The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1901 Page: 6 of 6
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rives at Beaumont
AND VISITS niSWONDEitfljL WELL
Masy Petroleum Peorle (ran Chicago. New
York and Other Cities ere flock
kg to the Scene.
DR. BECTON.
COMMITTEE CHOSEN.
The Superlntendanf of the* Blind A ay lam
Departs Thl* Life.
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HARD AT WORK.
tin* Down to Bnloni.
SAPPHIRE MIXES
PRECIOUS STONES IN FERGUS
COUNTY. MONTANA.
Ontpni This S i on W'll Be \err tJ r;e
—StonM Sent to London and Antwerp
to Be Cut—The Mines Ars Not I'Jiiy-
in; Out.
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• Fergus county. Montana P0S3?&-**S
one of the most remarkabie rnin^s in
the world—the Yogo sapphire proper-
ties—in that the precious stones are
•found in regularly formed Veins 1'ke
£old. silver and other valuable metals,
whereas in other communities dia-
monds, sapphires, opal? and the other
•buried treasures are found in pockets
or clusters. Consequently a descrip-
tion of. this unique mine and its mode
*if operation will prove int vesting.
The sapphires are found scattered
along the lead or vein. and. as in an
•kind of mining, there is mm h " d^a •
work, as well as frequent rich strikes
i-ast month, for instance, five block
of ground wr-rr worked: from oi %
•000 carats w^re extracted, while from
another of equal dimensions only 74
carats were taken, and the cos' of
working the bletek from which the 10.-
"00 carats were secured was on v about
one-tenth that .if working the other
iour blocks, from which 8.000 carats
were realized. The sapphires are found
In a perpendicular lead of dry c
with wall rock on cither s>de. and
this clayey formation is mined, it i
-Thoroughly washed an '. the gems ex
traded and picked over. THey art
.all sizes and various degrees cf exce'.
sence, but the amethystine g?ro> cor.
tin tie very rare So far the torn pan
has worker! down only fifty or six ■
feet, but prospecting hns bee.i done *•
a d°pth three time.* as ereat and ther
are sapphires all the way down. Th
.deeper they zo the harder the forma
tion becomes, requiring grealer
posure to cause disintegration.
dirt that is worked over this yetir v/ii!
•i e exposed through the lat" fall an i
winter to the a< tion of the eleroe. ••
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pausing disintegration, and next year
it will be washed over again in the
sittite boxes, and there may be extract-
ed as many gems as were found this
year. Through the summer many
gems are thrown aside as culls, but
men ar - left at the mines all through
the winter, and they devote their spare
tine to sorting over the culls. There
would, however, be no dinger in leav-
ing the mines unguarded through th*
winter. for nature protects them. After
t'lp water freezes no one can extract
th" sapphire from their hard clayey
bed. The output for this sesson will
lie vtry large, and some particularly
fine stones have been seeurcd. The
largest stone yet found at thr mines
was discovered early in June of this
year, and if. weighed nineteen carats
The demand for the sapphire is con-
srantly increasing, and the supply is
inefficient despite the fact that many
individuals are also engaged in min-
ing them at various spots along the
Missouri river, in addition 'o the Yogo
min's. All the stones are shipped di-
rect to London, where many of them
are cut. while other* are aent to Ant-
werp fot that purpose. But about half
of he product finds its way back to
the United States, several lance Amer-
ican companies havine contracts with
the Eng-ish firm to which the raining
company sells its product. The duty
on the cut gems *s only 10 per cent.
The actual mining season is from April
15 to October ol. ur until the water
freezes. There, is no indication that
the mines are playing out: on the con-
trary. they seem to b:> getting richer
As a by-product, considerable corun-
dum is being mined, but this will be
valueless until a railr > .d shall have
rr-en hui't to th-"1 min'>s Fergus coun-
ty belne the onlv one in the state un-
a. quainter! with the iron horr^e. Co-
rundum is worth CIO per ton in Ten-
don. and is used in the marking of
emery wheels, etc. Thousands of tons
of this material are now lying on the
"dump" awaiting cheap transporta-
t:on. and, even should the sapphires
become exhausted, the railroad would
make the mining of the latter a most
profitable undertaking.
'Belgian I
^ Hares \
TKey Are Like-
ly to Seriously
Damage Far-
mers' Crops.
Many of the visitors to Kansas City
during the Democratic national c n-
vention discovered a "fad" of which
most politicians in this part of tie
country are ignorant, but of which tac
I nited States government has already
taken serious notice. In several pans
of Kansas City the sign "Belgian
Hares" was exposed, and the iav.sti-
gator who explored the establishment
behind the sign found for sale a sort oJ
rabbit that exists now in small num-
bers in captivity, but that may so;n
have to be destroyed in prodigious
numbers to avert the damages f rm-
erly wrought by other rabbits in Aus-
tralia and in our own western country.
Just now the Belgian hare is a rare,
expensive and curious creature, as full
of "points" as a prize bulldog. It is
not .maintained by the sellers of these
bares that they are especially delicate
or superior to jackrabbirs as fo.d.
Some of them come high, as much as
II ,000 having been paid in an exc tej
community by a buyer badly siri. kea
with the Belgian hare fever. But their
fur is considered to be cornme c ally
valuable, and espeulally to the manu-
facturers of hats. Their greatest pres-
ent value, however, seems to be ir.
their responsiveness to the expectation
.that they shall presently make Belgian
hares nc longer scarce in this cou ltry.
It is consideration of thl3 expectation
that has led the department of agricul-
ture to undertake to prove what indul-
gence In the Belgian hart "fad" may
bring us to. A year ago there ware no
Belgian hates in Ca ifornia. A Loa
Angeles newspaper printed an article
en Belgian hares. There are n ;w said
to be 50,000 Belgian hares in Lrs An-
geles. and the demand fir them for
breeding purposes has kept the p ic s
so high that they are too expensive f ir
food. The desire to own and Lr ed
th* m has extended swiftly eastward.
Before it has become too strongly root-
ed. Secretary Wilson wants to tscer-
tain whether there ia aot danger that
I y letting the craze go on the count y
may be called upon to face the prob em
encountered bv Australia in is eff-rt
to get rid of rabbits, the fight for rab-
bit extermination in that country hav-
ing cost the government mere than
$5,000,000 up to 1SS8. Kansas has paid
more than $50,000 a year in bounties
for rabbit killing. In Califo nia they
still have "rabbit drives" to kill oC
rabbits by v;hol~sale, and in the Saii
Joaquin valley it is estimated chat
500.000 rabbits were killed in drives
between 1888 and 1898. If it shall be
found by the investigation about to be
undertaken that the Belgian hare is
likely to become as great a auisance in
a wild state as other rabbits that hayo
"xhausted farmers and treasuries, Sec-
tary Wilson will sound a note cf warn-
ing. '1 hey may be quite harmless in
captivity, but when the first pair o*
Belgian hares nas burrcwed out into
favoring conditions it may cost mil-
lions of dollars to repair the brrak.—
New York Times.
rhaps, the most to be feared, because
is t.ie most plentiful and has a
of living among the ceiling raf~
adobe houses. At- night.
Beaumont Tex., Jan. 15.—John M.
Guffy of Pittsburg, Pa., one of the
largest oil producers in the United
States, and one of the capitalists who
is backing Capt. Lucas in bis oil in-
vestigation in this country, has ar-
rived in ths city and is the guest ot
Capt Lucas for several days. Mr. Guf-
fy bears the distinction of opening
more oil fields, perhaps, than any oth-
er man in the United States. He was
the first man in the Corsicina field. In
the Kansas field he developed one of
the largest districts. He was a f rtu-
nate backer of the only well in the
United States which compares wiih
Lucas geyser here, the tig well in
West Virginia, which was discovered
several months ago and which flowed
about 6000 barrels per day. Mr. Guffy
ia no exception to the rule and unre-
servedly pronounces this we 1 one of
the greatest wonders in tbe wot 11.
A correspondent sought Mr. Gu°fy to
determine, if possible, his intention
for the future. He was asked what he
would do with the oil and whether or
not he proposed refining it here or
shipping it away crude. He r p'.ie 1
thai he was not prepared to make a
statement of this sort. "Until I have
found some way to stop th s enor.nou3
fiow," said Mr. Guffy, "I can not say
what the future will be. This one
question of sa\ing this tremon 'ou.3
Ccw v. i.i doi-iiuati every cth<r pro-
ject. Then. too. we have yet-to de-
termine the true value of tbe oil before
we can market it."
Like every one else. Mr. Guffy is
6imply carried off his feet by the mag-
nitude of this fiow. It would givo th.?
newsapaper correspondents in Eteau-
mont a deal of pleasure if they could
frame such word* as woul 1 leave fie
impressions that are being ma ie r y
this well. After all that has been siii,
telegrams continue to fiow in asking
for reliable reports about the well. The
city treasurer of Beaumont received a
tedegram from Massachusetts a->kin:
for a true statement of the repcr.s
about thp well. The well is ail t a1
reports have stated it to lie. The most
experienced oil men. Samuel ,M .lo ies.
for instance (tae mayor of To'.ed % O.
says the well is flowing every b t < f
20.000 barrels per day. The stream is
six inches in diameter where it i s :es
from the pipe, about a foot abov t ie
ground; and like the water from a
nozzle, it shoots straight I .to th-" ai-
at least 150 feet before it snra;. s. t e i
it scatters in whatever direction the
wind may be blowing.
Capt. Garity of Corsicana says th?
specific gravity of the oil is about 2'.
He is unable to determine its has?
but estimates it to be a very j-o d
grade c>f heavy lubricating oil.
Monday mornings trains brought
many additional visitors, some trom
the oil fields of California. It w re
ported here that over 250 tickets wer •
sold in New York Monday for Be^u
mont.
A train left Chicago en rout? here.
There are any number of synd cit s
farmed here and several have li en
formed in other places for operations
here. Members of two syndicates form-
ed in Waco are here. Members or" on"
in Fort Worth are here with unlimi-
ted capital, besides innumerable com-
binations of Beaumont capital have
been formed.
Representatives here for ea tern
firms have received authority to spend
any amount of money in this fiel i.
But speculations have about reach-
ed a standstill. Land owners have
become so bewildered over the excite-
ment that all with one accord seem to
have decided to bold off for a day or
so and see what turns up. It makes
men sick to sell one day for a fabu-
lous price in their estimation aud the
next day find in their estimation re-
sold for fifty times as much.
W. W. Kyle, who owns one-fo irth
of the 5000-acre tract upon which the
welt is located, refused $500,000 f_r his
share and it is understood that offers
have been made for stock in the
Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufactur-
inf company, which owns 2300 ncres
adjoining the gusher, which "w oul 1
amount to nearly $100 per acre.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 15—Dr. Edwin
Pinckney Becton, supenintendent of
the State Asylum for the Blind, died
at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon from
an attack of la grippe. Dr. Becton was
born in Gibson county. Tennessee,
June 27, 1834, ar.d came to San Au-
gustine county, Texas, in 1541 with his
father and mother, the former being a
well-known Presbyterian minister.
"Hie family afterward lived in Nacog-
doches. Rusk and Cherokee counties.
Dr. Becton was graduated in medicine
at the University of Tennessee in 1857.
He enlisted in the Confederate army
in 1862 and served as surgeon of the
Twenty-second Texas regiment. After
the war he located in Hopkins county.
He was Unalterably opposed to the
liquor traffic, and took the stump for
the Prohibition party in 1877. In 1857
Austin, Tex., Jan. 14.—In vthe hoasa
j {Saturday the speaker asked Mr. Mc-j
I Fall if he had decided what course he
: had determined upon in regard to his
| request that Mr. McFall name two
I members to represent him on the corn-
Austin, Tex.. Jan. 17.—In the ab-
sence of Lieut. Gov. Browning Presi-
dent Pro Tem. Miller called the senate
to order Wednesday morning. Th%
rollshowed only eighteen senators
present, three less than the number
stitute, been made wholly responsible
for the charges and investigation, he
thought there was additional reason
why he should be on the committee^
But since the speaker had taken it
upon himself to decide that he should
not be a member of the committee, he
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j he was married to Miss Mary Eliza preferred to leave tbe appointment of
| Dickson, who died in 1866, leaving the committee entirely to the speaker
i three children—namely, Mrs. *. L. and to allow him to assume the re-
Wortham. now of this city; Mrs. J. J. sponsibility for it.
Nunnaly of Fort Worth, and Dr. Jo-
seph Becton. Two children of the sec-
ond marriage with Mrs. Olivia L.
Smith—namely. Mrs. Ellie B. McDan-
j nell and E. B. Becton. Jr.—survive.
; His third wife also survives him. Dr.
i Becton was a member of tbe Presbyte-
I
! rian church, a Mason. Odd Fellow and
i Knight of Pythias. He was superin-
: tendent of the blind asylum for six
! years.
Gov. Saycrs was very much affected
The speaker replied that he accepted
full responsibility for the committee;
by the news of Dr. Becton * demise, j following commit tee; Hendriek of
"He was in office when I came in. and
I k«pt him." said the governor. "No
oth^r man in the state was so well
fitted for the place. Not only was he
thoroughly competent, to fill the posi-
tion. but his great sympathy for the
■ unfortunates in his charge and unvary-
ing treatment of them made hirn suit-
able for the state.
W ts«el* Speak*.
■ Kalamazoo, Mien.. Jan. 15,—Boer
Delegate Wessels. who addressed a
large pro-Boer mass-meeting here
Monday night, spoke on the Boer in-
; vasion of Cape Colony. "To under-
; stand the situation." he said, "it is
necessary to go back to a period before
che war. I went to the American con-
sul, Mr. Stowe. at Cape Town, to
make arrangements to have President
McKinley ask for a court of arbitra-
tion, but Sir Alfred Milner told me 'it
is too late to talk of arbitration.' and
soon after he made the significant
| statement that 'South African element
must be crushed.' It was evident that
the British aimed not only to annex '
our republics, but to go further. They
: have driven us from our country, and
we have as much right in Cape Colony
as anywhere. Our supporters there !n-
' elude many English. DeWet has been
in touch with the movements since
Sept. 1. We will win—if not this year,
then next year. We will never submit
to the British flag. The British market
is already affected, and we hope Wall
street will be also until commerce
j joins with the common people in de-
manding the end of the war.
mitttee to investigate Congressman,
Bailey's course la the Waters-Pierce > On rao-
011 company matter. | Uon Senat°r Hin«er a cail of th*
Mr. McFall replied that precedent wa" °rdered tor ,he |,vrpose
and parliamentary procedure required an maintaining a quorum.
.. . .. , * ., . j After a few minutes wait enough
that the mover of a resolution be a I 6
. . ... ... | senators came in to make a quorum,
member of the resulting committee,0 ^ ,
, , , , ,, „ „ , Mr. Savage obtained passage of his
and since he had, by the Garner sub- , , .
resolution authorizing the sergeant-
at-arms to purchase stationery from
whom he pleases, where the state con-
tractor is not prompt in delivering or
the articles furnished are inferior.
Mr. Lipscomb's resolution was
adopted inviting President McKinley
to visit Austin while the legislature is
in session, in the event he carries out
bis intention to visit Texas in the
near future.
The committee on constitutional
amendments reported favorably on
, . Mr. Davidson's joint resolution re-
that he thought Mr. McFall stood in ... .
® , quiring a poll tax receipt in order to
the position of a prosecutor, and that ^Q{p jn <j-exas
he thought the committee should be! There werc intro<il,ced.
an impartial jury. He would appoint; ^ hous(, WedBMd Mr Gri
such a committee, and would ask them | _r- . „ . .. ... .
1 ottered a resolution, which was signed
; also by Messrs. Kennedy of Harrison,
■ Turpley, Bridges. Nolan. Stewart. Cai-
; lan. Little, Mugg. Goodlett and Lane,
providing for the appointment of a \
| committee of five to investigate the
: question of stabiishing closer rela. i
| tions between the United States and 1
j the southern republics. It was refer- J
; red to a special committee of five to
| be named by the speaker.
Mr. Mills of Red River was added to
the committee on edue*ation.
i Mr. Edwards of Fannin was added J
to the committee on agriculture.
Mr. Robertson of Williamson was
! added to the committee on labor.
A resolution by Mr. Seaburv provid- 1
ing for printing 300 copies of the leg.
islative manual for the u:se of the !
members was adopted.
Speaker Prince appointed the fol- !
lowing committee on railroad com- !
mission: Mr. Robinson of William- i
son. chairman: Messrs. Hogsett,Fears.
Ackerman. Stewart. Talbot, Meece. '
Lane. Nolan. P'ountain. Jones, Waller,
Wells of Red R.ver. Henderson of La-
mar. McMeans. Robertson of Harri-
Wbftt suffering
from mother's
frequently from a mother's neglect to
proper^ instruct her daughter 1
Tradition says
fer," and young women are wo <
There is alittle truth and a great daat
of exaggeration in thia. If
woman suffers severely afc
treatment, and her mother should Ha
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take thehr
daughters to a physician for ftxnmina-
tion ; but no mother need hesitate to
write freely about her daughter or «
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and aeenra •
the most efficient advice withovt <
charge. Mra. Pinkham's addraaa ia
Lynn, Mass.
to present evidence and to be heard
on the facts coming before tbe com-
mittee.
Tbe speaker then announced the
Rusk, chairman; Cole of Johnson, Lit-
tle of Bexar, Bryan of Taylor, Sca-
Lury of Starr, Lane of Fayette, Decker
of Hardeman.
Mr. Robertson offered a resolution
Inviting Hon. Joseph W Bniley to a
seat in the house, and to address the
rouse at 8 o'clock Saturday evening.
When a division was demanded after
a close viva voce vote, Mr. Ilobertnon
withdrew the resolution.
Senate concurrent resolution >o. 1,
inviting David B. Hill of N\w York
tc ctldress the legislature upon politi
cal is.jues, was ; ailed up for passage
1 v Mi. Napier.
Mr. Perkins t j posed Lie resolution
saying ics adaption would be tntsun.
derstoou. and ought be taken as an t
icdoife-nent o'. the recently suirge^toa
reorganization of the L e:ac-eratio!
party. He moved to table.
Mr. Napier yielded the close of the ' son. Pierson and Still.
argument to Mr. Mulkev. who 'aror. d | The resolution by Mr. I^ne pro-
Mrs. August Pfalzgraf, of South
Byron, Wis., mother of the young lady
whose portrait we here publish, wrote
Mrs. Pinkham in Januanr, 1308, saying
her daughter had suffered for two
years with irregular menstruation —
had headache all the time, and pain in
her side, feet swell, and was generally
miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly
replied with advice, and under date of
March. 1899, the mother writes again
that Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable
Compound cured her daughter of all.
pains and irregularity.
Nothing in the world equals Mrs.
Pinkham's great medicine for regu-
lating woman's peculiar monthly
troubles.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
■\otahle Newport Nuptial*.
Newport. Ft. L, Jan. 15.—Although
in the depth of winter, this well known
■watering place took on a semblance of
its summer gayety because of the wec-
; ciag of Alfred Gwynne Vanderhilt.
probably the most wealthy of the third
generation of the Vanderbilt family,
and Miss Eisie French, a charming
; Newport lady and former playmate of
the brideerooru and daughter of Mrs.
' Frederick Orme French.
I The ceremony took place at r.oon
in the Sebriski Memorial church of
St. John the Evangelist. Episcopal, far
! up in the old north part of the city
j on the very shores of Narragansett
bay. once the center of Newport's fash-
tLe resolution.
The house refused to table.
Mr. McMean? offered an arr.^ndmeni.
including W. J. Bryan in thr- invita-
tion.
Mr. Strother moved to table.
The motion to fable was lost—yeas
25. nays 57.
The amendment was then adopted.
Mr. Bryan of Taylor, interrupting
the pending question, asked to be re-
lieved from service on the Biiley in-
vestigating committee.
The speaker refused the request, say-
ing he supposed the duty was distaste-
ful to all those appointeu on the com-
mitteee. but it must be performed.
The senate concurrent resolution ia- i
viting W. J. Bryan and David B. Hill !
to address the house was adopted—62 j
ayes, 23 nays.
Mr. Gary was added to the commit- ,
tee on revenue and taxation by tne !
speaker.
Mr. Bailey was before commite and !
announced that he was ready for the j
investigation; that he would come at ,
viding for a joint committee of three
from the house and three from the
senate to investigate the claims of
victims of the Galveston storm to
state aid came up as a spevial order
r.nd was referred to the committee on
stnte affairs.
Majority and m'nority repevrts were
made from the committee on judiciary j
No. 2 on the bill by Messrs. Howland, 1
Evans and Calvin amending the gam-
bling law so as to prohibit private
games of cards for money. The ma-
jority repott was adverse.
Mr. Walker, who signed with
Messrs. Wells of Red River. Alfred.
Aldrich and HUI for minority report,
moved that, the latter be substituted \
for the majority report After much
debate the motion was adopted.
Mr. Moore offered a substitute for
the bill, simplifying its verbage. it
was adeipted. The debate was noe con-
cluded before adjournment.
The speaker appointed the follow-
ing special committee to consider the
Griggs resolution: Messrs. Giiggs,
any time the commiti.ee wanted him i Little, Bridges, Russell and Geiodlett.
and that he would secure the attend- j
ance of his witnesses without cost to The tornerstone of the public libra- !
the state. ry ?t Dallp« was laid by the Masonic
fraternity before a large audience.
Seed Di*t rlhnt ion.
Wharton. Tex., Jan. i4.—A meetint
of citizens convened at the courthouse
ion. but now far removed from tbe so- to appoint a committee to buy and dis-
cial whirl of Beilevue avenue. Miss
French made the choice of her own
place of worship and her own home
for the scene of the marriage, instead
of selecting the more pretentious but
less familiar surroundings which
would have been found in New York.
tribute cotton seed with $3200 s<mt by^
Gov. Savers for that purpose, to th«
Wharton county storm sufferers. Gov.
Savers states that he has already pro-
vided for the needs of the citizens of
East Bernard, the point in this eoun-
try where the ravages of the storm
were most seriously felt.
<;re«k*i<>o Wf«.
D( nison. Tex.. Jan. 17.—Katy train
No. 1 came in Wedniday fifteen min-
utes late on account of heavy travel.
Besides a large number of people who
were ticketed to Denison there were ■«
great many people going through, a
party of twenty Greeks were aboard,
who had come direct from the old
country. They were en route to
points in Colorado and San Francisco.
New Rai!ro*«*..
Austin. Tex.. Jan. 15—The charter
of the West and Ross Railway compa-
ny was filed. The principal office of McLenan trial came to a close Satur-
the company is at West. McLennan
Acquitted on In«;«nity.
Waco. Tex.. Jan. 14.—'The Duncan
county. It is the purpose of the com-
pany to build a railroad from West to
| Ross, a distance of seven miles. The
| capital stock is $10,000. Tbe incorpo-
! rators ar* E. D. Skinner. P. C. Harrill,
I W. B. Martin. H. M. Fowler. James
Hagan. T. M. West. W. C. Herlock. J.
I O. Jenkins. John C. Brazleton and J.
A. West.
Brltinb I.oki.
London, Jan. 15.—The official list of
casualties in the recent fighting at
Belfast shows f^nty-nine killed, fii-
ty-three wounded and seventy-two
missing. This does not account for
the British losses at other points of
simultaneous attacks by the Boers,
namely, Wonderfonteia, Nooitgedicht
and Wlldfontein, and shows that af-
fairs in that quarter were more seri-
ous than Lord Kitchener reported
them to be, and there is despondency.
day, and after Judge Scott read hi*
charge the jury retired to consider th -
case. The courtroom was crowded,
many ladles being present. Tbe p'ea
of insanity was urged by the lawyers
for tbe defense. Saturday night the
jury brought in the following verdict:
"We. the jury, acquit the defendant on
ground of insanity."
A wild shout of applause went up.
Hons. Barnett Gibbs of Dallas and
Cullen Thomas of Waco were sum-
moned to testify before the Baily in-
vestigating committee.
A Poet's Striking Appearance.
The training ship Buffalo has gone
to Manila.
A number of new Indiana postmas-
, ters are be'ng approved.
Count Lamsdorf has been appoiutad
Russian minister of foreign affairs.
Mayor Tomlinson of Artcsia. Mis".„
: was shot and killed by Dr. Ce>ok.
Miss Belle Fremont, prima donna
of the Bostonians, died at Denver.
John S. Simmons, president of the
Pennsylvania Central railway, is dead.
William Waldorf Astor has given
| £1,000 to the Prince of Wales hosp'.tal
fund. ,
Sharkey and McCoy will meet In a
twenty-round bout at San Franciso
Feb. 25.
Leab F. Jones, a young printer at
Fort Smith, 9rk.. shot himself through
the head.
Ralph S. Lansing fell from the nl 'th .
story of a New York building and waa
instantly killed.
Colombia claims Venezue'a has aid-
ed rebels in the former country, and ia
much incensed.
Dr. McAuley of Chicago says he waa
arrested In Portugese territory without
cause and imprisoned.
The Antwerp-Buenos Ayres line of
steamers has been sold to the Ham-
burg-American Steamship company.
The Carnegie company is to er ct
the largest plant In the world and will
compete with tne National Tube com-
pany.
The Nebraska senate passed a r so-
lution expressing sympathy with the
Boers in their struggle against Eng-
land.
In a sermon at Baltimore Cardinal
Gibbons declared that the spectacle of
Christians engaging in warfare was
enough to make them blush.
The executive board of the Electrical
Workers' union while in session at St
Louis, appropriated $2000 to assist
their members on strike in Texas.
A bill against hazing at the mili-
tary academy, with expulsion the pen-
alty, has been introduced in the lower
house of congress by Congressman
Foster.
Norman Selbv (Kid McCoy) and his
former wife. Julia, were married at
Gould's hotel, Boston, by Rev. William
T. McElvln In the presenee of four
personal friends.
The recruits for the German iron-
Holger Draehmann. the Danish poet, clad division In Chinese waters hare
is one of the moit attractive persona'i- ; been ordered to Join their ships forth-
iies in Scandinavia. He is unusua'ly with, as the squadron will remain in
tall and cf strik.ng appearance, and far eag^ indefinitely.
has. in spite of his 50 ve&rs and his
white hair, kept his soul young. He i After Feb- 1 trans-Missouri lines will
can still loathe and love like a boy of
j 20—a true vagabond, a roving spirit,
who never tamely submitted to the
laws of man.
Flint VMt «ix.
El Paso. Tex., Jan. 14.—The first dal-
egation of carnival visitors consisted
of four boys irom Tempie. whose ages
ranged from 9 to 11 years. They had
ran away from home and came in on a
freight, but were taken charge of by
iRrre?. The Producers company, j & gouthern pacif,c officer, who threat-
which is a combination of operators! ened tQ taRe them ^ jalJ The caj>ni_
j independent of the standard, made j yjU heard of the lads'
t. e same prtce. The re u^on is no pUg^t and engaged board for them at
relished by the small producers, who; R hotel ^ ^nixal officers will en-
for the last week have had visions of
PrlcB Kednced.
Pittsburg, Pa.. Jan. 15.—Because of
! the big strike of oil made in Texas by
I ol. J. M. Guffey, the Standard Oil j
! company reduced the price of Pennsyl-
vania crude from $1.25 to $1.20 per
Kn««n Denounced.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Mr. Tclier of
Colorado, speaking to an amendm. nt
he had offered to the army bill in the
senate, delivered a senatorial denun-
ciation of Gen. Eagan, former com-
missary general of the, United Sates
army. HI# statement included also
3.administration, because Gen. Era-i
heen retired, according to the Col-
orado senator s Sparge, as a "decor-
for his attach oa
oil selling at $1.50.
tertain them.
CrononnrMl Fs se.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 15.—P.
I/outer Wessels, one of the Boer dele-
«-ates t«> this country, said, regarding
Lord Kitchener's dispatch as to the
flogging of vhfo three peace commis-
sioners by Gen. DeWet near Llndley
and the shooting of one of them:
"f am certain^the report is false.
Such an act Jl^pitrary to Gen. De-
|m4t?|esptrary to tha
Spnrloa* Coin.
Waco, Tex., Jan. 14.—Rather poorly
executed counterfeit dollars, made in
defective molds of babbit metal, have
been circulated here. Although plainly
spurious several colored people have
received them as the genuine mintage
of the government Chief of Police
John Dollina and Policeman Robert
Buchanan arrested a boy who bad
ed one of
The boy has
Isadore Rush, formerly leading lady
for Roland Reed, has scored a notable
success as Belle Money in "The Rog-
ers Brothers In Central Park." She
possesses heretofore unsuspected ver-
satility as a comedienne, and can sing
and dance as well as she can act.
Many stock companies throughout
the country are swooping down on Nell
G wynne, and a dozen old and new plays
with her as the heroine will soon be
in use. Another and less explainable
rush is for Oul da's '"Under Two Flags,"
in "\rious stage versions.
If chaff was never impurity—
If knowledge was always power—
If truth always came out ahead—
if hats had never been Invented—
If civil life always meant civility—
If naughty oft timea was not nice—
.If jealousy waa aa rare aa its cause—
If there were mora "wills" than
"ifa"—
If some dogs wore clothes aad top
" • : - " ■ ::
charge shippers 3-4c per 100 pounds
for unloading and l-4c per 100 pounds
a day for storing freight at points
where there are no public warehousea.
Mrs. Van Grady, white, was brutally
murdered at Zanesville, O. Adrian
Madison, a colored barber, known to
be infatuated with the woman and
who was said by her children to have
left the house with clothing covered
with blood, is in custody.
Improvements to cost more than
$5,000,000 will be mad * thts year by
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
on its main line and on the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington A Baltimore
and the United Railway companies of
New Jersey divisions.
Cristian DeWet, nephew of the Boer
general, ia making speeches in South
Germany in behalf of the Boer cause
and arousing great sympathy. Tbe
meetings which he addressee
resolutions j protesting
against the overthrow of the two re-
publics.
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1901, newspaper, January 17, 1901; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192053/m1/6/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.