The Refugio Review. (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1902 Page: 1 of 4
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IRefugio IRevtew.
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Published in the Interest of 'Refugio County.
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VOL. 4
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 1902.
NO. 38
HORROR REPEATED
MONT PELEE'S ERUPTION AGAIN
OVERWHELMED THE ISLAND.
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bin*?/
TWO HUNDRED ARE DEAD.
The Sky Was Obscured by Clouds of
Dust and the People Had No
Chance to Escape.
Castries, Island of St. Lucia, D. W. I.,
September 1.—The British steamer
Kerons arrived here yesterday evening
from Fort de France, Island of Martin-
ique. She reports that a terrible erup-
tion of Mont Pelee occurred at 9
o’clock Saturday night and that the
people who arrived at Fort de France
from the northern part of the island
reported that the village of Mqrne
Rouge, near the district previously de-
vastated, had been entirely destroyed
and that Le Carbet, a village on the
coast, which .was destroyed at the time
of the great, eruption, had been swept
by a tidal wave. About 200 lost their
' lives. .
A sloop from the island of St. Vin-
cent which was. here this morning re-
ported that Mont Pelee’s crater is now
quiet, but that the detonations during
Saturday night were the loudest heard
up to that time and that the inhabi-
tants were terribly frightened.
Moult Pelee has been in constant
eruption since August 15. There was
an enormous fall of ashes from the
volcano the night of the 25th. There
was a very severe eruption the night
<of the 28t,h, when the volcanic rumb-
lings were heard at a great distance.
\ The mountain burned fiercely thaT
! night and out at sea passing vessels
were covered with ashes. The night
of the 30th there were three sep-
arate eruptions.
It is impossible to approach the
ruined town of St. Pierre from the
sea. The people of the village of Le
t Carbet. on the coast, are terror
^ .^stiucken and flying to the interior.
Hot waters pouring down on Lorrain
and Basse Pointe, villages to the
northeast of the crater. Horrible de-
tonatipns were heard, the ground
rocked and quaked and articles on
tables were thrown to the floor. The
governor of Martinique has ordered
every available boat to remove people
from the coast villages in Fort de
France.
At 8 o’clock on the evening of Sun-
day, the 31st, the sky was cloudless.
DARING TRAIN ROBBERY.
Express Messenger Held Up By Two
Masked Men.
Nashville, Tenn., September 2.—
Early tonight between this city and
Franklin, Tenn., eighteen miles south
of here, the local safe on the express
car of the Louisville and Nashville
through train No. 2, northbound, was
rifled of its contents by two masked
men while Messenger A.. B. Battle
covered by a revolver stood in the cor-
ner of the car with his hands above
his head. The robbery occurred just
after dark, and according to his an-
nouncement, one of the principals was
Gus Hyatt, who made a sensational
escape from the Tennessee peniten-
tiary here on August 4 last, where he
was serving a fifteen-year term for
train robbery. Express officials esti-
mate the, loss at about $500, it being
in packages taken in since leaving
Montgomery. The two big through
safes were not molested.
The men forced the messengers to
ring the train down just before it was
entering the South Nashville yards
and quietly took their departure, no
clew to the direction gone having yet
been discovered/though the police' are
hard at work on the case.
Fight for the Speakership.
Galveston, Texas, September 2.—•
McD'onald Meachum of Navasota, who
will represent Grimes county at the
next session of the legislature, is in
the city, accompanied by his wife. He
says that the race for speakership of
the house is growing quite interest-
ing and that the friends of the re-
spective candidates are doing some
lively hustling in their .behalf. The
race is between Pat M. Neff of Waco
and L. S. Schluter of Marion county.
Mr. Meachum is a supporter of Mr.
Neff and says that he has been in-
formed that his candidate already has
enough votes pledged to insure his
election. Mr. Schluter also has- some
votes pledged, and is working for
more. The friends of both men are
urging • their election and making
every effort to forward their inter-
l ests.
T.t!os(my1(iden]y and without warning one-
Vielitffialf of the horizon was obscured by
a pitch black cloud of dust. This cloud
was the center of most magnificent
electrical effects, the flashes of light
surpassing, the most elaborate fire-
works. Flames and flashes continued
to burst from The cloud until nearly
* midnight. Columns of flame shot out
of the crater of Mont Pelee to ex-
plode about the cloud in showers of
balls of golden fire, which fell through
the darkness in myriads of sparks.
Three large aureoles were seen in the
#| \ sky over the opening of the crater.
Release Convicts.
New York, September 2.—Both
branches of the Cuban congress have
passed resolutions calling for the re-
lease of all convicts now confined on
the island of Cuba who fought in the
Cuban army, says a Havana dispatch
to the Tribune. The resolution pro-
poses to be general and irrespective
of the crime that the ex-soldier is
guilty of. The proposition met with
some opposition by some of the most
conservative members of the con-
gress, but the revolutionary members
succeeded in getting it through. The
two branches of congress have ap-
pointed a committee, which is to -wait
on President Palma toda?, asking
him to take the action desired.
The resolution pi’oposes that ail of
the convicts be released on October
10.
THE BEEF TURST.
' Biggest Day Dallas Has Ever Known.
YDallas, Texas, September 2.—Labor
Day was appropriately observed in
.Dallag today. The parade was the
biggest Dallas ever knew, over 3000
union workingmen taking part. A
feature of the parade was the pres-
ence of Hod Carriers’ union No. 1,
composed exclusively of negroes. It
was the first time negroes ever
marched in a labor parade in Dallas.
1 The union men and their friends
spent the day after the parade at For-
est park, where there were various
games, speeches by Frank B. Sparks,
Mayor Cabell, Judge E. B. Muse and
others.
Bandit to be Executed.
Laredo, Texas, September 2.—A
special from Torre-on, Mexico, says:
It is said here that Lee Smith, the
4 last of the trio of Mexican Central
v, train robbers to be captured, will be
|ieg?Jl|- executed. Smith shot and
‘..killed one of the rurales who was a
Inember of the posse that effected his
capture. According to the report here,
he will suffer the same fate as the
victim. It is understood that the two
other members of the trio will be
given ■ life penitentiary sentences.
They will pnobably be sent to the
penal island in the gulf of Vera Cruz.
Aeronauts Wrecked.
Denver, Colo., September 2.—The
two aeronauts who left Denver to try
for a transcontinental balloon voyage
were (wrecked in a storm twenty-
seven \miles north of Florence. Both
aeronauts, were bruised .and frost
bitten
WILL HAVE FULL CONTROL OF
PACKING HOUSES.
GIGANTIC COMBINATION.
Total Capitalization of the New Com-
bination Will Be Five Hundred
Million Dollars.
Harriman’s Plan.
New York, September 2.—Recent
developments in Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific affairs point to the
accomplishment of a project that E.
H. Harriman has had in mind for
some time. This is the corporate con-
solidation of the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific systems. Union Pa-
cific interests have been large buyers
of Southern Pacific shares recently,
and there is good reason to believe
the Union Pacific corporation will
eventually absorb the Southern Pa-
cific in its entirety. The Southern
and Central Pacific are already integ-
ral parts of the Union Pacific system.
Two Negroes Lynched.
Newberry, Fla., September 2.—
Manny Price, the murderer of W. F.
Brunson, and Bob Scruggs, a negro
whom Price had named as an access-
ory, were lynched about two miles
from here. shortly after 5 o’clock this
afternoon by a party of 300 men. The
negroes were being taken from New-
berry to Gainesville by special depu-
ties when the party overpowered them
and took the priso’fers away. They
were given a chance to confess,
which they did, and were then
strung up on a tree and their bodies
riddled with bullets.
Chicago, Sept. 1.—The develop-
ments regarding the packers’ combi-
nation clearly show that it will be a
gigantic organization. It will be more
farreaching than the United States
Steel corporation. The food trust will
affect every family in the Nation.
According to authentic information,
coming from a responsible source, it
is stated that the food trust will be
known as the United States Packing
company. The basis of payment by
the new trust for the corporations and
firms it is to absorb will be twenty-
five times the earnings for the last
year. The earnings of the principal
concerns last year, therefore, be-
comes a matter of interest. They are
as follows:
Armour & Co., $8,000,000.
Swift & Co., $4,000,000.
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, $1,000,-
000.
Nelson, Morris & Co., $3,000,000.
Cudahy, $800,000.
The reported division of capital
among the principal interests in the
$500,000,000 combination is as follows:
Armour & Co., $200,000,000.
Swift & Co., $100,000,000.
Nelson, Morris & Co., $75,000,000.
Cudahy, $25,000,000.
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, $25,-
000,000. •
Others in the United States, $5,000,'
000.
Miscellaneous expenses, including
cost of promoting, etc., $25,000,000.
Total, $500,000,000.
The company will take in every
stockyard in the country, and all the
business, such as selling agencies*
car lines and. of course, the .by-pro-
duct companies, which in late years
have proved tremendous, dividend
earners.
The men now prominent in the
packing industry will continue to di-
rect the affairs of the big combine. J.
Ogden Armour is to be chairman of
the finance committee and head of
the financial department, and Gusta-
vus F. Swift is to be president. Ed-
ward Morris will be general manager.
A DISASTROUS TORNADO.
Overturned a Train, Killed Three, In
jured Thirty-four—Heroic Conductor.
Owatonna, Minn., Sept. 1.—Investi-
gation shows that the tornado which’
overturned a passenger train on Sat-
urday night on the Chicago and
ing three passengers and injuring
thirty-four, Avas only one hundred feet
wide.
Great credit is given by the pas-
sengers to Conductor Kenzie for his
heroic work in rescuing the injured,
although he, himself, Avas suffering
from severe injuries. He set to work
with great grit and heroic courage
to relieve the injured from their per-
ilous positions, and not until the last
passenger was out of the wreck did he
receive medical attention for his own
wounds. It is feared that he cannot
survive. The storm destroyed the
grain stacks of Thomas Raike, upon
whose farm the wreck occurred, then
passed directly between his house and
barn, leaving them unharmed. It then
passed northwest through Medford, a
town on the Milwaukee road, where a
number of barns were demolished and
several houses and other buildings
were overturned.
ROBBING INDIANS OF LANDS.
Storm Near Capetown.
Capetown, September 2.—Eighteen
vessels, mostly sailing craft, have
been driven ashore in a gale at Port
Elizabeth. Five of them were dashed
to pieces and all the members of
their creA^s were lost. Two tugs are
also reported to have foundered and
a score of lighters are ashore. It is
feared that there has been great loss
of life.
He Remembered.
Mrs. Wederly—What month, is it
that people consider unlucky for mar-
rying?
Wederly—My dear, is it possible
that you have forgotten we were mar-
ried in June?
An Enchantress.
“Oh, my!” .exclaimed the pretty
typewriter, “I’m afraid I’m a wretched
speller.”
“Ah, no,” sighed her enamored em-
ployer, “you are mistress of all sorts
of spells.”
Indian Agents in Collusion With the
Syndicates Which Do the Work.
Washington, Sept. 1.-—Indian Com-
missioner Jones is paying considera-
ble attention just now to the reports
which have been coming from all
parts of the country for a year past
of a systematized attempt to secure
control of large stocks of Indian lands
through the opportunity to make pur-
chastes from the heirs* of deceased
allottees. This method admits of lit-
tle or no competition and as a result
speculators have been enabled to get
their hands on large tracts at very
Ioav prices. It. is estimated at the In-
dian office that lands of this charac-
ter to the value of some $10,000,000
are still practically at ’the mercy of
more or less unscrupulous “syndi
cates.”
Commissioner Jones does not hesi-
tate to say that some of the agents of
the department have been conniving
Avith the speculators, and it is his
opinion that unless something is done
to stop the transfer of the lands In
the manner described, the department
will have the biggest scandal of its
history to deal with.
Under an act of congress lands of
the kind referred to are supervised by
the government as guardian for the
heirs. The heirs are at liberty to at
any time sell their inheritances, but
the sale must be approved by the sec-
retary of the interior in order to be-
come valid. The rules of the Indian
oflice direct that the Indian agent in
charge of the district in which the
lands are located must appraise the
property, which cannot be sold at a
figure less than the appraised value.
Unscrupulous persons took advantage
of this arrangement and, as has been
stated, large tracts of land have been
acquired at prices far beloAv their real
value. It is said that one man at
Pawnee, O. u., has practically secured
control of nearly all the lands in that
vicinity, having inveigeled the heirs
who now own the lands to sign con-
tracts designating him as their agent.
Tim usual- method' is to make a small
cash payment to the owner of the
land when the bargain is first struck,
and then bind him to pay a large fee
to the speculator when the sale is fi-
nally made. In this way no competi-
tion is possible and the Indian loses
invariably.
One of the plans which has suggest-
ed itself to Mr. Jones is to have the
interior department advertise for
sealed bids for all the lands that are to
be sold. In this way it is thought that
the original oAvner of the land may be
protected and that legitimate pur-
chasers may have, an opportunity to
secure tracts at reasonable prices,
which would not be the case, ordin-
arily, if they dealt through the specu-
lators.
DIED OF APOPLEXY
A TEXAS CONGRESSMAN PASSED
AWAY AT WASHINGTON.
THE END CAME SUDDENLY
Child Swallowed Carbolic Acid. ..
Kenedy, Texas, Sept. 1.—Late yes-
terday evening the little daughter of
J. D. Autry got hold of a bottle of car-
bolic acid and drank some of it. But
by the quick aid of ^ physician it is
thought she will recover.
Mrs. DeGraffenreid Is at Her Home at
Longview and Has Been Notified
of Her Bereavement.
Trying to Shift Blame.
Enthusiastic Poet: “I intend to
publish my poems under the name of
Smith.”
His Friend: “But just think how
many good people will fall under sus-
picion!”
Washington, August 30.—Reese Cal-
houn De Graffenreid of Longview,
Texas, representative from the Third
congressional district, died suddenly’
at 10:30 last night in room at the
Riggs house. It is not certain wheth-
er his death was caused by apoplexy
or by the rupture of a blood vessel
during a period of violent vomiting.
So far as known Mr. De Graffenreid
had been enjoying his, usual good
health up to the afternoon. About 2
o’clock he commenced to complain of
feeling badly, and, after talking with
one or two friends about a remedy for
the grip, with which he seemed to
think he was afflicted, he went im-
mediately to his room. From all ac-
counts it seems that he suffered more
or less all during the afternoon and
evening and that a high fever was on
him throughout practically the whole
of that period. He did not call in a
physician, however, and only the em-
ployes of the hotel knew of his condi-
tion, which apparently they did not re-
gard as 'serious.
At 10:25 last night, while a colored
bell boy was in the room rubbing and
otherwise treating him. Mr. De Graf-
fenreid was seized with a violent at-
tack of vomiting. The bell boy, be
coming alarmed at the1 sick man’s ap-
pearance, rushed down stairs for as-
sistance. Dr. Staples, who lives in the
hotel, happened to be in the lobby
and he hurried up stairs, to find Mr.
De Graffenreid dead. Friends who
had been called in from an adjoining
room said that the end came at 10:30,
•five minutes after the attack of vomit-
ing commenced.
Friends of the deceased were hast-
ily apprised of the sudden death and
came to the hotel to make the neces-
sary arrangements. .Shortly after
midnight the body was removed to an
undertaking establishment, where it
will be viewed by the coroner this
morning. No arrangements for the
shipping of the body to Texas will be
made until this p. m.
Mrs. De Graffenreid, who is, at Long-
view, was notified of her husband’s
death by wire, but up to a late hour
no instructions have been received
from her. They have no children.
i-lfcAVY LOSSES BY FIRE,
Whirlpool Swimmer’s Feat.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 1.—Car-
list T. Graham swam from the whirl-
pool beloAv Niagara Falls through tho
lower rapids to Lewiston today. Gra-
ham made a oetter swim than he did
September 19, 1901, Avhen Maud Wil-
lard attempted to navigate the upper
rapids in Graham’s barrel and was
suffocated. Graham wore a life pre-
server about his Avaist and a neck
float.
Can’t Get Oil.
New Orleans, August 31.—The in-
dustrial plants at New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and other places along
the Mississippi are loud in their com-
plaints about not being able to secure
fuel oil from Beaumont and Jennings.
The situation is so serious that some
of the factories are confronted with
the proposition of closing down or re-
turinlng to the use of coal. One fac-
tory in New Orleans has already
abandoned oil and returned to coal,
and others are certain to follow unless
the oil companies move lively and
supply the demand.
A Drunken Man’s Deed.
Carrollton, 111., Sept. 1.—Dr. A. O.
Miller shot and killed his wife today
and attempted to kill his little daugh-
ter, but only succeeded in inflicting a
slight wound. He then swalloAved a
dose of laudanum, which caused his
death Jn the jail after he had been
arrested. He had been drinking heav-
ily of late and this, combined with
jealousy, caused the trouble.
Ranch Sold for $50,000.
Ballinger, Texas, Sept. 1.—The A.
M. Miller stock farm and ranch of
10,000 acres, four miles east of Ballin-
ger, has been sold to Missouri par-
ties for $50,000 cash. The land is cut
in two by the Colorado river.
MARLIN.—Arrangements are being
made - r a big barbecue to be held
there September 16.
Luxurious Travel.
Tired Tatters—“Wot would you do
ef you wuz er millyunair, Dusty?”
Dusty Rhodes—“I’d hev er privet
car Avid er feather bed on de trucks,
dat’s wot”
Three Blocks of Business Houses at
Livingston.
Livingston, Texas, August 30.—Be-
tween 1 and 2 o’clock yesterday mornr
ing the fire alarm sounded j|y pistol
firing and church bells ringing. The
Gerlach warehouse was on fire. Ev-
ery one gathered with buckets, but
water Avas so scarce no check was ef-
fected until all the business houses
on blocks 15, 20 and 22, twenty in
number, were totally consumed.
, Estimated losses were more , than
one hundred thousand dollars; with
very little insurance.
W. T. Matthews, drummer for a
San Antonio dry goods house, lost
$1000 in trunks and samples. There
seems to be no doubt in anybody’s
mind here that the fire was the work
of an incendiary. The fire was evi-
dently incendiary, it being the second’
effort to destroy the town.
Harvest in Matagorda.
Bay City, Texas, August 30.—The
rice harvest around Bay City is well
under Ava.y. Not less than twenty-
five self-binders are going and this
number wilL be multiplied several
times during the next ten days. The
weather is perfect and greatly facili-
tates the harvesting. Threshing has
also begun with two -or three outfis
and within the next ten days ’ the
threshing will he also well under way.
The crop is exceedingly fine, the grain
is AVell filled and the yield is sura
to be above the average as to both
quantity and quality. There is in
the neighborhood of 40,000 acres to
harvest in the Bay City district, and
that means, the employment of seA^eral
hundred hands and teams.
Suit for Heavy Damages.
Hempstead, Texas, August 30.—Mrs.
Callie Davidson, for herself and as
next friend for her three minor child-
ren, instituted suit today in the dis-
trict court of Waller county against
the Houston and Texas Central Rail-
road company for $40,000 damages1 for
injuries received by R. R.f Davidson
(the husband of plaintiff ajad father
of the three minor children) on the
26th day of June, 1901, while in the
employ of defendant company as car
inspector, alleging that said injuries
were the causes leading to his death,
which occurred in this city a few days
ago.
Smith County is Dry.
Tyler, Texas, Aug. 30.—Official re-
turns from over twenty out of the
twenty-four boxes of Smith county
gives the pros 1133 majority; the re-
maining four boxes can reduce the
above figures -very little, if any. The
election in this city was an orderly
one with both sides earnest in their
effort. Several hundred ladies were
on the ground at the opening of the
polls and remained throughout the
day. Song services were had at in-
tervals and at noon a dinner was
served to all.
O’Brien Released on Bail.
Washington, August 30.—Richard
T. O’Brien, who has been confined in
jail, accused of perjury, was arraigned
before Justice Anderson yesterday.
He pleaded not guilty and was releas-
ed on $5000 bond. Hiis trial will occur
in October.
President on a Hunt.
Newport, N. H., August 30.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt was today entertained
in a manner to his liking. Instead of
making numerous addresses, meeting
committees and indulging in hand-
shaking, he plunged into the forests
of the Corbin preserve in the Corydon
mountain region and hunted big game,
and just before dark succeeded in
shooting a bo
A Strike at Sherman.
Sherman, Texas, August .30.—At 9
o’clock this morning, the man who
handle freight at the Frisco transfer
sheds quit work and today no freight
has been handled on the platform. Tho
men ask $40 per month and ten hours
as a day’s work; if the work can he
finished in eleven hours, eleven hours'
pay. If called to the yards to work
ahd there is no work to do, they want
one hour’s pay. They ask for 16 2-?
cents per hour for night Avork. Break-
ers agree to Avork for $45 per month
and at night for 18 cents per hour;
other conditions as above.
Chronicle Weather Report.
New York, Aug. 30.—The Commer-
cial and Financial Chronicle says:
Reports to us by telegraph from the
South yesterday evening indicate
that beneficial rains have fallen in
many sections during the week. In
Texas, however, dry weather has pre-
vailed at most points. Cotton contin-
ues to open rapidly. Picking is quite
general and the marketing of the crop
is making fair progress.
Miss Vogel’s Funeral.
Galveston, Texas, August 30.—The
funeral of Miss' Lola Vogel, Avhosd
dead body was found in a room at the
Oakes hotel at Beaumont, without clu«
as to the cause of her death, occurred
yesterday from the residence of bei
mother. The relatives and friends ol
Miss Vogel do: not accept the suicide
theory and a thorough investigation oi
the matter will he made.
New Street Cars.
GaUeston, Texas, August 30.—The
Galveston City Street Railway com
pany has ordered twenty new vesti-
bule cars. They are of the latest and
most approved pattern and are provid
ed with all modern arrangements for
the comfort and convenience of pas
sengers. The first shipment of the
caps .ordered will arrive here • Septe'n>
ber 15 frorii St. Louis. '
Prominent Woman Jailed.
Blackwell, O. T., August 30.—Mbs.
Jack Frost, wife of a prominent busi-
ness man and politician of this place,
was. arrested tonight charged with
poisoning Mrs. Alice Combs and her
eldest son, Ernest, with the intention
to kill the entire Combs family of
seven persons. M>rs. Frost was taken
to the county jail at Newkirk-
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