The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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NEW
THE DECATUR NEWS
DECATUR.
CONSPIRACY AND BRIBERY ARE
L. W. TYLER, Proprietor.
Office E. Main St., next door to P. O.
TEXAS
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
SHOWN.
A scheme la under way to unite Bar-
ria and Bulgaria.
Miaa Ruth Meyers was burned to
death at Alton. Ill.
Civil and military authorities of
Panama have clashed.
Mrs. Anna Poston, an actress, oora-
enltted suicide at Chicago.
The battleship Kearsarge has com-
pleted Its trip across the Atlantic.
Japan declares that she wants only
peace, but is determined to enforce her
rights.
The Columbia senate has referred
the Panama canal treaty to a com-
mittee.
Printers are on a strike at Spokane.
Wash. The scale of wage is the point
al issue.
Phil Davidson was bitten by a rat-
tlesnake at Muskogee, I. T., but will
recover.
The Codling moth has severely dam-
aged the apple crop in the two terri-
tories.
Two killed and six wounded was the
result of a row at a negro church at
Cawak, Ga.
Gen. Kuropatkin, the Russia war
minister, has returned to St. Peters-
burg from the far east.
The national executive committee
of the United People’s party will con-
vene at St. Louis on Feb. 22, 1904.
Eleven persons have been arrested
at Danville, Ill., charged with partici-
pating in an attempt at lynching.
Young Corbett knocked out Jack
O’Neil in live rounds before the Na-
tional Athletic club at Philadelphia.
William Busby has been appointed
coal commissioner for Indian and Ok*
lahoma Territories for the World’s
fair.
Walter McGowan was killed and
seventeen other passengers injured in
a wreck on the Union Traction com-
pany at Anderson, Ind.
A >100,000 blaze at Phoenix, Aria.,
destroyed the dry goods store of the
Alkire company and D. H. Burtls*
plumbing establishment
Fire at Lindsay, I T., Monday
destroyed seven business houses and
most of their contents. The loss is
|15,000, with one-fourth insurance.
Paul Herman of Rutherford, N. J.,
has been awarded the contract of fur-
nishing the government with money
order blanks for the ensuing four
years.
Cuba now has a small revolution
going on in the eastern portion of the
island. One Pupo, has collected a
band of some sixty men and is ter-
lorizing villagers on Cauto river.
A new issue of the counterfeit of
United States (Buffalo) note, describ-
ed in the press dispatches of Oct. 17,
1902, has been discovered. The check
letter has been changed from C to B,
and the plate number from 57 to 52.
Otherwise the notes are the same.
“Felix Hall,” colored, who was to
have been hanged at Birmingham,
*Ala., established that he was Henry
Jackson and that he was in Louis-
iana at the time Norwood Clark was
murdered and has been granted a re-
spite and may be pardoned.
Gen. A. P. Stewart, one of the few
surviving lieutenant generals of the
Confederate army, and a member of
the Chickamauga Park commission, is
critically ill and not expected to live.
He Is suffering from paralysis.
Gen. Anton Ramos, one of the last
of the chiefs of the revolution to re-
main in the field, who had a camp near
Banta Lucia, has surrendered to the
government of Venesuela, together
with 400 men, their arms and am-
munition.
A quarrel between Viscount Antoine
de Contades and Tuonl Bey, second
secretary of tho Turkish embassy, at
Paris, resulted In a duel with swords
at Paris, In which Tuonl Bey was
.wounded In the arm.
Thrstaamship Elllda, one of the fleet
tall vessels in the Cuban trade
Galveston, cleared and sailed,
of 1355 head of Texas live
tie are landed at tho
and from there taken
MACHEN’S SCHEMES RAMIFY
Former Head of Free Delivery Prolific
In Schemes to Obtain Com-
missions.
Washington, Aug. 1.—The postofflee
Investigation developed more excite-
ment yesterday, the federal grand jury
returning seven indictments, involving
nine persons, for alleged conspiracy
and bribery in connection with postal
affairs.
August W. Machen, for many years
the head of the free delivery service,
was named jointly with the others in
four of the .Indictments. The other
men were William Gordon Crawford,
who was deputy auditor for the post-
office department from June 12, 1893,
to Sept. 15, 1897, and Is a member of
one of the exclusive clubs of Wash-
ington; Leopold J. Stern of Baltimore,
George E. Lorenz of Toledo, formerly
a prominent government official, and
Martha J. Lorenz, his wife; John T.
Cupper, mayor of Lockhaven, Penn.;
William C. Long, an Ohio man, who
is n intimate friend of Machen’s; Mau-
rice Runkel of New York city, and
Thomas W. McGregor, a protege of
Machen, who was a messenger
at the beginning of Machen’s
administration of the free delivery ser-
vice, and in recent years has been in
charge of the supplies for tbs rural
free delivery service.
Crawford voluntarily appeared m
court soon after the indictments were
leturned and furnished >10,000 bail,
and McGregor likewise gave $5000 bail.
Long was arrested at him home, where
Deputy Marshal Springman found him
in bod. He was released on $10,000
bond. His was the only case in which
a bench warrant was Issued owing to
the voluntary action of the others in-
dicted.
Machen was not rearrested under the
new indictments, as he gave bonds in
$20,000 under his indictment several
weeks ago, and the authorities felt this
was sufficient to insure his appearance.
Warrants have been issued for the out-
of-town parties indicted, and- their ar-
rest is expected within the next twen-
ty-four hours.
The grand jurjr has not completed
the work laid before it by the postal
investigators, and other indictments
may be expected later on, possibly
within a week or two. It is under-
stood that two additional cases against
one of the parties indicted yesterday, a
former prominent bureau official, are
being inquired into by the grand jury,
and that the acts of another former
high official of the postoffice depart-
ment under indictment by the Brook-
lyn grand jury are being investigated.
Attorney Douglas, of Machen’s coun-
sel, in speaking of today’s Indictments
of Machen said that they Involved the
same general charges as the former in-
dictment, although different alleged
transactions, and that the new indict-
ments were designed simply to
strengthen the former ones. He said
nothing had been decided as to Ma-
chen’s course under the new indict-
ments.
The San Antonio Traction company
refuses to carry children at half fare
and proposes to test the law.
Rumored Mob at Alto.
Tyler: News has reached here of the
mobbing of a negro near Alto Wednes-
day. The negro, it appears, had in-
sulted some ladies by cursing them
and firing into the house as he rode
by on horseback. A crowd formed who
captured tho negro and took him to
the river bottoms. Nothing has been
heard from them since. All is quiet
at Alto.
Sdicide by Carbolic Acid.
Dallas: Friday James L Barry, Jr.,
wont into a saloon, calling for a small
glass of beer that he might take some
medicine. The glass was handed him.
He poured practically all the contents
of a small bottle of carbolic acid Into
the glass, and then drank it down. Al-
most instantly he gave a groan of pain.
He was carried to the rear of the sa-
loon. Within a few minutes after
drinking the poison tho young man
was dead. He was from Imbanon,
MARLIN FLOODED.
A Water-Spout Does Considerable
Damage.
Marlin: Marlin and vicinity has
been visited by a waterspout of long
duration and regular deluge propor-
tions. A few minutes before 11 o’clock
the rain commenced falling in sheets
and torrents and fell at that rate for
six hours. The precipitation was
about twelve inches. This is the great-
est volume of water that has ever fall-
en in this section in some length of
time. Great damage has been done city
property. Many basements were filled
and water rushed down the streets like
a mighty river. The streets of the city
have been badly damaged in places.
Brick culverts, recently built at con-
siderable cost, have been washed away.
No estimate can be made as to damage
done in the country. Acres of corn and
cotton in the Brazos bottoms and in
creek bottoms are covered with water.
The overflow from Big Creek and
many other creeks east of Marlin was
never so great or so disastrous to crops
before. The oil mill lake in the city
overflowed, sending a great quantity
of water sweeping through the resi-
dence part of the city.
Run Down by Hand Car.
Texarkana: Mike Bouldin, an em-
ploy of the De Queen and Eastern
railroad, was run over by a hand car
near De Queen and sustained such se-
rious injuries of the spine that com-
plete paralysis of the lower limbs re-
sulted. He was brought here and nlac-
ed in a local sanitarium for treatment
It is feared his injuries may be perma-
nent.
Killed By Lightning.
Runge: A young Mexican, named
Pedro Leal, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed Friday during the
rain and electric storm. The Mexican,
in company with several companions,
was camped under a tree in the Lyons
community, about three miles from
Runge, when the storm came up. Hie
clothes were burned nearly off of him,
and every bone in his body broken.
FROM WORLD’S EVENTS. *
The Houston and Texas Central
Railway Company has just completed
the construction of a fuel oil storage
tank at Fort Worth with a capacity
of 1,480,000 gallons. It is located half
a mile south of the local yards. This
makes the eighth tank of similar size
built by the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railway Company at points along
its line.
Manager von Possart of the Munich
royal opera declares that the rights
to “Parsifal” do not belong to
the Wagner family, but to Bavaria,
and that the German ambassador at
Washington will prevent Heinrich
Conreid, director of the Metropolitan
opera house in New York, from giving
the opera there.
•
The New York and Porto Rico
Steamship company has given out an
annual statement showing the amount
of Texas-Louisiana rice exported to
that country from Aug. 1, 1902, to July
31, 1903. To San Juan, 243,438 bags;
to Ponce, 133,289; to Mayaguez, 115,-
433; to Aguadilla, 42,238; to Arecibo,
47,661; to Arr|oyo, 17,851; to Fajardo,
3969; total, 603,924 bags.
Miguel Ronyel, a miner at the Leit-
naker coal mine, two miles north of
Rockdale, was caught in a cavein at
the mine Friday. He was rescued at
once, but was so badly crushed that he
died in a few minutes. He was from
Lovelady.
At Pittsburg H. H. Cartwright got
his left foot crushed while alighting
from a Cotton Belt passenger train.
The train was moving out of the sta-
tion, when he attempted to- get off
backward. His foot was caught under
a wheel. Amputation will be neces-
sary.
The Indian Territory Traction Com-
pany at South McAlester has received
the bills of laden for several motor
cars which were shipped from the
factory at Toledo on the 22d. They
will be the first electric cars ever seen
in the Indian Territory.
Charles B. Middleton, leading maa
In the Middleton, Stock company,
which is playing an engagement at tho
Casino, at Columbus, Ga., was serious-
ly stabbed during the progress of tho
play by George X. Wilson, who was
playing the part of tho villain.
W. M. Rapp, aged sixty-five years,
was seriously injured-by a Santa Fo
train at Cameron.
being Her Best.
A very small Philadelphia girl, im-
mediate family circle for obedience,
but her reverence, was playing in the
garden one hot summer day, when a
thunder storm arose suddenly. The
little one’s mother called to her from
the window to gather up her toys and
come in. Just then, without warning
there was a heavy peal of thunder.
Then the child, very much frightened,
paused for a moment, then looking up
to the sky said: “Oh, Dod, don’t scold
so hard; I’m hurrying all I tan.”—
Philadelphia American.
Hygiene of Bare Feet.
“When I go away this summer I
expect to trot around barefoot most
of the time,” said a man who was
planning his vacation. “It makes a
man ten years younger to go without
shoes. Some persons believe the nice
sea air and bathing are the things
that restore one’s constitution. That
may help, but running around barefoot
is the principal factor. If people went
to the seashore and didn’t go bare-
footed they wouldn’t get half the re-
sults they would in going around with-
out shoes. There is a lesson in Whit-
tier’s ‘Barefoot Boy.’ ”
A Perilous Leap
From Pike’s Peak, 14,184 feet, will not
cure softening of the brain, but a 25
cent box of Cheatham’s Laxative Chill
Tablets will cure chills. No cure—no
pay.
Cheer up; you can’t live very long
at the most.
None who have suffered the tortures ac-
ootnpanying diseases of the eye caa realise
that
will do what is claimed for it, but a trial
soon convinces one of the extraordinary
curative powers of this little remedy.
FREE SAMPLE
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to leant
that there ia at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all its states, and
that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
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Health makes wealth for some, but
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Tyler, L. W. The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1903, newspaper, August 7, 1903; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1194391/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .