The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1906 Page: 3 of 12
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Eighteen Victims of a Panic
Cry of Fire In a Mfegro Church Stampedes the
Congregation with a Jam.
Philadelphia, Jan. 22.—Eighteen®
persons were killed and probably half
a hundred injured in a panic following
the cry of fire tonight in St. Paul’s
Colored Baptist Church, in Eighth
street.
The services were held on the sec-
ond floor of the building. A defec-
tive flue set fire to the chimney, caus-
ing smoke to issue through the crev-
ices in the floor near the pulpit.
The room was well filled at the
time and the cry “Are” coupled with
the sight of the smoke threw the con-
gregation into a panic.
A wild rush was made for the
stairs, despite the efforts of Rev. E.
W. Johnson the pastor, to allay the
fears of the frenzied people. All want-
ed to get out at once and men, women
and children alike were knocked down
and trampled upon by those pushing
from behind. The stairway to the
first floor had one sharp turn in it
and the frightened people became so
tightly wedged in the bend of the
stairs that the frail wooden balustrade
gave way, precipitating many to the
first floor.
The crash and the screams and
shrieks of the women and children
added to the frenzy of those above,
and they did not stop in their mad
rush to get out Notwithstanding the
wide-open doors of the first floor lead-
ing to the street the crush was so
great that eighteen persons had the
life stamped1 out of them before the
panic was ended.
A general alarm was sent in for
ambulances, firemen and policemen.
In the meantime the greatest confu-
sion reigned. Men and women ran
about the streets calling for missing
ones. Large crowds gathered and the
work of rescue was promptly start-
ed. Dead and injured were quickly
taken to hospitals and near-by houses.
The fire was only trifling, the flames
being extinguished before the firemen
arrived.
The disaster occurred while collec-
tions were being taken up. The pastor
had just concluded his sermon, the
text of which was, "Why sit we until
we die?”
ORGANIZER8 FOR COTTON WORK.
A Series of Appointments in Texas
DRAGGED TO DEATH.
Becomes Entangled In Harness of a-
Plow Team.
Henrietta: A sad accident occurred
at the home of A. R. McMasters, about
seven miles north of town late Sat-
urday afternoon, resulting in the
death of Mr. McMasters’ little boy,
about seven years old. The father was
plowing some distance from the house
and when he quit for the day he put
the little boy on an old gentle family
horse he waB working with a younger
and somewhat fiery horse. In starting
the little boy to the house with the
team, he failed to unsnap the check
lines between the horses. The younger
horse became frightened, which ex-
cited the horse the boy was on, and
In falling the little fellow became
tangled in the harness and was drag-
ged to death.
He was terribly bruised and man-
gled, nearly all his clothing being torn
off. Life was extinct when the horses
were stopped1.
Jaromis Kriek, 24 years old, and
son of John Kriek, Bhot himself
through the heart with a shotgun,
death being instantaneous. Young
Kriek had been sick for several years
The tragedy took place at his father’s
home, about seven miles west of Shin-
er,
Sour Lake-Humble Extension.
Sour Lake: Foreman M. M. Clark-
son, at Suderman Darson Camp No. 1,
says he has begun cutting right of
way for the Sour Lake-Humble exten-
sion of the Frisco Railway, and calcu-
lates that the first dirt for the grade
will be broken next Wednesday. At
present there are about fifty men in
camp, bnt later the number will be
swelled until 260 or 300 laborers will
be utilized on the work.
For Enlarged Experimental Farms.
Wichita Falls: In response to a tel-
egram from JSlwood Mead of the Ag-
ricultural Department at Washington,
A. J. Kemp has gone to the capital
city to have a consultation with the
authorities relative to establishing
experimental farms In the Irrigated
districts of this county, an a large
scale. F. W. Roeding, superintendent
of the small farm here, has recom-
mended this move as advisable
Series of Appointments in
by General Organizer.
R. D. Hudson, of Waxahachie, Tex-
as, announces, as Secretary of the
State Division of the Southern Cot-
ton Association, that the General Sec-
retary of that Association, Mr. Rich-
ard Cheatham, and the General Or-
ganizer, M. E. D. Smith, of South Car-
olina, will spend some eight weekB
in Texas counties in speech making
and organizing. Mr. Smith assisted
the State officers to organize fifteen
counties in Texas during last Novem-
ber, and now that this new series of
appointments is to be worked out with
the help of the new State President,
R. T. Milner, of Henderson, it is
thought that every man loyal to the
South will be afforded an opportunity
to join the Cotton Association.
The appointments already agreed to
are as follws:
Marshall, Thursday, Feb. 1.
Longview', Friday, Feb. 2.
Henderson, Saturday, Feb. 3.
Paris, Monday, Feb. 6.
Greenville, Tuesday, Feb. 6.
Sherman, Wednesday, Feb. 7.
McKinney, Thursday, Feb. 8.
Dallas, Friday ft Saturday, Feb. $-10.
Denton, Monday, Feb. 12.
Gainesville, Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Hillsboro, Thursday, Feb. 15.
Cleburne, Friday, Feb. 16.
Tyler, Saturday, Feb. 17.
Palestine, Monday, Feb. 26.
Bryan, Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Franklin, Wednesday, Feb. 28.
Marlin, Thursday, March 1.
Mexia, Friday, March 2.
Corsicana, Saturday, March 3.
Waco, Monday, March 12.
Temple, Tuesday, March, 13.
Taylor, Wednesday, March 14.
Houston, Thur. & Fri. March 15-lft.
Galveston, Saturday, March 17.
Columbus, Monday, March 19.
Flatonia, Tuesday, March 29.
Cuero, Wednesday, March 21.
San Antonio, Thur. & Fri. Mch. 22-23.
San Marcos, Sautrday, March 24.
Secretary Hudson has just returned
from New Orleans where he attended
the great convention and says that
this meeting of 2,000 cotton growers
and business men was the most re-
markable gathering he has ever at-
ed and was marked by singleness of
purpose and intelligent action, look-
ing to the permanent protection ol'
our Southern cotton interests.
RU88IA IS TRANQUIL.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Peace 8eeme to Reign Over All Rus-
sian Cities.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.—There is al-
most an entire lack of prognostica-
tions of disorder today, the anniversa-
ry of the historic march of Father
Gapon and his followers to the Win-
ter Palace, which has now become the
most prominent date in the chronol-
ogy of the Russian Revolutionists,
There is general confidence that the
day will pass without serious occur-
rences in St. Petersburg and Mos-
cow, though there may be collisions in
the provincial towns. The labor and
revolutionary organizations generally
have proclaimed against hostilities
and even against organized demonstra-
tions. The St. Petersburg police fear
attempts at bomb throwing on the
part of the fanatics. Many of the fac-
tories undoubtedly will close and tha
strike may affect the street railroad
service and perhaps the electric light-
ing plants.
Yesterday passed quietly, although
all the workmen were at liberty and
last night St. Petersburg was tranquil-
ly sleeping. There is none of the ap-
prehensions of a year ago. The as-
pect of the capital is entirely changed.
The palace square, which was then
gleaming with the watchflres of the
troops, tonight is entirely deserted
and a handful of horsemen are patrol-
ling the Nevsky Prospect and the
main thoroughfares.
Antis Want an Election In Fannin.
Bonham: Petitions are being circu-
lated In different parts of the county
asking the Commissioner’s Court to
call a local option election for Fannin
County. The petitions will be pre-
sented ,to the court at Its next meet-
ing. Local option has been in force
in Fannin County for two and a half
years. There is not at present a cold
storage of any description In the
oountjr.
Chicago is in the midst of a woman's
suffrage campaign.
General Frederick Funston is soon
to be relieved from the command of
the department of California and or-
dered to the Philippines, with a view
to possible utilization in connection
with any move which may be made
against China.
Henry A. Smith, a government agent
Is in Dallas for the purpose of engag-
ing workmen for the Panama Canal
work. The engagement is for 30 days
or longer, wages 60 cents an hour and
board and lodging f 27 per month.
Marie Brady threw carbolic acid into
the faces of Irma Burger and Lula
White, the latter a negress, from which
they were both badly burned. All were
of Dallas.
The Twenty-fourth Infantry, now at
San Francisco, waiting to take ship
for Manila, Jan. 25, is the first negro
regiment that has been ordered on
foreign service for nearly five years.
One person was killed and a dozen
injured when a car on the elevated
road in Brooklyn fell to the street
Friday. The car was crowded with
passengers. The accident occurred
on a curve at Fulton and Chestnut
streets.
John McDougal, a recognized au-
thority on Texas land lawws, died in
New Orleans recently, aged ninety
years. He went to New Orleans in
the forties and was a merchant, but
acquiring considerable land lh Texas,
took up the study of the Texas land
lawB.
A dispatch from Canyon City, Colo.,
says that Governor Peabody and his
wife and daughter were poisoned by
food1 eaten at breakfast Thursday
and the daughter is in a dangerous
condition as a result.
Sentiment favoring the erection of
a great library instead of a chapel as
a memorial to President Wm. Rainey
Harper has grown among the Uni-
versity of Chicago professors, students
and alumni in the last few days.
Crazed from over-study, 14-year
old Herbert Carson of New York City,
after driving his mq£hpr and father
from the house, threatening to cut
them with a carving-knife, dived from
the third story of his home and was
killed.
Shoe polish manufacturers of ths
United States met in New York last
Friday and formed the National Shoe
Polish Manufacturers’ Association.
The purpose of the association Is to
promote the welfare of the trade.
Mrs. Mary Aiken, charged with
burying her 8-months-old boy alive on
the night of Jan. 7, has been given a
preliminary hearing at Carlsbad and
was held to the action of the grand
jury on the charge of murder.
Ackl, the first Japanese ambassa-
dor to Washington, will probably
bring with him to this country his
wife, who is a German He was edu-
cated in Germany and was sent to
that country several times as minis-
ter.
The producing power of the banana
is forty-four times as great as that
of the potato. The dried fruit 1b read-
ily converted into nutricious flour:
it may also be manufactured into sau-
sages; beer can be made from it;
while the skin can be turned into
cloth; and the juice made to do ser-
vise eiither as ink or vinegar.
Commodore William P. McMann, U.
Philippine Tariff Bill Passed
The House Passed a Compromise Bill By
a Vote of 258 to 71.
Washington, Jan. 17.—The Philip-®
pine tariff bill was passed by the
House yesterday substantially as it
come from the Ways and Means Com-
mittee. The vote was 268 to 71. Over-
whelming as its majority is in the
House, the vote disclosed that the as
listener' of he democrats was essen-
tial u> tne success of tuts party meas-
ure. The bill was passed without
amendment, except that rice was ta-
ken from the list of things that are to
come in free and put in the category
with sugar and tobacco, which, on be-
ing imported from the Philippines, will
pay a duty of 25 per cent of the Dingley
rates. This, though, was no defeat
for the proponents of the bill, for the
amendment was accepted by them.
Three Texans—Messrs. Gillespie,
Burgess and Slayden—voted against
the passage of the bill. There were
twelve other democrats that joined
them, these being mostly from the
sugar and tobacco producing sections
of the South.
The bill admits goods, the growth
or production of the Philippine Is-
lands,# into the United States free of
duty, except sugar, tobacco and rice,
on which a tariff of 25 per cent of the
Dingley rates is levied. It provides
that after April 11, 1909, there shall
be absolute free trade each way be-
tween the United States and the Phil-
ippines. It also exempts Philippine
goods coming to the United States
from the export tax of those islands.
Merchandise from either country is
subjected to the internal revenue tax
of the country in which merchandise
is withdrawn for consumption.
Implement Factory for Waxahachie.
Waxahachie: In the secretary of
state's office at Austin last Saturday
a charter was granted the Waxahach-
ie Implement Manufacturing company.
The capital stock is $50,000 and the
incorporators are C. W. Gibson, T. A.
Ferris, S. P. Skinner, J. S. Davis, J.
W. McManus, R. W. Getzendaner, J.
H. Brown and Floyd Ferris. The
purpose of the corporation is to man-
ufacture farming implements, ma-
chinery, vehicles and wares. One of
the promoters of this enterprise is
J. H. Brown, who has invented a num
ber of farming Implements which are
now manufactured at Detroit, Mich
and Marseilles, HI. The plant here
will be operated similarly to the plants
in the above named cities. The
building of the plant will be begun
just as soon as a suitable location
can be secured.
Mrs. Chadwick Commences Work.
Columbus, O.: Mrs. Cassie L. Chad-
wick, who has ben too weak for the
past few days and who has been con-
fined in the hospital of the female
department of the penitentiary, began
her duties with the other women con-
victs Tuesday. She was set to work
making buttonholes in shirts and will
continue this work until she becomes
well enough to run a sewing machine.
D. M. Devitt of Fort Worth, has
leased the Scurry county school lands
in Hockley and Cochran counties for a
period of five years at 7 cents per acre,
an increase of two cents over the for-
mer lease. There are 17,000 acres in
the tract. *
WORLD’S GREATEST MERCHANT,
MAR8HALL FIELD, DEAD.
From Plowboy to Greatest Pinnacle
as Merchant. .
New York, Jan. 17.—Marshall Field
of Chicago, millionaire merchant and
a leader in the dry goods trade of the
world, died at the Holland House in
this city at 4 o’clock yesterday after-
noon after an illness extending over
more than a week, beginning with a
bad cold and developing quickly into
pneumopnia which aftected both lungs.
Mr. Field, although 70years of age,
made a tight against the disease which
impressed the attending physicians as
being braver and stronger than would
have been expected ofa man many
years his junior. Marshall Field was
without question the greatest and
most successful merchant of his gen-
eration and he was one ofthe world’s
richest men, his wealth being esti-
mated at anywhere from $100,000,000
to $200,000,000. He was a native of
Conway, Mass., where he was born in
1835. His father was a farmer and
Mr. Field obtained his education at ths
schools of Conway.
At the age of 17 he became a clerk
In a general country store in Pitts-
field, Mass., where he remained four
years. He came to Chicago in 1858
and began his career in this city as
a clerk in the wholesale dry goods
store of Colley, Wadsworth & Co. Dur-
ing the four years that he remained
with the house he showed marked com-
mercial ability and in 1860 he was giv-
en a partnership. }
The late Levi Z. Letter was also con-
nected with the firm and in 1865 the
two young men withdrew and, in com-
pany with Potter Palmer, they organH
lzed the firm of Field, Palmer ft Letter,
which continued until 1867, when Mr.
Palmer withdrew and the firm became
known as Marshall Field ft Co., as It
is today. The house forged to the
front very rapidly and it is now the
largest enterprise of its kind in the
world, having numerous branches
throughout Europe and Asia.
Ban Domingoan War Ende.
San Domingo: The port Monte
Crlstl on the North coast which re-
cently has been in the hands of the
revolutionists, capitulated to the gov-
ernment forces, the latter guarantee-
ing to protect the lives and property,
of the rebels. The Dominican gun-
boat Independence, which supported*
Gen. Morales, former president o$|
San Domingo, also surrenderee aftevi
the commander had sought refuge on
one of the American warships. The
revolution is ended and all Is quiet.
The mail carriers of Dallas are tak-
ing a census of that city, and say that
the figures will run over 80,000.
S. N., retired, is dead at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y. He was a native
of Kentucky and served on the gulf
blockading squadron during the Civil
War.
The French governmenmt has deci-
ded to adopt most energetic measures
to obtain satisfaction from Venezuela.
It is understood a naval demonstration
under preparation.
A plan is on foot to combine ail the
breweries of New York City.
J. C. Napier, the negro lawyer and
banker of Nashville, who was recently
offered the position of United States
Consul at Bahia, Brazil, called on the
President and thanked him for the
proposed appointment, but declined it.
The funeral services and burial of
Marshall Field occurred in Chicago
Friday. The proceedings were mark-
ed by extreme simplicity.
New strawberries opened up on the
Dallas market last Friday at $1 a box.
—about two-thirds of a quart
To Build Texas, N. M. ft Pacific.
Dallas: C. D. Wright, a representa-
tive of the firm that has the contract
to build the Texas, New Mexico and
Pacific railroad from McKinney to
Roswell. N. M., states that President
L. K. Davis, accompanied by officials
Is expected to arrive soon. Mr.
Wright states that 200 men will soon
begin work on the road which will
be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible.
Sudden Deaths of Four Men.
New York: Four men are dead and)
four are In Bellevue’ hospital suffer-
ing with semi-suffocation as a result
of the bursting of an air pipe in the
shaft of the Belmont tunnel on Mam
o’ War Reef in the middle of East!
river opposite Forty-second stree
early Tuesday morning. The four de1**
were negro tunnel workers.
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of Ellis county, died,(/j.-V
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Floater Found at Port Arthur.
Port Arthur: A corpse was found
floating under the lumber wharf Tues-
day night by a man named Beruldsen,
who has been working at the docks
for some time. The corpse which
was found has been identified as be-
ing the engineer who was missing
from the schooner Crosby the latter
part of last month. A thoroftgh
search was made for the missing en-
gineer while the Crosby was In port
but np. traqe could be found.
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Will Use
Weather permitting, .'ft
of the present being carrieu out,
lty and Brazos Valley trains wil^
running into Dallas by Sept. 1
this year. They will come in <
Waxahachie, making use of the C
souri, Kansas and Texas tracks fii
that city. This statement 1a mad
upon the authority of Vice Preslden
and General Manager M. Sweenagr o(
the Brazos Valley line,
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1906, newspaper, January 25, 1906; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735054/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.