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EMMA JUCH
GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY,
The most noteworthy operatic success of the dec
ade. its first production in this city,
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA"
(Rustic Chivalry) composed by Pietro Mascagni
to be preceded by the balcony scene from
ROMEO AND JULIET.
AT NIGHT
TANNHAUSER.
TREMONT OPERA HOUSE.
To-morrow Night Farewell Appearance of
America's Favorite,
MAGGIE MITCHELL
In her now Comedy,
The Little Maverick.
TREMONT OPERA HOUSE.
MATINEE AND NIGIIT,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,
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THE BIGGEST AND BEST that has yisited
Texas this beason.
Saturday-ONLY A FARMER'S DAUGHTER.
ATTENTION,
We have withdrawn our Travel-
ing Salesmen and will continue to
eell Irom Stock only.
Over $200,000
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS,
Lately owned by Weis Eros., must
be sold
REGARDLESS OF COST
As this buslnesss will be closed
soon as possible.
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GALVESTON. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11S92.
THEKIRMESS
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WEDNESDAY MATINFE AT 3 P. M.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 8 P. M.
By 200 Galveston Ladies, Gentlemen and Children
for the benefit of tho training school for nurses.
A special excursion train will leave Galveston
at 12.15 p. m. to-day. All expenses of participants
will be defrayed. Provision for parents has been
made who wish to accompany their childreu.
All the danceris are requested to be as nearly cos-
tumed as possible beforo leaving Galveston. Ar-
rangements have been made whereby all children
who with can return on regular Santa Fe train
directly after matinee.
A. & E. F. McGOWEN
IftOH AND BHASS WORKS,
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POLITICAL MATTERS.
Want an Alien Land Law,
The following resolutions were passed by
the Erath county farmers' alliance at Dublin,
Tex., on January 0:
Resolved, that this alliance, in regular ses-
sion assembled, recom nend that our member-
ship vote for no one for the United States
senate who does not favor tho alliance de-
mands.
Whereas, our last legislature passed a law
known as the alien land law, and,
Whereas, from some technical defect in
formulating the same it has been declared un-
constitutional, and,
GALVESTON VS. HOUSTON.
LIVELY DEBATE ON TEE DIFFEREN-
TIAL QUESTION
Before the Railroad Commission—Cleveland
Refuses to Answer Gresham's Question.
Wharf Question Not Pertinent,
much less for his cotton than he would have i tori might have some advantages, and she
realized if the rate had been the same on tlat | should be satisfied with them without wanting
Whereas, wo recognize the fact that no peo-
Ele can long remain free who do not own their
omes, and,
Whereas, we believe that waranty deeds in
tho hand of our people are more conductive
to the development of patriots than do
foreign or domestic mortgages, and,
Whereas, tho monopolization of the lands
has always resulted in the downfall of nations;
therefore be it
Resolved, by Erath county alliance in regu-
lar session assembled this January 5, 1892,
that we recognize an efficient nnd perfect
alien land law that shall protect the homes of
our people from the soulless corporations ana
avaricious greed of foreign capital as being
indispensably necessary for the maintenance
and perpetuation of American freedom.
Resolved (2), that we earnestly urge and in-
struct our representative in this session of our
legislature to perfect and re-enact a law that
shall protect our domain from alien owner-
ship.
Resolved (ii)> that we instruct our secretary
to have tho above preamble and resolution
published in tho Southern Mercury and Dub-
lin Progress and request all county alliances
of Texas to join us in our efforts to influence
such legislation. J. J. Eageh,
J. B. White,
J. D. Mabtin,
G. L. Clauk,
Committee.
Prohibition Speech.
Bonham, Tex., Jan. 12.—Governor John P.
St. John of Kansas delivered a prohibition
speech to a very fair audience in this city to-
day. The talk was well received, as it was
principally on moral issu.es, interspersed with
politics.
In the course of tho speech ho took occasion
to state that Hon. Roger Q. Mills was like all
politicians, he dodged the mam questions at
issue. This was especially applied to Mills on
the silver question. All in all the speech was
very much like so many that wore delivered
in Texas in 1887, during the prohibition cam-
paign. 1
Sherman Is Senator.
Columbus, O., Jan. 12.—The senate and
house voted separately for United States sena-
tor to-day. In the senate John Sherman re-
ceived 18 votes and James E. Neal 8. In tho
house Sherman received 93 votes ftnd Neal 29.
A resolution to investigate tho eligibility of
United States Senator Brieo was discussed
and vigorous speeches were made in the house,
but action was postponed until Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Dos Moines Wants the Convention.
Des Moines, la., Jan. 12.—J. J. Richardson
of Davenport, member of the democratic com-
mittee, has gone east to try and secure the
coming national convention for Des Moines.
It is claimed he has the aid of both Senators
Gorman and Hill, who favor Des Moines to
any western city, unless it is Indianapolis.
The local sentiment will be strongly in favor
of the nomination of Cleveland.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 12.—The railroad com-
mission had a morning and afternoon ses-
sion to-day. Tho morning session was de-
voted to discussion by Galveston und Hous-
ton merchants and the railroad managers of
the compress question. Messrs. Grosham,
Ladd, Willis, Bornefeld and Flood of Galves-
ton, Cleveland and Reed of Houston, Ripley
of the Southern Pacific, Folk of the Aransas
Pass, Bartholomew of tho International and
Great Northern and Smith of Denver were
present and participated in the discussion,
which was desultory.
Interior eompressss were not represented.
Mr. Ladd presented tho situation for Gal-
veston and said Galveston cotton men could
not get fiat cotton down there without paying
50 cents a bale inoro than through shippers
got their cotton laid down there for and held
there was no good reason why shippers to
Houston and Galveston from interior points
should pay 50 cents a bale more for uncom-
pressed or Hat cotton than they paid for com-
pressed when the railroads were willing to
take it at about tho same rate. He thought
tho railroads, since the insurance rates had
been readjusted, would in some cases prefer
to take it liat.
He asked Manager Ripley if the insurance
matter was settled, and if there was any fur-
ther necessity for the discrimination.
Mr. Ripley replied that the situation was
materially changed. Tliia statement pre-
sented tho issue and the premises conceded,
tho commissioner wanted to know who gets
the benefit of that 50 cents difference. The
cotton factors as well as the buyers, and Mr.
Ripley insisted that the benefit was enjoyed
by all parties in Liverpool or Bremen whoso
orders were filled.
Mr. Polk made the argument that the pro-
ducer got the advantage.
Colonel Rogers, as a planter and also a
cotton factor, contended that tho farmer got
nothing from tho 50 cents.
The commissioners wanted to know if the
present rate and regulations did not have the
effect to give tho farmer better prices by the
50 cent per bale rate than he would otherwise
get.
Mr. Riploy illustrated the difference between
tho cost of placing a bale of cotton in New
York or Liverpool, direct from the interior
point or by local shipment, first to Galveston
and then by water, showing by figures, viz:
Say from Austin, per 100 pounds shipment,
to Galveston, 00 cents; compressed at Galves-
ton, 10 cents; ocean freight charge, 66 cents;
total $1 26.
Compressed at Austin, 10 cents; shipment
com pressed to Galveston, 50 cents; ocean
freight charge^ 56 cents; total, $116; showing
it s a '
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An Old Republican Leader.
Belleville, 111., Jan. 12.—[Special]—John
R. Thomas, one of the pioneers of this county,
who has just celebrated his 92d birthday, was
one of the founders of the republican party.
During the memorable campaign in Illinois
between Lincoln and Douglass he was one of
tho leader® of the then new party in southern
Illinois.
All the Yotes Cast.
Kbnney, Tex., Jan. 12.—An election was
held here to-day for senator of the Twelfth
district.
W. W. Searcy received eighteen votes, be-
ing all the votes cast.
Nebraska Farmers' Alliance.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 12.—The state Farmers'
alliance met to-day with closed doors. An
effort will be made to pass a resolution in-
dorsing tho subtreasury plan, also free trade.
Searcy's Vote.
Chappell Hill, Tex., Jan. 12.—There have
been polled here 108 votes for W. W. Searcy
for senator of the Twelfth district.
Important Electrical Decision.
New Yoke, Jan. 12.—United States Judge
Lacombs to-day handed down the final decree
in the 6uit of tho Brush electric company vs.
the Electric construction and supply com-
pany perpetually enjoining and restraining
the defendants from making, using or selling
any arc electric lamps in which there are
two or more pairs of carbons independently
regulated, controlled and burned succes-
sively. *
Charged With Forgery.
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 12.—Frank L. Farlow,
a prominent attorney of Hicksville, 0-, and a
member of the Methodist church of that
placc, was arrested last evening and lodged in
jail on a charge of forgery preferred by his
father and grandfather. The forgeries are
said to aggregate $4000. Farlow protests his
innocence and says his father and grandfather
signed the notes.
The Miantonomah a Success.
New York, Jan. 12.—The trial of the guns
and mounts of the double turretted monitor
Miantonomah was finished Saturday after-
noon. Eleven guns were fired during the
trial. In every respect the trial was a great
success, the few delays and mishaps being
only those which always are encountered with
new machinery for the first time.
A Wreck in Nebraska.
Gband Island, Neb., Jan. 12.—A passenger
train on the Ord branch of the Union Pacific
was wrecked at 9 o'clock this morning, eight
miles from the city, by a broken rail. A num-
ber of passengers were injured—J. W. Kelly
of this city fatally. Two others were serious-
ly injured—J. E. Lind of Kearney and J. H,
w< ■ ' L -
ooley ol this city.
a difference of 10 cents, or 50 oents a bale.
Tho same statement, he said applied to
Houston, and these two points were the only
iteal cotton markets
in the state. It was contended that the dif-
ference was gobbled by the interior shipper
or inured to his principal in Liverpool.
Mr. Cleveland contended that the commis-
sion order compelled the railroads to stop cot-
ton shipped as flat and have it compressed on
the way, when the buyer, the planter or the
interior merchant who shipped it and the
factor who received it preferred it to come
through uncompressed. They preferred it
that way bccause it comes to Houston or Gal
veston for sale as uncompressed cotton, bring-
ing a better price. It could be shipped and if
anything was wrong it would bo discovered
and a much bettor sample could be procured.
Judge Reagan attributed tho unhappy situa-
tion to the action of the railroads in their St.
Louis ruling. By that ruling ho held they had
practically advanced tko rate on cotton, fixed
by the commission at 10 cents per 100 pounds
to Galveston and Houston, while reducing the
rate to St. Louis.
Both Ripley and Smith took issue with the
contention that St. Louis rates had been re-
duced, but held they were advanced the same
as Houston and Galveston rates.
Mr. Reagan's information was that the local
rate anyway was increased as ho stated it.
Tho railroad men had informed the commis-
sion that they had always paid for tho com-
pressing because it was to their interest to do
so, and tho commission then made rates under
tho idea that they would pay for that service,
but in order to defeat tho purpose of the com-
mission they decided to make the shipper pay.
This left tho commission no other course than
to adopt the present regulation. He held that
tho railroads were responsible for it, and if
the cotton men wanted it corrected they
should go to the railroads who forced the
present situation.
Cleveland said: "We do go to them and ask
them for relief. Some of them say, 'We can't
do so; the commission does not permit us.'
They say they would liko to put us all on a
parity, but you won't let them."
He suggested that the first rate of the com-
mission was acceptable.
It was suggested, the running discussion
becoming general, that the 600.000 bales so
far handled by Galveston and Houston had
cost cotton shippers 50 cents per bale more
than other cotton had cost.
Judge Reagan did not propose to 6ay
whether it was possible to undo what had been
done.
We can't compel tho railroads to undo
their acts at St. Louie. We would liko to hear
from the railroads," ho said.
Mr. Ripley was not asking the commission
to reduce rates, but would say he would like
rates to apply alike on compressed and un-
compressed cotton.
Pending tho discussion of this, Cleveland
suggested a compromise rate, the same on all
cotton.
The discussion then turned on whether the
commission should not take action to protect
the people, whatever the railroads might deem
proper to do, Mr. Reagan insisting all the
time, if there was the wrong complained of,
it was the fault of the railroads, and Mr.
Gresham appealing to the commission for re-
dress as the only power to grant it, so long as
tho railroads were not disposed to grant it.
A proposition to submit the matter to the
cotton men, the railroads and interior com-
press men was made and
blut tiik approval
of Judge Reagan and his associates, the result
of such conference to bo submitted to the
commission as information.
Tho ground was all traveled over again and
again, Messrs. Ripley and Cleveland, as well
as tho Galveston men, contending that the
existing order excluded competition at inte-
rior points, in cotton buying: that owing to
that fact, ono class of buyers for eastern and
foreign parties had no competition from Gal-
veBton and Houston buyers; that on that ac-
count, as well as bv reason of the downward
course of prices, the producer had received
as on compressed cotton. It Wns stated by
Mr. Flood und others, a* if inspired from the
proper quarter, that if tho commission would
make a rate without regard to compressed or
uncompressed cotton the railroads would ac-
cept the situation.
Mr. Reagan thought that if those gentle-
men, the railroads and cotton men would get
together and rnako a rate, not increasing it
nor impairing tho railroad earnings, the
commission would agree to it. lie would be
pleased to consider the matter.
Mr. Ladd doubtod if any agreement could
be reached and asked if they failed was the
wrong to continue indefinitely.
"You are," he said, "favoring a class of
men between the shippers and the producers.
Is this to bo continued until tho rail-
roads are willing to let up?"
Judge Reagan repeated that the responsi-
bility was with the railroads,
Mr. Ladd renewed his question. "What
are we to do if the railroads refuse reliof?"
There followed little question as to the right
of the commission to make compress regula-
tions, but there was no disposition to push the
doubt.
With some asperity the chairman asked if it
was expected that the commission would not
protect the people against the St. Louis order.
Mr. Gresham thought that could be done by
reducing the rate on cotton, compressed and
not compressed.
The morning session closed up with a prop-
osition to ask tho railroads for their views,
after Messrs. Reed of Houston and Borne-
feld of Galveston had made very interesting
statements, showing tho advantage given in-
terior points was shifted directly into the
pockets of foreign buyers at those points.
In the afternoon session of tho commission
the question of tho Houston and Galveston
differentials in cotton rates was discussed by
Mr. Gresham. He suggested letting local
rates remain, but fixing the difference accord-
ing to a mileage basis.
Mr. Reed, representing in man & Co. of
Houston, said he understood that the Galves-
ton merchants apprehended that on a 7 cents
differential instead of 5 cents between Hous-
ton and Galveston, more cotton would go to
New Orleans than to Galveston. As to the
statement that Inman Co. were in effect
controlling the shipments to Now Orleans, ho
produced figures to
show the HBVBR8B,
a les3 percentage of the firm's cotton going to
New Orleans this year. As to tho navigation
company's business between Houston and
Galveston, he was satisfied that if tho differ-
ential was lowered tho company would not
make the largo improvements it contemplated
and on which it was awaiting the action of
the commission. He argued that the company
wns necessary to prevent congestion in ship-
ments. It had been necessary to load vessels
in the stream instead of at tho wharf for want
of sufficient wharfage. If any changes were
made in the differential, ho askod that it be
made 8 cents, which would just suffice to cover
tho necessities of the case, iu faco of the 10
cents wharfage in Galveston. This would put
shipments through Houston on a parity with
those to Galveston.
Mr. Willis contended that wharfage should
cut no figure in tho differential, as it was a
matter of convenience for shipment on ac-
count of the nature of th? hnrbor.
Mr. Gresham: There is not a port where
such matters are regulated. There is plenty
of room not subject to any restrictions.
Mr. Reed remarked that tho action of the
council, a3 to the steamer Ida, had not been
called to public attention:
Mr. Gresham gave tho figures to show the
range of optional area for shipping.
Mr. Reed: I want the differential, such as
will maintain this convenience of the naviga-
tion company.
Mr. Gresham: Then you want the commis-
sion to legislate the railroad rate up in order
for the bayou lino to compete with the rail-
road.
Mr. Reed, to Mr. Gresham: The railroads
carried from Houston, in local shipments, to
Galveston this year 51,800 bales, against 37,500
last year.
Mr. Bartholomew in amworto this said there
were 65,000 bales of local ootton carried by rail
last year from Houston.
Mr. Reed, to Mr. Ladd: In order for us to
got shipments we had to accept the naviga-
tion rates, that is I have paid 10 cents, to your
paying 9 cents. I have to pay more because
the facilities are not sufficient by rail alone or
without the aid of the navigation company.
It is necessary to sustain all "
pay 8 and want 8 cents.
facilities. Wo
Mr. Rogers claimed that, it was not right to
make a basis of Houston find have Galveston
pay a differential of 7 cents. The navigation
company was an advantage to them in regu-
lating freights, but when she railroads were
willing to make a reduction, why should tho
navigation company object? Let the mileage
basis, whatever it was, apply to Galvoston as
well as Houston.
Mr. Ripley argued that the mileage basis
would not operate as well for flour and other
interests. As to New Orleans shipments, the
New Orleans and Texas roads were chartered
to carry cotton from Houston to New Orleans
or Galveston, according a* the rates offered,
and tho inducements in the interests of the
shippers to send
to either point.
A lower rate would not be remunerative either
to the roads or to the'navigation company.
Mr. Bartholomew to Mr. Gresham: Our
roads have been able to haul all the cotton
offered.
Mr. Reed: We are not champions of
the bayou company, further than is necessary
to do all our shipping. Some time ago a ship
broker in Galveston asked rae if I could get
500 bales there in time for certain shipments.
1 asked about the railroads and was told they
could make the shipment. The broker said :
"Why ship by rail, as it will tako so long to
get it?" I said I had to do it, or pay more, as
the Bayou company could get more, because
the railroads could not do all tho business.
Mr. Ladd; We are arranging to spend a
million dollars in Galveston improvements.
Mr. Reed: And wo want to increase our
Houston facilities.
Mr. Cleveland argued that the bayou com-
pany saved the state, speaking for the whole
state, a million dollars. The terminal and
other facilities, he contended, were not suffi-
cient to handle the business without the aid of
tho bayou navigatioL.
To Mr. Ladd: I don't remember the net
receipts of cotton in Houston in 1880.
Mr. Reed: They wero about 300,000 bales
in 1882.
Mr. Ladd: There were about 430,000 bales
in Galveston last year: there were only 180,000
received by factors and in all about 210,000,
showing what Houston gained, so there must
have boon some other cause for this great dif-
erence.
Mr. Cleveland said Houston's advantages
had gotten the cotton, because they had man-
aged there to dispense with all unnecessary
charges.
Col. Rogers: That is one of Cleveland's
campaign speeches. The handling of cotton,
whether in Galveston or Houston, has nothing
to do with the commission's duty in fixing
rates and Galveston offered all the induce-
ments that could bo offered.
Cleveland: Galveston has had her attor-
neys here in her special interest.
Houston had tho railroads here
a heavy differential imposed on Galveston.
Gresham pressed asking Cleveland a auc-
tion and tho latter declining to answer, Gresh-
am asked if the commission could not have
the question answered.
Cleveland: I am not here on the witness
stand, but am here with others to make state-
ments.
Chairman Reagan: I do not know that we
can compel a witness to speak.
Commissioner McLean: That apples
where there is an investigation of somo stated
complaint.
Gresham insisting upon the question of the
powers of the commission in such cases being
settled, the commissioners retired for a
moment to consider the matter. Tho com-
mission decided that they had no right to
com pel Mr. Cleveland to answer the question,
which is supposed to have been aimed at the
matter of rebates.
Colonel Rogers raised the question as to
commission fixing a standard rate of weight
of a bale of cotton to govern the. rate of
freight.
Pending tho discussion the commission ad-
journed till to-morrow. The commission gave
the following notice to-day:
"Notice is hereby given that on Monday,
January 18, the commission will consider tho
question of reducing the rate on .salt, as pre-
scribed in commodity tariff No. 1, to meet
the reduction on tho rates on said commodity
from interstate points to Texas and preserve
the differential between state and interstate
rates. A change in the rate on salt will not
be made on any road that has refused to par-
ticipate in the reduction from interstate
points and preserved tho differentials fixed by
the commission."
Comment on llie Counselman Case.
Washington, Jan. 12.—The decision of the
supremo court of tho United States in the
Counselman case is the subject of much dis-
cussion to-day and popular inquiry turns to the
quostion, whether, in the light of this decision,
the interstate law can be so amended as to
give the efficiency intended by tho fminers.
Bills are being prepared for introduction in
both houses having the designed correction of
law, but the opinion of prominent lawyers is
divided as to the possibility of framing an
amendment which will afford the remedy de-
sired und at the same time bo constitutional.
W. R. Morrison, member of the interstate
commission, does not view the situation with
the discouragement manifested by some other
friends of the interstate law. "What do you
thin k of the supreme court decision iu tho case
of Counselman?" Mr. Morrison was asked by
a reporter. "There is not much profit discuss-
ing the decision; the court is tho last, resort."
lie said: "If the court had beon so inclined
it could have held the law constitutional upon
very good authority."
"Will the decision seriously interfere with
tho work of tho commission in your opinion?"
"It will at least bo a temporary hindrance
to the enforcement of the law. There are
usually but two guilty parties to tho most tla-
grant violations of the interstate commerce
law. and these are not likely to have witnesses
to tue transaction. If one of tho guilty par-
ties can not be compelled to testify against
the other, it. will frequently happen that; both
will go unpunished and go on wrongdoing.
After all, some of tho guilty parties will be
overtaken, for murder, though it have no
tongue, will speak."
"Is the obstacle one which you think can be
removed by legislation?"
"Yes, it can be partially removed. The
court points a way to the remedy. That way
is to give immunity, or let go unwhipped of
justice, one guilty party who shall be made to
testify against another."
The remedy which tho court suggests and to
which Mr. Morrison refers is contained in the
following paragraph of the decision: "Wo
clearly are of tho opinion that no statute
which leaves a party or u witness subject to
prosecution aftor the answers to a criminating
question put to him can have the effect of sup-
planting the privilege conferred by tho consti-
tution of the United States."
Section 8*1 docs not supply complete protec-
tion from all perils against which the consti-
tutional provision is designed to guard, and is
not a full substitute for that prohibition. In
view of the constitutional provision a statu-
tory enactment, to be valid, must afford abso-
lute protection for the offense to which the
question relates.
Western Tiutile Association.
New York, Jan. 12.—The quarterly meeting
of the advisory board of tho Western traffic
association was hold this morning at the Wind-
sor hotel. Among the representatives of
western roads in attendance are G. T. Magoun,
president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe, and J. B. Spoor, of tho same road; Georgo
Coppell, president of tho Denver and Rio
Grande; General Manager Ackert of the Iowa
Central; President (J. D. Ashley of the Wabash;
President. Miller of tho Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul: Director Samuel Spencer of the
same road; President Marvin Hughitt of the
Chicago and Northwestern; Jay Gould, pres-
ident. and S. II. H. Clark, vice president of
the Missouri Pacific; President Sidney Dillon
of the Union Pacific; Vico President Stuy-
vesant Fish of the New York Central, and Vitro
President S. V. R. Conger of the samo road;
President Cable and Director D. II. Brewster
of the Rock Island: President Perkins of the
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such importance that it should go to the high-
est court in the land. The question at issue is
whether the railroad had corporate power to
out. ; into a contract with McKecnforthe pur-
chase of stock.
Keply of the Lumbermen
The following is a copy of a letter sent yes-
terday from Beaumont, Tex., to Hon. J. H.
Reagan:
Beaumont, Tex., Jan. 11.—Hon. John H.
Reagan, Chairman Railroad Commission of
Texas, Austin, Tex.—Dear Sir: We observe
m your interview with Mr. I'ulk, appearing in
The Daily News of January 10, the following
expressions:
"Reagan: We intend to aeo if we can pre-
vent tho roads froui crushing out homo pro-
ductions nnd home enterprises. We will, if
necessary, continue to reduce local rate* until
that practice is stopped."
In connection with the above expressions
we beg to call your attention to the fact that
mills from Arkansas and northern Louisiana
arc shipping lumber into the northern and
northwestern portions of Texas a', considerable
less rates than the mills of this section can
reach the same territory. If you will examine
the petitions, etc., sent you some time since
by the lumber manufacturers on the Southern
Paeilic road, you will see that this state of
affairs has existed for some time past. You
will also see that we request to bo put into the
northern part of the state at not more than 1
cent per loO pounds above the Jefferson nnd
Sulphur rates, but we desire to impress upon
your mind that we consider it our right to
reach northern and northwestern Texas at
equally as low rates as are enjoyed by mills in
the northern part of Louisiana and Arkansas.
If you will examine tariff No. 958of the St.
Louis Southwestern railway and tariff No.
750—H, of the Texas and Pacific, you will seo
for yourself the glaring discriminations en-
joyed by the mills of the states named as
against tho mills of this district, to-wit:
Rate from 1'oaumont to Dallas
Rule fromShroveport., La., to Dalian.
Rate from Alexandria, La., to Dallas.
Rate from Parugould, Ark., to Dallas.
K ile from Lowisvillo, Ark., to Dallas.
HARDWARE, STOVES, MILL SUPPLIES
AGENTS FOR
j Brinly Plows, John Deere Plows
47,49,51 MAIN ~ST^ HOUSTON, TEX.
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.
COUNT TO t«l:n ssisaSuojjjoqiq VIEWS
0.1 1 .tiij
The Government Already Appropriated 65,-
000,000 Houbles—Zinc Humbert
and the Pope Beeoneiled.
.1* 0
.1. c
.16*40
.IS^c
.20 c
. 1*l4c
. Irt'iiC
. 17 c
Rate from Beaumont so Sherman.
Ra e from Shroveport, La., 1<> Sherman
Rate from Alexandria. La.,to Sherman
Rate from Parngouhl, \ rk.. to Sherman
Rato from Lowisville, Ark., to Sherman
Now, as citizens and taxpayers of Texas, wo
respectfully request that you remedy this state
of affairs at the earliest possible moment.
For your information, we will state that be-
fore the commission law went into effect 110
mills outside of Texas enjoyed a lower rate to
the territory above named than was allowed
mills from thisscetion. Furthermore, in such
times of depression us have existed during tiie
past four months the railroads assisted the
mills m all fportions of the stato in moving
their surplus lumber, by making generally re-
duced rates through the dull season, whereas
under the present rulings of tho Texas com-
mission we get no relief beyond the arbitrary
rules established thereby.
Please advise if wo can expect to bo put into
northern and northwestern portions of Texas
on an equal basis with mills in Arkansas and
northern Louisiana. When you reflect that these
reduced rates in Arkansas extend as far us 1 'a;
agould, a considerable distance beyond Little
Rock, you willseo that the distance hauled is
as great if not greater than from our own sec-
tion of tho country. Yours truly,
Tmxab Tram and Lumbbu Co.
Village Mills Company,
Beaumont Lumbbu Co.
Nona Mills Co.
The Reliance Lumijku Co.
Kates to tho Convention.
Chicago, 111.. Jan. 12.—Lines in tho West-
ern passenger association have agreed upon
the following arrangements for the republican
national convention at Minneapolis on Juno 7;
Ono lowest first class fare for tho round trip
from all association points to Minneapolis and
return, tickets to be sold on Juno 5, 0 and 7;
tickets sold good for return passage until and
including J une 25; tickets to be good for go-
ing passago on the date of sale only, and for a
continuous passago in both directions.
Cuuse of the Hasting* Accident.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 12.—In the matter of
the Hastings accident on tho New York Cen-
tral road, the state board of commissioners
have found the immediate cause of the acci-
dent to be the criminal failure of Herrick to
signal the St. Louis express.
A ROMANTIC ENGAGEMENT.
The Houston business was
Gresham:
in her interest.
increased by tho action of the roads. You i drawn into the fight,
are decreasing terminal facilities and loading
them on us, und you are seeking tho aid of the
commission to maintain this condition, by
KBBP1NG UP TUB KATE
between Galveston and Houston.
Ladd: I don't seo what tho arrest of the
Ida has to do with the commission.
Rogers didn't think the wharf business had
anything to do with the commission. Hous-
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Presi-
dent C. P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific.
Tho session closed at 12.30. Neither Hunt-
ington, Dillon nor Jay Gould would venture
any information concerning the affairs of the
association. Chairman Aldace Walker knew
nothing about the rumor that his salary as
chairman would be cut down, but if a lower
salary was offered him ho would positively re-
fuse it.
Panhandle Withheld Tlieir Cars.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 12.—All tho railroads aro
more or less interested in the light now being
made by the Panhandle on Thomas and John
Purcell, coal dealers of this city. The Pur-
coils, in a bill liled iu court, complained that
tho Panhandle refused to deliver coal assigned
to them on the ground that they owed money
for the detention of cars. An injunction was
secured, restraining the railroad from inter-
fering with the delivery. The complainants
contend that the refusal to deliver freight is
because they have not paid the charge fixed by
the car service association, which is illegal, as
tending to coerce dealers into paying a civil
debt or stop business. John E. Loom is, the
agent of tho Panhandle, is accused of with-
holding cars from the coal yard sinco the writ
was issued and is to be hoard on a charge of
contempt.
Kate War Threatened.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 12.—In spite of the
efforts to avert trouble it now looks as if a
passenger rate war in the southwest is likely
to break out at any time. Tho Missouri
Pacific and Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis roads aro each blaming the other
for the disturbance, and Chairman Finley is
in correspondence with tho general passenger
agents of both roads with a view to restoring
the peaceful relations between them if pos-
sible. The difficulty may affect the direct
rates between Kausas City and St. Louis and
tho Wabash nnd Chicago and Alton will be
Tho McKecn Suit.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 12.—In the suit of tho
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road against
After Twelve Years of Waiting They Are
Engaged Again.
Naw Yobk, Jan. 12,—Although the announce-
ment has not been made public, still it has
been generally known to intimate friends of
the family that Mrs. Edward A. Johnson, a
divorced sister of Mrs. Robert A. Livingston,
is once more engaged to Count George Erdody
of Hungary, after a lapse of twelve years. The
story of this enduring love is very romantic.
Thirteen years ago Mrs. E. W. Ranney, who
was i ho widow of John Scott when she mar-
ried Dr. Ranney, vent abroad with her two
daughters, Julia and .Florence Scott, and a
daughter of Dr. Ranney.
Aftor some time spent in traveling and
studv in England, France and Germany to
finish hor daughters' education, Mrs. Ranney
lauded her young charges at Wiesbaden.
There Miss Ranney married an Englishman
named Johnson, an old friend of her father
and a wealthy merchant. Meanwhile, Julia
had formed the acquaintance of Count
Erdody. who entertained sumptuously in his
villa, and shortly the two became engaged,
with Mrs. Ranney's full consent. But an
angry Hungarian father for various reasons,
social, political and religious, threatened Ins
son with disinheritance.
The engagement was accordingly broken off
and tlie mother and her two daughters de-
parted, via England, leaving Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson to enjoy their married life at the
groom's homo. Before a year was passed
Miss Julia received an invitation
from her sister to come to Eng-
land, and accepted it. The result of this
visit was that, having forgotten her suitor of
the year before, Miss Julia was woed and won
and married to Major Edward Arthur John-
son, an older brother of the wine merchant.
Subsequently Count George married a Hun-
garian lady, to whom was born a daughter. For
eleven years M rs. Johnson led a happy life, re-
joicing the major with three children, the oldest
of whom is now 10 and the youngest G. At
the expiration of that time, his wife and father
huving both died. Count George Erdody put
an end to the major's happiness by making a
trip to England and falling in the path of
Mrs. Johnson. Iu March, 1890, Mrs. E. A.
Johnson left England und betaking herself
to South Dakota there domiciled herself
and children with a governess and maid for
tho space of seven months; object, divorce.
The count followed to America shortly after,
but it is denied that ho joined Mrs. Johnson.
Three months ago Mrs. Johnson returned to
New York with hor decree of absolute divorce,
the right or marriage being allowed both par-
ties and the custody of the children given to
the wife. Tho count will be socially ostra-
cised iu Hungary unless his marriage is recog-
nized by tho church of Rome. To secure this
recognition a special dispensation must bo ob-
tained, tho intended bride, besides being not
only a Protestant, but a divorced woman. 1L"
tho pending negotiations toward this end aro
successful it is understood that the long-
deferred wedding will occur in the cathedral
here next ApriL
Trial of M. B. Curtis.
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 11.—The trial of
Wm. R. McKeen, it was this morning decided j
to send tho case to tho supreme court of the , M, J3. Curtis, "Sain'i of Posen," for tho
United States. The sum of $889,000is involved 1 murder of policeman Alexander Grant, was
in the suit, and the judge* of the court of ap- ! continued for one week ou the motion of the
peals unanimously decided the case was of 1 prosecuting attorney.
London, Jan. 12.—Advices from St. Peters-
burg show that though the czar may declare
there is no famine iu his dominions and ho
believes the suffering among the peasants is
due entirely to a slight shortage in the crops,
which the government can easily rectify, it
will be found that in making such a rectifica-
tion the treasury of the empire will be sub-
jected to a heavy drain. Already the sum of
65,000,000 roubles has been appropriated by
the imperial treasury for the purpose of pro-
viding the absolute necessaries of life, to be
distributed among the suffering poor. Ali
this money hus been expended, in addition to
the large sums spent through the central
famine committee and through private in-
dividuals, and yet the wants ci the distressed
peasants have been supplied only to a limited
extent. Tho imperial treasury has now ap-
propriated the sum of 66,000,000 roubles.which
are to bo devoted to the relief work. There is
hardly any doubt that some further and larger
sums will be necessary to tide tho people over
the long winter season, and judging from the
reports continually received, the government
will hi compelled to support the inhabitants
of the famine stricken provinces through the
summer as well.
f ailure of Crops Not the Cause.
London, Jan. 12.—[Special.]—A long arti-
clo by Count Tolstoi, on the subject of tho
famine in Russia, appears in this morning's
Daily Telegraph. In this article the count
says that the reproac hes against the Russian
government and its official representatives are
exaggerated und the charges of apathy in
many cases unfounded.
"All," ho says, "aro doing the best to stave
oft' the impending calf Liity. If rot-ults aro
meager it is less from lack of good will than
from the condition of the relations sustained
between the succorers and the succored. Tho
initial mistake was made in not supplying the
peasants with sufficient seed corn and fuei.
The permission to take fuel from the royal
forests was practically useless because tho
people have no means for the conveyance of
wood over Jong distances. The friction be-
tween the government which is doubtful
whether the famine is so acute and
extensive as represented, and the provincial
assemblies in their anxiety overrating the
extent of the prevailing destitution, further
increases the difficulties and delays. While
both aro wrangling the peasants are tarving."
Count Tolstoi then proceeds to picture tho
destitute condition of his own district. Lo
admits that much drunkenness prevails: also
that in many cases well-to-do and thrifty peo-
ple cat the bread intended for the famine sV-
terers merely from motives of economy. V -r,
in the Krapivinski, Bogoroditsfr, l-p iiumv- i
and Epiphansk districts from 60 to »i0 per com
of the people will have nothing to eat in ;i
week or two. They are already consuming
bread so bad that it acts like a violent emetic
when taken into the stomach and the bever-
ages which these unfortunates drink make
them crazy. Count Tolstoi also gives heart-
rending pictures of wives with their little chil-
dren, ill-clad, starving and cold and ill, anx-
iously waiting for the return of their husbands,
who have gone to seek aid for their famishing
families.
He declares that this state of things, al-
though perhaps in a somewhat less degree,
has always existed in certain districts and is
part and pared of the national existence. The
cause, ho says, is assuredly not the failure of
the crops.
New Guns for Italy.
Rome, Jan. 12.—[Special,]—The new re-
peating rifle adopted by Italy will be provided
with a new type of bayonet, much shorter
than tho ones now in use. A lieuten-
ant of artillery has invented a now
cartridge, which according to tho
official reports presented to the minister of
war concerning tho recent experiments at
Netturo, is destined to greatly modify the
prevailing view concerning projectiles. It is
also reported that the weight of the equip-
ments of the Italian soldiers will soon be re-
duced sufficiently to allow them to carry in
the field 150 rounds of small cartridges.
King Humbert and the Pope.
Pabis, Jan. 12.—La Pnix says: Humbert
has made overtures to the pope offering to
compromise the questions at issue between tho
state and tho Vatican. Tho terms offered by
King Humbert, while maintaining the right.?
of the crown fully, aro satisfactory to the Vati-
can. Tho paper adds that the pox^o is much
pleased that the ico has been broken, and im-
portant results will probably follow the open-
ing of negotiations between the quirinal and
the vatioan.
Diamond* Valued at $100,000.
London, Jan. 12.—Louis Clovis Bonaparte,
| son of the late Prince Lucien Bonaparte, was
; charged to-day iu the London police court
j with conspiring with Alexander Thompson to
; defraud Rosalie Clovis Bonaparte out of a
diamond necklace and other jewels valued at.
$100,000. Tho charge is one of the many out-
comes of the suit for divorce brought by Mrs.
Bonaparte. The prisoner was remanded.
Anti-Jewish Outbreak*.
St. Pbtbrsbubo, Jan. 12.—Anti-Jewish out-
breaks have occurred in many of the villages
of Peusa and Saratoy. The houses of a num-
ber of Jews suspected of hoarding corn for
the purpose of raising tho price in the market
have been burned and many of the Jews were
killed.
An £arth<inake Feared.
City of Mexico, Jan. 12.—[ Special]—Smoke
is issuing from the Almolonga mountain in
Chiapas, and an earthquake is feared. Iu ad-
dition, the volcano of Coliina is again iri a
state of eruption, and is pouring forth ashes.
Hiram Sibley's Seed House Ablaze.
Rochksteb, N. Y., Jan. 12.—A fierce fire is
raging here at this moment—noon. Hiram
Sibley's seed house, an eleven-story building,
covering nearly a whole square, is a huge mass
of flames. Nothing but the walls can bo seen,
while the flames tower up far above any block
in the city. The heat from the fire makes it
impossible for the firemen to do much in sav-
ing tho adjoining buildings, and it is feared
other tires will follow. So far no lives are re-
ported as lost.
Can Not Make a Combination.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 12.—A representative
of tho Thorpe manufacturing company, own-
ers of tho Cleveland typo foundry, said yes-
terday that the chances of the success of the
project whereby the type foundries of tho
country would be under the control of an
English syndicate are diminishing. The type
founders aro not able to agree upon a com-
bination, and a settlement is next to impos-
sible.
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