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DATE FOR TRIAL fIXEO
frank McCue Will face Murder Charge
on Jamary 27.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 4.—The case
of the state of Texas vs. Frank Mc
Cue, who stands charged by indict
ment with murder In connection
with the death of Earl Mabrv, has
been set by Judge Nelms for trial
on Monday, Jan. ,27, and a special
venire of 150 men has been ordered
by the court from which to select a
jury.
The Ο :rol.er term of the criminal
district court will be concluded to
day, and the minutes will be signed
by the judge. The grand jury will
make its final report and be dis
charged.
The January term will begin Mon
day, January 6, at which time the
new grand jury will be sworn and
chàrged by the court. It is expected
that the new term will be a busy
one. for in addition to numerous
other cases, there are thirty-three
murder cases upon the docket which
•will be set for trial.
By reason of his former connec
tion with the office of the county at
torney and as counsel for the prose
cution, Judge Nelms is disqualified
in several cases.
Ball-Yater.
The following has been received
at this office:
"Mrs. Alexander Norwood Yater
requests the honor of your presence
at the marriage of her daughter,
Jennie Lucile, to Mr. John Oalhoun
Ball Wednesday evening, January
15, 1908, at 8 o/clock, 411 North
Main street. Cleburne. Texas."
Miss Yater attended Trinity Uni
versity last year, and has many
friends among the young people of
the city who unite in extending con
gratulations in advance.
DOME KKGIMTKIi KKPOUT.
j Many Visitors Climb to Highest
! Point in State Capital Building
Austin, Texas, Jan. 4.—The
I watchman in the dome of the state
j house keeps a register, where all
ι visitors to the dome are requested to
j write their names and place of resi
dence, so that an accurate number
of vleito.'S can be ascertained. Dur
ing the past year 32,529 people vis
ited the dome, 1048 of them being
from other states and nations. Dur
j ing July the number reached 4706,
I which was larger than any other
I month.
Played Joke on Sheriff.
Sheriff Forbes has about arrived j
at the conclusion that misfortune ac- !
companies him on his hunting trips. '
Several days ago he went, with a
party of friends to the Mountain '
i Peak country and lost a grip con- !
taining his supply of ammunition.
New Year's day he made another ;
trip to Mountain Peak, this time ac
companied by B. F. Thornhill and
T. J. Bullard. Having no hunting |
coat. Sheriff Forbes borrowed one
from Mr. Bullard. When the hunt- (
ing £ield was reached Sheriff Forbes .
took the coat from the surrey, and .
as he buttoned it around his fifty
two inches of chest expansion, re
marked that the pockets seemed
well filled with ^cartridges. Several
hundred y&rds from the vehicle fii
covey of birds was found and the
big sheriff cracked away at them
with both barrels. Inserting his hand
in a pocket of the coat for cartrid
ges he found It to be filled with ;
small rocks. An investigation of the
other receptacles gf the garment re
vealed the same state of affairs,
much to the chagrin of the sheriff.
When it dawned upon him that he j
had been made the victim of a joke ,
he enjoyed a good natured laugh .
with the other members of the par- ,
ty.
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IUIX™ P. P. SMITH Ô CO. N«
JAIL IS OVERFLOWING
City Authorities Issue Orders to Arrest
All Crowds on Street.
Muncle, Ind.. Jan. 4.—Whether
to bring the state troops to Muncle
to put down the daily outbreaks re
sulting from the street railway strike
was a question decided in the affir
mative by the city and traction offi
cials last night. The mayor and the
chief of police are strongly opposed
to the appearance of soldiers on the
street cars. On the other hand, Ad
jutant General Perry declared that
the rioting must stop.
Rioting in connection with the
street railway strike was resumed
yesterday. The cars started running
on regular schedule at. 7 o'clock
without interruption and were not
molested for several hours. A crowd
attacked two cars in the outskirts
of the city shortly-after 10 o'clock,
hurling stones and other missies,
and after driving off the crews, com
pletely wrecked the cars. Squads of
police hurried to the place and over
fifty arrests were made. The jail is
nearly filled with rioters and orders
were repeated to arrest every mem
ber of a street gathering that con
tained more than three persons.
There was no attempt at violence in
downtown sections of the city. Two
rioters were badly hurt, one of them
being cut about the throat with a
knife, but not fatally hurt.
The Great Divide.
Henry Miller, the distinguished
actor manager, w'll bring "The
Great Divide," which has won the
recognition as "the long awaited
'great American plav,' " to the opera
house on Tuesday, January 7. The
coming of this famous drama, which
lias recently been presented at the
Princess and Daly's theatres in New
York for over 500 performances,
has for some time been held by our
play lovers as a bright spot in the
indefinite theatrical future, and this
positive announcement of the date
of the engagement will be greeted
with pleasure. "The Great Divide"
has added much to the celebrity of
Mr. Miller as a producing manager
and brought from dramatic obscuri
ty into permanent renown an author
who will have to be reckoned with
from now on in the American drama.
Wm. Vaughn Moody had already be
come established as this country's
leading younger poet, and through
his occupancy of the chair of Eng
lish in the University of Chicago, his
several publications relating to the
language have long been quoted as'
an authority upon English litera-1
ture. Bur. until Mr. Miller produced
"The Great. Divide," even Mr. Moo
dy's best friends never suspected
that the brilliant young poet could
write a play which would be not
only the most successful of its time
from a pecuniary standpoint, but
which would also be declared by
leading critics to "set a new mark
in_ American drama." The play is in
three acts, the first two being repre
sented as taking place in Arizona
and the third in Massachusetts. In
a way, the drama is a conflict be
tween the spirit of the East and the
spirit of the west. An eastern wom
an weighted down by generations of
tradition and conventionality, is
strangely wooed and still more
strangely won by a western man un
fettered by custom and ignorant of
restraint of mind or action. The
mating of these opposite natures
provokes great storm and stress,
and raises many intensely interest
ing and highly dramatic situations.
One must see this masterful exposi
tion of American manhood and
womanhood as portrayed in this
really great play to understand ade
quately how the storms are weather
ed and the problem solved.
Announces for Legislature.
Ε. B. Creech of Ennis states that
he will make the race for represen
tative from Ellis county in the next
legislature. He will 'announce short
ly for place No. 1. to succeed Hon.
J. M. Alderdice, who is now a candi
date for state superintendent.
Xew IiUinl)er Yard for Italy.
A new lumber yard is being put in
at Italy by Jeb Griffis and Dr. W.
W. Collier. It is capitalized at $50,
OOQ, and wilL be managed by Mr.
Grlffls, the president. This makes
the third big lumber firm for that
town.
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installation Ceremonies Conducted
By Odd Fellows Friday \Ίμ1»(.
Waxahachle Lodge No Su. I. Ο. ()
F., installed officers for the ensuing
terra at their hall Friday night, ;*s
follows:
B. Q. Vestal. Noble Grand.
Ous Meyer. Vice Grand.
C. R. Gibson. Secretary.
G. C. Newton, Treasurer.
W. R. Roberts, Conductor.
F. H. Ralston, Warden.
J. W. Broadhead, R. S. N. G.
Fred Day, L. S. N'. G.
I. W. Taliaferro, R. S. V. G.
C. O. Adkins, L. S. \\G.
Ν. B. Lackland, K. S. S.
R. H. Ozment, L. S. S.
\V. W. Walston, Chaplain.
Morris Knoclf,/Slnslclan.
Sam Cauthen goes as the repre
sentative to the grand lodge, with
C. W. Moores as alternate. This
lodge, under the administration of
Ed Piumiiotf, the retiring noble
grand, has had a very prosperous
term. The members all seem highly
pleased with the services of their
secretary, C. R. Gibson, and their
treasurer. G. C. Newten, these two
officers being re-elected from term
to term without opposition.
First Lector,· of Season,
The beautiful auditorium of the
Sims Library has been unused so
far this winter, but its doors will be
open to the public for a series of
lectures on "Strange Sights in For
eign Lands" by A. M. Lumpkin. A.
M., traveler and lecturer, next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights. Mr. Lumpkin has traveled
around the world twice in prepara
tion of these lectures, and delivers
them dressed in the native costume
of the people of whom he talks. The
entertainment comes strongly back
ed by flattering press reports and
f&vorabie comment from educators
where the lectures have been given,
and we consider Waxahachle fortu
nate in securing Dr. Lumpkin as the
t'ii;t hjgh class attraction of this
Kind f<fr the sci'.soi;.
Zeke, the Country Boy. ·
A beautiful heart story inter
spersed with clean comedy is prom
ised when "Zeke, the Country Boy"
is presented here January 6. i
The play is the newest oJ' this ^
class of rural productions of which
the theatre Igoing public never seem
to tire. Zeke is the central figure
around which the story is told and
the rest of the characters are true
to nature—not overdrawn and ridi
culous as is often the case in pro
ductions of this class.
Special scenery is used and sing- j
ing aild dancing specialties are in-1
troduced assuring a pleasant perfor
mance.
The trade mark Seal-Shipt is a
guarantee that the goods are all
right. Η. Ν .Nyeum. · tf
Plenty of Iron or felt roofing at
F. S. Cronk Co.'s; prices right. tf
We Have
in our Drug Store
one of the most com
plete asssortments of
Toilet
Articles
you ever saw, and
it is easy to select
what you want,
owing to the fact
that our stock is so
large and well as- ■
sorted. *
a BURN PROVES fflTAL
Woman's Clothinq Was Ignited From d
Burning Trash Pile.
Hlllsboro, Texas, .Ian. 4.—Thurs
day afternoon about 4 o'cloc k, while
Mrs. Dr. B. F. Smith was engaged in
burning some trash In the hack yard
of their residence on North Pleasant
street, her clothing caught fire. She
was alone at the time and evidently
the flames made such rapid progress
that she was unable to suppress
them and before she could be reach
ed h.»' the relief which came in. re
sponse to her cries almost lier en
tire body was enveloped. Mrs. D. .Î.
Sawyer, who was at the time in the
back yard of her own home, was
perhaps the first person whose at
tention was attracted and she at
once notified some workmen on a
nearby building, who made all pos
sible haste to the place and under
took to extinguish the flame but met
with little success, when a son of
the unfortunate lady, who had been
at work in the barn In the rear of
the lot, heard the cries of his mother
and rushing into the house secured
a quilt and wrapped her in it, and
succeeded in extinguishing the fire,
but not until most of her clothing
h»d burned off and Mrs. Smith's
body, arms and face had been terri
bly burned. She was carried into her
home and her husband notified by
telephone and Drs. Buie and Vaug
lian also hastened to the residence.
The injuries were dressed and all
that was possible was done through
out the night to preserve her life, al
though little hope was entertained
for her recovery, and at 7 o'clock ι
Friday morning, death relived her |
of her sufferings.
TWO Μ Κ.Ν nVHXKI).
Bag of I'owder Kxpltxles With Sri·- 1
ions Results.
Hillsboro, Texas, Jan. t.—While
a number of parties were engaged
in celebrating the New Year at'Ma
lone by firing anvils they by mistake
left a bag of powder on a work j
bench in a blacksmith's shop and '
when one of the workmen later on J
in the day was sharpening a plow a
spark flew on the bag and setting it
afire caused the powder to explode.
Mr. Payton's face was very badly
burned, and Mr. Webb, who was
nearby, was seriously burned and it
is feared he may lose one eye, as :·.
result and would have been burned
to death if it had not been for the'
timely assistance of men standing!
by who put out the fl iu.t-.
Sullivan Has Wrist Broken.
Greenville. Texas, Jan. 1 —Divis
ion Superintendent R. J. Sullivan of
the Shreveport, McKinney and Min-j
eola branch of the Katy, had both
"cones of hi,, left arm broken at the
wrist ?esteiday afternoon while at
Emory. He was standing on the rear j
end of the local freight train with
his hand resting on the brake v.'nen
the engineer applied the air brakes
to the train, causing the brake to
reverse. His hand was caught and
twisted around the brake. He was
b.ought, to a hotel in this city.
Death of Will (iibl)-.
Will Gibbs, a hard working ne
gro aged about 37, died Thursday
afternoon at his home in Freedman.
The interment took ^ilace at the col
ored cemetery Saturday afternoon.
The deceased had been in the em
ploy of Ο. B. Sims thirty-one years,
or ever since he was about 6 years
old.
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Matthews'
GREAT
SEMI-ANNUAL
CLEARANCE SALE
NOW ON
Don't Miss It !
MI ST III \ ON TIME,
(icnoral Manager <>f Kiily Issues Or
der 011 tli·· Hnbject.
It. would seem that the annual
turning of a new leaf extends fur
ther than with mere Individuals.
Anent this question the following
from the Demicrat-Sentinel of 3e
dalla, Mo., %iay be of interest:
"A general order for the entire
Katy system has been Issued by
Vice President and General Manager
A. A. Allen, of the Katy, to the ef
fect that passenger trains must, bo
run on time.
"Heretofore delays of the most
trivial nature were attributed to the
slow running of trains, but in future
all trains must be run strictly ac
cording to schedule."
Mrs. R. E. Moore and baby daugh
ter, Carrol, of Waxahachle are in
the city this week, guests of her mo
ther and sisters, Mrs. DeArmond
and Misses Lillian and Irene DeAr
mond.— Ennis News.
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it is convenient t<> store
and handle. It can be
used without soiling
hands or clothe?, and
theie is
No Waste
Our mixed feed provides
the only way in which
stock get the full benefit
of every ounce of meal
and hulls without the
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