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ment guard. but made HIS escape with
his companions in a high h-powered auto
mobile.
Three men are dead as the result Of
quarrel over flock Of turkeys Mon
day ut Harrisonhurg, Va.
Twenty-Five persons We're injured
last Saturday night when a passenger
train plowed inte stalled train in
New York.
r. L. Cunningham, of Lufkin. Texas,
has announced the purchase of a site in
that city for the erection of modern
and fully equipped laundry.
Lyman Rhea and Joseph Bert, of
Tracy, Tenn, fought a duel with
knives Tuesday, the former being cut
to death and the latter probably fatally
wounded.
As the result of boiler explosion
ut the Webb saw mill. near Van Buren,,
Ark, late last Saturday afternoon,
Tohe Brewer. Lawrence Henson and
Henry Basham are dead.
Sol Johnson. a negro. accused Of the
murder Of G. w. Landers. a merchant.
of Eylau. Texas, last February, was
found guilty by a jury last Saturday
and sentenced to be hanged.
At special meeting held in Houston,
Texas Monday. the stockholders of the
Humble Oil and Refining Company, an
nGunced an increase in capital stock
from $25,000,0OO to $43.730,O0O.
Thomas L. Bird of st. Paul. Minr.,
who won fame as a bicycle racer,
dropped dead ut Harve, Mont, some
days ago. He claimed to have ridden
more than 100000 miles on bicycle
In LOndon any person surviving a
suicide pact is guilty of murder. ac-
cording to Il decision handed down by
the Lord Chief Justice of England. and
must pay the penalty. which is death.
4 fireman and mess attendant are
reported missing as the result of a fire
followed by an explosion. which swept
the steamship Valba. in the Robbins
dry docks, at Brooklyn, n. Y, last Sat
urday.
According to a report from Magnolia,
Ark. work will begin the first week in
January OH tile construction of a new
Methodist church in that city. The
proposed cost of the building is said to
he $4,000.
Outspoken opposition has developed
at the national capital to the proposed
lofn TO Germany .or to any plan for
sending additional funds to Europe, y
according to news dispatch sent out
| the first of the week.
4 speed of 1900 miles an hour will
| lie possible in aircraft within the next
twenty-five years, according to Profes-
| sor T. w. Pawlowski, of the aeronauti
| cal engineering department OF the
| University of Michigan.
The body Of Mrs. A. NJ. Chastain, OF
Madill, Okla. was found last Saturday
| night in the flames Of her burning
home. It is believed she was murdered
for her money and jewelry and thu
house fired by the thief to hide thu
| crime.
\ dispatch from Los Angeles, Calf.
is to the effect that bandits obtained
| between $4,000 and $1,000 in robberie
at two banks i'll that city Monday ant
missed $4,000 at cafeteria when the.
became frightened by the screaming o
a girl employee.
The Methodist Preachers Associa
ton of Southern California has aske'
the Los Angeles City Commission t,
appoint commission of men and won
Ell TO make d thorough investigation o
the use of habit forming drugs In tina
city. The movie industry at Hollywood
grown to be a big thing to the state, i
thus threatened. it is claimed.
Alvin Clark. Of Easton. Mo-, and Wi
liam Kramer. We're arrested in s.
Joseph. Mo-. Monday and, according
4 to the police at that place. confesse
to the wrecking of Burlington pas
! senger train east of Sixton, tllat,statt
Tuesday night of last week. RObber
is thought to have been ine motive fo
wrecking the train, but the boy bandit
became frightened and fled.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Y. Wheeler. Of 1
Reno. Okla. some days ago celebrate
their seventy-third wedding annive
sary. Mr.. Wheeler. now ninety-seve
years of age, was born in Paris, Ills
and Mrs. Wheeler ninety-one, in Clar
! mont County. Ohio. The living mel
+ bers of the family of the aged coup
include three daughters, twelve gran,
children, twenty-ona great-grandchi
dren and one great-greai- -grandchil
Dixie Highway Gaps Closing.
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