otto Kahlkhoff,
who was held up with his wife and rob-
bed in May, 1911. The negro received
sentence protesting that he was in-
i >cent of the crime charged.
Another disastrous cotton fire broke
out fh the Katy west yards in Green-
ville Friday and as the result there
is a damage of between $40,000 and
$50,000 in cotton and three box cars
and feur flat cars were burned,
amounting to about $50,000. roughly
estimated. This was the second Are
of like nature in 24 hours. The loss
in the first fire was about $45,000.
Gov. Colquitt will have prepared by
the time the Thirty Third legislature
convenes bills to meet the demands
of the Democratic platform. A num-
ber have already been prepared. One
of these is for amending the stock and ■
bond law. but it. is declared a more
conservative measure than demanded
by plank 14 of the platform. It is
similar to the bill introduced in the
Thirty-Second legislature with the ap-
proval of tho governor and the rail-
road commission.
Gov. Goldsborough has announced
the appointment of William P. Jack-
son, Republican national committee-
man for Maryland, to succeed the late
United States Senator Isador Rayner.
He will serve until the legislature,
which meets in January, 1914, fills
what will then be an unexpired term
of three years. The legislature at that
time also will elect a successor to
Senator John Walter Smith (Demo-
crat). whose term will expire in 1915.
Warlike preparations are still go-
ing on In Norway. The importation of quite ci
coal during the last month, both by [ only builds
the military authorities and private
firms, has been enormous. Orders for
, the mobilization of the military and
I naval forces of the kingdom have been
in readiness to be issued at a mo
i ment s notice. The army has been sup
plied with grain for about a year and j
i large quantities of provisions have them much good manners, don't yov
> been stored everywhere.
1 The new trial on appear of the 106
’ Koreans charged with conspiring in
1910 and 1911 against the life of Count
t Terauchi, Japanese governor general
of Koreal, began at Seoul, Korea.
When proceedings opened 105 of the
accused were present, the other pris-
oner being sick. About a dozen mis
sionaries, a number of the prisoners
relatives and other spectators occu-
pied the space outside the bar.
Juanita, the 4-year old daughter of
Street Commissioner Homer Bowen of j building?’ he asked, as he reeled away.,
the Texas side of Texarkana, died as
the result of burns sustained at the
family home, when the dry grass on
the lawn in the front yard caught tire
and the older children ran out to ex
tingulsh it. Juanita went, too, and
tried to mothers
Whenever You
Use Your Back
Do®s ■ Shar*
Pai® Hit You?
It's a sign of
sick kidnaya, a»-
pecially if the kid-
ney lotion is
disordered, too.
passages scanty or
too frequent or
ofl-color.
Do not neglect
any little kidney >
ill for the slight .
troubles run into ’
Dropsy. Gravel, t
Stone of Brights ,
disease.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills. This good t
remedy cures bad kidneys.
AN IDAHO CASK.
L. C. Warner, N. Fairfield ‘ ~
tello, Ida. says: "I Buffered
from gravel and many of lh<
confined me to bed for weeks.
1 endured when the Btone® were
wm Indescribable. Doan'» Kidn<
cured me completely and the
been permanent. Though in
year I am hale and hearty."
G«t Doan’a al Aay Drus Stoea, 50c a Bws
DOAN ’ S k P lYT 3 Y
FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. Buffalo. N.w Yoefc
Reason for Inquiry.
The following after-dinner
was related by Dr. Henry ChurchilF
King, president of Oberlin college, be-
fore the Chicago Congregational club-
banquet:
"I was standing out in front of ono-
of the big exposition buildings at the-
St. Louis Fair, when a man came out
of the building much the worse for
liquor.
" 'What’s the. name of thish
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A movement is on at Bonham to
secure an interurban line from that
city to Greenville.
Fire destroyed thb plant of the W.
G. '.’.'iljiams Co-operative company, at
i Lesley, Aik., causing a loss estimated
at $31'0,00(1. The plant was one of the
largest of its kind in the world. The
cause of the fire is not known.
Considerable public improvement is
under way at Sweetwater, among them
is 75 blocks Of streets, are being paved
and it is estimated that about 25 miles
of good roads will be constructed with
the $100,000 bond issue recently au-
thorized there for that purpose.
It's a poor plan to Try to pull your-
self out of trouble with a corkscrew.
The city commissioners of Fort
Worth unanimously accepted an offer
of $20,000 for 951 acres of land in
Parker county, purchased several years
itgo for the reservoir site for a sum
of $50,000.
The Anstro-Amerlcan steamer Lucia
^sailed Monday from Galveston for Bar-
celonia, Venice and Trieste, carrying
what is said to be the largest cargo
of cotton, ever taken out of Galveston
to these ports. The cargo consists ol
.about 21,000 bales of cotton and sixty
standards of lumber. The valu® of
Uie cargo runs over $1,000,000.
“Not for the sake of money,”
Patrick said, referring to the clause
in the will which made him trustee,
"for 1 don't want that; but for the
sake of proving that the will was as
I always asserted, genuine, and not a
forgery, as alleged by the state.”
Katherine Godfrek, Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
3 years old, is growing a new nose. A
year ago thq child lost her nose
through an accident. Three weeks ago
the floating rib was removed and
buried in the forearm, where flesh
grew around it. The forearm was then
bandaged tightly to the child's face,
where it will remain until the flesh
and bone unite with the forehead. The
final step will be cutting the forearm
loose from the built-up nose and the
placing of skin to prevent scars.
President Taft definitely set at rest
miles west of Orange, was destroyed the reports, the latest of which comes
from London in a cable, that the Ad-
, ministration Intends to mako some
kind of agreement with Russia look-
to keeping in force the trade relation's
between this country and Russia. In
a letter to Dr. Simon Wolf of Wash-
ington, President Taft makes it clear
that he intends to leave the whole
question to the Wilson administration.
A movement is on foot among the
women of Texas to induce the next
state legislature to enact a law re-
moving the legal disabilities of wo-
men during coverture. The State Bar
association, at its meeting at Galves-
ton July 4, 1912, adopted a resolution
to that effect, and Judge Ocie Speer
of the court of civil appears at Fort
Worth has drawn a bill covering the
resolution.
Brooklyn’s East river water front
was the scene of the most serious ex-
plosion and fire that section
known for years,
removed to the
A Texas woman left $100,000 for the j
support of old maids. But how aro I
they going to be convicted of being |
old maids? j vouriq Massachusetts Man Killed at a
Country Fair in Florida.
President Taft has quietly informed
friends that no matter how active his
participation in the reorganization of
the Republican party may be, he is
not to be publicly referred to in po-
llcal speeches as a possible candidate
of the party In 1916.
John T. Brush, president of the New
York National League team, died in
his private car. Oceania, at Ixiuisiana,
Mo. He was on his way weirt for hte
health. He had suffered (or years from
locomotor ataxia.
Almost an entire block of business
buildings at Bennington, Okla., was
wiped out by fire, entailing a loss of
more than $30,000. Four buildings were
destroyed. Three of them belonged to
H. Wattaway and were valued at $8,000
and insured- The other was the prop-
erty of B. H. Zauk of Sherman and val-
ued at $2,500. i
A bean in the windpipe caused the
death of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Allen of McLean. The child was
under surgical treatment almost, a
week at Amarillo, Texas, but all efforts
to dislodge tne foreign substance prov-
ed futile.
Tlie contract for the building of a
sewage and water plant at Nuevo La-
redo has been let and work will soon
begin. The improvement will call for
an expenditure of $150,000 gold.
The methods now prevailing In the
' ’ ’ ' ' delivery of bread to consumers will
. . . ... - ..
are dead and a half dozen injured be-
cause they were mistaken for deer,
while cocked guns and carelessness in
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