Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 190, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 29, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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A FEUD ENDS FOREVER.
ORDERED TO LEAVE.
AUSTIN BUDGET.
Sept. 21.—An
ORSTER.
TEXAS.
here to attend the Democratic caucus
Dr. Alexander MAC KESZIE is the
A
RAGING FOREST FIRES.
northern Michigan for two weeks, and PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT
Martyn
Except that his sandy beard begins
to show streaks of gray, ex Pres dent
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HE WAS A SHE.
Cum-
Findley of Tyler, of the state Demo-
noon.
miles long if it is ever built, and wil
win Russell, a young braksman in the
| employ of the Aransas Pass and San
/M : Herkomer has finished a capital
fpo trait of Mr. Stanley, and published
it from his own press at Bushey.
Sarah Bernhardt is writing a new play,
“and when she grows weary she stops
and inserts herself in the manuscript
in his charge to the Grand Jury Judge
Phillips explained the nature of the
various infactions of Federal laws, and
A FARMHOUSE BROKENINTO.
Buffalo, Tex., Sept. 16.— hast night,
about 7 o’clock, two men broke into a
farmer’s house and took some clothing,
and went about five miles further and
A MINERAL FIND AT SUNSET.
Sunset, Tex., Sept. 20.—Our town is
considerably excited over the acciden-
tal finding of a large vein of some kind
of mineral ore while digging a public
well‘on our streets, at a depth of about
Austin CoRBI
hi. 11. Early in
west, which the non partisans hope to
crystalize.
THE MISSOURI “HOLLAND HORSE”
Washington, D. C., Sept.—A bill to
grant an honorable discharge to each
Henry Irving ami Miss Terry, who
are at Lucerne, Switzerland, have been
nearly drowned bv incessant rain.
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very
man
place, and the third met
day. ______________
in minerals to come and examine the
find.
The Princess Imperial of Brazil has
made Coquelin, the actor, an oflicer of
the Order of the Rose.
age.
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as a book mark.
forwarded to-day.
The attorney general, in response to
inquiry, advises Commissioner Foster
that the law of the special session fully
empowers him to have a geological sur- j
vey of the state inaugurated within the
appropriation made, and, of course,
authorizes what is necessary to be done
to accomplish the object of the law.
Upon this construction of the law the
commissioner is authorized to furnish
the surveying geologists with an outfit
and will proceed to make his appoint-
STARVATION AMONG THE IN
DIANS.
thrown on its side. The most seriously-
injured was Robert Pelton, of Toledo,
whose leg was thrust through a win-
dow, cutting an artery. A. B. Clark,
editor of the Colfax Chronicle, was
down in his buggy with two bullets
through his breast, and died shortly
afterward. Mattock rode away and
, t has not been captured. Mrs. Mattock,
legal light for wnat Turner's sister .stood on the porch and
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has been learned it appears that dis-
honest agents who were entrusted with
its distribution have appropriated the
greater portion of the grant. Gabriel
Dumont, Riel’s lieutenant, has again
been attempting to stir up bad feeling
among the Indians with, it is said, a
considerable degree of success.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK IN
OHIO.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 16.—A special
Last To-day.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 16.— Ed-
SAM RANDALL MUCH IMPROVED.
Philadelphia, Sept. 16.—The con
dition of Hon. Sam J. Randall has
been so much improved since he re-
moved to Castanea that his physician,
company of the 5th Missouri Volunteer
Cavalry, was introduced in the House
to-day by Representative John J.
O’Neil. This company was organized
during the early part of the late war.
for duty within the state of Missouri,
but being assigned to duty outside the
state, they refused to go,'on violation
k
the latter’s bagnio, in this
his death to-
DECATUE
The' capitol furnishing board has
prepared an advertisement soliciting
bids to furnish the statehouse, which is
to be published immediately.
EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED.
dwelt especially on the cutting of tim-
ber on Government land, which ho
said, must be stopped, inorder that the
American forests be preserved. A
number of parties indicted for minor
offenses pleaded guilty, but the judge
reserved sentences in each case.
buggy and Mattock on horseback.
Both' pulled their guns and opened
fire After the fifth shot Turner sank
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The Supposed Man, Named Miller, a
Woman Married to a Woman.
Des Moines, la., Sept. 19. —The sup.
posed man named Miller, who, with
his alleged wife and child, lived near
Sioux City, la., for several years, was
convicted last May of horse stealing
Louis, in
American travelers in Ireland now I
adays are furnished a traveling coin
SHREVEPORT, La , Sept. 16.—Shreve-
port to day sent $950 to the Jackson-
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ments at once.
James H. Raymond has brought suit
for $15,000 against the city on obliga-
tions of the city of that amount to pay
for the Patterson cemetery. The pur-
chase has never been used for a
tion in direct opposition to the men
who have been the recognized lead
during the entire session, and as suc}
have been successful. If the membe
A Passenger Train Running Thirty Miles vote in caucus as they want to, how-
an Hour Fired and Destroyed. ever, a resolution fixing the day of ad
East Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 18.- journmetnton the 1st ”f October, Wi
Fire has been raging in the woods of " a 11___________________
county.
FOUND DEAD IN A THICKET.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 16.—The body
of a man was found in a thicket just
north of the city yesterday. It was in
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$100,030.c90. . , -
Killing and Eating Their Children.
Ottawa, Sept. 16. — Late advices
from the northwest report great sufler-
ing and many deaths from starvation
among the Indians of the northwest
territories. From the Peace river dis-
trict several cases of cannibalism are
; reported, where, to save their own lives,
, the heads of families have killed and
i eaten their own children, Last season
cemetery, and it has been supposed
the city would repudiate the trade, as
the city attorney has denied the au-
thoritv of the council to issue the notes.
also thrust through a window, badly
cutting his wrist. W. M. Heath, Mount
Sterling, Ill.; Thomas Cuckhauser,
McComb, Ill : J. W. Lewis. Shawnee,
Ohio, and Edward McCaffery, of this
city, was also painfully injured.
Princess Christian, of England,
has been induced by the Queen, her
motier, to postpone her intention of
joining the Romish Church.
The Crag-y-Nos property, which
Mme. Patti-Nicolini wants to sell, com-
prises 350 acres, and boasts of the
finest trout streams in Wales.
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to-morrow night.' There is some ex-
citement among members over the
and sent to Fort Madison. In the hos- United States Court met Tuesday, and
pital there it was discovered that Mil-
ler was in fact’a woman, and she was
sent to Amosa prison. Miller’s re-
ported wife was hunted up, and the
child supposed to be hers was found to
be the child of people named Moe. It
was taken from her anil restored to its
CAMPAIGN OPENED AT AUSTIN. men to morrow. If any party puts out
Austin Tex., Sept. 20.—Chairman a ticket the Democrats w do likewise.
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partisans and independents will fuse,
and a lively time may be expected. If
good men are nominated, the race will
be very close. There is a great deal of
Democratic disaffection in the south-
of the terms of their enlistment. For
this refusal their certificates of honor-
able discharge were withheld, andkhe
bill just introduced is to completeNhe
record by affording them the relief de
sired.
A CONDUCTOR KILLED.
Pine Bluff, Ark., Sept. 21.—G. E
Smith conductor on the Cotton Belt
was run over Saturday night at Rison
Station about 10 o’clock. It seems he
was walking over his train and acci-
dentally fell between the cars. Both
legs anil arms were badly mashed. He
was brought here an hour later and
everything that] medical science could
suggest was done to relieve his suffer-
ings. There are no hopes of his re-
covery. Smith’s home is at Jackson,
Tennessee.
this city Monday fifty yards distant could not be seen and
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aster is reported on the Saginaw, Tus of machinery connected with the
cola and Huron railroad, resulting from prison He is reported as being now
forest fires. Express train No. 3, due in the last stage of consumption, with
here at 6 o'clock last evening, left Bad- but a short time to live if his imprison-
axe on time. Ten miles out, while run- mentis continued. His aged parents
nine at a speed of thirty miles an hour, are in deep distress over his disgrace
the train ran on a piece of track be and sickness, and I gladly restore their .
neath which the ties had burned. The son to them in his last days.”
engine, express, baggage ear and two
coaches left the track, ran along the
track about two lengths of the train
and the engine turned over in the ditch.
The engineer, fireman and messenger
were thrown clear off the wreck and
escaped with bruises. The lire on the
track immediately communicated to
the coaches and the passengers and
crew barely had time to run through
the train and escape by the rear coach
before every particle of the woodwork
in the train was burned.
The salmon fishermen on the
obscot bay devote their spare
hunting seals, the latter being
destructive to the salmon. One
struck it the men supposed they had
struck a rock, but upon pumping out
the water and mud great slugs of min-
eral almost in a pure state were found
mixed with the gravel. The vein is
over eighteen inches thick and seems
to be a perfect sheet of mineral sub-
stance. They have drilled about a
day in it and are not entirely through
it yet. It is thought here the mineral
is either silver, platinum or zinc. What-
ever it is, there is no mistake but what
it is here in large quantities and at a
depth which can be easily worked.
We are anxious here for some expert
In the Spanish Cabinet there are
two men of Irish lineage—Senor
Pendergast, Minister of the Interior,
has bought and decorated a luxurious
home near Mobile with the proceeds
of her gorgeous novels. She writes in
a Chinese pagoda bower in her llowei
AFTER GOVERNMENT TIMBER
• THIEVES.
Springfield, Mo., Sept. 21.—The
Queen Victoria has gained greatly
in flesh this summer. When she puts
a nickel in the slot she realizes that
even the sovereign of England may
have too much weight in the world.
Germany’s new Emperor is dis-
tributing p etures and images of him-
Iowa. He made his first start in life
in western laud speculations.
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. was born in Keene. • i
life he emigratd to
Castro, on Cie Tyrrhenian Sea, t< ville sufferer*? Moro will be forwarded
Fano, on the Adriatic. It will be 18
ACTOR WHITFIELD INSANE.
New York, Sept. 19.— John G. Whit-
field, the actor, has been pronounced
insane and was removed to an insane
asylum on Ward's island. He is a
member of the actor’s fund society.
garden. _____
Representative Amos J.
an advanced state of decomposition
and must have been there for some
time. The authorities were notified
and an investigation proved it to be
the body of J. C. Triebold, a wealthy
contractor, who had been missing from
his home since August 1. His skull was
pierced by a bullet. It is supposed to
। be a case of murder.
although several towns and much val Washington, D. C., Sept. 21.—The
uable property have been threatened president to-day granted a pardon in
Ona of the Coaches Turned Over on its no serious losses have resulted up to the case of Theodore Bonda, convicted
. Side—Several People Injured. this time. During the present week in the district of Kentucky of counter-
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 18.—As over Saginaw valley and the town ad- feiting, and sentenced July 12, 1885, to
the big four express train, en route jacent a heavy pall of smoke has hung five years’ imprisonment. In his in-
from Cincinnati to Chicago, was round which was at times so thick that objects dorsement on the application in this
ing a curve near this city Monday fifty yards distant could not be seen and ease the president says: "I his con-
8 , , , . WRin as dificult The ground is vict has earned such a deduction from
night the trucks of a passenger coach hmnnthn" “"G "
mounted a switch anil the car was
Birmingham. Ala.,
prospect of an adjournment on the 1st
of October. The sentiment is tending
and Lieutenant General O Ryan. ■ from Mount Vernon county says a
Minister of War. wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio at
--- — : Ankneytown, O., was caused by a mis-
LEXNEP says that i placed switch. The north bound
express ran onto the switch, colliding
stating that the board accepts the prop- ( I
osition he made yesterday and notify- cas6
ing him that they would, with reason-
able dispatch, proceed to point out suh
defects as are deemed necessary to be
repaired for a full compliance on his
part with the terms of the contract.
This afternoon Gen. Hardeman pointed
out to Col. Taylor various alleged de-
fects. It is believed the manifestly
fair and liberal proposition of Col. Tay-
lor will facilitate a final settlement and
acceptance of the building.
The commission of Dr. N. K. Fisher,
appointed health oflicer of Galveston
in Dr. Blunt’s place, was signed and
glns not found a purchaser for
K •n Wales. She wants too
Flor it.
LONGVIEW.
Longview, Tex., Sept. 20.—The en-
gine pulling No. 1 on the Texas
and Pacifid Tuesday, due here at 12:10,
Vrcron Brocc a, an Italian engin-
eer, has completed the survey of :
proposed canal across Italy, from neat
with a freight train. The baggage car
was telescoped. Baggagemaster David
Wilson of Sandusky was killed. The
engine of the freight train was wrecked
and Engineer Henry Tomlinson, of
Newark, killed. Win. Grinsley, who
1 ouuw oucans w. -lwj, ----------I misplaced the switch, was fatally in-
Rutherford B. Hayes shows scarcely a jured, also Aaron Dickson of Defiance
change iu the appearance he present- county. Thirty-two others were more
. . r or less injured, among them being
ed ten years ago. some grand army men front Putman
self broadcast. One of his latest
freaks was to have himself photo-
graphed beside Bismarck.
mings is the son of a New Jersey
preacher, and it is said by a Washing-
ton newspaper that he used to play
the fiddie in the orchestra of his fath-
er’s church when a boy.
member of the “Holland Horse,” a
panion free of expense, it seems.
Nevertheless, a government detective
in one’s tracks can hardly be said t<
add to the pleasure of a jaunt Ihrougi
Er in.
Evangelist Moody advises young
men who desire to be rev valists to
start out as book agents and study hu-
man nature.
cratic executive committee, opened the
state campaign here to night with a
speech of some length, in which the
topics of the day were discussed. He
was followed by Hon. E. C. Dickerson
of Rusk. Both" speeches were well re
ceived.
parliament voted the sum of $354 000
or supplies for the destitute treaty In-
dians of the northwest, but from what
Mrs. “Sr. Elmo" Evans Wilson
latest race track plunger in Washing- _____
ton. Last week he took $15,000 out of Parents Are SavingTheir Own Live , b;
the pool-rooms.
took two horses. Parties went in pur
suit and found the horses about ten
miles from here in Freestone county.
Parties are still in hot pursuit, and
think the men will be captured before
morning. ________________
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT GRAND
HAVEN.
Grand Haven, Sept 16.—Early this
morning, while Miss Alice Greching
of Ferrysburg, aged 20 years, was on
her way to the match factory, she was
struck bv a freight car when near the
city limits, and had both legs crushed
Bo that amputation was necessary. Her
condition is critical.
I Antonio railway, was killed this morn-
ing in the yards of the company at this
place. He was on a train of twenty
empty freight cars which pulled out
to go down the road. In passing a
switch nine went over safely but the
tenth broke the bolt and the balance
of the train was derailed, and Russell
jumped to save himself, but fell on his
hands and knees and was caught by
the overturned car and pinned to the
ground face downward. He spoke
only once after being reached, saying
“get me out of here quick and send for
my mother; I am dying." He was a
member of a singularly ill-fated fam-
ily. His mother had three sons, one of
whom was killed in the panhandle
some time ago. One was killed by
Cliff Cook and Lillie Gileson of St.
reports that iie has killed over 400
seals thus far this season.
blew out both of its cylinder heads parents. The woman claims to have
while running into the engine-house at married the Miller woman, supposing
Willie iun s b she was a man, and to have lived with
the junction. 1 he crash was heard al. her as wife to cover up the Miller
over town and escaping steam caused woman's deception,
a great stampede of shopmen and--
passengers, who supposed the engine TEXAS NON-PARTISAN TICKET,
had exploded or was about to. 1 he
steam enveloped the whole yard so ■ San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 18.—Joe
densely that nothing was discernable^ .Moore, Chairman of the Executive
for a considerable time, during which Committee, has called a county con-
the wildest excitement prevailed. lor -om.e ■ .
tunately no one was struck by the fly- vention of the non-partisan party to
ing cylinder head or scalding steam. meet on October 6. It is presumed
There is considerable talk oi the boll that a straight non-partisan ticket will
worm destroying a great part of our the field, but their action in
crop, but hopes are still entertained of 001 . . , , ,
a fair crop considering the season, this regard is likely to depend on
'____________ whether the Republicaas nominate
Dr. Martin, assures him he may surely
I count upon resuming his seat in con-
gress when it reassembles in Decem-
ber. ___________________
AID FOR THE SUFFERERS.
ssenger. an unfortunate family.
Tahlequah, I. T., Sept. 18 —To-dat ...
Board_The Geological Sur Chief Mayes sent ... Agent Owen .w olafeudbetweonstworanainentfani
Austin, Tex., Sept. 20.—The capitol e nation Coosa mountain, twenty miles east of
board held a private caucus Tuesday ° IAe Itedccision of Secretary Vilas this city. The feud ends forever with
and addressed the contractor a note ‘ famous contested intruders this tragedy, as turner was the list
sustains the decision of the com xalranaprsrntacg manyhiseafsmiyo
mission of citizenship, and classes al: married Turner’s sister against the pro
as intruders who have beendecnhU tests of the Turner family, and out of
against by the commission. 1 he secre this grew the feud which resulted in
tary ruled that all intruders who have many bloody encounters. Mattock and
been permitted to make improvements Turner had not met for twoyears until
in the nation must be allowed at least Thursday morning, when they came
six months to dispose of the same ami face to face in the road iu front of
other personal effects they may Mattock’s house. Turner was in a
have. A large number of these in- - -- • - ■
truders have been here a dozen or
more years and have grown rich and
have vast improvements on three
hundred or four hundred acre fanns
the finest in the Cherokee nation, and
they are raising a howl and are pre-
paring to make a L„_- „ iuruenspp,o...... ,-----------
they claim to be their rights—that is, witnessed the fatal duel. •
by Cherokee citizenship by blood. As--
they have plenty of funds and are able THE ADJOURNMENT QUESTION,
to hire the best legal talent, a lively J
time may be expected, and their ap- Washington. D. C, Sept. 21- Pei
peal to the interior department will be ther the Speaker nor Mr. Mills will be
loud and long, but some think without
effect, as the decision of Secretary v i-
las, based on the decision of tha United
States supreme court in the North Car-
olina case, virtually settles the matter,
and if so there ends a much complicat.
ed question that has sorelyafistarthe strongly toward an adjournment, and
CherokeesforsthspasttwownXtityinz the nly thing that can prevent Mr.
inAd s as rei orted by the Cherokee Oates getting control of the caucus for
n.uuueis as rep hi j his resolution is a feeling that it would
authoi Hies, that they g l - be an unheardof proceeding to take ac-
dust at a state I time. .I ;,.g unnc:;.n t <» +1, —en
•e-rscorr fatler-in-law oi
IE), Jr •
( d d alyTiarrison, 13 ninety years of
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