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This little prayer beginning "now I
lay me^down to sleep" was written by
John Sogers, the martyr.
Prince Bismarck now devotes a
great deal of time to playing solitaire.
This was a favorite game of Napoleon
George W. Smaller says Consul-
General New, can easily save $10,000
from the fees of his London office in
four years.
Qüeen Victoria still has her boots
made in the old-fashioned way—elastic
sides, soft kid uppers, pointed toe-caps,
and low heels.
Tiie Countess Crosy of the old nobil-
ity of Austria has gone on the road
with her circus troupe. She will take
it to Paris before the exposition closes.
M- Carnot, president of the French
republic, in his youth served a regular
apprenticeship in a carpenter's shop,
and is a clever craftsman at that trade.
Henry W. Sage of Ithaca, N. Y.t
has just made another donation of $300-
000 for the endowment of a library for
Cornell university, this last bequest
bringing up the total of his gifts to
that institution to about $1,000,000.
Kinglake, the English historian,
who is now 78 years old, is not in
good health. He used to say that he
would die as soon as his "Invasion of
the Criraera,'1 was finished; but this
presentiment h ippily came to uaught,
his last volume having been completed
in '87.
Tiie other night a burglar got into
the house of a Bay City man named
Jackson, and made such a noise that
he awoke Mrs. Jackson. She got out
of bed, picked up a bed-slat, and
banged the burglar over the heid.
Then she fainted, and the midnight
visitor escaped, while Jackson still
slept
' It is stated that Pigott had his life
insured for the sun of £1,000 in the
English and Scottish law Life Insur-
ance offices, and paid the premiums
regularly up to the last. No claim has
yot been made upon the company.
Pigott's suicide, it is said, can not
aflfcct the policy, as it has been over
five years in existence.
Mme. Ratazzi affected a gushing and-
passionate love for her second husband,
testified by girlish demonstrations,
kissing him in public, etc., and even
going so far that when she invited a
party of twelve to dinner she had only
eleven chairs in the room, so that she
was compelled, as she archly expressed
it, "to sit in her old man's lap."
During his sojourn at the czar's
winter palace the shah of Persia occu-
pied rooms magnificently furnished.
Decorations of red silk, enormous vase s
of malachite, and doors made of tor-
toise-shell pleased his oriental taste.
Fifteen carriages and forty horses
were placed at his disposal. Ho is
traveling with a retinue of fifty-five
persons.
Prop. Mommsen, the historian, who
will soon be 72 years old, expresses
himself with his old-time vigor, it
seems. A Berlin correspondent quotes
him as saying of the Samoan commis-
sion and its work: "The controversy
relative to Samoa is a strife which is
unworthy of men. For my part 1
would not give a glass of Bavarian
beer for all the islands in the Pacific-
ocean.
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Miss Laura White, who graduated
at Michigan university in architecture
and afterward studied the same sub-
ject in Paris, is now practicing her
profession in Ashland, Ky. She is not
only an architect but a skilled mathe-
matician. She was the first student at
Ann Arbor to solve a problem that
had been sent over by one of the great
English universities.
When J. G. Binglow, a Washington
pension attorney, rose last week to
argue a pension case involving the in-
crease of twenty-one pensioners from
$36 to f72 per month with allowances
for arrears Commissioner Tanner re-
marked to him: "If you can show me
a shadow of law to warrant me in giv-
ing these men the highest pension I'll
imperil my commission to do it and I
want you to succeed." J. G. Binglow
won his case.
Spain is excited over th3 news that
Bizco del Borge, the famous brigand,
has been kilied in the Cordova moun-
tains. He was a younj ra in of noble
birth, who some years ago got into a
love difficulty In Madrid and killed his
rival. He was obliged to flee arid took
to the mountains. Organizing a band
of outlaws he became the most success-
ful brigand of modern times so far as
Spain is concerned. He was a typical
brigand of romance—handsome, cul-
tured, courteous, and cruel.
Among Washington relics called to
notice this year is the epitaph of John
Curtis, father of Martha Washington's
first husband. His wife was a good
deal of a Tartar, and so, indeed, was he,
but she generally managed to say the
last word in their wrangles. When he
died he left orders to his son, on pain
of disinheritance, to put this legend on
his tombstone, which was done: "Un-
der this marble tomb lies the body of
the Hon. John Curtis, Esq., of the city
of Williamsburg, parish of Bruton,
formerly of Hungar's parish, on the
eastern Shore of Virginia, and county
of Northampton, age 71 years, and yet
lived but seven years, which was the
spaoo of time he kept a bachelor's
home st Arlington, on the eastern shore
of Virginia" And iohefea4tbt last
RAILROAD WRECK.
President fltrrltn Mes a Hud In tiie Extradition
if Birke.
a Missouri rmm to fobtbit his life.
Lightning's Awrfttl Work—Mrs, Harrison's
Summer Trip—A Steamer Goes Down
With a Total Loss «325,000.
Burke's Case.
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Wixxipeg, Man., July 0.—The Burke case
is j roeecdlng to-day, but as yet nothing im-
[ ortai.t has been developed. The only wit
ness examined to-day was a local policeman,
who gave evidence as to Burke's arrest by
Chief McRae.
Chicago, 111., July 3.—A dispatch was re-
ceived l y the state's attorney, Longenecker,
this morning from the assistant state's attor-
ney, Baker, who is in Winnipeg looking after
the interest of the prosecution In the extra-
dition proceedings against Martin Burke, the
Cron n suspect. The telegram was to the
effect that to secure Burke's extradition,
stronger evidence will have to be presented
before the Manitoba court connecting him
with the Carlson cottage. Judge Longen-
nerker had a conference with Luther Laflin
Mi Is over the unexpected obstruction, and
it is understood both Carlsons will be sent to
Winnipeg at once.
The Whirlpool Rapids.
Niagara Falls, July 1.—Carlisle D. Gra-
ham, the man who robbed the whirlpool
rapids of it3 death-dealing notoriety by con-
structing a boat that passed In 6afety
through the maddening waters of the gorge,
will gome time this month make an attempt
which will either eclipse all former per-
formances at Niagara or result in death.
"He proposes to go over the horseshoe and
tcke the chances of being dashed to death on
the rock, suffocated by submersion in the
undertow or coming out alive. This is a feat
that never yet has been performed In Eafety,
not has it ever been attempted heretofore.
All have looked at It as sure death. But to
go into the rapids, pass down the river to the
brink of the horseshoe falls, drop the dis
tance of nearly two hundred feet to the
tempestuous torrent underneath and come
out alive is Graham's ambition.
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The Thaxton Disaster.
* Lynchburg, Ya., July 6.—The scene of the
terrible disaster near Thaxton, on the Nor-
forlk and Western road, is beyond descrip-
tion. There Is hardly enough left of the
train of eight cars that took the leap
to the bottom of the awful pit to
make one car. As soon as the
boiler of the engine exploded the entire mass
of debris took fire, and those who went down
and were not killed outright were burned to
death. Portions of eight bodies have been
taken out, and it is believed fifteen others
were entirely consumed by the fire. The sur-
vivors of the wreck, whose cries for help
could be heard from all portions of the
wreck, aud those unhurt were powerless to
render assistance,
Fatal Railroad Wreck.
Cincinnati, June 30.—Last^evening the
passenger train from Portsmouth to Cincin-
nati on the Cincinnati, Georgetown and
Portsmouth railway, with the director's car,
two passenger coaches and a baggage car
went down a trestle, half a mile west of Ba-
varia. The trestle was 100 feet long and
from ten to twelve feet high. The engineer
felt it sinking when he went on it, turned on
a full head of steam and saved the engine
and baggage but not the three coaches with
the passengers. A heavy rainstorm wa* fall-
ing at the time. Coaches turned over and
pile! up In a miscellaneous wreck. No one
was killed outright About fourteen were
injured, some it is feared mortally.
Sentenced to String.
St. Locis, Mo., July 6.—A motion for a
new trial in the case of John W. Miller, who
was convicted in the circuit court at Mexico,
Mo., June 22, for the murder of Samuel
Apgar, about a year ago, was argued yester-
day and denied. Judge Hughes then sen-
tenced Miller to be hanged Aug. 23, and gave
George Mortimor, an accomplice of Miller's,
and who pleaded guilty of murder in the sec-
ond degree, fifty years in the penitentiary.
The Grenada Lost.
New York, July 6.—A dispatch was re-
ceived by George Gould, president of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, to-day from
San Francisco verifying the report of the
loss of the company's steamer Grenada on
the rocks at Punta Tejohau. The vessel and
cargo will be a total loss. The Grenada was
valued at $250,000, and the cargo at $75,000.
Killed By a Stroke of Lightning/
New Orleans, La., July 6.—John H. Ma-
ginness of this city, president of the Magin-
ness cotton mills, was killed by a 6troke of
lightning at Ocean Spriugs, Miss. Mr. Ma-
ginness was well known in New York, being
a soa-in-law of the late Wm. M. Tweed, of
that eitv.
Electric Sugar Swindle.
Chicago, 111., July 6.—Samuel B. Leach,
the Chicago expert machinist who is alleged
to be one of the conspirators of the electric
sugar company of New York, was to-day ad-
mitted to bail in the f sum of $1500, and the
case was set for hearing for to-morrow.
Harrison Takes a Hand.
Ottawa. Ont., July 3.—The department of
justice to-day received a communication from
President Harrison asking for the extradition
of Burke, now held at Winnipeg for alleged
complicity in tie murder of Dr. Cronin. The
papers will not be considered until the priso-
ner is committed by Judge Bain.
Constitutional Convention.
Bismarck, Dak., July 5.—Delegates to the
constitutional convention are beginning to
arrive. Among the candidates for the presi-
dency of the convention are: Jndge Carl
and E. H. Williams, of Bismarck and Mr.
Shelly, of Hillsboro. Mr. Matter, of Fargo,
is also talked of. The republicans will doubt-
less caucus and name the man.
Ambushed.
Ethel, La., July 5.—Herman Practonous,
a white man, was murdered near here last
night by four negroes in the public road with
shotguns. Practonous was unarmed. He
was shot from his horse and in the back.
Two of the murderers were arrested.
Mrs. Harrison's Summer Trip.
Washington, D. C., July 6.—Mrs. Har-
rison and her father, Dr. Scott, and two
grand-children left Washington on the 3
o'clock train this afternoon for Deer Park via
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, where they
will spend the summer.
A Tale of Distress.
New York, July 5.—The steamship Alesia,
Capt Vallert, irom Gibraltar, on the morn-
lag oí Jobs 83, in latitude 35 degrees 53
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of distress. It proved to be the Norwegian
bark Ringborne, Capt. Nescheri, who told a
tale of hardships. They had been eighty
days out from Australia,bound for Plymouth,'
England, when all but four of his crew were
sick with scurvy. The captain himself was
sick, his legs being swollen to four times
their natural size. They refused to come
aboard the Alesia, but accepted some fre6h
vegetables.
The Durango, Colorado, Fire.
Denver, Col., July 5.—Additional particu-
lars from Durango say the fire department
responded promptly to the alarm, but the
streams of water which were poured on the
fire seemed to aggravate the flames and it
became so hot the firemen were compelled to
beat a hasty retreat. Their attention was
then turned toward confining the fire to the
part of town lying north of H street, but this
the firemen were unable to do, for it became
so hot that it was utterly impossible to get
close to it, notwithstanding the wind was
blowing in a diagonal direction. Insurance
men estimate the loss at £300,000, on which
there is $175,000 insurance.
Jewish Church Divorces Null.
Chicago, July 1.—Judge Collins in the
circuit court to-day decided that divorces in
Jewish churches are null aud void, and on
he strength of the decision ordered that
Joseph Bersofsky should pay Esther Bersof-
sky $2 per week alimony and $15 solicitors'
fees. The husband had secured a church
divorce and was suing for confirmation of it
in the circuit court. In doing 60 he set up
the fact of the church divorce as a bar
against any claim for compensation by his
wife.
Situation at Johnstown.
Johnstown, Pa., July 1.—Gov. Beaver is
here to-day aud has covered the entire devas-
tated district with Gen. Hastings. He ex-
presses himself as satisfiel with the work
done and thinks the people here will soon be
self-sustaining. The work of clearing up
the Conemaugh from the Jano to the Gauticr
steel works was started to day with about
500 men at work on this part of the river. So
far two bodies have been taken out from the
wire that is lodged in the water. All bodies
so far taken out are in a good state of pres-
ervation.
The Murder Mystery.
CniCAGO, 111., July 5.—Chief Hubbard re-
ceived a telegram from the police authorities
of Dubuque, la., yesterday that the stranger
whose description tallied closely with that
of Patrick Cooney, the escaped ^fox," had
either fyeen murdered or had committed sui-
cide. The chief detailed Officer Prendergast
to go to Dubuque and examine the body.
Prendergast knew Cooney aud Avill be able
to identify the body if it is that of Cooney.
The Haj tlm SLtuati n.
New York, July 5.—The legation of Hayti
to the United States are in receipt of a cable
dispatch dated Port au Prince, June 30, to
the effect that the government lines remain
unchanged, no advance whatever having
been made by the insurgent forces, and that
Hippolyte was still at Cape Ilaytien. Tiie
capital and departments of the south, south-
west and west were in a state of perfect
tranquillity.
Fardoned.
Springfield, 111., July 5.—Gov. Fiferhas
pardoned Joe Mackin, the Chicago wire-
worker now serving a term in the peniten-
tiary for crimes against popular suffrage.
The governor accompanied the pardon with
a review of the papers in the case, in which
he stated that it had stronger support, prob
ably, than had ever been presented to a gov-
ernor in a like case before.
Oil Tank on Fire.
Washington, Penn., July 5.—Lightning
this evening struck a 40,000-barrel oil tank
belonging to the Western and Atlantic pipe
line company located with several others of
similar size at Johnson's station, on the
Char tier's railroad, six miles north of Wash-
ington. The tank contained 20,000 barrels
of fluid and is burning at a lively rate.
Heavy Washouts.
Baltimore, Md., July 5.—Travel on the
Baltimore and Potomic railroad to Washing
ton is cut oil. No trains south have passed
Stony Bun since 7:10. The tr ck is was! ü i
away for fifty yards. From the Patapsco to
Stony Run the country is under water. Con-
struction trains are busy repairing the dam
age.
A Singular Court Spectacle.
Columbus,O., July 5.—The singular specta
cle of a woman with a 2-months-old baby
being committed to the penitentiary for
hor.-e stealing was witnessed in this city yes-
terday. The prisoner is Miss Bettie McGee,
aged 20, and she was sentenced for one year.
Indiana Coal Miners Strike.
Brazil, Ind., July 5.—The striking India
na block coal miners in ten districts, center-
ing in Brazil, refused by popular vote y ester,
day a proposition to accept the operator's
offer, and the strike, which begun May J
against a 15-cent reduction, continues.
Suicided in aClubroom.
New Orleans, La., July 1.—Capt. Wm
Pierce, while sitting in the clubrooms of the
Continental Guards' armory this morning
shot himself through the head with a re-
volver, killing himself instantly. No cause
is assigned for the rash act.
The Public Debt.
Washington, June 30.—It is estimated at
the treasury department that there has been
a decrease of about $15,500,000 in the public
debt since June 1. This makes the debt re
duction for the fiscal year ending June 3(>
188.183,200
Declined the Appointment.
Washington, July 3.—J. B. Agnew, of
Pennsylvania, who was offered the pO.dtion
of superintendent of the dead letter office,
postoffice department, has declined the ap-
pointment.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
London, July 5.—The Rome correspondent
of the Chronicle says: In receiving the
Spanish ambassador the pope alluded to his
possible departure from Rome. It is certain
that arrangements for his refuge in Spain
have been completed.
Belief exists in Paris police circles that a
cabinet crisis will result from the charge
made by M. DeCassagnac in the chamber of
deputies last Saturday that M. Theveao
minister of justice, was an accomplice of M.
Meyer in the credit mobilie* frauds, for con-
nection with which M. Meyer has been sent
to prison. It is rumored that both M. Théve-
not and M, Rouvier, minister of ¿fiance, are
determined to resign.
Le Journal de St. Petersburg sayc Shat
Russia has been interested in the destinies of
Servia, and on the occasion of King Alex-
der's anointment [at Maitichir heartily
wishes him happiness and prosperity for his
reign. He says that all loyal Servians will
share Russia's sentiments.
The shah after receiving Lord Salisbury
and members of the cabinet and members of
the diplomatic corps to-day departed for
Windsor cattle. Upon hi* at rival at tbe
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SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
One if the Smith Boys Flogs His Better Half
Closing Separation,
the fmm trinity a sight to behold.
A Negro Knifing:—Discovery of Natural Gas
m Great Quantities—Fined 825 for
Disturbing Religious Worship.
Natural Gas.
Eagle Pass, Tex., July 6.—This city has
been thrown Into a furore of excitement by
the announcement of the discovery of natu
ral gas in unlimited quantities within the
city limits, and not a mile from the center
of town. The Eagle Pass improvement
company were boring a 6-inch artesian well,
when at the depth of 260 feet it was discov-
ered that a large quantity of gas was issuing
from the pipe. Upon being lighted it showed
a brilliant flame, which shot away up in the
air, illuminating the surrounding country
after n'ght with a ghastly glare. A crowd of
excite.1 sight-seers Immediately repaired to
the scene. Many predicted that it was
merely a small deposit of gas, and would
speedily exhaust itself, but as boring con-
tinues the outpour of gas becomes much
stronger, until now, after a lapse of thirty
hours, it has become quite dangerous, and
this morning blew the cap off the pipe.
A Youth Seriously Shot:
Ladonia, Tex., July 1.—Quite a sensation
«vas produced this morning when it became
generally known that a Fliooting affair had
occurred in which Jack Marshall, a boy 17 or
18 years of age was shot by the officers.
Yesterday evening Will Black, a boy about
the same age as Marshall, was arrested and
locked up in the calaboose. Jack Marshall
together with one or two other boys, con-
cluded that the imprisonment of Black was
wrong, and that it would be right for them
to liberate him. Marshall, in company with
three other boys, went to the calaboose, it is
said, and taking a crowbar, proceeded to
prize it open to liberate Black. About this
time, Officers Absher and Moore happened
along, and the boys discovered them and ran
away. The officers ordered them to halt, but
as they did not stop they fired their pistols
off twice, one of the balls striking Marshall,
inflicting a dangerous if not fatal wound.
Charged with Saddle Theft.
Hillsboro, Tex., July 6.—T. II. Albright
Was arrested and jailed here, charged with
the theft of a saddle and set of harness. The
property was recovered.
The county commissioners' court Is sitting
as a board of equalization this week. The
railroads came in for the following attention:
Cotton Belt and Texas Central placed at
§7500 per mile; Santa Fe $7030, Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, $10,000, but accorded a
new hearing. The court also agreed to pur-
chase a pair of trained hounds for the assist
ance of county officers in tracing criminals.
liailroad Rolling Stock Assessments.
Austin, Tex., July 6.—Assessments of the
rolling stock of nearly all the railroads have
been received by the comptroller. It is
noted that the only rendition yet received
which seems to have been raised is that of
the Sabine and East Texas railway, which
the county commissioners of Jefferson coun-
ty raised from $73,240 to $10^,425. The valu-
ation of the rolling 6tock of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and operated lines has
been increased over last year something like
106 percent, by the company's rendition.
High Water.
Dallas, Tex., July 6.—Rain fell yesterday
at intervals, with a sign of clearing up early
in the day and a bright sky in the afternoon.
The Trinity river continued to rise steadily
during the day and was watched by thou-
sands. Among the drift was seen a dead
mule in harness. It was caught on a wire
fence almost abreast of the city, and after
being wound round and round the mutilating
obstruction it appeared to turn a somersault
in the water, and then disappeared. Old set
tiers state that the river is higher now than
it has been since 1866.
Negro Seriously Cut.
Shernan, Tex., July 6.—A row between
two negro men near the Chinese quarters.
Pecan street, this evening at 7 o'clock re-
sulted in Joe Patterson being severely cut in
the left hand and right shoulder by Atonzo
Offitt. Oflltt says he cut Patterson in the
shoulder in 6elf-dcfense, but he says that
Patterson cut himself in the hand by falling
on a pair of scissors with which Offitt says he
(Patterson) was chasing him. Constable
Whiteside placed Offitt under bond in the
sum of $250.
Serious Accident*
Frost, Tex., July 6.—Yesterday Col. L.
McCord and George Acrid were coming
from Davison in a buggy. Their horse took
fright and literally kicked things to atoms
and broke his own leg, turning the buggy
over on Col. McCord and cons iderably bruis-
ing him up.
He Whipped His Wife*
Kingston, Tex., July 6.—An unpleasant
state of feeling between Charley Smith and
his wife culminated in his giving her some-
thing in the order of a whipping. No seri-
ous injury resulted further than a separation
and his paying a fine of about $50.
Man Drowned.
Circleville, Tex., July 5.—The body of a
drowned man named Hallman was found yes-
terday morning in the San Gabriel river, near
here. As he had on nothing but his shirt, it
is supposed he had attempted to wade the
river and lost his life in the attempt.
Too Much Rain.
Wheatland, Tex., July 5.—The heaviest
fain of the season has been falling since
Saturday at sunset and continues unabated.
Wheat, some of which was already sprouted
by frequent rains, will be badly damaged
before it can again dry out.
Corn Already Made;
Granbuby, Tex., July 5.—A fine corn crop
is already made so far as rain is concerned,
and a very little more will secure a good crop
of cotton.
Shot by a Woman.
Marble Falls, Tex., June 30.—Last night
about 10 o'clock Mrs. Conrad Hartman shot
Robert Rogers, an old man who works in the
Two Years.
McKinney, Tex., July 5.—In the district
court the jury in the Kit Taylor case returned
a verdict of guilty and assessed the punish-
ment at two years' imprisonment.
Drowned in a Fool.
BlackJack, Tex., July 5.—Yesterday even-
ing J. F. Gambrell, who lives three miles
southeast Irom this place, went to bathe in a
pool a short distance from bis house and not
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answer, went to look for him. She found
his clothing on the bank and alarmed the
neighbors, who found his body near the
bank in shallow water, dead.
A Warlike Mexican.
Dallas, Teat., July 5.—Charlie Turner, a
Mexican, undertook to raise sancho yester-
day and is now cooling his heels behind the
bare of the calaboose. About 10 a. m. yester-
day he entered Fitzpatrick's saloon, east of
the federal building, and drawing a six
shooter on the bartender ordered him to mix
a cocktail and be quick about it After
hoisting in the drink he went over to Smith's
stables, where, having armed himself with a
pitchfork, he soon carried the premises by
storm and put the inhabitants to flight. He
then got on a street car and seemed bent on
holding up the passengers, when office Ram-
sey proceeded to take charge of him. The
Mexican resisting arrest, the officer threw
him off the car, and then, Officer Walle
coming up, the warlike Mexican was soon
subdued. On his person were found a pistol
a dagger, a "baldooky" and other weapons
such as are used for offensive and defensive
purposes in the tropics.
Capital Callings.
Aüstin, Tex., July 1.—Mrs. Dr. L. B.
Johnson, of this city, was accidentally 6hot
this morning and died in a few hours. A
pistol fell from a bed in her room and was
fired by concussion.
The state treasurer took in $25,000 school
money to-day, mostly of the permanent
fund, being payments of the principal on
land sales.
It is reported suit is tobe instituted against
one of the railway companies to forfeit lands
granted It by the state, its sale of lands be-
ing only partial and the time having expired
within which it is required to sell the same.
Young Man Drowned.
Lewisville, Tex., July 5.—While two
brothers by the name of Davidson were
crossing Hickory creek, a few miles north of
this place, yesterday evening, one of them
became entangled in the brush and left his
horse and swam ashore, tut returned to get
his horse out, and while there wa s drowned,
and his body had not been recovered up to 9
o'clock to-day. He leaves a widowed mother
and a brother to mourn his loss.
In Degradation's Depths.
Texarkana, Tex., July 1.—This morning
the marshal arrested a negro giving the name
of Dave Younger and a white woman who
gave the name of Minnie Gerard on a charge
of an offense against public decency. They
are traveling companions, arrived on the
Transcontinental last night and put up at a
colored lodging-house, and at their request
were assigned to the same room.
Important District Court.
Rio Grande City, Tex., July 5.—A lively
term of the district court adjourned here
Saturday. All quo warranto cases for county
officers were transferred for trial to Browns-
ville instead of Laredo, contrary to the de
sire of the parties suing. This gives the
present holders several months, at least,
further lease of office.
Superintendent of Construction;
El Paso, Tex., July 5.—S. H. Buchanan
has been appointed superintendent of con-
struction of the public building here, vice E.
Knezell resigned. Mr. Buchanan had re-
cently been defeated for mayor and was an
applicant for collector of customs at this
poiut, but now accepts what the administra-
tion will give him.
Run Over and Killed.
La Grange, Tex., July 1.—Ed Bode, a
German tailor from Shelby, Austin county
who had worked here for a few weeks, was
run over and killed by cars on the Taylor,
Bartrop and Houston road last night. It
seems that Bode had been on a spree and on
his way home fell asleep on a sidetrack in
the company's yard.
Held for Alleged Swindling.
Abilene, Tex., July 1.—A man by the
name of Hendricks, wanted in Bell county
for swindling, is in jail here awaiting the
coming of Bell county officials to get him.
Medium Sized Snake*
McKinney, Tex., July 5.—Dick Fitzhugh,
a lad of 13 years, killed a rattlesnake 7},{
feet long and 12 inches in circumference.
The snake had sixteen rattles. It was brought
to town and exhibited. Th e oldest inhabi-
tant is rubbing up his faculties and there is
talk of reviving the Morrow Block Club.
Shot Himself.
Corpus Christi, Tex., July 5.—John Hall,
an old resident of Corpus Christi, committed
suicide by shooting himself In the head with
a 44-caliber Colt's revolver. The ball en-
tered on the right side, carrying away the
upper part of the ear, coming out on the
other side. He was 523'ears old.
Boy DroVned.
Ahslene, Tex., Jnly 5.—Mr. Whitesidcs,
who lifvéa on Deadinau creek, was unfortu
nate enough to have his little boy drowned
in that creek yesterday. A rise coming sud-
denly down the creek caught the little fel-
low unexpectedly and he was drowned before
he could be saved.
Reported Killed.
McKinney, Tex., July 1.—Telegrams an-
nounce that Rush Wells, a young man from
this place on his way to fct. Louis with cattle,
was run over and killed by a train in Mis-
souri. He was a good citizen and his loss is
deplored.
Badly Burned.
Hutch ins, Tex., July 1.—Miss Dimple
Atwell, the 12-year-old daughter of Capt B.
D. Atwell, while attempting to pour boiling
water from one vessel to another, emptied
the contents upon her person, scalding both
legs from knee to the shoe-tops.
Killed by Lightning.
Abilene, Tex., July 5.—Saturday, during
a thunder storm prevailing in Mora flat, Joo
Bruton was killed by lightning, and his com-
panions, Henry Powers, Ned Decy and J. H.
Hardigree were knocked down. Bruton'
horse was also killed.
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Fighting the Cotton Miller.
Terrell, Tex., July 5.—Farmers arc sup-
plying themselves with lamps for field fires
almost by the wagon load. They say the fly
can be thus destroyed at nights and thus de-
stroy one of the worst enemies to the cottoi
field.
Died.
Denison, Tex., July 3.—Mr. Jackson, the
young Sherman man who fell from the
fourth story of a building in north Denison
late last evening, died last night at 9 o'clock.
His remains were shipped home this morning
for burial.
Railroad Office Moved.
Waxahachie, Tex., July 6.—The princi-
pal office of the Fort Worth and New Orleans
railway has been moved from Fort Worth to
Waxahachie.
Wounded Boy Easy.
Ladonia, Tex., July 5.—Jack Marshall,
who was shot Monday morning by Gffictri
Absher an4 Moore, to rostía* vfjy Mty, bttt
m mm ft* *a t|* wait« «üwwm.
LAWS OF TEXAS.
PASSED AT REGULAR SESSION
Of the Twenty-First legislature
Convened at the City of Austin,
Jan. 8,1889, and Adjourned
April 6, 1889.
Section 1.
lature of the stáu"
3249, of Chapter 2, w
8295, 3304, 3306, 330.
[Note.—Publication of these laws continue
from week to week until completed.]
Amendments to Revised Civil Stat-
utes.
MILITIA.
Section 1. Amends Revised Statute*, Articles 8293,
82ÍM. 3395, 3304, 8806. 3307. 330S. 3318 K27. 3329-
Seó ,2. Repeals Revised Statutes. Articles, 83i9, 3320,
S32¿ 8822. 8323. 3324, 8325. 3326. Sec, 3. Emer-
gency clause.
Chapter 16. [II. B. No. 515.] An act to amend
Article 3249, of Chapter 2, and Articles
3193, 3291, 3304, 3295, 33ü6, c307, 3S0S,
3318, 3327, and 3329, of Chapter 4 (Mdit:a
aw>. Revised Statutes of the State of
T,v-a?, and to repeal Articles 3319, F320,
3322, 3333, 3324, 3325, and 3326,
C hapie.r "* °* sai(l Militia Law.
Be it enacted by the Legis-
«of Texas: That Article
ud Articles 3293, 3294,
3303, 3318, 3327,
and 3329, of Chapter 4, iscd Statutes
of Texas, shall be amended >*° rea<i ^
lows:
Art. 3249. See. 1. The 0djuta.nt^on"
1 ipr.
eral shall have the rank of bfigau.
general; and in the corps of ftdjtttani
general there shall be to each division oue
assistant adjutant-general with the rank
of lieutenant colonel, and to each brigade
one assistant adjutant-gencrai with rank of
major.
Sec. 2. In the inspector-general's depart-
ment there shall be one assistant inspector-
general with the rank of colonel, and to
each division one assistant inspector-gen-
eral with the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
and to each brigade one assistant inspector-
general With rank of major.
See. 3. In the quartermaster's corps
t! ere shall be an assistant quartermaster-
general with the rank of colonel, and to
each division a quartermaster with rank of
major, and to each brigade a quartermas
ter with rank of captain.
&ec. 4. The bureau of military justice
shall consist of one judge-advocate-general
with rank of colonel, and one assistant
judge-advocate-general with rank of major
to each division.
Soc. 5. The state health officer shall be
ex-ollicio surgeon-general, and shall have
the rank of colonel. In the medical corps
there shall be to each division a medical
director with the rank of lieutenant-
- •
colonel, and to each brigade a surgeon with
rank of major.
Sec. 6. The adjutant-general shall be
appointed by the commander-in-chief, by
and with the advice and consent of the
senate, if in session, and all other staff of-
ficers of the general staff shall be appointed
by the commander-in-chief, and shall con-
stitute a permanent staff department as in
the United States army: Provided, that
all staff officers now holding commissions
shall hold their present rank until the
commander-in-chief shall otherwise direct.
Sec. 7. The staff of the commander-in-
chief shall consist of the adjutant-general,
the judge advocate-general, the senior as-
sistant inspector-general and senior assist-
ant quartermaster-general, and six aides-
de-camp each, with the rank of lieutenant-
colonel, to be appointed by him.
Art 3293. Volunteer guards shall be
constituted by voluntary enlistment for a
period not less than three years on the
part of the persons held to military duty
under the laws of the state, or of persons
ihat may be exempt under such laws.
Art. 3294. Any number of per-
sons not less than forty nor more than
one hundred, of good moral character, de-
siring to form a company of volunteer
guards, may meet and declare such pur-
pose, and after obtaining consent from the
governor may perfect their organization by
electing their company officers in accord-
ance with the provisions of this chapter.
And it shall not be lawful for any body of
men whatsoever, other than the regularly
organized volunteer guard, to associate
themselves together as a military company
or organization, or to parade in public with
arms in any pait of the state, without the
license of the governor therefor.
Art. 3295. Each company of volunteer
guards shall elect one captain, one first
lieutenant and one second lieutenant, and
each troop or battery such officers as the
regulations shall specify or the commander-
in-chief shall direct; and the commanding
officer shall appoint five sergeants and four
corporals, and the commanding officer of
each troop or battery shall appoint such
number of sergeants and corporals as may
be specified in the regulations or the com-
mander-in-chief may direct.
Art 3304. The Texas volunteer guard
in time of peace shall consist of one major-
general, two brigadier-generals, an adju-
tant-general's department, an inspector-
gencial's department, a quartermaster's
department, a subsistence department an
ordnauce department a medical depart-
ment, a pay department a bureau of mili-
tary justice, and such organizations of
artillery, cavalry, ana infantry as the com-
«
mander-in-ehief may direct not to exceed
three thousand men,rank and file, including
all departments of the volunteer guard,
and which shall be organized into battal-
lions, regiments, brigades, and divisions of
suitable size, and changed from time to
time as the commander-in-chief may deem
Ifor the best interests of the service.
Art 3306. Each regiment shall consist
of not more than ten companies and a regi-
mental band, and shall have a colonel, a
lietenant-colonel, aud a major, all
of whom shall be appointed
and commissioned by the governor
upon the recommendation of the line of-
ficers of the regiment Each colonel shall
appoint for his regiment an adjutant and
quartermaster with the rank of first lieu-
tenant and an assistant surgeon and a
chaplain with the rank of captain of in-
fantry. He shall appoint a sergeant-
major, quartermaster and commissary ser-
geant, a hospital steward and a drum
major.
Art 3307. Each brigade shall consist of
not more than five regiments, and shall be
under the command of a brigadier-general,
to be appointed by the commander-in-
chief, e&d each división shall consist of sol
«art HIM to* bfttdM, uA t w*
de* the command of a hnjor-gcneral, to be(
appointed by the commander-in-chief.
Art 3308. Each major-general shall haves
four aides-de-camp with the rank of cap- x
tain, to be appointed by him; a £ eaclu
brigadier-general shall nnve two aidevde-
camp with the rank oi .aptain, to be ap--
pointed by him. In ad\Mvion thereto each,
major-general and each brigadier-general.-
may appoint a quartermaster and com-
missary agent, a hospital steward and a-
clerk.
Art. 3318. It shall be *he duty of tho-
adjutant-general and the judge-advocate-
general to prepare and submit to the com-
mander-in-chief for his approval a code of
regulations, not inconsistent w.th law, for
the government and regulation of the
volunteer guard as will increase its dis-
cipline and efficiency, which shall provide
for the examination of certain military
officers; shall define and regulate the
punishment for military offenses; and
shall provide for the regulation of courts-
martial and courts of inquiry; which code,
upon its approval, shall form part of this
law and be distributed to the various or-
ganizations, and shall take the place ot
and annul all company, troop an I baUcry
constitutions and by-laws, except as may
t*4dlowed by the code.
Art. 3327. For breaches of discipline,
misconduct, or any other military offenses
not herein provided for, non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates may be
tried by^ courts-martial convened by the
kalion or regimental commander, and
ina> K puxiiislied by suspension, dismissal,
or d!*h< tKnral)*e discharge from the service;
Lb courU v ' PO"sist of "ot le",han lhreo
nor more than u'v<" commissio:icdl nfflwrs-
their findings to lit snl,iwt lo thc W">val
of the oflieer ordering the a,"'.thelr
proceedings governed l y ' oit<d States
Army Regulations relating ,to eourts-mar-
tial.
Art 3329. Thc sentences o.
courts shall not extend beyond susj eu
for a definite period, not to exceed twelv^
such-
^ion
>4
months, or dismissal from the sen ice, and
shall not be carried into effect without the
approval of the commander-in-chief.
Sec. 2. Articles 3319, 3320, 3321, 3322,.
3323, 3324, 3325 and 3326, chapter 4
(Militia Law), revised statute?, are hereby
repealed.
Sec, 3. Whereas there is in CNfofence'
no law wdiieh sufficiently provides
manner by which the militia of th$"'
state shall be governed, and the
lateness of the session creates an emer-
gency and imperative public necessity au-
thorizing the suspension of the constitu
tional rule requiring bills to l>e read on
three several days, and the rule is sus-
pended, and that this act take effect and be
in force from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted*
[Note.—The foregoing act originated
in the house, and passed the same by a
vote of 73 yeas, 11 nays; and passed the
senate by a vote of 20 yeas, no nays-}
Approved, April 5, 1889.
INSURANCE.
Section I. Amends Revised Statutes. Article 29MT,
as to capital of insurance companies.
Sec. 2.
of insurance
Emergency clause.
Chapter 14. [8. B. No. 99.] An Act to
amend Arti< le 2Í1Tit c 5'i, Chapter 1,
of the Revised Statutes.
Seetion 1. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Texas: Th it Article
2916, Title 53, Chapter 1, of the Revised
Statutes, be amended as follows:
Article 2910. The capital stock of a
company shall consist:
1. In lawful money of thc United States?
or
2. In the bonds of this state or any
county or incorporated town or city thereof,
or the stock of any national bank; or
3. In first mortgages upon unincumbered
real estate in this state thc title to which
is valid and the market value of which is
double the amount loaned thereon, exclu-
sive of buildings, unless such buildings are
insured in some responsible company and
thc policy, or policies, transferred to the
company taking such mortgage.
Whereas the near approach of
the end of the present session creates an
emergency and imperative public neces-
sity authorizing the suspension of the con-
stitutional rule, and it is so suspended.
[Note.—The foregoing act originated in
the senate, and passed the same on Febru-
ary 20, 1889; and passed the house on
April 0, 1889.]
Approved, April 8, 1889.
Is the Earth in Danger from the
Drill?
Trofessor J. F. Joues answers, in a re-
cent issue of the Popular Science Monthly,
the question, "Is it safe to drill the earth
too much?" The professor assumes the
earth to lie a hollow sphere filled with a
gaseous substance called by us natural gas,
and he thinks that tapping these reservoirs
will cause disastrous explosions, resulting
from the lighted gas coming in contact
with that which is escaping. He compares
the earth to a balloon floated and kept dis-
tended by tiie gas in the interior, which,
if exhausted, w ill cause the crust to col-
lapse, affect the motion of the earth in its
orbit, cause it to lose its place among the
heavenly bodies and fall in pieces.
Another writer thinks that drilling
should be prohibited by stringent laws.
He too, thinks, there is a possibility of an
explosion.
Still another theorist has investigated
the gas wells with telephones and delicate
thermometers, and he announces startling
discoveries. He distinguished sounds like
the boiling of rocks, and estimated tint a
mile and one-half or so beneath the Ohio
and Indiana gas field the temperatut e of
the earth is 35 degrees.
AniOld Timer.
There is living in the county of Frank-
lin, Me., a man who has lived in two
states, three towns and three counties, but
who has never moved, still living where he
was born. The facts of the case are these:
Charles Graham was born in the state of
Massachusetts, town of New Vineyard and
county of Kenebeck, the 28th day of May,
181 . He still lived in New Vineyard,
Kennebec county, but instead of Massa-
chusetts, Maine. Then the part of New
Vineyard he lived in was set off as the
town of Industry, Somerset county. When
Franklin county was incorporated In-
dustry was set off to help form a new
county, which was Franklin. In 1850 the
part at Industry where he lived wa again
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