Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 407, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1893 Page: 2 of 8
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G.
Wy FORSTER, Publtsher.
RACY ROUND-UPS RENDERED READABLE.
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTINGS.
Rare Erevarv ot Itemsos
Hie Cable Flashes from Fo
the I
Nebraska farmers are
uneasy about
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remaining horse and it ran away
few day
with
against a wagon and
Fla.
killed him.
seed from a gin at Lancaster recently
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It froight-
ander to death at Monroe. L
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me family and
while out hunting.
corn re-
Smith
use the
proceeds for street paving purposes.
the construction of an oil mill of I
At Columbus. Miss.,
the fight be-
FOREIGV.
Ail kinds of live stock in McCul-
heavy snow insures a fine crop.
IMAGINARY DIALOGUES.
seen
And
asels?"
Reports from all sections of Mexico
d
corn
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found buried beneath the
body was so decomposed
Husbane
little wain
Wife (w
you can si
struggling
won’t bur
H ns bam
the reaso
other day.
Harvey Trout
“Whet
quired a
a prospe
"It do
the Irene
you wan
Cleveland O.,
of smallpox.
At Toledo. O..
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was
near
First
1 ucky to
la wyer el
didn’t he
Second
I'll wat
home to
The cold weather has killed
many head of stock in Deaf
county.
rasainE
Throngh
Writers—i
salaried 1
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"Whatod
pie use,” re
to a residen
“Why?”
“You ask
in on you •
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up here on
"Easy en
enough,”
foot nonch:
office is on
Tumblez ve
The New
fired the house,
tured.
crop as compared with last vear. and
purchases from the I nited States will
be small.
SAYINGS
IMPE
A large acreage of wheat ha- been
railway company i- mixed up in the
I fight.
arge , " ***** 5", 5 - P° --5 HUU:
5 an alarm is given by the ringing of
oell. which may be adjusted at tt
Tne plant is said Alliance has issued
paying, but for business reasons
Eire w /ata Late New- ul Na-
tonai Moment.
Arrangements are
A great deal of cotton and
mains in the fields
cnie.
was accidently killed
K( #9
4, §
tempts to burn the town of Elberton,
i Ga.
Negroes continue to leave Avoyelles
parish. La.. on account of the white-
caps.
drove them across
into Mexico.
, At Brooklyn,
to be past small pox are
1
1 1
a circular advising
planters to grow less cotton.
Gleanings from Crime’s Calendar Served to
Suit the General Rush.
chant of Bartlett, cropped dead a few
morning- ago in front of his store.
The railroad depot at Salisbury, in
s ago at Gadsen,
Spanish brigands are said to have
has
of ’
Bfmtur ^fescngrt. Texas news notes.
sown in
gun preparing their land for another
>n ought to be kilt entoirely crop,
fer talkin' that way an' me married to
a foine mon like Micky Finnegan.”
Och, ye naden’t moind about him,
mum. He was kilt by th’ blast.”
PE
rge—
It is said that the iron pipe foun-
dries of the country have formed a
$20,000,000 trust
negro had murdered
loch county are wintering we.i. though
stock water is getting scarce.
an unknown man was
-year-old daughter of John
Marks at Carthage, Tenn., was burn-
ed to death a few days ago.
‛zark, Ark., re- ; ter route from Mobile bay into Missis-
then stole her sippi sound will be secured, which
the next ' will materially lesson the distance by
water between .Mobile and New Or-
leans. furnish a practical and easy
passage between the two cities for
barge navigation.
son took morpnine with suicidal in-
reports seven cases
King county, and a recent
Briggs-Just for a joke, I told Miss
Elderly the other day that when she
laughed it was all I could do not to
kiss her.
Smashed Aequaintanceship.
a few days ago
ened me.
“Would Oi had been near ye to pro-
tect ye, mum. It’s just such a foine-
lookin’ woman as you Oi loik to pro-
tect, mum. Its me yez ought to
marry.”
"It’s yoi
B. J. Anderson has been jailed
transformations! Waco for robbing the Pacific express
suare man turn office at Eady. McLennan county.
been marketed at the little town
Mexia the past season.
MeWheahey— Oi jist seen Dooley
goin’ home wid a Haybrew hen under
the arm av him.
Bonham has opened bids for a
terworks system.
A new line of railway between
W aco and Moody is being surveyed.
ouareyi"antttoiniissioned to calharlax. Ansanga underoarrontea
the news gently)—Did ye hear that r , 56 tnelt
foine blast, mum? . rarmers around Iowa Park report |
Woman—indade I did. It froight- the -oung wheat crop in tine condi-
capacity at Caldwell.
Over 25,000 bales of cotton
nettes are not the rule in Spain
Many Spanish women are blondes,
with blue eyes especially in Cadiz,
while even the Basque women often
have auburn hair.
N. Y.. six cases
Lila McMillan, aged 9, war burned
to death a few davs ago at Gasen i icE
nim, threw him
The heirs of John Gaw of La Forte,
Ind., have been awarded #3000 by the
circuit court at Valparaiso Ind. Gaw
was crossing a bridge in La Forte
thought it will result in the acolitiog
of the system. The people have iorg
clamored for a change. A
Tiie necessary subscription has be
raised to complete the Fowl river
Andrew Williamson, a 12-year-old Capt Reilly of the New York police
lad. was accidentally killed in Schlei- force was nearly mobbed by a gang
cher county a few days ago by his of tough juveniles. a few days ago,
cousin. Nat Williams. The latter while arresting one of them.
talk a bou t your
At Houston recently, John Clark-
We have
round.
Reporter
now completed and ready for opera-
tion.
At Austin recently, Tom Rector,
colored. and Creisner, a Frenchman,
at । were killed in the excavation being p..m. . . ----- -----
made for the powder house at the Robert. Ding elder ana then killed
dam. A large box full of cement was himself Jealousy.
being lowered when the boom slipped A 9-year-old daughter .of S. F. Wil-
and the box striking projecting rocks Hams was burned to death at Clarks-
the boom fell and the box struck the bury, Tenn., a few days ago while
two men, killing them instantly, piaying with lire crackers.
j canal project, by which an inside wa-
1 he total value of farm products of
Illinois for 1892 was #196,000. 000, a
decrease of $62,000,000.
' suA Awgi w^f ds the right to county with a thrashing
। sue -nel WiVes for alimony is pro-
posed by an Onio legislator.
A IS-year-old negro assassin
lynched by an infuriated mob
Capt. A. Moss.
At JefTerson. recently. Annie Jones
and Sue Williams, two colored]
Sy rians, got into a row in a saloon. I
which resulted in the latter's throat winter wheat,
being cut
Minks—A London paper tells its
readers that every new President has
his picture put on the postage stamps
I wonder how they got that notion
■links They don't know anything
about this country over there. I sup-
pose they've heard about the new
Columbian stamps, and nave an idea
that Columbus has been elected Presi- i
dent
“attaered from Every Portion
of ihe Umpire state.
He has been can-
Wolves are playing havoc with
sheep in Grant parish, La
Pittsburg. Fa.. surgeons have cured
a man with a broken back.
King Bradford. aged 15, committed
suicide at Lonoake, Ark., recently.
Incendiaries have made several at-
seed. The
Hall county, has been closed. and the
building will be moved to Estaline.
W
Father I
your hal
daughter.
Youngi
mean, sir
Father
much, sir
happy.
Young
what is ye
you suppc
she has al
Father
I can, sir.
Young
around t
my answe
Father
ing, sir.
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team, and three of me four horses
were killed. The owner mounted the
An Observing Woman.
Miss De Pretty (on railway train)-
There! You said men were never po-
lite to homely women. Did you notice
that handsome gentleman lowr the
sash for that ugly creature in front of
him?
Experienced Aunt (quietly)—The
train isgoing west and it is late in
the afternoon.
“What lias that to do with it? ’
“The sun was shining through her
into his eyes.” i
a prominent mer-
W inter wheat prospects in the pan-
handle are the best ever known.
A baking powder company has
I been incorported at San Antonio.
N. E. Hope suicided at Houston a
a few days ago by taking morphine.
Iow many souls were on
” -------- The farmers around Bivens will
plant large crops of oats ana corn the |
How do you like your new maia, coming season.
Mrs. Jingle? ’ Oh, she would be all Citizens of Abilene are greatly
ight if she were not so over-refined.” worked up over a masked tirebug and
in what way?” “She never breaks recent frequent fires.
envtaing but the most costly Dresden During the past yearthere were MS
A traveler has discovered that bra ■ssci-’
Birmingham. Ala., is emulating the
example of Newport Ky., in ita en-
tanglement over the control of its
police force. ihe council refuses to
support the department and the citv
is reported to be virtually without
organized protection. The street
X ictoria has a daily newspaper.
Wheat prospects around Granbury
are excellent
. am
ing with
Mr. S. sh
but lacke
“Why
urged.
Well,’
a half a i
Yes,”
it, and th
S went 1
tion.
"W by, mi they can paint easeley, of
ourse."'
board? Survivor Sixt y -seven,
t wo ( hinamen
Why is it, that artists use e
The new crematory at Cleburn: is
During the progress of a negro fan-
dango at Ladonia, Fannin county, re
centiy. Jim Lewis was badly slashed
with a knife by another darkey.
Ale.- Rosenberg, 18 years old was
run over by a train and killed at Dick- !
When a young man tips his hat to a W. J., McGraw of Fate, Rockwail
mother and her daughter on the street county, dropped dead from heart fail-
he always keeps his eyes on the girl, urea few days ago while out attend-
It is not enough fora man to know ing hi5 stock
a sood thing when II,, sees it. ||e Mrs. Caroline Ernst has been ad-
must also seize a good thing when he judged insane at Waco and taken to
4)
in the interest of economy the Dal-
las city council has cut off the supply '
of ice and ice water at the city hall,
resulting in the saving of the magnifi-
cent sum of #100 per year.
It is reported from Carthage that
Dr. Sam Blackburn was shot and I
killed by Wylie Copeland near Fair
Flay, a few days ago. There is a
woman connected with the affair.
been taught to be polite, I am glad to
see. Did your mother tell you to al-
ways give up your seat to ladies? Po-
ite Boy—No in not all ladies; only old
ladies. ’
the San Antonio asylum. Whilesuf-
Farmers around Hearne have be-
fering under au aute paroxysm of
dementia she attacked her husband
with a carving knife, inflicting severe
wounds on his head. face and hands.
Iatereat mson, near Galveston recently,
body was almost severed Dy
wheels.
HOME AND FOREIGN Woodley murdered his Wife by cutting
ni!U --n-l-l her throat with a razor, then suicided
in the same manner. His wife had
refused to longer support him and
he was too lazy to work.
Tiie heathen Chinese are now stuy
ing photography and will have the
tent then went into a restaurant and
ordered a big plate of spare ribs. Af-
ter eating them he became uncon-
scious and died.
It is reported from El Faso that Ouachita City, La., a short time since
typhus fever and snailpox are epi-i Dr l
demic at points in the interior of board of health has resigned decgue
Mexico and precautions are being of charges of bad management
taken at that city to prevent the dis- .... ’
ease from being brought across the Ine low price of silver is given as
border. । the reason for shutting down the Rico I
c, ' Aspen consolidated mines at Rico I
Edgar Griffin of Denison has just Col. ' 1
completed a very clever device to A ,
being made for . detect the presence of a burglar in a * hra thieaat Ozark, Ark '
. I house If a burgiar steps in the house and Tert ' ror
--—3 to w n
----- ..-— may be adjusted at the
head of the bed or sleeping apart- Another murder at Greenville,
ment A patent will be applied for. Miss., supplies the ninth murderer to
A little 4-year-old boy at Longview, De tried at the present term of court
Gregg county, accounted for his long inere --------- .
absence to his parents the other day The New York World says that $2- i tween the prohibitionists and the antis
by telling them Henry Council, his 500,000 of the Panama funds was used I 15 petting hotter and hotter. The
12-year-old colored playmate, had 28 a corruption fund in the United licenses Tor two saloons will expire
fallen into a pond and that he had States. about March 1. and petitions are be-
bean waiting for him to come uo. In- In trying to get horses out "of . ing circulated for renewal of tne
estigatinn proved the boy had burning stable a" Cambridge Miss" ‘ license The prohibitionists are hold-
drowned. recently. Louis T. Taylor was kicked l ing nightly meetings and are circulat-
The Bonham city council has levied to death. I ln“ counter petitions. Both aides
the following laxesfor tis year "Ad Charles Church is in prison at New i seem conadent or victory.
valorem tax. 2oe on #100; road and York on a charge of attempting to 1
1 i 8 e ,1c or t $100; pr t its ai lia m * R. Grace & Co. I _ _ ______
o,T#?00 The schools, 40c out of $3000. | captured the empress of Austria and
on #10 1 Ihe above table makes a s R.1. , are holding her for a pansom
a reduction of 10 cents on the #100 e A.S. Belter, known sometimes as " som.
| from 1892, for which the taxpayers Sid Y ewell, wortn $80, 000, got on a | ln a recent interview President
' are thankful. spree at Owensboro, Ky., recentiy, laz of Mexico said the border
and froze to death. I Doubles were too insignificant to talk
At New York recently. Waiter Mur- ! aoout
shall shot his divorced wife and also The anarchists of Paris are threat-
ening trouble and the police are
j ready at a moment s notice to arrest
the leaders.
The Socialistic union has issued a
call for a great meeting in Paris to
make a demand for a revision of the
constitution.
1 he existence of a peace agreetu ent
between France and Russia is no
longer doubted. I he pope is said to
have had much to do with bringing it
about.
I reparations are being made to be-
gin work on the new federal building
i*t Raris .-- m- P- ueeuu-
The acreage of wheat sownedin Greenville is considering the ques-,
Clay county almost doubles that of I tion of selling her electric light plant
last season, j to a corporation. The plant is said
Two boys of J. W. Ward, living । to 00 paying, but for business reacone
near Commerce, were bitten by a mad I the council may sell it and
dog recently.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury l a
child says the oniy remedy for 4
present silver agitation is the susp7
of । sion of purchase and coinage of i^e
| recognition. ’ 51 poa PU are reported by the health white metal by the government The
I : °a‘ ’ . Biand act would give no relief if sub-
/vneraneno G.B. Ainsworth, in Miss Mamie McCain, aged 21, was |stituted for the She: man law. now
Maverick county, was raided by a burned to death at Dyer Tenn re operative,
band ot thieves a few nights ago, who centiy. ' 1 v ,,
rounded up a bunch of horses and , . .. 1 Mear Cotton Plant, Aric., a few
the Rio Grancl Tnomas Walker stabbed Dora Alex ! nights agc, tne house of Reuben At-
ande" * *eu*h - .. . the kinson was burned and he and his
wife and children perished in the
flumes. It was later found out that a
The scare caused by the recent fatal
epidemic in the convict camp at He-
lena. Ark. and in the penitentiary at
Lillie Rock, has renewed the agitation
Haskell of the Illinois state against the convict lease system now
, in vogue in Arkansas, and it is
photos ready when ihe new registra-
lion law goes into effect But the pic-
tures will fade within a year.
At Brighton, a lonely railroad sta-
tion in California. Miss Ayres the lee
gravh operator, was robbed and mur-.
dered a few nights since and the de-
pot burned to cover the crime.
The Forcit powder works at Lake
Hopacong. N. J., were blown up a
few days ago, the tremendous report
shaking the country for miles, shat,
tering tne windows in many of the
village houses.
The president has been persistently
urged of late to appoint the boards of
visitors to the military and naval
academies, but has declined to do so
on tne ground that such appointments
for this year properly appertain to the
incoming administration.
At Washington, Mo., recently, a
team ran away, colliding with another
1 A young Walker county darkey ‘
। named Albert McDonald, recently
killed his father and mother because
• the old man,” as he called him, re-
fused to let him have ahorse to go to
. a frolic.
Harry Frees of Dallas, charged with
Griggs— W hat happened? hugging a 50-year-old woman, in New
Briggs The next time I saw her she York, has been acquitted,
had hysterics. ..
minltins s. t ■ r.. . Abouttwenty car loads of cattie per
Biobkms-Speaking of the dearth of day are being shipped from San An.i
men at the seaside during the past tonio to northern markets i
oundsdeadontncatingnshark waz The prospects in Greer county were vestigation
England resort M. B—What did pbetter at this season of me,
he die of? Blobkins-Starration year for a big wheat crop. i
Miss Antique, taking seat politely I Kev. ." J? Kennedy, for several
roffered in crowded street ear— years chaplain of the penitentiary
Thank you, my little man. You have at Huntsville, nas resigned.
- engine when
the structure gave way and he was
.... Killed. I ne suit was brought against
the cotton oureau of the Farmers' the commissioner- of the count1 for
$10,000.
at Umitilla, Fla,
MeWheahey—We’ll shpake no more
t’ thim Dooleys, Bezie.
Mrs. MeWheahey—What's wrong
wid m?
---- Choice Clusters of Crisp Cullings Condensed
PFCATUR.WiseCounty.’rEXAS from Daily Reparts.
_________. Wnile crossing the prairie near
around Waxaha- Denton, recently, Ned Ready saw a
■ wolf and attempted to run it down,
a great when his horse felt throwing the
young man violentiy to the ground J- W. Fulton, a prominent farmer
ana Killing him. , of the Indian territory, was assas-
The Galveston grand jury is investi- J The Abilene council has fixed the sinated a few nights ago.
gating the methods of the dives of i salaries of the city officials for 1893 ' The
that city. las follows: Mayor. #400; city mar-
shal. #1200; assessor and collector, 1
$1000; secretary, $300; treasurer. #25 J
j aidermen. #2 per meeting.
was shooting ata jack rabbit wito a At Birmingham, Ala., a few morn-
" inchester and aid not observe the ings ago. Capt. J. M. Chenoworth, an
00ywhowas in direct line with the old and prominent business man, was - ------— ...
ration Ine bullet took effect in his found dead in bed at the residence of show a great improvement in the
nead. tearing the entire upper portion his son-in-law, Isaac Lewis.
। of ;he asull away.
Al Cleveland, O., recantiy, John I
Frank Southerland has oeen jailed
at W aco for forgery.
The Sherman county alms house
has fifty-two inmates.
Work has commenced on Belton's
l our mill and iron foundry.
Ihe Velasco postoflice has been
raised to a presidential office.
The prospects for fine strawberry " niie par ies were loading cotton
crops around Alvin were never better. J
p.. tne corpse of
I Abo Medrano has been jailed al
Laredo for having a plurality of wives. ’
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