Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 18, Saturday, November 18, 1899 Page: 1
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GENERAL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS NOTES
Thk New \ ork Journal's Washington special says the Gov-
ernment is to buy several Holland submarine boats. The au-
thorities are gratified with the recent test trip.
Tom Wright, who was hanged at Stephenville last week for
the murder of John Adams at Dublin, died protesting his inno-
cence of murder, and exhonorating Leslie from any complicitv
in the deed.
Official returns show an extraordinary activity in the re-
gion of Missouri, where zinc and lead are mined, amounting in
some counties to an increased production over last year of more
than 100 per cent.
W. J. Bryan, in a speech at Lincoln, Nebraska, denied the
charge that has from time to time been made that he has been
making speeches for money. He says he will continue in polit-
ical work as long as his health lasts.
The will of the late W. l. Sanford was filed for probate last
week. He leaves an estate in Canada valued at $1,040,000, in
Ontario and Manitoba, besides Mexican mines and property in
Chicago. All goes to his widow and family.
Safety from lightning is easily secured, according to the
Scientific American. "Simply put on rubbers," it says "then
stand up so that your clothes won't touch anywhere.7' If the
rubbers are sound the insulation is complete, in doors or out of
doors.
At San Domingo Congress has proclaimed Senor Jiminez
President of San Domingo and Senor Vasquez Vice President.
They will enter into office December 1, when the Constitution
will undergo a change. The country is quiet and business is im-
proving.
Treasury officials expect that within a short time the money
drawn from the financial institutions of the East for the move-
ment of the crops and other purposes in the West will begin to
find its way to New York, and that the apparent stringency in
money will be accordingly relaxed.
The four soldiers who were sentenced to death at Manila now
stand an excellent chance to save their lives. Irregularities
have been discovered in the proceedings of the courtmartial
which will require correction in the first instance in Manila if
indeed they do not bar the death sentence entirely.
Thomas B. Reed has become ofiicially, as he has already
been unofficially, the head of the law firm with which he recent-
ly associated himself. Reed, Simpson, Thatcher & Barnum—
that is the way the firm's cards read now. The name of "Reed"
appeared yesterday on the entrance door of the office on the
fifth floor of No. 10 Wall street.
Great enthusiasm has been aroused among the Cubans in
the province of Santiago de Cuba by the announcement that
General Wood is to be appointed to the Governorship of the
Island when a civil Government is established, and prophecies
are made that under him injustices which have so long been
practiced in the province will be corrected.
General Brooke has issued a Thanksgiving proclamation in
which he says that the custom prevails in the United States to
set apart one day in the year for thanksgiving to the Supreme
Being for the many blessings vouchsafed, and the designation
of the day and the invocation to the people to observe
it has been made by the supreme authority of the Government
thus giving material importance to the patriotic observance of
the day.
On last Saturday at Eastland Burt Harvin was killed while
working in his father's, J. F. Harvin's, gin, near the Texas & Pa-
cific depot. The young man, who was about 16 years old at-
tempted to pass under the main shafting and his clothing was
caught and ha was whirled around rapidly to his destruction.
One arm was torn off, his head crushed, both legs torn nearly
off, both above and below the knees, and other fatal wounds
about the body. He died almost instantly.
A glance over the telegraphic correspondence from the
Philippines and South Africa any morning impresses the reader
with the modern facilities for gathering the news of the current '
day. Admiral Nelson once wrote: "The actions of all officers
however brilliant, are wonderfully obscured by serving at a dis-
tance; for the capture of a privateer makes more noise, taken
in the channel, than a frigate, or even the ship of the line afar
off." Not so in these times. The news of the forenoon at Man-
illa is served up at the American breakfast table.
Governor Otero of New Mexico has refused to honor the
requisition of Governor Murphy of Arizona for the delivery of
Tom Ketchum to Sheriff Munds, of Yavapai county, Arizona.
Ketchum will therefore be tried in New Mexico on the charge of
train robbery, for which death is the punishment, and three
minor indictments. After that, if acquitted, or after serving
whatever term is imposed upon him, he will be turned over to
Arizona to be tried for the murder of two merchants in Arizona.
The United States has waived its right to try Ketchum first on
Federal charges.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 18, Saturday, November 18, 1899, newspaper, November 18, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200532/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.