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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1892.
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A. IT. BELO A CO., Publishers.
« Office of Publication, Nos. 2108 and 2110 Me-
chanic Streot, Galveston.
Entered at the Pos to fllce at Galveston as second
class matter.
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1893.
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
The following are the traveling representor
tives of The Galveston News and The Dal-
las News, who are authorized to solicit and
receipt for subscriptions and advertisements
for either publication: E. P. Boyle, T# B.
Baldwin and Marehant Little.
A. H. Belo & Co.
Galveston, Tex., April 21, 1802.
POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
FREE GOVERNMENT.
Responsibilities are always more or less
burueusome and it is quite natural that even
the freest people should long at timeti to tum-
ble their load3 upon the shoulders of some-
body else. But this is one thing free and self-
governing people can not do without surren-
dering the liberties, right* and benefits of a
true democracy when they givo up the re-
sponsibilities which go therewith. In a gov-
ernment of the people, by the people, the
people are logically responsible for all the
mistakes and failures. The peoplo make the
constitutions, the laws, the officials, und they
are responsible for every defalcation and
every failure to enforce the laws they have
made. Many of the weaknesses in our system
of government are apparently results of a wild
rush of numbers of the people to get rid of
their responsibilities at the price of their lib-
erties. Nothing has aided them in this enter-
prise of political and moral bankruptcy more
than the old parties that have lived for almost
half a century by tumbling the burden of re-
sponsibility upon each other in desperate
etrorts to keep in by relieving the people of
their load. The burden has grown larger
each year and the people seem less inclined to
carry it to-day than ever before, but it is the
people's burden and the only way for them to
make it light is for them to carry it manfully.
Otherwise they will be crushed by its recoil
when they fancy they have shifted it. Unless
we shall have in this country within the next
ten years a political revolution to turn us
back to the plain democracy beginning with
seif-control and self-government of the
individual citizen coupled with a religious
sense of individual responsibility we may
exgect the paternalistic tendencies of the
country to lead us within that period into
practical monarchy or into convulsions of
auarchy. The government is gaining more
power every day. The president will have in
the course of a fow more years, unless the
civil service is utterly divorced from politics,
enough patronage to keep him in office at will.
The grand army of peoplo who expect patron-
age and pensions from the government (their
servant) is increasing at an alarming ratio.
Paternalism is the seductive siren that is lead-
ing us into the stormy sea. The demand of
citizens for privileges and benefits at the hands
of the government has made a vast majority
of the public men unreliable and afraid. If
these demands for special protection and class
legislation continue to increase it will cer-
tainly not take long to fill congress with dem-
agogues and the presidential chair with an
arrant dictator, ready to promise to his friends
the goods of his enemies. Power is so danger-
ous that it must not bo allowed to accumulate
in one great central magazine, but must I 0
kept carefully distributed among the people
for their own protection. The people must
keop their responsibilities as well as their
ammunition. The tendency to get rid of the
cares of citizenship on the part of the citizen
and the readinoss of public men to offer to the
voter such relief evidence an alarming phase
of American politics. We are headed tho
wrong way, and who shall be bold and strong
enough to halt us?
THE PURE FOOD BILL.
The adulteration of food is a great evil, and
upon this premise it doubtless was that tho
United States senate passed the Paddock bill;
nevertheless it is deemed to be open to some
objections. Of couse it is not to bo supposed
that the jurisdiction of tho states would be
ignored. Thrill is framed with regard for
the distinction between inspection of inter-
state commerce and inspection of domestic
state commorce. But it is readily perceived
that commerce in genoral must conform to
any inspection laws which are made applica-
ble to an article crossing a state line, and
thus the pure food bill, If passed,
will reach systematic manufactures, as
they seek sale everywhere. The bill entrusts to
the chemical division of the department of ag-
riculture the office of examining and analyzing
samples of food and drugs which onter into
interstate commerce. It makes a misdemean-
or, punishable by fine of $10 to $100 and im-
prisonment of from thirty to 100 days, the in-
troduction into one state or territory from an-
other of any food or drug adulterated or im-
properly branded. A drug, under the pro-
visions of this act, is any medicine, internal or
external. A food is anything plain or mixed,
simple or compound, which "is used for food
or drink by man. Every person who ships
food or drugs from one state to another
or exposes tho same for sale, must furnish
samples to the agents of the food section of
the chemical division of the department of
agriculture. For the special work this now body
is to be organized and known as the food sec-
tion of the chemical division. Lines of argu-
ment taken up against the bill seem to be
very satisfying to their authors, but taken to-
gether may convince its friends that there is
no choice between the bill and the continu-
ance of adulteration. For example, the Now
York Sun says that the measuro "opens
the way for more offensive and unnec-
essary inquisition into the business
of private citizens," and that it "intrusts to a
changing body of experts orinexpertsthe duty
of analyzing" the samples. But further on tho
same paper asks: "Why aro the states not
able to take care of the food and tho drugs
that are manufactured or 6old within their
limits?" Now the first quoted remarks of tho
Sun would indicate that the investigations pro-
posed in the bill are unwelcome to it; so then
it can be inferred that the Sun would oppose
any movement to institute such investigations
by state authority if congress did nothing.
But suppose congress passes the measure to
give the public some assurance against adul-
teration and it workB well, then will not every
food or drug manufacturer want the certifi-
cate on his product? As for inquisitorial con-
duct, that is alleged against the income
tax and is a favorite objection to interference
with questionable practices. Indood most of
the talk against such bills merely confirms
their friends in the belief that they must be
passed. What do state inspection laws gen-
erally amount to, and can the great evil of
adulteration be cured while dealing nicely and
respectfully with the adulterators? These are
fair questions asked by resolute men who will
make no sacrifices to a dogma of state rights.
If there be improper prying into business se-
crets on the one hand, there is tho public
liealth to be considered on the other. But
The News ha* no hesitation in saying that the
Paddock bill, as reported, has faults. Every
manufacturer should bo free to put up his
goods with their designation and his name
and address on the package, and it should be
the business of the public inspectors to
procure samples and ascertain what the goods
aro by analysis. If they are competent they
cau detect what is unwholesome. Worthy
legislation docs not require manufacturers to
furnish their formulas in order that indolent
or incompetent officials may havo nothing to
do or to create an arrangement by which a
valuable secret may be wrested from the dis-
coverer and appropriated by some inspector
or clerk in a private section of a public office,
and such legislation does not require that any
one shall suffer inconvenionce who has
not done a wrong. For making and
selling any hurtful or any falsely labeled
compound the law should be strict and as
easily applied as is consistent with a judicial
trial to the accused. In the long run the
peoplo will sanction putting a stop to evil
practices by federal machinery if the state gov-
ernments do not exhibit earnestness and suc-
cess in coping with thom. But under whatever
authority protection is sought it is nothing but
right that the citizen should be respected m
his freedom and left simply answerablo in the
courts when the officers have a ease against
him. Prior to that point it seems unreason-
able to command him, as by furnishing sam-
ples of the goods, to pload his innocence or
admit official formalities as a prerequisite to
the sale of his merchandise in another state.
THE DEBATE AND THE BROAD ISSUE.
The two consecutive joint debates between
Governor Hogg and Judge Clark leave the
broad issue between the administration and the
anti-administrationists pretty much where it
was at the outset of the controversy. The
governor follows up his opening speech at
Wills Point with implacable monotony if
repetition. If there are occasional variations
and incidental episodes they merely remind
one of the proverbial "same old hash
with an extra fly in it." Attacked upon
his record and questioned as to his boasted
achievements, with wonderful hardihood he
makes no defense further than to deny his
historic failures, to propound again his ex-
ploded fallacies and proclaim with greater
vehemence his lofty and unsubstantial boasts,
As the presiding figure and inspiring genius
in an aggressive, repressive and ceaselessly
meddlesome policy of paternalism ho shows
no disposition to pause or relent in any ma-
terial particular. The strength of will and
force of character displayed by a man in
his position and of his pretensions make
him as an eminently dangerous personality.
To say that he is honestly persistent in a
wrong cause is to imply a desperate aggrava-
tion of the danger. Thus of logical nocossity
the elimination or perpetuation of Governor
Hogg's impressive and decisive personality as
a factor in the administration of state affairs
becoinos more and more distinctly tho broad
and paramount issue of the ponding campaign.
The distinctive significance of Judge Clark's
candidacy and line of appeal and
argument is that they point to the
elimination of a presence and a power which
have been so fraught with realized disaster
and which portend still greater evil. To re-
move the conditions of discouragement and
obstruction will mean to diffuso the spirit of
enterprise and open channels for their circula-
tion of vivifying streams of capital. To dis-
sipate a vast overshadowing terror will mean
to break the horrid spell that has chilled con-
fidence and to givo the signal that slmll
call from a thousand sourcos all gentle
ministers of mdustry, development and
prosperity to work their marvels of progress
and benefaction in Texas. But such minis-
trations must be strango to Texas while it is
dominatod by a policy and a personality es-
sentially repressive, aggressive and terroriz-
ing. To redeem Texas and assure the match-
less splendor of her future it is necessary to
deliver her from a domination that is so like
a madman waving a torch that may at any
moment firo a hundred trains to a magazine
of dynamite. The cause of the anti-adminis-
tration party simply proposes to extinguish
the torch, dethrone tho madness, dismantle
the magazine and save Texas.
RAILROAD COST PER MILE PROBLEM.
Some thoughtless people appear to be
amazed because certain railroad men declare
themselves unable to tell the exact cost per
inile of railroads in Texas. To a person who
knows how many times average "fills" must
be renewed before they become solid, how
cuts must bo protected from caving, roadbeds
strengthened and graveled, new piling and
culverts put in, new rails and ties provided
continually, tho difficulty of drawing the line
betweon construction and maintenance is ob-
vious. The original cost of grading, ties and
iron for a mile of road may have been only
$20,000. This road has beon operated for
twenty years, during which the dumps have
gone down, the cuts have cavod, ties have
fallen to pieces, iron has worn out time and
again. In making repairs tho roadbed has
been strengthened continually and the first
partial construction of the road has been made
complete out of the general maintenance fund.
Perhaps it has cost $100,000 to keop this mile
of road up for tho time stated. The money
6pent in maintaining the road has beon par-
tially a construction fund. Whore is the line
to bo drawn and who is prepared to draw it?
Shall we say tho construction of this milo of
road cost $120,000, or shall we put it at only
$20,000?
SNAP SHOTS.
-for a
"Make hay while the sun shines"-
rainy day.
The corker is a great man in tho swim.
Fish for a whale and catch a minnow.
Old ago iB one thing that even Methuselah
failed to live down.
The jackpot is a side dish that has made
many fine young men quite sick.
It takes a great Christian to stick to a bad
horse trade.
Man's mouth ia his weakest point.
Sometimes it is a man's taste that makes
him sour.
The voyager on life's sea wants to pull for
the sure, sailor, pull for the sure.
A pickup is not always something fat.
The devil's grandmother must have been a
very contrary old woman.
"Yours, truly," at the end of a letter has no
meaning.
Father Noah was great on pairs.
Sometimes the facts don't figure in the case
at ali
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout the State
Are Talking About.
Says tho El Paso Horald:
Never before in the history of Mexico has
there been so manifest a determination among
the rulers to keep stop with the great march
of improvement going on all over the world.
That government is now considering certain
reforms, some of which, if adopted, will
prove of lasting benefit to the country. A
committoe recently appointed has reported in
favor of more rigid government economy, tho
abolition of interior custom houses, a reduc-
tion of customs tariffs, judiciary reforms,
creation of the office of vice president and
press law reforms, subjecting journalists to
the common law. Of all the reforms men-
tioned there is none more needed than that
abolishing interstate customs duties. It
creates an army of office-holders and is a
source of endless annoyance to the business
of the country. Mexico under Diaz is a thriv-
ing and progressive republic.
The framors of tho constitution of tho
United States foresaw the evils of interstate
duties, and declared that no state shall, with-
out the consent of congress, lay any imposts
or duties on imports or exports, and that the
net produce of any such duties shall be for
the use of the treasury of the United States.
No such duties have ever been imposed.
Laredo has local rainmakers, or at least
men who aro trying to make it raiu. The
News of that city says:
Tho large amount of dynam1? e and other
explosives ordered from San Antonio for the
rainmakers have arrived and doubtless old
Jupiter Piuvius will be treated to just such
another shaking up this afternoon as ho has
never beforo experienced. Captain Stum-
berg has superintended the construction of a
number of very largo kites, and from the tail
of thoso will be exploded away up in tho
clouds quarter and a half pound charges of
dynamite. Such a disturbance in tho ele-
ments will be enough to shake tears from
even old Jupiter, and the News trusts that a
bountiful down pour of rain will result from
the experiment. The weather is very favor-
able to tho test, heavy ciouds having hung
over the city all day.
The Wichita Falls Post prints the following
solf-explanatory letter from a leading business
man of Gaiveston:
Galveston, Tex., April 25. 1892.—J. A.
Kemp, esq., Wichita Falls, Tex.—Dear Sir:
What are your people in Wichita Falls doing
in reference to the gubernatorial campaign i
I hold it of the utmost importance that the
stato of Texas should get rid of Hogg at tho
coming election. I need not demonstrate to
you the reasons why; you have felt it with me
in a dozen ways in our mutual financial ar-
rangements. Wichita Falls, with its many
advantages, would soon develop into a growing
city if it wasn't for this ostracising policy of
the present administration, which has lost for
Texas all the confidence of outside capital. I
notice from Governor Hogg's Wills Point and
Dallas spoeches that ho is not at all regretful
for the mischief he has done, but on the con-
trary after having driven from tho state all
facilities for borrowing money on farm lands
and town property ho now proposes to dis-
credit municipal and county bonds. Of him
we might well say that "whom the Gods
wish to destroy they first niako mad."
I tell you, Friend Kemp, I hold
it just as important for your iutereBt and mine
in all the real estate and other property that
we have in Wichita Falls and surrounding, that
our peoplo should demonstrate to the outside
world that Hoggisin no longer finds favor
with Texas as I do that we should properly at-
tend to our daily business affairs. Another
term of Hoggism means stagnation to the de-
velopment of this state; as it is, it will take
several years to overcome tho harm that tho
last administration has already done to the
best intorest of the stato; and for God's
sake lot all work together to un-
dertake to overcome it from now on.
I have never in my life mixed up in stato poli-
tics, but tho present issue strikes so close
homo to every businoss man's intorest that 1
propose to take a hand from start to finish:
and I would like to impress it on you and your
friends that you do the same. It will requiro
tho co-operation of all good citizens to restore
good government in this state once more and
allay the class animosities which have been
engendered by demagogues for their own ag-
grandizement. I shall be glad to hear from
you on this subject. Yours truly,
M. Labker.
Hie Post remarks:
Tho above is a rellex of the popular feelings
and sentiments of people in business circles
throughout Texas. It does seem that every
citizen in every gradation in life should view
this matter from a business and patriotic
standpoint and rise up in the majesty of his
strength and do noble work for Texas by vot-
ing for George Clark. The re-election of Gov-
ernor Hogg means destruction in a large
measure to the businoss intorest of the state.
Tho Denison Herald says:
Hogg continues to uso every opportunity to
array the country agaiust the town. This may
make votes for Hogg for a while, but in the
end it will ruin a great many people now
shouting for Hogg, and it will bury Hogg
deeper than any artesian well borer has yet
bored.
Mention was made in this column tho other
day of tho fact that the bost men in cities are
recruited from country towns and the rural
regions. The fact applies to newspaper men
as well as othors. There are now men on tho
country papers of Texas who will in a fow
years be at tho head of city dailies and who
now afford evidence of their capacity for the
position in the style of their editorials and the
general mako up of their issues. The loading
dailies are always on the lookout for such
men. They Bhould not be impatient for tho
change. It brings harder work and loss fame
than the country press. Tho names of many
of the bost writers for city papers aro often
unknown to the public, while the names of
the country weekly and its editor are almost
synonymous.
The Goliad Guard says:
Some one has made public a letter said to
have been written by Chairman Reagan, in
which he states that unless the papers let him
alone he will resign his position as commis-
sioner, and take the stump in the interest of
the administration. If Mr. Reagan should be
forced to take this step, it would not bo long
until he would be out of a job. What is to
prevent him from making stump speeches
anyhow? If the governor can leave his,office
and the land commissioner can go on an elec-
tioneering tour it seems that Commissioner
Roagan might do the sauio thing. If Judge
Heagan knows anjihing that would benefit
his friend Mr. Hogg he ought by all moans to
tell it out.
Governor Hogg's Will's Point speech cap-
tured the Del Rio Record. That paper says:
While the Record believes Governor Hogg
should succeed himself, it will not be in any
sense a campaign organ, but will publish the
news and the views of both sides impartially,
and the people may judge for themselves:
The Record says:
Judge Reagan will be a candidate for gov-
ernor in 1894, and one of his strongest sup-
porters will be Governor Hogg. Reagan will
be elected.
How does the Record happen to know so
much? And is there any such arrangement?
The statement does not come from an enemy
of tho governor or Judge Reagan. It looks
like dealing in futures.
Tho Herald says the postmaster has re-
ceived and answered a call for information,
as follows:
lime Stone gap April 25 '92
Postmaster, dear Sir, will you please rito to me
and toll me if the Widow Johnson lives in deni-
son Or not pleas give her name and
Oblige yours %
truly, ,
To this inquiry an official sent the following
reply:
Devi son, Tex,, April 27.—-Dear Sir: Our city
directory givo the names of over forty (40) widow
Johnsons. We strive to please, but this request
goes us one too many."
The Herald says:
The leaders of the third party in Texas are
bringing ©very possible pressure to bear upon
Dave Culberson to accept their nomination for
governor. Thoy profess to be hopeful of suc-
cess, too, partly because Judge Culberson is
not in sympathy with the leading spirits of
tho democracy on the currency question and
they say it is likely that the judge will con-
clude to be their candidate and make the cur-
rency plank the most prominent one in their
platform. If Culberson should promise to
run, General McCulloch will be dropped and
a stampede from Hogg and Clark both is pre-
dicted.
The Dallas Times-Herald says:
Hon. Barnett Gibbs is despondent. With a
silver plank in the platform there is a slight
chanco for success in the national—without it
admitted there is nono. He considers that
the chances of General Henry E. McCul-
loch, at this writing, are the best of any man
in the race for governor. The brunette states-
man is in bad health, he says, and he will not
take a hand in politics this year.
The Denton Monitor says:
Walter Gresham of Galveston is one of the
best posted railroad men in the state. And
when he says the roads have made money out
of the commission he moans just what ho says.
But that the commission can save tho people
a million dollars and the roads make money
at the same time is a hard proposition for a
common everyday mortal to figure out.
Colonel Walter Gresham of Galveston said in
a speech at Austin that tho railroads in Texas
had made more money since the commission
has been in force than in any year in their
history. The railroad (ommissionors say it
has saved the people $1, > JU,000 already. Now
if the roads and tho people have both made
money out of it, tho right thing to be done
would be to paBs severhl dc :en commissions
and put them in force.
The Eagle Pass guide says of the alien land
law and non-resident American owners of
Texas lands:
Governor Hogg has. we fear, committed
another grave error in nis treatment of that
land question, which is fast becoming so im-
portant in this state. Last year, with his ap-
parent approval, the legislature enacted the
alien land law and this year ho suggests that
land corporations be cither prohibited or
greatly limited in their sphere of action.
Now there is no county in tho stato where in-
dustry is more stifled by speculative land
holding than Maverick, and yet neither the
inhibition of alien land ownership nor the ab-
olition of land corporations would afford us
complete relief. The New York and Texas
land company, which pays not a cent of taxes
either on its lands or improvements, and
owns three-fourths of the country which it rents
out on short term leases for grazing, thus tak-
ing from the county three-fourths of its en-
tire net produce—is'a domostic concern und
would not bo affected by the alien land law;
whilo the Twohig estate, which holds nearly
all the lands contiguous to Eagle Pass
and so constricts our urban growth, is neither
an alien nor a corporation. It is thus, also,
we believe, in many other localities in the
state; much of tho damaging land speculation
would be seriously affected by neither of the
measures suggested for its suppression. On
the other hand the assault on land corpora-
tions and on aliens has a distinctly injurious
effect on the state. We all now feel that the
alien land law was a mistake; that it
hurt the peoplo of the state more than
anyone else; it cut off our supply
of extraneous capital, and doprivod our in-
dustries of the one thing which they most
needed; and who will say that it in any way
checked laud speculation? Was there a single
man who by reason of tho alien land law was
enabled to secure a home more easily? Did
it afford to a single productive industry the
land needful for its undertaking at a cent less
cost than would have been otherwise de-
manded? We think not. So with tho sug-
gested anti-corporation law. It would cause
the transfer of corporate-owned lands to indi-
viduals ; it could not open them to men seek-
ing productive investments for their labor
and capital, for there is always capital
enough in the country to take up the land
investments. At the sam^ time such
a law would prohibit the formation
of farming joint stock companies, while
the wisest and ablest of observers tell us that
it is to such concerns that small farmers must
look for success in the future. Competition
with bonanza farms, they say, must elso some
day reduce all agriculture to the condition of
the sugar industry, from which all but tho
wealthiest of agriculturists are now shut out.
Corporations are among tho most efficient
means of production, and it would be a groat
mistake to deprive tho farmers, already over-
burdened by discriminating taxation, of their
benefit. It is not corporate or foreign owner-
ship of land that can injure a state whore pqp-
ulation is as scant as in Texas. It is drone
ownership that hurts us, and drone owner-
ship, whether by corporations or individuals,
natives or aliens, should be the object of mer-
ciless assault.
LATE HOUSTON LOCALS.
Badly Beaten Arrested for Forgery—A
Society Event—Rutherford Rangers.
Houston, Tex., Way 4.—A man named Martin,
this morning, was badly beaten. lie was found
in one of the rooms pf a boarding house occupied
by variety show girls by John Boll and Charles
Gates, bosses of the show. They brought him
from undorthe bed and beat him so that ho could
scarcely soo or talk and one of his sliouldors was
dislocatod. Both assailants wore arrosted on
tho chargo of aggravated assault and battery and
will bo tried to-morrow in tho lowor court. As
Martin was viokiting the rules of the house by
being in one of tnese rooms a counter charge was
mado against him.
To-night a man named Fogarty was arrested
by Officer Jim Wynn on the chargo of forgory
and theft, he having written and signed J. Mur-
phy's name, on which ho got a gold watch and
_i_ • I j-ir. r II
chain and $15 from Officer M. McKay, who had
tho property in keeping. Officer Wynn ran him
down aitor two hours' work.
The following tolegram was received here to-
day :
CamBBON, Tex., May 3,1892, 0,30 p. m.—To tho
Hon. J. E. McCorab, Houston: Clark will speak
in Houston Monday night, May 23. Ho won a
great victory here to-day.
(Siguod) R. B. Pabrott.
To-night Major E. W. Cave and Captain John
Atkinson of the Buffalo Bayou ship cliannol
company returned from Morgan's point, whore
they mot Major Allen to-day and turned over to
him for the United States government tho cut
across which tho blockading chain has been
swung for a few years, choking commerce on the
bayou, it is now in charge of tho government
and navigation is free.
The death of Sister Aloysius occurred to-day
at the consent of the Incarnate Word, She was
a sister of Messrs. W. L. and John Foley, well
known merchants here, and the greatest praise
that can bo bestowed is to say that the beloved
was one of the Sisters of Charity.
To-night an excursion was given by Miss Car gill
of this city complimentary to hor guest, Miss
Mary Lowe of Galveston, now on a visit here. It
was to Magnolia park and there wero about fif-
teen couples in tho party. It was a delightful
affair.
To-night the Rutherford rangers had their an-
nual election of officers with tho following result:
J, R. Wattill, captain ; W. B. Det'reese, fust lieu*
tenant; T. S. Lubbook, second houtonant; H. H.
Kuhlman. quartermaster; Goorgo Lareadon. sur-
?eon; and the following were elected members:
'red Hosford, Will ArcJior, G. Palmer. Will {'lode,
Louis Mover, C. C. Beavens. jr., and H. H. Woo.l.
They drilled alter the mi eting aud will drill
■very night thi6 and next week.
M0BIUAEY.
John V, Glaze,
Willis, Tex., May 4.—Mr. John F. Glaze, an
old and respected citizen of Willis, died suddenly
yesterday morning at his home.
Mr. Glaze was the first merchant in Willis. Ho
opened up a small utore here when the railroad
first reached this point and remained identified
with each step of progress the town has made. He
was buried under Masonic honors to-day.
Cotton Reduction in South Carolina.
CuAELBSTON, S. C., May 4.—Tho News-Courier
publishes special roports to-day from every
county in South Carolina in rogard to the reduc-
tion of tho cotton acreage. Reports show that in
all sections of tho state there has been a consid-
erable reduction in the acreage planted in cotton.
Some sections will not amount to more than 5 or
10 per cent; in others it will be as high as 10 por
cent, and in some instances the farmers have not
planted cotton seed. Altogether they say that
the acreage reduction in the stato is about 25 per
cent. A very gratifying featnre of this new
farmers' movement is that tho acreage taken
from cotton is being given to bread crops.
Judge Kittrell Indorsed.
Anderson, Tex., May 3.—At a meeting of the
Grimes county bar held to-day resolutions were
adopted indorsing Hon. Norman G. Kittrell for
the cilice ofiudae ot th* cout of civil appeals.
ORGANIZED A HOGG CLUB.
the navas0ta people indorse
the commission.
The Resolutions Oppose Personalities, But
Jump on Judge Olark—Other Item3
of Politioal News.
Navasota, Tex., May 4.—a Hogg and commis-
sion club of 130 members was organized here lust
night. Captain W. E. Barry was elected chair-
man, Malcolm Carnos socrotary, Ward TVnplo-
ton assistant secrotary and S. M. Cook treasuror.
Various committeos were appointed to further tho
interests of Hogg and commission in Navasota
and Grimes county.
A committeo of three was appointed to act with
an equal nunibor to bo appointed by the Clark
club for tho purpose of receiving Captain J. C.
Hutcheson of Houston, candidate for congress,
who is expected to speak hero Thursday night.
As chairman of the committee on resolutions
Captain W. E. Barry submitted the following,
which were adopted by a rising vote of the club:
Whereas, we, as democrats, boheving that Gov-
ernor J. S. Hogg is an houest, intelligent ami pa-
triotic citizen, a bold and fuarless democrat, and
that his administration has been in lull accord
and harmony with democratic principles and tho
platform as adopted by the San Antonio conven-
tion. one of the largest and most representative
democratic conventions ever assembled in tho
state of Texas; he was nominated by said con-
vention after one of ;iie most heated and deter-
mined contests mado against him; and one of the
most prominent and living issue of that canvass
being tho railroad commission. After hia nomi-
nation on the platform as adopted by said conven-
tion he was elected governor of the state of Texas
by an unprecedented majority ; and,
Whereas, Govornor Hogg, since his inaugura-
tion to the office of chief executive of this great
itcnlosi
fidelity and signal abihty every duty pertaining
to that high office; with a courage undaunted ho
has bravely stood up for the rights of the peoplo
under tho constitution and the laws: and with
that sturdy independence of character for which
he is notod he has faithfully, zealously and hon-
estly met and successfully combatted all combi-
nations and assaults made against the rights of
the people: and by his wise, prudent and patri-
otic administration there is no stato in tho union,
land or country on oarth where the lives of its
people are better protected, or tho vosted rights
of capital are more sacred or secure;- therefore,
be it
Resolved 1. That for the reasons set forth in
the above preamble it is with pride wo again pre-
sent our candidate, James S. Hogg, for re-elec-
tion to the office of governor, and we feel that
Texas is to bo congratulated for having an
executive who has made such a brilliant and
worthy record; and it is with pride wo point to him
as tho first nativo-born Texan to till so exalted a
station, with so much credit to himself and
honor to his state; man and patriot
from the peoplo and of tho people, who by
the death of his gallant father on the field of bat-
tle was left a fatherless boy in the midst of pov-
erty, and by his own exertions and indomitable
will attained tho high position ho now occupies,
and is entitled to re-election, uot because it is a
custom or usage of tho democratic party to give
a true and faithful officer a second torm, but be-
cause of his faithful adherence to principle and
duty well porformod.
2. That in his opponent, the Hon. George Clark,
we find tho most invetorato enemy in the past of
tho railroad commission, aud who persistently
led t he fight in tho last canvass agaisnt tho com-
mission, aud after the adoption of tho railroad
commission by an overwhelming majority vote of
the people, at tho convening of the legislature
wo find him serenely smiling in the lobby,
the attorney for all the railroads in tho
state of Texas oxcopt two, and there exerting all
the energy and powers of his great intellect to
defeat every effort on the Dart of our representa-
tives to securo tho Dassago of a commission law
which would bo of interest and benefit to the
peoplo; his every act iu the past establishes the
fact that ho is an uncompromising, roloutloss,
persistent and vindictive enemy of the commis-
sion.
3. Whilo Ju'lge Clark and his adhoreuts to-day
aro making loud protonso that the railroad com-
mission is not tho issue of tho canvass, his record
in the past and those 9f his friends who aro speak-
ing from tho rostrum in his behalf, coupled with
his declarations Bince the boginning of the can-
vass, stamp all such utterances with tho seal of
iusincority, because he has alroady proclaimed
that the commission is unconstitutional and un-
just to tho railroads in tho very feature that pro-
tects tho people against thoso corporations; and
wo boliovo, it olocted governor, ho will uso his
bost oudoavors and inffuonco to have tho laws so
changed as to rendor tho commission a lifeless
corpse. The issuo is thus distinctly made:
Shall wo havo a commission dopriving the peoplo
of pll prospect of benefit, or Bhall it bo preserved
intact.
4. We doprecate the personal vitunoration and
abu90 which has been brought into this canvass
and believe t discussion r should be confined to
issues and principles. Wobolievoit possible for
democrats to ditlor honestly in regard to the
issues in tho present canvass without impugning
tho democracy of each other, and we do not as-
sent to tho conclusion arrived at and published
to the world by Georgo Clark and his followers
whon they arrogate to themselves the position as
tho only representatives of a pure domocracy.
5. Be it further resolved, this club, realizing
tho fact that the lion. John H. Roagan, presiding
over tho railroad commission as he does, and
through tho purest motivos refrains from meet-
ing his detractors on tho hustings; it is with pro-
found pleasuro wo oxproes our abiding confidence
in his honesty aud integrity; his eminent posi-
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tion in the state and nation for fifty years and
his blameless life givo tho lie to all the insinua-
tions, iunondoos ana slanders against his integri-
ty aud fidelity.
Moved and sustained that a copy of those reso-
lutions be furnished the Navasota Tablot. Nava-
sotp Leader, Galveston News and Houston
Post for publication. Also that a copy of these
resolutions bo forwarded to Governor Hogg and
Hon. John II. Reagan.
Several speeches were made and it was quite an
enthusiastic meeting.
Club adjournod to meet Friday night noxt.
Politics ut Keugan.
Reagan, Tex., May 4.—This place sent a small
delegation, composed almost exclusively of Clark
men, to Cameron yesterday. Thoy are back this
morning, quite hoarse and rather sleopy-eyed,
but still full of enthusiasm. They report that an
immense crowd, botwoen 5000 and 7000, was pros-
cut, and that Clark badgos wero smartly in tho
ascendancy. Tlioy also claim that the joint de-
bate was a decided Clark victory, and that tho
littlo giant got away badly with tho governor in
the argument. It is but justice to say, however,
that this view of the result is not accepted by
one gentleman, a Hogg man, who was in tho
Paprnnary convoutions will be held throughout
this county noxt Saturday, the 7th, for tho pur-
pose of olecting delegatos to a county convention
called to meet in Marlin on tho 12th. The latter
will select delegates to Lampasas, and also to
the congressional convention of the old Ninth
district to select a successor to Col. Mills to fill
out his unexpirod term. It is understood that
Falls county will instruct in favor of its own
candidate, lion. B. H. Rice of Marlin.
Gooigetown Politics.
Georgetown, Tex.. May 4.—Never in the his-
tory of Georgetown lias thero been as many polit-
ical speeches made hero as on yesterday.
The democratic executive met and called a
county convention to meet at this place on the 18th
of June. Tho county delegates' convention met
and elected delegates to tho stato convention to
be held at Lampasas. This convention indorsed
John W. Parker of this county as a delegate to
tho national democratic convention and instruct-
ed tho delegates to the state convention to use all
honorable means to secure his election. The con-
vention also indorsed tho Hon. T. B. Cochran for
district judge.
John Dowell of Austin mado a speech announc-
ing his candidacy for state senator.
The people's party u et at an early hour yester-
day morning and organized and wore in session
all day. Last nigfrt C. C. Bearden for tho peo-
ple's party and T. B. Cochran for the democracy
discussed tho merits and demerits of the two
!parties. The sneaking lasted until midnight,
>oth parties claiming the victory.
Joint Debate at New Birmingham.
New Birmingham, Tex., May 4.—On Saturday
last there was a joint discussion between W. M.
Iiuboden, representing Governor Hogg, and
Judge R. H. Morris, in behalf of Judge Clark, at
Loue Star in this county. A crowd of 150 voters,
together with the ladies and children were pres-
out, and both speeches were attentively listened
to.
Mr. Imbodon opoued with a speech of one hour
and a quarter, and was at times liberally ap-
plauded. His speech was simply a rehash of Gov-
ernor Hogg's speeches.
judge Morris spoke for two hours and held the
audience spellbound, and at times it seemed as
though the crowd would stamp the floor of the
building to pieces. He made an open, bold and
manly effort, and it is said hy many present that
it was tho effort of his life. By this speoch Judge
Clark gained a number of supporters, and now
has a good majority in that precinct. Governor
ffood i — .
rns a few followers and the remainder are
thjrd party men.
Mr, Xmboden then closed with a speech of
throe-fourths of an hour, and the crowd dis-
persed. Everything passed off pleasantly, and
the crowd went home to think over matters.
Third Party People.
Crockett, Tex., May 4.—Hon. W. L. Driskill,
lecturer and chief organizer of the pooplos' or
third party for Houston county, was in Crockett
yosterday, where ho met Colonel Rencher and
others of said party, and after consultation a
cal' was issued for a convention of all tho^friends
and foilowors of Baid cause to meet at Crockett
on May 21, when they will docido whether or not
they will make nominations for county officers
and attend to other important business.
Manor Politics.
Manor, Tex., May 4.—Politics form the theme
of conversation on ovory hand. The Hogg club,
which lie* a roll of about 100 mombers, met to-day
with a very poor attendance.
Colonol Foulk and Hon. C. M. Rogers, both of
Austin, will bpoak iiore Saturday, Colonel fcoulk
for Hogg aud Rogers for himself and Clark.
Navasota Politicians.
Navasota, Tex., May 3.—Capt. J. C. Hutcheson
is oxpoctod to speak here in advocacy of his can-
didacy for congress on Thursday night. May 5.
It is thought Hon. M. Lascon, also of Houston,
will address our citizens on Friday night.
The Hogg u*id commission n:en will hold a
mooting to-night at Anderson hail.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Earldom of .Stamford.
London, May 4.—[Special.]—A case involving
tlia legal succession to the oarldom of Stamford
which has been before the houso of lords for
some time, was decided to-day in favor of tho
present earl, the ninth holder of tho title. The
eighth oarl, who died in Juno, 1590, left a sou
whose mother was a uogress of Capo Colony. Tho
earl married the uegross, but this son was born
prior to the marriage. Tho house of lords' de-
cision declares that this son is illegitimate and
therefore has no claim on tho title. The son
made no con tost to est ablish his legitimacy. The
oarldom of Stamford is among the oldest peer-
ages in England, having been created in 16z8. The
earl alto has the title of Baron Gray of Groby,
which title was created in 1603. The present, earl
is William Grey, son of tho late Rev. William
Grey, brother of tho eighth oarl. He was born
April 18, 1*50, and from 1S78 to 1888 was professor
of classics at Codrington college, Barbados, Ho
is unmarried.
Chinese IMplomacy.
London. May 4.—'The Standard's correspondent
at Shanghai says: It is reported that tho viceroy
of Wuchung, a province of lloo-Pe, has received
a secret edict ordering him to send an expedition
to arrest tho author of tho anti-foreign placards,
the notorious Taotai Cbonhau, the guiding spirit
of tho anti-foreign movement.
Both the Chinese and foreign residents are ex-
cited ovor the trial oi strength between the im-
perial government and tho malcontents. Most
Europeans and tho commandors of tho foreign
men-of-war advocatoa combined gunboat demon-
stration on Junting lake, in the center of the dis-
turbed province. Tho foreign office has made no
move to assist the foreign ministers in the mat-
ter, and tho imperial audionco which was to have
been granted to tho foreign embassadors now
appears
iuteil to the lorolgn embassadors l
to have boon indefinitely postponed.
The Storm in Manitoba.
Minneapolis, Minn., May 4.—[Special.]—Re-
ports just received from Winnipeg and the north-
west territories indicate that last week's storm in
Manitoba, in which two settlers lost their lives,
was quite as Severe in tho northwest. The Mo-
Leod mail, which started from that town on Mon-
day. has not yet boon heard from ; the driver did
not reach tho first stopping place, which is fifty
raileB from McLeod, and it is supposed that ho
has been lost on tho prairio. Dr. Lovinglieart,
who also left nearly two weeks ago for Knee Hill
creok for coal, has not been heard of sinco, and
it is supposed that ho has beon lost in a storm.
A party of mounted police have gono out to
search for the missing men,
Anarchist Conspiracy in Delgiuni.
Brussels, May 4.—Fourteen kilograms more of
explosives have boon stolou and fresh outrages
are oxpectod. Tho authorities made a search of
the lodging of Boaujeans, arrested with Lafibre
on suspicion of having caused tho explosion at
Count Minett's house, and found a number of
cartridges and a quantity of dynamite concoaled.
When Beaujeans learned of this discovery he
made a full confession of his guilt aud incrimi-
natod a numberof other anarchists, who wore ar-
rosted to-day. Two of to-day's prisoners are
named Nossont and Lacroix.
The police declare thoy discovered evidence of
a most formidable conspiracy.
Mexican Matters.
City of Mexico, May 4.—Don Miguel Auza,
judge of tho supremo court of justice, diod yes-
terday. He was prorninont in Mexican history of
the recent past in both politics and war, and was
governor of the stato of Zacatecas at one time.
Tho quarterly coupons of tho City of Mexico,
San Luis Potosi, stato government and fo.leral
loans of 1888 and 1890, have alroady beon paid in
London.
Work on the North Mexican Pacific road, run-
ning between Deming and Chihuahua and to tho
Pacific coast, wiU bo commenced immediately.
Chinese Vengeance.
Shanghai, May 3.—One of the chiefs who took
a prominent part in the Coyang rebellion re-
cently captured and brought to Tien Tsin to bo
tried,was fouud guilty and as a warning to all who
rebellod against tho government was ordered to
be executed in tho most horrible and agonizing
manner. Tho sentonce put on the unfortunate
man was that ho bo slowly sliced to death and t he
awful punishment was inflicted in a pitiless
manner.
Near a Battle.
New York, May 4.—The Horald cable from
Barcelona, Venezuela, states that a battle is ex-
pected soon botwoen the govornmont troops and
the federalists south of Caracas. Palacio has
sent an army from the capitol to engage the
enemy. At latest accounts tho opposing forcoe
were getting very near each othor.
Dynamite in Hungary.
Vienna, May 4.—It is reported that bombs wero
thrown at tho mail train running from Pesth to
Tomesvar yesterday aud that three first clas
passongors wero injured.
It is also htated that tho manufacture and sale
of explosives in Austria-Hungary will bo made a
stato monopoly.
Insolvent Merchants.
London, May 4.—Tho suspension is announced
of Dominique & Mortel, grain merchants of Dun-
kirk, and Schiffman & Meyer of Hamburg and
Rio Janeiro. The liabilities of each firm will
amount to $250,000. _
Methodist General Conference.
Omaha, Neb., May 4.-Bishop Warden presided
at the morning session of the Mothodist con-
ference, and called tho gathering to order
promptly at 9 o'clock. The episcopal address was
then delivered by Bishop Fostor.
The report reviewed the work in foreign lands,
showing the work to bo in excellent condition all
over the world. No schisms and no dissensions
had appeared in the church during the prst four
years. Sinco the last general conference fully
400,000 members had boon addod to the church, a
greator growth than has over been known in the
history of the church.
The report then touched on the vote in the an-
nual conference and churches upon the admis-
sion of women to tho general conference. The
rosultis given as follows: Laity: For, 235,668;
agaiust, 103,843. Ministerial: For, 5609; agaiust.
4941.
Tho report gave an exhaustive review of every
branch of church work, and recommended that
great caro be exercised in procuring ministers-
strong, loyal men, fully abreast with the educa-
tion of the ago, for an educated pew would not
endure an uneducated pulpit.
Flood in Illinois.
Marseilles, 111,, May 4.—From appearances a
miracle only can save Marseilles from threatened
inundation. Almost unceasing storms have raged
up and down the Illinois, Fox and Kankakee val-
leys since Sunday night, precipitating upon this
large area thousands upon thousands of tons of
water in excess of any heretofore encountered
flood. The rivers have been rapidly rising sinco
yesterday and the Illinois from far above Mar-
seilles to tho navigable waters below La Sallo is
nearly a milo wide and deep enough in the chan-
nel to float the largest lake vessel.
General Store at Trickham.
Santa Anna, Tex., March 4.—The large stock
of general merchandise of L. L. Shields of Trick-
ham was burned by incendiaries, it is supposed,
as the melted tins of the coal oil cans wore found
in the ruins out of their accustomed places; also,
there were missed entirely a sixsnooter and a
Winchester, loft the night before near tho desk
and safo. It is reported from good authority
that there was no insurance upon his stock of
$5000. The reporter can not state this to bo ner-
leetljr correct,not having intar visaed Mr, Shields,
HIGHEST STATE COURTS
synopsis of decisions eendeeed
at the austin teem.
Oases Taken From the Lower Courts to
the Courts of Last
Eesort.
Commission or Appeals—Section A.
Edwin Hobby, presiding judge; W. E. Collard
and D. P. Marr, judges.
T. F.WoaTHINGTON vs. M.J.<& F. M. Baughmax—
Apneal from Archer: Trespass to try title by ap-
pellant Tho appulloes cluim that a strip of land
exists between the Browor and Barnwell surveys,
and this they claim by pre-emption. The court
should have instructed the jury that the presump-
tion was that the Browor and Ba nwell were mado
by the surveyor as des. ribod in the field iH>tos of
these grants and that tho burdan was upon the
party claiming thoy were not surveyed on the
ground, or who now chnllengos the correctness of
the same to establish that fact. The case comes
within tho principle announced in Freeman vs.
Mahonoy (57 Tex., 626). The charge requosted
was incorrect but 6uitlceut to suggest a proper
cli trgo. lie versed and remanded. Opinion by
Hobby, J.
W. A. Mc Kivney et al. vs. T. Winson. County
Judge—Appeal from Wilbarger: Suit a^a nst the
county treasuror for county money withhold by
him claimcl as commissions, and an amount by
him deposited iu the Wichita bank undor an or-
der from the commissioners' court. Tho county
troasurer was not entitled to commission on
county scrip received from tho tax collector and
turned ovor to his successor. He is not ontitlod
to commission on county bonds issued for build-
ing and registered by the troasurer aud delivered
by him to contractors. The delivery of the bonds
to the contractors is not a payment or disburse-
ment of county funds.
The order of tho commissioners' court directing
appellant, to deposit the county fuuds in the bauk
did not protect or release him from liability for
the amount lost through tho failure of the bank
(65 Tex., 401.) Nor does the fact that puch court
made nn order crediting the treasurer's account
with that amount entitle him to it. That court
has no authority to relievo the treasurer from
legal liability. Aflirmod. Opinion by Hobby, J.
Jonathan Miles vs. Sherwood et al.—Ap-
peal from Tom (ireen : The only question in ono
of boundary. In ascertaining lost lines or cor-
ners or such as were never in fact made, no rulo
is better recognized than that tho beginning cor-
ner in tho plat or certificate is of no higher dig-
nity than any other corner. Reversing the courses
is as lawful and persuasive as following the order
of the certificate. The judgmeut rests upou this
rule and there is abundant evidence to sustain
tho finding that there is no conflict. Affirmed.
Opinion by Hobby, J.
W. H. Brown vs. M. It. Siitner—Appeal from
Frio: Suit for possession of 1072 acres of school
land which appellee claimed under a loase and
appellant under a purchase a- an actual settler.
Tho court below concluded that as the land was
grazing land it was subject to loase irrevocable
for five years, and construed the act of 18^7 as
declaring that a valid loase of grazing land undor
that act could not be disturbed ox ept by an
actual bona fido settler residing on the laud at
tho date the act took effect. Defendant was not
such a settler at the time. The act of 1&37 which
withdraws from sale theso grazing lands leased
for five years, until tho expiration of the term,
is constitutional. Thero is no provision iu the
act requiring the lands to be classified beforo
leasing them. Ailirmed. Opinion by Lollard, J.
Commission of Appeals—Section H,
C. C. Garrott, presiding judge; B. D Tarlton and
II. C. Fishor, judgoB.
First National Bank Colorado et al. vs. N,
B. Brown—Appeal from Martin: Suit against ap-
pellants for conversion of cattle. Thero was no
error in instructing that as appellants showed no
right or intorest in tho cattle thoy can not ques-
tion appellee's right of possession if appellee had
such possession. Appellants are uakod trespass-
ers, and tho evidence is that at the time appellant
purchased tho cattle thoy wore actually dolivorod
to him and his agent by his vendor. Tho fact that
thoy may havo been looso upon the rango when
taken would not as a matter of law place thein
out of the possession of tho true owner.
Appellee in making his case did not rely upon
his bill of sale, but upon his possession as evi-
dence of title sutllclent to recover against naked
trespassers, and tho objection that as the exist-
ence of the bill of sale was shown parol evidence
of titlo was not admissible is not well taken. Tlio
allegation as to placo of conversion was immate-
rial. Theevidenco connects tho bank and Smoot
with tho conversion. Ailirmed. Opinion by Fish-
er, J.
Frank Trimble vs. Edwards et al.—Error
from Hamilton: The testimony as to tho loss of
the deed was not sufficient to authorize proof of
its contents, but it was suilidient to admit in ovi-
dencO the certified copy which was attached to
the deposition if it came from a proper record.
Tho copy shows that the deed was da'ed Novenv
bor 11, 135$, duly proved aud filed for record in
■yell county February 16,1S"9, and recorded
next day. _It is properly cortified by tho clerk of
Coryell. Hamilton was created in January, 1858,
out of territory belonging to Coryell. It is not
shown when Hamilton was organized. A deed
filed for record in the mother county after the
creation of tho now county and before its organi-
zation is properly filod. (G6 Tox., 311). In the ab-
senco of proof thnt Hamilton was organized when
tho dood was filed in Coryell it will bo presumed
that it was properly rocordod. Tho certified copy
should havo been admitted as a copy of a record-
ed deed. Reversed aud remanded. Opinion by
Garrett, J.
0. L. Hughes vs. e. Dubbs et al.—Appeal
from Wheeler: Suit by appellant against tho
members of tho commissioners' court of Wlieelor
county to prevent the organization of the county
of Hansford. He sues in his capacity as a citi-
zen. tax payer and voter of Hansford county. As
him to sue. The roasouing which denies the right
to suo in the case of a removal of a county seat
applies with equal force to the denial of tho
right to suo to prevent, the organization of a
county. Ailirmed. Opinion by Garrett, J.
FIEE EE00ED.
Basil and Door Warehouse.
St. Loutb, Mo., May 4.—Tho extensive six-story
building of tho St. Louis sash, blind and door
company's works on North Market street end
Broadway, took firo betweon 6 and 7 o'clock this
morning and in a couple of hours was practically
destroyed and a groat amount of manufactured
stock and material consumed.
Tho building was really more of a warehouse
for tho Rock island lumbor manufacturing com-
pany than of a factory, and the stock belonged to
that concern.
The losses ere estimated at $60,000 on stock j
$40,000 on building; all co'vered by insurance. The
building was owned by Theodore Sossinghaus.
Arrested on a Charge of Murder.
New York, May 4.—The police arrested yester-
day the 15-year-old Alden Faler for the murder of
Thomas Hayden, killed last Saturday. The boy
was employed until recently by the same company
as Hayden, know his habits and as alleged he
waited on Saturday in the rear of tho shop until
the shipping clerk returned with money, Btruck
him three blows with a club, after which he se-
cured $500. Another boy witnessod the deed and
informed the police.
Smallpox in Chicago.
Chicago, 111., May 5.—Smallpox in the worst
form has appeared in this city. The old small-
pox pesthouse has almost fallou into decay, has*
ing been tenantloss for three years till now.
Varioloid on Shipboard.
New York, May 3.—Varioloid developed among
the steerage passengers on tho Wosternland
which arrived to-day and 1338 of her steerage pas-
seugers wore vaccinated.
KEENELS OF WIEED EVENTS.
Queen Victoria has arrived at Windsor from
her sojourn in the 6outh of France and visit to
Germany.
Thomas Walsh, a nephow of the murdered Mrs,
Walsh of Chicago, was arrested for the deed ana
confessed to having kiUed hor in anger.
The Yorkshire Post sayB it is reported in the
clubs that the mysterious opponent of Harry
Vane Millbank in the recent duel in Belgium was
one of the best known English dukes.
The boilerniakers and iron shipbuilders ol
Boston and Cambridge, Mass., have struck tot
ten hours' pay for nine hours' work. Twenty-ona
shops and 750 men are atlectod.
The senate committee on foreign relations to-
day reported an amendment to tho sundry civil
bill increasing the amount for the enforcement ol
the Chinese exclusion act from $50,000 to $100,000,
Charles Berry and Henry Quiggs met death by
an explosion in the workings of the Camera
mines, the property of the Argontina-Juniata
mining company, near Aspon, Col. Berry loavea I
a wife and four children, (juigge leaves a motiMfe *
sister and brother.
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1892, newspaper, May 5, 1892; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth468336/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.