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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1906
Page
17
The Clifton Record reports a Dallas eight story Fulton Bay Co. project at $125000, a Paris auditorium contract at $25000, and a mayoral bid by Curtis P. Smith. It notes paralysis of Capt. Jesse A. Bennett, a Labor Day holiday proclaimed, a Katy Cotton Belt interlock start, and a fatal electrocution near Galveston.
The passage portrays the American as a future prototype of humanity, a machine like figure driven by calculation and enterprise. It describes his skin, endurance, and inexhaustible ambition, noting metaphysical questions interest him little and art holds little value beyond marketability. He designs grand spaces to display wealth, catalogs himself, and brands generosity with public gifts.
A commentary arguing that limiting fortunes would harm national progress. It cites industrial progress, transportation networks, lighting industry growth, and charitable giving as proof that wealth accumulation fuels enterprise and advancement, warning that forced limits would turn the rich into hoarders and impede productivity.
A critique argues that modern entertainment takes on religious roles and diverts souls from faith. It condemns Bible plays like Pilgrim's Progress and Barabbas for offering only fleeting spiritual impact and warns against entertaining preaching that dulls devotion.
In Georgia capital Atlanta on September 25 three county policemen were ambushed near Clark University. Policeman Heard died, another officer was fatally wounded, a third officer left dying at Grady Hospital, and a fourth officer was reported missing. Police pursued suspects, capturing ten of the attackers. four escaped. A Mexican named Jose Paulo Chaves, about 33, was run over and killed in Austin yards. Additionally a $200 cash theft at Pacific Express in Marlin remains unsolved, and H J Norton of West Parks died from a ruptured blood vessel on his farm.
Gen L M Oppenheimer died at 9 30 Monday at Cohen boarding house. His remains were claimed by the Masonic fraternity where he held high rank as a past commander of the Knights Templars of Texas. He was chairman of the State Penitentiary Board and served on the Austin Board of Water and Light Commissioners and the National Board for the promotion of Rule Practice.
Surveyors who had been working five weeks northwest of the Weatherford Mineral Wells Northwestern Railway returned and are making a cross section. It is rumored that grading will start soon and the road will connect with a line that runs directly to Trinidad Colorado.
Denison resident Will Davis of Gatesville Texas was found unconscious beside the Missouri Kansas and Texas track four miles north of Colbert I T on Monday. His left hand was crushed by a train and his hand was amputated after he was brought to Denison. Reverend W A Hamlett has been called to Louisville Ky church. A district court petition seeks a contest of the Athens precinct prohibition election held Sept 1, with a pro majority of 15 votes.
Postal authorities intercepted an internally addressed device to Jacob H. Schiff on the main floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Authorities believe Russian anarchists sent the bomb in retaliation for Schiff’s funding of Russia during the Japanese war. The missile carried guncotton enough to wreck a skyscraper.
Five are dead and fifteen injured after a switch engine ran onto the main line, rear ending a passenger train in the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad yards at New Prague, Minnesota, forty miles south of Minneapolis. The crash occurred as the passenger train was a few minutes late.
At a special city council meeting on Saturday night a franchise was granted to Mr. Carter of Dallas to build a five mile street railway into Greenville. Also the Texas and Pacific freight No. 19 west bound was wrecked Sunday afternoon about seven miles from Texarkana. Ten cars derailed and machinist F. E. H. Dice, riding in a box car, was killed.
A violent race riot in Atlanta on September 24 ends with eight Georgia National Guard companies and light artillery deployed after white mobs attack Black residents. Police, militia, and Governor Terrell mobilize to restore order as 10 000 people flood the downtown, cars are damaged, and several Blacks are killed or beaten.
In Havana the Liberals and insurgents empower a committee to report differences to American mediators. Taft notes peace may require a U S army and cautions against long occupation. Also reported: Will Carriker fatally shot near Cushing and Will Richmond commits suicide in Caldwell county jail.
60 000 acres in Texas near Valentine will be planted with macaroni wheat. seed from Volga regions and the Mediterranean. 26 000 acres near Durango Mexico bought by John T Alberts of Philadelphia for a Quaker colony. An English syndicate plans a large cotton mill at Gomez Palacios to process Laguna cotton, about 70 000 bales yearly.
Cooke County representative Blanton vows special effort in the upcoming Legislature session to pass his pure food bill. A Santa Fe section hand H B Sanders died Saturday after being crushed by a freight train wheel on a Fort Worth work shift. Conductor W A Mitchell from Palestine survived a wreck on the Cimarron River in Oklahoma with his family but lost baggage. J W Hawkins, a Missouri and Texas brakeman, had legs severed at Chickie Chockie and later died. Haw kin was on the engine pilot when he fell to the track.
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