Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1893 Page: 5 of 8
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Born, to Mr. and Mr.s Wm. Binge-
ner, Tuesday night a fine boy.
Vbrv few country people faced the
bad weather to come to town yester-
day.
Mb. Frank Haubelt discovered
yesterday that he 1st one bale of cotton
in Tuesday's fire.
Labob quantities of cotton seed are
being marketed here now, and are
bringing good prices.
The cold yesterday was very pene-
trating to the thinly clad, for part of
the time it was slightly sleeting.
The Weekly Banner has added
a number of new subscribers to its al-
ready large list during the past few
days.
Jmo. 8. Ewinq, constable came up
Monday with a number of couuty
court prisoners from Washington pre-
cinct.
Messrs. Hale A Nelms, of Cald-
well, are feeding 300 cattle here,
where cottou seed meal can b« se-
cured from the mill.
The people of Welcome thirteen
miles faom here were able to see very
plainly that there was a fire in Bren-
ham Tuesday morning.
Elijah, the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Asa Pennington, who for the
past 22 days has been suffering with
typhoid fever, is improving.
Dr. Carkoll, of Waco, went out to
Independence yesterday where he was
to preach last night. Those who heard
the Doctor here were delighted.
Bottled inspiration and hip-pocket
courage is no longer necessary to the
development of Texas, and the county
attoaney will not encourage either.
Bacon, and lard are selling- higher
than for twenty years. This should
fUrnish the cue to Texas farmers to
turn their attention to raising hogs.
The Caldwell Chronicle has secured
the services of that talented gentlo-
manJGen. Thos. A. Fagan as editorial
writer, and its columns show a mark-
ed improvement.
The ball at Germania hall Saturday
night was well attended, and to the
sweet strains of music discoursed by
Voss band, the hours were danced
away until a late hour.
^ Messrs. Anderson & Wade, of
Navasota, recent purchasers of the 15.
F. Dotson stock of general merchandise
at Wm. I'enn, were in the city on
^business Wednesday and paid the
Banner office a ploasant call.
A hor.se was killed just below the
Vulcan street crossing yesterday
morning. It was uot learned who
was the owner thougn some one said
they were pretty certain that it was
Mr". B. 8. Farmer's. The Santa Fe
twill probably find out.
The farmers are now making ar-
ingements to pitch another crop, but
should bear in mind that a small
I crop of cottou brings to Southern
[farmers just as much money as a large
[crop, aud gives them more time to de-
rote to the raising of home supplies.
Among the Chappell Hill visitors
who came up to attend the pianaforte
lecture recital of Edward Baxter Per
ry Tuesday night, were Prof. J. Al-
lene Brown, Messrs. W. J). Crocket, J.
B. Matthews, Misses. Clara Reaville,
Ette Lew Mathews, Annie Belle
Traylor, Mamie Sadler, Fannie Lide
i and Mrs. S. M. Godby,
"But wasn't Edward Baxter Perry
i great," was the remark often heard
I «n the streets yesterday. His hearers
I Was principally made up of music
aving people who thoroughly appro-
ved his wonderfui manipulation of
le piano keys, but his explanation or
il of each piece was grand also.
Dr. J. T. Spann, of Chappell Hill,
i in the city yesterday, paid the
J Anne it office a pleasant call and re-
newed his subscription for the 2lst
He says that the negroes in his
tion have been demoralized by a
rage negro coming in there and
fging tor buried treasure.
OOUNTV COURT.
County court, Judge E. P. Curry
presiding, convened here Monday.
The civil jury docket was set for
Monday, January 23.
The probate docket was set for Mon-
day aud the criminal docket taken up
The civil docket was sounded and
the following orders entered.
Ann Maxey et al. vs. W. D. Crock-
ett et al., set for Janunry 23.
H. Levitansky vs Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe pAilway, continued by
agreement.
Thomas Dwyer vs. Sam Chase, con-
tinued by agreement.
Harvey aud Nora Hubert vs. Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe railway comf
pany, set for January 24.
J. B. Bobertson vs. B. F. Bobert-
son, leave granted plaintiff to file flrBt
amended petition.
Leave granted Sarina Franklin to
file plea in intervention, and case set
for January 24.
B. F. Dodson vs. C. A. Walling,
case set for January 23.
Thomas Watson vs. Steve Lewis,
set for January 25.
Andrew Lee vs. H. & E. Knittel,
continued by agreement.
Antony Flewellen vs. M. J. Jacob,
set for January 25.
A. Koch vs. Chas. Dillingham, re-
ceiver Houston and Texas Central
railway, set for January 26.
H. Fischer vs. Biugener Bros. &
Co., set for January 25.
J. M. Jameson vs New Orleans In-
surance Company association, set for
January 26.
J. I). Jackson vs. J.J. Willburn, set
for January 26.
Memphis National Bank vs. Beau-
mier Bros. &Co., set for January 23.
Julius Schroeder vs. Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railway company, set
for January 23.
Texas Brewing association and H.
Fischer vs. Mayer, Kahn A Freiberg,
continued by agreement.
C. W. Bankin vs. Henry Green, set
for January 26.
H. Fischer vs. C. F. Seibel and W.
C. Kallatt, set for January 27.
J. M. Shaw, administrator, vs. L. J.
Dill, transferred to district court on
account of disqualifications of Connty
Judge Curry.
VV. B. Spann vs. Andrie Prebilsky,
set for January 18.
A. S. Fletcher vs. J. N. Chadwick,
set for January 27.
criminal docket.
dThe following criminal cases were
isposed of:
State vs. Steve Brooks, case called
and bond forfeited, the defendant hav-
ing failed to answer.
State vs. John Newsome, for carry-
ing concealed weapons, on a pleao
guilty was fined $25.
State vs. Brown Drake, for carry-
ing a pistol, on a plea of guilty was
fined $25.
State vs. Adam Felder, carrying a
pistol, fined S25.
State vs. Willie Chatnian, for car-
rying a pistol, fined $25.
State vs. Jack Baker, carrying a
pistol, fined $25.
State vs. Harrison Johnson, carry-
ing a pistol, set for January 20.
State vs.Geo. Felder, aggrrvated as-
sault and battery, fined $25.
State vs. J. B. Clay, aggravated as-
sault, fined $25.
State vs. Tom Richardson, for theft
of com, fined $25 and ten days in the
county jail.
Nothing of much interest trans-
TDiiSDiT'S BIS FIRE.
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FURTHER PARTICULARS OF
THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
Over Three Hundred Bala* of Cotton
Burned, and Seventeen Saved
From the Flames.
Tuesday mornings blaze, a brief ac-
count of which the Banner gave to
its readers before the Firemen had
stopped playing on the smoldering
embers of the block on Vulcan street,
between North and Ant streets, was
the largest fire Rreuliam has had for
some time.
The total losses can not be definitely
estimated at this writing but will be
considerable.
The alarm was sounded at 3 o'clock,
and the department turned out v ry
promptly, the Hook & Ladder c< 'i-
pany, being the first to reach tiio
scene followed by the Connor Hoso
aud Mechanics Engine company in
the order named, and without any
hitch, and with groat celerity the hose
were attached to convenient hydrants
and soon two streams wero playing
upon the seething mass ol flames "that
had already spread all over the cotton
platform through the ware house and
was creeping all over the two story
frame boarding house of Mrs. Mary
Gackenheimer, but owing to some
bodys neglect,or a fault in the arrange-
ment of giving the alarm to the Water
Works company it was half an hour
before the campauy got direct pressure
that enabled tnem to throw a stream
a sufficient distauce to do any good
Mr. Watson informs the Banner that
it was no fault of his as his alarm is
connected with the telephone at Dr.
Tristram's drug store and he can not
hear the alarm at all except it is given
to him this way, which was not done,
he learning of the fire before the alarm
was sent in.
By this time the fire had completely
enveloped the boarding house, and it
was perfectly apparent that the house
adjoining was bound to burn, in which
Mr. Gilbert was residing, and the
crowdjbusied themselves in removing
his household goods much of which
were saved, together with a few of
* Our Chicago Letter.
Banner's Worlds Fair Bubkau, i
Chicago, Hi., Jan. 12,1898. f
Texas and chili con carne! That
was the burden of my sigh this morn-
ing when I opened my window shut-
ters and found six inches of "beautiful
snow" on the window sill. But that
is nothing strange or unusual, here for
last Tuesday while I was down on the
World's fair grouuds the thermometer
measured the weather and reported it
seven degrees colder than nothing.
After walking around and looking at
the Exposition buildings awhile, and
all the timo holding on to my ears for
fear that they would freeze off and I
would loose them, I paid two bits to
Mrs. Gackenheimer's.
MULES FOR SALE
Rranham, both broke and un-
te; also a few gentle horses. Can
seen at the old CompresB wagon
G. C. Duncan.
Ib. Jas. H. Simon, who is the pos-
■ of a rare collection of coins, was
first to send to Chicago and get
of the Columbus souvenir half
rs. On one side of the coin is a
eture of Columbus, with the follow-
"United States of America, Co-
lbian Half Dollar." On the re-
se Bide is the ship in which Colum-
discovered America, beneath
Slch is the two hemispheres with
on one side of them and 92 on the
beneath which is 18<)2 and
World's Columbian Exposition, Chi-
around the ship and liemis-
pired in the county court Tuesday.
A motion for a new trial in the case
of Tom Richardson, convicted of theft
of corn, fined $25 and sentenced to ten
days in jail, was overruled by the
court.
A motion to quash the indictment
against Charlie Allen was also over-
ruled.
The jury were discharged before
noon, aud there was no court in the
afternoon.
A Queer Jag.
A queer scene was enacted at the
union depot at 2o'clock Sunday morn-
ing, when a little shoemaker lifted up
his voice in prayer to the Supreme Be-
ing that he be granted power to stop
all railroad trains. He wanted to
paralyze the iron horse and still every
wheel forever. His petition lasted
nearly an hour, aud quite a motley
crowd gathered around to hear his re-
marks. It was soon discovered that
he was blind drunk, having taken a
drink of each of every variety of in-
toxicating beverage a neighboring sa-
loon contained.
A long-legged friend of the little
shoemaker was furnishing the stimu-
lants, plying him with liquor, but
never giving him two drinks of the
same kind in succession. It is not sur-
prising that his head was in a whirl.
Finally he had so many different
varieties of jags mixed up together
that he could-not pray any longer,
and his talk subsided into an inarticu-
late gurgle as No, 24 on the Central
rolled into the station.
Wanted.
vassers for Washington, Austin,
sou, Lee and Waller counties;
i a day. Address
Geo. W. Cablisle.
Chappell Hill, Texas.
Capt. Byrnes for Colonel of Second Regi-
ment.
Col. R. P. Smythe, of the Second
regiment, has been promoted to brig-
adier general, caused by the resigna-
tion of Gen. H. P. Stoddard. This
leaves the place of colonel of the Sec-
ond regiment vacant, and Capt. J. M.
Byrnes, of the Brenham Light Guard,
being in the direct line of promotion
will be urged for the position.
His company have already inaugu-
rated a campaign and will do all in
their power to have him appointed.
Capt. Byrnes is one of the best cap-
tains of the State Volunteer Guards,
aud has served faithfully long
enough to merit the promotion ana
we trust will get the appointment.
Lyons' New Postmaster.
Mr. Henry Andrews, of Lyons, who
was in the neighborhood of $1,000
short in his accounts with the Gov-
ernment, after making good the de-
ficit, was relieved of his commission,
«nd Miss Laura Hensley appointed to
the i>osit ion, having already qualified
and taken charge of the office.
A Oraball Fire.
Saturday evening last the large barn
of Mr. F. G. Roberts, n;>ar Graball was
burned together with its contents,
which consisted of 1000 bushels of
corn, a lot of fodder, oats and hay.
No insurance. Origin of the fire un-
known. -
itj iack pbauohj tw
An east wind was blowing and
sparks were flying and falling in dan-
gerous places all along Vulcan street
for two^blocks. The lawn in Col. I).
C. Giddings yard caught and the
flames swept over it like it was a
prairieon firelight ui> to his magnifi-
cent dwelling, while the sparks were
covering the roof and lodging against
the windows, but by constant watch-
fulness it was saved.
The rear of Brockschmidt & Hohlt's
store caught from tiie heat being di
rectly opposite the two-story frame
building and a .stream had to be turn-
ed on it to keep it from burning.
In the rear the fire was creeping
from one stall to another down the
wagon yard, aud the Hose company
being ordered to the front to save
Brockschmidt & Hohlt's store, the
Hooks soon cut out a section of the
stalls and stopped it in that direction,
returning- 10 the platform to do what
they could towards saving some oftlie
cottou, of which there was r.l!» bales,
19 of which were saved the other be-
ing a total loss, for though some little
of it was rolled out and tore up Tues-
day morning, not more thau enough
to pay for the labor will be saved,
outside of the 1!) bales.
A spark fell on the stables of Mr. J.
B. Kemp, on Vulcan street, and set it
on fire, but every liody along that
street were watching their own proj>-
erty and were ready to play a small
stream on every spark that settled in
a dangerous place and a further
spread of the flames was in that way
averted, though there were many nar-
row escapes. A spark set a tree in
Mrs. Wilkins yard, across the railroad
two blocks away, on fire, and it
burned so for a while that some one
went there and awakened the sleeping
occupants so they could watch it.
On much of the 300 bales of cotton
there was no insurance whatever, it
belonging to country farmers, one of
which was camped in the wagon yard
at the time, and after getting out his
horses and wagon, went on the plat-
form aud tried to roil his two burning
bales off". Some one lent him a help-
ing hand and he succeeded anil saved
them, though they were badly dam-
aged.
The two frame buildings, which
were the property of Mr. Thos.
Dwyer, and worth about $3,000, were
a total loss; no insurance.
The platform and warehouse, the
property of Paul Fricke. but run by
Fricke & Fluke, was insured with
Messrs. Carlisle & Herbst, in the
Northern Assurance Association, of
England, for $300. Loss about $500.
essrs. Carlisle & Herbst [furnished
the Banner with the following other
risks they carried on cotton there.
Winkelmaun & Bohne, $1,200 in the
German-American, of New York.
Werner & Dobert, $100 in the same
company.
Alex Simon, lost seven bales, on
which he carried $315 in the State In-
vestment, of ('alifoQiia.
Mrs. Mary Gackenheimer, on
household goods, $700 In the Fire As-
sociation of Philadelphia.
Brockschmidt & Hohlt, $300 in the
North British A Mercantile, of En-
gland. **
Messrs. Eversberg, Williams A Co.,
furnished the following losses their
companies sustained :
Winkelniann A Bohne, cotton, $500,
in the Fireman's Fuud, San Fran-
cisco. Cal.
Winkelmaun & Bohne, $300 on cot-
ton, in Aetna, of Hartford, Conn.
Fcicke & Finke, on cottou $200, in
thePhenix, of Brooklyn.
R. Hoffmann, $255 on cotton, in the
Teutonia, of New Orleans, La.
Mr. Henry Amsler lost ten hales on
which there was no insurance.
Mr. H. Dipple lost seven bales on
which there was no insurance.
Quite a number of other fanners
had cotton there uninsured, but as
Messrs. Fricke & Finke's books were
burned they could not remember who
they were.
Mr. A. C. H. Schweiss had about 30
bales on the platform, but they were
fhlly covered by insurance,'but it was
not learned in what company.
The total low Is estimated at about
$15,000.
7
hi
go into the Eskimo' village and see
about fifty natives of the Arctic regiou.
The specimens exhibited looked very
much like the half Indian and half Ae-
tec that sold me hot tamales on Alamo
plaza in San Antonio, only a little
more intelligent, and well dressed in
seal and bear furs. These Eskimos
are complaining that the weather is
too warm, and I asked a bright little
Eskimo boy who had learned a little
English what he would do next sum-
mer in Chicago when all the ice and
snow had melted. He studied awhile
and replied, "me melt too."
The Fair grounds are attracting great
crowds daily, and I hear that the man-
agement is reaping considerable profit
from the admission fees of 25 cents.
Through the kindness of that distin-
guished Texan John T. Dickenson,
who holds next to the highest place in
the Fair, that of secretary, I received
passage into the exposition. Of course
the first thing I wanted to see was the
Texas State building It was found
aud I must say begins to look quite
portentious; it is true that it isnot such
a building as one would naturally ex-
pect the great state of Texas to build
out it beats nothing very bad aud will
be appreciated b3' every Texan that
visits the World's Fair. The Texas
building is perhaps further from com-
pletion than any of the thirty odd
State houses. To my idea this build-
ing will be one of the most beautiful
and attractive of any of the buildings
of any of the states, but of course not
near so large nor expensive as many
of tliem. Fmay say that of all that I
saw on the 1)00 acres of grounds cov-
ered with exposition buildings that I
was impressed most by the manufac-
turers and liberal arts*building. This
immense structure, the architectural
leviathan of the world, that has cost
one million and seven hundred thous-
and dollars to erect, is completed
and exhibits are being installed in it.
To give your readers some idea of this
the greatest of the great buildings of
this the world's greatest Exposition I
will briefly give its dimensions.
Its greatest dimentious aro 1887 by
387 feet; heights of walls 00 feet; height
of four center pavilions 122 feet; height
of four corner pavilions 97 feet; height
of room over Central hall 237 feet; span
of main truss 382 feet; ground erea of
building 30 acres; floor space includin
galleries 44 acres. Seven million feet
of lumber were used; twelve million
pounds of steel in trusses, two million
pounds of irou in roof. The building
is three times larger than the Cathed-
ral of St. Peter at Rome and is four
times larger thau the Roman Coloseum
that seated 80,000 people. The great
Pyramid Cheops would not till the
building. The central hall in the
building is a single room without a pil-
lar or post and is eleven acres in size.
Seventy-live thousand people can sit
in this one room giving each person
six square feet of space. It took 215
car loads of nails to nail down the
flooring. There are eleven acres of sky
lights and forty car loads of glass in
the roof. One hundred and fifty thous-
and people were seated in this build-
ing and witnessed the dedication cere-
monies last October and it is estimated
that 300,000 can be comfortably taken
care of iu this one building at one
time. The lumber in the building rep-
resents 1100 acres of average Michigan
pine, and it t<xik 600 flat cars to haul
the 22 main trusses to the building
from the factories. Altogether this
building is the architectural wonder
of civilization.
In a future letter 1 will give a de-
tailed description of this great struct-
ure, aud will also devote a letter each
week to describing some one of the
many great buildings, and matters of
interest hero.
The Fair opens May 1, next, and it
is estimated that it will have cost $40,-
000,000 at that time. A school boy can
see more in the fair for his fifty "cents
thau he can see during his life were he
to live an huudred years.
I find a few Texans here who have
gone into business for the year and
nave heard of several others who are
coming soon. O. W. Crawford, the
well known Velasco pusher, is in the
real estate business here. Mr. Boykin,
formerly a prominent business man
of Dallas, has gone into business here,
and I also met a Mr. Brouson of Waco
here. Mr. Dr. J. W. Williamson, who
published the Texas Columbian Jour
ual in Fort Worth, is living here now
Mr. W. A. Sausom, a well-known citi-
zen of Alvaradoarrived last week and
has opened the Texas World's Fair
Free Information Bureau, aud is en
at Palestine Tues-
Tues-
are pouring
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LATEST TELEGRAPHIC MS.'
L'tndensed from Metropolitan Dailies.
Ex-President Hayes is quite Bick.
No change in Biaines' condition.
*iatne re-elected Hale to the Senate.
Boston had a $125,000 fire Tuesday.
The Kausas legislature is still split.
Tennessee elected Bate to tho Sen-
ate.
There was sleet
day.
Gov. Hogg was inaugurated
day.
Brewster. N. Y., had an $100,000 fire
Suuday.
Asiatic cholera is in St. Paul Min-
nesota.
There was a $15,000 fire at Wheeler
Tuesday.
There is a royalist conspiracy in
France
A bagnio in Navasota burned Mon-
day night.
Blaine still lingers without any im-
provement.
Gen. Butler was buried at Lowell
Mass., Monday.
Three inches of suow fell in Missis-
sippi Tuesday.
Cholera is still killing people in
Prussian Saxory.
The gin of A. Wohleb at Cameron
burned Saturday.
Senator Hill denies the truth of an
alleged combination.
An avalanche of bills
into the legislature.
A $40,000 cotton seed oil mill will be
erected at Yoakum.
The Volunteer Guard Association
met in Austin Tuesday.
B. B. Hayes, ex-president, died at
Tremont, Ohio Tuesday.
General Stevenson, vice-president
elect, is iu Louisville, Ivy.
Thirty thousand feet of lumber were
burned at Orange Monday.
Jack Grant was shot and killed
Saturday night at Victoria.
Loth, a Hungarian, was electro-
cuted Monday in New York.
The Acadian rice mill at Mermen-
teau, iia., was burned Sunday.
Tho democrats of Colorado
nated Geo. Gray for the senate.
Benjamin Tillett, tho London labor-
leader, is being tried for rioting.
The steamer Guiding Star is hem-
med in by ice near New Madried.
The military hospital at Stoke, near
Davenport, England, has burned.
W. A. Gullahorn's residence at New
Birmingham was burned Sunday.
Morgan, of Alabama, is spoken of
for premier in Cleveland's cabinet.
A show case company was burned
in Chicago Monday. Loss $100,000.
Allen & Ginters cigarette factory
burned at Richmond, Va., Tuesday.'
Whitelaw Reid is goiug abroad be-
cause the democrats were successful.
Daniel Lamont is now booked for
war secretary in Cleveland's cabinet.
Will Boss was roasted alive in a car
that burned near Keokuk, Iowa Tues-
day.
The pope has created fourteen new-
cardinals, but none of them
Americans.
Senator Mills
time to address
this session.
Rose Ifrooks,
Memphis, was choked
glass marble.
The legislative journa
after the manner of the
record.
An administration caucus to
nate Mills for the Senate is to I
Friday night.
Wealthy Farmer Judd, of Tyrone,
Iowa., mourns the loss of the hired
tramp, $000 and a shotgun.
John Leonard went to sleep on the
railroad track at Canton, Miss,, Sun-
day and woke up in eternity.
James Gordon was killed by a fall-
ing cornice as he was about to enter
a saloon at Menominee, Mich.
The Homestead, l'a., cases are still
on trial, and the witnesses stick to
the story of poisouous powders.
Bob Short shot and killed Con Allen
at Hot Springs Saturday night for
hugging his sweetheart at "a ball.
Awful cold weather is reported from
New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsiu,
Kentucky, Illinois and other places.
The governor's inaugural ball on
Wednesday night promises to be at
tended by people from all over the
state.
con-
were
says lie won't have
the Texas legislature
10-year-old girl of
to death by a
I is to printed
congressional
nonii-
e held
. .
Pennsylvania nominated M. S. Quay
to the Senate.
Wisconsin has memorialized
gress to repeal the Sherman act.
Connecticut elected J. P. Hawley to
the Senate.
Missouri elected F. M. Cockrell to
the Senate.
Saturday night last E. C. Allen at
Bice Lake, Wis., shot his wife and
B. V. Tassell, whom he found to-
gether in a restaurant.
Sam Grant, was stabbed to death at
Hallettsville and Tom Searcy cut in
numerous places Saturday night by
John Holland and Bud Williams. -
The North Carolina legislature have
reported favorably on a bill intended
to stop lynching. It imposes $500 fine
on any one engaged in lynching and
imprisonment.
Undertaker B. Gross, of Hot
Springs, has sued the Pacific Express
company for $282 charges on a body
which was stolen from the company's
office at Newark, Ark.
Representative Lodge, republican,
of Massachusetts, presented a petition
in the house Monday signed by 10,000
citizens in favor of a law placing re-
strictions upon immigration.
All but one of the 150 rare manu-
scripts presented to Knox library at
Now York, by Banker John S. Ken-
nedy, have been pronounced forgeries
by the British museum experts.
Tho Chicago World's Fair delega-
tion at Wasiiington for the purpose of
asking congress to allow the fair to
be opened on Sunday, saw tho sights
and came near getting too full to pre-
sent the case clearly.
Senator Atlee's bill to amend the
criminal code now before the Legisla-
ture, makes an important change in
regard to trials before magistrates. It
provides that "should the magistrate
be of the opinion from the evidence
that no offense has been committed he
may, in his discretion, adjudge the
costs of the proceedings against the
complainants."
Representative Sebastian will intro-
duce a bill of great interest to those
living in South Texas, especially
those living in the black districts.
This will give tho right of appeal
from the appraisement of county com-
missioners to the district court. It;
seems that in South Texas, particu-
larly where there have been negro
commissioners, very unjust appraise-
ments have been made and unjust
taxes collected thereon.
Chartered Tuesday at Austin : Tex-
as State Spiritualist association of
Dallas, for the purpose of propagating
the tenets of spiritualism.
Cuero Electric Light, Power and
Telephone company, capital si5,000 ;
incorporators, Otto Starker, Emil
Loonnardt, A. F. Pahnine, Louis Kel-
lar, Paul Dornibluth,
Th© Texas Bedding company, of
Waco, capital $30,000; incorporators,
J. C. Stephenson, O. C. Barnett, J. M.
Nappier. Ed Stephenson and O. R.
Vick.
The Forney Investment company of
Kaufman county, capital $10,000; in-
corporators, T. H. Dallev, D. G. Mc-
Kellar, T. M. Adams, .l! T. Rhea and
(J. W. Voices.
capital notks.
Editor Gilbert, of the Dallas Times-
Herald, is here.
Chartered: The First Presbyterian
church of Bowie, Texas.
Ex-Senator Potter and wife ar*»
among the prominent visitors here.
Hon. Frank Ball, one of the regents
of the university, is here for tho
Wednesday meeting.
Water works bonds of Groesbeeck,
to the amount of $12,500, were regis-
tered with the comptroller.
Iu the (freer county case the further
evidence of Chief Draughtsman I'ress-
ler of the general land office, was
taken.
Gen. A. S. Roberts, electoral mes-
senger from Texas, left to-night to
carry the presidential vote of Texas to
Washington.
Mr. Morgan Mann, of Galveston, is
here in the interest of a bill from the
Galveston Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
Attorney General Culberson left
suddenly to-night for Washington,
being called to the bedside of his
mother, who is dangerously ill.
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gaging quarters for Texaus who intend
visiting the Fair, and rendering them
such other service as may be desired
and giving free information about Chi-
cago and the Fair, to Texans.
Chicago is full of people now and
while there are more than 700 hotels
and public boarding houses here, they
all seem to be pretty full of people,
and the street oars and other means of
city transportation are now taxed to
their utmost. What they will do
when from a quarter to half a million
strangers are turned loose here every
day during the Fair is a problem.
In my next letter I will give a list
of the hundred foreign nations and for-
ty states that are building houses and
opening exhibits, aud kind of a bird's
eye view of the Fair, as a prelude to
my descriptive letters to follow.
C. S. Hardy.
Convicts En Rcute to Huntsville.
Agent A. L. Carmichael passed
through here yesterday with five
prisoners from Bellville, sentenced to
the penitentiary from Austin county
for terms varrying from two to ten
years.
Among them were two Rrenham ne-
groes, Fred Fields, an erstwhile boot
black around here, and Geo. Moore,
who formerly worked at Schueren-
berg's shop.
Albert Grant was killed in a negro
dive at Dallas Sunday. His mistress
says he shot her first and then killed
himseif.
Clayton Puterbaugh and his 6-year-
old son are missing from Fort Scott,
Kan. Mrs. Puterbaugh says she can't
explain it.
Fred Bowen shot and killed Matt
Mills iu-a gambling den at Navasota
Tuesday.
It is uow said that it is not. the in-
tention of the Vatican to establish a
legation in the U. S.
Seuator Bowser, of Dallas, will in-
troduce a bill to exempt manufacto-
ries from taxation for a period of ten
years.
The Louisiana Lottery has been
granted a charter from the Republic of
Honduras and will remove there after
this year.
The Power House of the Central
street railway company at Peoria, 111,,
burned Tuesday.
The Kehdiue of Egypt has changed
the ministry without the assent of the
Brtisli authorities and they refuse to
recognize the now^cabinet.
Arne Holme, a young farmer of the
town of Beloit, Wis., committed sui-
cide by hanging. No cause for the
deed is known.
Some one at tempted to assassinate
Pete Meyer at Conroe Tuesday, firing
a load of buckshot at him while in
tied, four of which took effect in nis
head.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Banisey, of
Cleburne, are here to attend the In'
auguration. Mr. Bamsey is the law
partner of Lieutenant-Governor Crane.
COUNTY COURT.
The default docket was called in the
county court yesterday aud the fol-
lowing orders entered :
Ann Maxey et al. vs. W. D. Crock-
ett et. al. continued by agreement.
J. B. Campbey vs. Bill Nicholson,
judgment in accordance with the
mandate of Court of Appeals.
Low & Stuckert vs. G. C. & S. Fe
railway company, continued on appli-
cation of plaintiff.
Mrs. Nettie M. Mills vs. G. C. & S.
Fe railway company, set for January
the 30th.
I^app & Florlioim vs. A. T. Thread-
gill, judgment by default.
J. Whitehall & Son vs. E. Hoff-
mann, judgment by default.
Anu Gansky vs. J. B. Campbell et
al., set for February 1st and jury de-
manded by plaintiff.
Katy A Barnett vs. Biugener Bros.,
& Co., judgment by consent.
The case of the State vs. Ferdinand
Schultz, was continued by agreement.
The case of the State vs. Qarl
Schultz, was continued by agreemoat.
How's This.
Whe offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hallg
Catarrh Cure.
F: J. CHENF.Y & 00., Props., Toiedo. O.
We the undersigned have known F. J. Che
ney for the last I5 years, and believe him per
fectly honorable in all business transactions,
and financially able to carry out all obliga-
tions made by their firm.
West & Truax, wholesale druggists, Toledo.
Waldini;, Kennan & Marvin, wholesale drug-
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal];, act-
ng directly upon the blood and mucous sur-
faces of the system. Price, 76c per bottle.
Sold by all druggists, Testimonials free.
—Fire in a lumber shed at Grove-
ton, Texas does about $8,000 dama-
age.
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