Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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Earnestly Devoted to the Upbuilding of Den ton and Denton County and the Best Interests of Their People.
Vol. 2.
DENTON, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1893.
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and are making prices to suit the times.
only sell good goods.
COME AND SEE
for yourself. For one week
special prices on
WHITE p _
GRANITE ^ ^
WARE
and glass goblets One Pretty Pattern for 26c.
a set. Come and see them.
THE ELLIS COUNTY HORROR.
Appaling
Fate of a Bohemian Oirl Near
Ennis.
Ennis, Tex., July 20.—This city
was thrown into terrible excite-
Silent this morning over the out-
rage uml murder committed about
SHOT A WOMAN.
STATE NEWS.
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We have just received a full line of
Decorated (loos
Eaaterhng's Attempt to Kill His Mistress
at Dallas
Dallas, Tex., July 20.—Late
last night Thomas Russell Easter-
lings visited the residence of Mrs.
M. E. Davis on Canton street, ami
tired three shots from a winches-
threeanda half miles northwest ter through a window. The ob
of here. The victim was a young ject of his fiendish rage was Min-
we will make girl, barely 10,and the daughter of ;Qio Mliy Bancroft! w)l0 has ,)eeQ
a respectable Bohemian iarmer ^ i{vi„g with him as his wife for a
named Karl Cervinka, residing year or more. The first ball pass-
with his family of nine children
011 the Joe Boren farm.
Yesterday afternoon the girl,
whose name was Franceska, was
told by her parents to take one of
the horses to the creek, nearly a
mile from the house, and give him
a drink. The girl readily compli-
ed, and mounting the animal, rode
away. About an hour later, or
about 4 o'clock, the horse return-
ed with out a rider, carrying only
a scrap of the dress the girl wore
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Alex Sears, indicted at Lam AntM'hristafn mobs nearBhang-
pasas for incest three years ago, | hai, C'liiia. are threatening trouble,
was arrested at Gilmer. \ tornado swept through two
The Gainesville oil mill compa- villages of Pledmount, Italy, near
ny is erecting a building at Jtome, with frightlul diatructio i
Brewyn, I. T., for the storage ofjOflile-
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I which was caught in the saddle.
Our glass and tinware department is complete. The road from the house to the
creek winds around a lane and
through timbered bottoms as it
nears the creek. Fearful of what
had happened the father aroused
the neighbors in the community
and a search for the missing girl
was at once oegun.
Ceaseless and untiring in their
efforts, the searching party work- i
ed all night. The father, half
Also a full line of toilet articles, towels,
hosiery, lace, ribbons and notions of all kinds.
TO SEE THAT LINE OF 71-2c.
HANDKERCHIEFS
Don't Fail
At The Fair.
S.P.ALLISON
—— dealer in
HARDWARE,
ed through the left thigh of the
unfortuuate woman, severing the
femoral artery. Mrs. Bancroft
fainted, and Easterling fled, and
has not been captured. The
physicians say the woman is in a
precarious condition.
Mrs. Davis the mother ol the
wounded gill says Easterling
first attempted to kill her, and
that it was his intention to kill
them both. Easterling was a
widower whon he met Mrs. Ban-
croft eighteen month ago. lie
has two children, one with lii'3
father at Forney and the other
with liis sister at Vernon. The
girl was highly respectable until
she met Eesterling, became in-
fatuated with lum and became his
mistress. She is a brunette,quite
pretty and 22 years old. Easter-
ling is a dark-skined good-looking-
fellow ol' medium height and slen-
der built. He has dark eyes, dark
cot ten seed.
Sheriff B. M. Warden, of Ama
rilla, is an applicant for I'nited
States marshal! of the district of
northern Texas.
Bowie, Montague county, now
has six handsome church build-
ings for as many different denom-
inations and the Catholics of Tho steel works of Pueblo, Col.,
Bowie and vicinity are preparing! will close down Saturday for re j
to erect a church there. Quite a pairs.
number among the best citizens of | ^ Pa(luca;1; K V ) a erowd of
Bow ie are < atliolics. negroes engaged in a tight over a
An organized gang of burglers j nickel and one was killed,
are working East Texas, Marshall, Oonvicts ged in a quarrel 1
Longview and Jefferson being the ^ Maho und ()U(.
named Butler was killed.
To Help the Basks Out.
Wvshistgtox, July 30.- Jimes H.
Ecklea, comptroller of the curren-
cy, this morning addressed to
National Bank Examiner Adams
at Denver a dispatch defining tho
policy of the administration with
refference to insolvent
I wish you to anriouneo,
to the officers of the banks that
failed in De'iven, that it is my
to lend e\
ble looking toward a speedy ro-
principal sufferers.
A new stone quarry lias been
opened east of Deuison.
The new cotton seed oil mill
at Deuison will be complete in
about thirty days.
frantic with grief, was no longer jlail, amj mustache. Yesterday he
able to lend a helping hand in the
search of his daughter.
One of the other party, however,
noticed two arms sticking out
above the water in the creek, and
upon closes examination found
had $2000 in cash in his posession
and it is believed he is well out
of the country by this time.
The Mistery Solved.
Paducaii, Ky., July 1.1
The
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Stoves, Leather Belting, Barb Wire,
Tinware, Rubber Belting and Hose, Baling Wire,
Glassware, Gas and Water Pipe, Cut and wire,
J|.. Queensware, Engine Trimmings, Etc.
the nude body of Franceska, with , sensational shooting of Saturday
! only raments of her cloths cling- night heretofore reported is now
ing to her shoulders. The rest of j explained. John Webb, a promi-
tlie body was bare and bore evi- net young man, had been out on a
dence of a personal combat with lark with Miss Minnie Smith of
In the court-martial at Marta of. renerence to insolvent n itional
the officers of the lost English bank institutions generally as
Cruiser Victoria all the testimony follows:
went to show that Admiral Try.
oil's error of judgement catued
the disaster.
intention to lend every aid possi-
William J. Christie, of Elgin, 111.,
was overcome by heat and died.
sumption on their part, and I shall
grant them sufficient time to en-
able them, not only to collect
such accounts as speedily as col-
| In Paducaii, Ky., a crowd ot! leetablo, but to get together such
amounts of money as will enable
them to open up on a safe basis,
ft seems to me that such citizens
as have by a foolish course of
conduct, caused so many failures
in withdrawing deposits from
banks, which so long enjoyed
their complete confidence and
brought aboui. this condition,
might in view of the damage they
have done their city, as quickly
as possible repair it by standing
ready to deposit with them. I
fully appiccate all the circumstan-
ces of the situation, and that no
Daniel Ephriat, of Little Rock,
Ark., was arrested, charged with
obtaining fraudulent pension
claims.
The street railway lines of Nor-
The Carthage Banner has been . rjstown, Pa., have reduced the
removed to Beckville, Tex., and ; fare from 5 cents to 4 cents.
will be known lierafter as the
Beckville News.
I In Russellviile, Ky., during a
(storm, two children of James
One hundred and forty-live men \yatt was struck by lightning and unnecessary loss may bo entailed,
are now employed in the Santa , wm die. you are authorized to employ as
Fe shops at Gainesville. I{rokei. D. A. Weston, of Pitts-1 ^istants to protect the paper
O. P. Hunt, of Denison, is the field, Mass., was arrested for giv-
owner of a sleigh bell, which, it is | jng a sick horse medicine.
claimed, was made at Philadelphia
during the war of Indipendence.
;and collect iu moneys, the more
competent and trustworthy em-
: plovers in such institution. I
Efforts are being made to estab- [iaVe also ordered Examiner Me
lish a, liue of steamers between
J. A. Gray, vice M. E. Linton,
resigned, has been appointed
postmaster at Lorainc, Mitchell
county, Texas.
The Chattanooga Tradesman
reports the chtateriugat Houston
her ravisher.
The brute
Casaday Suiky Plow.
EAST SIDE,
t Hpeciallii
Next Door to Denton County
National Bank.,
j St. Louis, who was here visiting j ofthe Lottman Bros, mauufactur-
avidently | iier sister, Mrs. Joe Woods. She '■ ;ng company, capital $100,000, to
overpowered his victim by Strang- j remained out so late that Woods,! engage .in manufacturing bed
ling her, as finger marks were j who had been misled as to her j springs, etc., and of a-rice mill at
found around tho neck which j whereabouts, decided to learn the! Galveston, Texas. Waterworks
lac.rated the flesh by the nails!facts. When the girl came home|aro reported at Bouhan, Waxa-
cutting deep into it. On the back ! she did so in a buggy by way of a : haehie and Whitney, Texas. En-
of the head were three deep rear alley. As Webb left tho lorgement ot a cotton compress
; gashes made with a hatcliet. ! buggy to help the girl out, Woods at Houston, Tex., and of an oil
The shoulders were horribly who came through a rear gate, m;n ut Breniiam, Tex.
bruised and the features distorted.! assaulted him with a knife, cutting jn t|K, vj(!jnity of lien-
Her brown hair was torn from him slightly in t.lie bowels. Webb! dcrson< Tex., have been greatly
, her head. The left ear was half replied by shootng him seriously ^cuoflted by heavy rains. The
torn off, showing that the deed in the breast and running. Webb; cjian'(.t.s f0l, a good corn crop in
San Francisco and Callao.
The will of the late Martin
Richelberger, of Youk, l'a., be-
queaths nearly 58"),000 to \ale
university.
Lizzie Hesper, of Plymouth, Pa.
attempted suicide by drowning,
because she was accused of theft.
New York's postoffice received
$7,300,200 for the year ending on
June 30. an increase of$18C,145,67
in a year.
Hugh, of Iowa, to repcr' it once
to assist you. I desire this tele
gram to be given to the press at
Denver, evidencing as it does
that the comptroller has faith in
the ability of the banks of Den-
ver to resume, and of his desire
to I !nd them every assistance
consistent with his official duty."
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NEW
LIVERY STABLE,
J. K. WHAYNE, Prop.
Fast Horses and Good Rigs.
First-class Livery teams call on J. R. W1TA\NK. He has
(he best equipped Stable in the city, and will let them go a« cheap as any ot
his competitors.
Stroud Block, - - - Denton, Tex.
tr.uuut.
' though suspected, until to-day. Estimates are boing madc look-
when friends found lum tn an ad- in„ towiml Uu. extension of the
| was only second to those perpe- Jcft and his identity was unknown, SPCtion are much improved. (iask of whiskey is one gill short
j trated by Jack the Ripper in the 1 though suspected,
Whitcchapel districts of London
When seen by the News repor- joining county awaiting the result ,lt 0;lk Work
ter the father was overcome with j 0f Wood's wound. The shooting! thp!n at au eariy
grief, and in broken English rela-, Jias been a three day's sensation, ; '
ted the finding of his daughter owing to many sensational feat- '
the statement | urea. The Smith girl decamped A PoPullst cIub Wl11 1)0 °r^«-
tlie day after the shooting.
The Palace Livery Stable,
H. T. HENDERSON, FnontiETon,
East Hickory St., - - Denton, Tex.
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Horses bough and sold and boarded.
Good rigs at reasonable rates.
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,, ... n Sawyer's room and robbed him of
jury Smith, the stake," a partj ■
' . , , ' . f„p clothing and a gold watch and
men then made a rush for b ^
FOR CHEAP GROCERIES,
Gol»W. A,
and corroborated
above given.
At 10 o'lock excited man were
seen on the street corners, eagerly
discussing thejprobable late of the
murderer and rapist. The feeling
ran high and when someone sug-
gested "the fate of the negro
Ilenr
of
horses and formed themselves in
squads to start iu pursuit of the
! murderer or murderers and
i eveugc the wrong committed upon
: an innocent girl.
j Excitement runs hi
present moment and the arrival of
; bloodhounds at 11 o'clock will be
the signal for a wild start to the
scene of the awful crime, tho
worst in the history of Ellis coun-
ty.
late ii.
Fort Worth, Tex., July 21.—
Abe House, who was arrested
A Paring Eurelar.
Marshall, Tex., July 20.—
I Burglars entered several resi-
dences last night. At the Maul-
ding house they went into L. P.
There is renewed excitement at
Okarche, <
J
chain.
At the residence of E. Key.
president ofthe First Nation Bank
they failed to get anything before
awaking him. He spoke and
h at the answered as though one of
the household. Not recognizing
the voice Mr. Key arose with a
pistol in hand and shot at the
party as he went down the stair- i discovery of oil which
case. j lieved abounds there
Mrs. Blackburn's house was i qaautities.
entered also.
Prasel'3 Will.
Philadelphia, l'a., July 20.—
The will oi A.J. Drexel was pro-
this morning. His real
who I t>s,1ite, it was stated, exceeded in
ized at Plainview on July 22.
The German speaking people of; Virginia college, has a lot of the
El Reno will organize a colouiza- i students' money.
tion company.
There are fifty applicants for
the vacant pulpit of the Presby-
terian church at Gutherie, Ok.
Eight thousand acres of laud
which was purchased recently
near Taylor, is rapidly being dis-
posed of at £21.u0 per acre, the
purchasers being Germans It is
believed an extensive German col-
ony will soon occupy the entire
tract.
Fatal Quarrel.
Gainesville, Tex., July 20.—
lames Jones, about IS years old,
lied near Reed, eight miles west
Hamilton Alrichs, the oldest! 0f Gainesville, this morning from
surviving member of tbe Peunsyl- the effects of a blow on the head
vania ligislature died iu Harris-J administered by Mr. Solomon
burg. Pa., aged 87 years. Shaw, a prominent fanner. Justice
People of Charleston, S. C., who Hill, < ouuty Attorney Rogers,
have been experimenting, claims .Sheriff Ware. Dr. Viilson, the
that South Corolina's legal quart co;;:>.!\ pi >. • .cl-: l, and ludgo C.
Potter, Shaw's attorney, and the
The corn crop of Kansas prom- News reporter have just returned
ises to be the largest in the state's ^rom Ree(i, v.here Justice Ilill
history, except for the year 1S80 held the inquest. The particulars
when it was 273,000,000 bushels. gleaned from eye witnesses are as
_ ., . follows: Young Jones had
President A. W. Davis, of j
Clarksburg, W. Ya., who has sud-1
deuly disappeared irom the West
Lightning's Deadly Work.
Rcssellville, Ivy., July 20.—
Sunday afternoon about 2
o'clock while James Watt and
two children, aged 9 to 11, and
a brother of Watt's were going
from a neighbor's house to Mr.
Watt's house, a short distance
away, they were overtaken by a
shower and stopped under a tree.
Lightening struck the tree and
the two children were instantly
killed. One of Mr. Watt's eyes
). T., on account of the | was put out and the other badly
it
iu
is be-
paying
Shot by a Burgler.
Cokydox. July 22.—G. W. Cole,
charged with the murder of Miss! auditor of this, Harrison county,
j Franciaka Cerrinka in Ellis county was shot in his bed this morniu" Dau
about 2 o'clock by a burgler,
shocked. It was first thought
that the father ol the unfortunate
children would die, but he is im-
proving and will recover. The
brother was not hurt.
VERY LOWEST PRICES.
Goods Delivered Promptly to any Part
of the City.
S. R. STANLEY
the crime.
ceudisry publications
Etiiess said as he was determined
He Buys for Spot Cash and makes you the and brought here for safe-keeping,. a " """7 *:in'in';, • value *l.(MKMM>rt and his personal
i asserts his entire innocence of | reached nis ue i .. | ertv |1<000 000- The excess
In vii'w ol some in bis trousers pockets. Mr. Cole i ■
Start! ran tin' burgliT » ll.c «»•«•' «»l^-
whi'ii ,1,0 iHtlcrturned ,ro»„d.n,l! P"» f ,™« '>«'»V
' . . , . , .. ., 000,000. A fund of *1,000,000 is
to protect his prisoner at all costs, "hot him. The ^ ,e»tabli»heii to support a public
House will be remove 1 elswhere on a nh and, g. , art gallery in Philadelphia,
for safe-keeping. If any assault came out at mo sid..
(should be made on the jail to- it is believed, will recover. The
night it would fail in the attempt burgler made h>s escape.
"HE BARBER, has newly fitted up his shop on the west side, to get the negro and might cost A Rn&somblc Suppmitioa.
aud besiiles water works and electric lights, has
Four Chairs, Four Barbers
mmmcmacEaxz awiw .no: vwxls a
and the tools to do your work nicely and rapidly. Give him a call.
West Side Public Square
Enticed Away
Fort Wokt, Tex., July 22.—
Walter Kimble was
Chines; Riots.
Loxpon, July IS.—A dispatch
to the Standard to Shanghai says:
"The Chinese government has re-
fused to make reparation for the
killing of Wiekholm and Johann-
sen, Sweedish missionaries killed
by a mob in Macheng some three
weeks ago. Foreigners in
Hankow, which is but 00 miles
from Macheng, and in Shanghai
have been summoned to attend a
mass meeting for the purpose of
arrested calling hn European Powers to
many lives.
Ceafsued Judgement.
Milwaukee, Wis., July
H. M. Benjimin, a local dealer,,
has confessed judgements aggre-
gating over $i'0 000, with #78,000
to his wife.
-That's a-fine, solid baby of j charged with vagraucy. Ii is al- compel Cuiua to respect treaties
yours, >'<>wpah," said a frier.d I leged he enticed a Dallas girl from and puuish the Viceroy of that
who was admiring tho first baby.' her home, and he will be held province and the authorities ol
"Do you thiuk he's solid? 'asked until this can be investigated, the city in which the murder was
New pah rather disconsolately The girl says she «as enticed committed. The correspondent
"It seems to me as if he was all away by Kimble under a prociiso , also says the aituufou promts
holler." of marriage. troullp
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follows: Young Jones had been
working for Shaw, firing the en-
gine for his thresher, and one day
last week Jones let the fire die
out and the steam went down so
the engine would not run, and
Shaw discharged him. He asked
Shaw for his wages, and instead
of money he gave the young man
a cursing. Yesterday Jones got
Mr. Rosson, a neighbor farmer, to
go with him to Shaw's and, if pos-
sible, persuade him to settle. Be-
fore the subject was mentioned to
Shaw he went to Jones and began
to abuse him. Jones was leaning
against a wagon when Shaw
struck him two blows on the head
with a stick ol wood. lones fell
; from the blows, but was helped to
his feet, and he walked to tho
house of Wm. Brown, a distance
of about 300 yards, where ho died
this morning. Jones came to
, Cooke a few months ago from
Wilson county, Tennessee. Shaw-
is still at large, but he has sent
word to his attorney that he will
come in to-morrow and surrender.
Fonnd Dsid oa His Ranch.
Austin,Tex.. July 20—I)r. Matt
M. Smith of this city received in-
telligence this evening of the kill-
ing of his brother-in-law, Robert
F. Roundtree, on his ranch near
Llano. He ws found dead with
several gun shot wounds in his
body.
Cieo of Hjs Iijurus.
Houston, Tex-, July 20. Now#
] was received here to-uight that
Dave Sullivan, brother of Conduc-
tor Sullivan who is well known
here, was in seme way thrown from
|a cut uotr Fort Worth yesunday
nl that Ueiied from i iati^s
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