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The Meridian Tribune.
THE TRIBUNE PRINTING CO., PUBLISHERS.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Entered at the postoffice Meridian, Texas, as
second-class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
LEVI A. DUNLAP, Editor and Mgr.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
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Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has ve
toed the uniform textbook bill. ;
Three miners were killed by runa
way coal cars at South Fork, Pa.
President Palmo of Cuba is pleased
with the ratification of the Cuban
treaty.
The Oklahoma City National bank
has been authorized with a capital
stock of $100,000.
Government officials will not allow
boxing matches to take place in the
Indian Territory.
President Gompers of the Labor Fed-
eration has demanded protection for
labor organizations at Tampa, Fla.
The mercantile establishment of Wil-
liams & Hopkins was destroyed by fire
at Hugo, I. T. Loss $5000, insurance
$3000.
Chancellor von Buelow scores the
(daily press of America for false state-
ments against Germany in the Venezu-
elan case.
Eight men have been indicted at
Wynne, Ark., in connection with the
murder of John H. Brown, whose home
was in Memphis.
Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has been
notified that if he signs the cattle
quarantine bill he will invalidate leases
in Otoe and Ponca reservations.
Republicans have nominated ex-Gov.
Barnes for mayor of Guthrie and the
Democrats have named Charles E. Bil-
lingsley for the same position.
Mrs. James Strowbridge of Guayano-
ga, N. Y., killed her daughter, aged
twenty-six years, her mother, aged
eighty years, and set fire to the house,
entered it and perished in the flames.
The carelessness of Alex Kemperty,
in smoking a pipe near a can of pow-
der at a quarry in West Rutland, Vt.,
caused an explosion which cost him his
life and injured seven others.
The president has tendered the po-
. sition of director of the census to S. N.
D. North, formerly chief statistician of
manufacturers of the census bureau to
succeed Director Merriam, resigned
Dr. North accepted and will enter up-
on his duties some time in May.
Oren Root, Jr., who has been made
general manager of the Metropolitan
railway of New York, the greatest
street railway system in the world, is
29 years old. Mr. Root worked as a
motorman, a gripman, a conductor, an
inspector, a car starter, an all-around
man in the barns and power houses.
Thirty-four graves are to be opened
at Philadelphia and the corpses ex-
amined for traces of poison, as it is
believed that Geo. Hoosey, the negro
“herb doctor,” was responsible for
their deaths.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
a bill carrying an appropriation of
$175,000 to establish a binding twine
factory to be operated by the State
with penitentary labor. The Kansas
factory, it is claimed, is a great suc-
cess.
Dr. A. B. McKee and his brother,
Charles W. McKee, of Edwardsville,
Ill., committed suicide at the doctor’s
home one day last week by taking mor-
phine. When found the doctor was
cold in death, and Charles died soon
after.
Secretary Root has announced that
he would meet the president in St.
Louis April 30, on the occasion of the
dedicatory exercises of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition. He will deliver
an andress at Columbus, O., May 4.
A negro, after being identified in the
Texas and Pacific paycar at Marshal
Monday, gave the paymaster the name
of another negro and drew his check
for $28.45, when he had nothing due
him. The officers arrested the first
negro.
Simultaneously with the ratification
of the Panama treaty word comes that
the initial steps are being taken in
the organization of the world’s largest
construction syndicate, which will bid
for the contract for building the canal.
Judge McPherson of the United
States circuit court, has named D.
Stuart Robinson and Wm. S. Furst to
act as receivers for the Consolidated
Ise Manufacturing, Refrigerating and
Fish company, a West Virginia corpor-
ation.
King Edward has sent Col. Cody
(Buffalo Bill) a handsome scarf pin
with the royal cipher in diamonds, sur-
mounted by the crown, as a souvenir
of his visit last Saturday tc the Wild
West show.
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A FRANTIC RUSH TO GET AWAY
Important Bills Now Stand a Poor
Show of Running the Gauntlet
of Haste.
Austin, Tex., March 23.—Thus far
the state legislature has passed
but few bills of a general nature. Fol-
lowing is a list of the measures which
have been completed, and which have
received the approval of Gov. Lanham:
Act authorizing the International
and Great Northern railroad to pur-
chase the Houston, Beaumont and New
Orleans and the Houston, Oak Lawn
and Magnolia Park railways. Act
authorizing the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railway to purchase the Grang-
er, Georgetown, Austin and San An-
tonio railway. Act authorizing the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway
to purchase the Denison and Washita
railway. Act authorizing suburban
electric railways to issue bonds, with-
out the approval of the railroad com-
mission, where the commission does
not assume jurisdiction. Act extending
the time in which railroads maust con-
struct lines. The child labor bill. Act
prohibiting railroads from working
trainmen and certain other employes
for more than sixteen hours contin-
uously. Act that service may be had
upon any corporation by citing any
agent in the state when it does not
have an agent in the county where suit
is brought. Act extending certain
teachers’ certificates. Five acts con-
cerning court procedure, among them
an act requiring Judges to deliver
charges to juries before argument of
counsel. Act providing for a state
board to examine applicants for admis-
sion to the bar. The blind tiger bill.
Act amending the printing law so as
to recognize linotype work on bills.
Act creating Reagan county. Act pro-
viding for the enlargement of the iron
industry at Rusk penitentiary, appro-
priating $150,000. Act providing a sec-
retary for the Confederate home. Acts
■appropriating $110,000 for mileage and
per diem of legislators, $20,000 for con-
tingent expenses of legislature, $2500
for publishing the poll tax amendment
and $358,000 for deficiencies. The Gal-
veston grade-raising bill, releasing to
the city of Galveston the state taxes
of Galveston county for a period of fif-
teen years. Acts for the relief of the
town of Goliad and of Brazoria county.
Acts extending the time of paying tax-
es in nine counties. Act authorizing
the extension of corporate limits of
towns and villages incorporated for
school purposes only. Acts creating
the Fifty-second, Fifty-ninth and Six-
tieth judicial districts.
The following bills have finally pass-
ed both houses, but have not yet re-
ceived the approval of the governor:
Act providing for manual training in
public schools, the state to pay half
the expense in each school, not to ex-
ceed $500.
Rock Island railroad consolidation
bill. Act authorizing electric railway
lines to sell light, heat and power. Act
requiring railroads to place lights on
all main-line switches. Act prohibiting
sale of liquor to habitual drunkards.
Act making slight change in fees of
sheriffs and constables. Act fixing sal-
aries of penitentiary guards and un-
der-officials. Act applying penalties
for assault to commit murder to cer-
tain other offences. Act providing for
extermination of prairie dogs. Acts
creating the Sixty-second and Sixty-
third judicial districts. The legislature
has also finally passed the following
acts, some of which have been approv-
ed by the governor: Eleven acts chang-
ing time of holding court in as many
districts, nine acts alternating juris-
diction on as many county courts, four
city charter bills, eighteen county road
laws and three bills making minor
changes with respect to school districts
in certain counties.
La Soufriere Again Violent.
Kingstown, St. Vincent: The erup-
tion of La Soufriere, which began Sat-
urday, continued and increased in ac-
tivity during the night until it became
most violent at 7 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing. At 8:30 o’clock its violence was
unabated, and the spectacle was awe-
inspiring. The crater is belching forth
dense black clouds which rise heaven-
ward, accompanied by loud roaring and
flashes which rend the spreading pall
of smoke,
Rev. James Morrow was thrown
from a horse at Tyler and seriously
injured. Rev. Morrow is general mis-
sionary under the direction of the Bap-
tist General Convention of Texas.
In a difficulty on a farm near Atlas
Dave Jinks, a negro cottonpicker, was
shot with a winchester rifle through
the hand and slightly wounded by a
15-year-old white boy.
Former President Cleveland was 66
years old on the 18th inst. He spent
the day at home with his family in his
usual quiet way. His health is robust
Hon. Torn L. Johnson has been re-
nominated for mayor of Cleveland,
Ohio.
FATHER OF WATERS RAGING.
Brighter at Memphis But Bad Lower.
New Orleans, La.: Crevasse has oc-
curred on Bayou La Fourche, three
miles above Thibodaux. The levee
broke Sunday morning and the gap,
100 feet in width, was soon 200 feet
of rushing, roaring water. Everything
was carried before the flood. The
break is directly in front of the big
plantation home of Hon. William E.
Howell, Collector of Internal Revenue
at this point. The whole family was
in bed at the time, unsuspecting the
pending danger. The water rushed
through the yard and quickly filled the
residence to the depth of two feet. The
family of the collector was rescued
with the greatest difficulty. A portion
of the Napoleonville branch of the
Southern Pacific is now under water
and it is reported from there that traf-
fic will have to be suspended.
The prospect is that the water will
flood the towns of Gibson, Chacaboula,
Dormer and the rear of Morgan City.
When the water poured through the
gap and broke upon the Howell resi-
dence the roar could be easily heard
in Thibodaux, three miles away. This
big outlet has caused Bayou La Four-
che to fall two feet and eight inches at
Thibodaux. Sunday night the Missis-
sippi River gauge in front of the city
registers even twenty feet and is still
going up, but the levees are holding
firmly.
Memphis, Tenn.: The river con-
tinues to slowly fall at this point, the
gauge registering 39.6 feet. The flood
conditions are becoming brighter, and
it is generally accepted that the worst
is over. Reports from the levees both
north and south of Memphis are that
they are holding splendidly against the
enormous pressure of water. The
railroads west of the river are not yet
open for traffic, but it is believed
trains will be running by Wednesday
next.
A New Orleans and Philadelphia Line.
New Orleans, La., March 23.—N. B.
Kelly, secretary of the Trades League
of Philadelphia, announced that the
proposed steamship line between New
Orleans and Philadelphia was an as-
sured fact and that it would go
through He can not tell the number
of steamers, but he hopes to have two
o. week.
Red River Navigation.
Paris: The movement of merchants
and planters along Red River to se-
cure a steamboat to make trips up the
stream to bring supplies and to carry
back farm products has resulted in an
independent steamboat being secured
at Shreveport. It has already made
one trip. Large numbers of sacks have
been purchased here in which to ship
cottonseed.
Uruguay Rebellion Over.
Montevideo: Peace was signed Sun-
day between the Uruguayan government
and the rebels. The government has
sent complaint to Brazilian forces in
the Rio Grande province who have
joined Uruguayan rebels. The Uru-
guayan revolution broke out on March
16 in the departments of Rivera, Flores
and Maldonado, and thus lasted one
week.
Davis Doing Something.
Davis I. T.: J. T. Murray of Lone
Oak, Tex., is here organizing a stock
company to build an oil mill to cost
$50,000. The indications are, that
enough of the stock will be taken by
local people to insure the erection of
the plant. It is stated that work will
begin here soon on an ice plant to be
erected by Geo. G. Bryne . of Joplin,
Mo., to whom a franchise has been
granted to put in a system of water-
works for Davis.
Two Suicides at Milano.
Milano: D. E. Baremore is dead and
Sam Warbington is at death’s door
from the effect of overdose of mor-
phine. Saturday evening Baremore in-
formed the inmates of a saloon that
he had taken the drug. A physician
was sent for, but he died. After Bare-
more’s death, Warbington tied a piece
of crepe on his door, swallowed the
dose and went to bed. Warbington was
found lying on a mattress on the floor
in a serious condition.
Petitions have been sent out to all
the county precincts in Nacogdoches
county for signatures asking that a
county prohibition election be ordered
at an early date.
Grand Invention, if True.
New York: Five patients from the
New York Institute for the instruc-
tion of the deaf and blind attended a
performance of “The Daughter of the
Regiment” at the Metropolitan Opera-
house last night and were enabled to
hear perfectly by the aid of the
"acousticon," the invention of Miller
Reese Hutchinson of Mobile, Ala., with
which the initial experiments were re-
cently made here with success.
After Ratification by Columbia, Actual
Work Will Commence Without
Delay.
THEY MOVE SLOW
Washington, March 21.—The begin-
ning of work on the Isthmian Canal
awaits only the ratification of the
canal treaty by the Colombian Senate,
which will consider the matter next
month. There are predictions that the
treaty will yet fail, but the authorities
here are confident that it will succeed.
Assuming that Colombia will ratify
the treaty, that the French Canal Com-
pany will pass title to the real property
involved, and that the way will be
made clear for actual operations, it
may be of interest to look ahead to the
next steps to be taken. As soon as it
is certain that the party is to be rati-
fied by Colombia, the President of the
United States will appoint the Canal
Commissioners authorized by the
Spooner act. That commission will
supersede the present Canal Commis-
sion, but probably include some of the
members, who have familiarized them-
selves with conditions on the Isthmus
and in connection with the canal work.
The commission will consist of seven
members, who will be paid salaries
commensurate with the importance of
their work.
All the work will be done under the
direction of the Canal Commission and
the President of the United States.
The commission undoubtedly will be
permanent, and will continue as long
as the canal continues to exist. Ap-
pointments on the commission, there-
fore, will be eagerly sought.
There will be no delay in commenc-
ing actual work. The canal has been
commenced and a portion of the work
materially progressed. Machinery to
the value of several millions of dollars
already is installed, and it will simply
be a question of putting new men in
control.
W. P. Holland was robbed of $200 at
Bartlett.
Storms in Great Britain caused
much damage.
Green bugs have made their appear-
ance at Grapevine.
William Edwards was assassinated
on his farm near Centerville.
Textile workers and garment makers
have decided to affiliate at Waco.
Governor McCurtain of the Choctaw
Nation advocates a separate statehood
bill.
The Central Texas Log Rolling asso-
ciation will meet at Corsicana on Aug.
12th.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to pay
for the filtering plant at Cornell uni-
versity.
The people of Hawaii desire Presi-
dent Roosevelt to extend his Western
trip to the islands.
It is reported that a daughter of
William Waldorf Astor is engaged to
the Roumanian foreign minister.
News of the ratification of the Pan-
ama canal treaty was received with
satisfaction in France.
The mercantile house of C. C. Epps
at Southmayd was burglarized last
week and considerable goods stolen.
Many soldiers at Fort Clark are be-
ing discharged regularly, but nearly
all are enlisting again to go to the
The dowager empress has ordered
an appropriation of 500,000 taels to be
made for the Chinese representation
at the St. Louis exposition.
The Indian Agent at Muskogee, in
reference to leasing the lands, decides
that it takes a deed to constitute a
title.
Amos Creig, known as the boy tramp
whose parents live in St. Louis, and
are said to be rich, was killed by a
train on the Clover Leaf route at Dub-
lin, Ind.
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
United Steel Corporation, has return-
ed on the steamer Kronz Prinz Wil-
helm from an extended tour of Europe.
His wife accompanied him.
It is thought, now that the Panama
canal treaty is ratified that real con-
struction work may be commenced
within the next twelve months, and
completed within seven or eight years.
The President has tendered the po-
sition of director of the census to S. N.
D. North, formerly chief statistician of
manufactures of the census bureau.
The budget committee of the Reich-
stag by 26 to 2 votes appropriated
$750,000 to defray the expenses of Ger-
many’s representation at the St. Louis
exposition.
Eight thousand revolutionists at-
tacked Montevideo, capital, of Uru-
guay Wednesday. Montevideo has a
population of 250,000 people and is gar-
isoned by 3000 well armed soldiers.
Shot While on a Train.
Guthrie, Ok.: On the Rock Island
train in Guthrie Thursday night Ma-
dame de la Mothe, an opera singer,
was seriously injured by some person
shooting through the car window by
which she was sitting. The shot cut
her arm and cut the glass into atoms,
the small pieces cutting her face and
arms in innumerable places, causing
many wounds. Her home is in Chica-
go. She recently came from Paris..
GENERAL .LAND .BILL .BEFORE
THE HOUSE.
SCHOOL AND LAND MATTERS UP
School matters Occupy the Time of
the Senate. .Independent Dis-
tricts Exempt.
Austin, Tex., March 25.—The Senate
Committee on Education favorably re-
ported the House bill providing for a
continuation of the uniform textbook
system, with amendments.
There are several corrective amend-
ments, also three of importance. It is
provided by the amendments that in-
dependent school districts which raise
by direct taxation more than half of
the amount which they expend on pub-
lic schools, may exempt themselves
from the operation of the law if they
so desire. The textbook board pro-
vided for in the amendments is to be
composed of the Governor, Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, Attorney
General and four teachers who are to
be selected by the Governor. The
amendments further provide that pref-
erence be given to books by Texas
authors, where other things are equal.
They provide also for recision of con-
tract where fraud in authorship is
proven. .
House bill prohibiting corporations
organized under laws of other States
from acpuiring or operating railroads
in Texas, passed finally.
Senator Paulus’ bill providing for
payment of fees to County Attorneys
in all cases where there are pleas of
guilty, passed finally.
House bill confirming sales and
awards of public school lands made
prior to passage of act of 1877, passed
finally. ,
Senate concurred in House amend-
ments to Senator Faust’s bill provid-
ing that persons charged with lunacy
may be tried at home.
Senator Hale called up his bill fix-
ing salaries of principals of the State
normal schools at $3000, and maxi-
mum salaries of teachers at $1800.
The remainder of the day was spent
discussing various phases of the
measure, and it was carried.
The house seemed to get a tangle
into its skein of dispatch and debates
over amendments consumed most of
the day. The general land bill was
the main matter under consideration,
but went over under discussion. The
new bills introduced were, act amend-
ing the charter of the city of Beau-
mont, granting, authority to invest the
sinking fund of the city in state or
county .bonds; act to establish board
of examination of accountants and
provide for granting certificates; act
authorizing counties owing interest-
bearing judgments to pay same by the
issuance and sale of bonds payable in
twenty years after date, with an option
of payment any time after two years,
said bonds to bear a lower rate of in-
terest than the judgment or judgments
which they are issued to pay.
Shooting at Ladonia.
Sherman: Judge W. T. (Tully)
Beverly, Judge of the Fifty-Ninth Ju-
dicial District, Gray and Collin Coun-
ties, after a brief illness, died Tuesday
morning at 3:20 o’clock. His malady
was acute indigestion and a complica-
tion of bladder trouble.
Bunch of Local Issues.
Paris: A movement is on foot at
Blossom to do away with the municipal
incorporations. A petition with sixty-
three signatures of voters was present-
ed to County Judge Love, askng him
to order an election to determine the
issue.
-Cleburne: The exact result of the
road tax election is not yet known,
but the officials are still of the opinion
that the vote will not vary a dozen
votes either way, with a tendency for
the defeat of the measure.
Mesquite: The election here result-
ed in thirty-four votes being polled in
favor of abolishing the incorporation
of the town of Mesquite.
Ladonia: A shooting affray occured
at the city hall at 4 o’clock Tuesday in
which Sam Campbell was wounded in
the hand and shoulder. S. N. Dotson,
constable, surrendered to the City
Marshal.
Roads and Bridges Win Out.
Roby: An election was held in this
county last Saturday to determine
whether or not the commissioners’
court should be permitted to issue $19,-
000 worth of bonds for bridge purposes
and $25,000 worth of courthouse bonds
for the purpose of building a new
courthouse for Fisher county. The
election resulted in favor of the bond $50,000 for the construction of an an-
issue for bridges, but against bonds nex to the federal building at Dallas.
for courthouse purposes.
He will start work at an early date.
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National Packing Company Organized.
Chicago, Ill.: Consolidation of the
seven packing companies bought last
summer by the Armour, Swift and Mor-
ris interests as a preliminary step to
the general consolidation then contem-
plated, has just been effected. The
National Packing company, incorporat-
ed under the laws of New Jersey
March 18, with $15,000,000 capital
stock, has purchased the properties
and is now operating them. The Na-
tional Packing company contemplates
doing a gross business of about $140,-
000,000 a year. It will rank next in
size after the Armour and Swift con-
cerns, which do business upward of
$200,000,000 each. The National com-
pany will have its headquarto in Chi-
cago.
New Laws in Texas.
Austin: Gov. Lanham Tuesday sign-
ed house bill creating Sixty-second ju-
dicial district, comprised of Hunt,
Delta and Lamar counties. Effective
immediately. House bill creating the
Sixty-third judicial distric, comprised
of Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, PecOS,
Val Verde, Kinney and Maverick coun-
ties. Act takes effect Aug. 1. It
leaves the Thirty-fourth district com-
posed of El Paso and Reeves counties
and the Forty-first district comprising
El Paso county alone.
Six Men Drowned in Flood.
Memphis, Tenn.: J. R. Hood, an
employe of an Arkansas sawmill, re-
ports that while at Gavin, Ark., a sta-
tion on the Frisco railroad Saturday
afternoon, he saw a skiff containing
four drummers and two negro oarsmen
swept under the track of the railroad
in a stiff current. The boats was over-
turned, all six of the occupants, un-
known to him, being drowned.
New Oklahoma Road Project.
Guthrie, Ok.: A territorial charter
has been granted to the Mountain
Park, Texas and Northwestern Railway
company of Mountain Park, with a
capital stock of $4,000,000. The com-
pany proposes to construct a road 200
miles long, from the Red river in Co-
manche county, to the northern Okla-
homa boundary in Woodward county.
Weston: Mrs. Susan G. Anderson,
for fifty years a resident of Texas, died
Tuesday, aged SO years. Her husband,
the late Bright Anderson, fought un-
der Gen. Sam Houston for the inde-
pendence of Texas. A large number of
prominent relatives survive her, among
them the wife of Hon. J. J. Greer of
McKinney, who is a niece.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
to visit Texas early in April.
John Parnell was seriously stabbed
at Terrell by Cornet Wimberly.
The ruins of an old Spanish mission
have been discovered near San An-
tonio.
Gov. Ferguson has requested an in-
vestigation of the insane asylum of
Oklahoma.
Mrs. Mose Eastman, colored, killed
Perry Heywood, colored, at Lake
Charles, La.
Mrs. J. V. Reeve of Succassona, N.
Y., who had been in a trance for five
days, is dead.
The police of Philadelphia and Chi-
cago cost more for maintenance than
the schools.
Charley W. Turney of Waco, has
been appointed as secretary to Sena-
tor Chas. A. Culberson.
The Kansas City Southern, shops at
Pittsburg, Kan., have resumed opera-
tions with non-union men.
Officers arrested a shoplifter in
Mexia Saturday and have others spot-
ted, who will be arrested.
William Busby has purchased the
Missouri Pacific’s interest in coal
mines in the Indian Territory.
Joe Caveness was sentenced from
Mason to thirty-five years in the peni-
tentiary for killing one Parker.
The fifteen months—old child of
John Armstrong, colored, was acci-
dentally burned to death at Ladonia.
The Grand opera house of Marlin
was burned Sunday night, entailing a
loss of $11,000 on building and fixtures.
William Jones was struck with a
base ball bat near Denison and may
die. J. R. Stegall is charged with the
crime.
The town of Surigao, Island of Min-
danao, was captured by Ladrones who
killed constabulary inspector and
others.
John Long has resigned the position,
of postmaster at Hiram. He is suc-
ceeded by J. H. Richardson of that
place.
John Brown, who was convicted at
Marshal for homicide and given thir-
teen years in pentitentiary, was refus-
ed a new trial.
Manton Wilson, aged 30, a nephew
of D. M. Wilson, of Kemp, was killed
at Kemp Saturday, from his clothing
catching in a shaft.
Laura Lecta, a white woman, aged
twenty, died at her room in Waco, Sat-
urday night, from strychinine, in great
agony.
John Bardon of Fort Worth has
given satisfactory bond in the sum of
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