Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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■' ties Passes Away.
Gen. Wm. P. Hardeman, Superinten-
dent of the Confederate Home is dead.
The hero of many hard fought bat- pression of wanton wrong,
ties of three wars, after battling with
the grim reaper for several days, sur-
rendered at 3:40 o’clock a. m. Friday
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information as to the income annual*
ly." In Match there was leased 524,-
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Another Railroad for Sweetwater.
Sweetwater, April 9.—The Rock
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place from St. David’s churchy He is the name of a new railway-company
being organized to construct a
from Graham, Texas,; via
Sweetwater, and Sterling to Sherwood,
thence south through Schleicher, Sut-
ton, Edwards and Kinney counties to
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almost White. His lean form, never
inclined to corpulence, aided to give
him great powers of endurance. His
eyes are blue and expressive, spark-
ling. with kindness when he greets an
old friend or comrade or glowing with
subdued anger when he witnesses op-
_. No man
Will make greater sacrifice for a friend
than Gen. Hardeman, and none are
more ready than he to forgive a wrong.
Tender in his sympathies, hie regard
for others, which in eamp impelled
him to visit the hospital instead qf the
social board, made him kind Wild for-
bearing to a vanquished enemy. This
was illustrated at Pleasant Hill. Har-
deman was ordered to tire extreme
right. He rode up to the skirmish line,
dismounted and knelt by a wounded
Irishman who lay in a fallen top of a
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the enemy's reinforcements ahd The
disposition of his army. He had been
shot through the lungs and could only
answer, ‘Wather, wather; give me
wather.' It was a iJOt 'dayand no w ater
near except on the ground held by the
federals, and Hardeman knelt by the
the fallen Irishman, and taking of his
own canteen, held it te him as he mur-
mured: “Poor fellow,, poor fellow.
The bravest are the gentlest.” .
His dfeath was announced to his old
ranger comrades by special order -X<574r
- Headquarters Texas Ranger Battal-
ion, Austin, Texas, April 8.—Com-
rades: Wnce again are we called upon
to announce the death of a heroic,,
honored and beloved member ot the
battalion, by whose demise one of the
grandest characters and noblest men
that ever lived tn Texas passes from
earth into history.
Gen. William T. Hardeman,’ super
intendenQpf the Confederate home,
diet! at the inslilutidlTht 4 o'clock this
morning, surrounded by the loved
and grief-stricken of his own linmedi
CURES ' ___\ i,
*7" Chills, Malaria»"« Biliousnei
,> DELIGHTFUL TO TAKE. WARRANTED
“NO CURE, NO FAY.”
___ xa JvataV «• tfoocl tor- A<lv>It« «*■ for CKil<lV*l
that th* headquarters of this rokd be Pacla MedlclneCo., - Galatia, IU.„ Nov. 16,
” Gentlemen!—We sold last year 600 bottles of C ROTE’S TASTELESS Cl
TONIC and hav®.bought 3 gross already this year. In all our experience
years in the drug business, have never sold an article that gave such univ
satisfaction as your Tonic. Yours Truly, XT„„
Two gentlemen are prominently
mentioned as successors to Gen. Harde-
man as superintendent of the home.
They are Gen. H. E. Shelley of Aus- Spofford junction,
tin iffltRwftie-King of Bell county, that th* headquart
Gen. Shelley i« president of the board.
The following is taken from Daniel’s
» to. mbre ment: . ‘ .*
mh than in I ‘Oen Hardeman is 6 feet high.
josition to
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A sailor on the British Resolution
was setenced to six days’ imprison,
ment for wearing the shamrock on St.
Patrick’s Day. „
The lease of Wei-Hai-Wei to Great
Britain, has been agreed'To by China,
and the English wilt, take possession as
Boon as the Japanese war indemnity
has been paid.
Mrs. E, Albright of Port Scptt
has had a Kansas City physician ar-
rested for Wfffig=tler photograph on
a patent medicine phamphlet.
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A coal famine is feared at Reba,
non, Ill., becauseoftheminersstnke-
~TTAIiringtoir hasr been rrotitind that compelled Gen. HTds to
y: the rivers of China will be opened for — — . - -
steamers.
St James Hotel. Dallas. *
St- JAMES HOTP2L, -
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Thia Hotel baa been Refitted throughout and now has ln(eonfteeCl<mUrVint>»(lMB
Restaurant and Lunch, Qountega
Srove’sTasteless Chill Tonic
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■ It will remove all Imnuri-
W ties from your blood. It is
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value. Give nature a little
a help at this time. Aid her
by removing all the products
. or disease from your blood.
IT' your bowels are not
"Just fight, Ayer’s Pills will
make, them so. Send for
Texans.’ are the valiant • services of
Capt. William P. Hardeman, and .no
Tess brilliahTfor deeds of daring and’
manly courage was the part he gal-
lantly bore as a tried and true com-
mander in the confederate army dur-
ing the war between the states, from
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those who folldwed his lead during
the war, will droj> t ars of sympithy,
ilgr... -wteen-tbey read the announcement of
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in warfare. He served all through the -grava 'with.wreaths oi immortelles, as
THH rtwuf'tUBlt I'eueirtiep, Mtd
in every one of whose hearts is echoed
the sentiment: —r-r----
Here sleeps the brave, who sank to
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By all his comrades loved and blessed.
In the past few short months, Com
rades Bee, Ford, Ross, Dalymple and
Hardeman, have, been summoned and
aniwered the las^gjoll ca|L.on earth.
Let us who survive them cheAsh their
memories andr perpetuate the grand
history with which their names ate so
inseparably woven. By ctfihmaad,
Joe G. Booth,
Majoxjcommanding T. R. R.
. Official:
WjJ.l Lam«ert, Adjutant.
Texas School FuiW Land.
In response to inquiries from Mr.
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States in 1893- amounted- to -employed to.sorvey lands tn UtirangSL n-witten- communication tbs’ there
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r.~. , - .. ' school funtf of Texas approximately -
’3S,OW),00»gCn-8; and that there wa»
undcrrlease about 9 acres u^
from leases in’ 1897 amounted Tn'
$283,960.11. „However, continues the
GENERAL NEWS.
A fire in Tokio, J;apan, rendered
11,000 people homeless. t
Two Choctaws will be shot in the- -w-Austin, at the Confederate home, of
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which lie had been superintendent the
past three years, haying been appoint-
i /'ed to this positiojgJjy Gov. Culberson
’ “ shortly after his inauguration.
The cause of Gen. Hardeman's death
/was acute Bright’s disease. He was
in his ■ 83d year, but notwithstanding
W manced age ho was wmsewis up -ne tree ^Stiimetr
to within a few hours of his death f||ft nnfimv., rfl^forfiflmnnJ
He became a very sick man about
three weeks ago, and notwithstanding
that the l«st of medical attention was
’-’-•‘‘T111HT he grew worse, slowly oink
ing each day until a few days ago,
w,hsn the attending physician gave up
all hopes of saving his life. All day<
Thursday his life hung on a thread,
but the hero of Mansfield, Pleasant
Hill and-the charge on McRae s bat-
tery fought the foe till the veTy. last.
At the bedside of the dying veteran
were three soldiers of his command,
Capt. Dennis Corwin, quartermaster of
the Ccnfederate home; Capt. Jack
Kirk and D. Frank Rainey. Gen.
Haldeman conversed with them a few
hours’before his death, saying that-he
knew that his death was near at hand.
Gen. Jlardemap leaves a wife, two
sons, J\>m H- Hkrdeman, of Smith-
ville, Texas, and Will Hardeman, of
Austin: three daughters and twenty
gran’dcnildren. IDs death is univer-
sally deplored. ~
Gen. Hardeman was born iu Wil
liamson county, Tennessee, Nov. 4,
next 30 days at Alikchie, I. T.
„ Revo’utionsha»ebroken out in both
Porto Rico and the Phillippines.
- Several towns qn the Kentucky side
;L__ have' been Hooded by the Ohio river.
The reorganized Mormon church
jbtows a remarkable growth for 1897.
-7? The senate refused to vote the ap-
propnation to-deepen Mobile harbor
Count Ito of Japan. says he favors
an Anglo-Japanese alliance in China.
——W. J. Bryan addressed the. Rim.fI:.h„,vaH
allic League of the .Ohio Valley at In- (F..
dtanapolis.
., 4- frost has probably Tilled the
strawberry crop .and most, of the fruit
in Tennessee.
t It is believed that the entire tobacco
crop oTKentucky has been killed by
the frosts and snows. ---
The Cuban junta announces that if
~independanee is fully acknowledged
armistice may be arranged.
Rev. Mr Robert's, pastor of the
.— .First Christian church at South Ale
. Alester. I. T, has resigned.
~ ’ Quesada say# the government, of
Cuba is well established and has al-
4 * .ready cpllected $400,000 in taxes.
While on the stage- at Charleston,
W. Va., Margaret Mather collapsed
and died -without recovering consci-
ous. v
A. *tev<,b frr>T!^ Rmne^aavs that the
United States has:Jx>ught three torpe
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could’ nbt’get’theTJaribaldf.'
/_ The steamer Alabama has arrived
.at San Francisco from Sidney, New "Tennessee.
Sout£ Wales, and brought 44 bars of
gold, valued at $327.4175, from Auck-
■ T'Xr - ' land, and $3,000,000, in sovereigns
from Sidney. Her passenger, list was
very large, there being 107 cabin pas-
awn. - , ~ . __ •
Cotton mill strikers at Saco, Maine,
have returned to work. —-y—
Several Americans in a mission in
China were murdered recently.
W. J. Bryan has donated an essay
Perhaps you have had the ■
grippe or a hard cold. You ■
may be recovering from ■
malaria or a slow fever; or ■
possibly some of the chil- ■
dren are just getting over ■
the measles or whooping I
cough. 1
Are you recovering as fast I
as you should? Has not J*
your old trouble left your I
blood full of impurities? 1
And isn’t this the reason ■
v i; keep vo ponrlv? Don't ■
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Fate
We hare the eiriue'.ve eervleee f
nf Rome ot the meet eminent nhyai*
ciuna In the United States, writ#
frt ely apt! receive a pruiupt reply*
wit boot Si
▲ddreaa* DR. \
i 198.250,000 short tons, ap increase
'oyer 1896 of 6,270,000.
Japan will .offer no b
iy.- .Jjpgl^nd'a,, o^eupation ■ i oi. vv{
’ Tv et Tfie' "twtrcoftTTtrft# cwIot
-- understanding before* the lease was
^War is raging in the Island of Lux.
on. Attacks have been made upon
the Spanish quarters at _Subig and
Apait, the rebsls capturing large quan-
tities of ammunition.
Sixty-nine bodies have been recov-
eaed from the snow avalanche which
swept the Dye* trail to the-,Klondike;
many more bodies yet lie buried under
tons of snow. -
Mrs. Catherine Snyder, Ind.; grand- Knights Templar,
daughter of Robert Morria, will re- Two
ceiv* $1,000,000 from the govern-
ment, being the enm with interest
loaned the government during the
Revelation.
J? Rev. M. L. Johnson, pastor oMhe
N«hvi|to (III) Presbyterian Chur. h
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TEXAS NEWS NOTES.
Lee qounty is to build a new court
house at Giddings.
Work on the fortifications for Boli-
var point has begun.
Fifty-one -men were enlisted at the
natal rendezvous at Galveston,-which
has been closed. ’
The companies at Sherman have
elected delegates to the state conven-
tion at Waco May 1 r.
The jury in the Burt' insanity case
was discharged ;*two believed the mur
erer crazy, ten did not.
Sweetwater’s city council is consid.
ering the building of an adequate wa-
ter workworks' system. * .
The Southwestern telephone com-
hini as to panyns about to crrnnect Sweetwater
ahd Roby by its wires.
Rev. Abe Mulkey's revival at Tem-
ple resulted, in 200 additions. He is
now doing service^aFCqfsicans.
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His sather, Thomas J.
Haldeman, served with marked dis
tinetjon as a member of the republic
of Texas. Ho was the author of the
n solution of the Texas congress which
gave the name of “Austin” to the
'capitaTbTThe’stSte;" The Haldemans Tfaftrtttar^’tir the eye and ear of the
we're of Welsh origin. p —————
When but 19 years old Gen. Harde
man accompanied hlS uncle, Bailey
Hardeman, who had come to Texas in
1835, just at the time when the colo
nists were preparing for unequal war
with Mexico, to Lavaca river and pro
cured aft 1 S-pounder carnirnr;' Ttrer- ysfll td 186.5.
force consisted of seventy five men,
which marched on to San Antonio and
surreniT-
This was Hardejnan’s first experience
-.1 in warfare. He served all throi ’
TCe available <*AsL MUUlCli 111 tBB W, touitig in many ...............
When the.ci.vil war broke out he
joined the command destined for New
, Mexico and ’Arizona w,u - a full com-
( pany of-young men and became senior
captain of the' regiment commanded
- by Cifi. RileJk. At the battle of Vai
' Verde he was promoted for distia-
' guithed gallantry on the field and be-
came the major of the regiment. The
, charge on McRae’s battery made by
J the Confederates at Vai Verderis one
of.the most remarkable in the annals
Of war. In this battle Hardeman was
i wounded. t i
Gen. Hardeman distinguished him-
self at the battle of Mansfield, where
he routed the federal army. In that
battle nearly every confpany officer of
' Hardeman’s regiment was killed or
! wounded.
When peace wi
Have von «
Been Sick."
r Wills Point Chronicle.
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8PBAB8 * GILMORE, Proprietor*.
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K United States treasury was $224,309,-
C 153 Saturday.
r George Gould gave $15,000 to the
’ Omaha Exposition.-This makes the
total subscriptions $142,500.
,‘jA Queen Victoria has presented Pres-
ident Foure of France with an oil-
& . .painting portrait of herself.
jg-.-.......-----------Qoyjrnor.,_Bxa4T 9^ Alaska 1 ias
gone to Washington to interview the
Preiident regarding laws for Alaska.
A Choctaw Indian murderer in jail
If at Antlers, I. To committed suicide
k:;’ rather, than be' tried in the United
V..:. :. States-Court. — -
... . News comes from-Melbourne, Vic-
toria, which says the estimated wheat
yield for that country this year wilkbe
10,000,000 btfshels,
1. "fug toll! wput* (JL-'Cttol fur'HM ‘fflowwawfr M
‘He returned- home in 1866 and en-
gaged in*cattle speculation -to restore
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tunately. He entered the army, in
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himself poor.
*zOa,POU.xi. riowever, com.uues cu.
“You are referred to
Gov. Roberts he was appointed m-the gtato Tl^surer for more correct
spe'etor of /railroads, and by Gov. Roes
he was appointed superintendent of
public, buddings and grounds. x He
served! in that capacity until the elec-
tion of Gov. Culberson, when he was
appointed superintendent of the Con-
federate home. . *
The funeral df . Gen. Hardeman took
tied.a difficulty with pistols; one is
dead and the bther mortally wounded.
The A. and M. directors have again
toiled to elect a succesor to Gen Rcse.
Marbry led with three '"otes, the others
lieing scattefed among thirteen candi-
dates;
The Grand Lodge of the Sons of
Hermann Of Texas will meet at Fort
Wo.rth May 3, 4 and 5, and 't is esti-
mated that fully 4W9 delegates will
be in attendance.
William K—rrg, living near Potts»
boro, Grayson county, has filed suit'
against the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral railway for §1000 for putting him
off its train. He offered to pay 3
ceqts a mile, the conductor charged
Ir-ni 4 cents ]>er mile, he refused to
p ay and was ejected.
Permission has been granted by the
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Thomas 1 lardeman, was a member of ripe old age of 82 years andjmore, and
.ma has arrived the first Constitutional convention of now,’flier lifeTfftfnl fever, he sleeps A sailor on the British Resolntic
well. Inseparably linked with the
historv of the times that tried men s
soulg, in the early days of Texas, when
the war whoop and scalping knif* of
murdering Indians that infested and
environed our thin settlements were
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Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1898, newspaper, April 14, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284049/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.