The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1899 Page: 4 of 10
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8. F. COOK, Publisher
ALBANY,
TEXAS.
PASTURE AND PARM.
Com planting i3 under way around
Elgin.
Corn acreage of Bee county will be
largely increased this year.
Several horses have died with blind
staggers near Alma, Ellis county.
A great many Irish potatoes will be
planted in Lamar county this spring.
Berry Gatewood of Ennis shipped
seven carloads of fat cattle to St.
Louis.
At Eddy, N. M., some sheep that are
being fed on Alfalfa and beet sugar
pulp are fast fattening.
Winter wheat and oats are nearly all
killed in the vicinity of Marble Falls,
but farmers are sowing again.
County Commissioner Dugan of
Grayson county says wheat around
Bells is in fine condition.
Edens Bros. & Wilson of Corsicana
have shipped two lots of cattle to Chi-
cago, one consisting of sixteen car-
loads, the other fourteen.
J. D. PeBird of Sulphur Springs,
shipped four cars of meal-fed steers
to St. Louis, Swinson seven cars and
H. L. Huffman two cars.
In the cold weather wild bees in
Central Texas fared much better than
their domestic brethren, hollow trees
seemngly being warmer than hives.
A farmer near Paris intends putting
In several acres of artichokes this
season for seed. By next year he ex-
pects to raise a great quantity for feed-
ing cattle.
The recent proclamation excluding
Texas cattle .from the Creek and
Cherokee nations after April 1 it is
said will cause great inconvenience
and distress to cattlemen.
A reoport just prepared by the de-
partment of agriculture at Washington
shows that the export trade in Amer-
ican horses has rapidly increased dur-
ing the past Ave years.
T. K. and James Moore recently
shipped from Bastrop sixteen carloads
of beeves to St. Louis, while J. A.
.Wood of the same placc, shipped a
lot of fine hogs to the Houston pack-
ery.
Harrison county farmers are in bet-
ter condition than for years. Many
of them have ample corn in their cribs,
potatoes, peas and molasses for the
table and their smokehouses filled
With ham and bacon.
Gatp. Chas. Schreiver, the well
known banker and stockman of Kerr-
ville, sold to P. S. Witherspoon, a
prominent feeder of Gainesville, 7000
head of 3 and 4-year-old steers at
$23.50 per head, or a total of $164,500.
In conversation with farmers, stock-
men and ranchmen in the Childress (
country they all unite in saying that
cattle lasses have been small, excep- j
tionally so, considering the extreme i
frigidity of the recent cold weather |
the herds of cattle had to contend
•with lately.
President J. W. Springer of the Na-
tional Live Stock association, after a
personal investigation of the cattle in
Texas places the loss from the bliz-
zard at 10 per cent. This is the most
serious loss, he points out, since 1886,
when about 90 per cent of the range
cattle perished.
The Mexican Trade Review gives a
list of prices of public land in the va-
rious states for the fiscal year 1899-
1P00 as fixed by President Diaz. The
prices, in Mexican silver, are per hec-
tare, 2.17 acres, and are, in Chihauhau,
Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Nueva
Leon, Sincloa, Sonera and Tamaulipas,
$1; in Lower California territory, 50
cents.
Dr. L. C. Chittim of San Antonio
concluded a trade with O. J. Hugo of
Dilley for the purchase from the latter
of between 1100 and 1200 steers, com-
ing 2s and 3s, at per head around.
The herd includes 800 coming 2s and
the balance 3s, and the young steers
are said to be a well bred and well
colored herd of cattle. A 10 per cent
cut back is given to the purchaser.
Delivery will be made April 1.
Stock losses in Clay county have
been light, as all have been provided
abundant feed, losses having been con-
fined to late "immigrants" from east
and south. Deaths among these cat-
tle, too, were from the chilling or
freezing of the feet and legs, fences
preventing the instinctive traveling
that would have kept up the circula-
tion.
A<lmtt» fhn* Was Trouble.
Berlin, March 7.—A high official of
the German navy department has In-
formed a correspondent here that the
appointment of Prince Henry of Prus-
sia, a brother of Emperor William, to
the command of th® east Asiatic squad-
ron had been considered for months
past and was finally decided upon as
being the most available, the emperor
desiring to show the American people
that he is thoroughly friendly to
them, knowing that Prince Henry is
popular in the United States. When
the official referred to was asked
whether the appointment was equiva-
lent to the disgrace of Admiral Yon
Diedrich, he said:
"Not exactly. If Admiral Von Dled-
erich had shown more tact last sum-
mer before Manila It would undeniably
have been productive of good results
all around. Our government, unfor-
tunately, was advised too late of a num
ber of occurrences before Manila, none
of which were really important, but
they showed grave want of tact upon
Admiral Von Diederich's part. The
main trouble was that Admiral Von
Diederich was insufficiently informed
regarding international usages in such
a delicate situation. Consequently, he
continued naval movements, drill and
searchlight practice as if elsewhere
than in a blockaded port, thus arous-
ing distrust upon the part of the
Americans."
The above is important as being the
first German official admission that
there has been trouble between
the Germans and Americans in Manila
bay.
The first regularly appointed Ger-
man naval attache at Washington, Von
Rebeur Peschwitz, starts for New York
to-morrow on board the North German
Lloyd steamer Lahn, which sails from
Bremen.
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Tennessee Cyclone.
Knoxville, Tenn., March 7.—The
Madisonville storm horror is even
greater than was at first reported. The
section devastated by the terrible hur-
ricane of Saturday was visited by
thousands yesterday. It is the uni-
versal verdict that not in the history
of East Tennessee has such an event
been known. It not only swept away
a goodly portion of the little city, but
did inestimable damage to much fine
timberland.
The tornado extended twenty miles,
commencing near Telllco junction and
extending to a jpoint twelve miles
north of Madisonville. It is believed It
made a direct course, taking every-
thing In Its path. It so happened,
however, that no resdences were in
this course, save those razed at Madi-
sonville, and four small houses in the
town of Nonaburg. Many barns were
de'stroyed and at least fifty horses,
mules and cattle were killed. J. F.
Schadden's barn, one of the largest in
Monroe county, was destroyed by Are,
it having been struck by lightning.
This loss is placed at $1500. A con-
servative estimate gives the loss in the
entire section at $15,000. In addition
to the .list of injured furnished Sunday
night there is Dillon Rogers, a prom-
inent jeweler of Madisonville,struck on
the head by a falling brick. His home
was almost completely demolished.
Introduced to Queeu.
London, March 7.—The United
States Ambassador, Joseph Choate
and Mrs. Choate, proceeded to Wii»:i-
sor castle yesterday, where they were
to dine and sleep.
Royal carriages awaited Mr. Choate
and bis party at Windsor station and
conveyed them to the castle, wne*e
Lord Salisbury introduced Mr. Choate
to the queen. The other guests at
the royal diifner party, were Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein .Lord
and Lady Salisbury, the Earl ofTIope-
ton, the newly-appointed Lord Cham-
berlain, the Duchess of Buccleugu
and Mr. Henry White.
The cruiser Baltimore having on
board the civil members of the Unit-
ed States Philippines commisssion has
arrived at Manila.
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Emporia, Kan;,, March 7.—John Gil-
bert in his cell at the county jail has
confessed to brutally murdering Sis
wife and four small children near En-
terprise, Kan., on last Tuesday. Gil-;
bert, for whom a reward had been of-
fered, was arrested Sunday. He feign-
ed not to know of the crime and at
first shammed insanity. Finally hard
pressed by Sheriff O'Connor, Gilbert
confessed the crime, going into de-
tails.
Gilbert said he was badly in debt
and had been trying to leave Enter-
prise for a long time. He could not
take his family he said, and offered
his wife a divorce.
. "She kept nagging me about the
children," said Gilbert, "and throwing
them up to me. I told my wife If she
would give me $10 I'd leave and never
bother her any more. During the
night I got up and went out in the
yard. Comit'% back I picked up the
hammer and hit the baby in the head.
My wife ran out into the road and
was going over to the neighbors. I
ran after and caught her. She said
she'd come back if I would behave and
I thought I would. But when we got
in, where the baby was threshing
about on the bed, and when I saw it I
could not hold myself, but hit my wife
on the head and pounded her until she
could not move, and then took the chil-
dren."
When asked why he did it Gilbert
said: "I don't know; it seemed like 1
just could not help it after seeing the
baby there on the bed."
Fifty-Four Deaths.
Paris, March 7.—The deaths result-
ing from the Toulon explosion of Sun-
day morning number 54 and 130 per-
sons were injured. The reports that
the catastrophe was the result of a>
crime are renewed.
The Petit Journal asserts that a
fust five feet long has been found liy
the ruins of the magazine.
M. Lockroy, marine minister, in thg
course of an interview had with him
by the representative of the Gaulois,
said that none of the theories advanc-
ed were admissible.
"Imprudence on the part of the
personnel," he added, "was impossible,
as the explosions occurred several
hours after the gates had been closed.
The heating theory, too, Is unsound,
as the temperature of the buildings
was always low and the air dry."
Weather Clear.
Leadville, Col., March 7.—Th^
weather here was warm and clear yes-
terday, and the prediction is made
that the backbone of the storm 1^
broken. There have been only fou^
days out of the past fifty-six on which
it has not been snowing and
blowing in the vicinity of Lead-
ville. Around Twin Lakes the snow
is six feet deep on the level, and in
places for miles it is heaped to a
height of twenty feet. Eight miners
loaded with foorl and mall left here
yesterday for Kokomo on snow shoes.
Twenty-two men carried a large quan-
tity of provisions from I'andro to
Kokomo, removing the growing fear
of famine in the towns on two aban-
doned railways, the South Park and
the Blue river.
Ion, Marcfi, 6.—'
Magazine of La Goubran, between La
Seyne and Toulon, in the department
of Var, southern France, exploded at
2:30 o'clock yesterday morning. All
of the sentries on duty at the maga-
zine were killed and a number of in-
habitants of the surrounding district,
the buildings in which were razed.
Forty corpses have already been recov-
ered. The cause of the explosion is not
known.
Fifty thouand kilogrammes of black
powder exploded. It looks as though
a volcanic eruption had occurred, the
country being swept almost barfe with-
in a radius of two miles, houses de-
stroyed, trees overturned and distort-
ed, fields devastated and covered with
stones and brick dust.
Some of the stones are enormous.
One weighing fifty Kilogrammes fell
in the suburb of Lone de Las. Signs of
the explosion are evident In all the
suburbs of Toulon and in the city ieself.
Even at St. Jean de Var, five miles in-
land, houses were shatteded aiid doors
batter in. Later reports show that
of the seven soldiers four were killed
outright and the others sev.erely in-
jured the corporal being literally
scalped.
A large number of soldiers are now
employed In clearing away the debris,
but the work is very difficult.
It is impossible to ascertain accur-
ately the number killed, but it is be-
lieved that no fewer than a hundred
were injured.
Although It was a clear night, the
explosion was so terrific as to "produce
a slight rainfall.
Fortunately the neighboring people
escaped. It is now believed the explo-
sion originated In chemical decomposi-
tion in smokeless powder. There is no
suggestion of foul play.
Col. C. C. Slaughter of Dallas, Tex.,
purchased for $5000 the Hereford bull,
Sir Bredwell 63,685.
Transport Arrive*.
San Juan, Porto Rioo, March 7.—
The United States transport McPher-
Fon, foftnerly the Obdam, arrived yes-
terday with Gen. Robert P. Kennedy,
Maj. Charles W. Watkins and Con-
gressman Henry G. Curtis of Iowa,
who constitute the Porto Rico com-
mission on education, taxation and
the cognate interests of the island.
The commissioners will consider only
questions relating to the civil govern-
ment and not interfere wth the afi'alrs
of the military administration.
Great Loxs.
West Point, Miss., March 7.—Nearly
$400,000 worth of property was destroy-
ed by fire here yesterday and one man
burned to death.
The Mary Holmes college, an indusr
trial school for colored girls, burned
yesterday morning, and yesterday aft-
ernoon a cotton press shed was burn-
ed.
The Holmes seminary was situated
outside the fire limits. The flames
were fanned by a high wind and the
structure was soon a mass of ruins, the
fire department being unable to ren- j
de:' • any aid. All the inmates, for- .
tunately, escaped without injury, los: i
ing only their personal effects.
Cyclone in Tennessee.
Athens, Tenn., March 6.—A terrible
cyclone passed over a portion of Madi-
gonville and Monroe county Saturday
night with disastrous results. Early
in the evening a strong wind arose
and at 7:30 a cyclone about sixty or
Beventy yards wide struck a portion of
Madisonville, killing three persons,
wounding ten or twelve others and
completely destroying twelve or fif-
teen houses and several barns. The
killed are: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moser,
Ed L. Horton.
The most frightful feature of the
terrible Madisonville tornado was the
manner in which Jack Moser met his
death. 1-Ie was hurled by the wind's
force from his house, a distance of 700
yards, until his progrss was impeded
by a wire fence, which completely
severed his head from the body. The
remains were found in that condition
by the rescuing party, which did faith-
ful work after the storm had subsided.
Not Confirmed.
Washington, March 6.—Among the
most important nominations that fail-
ed of confirmation are:
Senators Morgan, Cullum, Repre-
sentative Hitt, Sanford B. Dole and
Walter F. Frear to be Hawaiian com-
missioners; the naval advancements
for conspicuous conduct In battle sent
In with the Schley and Sampson nom-
inations; H. D. Ewart of North Caro-
lina to be United States district judge
for the western district of North Caro-
lina; Frank Simmons to be Marshal
for the southern district of Alabama;
C. D. Keyes of Wichita Falls, Tex.,
to be Indian agent for the Apache
agencey, Ariz.; Samuel J. Burrows of
Massachusettes to be librarian of con-
gress.
All the army brevet nominations
sent to the senate were not confirmed.
These included men nominated for
gallant action in the Spanish war.
John Webe?. naval officer customs,
New Orleans, La.
BurgU
safe at
blip
The John D. Elliott t
at Owensboro, Ky., bur
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John P. Fone, residing near 1
Miss., was killed by an unknc
sassin.
In a dispute over business
Mayor Converse of Zachariah, La., was
killed by J. W. Thompson, a contrac-
tor.
Rev. Dr. John B. Gregory, a promi-
nent Methodist divine, died at Tusca-
loosa, Ala. He leaves a widow and nlna
children. <•
Sections of North Carolina wore vis-
ited by a terrible hailstorm and cyclone
and much damage done. Near Greens-
boro two men were killed.
Huntsville, Ala., is to have a cotton
mill that will be the largest single in-
dustrial plant of the kind in the south.
It is to be operated by the Merriman
corporation of Lowell, Mass.
Rev. J. C. Rexroad, a minister of
Lewis county, West Virginia, and his
neighbors, Clark Simmons and James
Bennett had a pistol fight, in whick
the minister was, mortally wounded.
The trouble was about a fence.
Three masked men entered the resi-
dence of Frits; and Henry Pape, near
Wheeling, W. Va„ beat them in a hor-
rible manner, gagged them and took
about $5000. They stole horses from
the Papes' stable and escaped.
The famous Lipscomb poisoning cas*
in Kemper county, Mississippi, in
which Dr. W. H. Lipscomb was given;
life imprisonment on the charge of
poisoning C. T. Stewart for the alleged
purpose of receiving insurance on the
latter's life, has been affirmed by the
supreme court of Mississippi.
Thomas Lawrence, a prosperous mer-
chant of Cleburne, Tex., and who lias
been in business there fcince 1871, Is
dead.
Slowly Receding:.
Charleston, W. Va., March 7.—Yes-
terday the high water receded but
slowly, and the largest portion of the
city is still under water. Hea.vy snow
fell yesterday afternoon and last night!
and with it came freeutovg tempera-1
t.ure. Several hundred families are still I
quartered in the statehouse, city hall, i
courthouse and other buildings. There j
is likelihood of distress o.i account of j
the growing shortage of coal. Tlie sup-1
ply was about exhausted yesttrday and
all the coal yards are under water.
Flag liaised.
Manila, March 6.—Admiral Dewey
raised his flag as an admiral on board
the Olymria Saturday morning and
was saluted by the guns of the forts,
of the foreign warships, the British
cruiser Narcissus and the German
cruiser Kaiserin Augusta and by the
American ships in port.
Four Killed.
Decatur, Ala., March 6—A terrible
storm of wind, hail and lightning
struck this place, doing great damage
and causing the loss of four lives.
The huge tower of the long distance
telephone company, 140 feet high,
which carries the wires spanning the
Tennessee river, was snapped like a
reed. Several manufacturing plants
are suspended on account of damage to
buildings and machinery.
New Enterprises.
Baltimore, Md., March 6.—The lead-
ing manufacurlng industries of the
week as reported by the Manufactur-
ers' Record were: A 250-barrel flour
mill and 120-ton oil mill to cost $100,-
000 in Alabama; $25,000 machinery ^
company in Arkansas; $10,000 mills
company and $10,000 cigar factory in
Florida; $100,000 quarry company,
25,000 spindle, 750 loom mill in Geor-
gia; $5000 roofing company and $50,-
000 clothing factory In Kentucky;
$50,000 lamp factory, 300-ton sugar
factory aqd $50,000 tobacco company
in Louisiana; $300,000 brewery, $5000
bolt and iron works, $10,000 dyeing
plant for cotton mill, $25,000 chemi-
cal works and $40,000 addition to
foundry and machine shop in Mary-
land; $25,000 electric plant company,.
$250,000 electric plant and $20,000 box
factory in Mississippi; $25,00 saw
mill, 7000 spindle, 300 loom mill, 12,-
000 spihdle, 300 loom mill, 8000
spindle, 350 loom addition and $100,-
lumber company in North Carolina;
50-bale round bale ginnery, $30,000
improvements to cotton mill in South
Carolina; $10,000 steam laundry, cot-
ton factory, 150-ton iron furnace in
Tennessee; $20,000 ginnery company.
$50,000 lumber company, 75,000-busliel
grain elevator and 60-ton oil mill in
Texas;$50,000 furniture factory, glass
works, $40,000 knitting mills and
$9000 rail mill In Virginia; $90,000
mining company and $50,000 mining
company in West Virginia.
Work of House.
Washington, March 6.—The house of
representatives of the fifty-fiith con-
gress passed 1635 bills and resolutions
against 1200 by the fifty-fourth, 951 by
the fifty-third and 892 by the fifty-
second congresses respectively. The
work of the house for three sessions
appears as a new valuable feature of
the house of the calendar. This covers
recapitulation of the whole work and
an appendix of over fiifty pages, giv-
ing the status of every bill presented
■to the house during the last two years.
Under the title "Army" forty-<two dis-
tinct measures are given. It presents
at a glance full information on all that
has been done on any subject.
The river and harbor bill just pass-
ed gives Sabine Pass $150,000; Texas
City, $250,000; mouth of the Brazos,
$85,000; Aransas Pass, $60,000, Buffalo
bayou for a twelve-foot channel to the
gulf, $300,000.
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Admiral Dewey and Gen. Otis have
cabled their thanks for the honors con-
ferred on them—the former to the rank
of admiral, the latter as a brevet major
general.
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