Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 210, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1889 Page: 2 of 8
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Wise Co
essenger. THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE
WM. FORSTER.
DECATUR,
A SINGULAR FATALITY.
700 pounds of steel in
up
ceived here to-day of
The workers cheered.
gun factory.
0 pounds.
prominent New
cd $700 in tip
He is reported to have
on Christmas.
seem to |
pathetic with
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and
more
William than with Jecmes.
ment.
SENATE.
To-morrow afternoon at
THE COLORED ELECTOR.
Indian and does not
refinements of civilization.
the time for paying for school and
SENATE.
another to intoxicating liquors.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
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hoping ■
the larynx.
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Richard is himself again."
bill.
STREET CAR STRIKE.
Ward MCALLISTER is to manage the
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A FEARFUL WRECK.
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city this evening and will, in a few
days, be forwarded to the front with
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mercy. It is an outrage that prayers
should be made the cover for assailing
political majorities in
Boston, Feb. 8 —The house of rep-
resentatives adopted the proposed con-
stitutional prohibitory amendment bj
a vote of 118 to 19.
treating prohibition.
ding v eighing
Four Chinamen Hurled Into the Air and
Scalded to Death by a Geyser
Cheyenne, Feb. 5.—News was re.
nie Hicks.
MASSACHUSETTS PROHIBITIONISTS.]
Both Jim Riley and Bill Nye part
their hair in tiie middle. The only |
a large proportion of {the population of
cities."
At the conclusion of the prayer Mr-
Grady arose to move, he said, that the
officer having charge of the select on o
new mining town. Wednesday he and
three other Mongolians who came from
the adjoining camps celebrated their
Chinese new year. They burned fire
crackers and made offerings to joss,
and wound up by getting drunk. Yet
Sig had been cautioned about the
boiling spring and told that it might
be a slumbering geyser. For this reason
his washtubs were kept on the other
side of the tent so that no soap might
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evening, three men were ins2
killed and five injured, four of FM
fatally. A switch engine moving in
stock jumped the track and we
down an embankment, carrying ten
against two Dallas district courts were
reported.
The house bill creating Coke county
dimere.....is tat tse parting islongei , s
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I amendments to substitute Bingham.
I Dick Dowling, Tilden and Dowling
nciccs were successfully rejected and Coke
prevailed. The bill passed to engross-
are visiting at the whit? house. are
the daughters of the President's sister,
who is a missionary in India.
were sentenced to death by Judge
Parker of the United States court at
Fort Smith. Two of them are white,
two negroes and two half-breed In-
dians. All are murderers. They will
all be hanged on Friday, April 19.
TWO BABIES CREMATED.
Spokane Falls, W. T., Feb. 6.—Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Bollinger left their two
babies in the house and went visiting.
While they were gone the house caught
fire and the children were burned to
death. ______
POISONED BY ROUGH ON RATS.
Atlanta, Tex., Feb. 5.—L. O. Davis
and wife and Miss Mattie Davis were
t it won’t be
2 o’clock the Pacific railroad funding
bill comes up as unfinished business
and several speeches are expected on
ponucaliajin our cities as ig it, but no definite action. There are
norant immigrants, steeped in super several other measures pending in-
cluding Sherman’s anti-trust bill,
which are likely to be called up during
the week as opportunity affords, but
upon which, according to the present
outlook, no decisive action seems prob-
able. From time to time reports from
the conference committees, which are
privileged matters, may be received
and called up for action. Of these the
most important are those concerning
ith the the Nicarag a canal, the interstate
. -I think commerce b 11 and the omnibus terri-
to bide- tory bill. An agreement may be
in." . reached on the canal bill by the two
' houses but new conferrees will proba-
bly be appointed on the subjects.
Under the resolution introduced by
Senator Saulsbury and referred to the
committee on foreign relations, that
committee may be expected after its
meeting Wednesday to report some
form of declaration of its idea of what
is necessary and right to be done by
iS
talented! g Ob tloD9 under treaty with Samoa.
Should this come in it will doubtless
lead to a debate of some length, proba-
interrupted Mr. Erwin.
-No, it was not,” answered Grady.
“But I think it was,” replied Erwin.
“The insult is worse,” said Mr Mur-
phy, “because it comes from a claptrap
politician who has been a perennial
candidate for chaplain of the senate.
“But what is the matter with the
prayer?” persisted Mr. Erwin. " 1hink
we should pray continually 1
livered from fraud and corruption.
The lieutenant governor at this point
ruled the entire matter out of order.
SACKVILLE’S SUCCESSOR.
Washington, Feb. 5.—A London
dispatch to the Associated Press says
it is stated that Sir Julian Pauncefote,
permanent under secretary of state for
the foreign office, has been appointed
British minister to the United States.
Twenty-third Day.—The constitu-
tional amen iment to reduce the legal
rate of interest to 6 per cent., bills for
uniform text books for public schools,
for good roads, against state aid for
immigration, for the repeal of restric-
tions upon suffrage, on the stock law,
for permission to invest county school
funds on real estate se urity and
Londoners are
in the afternoon word came from Capt.
Ryan that trouble was feared on First
avenue near the car stables, and a
squad of men were sent at onee. The
alarm .was occasioned by the pranks
of a crowd of urchins who were placing
stones on the tracks at First avenue
and Thirty-fourth str. et, which a
throng of people watched with idle in-
terest.
has purchased a tract of about 3,000
acres of valuable land near Asheville,
Topeka. Kan., Feb. 8.-The colored
voters of Dodge City have forwarded
to Presedent-elect Harrison a large
crayon portrait, handsomely framed,
of John L. Waller of Topeka the only
colored elector in the Lnited States in
the college which elected Harrison and
Morton. The artist is a t------- „
colored girl of Dodge City named Far-
blv in secret session. ,
From present appearances the week s
business in the house will be made up
of patriotic oratory and routine hard
work the former to be called forth by
the Edmunds Panama canal resolu-
tion and the latter occasioned by the
necessity for disposing of the remain-
ing appropriation bills. Monday will
afford individual members one of their
to treat last opportunities during this congress
to secure the passage of measures un-
der the suspension of rules, and the
speaker has been fairly besieged by
representatives who have abandoned
hope of getting their bills before the
house in any other manner. Mr. Blan-
chard is hopeful of his ability to res-
. * 11.___L--. 1:11 frAm ita
known as the L ——2 - -
hood. An investigation led to the con- outue auu au wag p-g-,------
sion that deceased came to a tragic instantly in case of trouble in conne
men with it.
AFRAID OF AN INDIAN ATTACK.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 4.—The offi-
cials of Mona county have telegraphed
Gov. Waterman that settlers in Ante
lope valley are uneasy over the gather-
ing of Indians there on account of two
Indian murderers in jail at Bridgeport.
The sheriff' asks for fifty stands of arms
and ammunition immediately.
SIX MEN TO BE HANGED.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6.—Six men
fatality, by which four Chinamen lost
their lives. They were in Canyon City,
near the Yellowstone Park. Yet Sing,
one of the four, had established a wash
house in a tent directly over a boiling
spring. He had hot water constantly
and was doing a good business in the
over it safely, but the five rear cars,
, with the caboose, were thrown down
the embankment. Everett Corry,
brakeman, received injuries
which he died this morning. Conduc-
tor Charles Wilson and Brakeman
W iliam Burnet are dangerouslain
jured. The former will probably die
a debutante that she declared her mot-
Iresent perilous situation and get it be-
fore the house. The conference re-
port on the Nicaragua canal bill is ex-
pected to be called up Tuesday. Ihe
army bill will follow if not blocked by
the report on Mr. Edmunds’ Panama
from resolution. and the remainder of the
week may be filled in with contested
election cases and possible report from
the conferrees on the omnibus territory
aUara‘BHY"WasPSntrEauce prOhibi
a most singular
to would hereafter be —Per aspera, ad
Astora."
Senator Chandler has introduced a
bill authorizing the heirs of Rear Ad-
miral Chas. H. Baldwin to receive a on the coast and favorabiy provi
box set in dlamonds, presentcd <.! dorathaeregusttasiamnaJWS tb over
the admiral by the czar of Russia, at 10 000 inhabitants.
his coronation in 1883. Mr. Claiborne— a bill to double the
- punishment of convicts for misdemean-
Princess Vmogxa is severe on the orsweosattemrtneespaetor convicts
-dog women,’ as she calls those women , in misdemeanor cases at 25 cents per
she saw “nursing dogs in New Y ork. [ day instead of $1 came up and passed
But then she is only a poor Mohawk to engrossment, so as to make the pay
.reciate all the150 cents a day when such convicts are
- !" emploved on streets, public roads or
"tion county farms.
The late Antoine de Choudens, of | „FouFWDAr_About twen-
Paris, laid the foundation of his great-, petitions were introduced, most of
fortune as a music publisher by pur- them being in the nature of a license
chasing the publishing rights in tax on honorably occupations and from
“Faust" for 100, after the work had farmers’ alliances askingrunif tes
been almost contemptuously refused by books, changrestne payment3 of a poll
several others, tax as a prerequisite to voting.
_---- Bills and resolutions were introduced
George VANDEIBILT,the millionaire b Mr. Lankford to extend to ten years
son of the late William H. Vanderbilt. I tima for navin for school and uni
MONTEREY TO TAMPICO.
Laredo, Tex., Fex. 4.—Over 100
mules belonging to Curran & Guthrie,
railroad contractors, arrived in the
poisoned last night with rough on rats,
*----1—nn AD"
veyed into the flour barrel dYetheAth
Erough all right and the are ndut
of danger. 3
Twenty-fifth Day.—Mr. Wood, a
Washington centennial ba.I and ban- . in preparing, planting, cultivating and
are on ^ho^ lax ^^^p^rUti^
Mr. McAllister s exclusive list. Lu s0o600t0 buy other convict planta-
gere Perique. chief of the Hoffman tions and provide them with prisons,
house, whose salary is said to be $8,000 1 machinery and farm implemen ts..A
a year, is to provide the supper. The like proposition isspendingintthenhuof
price of tickets to the ball is *15, and | inacglsornmi, however, will agree to
every lady is to be presented with a 5
souvenir. )
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 8.—Late
~ ana harborbill,‘trom its
struck a broken rail near Quincy, Ind
The locomotive and seven cars passed
stition. . .
“Perhaps the prayer was meant tor
the senator from the sixth (Grady),
NEw York, Feb. 5.—There was con-
Texarkana, Ark., Feb. 8.—At about siderable stir about police headquar-
12 o’clock last night William Hatfield ; ters to-day* occasioned by the presence — _
tut • ’ * ‘1 of a large number of patrolmen and which was supposed to have been
swampoodle neighbor- their superiors. Patrol wagons stood
• •—-y con- outside and all was prepared to move
and make its report.
SENATE.
Twentysixth Day.—Mr. Burges,
for the public lands committee, fav-
orably to provide for leasing unorgan-
ized school lands.
Mr Jarvis, for the finance commit-
tee, unfavorably to require county
commissioners courts to levy and col-
l lect a sufficient amount by tax to pay
off and liquidate the claims of teachers.
Mr. Kimbrough, punishing persons
who shall obtain board from hotels and
boarding houses by fraud. The fine is
in the sum not exceeding $100.
Mr. Stephens, by request, punishing
persons selling, or advertising for sale,
lottery tickets.
HOUSE.
Twenty-Sixth Day —Petitions were
introduced against the creation of
Willie county; against taxing reputa;
b e occupations and for a railroad
commission.
Bills and resolutions introduced .
Mr. Bryan—To authorize Commix
sioner los er to sell weignts and
measures.
Mr. Renfro—To authorize the gov-
ernor to have a statute of Gen. Sam
Houston placed in the capitol at W ash
TKESIENr Cleveland's
wvry fifth Day.—Mr. Glass- punishable by a tine oi not
. , 1' cTw requiring trainson branch roads $250 or over 8500. for anyone
Taizo Mvyosni, the senior judge of tofonnect With trains on the main
the appeal court, of Tokio, Japan, is line
visiting America. He will devote him- Mr. Seale, increasing the penalty for
seif to a study of our system of laws. assault with intent to murder fiom two
There are twenty judges in this court twsevenwent tearhe Pe
in Japan and three of them sit togeth- Mr. Burney, for the committee on
er upon each case. education, reported favorable the i
suthorizing the superintendent of pub-
RICHARD Mansfield ha-been order- lie instruction to issuncertiftcateers
ed by Sir Morel! Mackenzie to postpone qua ticatin andiddialpromas from the
his appearance as Rich ard HL for two Peabody normal co.lege of Nashville,
weeks. The actor has congestion, of ( Tenn, mechapics, 1en bil passed toen-
The head waiter in a
York restaurant recciv
N. C. It is said that his object isnoth-
disturb the quiet of the boiling water.
No one knows how Yet Sing’s box/f
laundry soap got into the boilfng .
spring, and it is more than probale-
that some mischievecus miner empjej
anycotp remding.eropositimmsudon WASHINGTON NEWS.
the investigation committee returns 1 ______
very long before grossment.
a- a present to her mother, the queen
of Denmark, two superb dresses of the
finest and most costly Russian work-
mansbip.___L
clergymen to offer the opening prayers
in this body be instructed hereafter to ______
give no invitation to do so to the per. of the way
son who has just assailed the throne of census bi
Potosi, to go to work on the comple-
tion of the railroad from that point to
the port of Tampico on the gulf coast
of Mexico. Many cars a day will be
required on the Mexican National road
to forward the construction material
arriving at Laredo destined for the
railrood now being built from Monte
rey to Tampico on the gulf.
A DRUNKEN POLICEMAN
New York, Feb. 6—A drunken po.
liceman named Farley, of the fifty-first
street station, fired five shots from his
revolver, this morning, into a crowd
who were watching the firemen at
work in the ruins of the Graham fac-
tory last night. One shot grazed a fire-
man and entered the head of another,
and the second took effect in the side
of a bystander.
Twenty-third Day.—The governor
—- has received a letter from Gov. Hum-
EXAS phrey of Kansas stating that the Kan-
* ’ I sas legislature has passed a resolution
— providing for an inquiry into the so-
I called beef and pork trust or combine.
LOKD Sa< Kv ILLE. itissemi-authorita- The resolution inclosed declares that
tivclv announced, is to be sent as Brit- ' the trust is charged with centralizing
. , ■ , , . the beef and pork product in Kansas
ish minister to I m k«-> ■_____ City and Chicago, so as to give the
. . . j trusts the entire control of the trade of
The czar of Russia recently picked the whole country in these products.
--- ’ • * ’ - a Petershof Gov. Humphrey is requested to lay the
matter before the governors of the
। states especially interested and invite
... ,, ...... ,n. n.o. 1 a convention composed of three sena-
Sir Morell Ma< KENZIE ato l tors and five representatives from each
fessionally the leading actors of bug- legislature of the interested states,
laud Hei- som thing of an actor him- I with the purpose of securing co-opera-
. s snia tiou among the states and uniform and
” ’------ effective laws against the monopoly.
। i . r At c Idbuf ivrciv. a As the Arkansas legislature is limited
I n, duke oi M< < i n0 y " “ to fifty davs, early action is desired so
( hristmas present Irom baton lb i that the cnvent’on may meet by the
a Worms, in tin shape of a plum i nd 1st of March. Gov. Ross is requested
versity lands. .
Mr Parker—to fix the penalty fora
husband failing to provide for the sup-
port of his wife and minor children,
ing less than the establishment of a
college for women.
Twenty-Fourth Day—Mr. Harrison
for the committee on agriculture, favor-
, , ably the bill regulating the sale of cot-
Mrs. William Astor wore all her , ton’in the seed; favorably creating a
diamonds at the charity ball, and so j bureau of agriculture to be attached
much did their ■■razzle-dazzle’’ impress to the office of statistics andinsurance:
Mr. Upshaw for the committee on
constitutional amendments, unfavora-
bly the proposed amendment ‘ 3 reduce
the legal rate of interest to 6 per cent.
Mr. Alien filed a minority report. Al-
so favorably to the amendment look-
ing to the procurement of deep water
the coast and favorably providing
’ “ i Rio
to lay the matter before the legislature
| and will probably do so at once. The
es stock interest of Texas is more deerly
interested in obtaining relief from the
combine than any other state. It is
proposed that each legislature pay the
expenses of its delegation. Gov. Hum;
phrey would designate the time and
place of the meeting of the convention
t and would probably receive sugges-
Although the report is not officially
zonfirmed, it is credited at the foreign
oflice. The appointment is creating
intense irritation in British diplomatic
circles as a departure from the rule
if succession in appointments accord-
ing to rank in the service. Sir Julian
Pauncefote is a lawyer, not a diplomat,
and was never attached to any em-
bassy. He was appointed to his pres-
ent post on account of his extensive
knowledge of the legal bearings of
treaties. As his present salary is only
£2,000 yearly the new appointment is
a desirable one, the salary of the min-
ister at Washington being £6,000.
Il is authoritatively announced to-
day that President Cleveland will re-
turn to the state of New York to reside
on the expiration of his term of office
and will on March 5 resume the prac- Sing
tice of his profession in New 1 ork city, hnik
having associated himself with the law
instrnweihausen_A resolution look- tirm of Bangs, Tracy and Mae Veagh.
ing to the restraint of the bagging notes and comments.
trust by requiringpenitentiary officials Washington, Feb. 5.—Information
to consider the feasibility of using "A 2! c
convict labor for manufacturing bag- was received here this evening that
ging from jute or cotton for baling cot- Mrs. Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen,
ton. Adopted. widow of the late ex-Secretary of State
,, Fredeiick T. Frelinghuysen, died to-
POLITICAL. day at Newark, N.J.
ALBANY, N.Y, Feb. 8.—Rev. S A Senators expect this to be a buy ai
Leech, of Albany, opened the session of week. To-morrow the appropriation
the senate with prayer. He referred c ommittee will report the legislative,
to corruption which so greatly in executive and judicial appropriation
Huenced elections in great cities, and bill and it will be called up for consid-
prayed for deliverance from "politica eration on Tuesday. The naval bill
gamblers who buy the votes of the ig will be acted upon by the committee as
norant immigrants who comprise such I goon as received from the house and
‘ will probably be reported to the senate
by the end of the week, if indeed it be
not passed by that time. Upon the
legislative appropriation bill there may
be discussion on some amendments
proposed by the senate committee that
will carry the bill over for a day or
two, but delay is not anticipated.
When the appropriation bills are out
Mr. Hale will call up the
the soap into the slumbering gey“s
That night there was a sudden spi
ing of water, a tent flying throughehe
air and some piercing yells. The
miners rushed up and found the gek
ser pouring water to a height of oveN
a hundred feet. The bodies of the
four Chinamen scalded to death were
found later, and at some distance
from the scene. The geyser spouted
for three hours and then subsided.
THE empress of Russia recently
The queen of Corea, it is said. "liv
in veiled seclusion and smok
cigarcttes." All cigarette smoke
should live in veiled seclusion, but th
don't. _________
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