Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1890 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. II.
COMMERCIAL.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Banl.
week, last year.
,La., recently,
A fight near Oak Rid
Ordinary,
BWe keep the best Turnouts in the City,Eu
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Leon county farmers will produce
New Orleans sight.......% dis.
American diver
Par
ity Livery Stable.
--
P. E. YATES, Proprietor.
UM
RD
THE
n ri Pacific
An inquest was held on the 27th.
RAILWAY.
The popular Route between the
ST AND WEST.
■HOST UNB TO
AND ALL ronTs IN
ette smoking.
Office at Shands & Co.,
THEIRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
him.
al.
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day previous to the murder.
Boot and
CLOTHING
REPAIRED, DIED AND CLEANED E
at Reasonable Rates.
tion
—
Sterling, 60 days..
New York sight..
Bankrate
Silver_____
Consols...
To Liverpool.
To Havre.....
To Continent.
ToNewYork.
Buying.
..nom‘1
..Mdis.
this year.
Fifteen houses are in course of con-
struction at Palestine, and several more
Steam
5-16
5-16d
40c1001bs
Belling,
nom’l
% prem.
% prem.
Par
■. -
151,878
199,518
$4,000
973,888
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ied
by
voaton Market. -
FREIGHTS FROM GALVESTON.
Not Cleared.
For Great Britain........
For France..................
For other foreign porta.
For Coastwise ports......
In comprens. ......
Total etock
16,421
9,895
4,229
16,408
26,988
70,739
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE
WEEK IN A OONOISE FORM.
....10,721
----- 2,067
...... 2,082
.... 6,777
....47,478
.... 75,726
... , .. .'ill N ,■
GALVESTON STOCK STATEMENT.
On Shipboard. This Thia week
A List of Orime and Casualities Com-
mitted and a General Review of
Interesting Oceurrences
la the State.
gooqasuam- • •
Low middling ...
Middling.........
Good Middling ...
Middling lair ....
A Reading tiain ran over and killed
three men at Philadelphia on the 4th
validity — --------- .
volved in the Dick Dunean case before
NEW ORLEANS
| First-cUes turnouts furnished on short notice. Horses left In charge will re-
ceive careful attention. My rates are reasonable and my terms 'are strictly cash
except to regular monthly customers. -
Weak, Quiets
ves Monthly
and Cures
ISEASE
IGIST ABOUT!
BOTTLE.
:o„ Chattamosga*
_ ly shot in Sut-
boric k.
FINANCIAL
Money easy at 6 to 8 per cent.
SADvarroH EXCHaxGE.
CALITOnxi CanNKd Goods—Wholesale gro-
* . .---|UotaHon« per
DOMESTIO.
Cold weather still prevails in Minne-
sota.
The coal miners at Birmingham, Ala.,
are out on a strike.
The Texas Bank of Commerce at West
Superior, Wis., has failed.
It is now thought in Washington that
the election bill will be defeated. z
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store,
presaion is that the disease is t
rotten corn. The horses die in se
Aien Writing a specialty. Fine work executed with care and dispatch at the
spst possible figures for cash.
FORHIGN.
An earthquake shock was felt in Mex-
ico one day last week.
f TartarP,
ry other k
of Homes
ars the Staji
1 Pasty, Lpil
xolesome,T
Mr. Joseph Heil, a German farmer,
was brought to San Antonio last week
from Convers, where he had been bit-
ten by a rattlesnake. -He had taken a
liberal amount of the usual antedote for
the crotalus bite and when he arrived it
had the desired effect, and Heil veturn:
GALVESTON SPOT OrToN MARKET.
The quotation committee of the exchnge
posted the local epot market as elosing easy.
Sales, 1283 bales.
A
Blanco News: During three days of
last week C. P. Boon and Ben Cage
caught four wildcats and a wolf. They
ran them down with hounds. If the
an aged and estimable
-
r-ic
Horses boarded by the day. week or month at reasonable rates. If you want
good buggy or gentle team call and see me.
, . . 1 .
north side of railroad.
Physician : and : Surgeon,
Office upstairs over Dalley a McKel-
lar Brick.
A
' FORNEY, TEXAS.
DR. E. M. FOWLER,
what ia Golne on I the susy Worla,
Both at Home and Abroad- A Re-
aume of the Important
Happeninga.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK BOILED DOWN
FOR BUSY READERS.
general’s office left last week for Wash-
Sngton city to argue the question of the
ilidity of the Texas penal statutes in-
TEXAS NEWS CONDENSED
FLOUR-Gulf stream. first patent, in sacks,
-----second roller patent, $5 80; sea
—7, 3510; sea jewel,
ib pearl, roller, 14m;
FORNEY, TEXAS.
Office over A. J. McDowell's Hardware Store.
H.P.RUDDLE,
.:DENTIST:.
Successor to Dr. J. F. Smith,
Mitrous Oxide lu Administerod for Painless
Extraction of Tutt.
Office in Spinks building, Terrell,Texas.
WM GARRETT,
Physician and Surgeon
FOBNEY, TEXAS.
Office in T. H. Heffner’s Drug Store.
r. autz.
Charles Webster, or Crumley, the old
actor, who shot and killed young Robert
McNeil because he thought McNeil was
too attentive to his wife, and who was
convicted of manslaughter in the first
degree, has been sentenced by Judge
Cowan of New York to State prison for
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■ Women. Am
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hand oat pap
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torm,ratnorao
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value ever ofem
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A number of negro boys were arrested
at Bryan last week charged with burg-
lary,
A man giving the name of A. S. Gar-
ner, has been jailed at McKinney on
the charge of bigamy.
The Texas iron rolling mills are to
commence operations at Fort Worth
within sixty days.
Double Daily Line of Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars through to
St. Louisvia
. LHWIS,
RYANDFEED STABLE.
South Side of Railroad, next door to the Lindsey Hotel.
1 7. ■ ' ■ . ____
. Repairing done on short notice.
school fund, $365,270; other accounts,
1502,790. Total cash, $1,575,885. Bonds
held by special funds, $8,014,960.
Many thousand dollars' worth of ma-
machinery for the suelting works at
Monterey is daily passing through
Laredo, and but for the shortsighted
policy of this government all these
smelters would have been erected in
Laredo.
Hon. Ri H. Harrison of the attorney
- -
the supreme court of the United States.
At San Antonio last week, a suit was
filed in the United States circuit court
by which it is again attempted to take
the Aransas Pass railway and its re-
ceivership out of the hands of the State
court ana place it under the direction of
the federal court.
Christian Simon, a dashing looking
six-footer, has qeen arrested in Chicago
on a charge of bigamy preferred by a
pale-faced little woman from Pittaburg.
He was married to Mrs. Lena Clark of
Chicago several weeks ago, and she says
he has succeeded in getting from her
$5000. Both women say that they will
prosecute him to the limit of the law.
caumedSy
in several
fame
33 10; nectarines, $8 50; grapes, $2 18g2 20;
5lackberries, $2 20.
Cobb-From track, sacked, mixed 78c, White
76c.
CANDLKS--Quoted as follows: Star, 9%0100;
16-02., paraffine, set. 10%4012%68.
DnIED FaUIT-Dried peaches, 180; evap-
orated, none; prunes, Turkish, per 1, 9%0100;
California, none; French, none; dried currants,
41437Uc. Dried apples. quarters, 9@106;
atdr, 106110: evanorated, Maiskc
Eeos—Cases included, 26c.
Lxxons-M 5005 50; fancy mess, 17 00.
Monasssa—Centrifugal; Fair. 22022%0; prime,
nge; choice, 820952%,0. Open ketle: Fair,
os232e prime. 843035e. choice, 3oKioc.
naxers-4 00 per barrel
Oats—Western. 67061c, according to quality;
from store sgic advance.
omoxe-Western, $8 75 per bushel When
choloe.
I wish to say to my old friends and pa-
trons and the public generally that I am
... | still making the best Boots and Shoes at a
0a prnode.received by express have reasonable price and guarantae satinfac-
POHPE attention. * --- ”
—koRGE DAVIDSON, Prop.
From a paper read before the biologi-
ci section of the British association by
undergoing molification, and it i in
danger of extermination owing to these
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H. P. TEAGUE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practices in th© courts of Kaufman
county and the higher courts of the
State. Office at courthouse. "
Kaufman,‘Texas._________
- G. W. VOTERS,
Milam county bridge bonds for..$3000,
Brazos county bridge bonds for $33,800
and Uvalde county court house bonds
for $6000.were purchased for the school
fund at Austin last week.
Work on the big hotel at Clarendon,
Donley county, has been commenced,
and in a few days the excavations will
be complete. It is intended to open the
hotel for business by June 1.
A farmer near Hawki
held up recently by d"Kig
It is reported on good authority that
the military authorities have recom-
mended the abandonment of Fort Davis
and Fort-Clark, and the establishment
in their stead of a twenty-five company
post at Eagle Pass, the natural railway
and strategic center of the Rio Grande
frontier district. '
-See that your ticket tends via the
A and Pacific railway. For maps,
t tables, ticket rates and all required
"nformation call on or addres
C. P. FEGAN,
hours after being affected. The symp-
toms are similar to those of blind stag-
gers. One farmer took pains to see that
his horses ate no corn except that which
was perfectly free from rotten grains,
but to no avail, as qne of his horses
died.
Marshall, Tex., expects to have more
factories.
Many German farmers are settling in
Hays county.
The secretary of State has submitted
his report to the governor.
L. M. STROUD, M. D.
, FORNEY, TEXAS._______
DR. L. L. JONES,
Lucy, daughter of Captain J. E. Wise,
a farmer, while at the spring near her
home, not far from Gainesville, after a
bucket of water, on Wednesday morn- Wis., is being contestea Dy mrs. vara
ingot last week, was seized with a fit, Morton, who claims to have been mar-
fell into the well and was drowned. —*" ivat“ "ontrne*
The body was discovered by the mother
a few minutes after the sad accident.
He hadcut some caneand seven years
w.w. Moore filed two suits in the
chancery court at Nashville last week;
one against the Tennessee Brokerage
company for $4245, the other against
the McCrea company for $8030. The de-
fendants conduct bucket shops, and the
plaintiff claims that hlost the amounts
sued for in transactions in futures car-
ried on with them last summer.
NISHING
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REE'S
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head painfully but not dangerously
hurt. . n
John F. True, formerly a prominent
and wealthy Kentuckian, but now to-
tally blind from injuries received dur-
ing the war, was sent back to Fort
Worth from San Antonio by the author-
ities, being penniless.
The statement of the State treasurer
Grex.wns George Redmond, a horse trader, - rem-
wAMan"“S while exercising a trotter on the fail resulted in the
7 ‘ ground’s track, San Antonio, on the 1st, - n--a— +
was thrown from his sulkey and his
tom, New Mexico, Attorney-at-Law
Arizona and California. and Special Agent.
changes. .
On account of the difference of opin-
ion on the social question which exists
among the various catholic bishops the
pope has decided to create a special,
commission of cardinals of every na-
tionality to study the problem and for
mutate rules for the attitude of the epis-
copacy.
The London Metropolitan Public Gar-
dens association has offered £100 apiece
to twenty metrophlitan vestries and
district boards to be expended in plant-
ing trees in suitable public thorough-
fares, on condition that the authorities
agree to maintain the trees when plant-
ed, replacing sneh as may die.
In the twenty-six years, 1861 to 1886,
the total actual number of female 5u1-
cides in Denmark was 2803. The very
modes of death are calculated. For the
same period the actual number of sui-
cides bv hanging was 8108 for man, 1569
for women ; the calculated number 8207
and 1568—a difference of one only on
each.
The British museum has secured from
Thibet a copy of the Jangym, a monster
encyclopedia of Thibetan buddhism
It comprises 225 volumes, each of which
is two feet long by six inches thick.
Three thousand rupees was the price of
the work. It wasfermerly in the Po8-
session of a buddhist monastery in
Thibet.
Last summer’s excursionists to Ice-
land say the geysers, which were among
the greatest attractions of the izland,
are gradually losing their force. Erup-
tions at the great geysers do not now। oc-
cur oftener than once in tan days. 1 he
region around the geysers is particularl
uninviting, and only a very enthusiA.
tic sightser is willing to,spendmore
than a couple of days at this.denolat
spot. Hence, it is quite uncertain
When the geyser will displayiitsmight
I few of those who visit the region see it
I in activity.
A messenger from Oak Ridge, La., re-
ports a serious shooting affray there a
few nights ago. Two men named Whit-
ney and Shanks got into a difficulty with
Bart Gardner, and after they were sepa-
rated a constable with a posse of men
undertook to arrest Whitney audShanks
and upon their refusal to surrender a
general fusilade took place, and it is
stated that witney and Shanks were
killed, together with two other men
who were with them.
northeast of Bonham nineteen miles, and
asked for some chloral, which was re-
fused him. He then stepped outside the
door and shot himself through the heart
with a 144-calibre revolver. He died
within fifteen minutes. He leaves a
wife and four or five children.
The Donley court house, now being
constructed, is to be a handsome build-
ing. It is to cost $35,000 and be com-
pleted by January 1. It is constructed
of pressed brick and gray sandstone.
Miss Stewart, a young lady riding on
an electric car at San Antonio, last
week, attempted to get off without hav-
ing the car stopped and was badly but
not dangerously hurt by the fall.
The smallpox scare at Yoakum has
about subsided. There was only one
case, which was taken to a pest house
on Brushy, west of the city, and there
was no Anger bf the disease spread-
ing. .
Miss Carrie Fakin, Robert.Fskin,
Miss Catharine E. Fakin and Miss Du-
Shane C. Lard of Wilmington, Del., in
company with about thirty relatives of
New York and Philadelphia, have insti-
tuted suit in the English courts for the
recovery.of some $50,000,000, which it is
alleged is held in trust by the English
government for the heirs of a man by
the name of Woods, whom the Fakin
family claim was their great-grand-
father.
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mAhteshoratbtsitn,Mgssromdeevn
inst. J. A. West, a resident of Sayanab,
who owns a large plantation in the
Brownsville neighborhood, was killed
by his brother, Hugh, who has been
managing the plantation for several
years. West was here for a settlement
of his affairs and a dieagreement led to
the killing. He was shot several times
with a pistol and then the entire top of
his head blown off with a shotgun.
Sheriff Ed. Wood of Nevada county,
Ark., passed through Texarkana a few
days ago, en route to Magnolia, having
in charge Steve King, colored, who ie
charged with stealing a horse at the last
named place. King was a menber. of a
church conference at the time of his ar-
rest. The sheriff went to him, told him
he wanted to see him privately, and
after walking a block distant, said,
“Steve, I must arrest you for horse
stealing at Magnolia.” With this the
negro ran and was only stopped after
the sheriff had sent four bullets after
him, although none of them took effect.
Over seme allusion made in the Daily
State Capital to the actions of some of
the councilmen in the Oklahoma legisla-
ture, Mr. Brown the republican council-
man from Oklahoma county, began
huntingfoi Editor Frank H. Greer, who
is a very slim man , weighing 130 pounds
while Brown weighs 185. The two men
met near the legislative hall and Brown
1 began using uncomplimentary language.
At last Greer turned on his assailant
and weapons were drawn, but members
interfered and prevented serious trou-
ble. it is thought the affair is not yet
over. The clause published which
brought en the trouble was this: “Fos-
ter’s remark that Brown of Oklahoma
ought to roast in hell, is a nutshell re-
port of the situation."
menu.
Hay—Choice western timothy, *19 00020 00
from track in carload lots, and $20g22 from
store in large lots; millet, 113<316 per ton from
track; prairie hay, *16 00.
Hams—Standard brands at 9%0; Califor-
nia. *Uc. Wholesale grocers charge Me add!'
UonaL ’ ■
HIDES-The range of value U as follsws: Dry
flint, selected, 6c; choice, 640; dry salted, 8,6;
wet salted, 8k(t0; butchers' green, 4c; dam-
aged and glue, Nacic.
. Laud—Quoted at Be for refined tieroe; cans
In'enien, B6xe: taey, Kehigher. Whole-
sale grocers charge K@e advance.
The fatal disease now prevailing
among horses in certain localities in Ten-
nessee is becoming a very serious .mat-
ter to horse owners. The.
The Aransas Pass Transit railroad
charter was filed last week by J. H.
Taylor. The road is intended to connect
the city with Harbor island.
A company of ’capitalists has pur-
chased a tract of 10,000 acres near Vita,
in Howard county, and will convert it
into an immense wheat field.
The two-story stone building for the
First National bank of Haskell, to cost
$6500, is well under way, and will be
znished by the 1st of March.
While hunting in the woods, near
Concepcion, last week, Salazar Reta
shot and killed his 16-year old sn—
mistaking him for a wild turkey.
Vernon is now prepared for fires—hav-
ing a fine system of waterworks and an
organized fire company with a fine
hose truck and 1000 feet of hose.
Governor Ross has offered a reward of
$500 for the arrest of the party who rob-
bed the passengers on the Cotton Belt
train near Tyler Monday night, Decem-
ber 3.
Henderson News: Many of the far-
mers are bringing their cotton to town
and storing it. They say they will hold
in until prices are higher or not sell it
at all.
The agricultural bureau in Commis-
sioner Foster’s department foots up the
total cotton crop of Texas last year at
1,573,406 bales. - _____________ _________
The commissioners’ court at Brazoria State would pay a sufficient, price.fn
inst.
A furnace at Joliet, Ill., fell recently,
killing and seriously wounding several
laborers.
Dr. Lockhart of Galveston has gone to
Berlin to study the lymph treatment of
consumption.
C3HW-quotations are as follows: Western,
7c; cream, 18c; Swiss, 80c; imitation Swiss,
20a22%0; young America. 18X14.
Corves—Wholesale grocers quotations: Or-
aiearytairigigzgzdoodprim,pNlkg2m8
choice, 21%402261, Cordoia, 22%c. Boasted
coffees, t. o. b. in Galveston, per D: Ri0-
nosa. in 1 m pkgi, 36 to case, 26%66; Blo-
nosA; in 1 1b pkgs, 60 and 100 to case, 2640:
bulk Rio, in bbls (about 130 lbs), 24%0; bulk
Rio in % bbls (about 70 Ms), 26c bulk Rio in
25 and & 1b safety bags, Yemen, choice
blend, 50 lb decorated drums and tins, 316; Otto-
man, in 60 m decorated drums and tins, 820;
Royal Arms, in 4 lb pkgs. 12 to case, ale; Java
O G.. in 1 lb pkgs. 36 to case, 31c; Java O. G., in
bulk, 26 and 50 lb safety bags, aoe2 Mocha, 1 tb
Pkgs, 36 tocase. Mocha, in bulk, 25 and 50 lb
safety bags. 36c; Cordova,.choice, 26 and 60 1b
safety bags, 29c; (round coffees, in 1 1b pkgs, 36
Se^r^: 2
blended, 140c.
Mrs. Mathews, an a, *
lady of Huntsville, is dep
Rube Boyce was fata
ton county by Cliff Ha
Widow Sarah Flint did a smart thing
when she married Colonel Alborn Sax-
ton in Missouri twenty years ago. She
exacted an ante-nuptial contract by
which her children by a former husband
should become Saxton’s heirs. She died
two years later childless by her second
husband, who leaves an estate valued
at $2,000,000. The compaet was.son-
le report or tested, resulting in the widow’s children
particularly getting $1,900,000.
ten by a dog that was said to be mad. -.
He sickene and died, and the doctors I cal section
are now wrangling as to whether his
‘ to the dog bite or cigar-
The biennial report of the penitenti-
ary board and officers was handed to
the printer last week. The report of
Superintendent Goree is 1
interesting. He diseusses every qne8-
tion affecting the convict system. He
meets the charge that convict labor is
competing with home free labor in
manufactures, stating positively that
penitentiary prices for manufactures
are fixed to meet outside competition.
He shows the great success ofstate farm-
ing and advises its extension. There
are 106 less convicts than at this date
in 1888. The reduction is not account-
ed for. Escapes increase in number
and deaths diminish.
prROLEUM-In steady supply at 2-5 brilliant,
1190 per' case: 12-1 brilliant, fMper.c28e12-5
guplohzpgpnrgnej-bjnaia"ioopercnje2228
W.W: 10dek, heidight, $2 bozrawnseed. 675
boiled Unwed. 700: xera winter strained lard
nil, C2c; No. 1 lard oil, 48c; turpentine, “00
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went to a drug store in Telephone,
*5 60; sea fairy,------------
nymph, roller, ex ra fancy,
roller, extra choice, $4 40; sa poua-, -yaay.
ily, IB 80: rye flour, 14 80; pumpernickel, .
dal wave, Kalser Auzug, *6 70. Above prices
are carload lota: less than carload lota, 250 per
barrel higaer. Special prices tor interior shp-
PROBHSSIONAL.
PORNHY,--- TEA8
C E. MEAD,
The treasury’s direct receipts from
the sale of school lands for November,
were $65,669 principal and $113,730 in-
terest.
The result of the county site election
was a majority of about 250 in favor of
the geographical center of Bowie
county.
Mr. Gearhardt, who was shot by the
robber on the Cotton Belt last week, is
still alive and hopes are entertained of
his recovery.
A large order for special castings for
the big smelter going up at Monterey
was received a few days ago by the La-
redo foundry.
been inaugurated. His address was
somewhat sensational.
It is believed in South Carolina that
Sensitor Wade Hampton will be suc-
ceeded by Irby Tillman.
Troops are patrolling the streets of
Rio de Janeiro to preserve peace. A
revolution is threatened.
Dr. Jediah Baxter, surgeon general of
the army, who was stricken with
paralysis last week, is dead. N
After many attempts the artesian well
at Ocean Springs, Miss., is a success.
Water was struck at 875 feet.
District Attorney Gibbs at Lake
Charles, La., was accidentally shot on
the 4th inst. while out hunting.
I IThe National Farmers’ alliance met
in annual sessienat Ocala, Fla., recent-
ly. A full delegation was present.
Governor Hill will not be a candidate
for the United States senatorship, it is
reported, nor for the governorship of
New York.
Mrs. Wm. Lucas was burned to death
near Bowling Green, Ky., a few days
ago by her clothing catching on fire
from a stove.
The intercontinental railway com-
mission, composed of representatives
from the United States and other Amer-
monarxadisemts anorpasnoomsa found! Washington recently. 8 I The Holland ^publicans are in tron-
" " ” ’ Frank M. Irion, defaulting city court ble with that government.
clerk of Birmingham. Ala., who em- n.toAliate have not vet ar-
bs-tmdaoondy to ntoqteartean8 rived at a decision in the Par ned case,
penitentiary. Germany boasts the healthiest army
The supreme court of Mississippi in Europe. Belgium is second best,
affirmed the decision of the lower court and England comes third.
In the case of ex-Treasurer W. L..Hem- London consumes 30,000,000 gallons
ingway, and he has been sent to the I f milk or what is sold for milk,
penitentiary for five years. -per annum, and pays £50,000 for it.
The will of Alexander Watson, who Te Italian government has ordered
was a wealthy citizen of Eau Claire, that the study of English be added to
Wis., is being contested by Mrs. Clara h curriculum of all their universities,
ar__I- -.I.- oleime +n heve hann rmar- I •
The Cooke eounty horticultural soci-
ety are arranging to build a canning
factory in time for the 1891 fruit season.
A canning factory, rays the Hesperian inghppitnenasommmithehsonincdvexts,
will surely be established atGainezville final Meeting on the 26th, and prepared
before the opening of the next fruit sea- to turn back assets and debts to the citi-
8on: , . - zens at their next meeting. This com-
Young Sid Brooks while out hunting mitted has made Austin known far and
in Eastland county last week was fatally wide at a very small expense,
shot by the accidental discharge of a c.o.
gun J A bridge builder named A. G. Station
" ' , , . . . .. . . was found dead in his bed in an Austin
Austin had a rousing celebration last boarding house, on the 26th. He was
week over the commencement of,work greatly emaciated - apparently by pul-
on the big dam, across the Colorado monary disease. In his room a small
COBKMZAl—city mills: Cornmeal la sacks,
*8 00; in barrels, $8 25. Grits, *8 30. Pearl meal.
E 50 Hominy, $8 60. Cracked corn, *2 25. Seed
Attorney-at-Law, mel.m22%082tmnenl ,"780 hal
ed home. —.---
picked it up when his dog barked at the
bundle, and Heil thought a rat had hid-
den in the cane and in looking among
the contents of the bundle his hand
caught on the snake’s head and it bit
him. The snake was so numb from
cold that it did not rattle when he pick-
ed it up with the cane nor when it bit
On the Swanson farm, six miles east
of Palestine, on Mopday night, the 24th
of November, Mrs. Ella Swanson (color-
ed) was called to her door and shot
down and instantly killed by an assas-
sin, who was hidden by the darkness.
Her husband, Dave Swanson was arrest-
ed by Deputy Sheriffs Pearce and Steve
Crest and jailed that night. The parties
have been living separately for some
time and the woman was to have left for
west Texas in a few days. The assassin
nepeun-sortcenr wore a woman’s shoe on one foot and a
says that all man's on the other, and Swanson was
seen with these kind of shoes on the
under contract. , ,
A beautiful iron bridge will span Buff-
alo bayou on Sabine street, Houston,
says the Echo.
The First National bank of Jacksboro,
has obtained quarters and will be ready
for business December 1.
Billy Weems of Floyd county was
tried at Emma, for murder and acquit-
ted, being held entirely blameless.
The Eagle Pass city council at its
meeting on the 25th instant came to the
conclusion to build a city hospital.
There is a movement among the Ma-
sons at Valley Mills, Bosque county, to-
ward the erection of a masonic hall.
The Ullman Hardware company, one
leUl cuumy atiuers wm pruuuce -w------ ... c , of the largest firms in Birmingham,
over 100,000 gallons of ribbon cane syrup for December 1, was m follows: Cash Ala., hasfiled.
° balance: Revenue, $708,765; permanent! ’
Gover Tillman of South Carolina has
„ b. w. McCullough,
"n Favenger and Ticket Agent, Dallas.
JOHN A. GRANT,
-______ ______General Manuy
TARRHLL.
Dye.. Works.
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NO. 26.
Dr. Rutherford, State health officer,
who is in San Antonio, sayo that ell
danger from smallpox contagion on the
American side of the Rio Grande has
been averted effectually.
LoXDOX MANKET.
This week. Last week.
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Represents the East Texas, thoAmer-
icon Fire, the North Britishtod Mer,
FAVORrTE Lna to tub - cantile and Liverpool and London and
I Globe Insurance Companies. Will loan
, I money on real estate and buy oreetend
Northeast: and: Southeast, vendor'sliennotes._________________
--- N. B. SHANDS, M. D.
ried to Watson by private contract. Jacob’s well and the plot of ground
memsmeess-sa
andothersewererur nervi"e'ok the late coon attacked a citizen in the street and
Bishop Beckwith. he was obliged to run Meeting a po-
Grve charges have been made against liceman, the coon was treed and shot,
the management of the parish, prison The newspaper press of Great Britain
at New Orleans regarding the inltreat- is trying tobring about the use of the
ment of prisoners in that institution, and wor typist as the designation of a per-
the papers are demanding that an in- “on whoI operates a writing machine,
vestigatioh ma e. a district in the central provinces of
Mary Powell was arrested a short India , being ravaged by wolves, which
time ago at Peterboro., Ont., for the Lve killed Forty watchers, who
larceny of a fur cape and committed to chiefly youths of both sexes from
iail. The gloom of her prison life was L
greatly relieved the other day by the 8to 16 years o Age: , t ..
news that an estate worth $50,000 had The reported destruction of thepyra-
been left her by an aunt at Rochester, mids for building material arose from
UY’- the removal of loose stone at the base to
Harry C. Alcorn, a young man of lay bare the lower cour8es and display
Hasbrook Heights, N. J., who smoked the structure to greater advantage .
Contractors report a want of carpen- j Victoria Review: The reporter was
ters and masons, at Stephenville. It is shown a pair of horns measuring be-
said that fifty more could there find im- tween their tips fifty-seven inches,
mediate employment. The steer which once bore them was
i a 1.. shipped by Mr. John Green to New
Prospectors are visiting Albiene Orleans. The animal was 12 years old
county at a lively rate, and land sales and weighed 1245 pounds, and was evi-
are more frequent than they have been dently a descendant from the original
for the past two months. long-born stock.
At Newton Butler’s ranch, near The agent of the International and
Breckenridge, Karnes county, Henry B. Great Nrthern receivers was in Austin
Rabensberg was shot.and killed by Tom Iatei» and settled up nearly all the “"“Vf'f nex-ma—’ a. ’.’j., ...mi
Cooper, a 17-year old youth. | damge Claims from the wreck at Kyle, from. 30.050 cigarettes wasbih
when the pay train ran into the pas-
senger tram, injuring some thirty pas-
sengers. Two or three are holding back — . 1..1
to see how much they are really dam- death was due to
aged: ■ —
GALVESTON WOOL MARKIT
WEEKLY sTatEMESTS.
Receipts..................................
Shipment!.............. ................
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Stock......................................
FORNEY, TEXAS, DECEMBER 10, 1890.
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Fine.....................................18 g20
Medium................... .18 ©21
Mexican Improved...................... ©17
Mexican carpet..................14 ©15
Bast Texaa. 12 months, medium........ 21 ©24
soovLxd wooL-sraixe.
Tweine months XX...................... @59
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Six and eight month! XX....... --- 66 @56
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No. 1....................... 60 ©52
Fall X.............. 50 @62
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS.
The following are the ruling price! for grocer-
les. etc., in the market:
AXLGEKAsE- Diamond, sN@60e; golden, 65©
75c per dozen boxes; castor ,11,7580. Boston
coach oil per case, pts, *4 60; per case, qu,
*3 60.
Ammunition—Powder per keg. »6 60; blasting
powder, *2 65 per keg, agents’ price. Shot, drop,
per sack, *1 902 00; buck, *2 grz 26.
APPLKS—Common. In bbla, *4 00; choice, in
bbla, Belle brand, *5 00.
Bkuwax—18c lor mixed lots
Bacon—Short clear, 640: long clear, nona;
breakfast, 9g9%6. Wboleaale grocers change
Hg@%e more- :
BaaGIsG-ID, 60; 1% m,,6%<6i 2 7%4c;
M tb, 8c; arrow ties, *1 Super bundle.
BUTTER- Kansas, 12%40; western, 15c; fresh
Texas country, nominal; Goshen, 20c; fancy
creamery, 26c.
Bran—*105 per 100 pounds, car lota at the
mills.
Candy—Plain (tick, 844840: wrapped. 9440
ge: Arm & Hammer, $2 60; tanevmixed, in
puls, 11012ge: eut rock, in palls, 14©Uc; fancy,
in cases, 12%g15c.
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Telegram to the Cotton Exchange.
Sterling commercial, 60 days........ 477%
Franca, commercial, 60 days.............
NewYork sight—bank... ...........par
New York sight-commercial................ dis
“ NZW tobk ExcHaNGE.
Telegram to the cotton exchange.
Sterling—Bank, 60 days................ @480%
Comzeece/60 days...... 478%0
Ralchtmarka..... 1A. .a........... M ©
Francs.....................................
Commercial.........:................ 5.2630
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Elliott, Sercey. Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1890, newspaper, December 10, 1890; Forney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1426524/m1/1/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Spellman Museum of Forney History.