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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
1
Description of Maryland jousting events with knights in varied costumes, grand procession, and the crowning of a queen of love and beauty. The piece highlights the old world chivalry, theaterlike spectacle, and festive crowds at these June and July tournaments.
Dublin births show twins in about one in fifty two pregnancies, exceeding the global twin rate of about one in eighty. Irish women hold the highest twin-rate among the world, with local statistics noting the frequent occurrence of twins in Dublin compared with elsewhere.
A Chicagoan traveler in China sketches a roadside scene where Chinese parents offer their babies for sale, noting it as a common sight in the area.
A double line of police pickets surrounds commissary ships off the Southern Pacific docks in New Orleans as Edson, famed for breaking a streetcar strike, draws labor unions’ ire. Police fear a plot to attack Edson. Capt Creagh reports a secure line to prevent skiffs from approaching Clinton and Gussie.
Knoxville dispatch reports Chas Marsh a Tennessee Coal Company miner at Briceville was killed Saturday night by an unknown assailant who fired after Marsh warned a man near his home to keep quiet. He died in his wife’s arms. the killer escaped into darkness. Police have no lead.
Weleetka Oklahoma territory reports a new town named Boley will open Sept 25 for Black people only with no white property ownership. A post office is set and Mims named postmaster. Boley lies 33 miles west of Weleetka in a fertile area and is backed by a railway, attracting nearby allottees who are Black.
In Crockett Texas a farmer east of town reports a patch of eight acres with twelve mature bolls undamaged by boll weevil. He claims planting peas with the cotton diverted the pests, as the weevils fed on the peas instead of the cotton.
Guthrie Oklahoma Sept 14 A horse fell while rounding up cattle near Arapahoe throwing Wesley Hughes 15 causing instant death.
Liverpool reports no basis for rumor of White Star leaving the Continental American Mercantile Company. The Dominion line absorption shows White Star and Dominion operating jointly under a shared arrangement.
Longshoremen in New Orleans voted to resume at 7 am after a ten day shutdown. A three year contract was reached with wage rates preserved and a rule to limit new cost-increasing rules. Foremen will be union members, while stevedores may choose.
Wires south of Palm Beach and Tampa are down for days. Ships Inchulva and Matt Thomas wrecked causing multiple deaths. Bay area damage includes Palm Beach operas houses and Lake Worth boats sunk. Tampa reports two deaths and extensive property loss, with citrus crop damage and unknown Punta Gorda and Punta Rossa outcomes.
Washington hears Beavers, former chief of salaries and allowances, has hired counsel as a subpoena seeks salary records in the Dent Brandtt cashiers case tied to Beavers hearing in New York. Postmaster General Payne refuses travel funds as grand jury probes postal cases continue. Indictments against August Machen rise to thirteen as bail remains at twenty thousand dollars.
In Moulton Texas Sept 15 the body of Miss Annie Fayt was found in a water pool beneath Ponton s Creek bridge six miles south. She had left a cotton field work and told children she was going home to Shin er. An inquest was held by Squire Anderson Dr Gunther Deputy Gus Arnim and others. Verdict ruled death by drowning with possible foul play suspected by some locals.
Frank D. Day of Detroit was killed during a five mile race at the State Fair grounds. Day, driving Barney Oldfield's car, had covered about four miles when his machine swerved at the home stretch, struck a fence, and overturned. He received a severe head injury and was rendered unconscious.
A hurricane began Wednesday night and ended. barometer fell to 29.20 inches, northeast winds at 90 mph. Vegetation and farm products suffered great damage while fruit crops were ruined. Many houses damaged but no lives lost. shipping around the island badly damaged and news from other islands awaited.
An airship about thirty feet long with two men on board drifted over Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. It approached from the northwest, circled the southern city at a few hundred feet, then disappeared eastward as several hundred residents watched, though no details about the craft or its crew are known.
Six inches of snow on the level has fallen throughout Yellowstone Park during the last forty eight hours.
In Kosciusko Mississippi a dispute led T. H. Teriot manager of the Comfort House hotel to strike Walker Franks a well known local man over the head with a short club killing him. Teriot surrendered to authorities.
Fort Worth Texas Sept 14 Bob Brown a Black man was jailed on a murder charge for allegedly killing his wife by poisoning. The case rests on an accusation reported by local authorities.
A tall one eyed nude hairy man was reported seen in the Trinity River bottom near Red Bank in Terrell County on September 14. When spotted the man ran and the observers fled as well. The sighting has reportedly discouraged local Black residents from entering the Bottom.
Columbus Driving Park Association announced Maj. Delmar the trotting gelding will race at the Grand Circuit in Columbus on Monday Sept 21 to try to surpass his 2003 and one quarter second record set at Syracuse New York recently.
Adjutant General Hulen reported that at the Texas National Guard state camp of instruction the Houston Light Guard scored 88.41 per cent to win the Galveston SemiCentennial championship cup. The Austin Rifles followed at 84.43 per cent, with scores based on inspection drills field exercises target practice guard duty discipline and sanitation.
In Karnes City Texas on September 15 thieves blew open the safe of John Ruckman at Helena and escaped with about 300. Officers were notified and search the area. This is the second robbery of Ruckman's safe with a prior failed attempt.
Sour Lake Texas September 15 oil is selling at 30c a barrel in tanks. The Moore Skinner Company offered 65c c o d per barrel for 150000 barrels in storage and the offer was refused.
Clarence Egnor, 26, of Buffalo was executed in the electric chair at Auburn for killing Archibald Benedict, a prison keeper. He served in the Spanish War under an alias.
Washington reports Senator Clay says Georgia and other Southern states intend to send German delegations to the Democratic convention, aligning with the party nomination process.
Sour Lake Texas September 15 Burt and McGuffey well bailed yesterday evening and is expected to produce oil today.
London reports Japan and Great Britain have discussed Russia's latest demands on China and will file separate protests to Pekin if Russia accepts. If talks fail and Russia stays in Manchuria, Japan would end negotiations with Russia and press St. Petersburg to evacuate Chinese territory in Korea and Manchuria.
Mrs Austin Flynn of Wilkes-Barre sailed from England on August 12 with a fortune left by a relative. She landed in New York on August 19 and has since disappeared. Family suspects she revealed the money aboard ship and was robbed and murdered after arrival. Police as well as local authorities are pursuing leads in New York.
Cynthiana Kentucky September 15 Judge and jury heard Curtis Jett on trial for the alleged murder of Marshal James Cockrell at Jackson. Attorney Blanton renewed his earlier motion for a continuance but the court overruled it. Court adjourned until morning.
Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia is seriously ill at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver after injuries from a Chicago wreck last Friday and a malarial fever. He was carried to the hotel on a stretcher from the train.
Mexia Texas public schools opened yesterday morning under new superintendent Prof N R Crosier who is making a good impression on pupils and patrons amid solid attendance in Mexia.
Robert Stockwell Hatcher a 40 year old Laf ayette Indiana clerk in the office of Walter Brevens secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition shot himself in a Planters Hotel room after telegrams notified him of his wife’s death. He had previously served as reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives in Washington.
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