More news - from 1904

I have shared with you some of the news items that appeared in early issues of the Arlington Journal. Here's a sampling of what was making news back in January, 1904

Thursday January 21, 1904                 ALL OVER TEXAS.
R. Ramsey, a farmer in the southeast corner of Fannin county, took a load of cotton to Dial Saturday to be ginned. While unloading it he fell over in the wagon and expired.Thursday January 14, 1904

Gins, wagons, warehouses, store rooms, and every available empty room has been filled for a week with cotton bolls, waiting to be threshed and ginned. It is proving a big job.

The grand jury at Fort Worth in its final report makes the usual declaration that gambling and debauchery exists to a frightful extent in the city, but that they are unable to reach the matter. It is always that way.

Thursday January 28, 1904               The Bank Cashier Gone.
Our City has been in the throes of a genuine sensation since yesterday (Wednesday) morning. W. R. Eaves, bookkeeper and cashier of the Citizins (sic) National Bank is gone, and the bank is out $8,000. Mr. Eaves left last Saturday night ostensibly for Palo Pinto where his wife and son were visiting. He reported here that he had a telegram announcing the illness of his wife at Palo Pinto, and that he was going to see her.

Monday morning the time clock on the safe failed to respond. Money was secured elsewhere and the business of the bank proceeded as usual. Tuesday morning at eight o‘clock the combination yielded, and then the shortage came to light. The matter was kept a secret Tuesday in an effort to have the fugitive apprehended, also to make ready for a possible run on the bank. Arrangements were made with Dallas and Fort Worth to supply money to meet all emergencies. Wednesday morning the announcement was given to the public, and no town was more completely shocked.

During the day, Wednesday, about $15,000 in deposits were called for. Many others came forward and deposited more liberally than ever. Those who knew the bank best stood by it firmest while smaller depositors and those who have done little banking business were naturally most nervous.

Thursday January 28, 1904                  Uncle Sam‘s Auto.
Laredo: One of the largest automobiles now manufactured has arrived here. It belongs to the United States government and it is to be used between Hebronville, on the Texas-Mexican Road and Fort Ringgold, near Rio Grande City, a distance of ninety-five miles, for facilitating communication with that isolated post. The machine was a curiosity and a revelation to Laredo people, few of whom ever saw an automobile.

Thursday January 28, 1904           EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A series of experiments with radium, startling in their scope, has been undertaken at the University of California. An attempt will probably be made to turn the skin of the negro white.

Ice in the White River at Indianapolis carried off the house boat occupied by John Schowe and wife which has been anchored on the overflowed lands. The boat was battered to pieces and Mrs. Schowe drowned.

Mrs. Louise A. Ellen was found mortally injured by a pistol shot at her home in New York Wednesday, dying soon after. Her two young children were found dead, both having been shot in the abdomen. It is believed the woman first shot her children and then herself.

Robert F. Hall of Portland, Ore., has suddenly found himself heir to an estate of $3,750,000. The property was amassed by Charles Belden Hall, a New York broker, who died in 1871, leaving his son and daughter in ignorance of the wealth he left behind.

E. A. Erlock, a banker, who claimed that Mystic influences were at work on him through the agency of his stomach bidding him kill the President, was committed to Bellevue Hospital for examination as to his sanity.

Thursday January 28, 1904                Indians Getting Restless Again.
Muskogee, I. T.: The Snake Indians and part of the Creek tribe are again in revolt and this time it seems that there will be bloodshed. They have been in constant communication with the Keoowahs of the Cherokee Nation holding councils of war, and as a result the Keoowahs have left their homes, stock, grain and everything and gone up in the Green Leaf Mountains, where they will hold their war dance and they say on their return they will kill every white man in sight. This was learned through three couriers who came in from Texana, I. T., the seat of the Keoowahs tribe. The Snakes have gone to Flat Rock, where their medicine is made, and the residents of that section await the result with anxiety.

Thursday January 28, 1904
Frank A. Biggs, aged sixty-seven years, died at San Antonio Friday. He was injured December 23 by an emery wheel breaking while he was sharpening a chisel, a piece of the emery striking him on the forehead and fracturing his skull.

Mrs. Nannie Hawpe, wife of J. R. Hawpe of Cleburne, died very suddenly in a coughing fit Tuesday afternoon.

While crossing a track from his work, August Schoenberg, a cotton screwman at Galveston, was run over, necessitating the amputation of his right leg just below the hip. The chances of his recovery are doubtful.