Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 418, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 15, 1893 Page: 2 of 8
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Ransom Goings, charged with bur-
shipped from Pearsall a few days ago.
Texa-
remainn
She—The jeweler says the diamond
I forgot to ask him about the stone.
A man whose name is not
forged and
mad.
At Waxahachie Henry Brown and
Mexico's tobacco, like her cofTee, is
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ernment is prepared for any extraor-
Mike Chambers, in jail at Sacra-
mento. Cal., has confessed that he is
the man who murdered Fred Tether-
Herman will
18th inst.
A stable •
Lone Star in Ellis county.
Work has been resumed on, the ar-
tesian well at Clarksville.
Texas cotton is being shpped to
cotton factories in Mexico.
Clarksville is to have a new bank,
the building to cost $10,000.
Col. Allen Birdwell, aged 91 years,
of Rusk county died recently.
Omen, Smith county, is to have a
stock election law on April 17.
The Bankers' state convention meets
in San Antonio May 16, 17, 18.
Dallas in which a valuable horse was
cremated
A Lodge of the Sons of Herman has
lately been organized at Victoria.
Corpus Christi will soon have her
canning factory ready for busines3-
ter give him up then?
Why are tailors supposed to be good
the recent sitting of the district court
of Bowie county.
Join Eagan, a baseballist at Deni.
Detroit, Mich., hes a cholera scare.
Cincinnati, O., has the typhus fever
scare.
Prince Bismarck was 78 years old
Arril l.
Lynnville, Ten., has been wiped
Rains county has had good rains
and fruit escaped injury from frost.
May—is Mr. Foster as attentive as glary, has been jailed at Menardville.
ever to you? Edith—Yes, but he’s a
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Ceicp end Choice Cullings Condensed
the Daily Press.
' James Mrrmh attempted suicide ALL OVER THE WORLD,
at Brownwood recently by cutting
from All Parts of the Empire State ot
Texas Carefully Selected.
A Comprehensive Epitome of the Lestest News Culled
from the Leading Dailies of the Country
for the Past Week.
now in confinement.
I known.
Henry Williams has been found
guilty of murder and sent to the peni-
tentiary for five year from Hamilton
county.
People at Laurel. Newton county,
who have hogs in the swamps are still
killing them and report them in fine
condition.
The March clearings of the Dallas
clearing house amounted to $10,884,-
Perhaps the smallest independent
body in the world is the
was recently burned in
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SERIOUS ADD SENSATIONAL SORTINGS.
A peasant plowing near the village recently.
of Porcuna in Spain two weeks ago Lilly Temple No. 8 Knights of P»-
turned up an amphora filled with gold thias Sisters has been organized at
and silver coins, all in a good state of Denison.
quantities. Some heavy tobacco
shipments have just been made to
England from Tabasco and Vera Cruz.
IRELAND’S DEAD KINGS.
E. Eggen, merchants, refused to an.
swer questions before the grand yy being exported* in ever increasing
recently, for which the court
each $100 and sent them to jail
in my ring is not genuine. He—Um—
er—he told me the ring was real gold.
The Grand Lodge of the Sons of
secluded and refuses to see any one,
with the exception of certain persons
who stand nearest to her. To those
whom she does consent to give audi-
ence she declines to talk over the rev-
olution further than to say that her
entire interests are in the hands Paul
Neumann.
It is said that a special committee
of the Refo-m Club, of New York city.
Decatur Hlessenger. ALL OVER THE STATE.
Washington. No official confirmation
Rain is needed at Cuero.
Llano lost 25 ,003 by a late fire.
Tyler had a $G ,000 fire recently.
Yoakum wants a canning factory.
Vernon now has a bast half nine.
Bryan is to have a Summer normal.
Bryan has a Calliopean literary so-
ciety.
seven divorces in one day.
Elanore Duse. the Italian actress,
is seriously ill at Chicago, Ill.
The revolution in Honduras is not
cegarded as anyway formidable.
•Gladstone and home rule seems to
both be favorites in England yet.
Two prisoners escaped from the
Ohio penitentiary a few days since.
Three banks in Nashville, Tenn.,
failed for a total sum of $3,000,000.
Ex-Postmaster General Wannamak-
ei is in the City of Mexico on a visit.
Challemel La Cour has been elected
preservation. The gold coins are
somewhat larger than a twenty-five
cent piece, and the silver ones about
the size of a dime. On one side of
both is the inscription, “Sabina
Augusta Hadriana, G. R- A., and on
the obverse is engraved the figure of a
Roman foot soldier
DECATUR, Wise County, TEXAS.
Justifiable homicide—Sleighing some
other fellow’s sister.
When you see a man that’s very
much inflated you musn't jump at the
conclusion that it’s because his wife
blows him up.
A DeWitt county ranchman han de-
horned 800 of his 1, 2 and -year-old
steers.
Local option has been defeated in
legislative body in the world is the the Red Rock precinct in Bastrop
single House of Montenegro, composed county.
of eight members-four appointed and Excelent coal has been found about
four elected. The upper house of the west of Alpine. Brewster
Bermudas numbers nine, as does the 1
Senate of D laware. Even the tiny county.
republic of Andarra has twenty-four Sam Uhl of Wheatland, Dallas coun-
members in its single legislative house, ty, had a fine mule killed by lightning
ran. The coroner’s jury exonerated
the negroes.
Miss Matilda Van Ness Loney and
Ge orge A. Zinn were recenily married
in Baltimore beside the coffin of her
mother at the request of her father.
The mother, while on her death bed,
wanted th. marriage solemnized, but
the doctor objected, and when she
died her husband asked the couple to
thus marry.
Four hundred cases of strawberries
picked ripe in Texas and shipped
from Alvin, Brazos county, in new re-
frigerator cars arrived in Chicago in
good condition. The shipment was
an experiment and the consignees ara
well satisfied. They will continue to
In Philadelphia a man attempted to
1 knowi step up on the front of a switch en-
‘ ua .. ovi. Known i in motion, when he fell under
passed several checks in Ememm/1
Beaumont on merchants, taking part the
in goods and the ballance in money.
He is gone.
For the twelfth time ninajen wit-
Near Fort Valley, Ga., recently,
white caps ran some negroes out of
their houses. Out in the dark the
negroes told them to stop advancing.
from a coal famine.
Spotted fever has made its appear-
ance at Elmwood, Ind.
A St. Louis, Mo., Judge granted
One thousand mortgages recorded
so far this year in Rusk county.
Whitney, Hill county. refused to in-
corporate by a vote of 43 to 41.
receive small fruits from
throughout the season.
Ex-Queen • Liliuokalani
__weighed 68) pounds and brought
un nOUND-UPS RENDERED READAELE. FSikost or boughe
of George West at Oi kville 8/02
A Comnplete Breviary cl Interesting Items Gathered beeves and 2003 cows. Prices not
or so since. It took ten days to pump
the water out, and all h pe of their
rescue was abandoned, but when
reached they were still living al-
though terribly exhausted, having
eaten nothing during the entire time
of their imprisonment.
AMUSING MISTAKES.
It is the custom in the tenement
quarters of New York, when a death
has occurred. to notify the neighbors
by a mourning badge on the door.
A German citizen accomplished this
object economically lately by pinning
up a bit of paper on which he had
written “Deadness here.”
A physician found one of his patients
sitting in the bath and swallowing a
doing there instead of being in bed?”
inquired the astonished practitioner,
and the patient quickly responded:
“Well, you told me to take the medi-
cine in water, and that’s what I'm
doing.” ______________
man some months ago at Huntsville,
Tenn.
At Chadron. Neb., recently, Jesse
Auton met his wife on the street and
shot her through the heart and then
tired at his own head, falling dead be-
side her corpse. She refused to live
Williamson county. beeves, that he was offered $23 for al’. At Manilla, Philippine Islands, a
Bunglers raided a hardwae store in round, it his pasture. fire burned 4000 houses in the su-
At Loenard, Fannin county, a young burbs. No lives were lost.
are I man named Waddle accidently shot Near Scranton, Pa., Barney Me-
himself recently. It is thought the Fadden killed his wife and child a
The fruit crop of Haskell < ounty has wound will prove fatal n i few days since and escaped.
been damaged by cold. A party of trappers passed down At Cincinnati, O.. Frank Long, a gas
Me unite pajas county ,, the Sabine river recently. They had fitter, cut his wife’s throat and then
had a trinnle wedding quite a lot of otto, beaver, minx, rac- his own. Both were fatally hurt,
nad a i>*PP‘- "8 coun and opossum skins.
A literary society is the latest at
Most of Them Succumbed With Their
Boots On.
In Whitaker’s Almanack for 1893
there is a short and succinct account
of the kings of Ireland, dating from
the Milesian conquest in 1300 B. C.
There is apparently no record of the
out by fire.
Manzatlin, Mexico, is suffering
consisting of E. Ellery Anderson,
Charles S. Fairchild. Thomas G.
Shear nan. David A. Wells, John De-
witt Warner and Everett P. Wheeler,
has completod a draft of a bill which,
when perfec’ed will be urged upon
t ongress as a substitute for the pres-
ent tariff laws.
In the City of Mexico Ignacio Gal-
vin of New Orleans has been put in
prison on a charge of swindling by -4
passing confederate bills on small
shop keepers of the city as Americas
currency.
cuua
but the white caps paid no heed and
two were instantly killed. The others
suddenly flooded with water a month
perfect ridd e. May—Hadn’t you bet-
dose of medicine. “What are you
his threat it is thought he will re--
cover. Current Eappenir.gs of General Interest to tha
Harlow Taylor o’ Temple, sold a Reading Public.
sow in St. Louis a few days since. She ____________
resses living at Orange, Orange
county, have attended district court
at Kountz, in Hardin county, in the George Gedney went to the top of a
of M. Hockwold. It cost each sixteen story building in Chicago, Ill.,
about $8 a trip and the witnesses recently, to look at the city. He sud-
denly became violently insane. He is
fate of the first two kings; they were
probably translated. But from the
year 1285 B. C. to the Christian era out
of 169 kings fifteen died of malignant
distemper or plague and the rest were
either killed in battle or died other
violent deaths.
From the Christian era to the reign
of Henry II. of England the record is
not more promising. There were ap- Blum, Hill county, is
parently seventy-eight kings; of these bank.
thirteen died natural deaths, that is to Jacksonville has a new bottling
say that they presumably did not live vorks.
long enoughto enable them to share badly needed in Wilson
the fate of their predecessors and sue- -
cessors; one was drowned in a fog; couht- ■ . son, was struck in the eye with a ball,
one had thirty sons. in itself enough Another national bank at Fort i and it is thought that he will lose the
to cause death; one was choked by a Worth. sight of that eye.
fish bone; three were killed by “thun- Ba-ball teams are again Abroad in The postmistress at Itasca. Hill
derbolts," but as the three reigned the land. county, is a Republican. Herhus-
successively it is notungpasonghet In Limestone county corn and outs ; band is a Democrat and is an appU-
suppose that the- thunderbolts were / ' cant for the office,
but “rocks,”-hefted" by the hands of OUK "el ,
aspirants to the throne; the remaining Dimas Forres, ex-mayor of Irowas- At Franklin a colored woman re-
fifty-nine succumbed to the inevitable vile is dead. ‘ cently hanged herself in jail. She
assassination or death in the battle- The ice plant at Hillsboro 25 readyhad been convicted o to ft and
field. Happy Ireland! for business. casewasonappeal
otisagants.pnajbhacta.akotsyen . president or the Freneh senate vice
contains more than ninety per cent of K.808"P it was on fire until the roof fell in. Jules Ferry deceased.
saccharine matter. As carrots are ex- Kaufman is asking bids for a 812,0 ‛ They • scaped unhurt. At Mason, Ga., Lewis Lewis, a ne-
pensive abroad, foreign sugar manu- chool building. R. J. Landers recently shipped from gro was hung recently for the murder
facturers prefer beet-roots. Very few A tin shop is needed at Granger, Pleasanton to Chicago, 241 head of of his wife Sept. 22, 1892.
people know that cow's milk contains
about five per cent of sugar.
Eight miners at Jurjevka, Russia, Hamilton recently,
were imprisoned in a mine by its being •'
A party of English capitalists
traveling over Texas.
with him.
Thieves entered the rear window of
the Sullivan County Bank of Milam,
Mo., recently, while the cashier was
at dinner. He left the safe unlocked
and they got over $2001 and made
their escape.
The legislature of Wisconsin has
adopted a memorial to congress ask-
ing the submission of an amendment
to the federal constitution providing
for the election of United States sen-
ators by popular vote.
W. L. Eustis, civil engineer of the
Pecos Irrigation company, discovered
a skeleton sixty miles south of Eddy,
N. M., recently. It is supposed to be
the remains of a man killed by the
rangers ten years ago.
The gross earnings in 1892 of the
Bell telephone company were $,100,-
886: the net earnings, $3,311,674. The
development in the last six years cost
$35,000,000 and the capital stock has
increased to $20,000,000.
A Honolula letter says the engage-
ment of Commander Whiting of the
United States man of war Alliance io
Miss Etta Ah Fong. daughter of Ah
Fong, a wealthy Chinese merchant of
Honolulu, is formally announced.
The United States war vessel Kear-
sage has sailed for Port au Prince,
with the object of protecting Ameri-
can interests in event of a revolution,
which the followers of General Mani-
gat are endeavoring to excite in Hayti.
The prospect of being compelled to
pay eighteen dollars a month turned
the brain of Edgar Jenkinwitz, of
of Philadelpia, Pa., causing him to
attempt to kill his wife with an axe,
and ultimately landing him in Moya-
mensing prison.
Billy Hawley, the king of green
goods swindlers, and represented to
be a nephew of Senator Hawley is un-
der arrest in Chicago. The postal in-
spectors think they have evidence
enough against Hawley to make his
conviction sure.
A dispatch from Berlin. Germany,
says that the mining town of Kaerten
Gen. E. Kirby Smith, the last of the near Bleiberg has burned. Two
District court convened at Haskell, ful generals of the confederacy, died I churches and sixty-five houses were
Haskell county, without a case on the at sewanee Tenn.. a few daysago. destroyed. Fifteen persons are known
criminal docket, and the jail has been “ . Hamilton, a negro ex- to have die I in the flames and several
without a prisoner for months, preacher ana wife murderer was elec- , others are missing-
Charles Mott, pump tender at Stan- trocuted at sing Sing, N. Y., recently. ! Cablegrams received announcing
ion. on the Texas and Pacific, slipped . . p,ic. vic., cholera in Austria and Russia do not
and fell from the tank ladder. When . A repor . 45 ’ ‘ . Enish- create any alarm in official circles at
friends reached him he was dead. ria Randan is engaged to an Engl sh —......
man named Davies, son or her guar-
A farmer in Grayson county felled dian.
a tree a few days ago and in attempt- p onei1 a - .
ing to get out of th.. way he slipped caAtFlagstaP Att Fary Donaidson dinary emergeney that may ariss
and Ml and was crushed to death. tarudh the head and then committed
Six thousand one hundred and suicide himself.
ninety-one voters registered at the southern governors
recent Dallas registration. It is -vdetermined to attend the south-
claimed that 2000 failed to register, ongoernors convention that meets
Robert T. Bibb of Dallas. well in Richmond, Va.
known among the printers of Texas. gressman Tho. E. Watson
has secured a position in the govern- >-x;eorgia. has not abandoned his
ment printing office at W as.iington. contst Fr a seat in the n "2t congress
The 11-year-old boy of Fred Sims as was announced.
of Dawson, Hill county. was thrown of whisky warehouse ra-
against a tree by a horse recently, ciIts.ati.ouisvillo. Kv- have been
and died from the injuries received. ^veted, and banks lose 82 )0,0)1
E. P. Davis of Throckmorton county by having cashed them.
sold 2020 head.of2and.4-earzn Mlanche Keister and Magt io Blair
| shacketord county. Pe private, "ere sownod » slipper pkockeneg
Two train loads of fat cattle were Annie Young, a white woman, who near Kt star overturned.
1 recently died at Marshall, refused to . .,
Isiah Meredith of Brenham ha- give the address of her relatives She
judges of human nature? Because been arrested on a charge of foruica- did not want them t uoW of her was alowed to hang just a little too
they can take any man's measure the tion. | death. long and is now an angel.
first time they see him. Two negroes shot each other sear One Ed Dalton registered at Waco, A itch from Caracas Vcne-u-’
A somewhat ambiguous advertise- Denison recently. They are in cas-intending to take part in the city elec- A sp Tiw fever is epidemic in
ment in a recent issue of a daily tody. tion, and it now appears that he was SiLstian, whole families being
paper announces that “a second-hand The grand jury of Travis county not a citizen, therefor* ae is in swept away by the plague.
girl’s side-saddle is for sale,” has found 125 indictments for gam- trouble. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar, alias Vera
bling. , The great dam across the Colorado 1 L. convicted of stealing
! river at Austin is of solid graniie la 4 Av........ ' ... . sent . the
in Portland cement. It is 12 • feet money at Geneva. Ill., and sent to the
long, 66 feet wide at the base and 69 penitentiary o W° •
feet high.
805.60, against 19,910,602.36 same
to have a month last year.
Seventeen negroes and one white
man mere sent to the perfitentiary at
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Forster, William. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 418, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 15, 1893, newspaper, April 15, 1893; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581027/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .