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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1887.
FtfttntfB relating to the descent of comma
aits property.
By Mr. McGaughey—To amend the penal
code making the term for horse-stealing
not less that two nor more than fivo years.
By Mr. Baddler—To amend the law re-
lating to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
By Mr. Prendergast—To require railroad
companies to pay their employes promptly.
ttily Mr. Kirlicks—To amend the Revised
Statutes. It relates to the representatives
of deceased sureties on bonds.
By Mr. Moore of Travis—To prevent cor-
porations from issuing stock or bonds
representing ficticious values or ficticious
indebtedness.
By Mr. Chapman—To provide for the
election of a district judge in the Twenty-
eighth Judicial district.
By Mr. Hudgins—To amend the Revised
Btatutes.
By Mr. McGaughey—To amend the Re-
vised Statutes.
By Mr. Alexander—To correct abuses and
prevent unjust discrimination and extor-
tion in the rates of freight and passenger
tariffs on the different railroads in the
Btate; to establish maximum rates for the
transportation of freight and passengers;
to prevent unjust charges; to prescribe a
mode of procedure and rules of evidence in
relation thereto, and also to create a rail-
road commission.
By Mr. Shields—To amend article 3M of
the l'enal Code, relating to the disturbance
of the peace. It provides that any person
who thall go near any public place, or into
or near any private house, and use loud
and vociferous language, or swear, curse,
yell, shriek, or expose his person, or rudely
display any deadly weapon, or exhibit any
stallion, ass or bull, or keep the same for
the purpose of standing them within a dis-
tance of 100 yards of any private house or
public place, shall be lined not less than
$10 nor more than $100, and it shall not be
necessary to prov.e that any person was
disturbed by the offsnse.
By Mr. Plumly—To amend the Revised
Btatutes in relation to private corporations.
By Mr. Ellison—The prevent the unlaw-
ful fencing of the public lands of the State.
By Mr. Davis of Shelby—To amend the
Penal Code, defining rape.
By Mr. Steele—To amend the Penal Code
by adding article 497a. The section added
punishes by fine of from $20 to $200 any per-
son who shall remove from the premises
wheie raited or sell orotherwise dispose of
any agricultural products or other property
upon which a landlord's or tenant's lien
existed without the consent of the owner or
holder with intent to defraud.
By Mr. Shield—To amend the law for the
classification, sale and lease of the school
and asylum lands.
By Mr. McGaughey—To prescribe the
conditions upon which corporations, other
than such as are created by or under the
la'.vs of this State, may transact or carry
on business within the State.
By Mr. Kelson—To amend the Penal Code
relating to carrying deadly weapons.
By Mr. Page—To provide for a more effi-
cient assessment and collection of taxes.
By Mr. McGehee—To amend the Penal
Code punishing by imprisonment in the
penitentiary for not more than five nor less
than two years any person having a former
wife or husband living who shall marry
another within the State.
By Mr. Grave—To restore the civil and
criminal jurisdiction of the County Court
of Coryell county.
By Mr. Cone—Co fix the time and define
the terms of the District Courts in the
Twenty-fifth district.
By Mr. Moore of Travis—To prohibit firo,
marine or inland insurance companies from
entering into any agreement, compact or
combination fixing rates of insurance on
property.
By Mr. Voorhees—To amend the Revised
Btatutes. The amendment is to permit
aliens who reside in this State and have be-
come citizens of the United States to ac-
quire and hold real estate.
By Mr. Smith of Travis—For tha relief of
Charles E. Barnard.
By Mr. Hunt—To amend the Revised
Statutes, so as to permit the chartering of
co-operative associations.
By Mr. Garwood—To amend the law for
the protection of fish and game.
By Mr. McGaughey—To amend the Re-
vised Statutes. It reduces the compensa-
tion for holding elections to $2 for the
whole time required, and allows nothing
for holding special elections.
By Mr. Gresham—To amend the Revised
Btatutes.
By Mr. Moore of Travis—To amend the
Revised Statutes relating to the descent of
community property.
By Mr. Baird of Brown—To suspend the
collection of debts and taxes in the counties
of Brown, Comanche, Coleman, Concho,
Runnels, McCulloch, San Saba and Llano.
By Mr. Graves — Amending the Civil
Btatutes jjroviding for the establishment of
private corporations.
By Mr. Jones of Panola—To repeal article
4390a, chapter 13, of the general laws of the
special session of the Eighteenth legisla-
ture.
By Mr. Mills—To encourage stockraising
and protect stockraisers.
By Mr. Fuller—To amend the Penal Code
relating to mortgages upon growing crops,
farms, produce, etc.
By Mr. Prendergast—To repeal articles
1630 and 1637, Revised Civil Statutes.
By Mr. Johnson—To amend the Penal
Code to protect growing fruit, grain and
other agricultural products from malicious
destruction.
By Mr. Browning—A resolution granting
Rev. John Brown the use of the hall for a
lecture this evening on drouth sufferers.
Adopted.
By Mr. Ellison—A joint resolution in-
structing senators and requesting repre-
sentatives in Congrefs to secure legislation
to punish and prevent dealing in futures.
Adopted.
By Mr. Page—A joint resolution to amend
the constitution so as to extend the length
of the sessions of the legislature to 120
days, and increase the per diem pay of
members to $6. Laid over.
By Mr. Davis of Shelby—A resolution that
a committee of four from the House and
three from the Senate be appointed to in-
vestigate the extent of the drouth suffering
and ascertain what relief is necessary.
By Mr. Bell of Denton—A resolution that
members shall not receive pay wheuab
gent from sessions, unless on account of
elcfeness. Referred.
Mr. Gresham, from the finance committee,
reported the bill appropriating $80,000 for
the per diem and mileage of members and
the per diem of officers aud employes of
the legislature; also, the bill appropriating
$30,000 for contingent expenses of the legis-
lature. Both bills were passed.
Mr. Bell of Denton, from the special com-
mittee to arrange for opening and counting
the votes for governor and lieutenant gov-
ernor 8 nd for their inauguration, reported
that they had provided for counting the
votes on the loth instant and for a publio
inauguration on the 18th, District .Judge
Walker of this district to administer the
oath of office. Report adopted.
The speaker laid'before the House papers
in the contested election cases of Thomp-
son vs. Bassett and of Williamson vs.
Hajnes, and they were referred to the com-
mittee on elections. The governor's mes-
sage was referred to the appropriate com-
mittee.
Mr. Bell, of Denton, created a slight
breeze by offering a resolution to invite
John H. Reagan to a seat within the bar of
the Hou?e in view of his distinguished ser-
vices.
^liimediatelv Mr. Moore, of Travis, moved
■to include the names of Hons. S. B. Maxey
and A. W. Terrell: and Mr. Kirlicks to add
the name of General Bates, of Brazoria.
The amendments were accepted and the
resolution as amended was adopted.
Mr. Baylor also offered a eulogistic reso-
lution inviting General Walter P. Lane to a
seat, which was adopted and the House ad-
journed.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Box; SB OF CORRECTION BILL.
Austin, Tex., January 14.—The house of
correction bill introduced in the Senate
will be passed by that body, but not in its
present condition. It provides for the re-
formation according to the methods set out
in it of youths from 11 to 18 years of age.
There are those who will insist that when a
youth arrives at the age of 18 he is old
♦Dough to do a good day's work in the peni-
tentiary. The bill will be amended so as to
read young criminals from 8 to 16 years of
age. The committee will report against
the proposition to allow juries to fix the
terms of imprisonment. It will suggest
that the jury bring in a verdict that the de-
fendant is a tough, aud on this verdict he
(-hall bo transferred to the reform prison
tiJl he becomes morally tender or has ar-
rived at his majority.
the incorporating act.
Senator Terrell introduced a bill amend-
ing the present incorporation act. It pro-
vides for the incorporation of refrigerating
meat, fruit and vegetable canning estab-
lishments. The bill also provides for co-
operative stores, but makes all persons
holding over $500 in stock responsible in-
dividually for the debts of the corporation.
This gives the co-operative store element a
chance.
that blackboard.
Senator Macmanus at an early hour arose
and notified the Senate that a blackboard
bearing on its face the pool-selling on the
senatorial race was leaning against the
walls of the capitol. The senator said he
did not know anything about the pool game,
but every one did know it was a gambling
device. He therefore introduced a resolu-
tion ordering the removal of it. About a
dozen senators took a hand, some say-
ing that the Senate had no right
to cxercise police control over Austia.
Others that if the sergeant-at-arms at-
tempted the removal and was resisted the
Senate would have to crawfish. After an
extraordinary display of knowledge in re-
gard to the legislative and executive powers
of the Senate, the owner of the board offer-
ed to remove it. A resolution asking him
to do so being introduced was voted down.
The time consumed was one hour, and the
board stands just where it did, unless the
sensitive nature of the owner has suggested
its removal.
decidedly gabby.
The blackboard question had hardly been
settled when the question of appointing an
assistant doorkeeper came up. Never in
the discussion of the tariff or the interstate
commerce bill was there more deep thought
or more sonorous eloquence displayed than
on this occasion. One or two modest
gentlemen were quiet, but there was not a
man who had a speech in him but felt
that this was the time to give it birth. A
vote was finally arrived at, and another
doorkeeper at the same price was provided
for. Of course, the legislature is raw. It
seems to appreciate this, and feels that
the best way for the members to
get acquainted with each other is to talk
and pet into discussion, and they do talk.
They can not be said to be garrulous—that
is too strong a word—but they are decided-
ly gabby. In time they will tire and get
down to voting. There is a mistake in that
constitutional provision which fixos the
compensation of the legislators at $5 per
day for the first sixty days, and $2 per day
after that time. It should give them $2 per
day for the first thirty gabby days, when
they are posing as orators, and $5 per day
after that time '.vhen they are supposed to
get down to work.
the tariff resolution'.
The lower house got through a resolution
calling on Congress to repeal the odious
high tariff laws. Under the wording, every
representative in that body can put his own
construction on the word high. What is
high to one man may be losv to another, but
the resolution does not abridge the right of
any man in concluding what is high and
low.
shades of rutabaga.
The lower house also discussed the wis-
dom of appointing more doorkeeper. The
blood of Rutabaga J ohnson must bold when
he reads of this extravagance in appointing
four or five doorkeepers at $5 a day each,
to take care of two doors. To men who as
boys bave minded the cap while the corn
was being gathered, this extravagance will
he apparent, for minding the gap and door-
keeping are about the same thing.
rural legislation.
There is going to be a great deal of what
might be called rural legislation this ses-
sion. Backetsfull of bucket shop bills are
already in. More stringent laws against
gaming will probably come, and it is hinted
that even progressive euchre, which has
I f en ascertained to be most damning in its
effects, may receive a side-wipe as the
legislature moves along. In fact, it looks
as if the preachers are not to be given a
chance, as many of the legislators propose
to drive goodness into the people with a
legal man!.
land legislation.
A dozen or more bills for the adjustment
of the land troubles have already been sub-
mitted to the land committee of the House.
From all these the committee will pick a
point or two, and it is highly probable that
the result will be the passage of a bill fix-
ing the rental of the laud at from 3 cents to
0 cents and giving the land office control of
Item. This does away with the land board
pnd its confusing sub-legislation.
railroad legislation.
The committee of internal improvements
of the House is decidedly favorable to rail-
road legislation. That is the general
opinion, but the fight that such legisla-
tion will meet with will exceed in heat all
former lights made on the subect in this
State.
■ miscellaneous.
The special committee will report to the
two house to-morrow recommending the
adoption of the plan for publishing steno-
graphic report of legislative proceedings,
proposed by Mr. Wheelis.
The senate judiciary committee heard an
argument on the bill to define Texas boun-
daries and sue Kansas, and was highly
pleased with Colonel Freeman's argument.
The bills introduced by Messrs, Gresham
and Plumly in the House to-day to amend
the private corparation law, were the same
in text, and designed to include within the
purposes for which such corporations may
be chartered, stationery and blank book
manufacturing business.
Mr. Alexander's bill to regulate railroad
tariffs and create a commission is in most
of its features the same as his bill of the
last session, the only material difference
being in the long aud short haul provision.
In the former bill the clause was copied af-
ter the Reagan bill, while this time he has
adopted the idea embodied in the Cuilom-
Reagan bill now pending, which authorizes
the commission to relax the force of this
provision when it may be deemed proper.
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
governor ireland interviewed.
Austin, Tex., January 14.—A local paper
this morning charging certain railroad
men wtth being actively engaged in work
for Governor Ireland, quotes the language
of Mr. J. Waldo, pool commissioner, in a
letter to a legislator, as follows: "I will
consider it a personal obligation to myself
if you will vote for Ireland for the Senate."
The News reporter calling upon the gov-
ernor, the following questions were asked
and answered:
" Governor Ireland, 1 see that there has
been newspaper comment upon your mes-
sage as evidenced that you are opposed to
interstate regulation of commerce. What
have you to say to this?"
Answer—I have this to say: The person
who tortures my remarks alluded to as evi-
dence of my hostility to federal legislation
in interstate commerce is either anxious to
misrepresent me or is not mentally capable
of understanding the most ordinary idea
expressed in print, and the man who as-
sumes tbnt the federal government has the
right to enter the states and take control of
reads within their borders is in no better
condition than the first. 1 spoke to the le-
gislature ot a state and had no reference
to interstate commerce. I presume I occu-
py the same position on the state regula-
tion of railways that Senator Maxey, Judge
Reagan and others do.
QueetiPK—I eee that it is alleged that you
are a railroad man, because a gentleman
connected with the road has written a let-
ter to a member asking him to support you
for the Senate. How is this?
Answer—I can only say that 1 have had
no communication with the gentleman re-
ferred to. I have not seen him in a year.
And I also say that 1 think a lifetime in tho
service of the people, and a constant strug-
gle from a date wlinn it took moral courage
to do so, against ail species of monopoly
and corporate power, would satisfy the
country on that subject. I know of no
candidate for the Senate that will spurn
the aid even of a railroad man. If I have
satisfied the country that I will deal with
all classeg in a spirit of justice and equity,
my opponents should not envy my reputa-
tion.
Question—I see that your position on the
tariff is not understood. How do you
stand?
Answer—I have not had time to explain
every day to the newspaper my exact posi-
tion, if 1 have expressed myself a thou-
sand times on the subject. 1 have said a
thousand times that the tarriff laws passed
in 1862, to raise war funds, and slightly
modified in 1867. are now monstrosities.
THE SENATORIAL SITUATION
but little change.
Ausin, Tex., January 14.—The senatorial
situation is about the same. Judge Reagan
was in the lobby of the legislature this
morning and was surrounded by a goodly
number of friends. A representative in-
troduced a resolution inviting him on the
floor on account of his long and faithful
services. An amendment was offered in-
viting Maxey and other candidates. This
was again amended by including General
Bates among the invited, and there
was a strong probability of every old
man and veteran and prominent man in
the State being included in the invitation
in order to reach the dark-horse element,
when some one suggested the wisdom of
stopping nominations. The resolutions
passed but none of the honored ones ap-
peared. General Maxey has not appeared,
Judge Terrell is standing near the old town
pump on the aveDue and Governor Ireland
is in his office. The friends of each can-
didate are confident. They are extravagant
with their figures and generous in giving
them to the press. An honest addition
from the figures furnished shows that there
will be about 300 votes cast on the first bal-
As there are only about 137 votes, the said
friends are preparing themselves for a
great astonishment. The Reagan men
think that Maxey will lead on the first bal-
lot. This the Ireland men deny; but
the Reagan men think that after the
third or fourth ballot Maxey will be
so far out of the race as to warrant his
supporters in going to tfce other candidates.
On the othor hand, Maxey's friends say his
supporters will stick cut, and that he will
stait out strong, gain strength all the way
through and come out at the end a not over-
fatigued winner. Ireland's men are bouy-
ant too, and Terrell's supporters are saying
little, working hard and preparing to catc i
anything that my benefit when the scatter
commences.
GOOCH ON THE ground.
Hon. John Young Gooch arrived to night
from Palestine to stay till the senatorial
question is settled. He regards Reagan, ho
says, as the most deserving and strongest
candidate, but he throws no mud at the
others. Mr. Gooch is not able to
give an opinion yet of the com-
parative strength of the candidates.
When ho does, it is an opinion
to be relied upon. It is suggested that Mr.
Reagan has been a little over confident in
not calling Mr. Gooch here sooner.
A REGULAR DRAG net.
The pool-selling still shows the sporting
men have more confidence in Ireland than
in the other candidates. This is not sur-
prising, and may account for the summons
of Gooch so soon after Judge Reagan had
arrived and surveyed the field. The gov*
ei nor is strong because he has gathered
more friends here than all the
other candidates together. He has a
regular dragnet catching the farmer
element, Knights of Labor, railroads aud
the state machine, includiug the party
leaders. Also, this afternoon a Republi-
can member, favoring Maxey, stated it was
somewhat j.eculiar that so many lead-
ing Republicans had business here
jr st now which enabled them to put
in good words for Ireland with
the Republican members. He had been
approached on the subject and others of his
party had. The governor is doubtless not
responsible for this support.
THE DROUTH DISTRICT.
CLUVERIUS DID NOT CONFESS
WAS HANGED AT RICHMOND YESTERDAY
History of the Murder of Fannie Lillian Madi-
son, for which He Was Executed ,
—Scene at the Gallows.
address of rev. john brown.
Austin, Tex., January 14.—Rev. Jno.
Brown of Albany, Shackelford county, ad-
dressed a meeting at the capitol building
to-night composed of some forty or fifty
members of the legislature upon the sub-
ject of the distress in northwest Texas,
consequent upon the drouth. Mr. Brown
went over the subject at some length,
picturing graphically the suffering that
prevailed there, citing many instances of
absolute want and starvation coming under
his immediate observation. He also re-
viewed at some length tho influences exer-
cised in thwarting his northern mission in
the interest of his suffering people. Peo-
ple were leaving that section of the State
by the hundreds, doing Texas incalculable
injury in advertising it as a State unwill-
ing to provide for its own people in dis-
tress. There were from 21 to 30 counties
in the drouth belt. The county judges of
these counties in convention had made tho
estimate upon careful calculation that there
were at least 30,000 sufferers in the district,
and that it would require at least $500,000 to
relieve their immediate and pressing ne-
cessities. He was authorized to represent
these people in asking the legislature to ap-
propriate this amount out of the state trea-
sury. They did not care so much to be re-
I lieved of their taxes. What they wanted was
money relief, and they would be able to start
J themselves again and pay their taxes. At
- the conclusion of Mr. Brown's remarks, a
[ motion was made by Representative Lati-
mer to indo'se Mr. Brown's remarks, and
recommend his appeal to favorable consid-
eration, which was passed. Senator Cal-
houn, who was present, also indorsed the
remarks of the speaker, saying that his
statement was not in the least exaggerated,
and that in his own county, Eastland, there
were at least 3000 sufferers.
BUSINESS TROUBLES.
transferred to their creditors.
Edna, Tex., January 14.—On yesterday
the firm of E. S. Mullinat & Co., Ganado,
general merchants, sold their entire stock
to F. W. Rogers, of this county, and the
amount of proceeds of sale was transferred
to L. & H. Blum, of Galveston, one of their
creditors.
boot and shoe failure.
St. Louis, Mo., January 14.—Frederick
D. Shaffer, wholesale boot and shoe dealer,
made an assighment for the benefit of his
creditors to-day. The assets are estimated at
$16,CC0; liabilities, $25,000. The principal
creditors are Boston firms.
wibhita falls.
Wichita Falls, Tex., January 14.—The
Bullin & Son stock of drugs, which was
sold yesterday to R. 8. Bullin as a preferred
creditor, was attached to-day by Liebs,
Sons & Co., for $230, and Meyer Bros. &
Co. for $360, debts of the firm of Bullin &
Son.
A Sad Case.
Milwaukee, Wis., January 14.—At !)
o'clock this morning Rev. John Patterson,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cam-
bridge, Wis., cut his throat with a razor
while standing in front of the public li-
brary building on Grand avenue, aud now
lies in a precarious condition at St. Mary's
hospital. Ha was suffering from mental
aberration, the result of a severe sunstroke
last summer. He is about 50 years of age
and has a large family of small children.
Richmond, Va., January 14.—On the
morniDg of Match 14, 1885, L. Rose, keeper
of the old city reservoir in the western part
of the city, discovered the body of a woman
in the reservoir and at once notified the
coroner, who had the body taken from the
water. It proved to be that of a good-look-
ing woman of about 22 years of age. The
coroner pronounced it a case of suicide and
had the body removed to the city alms-
house for ^identification. Subsequent in-
vestigation resulted in the formulation of
a murder theory, upon a chain of circum-
stantial evidence. A further examination
of the body disclosed the fact that the wo-
man was far advanced in pregnancy. Dur-
ing two days many people saw the body,
and it was finally recognized by two young
ladies as that of Miss Fanny Lillian Mad-
ison, of King and Queen county, who for
some time paBt had been teaching school
iu Bath county. The coroner's inquest re-
sulted in a verdict of
PROBABLE MURDER.
Detectives and people set to work and
brought to light circumstances that added
strength to the murder theory. A woman
who had registered at the American hotel
on March 13, under the name of Miss F. L.
Merton, was missing from the hotel, and
her disappearance and tho finding of the
body about the same time furnished the
fata'l clew, but for which the murderer
might never have been known. While the
so-called Miss Merton was at the hotel she
wrote and received several notes,
but one directed by her was never deliv-
ered,and after her departure from the
hotel it was torn to pieces by the clerk
ard cast into the wash-basin. It was sub-
sequently brought to light and was found
to be addressed to T. J. Cluverius. Fur-
ther inquiry developed the fact that the
man was a young lawyer of King aud
Queen county, and a cousin of the de-
ceased. The discovery of this note led to
the arrest of Cluverius, who was known to
have been in Richmond on March 13, He
was found at theresidonce of his aunt, Mrs.
Tunstall, in King and Queen county, aud
brought to this city. He waived a pre-
liminary examination, was indicted in
April for murder and his trial began at the
May term of the court and continued for
twenty-eight days. The evidence fixed upon
the prisoner the brand of,
f JCDUCER AND MURDERER,
ard when able counsel on both sides had
concluded their efforts for and agaiust the
accuser1, the jury, af'er but a few minutes
oonsidf ration, rendered a verdi it of mur-
der in the firFt degree, and Cluverius was
sentenced to be hi nged November 20, 183(5.
An appeal wasthen taken to the Supreme
Court, but the court afiiffied the judgment
of the lower court. He was then resen-
tenced to be hanged December 10,1888. As
a last resort the chief executive was finally
applied to for pardon or commutation of
sentence to life imprisonment, but the gov-
ernor, after giving tbo case the most con-
sideiate attention, could find no reason for
interfering with the mandate of the court.
He, however, respited the condemned man
until to day.
THE EXECUTION.
Richmond, Va., January 11. —Thomas
Jndson Cluverins, convicted of the murder
of Fannie Lillian Madison, was hanged ia
the city jail to-day. As early as 9 a. m.
people began to gather iu the vicinity, and
by noon every approach to the jail was
packed with human beings. The house-
tops and hillsides near the jail, from which
a sight into tho jail-yard could be
had through tickets issued by City
Sergeant Smith, who, though chary ia
giving them out, admitted over two hun-
dred persons. The prisoner passed a
sleeplass night, most of the time being
spent with Beverly Crump, one of his coun-
sel, who has done everything to save or
extend his life and who remained with him
till 2 a. m., and from that hour until 6
o'clock he was engaged in prayers and at
intervals singing hymns. From 6 o'clock
until 9 he slept soundly and then rose and
ate a breakfast of tenderloin beefsteak,
mushrooms and egg omelette. During the
morning hours there was much
speculation as to whether the governor
would further respite, and that question was
not finally settled until some time after
noon, when Mr. Crump, who had been to
see the governor and returned to the jail
and announced that executive power would
not be interposed. Rev. Dr. William
Hatcher came to the jail about 11a.m.
and remained with the prisoner to the last,
administering religious consolation and
praying with the prisoner. At noon a suit
of new black clothes was brought to the
jail and the prisoner donned them. At two
minutes to 1 o'clock
the death procession
was formed, consisting of Sergeant Smith,
two deputies, Rev. Dr. Hatcher and the
prisoner, the latter having his hands tied
in front of his body and from neck to
ankles enveloped in an old-fashioned lady's
water-proof cloak. Prom the cell the march
progressed to the lower court of the jail,
and then into the yards fronting the cells of
the white prisoners, forty policemen being
on duty to keep back the crowd. The
prisoner, though thin aud pale, moved with
steady steps to the scaffold, which
he ascended in the samo quiet manner
and stood on the trap. Sergeant Smith then
read the death warrant, or a copy of the
judgment of the court, to which the prison-
er listened with bowed hoad and apparent
close attention. When the sergeant had
concluded, he asked the doomed man if he
had anything to say, and Cluverius replied:
" No, sir, nothinir at all," his voice being
scarcely audible. Dr. Hatcher then knelt
and oflered prayer, and when he had fin-
ished he turned to the prisoner, who said
a few words in a low tone, and Dr. Hatcher,
turning to the crowd, said: " I am requested
by the prisoner to utter one word for him,
that iu this moment of death he carries to the
grave no feeling of ill wlli toward any man
on eaith." Dr. Hatcher then left the scaf-
fold. Raising both hands as he went out, he
said that the prisoner had asserted his in-
nocence to the last just before leaving his
cell.
THE LAST scenes.
When Dr. Hatcher had gone, Deputy Ser-
geant Allen tied the prisoner's knees tightly
together, nut the rope around his neck and
adjusted the black cap and hood. Every-
thing being ready, Sergeant Smith gave
the signal*and at 1.08 o'clock the trap was
sprung. There was a sudden swish, fol-
lowed by the clang of the falling trap door,
and the next instant the body of Cluverius
was at the end of the rope, over ten
feet below where he had been stand-
ing. The rope, which was made
of particolored silk, stretched over
a foot and the toes of the hanged man
nearly touched the brick pavement beneath.
A minute of quiet, and then there was con-
siderable struggling, lasting several
minutes, together with heavy stentorious
breathing, indicating that death was beins:
produced by strangulation. After 16
minutes, the physicians pronounced the
body dead, and 20 minutes after the trap
was sprung it was taken down and placed
in a plain wooden coffin, and turned over
to the undertaker to be prepared for
burial at his former home in King and
Queen county^
FOUR AT FORT SMITH.
indian territory assassins.
Fort Smith, Ark., January 14.—James
Lamb, Albert Odell and JohnT. Echols,
whl.te men, and John Stephens, a negro,
were hanged in the United States Court jail
yard here to day, for murders committed
in the Indian Tei ritory.
two assassins.
Lamb and Odelt killed Edward Pollard,
whose wife was the latler'a mistress. They
tiled to drive him and George Brassfield
away from home, in order to take their
wives. Brassfield left, and Odell married
Mrs. Brassfield; but Pollard remained, and
Lamb and Odell, and the two women,
formed a conspiracy to murder him. Hts
wife sent him to a village near their home
in the Chickasaw Nation, on December 28,
1KB, and Lamb and Odell waylaid and
killed him on the road.
echols's crime.
Echols killed John Patterson, with whom
he had a difficulty about a horse trade,
February 16,1886. Patterson had not given
him all of the property traded for and
Echols finding him in the woods hauling
logs attempted to take the horse he traded.
A quarrel followed and Echols shot Patter-
son twice with a Winchester rifle, inflicting
wounds from which death ensued ten days
later.
he killed several.
John Stephens killed several persons,
but was only convicted of the murder of
Dr. Joseph T. Piles, a white man, in the
Cherokee Nation, on the 29th of last May.
Piles had Stephens arrested for stealing
his cow, and Stephens went to the doctor's
house at night and beat out his brains with
an ax, and then crushed his wife's skull
and fled. He next went to the house of a
widow woman named Kerr aud killed her
and her little boy, robbed the house and
left. There were no living witnesses to his
crimes. He was convicted on circumstan-
tial evidence alone.
all silent.
The condemned men had nothing to say
on the gallows concerning their crimes.
Lamb advised everybody to keep out of the
Indian Territory, and away from bad com-
pany. Odell, Stephens and Echols joined
the Catholic church, and were attended by
Father Smythe on tbe gallows. Lamb
joined tbe Methodist church, and was at-
tended by Dr. Cato. The trap was sprung
at 1,35, and all died without a struggle.
A DAY'S FIRES.
Blaze at the Buclmev Orphanage at Dalla?,
whic-h Resulted in Slight Damage-
Flames Elsewhere.
Dallas, Tex., January 14.—A fire oc-
curred to-day at the Buckner Orphan home,
which, but for the heroic efforts of the at-
tendants, would have resulted in great loss.
While Mr. Reese, the superintendent, was
looking after matters in the fine two-story
structure on which the finishing touches are
being put, he observed smoke issuing from
12 bales of cotton, the product of the
home farm, which had been stored in the
open air against the back-yard fence.
A strong wind was blowing with the barn
to leeward of the cotton, and the fire when
discovered had already seized upon several
bales and was making rapid headway. Mr.
Reese at once gavo the alarm, with the ef-
fect of calling to tbe rescue the employes
of the Home, and Mr. D. E. Bently, of El
Peso, who happened to be visiting the or-
phanage, and they, after about five hours
nard labor, succeeded in extinguishing the
last spark of the fire which had eaten into
ifce cotton, making extinguishment very dif-
ficult. The loss does not exceed $50, but had
tbo fire reached the barns, as it would,were
it not for the timely assistance, the loss
would have reached several thousand dol-
lars. The fire was not the result of care-
lessness, subsequent examination proving
that it had its origin in a spark carried by
the wind from a great distance. The
orphans rendered valuable aid In saving
the cotton, and one of them named Mag-
nus, who is barely 6 years old, actPd the
hero. As the little fellow was pulling at
the tufts of blazing cotton he burnea his
right hand, which was observed by Mr.
Bently,|who then said to him: "My little
boy, you had better get away from here."
To which the little fellow replied: " I have
burned my hands in four or five places, but
that does not make any difference. I'm going
to help save this cotton."
gin-house burned.
Stephenville, Tex., January 14.—The
gin-house of Brumley & Head, at Alex-
ander, was burned last night.
DYNAMITE.
It is Used in San Francisco to Demolisli a
Dummy on the Cable Road—Several
Persons Wounded.
San Francisco, Cal,, January 14.—Resi-
dents on Post street, between Larkin and
Polk streets, were startled last evening by
the sound of a tremendous explosion. Dyn-
amite had been placed on the track of the
I.arkin street branch line of the Sutter
Street Cable road and had exploded under
dummy No 34. The dummy was completely
wrecked and the windows of the car and of
houses in the vicinity were demol-
ished. Mr. Hilderbrant and wife
and brother were sitting in the dummy
on the side where the explosion
took place. They were all thrown into the
street, and Mrs. Hilderbrant, it is feared,
seriously ii lured. It was a miracle that
there twere ro others injured, as several
persons were on the dummy. The excite
ment caused by the explosion was intensi
fied when it became known that another
explosion had taken place on the, Sutter
Street Cableiond. nearDupontstreet, about
an hour later. The explosion is believed to
have been caused by a giant powder car
tridge. the dummy wheels running over
it. The dummy was disabled and
had to be taken to the shop. No
one was injured by the last explosion,
as the charge in the cartridge wa3 evident
ly small. The authorities are eutirely at a
loss as to the authors of these outrages,
and have as yet not obtained the slightest
clew to the perpetrators ot any of these
frequent attempts at destruction of life and
property on the Wary and Sutter Street
Cable roads. Two men have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned iu the out
rage. Their names can not be ascertained.
Later in the evening an unexploded dyna
mite caitridge was found near Scott street,
on the Gary Street road. The cartridge had
evidently been placed on the track, but' had
rolled off.
Railroad Wreck.
Hillsboro, Tex., January 14.—The pas-
senger train due here Wednesday night at
6 o'clock left the rails about one mile south
of town, and the whole train was badly
wrecked. Every coach left the track, but
fortunately no one was hurt. The mail
coach had to be left, but the others, after a
delay of nine hours, were supplied with
new trucks and taken on their journey. The
wreck is said to have been caused by a
brake on the mail car getting down on the
track.
For Defendant.
Boston, Mass., January 14.—The jury, in
the suit of Father Fitzgerald against Arch-
bishop Williams, for slander, this after-
noon rendered a verdict for defendant.
Safe, permanent ar.d complete are the cures
of bilious and Intermittent diseases, made by
Prickly Asu Bitters. Dyspepsia, general de-
bility, habitual constipation, liver and kidney
complaints are soeedily eradicated from the
system. It disinfects, cleanses and eliminates
all malaria Health and vigor are obtained
more rapidly and permanently by the use of
this great natural antidote than bv anv other
remedy heretofore known, as a blood purl
fler and tonic it brings health, renewed en-
eigy and vitality to a worn and diseased body.
MARITIME MATTERS.
arrived, sailed, etc.
Queenstown, January 14.—Arrived: 8.
C. Awell, Scwelfell, Caribboan, New Or-
leans; Walter Thomas, Galveston.
Maderia, January 14—Sailed: Dolcoath,
New Orleans.
Marvpor, January 14.—Sailed: Amethyst,
for New Oileans.
Bremen, January 14.—Arrived: Alice,
trom Galveston.
f London. January 14.—Arrived: Steamer
France, from New York.
BAYLOR COLLEGE,
BELTON.
Tbe Second Semester will Open on
February 1.
SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES ARE NOT TO BE '
found in the Uniteel States. Music is taught
as a science and an art—a necessary part of a
liberal education.
Tho College Ilome in all its arrangements
for the comfort of young ladies Is attracting;
the notice and admiration of visitors from all
sections. Address
J. H. LUTHER, Bolton.
First—After devoting much time
and attention to their manufacture
their shoes have become perfection
in shape, ease, workmanship and
durability. Second—Unlike ready
made shoes generally they will not
rip or lose their shape, and require
no breaking in. Third—They ai'9
made of the finest materials and ar©
sold at moderate prices. One trial
will convince you of their superiority.
Our name and address is Oil each sole. ,
j. & T. COUSINS, New York.)
Agents for
GALVESTON:
Xj. schlesing^e,
f3latto reos.
Protection Oil Co.
NEW OIL HOUSE IN TEXAS.
COAL OIL, SAFETY OIL, HEADLIGHT 0!L,
protection oil.
And all kinds of Illuminating and Lubricating
Oils,now urriving on schooners, and far sate
by the carload, or in quantities to suit tho
trade. Address
PROTECTION OIL COMPANY,
GALVESTOS, TEX.
Or C. W. ROBINSON,
HOUSTON, TEX.
SELLS
Tubs,
Washboards,
Clothes-pins,
Blueing,
Lines,
Sadirons,
Ironing Boards
Bread Boards,
Meat Boards,
Cste Forms,
Cash Boxes,
Molasses Urates,
Faucets,
Coffee Drippers,
Hatchets,
Axes,
Hinges,
Nails,
Mallets.
Furnaces,
Boilers,
Waflle Irons,
Wafer Irons,
Curling Irons,
Stove Pans,
Milk Pans,
Fry Pans,
Kettles,
Tin Tirlets,
Baskets,
Corkscrews,
Nut Crackers,
Bird Seed,
Tacks,
Hammers,
Saws,
Screws,
1NAU
PERFUMERY
and
[TOILET ARTICLES,
HE&3SSY DREYFUS,
Sole Affcnt for the IT. S.
10 COUHTLAND ST., Ji. Y.
TIC A CM COO Its causes and a new and sue-
CnrlMLoucesstul CUKE at your own
uhome, by one who was deaf twenty eighl
frears. Treated by most of the noted speclal-
sts without benefit. Cured himself in three
months, aud since then huudretfci of others.
Full particulars sont on application.
T. S. PAGE No. « West 81st st. New V ork City.
LOTTERIES.
CAPITAL PRIZE 8150.000.
" We do hereby certify that we supervise Ilia
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi an-
nual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and In person manage and oontroi
the Drawings themselves, and that the sarna
are conducted with honesty, fairness, and la
good faith toward all parties, and we authorise
the Company to use this certificate, with fac-
similes of our signatures attached, in Its ad-
vertisements." " G. T. BEAUHEGAKI),
"J. A. EARLY,
' ■Commissioners."
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn In the LonlslanaState Lot-
teries which may be presented at our counter!.
J. II. OGLESBY, Pres. La. Nat. Bank.
J. V.'. KILBRETII, Pres. State Nat. Ban*,
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N. O. Nat. Bank,
Unprecedented Attraction t
OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTE Di
Louisiana State Lottery Cod
Incorporated In 1868 for 26 years by the Legis-
lature for Educational and Charitable pur-
poses—with a capital of ?1,000,000.- to which a
reserve fund of over $650,000 has since bee*
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote ,lts fran-
chise was made a part of the present State
Constitution adopted December 2, A. D. 1879.
Its Grand Single Number Braningi
will take place monthly, and tho semiannual
drawings regulaily every six months (Juna
and December.) It never scales or postpone I.
Look at tbe following Distribution.
GRAND MONTHLY DRA WING,
At the Academy of Music New Orleans,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1887.
100,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars each. Halves, Iff.
Fifths, $2. Tenths, Jl.
LIST op PRIZES.
1 Capital Prize of $150,000 J150.00J
1 Grand Prize of 50,000 50,008
1 Grand Prize of 20.000 20,009
2 Large Prises of 10,000 20,000
4 Large Prizes of 5,000 20,003
2,179 prizes amounting to 635,000
Application for rates to clubs should bemad#
only to the office of the Company In New Or-
leans.
For further Information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES,Kinross Money
Orders, or New York Exchango in ordinary
letter. Currency invariably by Express at our
expense. Addressed, M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
Make P. O. Money Orders payable and ad-
dress Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS
NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La
J, D, SAWYER, Agent, Galveston, Tex.
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