Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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THREE WOMEN DEAD.
TEXAS.
ALVARADO.
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.
overturning the
wagon
away.
■the floor. It struck a pile of oily rags
and in an instant the girl was enveloped
burning she rushed to the window and
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sidewalks. Lillie . Kreiger, . over
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» get them, plant"9e
/them. They are the"
standard seeds every-
house bonds a few days ago.
Bids will be asked for the recov-
ering, painting and general repair of
the federal building at Dallas.
Recently the team of Jesse Jones, liv-
ing four miles north of Elmo, Kauf-
Morgan Wants Them.
Washington, Feb. 18.—What disposi-
tion shall be made of the bonds upon
which the allottees have defaulted by
failing to make the required payment
of 20 per cent on receipt of notice of
the acceptance of their bids is now be-
fore the secretary of the treasury. The
amunt of these defaults has not been
ascertained, nor is it expected that the
exact amount will be learned before
the middle, and possibly the last, of the
week when the reports from the several
subtreasuries are expected to be in.
Mr. J. P. Morgan has filed with Sec-
retary Carlisle a claim on behalf of him-
self and associates to all defaulted al-
lotments under his bid of 110.6877, and
has deposited in the subtreasury at
New York sufficient gold to cover them.
SEVENTEEN PERSONS BURNED,
BRUISED OR MAIMEP.
CHARLES F. SMITH BLOWS HIS
BRAINS OUT.
ran ;
and ,
ing paper, without signature is re-
garded with suspicion to say the least.
Here it is;
"Wante—Men, able-bodied, 1000, at
Court and Sycamore streets, at 8:30
o’clock Tuesday morning. Come ready
for work.”
The entrance to the jail is at the
corner of Court and Sycamore streets.
The natural inference is that there is
inducement to riot inserted in the paper
by some unknown formenter of mis-
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The Bryan Murder.
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 18.—Walling and
Jackson, the accused murderers of Miss
Pearl Bryan, will start from the jail ab
8:30 this-morning for a hearing in the
police court on the charge of bejig fu-
gitives from justice. In viey of the
fact that the following ad.rertisement
which appeared in a y®sterday. morn-
man county, became frightened, ran i closing up their assignments and pi e-
away, overturning the wagon and 1 paring to leave when the whistle blew,
throwing him out. He was dragged be- | Lillie Greiger, who was working near
neath the wagon for several feet, frac- a machine, called to a small boy • light
turing his skull, breaking his collar- ' the gas over her work. The boy struck
bone and left arm near the shoulder, a match and threw the burning stub to
Mr. Jones is 65 years old and will hard-
It is impossible to learn after mar-
riage how the courtship was conducted.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption has been ft.
God-send to me.—Wm. B. McClellan, Chester,
Florida, Sept. 17, 1895.
“There is a time for all things."
So they say.________________
The Modern Way
Commends itself to the well-informed,
to do pleasantly and effectually what
was formerly done in the crudest man-
ner and disagreeable as well. To cleanse
the system and break up colds, head-
aches, and fevers without unpleasant
after effects, use the delightful liquid,
laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. Manu-
factured by California Fig Syrup Com-
pany.
$2000 of bonds held by the school fund.
The Fannin county Alliance men
want the next State Alliance held at
Bonham.
The Popjulists have nominated can-
didates for county officers in several
counties.
Comanche county has just redeemed
$1000 of courthouse bonds held by the
school fund.
The postmasters in the larger towns
and cities did a rushing business on St.
Valentine’s day.
- --e officers are still pursuing the
tnd tiger” and “malt tonic” people
in Johnson county.
he Texas Division American Coltton
Growers’ Protective association met
at Waco on the 18th inst.
The comptroller registered a $3500
issue of Chico, Wise county, school
whose machine the fire started, .was one
of these. She struck the awning, fell
on her back and bounced' t-her hands
and knees on the walk. She got up and
staggered about. By this time nearly
every window had a female dangling
from it and when the firemen arrived
there was a hustle to get the ladders up.
At the center window on the sixth
floor a woman, hanging by her hands,
was forced out by the flames licking her
. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 18. Chas. F.
Smith, owner and proprietor of the
Fort Worth planing mill, at the east
end of Eighth street, on Grove, sui-
cided yesterday morning by shooting
himself through the head with a 38-
caliber pistol.
At the inquest, before Justice Adams,
H. N. Babcock testified: •
“This morning I walked through the
Senator Davis Speaks. >
Washington, Feb. 18.—The speech of
Senator Davis of Minnesota supporting
the resolution of which he is the au-
thor, enunciating th: policy of the
United States on the Monroe doctrine,
was the event of the day in the senate
yesterday. There was added interest
and significance in Davis’ utterances as
his resolution voiced the sentiments of
a majority of the senate committee on
foreign relations of which he is a mem-
ber. The public interest in-the subject
was evidenced by crowded galleries,
■the attendance being greater than any
time since the vote on the silver bond
. bill.
total receipts of Dallas county amount-
ed to $253,007.64, total disbursements
$128,516.66, leaving a balance of $70,-
490.98 on hand. Twenty $1000 bonds
were redeemed, leaving the bonded in-
debtedness remaining $321,000, divided
as follows: Courthouse bonds $276,000,
road and bridge bonds $18,000, jail
Through the Carelessness of a Boy a
Shirtwaist Factory Burns Down at Troy,
N Y., Most of the 350 Female Em-
ployes Escaping.
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A Probable Lynching-
Tallulah,Ga., Feb. 18.—News reached
here of the killing of Joseph Crumpton,
a farmer, and his daughter, Miss Sallie
Crumpton, in the mountainous region
of Rabun, county last Thursday night.
Crumpton was suspected of having re-
ported an illicit still to the revenue au-
thorities. Thursday night as he stood
near the window of the dining room of
his house a bullet crashed through the
window, struck him in the side, passed
through and entered the body of his
daughter, standing near, killing her in-
stantly. The father has since died. An-
drtw Wiborn, who owned the moon-
shine still reported, is suspected. He
can not be found. Searching parties
are out, and if caught there is a strong
probability of his being lynched.
even went further than that. “The
ring is ready now,” he said, “and has
been ready for some time. If Maher
and Fitzsimmons will fight the battle
will surely come off on Friday without
a hitch.”
The following parties' left last night:
Barry, for Chicago; Walcott and Dixon,
for New York; Glori and Leeds, for
Atlantic City, N. J., and Everhart, for
Dallas or New Orleans. Hugh Kane is
no longer the manager of Everhart.
They have completed the business in
which they were jointly interested and
each gone his way.
The Mexican authorities have given
orders to arrest everybody connected
■with the fight'if it comes off, and to
exert every effort to prevent it. Gov.
Ahumada is charged with carrying out
' this order. President Diaz is firm.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
bonds $27,000. The receipts from ad va-
lorem and redemption taxes amounted
to $176,788.48. The county treasury is
in first-class running order and fifteen
more $1000 bonds will be redeemed
right away.
Parties digging a well near China
As
B where; sown by the i
—largest planters in the world..
SPt Whether you plant 5C‘square feet
fl of ground or 50 acres, you should
A have Kerry’s Seed Annual for ’96. .
A The most valuable book for far- A
When Discovered, He Was on His Knees, by
a Cot in His Office With a Bullet Hole in
His Temple—His Business Left in First
Class Condition.
P. H. PARDUE, Publisher.
monstrous size.
With rare presence ok mind Police-
How the surface, an image in clay of . liable to jump, e dowm 4
queer shape, apparently an idol. It over the entrance. are y wasi down
looks as if was made with the fingers when two or three forms cam
while the clay was soft and burned down from the fifth and sixth stories
in a very hot fire, causing it to glaze and bouncing from e awning e o
from sand particles contained in the
ly recover. and in an instant tne 8-1 " "5 MM5.
During the fiscal year just ended the , In flames. With her clothes and hair
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Decatur has a literary club.
Hunt county only owes $14,250.
"Ward county has just had a jail deliv-
very.
The railroad shops at Tyler are to
be enlarged.
The Prohibitionists will nominate a
state ticket.
Wichita county will issue $9000 o?
bridge bonds.
Hillsboro has another local option
■election on hand.
C. H. Sappington, a liquor dealer at
Dallas, has failed.
Fannin county . owes $48,648, with
$38,518.89 on hand.
Grayson county has issued $15,500 of
record vault bonds.
A. J. Brown, doing a grocery business
■at LaGrange, has failed.
A student clubbed a professor at
Waxahachie recently.
Ed Tipps took too much morphine at
Houston recently and died.
Fort Worth is to entertain the big
cattle convention next month.
The Populist state executive commit-
tee will meet in the near future.
Mills county has just paid $1200 in-
terest on bonds held by the school fund.
Nolan county recently redeemed
of W. S. Parmly post, No. 4, Grand
Army of the Republic. During the late
war he rose from a private in the
ranks to the grade of captain.
Will Fight Friday.
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 18.—The big
fight is on stronger than ever. Sunday
night the talent was as blue as indigo,
and three-to-one shots that Maher and
Fitzsimmons would never get together
went begging. Yesterday things were
different. A new agreement has been
entered into for the fight to take place
on Friday, and it will be pulled off then
or not at all. The situation has at
least been simplified, and the agony
will surely be over after the next hang-
man’s day. Maher will then get in the
ring and battle the gaunt kangaroo to
a finish or else Connelly will surrender
the forfeit money without further de-
lay.
These are the terms of the new agree-
ment, and they will be carried out un-
less the party violating such conditions
wants to incur the enmity of the sport-
ing public and every newspaper corre-
spondent in this city. Following the
agreement between Julian and Connel-
ly, Stuart made the stereotyped an-
nouncement that he would be ready to
bring the big mill off at the time, bar-
ring fire and flood. Hold-fast Stuart
%. mers and gardeners ever given A
. away. Mailed free. Ay
B, D. M. FERRY & CO.,
3e Detroit, NJich.s"
nane For tracng and locating Gold or Silver
KNNIS Ore.lost or hidden treasures. I. D. FOW-
8VH% LER, Box 337, Southington, Conn.
vanced. Deceased had just recovered
from a six or seven weeks’ siege of ty-
phoid fever and grip. For some days
past he had been at his place of busi-.
ness only during the warm portions of
the day. A friend of his says Smith re-
marked to him a few days ago: “I am
afraid I am losing my mind.”
Arthur Smith, son of deceased, was
at the mill when the deed was com-
mitted. He says: “My father has been
acting strangely for some days, and I
have been watching him all I could,
fearing he might do something rash.”
-- Deceased leaves a wife and two chil-
dren, a son and daughter, all of whom
are greatly grieved over the sad occur-
rence. His financial affairs are in good
shape, and he was one of the steadiest-
going men in his line of industry to be
found anywhere. He was about 50
years of age and a well-known member
As I came into the office Mr. Smith
spoke to me and said: ‘Good morning,
in as pleasant a mood as I ever heard
him speak. I walked on out through
the building and in a few moments I
returned into the planing room to go
to work. Just as I got in I heard a
shot fired, but did not think anything
of it, as I only thought it was some one
dropping a board on the floor. Pretty
soon the colored man, Clete Carr, went
into the office with some fuel, and in
a moment returned to the door leading
from where I was into the glazing
room. When I saw Clete he was stand-
ing in the door motioning for me to
come in. I went in and was horrified to
see Mr. Smith lying over on a cot with
his knees on the floor. At first I only
supposed he had fainted, but when we
picked him up to lay him on the cot l
saw the bullet hole in his temple and
the blood on the floor. I saw right
away then what was the trouble. Clete
says when he first saw him he (Mr.
Smith) was lying clear across the cot
with his feet on one side of the cot and
his head and hands down on the other.
Clete tried to life him up, when he
found Mr. Smith was dead.”
The coroner’s verdict was that de-
ceased came to his death from a self-
inflicted pistol wound in the head. Up
to 6 p. m. no cause for the rash act,
other than mental aberration, is ad-
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ing out of the entrance. Following
them was a mass of smoke with flashes
of hot flame in lurid streaks. Then the
mass of frenzied humanity, finding the
egresses too small for instant escape,
began climbing over the sides of the
escapes and bundles of clothing filled
with writhing humanity dropped at the
feet of horrified passersby.
Within twenty minutes after the fire
started there were three dead women
laid upon the floor of an adjoining
store and at least a dozen burned and
maimed girls and women taken to the
hospital or to their homes.
The following is a list of the unfor-
tunates obtainable up to 11 o’clost last
night:
The dead: Mrs. Margaret Call,
jumped from window; Mrs. Foley: Mrs.
Robert Kane, jumped from window.
The injured: Mamie Day, jumped and
badly hurt; Annette ' Harring, badly
burned; Lillian Outhoit, badly burned;
Lillian Kreiger, burned and badly
bruised; James Quinn, under wall, will
die; Mrs. Johnston, badly burned,
will die; Frank Rossi, Italian, bruised
by falling' wall; Lottie Hull, severely
burned; Nellie Hull, badly burned.
Missing and probably dead: Mamie
Banks, Katie O’Connor, Miss O’Neill,
Miss Herberscher.
Of'the 350 girls and women in the
building it is presumed that at least
half a dozen are in the ruins, for it is
impossible to locate all and the num-
ber fixed at a late writing at twenty
may be exaggerated.
It was just thirty'minutes before clos-
ing the house in Strehoms & Co.’s shirt
waist factory on River sitreet and the
850 girls and women were working
rapidly to finish up. In the cutting
room on the fifth floor the 150 girls were
Made Him Move Them.
A Washington policeman compelled:
a merchant to remove a couple of pic-
lures from his store window, alleging
hat their exhibition was pre judical to
public morality. ____________
Somewhat a Pugilist.
A Massillon, O., preacher found a
pugilist in his kitchen courting his
Book. The pugilist refused to leave,
so the preacher put him out.
s
face. With a last shriek she let go and
came tumbling over and over until she
struck the pavement. When picked up
it was found that she was Mrs. Margai-
et Carroll. Her spinal Column was
forced through her brain.
Just below- her in another window
hung another woman casting piteous
glances to the crowd. The black smoke
was pouring from the window, but as
yet no flames was visible and the
crowd yelled encouragingly for her to
hold on, but a higher red flame reached
out and licked her face and in an in-
stant her body’was rebounding from
the pavement. She was Mrs. Foley, a
widow, and when picked up she was
dead. .„
The roll call this morning will
evidertly show that between twenty
and thirty people are underneath the
ruins. Up to 1 o’clock last night no
other bodies had been recovered.
trouble, as the jail is strongly guarded.
Dr. W. H. Crane, who discovered co-
caine in the stomach of Pearl Bryan,
has just reported officially that his
analysis showed the presence of two-
thirds of a grain of that drug.
Investigation of the record of George
H. Jackson, the revealer of the facts of
that midnight drive to the scene of the
tragedy, strengthens the weight of his
testimony. The effect of Jackson’s rev-
elations upon the prisoners has been
more depressing than aything else that
has transpired. A black bead, a few
blond hairs and some hair pins have
been found in the newly-discovered
rockaway. These circumstances with
the fact that the rockaway was out on
that murderous night are strongly cor-
roborative of Jackson’s story.
It is very probable habeas corpus
proceedings may be employed to delay
the extradition to Kentucky. Mean-
time Gov. Bradley has set his foot down
■against lynching and the good citizens
of Newport resent the imputation that
they are not able to give the prisoners
a fair trial.
Sraag
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clay. It a is rather grotesque effigy,
having features which might be human
or ape, either. The mouth is wide and
the ears sticking up above the top of
the head. The nose is hooked, and the
figure is in a squating position. It is
six inches from the pedestal upon which
it squats to the crown of the head and
the whole thing weighs four ounces.
Eugene Dalton, living near Taylor,
cut off the forefinger of his right hand
some days ago in a feed chopper.
Burleson county has just redeemed
$1500 of courthouse and $1000 of jail
bonds held by the school fund.
Near Bartlett, Williamson county, a
few days since Gus Grawunder’s two
children, a boy about 12 and a little
girl of 3 years, were playing in a room.
A gun leaning against the wall was
knocked down and was discharged.
The bullet pierced the head of the little
girl just above the left eye, killing her
instantly.
Amos Nichols, living near Van Al-
styne, Grayson county, while eating
dinner the other day, fell over dead.
On Jan. 31 the penitentiary board had
$98,681.18 on hand, $68,666.32 of which
. was in the state treasury, the re-
mainder being in nine different banks.
Appropriation Bill.
Washington, Feb. 18.—The agricul-
tural apropriation bill occupied the at-
tention of the house yesterday. A
great deal of criticism of Secretary
Morton was indulged in on both sides
of the political aisle, but, as on Satur-
day, no one arose to his defense. At
last. Mr. Pearson of North Carolina
arose and asked if there was not some
member, Democrat, Populist or Repub-
lican, who would raise a voice in his
defuse. His question was greeted with
a chorus of “no” from all sides of the
house.
The omission in the bill of a provis-
ion for a chief clerk of the bureau of
animal industry at a salary of $2000,
which was made upon the insinuation
that the secretary wanted to legislate
out of office P. F. Lysle, a free silver
Democrat from Missouri, the present
incumbent.
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pamrg7:
The marriageable women of Canton,
Ohio, have organized a “Bachelor-
maids” club. Each member, on mar-
riage, has to dine the club. -+ -
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS COFFEE ?
; Had the Ladies’ Aid Society of our
Church out for tea, forty of them, and
all pronounced the German Coffeeberry
equal to Rio! Salzer’s catalogue tells
you all about it! 35 packages Earliest
vegetable seeds $1.00 post paid.
If you will cut this out and send
with 15c. stamps to John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will get free a
package of above great coffee seed and
our 148 page catalogue! Cataloge alone
5c. __________________ W.n.
Let the hotel clerks enjoy their dia-
monds! Think of the poor jokes they
are compelled to stand from guests!
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Scrofula
Manifests itself in many different ways, like
goitre, swellings, running sores, boils, salt
rheum and pimples and other eruptions.
Scarcely a man is wholly free from it, in some
form. It clings tenaciously until the last vestige
of scrofulous poison is eradicated from the blood
by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Thousands of voluntary-
testimonials tell of suffering from scrofula, often-,
inherited and most tenacious, positively, per-
fectly and permanently cured by
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
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Prepared only by C. 1. Hood&Co., Lowell, Mass.
, ,, ... act harmoniously with
Hood s Pills Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 25c.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 18.—A small boy
carelessly throwing a match iniho a pile
of oily waste, a blazing mass of flames,
350 girls and women frenzied with
fright, fighting for life as the flames
chased them with hungry tongues, Was
the beginning of a fire last night th’
consumed thousands of dollars worth
of property and caused the destruc-
tion of many lives. From the outside
of the high building the first notice of
impending disaster was the sight of a
body of girls as they rushed out upon
the fire escapes from the windows,
those who were more fortunate crowd-
TOK HIS OWN LIFE.
' in an instant the room became a stru8-
gling, shrieking mass of humanity,
filling the windows,, the fire escapes
and the only exit way. Jamming and
’pushing, tearing each other’s clothes
from their backs, turning in narrow
corridors to find a sister or mother or
friend, the number in the exits aug-
mented every minute by those from the
other floors, these girls and women
fought for their lives to get away from
the fiery flames' that seemed to grow to
chief. The probailities are against ofice of the mill on my way to work.
E-aEe
Cocoa and Chocolate Preparations, have
an extraordinary collection of medals and
diplomas awarded at the great interna,
tional and other exhibitions in Europe
and America. The house has had un-
interrupted prosperity for nearly a
tury and a quarter and is now,noton1
the oldest but the largest establishment,
of the kind on this continent The high
degree of perfection which the company
has attained in its manufactured P1 "
nets is the result of long experience co-
bined with an intelligent use of the ne <
forces which are constantly being in
duced to increase the power and improve
the quality of production, and cheape
the cost to the consumer.. .
The full strength and the exquisite nat-
ural flavor of the raw material are pre.
served unimpaired in all of NV alter Baker
& Company’s preparations; so that te.
products may truly be said to form t1e
standard for purity and excellence.
In view of the many imitations ot tne
name, labels and wrappers on their goods
consumers should ask for and be sure
that they get the genuine articles made
at Dorchester, Mass.
You can’t afford to lose your temper
every ti m o you have reason to.
A GREAT CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY.
Mr. Editor:—I read how Mr. Jones made-
money. I have a better job taking orders for
the new Fireproof Deposit Case for storing .
deeds, mortgages, notes, policies, receipts,
money and valuables from fire. Every family
or farmer buys. I sell for World Mfg. Co., (1 26)
Columbus, O., cleared $27 first week, 839 second,.
first month $147. Sister made $23 last week
selling National Dish Washer for same firm.
Light, easy work, honest firm, anyone,can
make money by writing them. J. C BAEwH-
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