Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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BY M G. SANDERS.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
MUST DE A MANIAC.
II WAS A BllNOIU.
ION! STAR LAUDED
FEARFUL FIGHT.
AT SAN ANTONIO.
LQ.4K STAR UNES.
THE HISTORY Of THE AFFAIR.
WILL REPORT IN THE AUTUMN.
New York. May 13.—When properly
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Forney Messenger. else president; R.
E. Yantisi Athens Review, secretary
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The New Ytriers Say Their Trip
Was a Revelation.
Il is (taimed the Ptas to Secore Costrol of
the Northers Pacific Was Conceived
at Losdoo Months Ago.
Cltireoship. Illimitable lesoorces asd the
Provision tor fdocatloo of the Voang
Are Mach Admired.
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Sherman, Tex., May 11.—The volun-
teer firemen elected the following of-
The association will meet quarterly.
Terrell iteing chosen as the next meet-
ing place. Saturday. Aug. 10.
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This Seems the Opinion as tn the
Wall Street Matter.
Th® Irish People, a Dublin paper.
om ssppronosd os amount of Its at-
AfLM RS.th Feu th. CembalBBta Fiercely'
Clubbed Kacto Other.
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Washington, May 13.—Cardinal Mar-
tinelli knows nothing of opposition to
Chappell In the Philippines.
Evidence is accumulating in war de-
partment, against anti-canteen law.
The president will be urged to is-
sue an order prohibiting diplomats,
army and navy officers from discuas-
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is simply an illustration of an old say?*
jug that there can be too much of a
good thing. Harmony of Interest and
.onimunity of ownership are not bad
ideas, but when a harmony of interest
Is carried to that extreme at
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tain the Burlington property has re-, where ne gave himself up to the eher-
sulted in an open breach of the peac?
between the interests represented by
the banking firm of J. Pierpont Morgan
& Co. on the other. This is not a fight,
Ms some would have it, between bank-
ing houses, but between capitalists
identified with great railroad proper-
ties. ' -
Th. true story of the long contest, is
her. told for th* *»*♦ tim»-
struggle has extended over months and
originated in London at a meeting in
which three men seated at a table with
a railroad map I * * " - — -
spread before them, calmly considered
whose
The Art of Entertaining is an able
article by Lady Jeune In the May Cos- at Marak, Milam couaty, Texas,
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Kdltora Meet.
Parls,Tex..May 13.—Crickett and Jim
Carson, brothers, were arraigned in the
district court Friday, charged with
murder. The case went to the jury at
li o'clock Saturday night and at 11
o'clock Sunday morning the jury re-
turned a verdict, finding the defendant
Crickett Carson guilty of murder in the
second degree and assessing his pun
ishment at fourteen years in the peni-
tentiary A verdict of not guilty wav
returned as to Jim Carson.
Mr. James L. Laprelle. president of
the Idtprelle-Wniiams Shoe company.
One of the features of the evening
was the discussion of Texas laws by
Judge Franklin; another, Mr. Knight'a
statement that Mayor Hicks would be
the next Governor of Texas.
The visitors Sunday morn.ng at-
cathedral. In the afternoon they were
given a carriage drive over the city.
Mr. M. D. Monserrat, vice president
and general manager, and Mr. E. J.
Martin, general freight and passenger
agent of the San Antonio and Aransas
Pass railway, extended a pressing Invi-
tation to the party to take a trip over
their line to Kerrville and Corpus
Christi. The invitation was regret-.
fully declined for the reason that ac-
ceptance would disarrange their plans
Stansbury of this city, both negroes,
were cleaning the inside of an eight-
foot upright boiler at the Cereal I ne
mills when an employe turned on the
steam, thinking the work was com-
pleted. The scalding steam poured in
oa the two men. Philips could have
escaped first, but he said: “Jim you
/re married.” Jim escaped, but Wil-
liam diet! ia agony.
rir« M MMIaad.
Midland. Tex., May 11.—Taylor’s
drugstore, Waitsfield A Stowe’s confec-
tionery store, the McCall building (var
cant), and the building occupied by
the First National bank were destroyed
by fire Thursday night. Loss estimated
at 920,000, with about M000 Insurance.
Attorney R. H. Zane lost his entire
library. The beak vault is intact The
bank resumed business Friday morn-
ing. The entire Mock will bo imme-
diately rebuilt fa brick. ‘
New York, May 11.—Every member
of the New York delegation seen said
the trip to Texas was a most enjoy-
able and instructive one. Mr. Jesup,
chairman of the Chamber of Commerce
delegation, reported that the two weeks
spent in Texas represented a continu- i
■ but can not survive long.
had
Association Vormwl. ■
Mabank. Tex., May 13:—A meeting of
the newspaper men of Kaufman, Hen-
derson and Van Zandt counties
held here Saturday, at which the North
Central Texas Newspaper association
was organized and the following offi-
cers elected: R..H. Small of the Ma-
Franklin, Tex.. May 11— A terrible
tragedy occurred at latke picnic
grounds. Mr. Hardin of laton county
became involved tn a difficulty with
Mr. Nat Holton of this place and a
desperate fight ensued at short range
with six-shooters. Hardin was shot
twice through the body and Holton was
shot through the body, the bail, a
large 45-caiiber, passing through both
lungs and making Its exit on the other
side. After the men were both shot
they grappled and used their weapons
as clubs. Holton's face is bruised and
Hardin's head was badly beaten. Har-
din was taken'to Palestine. He is fa-
tally Injured and was reported dying.
Mr, Holton was brought to his home
hei'A in a buggy and the best medical
• skill was summoned, but there is ho
hope of his recovery. He is still alive.
Mr. Holton
a lemonade stand on the picnic
grounds. Mr. Hardin is a son of Black
Hardin, who was a, very prominent
figure in ixjon county for many years.
Holton has a wife and six small chil-
He belongs to a prominent fam-
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Detroit. Mich., May 11—Miss Dora
McDonald, who apparently died Fri-
day, and whose condition was such
that Dr. George 8. Field, refused to
pronounce her dead. Saturday after
thirty hours of suspended animation,
owing to uncertain signs of life about
the body, died Bunday after being in
a cataleptic state for forty-three hours.
From the Uns when it is supposed
Mtuattoa Nnm«.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 13.—The sit-
uation TTWd "ell/ remains practically
unchanged. The relief association, ia
doing stupendous work, particularly in
the commissary and labor departments.
There is abundant work for every-
body who can do manual labor, but
the difficulty in experienced in getting
the colored men to work.
Chairman Parrott of the commissary
department completed plans for a new
dividing system.
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dividual interest, then it may become
' the very worst disturber possible.
Front, the developments of the last him and tried
few days it is made very apparent that which Chism held his knife.
E fforts of one set of men to acquire in-I unequal and brief struggle which fol-
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,Chism then fled across
not surprising. It Is made clear that the fields and jumped into a stock
' the attempt on tie part of Mr. Morgan well. The water was not deep enough
and Mr. Hill to acquire the St. Paul to drown him and, climbing out, he
road not only was not favored by; went to the house of his son, where he
Standard Oil and Vanderbilt interests, tried to kill himscif with a pistol. The
but was strenuously opposed by them, son prevented him from taKlng his life
and that the subsequent attempt to ob- and went with him to Bloomington,
where ne gave himseif up to the sher-
iff.
Chism is one of the richest farmers
in this county, having inherited a
hundred acres of land and >200,000.
lasgrcaatvo Ceremony *
Melbourne. May 11.—The opening of
the first federal parliament, was a
most impressive ceremony. The ca-
pacity of the exhibition building, the
acene of the ceremony, was 12.000.
and every available space was filled.
A small table with a telegraph key,
near the chair in which the Duke of
Cornwall and York oat, was used to
signal throughout the commonwealth
when the Union Jack was to be si-
multaneously raised fa every settle-
ment of the federation.
Turtiey At* Greeu Rog*.
Paris, Tex.. May 13.—At a Methodist
conference meeting of Foq»L_H111 41a-^
ner waa served on the ground In picnic
style. A fat baked turkey was one of
the dishes served. A few hours after
dinner twenty-one persons, including
everybody who bad partaken of the
turhey, became violently sick by
cramping and vomiting, and for awhile
three doctors, who were summoned
from Petty had their hands full The
fowl ate green bugs.
Motlter MBr«BB*lM.
Paris. TCX.. May 11.—B. B. Oden, a
young Baptist preacher, was convicted
la the district court of bigamy and
given four yean ia the penitentiary.
The defendant was married three Usses
end all three of the wives an living.
He was married twice in Hill county
and the last time ia Lamar couaty.
Two of the wives confronted hiss oa
tie witness sued for the prosocuUsn.
A former sweetheart of ths priaoasr
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Mottolag for ttoe K«at.
Chicago, Hl.. May 11.—After a tour
of the west, including visits to sev-
eral colleges which had been the ob-
jects of his benefactions Dr. D. K.
Pearsons has returned to Chicago and
announced that he has drawn a line
through Chicago and has disinherited
everyting and everybody east of that
line from any ehan in the money ho
■till expecU to give away. Not «me
peoay. Dr. Poareoas says. ever wu. go
U, «y UmtftntaM oast of Chingo.
The feature of the day waa
the speech of Gov. Sayers in which
I the laws of Texas in tpto
*_C °. * commonwealths an(1 M8erte(1 that crlt)(.1Bmi, 9f them
| arose; from ignorance, and in replying,
Mr. Tansey of the St. Louis delegation
said that this party bad not come to
Texas for the purpose of criticising ths
laws of the state; that they considered
the people of Texas able to take can
of their laws and if the laws <<f JTexgg
!?!,<L“otji#HltTanse'y also expressed the
hope that the supposed constitutional
prohibitions would be circumvented so
that an appropriation might be had to
have Texas properly represented at the
St. U>ui# World s fair in 1803.
Upon the arrival of the party In
Temple, before they went to Austin,
Mrv P. L. Downs very cordially wel-
comed them to the progressive fifteen-
year-old town and introduced the
guests to Mr. J. E. Moore, ‘‘the father
of Temple.”' In the course of his re-
marks, Mr. Downs .made many happy
allusions to the St. l,ouls people saying
they were almost homefolks.' He was
greatly applauded when he remarked
that- Temple bought more goods from
St. Ixjuis than from any other city.
the cisco, leaving the remainder of the
Northern-Northern Presidential party at Delmonte. Only
‘ ————J-g few hundred pcupic greeted W pees
line to the^ Ident upon his arrival in this cHy7 His
go an<UrominK l>ot generally known and
interests are
Men who were once loud P°*te<l «»y the newspapers an-
‘ " president wjould
reach the city at 4 p. m. awaited his
train.
This statement was made by Sec-
retary Corteiyou:
‘‘There is no secret about it. Mrs.
McKinley te ill, but she is no worse
than when she started on the trip.
You must know that she bruised her
right band in some way and that
caused her great pain. How it occur-
red we do not know, but we surmise
she did it . by constantly shaking
hands. She wore a number of rings
and the pressure evidently bruised her
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tereat in other properties engendered a lowed the boy s fingers
bitter feeling. That this should have cut off and he was stabbXi by Chism
broken out in a stock market duel. Is in the arm.
CorakaM had a grand fiewar carni-
val oa tka Mb.
Ban Antonio. Tex., May 13.—The St.
Lsiuts business men s excursion left
here at Itf- o'clock Sunday night en
route for Brownwood aud Fort Worth.
They spent the day in visiting the va-
rious places of interest in and around
San Antonio without any definite pro-
gramme. The Mexicah supper given
at San Fedro park Saturday night in
their honor, was a very enjoyable af-
fair ai/1 to the most of the visitors
the r«d-hot dishes were quite a nov-
elty.
in the pavilion hung banners on
which were-imprinted the great seals
of the commonwealths of Missouri and
Texas, and an immense banner bear-
ing the motto, ' Blest be the tie that
binds '
Hon. Marshall Hicks, mayor of-San
Antonio, delivered the address of wel-
come and presided as toastmaster.
Other San Antonio people who spoke
were: Hon. Thomas H. Fianklin. Hon.
Charles W. Ogden, Mr, Charles N.
Knight, secretary of the Business
Men's club, Mr. Tories P. Brown,
president of the San Antonio Interna-
tional Fair association.
The St. l.ouisans who spoke were:
Mr. George J. Tanney, vice president
of the Merchants' Exchange, Mr. Paul
Jones of the Paul Jodes Realty com-
pany; Mr. L. J. W. Wahi, president
of the Gast Lithograph company^ Mr.
Ed 3. Lewis, president of the Inter-
state Merchants' association; Mr. L.
D. Dozier of the Dozier bakery; Mr.
George W. Brown, president of the
Hamilton-Brown Shoe company; Mr.
Lawrence O. Branin of the White,
Branch < O'Conklin Hat company, and
lUbomington, Ill., May 13.—Merritt
jCnism killed bis wife on his farm In
White Oak township, this county, stab-
bed bis stepson, Harvey Freeland, and
then tried to kill himself. The attack
upon Mrs. Chism was made with all
the ferocity of a madman. As she
was about to start to church Sunday
morning in a buggy, accompanied by
two of Chism's little daughters, Mrs.
Chism’s stepdaughters, a quarrel arose.
Chism jumped into the buggy and with
a knife repeatedly cut his wife in the
face and on the neck. Then he threw
her into the road and began to jump
considered the story of the Northern UpOn ,ler almost lifeless body, stab-
Paciflc corner wh.ch precipitated the biug her over and over. The woman's
j ante in Wall street on Thursday laatj 12-year-old son, Harvey Freeland, at-
tacked Chism with a baseball bat. The
man took the bat away from the child
and, turning upon the bleeding woman
in the road, he struck her on the
head three times, mashing in her skull
which it and scattering her. brains on the
. i-onflicts with or seems to endanger in-’ ground. •
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When he started again to stab the
woman young Freeland grappled wifh
1 to hold the hand in
in the
Mrs. McKinley 111.
San Francisco, Cal., Msy 13.—Ths
sudden Illness of Mrs. McKinley has
caused an unexpected change in the
itinerary of »>»-> -*-«■ -—
arrived in this oity Sunday afternoon
several hours ahead of the time sched-
uled. The state of b>rs. McKinley’s
of the United States waa Buch Sunday morning that
■“•—•'*---41 president decided to leave Del-
properties they could acquire. monte an(] bring his wife to this city
That some persons should have resent- lnime<iiately to the home of Henry T.
i d attempts to carry out these plans where she could have,complete
i ot strange, nor is it strange that their reat for B few day, an<1 Wnere a spe-
protection of their former property has could be consulted If necessary,
c.used a bitter feeling. a special of two cars and a locomo-
The capitalistic interests that are tive was made up from the president’s
(lashing are the greatest in the coun- special and at 12:30 o'clock the pr«l-
try. How the struggle will end no one dent, Mrs. McKinley. Miss Barber, the
can tell. In the meantime, however, president's niece; Secretary Corteiyou
ether roads are seeking to protect and wife, Dr. Rixey and H. T. Scott
themselves. It was not Union Pacific and wife left Delmonte for ban I- ran-
iuterests alone which objected to
Burlington-Great
i uvitic deal. The owners of the St.
Paul road are surveying a
Northwestern Interests are —
means idle. Men who were once loud 'etin posted by the
in praise of “harmony of interest” now nouncing that the
maintain that the Burlington deal is
the most ill-advised railroad undertak-
ing since the West Shore and Nickle
Plate affair. —
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W. C. Connor of Paris was elected
president. ,
J. R. Porter of San Marcos wat
elected first viee president.
Second vice president, George A.
King of Marlin.
Third vice president. Davenport of
Waxahachie, re-elected.
Fourth vice president, Kaufman of
Austin. a
Treasurer, James L. Storey of I-ock-
hart. for the eleventh time.
Recording secretary, i. T. Ellis of
Dallas, re-eliv-ted.
Assistant recording secretary, J. M.
Hancock of Bonham, re-elected.
Financial secretary. Walker of Lu-
ling, re elected.
Delegate to the national association.
Chief West Chapin of Sherman.
Next meeting will be held at Waco.
Hillsboro won the Connor cup for
the second time.
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EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL: SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.
Alice high school has closed.
Denison has a curfew ordinance.
First National bank of Trenton to
doing business.
May term of United States court is
in session at San Antonto.
The remains of a newly born white
male infant were found In a yard at
Paris.
Judge Reagan will make an address
at the Confederate reunion at Mem-
phis.
D. T. Kimball's house was blown
down near Pittsburg and five members
of the family injured.
Webb county voted in favor of an
issuance of 92a,000 tn bonds to erect
a new jail at I aired o.
Several of the state Institutions will
use oil for fuel and are putting ia
burners to that end.
While cooking supper at Blossom,
latmar county. Miss Effie Moone was
seriously burned. , ■ ;—-
Another troop has been added to
the Twelfth cavalry now being re-
cruited at Fort Sam Houston.
During the revival at the Floyd
street Methodist church. Dallas, there
were seventy-five conversions.
.» Hon. D. G. Hill has been appointed
ceunty judge of Tayior county to suc-
ceed the late Judge Christenberry.
At Rural Shade. Navarro county. W.
M. Francis was shot to death at the
residence of bis son. The letter sur-
rendered.
Peter Boxeftl. a miner, went to sleep
on the Texas and Pacific railway
track near Strawn, and waa run over
and killed
The grand lodge of the Sons of Her-
mann was held at lAGrange, with a
large attendance and considerable busi-
ness transacted.
The attorney general’s office has ap-
proved an Issue of >34.000 worth of
Van Zanst county courthouse and jail
■“fraVk-fiihTJrirg at Thornton escape/
the fury of the recent storm. Roofs
were damaged and in many cases al-
most demolished/
A slx-montbs old infsnt of J. L.
Jordan at Roxton, Isimar county,
swallowed a twenty-two chliber cart-
ridge with no ill effects.. C
Ben McCullough camp of ex Confed-
erates. at Decatur, had an old fiddlers*
contest. There were eight contestant*
and each received a prise.
The Rosenbaum Grain company ot
Chicago, capital stock >500.000. Texas
office. Fort Worth, has been licensed
to do business in the state.
The entire force in the machine
shops of the Cotton Beit In Tyler are
now working ten hours a day. This
rule went into effect on May 1.
ihe 12 vearold son nt
Eugene Sibley, and Roland, the 10-
year-old son of Frank Sibley, were
drowned in Spring creek neai Ur
toria. ' 'W
Rev. J, M. Biard died at Pas»^ f
64 years. He was a well’
clergyman of the Christian denomina-
tion. and was formerly a member ot
the legislature.
The court of criminal appeals has
affirmed the death sentence of Tbon|as
Ballard, colored, from Brazoria coun-
ty, convicted of the murder of a Bo-
hemian farmer.
Henry William von Aidehoff, a na-
tive of Prussia, but a resident ot Dal-
las since 1873. passed away In that
city Aged 83 years. He was a noted
educator, one of his pupils being Sena-
tor Morgan of Alabama. He spoke
nine languages fluently.
A pelican of unusual else has been
discovered on Lytle lake, in the vicin-
ity of Abilene. This is the first one
ever seen in that part of ths country,
and' sportsmen have unanfmously
agreed that its life shall be spared.
Col. H. B. Spirelli. chief of ord-
nance of the Texas volunteer gua~*
died at his home In Corpus CM
aged 38 years. He was colonel of 1
First Texes regiment until about el|
months ago, when be resigned to
cept a position on Scurry's staff.
The raflroad commissioners are ia
receipt of invitations to attend next
annual meeting of national railroad
commissioners of the United States to
be held In Chicago May >7. An elab-
orate trip ha* been mapped out to go-
to Portland via Yellow stone Park.
Houston F. Pace, an Ellis county
boy. while la route home from Baft
J Francisco, where be had landed after
ous reception “of the most unbounded
hospitality.”
“We went there, together with the
representation from the Merchants' as-
sociation. with a view to the better-
ment of the business relations between
Texas and New York. We Went there ■ (jjen
to be instructed. - We were ready to |ly in thiB counfy>
receive information, to carefully con-
sider it and to make a report to the ;
chamber as a^reault of such considera-
tion. We were impressed with three \
facts: First, the magnificent quality
of citizenship in the .state.—Ail the
business and representative men of the
state that we met were tnose of in- | Th»v
At Auffitln.
Austin, Tex., May 11.—The St. Louts
business men touring the great state
of Texas Friday had a most pleasant
rime being accorded a most hearty re-
; eeption in each ot the towns visited.
* ■. , | »«•«/ were officially received by Gov.
.telligent. straightforward characte/and ^yeri4 at the that afleriloOQ
men of the highest integrity. These a|ld were entertaiped by the cUUen8 of
men evidenced a positive purpose to I Austin
put Texas in the position she should J
occupy, and I am of the opinion that, he deTepded
the character of the enmmnnw. jlth’s I
citizenship is almost a guarantee of I
its future prosperity.
“Second, the ilimitable resources of
that marvelous state, the development
of which has just begun.
“Third (one of the most important
facts), the school fund which is at pres-
ent in the bands of the state, which
amounts to p*v** JJ-|>00 00«
come rrom which will be enough to es-
tablish throughout tbe state all the
schools necessary for providing the fu-
ture generation of Texas with an edu-
cation that will enable them to_bs
very intelligent and responsible citl-
xens. * , •
“In every town and city we visited
We were impressed with tne number
of schools and churches, evidencing the
intellectual and moral tone of the peo-
ple at large. . -.
“My- -committee will not submit its
report before September or October,
but it is earnestly boped. on the part
of tbe members of the committee-add
myself, that this report will be of such
a nature that the best interests of
Texas in connection with New York
city and the state may be conserved
*" and ppipcthatea.”' • , „
Mr. Trowbridge, chairman of the
Merchants' association ____
speaking of tbe trip, said: “This was
the most pleasant and.-interesting trip
I have ever taken, it was instructive,-
too, if I may u^* the expression. The
trip was a perfect ovation from the
time we entered the state until we left
it. In fact, every man, woman and
child in every place we stopped seemed
to vie with each other to make us com-
fortable and happy. We visited the
lumber regions, the celebrated oil
fields, the ports, the manufacturing
centers, the famous black lands, so
prolific In growing vegetables and ce-
reals of all kinds; the mineral lands
and in fact saw every variety of in-
dustry in the state.
“it is the unanimous opinion of my
— 'j delegation that the trip ^nust neces-
sarily bring forth beneficial results,
not only to Texas, but to the merchants
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