The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-05-23
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EVENTS. stockyards and some
horse traders attend
ing an auction sale farmer named
Springfield was given team of mules
in lieu of less valuable one that he
lost. His other team fell through Q
bridge and was killed.
Holland MeKinsey, fourteen years
old, was drowned in a tank in the vi
entity of Womack Mills, in Grayson
county With some companions he
was in the water and was seized with
cramps.
An aged negro named Glen Ford
was found dead at the corner of Live
Oak and Good street,, Dallas, by DR..
Rufus Whitis, a physician of that
city. An abrasion was found over an
eye and a bad cash in the back of the
head. Investigation showed the old
man had been run down by some auto
mobilist who did not stop to ascertain
the result of his dreadful deed.
Twenty miles from Texarkana w.
Hunter, aged fifty six years, father of
eight children, was killed by Will, a
son, nineteen years old. The youth
says his father grabbed rifle, de-
claring he would wipe out the fam
ily" Young Hunter rode to Texark-
ana and surrendered.
r. Fl. Bates, a farmer, residing near
Arlington, was acquitted Fort
Worth of the murder of Miss Lulu
Williams. His plea was self defense.
The girl was killed at 5 o'clock one
morning last October at the home of
Bates. Latter claimed he was called
to his door, and that the woman, in
male apparel, fred at him.
Otto Fellhouse, sixty-eight years of
age !, a travelling man in Texas for the
past forty years, died at San Antonio
following an operation. He was a
member of several orders.
George M. Bailey of the Houston
Post has been made member of the
staff of Governor Hooper of Tonnes
see with the rank of colonel, The
governor is Republican and Mr..
Bailey a Democrat.
First load of the 1911 peach crop
arriving at Putnam, Callahan county,
was marketed on the 18th instant by
J. NJ. Lindsey. A ready sale was
found at 81. go per bushel.
A quarterly dividend of $3.50 has
been declared on common stock of the
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able June II. This action was taken
at the quarterly meeting OF directors
held at Boston.
Officers Cooper and Rawlins raided
a place at Dallas and arrested five
negroes, four of them women. A com
plete opium smoking outfit was confis-
Gated by the officers Charges of va
grancy were filed against the parties
arrested.
A commercial club with nearly thir-
ty members has been organized at
Sanger, Denton county. D. T. shir-
ley is president and A. 6. Fitzgerald
secretary.
A large passenger and freight depot
is to be erected at Sanger at an early
day by the Santa Fe railway.
In an alteration in front of post
Office at Burnet j. K. Jamison wa
killed, An automatic pistol was used.
J. A. Hill was arrested.
John Virgins, negro hack driver,
while seated on his carriage at Waco,
was shot and killed, bullet penetrat-
ing his body and passing out through
his heart. The negro tumbled from
his seat to the ground and almost in
stantly expired. NJ. r. Clark. a white
man. charged with the shooting, claims
the negro insulted his wife.
As a precaution against any infec-
ton in the water the reservoirs, mains
and standpipes at Terrell we're emp
tied for the purpose OF cleaning them.
During most of the day when this was
done ull plants using electric power
had to stop and the daily paper was
not issued.
Former Mayor Hay OF Dallas has
been elected PRESIDENT of the Dallas
Trust ond Savings bank Capital
stock has been increased from $500, 600
TO $500, 600 and the surplus from 500,
300 to s175, 000
At the annual meeting, at Dallas. OF
The Texas State Bankers association
General William r. Handy of Austin
vas elected president General Ham
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