The Ferris Wheel, Volume 5, Number 2, Saturday, September 11, 1897 Page: 2 of 4
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4 at ^aI^a" ^fth a -mtrder '.-^iS3-^'' as oas - ^Z a ltut
i'^[,erd tliatprcmls~s to rival the ^d- I K^/er:'htr night.t :Th' lv 'f:ir'..teq
, .,7 P-,:,,<_,ple were killpe de i s
--esrsor -.re Qf the weatlhet'thX; -eaist:4 'Sd*, t flenand a Caitr Ia
'.i~::r&:.:.s' hs fthiet ll :
reat esays thereiw"Ai' more. 'erime express, estueo'-idd . ead
ioFt leaitherh; hi eo a ee0 The Melea ad 'California express
:he weather bureau is ^ itect. was . ' 9ui t by two comotives an4
' - .--- - -- :; when ethey siw ck the engine :drawi: n
i moral of that story about saa aNew th Fai the boilers of all thre
errea boy breaking an egg ontaiing engifes exploded and tore a hole in
" bilacsnake is. that 'h t tis about time, the gread so deep tat the smoking
;':r New Jersey to take something .be-. e. :t t e: west be .td train went on
'idesapplejack., ,, toi ~i t hi three engines agd . two mail
-' .' ... - --.. cars ant balance tfere without turnWhy
didn't the P. M. at Austin, 'agr.- ' . ,:
0'3inn.,-go6 to the Klondike instead -t 'tNe passengersi the smoking ear
taking poison-just becauseahe couldn't 'escaped through the windows. The
balance his accounts? That's the;style fpItJt en4 of this car was enveloped
:noW. Buit the postmaster evidently. ' a volume of stifling smoke and
Preferred a quick death.' *. ' ' steam belchirng up from the wreck be-
--low .and the rear' door was jammed
The production of coffee is tbom-ing tight in the wreck of the car behind.
of great interest to the farmers f i- The wreck caught fire from the enberia.
Its production has gre in- g. The ars i the hole and the
creased in the last few years. ~I 9895
smoking car burned to ashes in no
the export of coffee was 600.,WO pads,smokng burned to ashes
time. in climbing out of the smok-i
while last year it was 3,000,#00 pounds. In climbng o f the smo
Farmers, merchants and people enr- ar serial men fel through the
ally have turned their attention toof rift in the wreck below and it is lmfee
growing. Much of this is shipped possible to tell whether they escaped
direotTv tn te TUnited S.tni And anmnari or were burned to death. The westwould be shipped hither if there were
-ships touching regularly at Liberian
* ports.Seeing women standing five and six
deep around a counter in a city store
a few days ago a shopper pashed her
way, thither and found the cause qf
their flushed faces, excited voices, disheveled
hair and unladylike snatching
to be a sale of hand mirrors aet a possible
reduction of from five to eight
cents. The same shoppers would unhesitatingly
pay a dollar for a luncheon
rather than economize in :an unifashionable
lunch room. ight not a
club for the study of proportions be
timely and remunertive?
Another attempt ha been made, this
time by Colonel Higgi n, to write a
suitable national anthem or our coun
try, and to furnish it ith music
which shall be at once or inal and
dignified. The endeavor is worthy
one. But one can not help remarking
that the national songs whic find
places in the hearts of the people re
rarely if ever the product of deliberate
and conscious effort, however patriotic.
They are struck out, as by inspiration,
in the heat of some national crisis,
in the stress of some national movement.
The conditions have never yet
been ripe for the birth of the real national
anthem of the United States.
As surely as a lie travels faster than
the truth, so surely does vice outrun
virtue in the race for the occupancy cf
advantageous mining. The mining
headquarters in the British possession
near the Alaskan boundary furnish an
illustration. There were gambling dens
and other evil resorts there several
months ago, but no churches or reading
rooms. Last fall -when navigation
closed on the Yukon river the steamboats
with provisions for the miners
were a long distance off, but the boats
bringing whisky had arrived, discharged
their cargoes and departed.
The race eventually, of course, will be
won by'virtue-since God rules-just
as truth by its inherent might prevails
over falsehood.
Our consul at Jerusalem makes the
following report on American citizens
in Palestine: From the consular records
it appears that there are 530 citizens
of the United States residing in
Palestine. Of this number 438 are Jews,
who are only nominally Americans,
having lived in the United States just
long enough to obtain citizen's papers
and passports. The majority of these
emigrated from Russia to the United
States and thence to Palestine. Of the
other 92 American citizens, nearly all
'have come here because of peculiar
religious views, and among ihem may
be found all possible shades of Christian
beliefs. The one idea that seems
to possess all, to a greater or less degree,
is that of the second advent of the
Lord. This is by all considered to be
an: event soon to take place in Jerusalem.
Some of them during the period
of waiting, are suffering for the neces-ities
of life, but are content to endure
privations in the hope of being present
nd witnessing the Lord's coming. The
'-Alf-v co1 '+y, or "overcomers," as
selves,, have :recently
y 'an, addi tion. of - :17ny
&iheste re-oiti,-'
ngy~ Aj+ .0la f lSaki ho will 'lead 'the
tt leititoa jint 'congress
e'( .wintler, i' alsf.: isit :Hawaii
", e, eae. ttetA t mass :meeting of' na-;
'es 'which,: it 'is alleged by t.he an...afieoniests,
has been: called for the
surp'ose of convincing the senators
'tha' the natives bitterly oppose annexation.',
It' is: stated that Senators
White and Thurston will superintend
the drafting of a monster peition to
congress, in which the Hawaiians will
assert that- the government was torn
from them -through the action, of"
American Minister Stevens.: It is also
alleged the mass meeting will be' conducted
'e tirbly by, Hwaiis and will
be made as dramatic as possible.
The idea is to work on the sympa-,
thies of Senator Morgan and to persuade
him, if possible, that the natives
have been deprived of lands and power
by a handful of rich and powerful
whites, backed by a treacherour American
minister. It is believed the queen
will arrive on the same steamer as the
senators, and that she will address
the people at the mass meeting. The
second card of the anti-annexationistsbound train carried seven or eight will, be displayed here on the arrival
coaches and its ,passenegers included, here late in September of Senatorsmany excursionists who had been to
hear Hon. W. J. Bryan speak at the
county fair at Burlingame. Mr. Bryan
himself was on the train, but was riding
in the rear Pullman, some 400 feet
from the cars which were wrecked.
He states that nothing but a heavy:
Jolt was experienced by the passengers
in his coach.
Mr. Bryan was one of the noblest
men in the crowd of rescuers. He
helped to carry out tlie dead and
wounded and gave the greatest attention
to their care. One poor fellow
who was badly maimed called to Mrr.
Bryan and said:'
"I went to hear, you, to-day. I am
dying now and want to shake 'yur
'hibn and' sa God bl1'ss. you i '
possibly can, Mr. Bryan, get 'me'ridrink of water."
Mr. Bryan went into the fast mail
car, one end of which was burning,
and came out with the water, which
he gave to the suffering passenger. He
brought out cushions for others of the
injured and was everywhere present to
Minister to the wants of the suffering.
\At midnight it was apparent that
the\number of dead would not exceed
ten ox eleven. During the excitement
early -* the evening it was reported
that nearly all ,bf the six postal clerks
on the twi trains were killed or missing.
Two of the clerks were killed.
All of the others save one are more
or less seriously injured.
The list of dead known at midnight
follows:
James Brennan, engineer, Topeka;
Nate Hollister, fireman, Topeka; William
Frisby, engineer;-- Gonzales,
fireman; J. F. Sours, express
messenger, Kansas City; I' 'AI Doran,
postal clerk, Emporia; Daniel McKennon,
boy, Kansas City; unknown
tramp.
Ben Walters, fireman, St. Joseph,
Mo., is missing.
The mail clerks who are hurt are:
W. '. Jones, R. 0. McGee and Claude
Holliday.
The latter may die, as both legs are
broken and he is otherwise hurt.
The dead were brought to Emporia.
At midnight a special train left Emporia
bearing seventeen of the injured
to Topeka, where they will be cared
for in the railroad hospital.
RECORD BROKEN.The Steamer St. Louis Made Fast Time
to Southampton.
New York, Sept. 9.-A cablegram
from Southampton yesterday announcedthat
the American line steamer
St. Louis docked at Southampton
at 5:30 yesterday morning and that
the time of her passage from Sandy
Hook lightship to the The Needles ,as
6.days 10 hours,.nd 14 minutes.
This beats the' record held by the
Hamburg lineriFsterst Bismarck since
September, 1893, 'byi 4 minutes. . The
St. Louis arid St. Pag n*W hold the,
best Southiampton reca/ds i theformer
having the. east tcrd'eO-q'nd the,
/atte 'Iaving e, w:a r ymaki
:the, .passage- In 6 , ys.ad ' : ::
in August 196.
?.'At^a^>^nT*:.*d~lii- lt~a^'5J I lPettigrew of South Dakota, Lee Mantle
of Montana, and Frank Cannon of
Utah. They are now in Japan and
China studying the silver question.
-Before they sailed from Victoria, B.
C., they secured return passage by the
Pacific Mail steamship Doric,- die here
from Yokohama on Sept. 24, and announced
their intention of remaining
over a week in this city to study the
annexation question.
The supreme court has decided that
the income tax law passed by the last
Hawaiian legislature is unconstitutional.Alvin R. Hawkins, a young man from
Gatesville, Texas, died in this city
from blood poisoning. The deceased
~:s a nephew of the governor of
Teneee. e.- - ';, Y-.. --
The United States ship Marilon left
for Mare island on the 27th.
President Dole has issued a proclamation
calling the senate to meet in
special session on Sept. 8 instead' of
the 14th. After the annexation treaty
is ratified the senate will adjourn until
the rel'r session. An attempt
to bring negr6 laborers to this country
has failed. -The matter was referred
to some Soiutern senators for
an opinion. A telegram
on the 26th by a steamer
scheme in the head. The
including Senator Morga
any attempt to take thei
them., DUt
wFryoa s rup uw1 L aLJ,L-Le AsmuuI
s id one eye,: w et: we
arrived at a point 'al' it;,oppositte
where Mr. McElvaney and his famiy .
wi.eree .riing, he shiyd at:a buggy,: and.
x-Io doing, ran Into: Mi. Mcivey's ,
surrey,; which 's oi Bi blind< side, ,
,where .he ,.o~uld not< ' see ,t itMr. nid, ..'i
Mrs. McFl-lvaney, Mrs. W. L. Davis and'
Mrs. McElvaney's' children re In: the :
surrey., Mr. McElvaney was-1 thrown
out and sustained averyiseriou injuries.
Mrs. Davis was 'thrown out an' recei-vela
severe cut under'the left eye i
and another over the right eyebrow, '
and'painful bruises and injuries to the t
right limb, besides other bruises on :
the body and contusions on the head.' IShe
was unconscious for some ti,:e '
after the accident, and was taken into.
the home of R. S., Legate, > where a
physician was summoned and dressed <
her wounds. As soon as she could be'
moved she was taken home. i
Mr. McElvaney will be laid up for E
several days with the bruises and con- V
tusions he received in the fall. His i
surrey is a complete wreck, and from a
the appearance of things it is a great a
wonder that the whole family was not I
more or less injured in the catas- d
trophe.THE AIR SHIP.
[t Was Seen Near Cook's Springs, Grayson
County.
Sherman, Tex., Sept. 9.-The air
ship has been'seen again. This time it
passed high up in the air, and nearly
passed over the post village of Ellsworth,
a suburb to both Sherman and
Denison, better known perhaps as
Cook's Springs. The witnesses to the
appearance of the aerial visitor were
the family of V. H. Hollingsworth.
lMr. Hollingsworth was in the city yes'ird~~y,:;and
repeated 4oest* vt
his wife, whieh.-:wis in: substan'
that on the afternoon of Tuesd y
Sept. 7, about 2 o'clock, she and
the children noticed a strange looking
object in the eastern sky, and that it
appoached rapidly. To them it had an
elongated appearance, with a revolving
fanlike wheel in front, while from
the sides there were finlike projecture
It 'was moving rapidly out of sir'
traveling westward.
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amount of a; es
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cGEN. LEE
He Has Arrived in New Yor
from Havana
New York, Sept 9.-C
Lee, United States cons
Cuba, arrived in this c
by steamship from Havw
was very reticent about
He said he did not ca
them at this time. He
Point yesterday afterno
son, and will go from '
ington. It is reported
Lee is to be relieved
In reply to the questi(
he left affairs in Hava
his assistant, Mr. Sp]
no time fixed for his i
did go back. His m
depend entirely on
the next few days.
saw any end of the
sight, he declined ax
but finally said: "
sight when I left I
still a great deal of
island. Business is
pets of immediate
Speaking of the E
case, Gen. Lee sai
personally intercede
-ler in her behalf. ]
fed, and clothed an
cruelties and indig
Gen. Lee has been
didate for United E
Virginia, and it is
he will not return. /j
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 5, Number 2, Saturday, September 11, 1897, newspaper, September 11, 1897; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46752/m1/2/?q=%221897~%22: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ferris Public Library.