The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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DAILY
WANT AOS IN
DAILY LEADER
PRODUCE RESULT*
VOLUME TWO
+♦+♦♦♦+++♦++++
+ ' FIGHT OVER +
+ DRINK 4.
•f Austin, Tex., Feb. 24.—The +
+ state and' the city have di|- +
+ agreed over the water rate for +
+ the ensuing six years, the 4*
4* state demanding that the pres- 4*
4* ent rate of 6 cents per thous- 4*
4* and gallons be maintained, 4*
4> while the city-is equally obdu- 4*
4* rate in the demand that 9c 4*j
4* per thousand shall be the rity. 4*
4* The present contract expires 4*
4» next September. The city 4*
4* refutes to accede to the state’s 4*
4* demand for the existing rate, 4*
4* and the state threatens to 4*
4* build its own plant, the cost 4*
4» of which is variously estimat- 4*
4* ed at from $75,000 to $200,- 4>
4. ooo. ' 4*
FROM THE STORM SWEPT SEC-
TIONS OF ARKANSAS MIS-
SISSIPPI, TENNESSEE
A Tragedy Which Occared in an Apartment House in
the Gty of Boston Today
Of the King of Former Senator Carmack,
fired First Shot
A DESPERATE NEGRO
AN INSPECTION
SHOT FOUR MEMBERS OF HIS
RACE AND THE SHERIFF
WHO TRIES TO ARREST
A. J. MAGUIRE IN JAIL AT LAKE
CHARLES CHARGED WITH
CRIMINAL ASSAULT
VICE PRESIDENT *#UCON
FRISCO SYSTEM SPENDS
THE MORNING HERE
IS WHAT HE CLAIMS I
TO CARMACK POR
TING BEHIND WOI
4* tence for tix months to Capt. 4*
4* Abraham E. Culver. 4*
Hearat New* Service.11
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 24.—New*
from the sections of Arkansas, Missis-
sippi and
On the Peraon of Miaa Cornelia Lacey
at DcRidder Last Sunday—Mc-
Guire Hails From Orange—The
Prisoner Seems Unconcerned.
CAREER
Tennessee which were
swept by yesterday’s wiad storm, is
meagre, owing to interruptions of
wire commnnicstion.
It is known that thirteen persons
are dead and many went hurt and
that the property loss is enormous.
Fisher, Poinsett county, Arkansas,
reports six dead and a number in-
jured and only two buildings in the
town remain undamaged.
Near Augusta are six dead and a
(' M was killed at Lonoke.
Mississippi there was consid-
erable damage. Greenville, New Al-
bany and Tunica report damage to
buildings from wind and lightning.
At Memphis a number of trees
were uprooted and wires tangled.
At Anion, Tenn., Mrs. C. E. Bald-
win waa seriously injured and several
buildings were damaged at Bing-
hampton.
TK-Negro Surrenders Only After a
HP dred Shota Had Been Fired
Into the Place. Trouble AU Arose
Over Disappearance of Five Quarts
of Whiskey.
Will Be Las* Before the Jury by th
Counsel for the 5tate and TlrnfM
gan by Asking Him WWl|lw*u»oi
His Bond When He Waa Clerk o
the Chancery Court, jp'
“Charged with having criminally as-
saulted Miss Cornelia Lacey on the
front porch of her home at DeRidder
Sunday evening. A J Maguire, a
young man of Orange, Texas, who
has been employed at DeRidder for
about a' week as a tailor and cleaner
and presser, was brought to Lake
Charles this morning by Deputy Sher-
iff Gits Martin, and lodged in the
parish prison to await the action of
the. district court.
“Maguire is a young man of about
twenty-four years of age, and it is!
*tdd that he t* a telegraph operator.
“Mo| Lacey, if about twenty-one
years of igr. and the family is well
knowtf in- DeRidder.
“Front what can be learned of the
affair, it seems thaj Maguire called
upon Miss Lacey Sunday evening, and
after conversing for some moment*
in the sitting room, went out on the
front porch and took seat* on one I
end Another young lady and Mis*
ljeey’s brother, Jeff l-tcry, remained
tn the sitting room
“After «iine little time had passed. I
Mr Lacey and the young lady with
him were startled by a scream from
Mist Lacey, and' -ashing out on the
porch, the brother asked: ‘What’s
she matter?* Miss Lacey replied ‘H#
I This morning a special train arrived
I at eight o'clock, having aboard offi-
Icials of the Frisco road.
W. C. Nixon, vice-president and
I general manager of the Frisco sys-
Itesn.
J. W. ‘McCullough, auditor.
Roy Terrell, general freight and
passenger agent.
Herman Hall, auperintendent.
C. H. Fiskc, engineer, maintenance
of way,
Sam Park, president of the Indus-
trial Lumber company of Beaumont.
They left on a special train at noon
for Newton for an inspection of 0.
tc N. W„ and will return to Orange
tonight and then leave for an inspec- 1
tion of the Louisiana lines of the 1
Frisco.
Th* party came from Beaumont this
morning, arriving on a special train, '
and proceeded at once to the general ,
offices of a he company here,
TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF HI8
NEPHEW, WHO WAS AC
CIDENTALLY KILLED
KAISER WILHELM II„ INWARD
BOUND. RAN AOROUND IN
THE GODNEY CHANNEL
Hears! News Service.
Nashville, Tenn., Feb.‘ 24.—
Duncan Cooper resumed '4l!e si
this morning and gave his versloi
the killing of former Senator i
mack.
He said he was crossmgUt
street when his son, Robin,
grasped his arm and sought to ht
him on. He instinctively loo
around and saw Carmack. The
pulse seised him to go and talk
Carmack, as he believgjR it wc
result in relieving the distressing
nation which was worrying both ft
ilies.
He said he crossed the street 1
accosted the senator. The latter lo
ed up and instantly reached for
weapon, simulta]
hind Mrs. Eaaj
told Carmack hi
Keartt News Service.
Boston, Mass. Feb. 24—A woman
wh-.se name is believed to be Mr-.
Doagall, wls shot and instantly kill-
ed in an apartment bouse »n this city
today. A man in the same apart-
ment, whom the police believe did
the shooting, took carbolic acid and
was taken to the hospital in a dy-
ing 0,minion
TWO ELECTROCUTED
Two Workmen Were Carrying Iron
Pipe, it Cam* Into Contact With a
Live Wire and Both of the Men
Lost Their Lives. Occurred in New
York.
Reported in Berlin That the Austrian
Miniater to Belgrade Has Been Re-
called Owing to Expoeure of a Plot
to Asaassinate Him. Relations Are
Strained.
A Negro Desperado.
Mt. Vernon, III, Feb 24—James
Lewis, colored, shot four negroes and
then shot Sheriff Irwin when the Ut-
ter started to arrest him Lewi* later
surrendered and was taken to >ail
in a roundabout way to escape a mob
winch waa following.
Lewis came here from Mernphi*
and went to the borne of Walter
Harris to board. He asked Harris to
kaep five quarts of whiskey for him
IRfhen be gcHed upon Harris lor the
liquor, which the Utter was unable
Mi produce.- Lewi* opened fire,
Wfhunding Harris and bts wife and
Afehie Campbell and Altaic McGuire
Lewis then took refuge in a saloon.
stOerr he shot the sheriff three time*
gfcile restating arrest
4The negro* then barricaded himself
i« a dwelling and surrendered only
alter a hundred shots bad been fired
MN«*Th« place
Hearat New* Service.
New York, Feb. 24,—The North
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm
II. is aground in Godney channel. She
was inward bound when the ran
aground. Tugs have been sent to
her assistance.
The captain says that the veasel is
[m no danger. The vessel has nearly
a thousand-passengers on board. The
pilot lost his bearings in the dense
fog.
Hearst News Service.
, New York, Feb. 24.—President
Roosevelt, accompanied by members
of hrs family^ arrived in New York
today, coming here to attend the fun-
eral of Stewart Doug.t.ss Robinson,
his nephew. After the funeral the
president will return to Washington.
The burial will be in the family lot
at Henderson Point, Herkimer coun-
ty, New York.
FIRST NATIONAL
PROHIBI-
TION CONVENTION HELD
BY COLORED RACE
where
they were met by President L. Miller
and Vice-president W. H. Stark
of the Orange and Northwestern Rail-
road company, J. W. Link, general
manager of the Miller-Link Lumber
company, and Superintendent J. E
Kelley of the O. & N W.. all of
whom accompanied them on the trip
to Newton.
The party spent the forenoon in
Orange, meeting several of fhe prom-
inent business men of Orange and
becoming more familiarly acquainted
with conditions here.
“damned cow™
ard" for getting behind a woman.
Witness said that Carmack next
sprang besiu’e the pom. Robin ran
between the witnesa and Carmack
and the latter fired twice. The wit-
ness then drew hi* own pistol.
Only five shot* were fired. He
said Carmack fired the first two and
that they were louder than the re-
ports from Robin's weapon. The wit-
ness said he did not fire a shot.
Witness then went to the infirm-
ary with Robin, who was wounded.
Witness was then turned over to
the state for cross examination.
Capt. Fitzhugh, for the state, had
an immense bundle of documents be-
fore him and the first question he
asked was who were his bondsmen
in 1870 when he was clerk of the
Chancery court of Mag*|N
Copies of the bonds were identified
by the witness.
Next, a bill filed against him on
which pro-confesso had been taken,
was submitted. The defense objected
to this, but Captain Fitzhugh said it
was documentary evidence, was com-
petent, and would lead up to the ques-
I* Being Pul lad Off Today in Atlanta.
Session to Last Three Days—Reso-
lutions Against “Nigger Gin” Will
Probably be Passed.
Berlin, Feb. 24.—Dispatches ssy
that the Austrian minister to Bel-
grade has been recalled as the result
of the exposure of a plot to assass-
inate him. This revelation has aided
further to strain the relations between
Austria and Persia and to make the
final settlement of their differences
harder.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24.
Representa-
tive negroes from all over the coun-
try are in Atlanta today and make
up the attendance at the first na-
ional prohibition convention ever held
by the Colored race. it it de-
clared by delegate* that liquor is the
greatest foe to the progress of the
race, and they will seek to add their
influence to the prohibition campaign
which haa been waged in the South
by the whites and which has already
resulted in making Georgia, Alabama.
Tennessee and North
ARK LOADING BARtiK
NO COUNCIL MEETING
Owing to Aboenc* of Aldermen, the
Netting ia Postponed
Fire Wagon Called to Home of Mrs.
Childers on Border Street
Tow Boat Chief Dispatched to
blett’s Bluff For Him
About 1:15 o’clock this afternoon,
the fire department was called out to
answer an alarm from the residence
of Mrs. S. M. Childers on Border
street.
The building was ablaze, having
caught from a flue, but the fire was
extinguished before any serious dam-
age had been done.
Owing to the absence of several
of the councilman and Mayor Brown,
'the city council meeting scheduled for
last night for the purpose of award-
ing the contract for the landing fill-
ing, was postponed until a Inter date
in the week, when Mayor Brown and
other cotim-ilmen, now absent from
the city, will bit present.
The strong tow boat Chief, R T
Henry, matter, came in yesterday,
hiving in tow the barge Const ream
of the Orange Lumber company,
whten had aboard a hundred yards of
building sand secured above Beau
moot an the Ntdtrt river. The Gun
stream Is also being loaded down with
t car load of cement and twelve
thousand brick, which wilt lie sent to
the Sabine Canal and Irrigation com
pany’t plant, a point about thirty-five
miles np the Sabine river
The launch Chief, R. T.
Henry
master, left this afternoon about 1:30
o’clock for Niblett’s Bluff, being dis-
patched there to bring Dr. H. E.
Seastrunk to Orange, he being quite
Mississippi,
Carolina wholly "dry " Resolutions
especiaRy pointed at the manufactur-
er* of “nigger gin" and other cheap
liquors, especially designed for sale
in the negro resort* of the South,
will probably be pasted
as well as
THE THIRD DEATH
Clifton Chesaon Loses Third Member
of Family Within Month ’
Dr. Seastrunk hat been located at
Fields, La., for some time, and was
stricken ill several days ago.
Wednesday noon Herbert, the sev-
en month* old babe of Clifton Chet-
•on. residing several miles southwest
of Orange, died from the effect* of
dysentery. « ..
Tht funeral service* were held yes-
mlay afternoon, the remains being
nterred in the Granger cemetery.
On the fifth of the present month,
Mrs, Clifton Cktoist died; the three
year old girl followed ten days later,
dying on the 15th. and the infant died
on the 22nd.
tion as to the credibility of the wit-
ness.
It was evident that the atate in-
tends to present Col. Cooper's wdiotc
career to the jury.
The court sent the jury front, the
room during the argument as to the
Prominent white
negro clergymen, educator* and phy-
1 sicians, will address the sessions dur-
l mg the next three days. The leaders
in the movement make this announce-
ment regarding its purpose:
"It is intended to make the meet-
ing an epoch in lb* history of the
negro race in the South, and we are
determined to prove to our worthy
white friends that we are as pro-
foundly concerned in the great moral
movements as any other*.
“This it the first general effort
made by our people in this direction,
and it is our purpose to make it in
every way a memorable one."
AT THE THEATRE
AT THE COURT HOUSE
—Mrs. I. G. McCorquodale ha* re-
turned from Vinton, La., where she
spent a day visiting relatives.
Very Little of Interest Occurring at
the County Building
STOCK COMPANY PLSAEE
FAIR SIZED AUDIENCK
LAST NIGHT
Flee to Indian*.
Evansville, Uni. Feb 24 -A* a di
rott result of the passage of"* pm
hthttion law by the Tennessee irgttl*
tore, Evansville i* rapidly gaining in
population and Iwdnetrles- Several
whole tale liquor dealers, driven from
Tennessee by the strong arm of the
law, have established themselves here
and ma% other* are likely to come
At the county court house today
there is very little happening of in-
officers, who
terest. The county
changed offices, have now located in
their new quarters and are beginning
to feel comfortable. *
There has been nothing of import-
ance filed with the clerk of court
during the past few days and there
waa nothing new reported from either
the county judge’s or sheriffs office.
—R. II Hrowen- of Beaumont is
>timing the business visitor* today in
Orfgr- v . 1
AT THE MARVEL
Moving Picture Program Last Night
Was Vaiy Good
Do you see equally well with
both eyes?
U not, both may, be defec-
tive—one certainly is.
Hava them properly exam-
crowd. As announced, the opening
hill was “Behind the Scenes," depict-
ing souse of the mysteries of stage
life heretofore unknown to a great
'many of the frequesters of theaters.
The play is a comedy-drama, with
enough of pathos intermingled with
the lighter side of life to make the
whole a very interesting performance.
The specialties between acta “wet*
better than the average for a reper-
toire Company and'judging from the
*
WIRE FENCI
Last night at the Marvel theater,
the moving picture program offered
waa one of the 'best ever presented
for the benefit of patron* of that
popular amusement place.
There waa a very good attendance
throughout the evening, and the pa-
trons enjoyed the splendid pictures
that Manager Combs had selected.
We have jutt received t c*r of the
PITTSBURGH PERFECT ELI
WELDED FENCING
-■ .■*.....
Lawn Fencing, in all height*; Hog W
and 6-in itaya; Poultry Fencing, in aH 1
invite your apecial attention to thi* lint
Fencing. We hare alio a large a
applause and encores given some of
the numbers, the crowd seemed to be
To Do the Work Now
a five act comedy-drama entitled “The
Night Riders." which should prow a
drawing Card, a* so much interest has
been aroused over the action* of real
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Ford, Arthur L. The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1909, newspaper, February 24, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657364/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.