Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 413, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 11, 1893 Page: 2 of 8
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Decab “plessenger.
OLD-TIME
wy. FORSTER. Publisher.
Two
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTINGS.
I ennesseean’s
Ector county. N. S.
Near Odessa.
1 Worley,
his horse fell
riding very fast, when
Burglars are "doing” St Louis.
Hereafter Mormons in
Quanah.
from three towns in one week recent-
of ex-Senate
f tne depart nent
rignt hand
his father s
is dead.
It
1 Hays county.
recently shot himself
gradually nearing each other, but
worth of go.d has been ci
Centralia 111., for the ia-t two m >ntn
111..
L.
were armed wiu
clubs.
a
On March 16, 17. and 18. Shackel-
duplicate
I he pole
fro
wife with twin
An Brenham recently A.
shipped from Van Alstyne to Georgia
forty-five feet deep.
Rens-
wick aged 45 years, abducted Mary
Prod io witz aged
the hen and spoiled the whole setting spectabie people.
created a sensation, as both parties
, ana
inan
< ‘arlisie,
treasury
sengers.
It is proposed to stop buying silver
wen as saioon-keapers.
burglars recently robbed
until $411000,000 in bullion shall have
been coined at the rate of $3,000,000
a month.
Gov. Pete Turney of Tennessee has
Sabin at Denison,
bail.
his oftice.
At Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Bennet
Brown, wife of the superintendent of
A large number of counterfeit quar-
ters and dimes are afloat in New York
city.
Mexia is to have a cotton mill, to
cost from $75,000 to $100,000.
Tioga. Grayson county, recently.
A cotton seen oil mill is to be added
to Denison's business enterprises.
The Gainesville officers are prose-
vote.
New Orleans
pick pockets.
QUEER WAYS
ORDER A
tained aii vaupers and made a few ad-
ditions to the list and let the contract
to vaint the court house for $230.
Choice Clusters of Crisp Cullings Condensed
from Daily Reports.
eloved with the wife of Frank Evans.
.. - . . mine.
Evans was absent on business.
a merchant of Midland, wa:
The buildings for the Austin can-
ning factory are in course of construc-
key and four bodies wed
ago discovered particles of
ball penetrated the forehead and,iodged
in the brain. His wife was with him
recovered from a long and serious
Bracner illness and has assumed the duties of
institution, while they were inune a 1
Tne firm immed iatel
soon intntly watching his movements.
He cut up more antics than I had |
under > .
1 of
culminates in
The Velasco ulock yards are ready ly footed up 26, 880 dozen, or 322. 560
for cattle. ! eggs.
made complaint before Jestice Binz
covered.
The coai mine troubles existing a
been presented by ni
girls wnich are proba
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DFCATLR. Wise Countv. TEXAP
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deals.
Logan Carlisie, son
arre-ted two medical college student
named A. G. Burns and Her be r Tan
Woolsey, who killed George jail over thirty months.
ton. Del, is a self-confessed emoezzle
is being worked by to the amount of $55,000. He is no
in charge of the United States mal
against CrantGathern colored, charg-
will be chief cleric of tn
under his fatner’s vim ini
is to
twenty women who
in an alley at Fort Wayne Ind.,
carpenter found a neatly dressed
cently by County Judge Bradley. The
groom is 80 years old. This makes
; his third wife.
It is said that George Brown sold tiled a damage suit against T. B. Bar-
ton. a wealthy contractor and promi-
ths Cottonwood
a not at tne Big Fo
who is 26
1 tie pit
smelt n
few dad
goid >
boss, against *no
bound, as if transfixed to the spot, .
without the power of speaking or
moving, save in obedience to the will |
of my captor. I felt the distance be-
tween us continually lessening, and. I
although I was conscious of my peril- I
ous position. I seemed powerless to .
change it, and.’what may seem to be j
Large quantities of grain is being
A split in the Danish Lutheran
church is probable.
Six suits for divorce was filed in
one day recently in St. Louis.
A party of five grave robbers have
been arrested at Des Moines, la.
The 200 socialists of St. Louis have
nominated a ticket for city officers.
At Manayunk. Pa. E. Waddinger
was found dead sitting in his chair.
sition I know not. T he colored man races.
At Kanakee.
decided that railways have the right
to separate negroes from white pas-
Mustard Piaster a*
Minehief — Cay
Castor o
Naug
a prominent and re- ;
of Tennessee relates ■
Lightning recently did $1200 dam-
The grand jury at Bangor Me
has returned between two and thre
hundred indictments against liquc
dealers, including druggists and gr
horse show. and
Frank Nelson
Mr. Cleveland has appointed Henry and weighs
A compiete Epitome of the Weck
Cullea from (radial Vallies
st ine Ceunry.
concerns have consolidated ana ov
tained a charter at Trenton. N J., a
the American Lamp and Brass con
pany, with a capital of $1,000 000.
Peter E. Smith, the paying teller J
Idaho can the First National bans of Wilmin,
the bridge into tne Delaware at Phil- furnace in the Balback
adelpnia, and drowned. works at Newark N. J., a
of removing the stolen bod
I only‘know that in the beginning i
I stood erect. Now I was in a kneel-
ing position, my body inclining for- i
ward, my right hand extended, grad- |
Conroe is to have a lodge of A. F. j Mr, Catherine Williams. whose
and A. M. | husbaud was recently killed by a Mis-
Residences in Cleburne are all said souri, Kansas and Texas freight train Judge Preyor of New York refuses
to be occupied. near 3rucerille, McLennan county, to grant naturalization papers to Chi-
An electric light plant is th. latest has nued the company for $30,000 namen. - tationv
r damages
ever seen performed by a snake.
Ine college to a sleigh in waitinz.
At St. Joseph. Mo. Charles Erath
how I could not tell, not being con- ,
scious of moving. and the snake fresh water supply has begun,
seemed to occupy the same position j
relatively as at first.
ncr and John Reles janitor of th
not fearing his escape, to wait and .
see what the snake would do. I was
1-1. They are re-
A warrant has
____ ______ of eggs. A warrant was issued for been issued for him.
negro woman in Waco ana has Gathern. For the week ending February 28
At Waco. Tex., James V. Reid h as there were issued and sold by the
with A 44-caliber bulldog pistol. The
Congressman Butler of Iowa into,
the Brighton mine in this city. com- | duced a oiii recently providing is fol
muted suicide ov jumping into a well 1 lows: That on and alter the tin dal
- [ of July. 1893, the American goudesso
A Scranton. Pa., school teacher is
| accused of having absolutely whipped the soft c ay.
A high wind wrecked two houses at | I. J. Thompson has been tried at a child to secure obedience. Put men to worK and the result is th
Bellon five times, on the charge of At Ottumwa la. the residence of 800
murder. Once he had a hung jury, , Adolph Neiss was burned recently and
I once he was given seven years, twice his wife and child cremated,
twenty years, and on the last trial two
a tailor, has
on him. He is not expected to live.
A negro boy 17 years old was burned
in a cabin in the eastern portion of
Harrison county. Nothing but his
heart and a small portion of his body
were left
J. E. Gillespie, charged with em-
bezzling the funds of the Richmond.
Fort Bend county bank, has been ar-
arrested in Kansas and brought baci.
to Richmond.
There is a large profit in fowls and
Texas is rapidly coming to the front
as an egg producing state. Shipments
county, died in the insane asylum at
J erreA recently.
At Waxahachie a can of gasoline
exploded in a store, but no serious
Bracher had a hen that was setting on
a nest full of eggs in a little clump of
bushes near his house. Gathern load-
eo up > is shotgun. called his dog and
started out to hunt birds, but his set-
ter dog soon setting the setting hen
ne blaze away at tne bushes, killed
To me it was a picture well calcu- i
ated to attract and rivet attention, for Hempstead.
and my purpose of destruction was . | The Indian depredation bill has
noon forgotten. Ere I was aware of Mcepan, county has a casn a - passed the senate and now goes to the
1 stood, or rather stooped, spell- ance oi192, 243. goveror. It grants authority for ad-
T he erection of a compress is talked ministrators of estates to institute suit
of al au Marcos. for recovery from the government at T. Thurber of Detroit as his private
Citizens of Sweetwater want a pub- once, leaving the heirs to be hunted secretary.
up latar.
are well-known. each. They may go over in Arkansas
A Collin county constable boarded and shoot it out yet
a Houston and Texas Central train j The net profits of the charity ball
and found three men playing cards, recently given in Chicago was $14-
He arrested them at McKinney and ! 833 05. which sum was equally dislrib-
they were fined. The men were , ated between five of Chicago's help-
strangers traveling through the state, lul and humane institutions.
and goingdown stairs tilled her pretty | 'There are 123 postmasters in Texas
mouth with clothes pins and hung whom the president appoints. The
out the clothes just as young McGar- lowest salary is $1,000 and the high-
rigan went by to his dinner. The est is $3,400. Dallas is the highest
engagement will be announced salary by $100.
shortly (
ing him with malicious mischief.
The rioters were led by ano
various towns, cities, railroads and
other corporations in this country
$7,116,360 of bonds.
During the year 1892 there were
only 107 hangings and 231 lynchings
in the United States. For tne same
period there were nearly 4000 suicides
and 6000 homicides.
Cormack and Connelly, two Mem-
phis, Tenn., editors, have been com-
pelled to give a peace bona of $5000
j years, which verdict he accepted and
has been sentenced. He has been in
Gleanings From Current Happenings of Gers eers, at
eral interest to All Readers.
pen my system that I was stricken Elmore Hockler, charged with mur-
down withasevel • spell of sickness. derat Greenville, was found guilty
and sentenced to hang.
At Winona, Minn., John
with i
J. W. Felts,
liable citizen
Snerman has a dramatic club.
Dallas has a Shakespeare club.
Houston has a "Whiskers Club.”
Glasscock county is to be organized.
Pneumonia prevails at Georgetown.
Marshall Vs infested with burglars.
Sherman is to have a new city halt
Maverick county has a large school
fund.
Hillsboro has another national
bank.
A panther wss recently killed near
Jenny Knew What dhe Was Doing- i
•Jenny." called out Mrs Wilson to -
er beautiful daughter upstairs. "I ve ;k55 , T
got the washing ready for you to Light and 1 ower company:
hangout." ' I Mi*s Stella Westerman of Eastland
T hen Miss Jenny put aside the county was burned to death oy her
novel she was reading, rolled up the clothes catching on lire while wash-
sleeves from her lovely white arms, ing out in the yard.
becoming uneasy at my prolonged , A little son of Mr. Mosely of Sul- 1 rightnipple,
abse nee commenced calling me. I phur Springs died from the kick of a ’
could distinctly hear him, but had no norse
t ut as before I paid no attention to • • ic, 1 ailow a pate of $1880 from m ice
him. Then he came nearer and dis-| W ichita lalls has had an immigra- named in contract: they also reduced
covered the huge reptile within a few non convention. It was well at the county attorney’s; salary $150;
'•et of me coiled for the deadly spring, ended. appointed road overseers and elected
my right hand within a few inches of The retiring county treasurer of [ oficers for the next two years; re-
his mouth, each gazing intently into Comanche county, shows a shortage
the other's eyes. He comprehended of $1200.
the situation at once, took hold of me rwo lawyers at Tyler got into a
'violently and threw me backward from quarrel one puiled his" gun ana was
the snake, thus partially breaking the arrested.
spell. No effort was made by the
snake to escape. The negro at once I
Rare Brenan of Itemsof Anterest
Gathered from Every Porsion
• t ilae Empire State.
Singular Adventure
katt lesnake.
. .a Metnodist minister. she is nienl
Jeptha H. Simpson a wealthy citi- educated
Jacao Scholl, a well-known farmer zen of St. Louis, cut his throat. Cause
neighborhood, unknown. Major! "ar. Brandt of Mascontar
.... .. , ... 111.. for many years editor of th
Ine New Y one courts nave decided Belleville zeitung. the leauing (ies
thatdogsare property and that they man newspaper In Southera 1 mo.
are taxaDe die several years ago. leaving 4 w
Mennigetis is so prevalent in Mar- one paragraph of which directed tha
snail county, Ky., that it is regarded his hear, should be sent to his w fe
as a plague. j Germany.
considerable grudge
J. T. Brazell and A. J. Con war,
charged with blowing open J. B.
May's safe rA Farmers Branch, recent
ly are now in the Dallas jail.
James A. Dorsey & Co., of Dallas
printers and dealers in stationary anc
printers supplies have assigned. Lia
bilities $39,000. assets $40,000.
C. Bruno a drummer from Austin
attempteu to cross the track in front i
of a Santa Fe train at Caldwell. was
caught and his nead split wide open.
ually nearing the snake, not in a
straight line, but oscillating, and at |
each movement lessening the dis- cuting violators of the Sunday law.
tance. From tbe first moment that l i J
aught the eyes of the reptile there 1
seemed a line extending from each of
his eyes to mine about the size of an
ordinary sewing thread, which seemed
to exert a power over me sufficient to
hold me in the first position and make ticn
me subservient to his will. j ____________ _
■How long I remained in this po- ford is to have a
m in
y
iQge1
existed. W
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.
biy the smallest babes now livine
line of them weighs 18 ounces wni
me other tips the scale at 20 ounces
Either one can be easily placed in al
ordinary teacup, and yet there will b
room to spare. The midgets ar
bright and hearty and willlive. Boti
of tne parents are peopio of larg
stature.
years old. 34 inenes hg
*0 rounds. marrie
Maternal chast
tempered with Se
ened age , thougi
sometimes find tl
dues her unruly
of the bogie man
reproofs with ble
head or ears (wh
criminal offense)
ing boys or girls
of food. We eve
a while of that i
can put an ima
dark closet as a
or attempt to cu
of darkness by d
at night, but the
like the dodo am
Rubefat ■ nts
weapons in the e
the instrut ctors c
line E. Knapp it
< all. I once kn
the old school—
gone, let - hope
am not. needed (
see ary cause fo
— whq: eire-all
offer F, : om sr
goodies into ro
tations, wa—a
a wayward pup
seat-mate, or I
decorum at cha
table etiquette,
her room in diet
ing-up hour, out
mustard 1 astei
put where it wo
and be remembe
It was applit
the arm of a
troubled with, u
her Sunday froc
fair, in the sch
mission. Mada
plaster were pin
and the little otl
with strict instr
it until madame
ter, however, w
got her young c
an hour later
teacher moanir
room, and wa
from torture, bi
so terribly bu
obliged to lea1
vestigation by
in the abolishm
stand-by.
Less severe, I
was the method
I by a good sistei
a portion of
spent. She wi
I dormitory, and
I peccadilloes by
I of castor oil.
I remede wa- i
I quell The most
I remember that
I time a tendenc;
I to the alarm <
I detriment of m,
I ering mt < ne
I corted me bac
I curtained iron
I that a repot itior
I l>e visited wit
I oil. The bare
I never walked ii
I Inmyviryei
I my school days
I trict schoc i
I used to have a
I summer, but ir
I dreadful “big
I farm work atte
I ways engaged '
| school." which
I by main force.
I into the hands
I who conceived
I for subduir, tl
I good-sized poc
I of which he us
■ angle to the hi
I the skill ol a )
I would throw tl
l any offender h
l mischief.
| A not her tea
■ same s hool de
l upon the meth
I ciplinarian wh
| fractory pupi
fl nothing again
I to make boyisl
h a yard from th
I behind them u
I wall and then
I ing most of thi
fl the hands. Tl
l exervefore
Charles Mamno in New York recen
i ly. The ceremony was pertormed n
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DOMESTIC BREVITIES.
has been refused Mr. Irvin Watson, who lives near
Temple, is a married man and has a
daughter nearly grown. A young ead &irl baby in a paper 0ox severely beaten,
man named Barrett is accused by the The city of New Orleans has re- ; At Aloany. N. Y. the vault of Si
father of circulating slanderous re- cently paid her outstanding o per cent Marvs cemetery, in tne west, end,
ports concerning the girl, upon hear- bonds, amounting to $1,221, 839 39. the city was entered by means of
ing of which the father hunted up At Balmsville S. C., while a negro
Barrett and fired several pistol shots woman was at a dance, her live child- stolen from their coffins,
at him, one taking effect near the ren ieft at home were burned to death,
..... The wound is supnosed
obedangerous. " Nineteen new banking corporations
. were established in the I mtea Stales
I Tne commissioners court of Haram . . . .. ,
during the week ending February 28.
The supreme court of Missouri has
killed the snake, while I all the time and Louisiana,
was begging him not to do so. It . .
measured about six feet in length and om Collier, well known in hunt
fourteen inches in circumference and
had eight rattles. .
■ ) was so completely under the in- I
fluence of the snake that I could not
shake it off. nor. in fact, had any dis- amage was done.
, < sition to do so. The hallucination white woman left her littie baby
was not only pleasant, but exhilarat-
• * . w 11 f) a,
ing. and there was only lacking one .
, , , • r i i . ool oeen seen since,
ndetinable something—I could not
tell what. bitt it seemed almost with- l ..
. my grasp to make my happiness whiskey in the Terrivory and he is
. omplete. So powerful was the effect now in jail at Paris.
lie school building.
Hamilton has a new hotel
cosree of construction.
Del Rio, Val Verde county,
more strange, had no desire to do so: base a brick school-house,
only to approach nearer the object ! Joe Wright, charged with forgery
that, under different circumstances, 1 has been jailed at Vernon. at tne time,
would have been one of terror rather . Ten marriage licenses were issuea Joel B. Sawyer the oldest locomo-
than attraction. I knew we were iu Hunt county in one week. live engineer in America, and Mrs.
.. . , Jennie B. Wagenhais, were married
A survey of Galveston bay for a ion the Henrietta and Dallas train re-
widow lady, a shop keeper o' Ne
‘ Orleans, of $250 which she had in
nurse under her pillow. She snot i
them twice, but without effect
Tnree large lamp manufacturin
Rufus Hatch, the once famous Wall treasurv.
street magnet and operator in stocks. Mar e Briglia tne Italian
nent citizen. Reid charges Barton
with having debauched his wife and
alienated her affections. He alleges
that he discovered his wife and the
defendant in his parlor in the com-
mission of adultery. A suit for
divorce is pending in which Barton is
named as co-respondent. Reid asks
$20,000. The filing of the suit has
i liberty be as follow-: A young wo i al
of full stature w in mature develope
nienl and proportions, hign aced
I noct- reach.ng midway between an
! kle and Knee: hose reaching <> ne
thigh: short skirts reaenng down
ward to a point just aoove the knee
close fitting bodice and sleeves a cat
modeled from a true pansy bud (sym
bol of true and cultured thought) tht
stem curling forward like a nelme
me heart-shaped leaf in front tnetwi
outer leaves turning outward stigntly
showing upon tneir inner sur.ace ml
points of stars, two stars on each
She snail bear for arms at her lei
hip. in place of sword, and ligntl
suspended o• er her left shouider I
pen with hoider extended, ana on nd
breast instead of shield, an America!
ballot in black ana wiite. I
Two men got into a row in Si
Louis, M<>, over mayoralty canal
dates ana one of them bit off toe 11
of the other, chewed it up and swal
lowed it, saying "This will brid
luck to my candidate." a I
the following extraordinary story of
the unaccountable influence exerted
upon him by a rattlesnake a short
time ago, says the Chicago Tribune.
In hi- own language the story is as
follows:
"I started out one day in company
with a colored man to cut some
timber, having a measuring pole in
' and. the negro carried an ax. After
a time we separated, and I had not
gone far before I noticed a large
rattlesnake in the path ahead of me.
Apparently we discovered each other I
about the same time, and both
stopped. My first thought was to kill i
the reptile, but all at once he threw
himself into a coil, and I concluded. I
as the space around us was open and
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shal.
। All the conductors and collectors I
< the Kentucky and Indiana orid
company have been requested to n
sign. It is alleged that they hal
been holding out fares fro.n the con
pany
W. L. Breyfogie, a roe estal
dealer in Chicago, has sued W. .
Wilson and wife for $225 00 > dan
ages. The suit results from a difel
ence of opinion over some real estal
An unknown woman jumped from Workmen engaged in building
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