El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 133, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1895 Page: 3 of 10
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El Paso Daily Times, Wednesday, Jane 5, 1895.
THE IPOOffi® ME
Inhabitants of Kussell City
J’leeinpr for Their Lives.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
FROM YESTERDAY’S EVENING ~TIME8.
Are trampled upon—forest
FIRES—-MORTALLY WOUNDED.
Bradford, Pa., June 4.—Fire at
Russell City last night drove terror
to the hearts of five hundred inhab-
itants. At 10 o’clock a brisk west
wind fanned, burning underbrush
and hemlock timber into a solid
mass of flames the fire covering
three miles in width. The flames
spread so rapidly the people had
to leave everything and run to a
clearing two miles distant. Women
with children in their arms shriek-
ing and bemoaning their fate ran
and stumbled as they scaped from
the fire. Many women fell ex-
hausted and were trampled on. but
all reached high land in safety.
Nothing is left of the once hustling
little place, The Northern Oil Co.
have twenty oil wells and a number
of tanks burning there now, and
there is no abatement to the fury of
the flames. It is impossible to
estimate the loss. The woods
leading to Clark’s mills
are one mass of flames on
both sides of the road, and how
people who live along the road
could have escaped is beyond
comprehension. There is no com-
munication of any description with
this place and no news obtainable
trom there, but there is no doubt of
everything having been burned in
the path of the fire. Every avail-
able man is out fighting fire and
there are not half enough. There
is fire in every direction and all ef-
forts to check its progress seem
futile. Coon run, three miles from
Russell city which was wiped out
yesterday afternoon was entirely
obliterated.Place consisted 25 build
ings, pump station, school house
and saw mill. A. B. Fowler super-
intendent of the Northern Oil com-
pany says while he and men were
“back firing,” a stiff breeze from
the west came up like magic and in
less time than it takes to tell it fire
was upon them. They ran to town
and aroused the people to flee for
their lives. Men, women and
children, made a grand race for the
railway track a distance of five miles
while the flames played havoc with
all their belongings. The North-
ern company lost 40 oil wells at
this place and a large number of
rigs built for the new wells. About
25 tanks of oil were consumed.
Fire at Ormsby is raging more
fiercely than ever. This morning
the place is without water protec-
tion and the flames are devouring
a large area of standing timber.
Saw mills and a number of houses
have been consumed. A stiff breeze
is blowing and there is no telling
what the out come will be.
WHERE THE ELBE WENT DOWN.
Passenger on the Ems Dropped
Flowers on the Watery Grave
of His Wife.
Ever since the Elbe disaster in
the north sea the story of the col-
lision with the Graithie and the
loss of the larger ship has been told
on every North German Floyd
steamship that has passed the spots. 1 ----- -- — iviurse.
The passengers all crowd about the ^orses application is supplemented
' v # . « •» .. hv £1 ffl rla <71 fo r\f ___•
000, the road will be turned over to
the new receivers. The order ap-
pointing an independent receiver
makes the appointment effective
June 1st, but it may probably be
three days before the road pusses
into his hands.
Chancellor McGill, of Trenton,
has appointed John I. Waterbury
receiver in New Jersey for the
United States Cordage Co. upon ap-
plication of B. Rollins Morse.
hot weather
rail and some one of them does the
story telling, while the others im-
portune the officers for information
as to the exact spot where the Elbe
went down. Of course the officers
cannot answer, for the exact spot
is not known. Occasionally there
is a pathetic scene on one of these
trips.
During a recent passage of the
Call It a Craze.
AN ALARMING STATEMENT
CONCERNING WOMEN.
HOW BAD HABITS ARE FORMED.
The New York Tribune says: “The habit of
taking ‘headache powders’ is increasing to an
alarming extent among a great number of wo-
men throughout the country. These powders as
their name indicates, are claimed by the manu-
facturers to be a positive and speedy cure for any
form of headache. In many cases their chief
ingredient is morphine, opium, cocaine or some
other equally injurious drug having a tendency
to deaden pain. The habit of taking them is
easily formed, but almost impossible to shake
off. Women usually begin taking them to re-
lieve a raging headache and soon resort to the
powder to alleviate any little pain or ache they
may be subjected to, and finally like the mor-
phine or opium fiend, get into the habit of taking
them regularly, imagining that they are iii pain
if they happen to miss their regular dose."
In nine cases out of ten, the trouble is
in the stomach and liver. Take a simple
laxative and liver tonic and remove the
offending matter which deranges the
stomach and causes the headache. Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets arc composed
entirely of the purest, concentrated,
vegetable extracts. One Pellet is a
dose; sugar-coated, easily swallowed;
once used, always in favor. They posi-
tively cure sick headache and remove
the disposition to it.
Mr. E. Varga sox, of Otter Lake, Lapeer Co'
Mick., writes: " I not
infrequently have an at*
tack of the headache.
It usually comes on in
t the forenoon. At my
I dinner I cat my regular
I meal, and take one or
I two of Doctor Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets imnie-
| diately after, and in the
course of an hour ray
(_) j headache is cured and
no bad effects, I feel
better every wav for
having taken them—
not worse, as is usual
Still Burning.
Bradford, June 4.—Fire re-
ported at Knapp’s Creek is still
raging and has done a large amount
of damage. Fire has spread to
Bells camp and thirty-five oil wells
are now on fire. Reports from
Duke Centre state that the entire
valley ,s on fire and tos to d,l and B which is the sW of th„
lumber men w,ll be enormous. Elbe. there was am the
K nsas Branch R.xford, Davis Lngers a ma„ wll0 lost his
“mml . lty> “;las City, wife an(11„,0 c|,itdren in the disaster.
0.1 Valley Ltmstock State Line, This ,oss bad aflected his mind
Dernck C.ty and Red Roek are all He had come aboal.d ,ht shi ,
inland and unless pain tails would Southampton, carrying a large
be destroyed Ibe sky ts Uaekwreath of flowers. He had a ,rf.
w.th smoke the mounts,ns are in- ter t0 the captain &om ,he officeis
VS1 tufa n-e U nity'lse' of the steamship company. He
are st,11 fight,ng fire at Degoha, and though, it was a mere ^ of in
apparently have ,« under control. trodnction> but it warned the cap-
Nothmg has been learned *om tai„ to have a special watch kept on
Wes, Branch whereabr.sk fire is him during the trip lest he might
uiiinig. .veiy t ling at Sugar jump overboard or make way with
Run including saw nulls and dwell- Umself in some other
nigs burned and nothing remains of Ta„ stories of the ma„,s mj9for_
place, hire at Brooks tone ,s still L„es d among the pssengers
burning fiercely and there ts „o quickly. He was a"u ob£t 0fo_
prospects of checking the spread of tere^ 011 the voyage. Everyone
the flames. It ,s impossible to get sympathized with hjm aild some
S;iST% tt,e talked with him about his loss. To
----- this lie would ramble off a story,
Forest Fire. always ending by taking them to
Oeean, N. \ May, 4. A hun- bis cabin and showing them the
dred and fifty men left here yester- wreath which he intended putting
day afternoon to fight forest fires in 0n their grave. When it came time
and the four mile and Knapps Creek for the passengers to gather at the
districts between here and Bradford rail to hear the story of the disaster,
and the owners are paying $1 an this man was the center of interest,
hour for the men to fight the fires, and lie himself told the story.
Over a hundred rigs al-1 was neither very connected nor very
ready burned in this clear, but never before had it had
district. A message from Knapp’s such interest to a ship load of peo-
Creek says fifty rigs are destroyed. Lfo. The tears streamed down his
The hue of fire surrounds the" town faCe as he told it and there was
and the inhabitants fear the total hardly a dry eye on board ship,
destruction. Everything between Uin .1. rc ■ , F
Russell City and Iron Run has been Pj en le officer said tae Fms vvas
burned. | about over the spot where the Elbe
went down, way was made for the
call man re*ach the rail and cast over
He
on
Neon Quotations.
New York—Money ^.1
easy at 5% percent, Prime mer- P)oard the wreath he carried. ___
cantile paper, 2 >£@3. Silver, 66J4, was tjghtly held, though he did not
lead, 307^. ’ 7 ’ know it.
Kansas City, Mo., June 3— For a louS time after he
Cattle market steady. Texas droPPed the wreath he stood at the
steers, $3.oo@4.6o; Texas cows, rail leaninS oveF gazing into the
$i.25@3.6o; beefsteers,$3.oo@5.5o; wa*er> He did not speak, Nor did
native cows, $r.25@4.oo; stockers he wlien at last he straightened up
and feeders, $2.50(33.90; bulls, and turued> facing the passengeres.
3-r5@3-55- Sheep steady. Way was made for him again. He
TTf * walk silently to his stateroom, oe-
‘ ^ casionally tapping his head with his
Washington, June 4. — The rr
. . , . > j - .1 fingers. He was seen no more on
state department today received the voyage.
from the United States Minister1
ayior at Madrid a complete and
final answer from Spain to the de-
mand of Secretary Gresham for the
disavowal of firing on the United
States merchant ship Allianca. The
answer is said to have been en-
tirely satisfactory to the government
as it fully meets in letter and spirit
the demand.
by affidavits of President Sturgis
and Vice-President Fane of the
company having defaulted in the
payment of $100,000 for hemp and
that the company has obligations
coming due this month to the ex-
tent of $350,000 with little cash to
meet the same.
Convention.
Springfield, Ills., June 4.
The prospects for a large attendance
at the democratic state convention
tomorrow were not as bright today
as the originators of the convention
could wish. The crowds that had
been expected have not even begun
to arrive. Chairman Hinrichsen,
of the democratic state central com-
mittee, is still confident that the
convention will be a glorious suc-
cess. He says there are no candi-
dates to vote for and it would be
useless for delegates to come a day
or two m advance of the conven-
tion. Hotels have ail engaged in
advance all rooms they have and
some have nothing but cots in halls
left. Among the arrivals today
were S. E. Taubeneck, chairman
ol the populist central committee.
He refused to be interviewed.
Untrue-
New York, June 4.—A special
to the World from Havana says the
World Correspondent is able to
assert positively that the report cir-
culated by the Spanish General
Maximo Gomez that the Cuban
insurgent commander, was killed
at the Battle ot Boca de Dos Rios is
untrue. Santiago is surrounded by
rebels.
TELEGRAPH NOTES.
J. B. Pound, proprietor ot the
Chattanooga Evening News and of
the Knoxville Evening Sentinel,
today purchased the Morning Tri-
bune. Both papers will be printed
from the same office. Both will
take the Associated Press report
having the exclusive franchise for
the morning and evening service.
In the United States circuit court
yesterday at Portland, Judge Gil-
bert signed an order appointing J.
Bulletin-
Washington, June 4.—The
weather bureau furnishes the fol-
lowing special bulletin:
The period of extremely hot
weather that prevailed over the
eastern portion of the United States
during the past week is becoming
remarkable for its length and for
the high temperature occurring, the
latter in many instances exceeding
any previously recorded by the
weather bureau during the period
between the 10th of May and 10th
of June.
Rescued-
San Francisco, June 4.—A Ex-
aminer special from the City of
Mexico says five more passengers
of the Colima have been added to
he list of those saved. They are:
. ose Pequerros, of Acapulco, Mex-
ico; A. S. Maria, J. J. Noninns and
two others whose names have not
ieen obtained. Five were picked
up nearly dead by one of the re
seme crews on the beach at Mau-
quily.
Allison for President-
New York, June 4.—General J.
S. Clarkson, the republican na-
tional committeeman from Iowa, in
an interview, has pronounced in fa-
vor of Senator Allison for the presi-
dency.
Hack Alpaca Coats, $1.25,
Black Alpaca Coats, $2.00.
Gray and Brown Mixed
Mohair Coats and Vests,
$3*5°*
Pongee Silk Coats and
Vests, $5.00.
Oxford’s Mixed Flannel, all
wool, $3.50.
Straw Hats at 50c.
Panama Hats at $5 to $10.
Golden Eagle
CLOTHING HOUSE.
To Fight-
Dallas, Texas, June 4.—The
News received the following tele-
gram from Dan Stewart, now in
New York, for the purpose of hav-
ing the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight
pulled off at Dallas: “Every
thing signed and contest is coming
to Texas,”
New Secretary-
New York, June 4.—A special,
to a local paper from Washington
says: Richard Olney, the attorney-
general, will be appointed secretary
of state.
Reed For President.
Fittle Falls, N. Y., June 4.—
In aii interview Senator Squire, of
Washington, said he rather favored
Reed for the presidency.
A man may climb up in the
world by mounting the shoulders of
his neighbors, but he who can most
surely enter heaven is the one who
can carry the greatest number of his
neighbors on his back.
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.
For Naval Cadetihlp, Thirteenth CoDjfre*-
■lonal District of Texas,
All boys In the district who wish to
compete for the naval cadetship will
please report at Abilene for examina-
tion Friday, Jane 28, 1895.
I shall make every effort to have a
fair and Impartial examination and
will nominate the candidate receiving
the highest mark on examination and
recommended by the examining board.
The board will be composed of a
phy ioian, a lawyer and a teacher, each
standing high in his profession.
The successful candidate must re-
port at the United States Naval acad-
emy, Anaopolls, Md., for examination
September 2,1895, at which time tha
candidate mast be between the ages
of 15 and 20 years and physically
sound, well formed and of robust con-
stitution. No one manifestly under
size for his age will be received at the
aoademy. Five feet will bs the mini-
mum height for the candidate. Can-
didates will be examined In reading,
writing,spelling,arithmetic,geography,
English grammar, algebra and United
States history.
All papers in the district will please
copy. Very respectfully,
J. V. Cockrell, M. 0.
Abilene, Tex., April G, 1895.
NOW FOR MEXICO CITY-
Mortally Wounded.
Fondon, June, 4.—A
special
Insane-
Fondon, June 4.—It is reported
VTrsr 7 * jpd. if for nothing"eiiie that Oscar Wilde has become insane
R. Varoason. EsQ-#*l!!fi headache.'' , , . n • , , .
j aud is confined in padded room.
.. ..... , — *•• -
after taking other kinds
of pills. ‘ Pleasant Pel-
lets ’ are worth more
than their weight in
tfftld. if for nothing else
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. Egau receiver of the Oregon i'dispatch lrom Rome annunces
Short Fine & Utah Northern rail- !Couut Ferrada, formerly under
way and also an order allowing the i 8eCfetary of State for foreign affairs
issue of receivers certificates to the j ^ias ^een mortally wounded by so-
amount of $750,000. The decision cia^sts at Rnmini.
of the court today practically settled
the Short Fine case, and as soou as
the American Foan & Trust com-
pany nays the interest on the first
Lost by Fire-
Newark. N. J., June, 4.—A fire
in the grain elevator attached to
the Ballantine Brewery today
mortgage bonds, which is $1,750,- caused a loss estimated at $250,000.
United Stats* Currency For the
Hound Trip.
For t hree days only on June 4th, 5th
and Gth, the Mexican Central raiirood
will sell ronnd trip tickets from fil
Paso to the City of Mexico and return
for twenty dollars goad for thirty days
with the privilege of stopping over at
any point going or coming within that
limit of time.
Tourists Intendicg to make this trip
should bear in mind that all expenses
In Mexico are payable in Mexican
money, thus materially reducing the
outlay. __
The Montr/.unm Hotel.
This elegant oarttvansary will be re-
opened to the public on June 20tb,
under the management of Mr. Jno. O.
Plank.
The hotel has been refitted, and Im-
provements ht-.ve been made in the
grounds and bath hr uses, in fact,
everything will be done to insure the
comfort and pleasure of its guests and
the rates will bo within reach of eveiy-
oue.
Round-trip tlokets will bo on sale to
the Hot Springs at a very reduced
rate from all our agenoies. Descriptive
matter of this elegant resort will be
furnished on application to agents
named below.
W. B. Trull, Agent Depot,
W. R. Brown, City Agent,
El Paso.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 133, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1895, newspaper, June 5, 1895; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth539927/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.