Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 324, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 30, 1891 Page: 3 of 8
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TEXAS STATE NEWS.
’HOME AND FOREIGN.
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the present heat for a single second; a
mass equal to that of our earth would
worlds which are constantly falling
into its depths, but even this seems
far from probable, not to say a purely
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Cotton squares are plentiful
addition, in suburban property in that
city for a large femal college.
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Gleanings from Crims's Calendar Served to
Suit the General Rush.
Chcice Clusters of Crisp Cullings Condenced
from Daily Reports.
on the consumed to its utmost atom in the
Pa ris fem lie institute property and in-
vest the proceeds, with considerable
for the diphtheritic membrane, comes
Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Norman in thirteen ounce bottles at a cost of
progressing nicely. The work of roof-
ing and finishing up the tower is now
in progress.
Work on the Mexia ice factory is
Foreign Flashes Across the Wive Rife With
IJevs of National Moment from
Other Lands.
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Worth city council are carried out the rect, and we have no means of proving
sum of $725,000 will be expended in them false, well may we ask the ques-
a Rare Ereviary of Items of Interest Gathered
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Will Ilie Nun Burn Up!
Thousands of curious and ingenius
theories have been brought forth to ac-
count for the fact that the sun, although
he has whirled his burning disc across
the heavens for untold ages, continues
of which severed his jugular vein, pro- firing the rocket. For securing bird's
eye views this photo-rock c offers sev-
eral important advantages over bal-
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burned.
It is reported from Granbury, that to burn without being consumed or his
the recent splendid rains have assured bulk being lessened in the least. Some
the finest crop of wheat and oats in learned men affect to believe that the
great orb is a monstrous ball of gas.
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In a difficulty at Temple recently be- commences to fall. The descent is
tween John Johnson and Sam Gary, eased by the opening of the attached
the former received eight wounds from parachute, which is drawn back to the
a knife in the hands of the latter, one operator by a cord attached before
of Boonville, Wise county. have sue- $189 each. Still more expensive are
eceded in exploding the old-time belief various preparations of theCalabao
progressing. I he building is almost that a woman couldn’t throw stones. iean, used in optical diseases —___
completed and the machinery is being They were neighbors between whom range from $ 137 tor a single ounce ta
ill feeling had existed for some time, the almost incredible price of 3 million
Hubbard City society is very much A few days ago they met and a rock, dollars for the same small quantity.-
agitated over the action of Sidney . contest ensued, which left them both Kata Field •
Coker, a prominent young physician of | very bloody and badly bruised.
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A GHOST THAT H0&BED.
every acre planted.
John Mayfield has been arrested and
jailed at Dallas for the perpetration . , , . , .12 ,
of a nameless crime, the victim being absurd conclusion. In giving his opin:
a little 4-year-old girl, the daughter of ion on the last opinion, one of the most
a North Dallas butcher, eminent astronomers of the day has
figured that a mountain range consist-
A movement is on foot to sell out the
Curious Photographic Apparatus.
A curious photographic apparatus,
in which a camera is raised by a rocket
and lowered by a parachute, is being
developed by a French inventor, M.
Amedee Denisse. In its experimental
form this wonderful machine is pro-
vided with the cylindrical camera, has
12 lenses around its circumZerence,
with a sensitive plate in its centre, and
is provided with a shutter which ope®
and instantly closes as the apparatus
tion: Of what wonderful, indestruct-
1 ible substance is the sun composed?
that place. He engaged himself to
jailed at Brenham for the attempted
violation of the person of Daisy
Burch, who was attacked by the
brute at a lonely place in the road
while on her way from school, but
whose cries brought her father to
her assistance.
Thomas Auberry, a farmer, captured
a wild man after a long chase at his
home on Soledad creek. near San An-
tonio. The man was a mass of bones
and being only clad in the remnants of
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTINGS, wanythysphystianmanhying, erimt-
waterworks and public improvements
during the next twelve months.
The board of church extension has
pledged aid to the amount of $400 do-
nation and $1000 loan at 4 per cent
per annum, provided that Orange will
build a Methodist church worth $4000
or $5000.
Work on the Gilliland hotel at Abi-
lene will be resumed in a few days and
the building will be rapidly pushed to
an early completion. This building
will cost when completed something
over $35,000.
Icon photography, such as compara-
tive cheapness in operating and free-
dom from all risk of human life. In
military reconnoitering it will be in-
valuable. especially in the case of a
besieged city, it being possible to take
a picture of the doings pf outsiders
“whether they will or no.”
Cont of Bare Drugs.
The cost of rare drugs is something
astonishing to the uninitiated. A
three pound bottle of alkaloid of acono-
Une costs $485. Cocaine, the great
local anaesthetic, is worth commercial-
ly $125 a pound. Papayotin. a solvent
ley. oats, rye and all feed stuffs iron viauuc over me aruny au
throughout Hungary have suffered 1 Worth hopes to have it completed in
engender only enough of heat to last
93 years. If these conclusions are cor.
Archer City is after a flouring mill.
Wichita Falls wants an artesian well.
Greenville has banished the town
cow.
The Gonzales dramatic club has been
organized.
The wheat crop in Hale county is
looking well.
There is at present not a vacant res-
idence in Cotulla.
The Tassie Belle furnace at Rusk
has been blown in.
Work on the Baptist church edifice
at Troy has begun.
Henderson will in a short time have
a brick and tile factory.
Local capitalists of Granbury are
figuring on a planing mill.
Crops are better in Jones county
than they have been for years.
The artesian well at Laredo is down
1200 feet and the work goes on.
Several stone buildings are to be
built at Jacksboro this summer.
The citizens of Granbury have taken
steps to secure a canning factory.
The project for electric lights at
Georgetown has been abandoned.
The monthly output of the DeKalb
mills is 1,000,000 feet of lumber.
Decatur is to have a cotton com-
press. The plant is to be ready for
the fall crop.
The Collin County Milling associa-
tion is now operating under a new
management.
It is said that the crops and fruit
were never in better condition in
Brown county than now.
The Texarkana foundry and machin-
ery company will rebuild their plant
which was recently burned.
It is thought that the recent cold
weather will have the effect of causing
cotton to suffer from “sore skin.”
The contract for the woolen mill at
Greenville has been closed and signed
and work will begin immediately.
Charles Clapp, ex-assistant chief of
the Dallas fire department. has been
arrested on a charge of swindling.
The New Birmingham Lumber com-
pany has just finished its planing mill,
which is situated near Tanner Spring.
The Wichita Falls ice factory has
begun operations and is now turning
out from ten to fifteen tons of ice per
day.
It will now only be a short, time be-
fore the entire burnt district of Rock-
dale will be covered with new build-
ings.
The contract for a large planing mill
for North Forth Worth has been let
and work on the building will soon
begin.
It is reported that the Abilene coun-
try will produce a better yield from
crops of all kinds this year than ever
before.
In a recent runaway accident at
Sulphur Springs, William Spence had
three ribs broken and was otherwise
injured.
The company organized at Fort
Worth to maintain a cotton compress
on the North Side is now negotiating
for a site.
Dallas has organized a military com-
pany with sixty members. The com-
pany will be attached to the Fourth
regiment.
The contractor who is putting in the
cotton farms near Cotulla, and indica- course of a few thousand years. Others
tions are that LaSalle county will pretend to believe that its fires are
show up an average of one bale to kept up by the remains of wrecked
ing-
A deal has been effected whereby
the American Express company with-
draws from the Fitchburg railroad and
the National Express company secures
a through route from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Shocking stories of brutality made
by responsible parties are again afloat
against the Ohio reform school at Lan-
caster. Boys are beaten until the
blood runs from their backs and arms
in streams.
In view of the vossible deficiency in
appropriations for the collection of cus-
toms revenues during the present fiscal
year. Secretary Foster has determined
to reduce the force in some of the cus-
tom houses.
The residence of Michael Shelby, a
farmer living near Cincinati, O., was
forcibly entered a few nights ago by
four masked men. who bound and
gagged Shelby and his aged wife and
stole $12,000.
United States Deputy Marshal Locke
Ezeil was recently killed by parties in
ambush several miles south of Russell-
ville. in Franklin county. Alabama.
The assassins are supposed to be
“wildcatters."
A cablegram has been received at
Boston, Mass., from the American
consulate at Florence Italy, stating
that the reported mobbing of Mr.
Jacques is not really as serious as at
first supposed.
Joe Mulhatton. of national fame as
a newspaper writer, and who was re-
cently attacked with brain trouble at
Chicago, is now under surgical treat-
ment at Foster. la., and is in a fair
way of recovery.
In a runaway accident at Peoria.
III., recently John J. Friller was seri-
ously and a man named Fritz fatally in-
jured. A woman and two children who
were thrown from the vehicle escaped
with slight bruises.
At a recent banquet to the South
Carolina press at Georgetown, S. C..
the association subscribed $100 to the
fund proposed by Senator Butler to
erect a monument to the women of the
southern confederacy.
While William and Irvin Duncan of
Dayton, O., were walking along the
track of the Baltimore and Ohio South-
western railway they were run down
and both instantly killed by an out-
bound passenger train.
greatly owing to excessive heat which
prevailed recently. The wheat crop
is a fair average.
The budget committee of the Ger-
man reichstag has approved of the
grant of $25,000 to defray the cost of
the steps to be taken in order to ena-
ble Germany to make a suitable rep-
resentation at the Chicago World’s
fair.
A Rome newspaper is authority for
the statement that the Italian govern-
ment is about to address a circular to
the European powers submitting the
conduct of the United States govern-
ment in the New Orleans affair to
their judgment.
six weeks.
A number of gentlemen of Wax-
ahachie have determined to build an
oilmill. The cupital stoe k is Placed coat and pair of tiowsers. His face
at 8001 . and head was covered with shaggy
The new court house at Granbury is hair a foot in length. and his finger
Alice Harrison, a little 7-year-old '
girl of San Antonio, was playing near
the fire a few days ago when her
dress caught and she was fatally
ing morphine. The young man. ac-
companied by his paramour. went to
the residence of his father and delib-
erately swallowed the drug.
A great sensation has been caused
at Brookneal. Va., by the arrest of
Dr. G. M. Wickliffe a prominent and
A cotton factory at Washington. La.,
will soon be in operation.
Thomas Maloney received a sun-
stroke at New York city a few days
ago.
Senventeen hundred cigarmakers
have struck at Chicago for fewer
hours.
That Georgia will be represented at
the World’s fair is now a matter of
extreme doubt.
Recent frost in Kansas and Nebraska
did considerable damage to fruits and
early vegetables.
In a row at Plaquemine. La., re-
cently H. M. Ward shot and killed
George B. Hunter.
C. F. Reis attempted to board a
freight train at Belknap. la.. recently
and was cut in two.
The supreme court of Indiana has
sustained the new law limiting a day's
work to eight hours.
A telephone company has been or-
ganized at Natchilocher, La., and will
begin operations at once.
It is alleged that the navy depart-
ment is unable to find able seamen
enough to man the war ships.
The condition of the wheat plant in
Illinois is reported far above the aver-
age, and an unusually heavy yield is
predicted.
While John Shook was riding along
the road neze Newport, Ark., a limb
from a tree fell upon his head and
killed him.
John W. Roche, for twenty years
city comptroller of St. Paul, Minn.,
dropped dead a few days ago from
heart failure.
Two men were mortally and a dozen
dangerously wounded in a recent riot
growing out of the brickmakers' strike
at Denver, Col.
The largest plantation in Franklin
parish, Louisiana, known as the Pope
estate, has been sold to Northern capi-
talists for $28,000.
Joseph Barondess, the labor leader,
was sentenced at New York a few days
ago to twenty-one years in the state
prison for extortion.
The stonecutters of Milwaukee have
been locked out because they refuse to
work for employers who are not mem-
bers of the association.
Minnie Whittaker, aged 15, com-
mitted suicide at Indianapolis, Ind.,
a few days ago, because her father
had been sent to prison.
The Massachusetts board of health
reports seven deaths from hydrophobia
during the past year, the highest num-
ber ever before recorded.
The bronzed statue that the printers
of New York are erecting to the mem-
ory of Horace Greeley, which will cost
$15,000, is about completed.
It is stated on good authority that
$5,000,000 have been raised to spend
on rairoad building in West Virginia
during the next six months.
John Mehn. the leader of a band of
train robbers which has been operat-
ing in Virginia, was recently captured
and jailed at St. Paul, Minn.
A daughter of Congressman Breck-
enridge of Kentucky, having graduated
with honors at Wellesly several years
ago, has now taken up the study of
law in her father’s office.
Tom Page, 12 years old. rcently
struck his mother on the head with a
garden hoe at Benton Park. Ark., kill-
ing her instantly. Mrs. Page was at-
tempting to chastise the boy.
D. H. Fleming,a well known planter
living eight miles below Little Rock.
Ark., was recently drowned while try-
ing to rescue a negro boy who had
been fishing with his little son.
Edgar Freeman of Ashville, N. C.,
formerly an operator in the Western
Union office in that city, is now a
raving maniac from what is said to be
the effect of cigarette smoking.
Peru and Jamaica have officially ac-
cepted invitations to participate in the
World's Fair Columbian exposition in
1893, and have made appropriations
to defray preliminary expenses.
Wood Smith, son of Judge H. C.
Smith, committed suicide at Hot
SpvingR Ark., a few days ago by tak-
FOREIGN.
Weavers to the number of 3500 have
struck at Henden, Belgium.
A strong earthquake shock was ex-
perienced at Sofia, Servia, a few days
ago.
The Lisbon financial situation is
easier. The country is now perfectly
tranquil.
An attempt was recently made to as-
sassinate the leading members of the
Chilian ministry by means of a bomb.
The recent Hyde Park, England,
demonstration passed a resolution de-
manding a compulsory labor day of
eight hours.
London hospitals contain at the
present time an average of 100 cases
of influenza, and there are signs of an
increase of the epidemic.
It is stated that the treaty entered
into between Spain and the United
States may be renounced by either
side upon due notice being given.
A duel occurred at Paris recently
between Gen. Degrier and Gaston Le-
grand. They fought with swords.
Degrier received a wound in the
chest and Legrand’s cheek was pierced.
Crop reports to date show that bar-
three society belles and was to wed , --------r
them all upon the same day. His/«ecrd °r an InteroatinE Cbm That "he
courage failed him. however, and he ’ Somewhet Remarkatle.
took to the woods. A ghost robbed a house in London,
The buildings for the Tyler trunk , in the year 1704, in a moat approved
and coffin factory have been started, or aisapproved fashion, and the case is
and the work will be rapidly pushed worth reporting. A gentleman who
to completion. appeared to be quite wealthy took
Van Alstyne claims to have more rooms in a fashionable boarding house
fine church buildings and the finest in ’he locality mentioned. A sho
frame school building of any town its time afterward he told his landlord
size in the state. that his brother was dead, and asked
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Bartlett now has two building and 1 •2 .. • 2 .__
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e. < w mon s. arrived, containing what appeared to
At a recent meeting of the directors be a corpse in a long white shroud.
of the Belton oil mill the business of 1 The coffin was placed in the dining
the past season was found to have been oom. Next night, after all had re-
very satisfactory. tired save the lodger and servant maid.
If no unforeseen accident befalls the an apparition appeared to the latter,
wheat crop there are many fields in The appartion was a tall, specter-like
Wichita county which will make fifty figure with every appearance ol a
bushels to the acre. ghost.
. .. .. , .. r The maid rushed upstairs to her
in young child. o . master and mistress’ room, followed by
Albawhile playing with a match a th who mounted sentinel at the
few days ago, set its clothes on fire and door, contorted his features and waved
was burned to death. his hands. The maid erept under the
The wagon road across the Palo bed and her employers hid their faces
Duro canyon at. Claude has been com- under the bed clothing.
pleted. and work will now begin on At this time a great noise like furni-
the necessary bridges. ture moving was heard in the house,
Hutto has increased in size and busi- and the three terrified objects came to
ness to such an extent that the rail- the conclusion that the house had been
road has been forced to put in about taken possession of by a regiment of
800 yards additional side track. spirits. At last all was quiet, the
, , , ghost had disappeared, and a search
At a recent meeting of the asylum was made. The house was found to
board at Terrell plans for an intirma- have been stripped of every particle or
tory were adopted. I he contract for furniture and all the valuable family
the work will be let at an early day. plete had gone, too.
Crops around Axtell are in fine con- No psychological society investigated
dition. The acreage planted is much the phenomenon, but the police did,
larger than last year, and the recent and the lodger and sham corpse were
rains have almost insured a bountiful both hanged at Tyburn.
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Forster, William. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 324, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 30, 1891, newspaper, May 30, 1891; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1580936/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .