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nien nave no way dI all Ol SeltlHS
around, it is claimed.
Judge G. III. Elting, of the Oklahoma
State Supreme Court, died in Durant,
Okla, Sunday of heart disease.
A number of persons are reported in
jured in the wreck of a Wabash passen-
ger train near Imogene, Iowa, Monday |
night.
At least 52.1S5 persons have been
killed in automobile accidents in the
United States during the last five
years.
A big gas well in the Ell Dorado, Ark,
field, drilled in one day last week, was
later drilled six feet deeper and is now
making from 5000 to 5000 barrels Of
oil daily.
The body of an eleven-pound baby
girl, its head crushed with blow by
some blunt instrument, was found in a
suburb of Texarkana, Ark, yesterday
afternoon.
1t has been announced that George
Dorado. Ark, a $4,000 to 100000
hotel building. He owns much real
estate in the Arkansas town.
Thomas Scott Lemon drank poison
and died at Forth Worth, Texas, Mon
dan night, being prompted to commit
| his rash act because his fiancee post
poned the date of their wedding one
year.
All charges against Madalyne Oben-
chain of Los Angeles, Calf, several
times tried for the death of J. Bolton
| Kennedy, a young broker of Los Ange-
les, have been dropped. The dismissal
| was the result of insufficient evidence.
As the result of fast Sante Fe pas
senger train being wrecked at Jastro,
Calf, last Saturday night, the en-
gineer is dead, the fireman, newsboy
and three passengers are badly injured
injured.
t A news dispatch of the week says the
Governor OF Michigan is suing to COM
pei the Auditor General to pay him
self, the Treasurer and the Secretary
Of State an additional S25OO year,
|
islature.
The body of Miss Ruby Hendryx, a
young school teacher, of Perry, Fla,
was found beside the railroad tracks
near that place by train crew late
last Saturday. Her throat had been
slasl,ed and her head had been beaten
with blunt instrument.
Approximately 1900 persons were
made homeless. 200 residences, two
churches, two warehouses and several
stores were destroyed, and a loss esti
mated at $1,OOOO0O was caused by fire
which swept twenty blocks in Newbern
, n. c., Friday of last week.
Representative James r. Mann, o1
: Illinois, died at his home in Washing
ton, ID. c., one night last week, after {
, brief illness, resulting from an attacl
, of pneumonia. Mr.. Mann had seryet
for quarter of century as a membe
of the House Of Representatives.
! Suit to recover 100000, alleged t,
have been misappropriated in connec
4 ton with the building of Camp Pike
). Ark, was filed for the Government Il
: federal court at Little Rock Monday b,
o United States District Attorney Cole
o The camp cost approximately $500
600.
His neck broken and his back paral
wed, Simon Schlum, of New York, wa
! alive Monday because thirty men bley
! breath into his lungs. Y. NJ. C. A. vo
: unteers worked thirty-four hours in fl
teen minute periods applying artificia
respiration and physicians say SchluI
) has a chance for recovery.
There was decided drop in temper
! ature Tuesday in many states, the col
= wave reaching as far as Texas in th
= Southwest and to Tennessee in the Gel
trail area. At Helena, Mont, is degree
=, below zero was reported and below-zel
J. weather prevailed throughout Montan
: North Dakota and portions of Mime;
y sofa.
u IZzy Phillips, seventy years old,
dead and Louis Finley. twenty-fi,
Y. years old, was perhaps fatally wOunde
II yesterday by Mack, a negro. when
st posse attempted to capture the neg
t. in connection with an attack on a de
N uty sheriff. The above named all r
sided in Marked Tree, Ark, where Il
d tradegy occurred.
a, Arthur Wallis. of NavasOta. Texa
ce brakeman on the International al
in Great Northern Railroad. is dead al
at Kelly Steel, of Palestine, Texas, a fir
s. man on the same road, is charged wi
ry murder as the result of a difficulty /
tween the two men in Palestine, tn
d. state. last Saturday night Wall
he death resulted from a knife wound
a the throat.
he George Castleberry, painter, TIVE
lis ty-eight years old, Of Oklahoma Gil
ID Okla. was removing an electric lig
Tit bulb from socket when he came
lin contact with live wire and was
les most instantly killed. His young
gh brother. William, eighteen years o
cd seeing his plight attempted to pull h
from the wire and also was elect
IN. cuted The accident occurred Mond