The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1913 Page: 1 of 10
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HASTKOr, IJASTUOI' COUNTY. TKXAH. FHIDAY, OCTOIIICIi 10. IIHil.
NEWS US IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
WHAT m DONE THIS WEEK
Shorl Mentioning of Interesting Hap
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
President Wilson Kliow^rt callor!
Monday a hunt* stack of tclegruniB tnid
lotto™ from all ovor thu country wlilrb
li« said indicated a doslre for lmmo-
diaiti itureno legislation and con-
tulnorf approval ol the main features
of tint administration bill an peudtiiK
in the senate.
President Wilson indicated Monday
he did not favor exempting fr'-tu civil
Hervlci? deputy collectors of interna*
revenue and deputy United States mar-
whulH. provided ill the urgent do*
firiency Mil as passed by (ho senate.
He told callers it Mas originally In-
tended that only special agents should
be exempted because of their neces-
sarily confidential relations with col-
lectors.
l(H|y«MentHtlve Oicnr W. Under-
w tod, majority leader In the Ituupo.
o'.sue a formal stai •!•" n' Saturday ft
W.nhlngton Htinowu !nr as an aspir-
ant for the I'nited States venatorship
Alabama to succeed the late Jo*
!•' J oh nr ton.
< signing of the tariff by I'resl-
dt iu Wilson bin- caused satisfaction
among eApoi; rs, w.\>> hope to Increase
O" , > .in s, ,i i111 nit I'nited States
h. ItHiiMi) exportation the United
Hute-. nov, stiitids third, being Mir
jMrised only by tJerniany and 3wltz r
land
Serious '■ompllcMlio'!'.-. afiYi ring ex
teasi. American Interest*, together
with the possibility of gross ffiudt-.
ai.' feared a.- the result of a bill re-
cently made a law by congress, pro-
vidlng for the free Importation of ar-
ticles Intended lor foreign buildings
nil.I thibits at (<>• I'anama-I'aclfic In
toriia'tonul Kxposltl«>ti and for the pro-
tection of foreign exhibitors
President Wilson has decided to at
tend the Southern Commercial i'on-
*< Mobile, Ala, Oct 27.
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STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
1'eter Volo, « 1: year-old colt. Man
day broke the world's record for trot-
t«•!-.. of that age. making the second
mile on a Lexington (Ky.) track in
:• in1 ■.
The |lti.OUO taken from a Conecti
< ut factory canhlt r b> two men at
tie- point of gtnib recently was recov
♦•red from a stone wall where the rob
bers bid it when pursued by posses
VigretteH on hats are barred from
eiitr> to the 11ruled States by customs
officials sIn< e th( past-age of the new
tariff law
Following a i • ation of unprece
dented rainfalls In South Tex.n from
the Hlo 11 ran do to the Sabine river
mid i'i Louisiana, vivos and small
stream < this week aie receding from
reeoi'd-breu! ing hi 'h water marks.
\ orm now eoverlUK 'ho South-
v, esi svill move northenst ward, cum.
ing Inclement weather in the re it
central vallev !• and In the Lantern
states this week
Through an aperture formed by the
,rawing out ol a single prln n bar and
through which onl> a - mall man could
crawl, twenty three convicts en t*pert
to liberty early Sunday morning from
the Imperial (Texasi stale farm
Thomas Tosh* s!;y, prlsor r since
Friday of Inst week in an a -a <y ned
chamber of the tontine' ^ ' J o ol
the Lehigh Vallev <'oi.j j> at
Centralla, I'm. w;J 1 Ir a
i pet - and eomjmntlk roan at
22 ininutes to h o'clock Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Mildred Hexroat, dancing
teacher, who >vas shot to death at
Wheaton. III., a week ago, was the vic-
tim of a modern Itluebeard, who, ac
cording to bis own confession, had
killed thirteen others In as many
years Henry Spencer, arrested In a
room near the south side levee dis
trtct. Chicago, III.. Sunday confessed
that be not only killed Mrs. Hexroat.
but that he had slain fourteen per-
tains.
Speaker Champ Clark declared for
International disarmament as the sur
est means of guaranteeing world
pence, In an address delivered at the
closing exercises of the Perry cell
lennlal celebration Sunday at Louis
vllle, Ky He praised the valor of
.. vmerican soldiers iu the war of
IjIL l', and de< lan d 'he crowning glor>
of\ • ir heroism r one bundled years
of pdky which have followed between
Uront iHitaln and the United States.
Herman Oclrichs. millionaire law
student at Columbia University. Nev,
York, was disc ban ■ d In police court
Saturday when aTnlgned on the
charge of stabbing Ladle Singleton,
daughter of a Texas mine owner
I hat a radio station w ill be built
ieai Urownsville, Texas, by the r.avy
d 'pnrtment is ai> assurance given Con
i ressmun (Jariier. according to advices
received from Washington Friday. The
proposed plant will cost ubout $40,000.
Figures prepared by the collector of
customs at the port of Calveston for
tne first three months of the fiscal
your 1913-14 show that receipts of the j
port from all sources exceed the same
period of time last year b> $230,204.55.
On tU -Unto fair track at oklahomn ,
City, Ft'J iy. Louis Dlabrow and Wild
lllll Kndjl itt each added a n«*w world's
record t' their performances. Dis-
brow, lu I • Simplex Zip. negotiated a
mile In i upeclal trial in 1:05 3-5, j
2-5ths of a second faster than the
world's record on a half mile circular
dirt track. Kndlcott clipped nearly
seven seconds from the former world's
record for two miles on a circular
half-mile dirt track when be mude the 1
two miles in 2 17, the former record |
being 2:23 4 5.
A petition Is being circulated at
A'lvin, Texas, asking the commission-
ers court of llra/.oria County to remove
the county seat from Angleton to the
old town of Brazoria. The purpose of
the agitation at this time is to pre-
clude any movement looking to the
issuance of bonds for a new court
house af. Angleton
The Indianapolis American Associa-
tion Baseball club was sold at India
napoiis Friday by Sol Meyer, owner,
to .lati.es C McQilli lice. v Wahl
green and Jack Hendricks of Denver.
The purchase price is said to be $lt>G,-
000
Penny Mien of Kansas City won the 1
world's pocket billiard championship !
Friday in New York, defeating Alfred |
do Oro of Cuba, the title holder for
several years, l.y a total score in the
three nights' play of 600 to alG.
Kdell Speed, a Rockdale (Texas)
negro, one day last week picked 910
pounds of cotton on the farm of John
Seidl.
The world's record for a 2 year-old
trotting gelding was lowered Friday
at. Lexington, Ky., at a breeders' meet-
ing when Judge Jones, driven by H M
Child;*, trotted n mile in L 12%. the j
last quarter was done In 31 seconds.
Fire Friday at New Hraunfels, Tox
as. destroyed one of the large cotton
seed sheds of the Lunda oil mil! at a
loss of about $150,000.
Joe Jeanette outpointed Sam Lang
t-ird iu a ten-round bout at Madison
Square (Jarden, New York City, Friday
night. The two negroes are heavy-
weights. Jeanette welched F. 6 and
Langford 199!fc pounds.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Fourteen people were killed and
twenty eipht wi re Injured when a St
Petersburg express train collided with
a stalled engine in Russia Monday
Yuan Shi Kai was named president
of the Chinese republit on the third
ballot of both houses of the Chinese
parliament .it I'ekln China. Monday.
Tli" tate ot \mcrli. n In the hands
of Chinese bandits In China is un-
known, although one report say they
are miliaria!
Lieutenant Poulet of the French
army flying corps Saturday at Lille,
France, followed the xatnple of the
airman I'egoud by flyliv head down-
ward for several • cconds iu bis aero-
plane
A not 1; /• i irthquake oci urred on the
I thtaus o\j *liliaiu.i al eti p m. Sat-
ut'ilay. 11.• % prat ion wa. from ten to
fifteen seconds
Signor ambi .go, co'V iellor of the
embassy at Madrid, has been appoint-
ed Italian minister to Mexico Huron
Carlo Allotti. the retiring minister,
has be< u tailed to the foreign office al
Home.
Peer, alcohols, tobacco and i rude
petroleum must bear the burden of
raisin; Itu roast;!1 •evenues for the gov-
ernment of y ,co. Thin dec,, ion was
reached r i a lengthy conference oi
t he e'' .et at the suburban home of
Pre. iueiii rluorta in Popotla, Mexico,
Saturilay
A ft or the evacuation of Santa Rosa- i
I.a, Mexico, Saturday the combined
forces of Pancho Villa, Tomus Pr-
blna and Manut I Chao, numberhig
4,0OU, scattered to the bill.
A strong earthqunko shot k occur-
red Saturday at Nap' Italy li last
ed thirty seconds and was followed 1
by anothei shock
A partial remoblll/.atlon of the Mon-
tenegrin army wa ordered Saturday
by royal proclamation. The document
says the step has been taken "In con
sequence of event- trunspiriiiK on our
eastern frontier."
Setior tie la Hurra, minister to
France, was named special ambassa-
dor to Japan vfrom Mexico to replace
Felix I Ma/,, and w ill probably leave
without delay, the latter returning to
Ins post at Paris
lly the capsizing of a biplane near
I'heima, France, Saturday a military
pilot named lluitard was Instantly
killed \ pnssettper. Sapper Mori t,
was seriously Injured
i'lie Austrian aviator Sablattn k,
with three pusscngern aboard his bl- ;
plane, reached an altitude at Jobunnls-
llial, (!« rtnatiy, Frltlay of 7''24 feet
FLOOD WAfERS RECEDING
RECESSION OF RIVERS AND
SMALL STREAMS SHOW EVI-
DENCE OF DAMAGE.
MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN 10SI
Mother and Thr^e Children Drown in
San Antonio River—Two Women
and Two Children Perish in
Williamson County.
Following a cessation of unprece-
dented rainfalls In South Texas, from
the Hlo Grande to tho Sabine river,
und iu Louisiana, rivers and small
streams this week are receding from
record-breaking high water marks,
and making patent tho great damage
that has resulted. The recession of
the waters reveals fields swept bare
by the onward rush of swirling tor-
rents, the wrecks of houses that were
in the path of the floods, and the
bodies of animals that could not bo
driven from tin? lowlands before the
waters overtook them. Reports of the
subsidence of waters come from points
at some distance from the tjulf of
Mexico, where the tides have been
ublo to go down with the sla-k. n<
of the rainfall, but nearer the gilf
the waters are not receding and in
some places are still rising. Until a<'
that country has again become dry
land, no estimate of the damage that
could be near correct cm be made.
The Hlo Grande at Brownsville is
within six Inches of the top of the
levee, and the crest is believed to bo
reached, while at Mission It Is still
rising, but at Hlo Grande City the
river has fallen six feet.
The Guadalupe river at Cuero. after
being the highest in twenty-five years,
is slowly receding. In that section the
greatest loss Is to corn, which the
farmers neglected in order to gather
the cotton crop. Many fields of un-
gathered corn have been swept away.
There have been no trains or mail
from San Antonio to 1 lallettsville in
several days owning to the impassa-
bility of the San Antonio river at Falls
City. Other towns report no train
service.
Water in the river and lake at Lake
'"harles, La., is receding, and tho
power plant has resumed operations.
A cloudburst In Williamson County,
a torrential rain in San Antonio and
environs, a bursting of bounds by
le-rrys Creek near Georgetown and an
astonishing rise in the Sari Antonio
river Thui day. a dramatic day in
Southwest Texas, has passed and eight
persons arts known to have been
drowned and property valued at bun
dreds of thousands of dollars has been
destroyed. At least two towns are
inundated and hundi>ds are homeless.
The dead:
Mrs. Otto Grumbles, font :ly of
Austin: 30 ye-irs olt' home near
Georgetown.
Mrs. J. W. Mauklns, 32 years old;
nea r (Jeori i tow n
Hose and Mary Grumbles. 3 and 1
year old, respectively, near C-eorge-
tow II
Mrs Amelia Villanue and three chil-
dren, ranging In age from 1 to 7 ycai ,
of San Antonio
Five Persons Are Rescued.
Mrs. Grumbles and her children and
Mrs. Mankln, with live other peruoa .
who were rescued, were iu a house
five miles north of Georgetown.
About midnight Percy s Cr. ek began
to swell oininousiy, but. its work of (le-
st met Ion was not gradual. With a
roar it swept down at. about 3 o'clock
Thursday morning, currying all beloro
It In the house on Its edge Were,
besides the dead, Mrs. Fannie Twiug,
80 years old John W Manklns, Misses
Fannie Williams and Ilertha Twing
and Mrs. Natinl" Williams Four of
them remained iu the house raid were
rescued a quarter of a mile down the
stream. Mankius was thrown Into the
water ami struck by u bale of cotton
speeding on the flood. He was, how-
ever. rescued without serious injury,
though lie was lodged in a barbed
wire fence
Mrs. Villanue, with her husband and
children, lived niiout five miles south
of San Antonio, When the San An-
tonio River began Its rampage they
deserted their home and fled toward
the city. Tlie four were caught iu the
onrush of water, and the husband and
father raw them speed away from bun
to death.
He, Juan Villanue, strangely enough,
was saved by the very same agency
that caused the death of his family
Whirled by the rush of waters, lie was
catapulted, almost before he realized
the peril, jnto a tree top and safety.
Ho was rescued ninny hours later
Trains Run Into River.
Most remarkable of the day s hap-
penings was the escape of passeuuom
and crew of two Missouri, Kansas and
Texas passenger trains which went
Into an open bridge ut Katy Lake,
near Georgetown Running slow ami
hours late, the Minute Train, south
bound, poked its nose into the San
Gabriel Hirer, but only the engine-
men and baggage tenders wro iu
peril These men swam to suiety,
IHE I RIAL Of GOVIRNCR SUIZTR
Witnesses Give Some Racy Testi-
mony in the Sulze*- Impeach-
ment Hearing.
Albany, N Y Governor William
Suiter recently attempted to negotiate
a bargain with Charles F Murphy.
Tammany Hall leader, to have bin iin
peachment trial "called off" -.o Allan
A. Ryan, son of the Netv York finan-
cier and traction magnate, testified al
the trial Tuesday.
If Murphy was willing to "get his
following to vote that the assembly
had no right to Impeach hlin," the gov-
ernor, according to Ryan, "was willing
to do whatever was right."
This testimony preceded the calling
of Louis A. Sarecky, the governor's
campaign secretary, and other wit-
nesses.
Sarecky, a youth of 27 years, shoul
dered the blame for the omission of
unreported contributions from the gov-
ernor's campaign statement, confessed
he had Imitated the governor's slgna
ture to deceive a bunk, and admitted
that he, an alien, born in Russia and
never naturalized, had been promoted
from the position of governor's stenog-
rapher to the head of tlit? deportation
bureau with the state hospital coin-
mission.
Ryan's story of the governor's al-
leged effort to make pence with the
leader of Tammany Hall was his sec-
ond recital of an attempt on the part
of the governor to obtain political in-
fluence to stop the trial. Ryan testi
fled Tuesday that Sulzer had asked
him to try to persuade United States j
Senator Klihu Root to get the New-
York State republican chairman, Wll 1
liam Barnes, Jr., to influence the re
publican members of the court of im
peachment to vote the impeachment
trial illegal.
The latter testimony Immediately
was stricken out by a vote of 32 to X,
but, on motion of Lion R Hrown, the
senate republican leader, the court, in
executive session, reconsidered its ac-
tion und by a vote of 41 to 14 decided
to admit the testimony and open the
door for the remainder of the young
financier's story. Ryan took the stand
Immediately after the secret session,
lie said that Sulzer had asked him to
obtain Delancy Nlcoll, attorney for
the elder Ryan, as a "go-between" In
the proposed negotiations with the
Tammany leader. This request tho
governor made, the witness said, on
the same day that he asked him to in-
tercede with Senator Roof, a week he-
ore the impeachment trial began and
in the governor's New York office.
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DKIIJUTE REfUGf.ES AI EAGLE PASS
Four Thousand People Estimated to
m Detention—Rush Front
Pcdras Negras.
Kagle Pass, Tex Fully four thou
sand people are in t!,y refugee deter.
Hon camp just outside of Kagle Pass. |
The camp covers an area a half mile
in diameter on an cpen plain with
carc.ely a bush to offer shade Some
of the people have carts, wagons or
bug;'.. - to camp under, bet he ;r«at
multitude have not even a parasol to
protect them from the burning sun.
Women ami children comprise fully
five sixths of the pitiable lil'lit it title.
livery d iy a steady stre tin has pour-
ed over the International bridge in
every Imaginable kind of vehicle, but
tie- g't at majority trudged along with
ail their household goods piled upon
their shoulders, all fleeing wildly iroin
dangers they could not name. Nearly
all ol them will he returned by the m
mli'iatlon oflleers us soon as their
status is ascertained, the Intention be-
ing to admU,only such as have means
and perso/ vhose lives art iu danger
from the/ ,!rals.
About noon Tuesday
could be discerned iu
from points of vantage.
of liiuh buildings and
became crowded with people watching
the advancing column that entered tin;
city a little after 1 o'clock
Aeroplane Sweeps People From House.
Rochester, N. Y Miss Ruth 1111
dreth, daughter of W. K. Hlblreth of
New York City, was killed, and her sis-
ter, Dorothy lllldreth, was perhaps
mortally Injured Tuesday lu Hum-
momlsport when Lincoln Peachy lost
control of a 100-horse power aeroplane
and it swept a number of spectators
off i roof troin which they were watch-
ing Peachy s exhibition flight Ruth
lllldreth fell upon au automobile lier
nk ill I was fractured Among the slight-
ly hurt were Lieutenant S. s Richard
son and Lieutenant Mellinger of tho
United States aviation corps, who es-
caped with minor cuts ami bruise-
Peachy prained an arm and an .itikle.
Ills machine was wrecked
Feiker Grants Jerome's Request.
Concetti, N. H Gov. -nor Sarntp-1
t; Fell,ei li.is formally granted the
request of William Travers Jerome
that decision on the extradition of
llurr* K 'I haw from New Hampshire
be postponed until after '.be investiga-
tion now being conducted by the New
Yoik authorities a> completed.
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J. R. Pfeiffer, Pre*. E. S. Orgain, Sac. and Treu.
Bastrop Lumber Co., Inc.
BASTROP, TEXAS
Contractors and Builders
Will Develop Your Plans
Long Leaf Pine
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winter or summer
Your Cotton Seed
Bagging — Ties
Buy and Sell
To exchauge lor the
Evertliing for the
Seed Only.
Cash Only.
POWELL OIL MILL CO.
MAXWELL AUTOMOBILES
Five passenger, 1 cylinder 25 horse power, com-
plete with wind shield, top and speedometer,
$750.00.
Kive passenger, 35 horse power, complete with
top, wind shield and speedometer,
$1,085.00
OUR GUARANTEE GO WITH THESE CARS
W. T. WROE & SONS, Agents
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