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:he fErr fhetl STEAMER PORTLAND TCKED.
FRANK EZZELL, Proprietor.
FERR[S. :: : : TEXAS. ,
ALL. OVER TIHE STATE. A Great Number of Her Passengers andW. L. Blake, near Bonham, lost his
barn by fire.The residence of Jim Harris, at
Moody, with contents, was destroyed
by fire.The Italian bark Razeto, which put
into Galveston In distress, has been
condemned.C. A. Langford, the first white child
born at Greenville, celebrated his
forty-fifth birthday on the 21st.
The residence of Weston Weatherby,
four miles south of Bonham, was destroyed
by fire.Several prisoners in jail at Calvert
made their escape. The lock to the
cell was sawed off the door.
D. L. Byrd's residence at Jacksonville
burned. Loss $1000; no, insurance.Preparations for the inaugural ball
at Austin have commenced. It promises
to be a most elaborate affair.
John Kallen, a Bohemian farmer residing
near Elingu, Fayette county,
aged 72 years, dropped dead.Jesus Salazar,' a Mexican tamale
vender, was shot and killed at Palestine.
Ex-Policeman Gus Moore was
placed under arrest.
The tax roll of Cameron county was
received by the comptroller. The total
valuation is $3,218,919, a decrease
of $143,192 under last year.A young man named J. Hale was
going through Jonesboro, a suburb of
Greenville,when he was struck by some
one on the head with a hatchet an'
seriously hurt.The dwelling of Dr. W. H. Cain was
enirely destroyed by fire at Calvert.
Loss estimated at $2500; partially
covered by insurance.
H. Raymond's jewelry store at Calvert
was robbed of a tray of gold
watches valued at several hundred dollars.
There were twelve of the timekeepers.C. Propet, a brakeman on the Texas
ai-a,, 'and Pacific railway, fell from a train
s:;{ ,\ tke ' suburbs of Bonham, and two
'''-'-'' ...."' ' : '" ears passed over his left leg, necessitating
amputation.
The San Antonio and Aransas Pass
Railway company paid the comptroller
$911.27 on $91,126.93 of passenger earnings
for the quarter ending Sept. 30.
The wife of Joe Hillburn, living near
Kilgore, was badly burned. She was
washing clothes and her wearing apparel
caught fire.A residence on Mr. Joe Long's farm,
about three miles east from Crockett,
was, destroyed by fire. The house was
occupied by Mr. Tom Blaylock. Long's
loss is $1000. Blaylock lost his furniture.
There was no insurance.The elegant residence of J. W.
Spangenburg, at Brownwood, burned
during the absence of the family. The
building and furniture were insured
for $5000; value of pr.~Lerty $7000.
The total clearings of the Fort
Worth national banks for September,
1898, show $5,691,3D5.74, for last month
$7,926,667.30. The increase for October
was $1,150,000 over the same month
one year ago.Mrs. Emma F. Thompson of Hamilton
county, a farmer, stock raiser and
the owner of a pecan orchard ot 2000
improved trees, was at Waco and remarked
that she was trying to interest
moneyed men in establishing a pecan
elevator at some point convenient to
the western counties.
Capt. Robert H. Patterson of the
United States artillery has been appointed
chief mustering officer for the
state of Texas after Dec. 1. Lieut.
Clough Overton, first cavalry, will assist
him as acting quartermaster, acting
commissary of subsistence and
acting ordnance officer.The Texas Southern, formerly the
Paris, Marshall and Sabine Pass railway,
has just received a new engine
and sufficient rails to extend the road
over three miles, the road at present
being twenty miles in length and running
out of Marshall in a northwesterly
direction.The cotton burned on the two Katy
fiat cars at Gainesville belonged to the
-i.:::,. following parties: Fifty-two bales to
Nelms & Smith, Gainesville; fiftythree
bales to C. ,T. Rountree, Sher:'
;;'..' - w man. 'The cotton being in the cus-;/i^-":/
. -.: ' tody of t!` Missouri, Kansas and Tex.
i,"' ", -. :. , a.s railway, had on it the accustomed
? . .:. eompa insure ce . ' . . '
:.: i1 ,- .] of. real estte AdealersMIore Particulars,
Boston, Mass., Nov. 30.-The steamer
Portland of the Boston and Portland
line has been lost on Cape Cod
with all on board, The life-saving
men, through a blinding storm Sunday
morning at 6 o'clock heard the distress
whistle of a steamer and Monday
night at' midnight the body of a
man was found on shore. On the body
of the man was a life belt marked
"Steamer Portland of Portland.".
A gold watch in his pocket had stopped
at 10 o'clock. This man was well
dressed, wore black clothes and tan
shoes and light hair and mustache, and
a piece of card in his pocket bore the
words: "John W., Congress street,
Portland."
The body of a large woman, without
covering of any kind, was washed
ashore at Pamet river, but there
was no means of identifying it. It is
believed that the steamer Portland
was disabled by the storm of Sunday
night, being unable to longer hold up
against the gale and drifted on Peaked
Hill bars and went to pieces. No part
of the ship has drifted ashore and it
is not known just where she struck.
Boxes of tobacco, clothing, cheese, oil,
etc., have been washed ashore; also
life preservers marked "Steamer Portland."A large quantity of wreckage, including
trunks and other material,
has come ashore and thirty-four bodies
has been recovered from the surf by
the life-saving crew at High Head station.The passenger list numbers fifty-one
and the officers and crew number forty-eight.From reports that have come in by
wire, mail and messenger from New
England points it was difficult to estimate
the total loss of life and damage
to shipping along the coast as the
result, of the recent storm. The list
of disasters seems to grow every hour,
and from dispatches thus far received
it appears that' at least thirty schooners
have been wrecked at different
points from Eastport, Mass., to New
Haven, Conn. Eighty-six schooners
have been driven ashore, and fourteen
barges loaded or empty are aground.
This does not include the thirty vessels
either wholly or partially wrecked
in Boston harbor, nor half a dozen
more craft which are reported missing,
including the Boston and Portland and
North Wilson freighter Ohio, which is
ashore on Spectacle island in this harbor.
When these vessels are added
the aggregate list exceeds 170 vessels.
The loss of life is hard to determine.
It is known that about forty persons
perished in and about Boston harbor.
Reports from other places in some
cases state that the crew of this or
that vessel escaped. Many, however,
state that the fate of the crew is unknown.
Some survivors have turned
up, and life-saving stations and incoming
vessels have brought a few
sailors from the wrecks.
Block island has been heard from for
the first time since the buizzzard began.
The island is a wreck, hotels being
scattered and vessels torn to pieces
by the storm. The entire fishing fleet
of twenty-four vessels is a total loss.
The three-masted schooner Lexington
of Machias, Me., is lost. The Hartford
Dredging company's plant is gone.Planter Assaulted.
Shreveport, La., Nov. 30.-A special
train from Vanceville brought to Dr.
Schumpert's infirmary Mr. Larry
Vance, who, some time Monday night,
was brutally assaulted at his Riverside
plantation, near Benton, La. He
is the youngest son of Mr. Cal Vance,
recently deceased, and had charge of
the plantation. When found yesterday
morning in his room he lay upon
his bed in an unconscious state, his
head crushed by an ax, obtained from
a store near by, and his chin battered.He is fatally injured and his brain
oozes from the crushed skull. The
crime is still a mystery, though robbery
is thought to have been the object,
as he was held in high esteem by
all in the parish who have had dealings,
with him. The closest investigation
will be made.
. An operation developed the fact, that
his jawbone was broken in two places
and little hope is entertained for his
r o . - - ,; S'i X ,' ,Southern Corn Crop.
The Southern Farm Magazine a
Baltimore has compiled from advance
official reports the total production of
corn by states in the south in 1898,
showing a gain,as compared with 1897,
of over 114,000,000 bushels. In the
south the average price of corn runs
from 40 cents to 50 cents or more, as
estimated by the United States agricultural
department. On the basis of
40 cents, this means an increase of
nearly $50,000,000 in the corn crop of
the south as compared with last year.
As gratifying as this remarkable gain
in total production and value of the
crop is, however, it is due mainly to
an increase in the acreage itself.
Compared with 1897, most of the
southern states show a small gain in
acreage, running from 1 per cent in
Georgia to 8 per cent in Texas, though
Maryland, Tennessee and Kentucky
show a decreased acreage of from 2 per
cent to 5 per cent. The gain in the
average yield per acre was very
marked in nearly all the southern
states except in Georgia, in which
there was a decline in the average of
two bushels per acre, thus cutting the
total yield in that state down very
materially. Adjacent states had a considerable
increase in the average
yield.
Compared with 1897 the yield for
1898 shows -a gain in Kentucky of
20,000,000 bushels, West Virginia 3,000,000
bushels, Tennessee 10,000,000
bushels, Arkansas 18,000,000 bushels,
Texas 32,000,000 bushels, Louisiana
6,000,000 bushels, Mississippi 9,000,000
bushels, Alabama 9,000,000 bushels,
Florida 500,000 bushels, South Carolina
2,000,000 bushels, North Carolina 3,000,000
bushels End Virginia 7,000,000
bushels; while Georgia shows a decrease
of 5,50(^000 bushels, and Maryland
4,000,0001 bushels.
Panama Canal.
New York, Nov. 30.-M. Hutin, director
general of the new Panama Canal
company, has come over from Paris
to see whac this government thinks
about the water route between the Atlantic
and the Pacific. He protests
that there is no intention on the part
of the French company to sell the canal
and says that it has only one purpose
in view and that is to cut the big
ditch at once.
When asked if the published reports
that his company wanted to sell out
to the government were true, M. Hutin
said:"Absolutely no. Selling out is the
last thing we should think of. We
want to cut the canal and we are ready
to do it; what is more, we are doing
it. We have kept 1500 to 3000 men
constantly employed in digging the
canal and a force of 3000 is now at
work on the ditch.
"What has been accomplished?
Much. We have actually dug eighteen
miles of the total of forty-six. Of these
vessels are now navigating twelve
miles on the Atlantic and six miles
on the Pacific side. The canal's depth.
is twenty-eight feet, though in some
places it has made bars that would
have to be removed and can be removed
easily. Our company, which is
the successor by purchase of the DeLesseps
company, has in assets, reckoning
as such the machinery and accomplished
work, at least at $75,000,000.
We have gone far enough to
learn that the Panama canal is entirely
practicable and is the shortest,
cheapest and best water route between
the two oceans.
"There were formerly thought to be
two insuperable obstacles-the Chagres
river and the Culebra cut. Both
of these difficulties have disappeared
before engineering scienceI Sevcral Die.
Sinee the explosion in the private
house at Havana, on the Avenue Infanta
between the Santa Clara and
Rein batteries, Avelina Martinez, Nichol
Derio, Arquiles and Carolus
Par and Andres Alvarez, and two
othe , names unknown, have died.
So. e of the injured are progressing
favo bly, but others are still in a crit/ical
'olitior i
. .,,n,,.,.t+:' ' ', '/-.' ' { ' " '::0e. Spain Yield. Malany Lives Lost. . /-'- ' .,
Paris, Nov. 29.-r-Spain has accepted oston, Mass., Nov. 29.-It is knowtt
the United States' offer of $20,000,000, definitely that more than seventy lives
and a. the joint session of the peace in the wrecks of tug
commissioners yesterday afternoon ,
commssiner estcray af schooners and coal barges during the
consented without condition to relin- on Sat urday n ight and Sunda
sfbr~? on Saturday night and Sunday
quish Cuba and to cede Porto Rico.
qGuamishCu a dnd the Philippinesee Pmorning, and if the steamer Portland
Guam and the Philippines.
The document presenting this ac- has also gone down, as now seems posceptance
contained only 300 words. It sible, the list of casualties will rise to
opened with a reference to the final 140, with over 100 vessels of all determs
of the United tSates, and said scriptions ashore, two score of them
that the Spanish commissioners, hav- total wrecks, and an unknown number
ing taken cognizance of the terms pro- beneath the waves of Massachusetts
posed by the Americans, replied that bay.
the government had tried to give as There is scarcely a bay, harbor or
equitable an answer as possible, but inlet from the Penobscot to New Lonthat
they were not prepared to commit don that has not on its shores the
their government to the acceptance of bones of some stanch craft, while along
the principles embodied in the Ameri- Massachusetts bay, and especially Boscan
argument. "Spain rejects these ton harbor, the beaches are piled high
principles," the note continues, "as with the wreckage of schooners and
she has always rejected them." coal barges. The record, although
Basing her attitude upon the justice hourly lengthening, is still incomplete,
of her cause, the note then says she for the well-known ocean graveyard
still adheres to the principles "which of Cape Cod is still to be heard from.
she has heretofore invariably formu- The annoyance and inconvenience of
lated." However, the note adds, in the railroad and street car embargo,
her desire for peace she has gone so far coveing the whole southern portion of
as to propose certain compromises, New England, sank into insignificance
-which the Americans have always re- before the story of destruction wrought
*jected. She has also attempted, it is by wind and wave, yet it will be many
further asserted, to have submitted to days before the full import of the disarbitration
some of the material par- aster is known, or even realized.
ticulars upon which the two govern- The islands of Boston harbor are,
ments differed. These proposals for without exception, strewn with wrecks
arbitration, it is added, the Americans and wreckage, no less than twentyhad
equally rejected. These allega- nine vessels being ashore at Gloucestions
in Spain's reply as to attempted ter, over twenty in the supposed safe
arbitration refer to her proposal to ar- harbor of Vineyard Haven parted their
bitrate the construction of the third anchor chains yesterday and are high
article of the protocol, and also to sub- and dry on the beach; Nantasket beach
mit the Spanish colonial debt of Cuba saw two schooners and a coal barge
and the Philippines to arbitration. dashed to pieces on its sands; the
The last proposition has been made in rocks of Cohasset claimed a stanch
a written communication. Since its fisherman; Scituate, a well-known pipresentation,
and in return for such lot boat; Manchester, a down-east
arbitration, Spain offered to cede the lumberman, while one tug and three
territory in dispute. The Americans barges, known to have been between
refused both propositions for arbitra- Cape Cod and Boston, are unaccounttion.
Spain's reply yesterday in sub- ed for and are probably lost. The
stance. continued by declaring that the upper harbors of Boston Plymouth
United States has offered, as a kind of Salem Portsmouth, Portland and other
compensation to Spain, something very places, w here vessels were supposed to
inadequate to the sacrifices the latter
be comparatively safe, were the scenes
country makes at this moment, and she of numerous collisions between the
, , - , .of numerous collisions between the
feels therefore that the Philippines ships and the wharves.
proposition can not be considered just and the wharves.
and equitable.
Spain has, however, exhausted all the New Enterprises.
resources of diplomacy in an attempt Baltimore, Md., Nov. 29.-The most
to justify her attitude. Seeing that important industrial announcements o1
an acceptance of the proposal made to the last week, as reported by the ManSpain
is a necessary condition to the ufacturers' Record, were: A $50,000
continuance of negotiations, and seeing coal mining company in Alabama;
that the resources of Spain are not $10,000l-h uber com0an_3bar'efli1'
such as to enable her to re-enter upon mill, 60-barrel flour mill andy- W 4
war, she is prepared in her desire to water works in Arkansas; $1,000,000
avoid bloodshed, and from considera- slate quarrying company and $15,000
tions of humanity and patriotism, to electric light plant in Georgia; 50submit
to the conditions of the con- barrel flour mill in Kentucky; $100,000
quering nation, however harsh they trading company and $1,500,000 sugar
may be. She is, therefore, ready to mill company in Louisiana; $150,000
accept the appeals of the American manufacturing company and $100,000
commission, as presented in the last glass factory in Maryland; $20,500 cotsitting.
ton mill company, $185,000 iron com'The
reading and translation of the pany, 75-barrel flour mill and $50,000
document occupied less than five min- furniture company in North Carolina;
utes. At the conclusion of fhe trans- $1,000,000 cotton compressing company,
lation the commissioners empowered $10,000 electric light plant, 40-barrel
Senor Ojeda, secretary of the Spanish flour mill and $35,000 boiler company
commission, and Secretary Moore of in Tennessee; $25,000 lumber comthe
American commission, to draw up pany, $50,000 acetylene gas company,,
articles which are to embody the re- 100-ton cotton seed oil mill and $250,linquishment
of Cuba by Spain and the 000 construction company in Texas;
cession by Spain of Porto Rico and the $75,000 woolen mill company and 50Philippines.
barrel flour mill in Virginia; $50,000
mining company and $15,000 ice' facHavana
Explosion. tory in West Virginia.A box of powder exploded at Havana
In the Reina battery, killing or injuring
many persons.
The explosion occurred on the Avenue
Infanta, between the Santa Clara
and Reina's batteries. Many boxes of
powder were stored in a private house
Which also contained five rooms full of
Mauser and other cartridges. The
careless handling of one of the boxes
of powder, or one of the boxes of cartridges,
caused the explosion which
killed or more or less seriously injured
thirty-eight persons.
Nobody was killed outright by the
explosion, but three of the injured died
and the condition of most of the others
are more or less critical, At least
fifteen are not expected to live.The president will recommend in his
annual message the enlistment of
15,000 Cubans in the new army.Bankruptcy Petition.
New York, Nov. 29.-The firm of
Hoadley & Co., commission merchants,
who recently made a general assignment,
filed a voluntary petition inbankruptcy
yesterday. The liabilities
to secured creditors amount to $42,855,
to unsecured creditors $378,068, of
which $250,000 is due to Hoadley'& Co.
on accounts in liquidation; liabilities
on notes and bill} $44,872, aecommodttion
paper $662,464. The/ a dsBti given.
I '7. !.::..; :.: .. : e .IMuch Bitterness.
Madrid, Nov. 29.-The city yesterday
evening was calm. There have been
no disturbances resulting from the announcement
of Spain's acceptance.,of
the terms of the Americans. Tlfe'papers,
however, publish gloomy articleS,
sadly reminding the country that they
day is one long to be remembered as'@.'
marking the closing scene of a glor0 :
ions colonial history. .idi
All agree that the government has;h`
adopted the only possible policy,
.though much bitterness is displayed'!
toward the United States.
X .i/.sTo be Executed.
Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 29.-Priva
Lindsay, troop F, tenth cavalry, *w
yesterday sentenced to be executed
a result of his trial by court-martiaLWas Successful.
Special dispatches from Simla,., :
summer capital of British India,'
that the mad mullah has been suceO
ful in his first fight, defeating-tlh{l?
tribesmen and killing ]a:ile
them. . The nawab of Dir: h i
army against the 'iiullaH'1. i
ish native, frontier Utoop
yard he, SwatV4to ai
Crew and Perhaps All Lost in the
Recent Fearful Storm.
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 13, Saturday, December 3, 1898, newspaper, December 3, 1898; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46792/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ferris Public Library.