The ARLINGTON JOURNAL, Arlington, Texas. 1904 Thursday January 7, 1904 The Interurban (electric) road between Dallas and Fort Worth did an immense business during the holidays. Thursday January 7, 1904 ALL OVER TEXAS. Near Mountainview, Ok., Dick Gerber (?), aged 14, was accidentally killed while on Rainey (?) Mountain hunting. While returning from a social gathering near Rockwood, eighteen miles south of Santa Anna, Tuesday night, Willie Livingstone‘s horse fell and fatally injured him. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tate, living in the Caddo Mills community, died Friday from the effects of burns received Tuesday by falling into the fire. T. Sisk, a farmer who lives eleven miles west on the Benbrook road, killed a large black eagle. The eagle measured seven feet one inch from tip to tip of the wings, and the talons measured eight inches in the spread. Jim Hamkins, a popular young merchant at China Springs, died and his place of business was closed, pending arrangements for winding up the business. Burglars entered the place and took a part of the stock away. William Johnson, negro porter for the Southern Pacific, who was shot while his train was standing at the depot of El Paso city, died of his wounds. State Ranger J. B. Bean, after a preliminary hearing, was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of shooting the negro. The gunboat Bennington and the torpedo boat destroyers Peeble and Paul Jones and the transports Sherman and Buford, have sailed for Panama in accordance with instructions received from the navy department. Sam Knox was killed by shooting at Ewing‘s store in the Brazos bottom. Mrs. Amanda Bentley, for many years United States commissioner for this district, died at her home in Dallas Friday, aged 78 years. The Central Texas ‗Possum and Tater Club‘ pulled off its annual feast in Waco Tuesday night. Many State notables were present and ―much heap big talk‖ was mixed with the eating and drinking. Thursday January 7, 1904 Gen. Longstreet Dead. Atlanta, Ga.: Gen. James Longstreet, soldier, statesman and diplomat, and the last lieutenant general of the Confederate Army with the exception of Gen. Gordon, died in Gainesville, Ga., Saturday from an attack of acute pneumonia. He had been ill two days. Gen. Longstreet was a sufferer from cancer of one eye, but his general health had been good until Wednesday, when he was seized with a sudden cold, developing later into pneumonia of a violent nature. He was 84 years of age. He is survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter. He was buried in Gainesville, which has been his home since the Civil War. Thursday January 7, 1904 Three Brothers Die of Pneumonia. Sulphur Springs: Pneumonia is still fatal in this town. A. J. Brinker died Saturday night and W. E. Brinker Sunday night. These make three deaths in the Brinker families in eight days. The three brothers were prominent in business and old settlers in this town and country. Mrs. Avinger died with the same disease Sunday night. She was a near neighbor of the Brinkers and assisted in the sick room. She was sick only about forty-eight hours. The ARLINGTON JOURNAL, Arlington, Texas. 1904 Thursday January 7, 1904 HOLIDAY MATINEE TURNED IN FEW MINUTES TO FEARFUL TRAGEDY 564 PERSONS DIE IN FIRE IN CHICAGO THEATER Men, Women and Children Burned, Suffocated or Trampled Beneath Rushing Feet--- People in Galleries Cut Off from All Escape and Await an Awful Fate---Firemen and Police in Heroic Rescue Work---Bodies Found Piled in Heaps. (There follows a long descriptive story of the Iroquois theatre fire of December 30, 1903. 602 died in the panic rushing for the exits. Comedian Eddie Foy heroically tried to calm the crowd.) Thursday January 7, 1904 Touching Incident in a Theatre. St. Louis: Between the acts Saturday night at the Century Theater C. H. Congdon, who said that he was from Chicago, arose from his seat and related incidents of the Iroquois Theater tragedy. He had proceeded only a few minutes when some one in the audience began to sing, ―Nearer, My God, to Thee,‖ which was immediately taken up by the whole audience, the orchestra joining in with an accompaniment. Thursday January 7, 1904 J. W. McNeal, a resident of Curtis, in Woods county, Ok., was struck by an extra Santa Fe freight train at Curtis and instantly killed, both legs and his neck being broken. He was a Civil War veteran. Thursday January 7, 1904 A TEXAS BENEFACTOR DEAD. Venerable Editor, A. A. Pittuck Turns in Last Copy Dallas: Alfred Aldredge Pittuck, aged 71 years, died Sunday afternoon at his home. An only son survives him, Prof. B. C. Pittuck, professor in charge of the agricultural department of the University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge. Alfred A. Pittuck has a history bound up with the history of Texas. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Slept. 16, 1832. Shortly after his birth his father, George Pittuck, moved to Texas. He joined the Army of the New Republic at San Patricio. Little Alfred (unreadable) saved his father‘s life by running between an upraised Mexican sword and his father‘s body. The sword cut the hand of the boy, and his hand bore the scar to his death. In the year 1859 young Pittuck began his newspaper career, working for the Central Texan, published at Anderson, Grimes county. He worked for several years on the old Austin Gazette and published the Southwestern Poultry Journal at Galveston. In 1885 he was called to assume the editor in chief‘s chair of Farm and Ranch. He held that position up to his death. He was reputed one of the best agricultural writers of the Southwest. When the Civil War began Mr. Pittuck joined the Confederate Army, fighting in the cavalry division of Greene‘s Brigade. He was in the fight at Galveston and in the ill-fated expedition to New Mexico. He was captured at Santa Fe, and marched overland to Chicago, Ill., where he was imprisoned at Camp Douglas. Thursday January 7, 1904 ‗Twasn‘t Loaded as Usual. Muskogee, I. T.: The only casualty that has occurred in the vicinity of Muskogee happened Tuesday at Enterprise, I. T. Will C. Davis and Miss Lulu E. Smith went to the photographer to have their pictures made, carrying a target gun, which as usual was not loaded. In some way the gun was exploded, the ball entering the breast of the young man, and as a consequence he is in a precarious condition. Thursday January 7, 1904 Mysterious Murder and Suicide. Greenville: Late Wednesday afternoon Constable Henry Rowsey went to a house in North Greenville and there shot Mary Leftwich, also known as May Green, to death. Rowsey fired two shots and the woman was killed instantly. The officer then turned his weapon on himself, inflicting a wound from which he died a few minutes later. Rowsey was accounted a good officer and was generally liked. A wife and two children survive him. The ARLINGTON JOURNAL, Arlington, Texas. 1904 Thursday January 7, 1904 Brakeman Killed. Temple: At the Santa Fe stone quarries near Belton late Thursday afternoon Tom H. Lipscomb of Temple, a Santa Fe freight brakeman, was almost instantly killed by being run over by the engine attached to the train he was working with. The train was setting some cars at the quarry and Lipscomb was riding on the pilot of the engine for the purpose of uncoupling a car that was being shoved onto the siding in front of the engine. Thursday January 7, 1904 Henrietta oil wells are finding a ready sale for their product at $1.25 a barrel. Thursday January 7, 1904 D. M. Rogers, who lives near Sunset, had two children bitten by one of his dogs Sunday, which went mad and ran off without being killed. China regards war between Japan and Russia as an immediate certainty, and is actively reorganizing her army so that if she is drawn into the conflict she will not be unprepared. Thursday January 7, 1904 EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE Hugh A. Mullen, one of the proprietors of the Sunday Philadelphia World was killed by being struck by a train. Among the papers found in his pocket was an accident insurance policy for $5000. The immigration record of New York has been broken in 1903 by more than 100,000, the heaviest immigration being from Southern Europe, while Ireland and Germany are only slightly represented. There seems to be an epidemic of slow fever sweeping over Roby and Fisher county, and attended with much fatality. In the family of M. L. Simmons there have been four cases and one death. The independence of Panama has been recognized by Great Britain. Upon receipt of the news at Colon, the town went wild. The bands paraded playing English airs and a torchlight procession sang ―God Save the King.‖ Frank White, a negro, was put to death in the electric chair at the state prison at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of George Clare, a farmer, of Oswego county. Six contacts, each of 1740 volts, or seven and one-half amperes, were applied. Seven Kentucky feuds have resulted in 850 murders and but two hangings. Justice, while she winks at crimes. Otto Ahlman, president of the Bank of Staten Island, Stapleton, S. I., committed suicide. The bank was closed by the state bank examiner pending an investigation. Skeekity Tehee, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, while trying to ride a wild horse, was thrown violently to the ground and instantly killed.