The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1908 Page: 6 of 8
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ONIONS ON THE MOVE.
ANARCHISTS
ACTIVE.
THE ALVIN SUN.
Publisher
CHAS. B BAILEY
ASSAULT.
: TEXAS
ALVIN'.
MOB BEAT OFFICERS TO HIM.
ASSASSINS' LIFE WAS ENDED
an
■
$15,000 FIRE AT LAREDO.
DODD CITY GIRL BURNED.
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY.
WOMAN SHOT A NEGRO.
REID CASE MARCH 23.
Bozman
ROBBED OF $300,030
Is
VALDEZ KILLING PLANNED.
ruci
San Antonio. Tex.: The onion move- |
ruent from Southwest Texas to North- |
ern markets has already begun, being •
Chief of Police, After Beirg Stabbed,
Sent a Bullet to the Proper Billet
—Son Fatally Wounded.
Mexican money,
yet been learned.
terr tory.
much as it was last year.
in jail,
turned against
jury.
son of man.”
therefore, sectarian.
He calls himself
He was net tho
study
But
for
Asiatic.
He war
By REV. A.C. DIXON, D. D.,
The Bible a
Universal Book
witnesses to the accident
leaves a wife and two children,
was a member of the Red Men.
KISHINEV REFUGEE. ASSAILS CHI-
CAGO'S CHIEF.
and
g e t
Center, Tex.: There has jeon an In-
crease in tax collections thin year over
last year. In January, 1907. 130,591.51
was collected; in January, 190X, $47,-
765.60 was collected.
His writings are therefore
in their national narrowness,
j.ter was Just a son of Persia.
Switchman's Neck Broken.
Tyler, Tex.: E. L. Honeycutt lost his |
life Tuesday morning while switching
in the yards of the Cotton Belt. Mr.
Huneycutt was attempting to make a
cut of cars and the brake lever stuck,
breaking his neck. There were no eye
Deceased
He
Affair Was Done so Quietly That
None But Participants Knew of It
Until Morning.
Tabor Taken to Penitentiary.
Texarkana. Tex.: The final chapter
of the famous robbery of the Pacific
Express on the Cotton Belt at Red
Water, twenty miles south of hero, on
the night of Dec. 1, 1906, will be writ
ten when the penitentiary doors at
Huntsville close on Phil E. Tabor.
Tabor secured $9,000 from the car
Of the sum, only $3,600 has ever been
recovered.
=———— |
Cincinnati girls captured a masher
and locked him up until a policeman
came. Leap year methods appear to
be rather violent contrariwise.
The Smoky City thief who left gold
and jewels untouched *o steal the pic-
ture of a pretty girl must have been
a Pittsburg millionaire in disguise.
According to an Arkansas minister
hell is a large city. This will be pleasant
news to the grafters, who may be ex-
pected to feel completely at home.
'I The Bible a T
| Universal Book |
I By REV. A.C. DIXON, DO., |
II Pastor of the Chicago Av«. Moody's W
M Church, Chicago. t
by Chief
afterucon
Dalny was a model city. This may
be why it keeps modestly out of print
even when a Russian writes another
article on the siege of Port Arthur.
In China ajirls are not permitted to
go to school after they are 15 years of
age. That must be a poor country
for sororitiec.
All China asks is another year or
two before gazing across the Yellow
sea and suggesting that the ntighisirs
try it again.
Assertions by a Chicago physician
that laughter is the best cure for the
grippe are unreasonable. A man who
can laugh hasn’t the grippe.
Every now and then some traveler
speaks in such high terms of Raisul!
that Moroccans who are not brigands
seem to suffer by comparison.
pled by the show, spread to Bryant’s
jewelery store and the one occupied
by the Singer Sewing Machine Com-
pany and gutted both. Loss will prob-
ably reach $15,000.
: CHARGING ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL
A AAA III T
Price for the New Crop I* Exceptional- ,
ly Good and the Quality Will Be
Up to Standard.
The city of Paris owns 87.000 trees,
©r one to every 32 inhabitants, w ith-
out counting the trees in some 300
acres of parks. The horse chestnut
is the commonest tree planted by the
municipality, aft«r it comes the p ane
tree. In some of the more distant and
secluded avenues limes and acacias
are found, but variety must not be
songht outside the gardens and parks
which belong to the state. There one
may find almost ev«-y tree that may
be grown in the Paris climate.
Chicago, Ill.: Chief of Police Geo. M.
Shippey. his son Harry and his driver.
James Foley, were wounded by an an-
archist who attempted to assassinate
the police official in the hall of the lat-
ter’s residence, 31 Lincoln Court, short-
ly after 9 o’clock Monday morning. The
desperate struggle, in which Mrs. Ship-
pey and her daughter. G*‘orgetta.
joined, was terminated when the chief
drew his own revolver and killed his
assailant.
The attack is believed to have been
the result ot a w idespread conspiracy
to harm officials who have been active
in suppressing manifestations of an-
archy in this community.
Other city officials are said to have
been threatened, and a police s»>y who
recognized the corpse of the nan who
Invaded Shippey s home as that of a
person who regularly at tented anar-
chism meetings, asserted that the man
was chosen by lot to do away with not
only the Chief of Police but Mayor
Busse as well. The ramifications of
the plot are said to extend to other
cities and to be closely connected with
the killing of Rev. Leo Heinrichs, the
Roman Catholic priest who was shot
down at the altar of his church in L>en-
ver.
Harry Shippey's Wounds Serious.
Harry Shippey is the nios. severely
hurt of those in the affray. He was
shot through the breast twic* and was
probably fatally wounded. His father
was stabbed in the arm while Foley
received a bullet, in tb< wrist. Mrs.
Shippey was kicked by ttie desperado,
but her hurts are slight.
Following the attack squads of police
were sent into the Italiiin and ghetto
districts of the city. Places known as
headquarters of secret soce’ies sus-
pected of anarchistic tendencies were
raided, and before midnight a score
or more of arrests had been made.
Editor Dunn of Belton Injured.
Temple, Tex.: At Belton Tuesday
night John S. Dunn, editor of the Bel-
ton Weekly Gazette, was injured in an
altercation with a party named Doc
Flewellen of Temple, receiving several
deep knife thrusts. The trouble is
said to have grown out of. a recent
editorial in the injured man s paper.
The attacking party was arrested and
immediately gave bond.
The passion of love we feel Is great-
er than we inspire.
Time is the glorious cure for
headaches and heartaches.
And now :he man who goes regu-
larly to the gymnasium can show his
muscular ability by shoveling snow.
Catfish, says a New Jersey man.
prefer a Jsrk place at night. Evident-
ly even catfish have to sleep some-
time*.
Somebody has figured it out that
congress costs the country $1.50 a
minute. But look at the oratory we
get for it?
pieu uj a ujuviufi yiviuic
1/ after 10 o'clock Monday night, just
as the performance had concluded But
for that fdet the loss would have been |
heavy. * mentally.
The fire gutted the building occu-
Joe Floyd Shct.
Madisonville, Tex.: In an altercation
Saturday Joe Floyd was shot twice
with a pistol and dangerously wound
ed by Constable Ed Bozman By ad-
vice of physicians ?.Ir. Floyd was sent j
to a hospital in Houston.
wTas placed under $500 bond.
Temple. Tex.: Cotton to the amount
' i»«j way to {fols
The Bible ia not
intended exclu-
sively for Chria-
tians. The word
"Christian” occurs
in it only three
times. The read-
ing of it makes
Christians.
Christians
most out of it, for
they believe love
its
the
the
Started if. a Moving Picture Show and
Destroyed Two Other Buildings.
Laredo, Tex.:
in a building on Lincoln street occu-
pied by a moving picture show short- have no business. Scott had lived her*
1,- after 10 o’clock Monday night, just | all his life, and while he was not re-
garded as a bad negro, owing to the
fact that he was not very strong
circumstances connected
with his conduct on Wednesday and
Thursday brought about his death at [
the end of a rope.
Evidence Before the Justice of the '
Peace at Karnes City.
Karnes City, Tex.: The inquest pro- i
ceedings tn the case ot Maximo Valdez, |
who was killed near this plr.ee Satur- I
day evening last, was concluded before
udge L. C. Tobin Monday st 4 p. m. I
From the evidence product d by the
witnesses it appears that the prisoner,
j Emilo Canno, who is now in jail, went
to the home of Valdez for no other pur-
pose but to kill, aud rather boasted
of same. Canno waived examining
trial and was committed to jail with-
out bail.
District court convenes here on the
30th of March.
Conroe, Tex : Early Friday morning
a negro was discovered hanging, dead,
within about one half a bloc k of the
court house and near the county jail, j
I It seems that complaint had been '
j lodged with the justice of the peace j
of 16 bales found its way to this
market during the past two lays, and
every bale was sold at prevailing
prices for the staple. Some of the cot-
ton came from the union warehouse,
some from the local yards and the
bulk from the country.
Bank of Chihuahua, Mexico, and
Owned by Ambassador Creel.
El Paso, Tex.: A telegram received
frem Chihuahua, .Mexico says that the
Banco de Miner©, owned by Ambas^q-
dor Creel, has been robbed of $300,990
No particulars hffve.
Officers here, how-
ever. have been asked to watch the
border closely.
The bank notes taken are In denom-
inations of $1,000, $500, $100 aifd $50.
A telegram from Governor Creel of
Chihuahua was received
Fonce of Juarez Monday
stating that a liberal reward had been
offered for rhe capture of the bank
robbers, and asked that the United
States Immigration authorities he re-
quested to keep a lookout for suspi-
ctous characters and for bills of the
denominations missing. The immigra-
tion authorities have issued instruc-
tions to the border riders and to offi-
cials at the stations along the line to
keep a lookout for the missing bills.
Attorney General Will Appear for th»
Prosecution at Next Trial.
Lake Charles. La.: Judge J B. Lee
Tuesday refixed the Reid contest case
for March 23. Judge Lee stated that
this action was taken because of a tel-
egram that reached him from Attorney
Genera: Guion, in which the latter
stated that his official engagements
would not permit him to come to Lake
Charles before March 23. Nothing will
be done in regard to the talked-<’t
transfer of the case until the next trial
Buck Davis Captured.
Marlin. Tex.: Sheriff Pooh returned
at noon Saturday, after a Utile
chase in pursuit of Buck Davte, col
ored. charged with murder. He had
his prisoner in custody and ple-'ed him
An indictment had been re-
Davis by the grand
the earliest in the history of the in- I
dustry. The price being offered for the
new crop is exceptionally good, and I
those sending out the first cars will I
realize a very handsome profit. The
movement this year will compare fav-
orably with former years, according to
present indications. There has been
only one setback, that of cutworms,
which ravaged a few acres, but their
work did not extend over a very great
The crop will be handled
Some ship-
ments will be made by refrigerator
car* to the Northern and Eastern mar-
ke’.s but more will go via Galveston
and be shipped by steamer to the vari-
ous markets. This was found to be
cheaper than handling the crop by the
railroads and more satisfactory. It
was tried for the first time last year.
Rejiorts from the markets at pres-
ent favor profitable sales. The mar-
kets were not flooded last year, and all
of the old crop has been utilized.
There is always a big demand for the
Texas product, as it is recognized now
as being the Vest that is raise<1 in
America. The movement is now from
the Laredo district, but onions from
the coast country, including hundreds
of acres at Corpus Christi and Browns-
ville. will follow shirtly. The New
Braunfels and San Marcos crops will
come on somewhat later.
Was Standing Near a Fireplace When
Her Clothes Ignited.
Bonham, Tex.: Wednesday after-
noon, two miles north of Dodd City.
Miss Mollie Sellers was fatally
burned. The young lady was stand-
ing in front of the fireplace, when her J
skirts ignited. She ran into an ad- :
joining room and wrapped a quilt j
around herself, but in her excitement j
she dropped the quilt and ran out
into the yard. Members of the fam-
ily heard her screams and went to
her assistance, but not until lher
clothing was almost entirely burned
from her body. The unfortunate girl
died Wednesday night.
late Thursday evening, charging him
with an attempted assault upon a
white ladj* of this town, but no ar-
rest had been made. The officers
were unable to find him Thursday
evening. Other parties, however, it
seems, did find him. and Judge Lynch
convened his court some time during
the night, with the result above indi-
cated. He was a young negro uy the
name of Charlie Scott, and so far as
your correspondent is able to learn
has no near kin here other than a
grandmother. Justice Darby bold the
inquest, returning a verdict of death
at the hands of parties unknown. Ev-
erything must have been carried out
with the utmost quiet, and the citi-
zens had no intimation of what was
transpiring until the negrc-’F dead
body was discovered Friday morning
Scrawled upon a placard that was
fastened to the feet was this: ' This is
a warning to all negroes who arc
caught prowling arour.d white folks
. houses.”
1 For some time there has been much
apprehension here lest there shouk
j occur an attempted outrage which
■ would bring about serious difficulties
1 and cause a lumber of hanging,. Many
1 strange negroes are in this locality,
Fire was discovered ’ and they have been observed prowling
about premises where it is known they
A poet has written a sonnet to Tet-
razinl. He says she is a “sweet
cousin to the nightingale.” We hope
this doesn’t mean that she is a whip-
poorwill.
Diamonds are falling in price, but
they are not so vulgarly low that the
ladies who live at the hotels feel
that they should leave them off at
breakfast time.
Pigeon toes betrayed a St. Louis
taan, long sought by the police. Anj
person with such a fi.tal defect shoulc
make it an early aim in life to to©
the mark of righteousness.
The advantages of Denver as a con-
vention city in July are at once dem-
onstrated by the offer of one of the
railroads m deliver a carload of snow
each day at the convention hall.
A man in California cut off his foot
while chopping wood for a kitchen
stove. He will doubtless join the as
social ion of men who believe that
wives were made for that sort of la-
bor.
The marquis of Anglesey, who has
an income of $600,000 a year, Is said to
hav^ decided tc marry an American
girl The reason is not given, but it
must be remembered that even $600,-
000 a year may not seem very much to
a marquis.
A Chicago & Northwestern engineer
has been on the road for 50 years and
has never had a wreck. He is a rar
ity. but he serves to show that what
has been considered an impossibility
may, after all, be easy to the right
kind of man.
French roads are generally recog-
nized as the best and most complete
In the world. The highways of
France are not good because of any
special talent for road-building but be-
cause of the constant, intelligent su-
pervision of the department having
charge of them.
Persons in New York who intend
ed to marry were able, until January
1. to take the important step without
first securing a license from the civil
authorities In all other states, save
South Carolina and New Jersey, citi-
zens have had to secure a permit.
New York, the largest of the stages,
has been slow in adopting this desir-
able rule for the prevention of hasty
and ill-considered marriages.
He Was Familiar and She Was Handy
With a Gun.
Kansas City. Mo.: Mrs. Callie M.
Long fired five shots from her revol-
ver at a nc-gro wo entered her little
restaurant. Monday night. Two of the
bullets took effect, but the negro es
caped. The negro had saluted the wo
man with "How do, honey?” and Mrs
Long began firing almost before the
negro had finished his salutation. Mrs
Long was born and reared in Texar
kana, Tex., and lived at Shawnee, Ok.
before coming to Kansas City.
Seventy-Two Years Ago Declaration
Signed at Washington.
Austin, Tex.: This being the anniver-
sary of the Declaration of Texas Inde-
pendence it .was a legal holiday and
all of the state departments, banks.
Federal buildings and some of the
business houses were close d. It was
generally observed as a holiday, though
there was no ,-rogram of exercises.
It was just seventy-two years a^o
that the conversion at Old Washington
on the Brazos issued the Declaration
of Independence. The convention as-
sembled on March 1, but the formal
declaration was not issued to the
world until the following day. It re-
cited the many acts of oppre ssion and
tyranny of the Mexican Government
and ended by declaring that self-pres-
ervation demanded tha- Texas be free
and independent, and it has been from
that day to this. It was but a com-
paratively few days la'.er tl at the fa-
mous battle of San Jacinto was fought,
that is, on April 21. when the Texas
arms achieved a glorious victory and
put the Mexicans to flight forever, cap-
turing the heretofore vigorous Santa ■
Anna, who was made and heild a pris-
oner of war.
and i
pages.
Bible is
wicked as w.-ll as,
for the good. Rs
law. as Paul declares, is for evildoers,
while its Gospel is for all wh • will
accept it.
If you would trace the history of the
material universe, you may have any
theory of evolution or mutation, but
you will come at last to a point where
you need and must have the first
words of Genesis: In the beginning
God.” If you study the history of na-
tions and would trace them to their
origin and early developments, you
cannot do without the Bible. If you
would know the history of jurispni-
j dence and would be a well-equipped
lawyer or judge, you must study the
Bible, for It contains the foundation
of law and all civilized nations.
History of Literature.
If you would study the history of
literature you must know your Bible,
for hundreds of thousands of volumes
in our great libraries were written be-
cause the Bible exists. Theology,
which is the science of God, the great-
est science in the world, is unintel-
ligible without the Bible; and arch-
aeology, that fascinating science,
which with pick and shovel has un-
earthed the buried treasures of Egj pt
and Assyria, is inexplicable without
the Bible. The poet's corner cannot
be appreciated without a knowledge ot
the Bible. It will be conceded by all
lovers of poetry that among the great
est English-speaking poets are
Shakespeare. Tennyson. Longfellow
and Browning, and a knowledge of
i the Bible is absolutely essential to an
understanding of any one of them.
! They teem with Biblical allusions.
Milton and much of Byron are sealed
books to the man ignorant of the
Bible. Indeed, if you would write
poetry, you cannot become great if
yon ignore the great thoughts about
God, eternity, life. love and immortal-
ity which the Bible contains. Take
out of English literature the classic
books that demand a knowledge of
I the Bible for their proper apprecia^
tion, and yon have blotte-1 the sun out
of our literary sky.
The History of Art.
Would you study the history ot art
tn sculpture and painting, you must ba
acquainted with the Bible, for the
best paintings of the old masters
and the finest statuary were Inspired
for the most part by scenes and ideals
drawn from the Bible. You must re-
main ignorant of the genius of Raph-
ael and Michelangelo if you refuse
to know the Bible, for the scenes and
characters they depicted with brush and
chisel were Biblical. The paintings of
Dore. Tissot and Sargent, modern
master artists, cannot be understood
without a knowledge of the Bible.
The great musicians, whose master-
pieces have thrilled the souls of mil-
lions. cannot be interpreted and ap-
preciated without a knowledge of rhe
Bible. Handel's oratorios ot the
I “Messiah." “Esther,” “Saul,” “Joshua,”
: "Jephtha' and “Israel in Egypt,” all of
them masterpieces of musical compo-
1 sition. cannot be understood without
a knowledge of the Bihle. Mendels-
sohn’s Elijah” and Beethoven’s
“Mount of Olives" are enigmas with-
out Biblical knowledge.
He is “the Son of Man." There Is
something exceedingly emphatic in
that expression. “Son of Man," writes
Frederick W. Robertson; “our Master
is not culled the Son of Mary, but az
if the bpod of the whole human race
were in his veins,
the Soi[ of Man.
• He was not the European,
not the Jew. He was not
the typv of that century stamped with
its peculiarities. He was not the
mechanic. He was not the aristocrat.
But he- was the man." No one could
mistake Mohammed for such a “Sou
of Mar?.” He was a son of Arabia,
and n«?rhing more. The Korin 1h,
therefore, a sectarian book, and Mo-
hammedanism Is cruelly sectarian.
Buddha was a son of India, and noth-
ing more. No one could mistake him
for a -on of man.” His writings are,
They are not
adapted to the occidental mind. Con-
fucius, was a son of China, and noth-
ing nwre.
sectarian i
Zoroaster
Only Christ is the universal M<jl
[LYNCHING AT CONROE.
BULK OF CROP WILL GO NORTH
VIA GALVESTON.
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