Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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Earnestly Devoted to the Upbuilding of Denton and Denton, County and the Best Interests of Their People.
DENTON, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1893.
No. 5.
Leads in low
prices
on
STATE NEWS.
J. T. RUTHERFORD
-wURNITIJRE,
And lias the Best stock in the County to select from.
Special attention is called to his line of
Cheap Beds,
Bureaus,
Chairs, Etc.:
i
flnTJIflUFAftn always makes prices that sells Houston to the Austin insane
RUlIl£iiiruAlf the goods and it will pay you to asylum.
G. C. A S. P. TRAIN ROBBED
A l)00in hits struck Graham.
Decoration day conies on the
30th of tins month.
i Cooke county farmers are get-
ting ready for harvest.
It is possible that Morris coun
! ty will build a new jail.
Fishing is the-order of the day
] in Lubbock county.
Work has begun on the new
Waxahachie Methodist church.
Considerable hail fell in Lamar
county but did no damage.
Wesh Brown, a negro, was ar-
Tyler on a charge of Press company,
orally believed
By Two Masked Men at Coleman City
Thursday.
San Angelo, Tex., May 25. —
The west-bound passenger train.
No. 42, in charge of Conductoi
Frank Campbell, was held up and
A SEVERS STORM
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Of Cyolonio Severity Does Much Damage
in Kansas.
robbed at Coleman this morning' demolished it, some of the engines
'I'he Illinois whisky trust troub-
! Its will be settled in the counts.
Kansas City, Mo., May 25— Kansas officials have begun
Brookfleld, Mo., the storm struck |a crusade again.- : owners of poli-
the roundhouse of the Ilannibal j cy shops.
and St. Joe railway and partly Two illicit distilleris were raid-
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBE0
ested at
rape.
Dan O'Brien
was taken from
see him before buying,
llio Dnvis,
T
lie* Croivn,
he Advance,
he Htnndard.
He sells
Sewing
A Bonham milk dealer's team
Machines.
Undertakers' Goods.
ran away six times during this
week.
A Mother Hubbard
base ball was played
| Friday.
Also keeps a full line of Coffins There were two accessions to
and Undertakers'goods at the the Waxahachie Baptist church
last week.
At different times in 1892, 306
prisoners were confined in the El
Lowest prices. West Side Square.
S.P. ALLISON.
DEALER IN
HARDWARE,
Stoves, Leather Belting, Barb Wire,
Tinware, Rubber Belting and Hose, Baling Wire,
Glassware, Gas and Water Pipe, Cut and wire,
Queensware, Engine Trimmings, Etc.
Casaday Sulky Plow. Oliver Chilled Plow.
Plumbing
! Paso jail.
I A supposed mad dog was cured
! at Henderson by an application ot
| hot lead.
Charley Sanders, aged 70, is
j confined in the Greenville jail on
a lunacy charge.
1 he Dallas Times-Herald will
be sold on June (i to the highest
bidder at public outcry.
The editor of the Tyler Demo-,
crat-Keporter is surviving on
Smith county's luscious peaches.
at 2 o'clock by two masked men.
The brakemau, porter and con-
ductor were covered with six-
shooters, and Messenger Barry
compelled to open the express
door at the point of a gun.
Jt cannot be learned what
I amount was secured from the ex-
although it is gen-
the robbers were
well paid for their trouble.
The passengers were not mo-
lested. After taking everything
of value, including the pay checks
for the railroad employes of San
Angelo, Ballinger and other points
j the robbers fired two shots in
game ol j ,.ioau range to the heads of the ]
at Bonham crew and bid them good-bye, say-
j ing they would like to meet them
at the world's fair.
A Reformed Horse Thief.
Jackson, Fla., May 25.—A
special from Orlando says: S. A.
Barfleld was lodged in jail here
last night, having been arrested
on a requisition from Texas. He
will be taken back there to serve
a ten years' sentence for horse
stealing. He escaped after serv-
being badly damaged. A number
of workmen were in the building
but all escaped unhurt. Hail ac-
companied the storm at New Cam-
bria, Mo., and did much damage
to crops. Barns and outhouses
also sutliered.
j At Garnett, Kas., the eycline
| struck at 4 o'clock in the after-
noon. Burn,, and outhouses were
destroyed and much damage done
but as far as known nobody was
hurt.
At Moberly, Mo., the cyclone
struck the city, leveling barns and
small buildings. There is not a j
shed in the lumber yards left on June 5.
standing. The full extent of the j At Chester, 111., Kinze Cohen
damage is not known, and it is j committed suicide over the death
feared that when fuller particu-, 0f his wife, which occured about
tars come to light, it will be found j two months ago.
that lives have been lost. The
storm came from the southeast
and prostrated the wires, making
communication from the outside
impossible.
All For Love.
Chicago robbers had planned
ed near Raleigh, N. C. The keep-
ers escaped.
Wheat millers from all over the
north met at Toledo, Ohio, and
organized a league.
At Burlington iowa, Theon
Trowbridge, aged 77, and Mrs.
Abe Carpenter, aged 71,
married.
Attorney-General Frank -Johns
ton of Mississippi, who has been
so critically ill, is much improv
ed.
Governor Stone of Missouri
has appointed delegates to attend
the anti-coal combine at Chicago
Atlanta, Ga., May 24.—Just as,
the state capitol bell was ringing j
out the hour of 7 o'clock last. j
At Atlanta, Ga., Dora Jones,
1 one of the filles de Joie of that
| citj, attempted suicide by break-
ing a burning lamp over her
head.
robbers had
ing six months. He has lived aR j night, the sharp report of a pis-
On the Missouri Paoifle ia the State of
Missouri.
Sedalia, Mo., May 25—Engi-
neer John Hamilton and Fireman
A. B. Finch of Missouri Pacific
train No..'5, which was held up
near Pacific last night, in an inter-
view this afternoon state posi-
tively that only two persons were
engaged in the robbery. One of
the robbers climbed over the ten-
der ol the engine and brought the
train to a stop, and the other man
who was on the platform of the
were i €Xpress ear, carried the dynamite
bomb. They also say only three
shots v, fired. A telegram from
Pacific this evening says that evi-
| deuce has been secured pointing
to residents of Pacific being en-
gaged in the plot to rob the train.
A Famous Mule.
Richmond, Ya., May 26.—The
only mule probably now in exis-
tii'iee that pas i ■! through the
war with its master will probably
be in the Davis re-interment pro-
cession here on May 31. This
animal belongs to i\ h. Honey,
who lives near Frederickburg, Va.
This gentleman rode the mule all
during the war. The secretary of
the Davis re-interment committee
i to-day received a letter from A. P
Rowe of Frederickburg, inquiring
whether it would be desirble for
Mr. Honey to bring his mule here
and ride him in the parade. It
honorable life in Orange county
for eight years. He married the
daughter of a prominent old far-
mer, J. W. Ostern, residing at
Christeman, and took up a gov-
ernment homestead, which he has
improved. He had the respect of
all. a strong petition to Gover-
Sixtecn musicians have arrived n0), IIogg wiu |l(, 8ig.ned by most
of the citizens and all the officers
EAST SIDE,
A Specialtij
Next Doox' to Denton Country
National Bank,
NEW
LIVERY STABLE,
J. R. WHAYNE, Prop.
Fast Horses and Gnori Rips.
at Galveston from Mexico and
I will be added to the Beach band.
The Methodists of Waxahachie
| raised $65.70 to help the Metho-
i dists of Cisco rebuild their church.
At Brenham Ed Inge made com-
! plaint before a justice against
I Mary Felder. He charges that
, the maiden cursed and abused
' him.
Several Waxahachians are in
; Dallas being treated for their sins.
They are under the treatment of
of Orange county for his
tol shot was heard. This drew
the janitor to the spot, who
found the dead body of Lewis
Abbott lying on the floor, near
the base of the Ben Hill monu-
ment in the grand hall. In his
right hand was a pistol and a
bullet had pierced his right tem-
ple. Ho was but 17 years old
and was a student of the city
pardon, high school. He was desperate-
! ly in love with the 15-year-old
daughter of I'. v. Tullius C. Tup-
per. rector of the Protestant
| church. The rectory is across
the street from the capitol. The
j young man had called on the
ydung lady a few minutes before
7 and had, after earnest conver-
sation, left, going to the capitol
!Where he fired the fatal shot.
Abbott belongs to one of the first
ill- Knm Tones <md his well-known1 ., 14 • , i familes in the city. It is suppos- bad.
i>i. nam .loin s ana ins wt u ituuwu ,)C| causing Mr.Patterson intense ;
For Kirst-chiss la very teams eijll on J. it. WHAYNE.
the best equipped Stable in the city, and will let tlieni go as cheap
liis competitors.
He has
as any of
Stroud Block,
Denton, Tex.
7F
The Palace Livery-Stable,
H. T. HENDERSON, Proprietor,
East Hickory St., - - Denton, Tex.
Horses bough and sold and boarded.
Good rigs at reasonable rates.
verbal cure.
An election for local option
will shortly be held at Kosse. If
carried it is not probable that the
event will be celebrated in a
Christian manner.
A Mexican supposed to be the
murderer of Constable Sehutz, in
Deming, New Mexico, last week,
was arrested in El Paso Sunday
by officer Bob Ross.
Trutk Robbed of $1200.
Sherman, Tex., May 25.—G*
W. Dunham, a farmer who lives
nine miles southeast of this city,
has been robbed of $120(1. He is
A STRONG WOMAN in good health can do a good dim
more to make home happy anil comfortable than can a
weak and sickly woman who suffers from the annoying
weaknesses and functional disorders so common to the
women of today.
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™ years of careful and thorough trial, we are able to guar-
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is for all females. Send for our book.
By your druggist. Prepared by Tlio I)r. H. s. Thacher Medicine t o- Cliauan<joga, Tcnn.
For kale by Minnis, Madden & Co.
a thrifty tanner, and by years of horror she saw him dangling from
hard work had scraped together a rope with which the mules wore
the above amount. j tied together. He was dead and
I A few days since Dunham heard horl.ibly jn.uised. In some way
a mouse in the trunk, and fearing thc rope got twisted around one
Death from a Kiok.
Waxaiiachik, Tex., May 25.—
Til man Patterson, an old citizen
of this place, met with a serious
accident yesterday evening from
which lie died at 9 o'clock to-day.
He went out to his lot and walk-j
iiig up behind his gentle old^jt
buggy horse slapped it with his,
hand. The animal kicked his
master a heavy blow on the sto m-
.. T»„ ; ».4onc<n I li'-° *" 1J
ed he grew desperate because his
Mgony until he died. Deceased father had ordered him to give up
was the father of T. F. Patterson thhlki L „ut the girl ancl C011.
and George S. Patterson, depot hin|Splfto ,)js
agents for the M. K. & T. railroad |
,, . , ,, . i Seeing 'j?he Sights.
at this place and Forrestou res- i
,. , , <■ it ii i> i>.,^i-c St. Louis. Mo., May 25.—Among
pectively, and ot Mrs. H. u. Parks j
c T» „ the defendants in the I nst dis-
of Dallas.
I triet court to-day were Edsa
Killed by His Mules. Diamond, keeper of an immoral
Corsicana, Tex., May Jo.—1Ca j resoi't on Pine street, and Oscar
Patton, a farmer on the Boli\ar \yai.s]iarit ;l cattle dealer from
Smith place near Eureka, this Texaa Warshan came to St.
county, was killed by his mules Louis u ,ew days a,;0 t0 sell sev.
this morning. Patton went to | eraj Cilr8 Qf cattle. He started
the lot to get ready lor plowing,) 0Uj. t0 see the city, and in wand-
and being absent some time, his j er;ng about lie entered this
wife fcccame uneasy and went to j womiin.B place. IIe hear0l-
the lot to search for him. 1 o hei woman s(;ream after entering
to steal $250,000 worth of jewelry
on exhibition in the exposition,
but were frustrated by the good
work of detet thes. the committee will bear the cost
At South Norfolk, Conn., Clias. of tranportation Mr. Honey will
E. Doty, ex-postmaster, of that j forward his steed by freight and
place, was fined ?1000 for not pay- ride hi in on that occasion. The
ing his clerks as much as the gov- animal is now thirty-eight years
eminent allowed. old. The committee will extend
! its owner a pressing invitation to
I take part in the exercises, but it
| is possible the mule may not be
included. The om'ssion to do so
will not be intended as a slight to
tl.'i old relic.
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran
commedian, is very sick at his
residence in Buzzard's Bay, Mass.,
and his family are becoming
alarmed at liis condition.
At Atlanta, Ga., Lewis Abbott,
the son ol' a wealthy citizen com
mitted suicide by blowing his
brains out. It is said to be the
result of a love affair.
Kansas Farmers are downcast.
Reports of the most discouraging
nature have been received by the
government weather bureau. The
wheat outlook is exceedingly
Accommodating Waiter.
A mm driving a spirited horse
stopped at a down town restau-
waiter
in th^
At Big Springs, Fla., I). Doug-
lass, marshal of the town, in at-
tempting to arrest Geo. Thomas,
a negro desperado, was shot and
instantly killed by the latter.
While walking near a railroad
depot near Somerset, Ivy., Mary
Hardwick, aged 21: was shot from
behind and probably fatally in jur-
ed. The bullet fractured her
skull.
rant for his dinner. The
who attended him stood
door admiring the horse.
"Bring him a lump of sugar^
said the horse's owner, dropping
a fen into the waiter's palm.
The man went inside, but soon
returned with a bowl of lump
sugar and the accompanying
tongs. As the horse opened his
mouth for the treat the waiter
seized a lump in the tongs, and
with his customary suavity asked
hurriedly:
"How many lumps, sail!''
Then hearing the laugh at his
expense, he hurriedly returned to
the restaurant.—Detroit Free-
Press.
/ If You Want Something to Eat,
You Want it Good, and at
The Cheapest Possible Price.
In view of these facts it will be well for you
to buy of
W. 8. MCCliURKAN & CO.
They are a new firm and want to build up a trade by selling
All Kinds of Groceries Cheap for Cash. Try them for just one bill
iif fcOGds, and eee bow they treat yon.
West Side Square. : Denton, Texas.
that the mouse would injure the
money, which was in currency
and in the trunk, went to the trunk
and killed the mouse. When he
looked for the money he found
that it was not in the trunk and
could not be found.
Dunham states that he had not
inspected his treasury for thirty
days or more and of course has
no idea who the thief was.
Coinage to be Stopped.
Washington, May 15.—Owing
to the small amount of gold bul-
lion deposited and the heavy ex-
pense of coinage at the United
States mint at Carson City, Nev.,
Secretary Carlisle has directed a
suspension of coinage operations
there after the first prox. A re-
duction ot the force of employes
at the United States mints at
Philadelphia and New Orleans
will probably oe made in the near
future. With the suspension of
coinage at Carson City, the coin-
age of silver dollars will be dis-
continued for the present as there
is no demand for theni.
arm; the mules started to running
and dragged Patton to death.
a
the
house, and entering a chamber lie
saw a powerfully built man beat-
ing Edna. He rushedin between
the two and seperated them only
to be attacked in turn by the
man. A tight followed, in which
Officers Fox and Woodling came 1
Blew a Safe Open. Iaml a"®**! both men. The man
1 who gave his name as I lam ii ton.
Moult ox, lex.. May J6. vt gays he was being robbed by the j
2:30 this morning the saf'3 in the woman, and was trying to protect
postoflice was blown open and! himself. The police therefore
robbed. The night operator hear- arrested all parties.
ing the explosion summoned help, continued to Maj .11.
The robber was soon overhauled , Tha Friendship Not Appreciated,
and captured. He gives his namej Mr. Jacobs is a Buffalo jeweler,
as G. W. Watson. He was sent says the Courier of that city. A
to llallettsvillc for safe keeping. Vermont firm bought a large bill
of goods from him and shortly
THE FAIR
Is Constantly Getting in
NEW GOODS.
The case is
Come and See them.
s Everything New and Prices Way Down.
Come
and See
New Orleans is tilled with
glars and Mi"ak thieves.
i
bur-
There is mourning in Indiau-
apolis because some vandal hand
recently cut down a historic little
willow sapling that had attained i
a promising growth in the State
House grounds. The root from |
which the sapling sprung was'
obtained from the famous Balti-
more tree which Martha Washing-
ton planted. She brought the
tree, then a tiny slip, from Europe,
and a sprig from it was sent to
Gov. Uovey a few years ago and
by him carefully planted m the
yard of the State House.
It would re-pure 12,000 cholera
microbes to form a processiou an
inch long.
afterwards fell into financial ifU-
culties. As the goods had not
been opened and the Vermonters
were personal friends of the
Buffalo merchant, word was sent
to the latter that if he would come
over he could take his consign-
ment back with him, unbroken.
Mr. Jacobs lost no time in secur-
ing his property and bringing it
back to Buffalo. In a few days
the failure of the Vermont firm
was announced—ul;.o the fact that
it would pay fifty cents ou the
dollar. "Fifty cents on the dollar!"
exclaimed the irate and astonished
Jacobs. "Why in the devil didn't
Joe keep the truck and let me
: in?''
Qur Lace Assortment,
And You Will Find What You Want.
OUR FINE PICTURES,
We are selling- Cheaper
than you can get, the frames. *
R FINE
THll^O
PRESENT.
FOR A
THE
EAST falDE SQUARE
FAIR,
DENTON. TEXAS.
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Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1893, newspaper, June 1, 1893; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth503060/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.