Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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ALL IS HARMONY NOW.
"Art-IE WCfRK OF THE CONFER-
ENCE COMMITTEE.'
'The Address of the Turner Hall Com-
mittee—Resolutions on Harmony—The
Convention to Meet August 14, and
Dallas the Place.
Dallas, Tex., March 21.—As was
previously announced, the Baker com-
mittee met yesterday in the city hall,
with eighteen members present, and
after several addresses by Dallas citi-
zens favoring this city as the place for
holding the state Democratic conven-
tion, the hall was cleared of all spec-
tators. When the vote was taken by
the committee Dallas was fixed as the
place to hold the state convention by
a vote of 11 to 7. After some further
discussion, the committee fixed Tues-
day, August 14, as the date for the
convention to meet. Resolutions of
thanks for courtesies extended the
committee were passed, and the com-
mittee adjourned to meet in Dallas
August 13, 1894.
The Turner Hall committee met as
per agreement, and issued the follow-
ing address, and dissolved:
To the Democrats of Texas who or-
ganized at Turner hall in 1892: Your
state executive committee takes this
method of informing you officially of
a settlement of all factional differ-
ences in the Democratic party of
Texas and a harmonious reunion of
the party upon a basis honorable alike
to all Democrats. Impelled by a sense
of absolute necessity, in 1892, to sep-
arate from some of our brethren in
order to preserve the purity of the
party and to conform it to the lines of
true principles as we understood
them, we congratulate you that the
object and purpose of the movement
has been most successfully accom-
plished and the united Democracy of
Texas has taken its stand upon the
national Democratic platform as the
latest exposition of party faith, and
as a unit will support and sustain our
chosen leaders in their efforts to re-
deem the pledges of the party to the
people.
This glorious consummation having
been attained, followed as it has been
by the immediate reunion of all Dem-
ocrats in fraternal harmony, our mis-
sion as members of your state execu-
tive committee has ended and we
return to you the high trust commit-
ted by you to our bands with a pro-
found acknowledgement of the distin-
guished honor conferred upon us, and
an earnest hope that our labors will
receive your calm and patriotic ap-
■ V'tlir-1—
We append hereto a copy of the
terms of settlement entered into with
the Democratic state executive com-
mittee of which Hon. Waller S. Baker
is chairman, which committee under
the terms of settlement is vested with
sole executive power in the party
until the meeting of our next
fctate convention, an official call
For which will appear to-day.
We adjure you, fellow-Democrats,
if you would preserve the true
and glorious principles of our party
to ourselves and our prosperity, that
you respond with alacrity to the party
call and attend your primaries, for
- there the voice of the people can be
expressed and the tenets of party
faith and action receive their first
impetus direct from the hands of the
people themselves.
The party troubles through which
we have passed should admonish us
to increased vigilance in guarding the
sacred fires of Democracy, while ex-
tending to every Democrat his in-
alienable right of criticism and dis-
cussion in advance of official party
expression. The basis of representa-
' tion in the primaries as adopted, if
enforced, will exclude the enemies of
Democracy from its councils and give
to party action absolute authenticity
and the action of Chairman Baker
and his committee will demonstrate
their patriotic devotion to the
interests of Democracy and the per-
petuation of that generous harmony
to the establishment of which they
Slave so ably contributed.
A. L. Matlock, Ch'm'n.
C. C. Burke,
Gus Shaw,
E. S. Connor,
B. C. Murray,
R. R. Neyland,
John Durst,
J. O. Files,
Bart Moore,
WT. A. Kincaid,
H. Brahan,
Jonathan Lane,
Geo. Melton,
W. W. Walton,
C. H. Nkmitz,
M. L. McGoffin,
C. W. Travis,
C. P. White,
C. S. Vance,
B. B/Paddock,
R. M. Collins,
Wm. Poindexter,
J. L. Garwood,
Norman G. Kittrell,
W. D. Berry,
C. J. Garrison,
D. A. Nunn,
Barry Miller,
J. O. Nicholson,
T. M. Daily,
W. Fort Smith,
D. C. Giddings.
The terms of the agreement be-
tween the Baker and Matlock com-
mittees, referred to in the foregoing
is as follows:
TEXAS NEWS BRIBES,
INTERESTING CULLINGS FROM
THE DAILY PRESS.
Terms of Agreement.
Whereas, a serious division exists
among Democrats in Texas and it is
to the interest of the party and of
good government that such division
should be adjusted and the party re-
united upon the-basis of fraternal un-
ion, involving no sacrifice of principle
on the part of any Democrat nor the
imposition of any terms calculated to
bring humiliation, therefore, be it
Resolved, That we most heartily
favor a reunion of the party, and while
this committee does not assume to
frame or dictate a platform, yet for
the purpose of reunion we recommend
and submit as a basis of adjustment
and settlement of all differences hon-
orably:
1. We reiterate our indorsement of
the national platform adopted at Chi-
cago in 1892 as a true expression of
Democratic faith, and stand as a unit
ready to second the exertions of our
Democratic president and congress in
the execution of the demands of said
platform.
2. We condemn the platform and
principles of the Republicans and Pop-
ulists, or People's party, as essentially
inimical to Democracy and destruct-
ive to free government. Adopted.
[One nay—Colquit.]
3. We propose that all primaries
and conventions to be held in 1894 be
composed and constituted on the
basis of the vote for the Democratic
presidential electors in 1892, and no
person who was then of age and did
not so vote, unless prevented by sick-
ness, absence or other good cause,
and no person who will not pledge
himself to abide by the action of the
state convention so assembled shall
be allowed to participate in the pri-
maries.
4. Resolved, that in order to unify
the machinery of the party in the
state it is agreed that in all counties
in which there may exist two Demo-
cratic county or precinct committees
that committee which was created by
the regular Democratic county con-
vention shall constitute the only re-
cognized county and precinct Demo-
cratic committee, and* all appoint-
ments of county chairmen made by
either state executive committee be
and the same are hereby revoked.
5. Upon the adoption of the basis
of settlement agreed upon by both
Democratic state executive commit-
tees Chairman Matlock and his com-
mittee will issue a public address to
the Democrats of Texas who sup-
ported the -Turner hs.ll—ti cke-t~. ad vis-
ing them of the settlement made, and
that in pursuance of said settlement
no call for a state convention will be
issued by his committee and that said
committee is dissolved.
That the calhof Charman Baker and
his committee is the authorized call of
the regular united Demooracy of
Texas and it is urged upon all mem-
bers of the party to respond to said
call in a spirit of Democratic brother-
hood and to unite with all good Dem-
ocrats in the primaries and conven-
tions in cementing the party and pro-
moting its success in perpetuating the
true.principles of Democratic govern-
ment. Gov. Hogg and Judge Clark
met in another lawyers office and had
a talk, and Judge Clark and Judge
Reagan also met in a hotel.
Not the Man.
^ Crisp and Complete Breviary of Racy
Konnd-Ups Carefully Selected and Ren-
dered Readable from Every Portion of
the Empire State.
Mrs. J. E. Blackburn, who disap-
peared from Houston and the home of
her husband on February 28, and who
was supposed to have gone to New
Orleans, was discovered in the Sealey
hospital at Galveston a few days since,
where she is a patient, rapidly recov-
ering from a very serious illness. Her
husband was at once notified.
After a week's repose beneath the
murky waters of Galveston bay, the
bodies of Richard Klaus and August
Hammer floated to the surface and
were found by Captain Linderman and
V. W. Plummer of the sloop Dido, a
short time since. The faces of the
corpses were horribly disfigured by
; crabs.
Rosida Gonzales, a Mexican, has
j been arrested at Hillsboro charged
with outraging his stepdaughter, Nora
Simmons. She is only 12 years old.
Rained Forty Days.
The rained that produced the flood
fell for forty days and forty nights,
and after it ceased it was forty days
before Noah opened the ark. Moses
was forty days on the mountain fast-
ing, and the spies ^pent forty days
investigating matters in Canaan be-
fore making their report. Elijah
fasted forty days in the wilderness,
and Jonah gave the people of Nineveh
forty days in which to repent. The
forty days' fast of Jesus is known to
all readers of the New Testament.
An Irish Elk.
The remains of an immense deer
were discovered recently near Punta
Kassa, Fla., in a swamp known as
Monroe's cypress swamp. Ii is said
to resemble the well-known prehis-
toric Irish elk, and is the only speci-
men of that kind ever found in this
country. The antlers, which are in a
perfect state preservation, measure
8 feet and 11 inches from tip to tip.
A murderer in Alabama fled the
scene of his crime. Soon after, a
man of the same name and appear-
ance, including a peculiar scar, was
positively identified as the murderer,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
Before the fatal day ample evidence
was furnished proving that he was at
work in Tennessee at the time of the
murder.
A New Fuel.
The Buenos Ayres Great Southern
railroad has made some successful
trials of petroleum as a fuel for its
locomotives. The intention is to sub-
stitute petroleum for coal on this line
in order to avoid the danger of setting
fire to the pampas by sparks.
The wife of Gonzales died a few days
ago. He waived examination and was
committed to await the action of the
grand jury.
A horse show was Iield at Corsi-
cana few days ago. In the procession
of stallions and jacks which passed
through the principal streets there
were between 50 and 100 fine animals
of different breeds, some of them as
fine as could be found in the state of
Texas.
At Sherman recently, a little girl,
the daughter of a family of movers
from Kaufman to the Indian territory,
fell from a wagon and one heavy
wheel passed over her head. The
pressure was on the base of the skull
and it withstood the weight.
J. F. Bratton and wife, living on a
farm near Bonnam, went away from
home recently, leaving two small chil-
dren alone in the house. During the,ir
absence the house caught on fire and
the youngest child, a boy 18 months
old, was burned to death.
Judge Barrett in the habeas corpus
case of Mrs. Mattie Harris, charged
with the murder of Jack Stallings in
Bowie last October, released the ac-
cused. The testimony tended to
show that she was in Wichita the
night of the killing.
James K. Strattan, one of the most
wanted criminals of the United States,
and who made his escape from the
Canon .Cit.ji, Col-, J"IC
September, is now in the penitentiary
at Huntsville for having blown a safe
at Georgetown.
At Kyle, Hays county, recently, as
C. G. Tietze, a merchant, was prepar-
ing to close up for the night, some
one entered and shot him through the
heart, killing him instantly. Two
Mexicans have been arrested on sus-
picion.
A short time ago in the Brazos bot-
tom, near Caldwell, in Burleson
county, Jim Robinson shot and killed
his 19-j?ear-old son. The boy made
war on the father with a pistol. The
father was released on a $500 bond.
Prof. Hill, a snake charmer, was
bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake at
Hillsboro recently. One of the fangs
broke aff in an artery, and though
medical assistance was called in, he
I is in a precarious condition.
At El Paso Sadie Dugger, wife oi a
Southern Pacific railroad brakeman,
committed suicide recently by taking
morphine. She had been deserted by
her husband and mother, and de-
spondency was the cause.
One thousand dollars in confeder-
ate bonds were among the relics
placed in the corner stone of the Goli-
ad county court house. They were
purchased at Chattanooga during the
war by J. T. Southwell.
The opera house at Hubbard City
was unroofed by a wind storm a few
nights since. A stock of goods in the
lower rooms of the building belonging
to E. F. Seer was damaged to the ex-
tent of $1000.
Two thousand four hundred and
forty acres of land adjoining Beeville,
Bee county, were sold recently for
$40,000. The land will be cut up into
small traots and sold to actual settlers.
Bob Burch, the blacksmith on a
dredge boat at Galveston recently fell
overboard between Red Fish and Half
Moon and was drowned. Burch was
an Englishman about 40 years old.
A large number of improvements
are reported in progress at Christian,
Palo Pinto county. Many new dwell-
ings have been erected and several
new farms have been cleared.
John Noels, who was tried at Tyler
last fall on the charge of "doctering"
a time check and acquitted, has been
jailed again on the same charge as
found by the grand jury.
J. L. Swink died at Richland, Na-
varro county, of hydrophobia. Mr.
Swink, four of his children and a
nephew were bitten at the same time
by a rabid dog.
Wolves are numerous in the east-
ern part of Denton county, and their
depredations are causing farmers
considerable annoyance.
In Polk county 169 chattV mort-
gages have been recorded since Jan-
uary 1, 1894, against 157 for the same
period last year.
The 15-year-old son of Andy Ward,
colored, of Bellville, ran a splinter
into his foot and died of lockjaw a
few days later.
Dan Adams, a well known colored
man, fell dead from heart disease
during church services at Palestine a
few nights since.
Burglars secured $75 worth of mer-
chandise from the store of E. Cole-
man, at Shriner, Lavaca county, the
other night.
Fifty acres of watermelons and
twenty acres of nutmeg melons will be
planted at WTebster, Wood county,
this season.
Two thousand dollars have been
subscribed toward the building of an
oil mill at Blooming Grove, Navarro
county.
Levi Williams and Miss T. A. Prew-
itt were recently married on the pub-
lic square at Burnett sitting in a
buggy,
At Houston some of the more fas-
tidious partakers in the numerous
liquids call the bartenders "mixolo-
gists."
J. G. Blair, a farmer residing in the
western part of Gonzales county, was
found dead in his field one day re-
cently.
Two mules afflicted with glanders,
the property of J. H. Caton of Caton,
Lamar county, were killed recently.
San Jacinto day, April 21st, will bo
celebrated in seyeral places in the
state and should be in every town.
During the month of February 785
vehicles passed over the county bridge
across the bay at Galveston.
A boy at Colmesneil, Tyler county,
ate crow poison through mistake for
wild onions. He recovered.
Mr. Sol Wesiow, a Houston lawj^er,
accidentally shot himself a few nights
ago. He may not recover.
The court house at Hempstead is to
have a clock in the tower and be sur-
rounded by an iron fence.
■ Hon. W. L. McGaughey writes a
letter announcing his permanent re-
tirement from politics.
At Lampasas the sanity or insanity
of Hamlet was recently discussed by
the Shakespeare club.
The Aransas county cabbage crop
is a failure and farmers will replant
their land in cotton.
A New England Miracle.
A RAILROAD ENGINEER RELATES
HIS EXPERIENCE.
near
shot-
Ro^ert^|||j^^whi^^ hunting
Nearly $10,000 was raised in one
day recently at Corsicana to build a
Methodist church.
It is likely Ballinger will order an
election to vote on the dissolution of
its incorporation.
A cotton gin and grist mill, also a
saw mill are to be erected at Angleton,
Brazoria county.
The farmers of Cameron county are
generally replanting their crops ol
corn and beans.
Mrs. J. T. Stalwart of San Antonio
recently fell down stairs and was seri-
ously injured.
Nine barrels of catfish were shipped
a few days ago from Victoria to east-
ern markets.
Thousands of crows are devastating
the oat fields in the Brazos bottom in
Falls county.
Work has commenced on the wa-
gon bridge across the Colorado river
at Wharton.
The Velasco Ferry company will
operate a ferry between Surf Side and
Quintana.
Seventy idle men left San Antonio
in one day recently in search of em-
ployment.
The contract has been let for the
building of a Catholic church at Port
Lavaca.
A burglary is reported at Marlin.
Ready made clothing was all that was
taken.
A factory for the manufacture o!
lignite will be established at San An-
tonio.
A project is on foot at Panhandle,
Carson county, to establish a cream-
ery.
The Methodists at Mineral Well!
have lot the contract for a new church
The sheriff of Wharton county,
Covey M. Hughes, is but 24 years old.
Good rock for building purposes has
been found two miles from Pearsall.
At Denton a number of fine Ken-
tucky horses have just been received,
A valuable vein of coal has beeii
discovered near Bigfoot, Frio county
The Salvation Army at Dallas re
cently swore in fifteen new recruits
A new Christian church will b<
built atWinsboro, Wood county.
There is some talk of inaugurating
a county fair at Denton this fall.
A Baptist church has been orgaa
ized at Phair, Brazoria county.
The Wonderful Story Told by Fred C»
Vose and His Mother-in-Law to a
Reporter of the Boston Herald.
Both are Restored After
Years of Agony.
[From the Boston Herald.]
The vast health-giving results al-
ready attributed by the newspapers
throughout this country and Canada
to Dr. Williams' "Pink Pills for Pale
People" have been recently supple-
mented by the cases of two confirmed
invalids in one household in a New
England town. The names of these
people are Fred C. Yose, his wife and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Oliver C.
Holt, of Peterboro, members of the
same household.
To the Herald reporter who was
sent to investigate his remarkable
cure Mr. Vose said: "I am 37 years
old, and have been railroading for
the Fitchburg for 15 years. ' binee
boyhood I have been troubled with a
weak stomach. For the past 7 years
I have suffered terribly and con-
stantly. My stomach would not re-
tain food; my head ached constantly
and was so dizzy I could scarcely
stand; my eyes were blurred; I had a
bad heartburn, and my ' breath was
offensive. I had physicians, but they
failed to help me. My appetite gave
out, and four years ago 1 developed
palpitation of the heart, which seri-
ously affected my breathing. Had
terrible pains in my back and had to
make water many times a day. I
finally developed rheumatic signs and
couldn't sleep nights. If I lay down
my heart would go pit-a-pat at a
great rate, and many nights I did not
close my eyes at all. I was broken
down in body and discouraged in
spirit, when some time in February
last, I got a couple of boxes of Dr.
William's Pink Pills. Before I had
finished the first box I noticed that
the palpitation of my heart, which
had bothered me so that I couldn't
breathe at times, beg-en to improve.
I saw that in going to my home on
the hill from the depot, which was
previously an awful task, my heart
did not beat so violently and I had
more breath when I reached the house.
After the second and third boxes
I grew better in every other respect.
My stomach became stronger, the
gas belching was not sd bad, my ap-
petite and digestion improved, and
my sleep became nearly natural and
undisturbed. I have continued tak-
ing the pills three times a day ever
since last March, and to-day I am
feeling better than at anv t1'_ flur'
ing the'iast/ eight years, "i cST
dently aild conscientiously say thatj
they have done me more good, and
their good effects are more perma-
nent, than any medicine I have ever
taken. My rheumatic pains in legs
and Hands are aft gone. The pains in
the small of ig.y ]?ack, whiph were so
bad at times that I couldn't stand up
straight, have nearly all vanished^
and I find my kidneys are well regu-
lated by them. This is an effect not
claimed for the pills in the circular,
but in my case they brought it about.
I am feeling 100 per cent, better in
every shape and manner."
The reporter next saw Mrs. Holt,
who said: "I am 57 years old, and
for 14 years past I have had an inter-
mittent heart trouble. Three years
ago I had nervous prostration, by
which my heart trouble was increased
so badly that I had to lie down most
of the time. My stomach also gave
out, and I had continual and intense
pain from the back of my nack to tho
end of my backbone. In 14 weeks I
spent $300 for doctor bills and medi-
icines, but my health continued so
miserable that I gave up doctoring
in despair. I began to tako Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills last winter, and the
first box made me feel ever so much
better. I have taken the pills
since February, with the jesult of
stopping entirely the pain in the spine
and in the region of the liver. My
stomach is again normal and the pal-
pitation of the heart has troubled me
but three times since I commenced
the pills."
An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills shows that they contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements nec-
essary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing spe-
cific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma-
tism, nervous headache, the after
eli'ect of la grippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions,
all forms of weakness, either in male
or female, and all diseases resultiug"
from vitiated humors in the blood.
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or
will be sent post paid on receipt of
price. (50 cents a box, or six boxes for
!:2.o0—they are never sold in bulk or
by the lUOj by addressing Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N.
Y., or Lroekville, Ont.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1894, newspaper, March 23, 1894; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth409930/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.