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TIOGA TO THE FRONT.
FROM WORLD’S EVENTS.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
LEVI A. DUNLAP, Editor and Mgr.
Engine and Several Cars Badly Dam-
aged. Train Men Escape by
Jumping Off.
Company Formed to Follow Up Oil
Evidences.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
A scheme is under way to unite Ser-
via and Bulgaria.
Miss Ruth Meyers was burned to
death at Alton, Ill, )
Civil and military authorities of
Panama have clashed.
Mrs. Anna Poston, an actress, com-
mitted suicide at Chicago.
The battleship Kearsarge has com-,
pleted its trip across the Atlantic.
Japan declares that she wants only
peace, but is determined to enforce her
rights.
The Columbia senate has referred
the Panama canal treaty to a com-
mittee.
Printers are on a strike at Spokane,
Wash. The scale of wage is the point
at issue.
Phil Davidson was bitten by a rat-
tlesnake at Muskogee, I. T., but will
recover.
The .Codling moth has severely dam-
aged the apple crop in the two terri-
tories.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Aug. 3.—A head-
on collision between two freight
trains, each drawn by two large en-
gines, occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern track about 168 miles from
Chattanooga. The dead are: Fireman
D. A. Phillops; fireman J. Waters, fire-
man J. Price, all of Somerset, Ky.
The injured: Engineers T. S. Dulle ana
N. S. Fitzgerald, both of Somerset.
The trains met at a dip in the road
while going at a high rate of speed
and the crash was heard for miles.
The collision is attributed to the fail-
ure of the dispatcher to deliver orders
to the southbound train for the meet-
ing point. All the firemen and engi-
neers except those mentioned above
jumped and saved their lives. Engi-
neers Duke and Fitzgerald were seri-
ously, but not fatally injured. The
engines and a number of cars were
badly damaged. The road was blocked
and all trains delayed for several
hours. The first rumors of the colli-
sion were to the effect that eight had
been killed, but the official report is
as given above.
Tioga: For years there have been
many evidences of oil, coal and nat-
ural gas discovered in and around Tio-
ga. A recent discovery or oil in a well
thirty-three feet deep on a lot belong-
ing to Mr. McGee in this city caused
quite an excitement. The well was
cleaned out but nothing further was
done at this time; on Ham Stinnett’s
place, one mile and a half south of Ti-
oga, the oil rises on the water in nis
well to such an extent that it is im-
possible to use the water. On the same
tract of land there is a well with gas
constantly escaping. On a creek run-
ning through Mr. Stinnett’s place.
The Houston and Texas Central
Railway Company has just completed
the construction of a fuel oil storage
tank at Fort Worth with a capacity
of 1.480.000 gallons. It is located half
a mile south of the local yards. This
makes the eighth tank of similar size
built by the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railway Company at points along
its line.
Run Down by Hand Car.
Texarkana: Mike Bouldin, an em-
ploy of the De Queen and Eastern
railroad, was run over by a hand car
near De Queen and sustained such se-
rious injuries of the spine that com-
plete paralysis of the lower limbs re-
sulted. He was brought here and plac-
ed in a local sanitarium for treatment.
It is feared his injuries may be perma-
nent.
COTTON GOES UP TO FIFTEEN
2 CENTS. /
The Scarcity of Raw Cotton and De-
pletion of Manufactured Supplies
Did It.
Two killed and six wounded was the
result of a row at a negro church at
Cawak, Ga.
Gen. Kuropatkin, the Russia war
minister, has returned to St. Peters-
burg from the far east.
The national executive committee
of the United People’s party will con-
vene at St. Louis on Feb. 22, 1904.
Eleven persons have been arrested
at Danville, III., charged with partici-
pating in an attempt at lynching.
Young Corbett knocked out Jack
O’Neil in five rounds before the Na-
tional Athletic club at Philadelphia.
William Busby has been appointed
coal commissioner for Indian and Ok-
lahoma Territories for the World’s
fair.
Walter McGowan was killed and
seventeen other passengers injured in
a wreck on the Union Traction com-
pany at Anderson, Ind.
A $100,000 blaze at Phoenix, Ariz.,
destroyed the dry goods store of the
Alkire company and D. H. Burtis’
plumbing establishment.
Fire at Lindsay, I T., Monday
destroyed seven business houses and
most of their contents. The loss is
$15,000, with one-fourth insurance.
Paul Herman of Rutherford, N. J.,
has been awarded the contract of fur-
nishing the government with money
order blanks for the ensuing four
years.
Galveston Goes Very Dry.
Galveston. Galveston has been theo-
retically dry on several occasions, out
Sunday for the first time in the history
of the corporation the police depart-
ment tried to make it impossible for
the drinker to get a drink, the smoker
a smoke, or the chewer a chew unless
they had supplied themselves with the
article on Saturday. Even fruit stands
went out of business and only drug
when the water rises to a certain
height there is a constant flow of gas
at two or three different places. In a
number of wells, springs and branches
in and around Tioga, there is to be
found oil on the surface of the water.
There has been a number of different
experts on the ground who have pro-
nounced the situation a very promising
one; this oil has been gathered by dif-
ferent places in this section of country
for private use and the same has been
pronounced a good grade of steam
coal.
A company has been formed in the
East with sufficient capital to test the
situation. They have already secured
a permit to do business in the State
of Texas. Contractis nor all necessary
machinery have been placed and prac-
tically all necessary arrangements
have been completed to prosecute the
work.
Manager von Possart of the Munich
royal opera declares that the rights
to “Parsifal” do not belong to
the Wagner family, but to Bavaria,
and that the German ambassador at
Washington will prevent Heinrich
Conreid, director of the Metropolitan
opera house in New York, from giving
the opera there.
Killed By Lightning.
Runge: A young Mexican, named
Pedro Leal, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed,Friday during the
rain and electric storm. The Mexican,
in company with several companions,
was camped under a tree in the Lyons
community, about three miles from
Runge, when the storm came up. His
clothes were burned nearly off of him,
and every bone in his body broken.
New Orleans, La., July 31.—The
Brown-Hayne bull clique bid 15c for
July cotton yesterday, and before the
day s trading had closed at the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange they had of-
fered to take everything in sight at
that figure for July delivery. Not a
bale was tendered.
W. P. Brown stood at the ringside
and shouted a bid of 15c for 5000 bales
stores and eating houses made
pretense of keeping open doors.
any
Trolly Fatality at Texarkana.
Texarkana, Ark.: One of the large
summer cars left the track while mak-
ing the curve at Broad and Hazel
streets at 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon
and about a score or more of peo-le
were more or less injured. A. M. Har-
rison, a drummer representing a North-
ern firm, with headquarters at Little
Rock, sustained a badly fractured skull
and soon afterwards died. Miss Net-
tie Orr, a young lady of the Fairview
suburb, was also seriously though not
fatally hurt.
New Flouring Mill at San Angelo.
San Angelo: A new enterprise pro-
jected for San Angelo is the erection
here of a flour and grist mill with a
100-barrel and 75-barrel capacity, to
cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. L.
B. Thornton of Commerce, Hunt Coun-
ty, has been here for several days con-
ferring with the citizens in regard to
the matter. It is proposed to ask a
bonus of $5000 from San Angelo
the erection of the mill here.
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The New York and Porto Rico
Steamship company has given out an
annual statement showing the amount
of Texas-Louisiana rice exported to
that country from Aug. 1, 1902, to July
31, 1903. To San Juan, 243,438 bags;
to Ponce, 133,289; to Mayaguez, 115,-
433; to Aguadilla, 42,238; to Arecibo,
47,661; to Arroyo, 17,851; to Fajardo,
3969; total, 603,924 bags.
Miguel Ronyel, a miner at the Leit-
naker coal mine, two miles north of
Rockdale, was caught in a cavein at
the mine Friday. He was rescued at
once, but was so badly crushed that he
died in a few minutes. He was from
Lovelady.
At Pittsburg H. H. Cartwright got
his left foot crushed while alighting
from a Cotton Belt passenger train.
The train was moving out of the sta-
tion, when he attempted to get off
backward. His foot was caught under
a wheel. Amputation will -be neces-
sary.
Suicide by Carbolic Acid.
Dallas: Friday James L. Barry, Jr.,
I went into a saloon, calling for a small
glass of beer that he might take some
medicine. The glass was handed him.
He poured practically all the contents
of a small bottle of carbolic acid into
the glass, and then drank it down. Al-
most instantly he gave a groan of pain.
He was carried to the rear of the sa-
loon. Within a few minutes after
drinking the poison the young man
was dead. He was from Lebanon,
Tenn.
Fine Concho Pearl Found.
San Angelo: C. F. Dunbar of Sterl-
ing City brought in a handsome pearl,
which had been found in the Concho,
which was sold for $75. The pearl in-
dustry was formerly pursued here with
avidity, and some beautiful pearls
found in the mussels in the rivers, but
of late years the mussels have been
very scarce and the pearls correspond-
ingly so, while the price of pearls has
risen very much.
of July. Not a bale came forward.
Frank B. Hayne shouted another and
another. Then intense excitement fol-
lowed, but no cotton was offered. It
was the record bid at the New Orleans
exchange.
When analyzed, the stand of the bull
cotton clique means that it was the
last step in its gigantic scheme. It
meant the consummation of the great-
est cotton corner in the history of the
world. It meant that the Brown pool
had so effectually cornered the mar-
ket in raw July cotton that when it
offered the phenomenal price of 15c
per pound not a single bale was at
hand to be tendered it; neither was
there sufficient cotton to be tendered
by to-day, the last day of the month.
The whole transaction becomes impor-
tant in cotton history. The Brown
forces had been waiting for it. They
sprang the offer and no one called it.
They stood masters of the situation,
absolute, complete. It means that
the Brown people have actually bought
and paid for between 250,000 and 300,-
000 bales of cotton, and that they have
paid out the enormous sum of $20,-
000,000.
Cotton has been brought here from
southern and eastern mills and im-
ported from foreign lands to feed the
agreed of the Brown bulls. They have
Cuba now has a small revolution
going on in the eastern portion of the
island. One Pupo, has collected a
band of some sixty men and is ter-
rorizing villagers on Cauto river.
A new issue of the counterfeit of
United States (Buffalo) note, describ-
ed in the press dispatches of Oct. 17,
1902, has been discovered. The check
letter has been changed from C to B,
and the plate number from 57 to 52.
Otherwise the notes are the same.
“Felix Hall,” colored, who was to
have been hanged at Birmingham,
Ala., established that he was Henry
Jackson and that he was in Louis-
iana at the time Norwood Clark was
murdered and has been granted a re-
spite and may be pardoned.
Gen. A. P. Stewart, one of the few
surviving lieutenant generals of the
Confederate army, and a member of
the Chickamauga Park commission, is
critically ill and not expected to live.
He is suffering from paralysis.
Gen. Anton Ramos, one of the last
. of the chiefs of the revolution to re-
main in the field, who had a camp near
Santa Lucia, has surrendered to the
Probable Fatal Trolly Collision.
Indianapolis, Ind.: Behind time and
running at a high rate of speed, a car
southbound on the Indianapolis and
Martinsville Interurban Road, crashed
into a northbound car three miles
south of Mooresville Sunday morning,
injuring over thirty people, two of
whom, Frank Esterman, motorman
and Miss Mary Strawburn, will prob-
ably die. The southbound car was
heavily loaded with passengers, bound
for Bethany Park. Both cars were
specials and met on a curve.
Oklahoma Towns or. Wheels.
Guthrie, Ok.: The town of Karoma
is on wheels, and the towns of Al-
varetta and Rusk will start this week,
all moving to the new town of Goltry,
giving the new place a population of
2500 as a starter. Every citizen of
Carwile has signed an agreement to
move to Helena before Sept. 1. These
changes are caused by the building or
the Frisco west through Goltry and
Helena.
Daingerfield Truckers Reorganize.
Daingerfield: At a meeting held in
the court house the Daingerfield Fruit
and Truck Growers’ Association was
reorganized, with J. M. Connor Jr.,
president, and D. T. Colquitt, secretary
and treasurer. Several thousand fruit
trees were purchased from nursery
agents present and it is expected that
much progress will be made the com-
ing year toward developing the fruit
and truck growing industry in this vi-
cinity. •
Touching Death of a Child.
Abilene: Mattie Irene the 7-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ligon,
was accidentally killed at the family
residence Saturday morning by her 5-
year-old brother. The children were
playing on the bed when the brother
took a pistol from under the pillow
and it was accidentally discharged,
the ball taking effect in the top of the
little girl’s head, death resulting in
thirty minutes.
Rev. A. L. Allen Dead.
Rockdale: Rev. Fred L. Allen died
at his home in Rockdale on Saturday
afternoon in his 68th year. He has
been in feeble death for some time, but
the immediate cause of his death was
from a carbuncle on his face, which al-
most wholly destroyed one side of his
face. He was a member of the Texas
conference of the M. E. Church for
over thirty years, where he served as
pastor and presiding elder.
Free for All With Fatalities.
El Paso: Early Sunday morning a
Mexican ball in the city was converted
into a free-for-all fight with knives,
and as a result two men were fatally
stabbed and several others severely
wounded. Three drunken men precipi-
tated the difficulty by slashing right
and left in the crowd with stilettos.
The fight became general and when
officers had quelled the disturbance
and arrested some of the participants.
George N. Aldredge, Jr., of Dallas,
carried off honors in the athletic con-
tests at Chautauqua, N. Y. Currier
McCutcheon, another Dallas boy, was
elected vice president of the Boys’
Athletic club, and is recognized as the
best all-round athlete in the boys’ club.
The Indian Territory Traction Com-
pany at South McAlester has received
the bills of laden for several motor
cars which were shipped from the
factory at Toledo on the 22d. They
will be the first electric cars ever seen
in the Indian Territory.
Charles B. Middleton, leading man
in the Middleton, Stock company,
which is playing an engagement at the
Casino, at Columbus, Ga., was serious-
ly stabbed during the progress of the
play by George X. Wilson, who was
playing the part of the villain.
At its last meeting the board of levee
commissioners of the Yazoo-Mississip-
pi delta adopted resolutions'thanking
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail-
road for the material aid rendered
in conducting the high-water fight dur-
ing the late flood.
Robert Runnells, charged with put-
ting poison in the syrup of a soda
fountain at Nacogdoches, had his pre-
liminary trial and was placed under
$3,500 bond, which he gave.
A deal has been consummated
whereby Jeanes Bros. convey their
mill, four miles south of Nacogdoches,
to Turner & Nabers of Beaumont, the
consideration being $16,000.
The contract for the erection of the
new Union Depot at El Paso has been
let to a local firm and the work of
grading the site begins at once. The
building will cost $250,000.
Five Arabs who were refused en-
trance into the United States at va-
rious ports of entry crossed the Mexi-
can border above Laredo and are
thought to be in San Antonio.
Lightning’s Terrifying Pranks.
Hillsboro: Frank Knight and fam-
ily near Irene, had a narrow escape
Wednesday night from a bolt of light-
ning. He and his family were all
asleep when the bolt descended, tear-
ing a hole in the roof and splitting the
edge of the roof to the end of the
house. It also ran down the tin- pipe
and tore a hole in the gallery roof.
The bolt struck near the large double
chimney. The whole family were bad-
ly shocked and frightened.
A Three-Cornered Shooting Scrape.
Texarkana: In a three-cornered
shooting affray at T. C. Junction, five
miles west of here Friday afternoon
E. J. Blackstock was shot in the side
and in the head, and Cul. Shipp was
severely but not dangerously wounded.
Blackstock is in a precarious condi-
tion and the doctors say he will die.
Shipp was arrested but released on
bond. The third man left immediately
after the shooting and has not yet
been apprehended.
Business in the Philippines.
Washington: A statement prepared
by the bureau of insular affairs shows
that customs revenues in the Philip-
pines for the first four months of 1903
have been $2,931,782 against $2,901,011
in the same period in 1902 and $215,657
in 1899. The comparison of customs
revenue under the Spanish adminis-
tration during ten years, from 1885 to
1895, with the period from August 20,
1898, to April 30, 1903, under Ameri-
can occupation, shows the volume of
business has increased about four fold.
taken it, hungered for, and have never
let the opportunity slip to buy cotton,
esterday they sprung the supreme
card, but could not get a bale. As a
result they claimed the victory and de-
clared the corner complete.
Mr. Brown states that the larger
part of his holdings has been sold to
different spinners at home and abroad.
When asked about August and Septem-
ber cotton, he said:
“If the bears can’t get cotton to
give us at 13 l-2c to 15 per pound
now, where are they going to get it in
August and September? They have
scoured the world and have brought
it back from Liverpool, Harve and
Bremen, at an enormous expense to
them. Besides, it is reported that they
have borrowed a great deal of cotton
from the southern and eastern mills,
which no doubt the mills will need be-
fore they get the cotton returned.
“There is but one answer to the gen-
eral proposition. You have a genuine
famine, both in cotton and the manu-
factured goods, and cotton is selling at
what it should bring, when you take
into consideration the strained con-
dition of the supply. The manufac-
tured cotton goods ought to be sell-
ing at higher prices, and probably they
are selling higher than the present
quotations. If they are not, they will
be in the near tuture.”
The grand jury at Jackson, Ky., re-
fused to indict Deputy Sheriff William
Britton for accessory to the murder
of town Marshal James Cockrell.
-government of Venezuela, together
with 400 men, their arms and am-
munition.
A quarrel between Viscount Antoine
de Contades and Tuoni Bey, second
secretary of the Turkish embassy, at
.Paris, resulted in a duel with swords
at Paris, in which Tuoni Bey was
[wounded in the arm.
The steamship Ellida, one of the fleet
of small vessels in the Cuban trade
from Galveston, cleared and sailed,
with a cargo of 1355 head of Texas live
stock. These cattle are landed at the
port of Nuevitas and from there taken
into the interior.
The two factions of the People’s
Party, each with a national organiza-
tion, were amalgamated at the national
conference of the People’s Party and
allied' reform parties now in session
at Denver.
Three Killed by Lightning.
Mobile, Ala.: The pleasure yacht
Florodora was struck by lightning
Sunday afternoon, killing three men.
The dead are: Ledyard Scott, formerly
professor in the Imperial University at
Kogasima, Japan; Bruce Granville
Lincoln, a wealthy young Englishman,
visiting Mobile; William Brewton, bi-
lot of the yacht. Mr. Scott died in-
stantly, and the others did not recover
consciousness after being struck.
Ten striking workmen were killed
and eighteen were injured as a result
of a volley fired by the troops at Mik-
hailovo, Russia, on the Tiflis-Batoun
railway.
Benjamin Gordon and George Ems
were instantly killed by lightning Sun-
day afternoon at Corydon, Ind. Both
men, although living several miles
apart, were killed almost at the same
time, and while sitting with their fam-
ilies viewing the storm.
Russia has sent several hundred
Cossacks into Thibet, asserting that
China had granted permission for Rus-
sian soldiers to march through that
territory.
Dr. J. E. Cannon of Celeste, was hurt
by being thrown from his buggy so
badly that his leg had to be amputated
between the knee and ankle.
Highwaymen looted a store at Du-
rant, I. T., by holding up the proprie-
tor before he closed his place of busi-
ness for the night.
A race war threatens to break out
at Oklahoma City as the whites have
notified negroes that they are expected
to vacate.
Ping and Frank Williams are in jail
at Texarkana on a charge of moon-
shining.
Three Killed and Many Injured.
Lynchburg, Va.: Three persons were
killed and more than a score injured
by lightning at New Hope Church. Ap-
pomattox county. A meeting of the
James River Baptist association was
in progress, and a number of men took
refuge under an awning near the
building when the storm came up.
Lightning struck a tree in front of
the awning, causing the disaster and
creating panic among the crowds.
Two convicts were killed by guards
who suppressed a revolt of prisoners in
the mines of the Georgia Iron and
Coal company at Cole City, Ga.
Mrs. Julia Davis died at Beaumont
from accidental poisoning, having
taken a poisonous draught instead of
a dose of medicine.
Enlarging a Lake.
Dallas: Additional land has been
purchased by the Fin and Feather Club
adjoining its property near Hutchins,
south of this city, and engineers have
been engaged to arrange for increasing
the size of its lake. The club now has
a large area under water and it is ex-
pected that when the contemplated im-
provement is completed the club will
have one of the largest artificial bodies
of water in the State owned by an or-
ganization of its kind.
At a meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the old settlers of Kaufman
county, it was decided to postpone the
picnic called for Aug. 4 and 5, until
Aug. 26 and 27. The change was made
on account of bad weather.
The first meeeting of the general
policy board of the navy was held at
Washington Thursday.
United mine workers and operators
have reached an agreement for a year
in the Southwestern field.
Horrifying Death of a Child.
Fort Worth: As the result of burns
received from a gasoline explosion
Lillian Sledd, the five-year-old daught-
er of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sledd, has
died. Wednesday the little girl and
other children were discussing the
feasibility of starting a bonfire, and
the little girl went into the house and
came back with a small can full of gas-
oline and it was while she was hold-
ing a lighted match near the can that
it ignited and the explosion followed.
Part of the flames went down her
throat and into the nostrils. The little
one had convulsions Thursday morning
and expired shortly afterwards.
Rev. Magnus Rosendal must leave
Russia, according to an official order
banishing him from that country.
The school Board at Comanche, I. T.,
has let the contract for a three-story'
brick school building at a cost of
$10,017.50.
Five youths escaped from the house
of refuge of New York. They tunneled
under a brick wall thirty feet thick.
G. F. Giles, aged 73, and a resident
of Bell county since 1869, died at
Heidenheimer, leaving two sons and
one daughter living.
The town of Godley has been incor-
porated for free school purposes. The
incorporation side won by a vote of 44
to 36.
J. B. Curry, a wiper at the Sunset
round house at San Antonio,died as
the result of a practical joke. He re-
ceived a charge of compressed air
which inflated him like a balloon and
injured him internally.
Japan is alarmed at Russia’s defiant
attitude in Manchuria and may start
hostilities at a moment’s notice.
Will Rigby, a young man recently
from Leon County, had his right leg
broken at Goldthwaite, the result of a
horse falling on him.
Counterfeit dollars are being circu-
lated quite extensively at Sherman. ,
Frisco Doctors Cure Lock Jaw.
San Francisco: Doctors at the
Grand hospital have succeeded in cur-
ing a case of lockjaw. The man was
Pietro Raffino, Anti-toxin was inject-
ed in the muscles of his back. No im-
provement developed and he was given
an injection of anti-toxin into the
spinal canal. The doctors then drill-
ed a hole through the skull and in-
jected anti-toxin into the latteral
ventricle. The man is now well.
The governor of Illinois has ordered
troops to remain at Danville for an in-
definite period.
Frank Kelly shot and dangerously
wounded by Simon Lloyd at San Au-
gustine.
The 16-year-old son of Mr. Johnson
of Childress was drowned near that
place.
A Mexican woman killed her four-
year-old child at New Laredo, Mex-
ico.
Betting is conducted at the Cleve-
land race track in spite of official pea-
cautions.
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