Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1901 Page: 1 of 5
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Free State Enterprise
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL: SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
NO. 13.
Clubbing Rates.
DAMAGE BY WIND.
DOVE IN DIXIE.
POLICY or SILENCE
ENTERED ETERNITY.
Charleston exposition opens Dec. L.
VESSELS WERE CAST ON SHORE.
BY LOUISIANA AND LONE STAR
MURDERED HIS WIFE.
St. Jacobs Oil
Conquers Pain
Price, 25c and 50c.
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE
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She gave bond in $20,000.
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Rice People, the Impression Being that Were
Cuba Asked to Admit the Cereal Free
Latter Would Want Sugar Favor.
Joe Gibson Then Tried to Suicide and
Girl of Dead Woman Shot Him.
Nothing Accomplished at the Coo
ference in Crescent City
Their Crews, However, Were Rescued, Ow.
lug to the Prompt and Courageous
Work of the Lifesavers.
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Vicinity of New York City Visited
by Quite a Storm.
Interesting Happenings that Have Lately
Come to Pass.
Bob Ballard Hanged at Bryan for Murder
of Frank Blazek.
There is no necessity for us to suffer
pain and endure useless agony. There
is a remedy for all aches and pains-
for Rheumatism, Gout. Lumbago.
Neuralgia Sciatica. Pleurisy. Sore-
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Pains in the LImba and Pains in the
Feet. that remedy is
Best Passenger Service
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VOL. X.
“Ho trouble to answer questlons."
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CANTON, VANZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1901.
J-fOUSE HOTEL
......When in Canton.
While the negro was lying on the 4
floor, and before the physician had ar- f
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Tis elgatur is on every box of the ganutme
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
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Accommodations FIRBT clam.
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It never falls. It acts like magic.
Instantaneous relief from pain always
follows. It has cured thousands of
cases which had been given up as
incurable One trial will convince any
Sufferer that St. Jacobs Oil
...TO...
St Louis, Chicago
....and the East
You oan get the ENTEarRISF wita
ncb of the following papers for the
"llowing prices:
pallas News, Semi-weekly, $1.75
Souston Post, 1 75
g. Louis Republlo, 1.75
yarm& Ranch.............1.55
T,xas Farmer.............1 75
Homa A Farm............1.25
Atlants Conatilution........1 "3
Manila, Nov. 25.-—Capt. Edward P.
Lawton’s company of the Nineteenth
infantry has attacked and captured an
insurgent fort on Bohol island, south
of Cebu, in the Visayan group.
This fort was surrounded on all sides
by a precipice and the only entrance
to the ground was guarded by a stock-
ade with a line of entrenchments be-
hind.
RAINTICH
,the man who wears Sawyer’e
" P Klickers. They’re made of
•tally woven goods, double
...ughiout, double and triple
stitehed, warranted wuter-
DIRECT LINE TO
NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA
AND CALIFORNIA.
Orator, of Magnificent New Train,
“Pacific Coast Limited,”
Semi-weekly, between
CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, DALLAS, FORI
WORTH, LOS ANGELES AND
SAN FRANCISCO.
Only Line Running Through
Sp 1 NEW ORLEANS change.
Superb Pullman Vestibuled Buffet Sleepers,
Handsome New Chair Cars (seats free).
colored, became enraged at his wife
and killed her in a most brutal way.
He beat her brains out with an ax
and then cut her throat from ear to
ear. He called some of his neighbors
in to view the remains and then re-
marked to one of them that he would
kill himself and then pulled his knife,
stepped to a mirror and caught his
throat as though preparing to shave
and pulled the knife across it. He then
had some one to roll a cigarette for
him, which he commenced to smoke
and said he would soon be dead. When
the officer arrested him he was bleed-
ing profusely. The officers carried
the man into the room and placed
him on the floor for the physicians.
Widow of the Late Orro Gordo Hooks is
put Under $20,000 Bond.
Exposition at Charleston, S. C., 18
ready for the opening
Wise is the weather prophet who pre-
dicts both ways.
After being landed by a girl who has
been angling for him a man naturally
feels like a fish out of water.
New Fuel for Locomotives.
One of our largest railroads has decided
to substitute oll in place of coal as fuel
for its locomotives, and while there may
be some doubt as to its success, there is
none concerning the value of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. It has been given a
thorough trial during the past fifty years
and has never disappointed any sufferer
from dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation
or flatulency who have given it a fair
trial. Be sure to get the genuine.
Six Counts.
Jeffersonville, Ind., Nov. 23.—The
special grand jury selected to inves-
tigate the Rathbun insurance con-
spiracy and murder case on Thursday
afternoon returned an indictment
aganist Newell C. Rathbun charging
him with murder in the first degree.
The body of Rathbun’s alleged vic-
tim, supposed to be that of Charles
Goodman, arrived from Little Rock
and was taken in charge by Coroner
Coots.
The indictment against Rathbun
embodies six counts.
Bryan, Tex., Nov. 23.—Bob Ballard,
colored, was hanged here Friday for
the murder of Frank Blazek. The exe-
cution was conducted privately at
the jail, being witnessed by physi-
cians, officers, a few citizens and col-
ored ministers. Ballard held up well
to the last. He smoked a cigar and
read a chapter from the Bible before
leaving his cell. When asked bow he
felt he said what fear he had experi-
enced had been dispelled; that God
had saved his soul, and that he was
ready and willing to go. He mounted
the scaffold at 1:48 p. m., with a
steady step. When asked if he had
anything to say he said he wanted the
preachers to pray for him, and Elder
Shivers led in a fervent prayer.
The preliminaries were speedily ar-
ranged, and Sheriff T. C. Nunn sprung
the trap at 1:51 o'clock. His neck
was not broken and physicians pro-
nounced hmi dead from strangulation,
with few struggles, at 2:04 p. m., thir-
teen minutes after the drop. Ballard’s
remains were turned over to his
father for burial. A crowd of several
hundred people, most of whom were
negroes, assembled outside the jail in
the streets and in the courthouse
yard and remained until after the exe-
cution, but good order was maintain-
ed throughout.
On Nov. 30 Ballard was in a beer sa
loon at Smetana, a few miles west of
Bryan, and got into a squabble about
a glass of beer with the proprietor, a
Bohemian, named Jacob Schramek,
whom he shot and left for dead, but
who afterward recovered. Mounting
his horse, Ballard started toward the
Brazos bottom. Within a few hundred
yards he overtook another Bohemian
named Frank Blazek, who was driving
along the road in a wagon, having
been to Bryan. The negro rode around
in front and stopped Zlazek and de-
manded money. Blazek r wplied that
he had no money, whereupon the ne-
gro shot him twice and rode away.
Blazek was removed to his home and
died the next day.
exhumed and Dr.
Disastrous Wreck.
Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov. 23.—Near
Goldman, about thirty miles north of
Pine Bluff, the Cotton Belt fast freight
No. 15 suffered a disastrous wreck at
1:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
Sixteen loaded cars were demolished.
The engine jumped the track and
turned over. Conductor Walter Noble
of Jonesboro was killed and the en-
gineer. the fireman and a brakeman
were seriously and probably fatally in-
jured. There is a vast amount of
•wreckage.
Robbed ol harge Mim.
Palestine, Tex., Nov. 23.—At the de
pot in this city, Mr. Cochran, an old
gentleman, was robbed of >300 in bills
uy some unknow a pickpocket. Mr.
Cochran was a passenger Lorn Carth-
age, and was in a jam of people at
the car door and the pickpocket ran
his hands into tue trousrs pocket and
got the roll and hurruy pushed his
way into the crowd and escaped, and ,
bis whereabouts are unknown
Marlin, Tex., Nov. 23.—Joe Gibson, i
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 25.—A sensa-
tion was created here Saturday when
the grand jury returned a verdict
against Mrs. Georgia Emma Hooks,
a wealthy widow, charging her with
poisoning her husband, the late Cerro
Gordo Hooks, who died several weeks
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Business of the Razor Swapper.
All barbers know of the occupation
of “razor swapper.” They make their
living by trading razors—not selling,
just trading. Their net profit comes in
on the “boot” money given with each
trade. The uncertain and finicky na-
ture of razors is at the bottom of the
business.
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New York, Nov. 25.—A heavy north-
cast gale has been raging along the
coast for twenty-four hours. The storm
set in at sunset Saturday evening,
blowing with great severity all night,
accompanied by heavy rain. In the up-
per and lower bay the wind blew with
great fury and an unusually high tide
washed upon the Staten Island shores,
doing considerable damage to docks,
small beats and other craft.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit
railroad track between Tompkinsville
and Stapleton was obstructed by
wreckage from pile-drivers and a small
schooner which was driven ashort and
the wreckage piled upon the railroad
track. A heavy sea raged in the upper
bay.
Two steamers which arrived during
the night remained at anchor off the
quarrantine station until noon, when
the health officers' tug succeeded in
landing them. These steamers were
the French liner Panama, from Bor-
deaux. and the fruit steamer Donald,
from Jamacia. The only other arrival
up to noon was the Mallory line steam-
er San Marcos, from Galveston.
The storm did considerable damage
here. Windows in the upper part of
the city were blown in and a few roofs
taken off. The greatest loss was along
West street, fronting the North river,
where cellars were flooded Th : rapid
transit tunnel also was flooded in many
places.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany reports having suffered most in
the Pocomo mountain district near
Strousburg, Pa., Sleet broke poles
and wires for nearly a mile. Some
of the Long Island wires were broken.
Driven by the terrific northeast gale,
the highest tide ever known along the
north shoie of Long Island swept in
land, leaving a ribbon of wreckage that
girts the shore front from Astoria, in
Long Island City, out to Green Porf,
on the extreme end of the island.
Thousands of dollars damage was
done. Docks, boat and bathinghouses
were wrecked and fleets of yachts
which had been drawn up in supposed-
ly safe winter quarters were floated
off by high tide and left stranded,
in many instances, more than a half
mile inland.
Washouts occurred on two branches
of the railroad and trolly roads.
At North Beach more than $20,000
worth of docks, paved walks, pavilions,
places of amusement and other prop-
erty was destroyed.
In the cove off North Beach, where
the Williamsburg Yacht club has its
headquarters, the fleet of small boats
was swamped or carried inshore.
The Tribune estimates the damage
done by the storm on the northern
shore of Long Island Sound, from and
including City Island to the Connect-
icut line, at $350,000.
William Krausss, a well-known chem-
ist and physician, was instructed to
perform an autopsy. The stomach and
other organs were taken from the
corise, and after an exhaustive exam-
ination lasting ten days Dr. Krauss re-
ported to the coroner that the deceased
Ud come to his death from poisoning
, he expert also reported that powdered
glass and arsenic had been found in
great quantities in the stomach of the
dead man, and he made the statement
that Mr. Hooks had died from these
poisons.
Lionel Barrymore has inherited
something of his father’s wit. Some
time ago he was given a small part in
a play and speaking of his appearance
to a friend next day asked him how he
liked it. "Why, I was at the theater,
but I didn’t see you in the play.” "You
must have winked,” said Lionel.
Insurg nts Were Surprised and a Largu
Number slain.
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Acq uitted.
Austin, Tex., Nov. 23.—Miles P. Mil-
murder of Dick Robinson. The case
was called Monday morning and went
to the jury Thursday afternoon. It
took the jury exactly twenty-four
hours to decide on a verdict. The
tragedy occurred in front of the Iron
Front saloon on the night of the 15th
if March this year.
Southern Georgia had a snowstorm
on the 18th.
The new court house at Jackson,
Miss., will cost $50,000.
Scarcity of cars on some southern
railroads threatens a salt famine.
For the first time in November Co-
lumbia, S. C., had snow on the 18th.
La Resistencla cigarmakers’ union,
of Tampa, Fla., has declared the strike
off.
Rabbi and Mrs. Fischer of Chatta-
nooga. Tenn., celebrated their golden
wedding Sunday.
Arkansas order of Eastern Star con-
vened at Little Rock. Grand Matron
Gill was re-elected.
A large party of land and immigra-
tion agents from northern states are
prospecting in the south.
The Presbyterian synod of Missisippl
was held at Natchez. Prof. T. H.
Summerville was moderator.
The three young children of Mack
Black, colored, burned to death in
Wake county, North Carolina
George Guptell, foreman of a thresh-
ing machine force, was caught in a
belt near Edgerly, La., and killed.
Raymond Burgess. CO years old, re-
siding in Scott county, Kentucky,
hanged himself with a rope in his
barn
At Memphis a jury gave George W.
Turner a verdict of murder in the first
degree He was charged with the kill-
ing of W. M. Thierne.
Friends of Gen Joseph Wheeler are
seeking to send him to the United
States senate from Alabama as the
successor of Senator Pettus.
At Horatio, Ark., Milton Gray was
acquitted of the charge of killing a
man named Davis. After the trial a
brother-in-law of the dead man killed
Gray.
A sale has been made of 20.000 acres
of coal land in Wayne county. West
Virginia, to a Pittsburg syndicate,
which, it is said, will oppose the coal
trust.
During the performance at Lake
Charles, La, of Sells & Gray s circus,
one of the horses of a hurdle rider fell
and rolled over the performer, badly
injuring him.
The Arkansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church. South,
was held at Conway. Bishop Key pre-
sided. Considerable important busi-
ness was transacted.
On Dec. 1 the Choctaw road will run
pasenger trains between Little Rock
and Memphis. 135 miles, in four hours
and fifteen minutes. The running time
will be thirty-five miles per hour.
Owing to the separation of the ne-
groes from the whites on the street
cars of Jacksonville, Fla., the former
are endeavoring to organize a stage
coach service and keep off the cars.
While the children of Robert Brown-
ing, near Copertown, Tenn., were
playing "doctor,” the oldest, 7 years
old, administered paris green to his
3-year-old brother. Prompt stomach
pump work saved the "patient."
John Goode, an Englishman by birth,
but a resident of this country since
1845. died at Melbourne, Fla. Mr.
Goode was a noted florist, botanist and
landscape gardener. He laid out La-
fayette park, St. Louis, He was an
authority on plants and flowers.
James Winn of Decatur, Ala., whom
physicians had pronounced dead, was
taken to the cemetery. Just before
the casket was lowered into the grave
it was opened for the mourners to
have a last look. Facial muscles, to
the horror of all, moved. The body
was hurriedly taken home, and he is
under treatment. He had been laid
out two nights and one day.
Satire is the salt of wit rubbed on
a sore spot.
PILES CURED.
By using Smith's Sure Kidney Cure
has made a radical cure for me. I
suffered severely from bleeding piles
seventeen years, and although I tried
every well recommended remedy, failed
to receive any relief other than the
most temporary. Hnally I commenced
the use of your medicine, and a very
short course of treatment, with it has
cured me.
8. LEHMAN. Memphis, Tenn.
Price 50 cents. For sale by all drug-
gists. ___________ __
Summer must be the pride of the
seasons, as it goeth before a fall.
Deaf neat Cannot Re Cared
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the
Eustachian I ube When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear-
ing. and when It is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation can tie
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will tie destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucus surfaces
Wo will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. bend for
circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 73c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Many people repeat often after they
have repented.
THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT
will use no other. Deflance Cold Water
Starch has no equal in Quantity or Qual-
ity—16 ok for 10 cents. Other brands
contain only 12 uz
Look after the living; the dead
need not our care.
There is no trick in dyeing. You can
do it just as well as any one if you use
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Boiling
the goods for half an hoar is all there
is to it bold by druggists, 10c. package.
More men find it easier to drink out
of a bottle than feed a baby from one.
appeared, drew a pistol and shot the
man in the stomach, producing a triv-
ial wound.
Crushed and Mangled.
Dallas, Tex., Nov. 23.—Juno Wil-
liams, a negro, reported to have come
from Louisiana, was found dead by
the crew of a Katy passenger train.
The body lay beside the Katy track
at the intersection of Sneed street, in
north Dallas.
I enutues to be P’aid.
Austin, Tex., Nov. 23.—The amount
of the penalties agreed to by the brew-
eries is causing some surprise. The
large sum to be paid by each brewery
is much more than the g neral public
expected. Especially is it astonishing
that three outside concerns should
consent to the payment of $15,000,
which is just twice the amount the
home breweries will pay.
All of the ten breweries have agreed
to the amount but one-fourth goes
to the county attorney.
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New Orleans, La., Nov. 23.—Friday's
big conference of the Louisiana- Texas
rice interests at the Board of Trade
rooms, looking to the opening of the
Cuban markets free to Louisiana and
Texas rice, resulted in practically noth-
ing. It was decided that the moment
the south asked Cuba for free admis-
sion of her rice, Cuba would turn
round and request the revocation of
all duty on sugar, which would jeop-
ardize two of the largest industries in
Texas and Louisiana.
"Mum’s the word; be satisfied with
what we've got.” That was the verdict
briefly stated at the conference. It was
an interesting meeting, if not much
was accomplished, for it tipped off
the policy that will be pursued by the
Louisiana delegation in congress in
our relations to Cuba. Emile Dupere
presided after the meeting had been
called to order by Udolpho Wolfe, pres-
ident of the New Orleans Board of
Trade.
A general discussion followed, bring-
ing out the point that there was not
only danger of losing the protection
now accorded home rice, but that to
tamper with the Cuban rice laws would
surely result in allowing sugar to slip
into this country free.
“Would we prefer having our rice
admitted to Cuba free, or retain our
protection against the invasion of Cu-
ban sugar?” The consensus of opin-
ion was to save sugar.
Mr. Breux then offered the following
resolution, which was adopted unani-
mously:
"It is the sense of this conference
that the subject matter for which it
as called be left to stand in abeyance
until such time as the committee calls
the conference together again.”
Gustave A. Jahn, the big rice man of
New York and Beaumont, offered the
following resolution to solve the rice
problem.”
"Resolved, That this conference of
persons interested in the rice industry
favors tariff relations with the island
of Cuba based upon the condition that
such imposts be imposed by Cuba upon
rice, the products of foreingn countries,
as are now imposed by the United
States and as are now applicable to the
island of Porto Rico,”
Mr. Jahn's resolution failed to re-
ceive any consideration.
F P. HUGIES, Trav. Passenger Agent, r. WORTE, th
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"eM’land Am I Manager, Gen’ Pass’ruad Tiakel Agh
DALLAa, TEX
“PRAILWAY
Great Opportunities for
Homes in Texas.
The country traversed by
the International & Great
Northern Railroad, embracing
the greater portion of Easi,
South end Southwest l’exas,
contains thousands of acres of
fertile land especially adapted
to general farming, stock rais-
ing, rice, tobacco, fruit and
grape culture; trucking, min-
ing and lumber manufacturing
that can be purchased at low
rates and on exceedingly liber-
al terms.
The Illustrator
jhd General Narrator,
a handsomely illustrated
monthlymagazine, published
by the I&G.N. R. R., each
number of which contains gen-
eral and specific information
regarding some county or sec-
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gent Free
to any address on receipt of
25c to cover a year’s postage or
2c for sample copy, contains
reliable information regarding
this matter. Address,
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Palestine, Texas
Plase mention this paper.
Sawyer’s
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FZ.)sticky. Catalogue free,
2655TH.M. Sawyer A Son, Sole Mfrs.
9 East Cambridge, Mass.
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