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,:' -.* ' W -%E" EZZELIi', Proprietor.
'ERIS. . .. : ': : : TEXAIS.
=3::. 0-: PASTURE AND FARr*.
-:,'"-' Papers have been signed up by 'X
.L. ' Lowe of Dallas and citizens of Cora
X icana which secures another cotton:
gin for Corsicana. Cotton buyers there
"lavor the standard square bale, and as
both of the old gins have passed into
.te hands of the round bale people, the
cotton buyers opened correspondence
with Mr. Lowe to put in a standard
square bale gin. He agreed to do this
for a bonus of $500, the $500 to be refunded
in the event of 2500 bales being
ginned by him this season. The terms
,were accepted, and, as, stated, the papers
have been signed. The new gin
* will cost between $6500 and $7000, and
will have a daily capacity of 125 bales.
It will have five ginning machines of
seventy saws each. Work will begin
at once.E. M. Pace, a renter on the Munson
farm, one mile southeast of Denison,
brought to town a sweet potato vine
that is a curiosity. The vine is bladeshaped,
about four feet long, and over
two inches wide at the widest place.
The leaves all grow on one side. Mr.
Pace says he sold potatoes from these
vines at $2 per bushel. He also had
tomatoes on the market when they
were bringing 121 cents per pound.
There is said to be the finest cotton
.prospects in Denton county for years,
and the plant is in fine condition gene
orally. The farmers are well up with
their work in the cotton fields, and
the rains earlier in this month came
just at the most opportunue time to
do the most good. The acreage in cotton
in Denton county, however, will
show a decrease of between 10 and 12
per cent from that of last year.
There is still a complaint among the
farmers about Denison that there' is
not a supply of thrashers In the county
sufficient to meet the demand, and a
great many are getting anxious to
have their oats and wheat attended
to, but find difficulty in getting thrashers
at it. Next year double the num--bt-of-harvesters
and thrashers in this
section of Texas and thej Indian Territory
will be required.
J. R. Chambers of Bartonville carried
to Denton a load of fine grapes,
which he had no trouble in selling at
a good price. Mr. Chambers lives in
the sandy part of Denton county,whic.h
is especially adapted to raising fruit of
all kinds, and he said that he clipped
loeven pounds of grapes off a vine that
was bearing for the first time.
FIlem Conningham of Jones county
reports an instance of increase in stock
cattle that would certainly satisfy the
most avaricious stockman. He has a
3-year-old heifer that has three living
heifer calves-one a yearling and the
other two twin calves. The heifer is
eastern scrub stock, commonly known
here as the "Arkansas dogy."Farmers around Corsicana say that
the worms, after having stripped the
grass fields, have taken possession of
the cotton fields and are doing much
damage. Reports to the same effect
come from other sections.
Ex-Counti Judge S. M. Bradley of
Denton showed two articles which illustrated
to a small extent the fertility
of Denton county soil. The articles
were radishes, one of which weighed
four pounuds.
Some of the finest watermelons ever
seen in Paris have been grown in Lamar
county this season. Several truck
growers are also making a profiable
industry of shipping cantaloupes to
northern cities.
Mr. T. J. Cargyle marketed a wagonload
of sweet poatoes at Hillsboro at
$1.25 a bushel, they being the first of
the season. He raised them in the
edge of the cross timbers, near Peoria.
Some farmers along the Navasota
river have replanted cotton and it is
up and the prospects for, a crop in the
flooded district is yet good, unless
there is an early fall to cut it short.There are plenty of watermelons on
the market at Gainesville.
The harvesting of oats and wheat
around Sanger is about over. The
rains did but little damage. Corn is
the best ever raised there; so is the
cotton:A cotton oil company was organized
at Bartlett; captital, $30,000. W. J.
Cagle, president; W. F. Fulton, vice
president; John T. Bartlett, treasurer;
G. A. Linderman, secretary; C. W.
Hill, manager. Capacity of the mill,
thirty tons a dhy. The mill will be
ready for the present growing crop..1
President of the Domonican Republic
Assassinated,RAMON CAEROS THE MURDERER.
the Assassin Succeeded in Making His Escape,
but is Being Pursued With Prospectsof Capture.
Fort De France, Island of Martinique,
July 27.-General Ulysses Heureux,
president of the Dominican republic,
was assassinated at Moca, Santo Domingo,
at 4:50 o'clocir yesterday afternoon.The name of the murderer is Ramon
Caeros. He succeeded in making his
escape, but an energetic pursuit was at
once begun, and it is probable that he
will soon be captured. Vice President
General Wenceslao Figuereon immediately
upon the announcement of 'the
president's death assumed the direction
of affairs.At present calmness prevails everywhere
in the republic.
The remains of of President Heureux
will probably be taken to Santo Domingo
for the funeral services.
Washington, July 27.-Pending officvial
advices of the asssassination of
President Heureux of Santo Domingo
no formal action will be taken by this
government. Hon. William F. Powell,
the minister to Haiti, is also charge
d' affaires to Santo Domingo, while
this government is directly represented
in the republic in the person of Campbell
L. Maxwell, who is consul general
and John A. Read, who is vice
consul. Officials here recall that attempts
have been made heretofore on
the life of President Heureax. Secretary
Hay paid a brief tribute to the
work of the deceased president, saying
he understood that he had given the
country a good administration. If the
next few days deveop any signs of unrest
in the islands the United States
will send a warship there.Cotton Crushers' Meet.
Memphis, Tenn., July 27.-Not less
than a hundred delegates were present
at yesterday's meeting of the InterState
Cotton Crushers' association.
When President Haskell called the
convention to order he announced that
the first businesss would be the election
of new members, and a long list
of names was favorably acted upon.
After selecting New Orleans as the
next meeting place, President L. W.
Haskelll of Savannnah, Ga., delivered
his annual address.
This was folllowed by the reading of
the annual report of Secretary and
Treasurer Robert Gibson of Dalllas,
Tex., which was referrred to the auditing
committee.
The president announced that the
general business could not well be
proceeded with' until the questions of
greatest importance to be decided during
the meeting had been discussed in
the papers ;to be read. He called up
Vice-President Alexander first, and
his subject was "Our Association, and
How to Make it More Effective.'
Mr. Alexander said the first consideration
was to hold the present membership,
and next to take steps to increase
it. While the organization was
young, it had accomplished great good,
but many mills were still out that
should by all means be within the fold.45
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by the `edra> ;1dlc7 cl
succeededk ii rst striki
a month Mgo ^ s44mittee made a
request for tel meeting of the
council to- a Y' .j discuss -the way!
and means ptinan end to thl
present distr' situation. The
work of the;co rittee, which is ex
pected to resu'ir'o:o the meeting of
councilmen, 'i'sbe primarily to disw
cover if the ment by which the
first strike was:ended has been violated,
and if so, by whom. Allegations
of such violation caused the renewal o:
the strike. te
The storm center of the street rail.
way strike has, according to the authorities,
settled in Brooklyn, a suburb
of Cleveland. -.,At noon 150 employes
of the Born-Steel Range company
blocked a car ?on the bridge connecting
the towns and/dragged the motormar
and conductor from their posts, inflict
ing with their :fists and other weapons
injuries more painful than serious
soldiers on guard at the barn, about
half a mile away, hurried to the
scene, bet the rioters had taken refuge
in the factory which stands under the
approach to the bridge. The factory
was surrounded and the premises surrounded,
but there was no clew by
wrich the guilty ones could be picked
out so they bent their efforts in assisting
the blood-stained motormarn
and conductor to move the car, most
of the windows of which had been
broken by stones.
Gent Axine, in command of the
troops here, in order to personally view
the situation- took several rides in
cars. He was in civilian dress and the
car was stoned at various intervals all
along the line. A rock came near hitting
him. - The vigilance of the guards,
while daylight aided them, prevented
trouble of a serious nature.
Preparations for -mass meetings- at
various points were made during the
day. It is expected that a large one
will be held in Monumental square in
the heart of the city to night unless
the mayor prohibits it. In preparation
for one a platform was erected in
Brooklyn to protest against the action
atl-MayQr ag_.ey of Cleveland, who has
assumed, under the authority of an
almost forgotten statute, supreme police
power of Cuyaroga. county. This
leaves Mayor Phelps of the suburbs,
together with his constabulary, shorn
of their robes of power, and they do
not like it.
The soldiers and the Cleveland chief
executives' special police in Brooklyn
are not allowed to use the public hydrants
to get water, it is said, and upon
various occasions bayonets were of
a necessity used to convince shopkeepers
that it was wiseest to sell soldiers
what they wanted. Mayor Farley yes-:
terday mailed Mayor Phelps a letter,
n which he declared that if the Cleveand
cohorts had any more trouble:
about getting water, Cleveland, which:
pumps the water to the suburbs, wouldattempt
to abrogate the water truc ;
and let the whole hamlet go thirsty.
Mayor Farley also issued a statement
o the slt.Lers in which he maid l t.at
a Iran who was more loyal to his l:b)or
tnion than to himself and his co:':c.,ty
,as a co,^,ird and a bad citizen.h 1;
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LeThe Texas Telegraph and Telephone,
company has paid the comptroller'
$15.15 tax on telegraph messages senti
within the state for the quarter ending
June 30.The Messenger strike is still -n at
Cincinnati, 0.New Postoffices. An Awful Crime.
Washington, July 27.-Texas post- Brazil, Ind., July 27.--Charles Wolfoffices
established: Caradan, Mills angel became violently insane at his
county, Samuel L. Carraway, post- home in Denmark, south of here, and
master; Majors, Franklin county, seizing a hatchet chopped his two
Benjamin Majors, postmaster. daughters and wife to death while they
The postoffice at Morris, Borden were sleeping. He then, with a knife,;
county, has been moved five and a cut his own throat. It is thought the
half miles southwest to Howard county eldest girl was awakened when her sisand
Aura J. Wright commissioned ter was killed, as evidences of a strugpostmaster.
gle were 'apparent.
Army orders: Capt. John A. Hulen, One of Wofangel's daughters is
James S. Butler, James M. Burroughs staying with Alex McCullough, near
and First Lieuts. John W. Ward, Dean Asheville. Wolfangel called at McTompkins,
Willliam S . Cunningham Cullough's last Sunday and requested
and Carroll Power, thirty-third in- his daughter to accompany him home.
fantry, United States volunteers, re- The girl called on Mr. McCullough to
gently appointed, will proceed to Fort shield her from her father's wrath
Sam Houston'and join -their regiment, and he did so by driving Wolfangel,
John R. Bridendolph and Oscar from his house. The murdered chilPlummer
have been appointed sub- dren were 8 and 12 years old.
stitute letter carriers in the poetoffice
at Denison to serve for ninety days. The comptroller of the currency at
Civil service examination will be Washington has declared a dividend of
held at Tyler, Tex., on Sept. 6 for the 5 'per cent in favor of the creditors of
clerk and carrier in the postoffice at the City National bank of Fort Worth.
that place. j Tex.Negotiations Resumed Between
land and United States. ,CANADA FORCED TO RECEDE.
rhe State Deparment Officials at Washington
Say that an Agreement May Soon
Be Expected.Washington, July 26.-There will be
ho surrender of American sovereignty
to Canada over any territory in Alaska
ceded to the United States under the
treaty of purchase from Russia in
1867.
2. Future negotiations on the modus
vivendi must-be conducted without regard
to Canada's claim to the Porcupine
district, which has been definitely
rejected by the United States.
t 3. The United States will consider a
D proposition from England looking to
the temporary use of Pyramid narbor
9 or any other portion of the Lynn canal,
the basis of the proposition to be
that the United States has and shall
maintain jurisdiction over such ports.
The United States also to have the
power to abrogate such use at any
time.
4. The temporary use of such port
will be conditioned on some reciprocal
trade facility to be granted by Canada
to the citizens of Alaska, as for instance,
a railway right to the Yukon
and the abolition of certain laws which
bear hard against the American settlers
in Canada.
5. The future negotiations on the
modus vivendi to be conducted at
Washington or elsewhere between Mr.
Reginald Tower, British charge d'affaires,
and Mr. Hay, secretary of state.
These five statements give substantially
the result of the negotiations
which have been resumed between England
and the United States on the
Alaskan boundary.
The state department officials say
that there has been such a radical
change in the situation that an agreement
may soon be expected on the
modus vivendid on the lines of the
five propositions referred to.
The change has been in favor of the
state department. It has.brought Canada
to terms on these two important
propositions:
First, that any negotiations on a modus
vivendi shall not be based on terms
dictated by Canada.
Second, that Canada nas been
brought to consent to a proposition
which she repealed before the righ
joint commission. England has now
recurred to the proposition as modified
by the American commissioners and
adopted it as her own. It is for this
reason that the state department officials
express the opinion that a modus
vivenedi is in sight and at an early
day.
What remains to be done is to make
effective in London and here the agreement
after all the details have been
mutually submitted. It is possible that
Secretary Hay and Mr. Tower will finish
the negotiations at Newport, as
Secretary Hlay and Mr. Tower will
leave Washington in a few days for
New England.
The United States gunboat Machias
arrived in St. Thomas in connection
with the question of the coal purchased
during the Hispano-American
war, payment for which is still pendii
ng.
Mrs. Styles Not Guilty.
Chicago, Ill., July 26.-Mrs. Augusta
Styles was yesterday evening declared
by a jury of not guilty of the murder of
her mother,Mrs.Catherine Scultze. The
case has been on trial for nearly a
week and has been full of historical
episodes.
Mrs. Styles shot her mother because
the latter disparaged to Belle Styles,
a daughter of Mrs. Styles, the character
of her mother. When her daugh,ter
came to her with the stories Mrs.
Styles was frantic, and hunting for her
mother shot her down on sight. Much
sympathy was expressed for Mrs.
Styles on account of the nature of the
stories told to her children by -their
grandmother.
When the verdict was announced
Mrs. Styles was nearly frantic with
delight and kissed her husband, her
daughter, her two attorneys and nearly
everybody else she could reach.
The strike of the dockmen at Antwerp
is spreading.'The hosfiral sthn altp S ix
into port'with' 60 sick and' W
fighters from the hilipple-wal
were wan and weak. Sugffeing
written on every face Some eOqul&
leave their beds. ' 1:
The hospital steamer docked& at Fre1"mont
street wharf. The orders w r
issued to transfer the stricken hero:ig
to the Presidio hospital. ": ?t
These were the orders of the great
hammock campaigner, Gen. Shatter. -:7
Were there ambulances and stretch*'
ers and nurses and stretcher-bearers .
and doctors on hand at Fremont street"
wharf to see that those sick andu: ..*
wounded men were properly and ten-r::
derly transferred to the Presidio? Not.:at
all. *i.
Shafter issued the orders and let. -
the sick men do the rest. The orders.'-'
were that the Morgan City's patients
were to go aboard the Gen. McDowell :.
and Vigilant. -
Shafter seemed to think that they'
could fly from one steamer to another. ,
In any event he issued 'no adequate'
means for getting the bed-ridden men;
out of the hospital ship, so those who> ':
were about the dock were forced to :
shudder at the spectacle of men hardly* ,
able to walk attempting to carry. the
bodies of men who could not walk at- '
all. , :Right here at one of the great army,
posts of the world blundering incapac-'-i
ity left the sick to lead the sick, thee
wounded to care for the woundedj-'
the dying to lean on those almost in
the grave. ' '
For three hours these invalids were.
kept on the wharf with hardly roont='
enough to stretch in. Not a nurse was -
sent there to soothe the brows of pain' .
Men who needed the -most careful -
attention were left to shift for them- '
selves. ' -
All Gen. Shafter did for them washyi,
issue his commands. They wantedmedicine
and he gave them orders-- ;
The people about the docks grew high--:,'
ly indignant. Murmurings arose andl^f
murmurings brought no relief to the,
pale and trembling men who had to;
help themeslves or not be helped at
all.
It was after 4 o'clock In the after-'noon
when the McDowell a
steamed up to Frc:nont street pier.F"[
must have been 6 o'clock when the:.
sick and wounded reached the Presidios
hospital.
All day they had been buffeted abouti 4
in making the transfer. - fJefferies in New York.
New York, July 26.-Jim Jeffrles,.
the world's heavy-weight champion;.
who has been meeting all comers onel
the road, will arrive in this city to,-`
day. .':The champion comes here to arrangedetails
for his trip abroad. He has;
engaged passage on the Fuerst Bis-o
mark, which sails Thursday morning.
-Jeffries will be accompanied by his'
brother Jack and business mantgr}
Ross O'Neil. He expects to mal/e a:
tour .through the principal cities on the.
other side. ' :
While abroad Jeffries will meet
Charley Mitchell and Jem Smith. H1&
exhibition with the latter will take
place in Paris. .'
Billy Brady has made arrangement
for the reception of the champion whe6n;
he reaches England. -
He has issued a challenge to mee
all comers, and any combinatRi o
heavy-weight aspirant will be acco ia
modated by posting a forfeit. -
.: ,'i:fMessenger lBoys' Strike.
Cincinnati, 0., July 26.--The stri]
of messenger boys that began ia
Saturday has reached serious coni
tions. Hoodlums and idlers surriui
the telegraph and district office and';tercept
the new messengers in diffe
ent parts of the city. Yesterday t)
messengers were sent out in 'cabs- w1
a policeman accompanying each diT
er, but stones and missiles w.j
thrown at the vehicles the same 'agS
those taking street cars Mon l:
Many of the messengers -have been?riously
hurt. Two have been stabb:
several hurt by missiles and'mae
have been badly beaten up. There: w
be another meeting, at- which .:'
thought that the strikers will leaii
more radical action hereater o !:
the police. ^ "-7-e: ;
Wm. Armstrong,- who is cha<s
with bebig implicated with- :.a
Coughlin in an alleged attempt
bribe the jury in a land-damag'e-: 'a
Chicago. against the Illinois;CA e
was arrested at Seattle, Washi,:~T
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 46, Saturday, July 29, 1899, newspaper, July 29, 1899; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46759/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ferris Public Library.