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RESULT FATALLY ______ Last Night. _______ ______ Buggy Near the Kitchen Stove. After lingering from 6 o'clock yesterday evening until 10:30 o'clock last night, Seaman Brogdon, the one-year-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brogdon, died from burns. The body was taken in charge by Ed C. Smith & Brothers, undertakers, and will be shipped this afternoon to Bryan, Tex., where the interment is to be made. The burns resulting in the child's death were received yesterday afternoon and were the result of a peculiar accident. Burns in Baby Buggy. Mother Grief-Stricken. - o o o - _______ Away. Will Clark, a young farmer who has been at the city hospital for the last few days, died there last night from cancer of the stomach. The remains were taken in charge by the Donovan Undertaking company. John D. Minton, believed to be a relative of the deceased, was notified last night and is expected in Dallas today to complete the funeral arrangements. - o o o - DIES IN OAK CLIFF ________ From Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Kate
Anderson, wife of Z. J. Anderson, died at the family residence,
133 Twelfth street, Oak Cliff, at 10:30 o'clock last night. Mrs.
Anderson was born in Carrollton, Miss., Oct. 7, 1849, and came
to Freestone county the last year of the war, and moved to Dallas
in 1890, where she had resided up to the time of her death. - o o o - WORKER IS DEAD _______ Circles, Will be Buried Today. C. H. Adams,
aged 62 years, died last night at his late residence, 155 Cabell
street. Funeral services over the deceased will be held this
afternoon at Smith's chapel, under the auspices of the Leather
Workers' Union, of which the deceased was a member. Interment
will be at Oakland. The pallbearers will selected from the members
of the Local Union of Leather Workers. - o o o - _______ For Interment. Mrs. Annie Clark died yesterday afternoon on the Kaufman road. The remains will be sent to Colby, Kan., for interment this afternoon by Undertaker Ed. C. Smith & Bro. Deceased was born in England in 1827, and had lived in Dallas for the last fifteen months. - o o o - LIFE SPARK OUT _______ Night. ________ _________ pected to Arrive in Dallas Today. John H. Hatcher, aged about forty-five years, was found dead at an early hour last night in his room at 497 South Akard street. When found, the gas jet in the room was found turned on and there was a gash across one wrist, as though the man had made an effort to slash the radial artery. When found by other persons in the house, the body was still warm and limp, which indicates that life had not been long extinct. Will Hold Inquest. Brother Is Notified. - o o o - C. H. Adams
died April 3, 1909. Funeral from Ed C. Smith's chapel at 4 o'clock
today. All leather workers are requested to be at their hall
at 3 p.m. - o o o - WILLIAM RUSSELL ______ las for Many Years. William
Russell, a resident of Texas since 1879, and a resident
of Dallas since 1887, died very suddenly during the night at
his home, 434 Fairmount avenue, the immediate cause of his death
being indigestion and weakness of the heart region. Born in Somers,
Conn., April 17, 1825, he would have been eighty-four years of
age on the 17th of the present month. When thirteen years of
age, his father moved to Missouri, and in Arcadia Valley, eighty-nine
miles south of St. Louis, built a home, raising a family of five
sons (William being the youngest of the sons), and four daughters,
all of whom married and settled down around the old homestead. - o o o - ______ terment at Oakland Cemetery. Funeral services over the remains of C. H. Adams, who died Saturday night, were held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the chapel of Ed. C. Smith & Brother, undertakers. The funeral was under the auspices of the leather-workers' union, of which the deceased was a member. Interment was made in the Oakland cemetery. - o o o - ________ Born in This City in 1886. Everett A. White, a native of Dallas, having been born in this city on January 16, 1886, died last night at 482 Lucille street. The deceased is survived by a widow and other relatives. The remains were shipped this morning by Undertakers Ed C. Smith & Bro. to Memphis, Tenn., for interment. - o o o - _______ Kansas, for Interment. Mrs. Annie Clark, who was born in England on March 9, 1827, died Saturday night a few miles south of the city. She had resided at the place where she died for the past fifteen months. The remains were shipped last night by Undertakers Ed C. Smith & Bro. to Colby, Kansas, for interment. - o o o - Lucile, the eleven-months-old daughter of G. W. Taylor, died yesterday at 158 Louise street, the family residence. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon, interment being in Greenwood cemetery. - o o o - HAS BEEN DELAYED ______ morrow Afternoon. Owing to the fact that a son, Edwin L. Russell, of Indiana, is coming to Dallas to be present at the funeral, the services over the remains of William Russell will not be held until Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The services will be held at the Westminster Presbyterian church, Rev. Robert Hill officiating. The son is expected to arrive in the city in the morning. Deceased was an old resident of Dallas, and is survived by a number of children. - o o o - ______ itt Died Last Night. Harry Howard Hewitt, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hewitt, died last night at the family home, 495 Second avenue. The funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon with interment in the Oakland cemetery. - o o o - ______ For Interment. L. L. Cooper, a native of Tennessee, and thirty-five years of age, died this morning at the family home in West Dallas. The remains will be shipped by Undertakers Ed C. Smith & Bro. in Orvilla [Ovilla?], Texas, for interment. - o o o - Forty-Fourth District Court. Hon. E. B. Muse, Judge William Rhodes vs. Alice Rhodes, divorce. This cause is dismissed; plaintiff is dead. Hon. J. L. Young, Judge. Estate
of Marshall Bird, deceased; upon application of Wm. Kidd,
he is appointed temporary administrator of estate of Marshall
Bird. Upon giving bond in the sum of $8000, and qualifying according
to law, letters will issue, and he is empowered and ordered to
take possession of all property of deceased and collect all debts
due and pay all debts due after same are properly verfied, as
required by statute and allowed by court and such further orders
as the court shall make. - o o o - DIED YESTERDAY ______ Mo., for Interment. George
Lorenz Dietz, aged eighty-nine years, a well known German-American
resident of Dallas, died yesterday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. F. W. Boedecker, 205 Wendelken street. The remains were
shipped to-day to St. Louis, where the interment will take place. - o o o - C. F. TUCKER ______ lutions of Regret Today. _______ ______ Judge Philip Lindsley Speak in Laudating Terms of Deceased. Bouquets of praise, fragrant with the odor of real affection for the late Charles Fred Tucker, were heaped around his memory at a meeting of the bar association of Dallas in the Forty-fourth district court room yesterday at 10 o'clock. The attendance was large enough to fill every chair in the apartment. President T. T. Holloway, president and H. C. Jarrell, acted as secretary. While, the resolutions passed were eulogistic of the dead man's worth, ability and ______ as a man, lawyer and judge, it was the aftermath, the echoes from those who knew him intimately in his life, ____, that breathed the real love and esteem in which he was held and showed the niche he had carved for himself in the local hall of fame. Seay, Lewis, Lindsley, Hexter. The Resolutions Passed. Loved the Law. Given to the Press. - o o o - |
J. FRANK EDWARDS ________ J. Frank
Edwards died at his home, 164 Swiss avenue, yesterday
afternoon, after an illness of ten days. The funeral services
will be conducted at the residence this afternoon at 1 o'clock
by Rev. W. C. Latimore, after which the body will be conveyed
to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway station by Undertaker
Loudermilk and sent to Pilot Point for interment. The pallbearers
will be J. E. Callahan, C. A. Gardner, C. B. Gillette, Fred Jones,
E. P. Turner and E. B. Rebbert. - o o o - JUSTICE CORLEY ______ and Tony Fosto. ________ Justice
of the Peace Corley, acting as coroner, returned verdicts yesterday
afternoon in the cases of Ransom Ross and Tony Fosto,
both of whom met violent deaths during last week. Ross was the
farmer who was shot and killed last Thursday near Alpha, about
eight miles north of the city. The verdict in this case was to
the effect that "deceased came to his death as the result
of gunshot wounds inflicted upon him by Belle Pistole on August
12." Mrs. Belle Pistole was a daughter of the deceased and
was arrested on the afternoon following the tragedy. On a habeas
corpus hearing on the following Friday, she was released on bond
in the sum of $1500 by Judge Seay. - o o o - |
IN DALLAS HOTEL _______ in Texas and Oklahoma. C. P. Grafton,
a printer, about fifty years of age, who has been working on
the Richardson Echo for the past four years, was found dead in
a room at the Commercial hotel Sunday morning. His death being
caused by heard disease. Mr. Grafton was a native of Tennessee
and the son of a Denton county Cumberland Presbyterian minister,
Rev. D. R. Grafton. He was raised in the town of Denton, and
has been engaged in the newspaper business over Texas and Oklahoma
for the past twenty-five years. He established papers at Carrollton,
Athens, Burleson, Richardson and other points. - o o o - ______ Buried To-morrow. Lester Moss, the colored man who was found dead yesterday afternoon in the rear of 262 Elm street, will be buried to-morrow morning from the undertaking establishment of Crawford & Company. The cause of the man's death was not determined, but is believed to have been from natural causes. He came from Longview and had relatives in Dallas. - o o o - |
A BAYONET ______ County Clerk, is Dead. _____ ______ of President. ______ ______ Death Came Six Hours After Wound was Inflicted. Louis Reichenstein,
assistant county clerk of Dallas county, died at St. Paul's Sanitarium
this morning at 1:10 as the result of being run through by a
bayonet in the hands of Sergeant J. D. Manley of company E, Third
Texas regiment, yesterday evening at 5:25 o'clock at the corner
of Kentucky street and Armstrong avenue. Conscious Almost to the Last. Nature of the Wound. How He Received the Wound. Physicians Were Summoned. Sergeant Manley Arrested. Resident of Dallas Many Years. - o o o - IS INTERRED ______ Laid at Rest. Funeral
services over the remains of Louis, better known as "Pete"
Reichenstein, were held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the
residence of his mother, Mrs. L. Reichenstein, 183 Cabell street.
From the residence, the body was taken to St. Patrick's church,
where Rev. Father Mulloy conducted the services of this church
over the body. The interment was made in the Greenwood cemetery.
Pallbearers were selected from among close friends of the deceased
and were as follows: Murder Complaint Filed. Member of Company E. Permission Refused. Refuses to Talk. Made Dying Statement. Much Indignation. - o o o - AS J. V. MONROE According
to the information obtained by Undertaker J. P. Donovan yesterday
and to-day, the body found in the White Rock bottoms Saturday
evening was the remains of J. V. Monroe, of Mart, Texas.
J. A. Yarbrough, a deputy sheriff of McLennan county, and living
at Mart, positively identified the body yesterday as that of
J. V. Monroe of Mart. It was also stated that he had an uncle,
L. C. Bird, living at Mart. - o o o - Mrs. Sarah Fryling, aged sixty-nine years, died yesteday afternoon, 337[?] Young street. She had been a resident of Dalls for thirty-five years and the widow of the late Wiliam Fryling. Mr. Fryling was a native of New York and instructions as to the disposition of the remains are being awaited at Smith Bros.' undertaking establishment. - o o o - |