The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1887 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TELEPHONE.
W. & FOHTIR. Editor aad Ptnop'r.
CAKTOIV. Vu Zandi Oo., TEXAS
PITH AND POINT.
The stay that Jacob Sharp should gn
Is a long stay in Sing Sing.—Bewail
Sews.
Tha cream o( tha base-ball clul
should bn found in tho pitcher.—Sus>i
ville American.
Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Gould havi
dipped the first coupon from the bomb
of matrimony.—Low ell Courier.
Tho btihl-hoaded niun is just ns wol
satmtiod with a back sent ns with u
front one—at ohuroh.—Huston Courier.
Uucle Sam’s bird on the Undo dol
lars has only two weeks more in wklel
to come homo to roost.—Boston (Kobe
Tho sad autumn is making a sneak
on us from over tho doughty Tillla, ant.
still we have no cuous. - Gcneteo (IU.)
Seuis.
When tho cowboys get a fair show at
Chief Colorow he will foel us useless at
a last year’s bird's nest.—at. 1'aii
Globe.
When n circus pnstos its hills on t
church it should at least send tho trust-
ees a free ticket.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Columbus made the first entry in at
American sailing regatta. Ho came io,
too. away ahead of the Mayflower.—
Boston Globe.
There are millionaires in Amoiicn
who don’t know that it is wrong to
cheat and commit perjury.—Philadel-
phia Chronicle.
There are lots of crooked whisky in
this country, lint that doesn’t hinder
people from taking it straight.—St.
Joseph Gazette.
There is a movement on foot to re-
duce the length of the dress coat. Many
of them have been worn far too long.—
Baltimore American.
If a rich man doesn't dispense money
in charity ho is called miserly; if hr
does he is accused of doing it for noto
riety. — Texas Sijling.i.
To massacre a train-load of passen-
gers, first bankrupt the road. Cheap
service and cheap excursions will do tlu
rest.—Buffalo Express.
The rate of interest which some
young men fuel in a girl is proportioned
to the fortune that she lias to rate in-
terest on. — Texas Siftings.
The American colony in Canada
seems to be growing unusually rapid-
ly. Why not put a three-mile limit (oi
cashiers. — Albany Journal.
A Philadelphia writer thinks all en-
gine-drivers ought to have telescopes.
A good many have had thorn already.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Santa Fe road is gutting rid o!
old ties. The Chicago husband and
wife are laborously engaged in the same
business.—Teona Transcript.
The man who loft home to spend the
summer with his family has just return,
ed. Tho slimmer is not yet spent, but
his money is.—Lowell Citizen.
Tho man who winked at n federal
juror in this city will be taught, Intel
on, that justice does not run a soda
water fountain.—Alta California.
This country’s industry needs no
more coddling. As Dow, jr., remark-
ed: “It is a poor holly that can’t warm
it's own pie.’’—Philadelphia Record.
A man must fuel cheap when he
linds he has sold h mself for an ofllec
that does not pay ami oilers no chance
for stealing. — Sew Orleans Picayune.
“Well, Mary, how do you like youi
new place ?” “I can't, tell yet positive-
ly; you know the lirst day the ladies
are always politeness itself.” —Fliegeno
Blatter.
The great jewelry failure in Chicago
was not unexpected. The Chicago
hotel olerks have for somu time been
importing their diamonds.—Louismllt
Courier-Journal.
A number of people in England and
America want to know all about the
seizure of sailing vessels in Itubring
sea. Well, don’t Alaska at once. — In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
Jake Sharp has hadjii stay of pro-
ceedings. But ho doesn't deservo it.
He never stayed Ids own proceedings
—his boodling proceedings—for any-
body until his arrost compelled him to
do so. — Chicago Times.
“Strawberrios in San Francisco every
month but January,” says a Chicago
exchange. Yes, and so much crcaiu
in Junuary that we just cat it on our
climate, ami don’t iniss the berries.
Do you hear f—San Francisco Alta.
Bald-Headed ness.
There is much wearisome and need-
less discussion about bald-hoadod
American men. Wash your head thor-
oughly once a week with a lather of
soap and water, rinso all the soap out,
and rub tho scalp lively till It is entirely
dry. Never wear an unventilated lint,
or any hat at all whon you can avoid it.
Wear a straw hat, instead of felt,
whenever possible. Give your scalp
plenty of sunlight, also plenty of air.
Don’t smoke too much. Follow these
direct ons, and you nover will be bald-
headed. Even if your hair lias boguu
to get thin, it will revive. Canadians
aro bald because they wear fur caps.
It is the wearing of hot atul uuaturnl
hcad-covorings that makes tho hair fall
out If a quite batd man should go
bareheaded in tho sun and air a year,
it is likely that his liair would comn in
again, and ho would never take cold.
Remember this: Nature ment your Imir
to keep your hern! warm, not for caps
or felt hats. Felt lints and silk lints
are an abomination. These aro the
wretches that make American men bald
headed. It is not their mighty intellects
or their excessively tine nervous ays
terns. If you render the hair superfluous
bv making hats do its duty for it, naturt
takes it away: she will not tolcp»tt
senseless things.
•lay Clou let’s "income 'is estimated at
W,!WO per day. According to statiatics
the whole Income of the population of
tbe country If equally divided would
amount tow) cent* per capita for every
man, woman and child. Mr. Gould rep
re Mints the dally Income of 9,000.
Cotton worms have appeared very
■ generally throughout the counties of
I south Alabama, and will do groat dam-
age to tbe late cotton.
I DritiNo the past twenty years the
' Washington Squaro Methodist Kplaco-
pal Sunday school in New York has
contributed 940,803 to missions.
It is nnnouncod from Fort Smith,
Ark., that two of tho belles of tho city
are to aut as •’sponsors” for tho base-
ball teams that will play there shortly.
New York boatmen made heaps of
money last Sunday by rowing people
around the Thistle ns she lay at anchor
oil’ Thompsonville, StuSun island, at 73
cents a person.
Ttte smallest mnu in Tennessee is
Daniel llnnco, of Madison county, who,
nlthough 37 years old, is not 3 feet
high und weighs enly 70 pounds. It is
said ho haa a voice like a fog horn.
A citizen of Newburgh, N. Y.,
has trnvelod up and down the Hudson
for twenty-seven years daily, except
Sunday. In that time lie has aecom-
plishml a distance of 400,000 miles.
Mils. Lancthy is building a cottage
oil the shores of Lake Tahoe, Califor-
nia. Tahoe is one of tho most beauti-
ful sheets of water in existence. It is
0,200 teot above the level of the sea.
Northern Montana cattlemen are
much frightened over reported soizures
by Canadian authorities of American
cattle that "step across an Imaginary
tine to drink tho waters of Milk river.’’
A ritlF.NU of Mr. Morosini said tho
other day that Mrs. Morosini-Schelling-
llulskamp is now in a convent in Italy,
und will not return until tho memory
of her escapade shall have grown dim.
It scorns to liuve reoontly been dis-
covered that three-fifths of the horses
aro bow-legged or pigeon-toed. In
Now York fifty three differently shaped
horseshoes are required to lit the hoofs
of the horses.
Camp-Meeting: John Allen was
once chaplain of thu Maine legislature,
and one day prayed that thu legislators
might he enabled to “condense their
deliberations and slop when they bad
got through."
Miss Caw-horn, of Carroll county,
Tounossoe. never learned to walk, and
has to be carried about like a baby.
She weighs 160 pounds. She is not
lame, Imt simply docs not kuowhow to
use her lower limbs.
A mu yoke of oxen is on exhibition
at the Eastern Maine fair. They
measure ten feet in girth and weigh
seven thousand pounds. It cost $1,000
to raiso them up to their groat weight,
and it was done in Vermont.
The coins of tho German empire
may be used also as weights. A
pfennig piece weighs exactly two
grams; so does a gold 5-mark piece.
A nickel 10-pfennig and a 10-tuark gold
piece weigh each four grams.
Claims amounting to $20,000 have
boon brought against tho city govern-
ment of New Haven, Cjiiil, by per-
sons injured by failing on icy pave-
ments last winter, and tho slender ap-
propriation has dwindled down to $275-
Shippers of steamships lately arriv-
ed from Europe report that their voy-
ages were stormy from port to port.
Tito wind blew groat guns all the way
across, according to the log of the
Allor, in on Saturday. “In fact.” said
tho Aller’s skipper, "it was a wintry
passage.”_____
Late calculations from compared
observations show that Alcyone—Mint
one of tho 1’leiades around which the
sun and the whole solar system woro
oneo thought to revolvo—Is about 954,
000,000,000.000-iu les from us. a dis-
tance that it .would take light about
163 years to travel.
For tho benefit of those who do not
know the m ’.ailing of a snooze the fol-
lowing is quoted from a pamphlet ro.
cently issue 1 by a German scientist,
Hu says a sneeze is but "an affection of
the reap ratorv nervous center, the af-
ferent trapulso of which is conveyed by
tho trigeminal nerve libers.
Mrs. Alfred G. Sheldon, of New
Haven, has a Yale diploma ijatud 1764.
It was in that year issued to her great
grandfather, Hezokiuli Ripley, and
hoars; the name of President Thomas
Clap and Rov. Messrs. Benjamin Lord,
Thomas Rugglos, Elnathan Whitman,
ami Moses Dickinson, members of tho
college corporation. There were twon-
tv-eiglit members in thu class of 1764.
and Mr. Ripley, who died in 1836. was
tho last survivor.
S. V. French, tho New York city
politician made a queer catch at Mon-
tank bay the other day. What lie
hauled up was a long black lish that
weighed over four pounds. The peculi-
arity aiiout it was that its head wns flat
and corrugated like the sole of a tenni:
shoe. It proved to be a specimen ol
the “remora." By means of this flat
head it dabs itself against tho side of
a shark or other large flsli and sticks
there, amt tints m ikes Its voyages int<
the deep waters.
THE MATAMOROS STORM.
Immense Destruction to Property—Deb-
ris from Ruined Houses Piled In ell
Imaginable Shapes—Straits ef
the Sufferers.
Matamoros, Mex., Sept. 93—Thurs-
day night a terrible storm raged here in
;ts destructive fury The water in tbe
street waa from kuee to middle deep,and
tbe debris su piled in all imaginable
shapes throughout tho city. Many of
the houses collapsed and all of them are
somewhat damaged. Home old brick
edifices were leveled with the ground,
and many of the frame one* carried bodl-
y yards away. Bcveral now houaes and
many In progress of construction sue-
ciiinhcd to the force of the wind and
tumbled down. Tin roofs were nicely
tolled off as if by band, and hurled to
other parta Nearly all the buildings
now standing are saturated from root to
AUSTIN NOTE
Austin, Tei., Sept 85.—The -charter
of the Natlonel Union Alliance of Old-
dlnge was filed Friday. Also charter of
the Corticena Manufacturing and Bolt
ing Company, capital 150,000.
Gov. Roea Friday pardoned J. T. At-
kinson, convicted of aggravated assault
In Nacogdoches county and sentenced
to one yeer'e imprisonment end a fine ol
6350. The pardon which was handed
to Mr. J. H. Matthews of the Nacog
doches Star and News, remits the im-
prisonment on payment of tbe fine and
costs. Tho pardon waa recommended
by the court officers and numerous clt
leans.
One of the firm of Bell Bros , saloon-
lata, on Pecan street, was arrested Fri-
day, charged with keeping screens in
their saloon, prohibited by the now law
They propose to make a test case.
John Ensall, arrested as one of the
cellar. Fences are a thing of the past, j three parties campod near . MumlhaC8,
none stnnding, and no vestige of their
whereabouts is known. The residents
were huddled together in groups in their
respective domicile* and elsewhere, ele
vated above two feet ot more of water In
their houses. The good and daring
people of the town ventured to rescuo
them from their plight at the risk of
their own lives, and all were saved and
properly cared for. In the lagoon dis-
trict houses aro entirely under water,
and the inhabitants of many of them are
waiting riaticutly for it to subside.
The troops and polico, under the mili-
tary director of the district, were ordered
out with the medical fraternity to assist
lie unfortunates. Every vehicle in town
was used to this end. Even tho mayor
and other distinguished gentlemen gave
a helping hand, and to their credit; they
deserve tho worthy support of the wholo
community. Young girls, and mothers
wiili intents in their arms, were com-
pelled to lice in tho face of the hurricane
to plAcca of safety some blocks away.
Those of the unfortunates who have lost
their all are now rofugecs in the public
chool building and other places, being
given aid by their friends and acquain
tnnees. A more destitute condition
could not bo witnessed, and a speedier
support could not be administered than
lias been presented to the eye of tho cor-
respondent. who prowled the street with
due care for self and pity for thoso he
witnessed in their humiliation during
the worst storm that lias infested these
parts for years. The M. and M. Rail-
way tins lost property in station build-
ings, and part of its track has been swept
away. It is now clear and a gentle south
wind is blowing. From information
from points surrounding the citios of
Brownsville and Matamoroa it Is esti-
mated that tho loss will figure up fur
beyond *1,000,000.
and supposed to be one of the McNIel
train robbers, was held upon a charge of
horse theft in Kendall county in doinult
of hail, and the strain robbery charge li
yet to he investigated.
BRIDGE REPAIRED.
Wichita Falls, Tex., Hept. 25,—The
bridge across Pease river has been re
paired and trains are crossing. Cattle
shipments, which have been delayed on
account of the bridge, sre now making
up for lost time. A double-headed train
wont out for Chicago Wednesday even-
ing. There are some 6000 head of cattle
from Quanah, 4000 from Vernon and
8000 from llarrold to pass through iu a
duy or so.
A norther struck the town Friday
night and some rain fell.
The prniries are made green by the
recent rains and cattle will be in a bet
ter tlx for winter.
ANOTHER SUSPECT.
Weatherford, Tex., Sept. 85.—Fri-
day evening Mr. Sisk, sheriff, returned,
together with Thos. Gerrin, doputy
United States marshal, having in charge
Hnrve Arnold, charged with being im
plicated in the first BenBrook train rob-
bery and the train robbery on the Fort
Worth and Denver railroad last summor.
The officers arc reticent about the affair,
but Mr. Hisk says that ho thinks tbe
proof is sufficient to convict him.
MESQUITE MATTERS.
Mesquite, Tex., Sept. 25.—Mesquite
now bus a telephone.
14. 8. Kimbrough and J. M. Gross
shipped 200 hales of cotton Thursday,
and larger shipments will soon follow
The Alliance yard haa 150 bales ready
for the market.
Mesquite also has a daily hack line to
the city, which is a great accommoda-
tion to the people on account of the fact
that the trains run very inconveniently.
To do any business in Dallas it takes
eighteen hours to make tho trip.
A movement is on foot to incorporate
Mesquite.
Cotton picking is progressing rapidly,
although recent showers have interfered
to sonic extent.
BOLD BURGLARS.
Plano, Tex., Sept. 25 —The store of
J. B. Jenkins & Co., wus burglarized
Thursday night to the extent of *58 95
worth of Jewelry, consisting of watch
chains, watch charms, cuff buttons and
rings, which wero in a showcase. The
thief or thieves effected an entrance
through a front window and tried to gel
into tho safe, drilling with gome sharp
instrument around the combination lock
but must have been scared off by some-
one passing by on the sidewalk before
they made much headway. An old-
musket was found cocked lying on top
of the safe showing the burglars were
prepared for any ^emergency. No posi
tive clew has yet been found.
PETROLEUM AT PALESTINE
Palestine, Tex., 8ept. 25.—Tho Pe
trolcum Developing Company has shut
down on talking to reporters and arc
keeping extremelvjmum withTefcrenco to
operations. The well commenced three
weeks since reached a depth of 800 feet.
This well has been^pluggcd and tho com
pany is linking a second well on the
same section .of land. It bus been re-
ported that oil was struck in tho first
well,but nothing reliable can be learned.
The indications in the *aecond well are
also kept secret.
To date 571 bales of cotton have boen
received at this point.
FATAL GIN ACCIDENT.
CORSICANA CULLINGS.
Corsicana, Tex., 8opt. 2^—Hon. Ma-
rion Martin, President of the Navarro
County Fair Association, says every-
thing is ticing completed in nice shape
for the grand opening Oct. 4. Tho grand
stand is completed and other buildings
about complete. About seventy-five
stables have been taken for sporting
horses.
The first norther of the season cooled
the atmosphere Friday evening.
The local committee Is in Austin nego
tlating for the location of the State Or -
plian Asylum, with fair prospects of
obtaining It.
Messrs. VV. F. Colquitt and F. M. Me
The ago of sheep may be known by
examining the front teeth. They are
eight in number, and appear during the
first year ; all are small in size. In the
second year the two middle ones fallout,
and their place ia supplied by two new
teeth, which are easily distinguished by
being of a larc size. In the third year
two other small teeth, one from each
side, drop out, and aro replaced by two
larger ones, so that there aro now four
largo tenth in tha middle nnd four point
ed ones on each side. In the fourth year
the large teeth are six in number, and
only two small ones remain, one at each
end of tho ranges. In the fifth year the
remaining small teeth are lost and all of
the front teeth are large. In the sixth
year all begin to bo worn, and in the
seventh, sometimes sooner, some fall
out. It will be seen by the above that
there is no difficulty in telling the ago of
heop, at least tip to the seventh year
BUSINESS MEN MEET.
Victoria, Tex., Sept. 25.—An cntlim
siastic meeting of the business men took
place at the courlhou'e Wodnotday n’ghu
lh« object of the meeting being to <lc vi-c
means for the general prosperity of lin-
town and county, to invite irninlg ati n
and to induce one or more railroads to
build up this place. Several speeche-
were made and committees on Imm'.en
lion, railroads nnd geneml improv' men-!
were appointed. The leading bualnc
men of the city were present, nnd t'-.ov
mean business, especially on the subjec
Ercath have bought the Corsicana Dem-
ocrat office and took possession of the | of securing one or more railroads
paper Friday. Mr. Colquitt is from Da'- ]
las and Mr. M< Erenth is from Greenville, j
GREENVILLE NOTES.
Lewis Hill Took tbe Place of Mr. Chappsl,
Who Had Been Hurt, and Waa
Killed by the Machinery.
Denton, Tex., Sept. 27.—Lewia Hill
bod his arm mangled in a gin at Hill
Town, twelve miles eMt of here Satur-
day and from the effect of the wound
died Sunday night. Hill had charge of
the gio, which belonged to bla father,
Henry Hill, who is a well known citizen
of this county, and to the morning a Mr.
Chappel, who was feeding the gin, got
his hand caught and uiaugled in the glo,
whereupon Hill took Ills place and in a
short time got caught iu the same way,
which terminated in his death, resulting
perhaps from lots of blood and the nerv-
ous shock, as reaction never took place,
although medical aid was at once pro-
cured. Young Hill had a large number
ot friends aud the affair is greatly re-
gretted.
CENTRAL CITY ITEMS.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 27.—John Robinson,
colored, was arrested Saturday night aud
Jniled by Officer Sam Hall, charged with
theft of a watch from Mr. Lyon. He
was offering a watch for sale to an
Austin street merchant whon the arrest
was made.
Manager Thacker, of the Waco Red
Stocking Base Ball club, is in receipt of
a challenge from the Calverts to play a
game for *76. Mr. Thacker will answer
on the return home of his club.
Tho city schools opened yesterday,
with tho exception of the Fourth district
and Central and Grammar High schools.
The new central building on South
Fourth street will probably be occupied
In a few days.
Mr. Joe Kemendo, Saturday night, in
attempting to get off a street car, fell-
an I it is supposed the car wheel ran
over his hand, which Is split entirely
opcu round tiic base of the thumb.
HONEY GROVE.
Honey Grove, Tex., Sept. 27.—The
week has been one of continued bad
weather, aud very little cotton has been
picked.
A twelve-year-old daughter of a widow
named Bridges was burned to death last
Wednesday. ,8he was pouringcoal oil on
some wood preparatory to making a fire
in a stove, when a smaller child struck a
match and held it close to the oil can.
Her clothes caught lire, and before
assistance could reach her she was so
badly burned tbat she died in a few
hours.
The new rolling mill will be ready for
work in a few days.
A few bales of cotton have sold in this
market last week for 12 cents per pound.
The cotton was of the Allen variety.
The boys of Honey Grove have a novel
way of disposing of fakes, cheap Jewelry
■ellera, walking cane men and others of
tho tramp variety. When one pitches
his tent here he is immediately warned
to leave. If he refuses to do s > he is
treated to a shower of stale eggs. He
then hunts another pasture.
The artesian well force, which has
been stopped for a time waiting for a
better pump, has commenced work
again.
FROM HILLSBORO.
Hillsboro, Tex., Sept. 27.—A con-
tract was let last week to Mr. J. L. Mor-
row to bore an artesian well on the
cou: tyard square for *2000.
A meeting of tbe signers of the
right of way and depot grounds of the
8t Louis, Arkansas & Texas railway
was hail Saturday evening, and it was
found that there was still a deficit of
about #7000, which will have to be
raised by the middle of next week, and
it looks very much like this money will
have to be raised by the bondsmen alone,
as the parties who have been soliciting
subscriptions meet with very poor suc-
cess.
About 2,200 bales of cotton hnvebecn
brought to town. Farmers say that the
army worm will destroy the top crop.
RIOTOUS NEGROES.
Houston, Tex.. Sept. 27.—Conductor
Bonney, of the Brazoria Tap railway,
brought in a report from Brazoria county
•hat the sheriff of Matagorda county
had sent a runner to Sheriff Ifickly, of
Brazoria county, asking him to at once
send a force of well armed men to assist
in putting down an insurrection among
tho blacks. Sheriff Hickly raised fifty
mounted aud armed men and left for the
scene of the trouble. The report to tho
Brazoria sheriff is that two hundred
negroes are under arms and in a great
Btato of excitement. The reported
troubles seem to have sprung from an
arrest of a white man by a colored
constable on Cauey creek. After tbe
constable left to serve the warrant he
was found dead in the waters of Caney.
The negroes lielievo that the whitcraan
for whom tho warrant was Issued.
and carried away a pleee of the WdF
rape. When they reached the epot ♦here
Gilmore was standing, he ran toward
the Fifth Ward Hotal. punued by the
crowd. He was caught and would no
doubt have been ha nged bad not n re-
port come to them that Caelello was not
seriously wounded. At 12 o’clock a
rumor prevailed that during the excite-
ment Gilmore made bis escape.
SAN ANTONIO ITEMS.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept 27.—Infor-
mation has reached hie friends here that
Dick Johnson, a San Antonio cowboy,
commonly known as Big Dick, who
Joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
and went to Londcnaome days ago,after
tanking up, undertook to "take’’ tbe me-
tropolis. He resisted the police, whip-
ping two of them and a private citizen,
but was finally conquered, jailed, and
given six months in the work house.
Some saloon men are exercised over
the possibility of beiug forced to close
on Sunday, especially proprietors of beer
gardens, with whom Sunday is tbe princi-
pal day. The Liquor Dealers’ Associa-
tion ia preparing to make a strong fight,
awaiting the reports of the grand jury.
Will Humphreys ami Tom Jones, two
men who have been contluod in jail here,
charged with train robbery, were re
moved to AtiBin Saturday. The prison-
ers will uudergo examination there.
TEHUACANA TOPICS.
Teruacana, Tex., Sept. 27.—A very
fine rain fell here Saturday evening, an4
the indications at the present itime are
favorable for more.
Work is now progressing on the pike
over the rocky bluff west of town, which
will be quite a convenience when com-
pleted.
Experiments in wheat culture during
the past year has proved such a success
that more will be sown this fall than
ever before.
The demand for houses to rent by par-
ties desiring to move hero for school
purposes was never greater. There is
not a vacant bouse in the place now.
New Htudonts are coining in to at'end
the university every day.
TOPICS AT TERRELL.
Terrell, Tex., Sept. 27.—The cotton
platform of tho Texas and Pacific Kail-
road is to be extended so as to make it
250 feet long.
The organization of a Terrell lumber
company ia being agitated considerably.
Terrell has been literally crowded with
cotton. It was hardly expected to re-
ceive cotton in such large bulk before
October, especially since tho crop is late
coming In. Cotton was sold from Hunt,
Henderson, Van Zandt and Rockwall
counties.
KILLED IN A RUNAWAY.
Texarkana, Tex., Sept. 27.—Near
Boston, in this county, Saturday, a
youth named Mack Cunningham came to
a violent death. The little fellow had
started to drive the wagrn of his uncle.
George Thomnson, a milo or so when in
crossing Anderson's Creek the horses be-
come frightened and ran uway, throwing
him against a tree and terribly mangling
him. His skull was mashed into a Jelly
INJURED BY A TRAIN.
ScnuLENuuno, Tex., Sept. 27.—Her
man Soifert, a bridge hand on the South-
ern Pacific railroad, attempted to boaid
a moving train here Sunday when his
foot slipped and the car wheels cruahed
both his logs below the knees. Physi-
cians were summoned, who advised am-
putation, but the patient refused to com-
ply with their advice, and was taken to
the company’s hospital at San Antonio.
ISLAND CITY LOCALS.
Galveston, Tex., Sent. 27.—The Sun-
day law was again rigidly enforced hero
Sunday, tho restaurants doing a lively
business in serving drinks, and In many
instances without the accompanying edi-
bles.
Tho electric light artesian well haa^-
increascd In flow to 140,000 gallopsE^of
water in twenty-four hours.
RAINS AT OMA1
Omaha, Tox., Sept. 87.-/fhis part of
the country was getting Ivory dry, but
Thursday night there wasFi flue shower
of rain. The rain fell preftty hard and
gave the ground a thorough soaking, but
as there was no wind, eolton was not
damaged any. except sliglNly stained.
Since the rain it is not so war\p 18 before
TROOPS ARRIVE. i Alliance gin at Lone Oak was di
San Angelo, Tex., Sept. 24.—Troops I ered to be on fire Friday morning at
H and M of tbe Eighth Cavalry, under | o’clock. The fire was extinguished aft
Grf.knvh.le, Tex .Sept. 2„ _ Ike nevf ,)y W| fr,flDfK cauged lhc dcnt,;
Command Of Go!. Wiscner, arrived at,
Fort Concho Friday morning with colors
flying, and have taken up quarters.
The companies are full and number
altogether 130 men. They were twelve
days coming from San Antonio. The
transportation which brought those two
companies up will take hack Company F
Sixteenth Infantry, in a few days and
return with another company of cavalry
The first norther of the season blew
op Friday morning accompanied by
tain.
burning some cotton an.I a ; o t'on
tho building. The Incendiary d.nppc
a watch In hij (light. Officers a.id blood
hounds weio telegraphed for at ihi-
place, but were nbsont from the city
No further clow than tho wnlcb ia ye
reported.
Sheriff Mason and dopntios Friday
night surrounded a house on Wire Oja
and arrested Frank Gibson, who Is nov
In Jail. Papers from two other countic
are expected, charging him wilfi horsi
theft and other crimes.
of the constable ; honce tho gathering
in force. Their number ia placed at two
hundred, mostly armed and mounted.
Beside the Brazoria force of fifty men,
Matagorda will probably raise over one
hundred. The disturbance exists thirty*
flve miles west of Columbia, on Cauey
creek
At 9:40 o’clock Sunday night ns the
NeH Orleans train arrived at the depot
in the Fifth Ward a negro named Billie
Gilmore, who works for the road,
Blubbed a brakeman named Jim Castello.
The knife penetraicd the left side, be-
1 >w the rib As tbe stabbing spread an
bxcited crowd entered a passenger car
INCIPIENT RIOT.
Plano, Tox.v Sept. 27. —John^low
land, city marshal here, received a'tsl
egrain t unday morning from Mike
McDonald, deputy sheriff nt Wylie, to
come over there immediately ; big riot.
Rowland made up a reuse and went over
to Wylie and found about forty cotton
p'ckers and railroad hands, who had
been rowing with one Bnotbor, but
found no ono hurt. Big Johnson, said
to he a ring leader, was arrested and
, placed under bond for raising a disturb-
ance and turning loose seversl prisoners
the deputy sheriff had under arroat.
HEAVY RAIN.
Pittshuro, Tex., Sept. 27.—A heavy
rain fell here Thursday night, tho heav-
iest that has ever been known. It Is
Delieved by many that we were In the
midst of a -waterspout. Bridges around
town and over the branches and streams
near town that the water haa never risen
to before were floated from tbeirfj .unda-
ttous and many of them washed sway.
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Foster, W. E. The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1887, newspaper, September 30, 1887; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142850/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.