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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1901
Page
1
John Thomas, a Black man convicted for murdering his paramour, was hanged Friday in Shreveport. About fifty witnesses watched the rope break, his fall to the jail floor, and his subsequent death after a re-ascension to the scaffold.
A collection of rustic proverbs on humility, fortune, and family ties. It warns against boasting and self praise while praising prudence and mutual aid. The sayings touch on debts, advice, quarrels, and the dangers of vanity in a communal, old world voice.
A described sequence shows lighting a candle in carbon dioxide causing it to go out, then dampening cloth in the gas to test breath, and generating hydrogen by mixing sulfuric acid with zinc or magnesium. A spark on charcoal in oxygen produces burning carbon dioxide as an invisible gas.
The Amalgamated Association presses for recognition at American Sheet Steel plants led by W Dewees wood plant in McKeesport. If McKeesport closes indefinitely, the union may rally nationwide against the firm as two departments run and 125 workers join the strike.
H T Bosman of Hong Kong with wife and servants in New York envisions Western ideas shaping China. He proposes powers fund a 200 million indemnity for railways and internal improvements under joint control, with tolling bonds and eventual Chinese ownership from net earnings. He argues railroads expand China's outlook and trade potential, potentially solving the Chinese problem.
During talks on Chinese indemnities in Pekin and other capitals, France shows interest in broader claims. The French government aims to protect not only national concerns of France and French subjects but also extensive class claims of Catholic institutions and missionaries.
M Alexander of Terrell received a Galveston consul order to report for military examination. Born in Austria and now an American citizen, he was informed the Terrell grocery trade might suffer if he becomes a soldier. A Chicago Record chemical note by Walter Wilcox is quoted.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy will visit London next May, it is announced. The duke of Westminster sent a personal invitation to a New York resident who was gardener at Easton hall on the Westminster estate when the duke was a child. Justice Brown of the United States Supreme Court walks part of the way to the Capitol with a collie dog. George Schoener, leader of the Schoener or advanced group of the German party in Austria, says he and his associates desire Austria’s annexation by Germany.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York boarded the Ophir at midnight in Colombo Ceylon en route to Australia amid enthusiastic crowds. Governor sees them off at a lit jetty as bands play the national anthem and ships salute from the harbor.
A Berlin dispatch reports German police and Berlin officials watch for an anarchist named Romagnoli. He, recently in South America, is en route to Germany under orders from the Buenos Ayres anarchist club to assassinate the Kaiser.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was detained in Kansas City Missouri on a charge of obstructing the streets. She posted a $6 cash bond and faces trial today after delivering a lecture in Kansas City Kansas. A crowd of about a thousand followed her as she conducted a saloon tour along downtown streets at Lafayette and Walnut streets.
Dr Wor sham, superintendent of the State lunatic asylum, met with the governor to seek a $14,000 appropriation for two new buildings at the Austin asylum. Construction will start once plans are finished as patient numbers reach a record high, with 830 inmates and rising toward 1000.
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