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M'KINNEY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1901.
Ba&y's Biriii.
How manv a woman dates a life of
Chronic invalidism from baby > bi^th.
She tries "different doctors and different
medicines" with itt-
tle benefit Then,
fortunately her At
ten lion is called to
the remarkable cures
resulting from the
use of Dr Pierce's
I-ivorite Pre scrip
tio'i. *nd she i ives
the medicine i trial
Her experience is
tha' ,f ninety ight
•aomen out of ever;,
hundred who use
"Favorite Prescrip
tio'i" for womanly
lis—she is cured
Dr Pierce , J'a-
>rile "'rev r:r>t inn
is peculiarly a
mother's. medicire
Its use t ef' r" ma
Lermtv m.iki> the
'hah\'- advent or.tc-
tjcaily pamle,> It
Bjiv s the mother >>tr -ngth to nurse
ner "hild l cures disease^ pert'!tar to
• omen and <ures them permanent lv
There r> no ilcohoi, opium, oc.i^e or
anv other narcotic in " F.t. orite IVvt-rtp-
tie-n " It i< piirelv . vegetable i..■-fin
tioii and ntnot !i- aerefc with th~ weak-
est 'onstitution
Mr- h*T>-. T*on * -n '>nrnri' Co
On! writ** '! c ;i tiul. wi rh.it I uk ; •
Piero «■ mcdwtnr* I lir t -t I "have r:tt h^i I I
w-<- in -r\ : h'-allli f«.i ' ■ i!2
front the fifth nf tnv 1i?t't £' ! I Iriwl
•Joaors ..'tt rent nudinuo lUwu.iwr
ran. n m-Tf *.-«« •« from \-->ur t!ni>
from in, -A h- 1 I. tvtr n-cl 1 took i
hntt!"- '-f H.T.i ri!« f'r«■-. rw'ion and three
boltl^- '■( '.jlrt'n Medical Ducovtry Jit.d 1
lw.iv- krei>ih> f*elkts iu ihf house "
I" Pierce - Common Sense Medical
Adviser pap- r b* und 1* sent fm ,p
receipt of >• one-cent stamp- o j. v
v-xf^-nse <,t i!' ilmg nn'y Ad«ires« Di.
K V 1'ierce buffalo N V
TEXANBTTES.
MEMPHIS INVADED
A CLASS AFFAIR.
S«t Dismissed for >a^ Specific Act, bat
as «u Kxauiplc.
Twenty-Tlirw Hundred Veterans are
There and More Coming.
VAST MULTITUDE IN THE CITY.
Rais Pat a Damper m the Programme and a
Postponement Is Made in Part
as a Consequence.
Dallas Is to have a new trumpst
rorps.
Stonewall county Issues $36,000
bonds.
Commissioner Powell of Austin says
the dam there can !>e rebuilt for $100,-
000.
During the recent storm at Taylot
several bouses were blown off their
blocks.
President Ripley of the Santa Fc
railway visited several Texas cltie
last week.
.James Wood one of Delta county !
oldest residents dicu at Charleston
that county.
The United Stat s ti--h commission
distributed over o«n>0 bass to club lake:
around Marshall
"«■ Capt. John A Da pray of the I'nitec
States army ha^ opened a rpcruitinj
office at Abibie.
A Dallas company has leased the
asphalt mine in Burnet county and it
is being developed.
Jesus Druja. aged 1-; yea s. fell off a
box car near Corpu.- <'h>isti and was
run over and killed.
Regular train- < n the Texas and New
Orleans railroad are running f'om
Beaumont to Nacogdoches.
The wife of Chaplain Gatlin of the
lpglslature died at the family resi-
dence. four miles east of Emory.
A meat market at Athens was broker
into, the safe blown open and the con-
tents. amonting to $160 in cash, taken
Austin's city council has passed ar
ordinance making eight hours a legal
day's work on all public works of that
city.
A runaway horse struck Romaldc
Hernandez at El Paso, knocking him
down and causing injuries resulting In
death.
J. A. Simmons died at Honham
Within a year Mr Simmons' wife, twe
daughters ancl him.se!? have passed
away.
Th*> San Antonio strike has ended
the men returning to work under th«
conditions prevailing before the trou-
ble originated.
Citizens of Keene, Johnson county,
joined the Santa Fe railroad in grad
ing and putting down cinders prepara-
tory to making Keene a station on the
Dallas branch of that system.
These additional changes have been
made in Texas postmasters' salaries:
Flore>ville. increased $200; Forney.
Gatesville, Giddings, Goldthwaite. Gon-
zales. Graham. Greenville and Groes-
beck. increased $100; Granbury, de-
creased $100.
Miss Sarah Seariglit. daughter ot
Col. Searight. leaves Austin on the 1st
proximo for Manila, where she is to be
united in marriage to Capt. Robert W.
Dowdy of the Twenty-second regular
infantry, stationed there.
Sister Mary of the Nativity, mother
mperior of the convent of the Incar-
nate Word at Puebla. Mex.. died in the
convent ^t Corpus Chr sti. She was
one of the faculty at Corpus Christi
convent between 1872 and 1896.
A son of Ed Brown, colored, living
five mites south of Beckvilie, was
struck by lightning and killed. Several
bead of stock were killed and a num-
ber of telephone poles west of that
place were badly splintered.
Anton Sirohmeyer engaged In a fist
tto and was knocked
to the sidewalk
the difficulty
tip a
Memphis. Tenn.. May 29
ihr.- hundred and fi\e members of th-
I'nited Confederate Veterans, survivors
of the great armies that battled for
the cause of the south during the war
of secession, and representing ll3o
camps of the organization, met in Con-
federate hall Tuesday morning for
their eleventh annual reunion. Sev-
eral delegations arrived too late in the
day to participate in the opening ses-
sion of the convention, but it is ex-
pected that when the gathering comes
to order at 10 o'clock this morning
there v.i.'l ! e !'u!ly 2500 oi l soldiers in
attendance.
Although the convention, in point of
oratory, enthusiasm and all other re-
spects was a most brilliant success,
the weather put a damper on the one
feature of the reunion which the good
people of .Memphis had arranged with
especial care and prde for the enter-
tainment of their many guests. This
was the great floral parade, which.
Sulphur Springs, Tex., May 29—Mr.
Mahaffey has received the following
letter from his son, who was among
those dismissed from West Point:
New York, May 24.—Dear F'ather:
You see from the above that 1 am in
New York. I was very much surprised
last night when a newspaper man came
irom West Point and told me that
i was to be dismissed, i could not
believe it. but to-day at 10:30 it was
verified and eleven of us are here in
New York to-night. The papers are
i full of it and the Herald and World,
Twenty- tw° biggest New York dailies,
offer to make a fight for us to get
j back.
This morning 1 called on the super-
intendent and told him all about my
part in the .affair, still he would not
change his mind. In iact. he said it
was beyond his power at present. How-
fever, he seemed to take a slightly dif-
ferent view of the affair and said 1
could probably get a commission in the
army after our class graduated. He
tol i me he would not oppose that. I
tneii asked him to stale whether or
uol I was being punished for my own
oliens? alone. He said that it was
not. it was more of a corps or class
aft..;r, and some men must be dis-
missed as examples. Such is fate. The
blow fell on me for being president
of the class. Shannon, the vice-presi-
dent. was suspended for a year, when
he took uo active part whatever In the
affair.
1 can't tell just what ie best for
rue to do now. I have talked with Gen.
MINE EXPLOSION.
li a Tennessee Coal Mine in which
Twenty-one Men are Killed.
DYNAMITE IGNITES THE DLSi.
THEY ARE COMING.
Memphis to Making Prepartiona to Enter*
tain the Big Crowd.
Tie Misers are White Men and a Major it
Married Heroic Work of Rescuers.
Many are Buried.
28.
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the
Chattanooga, Tenn., May
special from Dayton, Tenn..
Times, says:
At the Richland mine of the Day-
ton Coal and Iron company, two miles
from Dayton, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday
a terrific explosion of gas formed in
the coal dust resulted in the death of
twenty-one men, all white and most of
them married and with families.
The explosion was caused by what
Is known among miners as a "blown
hlant." It is the custom of the miners
to place blasts and tire them off at
quitting time each afternoon, leaving
the coal thus thrown down to be
loaded and hauled from the mine the
Memphis, May 28.—From present In-
dications the gathering of the United
Confederate Veterans will be the most
notable held by the organization since
its inception. All day and all night
the guests of Memphis are pouring in
upon her in crowds. * Not a passenger
train rolled into the city but was filled
to its utmost capacity by the veterans
and the members of their families.
Fully 25,000 people had arrived by sun-
set Monday, still larger crowds are
expectcd to-day, and by the dawn of
Thursday, the day on which the great
parade is to be held, it is estimated
that fully 100.000 will have arrived.
As large as the crowd is now, as
much larger as it may become, there
is every present indication that it will
be taken care of in the most thorough,
considerate and hospitable manner.
While here and there exist ragged
edges to preparations, by to-day noon
all these will be trimmed away and
Memphis will present to her guests a
holiday garb as bright ancl beautiful
as it is possible for any city to assume.
The only possible drawback to the
success of the reunion will be the
weather, for. notwithstanding the as-
sertions of the weather man that the
RESIGNA1I0NS IN.
VOL. 18, NO. 17.
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Senators THIman and MaLaoria of
South Carolina Resign.
THE PEOPLE THEIR TRIBUNAL.
As Agreement is Matfe b Which They are in
go Before the Public for a Decision
of Their Differences.
FEARFUL ACCIDEN1
Bye Kail way i'oilleaon—A Urmt Naail
of Casualties Reported.
next morning. The Richland mine is
destitute of water and hence great vol- wwk would be Pleasant skies and gen-
umes of fine particles of coal dust, in-
owing to the threatening clouds and Green of the Barker Asphalt company pi.(,d in , sj,
muddy streets in the outskirts of the to-day. He is a West Pointer and wiil fii'r"u Klact '
city, was postponed. , help out some. 1 will go to Washing-
The great convention hall was tl. ■ ton to-morrow or next day and see the
center of an enormous crowd for near- i secretary of war. more for the hope
ly two hours before the hour set for i of a commission later on than for re-
the commencement of the exercises, i instatemant at the academy now,
which was 10 o'clock. Crowds of dele- j Well, we completed our three years'
gat s. attended in many instances by work, except one wee^i s review at the
■ end, and you know, as 1 nave said, I
visible to the naked eye, accumulate
at: the roof of the mine, forming a
highly inflammable gas. subject to ex-
plosion of the portion exposed to the
flames. This afternoon at exactly 4:30
o'clock a dynamite cartridge was
ion on one of the rooms
for a blast. The miner* had just
started for the mouth of the miun.
The blast did not explode as intended,
but instead a long flame shot out of
tie breezes, there was quite a rainfall
Monday evening, which, damaged a
few decorations, while the strong wind
which accompanied the downpour dis-
arranged here and there groups of
banners and ripped from its fastening
an occasional strip of bunting.
The decorations of the city as a
whole are beautiful. Throughout the
business section of the city there is
not a single business house but has
made a lavish display of bunting. Side
members of their families, besieged ev
ery entrance, and the 3ergeant-at-armc
and his numerous assistants had their
hands full in controlling them. The
task which was not a light one by any
means, was accomplished without
trouble of an) description. The inte
rior of the hall was a thiug of beauty
Thr last finishing touches had been
put upon it. ;uid the excellent work of
the decorators was shown in all its
merit. On every sid* we e arranged
banners ana portraits of prominent
Confederate leaders, wound with bright
colored bunting. Great banners hung
from the roof, and innumerable smaller
ones were in evidence upon every
hand The exercises were almost en-
tirely confined to the welcoming ad-
dresses delivered by the representa-
tives of the people of Memphis and of
the state of Tennessee and from mem-
bers of the different organizations af
filiated with the I'nited Confederate
Veterans.
Aflh« iioitr.
London, May 28.—"The Boxers are
again active in all districts where
there are no foreign troops." says a
dispatch to the Standard from Tien
Tsin. dated May 27. "Yesterday a mis-
sionary who was going to Tulu on the
; Grand canal was forced to return to
Tien Tsin, owing to a fierce fight rag
ing between Boxers and Catholic con-
verts. There was heavy firing on both
sides.
"Four thousand insurgents from the
province of Kwai Chau have invaded
the province of Ezo Chuen." says the
Shanghai corespondent of the Stand-
ard. "causing widespread panic. It is
said that 3000 Yunnancz are about to
join them.'
have often couiemplated resigning
from West Point, so this has one
bright side after all. 1 am conceited
enough to think 1 can do as well for
myself outride of the army as the
I'nited States would do for me in it.
There has been * court-martial or-
dered for the rest of the leilows. aud
1 don t envy them tht honors they
will get. It ib unnecessary to sa> that
they are all m sympathy with us.
They offered every kind of aid they
could.
Charles Moore wa.- verj niu«t. lie
insisted that 1 call on his father at
once if I went to Texarkana and prom-
ised that he would help me to get
something to do. He also offered to
write to an Arkansas senator and conl
gressman and get his father to write
to them to get me re-instated at West
Point. One cadet from Washington,
C.lassford, whose father is an army of-
ficer. finally got me to promise to call
on his father for political assistance
What strikes me most favorably now
is to try for a position with ilen.
tire >n and get his influence later on
for a commission if 1 decide that I
want a commission. Your son.
BIRCH IE O MAHAFFFEY.
the blast hole and ignited this accu-1 by side on every hand the stars and
mulation of dust Instantly a terrific ; bars flutter against the stare and
explosion occurred and a seething stripes, It being difficult to say which
mass of flame shot to the mouth of of them is most in evidence. The court
the mine and extending 300 feet into; of honor, on Main street, was given the
the open air, scorching the leaves from final touches Monday afternoon, and
the nearby trees. There were thirty- i most imposing was the appearance pre-
four men in the mine at the time. Four snnted by its white columns, before
of these escaped with slight injury. <-ach one of which stood a female figure
Twenty-one were killed and nine were
iu Po*rrly.
Cincinnati, O.. May 29—Col. James
tj. Miner, an assistant secretary of the
Confederate navy department during
the Civil war. died in poverty to-day
at Milford, O., aged 82. He was a
graduate of Kdiuburg I'niversfty, a na-
tive of New England, but a resident of
Texas and a friend of Gen. Sato Hous-
ton. He served under Taylor in the
Mexican war. Before the war he was
one of the owners of 11e famous Tred-
egar Iron Works of Richmond, Va.
The Civil war swept away his fortune,
and since then he has battled unsuc-
cessfully in the effort to build up a
terribly buined, most of them fata'ly.
The force of the explosion caused
, great masses of coal and siate tc cave
| in from the roof oi the mint, and
many of the miners were completely
buried. Word quickly reached Dayton
and rescue forces were at once organ-
ized and proceeded to the miue. Un°
, by one the blackened and horribly dis-
i figured bodies were taken from the
debris and carried to tht mouth of th
mine, where they w re loaded into a
locomotive and carried to Dayton.
Scores of relatives and friends gath-
ered at the mouth of the mine and the
shrieks of anguish as the forms of
loved ones were removed were heart-
rending in the extreme.
The two undertaking establishments
at Dayton were turned into improvised
morgues where the mangled bodies
were dressed and prepared for delivery
to their families. All ot the men em-
ployed in this mine were residents of
Dayton.
The Richland mine is the property
of the Dayton Coal and iron company,
| composed of Glasgow capitalists. The
| companv operates an iron furnace at
Dayton and operates coal mine's in
! connection therewith.
The merchants of Waeider raised a
nuin of money and offered lac per 100
for boll weevils. Friday 15.000 were new fortune. He invented a high press-
brought in and 35.000 Saturday. Th£
sum of money was soon exhausted aud
merchants stopped the enterprise.
ure engine, but could not bring ft to
a financial success.
in a trunk in this city tie had a mil-
lion dollars of Confederate bonds and
money. Three weeks ago his wife,
who bravely shared his ill fortune with
him, died, aged 80. and a Mrs. Spen-
cer of Milford gave her a burial and
took the broken-hearted old man to
her home. Manufacturers here whose
places Col. Milner loved to visit have
Want Arbitration.
Berlin, May 29.—Speciaf dispatches
from St. Petersburg assert that Dr.
Hecdrik Muller and Dr. Leyds, repre-
aenting the Boer Republics have ap-
pealed formally to The Hague arbi-
tratiOD court, promising to abide by ; p„„haMll a lot the „metery tor
tb« decision ol the tribunal regarding „lm and wU| gee w h,s bur(a|
the issues involved in the South Afri- j
ean war and pointing out that several i
of the paragraphs of the constitution !
cf the arbitration court signed by the !
powers represented at the conference
bear upon the South African case. The
Berlin papers to-night express the ^be eighth annual convention of the
opinion to-night that Great Britain j police chiefs of this country and Can-
will not submit the issues to the de- i at*a convened in New ^ ork Tuesday
Vice Admiral Sir Edward H. Sey-
mour, who has been British com-
mander-in-chief of the China station
since 1898. has b
rank of admiral.
oision of the court.
Ageinftt Secret Order*.
Des Moines, Iowa., May 29.—By a
vote of 90 to 63 the general assembly
of the United Presbyterian church
Tuesday adopted the report of the ju-
diciary committee upon the change
of creed with regard to Article 15.
This action is interpreted to mean
that it forbids the admission of mem-
bers of a secret society to the church
itJd according to some of the delegates
expels those belonging to the church
which are no now members of ooeret
with 210 delegates present.
Color Line Draw a.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 29.—The
boardof trustees of Marysville College
lected Prof. S. T. Wilson as president
to succeed D^'. S. W. Bard man resign-
ed. A co-education of the races In
the college was finally disposed of by
th« board deci^ng to abide by
. t. « .. ,
of the ie|yitttflfo wiicfe fortx o
Murders! in a Oil.
Memphis, Tenn., May 28.—Alexander
Peden, a well known citizen of Pu-
laski. Tenn., and a brother-in-law of
James P. Oakes. cashier of the Citi-
sens' National bank of that place, was
killed Monday nlgbt in a cell of de-
tention at the police station, and N.
A. Glllis of Cumby, Hopkins county,
Texas, is under arrest charged with
the killing.
Peden had been arrested for safe
keeping, having imbibed too freely
during the afternoon. Gillis was also
arrested for the same cause and put
In the cell with Peden. One of the
guards, in making the rounds late
that night discovered Peden lying on
a cot with his head crushed in. Fur-
ther examination showed the man to
be dead. As no one but Gillis was with
Peden, the former is charged with the
killing. Gillis. who was intoxicated,
says he knows nothing whatever of
the crime, and if he killed Peden ie
doubtless did not understand what he
was doing, as he talked incoherently.
Peden was identified by a return ticket
to which he had affixed his signature.
Both men were reunion visitors.
1 bearing th* coat of arms and the name
of one of the states which formed the
Confederacy. Over and around the pil-
lars and arehes floats in profusion the
rt&g with the crimson field, with the
cross of blue. Inside the hall in which
the sessions of the veterans are to b«
hefd the decorations were not entirely
complete Monday but a dense crowd
of workingmen were rushing hithei
and thither putting on the final
touches The great height of the hall
tnaki. It possible for decorations to be
profuse without producing any effect
of overdoing. The hall has a seating
capacity of 15,000. there being room
toi :<i-hi on the main floor, which Is re-
served for the delegates, aud 12.000 in
the galleries which sweep around the
building on all four sides.
<•*mMiuc In Hot'lpt v.
London. May 29.—Whether dentin
ciatIons from the pulpit have had any
effect or ui>t. there seems to be a reac-
tion in society circles against the
excessively high play which of latehas
N en so fashionable. Bridge or Siber-
ian whict, which is even more of a
gambling pastime than the former,
are losiug some of their popularity,
according to the Daily Express' soci-
ety corresponded Only the other
day a well known peer of the racing
set. and therefore, it is presumed, not
of the ultra-cautious or faddist order,
accepted an invitation to dinner on
the expiess condition that he would
not he asked to play bridge whist
afterward
Solumbia. S. C.. May 27.—There was
a spirited debate at Gaffnev Satur-
day between I'nited States Senators
Tillman and John L. McLaurin. As a
denouement both of them have put
their resignation in the L>nds of Gov.
McSweeney.
They have resigned, however, with
the understanding that they are to go
before the people of the state in a
joint canvass and the sentiment
of the people is to be expressed in the
November primaries.
The arrangement is sensational, for
Tillman was last summer elected for
six years and McLaurin has yet two
years. The result of the issue means
that if Tillman is sustained McLau-
rin's seat will be vacant; if McLaurin
Is sucessful he will succeed to Till-
man's long term. McLaurin had been
Invited to Gaffnev and friends of Till-
man asked him to come too. McLau-
rin accused Tillman of attacking Mm
when Tillman is in a boombproof. The
latter declared that he would resign
and meet McLaurin on the stump.
McLaurin agreed to the proposition.
Senator Tillman later submitted a
written proposition which was accept-
able to Senator Mcl^aurln, except that
the latter wanted the campaign to be
held in October and November instead
of this summer. McLaurin stated that
this was suggested owing to his poor
health There were several proposals
submitted between the two. Senator
McLaurin wanted the race confined to
Senator Tillman and himself The lat-
ter declared that he could not di< tate
to the state Democraic committee
when the primary should be held, or
how many condidates there should be.
The dual resignations, as finally for-
war <ed *o Gov MeSw *n"f, were «e-
companied by no conditions. It s-ivs:
"Sir: We hereby tender our res-
ignations as senators for the state of
South Carolina In the United States
senate, to take effect on Nov. 15. next.
Yours respectfully, etc."
Under the election methods in this
state the state Democratic executive
committee will arrange a campaign
and both will speak In each of the
forty counties in the state.
At the primary election the candi-
dates will be voted for directlv.
The general assembly merely con-
firms the action of the primary. The
rampaign will be pitched a year earl-
ier than expected, but there are half
a dozen candidates in the field. Each
must specify for which term he is a
candidate.
AMetnblT Adjourn*
j Little Rock. Ark., May 26.—After ]
adopting the usual resolutions of
; thanks the forty-first sessi-1 of th.3
Presbyterian general assembly ad ,
I journed sine die Saturday. At Satur-
day morning's session the unfinished ,
business was disposed of.
Rev. Dr. F. R. Beattie made a report :
for the committee on publication, i
showing that the publication plant is
worth about |fi5.000. The new hynyi
book, he reported, is ready for the
printer and will soon be on sale.
Albany, N. Y.,May 27.—Electric cars
racing for a switch while running in
opposite dinections at the rate of forty
miles an hour, cost five lives Sundaj
afternoon by a terrific collision in
which over forty prominent people
were injured, some fatally and other*
seriously.
The lobby of the local postoffice filled
with dead and wounded, hysterical
women and children looking for tela-
tives and friends, surgeons administer-
ing temporary relief and ambulances
racing through the city, tak'.ng the
wounded to hospitals, were the earl/
intimations of the accident-
The scene of the accident was a point
about tw o naies out Oi eoe mousn. o,i
the line of the Albany and Hu'stm
Railway. The point where the • ars
met on the .single track was at a sharp
curve and so fast were both running
and so sudden was the collision, ti nt
the motorman never had time to put
on the brakes before the .south bound
car had gone almost clean tnrougb the
other car, and hung on the edge of a
high bluff with its load of shrieKiug,
maimed humanity.
One motorman was pinioned up
against the smashed front of the south-
bound car. with both legs severed and
killed instantly, while the other one
lived but a few minutes. Fully on;
hundred and twenty men, women and
children formed a struggling, shriek-
ing pyramid, mixed with biood, detach-
ed portions of human bodies and the
wreckage of the cars. Some of the
more slightly wounded extricated
themselves and began to pull people
out of the rear ends of the two earn
and almost every one w-as taken out
in this way and nearly all were bad«y
injured
The few women and children who
had escaped injury and death, wern
hysterical and added their cries to the
shrieks of the dying and mutilated.
Men with broken arms and bones, dis-
located joints and bloody heads and
faces tried to assist others who were
more distressed.
Help had been summoned irom East
Greenbush anu vicinity and in a little
time the bruised mass of humanity,
with the mutiliated dead for a grew-
some aud silent company were loaded
on extra cars and taken to Albany.
Tl ere ambulances and physicians had
been eummoned and the postofEce
turned into a morgue aud hospital.
As fast as the physicians could tem-
porarily fix up the wounded they were
taken to their homes or to the hos-
pital.
With both motormen killed it was
hard to get at the real cause of the
accident, but It is pretty well deter-
mined that it was caused by an at-
tempt of the southbound car to reach
a switch instead of waiting for the
northbound car at the first sidiug.
The cars weigh eighteen tons each
and are the largest electric cars ever
built, but so frightful was the crash
that both cais were torn almost to
splinters. Both cars were filled with
Sunday pleasure seekers returning
from the new recreation grounde
which the street railway had opened.
The motorman of the southbound
car reached one of the switches, but
seeing no northbound car. decided to
take chances on to the next siding. It
was at a curse between that the cars
met,
Will** Shot
Waxahachie, Tex., May 28.—One of
the most dastardly of petty offenses
was reported here Monday as occurring
in the town of Bristol, this county.
Saturday night, after finishing work,
Mr. T. W. Sparkman, a farmer of that
community, turned his mules, five in
number, Into his pasture. About 9
o'clock he heard some shooting in the
pasture, atod upon investigating found
that all five of the mules had been
shot. Two were killed instantly, one
has died since, and the other two are
very seriously wounded.
Wm. Tapp, a young man about 21
years old, was arrested, charged with
the offense.
Declined to Arr pt.
New York, May 27—Three of the
five West Potot cadets recently ex- j
pelled for insubordination—B. O. Ma-
haffey, Raymond A. Linton and John
, A. Cleveland—who were offered lucra-
tive positions by Gen. Francis Greene, 1
president of the New York and Ber-
| mudese Asphalt company, have de-
clined to accept ths positions offered
them.
San Angelo, Tex., is to have a trol-
ley street car line.
The Royal Yacht club has cabled the
New York Yacht club an approval of
i Sept. 21 as the day for the opening
of the contest in the cup races and
that date is finally and definitely fixed.
together.
asssi
Copper Find
Marlow, Tex., May 28.—Several of
Marlow's citizens have returned from
the Wichita mountains, where they
have been prospecting and Ycating
mines. They report rich finds of cop-
per, and that the authorities are not
Interfering with the miners. They say
there are many prospectors in the
mountains, and much preliminary
work is being done toward opening
mines. The miners held a meting
tnxft wen tar tuc purpoM oi ofpnii-
RevUlon Adopted.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 28.—By a
unanimous vote the Presbyterian as-
sembly adopted the report of . the com-
mittee on the revision of the confes-
sion of faith. A riva vote was taken
and when 640 ayes responded
to the Question on the Moffat amend-
ment the delegates arose and sung.
"Praise God From Whom All Bless-
ings Flow,'' ^whidob was followed by
prayer of thanksgiving by Mode*-
Riot in Ku«Mia.
London, May 27.—A dispatch from
St. Petersburg says:
The strikers at the Obuchoff iron
works at Alexandrivsky, in this vicin-
ity, had a collision with the authori-
ties. • Some 3600 rioters stoned the po-
lice, injuring twelve of them. The
police were reinforced by soldiers,
who fired three volleys, killing two
men and wounding seven. One hun-
dred and twenty-six persons were ar-
rested 'or alleged participation.
Tt > DunkariK
Lincoln, Neh.. May 27.—A Sunday
school class of over 4000 was th«
spectacle presented at the Dunkard
national conference Sunday morning.
Following the Sunday school came
preaching services in the big taber-
nacle, one following the other so
closely as to be continuous.
The conference will be asked to de-
cide in relation to the divorce ques-
tion that no c,ne shall be received into
the church if he or she takes a second
mat ewhile the first husband or wife,
though divorced, still lives.
Millard McNatt. 10 years old. wan
drowned at Farmers Branch, Tex.
By tbe Moat Direct Route
Sacramento, Cal.. May 27.—After
leaving San Francisco Saturday, the
president's train ran through crowds
| at all the stations- Since the route
of the return journey to Washington
has been published, telegrams have
' poured in upon the president asking
j him to stop at almost every city and
[ town. Secretary Cortelyou has uni-
formly responded to those appeals
that the president was going back to
Washington by the most direct route.
In Conference.
Washington, May 27.—Rear Admi-
ral Higginson, commander-in-chief of
the north Atlantic squadron, has been
in conference with Assistant Secretary
Hackett regarding the summer cruise
of his command.
Admiral Higginson and Mr. Hackett
were highly gratified with the satis-
factory operation of the plan derfeed
by Naval Constructor W. L.
the substitution of
Planner Phillip*.
Cleveland, O., May 27.-J. J. Phil
lips of Cleveland, a big coal
is said to be the man that
tions on B0 per cent of the
coal fields. A company will be
of Cleveland capitalists
Ranna as the
A trust is to be
been alleged, to
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1901, newspaper, May 30, 1901; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192072/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.