The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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He had many offers of pastorates
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FOR SALE.
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married and all of w hom live here. .
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REVOLVING
FOR RENT
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FOR EXCHANGE
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Important
N otice!
EX-SENATOR CAR
MACK KILLED
Gained Er trance to Burldirg By Pulling
the Staples Which Held Padlock.
Early Morning Burglary
DR.F. C. ALLEN
0VXB HUB CLOTHING ST0BK.
Been Prominent in Churclr
Work For Many Years.
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Yeggmen Secure a Small Amount
of Cash From Store
Pierce is i
Mr. Fel-
After
Mr. Pierce ex- ' ------
At First General Assembly, Consolidated
Presbyterians, Was Elected
Vice-Moderator.
M. M. S. POU4TRY FENCE—Very Close Mesh
Completed fence letter »i»4 50*1 cheaper then uettiac
Write for cataK* ebowfaf full line of fencing fur ell
Horoi-co. . BeXelh, W.. Ta—■ OWr. Ma.
^strong,
ABLE CHEA?
FOR RRIG^
KALBJLC KANSAS CITY, mo.
Paris, Tex,, Nov/9.—Rev. ('has.
, died here this at-
NlTROiil.rCmiNE IS USED
REV. CHAS. MANTON
DIES IN PARIS
I organ ;uid violin played by the
l'fl" ie$ Foster. . Then followed the
r beautiful strains of Menilels-
1's wedding march as t lie wed
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FOR EXCHANGE—A lot on North !
Center St. for small house and lot. J
Will pay difference. -Will H.. Evans !
& Co.
Robin Cooper, Young Attorney.
Other Principal in Tragedy
POLITICS lilVIN AS CAUSE
HAS 4 VERY POPULAR MAN
of Dallas and Sam B. Cantey of *
Fort Worth.
poured nitroglycerine in the cracks
around the door, sealing the cracks
with soap which they' took from
the store stock.
Shortly after the alarm had been
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Heavy. ^irE
Advertisements . under this head
will be inserted at the rate of one
cent a word for the first issue, and
one-half cent a word for subsequent
insertions. No ad accepted for less
than 10 cents.
of the largest grocery stores in the* 1V to the station,
When J. R. Andrews, I
i clerk of the grocery store ol W. H. i
Son Takes Up Criticism of Fathfcr
Written By Editor Carmack in
Nashville Tennesseean
have represented the Waters-
Pierce Company in its litigation
with the State were present.
For the State appeared District
Attorney James R. Hamilton,
I will be away from
my office on a vaca-
tion trip until about
Nov. 20, 1908.
If convenient, wait
for my return before
you have those bad
teeth made good.
Watch this space
for notice when I
will be home.
MISCELLANEOUS
WAITED—Corn by wagon at. Bon-
ham or cars at any station in Texas.
— D. A. Biard.
NEW PATTERN^-All kinds of
embroidery material—^frs. Ellen Old-
ham.
YOU are reading this "ad”, others :
are reading it too. If you have any- I
thing to sei I. trade or rent, try an “ad”
in this column.
Hjs funeral will lie held in the
Cumberland Presbyterian ch urch,
of which he had been pastor near-
VVednesday afternoon, to be con-
ducted by the ministers of this
H. Clay Pierce at Austin.
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Austin, Tex., Nov. 6.—Henry
» or Clay Pierce of St. Louis today
placed himself in the custody of
Sheriff George Matthews of
Travis County. Soon thereafter
he made bond in the sum of $20,-
900 to appear and answer the
. charge of false swearing in con-,
j nection with the anti-trust af-
fidavit, which he made in 1900 as
president of the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company, and was formally
released. Thereupon he'appeared
before the Fifty-Third Dis-
trict Cburt, Judge Calhoun pre-
siding, where by agreement of
ion through life.
hissell has been a resident
---------- a number of-
, I and is one of the town-s' leading
--------i men, and by his manly
the work :of trying
responsible for the rohliery.
• An investigation showed that business
counsel an or ler was entered con-
tinuing the case until the next
term ot the court, beginning in
January. Mr. Pierce will re-
main here until tomorrow night
and perhaps longer, to confer
with S. M. Felton president of
the Mexican Central Railway, of
which company Mr.
chairman of the board,
ton reaches here today,
this conference,
peels to return to St.- Louis and
to come back to Austin in Janu-
arv for his trial. «
To his counsel and within ear-
shot of new-pap.r men Mr.
Pierce expressed the wish that
“the whole matter” might be ‘Manton, D. D.} died here this af-
disposed of on this trip. How- ternoon about o'clock from a ma-
ever, the Fifty-Third District Iignant tumor, from which he had
Court is engaged in trying the suffered about eighteen months,
civil docket and, it is said the
cases of persons in jail, which
have preference, will occupy all
of the time which has been allot- thirty years, .at 2:30 o’clock
ted to the criminal docket, begin-
ning Nov. 23 and extending until
the end of the term two weeks presbytery. The Knights Templar
thereafter.
The sureties upon Mr. Pierce’s
bond are among the wealthiest
citizens ot Austin, namely, G?o.
W. Littlefield, Joseph Nalle,
Walter Tips, H. A. Wroe, W. R.
Hamby, Chester Thrasher, Theo-
dore Dowe,
Peter.
Fillers. All of them save Messrs.
Nalle, Lowe and Killers, are
bank officials. - All of these and
also Andy Zilker and Oel Walker
were upon the original bond
hinges anil was
and the top of -the safe was also
blown out. Then* was a great hole out of-town guests.
in the floor under the safe, and j The bride is a niece of Mr. and
Ivoth the cash and credit registers Mrs. A. B. Sisson, of this city,
wM Wrocks. u ho are
was shattered and everything in to know her have but the best of j fray? did not fire a shot,
the immediate vicinity of the safe I praises for her. buris always ■” * ‘
showed signs of a terrific explo pleasant and entertaining, and we ’
sion. An alarm was turned -in and ( but congratulate Mr. Russell
\members of the sheriff’s depart-1 on having won for himself such a
m *nt, police department and the ©p
jutks took up 1
x) locate those of Bonham for a
will conduct services at the grave.
Rev. Dr. Manton was one of the
strong men of h is church. He w as
ordained at Cooper, Texas, in 187#
and became pastor of the Paris
church in 1880. s.;The membership
of thirty-Ihree he-lias increased to
George L. Hume, 550. For tweoty-tiye years he bad
J. Lawless and A. J. lH‘en stated clerk of the presbytery,
I was many yeais assistant stated
clerk of the geaeral assembly, a
member of its board of publication
and prominent in all its w ork. He
entered heartily into the move-
a^o(M ^iS^^erland ^resby
sei, a terian churches .and at the first
today general assembly of the consolida-
ted body held in Columbus, Ohio*
have was elected vice moderator.
In the
WAGON, team and harness for sale
at a bargain. Apply to E. G. McKin-
ney at Thompson-Abernathy Cos.,
to Tom Lemons at Bonham Foundry
55-3t
HALF SECTION ef good land in
Sterling county for sale or trade for.
. ‘ ‘ ex-
i cept about 15 acres. For particulars
see or write J. J. Uosgriff, Dodd City,
R. F. D. 2. 47-2-mos
FOR SALE—Beautiful home on
West 9th Street. Modern cottage,
i acre of land, easy terms. Box 206,
Bonham Texas. -
turned in, Chief of Police Henry REGISTERED- Poland China1
De Spain struck a trail and soon I st*®*** sale- All good strains and
- ; . , .. , , I best of breeding. Breed up your stock.
--— ---- .... U../1 . . ,1. Cosgriff, Dodd City,
R 2. \No. 47-6-mos.
won the confidence and respect of
all w’ho know him, and we know
of no
could be paid any man. *
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CLASSIFIED ialcirdes■in
WANT “ADS”
Nashvtile, Tenn., Nov. 9.—Asa
sequel to the recent bitter Demo-
cratic primary for the guberna-
torial nomination, Hon. Edward
Carmack, former United States
senator from Tennessee, w as shot
and killed in a street duel here to-
day by Robin Cooper, a young at
torney. Young Cooper xvas wound
ed in the shoulder by a bullet from
Carmdck’s revolver, and is tonight
under police surveillance in a local
hospital. His condition is not
serious.
Carmack was wounded three*
times, in the neck, the breast and
the left shoulder. Dr. Duncan B.
Cooper, father of the young man,
fortunate enough j was with his son' during the af-
the best of | but did not fire a shot. It is
She is always i ,ie stood by with pistol iiF
hand. He is detained tonight at
police headquarters. The direct
cause of the killing is a recent se-
ries of editorials in the Tennessee-
an, a daily pap?r of which Mr.
.hi#; whWi was <esecMi*d<u last rweefci h
'WWfWfflRMIMBlIJILIlia HW gUa wffi’ W tBis was 'ab--f:
ernor. The editorials in question
money had been securetl by the aud straightforward dealings has had l>een vigorous in their com-
ment on Col. Cooper and his al-
leged connection with what Mr.
higher compliment that •CArmaek termed?/‘Democratic ma-
chine’’ and its methods.
Col. Cooper, fvlio is well Known
! in bu siness, newspaper and polit-
U. Jv.,, l.i Teiriiessee and the
South, had, it is<saf<f,‘Mr.
Carmack that the references to him
must cease. Another such edito-
rial appeared this morning.
The tiagedy created the most in-
tense evcitement throughout the
city and within a short time the
sheets in the neighborhood were
thronged.
. Insane Man Kilis Wile.
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 9.—
Dr. S. A. Mason, a prominent ••
physician of Hattieville, Ark., ;
early this morning shot and kill-
ed his wife and then blew out
his brains with the same weapon.
The tragedy occured at 3 o’clock, :
while both were in bed.
. It is believed that Mason was
temporarily insane. He was de-
clared insane four weeks ago,x but i
was finally released and allowed
to return home. He did not re-
tire until 2 o’clock this morning. ;
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His two daughters, sleeping ini.
the same room, heard him, evi-
dently inspired by jealousy, de-
clare to his wife, about 3 o’clock,
that he knew there were men
about the house, and that he in-
tended to kill her. The shots
were heard shortly after.
• New waist patterns at Mrs. i
Ellen Oldham’s. Phone 280. 1
jectionable to State’s counsel, ~
new bond was drawn up 1
and Messrs. Zilker and Walker,
being out of town, did not 1_.
an opportunity to sign it.
matter of giving bond and enter-j *n larger 4'i4ie», all of which he
ing his appearance. Mr. Pierce J firstly refcts^d, maintaining
was represented by Hon. James j wo*k lifereaud the uni-
fl. Robertson of Austin, Judge ! sorrow/d^ Paris now suf-
E» B. Perkins and E. G. Perkins ’ fe,7S is-evideiMr JtWn. was so,.
( - Rev.Manton was Im^u Nov.
Judge George ^ 1? in A)YoQlwieh, England,
Clark of Waco, Penu and Cochran coming to .Ajnppea with his par-
of Austin and other lawyers who eu^s soon afterward. The death
of bis iathar -a few years later
.caused the family to return to Eng-
land,, where, jjie remained until he
reached his majority. On his re-
turn to America »he engaged in
County Attorney John W. Brady business in New York and Illinois,
and Special Assistant Attorney coming to Texas a short time lie
General Jewell P. Lightfoot, the fore entering .the ministry. Here
latter coming into this case by was looked on with respect by
direction of Gov. Camobell.
Lightfoot is to continue
relation until the case has -been civic advhh&ment of Paris,
concluded.
Mr. every one, beifog foremost in every
in this movement for the moral, social and
. He
Assistant Attorney leaves his widow* and seven chil-
General Felix J. McCord is also dren,t the four daughters being
to apo?ar in the case and it is the
intention of Gov. Campbell to
employ special counsel, for the
reason that the State’s attorney
have many other duties to per-
form.
De Spain struck
found where several parties had JcTpays.-T
. detoured across a scope of country K 2-
just northwest of the store, and on
• ' the banks of a small creek fourf.
hundred yards from the store io a j FOR BENT-,.™™ ll011se 2 block8
northwesterly direction found the east of posLoffice, $7 per month.—.1.
money drawer of the safe, the post- I
office money ordem mentioned, the .
stamps and the check for
The roblierv must have occurred •
. about 1:30 o’clock this morning.
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Tuesday at high noon at First
Baptist church Mi>« Mary Dulaney
and Mr. Faber F. Russell, of this
city, were united in marriage,Rev.
J. E. Hughes, pastor of that
church, performing the ceremony
in a most pleasing manner. The
building was comfortably tilled
with relatives and close friends of
the contracting parties. Messrs.
Robert Spivy and Nat Bradford
officiated in the capacity of ushers.
Just at 12 o’clock Mrs. Frank
Allen sang that beautiful song,
‘‘Adoration,” accompanied by the
i W. Newman.
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FOR RENT—Cottage on the car
i line. S10 per month—Mrs. Kate A.
I Kfncaid.
. OFFICE FOR R ENT-On the
; north side; entire ujwlairs: only $7.50
per month. Box 83. Bon ham.
robliers as follows: Three $6 bills,
ope *1 bill. $35 in silver dollars,
$6. 25 in quarters, $5.45 in dimes,
,$13 in nick les and about 100 cop-
pers. Besides the cash drawer in
the safe belonging to the store, the
drawer 4foMi*g»*Xhe stamps and
postoffice money orders for the
substation of the Sherman post
office, which is located in the store,
•was taken. In this there was a
check for $6, two money orders for
‘ b $20 each, about $20 of 1 and 2
' cent stamps and a few coppers.
The robbers gained entrance to
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the store by breaking a glass out
of the back door and pulling a
staple which held a padlock. On
the inside of the building was
found a large hammer Ixdonging to
- the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway company, a piece of plo.v
share and a railrosid fish plate.
In blowing the safe the robbers- Fannin county land. All tillable
see or write J. J. Uosgriff, Dodd City,
SAFE BLOWN OPEN ■>»
BY PROFESSIONALS
ding party entereil.
First came Messrs. Robert Spivy
and Nat Bradford, then the bride,
* leaning on the arm of her uncle,
i Mr. A. B. Sisson. They wyre met
’ at the altar by Mr. Albert Taylor
and the gro'nn. when* Mr. Hughes,
in a solemn and impressive man-
ner, told them of the joy and hap-
piness of the union of two loving
hearts and with a fitting ceremony
• pronounced them husband and
. wife. Then to the melody of Lo-
Shermau, Texas, Nov. 7.—Cheryl hwigrin’s entrancing march the
man was visited by safe blowers happy couple made their way to
last night who blew the safe in one the carriage and went immediate- j
, leaving on the
west-bound train for a short visit
head to relatives in Oklahoma.
The church was beautifully dec-
Lucas, 600 College street, corner ot orated with palms and ferns.
Broughton street, opened the story j Mr. and Mrs. Russell were the
at 6:30 o’clock this morning he'dia- recipients of many beautiful a^d
covered that the safe had been * useful presents, all of which go to
Glown and robbed ot its contents, prove, to some extent at least, the
The door .had lieen torn from its esteem in which they are held in
in several pieces Bonham.
There were quite a number of
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1908, newspaper, November 13, 1908; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1365418/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.