Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 314, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 21, 1891 Page: 2 of 8
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Decatur
TEXAS NEWS COXDENSED
senger.
COMMERCIAL.
. 40c 100 Ihs
GALVESTON STOCK STATEMENT.
purposes.
1-16 '
American silver.......... dis.
Z
to the floor, but
8,89
718,792
1
V
\
I
<
299 F
.....1b @21
.....19 @22
Fine........
Medium....
New York sight...
New Orleans sight
Bankrate..
Silver.......
Consols......
To Liverpool..
To Havre......
To Continent.
To NewYork .
Par
dis.
Steam
d
5-l€d
5-16d
This
week.
.... 4,851
- 8}
834
9 11-16
10 316
Ordinary...........
Good ordinary......
Low middling......
Middling............
Good Middling.....
Middling fair.......
518
5,318 |
15,213 ;
29,919
LONDON MARKET.
This week,
............. 3
.................
............ 96 3-16
This week
last year.
’8,930
On Shipboard.
Not Cleared.
For Great Britain .......
For France..................
For other foreign porta .
For Coast wise ports......
In compress....................
Total stock.............
FREIGHTS FROM GALVESTON,
Sail.
Selling.
4.87
M prem.
} prem.
Par
FINANCIAL.
Money easy at 6 to 8 per cent.
@ALVESrON EXCHANGE.
Buying.
Sterling, 60 days..............
......57 (059
......55 @57
......52 055
......53 @56
......53 @54
......50 to 52
------50 @52
. -. 48 (50
QUOTATIONS.
SPRING-TWELVE MONTHS.
sume of the Important
Happenings.
• 3,221
. 5.388
..38.966
51.436
GALVESTON SPOT COTTON MARKET.
The quotation committee of the exchange
posted the local spot market as closing easy.
Sales. 713 bales.
John L. Sullivas has a black eve. He
week "am snaugrarancocneanishezast
-AXIEG&EASE Diamond, SKGGOe: golden GV,
7 per dozen boxes; casto/0i,78asc Boston
£98. ol per case, p“’ * W; per case, qs
AXMUSITOX— Powder per keg. 16 0t. ।
powder, 1: 25 per keg, agents* pfice. Shot ating
persack, J1 60g1 75: buck, 11 SSas2o0."0" “roP,
Review of the Week’a Work mu the Gai.
veston Market.
I
e»
Last week.
3
4414
9774
whatisGoing On in the Bu-y World,
Moth at Home and Abroad-— A Ke.
, , - -.......-. a perilous
trip over the broken roof hanging over
the water.
FALE-sIX AXD KIGHT XOXTHS.
Fine...................................1s a20
Jedium.................................1* (21
Mexican improved...................... (17
Mexican carpet.. ...................... ci j
SCOURED WOOL—SPRING.
Twelve months XX ..
X.........................
No. 1...................
Six and eight mouth. XX
X...................
No. 1.................
Fall X...............................
No. 1..............
at .names, are, suppressed. In all these
emattne I cases the charges are for attempting to
nrerperora commit arson and feloniously procuring
president of gun powder and dynamite for unlawful
A rather bold robbery was committed
at Denton one evening last week bv
Frank Adams, relieving his victim,
W . D. Doyle, of over $25. The deed was
committed in a saloon on the South side
while Doyle was drunk. Adams was
immediately arrested, searched and the
money found oa his person. identified
and recovered. Adams is in jail.
A northwesterly gale on the evening
of February 26, off Florida. reached the
velocity ef fifty-six miles per hour
causing considerable damage in Jack-
sonville. No lives were lost or injurv
to persons reported. *
The store of F. Whittet, at Anchor-
age, was burglarized recently by un-
known parties. A shutter was torn of
. , e— . testimony in
a remarkably clear and straightforward
. manner. He told how Hudgins and his be fought.
I he surveying corps of the Red Rive)-men entered the store just after the Magesty.
S............-..... amps were lighted in the evening and
forced him to give up what money was
there, and then went through it and
took some articles of clothing and other
thinzs; He.t ld , how after Hudgins
walked out that his brother started to
the ofhice near the door, and that Hnd-
gins dashed back in and shot him once
A Mexican identified as one of the
men connected with the murder of Mr
W ilkins, was arrested at Del Rio last
week and put in jail. Two more are
under arrest in Pedras Negras, Mexico.
Ihev acknowledge having committed
the deed.
I Harry Marsh, who murdered Clara
Jones on July «. 1890, was hanged at
Edinburg, Pa., on the 26th inst. Some
700 persons were present to witness the
execution. The doomed man showed
no signs of fear, and met his death
bravely. His last night on earth was
spent in sound sleep, and at G.40 that
morning was called and partook of a
hearty breakfast.
• > , ‘ mesquite stick and the
window broken in. Five hundred and
twenty-live dollars worth of merchan- „„ ana „„ ,
disewastaken, hut thecash, amounting James Carey was placed
tasntbtacnuca. a i and proceesedto his
petrators. • *
The Boston Cotton and Woolen mills
formerly the Dallas Cotton and Woolen
mills, were started off on Wednesday,
the 25th inst., with seventv-five opera-
tives. The management expects to have
the full force of 300 operatives at work
in a few weeks.
The electric car company made up a
tram of cars and trailers on the avenue
at Austin, and carried hundreds out to
Hyde park-on the afternoon of the 2th
it gave the town a very city-like appear-
ance. Cars on this line will make regu-
lar trips hereafter.
Stephen J. ( ase, a tinner, committed
suicide at Corpus Christi last week by
taking opium. He had frequently de-
clared he would soon end his earthly
troubles by committing suicide He
Was a native of New York city, but left
there six years ago on account of family
troubles.
i JohnF. Matthew shot and instantly
Kllied John V illiains one evening last
week near Grapeland. Particular’s can
not be learned, but the tragedy is said
to have grown out of family troubles
Mathews went to Justice John A. Davis
and surrendered after the shooting.
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE
. WEEK IN A CONCISE FORM.
the other fellow’s mouth and knocked
out two of his teeth. Sullivan then go
his victim’s head in chancery and pro-
ceeded to pummel him to his heart’s
content. It required the united efforts
of Duncan Harrison and half a dozen
, by-standers to pull Sullivan off.
.CANDY Plain stick, .8a%4e: wrapved. ga
, Gump, the faster, who attempted to
last thirty davs on a wager of #1003 !
gave up at Fort Wayne last Friday
night, after fasting twenty-five davs
He Was attacked with diarrh-a and was
afraid Of a collapse. Physicians say he
could easily have held out the remain-
ing five ( ays.
senetaeyngsaftostimonycintheepafia-
-..5 week. The Con rt
room.was thronged with spectators but
the big place had an unnatural stiineut
when Dr. Paul .Archinard, the deputy
wounds on the body aetdeyrrippdath
one Hour after death at 1‘ PPeared
Dr. ( . H. McGill, the special agent
for the census bureau to take the man-
ufacturing interests of Marshall. has
finished his duty, and reports fifty-six
manufacturing establisments, exclusive
, of the railroads, which are taken bv a
special agent. -
’ Two boys, while hunting in the
southern suburbs of San Antonio on , .....f.-----
the morning of February 25, found the the latter s head,
corpse of an infant about two or three
days old, that had evidently died of
starvation and exposure. It was wrapped
in a bundle of old rags and covered with
a pile of stones.
A tew days ago the dead body of Geo
I"schall, a one armed man was found
in his room at Fort Worth. A bottle
containing a small quantity of mor-
i Phine was found lying on a table by
the bedside, and as Poschall had made
several attempts to end his life there
is no doubt that he put tn end to his
existence.
man, in 50 16 decorated drums ani t,„. z.
Roys! Arms, in 4 th pkgs. 12 to caw. 3b ; J„v J
p. G. in 1 th pkgs. 36 to < case. 31c: Jara O. G in
bulk. 25 and 60 th safety bags, 2: Mocha, t m
pkgs, 36 tocase. Mocha, in bulk, 25 ana 60 it
‘af<ly bugs, NSe; Cordora. choice. 25 and 9 i
safety tags, 29c: ground cofTees, iu 1 1b pkgs M
tocase, ver m: No. 1, strictly pure, 25126: No 2
b.ended, 20Ke; No. 8, blended, WVc; No 4!
blended, 143. '
The negro exodus from Arkansas to
Oklahoma, says a Little Rock dispatch,
is exciting widespread attention. Near-
ly every train going south carries a
great number of families, and several
hundred will start from Little Rock and
points south of there in a day or two
It is estimated that at least 2500 negroes
will leave central and southern Arkan-
sas before April 1.
WM. FORSTER, Vlblisher.
A deputy marshal arritel in Dallas
22 the night of February 28 with H. J
Eivens, W ' H. Moore and John Win-
Aell, whom he arrested at Ennis on a
chargeof having attempted to rob the
postoftice at that place.
BUTTER— Kansas. 14c; western. 17e: fresh
Texas country, unsaleable; Goshem. 2,. g,c
creamery, 27c. it '
per too pounds, car lots at the with.a larse
An explosion of gas occurred at the
Pottstown, Pa., Iron and Steel works on
! February 27. Tons of iron floated from
' the converter, in which it is kept before
y . it is turned into the moulds, and fell in
wiaturrday.morning, while E. E. Ray a regular shower over the men, pain-
... n„? f t;pjump from a moving train fully burning fifteen of them. George
,i Durand, L L. he was caught under Townlier and Charles Putter were
the wheels and killed. burned in a terrible manner
The cable of the incline at the coal '
mine near Whiteville, Ga., broke
morning last week as the minere were
going to work, ami the car dashed down
theumountain. Two men were instant-
' killed and eleven others seriouslv
hurt, who it is thought will die from i
their injuries.
4 List orCrme- and Ca-ualtieg Com.
and u Grnera kevi.w er
Interestinz 0 eurreurts
iu the State.
It has been long known that leprosy
existed in New Orleans. At a meeting
o1 one of the council committees on the
7th inst. Pr. Blanc was given as au-
thority for the statement that there are
now twenty-five fally developed cases
roam.ng unrestrained thcugh the
streets and mingling with pedestrians
at will. The city )1!lg no hospital for
the ear . of these unfortunate people
and the danger attendant from person’
afllicted with this loathsome disease
was brought forcibly to the commit-
i tees attention, and a demand made
that suitable action be at once taken to
the Chero- j K& place for their detention and
i । 'it mro"*4 "J KJEC(IIY vfl ct
tiordanane the other Cherokees from Dispatches received in San Francisco
tieitone quarries south of Arkansas byrallroadoflicialsfrom Yuma of the
27 th, say that every building in town
David Seville, the Col»mhne n ec tthe Souther n hotel ami peniten- A
‘iary weredestroyed by the flood that]
night. The Gila and Colorado riversA
river rose thirty-three feet above lowA
water mark. The passenger and freights
depots were both flooded,and thewat,
rje to a level with the bridge artss
the Colorado river. In order to pre-
vent the bridge from being carried
away, the freight depot being set
afloat, the building was blown up w ith
dynamite. In the morning the river
dropped seventeen inches in an hour
anxiety. --- are now feeling less
rmtWiiliam"winaom,pneaysidoxewoythe
02"
20000 more, making <50,000, which
will be given Mrs. Windom at an early • .....
"ate; ’ | flood
John Copeland of Parnassus, Pa
fatally shot his wile one morning last
week, and then tried to kill his two
children and himself, but was prevented
by neighbors from carrying his designs
into execution. Copeland is a raving
maniac now, and will be sent to the
asylum.
j pression on me_______ ..... .... „„
Mr. ( arey offered $2000 reward for me
arrest of the man who killed his brother
and as he identifies Hudgins as the
man the money goes to Deputy Mar-
shals Swain and Stewart and’ their
posse.
David Seville the Columbus, O„ i
light weight, and Nank Tracev of Nej! I
sonville (>, had a prizefight at the
latter plane on the night of the 241
inst. Seville punished Tracey badly
and the latter has since died. Nank
Tracey assumed the name under which
His right name is Arthur
C . G. Wool bridge, a civil engineer,
who ha nen in the employ of the Mis-
souri P'sific, surveying lines in Arkan-
sas and Louisiana, said at Paris that it
is the determination of the company re-
cently organized at Little Roek to' ex-
tend the Memphis and Little Rock to
Texas and that work will begin at once,
he point it will enter the States is not
yet known, but he thinks Paris stands
the best chance of any city in the
State.
Decatur, Wiue County, rexas.
The largest pulp mill of the Reming-
ton paper company, near Watertown,
N. V, was almost totally destroyed by
high water a fe.w nights ago, causing
damages requiring about $50,000 to re-
south pair, and killing John Murphy, an em-
St. S Condnc tor Verdey . BlalingThnorpinstedets was:......k by
bralynangiea. hrpkemanahadwan l extricaterbiniseli and made
caused by the spreading of the rails.
George Sayer, an employe of the
street railway company, at San An
tonio, was taken from’ his
ensvilordnnvenbze he city,
mother of Gage, went out to the Salado
on a picnic and took a keg of beer along.
In the afternoon the party came in wit’ll
Gagebeing unconsrious; and he died
on May 13. The party testified at the
inquest that the death of deceased ree
from the keg of beer falling on
tho Iattar e han. ( cc l "2 '
........ ast week one of
women went to Justice Herron and said
that she was unable to sleep at night
and wanted to make a confession to
ease her conscience. She then n.
ceeded to relate that Sayer ami the Pro
ceased on the day of the picnic, dnring
which all had drank copiously from tl
beer keg, became involved in a difficulty
in the course of which Saver hit d.1
ceased over the head with the tail boara
0 the wagon and he had died from the
blow. She said also that Saver had
sworn them all to secrecy, but she could
not longer remain silent. Her name is
Polly W agn er, mother of the deceased
whose name was John Adolph Gage’
Giage’s widow, who was in the party at
the timeof the difficulty, married avery
short time alter ber husband s death
and left fhe country. Gage’s sister is
the wifeof Sayer,and Legge,1 her mother
not to tell on her husband.
"5 .............
Omaha, has been notified of the deatl and the residents
of the millionaire O’Neil of Bradrord anxietv
England, by which she is left heir to
I'<>,000,000. She was the only daughter i ___________
and was disowned on account of her New Orleans last
marriage. 1
1oBEEsWax-2le for good yellow; 18c for mixed
Bacon—Short clear, 57ge; long clear, non,.
brze“more:®o9a0 waolesnregrocer- cherge
„Baggxo-1 n, 6e: 1* n, 6%c; 2 n, 712 ■
274 1b, 8c; arrow ties, none.
LOCAL QUOTATIONS.
The following are the ruling prices for grocer,
les. etc., in the market:
ArPLES— Common, in bbls, J7 50
Abont 4.15 o clock on the morning of
February 15, at Madison, Me., a meteor,
the size, of a full moon, was seen in the
sky 1t burst with a loud report over
Madison, blazing fragments scattering
in every direction. Houses w ere shaken
as though by an earthquake and hun-
The committee having ih chorge tbe dreds of people were awakened from
isine ef • fund fa- xi "" sleep by the concussion which rever-
berated for some moments, sounding
like heavy rolling thunder, while the
raise shootingparticles seemed like so many
f flashes of lightning.
Then one nour alter death at 10“0‘clp-
......a,.g......
to have been drunk at first but whe ttr ugh the intestines, all very large a
the train hand landed a stinging hen big hole in the right knee, one in the
hand full on the eye the pain eret made reandinnumerableAmali wounds
him instantly He made a straight ami legs Thus f«r o'6’ arms, brest
1-4 .«h to right, which landed on
Ina railroad accident on the South
( arolina road at Blacksville one i
last 1----’ C" ‘
A deputy sheriff recently brought to
Navasota from Courtney one Harwood
accused of burning the Kev hotel, occu-
pied by him. He was placed in
iail in default of $200 bond. Harwood
.laims that there was no insurance on
the building or contents.
Two negrces, Pete Bennett and Sid
Hibbs, alias Robinson, had trouble at
Bremond recently. Pete went home,
and in a short time Sid went to Pete’s
house. A gun was fired and Sid fell
dead with a shotgun in his hands
l ete ran out and started across the
prairie, but was soon captured and
lodged in the lockup.
Two more companies of cavalry ar.
rived at Arkansas City, Kan., from .
EortRenoand went into camp at the
Chillocco school. They have orders to
Septem- remove all intruders from the Cilero-
keestrip, and began by ejecting Ch ef
Kirkpatrick, at Paris, recently. Bii
Hudgins, the noted desperado. Who was
cuptured February 4 near" ingo,
1. 1., a te - a desperate battle in which
he was wounded, was brought out to
havesan examining trial for the murder
of W ill Carey at I red. I, T.. on c
ber30, 18110 James Carey, brother of
the deceased; at Paris in til
afternoon and in company with Unifed
states Marshal DiCkerson, yisitedltd
jail, and Mr. Carey, out of the forty or
fifty pi isoners there, at once pointed
ouiHudgins a theslayeror his brother.
A little later Hudgins was taken from
jail and his examining trial begun.
“ placed on the stand
Chattanooga and the section around
was taken from has car anathtarsbegnnrnnlred,in-cnocmnnnezterm
in the county jail one day last nrday morning and — Sat-
a charge of murder. During Three inches of snow
summer Sayer, Gage and 1--‘
dot for 22 cans: Peaches, J3 25 penr ’3lW
apricots. 2 65: plums. 32 85; bia" cherries:
*cRiwettgguerttomsteizrrritszweutm and Southwesfern Railway company
creum. i2j,«i3c;swiM1.»v: imitation'sWiB! met.at Henrietta on the 28th instant
20S2Mei young America. 13%((a14c. L and began work on the survey to Archer
73C02- From track sacked, mixed Tic. white City: This line will lie located to that
point and cross-sectioned at once, and
grading will begin at Henrietta as soon
as.the survey is completed to Archer
LIt: From Archer City the line will r -nueu vacnm ana snot him once
ne uni at once to some point on the in the breast and ran out. At this point
Concho river at or near San Angelo. ihiareritnlaftnnfi------- t ■
Another and a third homicide oc-
curred.a few days agoab Leon Junction,
............... e near W aco. The first was a Norwegian
shoemaker, several weeksago. Newt
5t12*/2ei Davis was. supposed to know Who
killed the Norwegian, and one morn-
ing Davis was found near his home at
the junction dead, shot through the
brain. Buddy Williams was arrested
and is still in jail, charged with the
murder of Davis. Buddy Williams’
I father, Jasper Colvin Williams, who
Many deaths have resulted from the
nie at Tijuana. A Mexican was
drowned while assisting others. Wm.
r. seribner, a druggist was swept away
in his store by the flood. In Tijuana
there is a building left standing upon
its foundation. The Russ house is the
only building not completely wrecked
and that is badly damaged. ’ The main’
current of the Tijuana river now runs
through the town. The valley is com-
pletely swept of fencing, windmills, etc.
I There has been no communication with
the Mexican side yet, and it is impogsi-
file to ted what damage has been done
I or the number of lives lost.
AGre at Falls Mont.) dispateh says The Cook county, HL, grand jury on
soura borers were recently caught in’a last week returned two indictments
moneaihormmdxhoilenn waentedicine oPtim w bisky trust.1'and ecgasa
General da Fonseca, who was chosen I him jointly with other persons whose
provisional president of Brazil
time of the overthrow of the
has been formally elected
the republic.
CAXDLK8-Quoted aS follows: Star. 91g/a1c.
15-0%.. narattine. set. 102,0012%,6, ■
.COFFEK— Wholesale gocers quotations: Or.
dinary, 19c: vood ordinary. 191 , ; fal 01
prime. 21c; choice, 21%,0;rlovA, 22" ’ 2021:
ed coffees, f. o. b. in Galveston. Perth Ki
nosA, in 1 th pkgs. 26 to case. 2,:
nosa, in 1 th pkgs. 60 and two to en. 29 0
bulk Bio. in bbls (about 130 ths). 210,0 bulk
l0 *2 3 ‘lsceboue 70 18). 230 bulk ki0
25 and 50 n safety bags, 24, Yemen heim
blend, 50 th decorated drums and, | ■ e
GALVESTON WOOL MARKET
WEEXLY statements.
Receipts...........................
Shipments....................................
Sales.................................
6’ock.....................
NEW ORI.KAXS EXCHaSGE.
Tetegram to the Cotton Exchange.
Sterling commercial, 60 days ....... 4.891274.34
Francs, commercial, 60 days..............
NewYork sight-bank. .. ’........ prem
New York sight—commercial......... prem
NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
Telegram to the cotton exchange.
Sterling—Bank, 60 days........................
Commercial, 60 days......4.84 cu.sal
Reichsmarks........................ 9535 1-16
Franes............................... 5,10220
Commercial................................ c
his recital of the affair was very patetic
His voice was husky and his eves were
suffused with tears. Then, turning- to
Hudginsshe said: "You are the man
thatdideitamJTtI.never can forget boarding the trafn a, Rom,X
voice in a million it recognize your he tried to 'ary the dullness of th
inlx"mi""t ionzem: i is taXX
eward for the I pretty efectually too. Sullivan
kep asmallstoreatthe junetio, wa, / ’ p,, ,,,, A T .o.
approac i ed in the nigh’ by four ’ men GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
" howante i supner. H * ordered sup- ,
per for them and they then requested, --
mpaurneosaesit"serremsmgnrvgEvEoTsooxhuwezgsotuEDbown
and u hile his hand was on the knob of readers.
the door someone fired and Williams
tell with a dozen buckshot in bin bow.
27, having been pierced from behind.
His'spine was nearly severed.
Henry Johnson, the Raines county
man who was carried from Greenville
to Emory to have the death sentence
passed on him will be returned at his . The Russian press is unanimous in
own request and confined till his exe- indorsing the refusal of the French
cution, April 27 next. When sentence artists to take part in the Berlin art
was passed upon him he made two re- exhibition, and also in condemning tt
; ques one that the execution be irritation which the Germans have
private, the other that he be permitted shown.
to return to the Hunt county jail F..1 c...2
where he could continue to receive the . or theztirst time in seventeen years
advice and instruction of Greenville. of state,
ministers. Both requests were granted rebr 2 ’> appeared in the superior
by Judge Terhune, court of Delaware as counsel for the
c. , petitioner of the famous Burke-Roche
Since the arrest of Joe Thomas divorce case.
robS raTheriver continued to recede at the
wezrtasriinmn 5 anw han "a nrate
Imi g h w" t^'^X < dVpoVaVnln^r‘tUre^
that remarkable exploit. The latter I 1 ”’
has not heen arrested. Thomas and
Henderson were arraigned before Jus-
tice J: M.. Giallagher, who fixed their
bail at $750 each. They made bond at
onet: The grand jury, which con veiled
on Monday, went immediately into an
investigation. The. parties ‘charged
are known all over Central Texas. Two
ot them have been for years in the de
tective service and have brought many
roranatarustice. Itisavery
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