The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1902 Page: 2 of 8
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BE CIPROC in WINS
RS OF THE DEEP.
PJCCATu*
TEXA&
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
MR. ROOSEVELT IS THE ARBITOR
DAM THE FICKLE OLD RIO GRANDE
Lamourie,
when the two
G» Over the Situtiea.
now
agent.
posts in the United
and
last
diligent search is being made to re-
The other day, While out taunting.
Moorman
cemetery.
ele-
Ne-
wiU be extended to a point in
Augustine county, near Long
new company will issue $2,500,-
6 per cent cumulative first pre-
stock, >10,000,000 non-cumulat-
6 per cent preferred stock and
A deni was closed Monday night
between Beaumont and New Orleans
parties in which 0500 barrels of oil in
tanks changed hands at 49c per bar-
rel, and another party was ottered 45c
for the oupput of his well for thirty
A large Importing house has been
closed by the government at Mexico
City for violation of the stamp tax
allies
effec-
gufferlng From Hunget
'on Mon are Picked Up. .
Drowned While Going to Funeral.
Vinita. I. T.: A young man named
Esbre, near Muskogee, I. T.. learned
of the death of his father and started
to the funeral in a buggy. When on
the road some distance he tried to
next three years the
spend large sums at
on a Burlington
Denved to Dead-
beneath ten feet
hours. The little
Senor Castro is apparently about to
discover that the article of belliger-
Benjamin F. Dennison, treasurer of
the American Baptist Publication so-
ciety, died at his residence in Phila-
delphia, Monday, Dec. 15.
prominent Louis-
was found dead
on the other side
barrel empty. He
insurance.
The proposal by Venezuela to arbi-
trate the differences with the allies is
hanging fire, as the powers desire a
guarantee of the fulfillment of what-
ever award is made.
As a reward for faithful services.
Bernard N. Baker, former president of
the Atlantic Transport company, now
a part of the International MercaiMle
Marine company, will distribute near-
ly 1500,000 among his former em-
ployes.
insurance 512,000. Origin of fire un-
known at this time.
Tom Browning was acquitted of the
killing of Dan BUtott in the district
court at Taylor. The difficulty occur-
red at a church near Garden Valley,
R. C. Whayne, a
▼ills business man,
near a fence, while
was a gun with one
carried $240,000 life
A farmers’ co-operative grain
live stock association formed at
peka, Kan., will control fifty-five
vators in Kansas, Oklahoma and
breaks.
The remains of Gen. Geo.
were interred at Metairie
New Orleans.
Secretary Wilson agrees with Con-
gressman Slayden that more money
should be appropriated by congress to
sid in the campaign against the boll
weevil.
AirasgesKsts Are Rapidly CmsIsq te a faces
far a Peaceable Settleaest st the
UatortsMte Venezuela Mass.
Marconi Transatlantic Test.
Halifax: After tests conducted with
the greatest secrecy Marconi reports
that he has solved the problem of wire-
less transoceanic telegraph and he has
transmitted wireless telegrams from
the shores of Canada to the coast of
England. The formal announcement of
this achievement was made by the In-
ventor himself Sunday when he stated
that the wireless messages had been
successfully transmitted and forward-
ed from the governor general of Can-
ada to King Edward VII. of Great Brit-
ain and to the king of Italy. Dr. Geo.
R. Parkin, principal of Upper Canada
college, trustee of Rhodes scholarship,
was present when one of the success-
ful tests was made.
frbwiog Relations With 0«r
Americas Neighbors.
Meads of the lafaat Republic Will
Win the Tariff Contention.
Representatives Slayden and Ste-
phens will call on the President to-day
by appointment to discuss with him
the question of the construction of an
international dam at El Paso. A bill
providing for this project has been
before several congresses, but so far
it has been impossible to secure favor-
able action. Messrs. Slayden and Ste-
phens believes that the construction
of the dam is essential to the proper
observance of the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo and the postponement of the
work. It is believed, serves to unfairly
inflict upon Mexico much damage, in
addition to injuring the interests of
Texas. The two Texas congressmen
are In hopes of Impressing the impor-
tance of action upon the President
that he will especially lay the matter
before congress.
' Two Men Succumb to Gaa
Beaumont: Tilton Holt, aged 26
years, was asphyxiated while on a der-
rick over the Alamo OH Company's
well in the Hogg-Swayne tract at 7:30
Sunday morning when he was picked
up by his brother, Homer Holt, sev-
eral minutes later, he was dead.
A man whose name could not bo
ascertained, fell from a derrick in the
Yellow Pine tract at 4:30 o’clock Sun-
day afternoon, and had his arm and
collarbone broken.
Heavy Loss at Springtown.
Weatherford. Four large rock build-
ings were destroyed by fire Monday
morning at Springtown. Those who
suffered heavy losses were: McDon-
nell ft Dougherty, stock $10,000, and
building $5000, with no Insurance, on
either stock or building. Only about
$4000 worth of the stock was saved.
Nix ft Tummins, stock $5000, partly
covered by insurance. Robinson Bros,
bouse and stock $6000, no insurance.
A. J. Cunningham, building $5000, no
Insurance. Young ft Denny, vacant
building, $5000, no Insurance.
“Lead, Kindly Light,’’ aft-
the burial services of the
Episcopal and Protestant
churches were read, 'ihe
The "war blockade" of the
against Venezuela will become
Uve on Sautruday.
May Be Black Plague.
City of Mexico: The superior board
of health, with offices in this city, has
sent a commission to study the myste-
rious disease which has so much alam-
ed the people of the Pacific port of
Mazatlan. One of the commissioner^
Dr. Gonsales Fabela, has passed some
time recently in San Francisco study-
ing the microbe of the bubonic, or
black plague. It begins to be believed
here that the disease is the plague, a?
stated by the local doctors in Mazat
lan. Telegrams privately received
received from that port show that the
disease is so far confined to the lower
quarters of the town, where there is
little regard for hygiene. Some nine-
teen persons have died, and the *x>cal
physicians regard the disease as, with-
out debate, the Asiatic plague, present-
ing all the symptoms of the cases
which occurred recently in San Fran-
cisco.
million-
college,
$600,000
if they
Fifty passengers
train, running from
wood, were buried
of snow for twenty
town of Mercer, Neb., was the home
of the snowbound travelers for the
twenty hours. The piece is only a
cluster of about ten houses snd shan-
ties, and the train was obliged to re-
main beneath the snow until aid could
be secured from Sydney, fifteen miles
Lizzie Veal, a white woman,
murdered in her home near
Blaze at Ban Augustine.
Ban Augustine: Fire broke out at
Burke ft Wilson’s business house Sun-
day morning, destroying two stores
Babies Worth $11,000.
Guthrie, Ok.: By an order of the
Federal government all Kaw Indians,
who were on the citizenship rolls by
Dec. 1, 1*02, were entitled to an equal
allotment of lands and monies belong-
ing to the Kaw tribe. Albert Taylor
is a fullblood Kaw. On Nov. 28. two
days before the rolls were closed his
wife presented him twin babies. He
enrolled them {mediately. They have
j lived, and to Taylor they are worth
$11,000 in land and money, which as
citizens they will be allotted.
V^^M^Sess: Almost crazed from
their sufferings, frost-bitten and help-
less, ten men in a boat were picked up
by the schooner Frank A. Palmer and
Louise B. Cracy had been in collision
and that they had been sunk off
Thatchers Island. The survivors were
landed here, Dec. 22. Of the twenty-
one men who made up the two crews,
six were carried down
vessels sunk, four died during the ter-
rible three days’ drift in Massachusetts
Bay and another became insane and
jumped overboard. With no food or
water, their clothes frozen in solid
masses and their boat being steadily
driven before a bitter gale out into the
Atlantic, it seems remarkabla that so
many survived.
Lanham s Appointments.
Washington: Gov.-Elect Lanham
has announced the following selec-
tions to fill positions unden his admin-
istration :
B. W. Foster of Hopkins, state reve-
nue
H. J. W. Clay of Erath, commission-
er of agriculture, statistics, insurance
and history.
C. A. Adams of Brazos and C. J.
Brady of Williamson, penitentiary in-
spectors.
B. F. McNulty of Bexar, superin-
tendent deaf and dumb asylum.
Robert J. Kleberg of Nueces, W. J.
Moore of Bexar and M. M. Hankins of
Hardeman county, members of Live
stock Sanitary commission.
New Bicycle Trust.
New York: The reorganization com-
mittee of the American Bicycle com-
pany has had a reorganization plan
filed with the Union Trust company
of New York which provides for the
organization of a new company to ac-
quire the properties of the old by pur-
chase.
The
000 at
ferred
ive at
$10,000,000common stock. A syndicate
has underwritten the cash payment re-
quired.
Washington,
Roosevelt has undoubtedly won his
long and hard battle in behalf of Cu-
ban reciprocity. The treaty now pend-
ing in the senate committee on foreign
relations will probably be ratified.
Leading members of the Michigan del-
egation in congress, the origin and
head center of opposition to granting
reciprocity to Cuba, will meet today at
Grand Rapids, Mich., and formally
withdraw their opposition to the trea-
ty. Senator Burrows and Senator Al-
ger will be found voting in its favor
when it comes up for ratification. If
there is serious contention of the mem-
bers of the lower branch, the friends
of the treaty in the senate will insert
a provision calling for the confirma-
tion of the house. This will really bo
given, for a majority vote is only re-
quired there, while a two-thirds vote
is necessary in the senate.
It is believed that President Rose-
velt’s answer to the proposal made by
the allied powers that he arbitrate the
Venezuelan issues has been received
in London. The strictest secrecy with
regard to every phase of the negotia-
tions is preserved, however, and it is
impossible to make a definite state-
ment, but such indications as are ob-
tainable point to President Roosevelt's
acceptance of the office of arbitrator.
By Wednesday, unless some unexpect-
ed com plications arise, it is believed
the negotiations will reach a stage
assuring a definite arrangement and
obviating hostilities. With Presfident
Roosevelt acting as arbitrator the seri-
ous objections in the matter of guaran-
tees, which have frequently been men-
tioned at the foreign office and in the
dispatches, would disappear. The
foreign office has repeatedly said that
the great difficulty in its seeing a way
to agree to a pacific settlement of the
Venezuelan trouble was in its inabi-
lity to ascertain to what extent the
United States was willing to assume
responsibility.
Mrs. Grant Memorial Service.
New York: In the Mausoleum on
Riverside Drive brief and simple ser-
vices were conducted Sunday over the
remains of Mrs. U. 3. Grant. In addi-
tion to the members of the Grant fam-
ily there was present 500 persons to
whom invitations had been senL The
' services, conducted by Bishop E. G.
Andrews of the Methodist Episcopal
church and Rt. Rev. Alex Mackay-
Smith, Protestant Episcopal bishop
coadjutor of Pennsylvania, opened with
the hymn,
er which
Methodist
Episcopal
services were closed with the reading
of a poem, “The Land Beyond the Sea,’*
which had been a favorite of Mrs.
Grant, and the singing of the hymn
"Abide with Me."
government will
San Antonio in making it a large sup-
ply station. It will require probably
$1,000,000 to accomplish what is desir-
able in that direction, and this Mr.
Slayden is bending his energies to ac-
complish.
by this
that the
not
Food Scarce in Caracas.
Caracas: The blockade is proving
prejudicial to American trade. Fif-
teen Importing houses in Caracas have
stopped placing orders in the United
States. Boulton ft Co. are the only
importers of American flour who have
declined to Increase the price of this
article. The people benefit
firm’s action. It is estimated
food supply in Caracas will
much longer than a fortnight.
New Railway Extensions.
Austin: The Velasco, Brazos and
Northern Railroad company, operat-
ing between Velasco and Anchor and
lessee of the Sugarland railroad, run-
ning from Arcola to Sugarland, filed
an amendment to its charter, provid-
ing for an extension from Anchor
north to a point on the Santa Fe in
Grimes county, traversing the coun-
ties of Brazoria, Fort Bend and Wal-
ler; also extending from Velasco
down the Brazos to a point opposite
Quintana.
Nacogdoches: The Cotton Belt rail-
road company, which recently acquir-
ed the extension from Lufkin to a
point ten miles east of Huntington, on
the Texas and New Orleans railroad,
in Angelina county, has just let sev-
en miles of contract by which the
road
San
Leaf.
Formal Declaration of War.
Port of Spain, Trinidad: Official
announcement is made here that Sir
Courtney Knollys, the acting governor,
will issue a special royal gazette con-
taining a declaration of war against
Venezuela. This ’ act is one of for-
mality, taken with the intention to le-
galize the proclamation of the block-
of American to
Americans worked
better trained and educated than the
Englishmen.
A semi-official announcement
places the Italian claims against Vene-
zuela at $2,000,000.
King Edward prorogued parliament.
In his speech be regrets necessity of
action against Venezuela.
New York financiers have made of-
fers to the Mexican government of
gold loans for public works.
Germany will not accept money
compesation from Venezuela for diplo-
matic insults, and demands an apol-
ogy.
The losses as a result of the eruption
of Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala
run into the millions, and great suffer-
ing hase resulted.
Witnesses for the operators before
the coal commission testify that the
strike caused a reign of terror in the
anthracite region.
Tribute to American Workmen.
Liverpool: Alfred Moseley, who has
just made a tour of the United States
with a number of representatives of
British labor unions, expressed his sat-
isfaction with the commission’s tour.
He said he hoped the reports will be
published within a few weeks and that
as a result changes would be made In
the methods at present employed in
several English trades. He said he was
greatly impressed with the superiority
British workmen,
harder and were
Mill and Elevator Burned.
Granbury: The Hood County Milling
company's mill and elevator burned to
a total loss here on Sunday night
The estimated loss is from $15,000 to
$20,000. A list of insurance companies
can not be ascertained at this time.
Cut Off Progress.
Granger: The construction crew of
the Granger, Georgetown, Austin and
San Antonio Railroad company has put
in the spur and is connected with the
main line of the Katy. Nearly a mile
of track has been laid and the new
road is now in a position to have all
cars of material switched on to their
own line.
K. Pearson, the Chicago
and friend of the small
obligated himself to pay
. 1 to certain institutions
meet certain conditions. It is said his
object is to give away his last cent be-
fore he dies.
A portrait of President Lincoln will
be placed In the Mississippi Hall of
Fame. The picture was furnished by
Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago in re-
sponse to a request, and will be placed
alongside that of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Military honors were paid to the late
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant The funeral ’
services were held at Washington >
Saturday and the committal to the
Great tomb at New York Sunday.
That society woman on the street car
Omaha who removed her petticoat
around a shivering baby was,
the least, a gentleman of the
y order.
Nineteen Dead.
Byron, Cal.: As a result of a rear
end collision between the Stockton
Flyer and the "Owl” train on the
Southern Pacific railroad at Byron
Springs Saturday night, sixteen per-
sons were killed, three have since died
and a score were injured severely.
Twenty-seven Injured passengers were
put on a train to be taken to the South-
ern Pacific hospital at San Francisco.
Five persons died on the way and of
the twenty-two injured who reached
the hospital, R. Post of Fowler, Cal.,
and Lee Sou, a Chinaman, may die.
To Run to Sweetwater.
Kansas City, Mo.: A Stillwell, pres-
ident of the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient Railway company, who return-
ed Sunday from New York, announces
that beginning about Feb. 15, the
Orient will operate trains south of
Wichita Falls to Sweetwater, Tex. For
a distance of thirty miles from Wichita
the tracks of the Missouri Pacific will
be used until the other tracks are com-
pleted.
A Mexican Murdered.
Seago: A Mexican was killed Sun-
day night on HawthorneW clearing. His
body was buried in ashes and brush.
Several other Mexicans have left camp.
No arrests have been made.
Dec. 22.—President
Washington, Dec. 23.—The chief of
the Ordinance of the war department
will recommend at an early day the
expenditure of 5150,000 at the arsenal
in San Antonio for the erection of
warehouses and making it a large de-
pot for supplies for the army. In ad-
I dition it is desired to install machinery
for the manufacture of horse equip-
ments, as it was demonstrated during
■ the Spanish-American war that saddles
I and accouterments could be manufac-
tured in Ban Antonio as cheaply as
elsewhere. Secretary Root approves
the recommendations of the chief of
ordinance.
The situation in South America with
the vast possibilities for the future
makes San Antonio one of the most
l important army
I States, and it is regarded as probable
The senate passes the pension appro- that within the -w.
priation bill carrying $139,847,000 and
an urgent deficiency bill carrying $1,-
148,400.
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