The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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STATE CAPITAL NEWS
been given
feduca-
The following has
out from the department of
tlon: t * w~ ■ ..,
"In connection with the county
'examinations held throughout the
state this month, - an examination
for permanent .certificates will be
held, beginning Thursday,. Feb.
17, . The law provides that appli-
cants /for permanent certificates
shall J»e examided in all the
branches prescribed for third,
second and first grade certificates,
and in addition thereto history of
education, general history, peycho-
. fogy. English and American litera-
ture, chemistry, solid geometry,
plane trigonometry and element-
ary, double entry... bookkeeping.
Aa applicants ior first grade certi-
ficates are required to be examined
in mental sciences those taking the
additional subjects required for a
permanent certificate will not \e
examined m psychology as one of
the additional subjects, as this sud-
— ject is embraced in mental science,
included in the first gradF sub-
ject^.”
The following* railroads paid
taxes on the passenger earnings in
the comptroller’s office for quarter
ending December 31, 1897: Paris
and Great Northern railway paid
$6.42 on $642.53; Houston, East
and West Texas railway company
paid $263.48 on $26,348.33 the
gross passenger earnings, Velasco
Terminal paid $946, tax $9.46;
San Antonio and Aransas Pass
paid $81,018.14, tax $810.80;
Feces River Railroad company
paid $88.84, tax 84 cents.
For Labor Reform.
A call for the "first regular an-
nual united labor ami reform con.
ventlon” to be held in St. Louis on
May 2,1898, has been issued by the
\ committee appointed %t the united
labor convection held . in Chicago
last September.
The convention was called for
the following purpose:
1. To consider and adopt meas-
ures to secure closer union be-
tween all advocates of labor re-
form.
2 To adept an efficient system
of resisting the encroachment- of
the judiciary upon the liberties of
our people and to abolish govern-
ment by injunction.
3. To unite all oar efforts in sup-
port of eVery movement for the
betterment of industrai conditions
not inconsistent with each other
4. To consider the political situ
ation in^ relation to Ria interest of
the producers, and to take any nec-
essary action thereon.
5. To abolish closer and more
sympathetic relations between the
supporters of isolated attempts at
self help by co operative colonies
and industries.
6. To impress upon the Ameri-
can people the pie-eminent iip
and proportional representations)
as the only means ol restoring the
liberties ot ihe people and as the
only issue whereby all reform ele-
ments can be cemented into hearty
political union without compro
mise of principles.
7. The basis of representation
shall be one delegate from bona
fide local organization in actual
existence, which has for one ot its
fnnaamenta] objects the promotion
or industrial and social retorm.
Cotton Aereage.
New York, Feb. 2.—A letter
from Augusta, Ga., states: "Far-
mers are saving but little as re-
gards cot:on acreage though the
southern press, but you will sea a
great reduction in acreage as com-
pared with last season. Very few
mules are being sold and guano
sales will be cut almost in hall.
supplies on the present basis of cot
ton, and tney have little or no sup-
plies on hand. They are calling
on factors and merchants, and go-
ing, home with empty wagons.
Onfy the best elements of planters
will be able to get supplies with
which to start a crop, and they
will have to wait till late in the
spring for the same and then in
limited amount.
"Many ot the better class of
farmers have planted considerable
wheat and oats this winter in sec-
tions never before utilized ior this
Prices
l still they fail to
ly under last sea-
G. Har-
LATE TEXAS NEWS
Big hop McCabe has dedicated a
Mexican Methodist Church at El
Paso.
Hob. W. H. {Howdy) Martin,
ex-congressman, of Hillsboro, is
dead.
Demand for lumber continues
good in spite of the unfavorable
season.
' ” . *
Eugene I,ee, convicted of wife
murder, at Waxahachie, will ap-
peal his case. ‘
Calvin Toston confessed to hav-
ing killed Mary Benchley at Hous-
ton, both colored.
Bert Rogeas, colored, was given
five years Jn the penitentiary for
killing his fatner at Calvert.
Mr. ThomasAlled, oftheoklest
citizen qf Houston, was stricken
dumb while talking to his wife.
Postal Telegraph company has
secured a right ot way from Tay-
lor to Houston and into Austin.
#
A proposition has been made to
give a large park at Victoria to the
Guadalupe Valley railroad for yard
purpose.
The attorney general of Texas
haeruled that married women may
not sign charters as original incor-
porators.
Governor Culberson has formal
accepted of the invitation te accept
the historic capital building for the
Daughters of the Republic.
A bill providing for the erection
of a public building at Beaumont,
Texas, at a cost not. to exceed
$100,000 has passed the senate
Twenty-five thousand acres of
land in Matagorda have been pur-
chased for a G. A. R. colony in
Texas; a thousand families to be
be colonized.
Whatever may be the canse of
prematurely gray hair, it can be
restored to the same color as in
yonth by Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian
Hair Renewer.
Suit has been brought against
Sheriff H. B. Cook nod his bonds-
men, J. H. Parramore, C. W.
Merchant and Otto W. Steffens,
of Abline, by J. J. Hit son.
The examining trial of J. P.
Newton before Justice Lauderdale
at Dallas, for the murder of Jim
Peel, resulted in the holding of the
prisoner in bonds of $10,000,
which hfe gave.
Cotton receipts at Weatherford
to Januiry 3i, 1897: By rail 5i,-
602 bales; by wagon, 22,686 bales.
Total, 54,288. Last year this time
only 18,000 bales had been receiv-
ed, making an increase this year of
36,288 bales.
One of the largest land sales ever
made in southwest Texas is report-
ed at Corpus Cbristi. A. B. Ter-
rell of Victoria county purchased
from Martinez Bros, a ranch con-
sisting of 36,000 acres fn Stan
county, paying $15;o0o cash for
the same.
Horace Hart, a boy, met a hor-
rible death at Wavely, Texas.
While haulingjrood his team be-
came frightened and ran away,
entangling him in the harness,
dragging him over the railroad
track and the rough ground for a
quarter of a mile or more, pro-
ducing instant death.
In digging an artesian well north
of Denton, at a.depth of 5OO feet,
the wellmen struck some, kind of
hard substance, and drawing out
the drill found adhering to it sev-
eral particles' ot a bright metallic
matter, which closely resembled
silver, or, at the worst, lead. It
has been submitted to a local
chemist to be tested and examined.
There was a great rush in Waco
on the 18th to pay taxes—it being
the last day of grace—and the col-
lector got in over $20,000. And
'still, more than 30 per oent are
said to have failed
LEE MURDER TKIAL.
ft *nd will^he” forced to pay toften
*7
per cent fine. The taxable values
of McLennan county are between
$23,000,000 and $24,000,000. The
annual revenues of the county are
over $2ta,ooo.
A New Wrinkle. ^
Columbus, O., Feb. 6.—Rep-
resentative Parker of Cleveland,
has introduced a bill -which en-
tirely changes the manner of regu-
lating marriages. It provides for
the appointment by the ptobate
court of each county of a board of
marriages composed of physicians,
consisting of three members, and
persons who wish to marry most
make application- The board will
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rciuBc 10 graut uccuse in cue
either party to proposed contract
his dipsomania, kleptomania, in-
sanity, true or hereditary, or re-
ftotn vices; oei “ *“ *
1 of tuberculosis
There Is
to the
of health in case of
any refusal to grant the license.
I»wISmI AtTStpmal. AMumI Aj
Ml*. RM’> Ti.tla.oay. .
Waxahachie, Web. ^—In the
Lee case, Helen Retd’s testimony
before the district epurt, was listen-,
ed to by more men and women thftn
were ever squeezed Into the room
t ifioe the courthouse has been com-
pleted. Miss Reid was kept on the
stand from 8:39 until after 11
o’clock last night.
All the associations between her
self and Lee were gone over in de-
tail, and not a few times the witness
stunned the defense by saving she
would not answer a question.
Once or twice Jndgr Dillard was
appealed to, and even then the
witness reserved some of the mo‘t
delicatgjnsinuations byanswering,
"Because I wanted loo,’’ or ‘ I
guess so,” and "I decline to an-
swer.”
' The thing that puzzled the de-
fense more than anything else .was
why she should go to Fort Worth
and adopt a little girl ofily a few
months old from the Rescue home.
She named it Itallia, and now at
Ennis. She said that her little
baby had died, and she was going
to keep the Fort Worth girl, and
intended to take it to Alabama
with her. The defense went again
and again over the childs adoption.
She was going under the name
ot Miss Armstrong, and was living
with Mrs. Tipton as one of the
family. Lee visited her there and
also at the Rose home. "While I
was staying at the hotel in Ennis,”
said the witness, "he said some-
thing about getting his wife, Attie
Lee out of the way, and asked me
if I would marry him. I told him
I did not know. 1 did not thjpk
be had little enough sense to do
it. He said if he coaid not get rid
of her one way hq would another.
He asked me if I would get some
drug to put into his wife’s medi-
cine; I told him ‘No.* It was
’commercial muriatic acid;’ he
gave me the name on a written
slip of paper. He wrote it and
said I could get it at a drug store
and that he would mix it with
some medicine that his wife was
then taking. It was a prescrip-
tion from a doctor which had been
fixed ud for his wife. I refused to
do that. He said he would kill
her. He asked me if I would take
care of his boys.
<(1 received some letters from
him which I have burned. Miss
Glass at Mrs. Tipton’s saw me take
the letters t;o the stove; that was
on the morning after his wife was
killed that I burned them; one of
these letters was signed ‘your in
tended husband.’ On Saturday
before the killing he told me his
wife was in Milford, and that he
expected to meet her at the train,
and that would be his last night.
He waB going to get a man who
worked with him to get it; he was
going to give her two or three tea-
spoonsful of chloroform with oth-
er chemicals. He said he had
mude arrangements for me to come
and k®ep house for him; I was
to como and take -.care of his
house while he went to his wife’s,
funeral at Waxahachie. ^
"He left me about 8 o’clock.
He said he had looked into a law
book and we could not be prose-
cuted if I was there as househeeper
for him, and that be would marry
me afterwards. I received a pa-
per froqs him while in jail which
contained a account of the killing.
I know ilia band-write.’*
Here the witness was shown a
letter, which she identified as one
from Lee to her. She did not
know why it was not burned with
the others.
Cross-examination by defense:
"Reid is your right name?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Youi arrangement with Lee
was fo live with him as husband
and wife and to marry him ini the
course of time*” tj- .
"Yes, sir.”
“You agreed to keep house with
him if his wife was killed?” m :
“That was the arrangement with
him.”'
“Why did not you tell some-
body of it; you wanted to keep
house for him?”
“No.”
"Why did you agae to it?”
"Et his raquest. I didn’t care
anything about it.”
"Why did you do it at his re-
quest?” ,
“Ha asked me to.”
“You wanted to do it to oblige
him?’
“Yes, sir.”
“How mnoh money does he owe
you?”
“He don’t owe me any.”
“Didn’t you tell Minnick that
he did?”
*5 “Yes, Mr.” *, . w ,
“You told Joe Minnick a He?”
witness* I learned of an Indict-
ment against me from the papers.
When I came, here 7 supposed I
would be indicted. I didn’t believe
he would kill his wife.”
“Have you ever been married?”
"No, sir, 1 never was.”
“When did you come to this
town?”
"About a year and one-half ago
from Selma, Ala.”
“With whom?”
“Mr. Mollet.”
“Is he a relative of yours?’’ ,
“No, sir.”
This questioning was kept up
for a long time, which brought
out ber relations with Lee.
At one o’clock to-day, after ex-
amining many witnesses, it was de
cided by the lawyers on both sides
that enough witnesses had been
examined, and at 1:30 the argu-
ment for the state was opened.
The courtroom has been a solid
mass of humanity all day.
Gels ■ 1.I1S T*ta.
Waxahachie, Feb. 3.—Judge
Dillard, at 2 30 o’clock this even-
ing, read his charge to the jury,
explaining the points about malice,
murder, circumstantial evidence,
the work of accomplice and the
law relative to each.
At 5:15 o’clock the jury brought
in a verdict assessing Eugene
Lee’s penalty at imprisonment for
life. As the jury filed in there
was a wild rush tor Beats.
Gigantic Cuban Scheme.
A special to the Minneapolis
Journal trom Aberdeen, S. D ,
says:
Jim
■Patterson of the Boston
I block, Minneapolis, who is well-
known throughout the northwest,
has been in Aberdeen on a pecu-
liar mission. He is working quiet-
ly but persistently upon a scheme
to take 100,000 men to Cuba and I
land them there on the 4th of July.
He says ne is backed by a syndi-
cate of Americans who have large
land interests in the island and
claims the Americans are anxious
to cut up their holdings and dis-
pose of small plantations to able-
bodied men on long time and at a
low rate of interest. ,
They require no cash down, and
all the money the intended pur-
chaser needs is enough to pay his
expenses from here to Cuba. On
account of the large number of
people they intend to transport the
traveling expenses will be nomi-
nal. Mr. Patterson says excursion
rates have already been arranged
for all and there will lie enough
steamers at New Orleans on July
3 to carry the 100,000 excursion
ists to Havana and other ports on
the island where they intend to
land.
The company guarantees pro-
tection from Spanish interference
from New Orleans to Cuba, and
Iwben the men arrive they will be
.such a formidable body that Spain
| will not dare to interiere in the
peaceful pursuits the immigrants
intend to pursue. If an attempt
should be made to interfere the
men will be instructed to arm
themselves and protect their
rights.
The company’s agent claims that
a vast amount of money has been
lost by American property owners
over there because Spain would
notallow them to work their plan-
tations. They intend to place a
man on every few acres and if he
stands up for his rights and works
the property as It tan be worked,
ho will become the absolute owner
of hi* plantation in a few years.
I’he company guarantees to furn-
ish the settlers with machinery
and arm them if it becomes neces
sary through Spanish intervention.
Mr. Patterson says he has been
very successful in securing men
from the'two Dakotas, Montana
and Minnesota who are willing to
acoept of the company’s flattering
inducement, and claims the gigan-
tic excursion iB already an assured
fact.
Mr. Patterson says he will be at
the Boston block in Minneapolis
over Sunday, but intends to leave
for aastern points to prosecute his
labors in securing volunteers for
the big soldier’s excursion on in-
dependence day—the largest move-
ment of men in a body on a peace-
ful mission the world has ever
known.
Prussia refuses to permit Amer-
ican fruits to enter her territory,
alleging that California and other
vermin threaten German trees and
lruit.______
At Dallas a negro was cenght in
a coal pile at a late hour, ana was
chasee to capture. In hia rapid
flight he dropped hia sack—which
upon examination
CHIEF ARNOLD DEAD.
1I» dim tram mu Accidental Uumkol
Wciiurt Received While Hading.
Dallas,i Feb. 6.—Capt. J. C
Arnold, chief o# police, died at
8 o’clock last night at his hom£,
451 Commerce street, as a result of
a gunshot wound in his right leg.
As stated in previous - dispatches
Capt. Arnold jvas shot Friday af-
iternoon by the accidental dis-
! charge of a shotgun loaded with
No. 8 shot in tbe 'hands of Rev.
Geqrge W. Truett, pastor ot the
First Baptist Church- of Dallas,
while hunting on the fartp of qx-
Sheritf Boyd of Johnson- county,
eight miles from Cleburne. The
charge of shot took effect in the
right leg midway between the an
kle, tearing away a large piece of
flesh and about four inches, of the
smaller bone. Mr. Truett quickly
got out a large silk handkerchief
and Capt. Arnold bandaged his
wound with it and by mean of the
barrel of his gun twisted it tightly.
Mr. Truett called to Rev. G. W-
Banner, the third ufember of the
party, who was in another part of
the field. The two men assisted
Capt, Arnold to the buggy. As
they were lifting him m tbe ve-
hicle, hassaid:
"Gentlemen, 1 am going to faint
a little while. Now don’t get
alarmed. Just throw a few drops
of water in my face.” ’
They did as he requested and he
soon came to, on which he request-
ed Mr. Truett to go on ahead to
Mr. Boyd’s and see about a doctor.
Mr. Truett was very fortunate in
readily finding Dr. Harris. After
Capt. Arnold had reached Mr.
Boyd’s aud the doctor had arrived,
Mr. Truett was overcome with
nervous prostration, and fainted
away himself and was for some
time apparently in a worse condi
tion than the wounded mao.
At Capt. Arnold’s request Mr.
Truett came to Dallas a train ahead
ot him. He wished him, to tell the
straight ot the accident He said
if he telegraphed the people would
be sure to get it all wrong.
Capt. Arnold arrived on the
Santa Fe train yesterday morning
and was conveyed to his home.
At that time there had been no
reaction or rally ‘ from the first
shook of the wound. But it was
hoped that the reaction would
certainly come in a few hours and
the most hopeful view of his con-
dition was taken by the wounded
man’s friends, this paper sharing
such hopes. Rut as tne hours pass-
ed without any symptoms of a re-
action, other physicians were call-
ed in consultation. They agreed
that the leSS^of^blooa bad been
very greaf, and proceeded to sup-
ply the dLriciency in the hfe fluid
by injecting warm salt wuter into
his veins and giving him drugs to
reviye him. But ms heart did not
respond.. He had bled to death,
they said. He was consc.ous at
times, but filgbtiy at 6 p. m. he
begau to visibly sink, and at 8:1b
he died.
Capt. Arnold was vice president
of the National PoliceuCuieis aud
City Marsnals’ Union, and presi
dent of the Texas union. He was
the organizer of the Police Beuev
oient association in Dallas. He
carried about $12,000 worth of life
insurance. ”
He was born near Welington,
Morgan county, Georgia, April 9,
I85I.
He came to Dallas in April,
1874. and has heen a resident ot
it ever since.
On November 5, 1874, he was
appointed on the police force of the
city of Dallas under General Wm.
L- Cabell, mayor, and served until
1881, when he was appointed city
marshal, vice W. F. Morton re-
signed, and then an election was
ordered to fill the unexpired term,
at which election he was chosen
and has held the position ever
since. *
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pices of the Masonic order,
Knights of Pythias. 1. O O. F.,
B. P. O. E , Red Men and Shrin-
ers. His body will lay in state at
the city hall from 9:30 a. m. to
2*30 p m. Wednesday, when the
proQession will tako up its line of
march to Greenwood oemqtery.
In reqpect to the wishei of Mrs.
Arnold.no music will accompany
tie rmkroh. —
Many marshals and chiefs of the
various Texas towns aftd citi s
"have signifie 1 that they would at-
tend the funeral.
Rev. Geo, W. Baines of Cle-
burne, who figured in connection
with the tragedy is to officiate at the
funeral, provided he can stand the
strain, and not break down.
Rev. Mr. Truett, when informed
of the death of Mr. Arnold, again
sank into unconsciousness, but is
slowly recovering. He says if it
were possible, he would gladly ex-
change the situation as to himself
and Mr. Arhbld.
MR. WU ANSWERED.
Dr. Mmry Walker Wears Trousers Bo*
eaoar bite Wauls To.
Washington, Feb. 3—Dr. Mary
Walker was one of the best known
guests at the White House re-
ception last night. She was at-
tired in a Prince Albert suit, and
wore a G. A. R. button, During
the evening Dr. Walker was in-
troduced to the Chinese Mib inter,
Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu, like Li Hung
Chang, is fond of asking questions
when anything strikes him as pe-
culiar.
"Why do you wear pants?”
Minister Wu pointedly inquired
of Dr. Walker*
"Why do you wear a gown or
dress?” asked Dr. Walker, with-
out at first auswenng the Minis-
ter’s question. * ,
"Because it is the custom of my
country;” Mr. Wu quickly re-
sponded.
‘‘Well, I wear trousers because
this is a tree country, and people
are not handicapped by custom,”
was Dr. Walker’s answer.
Au interesting Case.
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 6.— Erefl
A. Baker, a prominent attorney of
Detroit, has filed an answer to a
suit brougt against him in the
Oakland county circuit couS£ in-
volving the constitutionality of the
Bland Allison act and other,laws
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pertaining to silver as a legal ten
der. Stephen Baldwin tendered
* 36^silv
Ibe cone
Stephen
Mr. Baker 36^silver dollars and
asked for ipe concellation of the
mortgage.
Mr. Baker refused to surrender
the mortgage lor 3(>4 silver dollars,
but agreed to cancel it it he received
uougn silver dollars to equal at
the present bullion value Li 364
gold dollars, i'uis condition was
declined by Mr. Baldwin, and he
filed a suit m equity, asking for a
decree Commanding Mr. Baker to
cancel the mortgage m vib >v of the
tender made.
In the answer Mr. Baker sab
mits that under the power "to com
money, regulate the value tuereof,
and of foreign coins, and fix the
standard weights and measures,”
tne congress of tbe United Slates
nas no more authority of power,
as tar as there was pre existing
contracts for the payment of mo-
ney are concerned to diminish or
increase the number of grains in
an ounce or the number ot ouncek
in a pound or number ol inches in
a loot or i» a yarn, t«» change
any other standard or weights or
measures.
Several of the leading attorneys
of Detroit are interested in the
case.
proved to
tain a large rock instead of coal.
Mr- Arnold was well liked by
the people of Dallas, and the news
of his death fell like an electric
shock, and gloom and sorrow per-
vades the entire city.
The effect of the accident on
R-v. Mr. Truett,* the innocent
canse of it, amounted to prostra-
tration. On reaching home be took
to his bed, and gave himself op
to the most gloomy reflections.
H«norU( th« Dr«d.
Dallas, Feh. 8.—Yesterday was
a day of confidence, condolence
and resolutions by all the frater-
nal and civil orders and represen
tative business conncils in Dali
They were all doing homage to I
memory of the man whom 1
known
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