Weekly Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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RULER Or BRITAIN
Kin« ftfward Crowned Sovereign la
Westminster Abbey
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BY ARCHBISHOP Of CANTERBURY
••yalty kI the Nobility Were Preeeat by tbe
NiMrtlt. Mi a Great Maay Ameri-
(iu Were Also There.
' London,, Aug. 12.—Amid the
plaudits of his people Edward VII.,
king of Great Britain and Ireland,
was crowned in We? mi ns ter abbey.
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After the procession entered sud- ^
idenly “Vivat Alexandra” waa shout-
ed by the boys of Westminster ab-
bey, and the queen, walking slowly
Ro the left of the throne, gained her
chair. ______
Two or three minutes late a
hoarse cry from the Westminster
boys of “Vivat Rex Edward” broke
out, and King Edward appeared and
walked to his chair in front of the
throne, bowing to the queen as he
passed and knelt in prayer. After
removing hia somewhat unbecoming
leap, his majesty atood up, and the
archbishop of Canterbury, in a
Irembling voice, read the recogni-
tion, beginning: “Sirs, I here
present unto you King Edward, un-
doubted king of this realm.** Then
there was a hoarse shout and a
blending of the choir and the peo-
ple, women and men, in the cry:
*‘God Save King Edward.” Several
times this was repeated, and the ab-
bey rang with loud fanfares.
Again the king and queen knelt,
and the archbishop of Canterbury
.walked to the altar and commenced
the communion.
The administration of thej>ath
ifollowed. Standing before the king s
chair, the archbishop remarked,
“Sir, ia your majesty willing to
take the oath?”
The king answered in firm,
atrong tones: “I am willing.”
~ Then the inkstand was brought
end the king signed the oath. He
£id not advance to the altar, but sat
In the chair he had occupied sinco
'the aervice began.
j The archbishop had difficulty, ow-
ing to near-sightedness, in placing
the crown on the king's head. In
tact, the choir started “God Save
»The King” while the archbishop was
striving to place the crown on the
icing’s head, and a great shout went
<Op. and the electric lights were turn-
ed on
The archbishop of York crowned
the queen.
Hotel Fire Horror. '^
San Angelo, Tex.: A Are swept
over San Angelo Sunday morning
between 2 and 5 o'clock, leaving
death end destruction in its path.
The fire originated in the kitchen of
the Landon hotel and the block in
which it was situated is a heap of
smoldering ruins. Several lives were
lost. A woman with a baby in her
arms perished in view of hundreds
of spectators, who could give no aid.
Those whose remains have been
taken out are:
Mrs. J. C. Landon, San Angelo.
B. Hendricks, commercial travel-
er, Waco.
Mrs. Frank Sob hi pi n sk v and two
children, Houston.
Mrs. Fowler and grandchild,
Houston.
Others arcim*stng. A number es.
caped in tlieif night clothes, badly
burned.
The property losses are: J' 0.
Landon, hotel, $50,000; -insurance^
$18,000.
John Miles, hardware, $30,000;
insurance, $7500.
Copeland A Mitchell, hardware,
$15,000; insiirance, $5000.
Jackson & I.aarabeth, laundry,
$4000; no insurance.
Mrs. E. C. Fitzgerald, $11,000;
insurance, $6000.
W. J. Ellis, livery stable, $5000;
partly insured.
J. S. McConnell, livery stable,
$500.
^Broome A Farr, building, $3000;
partly insured.
There arc a number of other
smaller losses.
FURIOUS TRENCH.
I Number of Them Resent Closing
of Religions Schools
IN A RATHER T0RCIBU WAY.
Two Texana Gone. vtT
Austin: Capt. J. A. Waggoner,
aged 68 years, died at the residence
of Maj. A. P. Wooldridge, president
of the City National bank. Capt.
Waggoner was a well known veteran
of the Civil war and of recent years
had made his home with Maj Wool-
dridge, the latter being a son-in-law
of the deceased.
Mrs. F. R. Lubbock, wife of cx-
Gov. Lubbock, died at the family
residence after a short illness. The
deceased was about 67 years of age,
and had been a resident of Austin
many years.
McCurtain Winner.
South McAleater, I. T.: Returns
are in from every precinct in the
'Choctaw nation, and on their face
IDreen McCurtain has a majority for
chief of 163 votes. There are two
counties included in which the fig-
fires are disputed. The Hunter men
tiere have relied on a telegram re-
ceived early in the count that Red
River county wcnld go for him. The
^McCurtain people claim that their
report of 188 majority from Red
Rtiver county has been verified.
Burned to Death.
Cnmby, Tex.: A 9-year-old child
of James Smith, the section foreman
here, was burned to death. It had
seen its mother start a fire with
coal oil, and Saturday night, while
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were on the
front gallery, it poured oil on the
coals in the kitchen stove. The ex-
plosion and the child’s screams sum-
moned the parents, but before they
could reach it the child waa fatally
burned. It lived two hours. •
A Great Naay at the Fair See Took Quite at
Active Part la the Deaeaitrations
that Were Made.
Brest, France, Aug. 9.—Exiting
scenes occurred Thursday at the
»»pii]»inn of a number uf Mstera
k front their school at Landmieau,
near here. A special train conveyed
detachments of soldiers to Lauder-
neau, where a body of gendarmes
had been—mobilized, already.. A
crowd assembled at the school and
surrounded the soldiers m the
square in front of the school. \\ lien
the commissary of police arrived,
accompanied by a locksmith, the
people protested bitterly, shouting:
“Long live the sisters ami liber-
ty! Down with the ministry!”
Women threw themselves to the
ground ill front of the horses of tha
gendarmes. The contrais6uiy or-
dered the sisters to open the school
door. They refused and the lock-
smith picked tho lock and broke
the windows amid the denuncia-
tions of thee rowd. The commis-
sary ordered the sisters to leave the
school, which they did. Leaning
on the arms of the townswoman and
accompanied by the priests and
thousands of people thoy marched
to a church, where they sang
"hymn. A large crowd followed the
gendarmes to the railroad station
shouting “Death to the locksmith."
The man was protected by tha
militia.
The soldiers and gendarmes
reached Lander neau at 4 o’clock in
the morning, but watchers had al
ready given the alarm. The whole
population of the town waa intense-
ly oxcited and hurried to the school.
At one time, when the crowd broke
the military cordon, the commissary
ordered the drums to be beaten
thrice as a preliminary to charge
tho crowd, and bloodshed was
feared. Emile Villiers a member
of the chamber of deputies for Fin-
isterre, a Conservative, intervened
and appealed to the people to be
calm. Vicomte Lngatinais, leader
of the opposition, cried:
••You can arrest me. My ances-
tors died on the scaffold and I deem
it an honor to be arrested foi this
noble cause.”
PROBABLE PREMONITION.
Them Uses Were Fms4 (JH* the Dash of
the late CaL On***.
Tbe following povtu was found on
a scratch tablet within the folds of a
collector's report which the late Col.
Brown was posting tbe last day he
was ou duty in the state controller s
department at Austin. On that day,
his desk male says, he observed tbe
colonel writing, and he i» confident
that these premonitory linos were at
that time written:
AMEN I
I. cannot say, ~
Beneath the pressure of life's cares
today
* L joy in these^
But 1 can say
That l had rather walk this rugged
__, -way,
If Him it please.
I cannot feel
That all is well when darkening
clouds conceal—————-
The shining sun;
But then 1 know
God lives and loves; and say, stuce
it is so,
Thv will be done.
1 do not look
Upon the present, nor in Nature s
book,
To read my fate;
But 1 do look
For promised blessing-' in God’s holy
book,
And I can wait.
1 cannot speak
In happy toue*. the teat drops on rnj^
cheek
Show 1 am sad;
But l can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission
meek? ]
Until made glad.
1 do not sea
Why God should e’eu permit some
things to be
When He is love;
But I can see,
Though often dimly, through the
mystery,
Ills band above.
club of South Catalouu Island, CaL,
and for two year* held the record
with a 1 S3-pound fish. Mr. Holder
is now wribug a book ou the gam*
Ashes of the United States for tha
Macmillan Publishing company of
New York and London, to tie one of
the Sportsman s Kbrary. He went
to Tarpon to try the great silver
king, the only game Ash lie had nol
taken.
Senator Diet.
Washington: A dispatch was re-
ceived here announcing the death of
senator James McMillan of Michi-
gan at an early hour Sunday morn-
ing at hia irammer home at Man-
chester-by-the-Sea, Mesa. Death was
The remit of heart failure, following
congestion, after an illnesa of a very
few hours.
Wells at Beaumont
Beaumont: There are now' about
280 completed wells on Spindletop.
Thia figure may not be preeise, but
it ia not more than two or three
wells off one way or the other. In
addition to these competed wells
there are aboufjsixteen rigs working
on new holes which will be com-
pleted within the next thirty daya.
..
Barcelona Taken.
Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad,
B. W. I.: News has reached here
from Venezuela that, after three
days’ very severe fighting in the
streets of Barcelona, in the state of
Bermudez, the revolutionists under
the command of Gen. Penaloza cap-
tured the town from the government
forces. The government lost sixty
men and Gen. Ruperto Bravo.
Mrs. Eliza Young, 92 year* old,
the oldest actress on the American
stage, ?* dead at West New Brighton,
Staten Island.
Shot to Pieoea.
Lobdell, Mias.: Thomas N. Mc-
Lctnore shot and killed C. L. Fallen.
Fallen was ahot to pieces, two loads
of buckshot taking effect in his face,
tUil and right side.
Disgusted With Hit Suocets.
George li. .1 mlson, age 80 years,
one of I ho early settlers of weal
Texas, died at his home near San
Autouio. lie was born near Wood-
bury, Conu., and was educated for
the bar. lie practiced law in east-
ern Texas, tbe last case In which ha
was employed being a murder case,
lie was satisfied that hia client waa
guilty, aud when the jury brought In
a verdict of acquital lie left t he Court-
room disgusted with Texas jurispru-
dence and uever took a law caae
afterward. For awhile he engaged
"in meroan lit© pursuils at New Braun-
fels and afteward took to sheep rais-
ing and was successful. He leaves a
number of children, all prominent
in business and social circles.
Thirty-Five Houses Burn.
Alvin, Tex.: Vire Tuesday night
destroyed thirtrfivo buildings, in-
cluding the main business blocks.
The fire was discovered in the upper
story of the Kimnions hardware
buildings and in lc?s than an hour
the whole block, except the Alvin
bank, on the southwest corner of the
block and crossing tho-rireei-on the
other, it burned L. B. Carlton’s gro-
cery store, Simmons’ blacksmith
thop, the Alvin hotel, Fitzgerald’s
tin shop and Thomas’ livery stable.
Declared Sane.
San Antonio: Vicente Sancedi,
under sentence of death for crimi-
nal assault on his 10-year-old step-
daughters, who has for two days
been under investigation before a
jury in the Thirty-seventh district
court for the purj>ose of determin-
ing his sanity or insanity, was ad-
judged to be sane, ond will be hang-
ed on Sept. 5 unless the governor
ligipgik • • ■_,
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Scalded to Death.
Bonham, Tex.: The 5-year-old
ion of Rev. Bob Reaves of Fulp waa
scalded to death at Gober. The lit-
tle one fell into a tub of hot water,
dying in a few hours.
Record Price.
Tbe record price for Texas yearl-
ings has been made by 8weusou
Bros., breeders of the 8. M. 8. cat-
tle. Thirteen hundred 8. M. 8. year-
ling steers have been sold to H. H.
Robinson, president of tbe Victoria
Cattle oompany, Denver: Mr. Rob*
ioson was the first president of tbe
American Cattle Growers’ association,
whose permanent headquarter* are iu
Denver. He was for years a promi-
nent dealer in Wyoming range cattle,
but of recent years has maintained
large Colorado pastures, to which
he sends only high class cattle
for resale to feeders. Nine hun-
dred bead of 8. M. 8. twos steers
recently made tbe Texas record price,
aud went to J. B. Kendrick, a promi-
nent range operator of Sheridan,
Wy.
Compromised the Cue.
The Galveston city commissioners
accepted a compromise offered from
Leon Levi io settlement of bis suit
against the city for $100,000 as con-
tingent fees based upon the reclataa-
tien of certain flats from tbe state In
this western part 'Of the city. Tf6‘
represented tbe city several years
ago and claimed a big fee, which was
refused, and be entered suit, which
caae ia still pending In court. He
effered to take $2500 cash, and tbe
commissioners accepted, as it would
coat tbe city several thousand dollars
to defend tbe caae.
Miss Marsh Confirmed.
president Kendall of tbe north
Texan slate normal school received
news of the confirmation of hit nomi-
nation of Miss Margaret MoLean to
succeed Miss Minnie M. Marsh as
instructor In English and Amertoen
literature in tbe college at Denton.
Miss Me (.can ia a native Texan, but
is recently of New York. She la •
graduate with A. B. degree of the
Southwestern university at George-
town and has had several years of
successful experience aa teacher.
For tho last three years she has been
a poet graduate student of Columbia
university, from which she reoeived
her M. A. degree in June, with
1 English and Latin as specialty work.
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Jumped to Hie "Death.
Thomas Boling,' aged 56 years, a
patient at the Sealy hospital, Gal-
veston, suffering from hemorrhage of
the brain, jumped out of the window
of bis room and died. Boling waa
injured on board a ship tv* days be-
fore he jumped and wee taken to the
bospilal and placed in a room. Be
got out of bed and untied the biiode
leading from hie room to tbe lawn
and jumped out. Tbe distance la
only about ten feet, but It is believed
he received in j tit tea which hastened
his death. Deceased was a cotton
screwman and that organization took
churge of the remains.
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Good Profit
Frank Larkina, who operates a
fruit, berry and truck farm a little
more than a mile east of Denison,
says that be baa one acre of ground
planted In black raspberries. These
boar a good crop every year, and
have always proved profitable. This
year Mr. Larkiu made $300 off one
acre of ground, and this is nothing
unusual or exceptional, fie alwaya
gathers a good crop and makes a
large profit off what he produces,
and aside from the raspberries, he
has strawberries, blackberries, peach-
es, apples, etc., all of which bring
big profits.
Study of Tarpon. .
Charles Frederick. Holder, author
of many books and well kaowu ang-
ler from Pasadena, CaL, was in San
Aatonio on bis way to the Tarpon
c ub. Mr. Holder ia the founder,
and the first president of the Luna
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World’s Fair Da»
At a meeting of tbe executive
committee of the San Antonio Inter-
national Fa!r association, Tuesday,
Octol>cr 28, waa designated aa
World s Fair day, and on that day It
is expected that Hon. David R
Francis of tbe Louisiana Purchase
exposition, to be held in 8t, Louis in
1904, and other prominent people
connected with the exposition will be
cial trains will be run on all San
Antonio roads on that date and it la
the purpoee of the management to
make the day the biggest of the fair.
Other features on that day will be
cattle roping and “broncho boating
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Newton, W. B. Weekly Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1902, newspaper, August 22, 1902; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038677/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.