Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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DECATUR.
TEXAS.
The heavy rains in portion:
s of south-
seriously inter-
fered with railroad
traffic.
ment over the disastrous
rain has not
abated in the least.
The arrival of
A good housewife
to transform it into
While we have
the Philippines.
we admit that Agui-
naldo has the
run of the islands.
Austin. Tex.,
improvement
t dam s it fow. an |
extensive flooded districts
grasp this
and south Texas.
way bj
whcih to
reach the land.
pending altogether
the cotton
crop and the
unseen d am-
ages which will
not be known unti' tne
water clears
away.
miles.
demanded.
The damage in
as most people
in the wheat
as hi
belt south
of
the
ief of Po
Bull Fight.
Jeffries and
United States t
Year
tory. A decade
exports to
and to
gored.
The
has
treaty
Train Wrecked.
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)
f
eluded
Jamaica.
tion in the
of central
■
B lattle
Kthat was
Bin the la
I the obser
L tap," and
Dimmons
E causing
for her
ks on th
ntly reli
cientific taps
le statutes.
On the
growing
down to the smaller
even insects gladly
con-
with
leavers wo
led by Ch!
few houses
be rebuilt.
i half
and the
of her J
went to
mission
Leave
wife ent
served, 4
830, acc
" The n
ed husb:
agined 1
was mos
his wite
remainc•
arms. 1m
with t tl
Mme. B
in a stam
1 1,n•
hair wim
0 •
of 1iE
he vE
. 1 m
c1 t ' 1E
1, E
•
covered.
Mart Turner,
will perpetrated on that
the Calvert Section • ly respected
The following is
up to date:
J. T. S. Dawson,
as Far as Heard
From.
bread by trying
bread pudding.
I
I
(
a list cf the do wind
There are ten
on each train.
rest is spoiling in
Pittsb
of a str
the roaq
tat ion <1
five serl
more oil
The d
H. Kirk
The a
grade nl
The <1
heavily •
About
Ala., a I
father J
it was a
On the I
oldest si
died. I
<1 aughtel
same rag
the city is not large.
of Waco
grain was
d
a
some advantages in
the damage to property is incalculable
A Beardstown baseball club is named
or Admiral Dewey, but that did not
prevent the Frederick nine from ' wax-
ag it by a score of 15 to 5 a few days
every man from the Brazos bottoms
never wastes good attracts large crows of curious people
. to hear any new developments or
damage and the condition of the water
attheplace from which he came.
he two large bridges which spanned
he Brazos river yielded to the madly
rushing stream.
No man is to be praised for giving
• the things he’s unable to use.
The man who is shadowed <s apt to
have a good deal of light cast on his
character.
I rospects were never better in Kn.
county for sorghum cane, ' Knox
Kamr corn.
Two children,
boat while trying
not recovered.
The waters are
arrived yesterday.
win Se hbara franaindonoriaf Dewey in
i Nathan Garey, colored, and about 19
years was taken to Fort Worth from
Forest Hill, eight miles southeast or
on Worth, and jailed charged with
attempting criminal assault upon an-
-year-old white child. .A
Boats are the only
veyance on the farms,
July 3.—There is no
ared that he saw noth-
t strictly scientific and
1 he knockout blow,
Pt chief, was a "scien-
ered.
Dave White, colored, body recovered
pom Tyson, colored, bo y recovered
Rosana Brown, colored. body recoy
ered • “ E-VV-
Fana,
colored
brought I
past ter
men, del
ets furn
All ml
tors clai
initely. I
when rek
side an;
rthee pA
men. I
vice of the company.
During a thirty-six hour rain ove.
thirty-four inches of water fe.l. which
Was never equaled in tne nis.ory
this section.
„ grocery merchant, who
lived near the Port Sullivan bridge, be-
ween the Little and Big Brazos rivers
it seems that while he was trying to
save some livestock he was carried
away in a current, and his remains
have not yet been recovered.
.It.would be interesting to know
whet i er Andree’s latest message was
found in a bottle or in a pipe.
receding, and trains
in the distressing situa-
white, body not re-
ern Texas last week
This makes the fourteenth body that
has been accounted for as being
drowned.
Every citizen is untiring in his ef-
forts to assist the destitute,-nearly all
of whom are negroes, and the churches
yesterday raised considerable sums of
money for their aid.
o"orkis being pushed at Pittsburg
negie. rew Car-
VI vita
reahed
promine
resides I
1. T., I
made dil
.himself I
Ka rd to
vroporti
complctl
tin d to •
a pistol!
were undermined and must
means of con-
and from man
Fourteen Bodes.
Calvert, Tex., July 4— There were no
unexpected developments in tue flooded
region yesterday other than an occa-
sional report of the discovery of other
missing bodies, the last being that of
T. S. Dawson, a well known and high-
colored, fell from a
to reach land. bodies
crop.
I he corn is generally considered a
total loss, having been under water
long enough to sour.
longing to b 0 Middlebrook.
Jim Bryson, charged with an at-
tempted criminal assault near Bells
was placed under $1000 bond.
‘ Devery of New York,
by the Mazet commit-
the Fitzsimmons-Jer-
mexclaimed, "A boy who
F his uglier enough to risk his
ago the
eHabori and Demange, Dreyfus’ coun_
« I, consulted with him. Demange was
his counsel on the former trial
meeting was an affecting one.
m Rennes
E rived her
Sil F Orient ,
E beared to
m a blue su
hat His
E beard is I
MB himself J
■ The la
m was alm
WJniay I
E Put to sel
H been sigil
E traded nE
M as they M
M persed. ■
■ were thom
■ oner wasm
■ Dreyfum
■ ashore im
I placed ui
I engineerm
I of genda
| the prise
latter thE
Dreyfus E
ed for tim
reached m
The tr
kilometem
alm
< arriage E
which irm
advanee m
Precedm
tend thE
signed te
w i- tal’m
ThougE
sun m
fes entem
Bk The g
• 51 m I •
Lewis Ridley, a colored youth, was
taken to Clarksville and lodged in jail
on the charge of killing Curtis Smith
a young negro. in the north part of the
county. The boys were working
gether in the field when a dispute %8
and Smith was literally hacked174
pieces.
At the twenty-sixth national confer-
ence of charities held at Cincinnati
1ast Week, Geo. Torrence of Pontiac,
o,delive red an address on the relation
i tne cigarette to crime. After recit-
Ing Ins experience with boys coming
to his institution, Mr. Torrence said:
n.am sure cigarettes are destroying
andmaking criminals of more of them
now the saloons." In his reformatory
nowthere are 278 boys. “Of 63. aver-
X ’ years of age, 58 were cigarette
age ker ’ of 133, averaging 14 years of
avera^n 'r cigarette smokers; of 82.
smorging 13 years, 73 were cigarette :
Erazos Creates Havoc.
TEXASDAND TEXANS. -
The bonded warehouse of the Cone
Tenn Distillery company at FlintsvIPe
n, burned. Loss $40,005.
worse.
There has been another twenty-four
hours of heavy, continuous rain wni:
have added to the already unprece
dented volumes of water in the rivers
and creeks in this rich agricultural
repion of the state.
e, The heaviest storm since 188C visit-
ed " harton county on the 27th Dam-
age to crops, railroad, telegraph and
telephone lines was heavy.
In the justice court at Deport, Lamar
county, a young man was fined $18.50
for violating the game laws. He went
hunting with 3 party of fiends ana
killed two quails. IA.
The comptroller of the currencyA
approved the selection of the Corn E
c ange National bank of Chicago as a
reserve agent for the Planters and
Merchants’ bank of Houston.
There seems to be no end of the
ra fall. The sA, nf
•of water now ex-
ends from the north central part of
the state to the gulf, a distance of 300
parted with miles or more, and with an average
honor originape: * probably seventy-Ave
»»««»• Deseripron.
Brenham, Tex., July Mr
ever, who has charge of a logging
camp in the swamp, made his wa n8
srenta. lastevening. Mls "amp 19
« at tne confluence of the Ye
««. Old river and the Brazos and is
perhapsat the widest Doint in th dots
Mr being twenty miles across.
sJ, m Ver says the distress and de-
terly dee between Clay and Stone de.
FYom efes all attempts at description,
ing mafarm after farm everything ih-
Brazns Falling.
Waco, Tex., July 3.—The Brazos
Tver is less than half full and stini
lining I he Bosque and other trIL_
Utaries are down low, and not mtch
above their ordinary flow. Watr 9
standing in lakes in the lowlands and
•Ion I' Asmel or fermented vegeta-
showers in this region yesterday with
bright sunshine and high temperature
between the showers.
Eeo the little daughter of Dr. Chan
dler of Gainesville, stuck a needle it
er back. The needle was buric
the flesh so that it was necessary tJ
make an incision that hold sumcient
could be obtained to extract it. The
wound was painful.
This was done at once and carpen-
ters were put to work building boats
A number of lives have been report-
ed lost. So far only five bodies have
been recovered, all being colored
Twelve houses were damaged, and
wenty-six in the lowr part of the city
are water-blocked.
The damage can not yet be esti.
mated, although there are guelses an
the way from $70,060
less than
threshed. ;
the shock.
2
and.Gatesville thev can the
th the spoiling sheaves in the breezes
that enter the cars.
Carcasses or hogs, cows ond horses
Doated down the river. As far as s
known no one was drowned, although
narrow escapes were made.
It is freely prophesied that the plow
ust will run against a stump.
a reciprocity
Celebration Postponed.
Brenham, Tex., July 1 . L,,
Postponed until July 26 Ana n
count of the flood, and 27 on ac-
dure cannot be kept in
fleet!” and the lad was
led.
FOURTEEN i
drowned
1ST Connh Allesseuger.
S W. HALCOMB, Ed. and Prop.
state department
2 "cubaThX^i/X8
a matter of official restraint than any-
ing else. So long as the Cuban sol-
diers were obedient to instructions, the
exchanging of their guns for American
Hon Was a most degrading transac-
tion. but when they broke away from
heir officers, the more gold they could
86t8un or no gun, was evidence of
their shrewdness. The Cubans are not
much unlike the Spaniards, for, come
to think of it, the Dons
the Philippines for less than 1
cent of what Spanish
More Washouts.
reporsicon 1 Te ' • July 1-additional
water and damage to
come in. On thcrops have
Mount Calm 1 ottonBett road near
tralns to and^m wzesterday , al
compelled to tako the Ai, 0, have been
in order to get throcgHishoro. branch
force here were sen"..Al the yard
toother weak points on0thebreak and
repair damage Aron, the line West to
strengthen Weaktreads done and to
sand, which were sent Soutithoha«.1
contrary, the inundation is
There was a meeting held here last
evening for the purpose of devising a
system by which every man, woman
and child who suffered from this sad
disaster could be impartially aided,
and immediate attention will be given
them all.
1 he plantation hands are being car-
ried in boats to places wher food is ob-
tainable, and very few are suffering
from hunger, as was the case the sec-
l and and third days of their isolation
The waer has fallen only two Let
since Friday, leaving the farm lands
in the bottoms all the way from four
to eighteen feet yet under water.
There is considerable difference of
opinion as to the fate of the cotton
- China were less l tan $3,000,000, e
China and Hong topg combined
little over $6,000.1 >0. In the fiscal
1899 our exports t > China will be ,
Little Harry Haas stepped into a bed
of hot ashes at Ennis, where an accu-
mulation of trash was burning and se-
erely burned his foot. The injury is
quite painful.
The Houston and Texas Central rail-
road is arranging to move tne freight
depot at Ennis one block further south
in order to make room for another
sidetrack in the depot grounds there.
All the ranches in Nolan and ad-
oining counties are being connected by
telephone with each other by means of
the wire fences, and the innovation is
proving a great convenience to the neo-
ple of that section. , -dh/a
A man named Komer was badly
hurt near Gainesville by his -
turning over with him. F
TheYoung Men 8 Social club has been
organized at Hilisboro. It was gotten
and social pastimes.
Ars. Hardin loyce' an OM resident of
Hopkins county, died at Miller’s Grove
that county, aged 89 years.
Timpson, Tex T.,1 1 A i
Tempee !lnl Shbin PaS8 AiMhar thalh
was a twenty-foot embanxment Place
Was slightly injured. One car
Was torn to pipe ph.
A special session of the United Stat
court for the eastern district of Texas
will be convened at Paris on the 7th
Judge David Bryant presiding. It 13
called for the purpose of passing upon
the accounts of court officials and
bankruptcy matters.
While dusting off some goods in his
store at Gainesville R. L. kubey knock-
ed over a shot gun. The weapon was
discharged and the entire load of shot
took effect in Mr. Robey’s left hand
causing such severe injury as to neces-
State amputation.
e Improvement.
EPaso, Tex ” July 3— About 1500
pme ricans were attracted from El
Paso yesterday afternoon to see Igna-
cio Fernandez, a Spanish woman put
ring Th'" death i the Juarez Bit
ing. The woman’s work was very
coarse.and any butcher could have
killed the bovines with greater ease.
The crowd was disgusted, and several
American women in the audience sick-
ened and fainted at the sight of the
poor brutes bleeding slowi +, ,,,,
but fighting to the last with the eath.
streaming from their‘‘wounahebood
a single member of the Not
injured, and not L.n'.‘£X' was ,
Attorney General Smith in the dis-
trict court of Travis county dismissea
•ho suit against the bondsmen of G R
Morris, ex-tax collector of Liberty
county, which has been pending since
Fred, the 7-year-old son of John
Woods of Savoy, happened to a very
pinful accident. He was climbing
a peach tree and lost his footing. Ho
One 1 felt to the ground and a snag several
of / inches long entered his face near the
I mouth, protruding through the Akin. ’
saved their goods. A
Texarkana, Tex., July 3.—The Kan.
of the sas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway
I company has placed armed men on all
Of its trains. This action was deemed
. necessary >« view of so many hold-ups
, — road of late, and
for.the further reason-of intimation
port from the unaea states for the cntlratenensrobbery that has ro-
fs a year 1899 will be little if any in vice of 4, d by the secret ser-
excess or those of last year, thus show. ofathescompany.
n& a more rapid growth in our ports “ Winchesters
0 thi ; articular part of the world
—an cLi where.
appened to catch Mr.
little off his balance,
I m to fall gently and
" to the "Por; Battles with axes
1d probably be con
Devery, but the heav-
blows stru t by such burly men
-Fitzsimmons are only
and no violation of
---
ha ns for leaping into the water
Eainst, orders, to recover his coat
Jmtral Dewey, kindly questioning the
K discoytred that the Photograph of
mmotMer was in the pocket of the
Marid J ket, and it was that that
•9 lad 1 risk life and violate or-
•hdTheAdmiral’s eyes filled with
Prari rPmottenceare swept away.
n Thbtaneebadlmn"atrhedaand
Nearly every house in Brenham ned
but n. escapes from drowning
but no casualties. “8
Monday was the first day telegra,
service was avallable XX
and no trains had been abie to er
inoerthe badly wreckes Hcusten ana
rallroad track
1. .-rank Vaughan, representative in
he twenty-sixth legislature from Col-
lin county, and Miss Mary HopQ of
San Saba county, were married
Richland Springs in San Saba county
Waiter, the 12-year-old son of Henry
Keller, was drowned in the Aransas
Pas Eravel pit at Cuero. Several boys
o his age had made a practice of bath-
ing in the pool, but the recent rains
have made it dangerously deep.
The damage to bridges in the county
The destruction of fenc,, . o ,
Item «nd wil run into thossnaa big
1 river is faiIing nearly as fast as
snEhesenbovztntrtz-onateetana -
unde X high esday night was six teet
presenttrtsbighest Point reached on the
The railroad bridges at both ends of
the town have been destroyed. One
of them was built of stone and cement
It had undergone the rises of the past
twenty-five years, but was compelled to
succumb to the terrible rush of waters.
Jhe mayor and citizens have provided
shelter and food for the destitute
it is impossible to get between the
two rivers,to ascertain the true damage
there, but from observations the water
appears to be in the lowest place six
twenntgetecandin the highest piace
Greenville chapter, Daughters of the
Confederacy, is the name chosen by the
ladies of that city for their branch of
the order.
A subscription fund has been started
for the benefit of the families of the
Humphries, recently lynched In Hen-
derson county.
er torn X" Jnly 1.—The Brazos rfy-
withinfalling, after reaching apoint
Withinsix of the highest mark
, its bistory since the country was
to $250,000, fle- settled by whites, and within two inch-
mi the outcome o: es of the flood in 1885, the higest ris,
since the civil war.
were
tc hina will be more
than $13.0(10,006. a <1 to Hongkong more
than $6,000,000, making a total to China
and Hongkong of over $20,060,000. or |
mote than three । times as much as
thatof a decade earller. That the bulk
0f exports to Hongkong may properly
be considered as ultimately destined
Tor consumption I*1 China is shown by
the fact that the ofieial reports
impor s into China show that over 44
Der cent of their imports are from the
port of Hongkong. The 1899 exports
1o Chi a and Hongkong combined
*’ OI a gain of nearly 25 per cent over
H0 last year, while the total ex-
Ports from the United States
colored, body recov-
, From all reports every bridge within
. a radius of ten miles from here has
been swept away.
The earlier reports of heavy loss of
life in Robertson county caused bv the
meeting of the vaters Ot the Erazos
and Little Brazos rivers have been
confirmed. The information received
here is meager, but it is to the effect
that over seventy people are missing
Nine bodies have been recovered
The floods of the two rivers came
80 rapidly that the negroes living
in between the water courses had no
opportunity of escape.
T hey were caught in a trap and
dre wned. "
Exports of nre handise from the
China in the fiscal
about to 6 d will be larger than
those of any prededing year in our his-
Seventy iasing.
Caivert, Tex., July 3.—The excite
Gnarde on Tran..
Damage at caivem.
Calvert, Tex., July 1.—The most dis-
astrous rain for several years in this
district fell here Thursday night. The
entire town is in a fever of excitement
over the discovery and report of horri-
ble and distressing scenes.
It has been raining here for several
days, and at times it seems that the
clouds poured out their fullest supplies
on this town.
Last night the streams and big riv-
ens around here were filled to their
fullest capacity, running over, and ev-
erything ahead of them was swept to
destruction.
The reports came in that the two
rivers Little and Big Brazos, had met
and that help was needed badly
On hearing of this A. M. Meredith
requested that all business houses
close and that everybody go to the res-
cue of the unfortunates.
In East Waco between fifty and one
hundred blocks were flooded, and boys
‘raveled the streets in boats.
On the west side backwater in Waco
creek and Barron’s branch flooded
about twenty blocks.
not"nowumhr pE persons drowned can
ascertained. ' h P will never be
trslanns .””,K places orsarty In
of inundation they have Jighth dav
dropped from their-perhsstaryed.and
of persons, white and ones. Hundreds
avenues of escape were i" ’ after an
refuge in tall trees were, closed, took
stances succumbed to the »insome in-
er of the water In the.P iti less pow-
these urering r;,. other instances
millet and | tops for thred 8as0 , szremained in tree-
. "thinty elad andwitkhorpyghi soaked, lady
** crick
Rosana Brown’s child, colored, body
I recovered. "-I
erlula Chop. Chinese, body no: recov.
Four men on Tom Anderson’s farm
colored, unknown, bodies not ,
ered. -55 not recov-
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