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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1904
Page
1
A poetic reflection on everyday life and the beauty within ordinary moments. The speaker notes the common sun, sky, moon, stars, flowers, and birds while contrasting a dark world with loss and sorrow. God studies each soul and yet weaves commonplace lives into a beautiful whole.
Francois Barbasse survives a head injury to learn one eye will be lost and then wins back Mile X- with both eyes steady. A comic misfortune turns to triumph as his left eye becomes a glassy smile while he secures a second marriage proposal.
A quixotic poem fragment depicts a suitor and a woman trading barbs about stealing and steel, then both imagine hardhearted hearts and a playful financial twist as love forms a joint venture. The lines name Mortimer Crane Brown as a smart personage in a whimsical context.
In Houston on November 2, King Nottoe VI of Tekram arrives by steamer and is greeted with jubilation. The parade ends at the Rice Hotel where courtiers retire to royal chambers. Evening illumination and carnival noise captivate thousands, with banners and colors brightening Main Street.
A morning blaze in Yerrell Texas destroyed the Texas Midland machine shops car shed and paint shops with three engines under repair damaged about $3000. The loss from the fire reaches $50000 and origin is thought to be an air compressor in the machine shops. At Lindale Texas two buildings including insured ones burned with multiple losses totaling hundreds of dollars.
Ted Ed Walker, age 71, of Wagle Lake died last night at Quinn eight miles below Cane. He had been ill only a few days and was improving before a sudden turn for the worse. Remains were sent to cubes for interment.
Magistrate Whi discharged a man charged with stealing a handbag from a walk in front of an express office. Testimony described the handbag as on the sidewall near the front of the building. The ruling declared the suspect as “lost” within the meaning of the law.
Oil market slides as Texas Company trims Beaumont Sour Lake crude from 39 to 34 cents and Jennings field from 37 to 32 cents. Analysts expect further declines, linking the drop to Humble field prospects and strong Jennings wells.
Ernest Weld, 15, son of Aug Weld of Brenham Texas, escaped death after a muzzle loading gun burst near the breach during a rabbit hunt. He suffered a deep arm gash and powder burns to face and arm. In New York City John P Zeigler a furrier hanged himself at home after quarrel over housekeeping and dinner.
In Houston nearly fifty members of a Greek Letter fraternity attended their annual banquet at the Rice hotel. Speakers included Judge Ford Judge Wilson Hon Tom Stone Judge Hamblen Judge Harris and W D Cleveland Sr among others. In Luling a county local option election petition was filed and signed for a December 17 1904 vote after an antis majority two years prior.
In a mescal row at the Minera coal mines Sunday night one Mexican miner is reported to have stabbed to death.
Waco Texas W J Logan was given two years in the penitentiary in Judge Scott s court for false swearing on a plea of guilty The case arose from a wedding that occurred weeks earlier Logan testified the prospective bride had parental consent and produced it but the couple wed before the legal proceedings began
A blaze at 186 Troutman Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn killed twelve, all suffocated while failing to reach the rear fire escape. Two families, the Triolo and Pologno households, lost all members. two young men Charles Pologno 33 and Tony Triolo 18 died badly burned. Fire started in a grocery cellar loaded with inflammables. The building housed Italian residents. crowding hampered firefighting and alarms.
Col William C P Breckinridge former congressman of Kentucky and Confederate cavalry leader died Saturday night in Lexington after a stroke. Born in Baltimore August 28 1837 he served in the Confederate army and later taught law at the University of Kentucky. He was a gold standard Democrat who represented the Seventh Kentucky district from 1884 to 1895. In Fraser Iowa a white miner Thomas Albright was shot by James Price a negro and is mortally wounded prompting miners to vow no work with blacks.
Cromwell B Hoskins an insurance man committed suicide in Knoxville last night. His body was found this morning in a business district alley. He cut his throat from ear to ear. Financial troubles are blamed, though his partner says he had no known issues. He belonged to the firm Burbank Hoskins, Aetna Life Insurance state managers.
A rock fragment ignited dynamite in a Chandler waterworks blast injuring many and fatally wounding Mrs. Philip Hofeld while causing glass breakage across the area. In St Louis the World’s Fair admissions for the week ending Nov 19 total 552019 with a grand total of 17617905 since opening.
A special International and Great Northern train carried more than 400 excursionists to New Laredo to witness Sunday evening bull fights, traveling from Laredo, Texas.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe continued suspense after the Japanese attack on Poutiloff Hill and movements on the Russian right. Some say the Japanese column has shifted fifty to sixty miles eastward while military circles doubt a major push before Port Arthur's fall is secured. Kuropatkin's large offensive from last month is said to be in full swing unseen by the outside world a week earlier.
In Hempstead Texas on the Cuny farm Beatrice McDade a young girl was accidentally shot and killed when her brother discharged a shotgun that had been loaded by the girl unknowingly. The tragedy occurred about eighteen miles from the town.
George Legge a lineman for the Electric Light Company was shocked at Ewing and Liberty streets Sunday morning. He fell to the ground with a fracture in the right arm but escaped serious injury, described as a miracle to have survived.
Port Arthur reports a Japanese weapon that resembles a long sausage. It is lobbed into trenches where it bursts and releases a foul odor that forces soldiers to faint. The gas is not lethal but its effects are debilitating.
The Russian Pacific squadron halted Saturday morning north of Langeland then resumed its voyage northward on Sunday. Separately a Georgia party led by George Foster with Governor Terrell and Samuel Spencer of Southern Railway left Atlanta Saturday night for a study trip to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to observe its methods and progress.
The American cruisers Brooklyn and Atlanta arrived in Rio de Janeiro at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon.
In Belton Texas a lengthy church meeting is underway at the Christian church led by Evangelist Victor Graves. In Greenville Texas B D Wilson, accused of killing Polk Bevis on his farm months ago, has been acquitted.
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