Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1907-05-03
WORLD HAPPENINGS.

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There is q locomotive shortage in
Texas.
Plover are unusually scarce in west
Texas.
General John S. Bubb is on the re-
tired list.
A $4,000 club has been organized
at Ada, l. T.
scurvy prevails in the famine dis.
tricts Of Russia.
Cotton ties have been advanced 10
cents per bundle.
Oklahoma is being flooded with
campaign literature.
Cooper, Tex, is endeavoring to have
$3.50, 900 cotton mill.
Lemons are abnormally high fol-
this season of the year.
At Alamo, Ca, ]. T. Bright was shot
and killed by H. L. Sears.
Postmaster General Meyer denies
that he intends resigning.
There are nearly 1000 patients in
the asylum at Terrell, Tex.
R. E. Higgins died suddenly at Fort
Worth from acute indigestion.
1t is now said Castro will retire as
president of Venezuela May %.
Deputy Sheriff W. E. Upton OF
Texico, N. NJ, was shot to death.
H. P. Stebbins, veteran western
journalist, died near Perry, Okla.
Virgil Robinson, ten years old, walk.
ed from Texarkana to Tulsa, l. T.
Virginia" Bradley, the we'll known
horseman, died at Greenway, Va.
The pope has Instituted new or
der-Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.
Lonnie Hall was shot at Dallas and
soon died. E. c. Pate was arrested.
Six small boys charged with theft
were arrested at one time at Dallas
The $4,000 gin of the Mckinney
Oil and Gin company was destroyed by
fire.
A vein of sulphur ten feet thick has
been discovered in Duval county, Tex.
as.
In eighteen months 3,741 new tele
phones have been installed at Dial.
las.
Hugh Browning, a brakeman, was
crushed to death by train at Yoakum
Tex.
The safe Of the Katy railway at Ring
gold, Tex, was bloWn open and $100
taken.
]. R. Foraker, brother of the senator;
| and prominent attorney, died at Gin
cinnati.
Senator Penrose was caller at the
white house. He declined to be inter
viewed.
In shooting ARRAY at an inc joint
in Big Sandy, Tex, two negroes were
wounded.
A large cave has been found in Tur.
key mountain, seven miles south Of
Tulsa, l. T.
Four million bushels of coal started
down the Ohio river Thursday from
Pittsburg.
A shed fell on the little boy of G.
w. Ford of Reagan county, Texas,
killing him.
Mrs. Dan T. Leary of Texarkana was
robbed of diamonds and jewelry val
ued at $4,000.
Stock and farming interests in the
San Angelo, Tex, section are in splen
did condition.
Delegation from Texas to the South
ern Baptist convention at Richmond
Va, numbers 125.
W. o. Daniel, machinist, became
entangled in machinery at Dallas Both
arms were broken.
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburs
Railroad company will issue f35,000,
900 worth Of bonds.
A. w. Swope, an Oklahoma pioneer
was found dead beside his team on 6
road near Saltwater.
The oil strike at Manner, twenty
seven miles west Of Muskogee. is caus
ing much excitement.
Six Houston children were bitten by
mad dog. All were sent to the Pas
teur institute at Austin.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000
to the Home of Needy Confederate
Women at Richmond, Va.
At Bristol, Tenn, Noah Fulton sho
and killed John Johnson. Five bull
lets entered Johnson's body.
Over 800 railroad officials wer,
guests at the fifth annual banquet O
. the Pittsburg Traffic club.
At Corona, Kan, a mob of negroes
attempted to lynch Joseph Bush
charged with train robbery.
Part of a bridge and hundreds o
tons of earth fell into Little Otter riv
er atLawry, Va, damming it up.
: Between Burnet and Lampasas
Tex, Central train went through
bridge. Eight persons were hurt.
Francis Murphy, the apostle O
temperance" has retired from the plat
form, and is living at Los Angeles.
, In the oratorical contest at New o.
leans between Tulane university an
University of Texas the latter won.
Colonel Robert e. Lee, grandson Q
the noted general, will be orator at tn
Confederate reunion in Richmond.
Steamer Hamilton will make regula
trips up the Sabine river from Lont
view, Tex, twelve miles up the stream
The residence, eighteen miles fro1
Gainesville, Tex, OF r. L. Hicko,
valued at $4,000, was consumed b
fire.
About 100 summer cottages nes
9 Miller's Lake, Mass, owned by Spiri
s ualists, and valued at $4,000. wei
: burned.
J, Henry Lewis, negro, was killed /:
= Dallas in fight with another negr
Ten shots were fired. The other pa
ty escaped.
- General w. S. McCaskey, form,
commander of the department Of TIE
as, is now in charge of the departmel
of the Dakotas.