The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1895 Page: 1 of 4
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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1805.
VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 40.
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Dr. Rucker, coroner of Pooatello,
Idaho, arrived In Denver the otherj
day. He it teekmg possession of a
body won In a gaino of cards. Carle,
Terri committed suicide just before
the day of bis execution for murder.
One, day Terri offered to wager his
corpse against $100 that ho could de-
feat Dr. Kuoker ut cards. If he
Should win the doctor was to send
the money to Terri’s mother in south-
ern Italy. In case he lost the doctor
should have bis body to dissect.
They played and Dr. Kucker won.
Gov. Morrill of Kansas Is to be ar-
rested on the charge of obtaining,
money under fgso pretenses. This id
the statement of attorneys, who arri
preparing the papers, which will be
signed by Warden Chase of tho state
penitentiary. The charge is made
on the ground that Gov. Morrill drew
money from tho state to pay for ser-
vices given by his present private;
secretary a month before the gov-
ernor was inaugurated.
John B. Talt, who D under an in-,
dictmont charging him with having
.jtoloa •16,000 from tho Chemical Na.
tloual bank of New York, where he
was paying toller, will probably never
be tried. His counsel. ex-United
States Assistant District Attorney.
Rose, announces that Tait is hope-
lessly insane. The indicted man. who;
lives at Mount Kisco, N. Y., is now at
liberty under (10,900 bail.
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral Nielson will visit New Orleans in
tho near future to look up the possi-
bilities of putting a series of postottice
cars on the street railways of that
city. After his return he will go to
New York to confer with the street
car officials in regard to a similar
service there. It is hoped that there
will be six postal cars running on the:
Broadway line by July 1.
Mrs. Faltoute of W’oodside, N. J.,
secured a divorce from her husband
recently. He Immediately married
the other woman In the case, and
built a house on the lot next to his
first wife’s home. Mrs. Faltoute
had u tight board fence built be-
tween tho two houses so high that
nothing can be seen from either yard
except the roof and chimneys of the
bouse.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., recently,
Judge Clark in the United States dis-
trict court in the case of tho Union
Trust company vs. the Knoxville and
Cumberland Gap railroad company,
ordered tbe road to be sold unless the
the Interest account Is paid within
thirty days. The property is to be
advertised six weeks and tbe upset
price is fixed at 1500,001).
It is a fact that tho Morgan-Koths-
echild syndicate has been paying a
premium for the refined gold output
of the private refineries throughout
the west during the last two months,
and that they are accumulating line
gold at the rate of about (5.000,0001
per month, which represents fully'
two-tbirds of the entire gold output
of the United States.
A dispatch received at Buencs
Ayres, recently, from Valparaiso
states that a treaty of peace and'
friendship has been concluded be-)
tween Chili and Bolivia by which the;
former cedos to Bolivia a small slip
of territory and a portion of the T&-
Citlc midway between Iquiquo and
Psagr.a. Chill in return roceives
wbmmerci&l advantages.
Tarnell, the man-killing lion, had
his second light with a Mexican bull)
at Monterey the other day, but he
was so badly licked in his en-
counter with the first toro that be re-
fused to fight the second one, and con-
tinued to dodge and whine until the
bull cornered him and gored him to
death.
Near Pass Christian, Miss., tbe
Other morning, John McArthur, a
native of Virginia, was killed by
lightning on Wolf river. The young
man and Harper McCaughan were
out fishing when the fatal stroke
came, and the former fell forward
and did without a struggle.
Judge Thompson of Louisville,Ky.,.
discharged Fulton Gordon, who wasi
before him on a writ of habeas cor-
pus, charged with having killed his
wife and Gov. Brown’s son, whom he-
found in a room in an assignation’
bouse in Louisville, as an object les-
son to all adulterers.
Ritton Jacobs, city treasurer of
Butte, Mon., for five years and cloth-
ing merchant, blew out his brains re-
cently. in a mine shaft there. Hit!
term expired the day be committed
suicide. It is understood there is a1
shortage In his accounts of between
$12,000 and •15,000.
A special from Hickory, Miss., says:;
T*o boys, Fred and Claude Hanner,
aged 14 and 11 years, sons of F. W.
Hanner, were killed by lightning
while plowing in a field near there
_ recently, and the tame day two ne-
" groes were killed by lightning near
Lauderdale station.
At Mackinaw City, Mich., during
a heavy fog one morning reoently,
the steamer Cayuga, loaded with
merchandise, ran into the steamer
Joseph L. Hurd, loaded with lumber,
and both sank. Both crews were
saved, except tho oook of the Hurd,
who was drowned.
At tbe sham battle which ocourred:
at Monterey, Mex., during tbe reoent•
oelebratlon of Clnoo do Mayo, a large
grand stand gava way and fall. It
It stated that many persons were In-,
jured. The contractor who erected
the stand was arrestod and jailed.
They have ■•John" socials at Leon,
in Butler oounty, Kansas, where short
blographioal sketches are fiven of
soma noted John in history, as John
Adnms, etc., by any one present, tbe
audience being expected to guest tbe
m last nama of the man described.
N Wyoming’s wool clip is estimated
this year at from 8,000,000 to 10,000.-
000 pounds and the opinion is also
MpraMd that it will Mot a belter
SENATOR MURDERED.
SHOT. IT IS THOUGHT,
SOUND ASLEEP,
WHILE
Maiatl UwD HU MUtrMi Kills Him. and
U —Cuban Insurgent* ars R*
ported Dsfssisd la Bsvtral Kngaga*
u*ent«—A Brass# la Virginia*
St. Louis, Mo., May 14.— State
Senator Teter R. Morrissey was shot
and instantly killed early yesterday
morning by Maude l-ewls, his mis-
tress. The tragedy was enacted in
the woman's room.. She had beeo
mentally unbalanced (or some time,
according to the statement of her
neighbor,, and she Is supposed to
have boen insane at tbe timo tho
crime was committed. Her screams
informed her neighbors of tho murder
and they flocked to the scene, finding
the woman in a frenzy of grief and
terror, bending over the body and
calling on "Fete” to "come back."
Morrissey died instantly, having re-
ceived two shots in the head
from a 88-caliber bulldog re-
volver. Everything indicated that he
was asleep when shot. The l-ewis
woman «u taken to the city hospi-
tal violently insane, but whether her
condition was due to remorse for her
act or antedated the crime has not
been ascertained. The remains of
the deceased were taken in charge by
an undertaker. At the time of his
death Morrissey was a Democratic
member of tbe state senate from this
city. His business was that of saloon
and lodging-house keeper. He was
86 years old. Ten years ago Morris-
sey was indicted for ballot-box stuff-
ing, but the influence of the leaders
of his party kept him from tho peni-
tentiary. Maud Lewis is 25 years
old. Khe was born and reared in St.
Louis, and is said to bavo come of a
good family.
An Kxoltlng Soane.
Londox, May 11__There was an
exciting scene in the house of com-
mons yesterday. Sir Donald Horne
McKarlan (Liberal), member for Ar-
gyllshire, after receiving un evasive
reply to his question a9 to when the
Crofters bill would be taken up,
threatened that Scotch members
would withdraw their support of the
government. This caused the chan-
cellor of the exchequer. Sir William
Veruon Harcourt, to reply in a tower-
ing rage that it was open to tho
Sootch members to do as they pleased.
Thereupon Mr. Donald McGregor
(Liberal), member for Invernesshire,
retorted: "Are we to understand
that the government Is going to show
the white feather to the opposition?"
The chancellor of the exchequer made
no reply.
Th, Treat. It.till.rl.
Shanghai, May 9.—It is stated
hero that the ratifications of the
treaty of peace between China and
Japan were exchanged yesterday at
Che Foo. It is reported Sir Robert
Hart, inspector general of Chinese
customs, guarranteed the payment of
tbe addititional indemnity demaned
by Japan as a result of relinquishing
her claims to the Liao Tung penisiila.
However, he makes his guarantee
oondltional on the financing of the
total indemnity being left solely in
his hands.
Insurgent* Defeated.
Havana, Cuba, May 14__The
Spanish troops have defeated the
band of rebel, in San Lorenzo, and at
Mqsianos the troops captured a num-
ber of horses, arms, ammunition, etc.,
belonging to tho rebels. There has
beon severe fighting. At llolguin
one officer was wounded in an en-
gagement with the rebels. There
has been fighting between tho Span-
ish troops and rebels near Baracoa,
but no details. The troops at Talma
killed Ruogo, one of the rebel chiefs.
Almost a
Lexington, Via, May 14.—The
temperature fell close to freezing
Sunday night and early-rlsers found a
white frost. It was light and did
very little damage. Fruit growers in
the Shenandoah valloy fear frost will
fall which would blast the prospects
of what would otherwise be the
premium fruit crop of the valley for
years.
Two Olrls Drowned.
Dakdanklle, Ark., May 10.—Three
girls,f-Mary Snelling, Edna Sneiling
and £lla Hunt went to the river to
bathe. They were not heard from
again until yesterday when Ella Hunt
was found wandering in the woods
demented. She says the Snelling
sisters got into a skiff, and, becom-
ing alarmed, jumped overboard and
were drowned. Their bodies have
been recovered.
Much Married.
Laporte, Ind., May 10.—Abraham
Rimes was yesterday granted a di-
vorce from bis tenth wife. The evi-
dence disclosed tha fact that Rimes’
last wile was his first bride, and that
he had married eight other aspirants
for his affections before he was again
wedded to his first wife, from whom
ha was legally separated shortly after
marriage.
Towboat Bornod.
I ronton, O., May 18__The tow-
boat City of Charters, owned by the
Evansville Contracting company of
Evansville, Ind., burned and sank at
7 o’clock yesterday morning. The
fire originated in the rear of the
kitchen and owing to a heavy wind
whloh prevailed, all attempts to save
her were futile. The crew succeeded
in saving their personal effeota. The
boat waa built at Tittsburg eight
years ago for a packet She waa val-
ued at •10,000 and was only partially
insured.
All Qalet.
Washington, May 9—Tho reported
uprising in Nicaragua, as a result of
the Corinto Incident, appears to hava
been of brief duration, according to
advices reoelved by Dr. Guzman, tbe
Nioitraguan minister. A dispatch
from hit government informs him
there is quiet throughout the country.
The departure of the Brittlah fleet
tha salute given to the Nicara-
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ty. No
Usr4«r snd Suicide.
Philadelphia, To.. May 11—A
terrible tragedy waa enacted on the
■ IdetSslk in front of No. 86 North
Seventh street yesterday morning in
tbe presence of a throng of persons
by August Tapper, manufacturer of
Dovelttes, aged 86 years. He shot
Clare Herbold, alias Schmidt, aged 26
years, twice and then sent a bullet
into hit own temple, dying almost lu-
atantly. The girl was removed to a
hospital, where she died half an hour
later. The murder and tuicldo were
due to love. Tapper was a married
mao. lie was desperately in love
with tho Herbold girl, but his ad-
vances were ooldiy received. The
girl came frr-l Germany about a year
ago and went to live with the Tupper
family as a servant. 'Pepper's atten-
tions became so annoying to her that
she loft her place about a month ago.
Tapper’s attentions to the girl did
not ceaso, and the latter part of last
week she went before a magistrate
and swore out a warrant fur hU ur-
r st. 'Pepper continued to annoy her.
Miss Herhold left her room yes-
terday morning to go for work, wiifeh
she was to take to her homo. On
her way back Topper met her and
shot her. Tepper’s body was taken
to his former home, but bis wife re-
fused to receive it and it was taken
to tbe morgue.
A BOND SENSATION.
TRAVIS COMMISSIONERS AND
ATTORNEY OENERAL.
Ratified Nt Lilt,
Washington, May 10__An official
dispatch from Tokio received at the
Japanese legation yesterday afternoon
states that athe ratifications of the
treaty of peaco between Japan and
China were exchanged at Cunifu on
Wednesday. No change was made in
the text of the treaty as originally
oonuluded. Taking into account, how-
ever, the reccommendation mado by
Russia, Germany and France, the Jap-
anese government has agreed to
renounce the permanent pos-
session of the Lioa Tung penin-
sula on condition that the ar-
rangements regarding the te-ms and
form of annunciation shall be reserved
for adjustment between itself aud the
government of China. This latter j sergeant
Th* Stale's Law Offlesr D*cllo.i to Fur-
atah Raaaoas far Hofaslna ta Appro**
Hood lataa—United Aaierloau sia-
ehaalos ta 8«aaloo. ,
Austin, Tex., May 14.—Tha attor-
ney general has declined to furnish
tha Travis county commissioners his
reason for the notice he gave them
that he would refute to approve the
proposed issue of (100,009 county re-
funding bonds' Tho county judgo, he
Intimates, Is in possession of his rea-
sons. The latter understands that
the attorney general has found that
the original bonds oxceeded tha
amount permitted by law and that
errors and omissions in tho orders un-
der which they were issued have beon
found. If these are fatal to the valUf-
lty of tho bonds, it is probable that
the collection of the county tax to
pay interest on them will be enjoined.
The state school fund owes •107.000
of the original issue, of which •105,-
000 was approved by Attorney Gen-
erals Hogg and Culberson.
United American Mechanics.
San Antonio, Tex., May 14.—The
state council of Junior Order of
United American Mechanics convened
in secret here yesterday morning with
thirty delegates from the state in at-
tendance. The principal object of
tbe order is to promote the Interests
of Americans and shield them from
the depressing effects of foreign com-
petition. K. S. Woodyard of San An-
tonio is state counsellor and W. H.
Rollins of Cleburne is secretary.
Nothing but routine business was
transacted.
Swung oft
San Antonio, Tex., May 14.—Thor-
wold Olsen, United States commissary
stipulation is construed to moan that
Japan will not surrender the penin-
sula until tho suitable indemnity shall
have been paid, and that it may have
beon agreed between Japan and China
that the possession of Tort Arthur
itself will be retained by the Japan-
ese for a term of years extending be-
yond the date when the indemnity
has been paid in full, thus assuring
to Japan not alone the payment of
the indemnity itself, but also suffi-
cient time to safeguard herself ugaiast
a war ot reprisal. The above
official.
at Fort bum Houston,
hanged himself with a clothes line iu
bis back yard early yesterday morn-
ing. He climbed a tree, tied the end
of the rope to a limb and the
other around his neck and jumped off.
He was some time ago temporarily
insano and then attempted suicide
and it is supposed that ho had a re-
currence of the malady.
A Mrlko Settle I.
It Was h SurprUe.
Berlin, May 13.—In viow of the
rejection Friday by the reichstag ol
paragraph ill of the anti-revolution
bill, which prucliciUJjuieuled tho fate
of tho measure, nobody was surprised
when the reichstag Friday, utter re-
jecting paragraph 111, refused to
further discuss the bill and all of its
amendments wore withdrawn. Then
the entire bill, paragraph by para-
graph, was rejected without debate
and tho reichstag adjourned. Though
tho rejection of the anti-revolution
hill did not surprise anybody who has
followed the popular agitation against
it, and although the rejection Friday
of paragraph 111 hopelessly emascu-
lated the bill, the discussion of the
other sections was expected to drag
along for a timo, as tho government
did not intend to withdraw tho meas-
ure, although a continuance of the j
debate only prbmisod further humil-
iation for the government. There- )
fore the coup de grace administered j
to the unpopular bill was a relief to t
all concerned.
Galveston, Tex., May 18.—Kvery-
, tiling has at last been amicably ar-
ranged between the carpenters and
joiners of the city and building bosses,
and the terms on which the settlement
was made are that the men shall put
iu eight hours for a day’s work and
receive 80 cents per hour in renumer-
ation therefor until tho 1st of July
next. Then they are to work the
same number of hours diurnully and
roceivo 36 cents per hour for their
services.
Klectrlc Photography.
Pensacola, Fla., May 13.—A
strange freak of lightning occurred at
Milligan Saturday. John T. Wilkin-
son, a young merchant, wa9 struck
and almost instantly killed. When
undressed a perfect picture of a
clump of trees, with oueh leaf deli-
cately shaded, was found indellibly
photographed on either side of the
body just under the arms. Wilkinson
was standing by a telegraph instru-
ment in the store from which the
wires had boen detached when struck.
A hundred yards from the store the
telegraph wire was fastened to a tall
pine tree which stood among soverai
smaller trees. The pictures on Wil-
kinson’s body are perfect rep-
resentations of this clump of trees
from the wiro up. Tho portions
of tho trees below the wiro are not
shown.
No Ssnator Elsctrd.
Dover, Del., May 10.—Tho general
assembly of Delaware adjourned sine
die at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
without choosing a successor to ex-
Senator Higgins, although the Repub-
licans claim that their leading candi-
date, Col. Henry A. Dupont, was
legally elected. The matter will
probably be taken to tho United States
court for a decision. The 211th bal-
lot Bince the deadlock began four
months ago and tbe last taken re-
sulted: Dupont, Republican, 16; J.
E. Addlcks, Republican, 6; Edward
Ridgoly, Democrat, 9; Tunnel!, Dem-
ocrat, 1.
Thr** llrothsr. Klll*<l.
Sergeant, Ky., May 8.—News has
reached here that the Gilley boys and
Joe and Will Day met near their
homee on Indian creek, nine miles
from Norton, Va., and engaged in a
deadly battle, whloh resulted in tbe
death of the three Gilley boys and the
fatal wounding of Joe Day. The two
factions have been at war for tome
time, the bad feeling growing out of
the elopement of one of the Gilleys
with a sister of Joe and Will Day in
1893.
Tried to Slue Him.
CftiCAGO, I1L, May 11.—A panio
was oauaed In the mayor’s office in
tho city hall yesterday afternoon by
an attempt of a discharged employe
to "slug” Mayor Swift. The assail-
C'ftttle (Jimrintino.
Austin, Tex., May 14. —Gov. Cul-
berson, upon information from the
live stock sanitary commission that
splenetic or southern fevor is preva-
lent in that uroa of Texas east and
south of the quarantine line estab-
lished by tho department of agricult-
ure at Washington, yesterday issued
hie proclamation against tho trans-
portation of cattle from said area,
said quarantine taking effect Mav 16,
1895.
Itroke Her Arm.
Terrell. Tex., May 14__As Mrs.
Um .Sebastian was returning from
Daugherty Sunday evening to her
home in Rockwall county, and while,
crossing the railroad in this city, her
J horse became frightened and in hor
attempt to jump from tho buggy sbo
was thrown sevoral feet, breaking
her loft arm.
trill Fight the Tux.
Paris, Tex., May 18.— Sevoral law-
yers indicted by the present grand
jury for failure to pay their occupa-
tion tax have made common cause
and a test case will be made, and
they assert that if need be they will
appeal to the supreme court of the
United .States as a last resort before
complying with the provisions of the
state law.
1'rlntlng Appropriation.
Austin, Tex., May 11__The comp-
troller, it is understood, is prepared
to recognize the appropriation of (21,-
000 for public printing adopted by
both hou8Q8 in tho ffenorttl uppropria-
lion bill, but which by clerical mis-
take was entered as (2100 in tho en-
rolled bill, provided the attorney gen-
eral and govornor concede suoh recog-
nition would be legel.
Old Man Ann* ult*d.
Gladewatkk, Tex., May 11.—R. B.
llamey. an inoffensive old man living
two miles oast of this place, stopped
out of his house about 9 o’clook
Thursday night when somo unknown
man assaulted him with a piece oflron
and beat him severely. No cause can
be assigned for tho act, as he hud no
onemios that he knew anything about.
A Galveston Killing.
Galveston, Tex.. May »__At 9:80
yesterday morning the resident* of tho
vicinity of Seventeenth and Winnie
streets were startled by a loud gun
report coming from a two-story build-
ing on the alley between Winnie and
H stroots and between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets. Investigation
disclosed the fact that I-ouls Zimmer
man, a German about 46 years old,
was dead and that Henry Bauss. aged
26, was dangctiM—Kr wounded. Bauss
may possibly To'oover, being shot
through the left lung.
Railroad fST«r.
Marshall, Tex., May 10.- The
railroad fever hat struck here and a
petition is being circulated asking the
people to donate for the purpose of
building a railroad to Sabine Pass,
donations to be paid in monthly in-
’ll.* \Vmc«» • o|»i»r»ttra
Waco, 'lex.. May 10__'1 tie sound
money Democrats met yesterday.
There were fifty-seven delegates prev-
ent, representing sixteen towns, Wueo
furnishing thirty of the delegates.
Judge L. U. Alexander presided. Let-
ters were read from thirteen sound
money Domoerats in as many towns.
A. A. Kimble, J. T. Harcourt, A. I*
Matlock, V. \\. Hale. Henry Sackelt,
G. J. Adkisson, LewisHducock. L. C.
Alexander. W. K. Hughes aud Rufus
Hardy were appointed a committee
on resolutions. Hun. George ('lurk
offered a series of resolutions, which
at tho afternoon session were re-
ported to tho conference by tbo com-
mittee. and after some discussion
were adopted. The resolutions de-
clare in substance for "honest bimet-
allism and tlie use of both gold and
Silver as the money of the country,
and tho largest coinage of silver con-
sistent with the sufety of our financial
system and the preservation of an
honest dollar worth 109 cents
at all times and in all
countries," and opposed silver at
a ratio of 16 to 1. They oppose fiat-
ism in all its forms and in
one resolution assert their
"disbelief in such doctrine, and
assert that this government, great as
may bo its power, can not give value
to anything by law alone." Section
2 of tho resolutions concludes as fol-
lows: These advocates ^f free and
unlimited coinage of Bilver at the ra-
tio of 16 to 1, announce their purposo
to seize and take possession of the
Democratic party in Texas and to
drivo from the party all those who dif-
fer with them and refuse to bow the
knee to this silver Raal. We declare
that we will not be driven from the
party, neither will we tamely submit
to the seizure and prostitution to such
base purposes. We stand, without
apology or explanation, upon the
platforms of our party, national and
state. Upon this rock we build our
political church, and the gates of
Populism and of fiatism shall not pre-
vail against it." The conference
elected forty-three delegates to the
Memphis meeting, most of whom
were not present, and adjourned.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
fsistwllai Call las* H Various lib|vsM
Tskss IV*as Ik* Dally 1‘rsss
A Most Infamous Lfiw.
Austin, Tex., May 13.—The bill to
authorize counties to issue bonds to
pay floating indebtedness and to take
up and retire other bonds became a
law by executive clemency, so to
speak, by the governor refusing to
veto it. Surely the govornor would
not have permitted it to take effect
through any other consideration.
The same bill in four different forms
had been rejected by tho house com- . .....
mittees. but this senate bill came | fomm?nt ut Forl'Vorth' whero 8iin'-
ovor to the house when tho members | P«'|JtoK # wherein Mrs.
were in a good humor, and upon tho
The value of the Sabine and East
Texas railway, including all its fran-
chises. appurtenances aud property in
the slate of Texas, prepared by tho
railroad commission is as follows:
Right of way and depot grounds,
exclusive ol Beaumont, •17,665.60;
Graduation, •136,929.97; Bridging,
•127,966.79; track, main line, (436,-
760.73; tidings, •45,864.90; ballast,
17636.90; buildings, •30.782.89; mis-
cellaneous structures. (6111.49; legal
and engineering expenses, superin-
tendence, damagu and present char-
ter fees, (48,612.38: interest allowable
during construction, (49,246.98. To-
tal. I896.665.73. Tho main track
mileage of said railway boing at the
present time as follows: Beaumont
to Rockland 74 milos, Beaumont to
Sabiue Pass 28.03 miles; total 102.03
miles.
The following bills became laws
without the approval of tho gover-
nor: Atneuding the private corpora-
tion act so as to permit the incorpor-
ation thereunder of guarunty and
surety companies which may act as
trustee or assignee or receiver or ex-
ecutor or testamentary guardian, and
which may bo taken as sufficient
surety for the amount of any official
bond. The bill also removes tbe in-
hibitions in the old act against tho
incorporation of retail concerns.
Amending the act relating to escheat-
ed estates Authorizing tho Corpus
Ghristi Water Kupply company to
build a dam across tbo Nueces river.
The twenty-fourth legislature en-
acted a law which was approved by
tho governor on April 27 throwing
the burden of proof as to age of de-
fendent aud prohibiting district attor-
neys from admitting tho age of said
defendant. It was charged upon ti)c
floor of tho house during the recent
session of tho legislature that the re-
formatory was taxed beyond its ca-
pacity because of the practice in-
dulged in by many district attorneys
of admitting tho age of a convict to
be less than 16 yoars, provided said
convict pleaded guilty, thereby de-
feating the purpose for which tho re-
formatory was established.
The action of Judgo Wallace of
New York in rendering judgment
for tho plaintiff in the suit of tbe
widow of tho late Young M. Langdon
of Dallas, whoso husband was mur-
dered, vs. an accident insurance com-
pany, and his deciding that murder is
un accident, bus resulted in much
statement that it was a little, inno-
cent measure to authorize counties to
reduce tho interest on their bonds, it
passed without a protest. At the
last session of the Twenty-third legis-
lature the same bill had to be killed
off in committee and on its passage.
But there was big money in-
volved, und there was tho validity of
bonds involved. Probably (1,000,090
of county treasury warrants were
outstanding and no money to pay
them. The last roport of tbe bureau
of statistics (1893) put the amount
outstanding at about (700,000. Tho
holders of these warrants in most in-
stances bought them at 10 to 60 cents
on tho dollar. The margin for profit
is large. When the counties issue
• 1,000,000 of those bonds the warrant
brokers will earn by the sweat of leg-
islative lobbyists about (500,000. No
one can cstimuto tho shady bonds al-
ready issued that require some such
authority as this act confers to en-
able county officers to supply new and
valid ones to retire them at a lower
rate of interest. Tho bill as it reads
recognizes the existenco of doubtful
and contested county debts, and au-
thorizes compromises and payments
of them by bond issues.
Our Stale Finance*.
Austin, Tex., May 11.—Tho reve-
nues of March and April of this year
have been expended in retiring regis-
tered claims and paying legislative
Bettio Smith, widow of tho late A. B.
Smith, is plaintiff against insurance
companies in which her husband hold
accident policies aggregating $20,090
at the time of his death.
In Gregg county the other night
tho old homestead of Wade Jones,
who died last May und whoso widow
had married Will Jones, was set on
lire, and while Jones and his wifo
wore putting out tho Haines they woro
both shot from ambush. Tho woman
received a mortal wound, while her
husband was shot in tho log. The
woman is about 45 years old and was
managing tho estate of her deceased
husband, which comprised several
thousand acres of land. Officers are
at work on tbe ease.
Tho governor recently sent in to
the secretary of state without approv-
al or disapproval house joint resolu-
tion No. 32, directing him to submit
to tho qualified voters of Texas nt
tho next gunoral election an amend-
ment to article 6, section 2, of tho
constitution requiring that every
male porson o7 foreign birth shall de-
clare his intention of becoming a
citizen of tho United States at least
| six months before he shall bo permit-
ted to voto in this state.
(• Will Vinlng, president of tho Vin-
j ing and Coleman Railroad company,
was at Waco tho other day in the in-
terest of his proposed line, which will
bo built from a point near the town
of Coleman, on the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, to tho Colorado river,
expenses, leaving (109,000 on hand j a distanco of twenty miles. 'This por-
ant, Phillip Chester, made • rush for atallments. Ills proposed to build one
the mayor, yelling ell sorts of threats,
but was stopped by clerks and others.
The noise frightened the people in the
building and In the rush for safety
several were knocked down end
mile per month, donations to be paid
when tho Iron is upon the ground.
Work will begin in sixty days. The
petition asks that the people build
ten miles. After that toe projectors
on donations
May 1, 1895. The expenses of Mareh|
and April of this year provided for in
the general appropriation bill taking
effect May 1, havo to be paid out of
rovenuos which come in after May 1.
Kovenues for this year under the in-
creased tax rato, the governor and
comptroller estimates, will be (2,661,-
209. Expenses for this year,
after eliminating tho items vetoed
and the items charged to the
school fund, will be (2,242,586, plus
$214,000 appropriated for deficiencies;
$26,000 to pay for printing the re-
vised codes und about (6000 legisla-
tive expenses, or a total of (2,486,-
686. The gross revenues for tho
year beginning March 1, at $2,661,-
209 against gross expenses of $2,486,-
496, would appear to give a surplus
of $174,713. But as tho revenues of
M&roh and April have been expended
in advance it may bo doubtful wheth-
er there will be any surplus at all. A
statement of receipts and expenses
monthly, based on the governor’s fig-
ures and the comptroller's report for
last year, would appear to postpone
tho date for cash payments indefi-
nitely.
Negro Shoot* III* Wife.
Wellborn, Tex., May 11__Mat
Halsey, a negro living south Of here,
shot and mortally wounded his wifo
with a pistol Thursday. He then
went to the house of Gus Roya, an-
other negro, living about two miles
away, and inquired for him. Ho was
not at home, but rode up a few mo-
ments later, when Halsey opened fire
on him. The negro fell from his
horse unhit, but Balsey thought he
had killed him and left. Family trou-
ble was the cause. Baisey was sub-
sequently captured at Houston.
Galveston, Tex., May 8__In the
United States district oourt yesterday
C. Dart, commissioner, released Ed-
mund Sampson from the Galveston
county jail. Sampson was convicted
on March 8 of telling malt liquor in
violation of tha internal revenue laws
and flood $100 and sentenced to thirty
days ia jail. He has served the
thirty days of his sentence and thirty
days on the line, and Med his applica-
tion for disoharge on the ground that
be was too poor tj pay Inu fine U n
pbimd. Tha application
and the pgf
tion of tbe road will soon be under
contract. Mr. Vining was in confer-
ence as to tho prospoct of oxtending
his line toward Waco and received
encouragement.
Ex-Gov. F. R. Lubbock has received
a letter from Mr. Clark the last acting
treasuror of tho confederacy, stating
that he has a flag at Clarksville,
Tenn., which was left at that placo in
in 1862 by tho Sabine Grays, u Texas
company then en roulo to Fort Don-
aldson. Mr. Clark proposes to send
the flag to the survivors of the com-
pany through Gov. Lubbock, who
desires to know if any of the company
remaiu in Texas and whore they may
bn addressed.
The competitive examination or-
dered by Congressman C. K. Hell for
May 25, at Dublin, to select a candi-
date to represent the eighth district
ut West Point has been postponed un-
til June 8. This vacancy results by
reason of the graduation of Charles
E. Russell of Comanche, from tho
academy In June, 1896. and the candi-
date selected at Dublin to succeod
him will not report at tho academy
prior to that time.
The attorney general has notified
County Judge McFall of Travis coun-
ty, that his department could not ap-
prove the rccont issue of ♦100,000 of
funding bonds authorized by the
county commissioners of that county.
Purchasers had been secured for these
bond* a premium, the purpose of
their Issuance being to take up the
outatandlng indebtedness bearing in-
terest at the rate of 6 per cent, with
6 per cent securities.
County Treasurer Coe of Dallas
county, says that County Collector
Jacoby has paid him $4998.69, to
make good the shortage of his rhlof
deputy, M. W. Taggart, who left Dal-
las some weeks ago. and has not
since been heard of. No one seems
to know the whereabouts of Taggart
He haa bad ample time to get to Aus-
tralia.
Dr. C. H. Daughtry, a doctor of
an, was found in hi* room at a
^Terrell the other morning in
ition. He was suffering
of alrvchnine. Phvsi-
At Kan Antonio, Kidney B. Wood,
for himself and in the name of the
Kidney B. Wood Grocery company
and the Farmers' Grocery company,
has filed a deed of trust transferring
the stock and all contents of hit store
to Win. Boon. Liabilities about $36,-
000. Assets not given, but will reach
about (46,000 or (50,000.
At Parle, a suit has been instituted
against tho city for $760 by S. S.
Kpeiars, who alleges that to be the
amount of the depreciation of his
property located on Bakers' branch,
into which tho city sewers empty.
This is intended as a test ease on the
part of several parties residing on tho
branch.
Tho first batch of redemptions ot
lands sold to the state for taxes has
just been received, and the comp-
troller issued thirty-three re-
ceipts (or about (1000. It is pre-
sumed these redemptions aro occa-
sioned by the new act providing (or
suits against the delinquents and that
a largo amount of revenue will come
in within the next few months from
the tux dodgers.
F’our negroes named Ike Creighton,
Jr., Matthew Mootrye. Hurrella and
Albert Kolley liavo been jailed at
Tyler, charged with tho murder of
tho Bohemian. Andrew- Pickle, and
the attempt to murder bis cousin,
Tom Pickle. Tom Pickle identified
tho prisoners.
The other morning at Houston,
Howard .Sunders, a negro, was run
over by a fiat ear pulled by a switch
engine of tho Houston and Texas Cen-
tral. His arm was badly crushed and
he was hurt internally. It was found
necosssary to amputate his arm.
At Houston recently Gustave Sauter
was tried before the recorder on the
charge of violating the Sunday law
by selling beer. It resulted in a mis-
trial, theru being five fur acquittal
und one against. The saloons have
boen closud on Sundays since.
At Fnois, Ellis county, recently, a
“professional game" of ball was
played between the lawyers and doc-
tors of that place for the benefit of
tho Myrtle Cemetery association.
Tho game was won by the lawyers,
the score standing 16 to 14.
Tho following bill has boeomo a
law without the governor's signature:
Amending the act of April 6, 1889,
relating to .ions of me''hunies. mater-
ial men, etc , so as to givo material
men a lion upon bridgo timbers, ties,
otc., furnished railroads.
'The board of
A BECUMAK CASE-
PHYSICIANS PUZZLED BY THE
EXPERIENCE OF MRS. BOWEN.
Th« II«m|>1(hI ItsM
(From the Record. Philadelphia, P».)
Jv(Ht July the Kplacopul hospital ad-
mitted a woman whose pale and emanol-
ated fare and rucking cough proclaimed
her the victim of consumption. She
gave her name an Mrs. Win. G.
I to wen, residence, 1K49 Meighsn St.,
Philadelphia. The case was diag-
nosed and she was told plainly that
•he was in an advanced state of con-
sumption. The examining physician
even showed her the sunken place In hsr
breast where the cAvlty In her lung was
supposed to exist. She went home to
her family, h broken, disheartened wom-
an with death staring her In the face.
That was the beginning of the story, the
end ms told by Mrs. Ilowen, who no
longer expects to die, to s reporter fol-
lows ;
"The first symptoms of consumption
came In the form of terrible sweats,
night and day. From April until
Beptember 1 was constantly cold and
kept wrapped up In blankets through
the hottest weather. A terrible cough
took possession of me, my breast was
»‘>ro to the slightest touch, and my
limbs were like cold clay. The hardest
rubbing with the coarsest towel would
not create the slightest flush, and tha
least exertion would exhaust me.
“I went to the hospital In July and
they diagnosed my case an above etat-
ed. It was when the clouds were the
darkest that the first glint of aunahlne
came. Mr. Shelmerdlne, a friend, who
lives around at 1X44 Clementine 8t„ said
to mo one day, Mrs. Bowen did you ever
try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People. 1 had never heard of the medi-
cine, but In my condition could not turn
a deaf ear to anything that offered re-
lief. It was after considerable thought
und Investigation that I chncluded to
discontinue all other medicine. In-
cluding cod liver oil. and depend
entirely upon Pink Pills. I began to
take the pills, at first with but little en-
couragement. The first sign of improve-
ment was a warmth and tingling sen-
sation in my limbs. Finally the cough
disappeared, my chest lost Its soreness
and 1 began to gain flesh until I waa
fifteen pounds heavier. All thlcT I owe
to Dr. W illiams’ Pink Pills and I cannot
praise them too highly.”
Mrs. Bowen is a kindly faced lady of
middle age, a church member, well-
known und highly esteemed. She looka
toduy well and strong and It seem* al-
most impossible that she was ever given
up by eminent physicians as an In-
curable consumptive. Yet such la tho
case beyond all dispute.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all
the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are for sale by
all druggists, or may he had by mall
from I>r. W lllianis* Med. Co., Schenec-
tady, N. Y., for 50c. per box, or six
boxes for fu.fio.
Wort h of n lit me.
A dime of Irt'jy is worth but its fac©
value, from purchaser's stand point,
loalers charge for such from 25 cents
to b'> cents. A diino of 1839 or ono
.■>f 18|o is worth to sell only its
face value. The dime of 1839 having
on tin* obverse the letters O. P. is
lold by dealers at from 30 to 65 cents.
A 3-cunt piece of 1 Ht>7 sells for 75
cents to Jf 1; dealers pay from 20 cents
to 35 cents for such. A half-franc of
|8til has no special \alue. Dealers
So not purchase half-dollars of 1829,
but sell them from 75 cents to fl.
Where the figure 29 is stamped over
27 the charge is from $1.25 to $1.75.
l'hero is no demand for Hying eagle
Dickies of 1*57, but those of the issuo
*)f 1*53 an' worth from $1.50 to $2.50,
according to state of preservation.
Itig 15irt| TrurhL
Several tracks of an extent species
jf agigantic bird have at different
limes been found in tho stono quarry
it Holyoke, Muss. The last set discov-
ered shows that tho bird had a fool
sloven inches long, armed with three
nails or daws to each foot. The
trucks average four feet ten inches
apart, and eleven of thorn have been
revealed to view. They are very per-
fect, even the too nails being plainly
iistinct, It is understood that the
trustees of somo big eastern college
have olTcred the owner $1,100, or $109
.for each track, if he will get them out
tists of Dallas, has been incorported anj pack them ready for shipping,
with Sam P. Cochran. Fred T. aMoso- ‘
ley, J. W. Jaynes and J. A. Hill, in- | yult« an Aiilmle.
corporators. The Central railway of Peru crosses
File Populists of Dallas aro work. lhc “l B, 16'63A I00.1 a^?V8
log to secure tho National People's ■?* ‘eVo1’ f‘V^00 ^
Party convention, ami tho city - summit of Mount Blanc.
school
,ly ii
trustees of
cut of (9208 In teachers’ salaries and
appointed a committee to petition the
city council to order an election held
to increase the school tax.
A telegram from'Gov. Wheeler and
Hrowster Cameron in Baltimore to
parties In HeeVtlle soys tho deep wa-
ter bonus for Aransas Pass lacks 5000
acres, or about (59,00 > of being com-
plete.
Preparations aro complete at Dal-
las for tho reception of delegates to
tho Southern I’resbytorian general
assomply which meets there on the
16th. It is expected 300 will attend.
Tho city council of Huntsville fixed
tho tax levy for the present year as
follows: Ad valorem 26 cents, school
26 conts, school building 29 cents,
bridge 5 cents; total 76 on the (100.
Tho board of education recently
took stops toward investing the sur-
plus permanent school fund In bonds.
There is now a surplus of somo (236,-
000 of this fund on hand.
Gov. Culberson has just pardoned
sixty-live inmates of tho house of cor-
rection und reformatory because they
were above 16 yoars of ago when sen-
tenced to that prison.
Tho first Church of Christian Seien-
thorities will help them.
At Fort Worth tbo other day James
Terry foil from the top of a windmill
some twenty-five feet to tho ground
ami broku his ankle.
The Planters' Oil company of
Weatherford, recently filed an amend-
ment to its charter increasing its cap-
ital stock (75,000.
Tho first brick kiln burned at Ray
City, Matagorda county, proved to bo
a groat success, and the courthouse
will go up at once.
Tho monthly expenses of tho state
of 'l’oxas for tho year ending with
February, 1896, will be about (207,215
per month.
Tho Cotton Bolt offers to join tho
Houston and Texas Central in tho
construction of a new union depot at
Chrsieana.
Mrs. M. B. Ricketts, milliner ot
So, Did Y»m? ,
"Did yon ever see your own eye?"
asked an unscientific person. "It is
a very simple matter. The best view
is obtained by shutting, say, the left
als, nuts, almonds, olives, all sorts
of dried fruits, coffee, madder, opium
and an enormous amount of wine, the
last named article to France, to be
Sherman, has filed a chattle mortgage r«b,,ulod and A very Im-
in favor of creditors to tbe amount of ' port*nt Dad0 18 »■»<>
(2827.
The governor has pardoned Thom-
as Duck, convicted a few days since
in Hopkins county on a charge of for.
gory.
The sound money Democrats of
Texas declare that there will bo no
more harmony for the sake of offices.
Work is progrossing steadily on
the deep well for the Weatherford
W ater. Light and lee company.
The public schools of Plano, Collin
county, havo been suspended on ac-
count of the small-pox scare.
Hon. W. P. Martin of Kilgore,
chairman of the State Alliance exe-
cutive committee is dead.
'I bo wool clip in Childress county
Is reported to be about three pounds
short to the sheep.
Tho coal found ia Coleman county
is considered as guod as that of the
Indian terrritory.
H. P. M. Swain, grocer at Frank-
lin, Roberstou county, has failed.
The new vault for tha oourt-bouse
at Sherman is to cost (18,400.
Lancaster, Dallas oounty, Is to
have an artesian well.
The city authorities at Ennis
making war on dogs.
The commercial club of Waxaha-
portant trade Is also carried oa In
fish, sponges and coral.
UriMt Sailing fthlp.
The largest sailing ship afloat is the
remodeled I’arslan Monarch, 3,923
tons measurement. Her iron most#
are 184 feet high from the deck.
Vnrjr Troduetlvn.
Mexico produces anything that can
bo raised in any other country. So
varied is tho climate that In the same
state can be raised any product of
the tropics aad of the polar region.
Cotton, wheat, rye, silver, silk, cocoa-
nuts. bananas, rioe, cocoa, vanilla,
logwuod. mahogany, hides and wine*
are the principal product#.
A l,*rg« Dnbt.
The total public debt of the self-
governing British colonies amounts
to something like -t’SOO.OOJ.OOO, or
about (1,690,000,000 of federal money.
\Vli*t A flham*.
Two hundred yners ago laet July
the bank ol England started on a
basis of a government debt to It of
(6,900,000. The debt the govern-
ment now owes the bank is (66,000,'
090. _ ,v; rjM
Tit* ion- Kilram**
The most easterly point ot ths
United States is (/noddy Head,
the most westerly, Alton
Alu-ka; the most in
eye and pressing gently upon the
right sido of tbe right eye. You will
then see, apparently, at the right
sido of tho nose a round, dark
m
object about tbe size of the
applo of the aye. That is what I take
it to be, and 1 suppose the retina is
made in somo way to reflect the outer
portion of tbo eye, though the phe-
nomenon maybe only an optical Illu-
sion."
Turkey** Ksport*.
Turkey sonds out tobacco, the oere-
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