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Subject: [TEXAHOMA] A Few Deaths in TX 1908
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Lancaster, Dallas Co., TX Herald June 5, 1908

p.2, column 4

Paul Bruchner, a well known business man of Corsicana, and a man named
Curry, a visitor there, were drown Sunday morning while fishing in a
place known at "Tinkle's Tank," about a mile north of that city.

NEWS FROM OVER TEXAS p.3, column 1
Louis Littleton, aged seventy-three years, was seriously injured in a
runaway at Austin Saturday. He was thrown over an embankment and his
horse fell on him.

J.J. Fowlkes, a Confederate veteran aged 84, died in Dallas Saturday.
The remains were interred at Pilot Point, a former home of the deceased.
A widow and three married children survive.

H.N. Franklin, a young man about 19 years of age, in the employ of the
Santa Fe Railway as rate clerk at Ballinger, was run over by a freight
train about noon Tuesday and cut to pieces.

Information has been received at San Antonio from San Francisco that
George H. Frohock, a seaman of the first class, who enlisted from that
city was run down by a train near San Francisco and instantly killed.

Mrs. Bessie Rosenberg, wife of Nathan Rosenberg, who conducts a general
merchandise store in Houston, shot herself in the head with an army
revolver Sunday night. Justice of the Peace McDonald held an inquest and
found that she died by her own hand. Mrs. Rosenberg had been in ill
health for several months.

J.M.Stewart, a brakeman employed on the Texas and Pacific, was killed
near Springdale, north of Marshall. He was struck by a train early
Saturday. Deceased leaves a family at Longview Junction.

Carl Dietrich, one of the best known German residents of San Antonio,
fell dead at his grocery store in West End Thursday while waiting on a
customer. Apoplexy was the cause. He was 53 years old, and is urvived by
his widow, a son and a daugher.

On the Thomas Barker farm, five miles south of Taylor, Wednesday morning
August Edbord, a Swede laborer about 24 years old, was kicked in the
left side by a young colt, death resulting almost instantly.

David G. Stout, a private in Company B, Nineteenth Infantry, stationed
at Fort Bliss, near El Paso was instantly killed Saturday by the
accidental discharge of a gun which he was cleaning for the regular
Saturday inspection.

In a fight between Monroe McWhorter and his son and two other men about
eight miles west of Granbury, both of the McWhorters were shot, the
father in the chest and the son in the arm.

While seated at the dinner table Sunday, partaking of the noon meal,
Herman L. Barrow, a street railway conductor of Galveston, aged about 50
years, suddenly expired of heart disease. Deceased had been in ill
health for some time.

p.6, column 3
A Mier Expedition Man Dead.
Round Mountain, Blanco Co.: John Rufus Alexander died here Friday at 10
a.m. He was born in Missouri in 1817 and came to Texas at an early day.
He was in the Mier expedition, was captured with the rest of the Texans
and drew a white bean and made his escape from the Mexicans. Mr.
Alexander was no doubt the last man living who was in that expedition.
He leaves a widow, three sons and three daughters.

p.6, column 4
W.T. Campbell, a well known horseman of Fort Worth, virtually gave up
his life for his horses last week. He over exposed himself during the
floods and died as a result.

W.J. Nubille shot and killed Henry Lewis late Saturday evening about six
miles southeast of San Augustine. Both white, W.J. Nubille surrendered
to the sheriff, who placed him in joil.

Guadalupe Diaz was killed near Bluff Springs Saturday night. Deputy
Sheriff Wash Fritz phoned in to Sheriff Matthews, advising him of the
occurance. Deputy Sheriff Fritz gave bond in the sum of $600.

p.6, column 5
Mrs. J.P. Hurley, aged 49 years, wife of Railroad Conductor Hurley, died
Friday night at her late residence in Fort Worth after a long illness.
Mrs. Hurley had been a resident of that city twenty-five years.

W.A. Pybas, an inmate of the Tarrant county poor farm, cut his throat
and died one day last week. Soon after Jack Delaney, also a poor farm
inmate, cut his throat, and is dangerously hurt.

Sunday afternoon while a party of boys were bathing in Flag Springs
tank, one mile east of Taylor, Ward Talley, the 16-year-old son of R.H.
Talley, formerly a prominent merchant of Taylor, was drowned, despite
efforts of rescue by his frightened companions.

While in bathing with two other companions in Cottonwood Creek near Bay
City, John Davis was drowned. The body was recovered forty minutes
afterward and efforts made to restore life, which failed.

Note: The 1908 Lancaster Herald (Dallas Co., Texas)is the only newspaper
microfilm I have and the foregoing is all the information included in
this issue.

Regards,
Janet Cook

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