The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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PORT ARIHUR HAS IAIIIN
THE COLORADO ELECTION.
HARO TO BELIEVE.
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miss nancy McChesney, prop.
Helpless and Hopeless, the Rus
TEXAS
COMMERCE.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
sians Yield.
APPALLING SICKNESS, WOUNDS AND MORTALITY
At 9 o’clock Sunday night Gen. Nogi, |
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not free the negro.
The Japanese. Brave and Daring in Initiation. Gallant and
Stubborn in Defense, Are Magnanimous and
Generous in Victory.
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klatenicnl
Thieves entered the home ot F. W.
Overstreet at Ector Tuesday night,
and stole 1535 in cash that Mr. Over-
street had earned by hard work, and
laid away for a rainy day.
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Dennis Call, organizer of the Beau-
mont National Bank and prominent
In financial circles of the State, died
Friday morning He was a prominent
Mason, and was buried by that urdar.
Fnday fire was discovered tn the cotjBS
ton ysrd st Carbon and before ths fir/1**7
could be put out eleven bales of cot^n
were pretty badly burned.
A negro named John Taylor took *•
For the first time In years not a suit
for divorce was begun In Chicagr
Tuesday. Often as high as forty such
actions are brought in a day. The usual
number of civil tuits were filed.
Rev. R. C. Pcider of Paris, who has
been engaged in evangelttical work
for a number of years, received and
accepted a call to the pastorate of the
First Baptist Church at Bowie.
The 9 year old daughter of W. H.
Chittum of Commerce, on a visit to
her grandparents a mile northwest ol
Paris fell down a stairway and broke
her arm while walking in her sleep
The official count ot the votes ca»t
In the prohibition election In Navarro
County on Dec. 16 shows that there
v ere 2.570 votes for prohibition and
1,386 against.
:Z6 bales In this county, against -< lit-
tle less than tin.OOO aliogotbi r last
\'-ar. It is believed that the -year's
total will be 1.000 to 1,500 greater
than the showing on Dec. 13.
The Harrison County Grand jury ad-
jouraed. returning twenty bills of In-
dictment, mostly against gamblers. It
Is believed the new year will be ush-
ered in with a s’ren'ious reform moro.
wound was fatal, only a question ot
a few hours.
A son uf Ephriam Harvey and one
ot Wylie .lunes, were each playing
wllh a supposed croptj pistol, when the
, pistol In :hi hands of the Jones toy
was dirt barged, fatally wounding liar-
commanding the Japanese army of in- i
vestment received from the Russian
General. Stoessel, a note saying that he
found further resistence useless and
asking for a meeting to arrange terms
of capitulation. The note was simple
■nd direct, and the Japanese General
Several of the largest ranchmen ot
that section have catered Into aa
agreement to extend vast sums in **♦
tablishing orange groves on thelf
property between Corpus Christi ana
Brownsville.
veil** load after load of xreil cotton
went to swell the pile.
Bad Coleman, aft.r delivering a short
■ pcccli. applied th*- torch and the as-
»*:nhlod hundreds cherrcil the ends of
smoke as th ascended So large was
the pile that it will probably require
a couple of days for ail of the cotton to
be consumed.
This year rhe acreage will be greatly
r -d need and the land planted In pot a*
toi s, corn, alfalfa ami other crop?
which can H profitably grown In this
.eci ion. The great success of pot a toe
raising the last year has given a stim-
ntiis to the culture of this crop. Many
per ;.c:a
realizing 75c a bushel for them.
Will Files, an Alabama aegro con-
▼let. being conveyed from one camp is
another on a train with 130 other con
victs, exploded a stick of dynamite,
hoping to make hrs escape. The ex-
plosion killed another prisoner, blew ’ men have fought hand to
a guard, but di1 • <old steel ami clubbed guns, and a!
short range have hurled at each other
hand grenades filled with high explos
ives What Pori Arthur has cost in
human life and in money uo estimate
of approximate correctness can ever
be made. It has been reported that ii»
some engagements leading up to the
capture uf 203-Mvter lli’i the attacking
force lost as high as 40 per cent of th* *■:
fancy shot at a negro preacher of the
Methodist denomination at Waco some
tip* Monday morning grazing the
preacher's Land.
The State Convention of the Y. M.
C. A. will meet at Hillsboro on the
19th, 20th and 21st of Mat h. 1ML
About 200 delegates will be in attend-
ance.
The faculty of the State Normal
School. San Marcos, has decided to con-
duct a summer session beginning about
June 1, and continuing eight weeks.
1 he work done in the summer session
will be equivalent to a one thud course
in the regular term.
Dr. R. R Bluitt has taken out a per-
mit to erect a building in Dallas, the
cost of the structure will be $6,500.
and It will be used as a sanitarium for
negroes. This is the first hospital ex*
ciuwive fur negroes in Texas.
An offer for bail for Nan Patterson
was sent Friday in a telegram from
Richmond, Texas. Her attorney re-
ceived a message from F. M. Ofea
of that place saying tnat citizens be-
lieve she is innocent and offering the
neccessary bail.
Capt. N J. Pusrey. aq old citizen of
Mexia, died suddenly some time Wed-
nesday night. His wife was in Dallnn
spending the holidays, and the Captain
was at home alone. He was found
la bis bed Thursday morning.
Huge totals of the dead and wound-
ed in the Far Eastern wai:
Port Arthur casualties. Japan 7v,000,
Russia 21,000; casualties in other bat-
tles. Japan 78,000, Russia 129.000; To
tai casualties, Japan 148.000. Russia
traces o bury the dead ami collect the I50JM«O;w Total dead 'about!. Japan
wounded Over corpse-filled trenches
hand with
Ground to Pieces by ah Engine.
i arts: Pat frUhair. a stranger, was
run over and killed by the incoming
I tweo passenger train, two miles
n u»h of town Friday evening Whea
ho was lying on top vf the
Another man
ap-
James F Secor, builder of the Mere
island navy yard in San Francisco, the
Pensacola navy yard ami many of the
monitors. Ironclads and dry docks
which contributed so largely toward
putting an end tu the civil war. is dead
at his country home in Pelham Manor
•H wa^ 1P.» years old.
A shanghai correspondent says the
t’hinese Government Is discharging
me German military instructors
thiougnout rhe Yangtse region and re-
piactag them with Japanese.
Rojcstvensky.
The navy department published a
letter written by a man on the Battle
ship Sevalstopol, which had fallen into
the hands of Japanese. The writer de
spaiis of the relief of the fortress, and
tells of the destruction wrought by
Japanese shells. He says the Russians
are resigned to their fate and are
_ ' determined to fight to a finish, rather
special watches at the court house to ,han suI^r Die shame of surrender
guard the- registratiou books until
such time as the iuvestiagtion is made
There are probably 20.000 fraudu-
lent regirtrations on the books uf tb«
o<’e f : the month of December wore
$1 PH.jm. i ho same month last year
we; i |!.242 S7. or an Increase of aliout
Back to First Principle®.
Washington n a report submitted
to t’hief .lustu e Alvey the Grand Jury
recommended the establishment of a
whipping por-t ns a means of punish-
ment tor wife beaters. This penal
!y wai firs? suggested in President
Roos veil s annual message to Con-
gress. and the Grand Jury by a ma-
joilty vote recorded its approval for
wife beaters, and petty larceny of-
fenses
ceaseless fighting, bombardments by
[the fleet alternating with desperate
attacks by land or assaults by the com-
bined naval and military forces.
When Gen Stoessel and the rem-
' nant of his devoted garrison march
out of Port Arthur the flag of the Ris-
ing Sun will once more float from the
ramparts of ih<* position Japan won
when she first sent out her new fleet
Ito give battle and drove China from
.the seas.
All hope of capturing the men who
murdered Sheriff Russell, ut Hugo. 1.
T., has been abandoned^ ana the
search has ceased.
Harry, the 12 year old son o? Mr.
aud Mrs G. W. Pence of Terrell, while
playing, fractured his right a«m near
the shoulder.
A apecial session of the Commission
ers* Court uf Wichita County ap
pointed M F. Yeager County Judge,
vn e W P. Skeen re-signed.
A sneak unef operated at Colon Sta
lion ai Sherman Tuesday, Dave ttar
laud losing a suit ease containing
clothing other articles.
Joseph W. Wallace, a lifelong friend
ot Admiral Dewey, and bia shipmate
m the civil war. jm dead al his home
H< was seventy-
lhe soldiers.
The demonstration at Warsaw in
which Col Boulatoff. commander of
I he troops,, w as shot dead, was purely
I of an anarc hist nature and had nothing
to do with mobilization.
Admiral Skrydrloff has beon order-
ed home It is reported that he will
plant «Dd Little Ruck Furniture Man
ufacturlng Company, the latter owned
by Memphis people burned Friday
muralug ixjss was >15(J.(H)0.
confer with representatives of the Rus-
sian commander. They met at noon to
arrange the conditions of surrender.
The nature of the terms agreed on is cruisers and some leaser craft that He
not yet known, but dispatches from
Tokii) indicate that they will he of the
most magnanimous character. The
Emperor of Japan himself, through his
chief of the imperial staff, has given
public his expressions that “Gen. ,
Stoessel has rendered commendable
service to bis country in the midst of
difficulties." and that it is his wish
“that miltary honors; be shown him. '
A dispatch from Tokio quotes military
opinions as believing that the entire
garrison will be allowed to march out
under arms, and may be sent to Russia
on parole.
| The siege ami the defense of Russia's
stronghold in the Far East have been
May trwm. ’he
t<| lurnisli ball tn juu amount ap to
>50,000 for the re:oa.«o <»t Nat’ ra’tri'
son from the *lumhs prison, wbero sue
la now field charged w’.Ai tne tuurner
of Caesar Young
the |
Dr J. L. Vovel. a prominent phys-
ician. died at Sun**-: Thursday. Tfca
deceased .who was about 73 years of
age. resided in Gra>son County many
years, having settled at Farmington
soon after the Civil War.
The body of Henry Push, aged fifty-
three years, was found hanging from
a limb of a tree near thr. ]>oorhouse
in Irakis County Thursday morning.
He was an inmate of the poor house.
He stated that he would suicide.
The Star flour mills at Galveston
will improve their capacity from 8<fl
barrels to 1,000 barrels of flour per day.
The additional machinery to be install-
ed will approximate in value between
125,000 and >30.000.
at Worcester. Ma*5
four years old.
The Sta?e department has been of
ficially informed that mines have been
placed in Kelung Harbor, northeast
coast of Formosa, and that shipping
lias been notified.
A British steamer rescued an Amer- i
icau Captain and five of the crew from i
h staking schooner in midocean. The
schooner was owned by Charles Nel
•on of Nachias. Maine.
Joseph Folk, governor-elect of Mis-
souri. has accepted the Invitation ot
<be Missouri Society of New York
•net will tie the guest of honor at its
annual banquet March Hi.
Didn't Know It Wa< Loaded.
Ileriuerson; I h.irsday ever.ng about
G o'clock at their home, eight miles
north of this city, little Freddie Harris,
daughter of I*yre Harris farmer v. is
accidentally snot thiough the rings by,
her little brother Thomas, aged 11.1
with a 22-cahber rif e. Pbvslcians
William Jennings Bryan arrived In
Galveston Friday on a visit to Col. W.
L Moody. Some time will be spent
In hunting and fishing. Mr. Bryan is
accompanied by his son William.
A Close Call.
Jefferson, Ok.: Nathaniel F. Chldis-
•er wax in his coffin, his funeral had
been preached and he was ready for
burial. Just before starting for the
cemetery the undertaker removed the
ct.ffiii lid that the friends might have a
last look at the remains. The under-
side of the lid was moist and it was
discovered that Chldlster was breath-
lag. Physicians were summoned and
he l.s getting vclA
Mi«s Maud Parmentsr of t srtnn
Ok., has filed 1n the <»Gicc <»? ihe Dis
trfet Clerk a suit for flu.uvtt <jain3ge>
against Oliver M. Powers on »n allegttdj
premise of marriage IVt Fowria ti
manager aud part owner ut uxs wood*
addition.
ALL OVER TEXAS. I
Tb« V. P. Kaarly Bakery Co., ot M
la. baa decioad to mova to Da|3
ahero a Una ot apacialtiec will' bl
manufactured.
force engaged, while the garrison loss
es. although no word has come, must
have been frightful The defense of
the position which feti to her as a her-
itage from the Chinese-Japanese war
has cost Russia practically her entire
fleet in those waters. Her ships, which
i lie from Port Arthur's intner basin to
immediately named commissioners to ! Chemulpo, in Korea, and along the
—... _.<<>. —ri_.u ik, I shantung Peninsula, are battered hulks
They are dismanteled or intered in
ueutrat harbors. Save ihe three or four
From Fritco to New York.
Now York: From San Francisco on
New Years l»ay the members of the
auditing department of the Wells
Fargo t Co. win board a special train
for this city, where al! the work of
this department shall hereafter to
done J. S Bunnell, the auditor, who
has been In charge of the department
tn San Francisco, will continue tn that
so New Y’ork. He will be ac-
companied by a staff of 130 men.
I
THE COMMERCE, JOURNAL
The receipts of the Marshal! post-
office for the month of December were
$1,983. which is the largest receipts of
any month in the history of the office.
The receipts of the Brownwoo l post-
Traveling Nut hducational.
Recently printed extracts from
diary of Adolf Piebiers show that !b:»f
Tyrolean poet did not indci -e inr pop
ulai notion that traveling has ro i
national value Most t.nir sts are. < l(ip „f e<>tton not only possible,
nts opinion, guided chleflv by the de | h,lt prOhable An authentic report
■lrw.to g-1 good hings io .-it ,n the from the cotton gins of the country tip
hotels and to Ulrt with the foreign lo ,h0 ,.|tlse „f ))w ]3 showg thal
girls and In the cud they are surprised 1 Hveu then there bad been ginned 85,-
to find thcinselvi-s as inurh bored
ar home. He commends the siocerltv
party uf Bavarians who plavd
cards on top of a. high peak !u p.i«-s
kway the time.
Lots at mDii who are tnoltnen <o n«
goon keep putting U <>tt mi tomorrow
From Dec 1 to Dei* 24. ihe uight
before Christmas, no less than .V.4 1»84
international urdcis were forwarded to
ether lands from New York rity aud
th« se •>;<;«?!« < aded fur Ji G. U’.’U
The Controller of the Currency hai
authorized the American National
Bank of El Paso tn begin business,
with a capital of >200,000. A P Coles
president; W J. Harris vice presi-
dent; John M Wyatt, caihier.
The thermometer reached 22 degree]
at Laredo Wednesday. Heavy frost and
ice showed up next morning The
onion crop was not hurt, but many
garden vegetables were completely dw
atroyad.
Rumors to ihe contrary notwith-
standing. Charles F. Dodge, tbc man
Trom Texas, who had such a sensation-
al time between the Statq and Lulled
States officers, has male r:u sort of
confession implicating a numorr of
prominent people in a sensational
scandal, so says bis attorney
Watter We.ivor the 13 ycar-oid son
Mr and Mrs S H Weaver of near
Allen, w.-ts a<-rtdeutally shot, while al
parry of men and hoys were rabbit
tiuntlng Thu bullet entered tiio ten
leg necessitating amputation
owing to starvation.
A report that the cruisers Orel and
Iznmtud of the second Pacific squad-
run teas been ordered to return is cur
city and county of Denver, said Aitor r*rpui here, but lacks official confirm
ney J. IL Brown. :b« principal advisor a,1OM If report should prove true
uf thr Republican city cenlra! commit- ,c* Admiral Rojestveuvky may lie
ter, today.
F. A. W’lliams chairman uf ins Re
pubiican caaumlftee has issued
the foliuwlug btaiement o»ei
ture
‘Our investigation into tbs conduct |
of ’hr recent rlectien lu Denver has
developed the fart that approximately
20.4000 fiaudualent votes uere cast or s,r,,<i*
Counted fur Alva Adams hi this city. {Dark face downward.
There 1s row ue reason to doubt that *,,,tng between him and the
Gov Peabody and tho Rep ddican Stale j *”train. The latter jumped
ticket was fairly elevied «*u Nov a by
the voter cf a larfe majority of tlie lr
g^ voter.* of this State
Fatal Train Wreck wn the Chor.taw.
Oklahoma City: A west bound pa s
eager train on i**e (’bociaw. Oklahoma
and Gulf railway collided head on with
an east bound freight train twenty
miles west o! here early Friday
engine* were demolished and the cars
were piled up. Frank C irrx. engineer, j
and Fireman Butts, of the passenger
train of Shawnee, O T are dead Set
era! passengers were injurtj, none fa
tally.
Returns to Go Through the Mills of the
Supreme Court.
Denver, Colo., Dec. 31.—Stretching
its hand so as to cast a shadow over
every man and woman in any way con-
nected in election frauds of the city
and county of Denver or» or before or
after November 9, the supreme court
»oday ordered an investigation so
sweeping in its scope that tvcry phase
of the elect loan may be scrutinized
and everything that bears in any way
upon the election may be made known
by judicial inquiry.
Alva Adams. Democratic, candidate
for Governor, who appeared from the
returns to have been elected, but who
has declared that ho does not want the
office tainted with fraud, asked the
court tu open every Denver ballot box
but the order l>f the court goes beyond
the mere examh.aticn ot Ihe ballots,
and provides for an investigation ot the
registration lists, the campaign ex-
penditures and, in brief, all election
matters
Attorneys Samuel Bedford. fur
Adams, and A. H. Jersey, for the Re
publicans, asked the court to makw Us j
order of such breadth that tbe court I
nerd not stop at anything in the Inves
tigation. Th« court said that was what given command of the third squad
it intended to do. and asked the law- ron ultimately succeeed Admiral
yers to agree upon the wording of the
order and piescut it to the court fo<
approval next Tuesday mcruing As
there were 204 ballot boxes It is evi-
dent several mouths will be consumed
in tbe examination of their contents
by the two band writing experts tu be
appointed for this work,
it is expectea that the supreme court
will be asked tu make an order placing
Asher. Oklahoma Burns Several Bales
in a Celebration.
Shawnee, Ok.: Several thou-and dol
Jars’ worth of cotton, sathvred to goth
er in a huge pile in the little town of
Asher, in th< southern part of this
(Pottawantomie) county tarnished a
huge bonfire with which to greet the
new year.
The fire wa« the result «rf a banter
• mg amt which «prea<l rapldb
through tire town and community The
joke soon became a reality and near!)
every farmer around Asher contributed
of his surplus cotton to make the bon -•rimers raised 2.7<» bushels
fire a success.
In a short lime after the movement
considerable cotton had
, been dumped in thr pile which increas
| ed in size as thr enthusiasm spread
i and soon assumed the proportions of
a small mountain. One man CuntribiR-
: ed tw’u bales manv others a hale each, 1
Fire at Glen Rose.
Glen Rose: Fire Monday destroy rd
the restaurant of C. W. Campbell, loss
$7ih), with no insurance. Other dam-
ages as follows: Mantooth Reeder,
blacksmith, loss $400; no insurance.
T. J. Bryan, warehouse, loss $100; in
surrd. The stable of T. B. Ctmpbrll
and a shed belonging io him caught,
gut were extinguished. The pdStofllcc
! ard several othe r buildings were sav-
I cd by .the volume r fire department.
■ P »bJ attempted to flag the train, m-
(Stuart .>r pulling bis companion off
iha track, but the engineer vas un
avle to stop soon enough to save the
niun
Rabbit tiiiirting is » great spoil ui
Collin Comity uow. Rriently ■ big
hunt was held gear Allen. I.ivu lab-
liits being killed.
Jim Wright, a negro, a ho runs ■ sa-
loon In the suburb* ot Beaumont,
was found tu his place ot husinass at
4 o'clock Friday morning with fit*
bead split upon, apparently with an
axe. He died at 1U oeloek. A negro
named Wright, tils biistness partner,
■ nd another negro named Smith were
arrested.
Seven batea of cotton in Tievilt’s
cotton yard at Henderson were de-
stroyed by fire Friday tnorn-ug By
quick work, the other cotton, about 490
bales, wore saved.
Sixty days having passed without
any new cases of piague, Callao, Peru,
has been declared free of the huboutc
plague •
Mayor Merchant of Sour Lake has
resigned and an election to fill the va-
cancy has hren ordered to be held, 9at p.is!tltm
■rtey, January 1.
Russian* Discount Recent Japan***
Vic tori**.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 31— Many peo-
ple profeis to disbelieve tbe news ot
the fall ot Rlbungshan, which in mil-
itary circles Is accepted a* a melan-
choly fact. The Japanese have thereby
gotten wlihlo the wall twelve feet
thick connecting the inner forts, under
cover of which the Russian* have hith-
erto bcun able to send reinforcements
to any point. Such reinforcements must
now be sent under fire of the enemy.
A military authority, writing in the
Novo Vremyo. says that Io bring up re-
serves wilt not be a very difficult task
but stiff fighting Is still possible.
ft is the opnlon of military experts
here that Gen Stoessel will retire to
l.iao Tisban unless the Japanese pre-
vent him.
At Vilna anarchists have been found
! distributing seditions literature among
Grayson's Cotton Crop.
Sherman Grayson County added
i < quota toward making a 13,000,000
Fannin Farmers Fare Finely.
ilonham Quit* a number of lead
j fanners of Fannin County are on th®
Both ”‘f" s,rt’" ,l'* <01,on question, hav
.tug sold al! of their crop early in the
season when 10c was easy to get for
I'be impression is becoming gen-
jerai that more money can be made by
the. cultivation of almost any other
product of the farm. It is the general
i<>piinion among those informed that
.next year will see the diversification
I idea put to the test.
in the ice-bound refuge of Vladivostock.
not a warship now flies the Russian
cross on the waters of the Northern
Pacific Ocean. And Ihe Japanese, too,
had had their losses in the long drawn-
out operations Mines have struck
from Admiral Togo's fleet many fin*
ships anti smaller vessels since the
morning of February K. when he hurled
hi* fleet at the Russian ships in Port
Arthur roadstead
The siege of Port Arthur properly
dates from May 27. when after engag-
ing the first army landed by the Jap-
anese at Pitz.ewo, Stoessel was forced
baek from the neck of the Kwan-Tung
Peninsula The Japanese landing was
begun May 5. aud the Russian com-
mandet elected Io give battie at his
northermost line of defenses. The en-
gagement was a severe one and drove
the Russians back to the first ot tbe
main defenses of the position. A few
days later, on May :iit, the Japanese oc-
cupied Dhlny, and on Jone 1416 Gen.
Stakleberg. advancing to the relief of
the Port Arthur army, was defeated
i by Gen. Oku at the battles of Fafankau
cent conduct of both forces By sea ani* Teiessu With Togo's ships lying
there have been torpedo dashes of su- like watchdog* around Port Arthur s
purl) recklessness and big ships have seaward and Nogi. advancing slowly
plowed through mine fields with heroic i,,,t relentlessly by land, the famous
disregard to give battle, or in wild ef- stronghold was under siege from then
forts to escape. By land and by sea until Gen Stoessel on New Year's Day
Japanese have hurled hemseives sought terms of capitularicn. The op-
igainst positions declared to be impreg orations have been marked by almost
neble.
They have faced am! scaled rocky
heights crowned with batteries and
crowded with defenders, suffering I
that which miltary experts say would
have appalled any European army.
In tlie doomed fortress the people
have lived under a devastating rain of
shell and shrapnel On scanty rations,
besieged on every side, knowing that
. _ ..Il
nope of succor or escape was in vain,
the garrison has fought with a stub-
bornness that has evoked the admira-
tion of the world. They met (he until
!ng assults of the Japanese with a grim
valor that won even the praise of their
foe. and the fighting has been waged
with relentlessness that often refused
In thw i*uwhut>Ka Otieral < huh
Judge Yales n»hl Amanda < lareinort
under •- tffio tw>nd on tbe charge «»1
kllliiij; n»T infant child i»y nor ring n
• live ihe (lefandanl la a wealthy
Usage Indian squaw.
Jame< Kntcf *> >r. a* ■••ni
M’Uile. A.'.i.. for iniriY days for Hiss
fug a yuiing tafly at Bayo i la Halit*,
during a party, again-ct net will
btx building* in the heait «»f H»r
inin^naiu, Aia., bmr.eu Wedurs
day; Io.-*
At Lyman, Miss.. Richard Felder
aged 27, *as Instantly killed while marked by bravery, gallantry and des-
twlstin* a revolver un his finger. The
weapon was discharged, the bullet and hardly excelled in military history,
pcbetrating Feider’e heart. The story of the operations around
.... , Port Arthur is one of the repeated
A still-born child weighing iwentv .. . < ..... - .
. fighting, both by land mid sea of the
n»e pounds and being about two fee! I
. . i most desperate and thrilling character
long was bom io Mrs. Thorwak. i , , ,
.. , 'Isolated instances of heroism that
r\jle Id Collinsville. Conn, last week ,, , . v . .
. . would set the world ringing under ess
Alia Thorwak Is still living
overwhelming circumstances have
rbs < unuitigiiMui Milling Company 'a been dwarfed by the generally magnifi
~*Xllt and LHt'a ttock S'lirnltur* Man- ^.<>^,1..^.. ..r i.-.a. u.. .....
Mester and Vessel Go Down.
I'nit Arthur (’apt James Wilder,
in.is er of rbc. sieamship Nonh -asten.
I going to pieces on Diamond Shoals,
was loo unwell to sail on her and she
v i'i t out itudrr charge of tbe first of-
li< i-r Capt Wilder rapidly grew
jwur*-p and died al •’» 40 p ni Friday,
i His dealt! was du< to aggravated bron-
chial ironiuc It is considered here
a strange cnnincldence that Master
and vessel perish so far apart and sc
near i ho same I line.
Dennis Call, one of the leading bank*
ert and lumber men of East Texas
died at his home at Beaumont after a
Jong illness of Bright's disease.
The State teachers in session at
Corsicana chose San Antonio as the
next place of meeting.
Capt. Robert L. Howze of the Sixth
Cavalry, who has just been appointed
comamudant of the cadets at,the Unit-
ed States Military Academy at West
Point, is a Texan. He is a brother
cf Dr. Howze uf Austin.
a Mon
Vice Aumirai Kojestveuaky may
obliged to await reinforcements frenj
the third Pacific squadron.
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