Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1899 Page: 1 of 4
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Free State Enterprise
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BY M. G. SANDERS.
A Weekly Newspaper Published for Those Who Subscribe and Pay for it.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
VOL. 17.
NO. 29.
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Which leads direct without change of cars to the famous
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SPOT CASH STORE
Of Athens where you buy more good goods for lew money
than any store in Texas.
Yours Truly,
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desire to
to all Cash
old and the daughter of a widow.
Texas House,
TRADE EXPANSIONISTS.
court.
the National Capital
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FOLiOWING A LONG iLLNESS.
.Bottom prices
resting place.
plain
ford of the fourth congressional
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The peo-
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cause of death.
Great conster-
plc know it a
nd are coming
Illinois.
HONESTY, PUSH, PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY
worried ever since.
' firm of Hunter, Putnam & (ran-
Is Our Battle Cry.
almost to a crisp.
Several
years
Eastern Texas Headquarters for Popular Prices,
ures.
many of them returned home.
• months’ service.
"Pluck is the secret of success on
Thirty cases of typhoid favor
method of plucking.
of Havana.
Thomas Pinckney, Jr., an at-
TYLER HARDWARECO
JAMES R. ADAMS, Prop.,
Dewey is now an adlmiral.
worn out after they have been used
’ about seventy-five times,
Miss Stillgirl (Fobbing)—I think it's
awfully mean! That horrid Quill girl
mitted to the bar and became
the junior member of the law
Alice—Men are so slow! It took him
nearly two hours to propose to me
has been saying that I paint.
Meanness— Never mind, dear.
; seriously wounded by highwaymen
on a street in th it city for refus-
The filibustering expedition on
route from Kansas City to Nica-
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It also exists in the tenth regular
regiment, encamped in the parks
House—Messrs. Burke, Henry,
Lanham and DeGruffenreid of
Texas, McRae of Arkansas, Me-
Ci eery of Minnesota, Brewer of
Alabama, Moon of Tennessee,
Smith of Kentucky, Mahany of
New’ York and Jenkins of Wis-
consin.
Senate--Messrs. Mills and Chil-
ton of Texas, Morgan of Ala-
bama, Berry of Arkansas, Cock-
rell of Missouri, Foraker of Ohio,
The governor approved the bill
authorizing directors of agricul-
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USELESS INFORMATION.
The Chinese fish with birds.
The wasp made the first paper
The curious custom of taxing beards
prevails in certain districts of Japan.
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new electric light plant at Hous-
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$250,000, has been let.
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President D. W. Van Horn of
the Bank of Clarendon at Claren-
don, Tex., was killed in an acci-
dent oz the Rock Island railway.
He was quite wealthy.
take you to accept him, dear? Alice-
Just two seconds!
V the inquests failed to develop theanattorney, but first 'coming tl
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Lena Brock, 10 years old, was
burned to death near Grapevine
while assisting in burning trash in
a field.
i are reported in the second divis-
Horrible Accident.
While Miss Lula Moorman and
Mr. Cranford Represented the fourth Con-
gresslonal Distric t-Hai a State Sen-
ator Several Years.
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Cranford Dead.
Representative John W. Cran-
binder was at El Paso some time
ago and the Chinese have been
A dealer at Savannah, Ga., has
shipped 1000 dozen eggs to Ha-
vana, for which he is to receive
$1 per dozen.
a cut four or five feet deep with a
slight up grade, but several feet
ways which does away with the
angle cock and obviates all dan-
ger of the air being accidentally
cut off while the train is in mo-
tion.
ing to hold up his hands when so
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Texas,
English that we are Head-
quarters for Bottom Prices
and up-to-date goods.
The remains of Big Foot Wal-
lace were buried in the state cem-
etery at Austin on the 25th Tex
as rangers and ex-Confederate J
i veterans escorted the body to its;
Athens,
i0 three young Indy friends were
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ago Mr. Palmer's wife and three
children were burned in a fire
that destroyed his residence.
district of Texas died at Wash-
ington at midnight on the 2d of
heart disease and other complica-
sions after a lingering illness. He
was born in Clark county, Ala-
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The steamer Labrador is re-
ported lost off the coast of Nova
Scotia. All her passengers, Agon-
cillo being one of them,have been
saved.
last night. Maud—How long did it
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Mr. Cranford was
A runaway horse created great
consternation in the residence of
M. Frier at Hillsboro by dashing
into the dining room. Aside from
badly frightening the ladies of the
house no damage was done.
A train on the Mobile and Ohio
road with the second battalion of
the second Missouri regiment on
board was wrecked near Tupelo,
Miss. Several roldiers were in-
jured, but none killed.
8 cost price. if they agree to mention the
i fact to their congregation.”
Tic large guns of modern navies are Spotted f ver has caused the
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Congressman Bailey has an-
nounced his determination not to
be a candidate for the position of
leader of the Democratic side in
the next house.
Miss ‘
l ex- torney of Charleston, S. C., was
a re i lot ad vert isingtomake
ATHENS, “H.2/.s.
BRACK GREEN, Mgr.,
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bound train whistled. It was in
Cranford's Sad Heath.
When Congressman Cranford
realized that his earthly career
was nearly over he called his four
children to his bedside and hade
them a touching farewell. Later
he asked his oldest son to be a
protector to the other children.
The dead congressman’s desk
in the house of representatives
was draped in mourning and flow-
ers placed on it. Congressman
Burke announced Mr. Cranford’s
death and offered the usual reso-
lutions, which were adopted. In
the senate Mr. Chilton di l like-
wise. The following committees
were appointed to escort the re-
mains to Sulphur Springs:
tion is sin-
i man who, at the end of it, announces: j ordered,
is “Ministers supplied with goods at
Mrs. Fogg You’ve been a naughty
ihs boy, and I shall have to tell your
X | Extending time for winding up
W affairs of defunct Franco-Texan
V Land company in Parker county.
The speaker signed the railroad
relief bill.
ented a device in the way of an Democrat.
air brake hose coupling on rail- not renominated in 1898.
father. Johnny—H’m! Just like a
woman! Can't keep a secret.
Miss Moorman reached the switch
she was struck by the engine and
knocked just outside of the main
track, the wheels of the cars cut-
ting off some of her hair. The
back of her head was crushed in
and she died in a few minutes #F ig
The unfortunate girl was 20 years I #0464404444448 #444446466600
of space on each side of the track.
I he girls began to run when they
heard the whistle and three of
them jumped off. Just before
tural and mechanical college to
employ an expert entomologist to
endeavor to exterminate Mexican, . I
, ,, .. . bama, in 1859, and at 13 was an
bon weevil and other insect posts. 1 n 1 . . r
1 orphan. By hard struggles Mr.
_ ' Cranford acquired an education
Two Chinamen were found dead and choosing thelaw as his pro-
I in different parts of El Paso and . fession forged to the front as an |
Prince Radziwill, Germany’s
r presentative at the Faure fu-
neral, in an interview says the
pretensions of th? Ended States
are dangerous an l Europe should
unite against her.
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CANTON. VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAUCH 9, 1899.
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2 I have recently bought out the stock of the CASPARY W
2 HARDWARE CO.and will do business at the same old stand ,
2 Bought cheap and will sell cheap. Three carloads of Kelly w
I Plows and two of Barbed Wire just received. Have the V
2 best selected stock in East Texas. Wire, Nails, Plows, in t
/q fact everything for the farmer. We believe in quick sales ibs
i) and small profits, and will make it pay you to see us before ij
i buying elsewhere. Yours For Business,
Outposts beyond San Pedro,
near Manila, were fired upon by
the rebels from the walls of the
Guadaloupe church. A gunboat
chased the enemy away with Gat-
ling guns. No casualties are re-
ported.
On Saturday the house passed
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w jurisdiction upon Bexar county
Buyers in 40 miles of
Athens that they are
Texas, read law under Judges Perkins of California, Chandler
Hunter and Milam at Sulphur of New Hampshire and Mason of
were members of companies K
and F, third Texas volunteers,
have returned home after ten
i | Abolishing unorganized county Texas Congressman Passes Away at
W , of Encinal and readjusting the
W boundary of Webb.
The house passed the sheriffs’
ragua, was stopped at New Or- fee bill and discussed other meas-
leans by government officials, and
State Lawmakers.
The senate on the 2d passed the
----- I ford. I le was elected state sen- i substitute libel bill. .
NearRockdalethe3-year-oldson ator in 1888 and re-elected ini Gross bill allowing county
of Louis Palmer had the lower 1892. He was chosen president treasurers one-half of 1 per cent
part of hi. body ondihubs burned tem. of the senate, being the I for receiving and the same for
i ------ ---------1 disbursing school funds passed.
youngest man who ever held that .... . . , • ,
g c . i 4,1 Wayland secured adoption of
position. Cranford was elected . ’
. .1 cc. cc.1 . ! his joint resolution requesting the
to the fifty-fifth congress as a;
Im . . 11 r governor, comptroller anti state
Democrat, being opposed by•.i5 1 .. . .
—•----- I IE (Cyclone) Davis, Populist,and j revenue agent to consider the ad-
T.M. Hall of Bonham h.. pat- M. w. Johnson, gold standard visability of ereating the oflice of
...... I state auditor.
Bill making it possible for con-
victions to be had for cattle steal-
ing where a ranchman uses more
than one brand passed.
Springs. When 21 he was ad-
and upright dealings for-
ever settles the case. We
best London titbits. Several Paris young men who
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Sanders, M. G. Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1899, newspaper, March 9, 1899; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585341/m1/1/?q=cranford: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.