The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1903 Page: 8 of 8
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THE SOUTHERN MERCURY.
MIS
for an injunction restraining the un-
ions and officers from maintaining and
continuing a boycott that has been de-
clared. The defendants are the Trade*
Council and the Electrical Workers'
union of San Antonio. Accrued dam-
ages in the sum of KMMO are asked for
In addition to 1(0 for each day Uiat the
alleged violation continues.
IN BRIBP.
THURSDAY.
The scholastic census of Fisher coun-
'^Victoria was visited by a heavy rain
* The^scholastic census of Grayson
C°They scholastic census of Tarrant
TOThtte2 Wollsteln of Fort Worth
a,MartinGBe^erykged eighty-one years.
^Brtwn* county "has erected a $26,000
*£ 'UTETSSt. factory is being
constructed nt Bis Sandy. ,
Eagle Lake went wet in a local op-
tion election held yesterday.
Four new rural free delivery r°"tPS
ere being operated out of Weather-
ford
W H. O'Belrne has been made presi-
dent of the Board of Trade of Oalnes-
T il? G. Lem wa acquitted at Fort
Worth for the alleged murder of Gil-
bert Gill, colored.
Application has been filed at Stnnton
for 160,000 acres of state land In Gaines
C°TheyBonrd of Trade of Navacota has
been organized with Ward Templeton
PIA8smaU child of Mr. Strain of nnrkP-
ville, swallowed broken glass and is in
a serious condition.
Pool rooms at Houiton are operaatlns
by taking commission bets to be placed
at Lake Charles, La.
Joe Chumlea, aged thirteen yenre.
broke his collar bone by falling out oi
a window at Hillsboro.
Brakeman I. F. Dickson was Injured
In a freight wreck on the Houston nnn
Texas Central near Howe.
O. O. Nation, editor and proprietor
of the Velnpco World, has been appoint-
ed collector of tha Port of Velnsco.
Judge Watts of Beaumont, has an-
nounced that he would not grant any
more injunctions in prohibition eases.
An International and Great North-
ern passenger train left the tracks near
Ban Antonio without -serious results.
The twelve-year-old con of W. W.
Fcroggs was killed by riH International,
nl and Oieat Northern train near Lare-
do.
K. T. Penn secured a 510,000 verdict
ngalnst tho International and Gr at
Northern railway at Bryan for person-
. al Injuries.
The boiler of a threshing machine ex-
ploded near Colilnsville. W. B. Porter
way slightly lijured and his son badly
scalded.
• Clay Uodgr-rs was killed by an elec-
tric current at Houston. He was a
lineman for the Southwestern Tele-
graph company.
W. F. McAnaney of Sherman secured
a $9,700.50 Judgment against the M's-
tourl, Kansas and Texas railway for
personal Injuries.
Cavett & Washington's store, near
Gatesvllle, was burglarized and then
set on Are by the criminals In order to
hide traces or their work.
Allle Montgomery has been granted
a change of venue from Grimes to
Brazos county. Defendant Is charged
with the killing of Joe 11.ill about four
years ago. *
The McKinney Telephone company
has been organized and succeeds the
Southwestern company at McKinney.
The officers and directors are S. O.
Scott, president; J. E. Farnsworth, vice
president; Bedlow, secretary; Jess*
Shain, treasurer; W. R. Faught. Cap-
ital stock $30,000.
Attorney General Bell and District
Attorney Bee of San Antonio, In the
name of the state of Texas. Hied the
first suit ever filed against labor un-
• Ions under the anti-trust law, seeking
to recover heavy penalties and asking
burned at
FRIDAY.
T. G. Byrd's residence
Corslcana.
The Nestor house burned at Temple.
Loss $2000.
Theo C. Ayers, aged flfty-flve years
was shot to death by Corrine Wilson
at Galveston.
Jim Vaughn has been arrested In
connection with the killing of A. M.
Robinson at Mlneola.
A wreck on the Texas and Pacific
railway near Forney caused delay in
traffic. No one was injured.
The two-yeafr-old child of Rufe
White fell in a tub of water and
drowned ut its home near Gainesville.
A. O. Timm of Halletsvllle, proprie-
tor of the Opera House saloon at that
place, has filed a petition In bank-
ruptcy.
P. Freeman purchased two hundred
and three acres of land near Ennis
from J. W. Lucas, the consideration
being $13,000.
The Taylor Fair association has
changed the dates of Its annual exhi-
bition to July 8-10, on account of
heavy rains of this week.
The Waco Times Herald will resume
the publication of a morning paper on
September 1. This will not Interfere
with the afternoon publication.
The two-masted schooner Clover, M.
H. Paulsen, master, bound from Port
Arthur to foatzacoakos, Mexico, with
a cargo of lumber, went down near
Velasco.
H. A. Denlson, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Waxnhachle, has been transferred to
Beaumont. Mrs. C. F. Vaughn of Waco
succeeds Mr. Denison.
Late developments at New Braun-
fels indicate that Mrs. lCmll Kronle
was not criminally assaulted by a n?-
gro and that her condition Is due to
an attack by a white man-
James A. Moreley was found dead on
his porch at Temple while his wife
was lying dead in her bed. The former
rMs shot to death while the latter's
demise was caused by hatchet wounds.
Cnpt. C. S. Rlche, United States en-
gineer, who has been transferred to
| Chicago, was. presented v. 1th a gold
; watchchaln« and charm by the em-
ployes of the United States engineers'
department at Galveston.
j About fourteen thousand dollars In
' checks was lost In Uie mall at Nacog-
; doches Thursday. The checks weri
I In payment of the first dividend de-
clared by the referee In bankrutpey In
1 the mutter of A. Wettermaik & Son.
SATURDAY.
Bud White was acquitted of murder
at Decatur.
Seventeen Mexicans were drowned
near Beevllla.
The scholastic census of Harrison
i county is 10.D09.
Claud Helm was acquitted of a
charge of murder at Decatur.
The Fourth of July Is being appro
prlately celebrated throughout the
state.
Bel ton ■ hns been attacked by the
Civic League microbe and threatens to
clean up.
Charles Mapes, aged sixteen years,
was seriously Injured by a horse fall-
ing on him at Balllnger.
Sherman Horn, electrician for the
Northern Texas Traction company,
died at Handley of typhoid fever.
Prof. Geo. E. Kramblch of Hunzton,
Pa., has been elected teacher in Latin
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8ELDEN R. WILLIAMS,
President
•TOOK AND FARM JOURNAL CO.,
Fort Worth, Tex.,
Preside nt.
GEORGE B. LATHAM,
Manager
TEXAS FARM JOURNAL,
Dallas, Texas.
Secretary.
STATE ORGANIZATION FORMED.
The 8ooiety of Equity Now Has a Strong Foothold in Texas—Dollar Wheat
and Eleven Cent Cotton Demanded in 8trong Resolutions.
Deleeates from the various local Means of Kennedale Union No. 1, was
g ®" , . - . f passed, Indorsing the recommendation
unions of the American Society of *. the' Natlonw, society of Equity at
Equity In Texas met at the Merchants in(jianupolls. Ind., that farmers raising
Club rooms In Fort Worth Saturday wheat should hold for higher prices
1 formed a state organization. Mr. than %
*iedenfofThel*™ock and^FairtTjour- bushel for wheat at Galveston la an
MM^pany! was ejected stated presl- ef.ultable prl; c to the raiser, and that
r ofn^h^Tw^rgFarmLJournal"sec- such a price will'be obtained for wheat
rotary! &5S£*S™& " the Southwest before another har-
" '"^"e^^merber^haraZ^ "On motion of C. A. Lomax of Me-
^d "ve« submTtted and those in ridian Union No. 8. a resolution was
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rVnortPd that thVrank ai d adopted, that the price of cotton here-
♦h. ^ toforc advocated by the society of 11c
rJher for tl ° P®r P°und tor middling at Galveston.
of The whole. Alport of tb- S 'an ^u.Uble" pHce'^and
,blag* published in the Fort th^ 8^e&.mftcnrB ^hould endeavor to
r Register, rays: get not lens than that price tor the
"The delegates from throughout the crop 0f 1903-4. In support of his res-
tkn IIASIIUU . _ A. _ • AL . 4 _ A A
-- are enthusiastic over the results olutlon. Mr. I^mnx stated that cotton
Ir local societies are rhowlng. an<l buyers in Meridian were offering to pay
->rt many benefits being derived fanners 10c for nil the middling cotton
i cb-operatlon. thev can deliver In October,
"his Society has been working in -The live stock Interests of the state
Southwest among farmers not Were discussed, and on motion of J.
! a year, and Its growth In very h. Thomson of Meridian Union No. 8,
EtKfaotory to its membership. The a resolution was passed expressing the
of Equity Is a business organ- necessifvy for co-operation in the sale
of farmers, looking to an Im- 0f uve stock by the breeders and live
od of producing and mar- atock raisers of the country, and urg-
crops. There are now more ing the present organised live stock
Societies In the United association to devise ways and means
inleed for this purpose. of acomplishlng this end In the ad-
sesslon this morning Selden vancement of the live stock Interests of
is of Fort Worth was elected the Southwest.
and George B. Latham of "H. L Latimer moved that a vote of
try. Delegates wore aj.- thanks be extended to the Retail Mer-
the Farmers' Oongresk. chants! Association of Fort Worth for
ou July 7 tho use of its hall. The society ad-
journed, subject to the call of the pres-
ident."
offered by C. A. Me-
and German for the high school at Gal
veston.
Harry Prowse has been made book-
keeper for the city water and light
commlsson at Austin, vice W. G. Hill,
deceased.
Deputy Sheriff Hahn of Brownwood
was shot by an unknown person at
Brownwood. His wounds are not of a
serious nature.
The two-your-old child of Will Doug-
las of Decatur, pulled a pot of hot soud
over on itself and died from the effects
of burns received.
Bishop E. J. Dunne of Dallas is at
El Paso, visiting the churches of his
diocese. Monday he will administer
confirmation to a large class In the ca-
thedral at Ysleta, El Paso county, said
to be the oldest church In the United
States.
The filing of applications to purchase
state school land passed off extremely
quiet at Stanton. Fifty-two thousand
eight hundred acres of land In Gaines
county came from under lease yester-
day, 32,200 acres were filed on by set-
tlers, leaving 19,600 acres unsold.
Directors of the Bryan Cotton Seed
Oil Mill have re-organlzed by the elec-
tion of the following officers: J. W
Singleton of Waxahachle, president;
E. M. Weyl of Hearne, vice president:
P. S. Grogan of Hearne, secretary; and
J. W. English of Bryan, treasurer and
manager. Improvements and repairs
for the coming season will begin at
once.
The entire Texas cotton belt has re-
ceived heavy rains in the past twenty-
four to forty-oight hours. The rain
extended from Nueces county on the
south to Grayson county on the north,
and not much further west than Bexar
county In the southern portion, to Par-
ker county In the northern portion, I.
e., the eastern and southern counties
received the heaviest rainfalls.
MONDAY.
Mr. Rhodes was killed at Arleston,
I-Iarrlson county.
A cloudburst near Leesvllle caused
much damage to crops.
The Guadalupe river Is on a record-
breaking rise at Victoria.
The street car strike at Beaumont
continues with no new phases.
A freight wreck near Lullng delayed
traffic, but no one was injured.
Corpus Christl reports a scarcity of
provisions as the result of recent rains.
A two-headed calf Is the latest freak
that has made Its appearance In Hill
county.
The Citizens' National bank of
Jacksonville will open for business In
a tew days.
Mahlon Seward died at Denlson from
the effects of gunshot wounds acci-
dentally administered.
Dr. J. C. Reese of Cameron, was In-
jured by the explosion of a vulcanlzer
while he was engaged In dental work.
A. C. McBrlde and son, Bob Mc-
Brlde, were seriously stabbed by D. A.
Mitchell. The affray > curred near
Mnrlln.
John Coy has been arrested at At-
lanta on information Hubelo, I. T„
where he is wanted on a charge of
murder.
A man by the name of Hardin of
Sulphur Springs, was severely wounded
with a knife in the hands of Albert
Murphy.
The Texas and Pacific Telephone
company of Colorado has purchased
the Snyder exchange and assumed the
management of that property.
A negro has been arrested In con-
nection with the killing of Mrs. Emtl
Kronle near Marion and Is in Jail at
San Antonio for safe keeping.
The track of the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass rallrohd has not been re-
paired since the flood at Beevllle last
week and the party of Dallasltes en
route to Rockport on a fishing trip
can not proceed further than San An-
tonio.
Two corporate charters of the IClng-
Crowther Pipe Line company, two
Texas oil concerns, capitalized, re-
spectively, for $3,000,000 and $200,000,
were forfeited in the district court at
San Antonio and A. C. Pancoast was
appointed receiver. No defense was
offered by the officers of either con-
cern, not evea a formal answer being
filed.
A rice canal company has been or-
ganized with a capital of $300,000 to
develop 10,000 acres of rice land In
South Texas. It will be charteded un-
der the name of the Southern Rice
Plantation company. The stockholders
of this company are composed largely
of Indiana people, who, having made
thorough Investigation through their
representative, H. M. Spang of Terre
Haute, Ind., invested.
TUE8DAY.
Addison Clark Jr. died at Weather-
ford.
Dr. A. B. Flint Is dead at Hughes
Springs.
The Sunday law is rigidly enforced
In Beltori.
The scholastic census of Parker
county Is 5645.
Red river sustained a 30-foot rise
during the recent flood.
The Texas Farmers' congress con-
venes to-day at Bryan.
The Rio Grande river at El Paso has
returned to Its normal channel.
Argument is being heard in the Joe
I<awrence case at Fort Worth.
The CltlsenB' National bank will
open at Cleburne on August 1.
Frasler Williams, colored, was
killed by a stray bullet at Houston.
Truck growers of Lamar county
were In session at Purls yesterday.
Rev. George W. McDanlels of Dallas!
is conducting a protracted meeting at
Trey.
The elghteen-months-old lnfnnt of
Valentine Morales wbb drowned at San
Antonio.
A freight train on the Katy road
was wrecked near Mllford without
serious results.
Mrs. Reglna Moore of Clarksville
was thrown from a hack and her
collar bone broken.
Charles D. Green, Jr., of Orange, was
Injured about the head and face by
an explosion of powder.
William Harkness was shot and
dangerously wounded by Paul Shef-
field at San Augustine.
Physicians of Galveston county
have organised with Dr. C. W. True-
heart ns president.
John Marbel was found dead in the
road near Bowie. His pistol was on
the ground near the dead body.
W. H. Lax was given the death pen-
alty at Greenville for the murder of
an Infant said to have been his child.
The captain and crew of the schoon-
er Clover, which foundered off the
coast at Velasco, have gone to Gal-
veston.
Fannie Scott, colored, was practical-
ly disemboweled at Houston and will
| What Do You Guess?
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=TEXA>S STATE, FAIR
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probably die. Dave Scott 1b wanted tn
connection with the crime.
The Brazos County Singing conven-
tion concluded a two days' session at
Kurten by electing I. M. Cook of Steep
Hollow, president, and Roy Zimmer-
man of Cottonwood, secretary and
treasurer.
George Brakevllle, a steam pipe fit-
ter In the employ of Swift & Co., at
Fort Worth, fell from the scaffold in
the engine room while at work and
sustained n concussion of the brain,
from the effects of which he died.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Y. M. G. A. at McKinney
the following new directors were elect-
ed to (111 vacancies: T. C. Perry, A.
V. Mayes, J. H. Hill, F. G. Jones. John
Church was elected vice president.
The Continental Cattle company will
this week commence moving 6000 head
of two-year-old steers from the com-
panys' ranch In the Texas Panhandle,
to the Holt pasture, In Southeastern
Montana. The cattle will be shipped
from Estelllne, in Hall county.
Prof. B. C. Pittuck, agriculturalist of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
station and secretary of the Farmers'
congress, will leave Texas to accept
the position of adjunct professor of
agriculture In the Agricultural and
Mechanical college of Louisiana at
Baton Rouge.
Midland Lodge No. 147, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, of Temple,
elected the following officers to serve
during the coming year: James S.
Jones, master; o. R. Shearer, secre-
tary; E. H. Vaden, collector; W. T.
McGlnnls, treasurer; It. R. Martin,
chairman of board; James S. Jones,
George P. Key and I*. Skerritt, trus-
tees.
San Antonio, Tex., July 6.—Mat Kim-
ball, a negro charged with the murder
of Mrs. Emile Gronle near New
Braunfels, was captured by Deputy
Sheriff Stokes of Guadeloupe county
Saturday morning and yesterday was
brought to San Antonio under a heavy
guard of sheriff's officers and the New
Braunfels military company.
In order that suspicion as to who the
negro was, and in order to avoid any
effort to lynch him en route, the negro
was clothed in female apparel and
reached here in that garb. He was
taken direct from the International and
Great Northern depot to the county
jail and was safely behind the bars be-
fore his presence tn the city was gen-
erally known.
The negro Is well known In Guada-
loupe county, having been raised
there, and was captured not far from
the home of his parents near the town
of Kingsbury. His description fully
tallies with that given by Mrs. Gronle
as her assailant.
■ After having been lodged In jail here
Kimball made two full confessions of
his crime, one to Sheriff Tobln in the
presence of a doten others, and the
other to a newspaper reporter. Both
confessions were identical In every
particular and conform strictly to the
ante-mortem statement made by the
murdered woman, except that the ne-
gro admits to having outraged his vic-
tim before he disemboweled her. His
confession In substance Is as follows:
He entered the room where Mrs.
Gronle waa after Mr. Gronle had left
the house to go to work on the farm.
He demanded money of Mrs. Gronle
and upon her refusal to comply with
the demand seised her by the throat
and forced her to the floor. Be con-
tinued choking her until her struggles
had almost ceased and then accom-
plished his purpose.
The negro continuing his confession,
said that he then placed his knee on
the prostrate woman's arms so as to
pin them to the floor and plunged It
diagonally across her body, literally
disemboweling her. He then ran from
the house.
He threw his bloody knife away and
went home, where' he changed his
clothes and continued his flight to the
corn fleld near Klngrsbury, where he
was captured by a party of pursuers
headed by Sheriff Stokes of Guade-
loupe county. He was taken first to
Seguln, but on account of the excite-
ment of the people there he was se-
cretly taken from jail to New Braun-
fels and there placed aboard a train
guarded by the New Braunfels mili-
tary company and brought here.
The negro's confession was deliber-
ative and made after the usual warn-
ing given In such cases. He fully real-
ises now what hit punishment will be,
but seems to be Indifferent on that
point; but he said in answer to a ques-
tion that he did not know at the time
he committed the crime that he would
have to die for it.
There Is considerable excitement
here hut no effort has been made up
to this time to prevent the law taking
Its course.
Last night the negro reconsidered
his confessions and said the whole
story was made up on account of
promises made htm by a negro detec-
tive who was placed In the cell with
htm here.
President Roosevelt has refuted to
commute the sentences of Charles Bar-
rett and Dora Wright, who will be
hanged at South McAlester, 1. T„ July
17. Barrett was convicted of killing
John Hennessy,'.an aged miser. Tha
Wright woman is a negress, who waa
convicted of whipping a little child to
death.
The war department has telegraphed
Gen. Grant, commanding tile .Depart-
ment of Texas, asking information re-
garding Lieut. Soionen or the Twelfth
Infantry, who some time ago was
granted live days leave of absence, but
has not returned to his station. Hla
record is clear and it is feared that
some disaster has occurred to him. '
The international automobile race for
the James Gordon Bennett cup, run at
Bally Shannon, Ireland, was won
by Jenatzy, a member of the German
team, who covered the distance of
370% miles In 6:36:09. Two members o(
the French team ran each other s<|
close for second place that It will not
be known until this afternoon whether
DeKnyffe or Farman is entitled to the
honor. Only one minute divided them.
It Is thought likely that DoKnyffe'q
claim to second will be upheld.
Booker T. 'Washington delivered an
address at Louisville, Ky., last night,
in which he declared that lynch law
was not confined to any one* section of
the United State.
The United States transport Kilpat-
rick sailed for New Tork from Manila,
with 500 tons of exhibits for the St.
Louts exposition, a battalion of the
Fifth inffantry and the bodies of 300
soldiers.
Captain Castle, the auditor of tha
treasury ot the postoffice department,
made the official estimate that the
postal deficiency for the year Jnat
closed will be 4.<17.202. The deficit for
the previous fiscal year was <2,961,170.
The Association of American Railway
Master Car builders has adjourned Its
annual conference at Saratoga, N. Y.,
after electing the followltng officers:
President. A. W. Brester, New Tork;
treasurer, John Klrby. Adrian, Mick;
secretary, Jos. W. Taysr, Chicago.
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