Cisco Apert (Cisco, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OB©
HUNG WITH A LASSO, {FELL DOWN FLAT AND HARD.
A Half-Witted Negro Attempts As- Mr. Donnelly Hs» Utterly Failed to
When They Saw Webster.
COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS.
sault end Is Hung.
Make Good
One of the i
j RiAop Hun tin;
4-iten »;—«c--
icidents of the late |
fern's life which he ]
ltKtallat
-t*
•oooooococooooe
e
Knows All About Races.
As a J h
key
Ih 'i a iDiidt r
nuit
tea
He n a
rlclv
m,
Mite m the yj
perfect race.
Every n
»mn
son joint «'*' va
turi
t to
good udvflntag
Aiut if
9 i>
iuliiv admitted 1
«n!nU at pace!
He can a*!se on c\crv l<
f-'i'-i • z- right througl
he r .ver
r and he
it he can
a master
’hole, he can
. knothole.
*ter while he
Weimar,
uar in .rain
1 * -year-old
south ot t
pick cotton
sail, which
her .father
by O-mr I
negro Ik>v
To
-T.
n
Mi
anaor living three miles
tils plat ;?, ft as going to
on the farm of T. M. In-
ad join? the place w here
lives, site was attacked
ee Tucker, a half-witted
lb years old. who at-
on
iefent |
pro-
tnk.1? I
«jny I
r»f Rzt
Ilarva
A
ar
d c
"Etc
tl
An.l he'd never meet
thus was stilting jpr
Anil he'd moke the jswi-est horses spin
around the devious courses
In open-eyed amassment at the sudden
steed they'd found.
It the start lies ,.v,.r ready and his
nerve is k en and stendv
An! lie civotlv set* aluiut his task with
veteran display.
And h-e .xHmnrss won't tUrnltdSIi; be it
ahiitsnVr a finish.
ISe.jtlst got-* amt gets the money In a
most convincing way!
He’s as brllllr nt as a rocket and he
dodges every "pocket"
And he .1 turn Into a victory a palpable
defeat—
But th.T"'s no one ‘keeping cases” on
this Jockey's jicrfect races.
For the trouble is he rides them from
hts grand stand seat
—New York Sun.
Falkland's Plague cf Geese.
There appears to be an excellent
opening: for a new industry in the
Falkland Islands. Gov. Grey Wilson
reports that an agitation is on foot to
induce the government to undertake
the diminution of the wtM>- ‘"tn.it If
reality much too tame” goose, and
that he does not sympathize- with it.
The farmers meantime are doing
tnls deadly work themselves, and are
paying $2.50 a hundred for the upper
beak as evidence Of slaughter; and It
is suggested that from 100,000 to 150,-
t'00 geese, representing grass for 20.-
■40 sheep, might with advantage be
destroyed annually.
Hut the governor points out that the
native goose is excellent eating, and
thinks that commercial enterprise
might preserve from waste about a
millions pounds of food and the high-
class down which this slaughter pro-
vides.
This is to say nothing of the vaRt
quantity of eggs which are broken
yearly.-aStray Stories.
Tramp Really Was Hungry.
A tramp was arrested at Ludlow,
'.lass., wlio.claiiiied to have been four
■‘ays without food. The Kind-hearted
officer took the famished man to a
restaurant, where he ate a meal which
for the quantity of food consumed
boats all known records in the town.
The meal Included ten targe slices
oi bread, about two pounds of meat,
tour large pieces of pie and six dough-
nuts washed down with four cups of
tea.
|W
fitd with present com
that, in vtew of lie r
with Donnelly anil his
not feel justified
tempted to criminally assault her. jd*-...........-
The girl fought him with all of h«*r j fuTthor lonfcreuee o
j strength and in this way and bv her j more ;.groeitient-. 11
cries caused him to flee without ne- • *he only
Ancient Watches Still Keep Time.
A jeweler in Boone, Iowa., lias a
collection of watches and clocks that
date back hundreds of years and. still
keep time. One watch has a diamond-
set gold works and- silver ease is
. dated 1538, A 1585 watch bears the
trade . mark. —"-Owy'-*, Bond street.
1685.” A clock (s dated 1587. and there
are two very old clocks having wood
en works in his store for repairs. All
keep perfect time.
Lemon Tree Worth Owning.
Mrs. A. C. Wellman of Brookline.
VL, recently picked from her lemon
tree a lemon weighing thirteen and a
half ounces and measuring twelve
inches one way and eleven inches the
other in circumference. The lemon
has been growing fourteen months
The tree, which is throe years old
and about five feet high, has always
been kept.indoors.
A White Elephant's Funeral.
Curious ceremonies are witnessed
In Siam when one of the sacred white
elephants dies. It is given a funeral
grander than that accorded to princes
of royal blood. .Buddhist priests offi
elate, and thousands of devout Siam
ese men and women follow the de
ceased animal to the grave. Jewels
and offerings representing some thou
sands of pounds are buried with the
elephant.
Established One Thousand Years Ago.
A singular illustration of the per-
sistence With which the Japanese ad-
here to their family vocations is seen
in nn announcement in a Japanese
newspaper that a celebrated dancing
master was to hold a service in hon-
or of the 1,000th anniversary of the
death of his ancestor,Who was the
first of the family tn take up the pro-
fession.
Walks to Cure Consumption.
Charles R Norris, who says he has
walked 1-1.000 miles and worn out
sixty seven pairs of shoes since Aug.
1. 1901, to cure hirrself of consump-
tion, is in Syracuse, X. Y. He started
.out with $1.50, after having paid doc-
tors $9<>o. He lias increased his weight
from 95 to 13S pounds.
Pearls in Fresh Water Clams.
In shacking out a peck of fresh
water ciams for his hens Hal Clark
cf West Franklin, Me., discovered
«ught nmall but handaomo pearls.
eoflipHshintr his purpose. The father
ami the {ruff came to town imme-
diately ami made complaint against
the itcgto, and Con-table Hancock !' r
rort* sju?*
ti«us and
f\pcr:euYe
men, they
aiding aav
jntng any
ncans that
r>e left *>|K it to the
conditional surrender,
e are manifold signs'
f a general stampede, for the strik-
r blitzed that their cause was
trike-r- is
Already' tl
and City Marshall Insall went out not alone with the packers, but
to make the arrest. Thev found ? with the general public, the nto-
Itini and brought him into town,
where the girl fully identified him
as her assailant. The odicers then
iwent that Donnelly called the sec-
ond strike after having been award-
ed all of his demands. Donnelly
ao nvi IKtIIt. 1 IN* UMKITS C v ........
placed hint in the eitv calaboo-c. himself will not admit defeat, but
awaiting an examing trial, and uS i he stands alone, tor four years he
the calaboose is a veritable hot bux | ba- haunted the gates of the stock
this kind of weather and there had .v«nl.-. organizing every branch of
been no talk of nob violence, the of- : industry there, doing no other work,
lieers left the outside door open. s0,m «' ■»' bad 1 ho plants organ-
•nterely locking the CfU door. j izetl and himself elected pre-ident
Cowntv Attorney Holt, who had be called the -trike, and he will not
hoeiy telephoned J ur. came m fadmit tiia« the structure he, budded
( nhimtuis op thb 2 o'clock train and •*’ < nun filin';:. All the other labor
the officers went to the .calaboose., leaders sa.v the strike will he called
to bring the prisoner into court. probably to-inorrow. The un-
w.hen what was their Rumrisc to {ion- ltave no money and the strikers
find him dead, hung bv the neck.
The cage had not been brok. n into,
but lie had a forty-foot lariat
ground lus neck and his head wits
drawn up to a hole in the ceiling
About- eight inches square and not
over four feet from the floor, used
to pass food brought to the prison-
ers. l| js feet were drawn up and he
had seemingly been strangled to
death. If it was the work of a molt
it.- was the coolest piece.of work of
that kind on record, a- it was ( ju-
ried out at
Renter .of the, little city. without a
thing . being known of it On thyi
Streets until the oilieer- made the
discovery, i here v\a- very lilt(o*c.\-
citenicnt over tin* occurrence and
no further trouble is expected.
are desperate. There was consider-
able violence yestgrdav, several men
being beaten and two shot by the
strikers. '
Plenty to Do,
for ieana: It is questionable if
there ever was such a demand for
cotton pickers seen in Corsicana as
to-day. A prominent citizen said:
”1 have lived lure for twenty-eight
years and never saw the equal.”
n record, a- it was cur- Fdri>,trg ! >a 'vilh wagon.?,
-noomlav, almost in tlie ;>ml M"1*'1 ,lj«‘ »*'ght here in order'
1 " ■ ‘ • to la* lir-t on the ground to secure
pickers. With the dawn of. day they
are on the -! reels and as the ingroes
make their appearance they are
asked to go to the cotton patch.
Cotton is opening at an unusually,
rapid rate, and it i- the -desire to
have it picked before a rain comes.
Many fail to get as many pickers as
they want, and some go fiack vvitlt-
oti; any at all. One KiltsCounty
man filled a boxcar with .negroes
and sent them to his farm, vvhieh is
near the railroad. Others said they
were going to other counth*s foj* the
purpofc of shipping negroes to their
fields, Thev say the demand is
Pullman to Close Temporarily,
Chicago: Hull man will lie an idle
teun after September l. The great
shops ol the Pullman Company are
to shut down on that date ami thou-
sands 'ol men employed in the vji-
riotis department- id dm cat- build-
ing corporation wiiT^be' without
work. Thirty thousand people at
1 oilman ami in the stm'oumling -urgent and thev must and will have
towns U I I I il l! in* t ih 1 itn<l it tn.to i ' » i i. t*
towns Will ke-jili'cricd, ami it may
be that work wili not be iv.-umed
until after the Presidential election.
Vvlieu the PuHnum Company is
working on full time To.tKiu people
are employed. During the last
months, owing to a lack of new or-
ders. men have Itoon laid olf, .'inn
and 400 at a time, until now the
force does not aggregate more than
2,000 men.
Body Is Identified.
Houston: Through investigation
in the Sour Lake postotliee the
identity of t he murdered man found
lying near the railroad track at
(iicons Bayou, eight miles east, of
the city, Thursday last, has been
discovered.; A money order receipt
found close to the body was issued
to A. N. Sawyer. Re formerly lived
in Houston, and It is wifi' and family
make their abode here now.
-V ♦♦♦ - —-
Temple: A hale of cotton sold in
Temple onShiturday for 12 J-2e, the
bale being tlie outcome of the bull
campaign in cotton last fall, when
farmers and others had visions of
15c and 20c cotton. This particular
farmer agreed to sell for 12 l-2e all
the cotton lie could gather from his
fields in August, and his proposition
was accepted by a well known cot-
ton weigher. The. first hale has.been
delivered and the price agreed on
paid.
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Pot tshorn:
Andy Rice, an old-
time darkey, who has lived here for
twelve years, died on Friday night.
He was a good friend of the white
people here and they had the body
embalmed, bought him t\ nice oas-
kf t. a ml bu r ie.ll. hij it. .UsUl” u .imar.-c.
The whites were going to bury him
in the Georgetown Cemetery, but
('apt. W. S. Grant gave the negroes
land to start a eemetery. Andy Rice
was-formerly of McKinney and was
about 55 vears old
* 4
Kill I
f 5< f reshtent j
an office he fill-
ed from iKgti to i&p). Hunting-
ton was tlten a graduate of the di-
vinity school' and pastor of tiie
South church ibut not "oltciplam |
of the university,” as has been said:
the university had not then been
created and lie was not connected
w ith tire college). Hut he was pres-
ent at that ceremony, and used to
say that while it was in progress,
there "loomed tip" at the side door
the majestic form of Daniel Web-
ster. As one person, tlie audience |
ar.vse and remained standing while
the pride of Massachusetts took his
place-on the platform. It is one
of the many testimonies to the tre-
mendous impression oi Webster's
personality.
His "Bret” Like Clay’s.
Representative Sttlzer's resem-
blance to Henry Clay is some times
commented on. Most of the com-
ment is tv) the effect tint there is
ho .-itch resemblance, A New York
man told this story in the Southern:
‘‘Sulzer heard that there was an old
negro barber in W ashington who in
his \ nth had shaved Henry Clay.
He went to the barlter amt got him
to shave him. Suker did not say
anything for a long time, expecting
the barber to say something about
the resemblance. When the shave
was nearly over and the old man
hadn't said anything. Sulzer could
not keep still any longer. ‘Sam.’ he
said, ‘do I remind you in any way
of Henry Clay?’ Sam put the razor
hack in the case with much delibera-
ti.mi and hesitated for some- time.
Sulzer waited patiently. ‘Well, sail,
answered Sam at last, T think yoi
does, salt. Vo' breff, salt, is power-
ful 1 ke Mr. Cktv's.’ ’’
picker.-. A imm Itei'o front Frost
said l.oitb cotton pickers were need-
ed in that: community.
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The Pittsburg National Rank of
Pittsburg, Texas, and the First Na-
tional Battle of Merit, Texas, have
been authorized to begin business,
with $25,DUO capital each.
Mr. Hughes, a substantial farmer
at Alma, has lost three or four head
of horses and mules recently from
glanders, and has other affected
stock.
At Denton. Willie Wilson, son of
H. W. Wilson, fell and broke his
arm at the oil mill. Mrs. .John
Cathey fell over a box and broke
her anil at Stony on Saturday.
Klmo Inis sold $4,000 school
bonds for the purpose of building
a new school house to take the place
of one destroyed by lire some time
since.
Actual construction on the inter-
urban railroad from Oklahoma City
to Sulphur will login about October
15. There is some effort being made
to get, this line to turn at Pauls
\ alley and go direct ‘o Sulphur,
leaving M'yniieWooil and Davis off
the line.
.John S. Hornbook, formedv eitv
salesman of Mine and Smelter Sup-
ply Company of FI Paso and Den-
ver. conimit ted suicide by shooting
himself at FI Paso on Monday.
Charles Heim .Tr„ the 9-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heim,
of Houston, died Monday front lock-
jaw. A splinter of wood that en-
tire''. the lad’s foot ton days ago is
supposed to have caused tetanus.
—t -Htutl—Albert •Mibli<vrfmx k den d
at his former home at Baldwins, L.
I. , at the ago of (!2 years. lie had
served in the Austrian army, accom-
panied Fniperor Maximilian to
Mexico and participated in all the
l wars of that empire till its downfall.
Old Clock Wants a Best.
The residents of Tlalpam con-
plain that the public clock of that
town is useless: repairs are nr.de
every week, hut every week the
clock gets out of repair and can
never be kept in good cor..lition.
It is a curi tts fact that the Tlal-
pam clock is probably the oldest
public clock on the American e at*
tinent. It was installed at the cathe-
dra! of that city in the year 1657;'
in 1790 it was donated to the council
of San Augustin de las Clevas, now
Tla'p.vm. when it was installed
there and set in motion. Since
that time it has never undergene
repairs until a few weeks ago. This
clock, therefore, has told tile time
.for 247. year*,- aud it is- butmat-uraL
that it is tired and wants t > be sent
'o a museum.
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Would Stop Him, All Right.
As an Knglish tourist was pass-
ing Mark Twain's home in Italy
one of the humorist's dogs rushed
out of the gate and barked savage-
ly at the stranger. Mr. Clemens
called the animal hack and was
about to apologize for the canine
guardian’s strenttosity wb.cn the
Britisher growled: "If I should
kick that brute, don't you know,
perhaps lie’ll stop harking at pass-
ers-by .” Well, maybe lie will, ’
drawled Mr. Clemens, "lie never
attempts to bark when he has his
mouth full of meat.”
Doan'a Kidnay Fills Brought Strength
and Health ta tha SwWacr, Mak-
ing H m Feel Twenty-Five ~
Years Younger,
J. B. Cortoo.
farmer and
lumberman, of
Deppe, N. C-,
says: “I suffer-
ed for yeas a
with my back.
It was so bad
tbat 1 could not
% walk any dis-
tance nor even
ride in easy
) a coktox. buggy. I do
not believe I could have raised ten
pounds of weight from the ground, the
pain was so severe. This was my con-
dition when I began using Doan's Kid-
ney Pills. They quickly relieved me
and now I am never troubled as I
was. My back is strong and I can
walk or ride a long distance and feel
Just as strong as I did twenty-five
years ago. 1 think so much of Doan'a
Kidney Pills tbat 1 have glven^a sup-
ply of the remedy to some of my
neighbors and they have also found
good results. If you can sift anything
from this rambling note that will be
of any aervice to you, or to any one
suffering froln kidney trouble, you are
at liberty to do so.”
A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-
Milhurn Co.. Buffalo, N . Y. For aale
by all dealers: price, 50 cts.
Pius Would Reduce Income.
Before Pius Z became pope lie
had ait income at Venice of $2400,
besides free use of the Patriarchal
palace and a gondola. He is now,
according to Roman journals, in-
tent on reducing the incomes of the
cardinals at Rome, allowing them,
by way of compensation, free resi-
dence in the papal palaces. The
cardinals are naturally opposed to
these measures and it is not likely
thev will he carried into effect in
the cases of those who are already
consecrated.
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Water Seemed to Burn.
A singular phenomenon was re-
een'-ty observed at Blundell Sands,
a little village on the Knglish coast.
At the moment of high tide jets
of flame and smoke were seen issu-
ing from a mass o-f mud that filled
a small inlet; at the same time a
“ t-reng sytlplmreus- odor \vas-exdd%>HL
The origin of -he fire \v(ts not ap-
parent, bu* wjrface of the wat-
er where the flames appeared seem-
ed to 'tie covered with bluish-col-
ored masses.
Caste Among Ants. 1' ’
In death, as in life, the ants are
aristocrats and rigid observers of caste
distinctions. For ants have their cem-
eteries, and it is characteristic that
the poor aphides and other slaves cap-
tured In war are buried, not with their
masters, but near the back fence,
among the burdocks and ragweeds,
the potter's field of the ants' city of
tne dead.
Making It Emphatic.
Concerning a certain archdeacon tn
the English church a tale of modesty
is told. He forbade one of his friends
to call him "doctor,” saying. "If you
call me doctor 1 wilt do the same for
you.” "Oh. but you can't,” replied
the other. "I am not a doctor.” “You
coon will be," was the answer. ‘Til
be- If I am,” came the retort
Smoke Heals Wounds.
We sometimes hear of lockjaw re-
sulting from running a pin or a rusty
nail Into the hand or foot. If every
person were aware of a perfect rem-
edy for such wounds, and would ap-
ply it, then such reports would cease.
The remedy is simple, ahvays at hand,
can be applied by anyone, and, what-ls
better, is infallible. It is simply to
smoke the wound, or any wound that
Is bruised or inflamed, with a wool-
len cloth. Twenty minutes In the
smoke will take the pain out of the
worst case of Inflammation arising
from such a wound.—London An-
swers.
Kentucky Man's Duty.
Jamboree. Ky., August 29 (Special).
—After suffering for years with pain
In the back Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well
known citizen of this place, has found
a Complete cure in Dodd’s Kidney
Pills. Knowing how general this dis-
ease is all over the country, Mr. Cole-
m«:n feels it Is his duty to make his
experience public for the benefit of
"other sufferers.
"I want to recommend Dodd’s Kid-
ney Pills to everybody who has pain
in the back,” Mr. Coleman say9. “I
suffered for years with my back. I
used Dodd's Kidney Pills and I have
not felt a pain since. My little girl
too complained of her back and she
used about half a box of Dodd’s Kid-
ney Pills and she is sound and well.”
Backache is Kidney Ache. Dodd's
.Kidney Pills afe a sure cure for all
Kidney Aches, Including Rheuma-
Us in.
Lightning and Tree#.
Prof. Assmann, one of the German
government meteorological experts,
says that lightning seldom strikes In
a forest...whem the ^trees are dense
and of about the same height. Dan-
ger exists only where isolated trees
rise high above their surroundings.
Origin of Lathes.
Nature, as well as necessity, moth-
•ted the Invention of the lathe, the
first of machine tools. It was built
of'jrinally between two adjacent treea
near which grew a springy sapling.
Lathes like It are used to-day in Some
of the Asiatic countries.
Peculiar Case of Strangulation.
An engine driver was attending to
tiie machinery at Hay’s wharf, Tooley
street, I,ondon, when the ends of hts
necksearf were caught by the shaft-
ing arid he was drawn up thirteen feet
ftom the floor and strangled.
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The held excuse for a kiss should
bo fo'uncl on a woman’s1 lips.
Have time for everything,
never in a hurry.
and be
Most men would not find women so
very difficult to understand If It were
not for their conversation.
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