The San Saba Weekly News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1, Friday, February 12, 1892 Page: 2 of 4
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It has boen the experlenco of all
agos and lands that disease and crime
have been reducod just in proportion
that sanitary knowledge and conform-
ity to sanitary laws and true education
has prevailed
Admitting that tho academic edn
cation Is the highest and best that
it alono offers tho fullest development
of mental powers and tho training
that gives to the world its best
thought tho question still remains
trhether that idea should dominate in
arrangement of courses of study foi
the use of the children of the people
So iiobk hazardous associations aro
encountered than a chance bout with
some critic who assumes to judge the
novel of deportment by the samo vul-
gar standards which he would apply
to a romance having no loftier pur-
pose than to depict as faithfully
as that modern prudlshncsa which
Thackeray doplored will permit a
man his struggles triumphs joys
and sorrows
No one disputes that every man has
only a limited amount of timo and a
limited stock of vitality available for
head work of any description during
single day The limits aro t > o rec-
ognized and if a man transcends them
one day be will pay for the excess up-
on the morrow It is therefore a
truism to say that if all a man s availa-
ble time and enorgy are devoted to
the production of newspaper copy he
cannot attempt any other kind of
work
Vest little In history can be called
final The histories oven of ancient
Greeco and Rome need to bo rewritten
every year or two to keep them up to
dale What Irving and Prcscott wrote
about Columbus sixty or seventy years
ago needs almost as much revision as
the ideas that Columbus had about the
land he found on this tide of the ocean
And one of tho queer things about Co
lumbus in our time is tho email amount
of really accurate and unquestioned
Information there is about him
Theiib is only one real remedy for
the weak and wavering mind that
finds it so difficult to meet tho everre
curring questions of life promptly and
decisively and that is continual
practice He who is conscious of this
Infirmity of purpose may do much to
euro it by strict selfdiscipline Hav-
ing weighed the arguments on each
side or compared the advantages of
different courses for a reasonable
time let him compel himself to choose
one and refuse the other without
longer delay If he do this resolute-
ly and constantly in small things at
well as in great it will gradually be
como more practicable and what once
appeared a herculean task may at
length become natural and easy
Wjrorjbr a rery coraUgrabJpJIme
every 10 boys it is clear that an old
maid must result from purely natural
causes and that she is other things
being equal just as commendable as if
she were not an old maid Which of
the 11 girls Is to be the old maid de-
pends somewhat on choice but tho
superabundant girl whoever she is
is ne jssartly an old maid because she
was bora no in being the eleventh of
the ten Or if this is too Celtic say
In not being born tho tenth of the
eleven There is no way out of it
She is left over in a world to which
she is just as necessary as any one of
the ten who are not left over matri
monially
In oedek that industrial education
may be diffused among the whole peo-
ple it must be begun In the common
schools when tho mind Is most apt to
form Impressions and whep the hand
may best acquire its cunning in the
use of tools For an industrial
mechanical and artistic people com-
mon school opportunities for acquir-
ing a knowledge of industries me-
chanics and arts are essential If we
excludethe skilled workingmen of
Europe from this country we must
provide ample means for educating
our own workingmen in the highest
technical science Under a proper
system of education the training
should begin in the common schools
and end In such great endowments as
the Drexel institute
Tnsnc need be no elaboration of
manner no effusiveness but there
ought to be in every publio office as
in all the courts a substantial polite-
ness In our great American hustle
we aro passing from the merely rude
to the decidedly rough Instead of
calling upon certain borderrufflanly
lawyers to mend their ways
the chancellor remembering that tho
stream does not rise above Its source
should himself command the reform
No one on the bench Is better fitted to
bring it about Jndge Shepard says
the Chicago Times is blessed with
suavller In modo but he Is also
well equipped with forflter in
ra all of which being interpreted
means that he is mild on smiling oc-
casions but when blows are called for
he strikes from the shoulder
A captak In the English army has
Invented a repeating rlflo which is
strapped between the forelegs of a
cavalry horse and fired by tho
rider In tho charge as the cavalry
comes to close quarters with
Infantry The gun is now fired with
the left hand leaving the sword arm
free but no doubt a trifling change of
the machinery would enable the rider
to discharge the gun with his foot so
that w ithswdrd in oneland revolver
In the other and working tho Maxim
gun with his feet the cavalryman
would deal death with every limb if
all the judgment and Imagination put
into such Ingenious contrivances for
homicide were directed towards the
Improvement of productive machinery
there might soon lie enough for every
bod without OfbUng over it
HANGING TO A TREE
The Bcdv of a Supposed Suicide round in a
Pasture Near Ragsdale
A STRANGER CUT TO PIECES BY A TRAIN
A Stockman Dlr Mlddenly I poll
the Street In the Arm of
IIU Wife
Ukookston Tex Fob C News
reached hero that tho body of George
McFutrldge was found la n pasturo
near Kagsdalo in Fannin county
hanging to a tree he had apparently
hanged himself McFatrldgo left here
last Saturday evening under the in-
fluence of liquor and went to Maxey
olght miles northwest of hero where
hu attended a debato that night and
became involved in a difficulty with
Prof F W Yates a teacher at that
place and inflicted two painful knife
wounds on the professor fitter which
he got on his horse and rode off
Nothing more was heard of him until
the report came in this morning of
his supposed suicide
Thej Want Ileliei
Sax Diego Tox Feb o The citl
zons of San Diego and vicinity hold a
meeting Wednesday night and passed
resolutions relating to tho conditions
of this section they being aroused by
tho killing of one of the best citizens
and former officer of the county A
copy of tho resolutions was given to
Hon John J Dix member of the leg
islaturo from this county who will go
in person to Austin to seo Gov Hogg
Tho resolutions express tho wish for
and show tho necessity of rangers
and soldiers to suppress tho lawless
element from this section and restore
peace and quiet to this now excited
and unsettled border section Sir
Dix went out on the southbound
train and will consult Jen Mabry at
Pena on his way to Austin People
aro worked up to a pitch never before
seen here They are in earnest and
are gratified at the way Gen Mabry
talks A few soldiers and rangers can
do no good but with tho United States
colaicrs in the towns and ranches with
enough rangers to guido them this
bectlon can be relieved from the condi-
tion in which the Garza business has
placed it
A Had > erfro
Waxaiiachie Tex Teb J Will
Goodwin colored and a nogrcss got
into a row Tuesday night and when
the police camo on the scene Goodwin
ran away followed by several shots
from tho officem The woman was
afraid to go homo alone and Marshal
1artain gave Joo Walker a pistol and
authority to carry it and told hira to
take the woman to her ho ne They
had gone butt a short distance when
Goodwin emerged from his hiding
placo and attacked Walker and tho
woman with a knife Walker how-
ever was ready and fired inflicting a
slight wound in the fleshy part of tho
left arm Goodwin was arrested and
lecked up
A lrraevcrlnfr Hurglar
LocKHAirr Tex Feb 1 Wednes-
day night at an early hour some one
knocked at tho door of the residence
of County Surveyor Chamberlain and
demanded admittance Mis Cham-
berlain luformed him that her hus-
band was sick and that he could not
come in About 11 oclock some one
supposed to bo the same party at-
tempted to break in tho back door of
the same residence Mrs Chamber-
lain gave the alarm which quickly
was instituted and FffT party found
but made good his escape followed
by a few pistol Bhots but if hurt he
has not been found
Collided IVIlli a nicer
Flokesville Tex Feb 6 Tho
northbound passenger train on the
San Antonio and Aransas Pass pulled
by engine Xo 10 bound from Houston
to San Antonio was ditched Thursday
night between Calaveras and Elmen
dorf The engino and all the coaches
except the rear trucks of the rear
coach left tho track Tho tender was
torn from the engine and turned bot-
tom side up The engine did not turn-
over but left the track some hfty feet
For a wonder no one was hurt The
engineer and fireman both remained in
their box Tho accidont was caused
by the engine colliding with a beef
steer
ABrulnl Hutband
IIreniiam Tex Feb 1 On Janu-
ary 19 a German named August
Kurtz a tenant on 15 11 Rivers place
beat his wife Mollle Kurtz with a
club Sho came in and made a com-
plaint against him for aggravated
ussault and battery and yesterday ho
got drunk and beat her again with his
fists Sho again complained to the
authorities and Constable Boyd wont
out yesterday and arrested Kurtz
Fatal Disagreement
Navasota Tex Fob 4 W W
Wilkerson shot and killed Frank
Lewis last Monday morning near
Bedias in the northern pert of Grimes
county Wilkerson fired five shots at
Lewix with a 45caliber Colts revol
ver two of which took effect The
affair is reported to be tho outcome of
a disagreement about some stock
Wilkerson gave himself up
Caught by a Qelt
Palestine Tex Feb 2 Milton
Slaughter 19 years of age employed
in Baileys mattress factory got his
right arm caught in the belting of tho fly-
wheel and after being whirled around
fourtimes with the wheel was thrown
Insensible to the ground It was
found that three fingers of bis hand
wore torn off and an arm broken in
three or four places
A Sudden Death
San Antonio Tex Feb C John
Sullivan a stockman who lives in Kar
nes county and who was on his way
home died suddenly in tho arms of
his ivlfo yesterday in front of a board-
ing bouso before ho could be taken
from tho vehicle Tbo remains were
taken by the widow to Sullivans
former home for interment
Cut to Pieces
San Antonio Tex Feb 6 An
unknown man supposed to have been
a tramp was killed instantly by a
passenger train of the International
railroad near New Braunfels The
body was cut up into such small
pieces that it was difficult to gather
up enough for the coroner to hold an
inquest on
Spotted Feier
DAiNQEitriKLD Tex Feb j Spot
ted fever is raging five miles north of
this place Five deaths have been re
ported and more now cases develop
ing The people through that section
aro greatly alarmed and somo talk of
leaving until the disease passes over
It Is confined to a small district
Assassinated
Loxgvjev Tex Feb
Jin
Wilson a worthy negro living un
tnil 3 southeast of this placo was
killed Wednesday night while sitting
beforo tho tiro reading his testament
A double load of squirrel shot struck
him on tho left side of tho head at
clo e range and passed through his
brain coming out of his oyes noso
mouth and ears Ho remained seated
in his chair swaying his head from
side to side for several minutes The
only other occupant of the house was
his son who was lying down his wife
and other two children having gone to
their grandfathers about 100 yards
away When hit wife and children
arrived they found him as describod
sitting in his chair
A SICKENING SIGHT
Allan Kuiclden bjThrowing Illin
elf Under a Train
see him in time to stop
Tho
engine was partlv derat1 his body
and tbo tram 3 to a b top be
foro it all passed orer him ilis body
wasso mutilated and scattered that it
had to be shoveled up into a pile A
leg lay at one place a foot at another
his head rolled away his liver lay to
itself his entrails and other parts were
in many separate fragments and his
heart lay alone upon the earth iso-
lated from other parts of tho body
and to tho horror of the dazed
passengers it was seen to be pul-
sating vigorously actually bounding
upon tho earth from its forciblo con-
tractions and expansions Somo of
the passengers say that it jumped
clear up off tho ground and they
turned from tho sickening sight Ross
had no relatives hero except a wife
who had separated from him
A Relen of Terror
Cakkizo Tcx Feb 2 The differ-
ent detatcliments that left several
days ago to mako a grand round up
of Garza revolutionist at a point in
Encinal county on positive informa-
tion iike ninetenths of the positive
information reports and news sent
and written from this section on Garza
matters returned Thursday night to
their respective camps after a hard
trip to both men and beasts They
did not see or oven hoar of any revo-
lutionists They did sec however
a great many people actually suffering
for something to cat Tho United
States troops and state rangers being
quartered in this country have estab-
lished a reign of terror throughout
this Rio Grando section and the peo-
ple dare not go out now to shoot a jack
rabbi or fear they may bo arrested
by a United States detachment or a
state ranger as a Garza sus-
pect and reported as being caught
with arms These people have not
had any animal in a condition to sell
for two years They are therefore
entirely out of money and did not
raise any crops last yearand of course
aro out of anything to make bread
with If they cannot hunt deer wild
steal or starve to aeath or all uprieeT
join Garza and tako what they can
find to live upon
Carzaa Illoortr Banditti
Cortics Ciihisti Tex Feb 3
News has been received here of the
killing of Scout Rufus B Glover by
Garzas revolutionists near Sole dad
Wells Glover was in company with
two other scouts Just beforo reach-
ing tho wells the party stopped to
talk with a boy on horseback when
tho revolutionists opened fire from be
hind a small hilL At the first volley
Grover fell from his horse a dead
man and at the same time a compan-
ions horse was shot dead when the
two scouts riding one horse escaped
They returned the fire but were com-
pletely outnumbered On account of
the thick brush in which the revolu-
tionists have taken refuge it Is hard
to trail them and it is thought they
aro familiar with every movement of
tho troops Glovers body was recov-
ered and brought to Bcnavides and
thence to San Diego
Serious Cutting Affray
ConsiCANA Tex Feb 3 A seri-
ous cutting affray occurred on Beaton
street last night near the old Horlon
house A railroad man Jack Me
Carty had been put out of a saloon
nearby and ran into a painter who
began to abuse the old man Just then
Joe Cwik who has recently been
working in Rosenbergs saloon camo
by and interposed in McCartys behalf
when the painter turned on Cwik and
cut a horrible gash in his left side
directly opposite the heart and
another a shortdistancc below with a
pocketknife The knife struck rib
just above tho peritoneum and saved
his life In tiying to defend himself
Cwik was also cut In the right hand
Pullman Car Itobbed
El Paso Tex Feb 5 The Pull
roan car attached to tho Southern
Pacific express that arrived here yes-
terday morning was robbed by un-
known parties last night at Bowio
station Tho passengers were asleep
at the timo and the robbers secured
all tho valises overcoats and hand
baggago in the car The conductors
satchel containing his cash and
tickets was also stolen
Spotted Fever
Teruem Tex Feb 3 A case of
spotted fever is reported from Iris
Ridge southeast of Terrell the vic-
tim being the child of James Wallace
a farmer of that neighborhood The
child is in a very precarious condi
tion Fears aro entertained of an epi
demic of tho fever The neighbor
hood is thickly settled and everything
is favorable for the dissemination of
tho disease
Shot in the Neck
El Paso Tex Feb 3 A tole
gram received here from Chihuahua
Mexico announces that William IL
Sheffer while returning to his rain
ing properties from Guerrero was
shot in tho neck from behind by un I
known parties Tho bullet entered
the back of the head and came out on
the side of his jaw The wound is not
considered dangerous
JlrH While Churning
Rockwall Tex Feb I Undo
Johnny Beddingfield one of Rock
walls oldest citizens dropped dead in
his chair Tuesday He commenced to
churn and died while at the work A
half hour beforo he was in his u ual
health Heart disease 1 thodght to
be the came
HOME AND FOREIGN
Gleanings from Criraat Calendar Served b
Suit the General Ruth
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTINGS
Foreign Flashes Across the 1Yurs
ttlle With Late News trout
Other Lsaif
ExTreasurer Smith of Davies coun-
ty Alabama Is short 1000
Caroline Ship wai recently hanged
at Dallas N C for infanticide
Keeley institute graduates are or-
ganizing a worlds alumnus association
Frank Heffcrn aged 11 committed
Nacogdoches Tex Feb 1 As suicide near Pontomac IlL a few days
the southbound passenger train on tho since
Houston East and West Texas was
ncaring the station called Sterne
twelve miles north of this place
Thursday about 10 a m a man by
the name of S L Ross placed himself
upon the track and was run over and
literally torn into fragments Ross
had lived at that place for a number
of years had been postmaster and
merchant and had married there He
took to drink and went to the bad
He told parties before tho train camo
that ho was going to do this awful ast
and he was once or twice removed
from tiio track to prevent it But at
last be eluded discovery and chose a
Skin grafting on an extensive scale
has been accomplished at Kansas
City Mo
Jim Lyles and Margaret Lashley
colored have been hanged for murder
in Danville Va
A favorable report will hi made op
tho house resolution to investigate
Worlds fair finances
The Iowa legislature has passed < n
resolution indorsing President Harrj
sons Chilian message >
An American family had a thrilling
experience rocontly with a burglar at
spot where the engineer could not a hotel at Genoa Italy
Flagrant violations of tho fede
igoElritd labor statute are report
from rtennsylvama mines
The daughter of Millionaire Paul-
son a heroing in the Mexican war is
destituto in Sioux City la
Grass in Southern Idaho is covered
so deep with snow that thousands of
cattlo have died of starvation
Johnathan Mann of Milton Mass
left his money to bo used in building
a Temple of Christ inJloston
In Alabama Mississippi nnd Arkan-
sas the decrease in acretgo of cotton
this year will reach 15 f > er cent
Serious trouble is anticipated with
tho Indians at rocatello Idaho whero
an aqueduct Is being coistructcd
Erskino College at Duo West S
C was burned a few days ago The
loss Is f 25000 with no insurance
Exrresident Cleveland has been
enjoying fine sport hunting on Joseph
Jeffersons plantation in Louisiana
At Ocean Springs Miss recently
L Chovis Tobo a most promising
young man shot and killed himself
A boy of 12 in New York has ac-
quired Swedish German and Italian
by escorting immigrants to tho trains
Somo unknown person blow up the
storo of Harrison Parker with dyna-
mite at Millen Gx a few nights ago
The Worlds Fair Transportation
Company a Chicago institution has
had a collapso In its New York office
George Guthrie of Quincy IlL
frightened away his employer and a
negro who attempted to assasinatc him
Maggie Jones of Sparksvlllc Ind
answered a matrimonial advertise
mect and married a Wisconsin bache
lor
William Dupo nt a millionaire of
Wilmington Del secured a divorce
from his wife recently at Sioux Falls
S 1
Chief of Police Dinges Lincoln
Neb has been charged by gamblers
jvitji aDnronriatinc 3350 iak n iw
M 15 Curtis formerly an actor has
been placed on trial in San Francisco
charged with tho murder of Policeman
Grant
Mrs Sheffield was barely prevented
from killing Wallace her husbands
slayer in tho court room at Texar
kana Ark
Successful tests of a new war explo-
sive called terroritc havo been made
at tho Presidio military reservation in
California
Southern Democrats suggest pushing
Carlisle as an offset to tho aspirations
of Hill and Gorman to the presidential
nomination
Joseph McBraycr his wife and
threo children of Enterprise Ky aro
all hopelessly Insane from the effects
of la grippe
A saloonkeeper and bis customer
wounded each other mortally with tho
same revolver at Hutchison Ka < s a
short timo ago
A French surgeon has invented a
medicinal remedy which ho claims
will cure any snake bite It is applied
subcutancously
Two young children left alono at
Kansas City a few days ago were
smothered to death by a rug taking
lire from the stove
Sanford Tanner of Albert Loa
Minn died worth 500000 in spite of
numerous robberies and swindles per-
petrated upon him
Two women were among those ar-
rested in Allegheny Pa a few days
ago for stoning street cars in connec-
tion with tho strike
Congressman Dockery points out a
few additional weak points in the
figures of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Spaulding
Tho investigation of George Mar
kens murder seems to fasten tho
crimo on the Heidt family who believed
him to be a sorcerer
Frank Heffcrn a 11year old boy ol
Danville IlL shot himself through
tho head a few days ago No cause for
his suicide is known
Words spoken in her sleep were tbo
means of restoring to her mother lit-
tle Olio Hackett who had been ab-
ducted by her father
Miss May Hewitt of Chicago was
given chloroform in a dentists office
at Billings Mont a few days ago and
died uuder its influence
A serious wreck recently occurred
on tho Illinois Central at Jacksonville
111 through misunderstanding of
orders by the engineer
In a recent collision on the Cincin
nati Southern road fireman McCabo
was fatally Injured and two other
trainmen seriously hurL
Miss Ella Johnson of Maryvilic
Mo made an ineffectual attempt at
suicide in St Joseph recently because
her lover had desorted her-
At Savannah Gx recently August
Meyer a soda water manufacturer
was found in his factory with his
throat cut and Skull broken
Mr Durland and Mrs Rallies who
eloped from Ottumwa Io a short
whilo ago turned up at Washington
la under different names
Rev J W Richardson a Christian
preacher ran away from pulpit and
wife at Marshfield Mo recently with
a girl of 14 going to St Louis
Robert Glore of Louisville Ky fell
oa a iiujmo a lew di ago and m
ceivci su u a sbocK that ail his cloth-
ing wore torn of him and he was ren-
dered Insensible
Michael Gaynor an cxpoliccman ol
Chicago murdetod his sisterinlaw
few days ago Ho said he was glad
of it and danced a jig in his colL
Dr J L Bauer a member of the
faculty of tho St Louis College ol
Physicians and Surgeons has been
oxpellod for violating medical ethics
President Grcenhut of tho whisky
trust dented tho report that the trust
would absorb all outsido distilleries ol
the country by an increased capitaliza-
tion
The polico have at last run down
the man who on Jan 4 blew up the
bakery f Henry J Miller at St Louis
Mo no says ho was actuated by
want
Miss Holton of Kentucky en route
to Littlo Rock Ark was robbed ol
3o0 recently by a man who offered
his assistance on an Iron Mountair
train
Mrs R I Collin of Pensacola
Fix had her clothing sot fire by an
overturned lamp recantiy and was sc
horribly burned that she died within
an hour
pAt Wcstfield N J a fow days ago
the tiro department drow from u cess-
pool to extinguish a tiro and the
owner of tho house demands heavy
damages
Tho remains of a man apparentl
murdered have been found neai
Wichita Kas aud aro thought to b
tho so of Effingham tho missiua
rSncBmanr
Tho assignees bavo saved about
2000000 from the wrecked fortune
of John Roach tho ship builder and
his son has asked for an accounting bv
the assignees
John Slayton a negro wanted in
Alabama for murder defied arrest
and fired into a posse near Meridian
Miss killing a man named Norman
Slayton was killed
F A Boomer son of a millionaire
who was recently whipped by a brake-
man at Burlington la afterward
eloped with a girl of Cbillicotho Mo
and then deserted her
Frank Wildasin was shot dead by
Randolph Frantz near Dayton O a
few dayr ago while annoying Mrs
Roth a former sweetheart who lived
with tho ltautz family
Miss Florence Hall of San Fran-
cisco is about to begin suit to obtain
her sharo of tho estate of the lato W
J Floience tho actor Sho claim tc
be Florences daughter
John Howard night watchman at
RloVlsla Cat in attempting to cap-
ture three burgiars recently was shot
and killed Ilis interference savec
100000 from the robbers
Robert tartor a negro was hangeu
in the jail at Camden Wilcox county
Ala a low days aro for the murder
of his wife last June Carter con-
fessed his crme on the gallows
W L Crow and E C Barber
lawyers of Cedar Rapids Io have been
Indicted for attempting to blackmail
saloonkeepers by threatening then
with prosecution to secure money
Davis Carpc tcr of Johnson S C
is under arrest at Augusta Gx
charged with abducting lCyearold
Maude Blatz who was found with
hm Carpenter is a married man
Miss Augusta Foster a member ol
W IL Crano s theatrical company
who broke her leg on a defective
sidewalk at Minneapolis Minn re
Miss Lillian Dudley aged 28 o1
Marion Kas telegraphed a relative
in New York from Fonda N Y that
sho would arrivo on a certain train
Nothing has been heard of her since
William McIIenry a traveling sales
man of Cleveland O received foul
telegrams in quick succession at Lima
O each announcing the death of a
brother They wcro children who
died of diphtheria
IIorde3 of foreigners aro pouring
into Pennsylvania taking the places
of American miners there An offi-
cial report to Secretary Foster states
that the alien contract labor law is
constantly violated
Mrs Henry Ward Beechers articles
on her husbands labors in Indian-
apolis in tho 40s are declared to bt
crronious by many persons who were
members of the Second Presbyterian
church at that time
William SI LcCroy an old citizor
of Chattanoogx Tcnn upon retiring
a few nights ago told the inmates ol
tho houso that ho believed he was
going to die and tho next morning h
was found dead in bed
The young ladies of the normal
classei of the city schools of St Louis
Mo are indignant over an order foi
them to appear in tho psychological
laboratory minus shoos and corsets
for scientific measurement
Charles Myers and S C Francis
Kansas City gamblers held up a trait
qt Lamar Mo killed a policeman a
Fort Scott Kas and were retaken a
1leasanton Kas whore Francis was
killed and Myers badly wounded
At Meridian Miss recently
party of switchmen on a lark wrcckec
tho office of the yardinaster of thi
Queen aud Crescont routo and al s <
tho train dispatchers office cutting
tho wires and breaking up tho switch-
board
Fonrit >
Influenza has increased tho deatt
ratoiu Paris 100 duly
The French clergy aro wrought up
over the spread of atheism
Townsvillo a soaport on Clevelanc
Bay Queensland is inundated
Tho Grand Duko Constantine uncli
of the czar died a few clays ago
Negotiations for the cession of Out
haven to Prussia aro nearly concluded
Rumors of serious disturbances ir
German East Africa are in circulation
For the first tiint in four years rair
fell at Durango Mexico a few dayi
agoOfficers
Officers of tho Egyptian army have
taken oath of allogiauco to tho new
khedive
Tho Popo has not been well foi
sometime but no fears of bis death an
entertained
Tho king of Wurtcmberg recontlj
arrived in Berlin and was tendered a
public ovation
Considerable opposition to the relig-
ions features of Germanys educationa
bill is manitested
Firo recently destroyod Egmonti
cabinet In tho residence of tho Duk <
of Arenberg Brussels
Tho leader of tho nnarchists whe
recently attacked tho city of Xeres
Spain has been captured
English texttllo workers demani
the recognition of silver as the stwrd
ard curnnrcy of the empire
A RICH GOLD FIND
A Mass of the Glittering Mela Oitcovered at
the Head of Squaw Gulch
AN INDIANA FARM IN GREAT LUCK
Frederick Ilenner Tlnrder Ills
Sweetheart and Then Cora
inlts Suicide
CwrrLE Ckeec Col Feb C Wild
excitement prevails here over tho dis-
covery in the Plymouth rock shaft of
a gold hill at the head of Squaw gulch
At the depth of thirteen feet a chim-
ney of ore has been discovered which
is a perfect mass of shining gold The
sizo of tho chimney is not definitely
known but shows the full size of the
shaft and samples from it show it to
be of marvellous richness conserva-
tive men estimating the value at from
12000 to 15000 per ton The mat-
ter is a bluish gray quart impreg-
nated with veins of gold that make it
difficult to conjecture what tho roal
value of the ore may reach
Is Worlds Fair for Chill
New York Feb 3 The following
cablo dispatch has been received at
New York city
Valparaiso Feb 1 After thor-
ough inquiry I am able to etato that
thore is extreme gratification felt both
in official and unofficial circles at tho
message cent by Secretary Blaino to
Misister Kgan pmnouncing that tho
rcplyjo hiV BsteL was Bat3nc
tory Aiaori SRIaTs especially
those o tho navy and intelligent citi-
zens generally these has been a re-
vulsion of feeling in favor of the
North American republic There is
not a doubt now but that a squadron
of United States warships would bo
well received as an additional proof of
renewed friendly relations with Chili
There does not appear to be any like-
lihood of the Chilian government
voting money for tho Worlds fair at
Chicago partly on account ot tho
present financial status of the country
and partly because Commissioner
Harlow is accused of being the author
of sensational telegrams which have
been sent to certain American papers
This has set tho people against liim
After Horse Thieves
Helena Mont Feb 1 War on
horse thieves will soon bo vigorously
begun in southeastern Montana and
northern Wyoming Detectives have
been with tho gang and they are now
located together with 1000 bead of
stolen stock A posse of thirty stock-
men struck their trail the other day
jnd news of an engagement may bo
expected at any time This is only
the beginning of a war of extermina-
tion which will bo waged as relent-
lessly against the horse rustlers as it
was against cattle thieves
Committed Suicide
Baltimore Md Feb 4 At 3
oclock yesterday morning not re-
ceiving the usual hourly alarm from
the watchman at the Cotinental Na-
tional bank the District Telegraph
company sent a messenger to investi-
gate The messenger found Watch-
man McCauley lying on tho floor in a
pool of blood the dead man having
committed suicide by shooting Mc-
Cauley was CO years old and a brother
of Rev James A McCauley ex
president ot Dickinson college Car-
lisle Px
tVork if Dynamiters
KuLUCEI Jvrih Feb2 jJ ilvna
uiluj uoniu was discovered on the
Union Pacific tracks near Kearney
yesterday afternoon Tho bomb had
been placed in a switch in a such posi-
tion it would explode when Blruck by
tho train Two boys found the bomb
just before tho east bond passenger
train was due and removed tho deadly
missile which was turned over to the
polico
A Car mown Cp
Pittsburg Px Feb i Strikers
on tho Manchester line placed a dy-
namite cartridge on the track yester-
day morning at 5 oclock A car
filled with employes or scabs was
blown from the track Tho car was
completely wrecked and windows In
houses near By smashed but no one
was seriously hurt The force of tho
explosion was felt several miles away
A ITlurderer Suicides
New York Feb B The body of
Frederick Honner who has been in
hiding since Wednesday night having
killed his sweetheart Maggie Wciss
mullcr was found yesterday morning
by a policcpian lying in a vacant lot
on Hundred and Eighteenth street
with a bullet hole in his brain having
committed suicide with a pistol The
body was still warm
Iturned to Heath
Jacksonville Fix Feb C Kalph
and Horaco Lennig aged 7 and 2 re-
spectively were burned nnd their
brother smothered to death at day-
break Thursday in the outskirts of
the city during the destruction by fire
of their house Mr Lennig escaped
in his night clothes but was very
badly burned and is nearly crazed
from the shock
A Farmer In Illicit
English Ind Feb 6 Thomas
Melrose a poor farmer near Grants
burg received Thursday letters of
credit from the Bank of England call-
ing for anything less than 1000000
accompanied by an urgent call from
London solicitors that ho report in
London at onco and claim a large es-
tate in northern England
Utah Wants Ifoine Rule
Salt Lake City Utah Feb o The
Utah legislature passed a memorial
to congress urging the passage of the
homo rule bill Introduced by Faulkner
and Cain last month The memorial
recites oppression through the Utah
commission and a repression of the
popular voico in the make up of the
courts
Murdered Ills Sick Mile
Chicago Feb 6 Yesterday after-
noon Patrick Hurst a laborer at-
tacked his wife with a knife while she
was sick in bed stabbing her thirty
eight times Many of the cuts were
inflicted after tho woman was dead
lie is believed to be insane
Mill Quit
New Orleans Feb 4 In a letter
reviewing the lottery and antilottery
history of the past four years John
A Morris yesterday announced that
the Louisiana State Lottery company
will not seek or accopt a new charter
Two Families Frozen
Hot SrniNGs Ark Feb 4 Two
families Watson and McGuffick who
started for Alabama were frozen to
death In the recent blizzard Their
bodies were found in the prairie near
the Arkansas line
Ouiuhu shakeu
Omaha Neb Feb 5 There was a
slight shock of earthquake felt here
about 1030 Wednesday night lasting
for a faw seconds It seemed to bo
most perceptible in the vicinity of the
police station and the Grand Central
hotel at Fourteenth and Jones where
pletures v re thrown from tho walls
and croclii y and glassware smashed
A largo Vajk of earth caved in crush-
ing in a twostory frame houso at No
1415 Jouej street and burying P IL
Green and his wife and two children
in tho debris The woman and chil-
dren luckily escaped unhurt but Green
was not so fortunate He was caught
beneath somo timbers and received
internal injuries This is the only
accident reported up to midnight
For a Urns jt created considerable ex-
citement
A RAVING MANIAC
Cashier Rlller Strips Himself aud
Takes to the Woods
LomsviLLF Ky Feb 5 Judge
John Hitter cashier ot the Deposit
Bank of Glasgow which failed a few
days ago is a defaulter in tho sum of
25000 and is insane Wednesday
morning the judge went to tho bank
caily and returned homo about 10
oclock A few minute later ome
farm hands working in thu field in tho
rear of Judge Rittcrs home found him
rushing across the fields holloaing and
crying for help He was pcrfectly
mide without oven socks or shoes on
his feet Tho once prominent citizen
and cashier was a raving maniac He
was overpowered after a long chase
and desperate struggle Physicians
pronounced his affliction a case of
acute insanity brought on by great
montal strain The cause of Judge
Hitters financial trouble U assigned
to injudicious speculation during tho
past threo years Just before the
failure Judse Itittcr turned over all
his property worth about 10000
flattie With Burglars
Texarkana Ark Feb 2 At an
early hour yesterday morning Silas
Porter night bar tender at the Home
saloon going to bis room to retire
discovered tho door open and two bur
glars insido riflng his effects Ono
of tho intruders at onco engaged Por-
ter in a hand to hand light and the
other fled At length Porter managed
to draw and open a pocketknife which
ho began using on bis antagonist
stabbing him several times but doing
no serious injury owing to the small
ness of the blade When tho fellow
felt the steel ho disengaged himscll
and ran escaping down stairs and
around the corner finally taking ref
uge under tho buildings occupied by
the Texas Produce company and was
arrested When arraigned on exam-
ining trial yesterday evening ho ad
mitted that he was a professional thief
and waived preliminary heating Ju
tico Barkman placed his bond at
1000 which he failed to give and
was remanded to jail He gave his
name as W F Read His partner in
the burglary who calls himself John
Flannigan was apprehended and is
held for tho grand jury in the sum ol
f r0O Both prisoners are entire
strangers During the light with
them Forcr was severely cut in the
hand
7ff sterlous 3Iurders
Johnstown Pa Feb 4 Nothing
since the awful flood of the spring of
1S89 has caused so much alarm as a
scries of fivo mysterious murders com-
mitted within a rauiu of twelve miles
Apparently all five murders were done
by the samo hand but so far tho de-
tectives have been unable to discover
its owner On Dec 4 the body of a
ncll dressed man was found in the
woods near Gallitzin with a bullet
hole in his head There was no clew
lu ills iadv ijrXTVben latertnottCiJ
of another man found about twelve
miles away with a hole through his
head was Goorce Myers a prosper-
ous citizen of r rugality Myers had
800 when he went home and had
been murdered for his money Less
than a week ago the decomposed body
of another man was found in tho uood9
nearBethel Nothing was discovered
to establish his identity The horrible
butchery of old man King and wife
and tho cremation of their bodies a
few nights ago are attributed to the
samo mysterious murderer
The Tlesslah Will Come
Chicago III Feb 5 Capt Eli
L Huggins aidedecamp to Gen
Miles returned yesterday morning
from an extensive trip to the Indian
Territory to investigate rumors of a
ghost dancn among tho Indians tiiorc
The Araphoe Cheyenne and Osago
Indians still cling to tho belief that
tbo messiah will somo day appear to
save them said Huggins and they
were not at all disappointed in the
failure of the messiah to como last
year They do not pretend to know
the date of his coming Tho former
frenzy has given way to a quiet belief
almost a religion that the whites will
be destroyed and the messiah will
come
A Strange Affection
Stillwater Minn Feb 1 Wm
Egerly claiming to come from Dover
Me was locked up by the police
Thursday morning on the charge of
drunkenness lie was taken almost
immediately with an attack of hiccough
ing which has kept up ever sin < e
Tho physicians are affording no relief
Yesterday ho was so weak that it was
necessary to remove him to tho hos-
pital
Killed Ills Father
Savannah Ha Feb S David
Porter deputy collector of port an
officer ot the local post of the Grand
Army ot the Republic and a promi-
nent Odd Follow was shot dead yes-
terday morning by his son Portor
was beating his wife
Nwnrtl In
Gctiirie O T Feb > Monday
afternoon Abraham Jefferson Seay
associate justice or Oklahoma vacated
his scat on the eupremo bench and
was sworn in as governor of the terri-
tory
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Important Happenings in the Various
partmenls of Government
De
CONGRESSIONAL AND OTHER NEWS
There li > Uonbt of the Anil
Option Illll 1h 1iic
Inu r
Washington Feb C Indications
that tho house will pass tho bill to
prohibit option trading goes stronger
It looks now as if Hatch of the com-
mittee on agriculture is pushing tho
hearings The committee seems to
be almost unanimously in favor of tho
bill Such being tnc situation tho op-
position is presenting littlo or no ur
guitcnt at this time The present in-
tention of Col Hatch Is to report tho
bill back to the house on Wednosuay
of next week Consideration wiil fol-
low in a few days Probably the end
of the mouth will seo the measure in
the senate where its course will boa
little slower Tbero is no longer any
doubt of tho bill passing the hou = e
lllikertnll lliir tlsatloil
Washington Feb Sir Wt
son s motion culling for an investiga-
tion of the liukerlon system which
caused considerable agitation especi-
ally in Farmers alliance circle has
at tho request of Sir Oa s chairman
of tho subcommittee whvn re-
ported the resolution adversely
to tho judiciary committee of the
bouse been recommitted to the sub-
committee for further action This
action was taken by th commit so
josterday Mr Oatcs a he ha
been going slow in the rentier for tho
reason that ho wishe to ascertain
whether or not congress lia junsuic
tion If from tho naf o of the cor-
poration it should be found trial con-
gress can legislate with respect
to the Pinkerton system and
that it is r < v a matter
with which stales uno municipalities
alono can deal lie j there may bo
reason to rccomuu ud investigation
bjt unless congress ha mo power to
legislate and remedy the abuses it
may find to exist it was not ls busi-
ness to make an investigation
Dntiorrntlc Mghlmarr
Washington Feb 5 Tnc ftftj
coinage of silver is a nighUnsro to
tiearl3 every Democrat of the house
Shall it or shall it not pass that body
and picdge the party irrevoiab y for
free coinage inis has been an anx-
ious question asked by the eastern
men uf their western colleagues Tho
western men answer most emphati-
cally in llo anirmativo Can they bo
checkmated It is thought they can
and will be Wostern men could hno
done so had they understood the situa-
tion and voted against the new rules
which has placed the power to defeat
a free coinage bill or any other meas-
ure iu the hands of tho three gentle-
men who compose a majority of tne
house comiLiltcc on rules Tho prin-
cipal rulo under tho operation of
which the free coinage bill will meet
its death ii the rulo in regard to dila-
tory motions
icitiih Irofrraiiimr
Washington D C Feb 1 Tnc
friends ot the president ai e already
busy mapping out a programme for
Patrick Egan when that well adver-
tised individual shall return to these
chores It is conceded that his recall
from Chili is only a matter of a ittlo
timerUnit dlJrtoT ter iigr3TncYt Tic
could not bo kept at his post with any
hopo of serving this government or of
advantage to anybody It is assumed
therefore that in time he will return
home and show his gratitude in a
practical way for tho president s sup-
port in the recent trying complica-
tions Tho idea is that the Chilan
episode is to bo made to play an im-
portant part in the coming political
campaign and Mr Eagan is to play a
star part on the stumu in explain-
ing it
Illreetor Leech Kxainlned
Washington Feb 4 The house
committee on coinage weights and
measures yesterday examined Director
Ieech of the mint bureau on matters
relating to tho silver question Mr
Leech said his minimum estimate ot
the production of si vcr in the United
States during the last year was 58
000000 ounces If tne amount used
in tho arts and sciences was deducted
the American product would be less
than government purchases Tho
amount of currency circulating in tho
United States he said was 21 oJ per
capita This is larger than any coun-
try except France There was in his
judgment no lack of circulating me-
dium in tho countrv The Xew York
banks hold about 35000000 of idle
moiiev over and above reserves
A Death IIIom
Washington Feb A death-
blow was struck the Louisiana lottery
company yesterday morning when tho
supreme court of the United States
unanimously upheld tho constitution-
ality of the antilottery postal law and
refused writs of habeas corpus This
is a great victory for the antilottery
faction and will create a gieat sensa-
tion iu Louisiana The case under
discussion was the test case of Duprco
and Kapicr publishers of the New
Orleans States and tbo Mobile Regis-
ter who are indicted on charges of
sending lottery advertisements through
the mails
The AntlOptlon flenMtre
Washington Feb 4 The commit-
tee on agriculture of the house of rep-
resentatives yesterday began a series
of hearings on tho various antioption
bills pending in congress The bill
which is most likely to leceive the
sanction of the house committee is tho
one presented by Sir Hatch chairman
defining options and fulunc and im-
posing heavy special taxes on ucalcrs
therein
A Democrat sealed
Washington F i > > The commit-
tee on election < esterday deided the
first election case which it h consid
ered and decided it m favor of tbe
contestant Craig Democrat who
been contesting the sea oi Stevjj
Republican from tuc Twfntyjft
Congressional district of nnsylvaa
Tho vote w u 1 to 4
Idaho ilertion Colli
Wamiincton Feb 1
and La Abra clauis and 4hl
Dubois election ontcstirngr
the principle soljcc
cupy the attentionjI
ing the vctk J
reached by vwiioM 01
Wcl
ggott
aro
kcu to oc
rate dur
nt ht be n
Hi1 and Li
t u a vote
rinatloii Delated
Washington Feb J From pres-
ent ludications the nomination of
Judge Wood to the Iiihu StatqD nr
cuit judge is not lik V onicoefora
the senate for rLcinul
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