The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-11-24
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

an election N Johnson county.
Three lives were lost in New Bruins
wick, N. j., as result Of fire which
destroyed several tenements occupied
by negroes.
Four men were Killed and score
were injured. several fatally. by the
explosion OF boiler OF cotton gin
at Gainesville. Ark, on the Arkansas
Central Railroad.
1t is rumored that Thomas c. Platt,
Senator from New York. will soon re-
sign his seat on account OF family al
fairs, which have preyed upon his
mind for some time.
An. explosion in the McAlester Coal
Mining Company mine at Buck l. t.
killed two men and practically
wrecked the mine. The mine belonged
to Pres Allen of St. Louis.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
salaries to all employees now receiv-
ing less than 5000 per month is an
nounced by the National Express Com
pany.
Thousands and thousands Of tons
Of cotton seed, it is said, are rotting
In the State Of Mississippi because Of
the inability of shippers to secure
cars.
Intermenr OF the body OF Uncle
Bob" the old Belle Meade negro host
Ter known to turfmen throughout the
United States, occurred at Belle Meade
Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. Sunday.
Local capital will put in a packing
house in South McAlester, |. T., IN
the near future The stock will be
$780, 900, every cent of which Is al
ready subscribed for.
The police of Bjorneborg few days
since seized fifty boxes out of a total
consignment Of 29S boxes Of military
rifles, each containing twenty and des-
tined for Russian revolutionists.
Two men are dead and two others
fatally hurt and one seriously injured
as result of pistol duel In an at
tempted hold-up of a saloon by two
masked men in San Francisco.
Mrs. Prudence Shaw Wright. an old
resident of Hubbard. died last Friday
She was born in Tennessee December
81. 1916. and came to Texas in 1S49,
settling in Navarro County. near Hub
bard.
Daniel ]. Sully, once known as the
cotton king" has abandoned the field
in which he made his spectacular
coups and has gone into soap and tai
low. He has become the head OF j
soap corporation which has s1,2OO,OOI
capital.
James Morgan, aged IL years,
: pitched headlong from the roof of
five-story building in New York Fri
; day. His screams startled Julius Sci
lyman, who glancing up as the boy
struck upon his shoulders, was knock
, ed from his feet, but both escaped Sc
rious injury.
The United States secret service an
nounces the discovery of new coun
. terfeit of $40 Buffalo" United States
notes. This counterfeit is apparentl,
a photo-lithographic production print
ed on two pieces Of paper with silk
fibre distributed between them.
, Grandmother MCGEE of Greenville
aged 1O2 years, went down the Mid
land and changed cars for Corsicana
where she goes to visit. She seems
quite active and is making the triI
alone. She also walks without sup
port.
J Prices on all kinds of mirrors viii
! be advanced from 20 to so per cent
after January 1, according to a reso
luton adopted at meeting of the
: Western mirror manufacturers in Chi
cago last week.
, Bert Kyles and Emmett Dixon viii
wrestle at 127 pounds at Bush Temple
Dallas, on the night of December 10
catch-as-catch-can style.
The Farmers Union at Lone OaE
has just completed cotton warehouse
of 1900 or $500 bales capacity.
The National Association of EN-
, ploying Lithographers announce tha
: the National strike of photographer:
J is nearly at an end. OF 1927 presse:
affected, it says 1872 are now in opera
ton.
| Senator Thomas c. Plat and hi:
, wife, formerly Mrs. Lillian T. Jane
, way, have agreed to separate, owing
, to incongeniality.
! The new $4,000 Frisco depot ant
, station at Tulsa. I. T.. has been com
pleted and is now occupied.
| Not since white men came has the
: state of Washington suffered from
J such a storm as ragged Wednesda,
night and early Thursday morning
. Railroads out of Tacoma and Seattle
are demoralized.
| A comet which could be seer
. through small telescope was discov
cred Saturday night by Helger Thielt
at Copenhagen. according to dis
patch received at the Harvard college
} observatory from Professor Reutz o.
Kiel, Germany.
The city council Of Shreveport ha!
passed an ordinance compelling all sa
, looms to close at midnight. This orde
and the increase of the liquor license
J to $500 will cause number Of So
looms to go out OF business
. Two women whose ages are sale
to 2I5 wears. are inmates of the homt