The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1891 Page: 3 of 8
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A MAIDEN SUICIDES.
S!5tt«en-Year-0ld M»ud Smith Take* Her
Own Life With a Revolver.
ALIENS ARE FORECLOSING MORTGAGES.
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Lee Hughsi. t Negro Wife Murdersr. Brisk*
Jail at Bonham But it Capturod
By a Farmer.
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Galveston.. Tex.. July 29.—About
12:30 yesterday evening Miss Maude
Gertrude Smith committed autcido by
shooting herself in the left breast with
41 32-caliber revolver. Coroner Spann
held An inquest on the remains. The
only witness examined was Miss Lottie
{Shea, the Aunt of Miss Smith, who
was in the room with her whop she
•committed the rash act Miss Shea
testified that it was about 12:30 p. m.
I when she was in the room that the
•deceased used to sleep i:i and
Miss
Smith was with her in the act of dross-
The witness1 back was turned
toward the deceased, and she knew
nothing about the matter until the re-
port of a pistol rang out and she
turned around and saw her niece
standing by the bedside with the
smoking weapon in her hand. The
about $ o clock Prank Alexander, a
colored litau in the employ vif the
Texas Paper mills, at Oak Cliff, fell
into one of the vats and *tas literally
cooked Irora head to foot. He was
standing near one of the vats when it
began to boil over. Some of the
workmen shouted to him to look out,
and he sprang to one side, dodged un-
der a shaft about four feet high and
caught at another shaft, but stumbled
and fell into the other vat headfore-
most. The vat was sixteen feet in
diameter, and filled with straw and
boiling water, charged with lime.
Alexander came up on the other side
of the vat and when the negroes took
nold of his arms, to help him oiit the
skin slipped from his arms and hands.
They were obliged to release him. and
he climbed out by himself. He was
literally cooked, and yet at 4:30 he
was rational, though giving signs of
breaking down. Prompt medical at-
tention gave him some temporary re-
lief.
SENSATIONAL SCENE
n a Cour} Room While the Verdict of the
Jury is Being Read.
A JAIL DELIVERY.
witness could assign no reason at all
for the act. She had always made it
a rule to sleep with the pistol under
her pillow, but she was perfectly
familiar with it and there can bo no
entertaining the Idea that death was
accidental. Miss Smith was ubout 17
years of age. %
Short Lived Liberty.
Brenham, Tex.. July 29. —The
county jail was broke Monday night
and Lee Hughes, the negro wife mur-
derer who was convicted and given
the death penalty was at liberty yes-
terdry. The escape was made from
the new steel cages. A piece of wood
the size of a man’s wrist and about
two feet long, a nail, a pioce of wire,
an ’iron window weight, a hole cut
through the outside crick wall and a
forty foot rope made of torn strips of
blankets cleverly twisted together
were all that lemained to toll the
story. Hughes was captured by a
Polnnder farmer named Slefano Stan-
islaus yesterday evening. The negro
was hid in a field three and a half
miles east of hero when discovered.
‘The Polander, who had seen Iho
searching party and know thero was a
reward out, ran to his house and got
his gun and wife. He pointed his gun
-at Hughes while ids wife tied him.
Lee was behind the bars again at (i p.
tn. and Stanislaus w ent homo with $7)0
in his pocket.
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Foreclosure Suits.
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Fort- Worth, Tex.. July 29.—A
. number ol additional foreclosure suits
were filed by foreign loan companies
and individual foreigners against resi-
dents of Tarrant county yesterday.
These suits, like the other butch filed
several days ago, wore for foreclosure
•on mortgaged land on account of de-
fault in the payment of interest on
notes in most cases though in some
the principal had matured. The
pluilitiffsyefuse to grant extension and
the. alien land law begins to pinch
hard. There are more to come and as
most of the defendants are farmers
the howl from the rural districts
uiguinst the law grows louder all the 1
time.
Tom Sutherland, the Wife Ilcutoi
Leads Iho Parly.
Corsicana, Tex., July 28.—A gen-
eral jail delivery ooourred here just
before daylight Sunday morning, a
prisoner named Tom Sutherland
breaking out and liberating the eleven
other prisoners confined. Southerland
was arrested and jailed about 2 o’clock
on the charge of heating a woman ho
was living with. While she was re-
lating to the officers the details of the
punishment she claimed he had in-
flicted upon her through jealousy, he
came In and attempted to boat her
again in their presence. Before they
could get him to jail he broke his hold
loose from Officer Hall and dealt him
several stinging blows in the face.
After they succeeded in landing him
in the calaboose lie • threw a shoe at
the same officer with such terrible
force that it left an ugly mark on his
forehead. The officer is so much
larger than Sutherland that he was
loath to inflict any punishment upon
him, but they had to choke him into
submission before they could arrest
him. When searched at tho lockup
an open knlfo with a large pointed
blade was found in his coat pocket.
Two of the escaped prisoners returned
of their own accord Monday morning,
another was arrested and Sutherland
was captured and jailed.
LADIES FAINT AND CAUSE CONFUSION.
Chilian Inturgtntt Smuggling Arms and Ammu
nition-Twfl Railroad* Fighting
Over Right of Way.
Columbus, O.. Mf “W.—Wm. J.
Elliott, former proprietor and editor
>f the Sundky Capital, who with his
brother, P. J. Elliott, killed Albert C.
Jsborne, a roporter of the Sunday
World, and W. L. Hughes, a by-stand-
sr, besides wounding a number of poo-
)le during tho shooting affray on High
itreet. in this city, on the afternoon of
•eb. 23 last, was convicted yesterday
morning of murder in the socond de-
gree. The trial has been in progress
since May 11. When Mr. Mitchell
road the indictment for muder in the
flrst degreo Mrs. P. J. Elliott thought
it meant guilty of murder in the first
degree and partially raised up, gave
a suppressed scream and then fell back
in her chair. As the clerk reached
the woids ••guilty of murder in the
second degree” Hiss Maronoy arose
and gave vent to a wailing cry and
then fell back in a fainting tit. Mrs.
W. J. Elliott was very pale, but made
no demonstration. Attorney Ernhart
caught Miss Maronoy as she fell back
and then started for some water in tho
back room. W. J. Elliott- had his
youngest, boy in his lap, and when the
verdict was being read ho covered the
child's eyes and mouth so he could not
see or make an outcry. When Miss
Maronoy fainted the defendant turned
to her and gave instructions about
what to do with her. Neither W. J.
Elliott nor the children made any
demonstration at all. Miss Maronoy
wns taken into tho judge’s private
*£■•* ** OUBL BETWEEN elephants.
bend, the town of Eiwood, opposite
NL Joseph, and > territory of about
six square miles Of fanning country
will be submerged and tho bridge and
railroad tracks will be rendered use-
less. The neck of land separating the
river above and below the bend has
been reduced to a width of 1000 feet
and the banks are caving acre by acre
every day. Citizens of St Joseph ,ure
a wakening to a sense of necessity for
thorough action. Should the river
cut through the Kansas bottoms, this
city would be deprived of three of its
most importxnt lines of railroad for
months at least. The iron bridge
now spanning the stream would be
rendered useless, all communication
with Kansas farmers would be cut off
and it would be impossible to estimate
the damage merchants and business
men would sustain. The sower sys-
tem would be useless and directly in
front of the city would be situated a
filth and death breeding lake that
could not be removed with pillions.
Kulat Accident.
Henrietta. Tox., July 27.—G. W.
Ford, the county and district clerk of
this county, was accidentally shot and
ki'fed late Saturday evening by 1C 1).
Welborne, who himself received at
tho same time an ugly flesh wound
Tho particulars of tho shooting, as
nearly as can l)e gatheiod, are about
us follows: Late Saturday evening
G. W. Ford and K. 1). Welborne. to-
gotl.or in one buggy, and A. lv. Swain
and young Walter Swain In another
boggy, went out some two miles from
the city birdlng. By some unforeseen
accident K. D, Welborne’s gun went
off. inflicting an ugly flesh wound on
the left arm of K. 1). Welborne, which
is thought will not prove fatal, and
emptying the whole contents in the
right side of the face and head of G.
VV. Ford, blowing off a part of his
head. He lived just long enough to
he brought to his homo. Ho never
spoke after lie was shot.
room, where she soon revived and left
with the remainder of Elliott's rela-
tives. As the verdict of the jury was
road Elliott became so enraged that
fie pulled tho G. A. R. bottom from
the iapul of his coat nnd threw it spite-
fully !n tho direction of the jury.
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A Frightful Hunnwuy.
Dallas. Tex., July 28.—A terrible
runaway occurred near F.xnll's lake
last Sunday evening. Ben Kendall
and Capt. Hardie s boy were buggy
riding. Their horse took fright and
ran away. Having run a lew hundred
.yards the outfit Collided with Mr. Tom
.Scott’s carriage, to which was hitched
4i spirited animal, und it also ran away.
At1 this point the occupants of both
carriages were thrown out unhurt.
Mr. Scott’s horse brought up against
a wire fence, cutting off two of its
hoofs and had to ho shot ('apt.
Hardio's bor»e bad both its front legs
broken find will, it is believed, have
also to be shot.
Bon-
Ho Had ilie Knife
Ka(U.K Pahs. Tex.. July 23.-
Dick
Duncan who is now under sentence of
death for the murder of the William-
son family was searched yesterday by
■Shorlff Cooke and a pocket knife was
found concealed upon his |»en>on.
Tho thcrlff received Information by
totter irum one of the prisoners when
Duncan was brought here from Sun
Antonio two weeks ngo that Duncun
had a knife with which he intended to
kill Cooke if an opportunity occurred,
lie wns searched then but nothing
found. Being again warned the sher-
iff made a close search yesterday with
•he result staged
A Boy I in paled
San Antonio, Tox.. July 2
jumin Franklin, a negro hoy, aged 10
years, went to catch u pot squirrel
which hud escaped and climbed a tree.
Franklin was on a verv slender limb
which broke und tho troy fell on u
pick ;t fem e and was impaled in the
thigh by one of the pickets and came
near bleeding to death. Ho is now in
a critical condition.
Accident ally Killed
Kimball Tex.. July 27.—Saturday
evening John Bain of Waxahachio
was camped with a fishing party on
the Brazos river near this place. In
attempting to take a 22-rnlihre Win-
chester rifle from the wagon it acci-
dentally discharged the (lull entering
his stomach und inflicting a mortal
wound. Bain died early yesterday
tnoi ning.
It lot o-i a Train.
Johnstown. I’a., July 28. —There
was a tight on the platform at the
rear of the second coach of the flrst
section of a train ono mile from Rock- | escaped
wood. James Kelly, a policeman of
Johnstown, drew a revolver to <|Uoll a
row. when the crowd sprung upon
him a id forced him between the ears.
Conductor Hard signalled t ho en-
ginoer to stop the train. Tho coup-
ling broke and Kelly dropped under
the wheels and was killed. Lucas
Myers of Lalrobc was thrown from
tile platform and killed. Milton l’vlo
of Somerset was hurled through the
air and struck on a rock on tho side
of the track. Ilis skull was crushed
and log broken, but he is still alive.
The holies of the two men were left at
Somerset for inquest. Tho train ar-
rived at Johnstown at 12:39 o'clock
a. tn. It was an excursion from
Johnstown to Cumberland and return.
There wore fourteen cars and 17)00
pooplo.
Mur Over Itighi of May.
Lexineton, Ky. July 29.—The
Bolt Line and Kentucky L’ti'en rail-
roads a e at war again. Monday night
the former's force tore up a |>ortion of
the latter’s tracks the dispute being
over right of way for which both are
contending. Ve.terday tho Belt Line
people, armed with shotguns, took
possession of the disputed territory,
und if any attempt is made to rebuild
the truck there will be bloodshed.
The Kentucky I'niim is reported to
have sent for a ear load of mountaineers.
If this proves true there will certainly
1)0 trouble.
NO WHEAT CORNER.
Minnesota Laws Prohibit a Monop-
oly of Food Prod uels.
St. Paul Minn.. July 27.—The
farmers of Minnesota will not be likely
to corner tho wheat market after all.
The discovery made yesterday that a
constitutional amendment makes the
proposed action of the Alliance, under
the Muller circular, a criminal con-
spiracy. The strange thing about tho
whole matter is the fact that the
measure was introduced in the winter
of 1887 by Ignatius Donnelly, who is
now president of the Minnesota Alli-
ance. It passed both houses of tiie
legislature and was adopted by a vote
of the people in tho fall of 1888 and is
now in.section 37) of article t of the
constitution. It reads: “Any combi-
nation of persons either as individuals,
as members or officers ot any corpora-
tion to monopolize the markets for
food products in this state, or V) inter-
fere with or restrict t h«? freedom of
such market, is hereby declared to bo
a criminal conspiracy and shall be
punished in such manner as the legis-
lature may provide.”
U flu't Pal'u '.s.
Ridgeway. Pa., July 27>.—Several
days ago in a drunken light at (lionha-
zel. fourteen miles from here. Horace
Fisher, a jobber, was fatally stab laid
by an Italian named Poalo Pauz/.i who
to an Italian camp. A re-
ward of $7)09 was offered for his ar-
rest. but he has not been captured.
The Italians hoisted a flag and defied
arrest. The lumbermen threatened to
shoot every Italian in town i.ud deter-
mined to avenge the death of Usher.
They served notice on the leaders of
the Italians t> deliv.r Pattzzi in live
days or they would drive every Italian
out of the county with Winchesters.
The dagos are terribly frightened and
have appealed to the consul in Phila-
delphia. It looks us if a onlDct was
inevitable.
Ii nl in a Hack
Fort Smith. Ark.. July 27). —A sad
death occurred in this city yesterday
afternoon. Tilley, daughter of Judge
and Mrs. It. S. Powell of Greenwood,
died in a hack on Garrison avenue,
while on tho way to the residence ol
Mrs. King in this city. Mrs. Powell
was with her at tho time. The moth-
er and daughter had been visiting
One Mom from Purhidern Butt* and
OofM Another to Death.
It was my good fortune to spend
some months every season in a fine
forest and hill country in India, whei-e
my duties gave me chances of seeing a
great deal of elephant, buffalo and
other big game that frequented those
parts, writes H. Herbert Thompson in
the Week’s Sport. Our camp was ou
a partially isolated hill, a good deal
above the surrounding country. f«
had been some days in camp, but had
not been visited by our friends, th«
elephants, when one afternoon the
sudden bellow of one, evidently it
pain, roused Everyone in the camp. A
hill man preesntly came up to say that
two large tuskers were hard at it close
by. Everyone turned out onto the hill-
side, from where it was easy, even to
the naked eye, to see what was going
on, while with a glass even the move-
ments of a startled deer eould be made
out.
About 700 or 800 yards below the
crowd watching the light were two
tuskers. The one somewhat nearer us,
a burly, stout-built beast, with short,
powerful tasks, was evidently getting
much the worst of tho combat, and the
white and red furrows in his sides and
rear plainly indicated seams run by
his antagonist’s tusks. Blood could
be seen trickling down his head and
shoulders. On tho rise of the hill was
his rival, a still larger animal, possess-
ing the advantage of; longer, gleaming
tusks. It was a lust fight, and in a
few minutes the victor, with a quick
rush at, the other, made a good thru it
at the side, and though there was' a
severe struggle, the tusk went its full
length in the now beaten brute, and
using all his weight, the victor pressed
him down the hill, where they disen-
gaged themselves and prepared for^
another bout.
Tho wounded tusker’s roars of pain
an \ rage were pitiful to hear, and
though ho would have escaped if ho
could, the other kept close behind and
administered thrust after thrust, but
not in any vital part.’ Presently, wheel-
ing around they came together with a
smash. This was about the only stand
made, and the weaker was quickly
nu
now put
behind the shoulder and into the body,
quickly disabled the poor brute, and in
fact- in a few minutes, the great beast
rolled over dead. '
Next morning, on our proceeding to
look for the tuskers, we found a large
herd in an excited state almost on the
same spot where the finish bad oc-
curred. In it were several small
tuskers, beside the big conqueror of
the evening before, who see mod to in-
still a great deal of fear into the
youngsters. He came now into .tile
open glade with a fine young female,
and as he approached even the other
cows there was a general stampede out
of his way.
We came on the dead beast, which
had been butted and rolled, after it was
killed, into a clump of bambootk It
had been a fine burly animal, but was
marked from forehead to rear and top
to foot by rips and cuts. He measured
9 fj*et nnd fi inches (tt the shoulder,
and the tusks taken by the hill men
proved slightly over 1(M> pounds to the
pal-. The victor, which in the fight
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qveijiow^red by tfee morp powerful aria
fresooi' VM JTo tlyusts nor
d into the
seemed to tower over Jiis foe. mus^ have
been quite ton feet high, and had the
friends at McAllister, I. 1.. a few day? longest tusks I have ever seen clear of
ago. Tho daughter was taken rick I their sockets. I tried to get him. but
and continued to grow worse, when it wliat with his harem about him and
was determined to take her home. | tho difficulty of getting a clear view in
On arriving in Fort Smith she w:i_
Tsarn Oat anil Wh>ppe«|.
Kiuwlanu. Tox.. July *8. - Dill
llutlor. about half craxy. was taken
out of hie house Sunday night and
whipped severely. The partUa were
attired in mother hubbards. The
negro soys be knew the parties well.
T he negro's relatives bad whipped a
white man pretty badly here Saturday.
This Is supposed to he the cause of the
trouble. me Butler had said a grant
deal about it bei
Filial Shooting A (T. ny
Columbia Tox.. July 27.—News
has been received hole Hint it proba-
bly fatal shooting affray occurred at
Vqxpopuli at 2 o'clock Saturday even-
ing between Dr. Boh Moore, a well
known young man of this city, und L.
M. Jones, n pi eminent merchant of
Hint plnoc. Details are meager, but
it Is known ihut Moore is seriously
wounded.
Dallas. Tax., July
killed tt lrli • Winchester.
Libkktv. Tex.. July 23,— AtWnllls-
vllle. about twenty-throe miles below
hare, on Monday, a difficulty oevurrsd
between I*., K. Smith and Richard
Nayos. Nayo* waa shut through the
right luug with a Winchester and died
Tueeday morning at 3 o'clock. Smith
has surroadered. -
Dying FrloiMlle.it unit Penn I lose
New Haven, Conn.. July 27>.— Ben-
jamin Novum. fo:incrly president of
the American National Life and Trust
company, who saved the Winchester
Arms company from l>oing stranded at
n critical juncture in its affairs is
dying in the hospital hero friendless
and iMUinflcHs. It won lie who came
to the assistance of t ’onnoctieut during
the war and storied a fund to eijnip
troops hy authorizing the state to
draw on him for gtio. ouo.
Killed toy Lightning
•Kona. Tex.. July 27. -At 4 o’clock
Saturday evening, during n thunder
*u»rm near Ine*. a small station nine
utiles west of Edna, a little child of
John Tabor was struck by lightning
and instantly kliiod. Two borons bo-
Tabor wbto killed at
A Negro Lynched.
Jackson, Tenn.. July 27.—John
Brown, the negro who shot und nu.r-
tully wounded John Gardner, an II.i-
uoisOqnlral switchman Saturday night,
was taken from jull at 12 o'clock the
same night by a mob of. 300 masked
nien. armed with Winchesters and
hung to a tree in the court house yard.
This is the second lynching since the
war.
placed in a hack to bq taken to the
residence' of Mrs. King. Before the
hack hud gone tiireo blocks sho bogun
gasping for breath ami in a short time
expired.
Uutnniuker Mrlhotirn'a Feats.
Canton, (>., July 27. Ruimnnkr:
Molbourn was exultant yesterday ovet
the success of his experiments. II
made Ills eighth experiment yesterday
nnd it was a success, lie now claim
to his credit seven successes as against
one failure and that is set down to a
broken machine us he calls his rain
producer. The weather yesterday
morning was clear and cold, hut about
2 p. in. rain hdl at intervals until
evening.
The Nation's Hero.
A her.) thou- in storm sad battle.
Culled from homely life;
Steady midst the utrife.
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large quantities of arms and nmmunl-
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boon shipped to tho insurgents in
Chill On the Steamships Hounslow.
Montserrat llemus. WUllamettr and
Wool Indian. It Is oatimatod that muu
SIMMS of arms sod S.OOO.UOO round* of
ammunition wor* shipped.
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llrrathlr*- thousand* ask
Who to lift the veil fa worthy!
Who assume the tank’
Then came forth a little maiden.
Drew the veil aslant.
And henceforth In song and stwry
Linked her name w ith Orant.
S|ellaBVy*a apelllng IBook.
Hit will interest thousands of portions
Iwho wore at ono time school children,
[to learn that Alexander If. MoGuffoy,
the author of McGuffey’s spoiling
hook, U still living In Cin«unnnU.
FboSo thousand* of persons have at
lone time nr another harbored bitter
feelings against Mr MeGuffoy, and de-
|voted both him and his spelling boob
to the cloven-footed sad infernal gods.
n»ey all knew that Mr. McGuffoy had
pul words In his outrageous book that
he could not spell himself, and worn
never intended to be spelled. They
knew very well that three words bod
been put thorn la o spirit of innate
meanness, not to any wickedness,
Hence their feeling of resentment Hut
all those thing* are port. Time boa
softened their Hearts, and they Join us
in wishing that Mr. McGuff..y. al-
though he was not tho good spoiler to
to bo. may live o good.
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