The San Saba County News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 52, Ed. 1, Friday, November 11, 1892 Page: 2 of 4
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Ota H UAGAN rot
San Saba
Joud of soot and cinders
tlVB
Texas
Cr < LOKB6 hare In their lima been
fuilty of many freaks but a South
Carolina member of thofamily proved
a dear litloXo originality of scope by
sweeping through a graveyard and
mapping the monuments in twa
A < x > crLE of Pittsburg Pa boyi
picked up a physician s small med-
icine cheat that had fallen out of his
buggy on the road apd ate so many
of e sugarcoated plls that they
nearly died
Tie proStaWcnate or onproStable
cess padvrti 4nrfr raHroitd i not
a debatable question Orcrart jver
again it it jjro r jd thotmoney rat out
in Hist vbj Irs good Invotlraen and
w persistency with which it t fol
Iftwec up by companies whost fcro
iirht rharproed by tbe Mi iight
f others should convey wilh a nl
Slary injunction to tbo gonoii ad
ertiaer that tbe sorrel if n t ot a
gigantic success at least ot hvreas
ing Ias nest lies ia tbe s eajv and
judicious use of tho newapap j and
oU er publications of the count as a
xoeaas of reaching the purcbasig in
resting and traveling porlior f the
svunnijoily
Skvehal of tbe eastern hi ipitals
lor tbe Insane are discussing tls feasl
Wlity of employing female pr > Mcians
fa tbo wards set apart for fe i sle pa-
tient and e two or three jtaneos
tbe doetress has been alrced intro-
duced with most satisfactory ssulls
Oce aufKrintendent of an
jssylum remarked not long a
x hospital where insane w >
confined I think it eminent
astern
In
en are
nppro
JHiate that they should recr 70 the
adranUge of beinr rested b apby
rtejin of their own sex a hoi
tal iutrnienl < > nt giant
tho pio
1
5lKi cow has a Chinaman la full
citizenship Wah Ngock L001 a
rlsudriuan who declared his inten-
tions several years ago to a Maine
ichoo teacher who married him
The armies of Ihe ctrHUed nations
W toe world Dprnbcr 4eOQ 000 iron
Besides the loss of their time and
labor they ceif at least 1000 a year
or each soWior and that amounts to
U6 4 rS
h
A soeTffekjat tad satd that the
hT e S5ti so oof Jj353o f which
would everSeeSS tlrethrona Of
course the kaiser took so stockin
suci prnphesyirjs but all tbo same
was taightily phased when bis seventh
5ij ring was a fid t
i The bnJLo of lne late Professor
Cisiiot of St Petersburg was found
lo weigh oaiy tfcJS grams Ho was
one of the persistent opponents of the
emancipation of woman and was
wont to say that their inferiority was
proved by the fact that tho average
wcght of the mate brain was L350
grams and that of tho female brain
iy 12S0
Xnc story is told that when Rosset
U was young he was very deeply 1a
tore with a young woman who died
and thai he buried with her the spn
eets ard the tongs lie wroto about
her This would make a very pretty
tale and furnish an ercellont oxamplo
for other young poets but it is all
ipotled now that the sonnets and
Mea nave recently been exhumed
f iaik as a country Is still terribly
iutckward in matters of sanitation
let it has progressed somewhat dur
izg the last century and a half In
lie year 1760 tho cleaning of ths
streets of Madrid was actually for-
bidden the physicians of the city b
lag of opinion that the filth wti
wholesome and the innovation us
oeesary
Doubtles It ought to allay tuu
ivase of > be most timid to learn from
Ugh medtoaa authority that the fatcl
rises of cholera which occurred n
be ctty of Xew York while undoult
edly Asiatic in all their cbaractorls
Ics were merely sporadic n
ittaaO tver Jy tlhn > 9 Jf
wins e ju jGu It 5
f mselves of the consolation inhering
< this assurance
Wouek have ever availed tii m
telres of their sexs privilege of
cbanpng their minds but it rerciJns
for Chicago woman to cap the
dim jc of feminine Inconsistent of
purjoee fche got a divorce Iroif ner
husband and now that hes dead tsd
be Moit out he had a paidup life
lnsuraDci policy she asks to ha > the
dlror set aside that as a witow
> may enjO the benefits a the
Vceasede foresight
Ovr of the oddest customs in Flench
eTjJelories is the existence of a card
rece iv r ln tbo majority of tbo uior
tuarr chapels that the survivors nay
know whJcb of the members of their
sex in paused to do homage ty the
dead It is certainly a very rlril
idea but bow extremely taken iack
Tould be the courteous callers if Dleir
rte friend were to follow thooumplo
f the statue in Don Giovannf and
torn the call ln porson
Jt is time now to turn attooUn to-
ne railroads borne of them I are
at jod tbe smoke nuisance but vliers
aro making no effort to do it Xo
more time is needed for educu ion
The master mechanic of nny road
Stay lean bow to stop smoke in
tuiry of hit neighbors He shoil > l bo
c = d to act BaJlroad competes
mill soon find it to their intenvt to
rbaXo tho nuisance along their it tiro
oate People wU some day li ivcl
D > or that line whoso cars aro net g
lnusdly sun > qx Jed and 8U I niih a
AUARING ROBBERY
A rfew York Tnvelinff Mn Held Up for
SISrOOO Worth cf Prtclous Stones
AH EtQUMAUX BABY BOSN IN CHICAGO
John Tlnrplir tiels Tfirec Years
ftew York for Illrrrul
JEczlstrallan
Omaha Neb Xov 5 A daring
robbery occurred on the train from
Omaha to the Missouri valley yester-
day evening by a masked desperado
The victim of the roobery is IV G
Pollack representing a Xew York
jewelry house The robbery occurred
just beyond California Junction Ia
After tne train got under headway the
unknown desperado drew his gun and
fired on lollack two bullets inking ef
fectin tne arm after which he made
a rush for him and beat him in a ter-
rible munner auout tne head and face
At the came timo ne secured his sam-
ple cases which contained 15000
worth of diamonds Securing them
ho jumped off the train and made for
the woods lollack is here at the
Wiilard house and is in a badly dilap
idated condition although none of bis
wounds are serious
Viftr
LThe llallnn Jlol > Mil
oedoed sensation In legal and other
circles was created here by new de-
velopments in the damage suit against
the city of Xew Orleans by tbe fami
Iies and heirs of the Italians wno
were taken from the parish prison
and lynched by a mob on March 16
ISO J The
general impression was
that tho cases would never come to a
trial but it was learned yesterday
that the cou el for the plaintiffs will
on Monday move in the United States
circuit court for immediate naming o
a day for trial and that a prominent
attorney from the oast will probaoiy
assist in tho prosecution of tne cases
and tnat a special jury will
likely be asked for Italian Con-
sul Mott returned Tuesday
from Itomo with a mass of documents
and evidence which gives tho im-
pression that tho Italian government
is the real cause of the new infusion
of life into the suits Circuit Court
Cierk Hunt has received from the
American consul general at Koine tbo
evidence of several parties there that
the youth Caspari Grimundi alias
Marcbci son of the shoemaker from
r
and gave the whistle as the signal of
the chiefs approach There are
eloven suits each for 30000
The Ilnli Jlukers
Vi ASiiiGTox Xov 5 Gen Dy
renforth and parly left Washington
yesterday for ome rainless region in
Texas or new Mexico whore ho savs
a thoroughly scientific test wili be
made An official connected with the
experiments has given statements of
personal observations of tho results
of the bombardments Wednesday
night He says tho first explosion
was followed by a lively shower of
rain Another explosion Occurred
and rain followed within two minutes
Xo rain followed the third explosion
but the clouao broke away and toon
cleared Rain followed the fourth
explosion within eight minutes
Double 1 raffed
3ASCmf5 > fa Offi3iA
t Uvtrmo irigedy was enaetec a jo
home of Mrs Fred Seiger in Kansas
City Kan at 0 oclock Saturday
evening Mrs Seiger shot and killed
her 4yearold grandson Frank Voli
kens and then killed herself Mrs
Seiger was an old lady C5 years of age
and totally blind She believed her
little grandson was subject to habitual
abuse at home and killed him to free
him from his troubles She wa3 with-
out doubt insane
Jlr Blaine lo Write a Book
WAsnixGTos Xov 2 The Post
yesterday morning said ExSecretary
Blaine is likely to employ his leisure
time writing another book He seems
to enjoy himself much better since
bis return to life as a private citizen
than as secretary of state Ho is out
very much embracing the autumn air
sometimes three or four times a dav
Mr
has hesitation vhether to
write a booe on tho lines of his
Twenty Years in Congress or to
write some personal memoirs
Drank a naif Callou or IVhUlcr
Cixcinxatti O Xov 4 John
tachner of Lawrenceburg Ind died
Wednesday under peculiar circum
stances Ha had been bitten by a cat
while at work in a distillery He
feared hydrophobia and immersed his
arm in a tuo of spirits He then
drank a quart of whuky He became
pale and trembled and after this
drank another quarL Then going
home retired to his room and died
within an hour
An Esquimaux flaby
CntCAGo 11L Xov 5 Another
Esquimaux girl baby was born at
Jackson pars Thurday afternoon
The father s name is Kufa and the
mothers Kotukituic which translated
meansbig Adam s apple Out of
this Health of etymology and signifi
cance they have evolved for tho help
less child and saddled onto her the
name Kotucktook which means the
stutterer
rirst Xlrue in America
Chicago III Xov 2 For the
first time in the United States pontiff
cal high mass was celebrated yester
day by loo papal delegates It was
all saints day services of the Italian
church of Our Lady of Sorrows on
Jackson boulevard in this city the
home of our Servile order of oriests
The celebralant was Archbishop
Satolll of Home
Tho chuck was
packed with people
Kneluerr ana Cireman Killed
Little Bock Arc Xov 3 Two
collided yesterday morning
near Cabin creek on tne Little Mock
and Fort Smitn railway Engineer
Hughes and Fireman Darby were
killed The accident was caused by
the carelessness of tne telegraph
operator at Cabin creek
Jllline oia tarril fires
Dllith Minn Xov 3 Explorers
on the Mesaba range brings news of
disastrous forest fires For the past
three days gales have been blowing
twenty miles an hour and fire is spread
lag fearfully The region contains
some of Minnesotas most valuable
white pine
or lllecnl IterUcrailon
Xew Yokic Xov 5 John Murphy
who was arrested Saturday for Illegal
rcgistratioa has been sentenced to
three years imprisonment by Judge
Benedict in the criminal court of the
XVty of incira asi1 r from tho nIted States
Ss rer v y vJt 11 matter io iu iIOOII
bwoiMMii or 0im J Ufa not mako AwvWEKQVE X M Xov 3 A
tbe eajplc trDt of Hint kind ot as rePon n reached this city that a
Siitanee compulourr Ly le hJalivo Very Mrious outoreak is threatened
the
enactment j
among Xavajoes Blacic Horse
a well known chief who controls a
largo number of young bucks in the
tribes and has always sought an op-
portunity to create disturbances is
said to have put himself at the head
of his faction occupying tho Carson
mountains and they have sworn war
una extermination upon any peoplo
that attemptto enler these mountains
Xo details can be ascertained but it
is certain that all the cavalry sta-
tioned at Fort Wingate left at an early
hour yesterday morning on a forced
march for Uamp Defiance Trouble
of a serious nature is manifestly an
ticinated
A POLITICAL BATTLE
Aortli Carolina Koivdies AVorstcu
lit a Irecforall tlsliL
Raleigh X C Xov 1 iter Dr
George W Sanderlin state auditor
has returned froji a canvassing tour
west of the Blue Ridge mountains in
this slate Ills trip was through
Mitohellanl Yancey counties on tho
Tennessee border He had an ap-
pointment to speak at Burnsville tho
county seat of Yancey A gang of
desperadoes in that county had sworn
that no Democratic speaker should be
nc ird and when they found that Dr
> ancerin was determined lo speak
tncy determined to assassinate him
On the day of the speaking a
largo crowd gathered Speaking
was conducted in the court
hou < e and the room was well tilled
There was va large nowd otslde
TamTt rr WOTilrrd IVrft j a
desperado wno was for a time an out
law To htm was assigned the duty
of killing Sanderlin Tne later wa3 a
soaier in tho late war on the confed
erate siaa Ho was informed of the
theats oi the mob and its dangerous
attiiude out Democrats who filled the
courthouse assured him that ne should
oe hedrd and receive their full sup-
port and protection Soon after the
speatcing beganthere was a commo-
tion at the dour caused hv the
entrance of hi
liui Parrot was
armed with a bowie knife He at
once oegan to curse Sanderlin and
swore tnat ho would kill htm While
sneaking he attempted lo elbow his
way toward Sanderlin along the aisie
through the crowd A num-
ber of Democrats seized Parrot and
rusned him toward the outer
door of the court house As sooa as
the door opened tho Parrot gang
rushed lo his aid and many pistols
wero fired Knives ni drawn
otones were thrown and a desperate
fight ensued on the steps of the court-
house and in front of the building
A numocr on both sides were shot or
m UB ire
opVne5hranwd UM CUL The = = ras however
got
° ranwd M h i
Jlhd Khlf Mennss > the bet of tne encounter and drove
the desperadoes away from the build
ing DK Sanderiin then resumed his
speech Suddenly the attacking
party assembled in force and two
others of the gang elooffed their way
into the court house but they were
thrown out 1 hen the tight was re
lewcd more desperately than bofore
tarrot was shot twice through the
> ody and Killed A Democrat named
Phillips was so terribly cut by a oowie
knife tnat he died saortly afterward
Three other men whose names Dr
Sanderiin did not ascertain were also
killed More than a dozen were
seriously injured srlth bullets or
knives Dr Sanderlin says that on
leaving the courthouse the scenes re-
minded mm of his war experiences
The dead and wounded men were
lying everywhere An escort of men
was made up to taire Dr Sanderlin
safely o the railroad some distance
was discovered later tha a
J enemies wee in ambush
aitin to kill him but their object was
thwarted by the escorting Democrats
ilrla up a Train
Birmixgium Aia Xov 2 A
sputhbound express train on the East
Tennessee Virginia and Georgia rail-
road was held up just south of Pied-
mont Monday night by two masked
men They pulled the bell cord just
after the train left the tank and when
the train slowed up at a little station
called Dompmans they appeared in
the express car and made the messen-
ger deliver 705 They then went on
into trje mail car and got a lot of
valuable packages The whole thing
was done in three minutes Express
Messenger J IL Pogers is certain
there were only two men but he does
not know whether they were white or
black
Jralousri Terrible Work
IAroinE Ind Xov o The dead
body of Mrs Cora Gas was found on
the banks of Clear lake this city
yesterday morning and the dead body
of her husband at homo with his par
ents a mile distant about the
same
time Gas murdered his wife and ro
turncd homo and suicided Ths
couple quarreled often because o
jealousy
tirebnir lrnclird
BiitjiiNfsiiAM Ala Oci 31 Xcws
comes from Monroe eounty of tho
lynching near Monroe Saturday night
of Allen Parker a young negro He
had been arrested on a charge of
burning a gin house and fifteen Dales
ofcitton A deputy sheriff who was
ca rying him to jail was surprised by
a party of twenty masked men who
took Parker and hanged him
MiuiZEIed Opium
Detuoit Mich Xov 3 The
United Slates customs department has
seized 300 pounds of smuggled opium
valued at J0OO and arrested a man
giving the name of A J Morrison
Tho stuff was brought across the river
Tuesday night in two large trunks
and wes being checked at tne Michi-
gan Central depot wacn the seizure
was made
A fearful Xlratn
Akumirf L T Xov 3 J W
Iillard while wonting in a cotton gin
attempted to fix the boll on the wneel
wbie the machine was in motion
His hand was oaugnt between tho oeit
and the wheel revolving nra around
witn ngntninglike rapiditv Beloro
the machinery caula bo stopped he
was dead and horrioiy mingled
Jlctliollt floiue JIUloi Hoard
GOAXD PATIIIS Mlrh Xov 3
The Xationai Methodist Episcopal
woman s board of home missions yes-
terday elected as president Mrs John
Davis corresponding secretary Mrs
It S Bust recording secretary Mrs
F A Allen treasurer Mrs A A
Clark of Cincinnati
TulmuzeM 5on Tlarried
Sixrj Sixii X Y Xov 4 Frank
DeWitt Talmage only surviving son
of Bev T DeWitt Talmage of Brook
lyn was married Wednesday after-
noon to Miss Gertrudo Barlow
dayghter of William IL Barlow of
Ellis place The ceremony was per
formed ny the groom s father
flarcfoolea Ilirau ii tin Mreeli
London Xov 1 Unemployed
Hebrew workmen of this city have de-
cided tnat they will march oarefooted
througn the sireels cf lonaonon three
different days The authorities have
given tneir assent to a meeting of tne
unemployed in Trafalgar squaro on
Saturdar next
HOME AND F0REN
Gleanings frcm Crimes Calendar Jed Is
Suit the General Rush
iERIOUS AND
JENSATIONALSONGS
Cable Flashes from Foreign ores
Itlfo IV11U Laterewie < I
tlonal inoraenl
Frost in Brazil has sent couup in-
N ew York 1
Mrs Harrison was burieiilndi
anapolis l
Tennessee apple trees areSrog a
second crop
Frank Turner a uctedivoeky
outlaw has surrendered
A trivial dispute lias spla tihns
Kpiscopal church at Dubume
The Worlds fair peop jp ce
cided to permit the sale of at
The Ccer dAlene mining Ibfes
In Idaho threaten to break ouf an-
other war f
Sam Smith is to be hungj irm
ham Aii for murdering tsrob
bing a peddler
All the ports of Britli iana
have been closed to vessels the
United States
Th Ohio river at Pitts > r
been susoenacd
Diptheria i epidemic in Phlt
lipsburg and Kennay setcnts
N ashiugton county
Tho rumors of trouble arr the
Indians at Pico Hidge aro sto be
without foundation
Xegottations will bo in fch at
the monetery conference to h in
Brussels Xovembcr 22
Mrs Christina Bordner oowis
town I1L celebrated her lOirth
day a low days since
At Busseivillo Tenn Jilitts
killed his brother a few days He
claims it xvas accidental
At Detroit Mich rccerLaw
rence Mcsic committod so by
swallowing pieces of cloth
During a tiro at Clevolanc re-
cently an oxplosion occurred fivo
firemen were fatally injured
EdmarGaiier has been sensd to
the penitentiary from SpriUill
Ma for abandoning a postol
Dr Kobert Van Valzah > rre
Haute Ind founder of the ionic
order of Owls died a few day > 0
A new contagious diseasenown
ai beriberi from Japan huade
its appearance in Xew York hir
David Storms of Carter counKy
died recently from tho eflecf a
snauo bite received over a veo
An atiempt was recently re to
blow uu tbe house of A M J0n
at Chattanooga Tenn withdynite
At Fostoriu O Melkia Za03ed
o fell into a pot 0 boiling w a
few days ago and was boiled to till
Charles Dollarhide a deputy Jerir
of Sevier county Arc was sir and
killed by moonshiners I ew qs aga
Two of tho steamsin jutonif
cabin passengers wereCCltly irade
crazy by fear auring a t m at sea
Thomas J Carroll OJCoble Q
awoke suddenly while oa4 train ind
jumped off Killing himsj insvaOly
At Buffalo X Y Philip Uac e
cently dreamed that hehadnitfcb
longer to live and was killed necst
day 1
A lew days ago near ChattaPSa
lenn Charles Gunn hadnisiead
blown off by tho explosion ojna
mite
Prime Minister Caselar o > pain
will be asked to mako the iniug
address at the World s fair ay 1
next j
Hypodermic injections of picdato
is said be the
to new cholcramedv
which checked tne diseaso Ham
burg I
Three prominent citizens ofrccde
Col left that place three inois ago
on a hunt and bave not beoniard of
since
A grist mill near LexingL Ky
which has been running sco the
revolutionary war is the cest in
America
In Allen county Ky Birdtchey
a very prominent farmer wf assas-
sinated a few days ago by known
parties
Lawrence Forley formei a St
Louis blacksmith choked toeath re-
cently at Bloomlngtoa 111 i a piece
of bread
Xear Gold Hill Idaho wo men
recently fought a faLil iel with
bowies over a woman wheas aiso
wounded
Ernest Keenard a weal hermit
of Chicago was recently nfdercd by
robbers who split his sku as ho sat
at his desk
James Still a colored oy irr tho
Xew Jersey reform schoolias fasted
17 days and will mako it u to euro
indigestion
Joy Smith a promincntvhito man
of Hopkinsville Ky waiilled a few
days ago for undue intiary wilh a
negro mans wife
At Jacksonville
Mi W S h
Gouch a lumber mercbai has beenste
sent to the penitentiary four years
for robbing his own safo
Census returns show tit wages of
employes in manufacturij establish-
ments at St Joseph jo average
loss than J5C a year
The fair at Mexico Ma was a
financial failure as onl JfiOO were
taken in during the twoweeks Tho
eompany owes 17000
Franic Van Loon wi killed tbe
cashier of tho Columbs Grove O
bank in August 1801 13 been sen-
tenced to hang this mom
An Empire sLite eniss train from
Buffalo to Itochesier X Y recently
made 35 miles an hourhus breaking
the fastest time on recoi
John
Buffette narrwly escaped
lynching at Hot Sprigs ArC re-
cently for enticing a yong girl to tho
woods and outraging hr
Six tramps rccentl attacked a
Pennsylvania town andtried to kill a
merchant and burn hisstore becauso
he refused them groceriev
H C Jones a man o r 60 years
oi age has been arrosiei at Paducah
Ky on a charge of nlicing little
girls into his office and ruining them
Suit has boon institi ed for 25000
damages at Chicago III by Dr
Claflin against John Mania the hus
bann of Victoria WcodhulL for slan-
der
Dr J C Gaskine of Amelia O
narrowly escaped lynching a few days
ago for an atiempt u on the lives of
his wife and child The woman inav
die
Pretty Mary IL Martin is under 115
rost at Xew 1 ° P a
iug forged ohfles ioi ° S
wrong but is = s a E l
who has offerM1 wa v
before J
While plavjat rough
kpopsie X Y a ° Jo5e
Pcroz collided11 an oppo
ncnt and died011 of tae
brain
H I Tou < f oI th8 Na-
tional Faimea > s Weaver
will get enou0 a de-
cision beinglne electoral
college
Kev Tho Jr a promi-
nent Xew J divine was
recentlv arfned 155 or
killing thirj birJs whil °
hunting
Tired of asl > n fifteen
vears 14v < W io ubin at
Monroe > Jsued WUlam
Iionan for f lflinS w h b
affections
A coroa1 Ida rark a
suburb of1 censureli lue
gas comDU5cnca a3 six
wllh
aP115111611
persons h
in a week
j j vholesale manu-
facturer a ln clothin
failed at
se9 r
Pa re
held tho1
recently witn
liabilities 00 to 2000ty
rs caused a
o trains on
Wa4el > l >
sing the toss t
seven liv
A maS Drinsnea
recently
Mas <
pulpit in a Com r
rel01
rational1 wllQ a
at
id congregation
bay for 5
Quinc 01 in t ° anu lf
turinj
avera
higher
ients recetvo on an
xek This is m rh
verage in most ot > r
minufawns
1 Johiriman ay ° un Gr
man ws outraged and mi
dered 1 JI ° a few da 3 a
He d6v founa in lne Prl
cipkl r511 of tde cit
j lcjtock trains collided 11
the Wer bridge of tho V i
Four r Tcrro Haute Inn
rece1i bridge collapsed anu
costly11 l0hS ° ll ° rosute > 1
rjifHoward feud in Jack
son cfntucy was resumeo l
of
cw 11 after a cessation
abouear s al and W1 1
Tolliam Howard were mo
tailyt
burncl
Aljmportant
Milwai
out ient big lire at
jjea will resumo business t
oncepJ aro already prepa
Suoscrintions to ti o
jair f
rerilvc reached 08000
r a Burlington and Quinc
rail > ny has mruea c
vlti lsFago oxnres
P <
a
will
Bui1 aQu > ncy on and atu r
Jan
gCrr Perry the convi
wjjicd n a screen cell in in 1
>
TIRED OFV LIVING
Ed Sheely cf Dslas fcks the fccjnd
Attemot on Hi Lif
A LUFKIN SCHOOL BOYlKULS A MATE
tliarlr ficVrrlns dieted for
llurdrrJohit Ilojrard nan
clrd Dt a Tram
Dai las Tex Xov 5 A man
named Ed Sheely wnqj has for some-
time past been a liremaa on the Oai
Cliff railway but who Jor soino days
has had no employment took an oier
dose of morphine last night in his
room on tho south sido of tne court-
house squire with suicidal intent
He had attempted suicide in the same
way aoout ten days a 0 but was
saved Despondency was given as
the cau e oy his friends Medical
assistance was summoned last night
but it was seen notning could be done
for him Ho was barely alive at
2 o clock this morning it was im-
possible at that nour tu ascertain any
further particulars in tho case
ines on the Chicagu Aiiempi at jail iirr nni
burn N Y w s
KtiocXrty a guard while rui
ning t + j yard and may dc
from th f the blow Ho said
he got Ci thewaruen
All from Wyoming agrco
that then s war is still smoul
dering ituation is stili criti-
cal Spktnen and cowbos
carry AVs and sidearms Al
stracgojarded with suspicion
and selim to live in constant
fear of ss
Mahlatkins senior racmbe
of the p of Watkius Bros of
Koko Jarre3ted at Indianapo
iis InJy oneiglh indictments
chargiiwith grand larceny in
two caiembe zlement as ware-
house fio remaining six
The term of tho criminal
court aclphia Pa presents a
ghastlj of homicide cases
Sixteerers men and women
are lyie county prison await-
ing thJor taking the life of
fellow Among them aro a
numhe who killed women
Amonembcrs of the athletic
club olis Tenn who were
presenie grand jury for man
slaughiilting from the fatal
Xolanght was Attorney 1L
G Brjlo alone was indicted
and ntrges Attorney General
Peters prejudice in his acts
Person political fights may re-
sult
P AVer a wholesale mer-
chant rnnati O recently ap-
plied farriage license at the
probate but could not think of
tho nano woman of his choice
After aelay he was compelled
to go tome of his lady love to
refreshmory In an hour he
returnetho name on a slip of
paper
Wiilimner a prominent citi-
zen of Bile Lewis county Ky
who dicnly left a peculiar will
He wan tomb raado out of lime
stone troin his farm quarried
by ccrtijhbors and put in place
by oiheras to be twelve feet long
six feetnd five feet wide and a
heavy ds to bo mauo to it the
key to tied by his brother Mr
Stampen very popular man and
is wisrl be strictly carried out
mitii < >
Tho Ef Uoxbury is dead
Franckilled 1500 natives in
her warihomcy
Anothvolution is imminent in
tho rcpuf HaytL
Englais taken up tho causo of
tho Camsealers seized by Kussia
The military bill fixes Germany
at 1100000
many s strength
menThe > of Walos hopes the
Worid swiB continue into lUi
so that h visit it
The I in China have made
homelesf 1000000 peoplo ard
ilrowne thousands
Tho tone cabinet is a unit al-
most wlr Gladstone on the pro-
visions s homo rule measuro
Harr > ne Milbank the duelist
and wn mixed up in tho Drayton
Uorrowndal died in Switzerland
rccentl
Palabo exiled Vcnzuelan pres-
ident pleaded poverty when ho
went tiidon is living in that city
in regsendor
Thei a growing demand on the
part oflish business interests for
a douboney standard
Huns of lives were lost and
hundrtof thousands of dolars
worth property were destroyed
ihrouge Hoods in Sardinia
the has granted dis
At f > pooo
pensalor the marriage ot Princess
Marieie oldest duughtor of the
duko dinburg and Prince Ferdi
nand llouraanix Their religion
differ
Trasedy at lireenvllle
GiiEExriLLK Tex Xov 2 Albert
commonly known as Case Blades
keeper of a crap divo snot and killed
J W liyder of Boattv Morris county
llyder is well known over north
red in the alley bacic of ihe mve
Byuer was shot through the heart
and through the right lung
Ho foil to tho ground without
uttering a groan expiring instantly
The body was searched by the officers
a few minutes afler tho khiing and no
weapon of any kind was found more
than a pocket knife with only a piece
of a blade Considerable oxcitement
was occasioned by tho kiiltng and it
will have a tendency to close tho
numerous gambling dives now run-
ning in this city Blades surrendered
to the officers and was admitted to
bail vesterday evening in the sum of
3000
fell from a l cnsrr Train
Gordon Tex Oct Si James
Stewart a passenger on tho west-
bound Texas and Pacific fell off tho
train wniie it was runoing at a high
rate of speed about a mile east of tnis
place and rolled down an embankment
about six feet high The train oacked
up and found Stewart walking anout
so dazed thathe did not notice tho ap-
proach of tho train Ho was put on-
board and it was some minutes before
ho could tell anything about what had
happened to him Finally he gave
his name and said as well as he could
remember he was going out onto the
i platform when one ot his spurs got
caught and he fell off Mr Stewart
i lives in this eounty and was on his
1 way to Sirawn His face was Dauly
conlrar jcr tthed He stopped hero to
up
s coir nave is wounds dressed
that oxprcss company
Gainesville Tox Xov 1 A
bold attempt at jail breaking was dis
covered yesierday in the Cookc county
jail lne suspicions of Jailer Gilly
were aroused and on investigation it
was found lhat William Marsn alias
Freeze a prisoner charged wilh lne
theft of eighty head of horses in Colo-
rado and with bringing stolen horses
into Texas and who was sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary from
Hood county for horse theit had been
operating on the cells with sewing
needles and but a short time would
have sufficed for him to cut out
Fieezo came near culling his way out
of the Fort Worth jail in one uight
while being neid there awaiting an
officer from Gainesville
Snot from Ainbuli and Killed
TEXARKASA Tex Xov 5 Parties
who camo in from the north over tne
flotton Bolt last evening report a foul
murder as naving been perpetrated in
Ducbiti county Arkansas Yester-
day morning E B Price a weaitny
farmer and leading citizen was evi-
dently waylaid and shot from ambush
and Killed it is thought robbery was
the moihe as tho pocketbook and
watch of the decessed were missing
when the body was found
IImk In Olitcdr
Sax Antonio Tex Xov 2 Sneriff
Lewis oi Dallas arrived hero last
nignl to assume custody of W T
Iighthall alias J T Link wantea for
ourglary Ho was arrested here
for selling jewelry on the street with
out a license and held as a suspicious
character He is alleged to haio bur
glarized tho jewelry store oi S C
Hall and It E Summers at Garland
Tex the aggregate booty amounting
to 1200
Killed and tunzlrd
Van ALsTVSE Tex Xov 5 A
man named John Howard was run
over and killed by a train Thursday
night between Van Alsiyne and Anna
He was mangled beyond recognition
His name was ascertained by a num-
ber to a drawing that was found in
his pocket It was thought mat he
feil from the train while returning
from the Clark rally held here
MabDrd lo fleatli
Pakis lex Xov 5 At Bider s-
ill near Antlers I T last Saturday
night Alecc Brown and Harris Iyle
fell out over a game of cards Lyie
stabbed Brown from tho effect of
which ho died Monday morning
Lyie was arrested and iried before
Commissioner Pat Gibbons at Antlers
who committed him to jail here Ho
was brougnt in last night Both men
wero negroes
li lcictl lor uiiracr
Pauis lex Nov 5 Cnarles Pick-
ering a citizen of this county was
arrested j esterday on an indictment
for murder preferred oy the grand
jury It is alleged that Pickering
was a member of the mob that hung
the three negroes near this city in
August last Pickering was released
on bond
Xrnsea > In n t me rlonm
Den ton Tex Xov 4 Xed Hem
ory was killed by negro
in a wine house on East Oak
street He was struck on tho fore
nead and the oack part of tho head
with a jug or chair as broken rem
nants of each were found strewn on
the floor
riic no and tne oil Can
Xavasota Tex Xov 4 A small
negro by the name of Leach Wednes-
day attempted to light a fiiein the
yard by pouring oil on it from a can
The can exploded burning nim so
oadly that he died in a few hours
tclmol Kor Killing
LtiFKlN Tex Xov 5 Bryan But-
ler was shot and instantly killed here
yesterday by Louis Mantooth Both
were young men and btudents ot tho
East Texas college Tho killing grew
jut of a school boy frolic
Tlie Crime of a Coward
llilLSDOiio Tex Xov 4 A young
aegro about 20 years old anil well
inown about town tried to kill Lucy
Montgomery a eoioed coos at tno
Commercial hotel Wednesday night
Lucy had finished washing the stiopei
dishes and was standing with others
in the kitchen when the young negrc
enteredtho rear door pointed his pis-
tol at her and fired the ball entering
her head just below the left eye
ranged slightly downward and lodged
just below the left ear Alter the
shooting the negro ran and up to this
time his capture has not beoa ef-
fected Medical aid was summoned
and it is thought that tho woman will
recover Ihe colored people can as
sign no motivo for the shooting and
considerable indignation euts among
them over the affair The wounded
woman was industrious and diligent
and veil spoken of by her employers
SENSATIONAL SUICIDE
County Jlldcr C Anders of tlar
rls Coutily found Urafl
Houstok Tex Xov 2 Hon W
C Anders county judgo of Harris
county was found dead in his room at
S15 yesterday afternoon with a bullet
hole in his head and a pistol clasped
in his hand He had been out during
tho early i portion of the day He
lett two envelopes both containing
moucv one wilh Slo addressed to
Wm Churchill and thu second
with t JO and county scrip lor 50 au
dressed to Major M Looscai In the
latter he inclosed the address of his
mother in Gelmany Judge Andors
was about 37 years old and a native
of Houston ills terrible death has
carsed a shock to the entire city
fy r il f tj
Ho had been county judge for eignl
vexrs and was the nominee on the
county ticket for reeleclion
fjlltlftlial Itobberv
Waco Tex Xov 3 Tne safe of
the Oak Hall saloon Wilsford Bro
proprietors was lobbed Tuesday
night of tSCO in cash It was the
work of some one acquainted wilh the
comoination In the cash drawer
was a note signed Sam Lewis confess
ing ttio theft promising restitution
and explaining that an episode of re
cent occurrence made the absence of
tho writer from tho state impera-
tively necessary at this juncture
Tho letter was addressed to Tom
Wilsford the junior partner and con-
tained profuse expressions of re-
gret and high regard Lewis de-
parted ona northbound train prior
to the discovery ot the letter Yes-
terday Mr Ed Wilsford appeared be-
fore County Attorney Joe W Tay-
lor and made an affidavit upon which
an information was filed charging Sam
Lewis with the theft of the money
He was one of tne barkeepers at Oak
HalL Tne letter left in the till bear-
ing his signature is in County Attor-
ney Taylor s possession Yesterday
Mr Tom Wilsford received a telegram
signed Sam Icwis cidding him to
meet the sender at the Missouri Kan-
sas and Texas depot as he would ar-
rive on the train Ho did not come
t nclitened nesroe
Palestine Tex Xov 1 Friday
night while ight colored women and
a male companion sat watching tho
corpse of a colored man named Hardy
Hoage who died that morning tho
house in which the corpse rested in
its coffin suddenly slid from its blocks
and settled with a crash to the
ground Tne man and seven of tne
women rushed frantically from the
building and ran away screaming
as only superstitious colored
people can scream The coffin
intervened and kept the eighth woman
from following the other and
in her fright sne grabbed the head of
it to keep it from going through the
door she said In the meantime the
sheeting of the corpse caugnt fire
and the flVctng woman looking back-
saw the form of the remaining woman
sitting at the head of the coffin and
thought it was tht dead man como to
life or h s ghost This added to the
rr omentum of their flight and tne
whole ne gnborhood was stricken with
superstitious alarm The woman who
held tbe fort declared lhat the house
moved from its base without any ap-
parent cause and that tne very hair
on her head riz
fignxiiinp frsaki
Dallas Tex Xov I Last Wed-
nesday night about 11 ocloiic while
the elements were at war a flash of
lightning entered the exposition build-
ing at tne fair grounds on an eiectric
wire and set fire lo an exhibit T M
Orr the walcnman at tho building
immediately gave alarm and B H
Jordan tho engineer in cnarge of the
machinery G W Haywood J T
Cour J D McBeynolds nd some
others immedialeii responded A ith
band grenades a supply of wnich
were kept on hand in ihe building
during the fair they at one o put out
tho flames Simultaneously with the
firing of the exhibit the lightning
burstout the telephone bojes on the
grounds so that an alarm could not be
turned into the tincepirtment
fits Cum
A Chicwcii Tlilef ana
TKXAiimsA Tex Xov 1 lue
Wilson colored who lives in Vinegar
Hill suburb was aroused at 12 o clock
Sundav night by an unusuai noise
among his chickens and thinking it
after them went out
was a possum
to invctigatc ihe aepredator It
proved to be Eiizah Morrow another
negro who carried a sack and had
alreadv put one foul into it Iko
seized tho sack snatching it away
from the other negro and tais so an
Lons staple Cotton
Bonham Tex Oct 31 M Kosen
baum bought two bales of cotton Sat-
urday tne lengtn of the staple being
an inch and a haf He paid 101 cents
for it Mr Kosenbaum said ibat over
100 bales of the same Kind of cotton
had been raised in Fannin county and
marketed here during this season
bringing < to 101 cents showing
that Fannin county ranss first among
tho long staple cotton producing
counties in the state
Won Ihe I sly Tlan Prime
Wichita Falls Tex Xov 3 An
excursion was given by the ladies of
the Catholic church of tnis city to
Seymour which proved a financial
success Xumerous prizes were of-
fered One for the ugliest man in
Wichita Baylar and Archer counties
was left to a committee of ladies and
was awarded to John Howard
Homicide and suicide
BitoWNsviLLE Tex Xov S A
difficulty Moudar nghtabouta woman
between William Kepplo and Barney
Whalen two soldiers stationed at
Fort Brown resulted in Whalen
oeing shot and killed by Kepple who
afterward when being closely pursued
corporal committed suicido
sued by a
by shooting himself in the heaa
Bled from surialioci
Biiemiam Tex Xov > Yesterday
child of a
earold
day a fy nogro
crazv woman diu ot starvation The
mothers name in Mar Sno will
she is irom
give no otner fals says
Leon county
OUR ST LOUIS LETTEn
Kos New Lnlon Depot KGecttra Clos
lug tp of tne UowirToWB fool
Iluom
St Louis Oct 87 The birth of a
suspicion In the minds ot the Board of
Public Improvements that the termi-
nal roads which are building the new
Union depot intended to gobble up a-
part of a street has led to a very full
explanation of the plans of the com-
pany It was known that the build
ing was to occupy the greater part at
a block and that it was to
be the largest affair of tli vrt in the
country but the full s ipc of the
plans was not undcrstf It litre pa
now the structure li iiir ift istied
that its cost will be 11 > < t a m n
dollars with ornament >
ate as an art iuuium i
hundred trains a da wi
out of the depot when it
The first cars will dsiht
sengers in it before the i
the streets of the city ms
There is a far greater < naml m St
Louis for expert elect ru urns ti n an
be filled and good men cf th t ire
almost naming thcr own i a < as
for lighting steam for ec s md
horses and cables for stive i ars ar < be-
ing abandoned genci all iu t c rric
plants arc being put in cv ierc
There are two interesting t f his
situation One is the cstab aliment of
a night school for nn hjncat engi-
neers where they arc taught t ipply
their knowledge to cleitiv na nery
and the other is the organ i it m of an
dri r I taty cemp > cil of elee
tricat inventors and n in This
opened its first meet n IU ight
wilh a banquet at muhU iij r wtro
103 plates
The passage of the law v llic Mis-
souri Legislature forluW g < ting
in the State on races in otiu S at s
has had a curious result hn e St Ioms
has always had one first class race-
track the one at the fair r < unds
which is tinder the enntr il of the
Jockey club Under the d cindi
tions too there was one oil r it in
Forest Iark where a matiur tr als of
speed were had Tin new laiv lias
brought into existence tiree more
tracks one in the southern part tho
ered Lidge that he drew bis pistol master
and shot at Ike but missed Y
day Llgo was arreted and lodged
jail on a charge of assault to murder
city where the racing l > v cic i light
was done at night last summer an
othc in East St Loui < a tho
riven and tho third am te river
toD near Madison Tlie company at
the bade of this last ot pn n
have built a passenger d p > at tlc
foot of Olive street anl ran trains
over the river every afternoon wlulo
the racing is going oil at intervals of
halfanhour The gnat ra yl the
city out at the fair ground tra k take
place in the spring and fa r and as
soon as they stop thse otl tracks
begin their winter rai in On t nc two
tracks across the river < f < the
Missouri law doesn t app v and the
bookmakers swarm tlirc t t bets
on the Eastern races Ihe tia cs arc
patronized principally by the V Louis
people and so the law accomplishes
nothing but the breaking up of the
poolrooms in the business a down-
town This by the via vi s tho
primary object of the ri at > rs who
had it passed
ITEMS AND IDEAS
A Pivcrside Cal man js ui ceded
in extracting from teu puials cf or-
ange peel oil in the prop > rtjn if fifty
pounds to one ton of pi >
Ireland has only eight taaters
three for Dublin one in Befast one
at Cork one in Limerick one at Water-
ford and one for Londona
There are reputed to he i M0 0D
of the big old copper pennies mg un-
used somewhero in thiscountry Few
of the old pennies get baco to tho
mint
On the farm of George nartcr near
Yuba City Cal there is a mulo that
came across the plains in IS l and is
still able to do considerable work and
is fat and healthy
Last year there were 1 11 w ilowerj
married in Xew York cit while of
widows there were only I so that
about 20 per cent more Widowers than
widows were married
A woman has lately ben admitted
for the first time to tJ < L > nion s >
ciety of compositors The so iety re-
fuses to admit women wii > are not
paid at the same rate as men
On Martin G Funks farm in Manor
Pa is a pear tree 102 years od There
about Monroe
are pear trees growiug
Mich which were planted by the first
French missionaries nearly 200 years
ago The following advertisement recent-
ly appeared in the Wiltshier England
Times Xotice Baptizing by Rev A
E Johnson Stonrnoro Water next
Sunday at 1030 a m Photographers
Invited
The boo the largest flower known
to botanists is found only on the is-
land of Mindanao tho most southern
of tho Philippine group Its scientific
name is somewhat longer than its na-
tive name the botanist recognizing it
as rafflesia schadanbergia It was
first discovered in January 1839 by an
exploring expedition headod by Dr
Alexander Schandenbcrry Single
flowers of the boo weigh from eigh-
teen to twenty pounds
Sham pleasures are the one3 that
cost the most
Tho man who has wealth has a
GRAINS OF GOLD
esier Success anyWVre requires singleness
of purpose
There is nothing more frightful thaa
a bustling ignorance
Xo man is any stronger than the
weak spot in his character
One of the easiest things to believe
is a pleasing lie about ourselves
The best thing to do when we can-
not see in any other direction is to look
straight up
If you have never b en in adversity
you have never found who yonr real
friends are
Th > n who is quarrelling with
to mako himself
his 1 f J is helping
self lie
Tut ii who puts heart into every-
thing he does is watched by angels
when he works
Xo man can ever breac any of the
other commandments while he is keep-
ing the first one
Getting men to be selfish is one of
the principal ways tho devil has of
getting them to become his
The difference between a wise man
and a fool is that a fools mistake nev
er teaches him anything
You can tako it for granted that no
man will grow much in grace as long
as he can have things his owii way
The rich as we reckon them and
among them tho very rich in a true
scale will be l und very indigent an3
needy
SCRAPPY SELECTIONS
Two tons of eels were caught at
Willlamsport Md in one night re-
cently
Sign on East Viue street Philadel-
phia Try one of our germproof clam
slews
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