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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1913
Page
2
A compact recap highlights notable events and developments from the week. Key figures, places, and organizations appear in brief summaries, offering a snapshot of political, social, and cultural milestones.
Vice President Marshall appoints senate members to investigate the Indian bureau. Secretary Daniels orders punishment for sailors of the Pacific reserve fleet involved in destruction of IWW and socialists property in Seattle, with civilians blamed for abuse of the flag. The house lobby committee questions I H McMichael about Cohen payoffs to McDermott in pork targeting DC. Wilson nominates John Van A MacMurray to Pekin post and Henry M White as immigration commissioner. Battle to seat Henry D Clayton in Alabama heats up. President lauds children’s bureau work after meetings with Jane Addams and Miss Lathrop and Miss McDowell note.
Texas ore from Cass and Marion counties shipped in fifty ton volleys to the Ogeechee at Port Bolivar marking the first Texas iron ore sale to Philadelphia. In New York, 35 workers were trapped 440 feet underground in the Catskill aqueduct amid a shaft fire but were rescued unharmed. Governor Hodges of Kansas seeks pond builders to aid reservoir work amid drought. Dr. C I Fletcher dies after a 600 foot fall on Blackfoot glacier. Texas fever quarantine relief covers 9191 square miles as tick eradication continues. Extra session of Texas legislature adjourns. Gettysburg tower struck by lightning destroying the cupola. Passenger addresses listed among the State of California disaster dead in Seattle records.
The current special session ends with appropriations totaling 14 621 959 dollars. The Lord Ormonde was floated after grounding off Newport News. Cotton use in southern mills surpasses past full crop year records while northern mills exceed all American consumption prior to 1887. Temperatures trend cooler than average this week. Galveston wheat exports to foreign markets in August may top 4 million bushels. Central Texas rainfall brings relief to crops including cotton and late feeds. New York begins hatching 400 million trout eggs at Cold Spring Harbor for distribution within a year. Epworth encampment at Corpus Christi ends, grounds to be sold and league relocated. All Missouri lead belt mines closed due to Western Federation of Miners strike. Bluford Sanders and Paul Miller drown at Deep Eddy near Austin.
Reports place Dr. Pacenza atop Mount Numz kum in the Hima layas Italy at 22 000 feet as police guard ex King Menuel of Portugal in Germany for a Septembr wedding to Princess Augusta Victoria. Elsewhere Turks seize Kuckuk Kakvak after clash with Bulgarian forces.
President Wilson selected Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York as governor general of the Philippines to study conditions and advise on independence. A Democrat, Harrison is a Yale-educated lawyer who served in Congress and the Spanish war, with a substantial private fortune to support his service. The move signals a measured path toward fulfilling the Baltimore platform pledge, but practical steps are not expected soon.
Official telegram reports hundreds of Zapatista captives in Cuautla mountains and large arms haul. Bodies of Commissioners Pascual Orozco Sr Emilio Masuri and Luis Cajiga found. Zapata surrounded by federals. Musquiz Coahuila taken by federal forces.
Dr A C G Oliver of Cass County was named superintendent of the Confederate home in Austin replacing Major Lyles who resigned. Oliver had just won a seat in the State senate from the First district and must vacate that post to accept the new appointment.
At a Denver auction of Wild West show property on Thursday Colonel C J Bills of Lincoln Nebraska pledged to bid in Isham the white horse ridden by Colonel Cody for twenty five years as a gift to Buffalo Bill.
Sweetwater Texas reports Pecos was chosen to host the Panhandle Firemen’s Association annual convention after three days of sessions. D Zimmerman of Tulsa was elected president and W H Job of Sweetwater será secretary.
Senator Penrose introduced a resolution proposing American troops be stationed in Mexico to protect foreign lives. He urged an emergency appropriation of 26 million dollars to be spent under the president’s direction for that purpose.
O L Gorbet a ranch foreman for Ed Lagater was struck by lightning during a storm and died instantly at Falfurrias Texas on Wednesday in a deadly weather incident.
Provisional President Huerta asserts Mexico's right to recognition amid U S refusal to acknowledge his government While Washington demands an end to hostilities Huerta seeks U S backing and the withdrawal of battleships He argues recognition would resolve the civil war and accuses the United States of causing the conflict with its stance on intervention and elections set for October 26.
Maury I. Diggs former California state architect was found guilty on four of six Mann Act counts for eloping with Marsha Warrington from Sacramento to Reno. Each count carries one to five years in a federal penitentiary with a verdict delivered Wednesday in San Francisco California.
Austin Texas Representative Rogers turned over two anonymous $50 bills sent during the legislative session to the Salvation Army. The act transferred funds given without attribution to support charitable relief work.
The Good Roads Association of Southwest Texas met in Del Rio Texas with Judge C K McDowell chosen as chairman and A Oppenheimer as secretary. About 120 delegates attended from fourteen counties.
Washington President Wilson nominated Edward Bell of New York to be second secretary of the embassy at London.
Austin notes the Texas legislature adjourned after 2:30 am session hours and Governor Colquitt vetoed parts of the judicial appropriation bill. He cut traveling expenses for district judges by 5 000 a year and 20 000 a year from in county witness feed payments. Three prison commissioners failed confirmation, requiring new appointments under the penitentiary bill with advisory powers and lower salaries.
The session approves multiple general and local measures including a new El Paso County district court, Dallas County viaduct work, drainage district authority changes, tax and lien rules, and several House and Senate bills on education land, trademarks, and public notaries. Two new courts are created in El Paso and Texarkana, with numerous road and school district bills enacted.
The ad promotes DR. POR Beis Ai Antiseptic Healing Oil as an old reliable remedy for sore and tender feet. It emphasizes its healing properties and traditional use.
In this reflective piece the speaker questions how a disreputable man sustains his life through charity. The dialog explores moral reliance on hope and faith to endure, and the tension between personal virtue and public assistance.
An old advertisement touts SIX-SIXTY-SIX as a malaria and fever remedy claiming five or six doses cure and prevent relapse. The text shifts to a humor vignette where a waiter asks how eggs should be cooked and a customer jokes about cooking on a slice of ham.
A stranger observes a crowded park where a suffragist riot is feared as a local politician convenes a mass meeting to discuss plans for saving the grass. The scene shows a speaker's platform surrounded by a turbulent crowd and scraggly landscape.
In a satirical missive by Stray Shots, inmates of Fort Leavenworth military prison challenge the kitchen to improve gravy quality for T bone dinners. The note argues hot water cannot yield lumpless gravy and uncooked flour worsens indigestion, urging cooks to honor the regiment with better fare.
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