La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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RUSSIA HAS ACCfPTED THE CITY
Of WASHINGTON TO MEET JAPAN
St. Petersburg, June 19.—Russia
has finally and definitely accepted
Vrashington as the meeting place
of the Russian plenipotentiaries, the
foreign office having waived its re-
quest for reconsideration at the per-
sonal direction of the emperor,
whose desire to give the fullest and
the foreign minister went to Peters-
Hoosevolt’s proposal for a peace
conference is thereby manifested.
After his%conference with Am-
bassador Meyer, Count Lamsdorff
tin- Foreign Minister, went to Peter-
hof and laid the matter before the
Kmporor, who, on learning that in-
sistence on The Hague might en-
danger t ho negotiations, directed
Count Lamsdorff t6 inform Ambas-
sador Meyer that Russia would ac-
cept Washington. ,
It was after.midnight Saturday
when the Foreign Minister return-
ed to St. Petersburg, hut Ambassa-
dor Meyer was forthwith notified
and a cipher dispatch was preparec
and sent to the State Department al
Washington at an early hour Sun-
day morning.
Count Lamsdorff has issued a
public announcement of the selec-
tion of-Washington. The result it
looked upon as a decided triumph
for American diplomacy.
In certain quarters here envy and
jealousy of the United States are
ill concealed. The entire collapse ol
the negotiations was predicted Sat-
urday and there was almost open
exultation at what was declared -to
he a “rebuff to Roosevelt.” Even in
peace circles gloomy faces were
drawn at the report that Russia
would insist upon The Hague, hut
thanks to the personal attitude ot
the. emperor and the well-put rep-
resentations of Ambassador Meyer,
the threatened diplomatic mountain
has decreased to a mole hill over
which negotiations can now proceed
rapidly.
—
Edison Hstes New York.
Edison despises New York city,
i “I loathe its artificial way of liv-
ing,” he says, “its mannerisms, its
ways of thought. It bas but the
one redeeming feature, that it is
getting so impossible that people
must leave it or become crazy. A
man in New York gets down to
his office at 9, works until 12 or 1,
goes out, takes a couple of cock-
tails, eats a hearty luncheon, hur-
riedly goes back to his desk and
works until 5 or 6, hurries uptown,
stopping off for one or two more
drinks, goes out somewhere, cals
an enormous dinner, goes to the
theater and then supper afterwar-1,
and finally tumbles into bed. It is
that type of man who often says
to me, ‘I don’t see how you stand
the strain of working the way you
do day after day and night after
night in the laboratory.’ Work?
Why, my work is play compared
with his.”
TWEWTY'THREE LIVES FOR A BLUNDER.
worked lierociadly amidst the blood
Baltimore, June 19.—-The death
roll ot Saturday’s night’s disaster
in. the Western Maryland Railroad
now foots up twenty-three, ami this
list is likely to he increased from
among the list of those grievously
mangled.
All the dead were employes of th
road, returning to their homes in
small tdwns along the road to spend
Sunday. With the exception of the
train crews, they had been at work
repairing the damage done to the
road bed by a minor freight wreck
al Mount Hope station uear this
city. The train, which was No, 3,
passenger, westbound, curried n
large number of passengers. As
many of the workmen as could- do
60 went into the baggage car, the re-
mained of the gang of thirty-five
finding places on the platform be-
tween the mail and baggage cars
and between the latter and the ten-
der. ,
In the neighborhood of Uatap-
seo station, about eight miles from
Westminster, the Western Mary-
land lias many curves, and that just
west of the bridge crossing the Fat-
apseo riyer is a sharp one. An extra
freight made up of heavy coal and
provsion ears was running east. Ac-
cording to its orders it should have
taken the siding to allow No. 5 to
pass. Why the orders were disre-
gardevl will never be known for
those who should have seen that
they were obeyed are dead. The
passenger train was running at a
speed of thirty miles an hour and
the freight, a double-header, was
making good time. Just west of the
bridge they came together with
terrific force the engines being piled
upon one another, fortunately in
such a manner that sufficient con-
nections were broken to relieve the
boilers and thus prevent further
horror by one or more explosions.
The fearful impact drove the pas-
senger tender into the baggage car.
In an instant the scene resembled a
shambles.
Heartrendering shrieks from the
Injured brought to the scene the in-
habitants of all the farmhouses
within a considerable radius, and
these immedately innaugurated res-
cue work. Farmers’ wives and
daughters made bandages of their
clothing and household linen and
Heat Causes Death.
Pittsburg, Pa.: The continuous
high temperature Sunday was the
cause of six deaths and three pros-
trations. For the past three days
the government thermometer has
registered a maximum of 90 each
day. or the first time in its history
the W. Dewees wood mill of the
American Sheet Steel Company was
dosed Sunday on account of exces-
sive heat. The shut down will last
a week.
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Engineer and Fireman Killed.
Oklahoma City: The Meteor,
which left this city Sunday after-
noon for Kansas City and St. Louis,
was wrecked in south yards, this
city, and Engineer Binkley and
l ireman Fisher were in-tantly kill-
ed. Express Messenger Jewett was
badly injured, while.fill of the pas-
sengers were more or less shaken up
and bruised. Engineer Binkley was
cut in two, while the fireman was
scalded beyond recognition.
Plague of Flies in London.
Millions of flies have invaded the
Cardiff docks district, and have so
infested the principal thoroughfares
that pedestrian traffic has been di-
verted into other streets. Yester-
day afternoon, says the London
Chronicle of a recent date, the po-
NEWS IN NUTSHELLS.
and grime. One or two physicians | ,ce.and (,ock P‘Ten at the J,,cr
who had been passengers on thc,|leadwerf attackcd by a tremendous,
wrecked train directed their efforts. host- and ran for protection behind
The relief trains bearing doctors
were sent ns quickly as possible
from Baltimore and Westminster.
MAXIMO GOMEZ DEAD.
Great Cuban Leader Passes Away in
Free Cuba.
Havana, June 19.—Genera] Go-
mez. whose life has hung by a brittle
thread for several days, breathed hi*
last Saturday.
The flags of every nation in Ha-
eana are at half mast over the le-
gations and consulates in honor of
the dead general, Maximo Gomez,
and at Havana's fortress a gun
booms at every half hour. In every
street there are long rows of Cuban!
theclosed doors of the watchhouses,
The storekeepers complain bitter-
ly of the invasion, and clerks in the
dock warehouses are seriously in-
terrupted in their work. From
their appearance, the'flies belong to
a foreign species. Unlike the Brit-
ish fly, they have long bodies, crawl
very slowly, and bite badly. They
first made their appearance on Sun-
day. The sanitary authorities dis-
credit the report that the flies were
imported by newely arrived fishing
vessels, and state that the insects
were first seen during the souther-
ly wind on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. F. Marion Crawford.
Mrs. Urawfcrd, wife of F. Mar-
n Crawford, the novelist, al-
s reer mere are long rows or 1 uuan th h the mother o{ two grown
flags draped in mourning and even da hters is said b an American
the poorest tenements have crepe in -
the windows.
The Spanish Club joined in the
mourning by hoisting the Castilian
flag at half mast. The body of Gen.
Gomez ^is -taken to the palace,
where • ir now lies in state in the
principal salon surrounded by great
mass of 1 lowers sent by relatives
friends, comrades and government
departments and social and poltical
organizations.
woman, who recently met her
abroad, to look not a day over 26.
She is a blonde, slender and grace-
ful, and exceedingly fond of so-
ciety ; quite a butterfly, in fact, and
altogether different in her tastes
from her husband. The home of
the Crawfords is in Sorrento, on
the Bay of Naples, and there Mrs.
Crawford spends most of her time.
Mrs. Crawford spent several
Congress at a special session do- months in. New York only a short
cided that the period of mourning (time ago.
should continue for three days, dur-
ing which time public business
would be suspended. Business
houses appropriated $15,000 for the
funeral, which will take place Tues-
day.
Masonic Cornerstone Laying.
Taylor: Contractor J. F. Mc-
Knight, who is building Taylor’s
new $25,000 City Hall on the public
square, estimates that the founda-
tion for the structure will be com-
pleted in’thirty days and there is a
movement on foot among the citi-
zens of Taylor of marking the event
of laying the cornerstone of the
structure with Masonic honors, ac-
companied by a grand free barbe-
cue and celebration on the public
square.
Narrow Escape from an Oil Fire
Paris: Fire destroyed the water
tank, coal chutes, fuel oil tank and
ten or twelve freight ears and a pas-
senger engine in the Frisco-Santa
Fe yards Sunday afternoon. The
passenger engine on the Santa Fe
had just come in and was taking a
supply of oil at the tank when the
supply flooded and caught fire. The
men on the engine were unable to
stop the fire and had to fun for
their lives.
Bang's Little Joke.
John Kendrick Bangs once ran
across a gift copy of one of his
hooks in a seend-hand book shop,
still having this inscription on the
flyleaf: “To his friend, J— G—.
with the regards and the esteem of
J. K. Bangs, July, 1889." Mr.
Bangs bought the copy and sent it
to his friend again, with a second
inscription beneath: “This book,
bought in a second-hand bookshop,
is presented to J— G— with re-
newed and reiterated regards and
esteem by J. K. Bangs, December.
tSQQ.”
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Rosen Lived in Japan.
Baron fosen, who will succeed
Count Cassini as Russian ambas-
sador to this country, represented
his nation in Japan immediately
preceding the present war. He ex-
erted his influence steadily for
peace, and it is generally lielievcd
in Tokio that had his advice been
taken hostilities woud have been
averted. When the war was bd-
gun and he returned to St. Peters-
burg, he did so in. semi-disgrace.
HSs friends now regard his ap-
point to Washington as complete
vindication of his course in the Far
East, especially in the light of Ro-
jestvensky’s utter overthrow.
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Honor Nebraska Orator.
Matthew Gering. of Plattsmoutb,
1 Neb., has been invited to deliver an
in the street Saturday addrpgs at the annual banquet of the
McCoy wa a partner of Jim Hope, Ni Burns Club, in Edinburgh,
who d.ed here a few davs ago, in ncxt Jajluary. Mr Ger-
he famous Manhattan Bank rob- hag widr tation as an ora_
bery and also m that of the Bene- ^ ^ Ja'nuary thc Ninety
in?872?whL they earned off $G0,- ’ Bim» Cub was addressed by Lord
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A Transgressor’. Way.
New York: Homeless and appar-
ently in a dying condition, Frank
McCoy, known as Big Frank, a fa-
mous old time bank robber, was
picked up
ADVANTAGES OF INVENTIONS
A kind of catterpillar is injuring
the pecan buds in the vicinity of
Waco.
Sir Henry Irving has announced
his intontion of coming to Amerioa
next season for a mouth’s tour.
The Katy management has au-
thorized the erection of a new depot
at Leesburg, on the Shreveport dU
vision.
The name of the new consoli-
dated bank in Dallas will be “The
American National Exchange
Bank.’'
Uncle Charlie White, of Odessa,
aged 82 years, died at his residence
from thc effects of being kicked by
a mule.
Charles J. Herrick, aged 72, a
thirty-third degree Mason and a
prominent citizen of Chicago, died
in that city.
Three tramps were killed, several
passengers injured and three ears
ditched near JVIescnl, Arizona, on
the Southern Pacific.
An automobile returning from a
wedding in Chicago ran into an
open draw on a bridge and three of
the occupants wore drowned.
Boh Swan, a negro, was drowned
Saturday in the East Fork Creek
shout three miles north of McKin-
ney, where lie had been fishing.
Mrs. Flint, who resides on Col-
lege Hill, Texarkana, with her hus-
band and three children, died Sat-
urday night of an overdose of mor-
phine.
The first killing to.take place in
Sherman County was on Wednes-
day, when Will Byers was shot and
instantly killed, it is said, by L. L.
Barnett. ,
The commissioners in response to
petition have called an election for
Tuesday, June 30, to determine
whether or not Lampasas county
shall continue wet or dry.
Contract for the North Fort
W orth school house has been signed
by Contractor J. W. McPherson and
the school board. The price is ap-
proximately $25,000..
Colonel and Mrs. M. Stuart of
Terrell Monday celebrated their
golden wedding in a very pleasant
manner. Fifty years ago they were
married in South Carolinu.
Napoleon Hardin, colored, shot
his brother, Harlin, Monday after-
noon in Austin killing him instant-
ly. Napoleon claims it was acci-
dental, but he is in joil.
It is talked that the Trinity and
Brazos Valley road will be built
from Coolidge to Dallas, and it is
believed that it will pass through
either Corsicana or Blooming Grove.
A salt water hath, a shave and,
while you sleep, your clothes press-
ed and sponged, are new features of
railroading to be inaugurated next
Sunday on the Lake Shore Railway.
Fire totally destroyed the large
gin plant and shingle mill of Tai-
lor & McDnde, on the line of the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company near Shreveport, Besides
the mill upward of 100,000 shinglos
were destroyed.
“Bluelieard” Johann Hoch, who
was sentenced to be hanged Juno
23 for the murder of one of his nu-
merous wives, may he given one
more chance to escape the gallows.
His case may be taken to the Su-
preme Court of Illinois.
Guy Scott, a 14-year-old boy, who
lived with his father, Robert Scott,
a mile and a half cast of Rosalie, in
Red River County, shot and killed
himself with a load of buckshot
from a double-barreled shotgun.
The Taylor Fair Association has
secured a big fireworks display as
another attraction for visitors to
the twenty-fourth annual exhibition
of the association there on July 4,
5 and (1; also reduced excursion
rates on all railroads.
The present Attorney General
upholds thc ruling of his predecess-
or, that women can hold office in
Texas, and it . is likely Fayette
county will have a female peda-
gogue for County Superintendent.
A dispatch from Zunzibar an-
nounces the death of Tippoo Tibb,
thc noted Arab chief and slave deal-
er. When traveling through the
Darkj Continent in 1870 Henry M.
Stanley met Tibb and deacribed him
as a riiost remarkable character.
Hardships of Other Days Are Done
Away With.
Apropos to Texas’ position as tho
leading agrirutural State in the
American Union, the following
from the Montgomery Advertiser
makes mighty good reading matter,
especially for those of our farmer
friends who are not keeping up with
the things that are doing to make
a business, a science and an art of
agriculture:
Farming, in some shape, was the
beginning of human labor, as the
farmer was the pioneer of human in-
dustrialism. If we take the Mosaic
account we learn that when God
created Adam he “took the man up
and put him into the Garden of
Eden to dress it and keep it.” If
we adopt that account of the begin-
ning of luimnn life on earth we are
hound to admit that the first man
of earth's population adopted in
some degree and fashion the occupa-
tion of a cultivator of the earth,
and from that day to this ttoere has
been no more noble occupation.
How widely different is the life of
the farmer now in this country from
what it was a century ago! Then it
was a life of hard work and isola-
tion. There were no labor-saving
devices for him then. Almost every
other human industry had begun to
realize the benefits of machines
which would to some extent lighten
and expedite the labor of human
hands and take from human shoul-
ders some of the burdens of toil, hut
it was not so with the farmer. He
used the same old style of plows and
hoes that had come down to him
through centuries. He sowed and
reaped his grain in the same wny
that his ancestors did, and so all
through his work he toiled with
rude tools, rarely finding rest time,
and knowing nothing of the advan-
tages of machine work. All that
has changed or is fast changing, and
the time lias come when every pros-
perous and progressive farmer can
make iron and steel and wood large-
ly do the work of human, hands and
take the place of human bone and
muscle.
Not less notable is thc change in
the fanner’s environment. Even
half a century ago in moat parts of
thc country he and hia family were
cut off from all human associations.
If he went to the nearest town or
store it meant the loss of a day. If
he could get mail matter once a
week he was fortunate, and the
farmer who could obtain and read a
weekly newspaper was an advanced
mortal. That, too, is changed for
Hie better. Railroads and trolley
lines are reaching out into thc ru-
ral districts. The country is becom-
ing dotted witli towns and villages,
the telephones arc pushing their
way across country and the rural de-
livery system is taking the mail to
the door of the farmer. In most
sections it is now easier to get a
daily newspaper regularly than it
was to get the weekly less than 50
years ago. and the farmer and his
family can now get letters without
making a day’s journey for them.
It was natural that all these
changed conditions should work a
corresponding change in the nature
and habits of the rural population
Instead of being an isolated worker
witli little opportunity for associa-
tion with hia fellows, he is becom-
ing more social, better informed,
and in most cases more contented.
He now has the opportunity to keep
in touch with humanity, to know
what is going on and to take part in
the active lire of his kind. He is no
longer a detached atom, but an act-
ive member of animated humanity,
and can feel that he ia of import-
ance in the busy world instead of be-
ing a living and breathing mummy.
The life of the farmer has many
hard lines even now, hut wonderful
have been the changes and improve-
ments within the memory of man.
A Good Sign.
WM«i looking for something for
hu example of enterprise in the way
of school improvements, look at the
little western town of Miles. They
got up a proposition there to bond
thc town in the sum of $11,000 to
erect a school building, and out of
126 votes 106 of them were for the
bonds. That town will do things
and do them fast, if they continue
to stick together in that proposi-
tion. They are not afraid to risk n
dollar on their town and school
when it is evident that it will be re-
turned to them with big interest.
Another tiro bis with s cold da y,
people won't talk about anythin* elna.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1905, newspaper, June 22, 1905; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004428/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.