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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATE
"SfO.Ii XYIII
AUSTIN. TEXAS. THURSDAY AUGUST 1. 1889.
No 340
SMAN
BEHRING SEA.
First Detailed Statement of the
Capture of the Brinsh Sealer
Black Diamond
By the United States Revenue
Cutter Bast Breaking Open
of the Cabin.
bAM Fbanoisoo July 30. The steamer
Dors arrived from Sitka last night and
brings the first detailed news of the cap-
ture of the British sealer Black Diamond
by the United States revenue o otter Rich-
ard Rust.
On Jn ly 11 tee Bast overtook the Black
Diamond and ordered her to heave to.
The captain of the Black Diamond refused
to do this. Thereupon the commander of
the Rase ordered lowenngiof the ports and
the running ont of the gang which
brought the eohooner to. Captain Shep-
ard and Lieutenant Tattle boarded the
pnliah nrafti and fialmri tnr hnp nnnArfi
- r r '
The officers of the Blaok Diamond of-
fered no armed resistance bat refused to
deliver the sbips papers. Capt. bhepard
at once broke open the oabia and foroed
the hinges of the strong box and captain's
chest thereby securing the papers. A
search of the vessel disclosed 103 sealsknis
which had been taken in Behring sea.
Cape Shepard placed a non-oommieBioned
offiotr from the Rast in charge of the
Blaok Diamond and ordered the vessel to
be taken to Sitka to await further instruc-
tions. The oaptain of the' Black Diamond
made a statement that when in Victoria
he bad been ordered to pay no attention
in case he was overtaken by the Rast and
when reqaestcsd to heave to he said he
- would out have surrendered had he not
had an inferior foroe to that of Rast.
Jaly 13 the eohooner Triumph was also
boarded by Capt. Shepard but no arrest
was made the skins on board the vessel
having been captured in the Faoifio and
not in Behring sea. The passengers who
arrived here last night on the steamer
Dora said:
"On our way down from St. Paul's island
we saw six sealers and the Rast w closely
ia pursuit of them. We left St. Paul's
island on July 4 and on the following day
flaw the Rust In pursuit of her prey. Un-
doubtedly by this time the Rast has made
additional captures.
IF THfl 8UN SHINES.
Preparation for the Observation of the
Next Total Solar Eclipse.
Boston July 80. The navy department
is now fitting oat the expedition to An-
gola west Afrioa to observe the total
eolipse of the sun which will be visible
IKakb An thn nftarnnnn nf December 22.
next and give the astronomes another
ojveted opportunity to see the solar
corona and get photographs of it as well
as make other observations on the inten-
sity and character of its light.
The navy departmeLt hs appointed
Prof. David P. Todd of Amherst college
chief of the party a position similar to
that whioh hs held two years ago in oon-
duotiDtr the eclipse expedition to Japan.
. . . i i - . ii . : .
Jrror. l oad nas a spienaia euueauuu ui
soientifio trophies of his expeditions
among them a magnifioent photo-
graph of the son as big as
a oart wheel with Venus on it the size
of a silver quarter dollar. This pioture U
a duplicate of one now at the Paris
Exposition and was ueoured by Prof.
Todd at the Liok observatory daring the
transit of Venus in 1882. Many soientifio
experts have proaoanoed it the finest
pioture of a transit of Venns ever taken.
When asked why there were two total
eclipses of the son this year Prof. Todd
replied: "It does not happen very often if
you consider the calendar year merely.
The la6t time it happened was twenty
jeara before the birth of George Washing-
tor and it will not ooour again until 2057.
But it is not a matter of muoh astronomi-
cal significance for if yon take periods of
twelve successive months at random yon
will often find two total solar eclipses oc-
curring in each a period."
"Why is this ooming expedition so im-
portant?" "Well for a number of reasons. These
colipes give na the only ohanoe we ever
have to see the solar oorona and as there
are only sixty or seventy of them in a oen-
tory and three-fourths of the earth's sur-
f aoe is water you can see that our oppor-
tunities for discovering the mysteries of
the sun s surroundings are ratuer lnire-
quent. So it is neoessary for the advance-
ment of astronomical soienoe that every
possible eolipse should be observed. Then
too the last eclipse has made it neoessary
to modify somewhat our views of the con-
stitution of the envelopes whioh encircle
the son and it is therefore speoially im-
portant to test the new hypotheses in the
light of new observations. Besides this
there is no other total eclipse avalable for
the next four years and so it is all the
more important to make the most of this
one."
The point where we land is Saint Paul
a T.nnnda. ulintit 250 miles below the
month of the Congo and in latitude nearly
ten degrees south of the equator If t!ie
ship takes the party out she will wait to
bring them back and we shall be absent
from America nve or six mourns m w
"Is the eclipse total at Saint Paul de
Loauda?"
"No; the track of the eolipse lies just
flouth of this point which is quite a large
city of about 20000 inhabitants mainly
Portuguese and a mixed population. To
find the best point to set up oar instru-
ments we shall go southeast from here
about a hundred miles into the interior.
A GEOB0I A LUNATIC
Possessed of Devils Himself. Imagines He
Can Cast Tnem from Otners.
Atlanta Ga July 29 The sheriff ol
Liberty oounty has succeeded in capturing
Edward James the false Christ who
claimed the suooession to Dapont Bell
the Ohio white man who is now in the in-
' sane asylum. For a week paet squads of
armed white men nnder instructions of
the sheriff have been scouring the county
with the view of arresting the false Christ
and his aotive followers. ' The fear felt by
the whites extended to the better class of
negroes and the result was a union meet-
ing of leading members and preaohers of
the colored oharohes who took the follow-
ing aotion:
"We the ministers and officers of the
oolored oharohes of Liberty oounty rep-
resenting the interest and honor of our
people appeal to tbe oivil authorities of
this ooouty to order the fanatio followers
of Dapont Bell the impostor to disband
and remain disbanded and oongregate no
more in any place in the bounds of the
oouDty on the following gronuds:
"1. That they have beoome a orazy
mob.
"2. That some of them have beoome in-
sane and that there is danger of many
more beooming so.
"3. That their acts have been degraded
and degrading in the extreme vulgar in-
decent and beastly.
"4. That their dootrines and ceremo-
nies are vile and demoralizing to morals.
"5. That there is danger tnat many of
them will beoome paupers and thieves
from want of orops abandoned and labor
suspended.
"6. That they have oommitted orimes
against the persons beating their oppo-
nents and their own followers almost to
death assaulting even with intent to mur-
der and violenoe.
"7. That it is injuring the honor and
oharaoter of onr people at home and
abroad misleading tbe public mind as to
the intelligence and piety and honor of
our people as to the members who have
joined the oraze whereas it is evident that
90 per cent of onr people are reapeo table
and in their right minds and faithful to
law and order oivil and eoolesiastioal.
The action of James tbe other day in
pointisg out persons whom he deolared to
be possessed of devils and tbe readiness
with whioh his followers resorted to mur-
der in order to remove the
devils stirred np the people to a
sense of their danger. If James
had bat said the word there is no doubt
but that every white person in the oonnty
would have been put to death. As it was
two human beings had been offered as
saorifloes to the monster. Women minis-
tered to his wants with all the devotion of
the sex . When he slept they atood by htm
and kept him fanned eaoh one esteeming
it a privilege to wait upon the great mas-
ter. When the offioers arrested him he
happened to be in a prophetic mood.
" Let the offioers alone" he said to his fol-
lowers. "My time has oome. I will re
torn to see yon shortly." It wag thus that
the offioers secured their prisoner and got
away with their lives. He has been ad-
judged a Innatio and an effort will be
made to ran him out of the oounty to-
night. WA8HIN GTOS NOTES.
A OANABD.
Washington Jnly 25. In response to
his telegram of Tuesday respeoting the
oase of Mrs. Herron reported to be nnder
sentenoe of death in Oorea for preaohiog
the doctrines of Christianity Hon. W. F.
Wharton the noting secretary of state
this morning received the following ca-
blegram from Minister Dinsmore:
"Seoul Oobea. To Wharton Washing-
ton: The report concerning Mrs. Herron
is wholly without foundation."
SignedJ Dinsmobe.
ADJUSTMENT OF POSTMASTERS' 8ALABIK9.
Washington July 25. At the olose of
eaon fisoal year the salaries of all the pres
idential postmasters in the country are ad'
justed in aooordanoe with the receipts of
the offices. If the reoeipts increase above
a certain amount at a certain office the
postmaster's salary is raised while
if they fall below a certain sum the sal try
is reduoed.JWith oertain.restriotions there
fore the table prepared by the poetofflce
department oan be taken as an indication
of the prosperity of the olties and towns
named therein.
Texas Auntin $2300 to $2900; Beau-
mont $1500 to $1700; Braokettsville
$1100 to $1000; Brenbam 91700 to $1'
8i)0; Coleman $1000 to $1100; Corsloana
$2200 to $2000; Decatur $1200 to $l
400; Denison $2400 to $2300; Denton
$1500 to $1600; Eigle Pass $1300 to
$1500; Fort Worth $2700 to $2800;
Gatevill $1200 to $1100; Gonzales
$1100 to $1200; Greenville $1700 to
$1800; Hemstead $1100 to $1000; La
redo $1800 to $1 900; Longview $1400
to $1300; Lnling $1000 to $1100;
Marlin $1100 to $1200; Marshall $2000
to $2100; Mineol. $1100 to $1000; Mo
betie $1000 to fourth class; Navasota
$1300 to $1400: Orange $1200 to $1400;
Palestine $1700 to $1800; Paris $2200
to $2100; Rockdale $1200 to $1100; San
Angelo $1500 to $1000; San Antonio
$2900 to $3000; Tyler $1800 to $1900;
Wichita Falls $1200 to $1400; Wills
Point $1100 to fourth class.
THE TBEA8CBI AND WOOL WASTE.
Washington July 30. Assistant Seore
t iry Tiohenor has telegraphed as folio its
to Representative Townsend of Colorado
The meaning and effect of the appraiser's
report and the department's deoieion
oonoerning wool waste is evidently mis
understood. Tbe decision Is in every
reepeot restrictive and prevents importa
tions to low rates of the so called waste.
baochabine balabies.
Washington July 30. Some time ago
tbe Hon. Aldaoe F. Walker a member of
the interstate oommeroe commission re
signed his position to accept the chairman-
ship of a tariff association at a salary of
$25000 per annum and with a oontraot
of three vears which will insnre him tbe
snue sum of $75000. Judge Cooley has
now been offered a similar position by the
Trunk Line association and will doubt
less aooept.
The President Hard at Work.
Deeb Pabk Md. July 30. The presi
dent has designated Gen. McFeely to aot
as secretary daring Seoretary Prootor's
absenoe. The president had before bim
this morning the papers in the case of
Martin the Arkansas murderer who eeeks
execative clemency. No aotion was taken.
A V.ofiK t9 anniintmnnta mav be looked
for after the return of the president to
Wasnington me tatter part ui tun wee.
NEWS 8UMMAR i
D0ME3TIO.
The Kansians are trying to make out
that m-iuy cattle in that etati are dying
from Texas fever.
The Fisher family of Marshall county
Mo. numbering twenty-two have fallen
heirs with fifty othars to a fortune in
Germany amounting to over $50000000.
At Clarkesville M ). T. David married
the same woman three times aseanlted
his motber-in-law and was shot by his
brother-in-law.
The tnal of the batteries on the new
ornieer Yorktown oansed no cracks in the
deok nor broke the chinaware in tbe cabin.
Chief Hubbard has gone to Winnipeg.
The Batohelors heavy boot aad shoe
deiears Boston failed for $1250000.
A New York restaurant keeper named
John Ireland was robbtd in the hospital
by a slick thief.
P. W. Jones drowned himself in a nata
torial tank at St. Louie.
Governor Franois of Missouri denies
wanting to sell the Merohants' bridge to
Jay Gould.
Ool. A.E.Jones murdered by the negro
Blythe at Cincinnati was buried yesterday
by a grand military prooession.
An Iowa state oourt has enjoined the
Masonio grand lodge of that state from
doing certain things.
A detailed statement is given of the osd
ture of the British sealer Blaok Diamond
by the United States outter Rust.
The seoretary of war is reduoing the
pay corps.
At Hoboken N. J. a mad dog ran into
the custom house and bit severnl persons
including Charles Basso a oheok olerk. .
Crops in Jefferson oounty Wis. were
raided by a hailstorm.
Ballston won the mile raoe at Saratoga
yesterday in 1:44).
STATE.
A man named Byers has disappeared
from Houston ordered off supposed con
nection with the late mnrder.
Mrs. McCarty was fatally burned with
kerosene at Houston.
The strike on the Aransas Pass has
been patched up.
A $6000 fire ooourred in Beaumont at
one of the mills.
J. A. MoBryde a restaurant oook at
Tyler snioided on acoount of hia girl.
Some negroes have reoovered damages
out of tbe Missouri Paoifio whioh refused
to oarry them beyond Greenville on
emancipation day on certain tickets.
STATE.
Over $1000 has been subscribed to
oarry on the Kyle seminary.
Two men named Strode and Cearley have
been arrested at Burnet ohargedwith mule
theft.
Jasper Graoy shot at Lampaeas SaturJ
day is very low.
Fort Worth is to have a $100000 woolen
manufacturing plant onj-fourth of tbe
money being paid in.
John Bohannon a Chootaw Indian a
murderer and desperado has been ar-
rested. An engineer corps is looating the line
of tbe new Palestine railway.
FOBEION.
A dispatch from Rome says there have
been many changes in the Italian consular
service.
John Morley spoke in the house of
oommonB against giving tbe queen's
grandobudren any more money.
The surplus of the Parnell fund exoeeds
$200000.
The Boulangistsoharge the government
with election frauds.
The sultan will send a new commission
to Crete.
A skirmish ooourred between Geo.
Grenfell commanding the Egyptians and
the dervishes; sixty dervishes were killed
The supreme oourt of Manitoba sus
tained Burke's extradition.
The royal grant bill passed the British
house of commons.
Mason Matters.
Special to the Statesman.
Mason July 29. We are enjoying oool
breezes morning and evening whioh make
this climate very pleasant at this season
of the year.
Arrangements are being made by W. II
Sands k Co. and Mr. A. Langs to ereot
two large stone business houses adjoining
on the north side of our oommodious
tquare ustwestof the Mason Connty
bank. Mr. J. D. Bridges has bought a lot
on Concho street and will ereot a neat law
office in the bnsiness part of town.
Sheriff Hagan of Gillespie county
passed through here Friday having in
oharge his brother-in-law whose name we
could not learn who is obarged with an
assault on a 15-year-old girl in his oounty.
It is an old case having been done several
years since.
Mr. Sam Garner brongbt in the largest
watermelon oi the season this week weigh-
ing fifty-one pounds. It was raised on his
beautiful farm two miles south of Mason.
The Germans will oelebrate the "death
of the prohibition cause" at Simonsville
olub grounds on August 3. Danoing and
refreshments will be the order of the day.
Mi. L. Stilwell a merchant of southeast-
ern Arkansas is here for his health and
seems highly pleased with the general out-
look of Mason. The fine water oool breezes
and beautiful sites oaptivate bim.
Mr. Ludeman of Indiana has located
here and will probably enter into business
soon.
Onr efficient assessor Mr. Gowing has
about oompleted the entire eetof tax rolls
and will present them for approval to our
commissioners on August 12. No doubt
they will be highly pleased with the rjioe
work and completeness of them doe to
the personal supervision of our assessor.
Mr. Chas. Biersobwale of Mason has
been appointed distriot oil inspeotor and
will start out on on inspecting tour this
week.
Alleged Texas Fever.
Chicaoo July 30. A special dispatch
from Winfleld Kan. says that oattlemen
from the Indian Territory report that
Texas fever it playing havoc among oattle
in the Territory. Over forty head were
seen dead in one pasture alone and in
others numbers varying from seven 'to
twenty-tive. They also stat-d that hun-
dreds of cattle were dying in Oklahoma
and predicted that there would not be a
living head of cattle imported into tnat
oounry from the s'at-e' of Kansas and
Nebraska in to months. The fatality
among the oattle in Oklahoma is not
oaused o muoh from Texas fever as from
the effect's the Bouthtrn climate bason
them. Reports from Guthrie Oklahoma
City and other points Jn the territory
verify this statement.
APPEARS APOCHYPHAL.
M ew Theories Regarding trie Birth Place
of Christopher I'olumbus.
London July 30. The impetus given
by the rroent meetings in New York to
prepare to bold an international exposi-
tion in that oity in 1892 the four huud-
reth auniversary of the discovery of
Amerioa has revived the dixouKSion as to
the birthplaoe of Columbus. The abbe
perreti who is the cure of Calvi thinks
that Columbus as well as Napoleou was
a Corsican. The general opiuiun is that
the discoverer of Amerioa wis born at
Genoa but other plaoes have laid claim to
the honor. Thus Baggiasoo Cogoletto
Savona and Nervi have beeu mentioned
and now there is tr-e shadowy pretentions
of Calvi. The abbe baa found the
names of three somewhat famous
eel oaptains Christofero Calvo Bar-
tolomeo Corsl and Jaoopo
(Jalo. These he thinks are the nuidauti
fled relatives of Christopher Columbus.
tree they do not bear the- name made so
famous by their supposed relative but in
the middle ages as the Abbe Perriti justly
says it was not unusual bnt on tbe con-
trary very common for men to be known
by the name of their native town or by
that of their fatherland. These Corsican
seaman whose names the Abbe Perriti has
fonnd in the annals of three Geonese his-
torians Giuetiniani Foglietta and Bra
oelli oorre-pond in date and other par
ticulars to the great unole tbe uuole aud
brother of Columbus.
This oan hardly be regarded as oonolu-
sive evideuoe although it has sufficient in-
terest as a clew worth following up. Bu
even if it were proved that the family o
Columbus had a conneotioa oIobb or re
mote with Calvi it would not set aside th
long presumption in favor of Gt-noa a
tbe birthplaoe of the man who found the
ooean pathway to the Dew world.
Another speculation about Columbus is
that he was of Jewish origin. The Jewish
World without indorsing this "daring
suggestion" says that "the name Chris
topher was frequently adopted by con-
verts while the surname Colon was borne
by a distinguished family of Jewish schol-
ars. Christopher's brother Diego bore
originally the Jewish name Jaoob whioh
sounds suspiciously like a 'Shem Kad-
osoh.' " Farther it mentions that "Jews
figure prominently in the history of the
d laoo very ibe plans and calculations for
Columbus' expedition were largely the
work of two Hebrew astronomers and
mathematicians.. Two Jews also were em
ployed as interpreters by Columbus. One
of them Louis De Torres was the first
European to set font on the new world."
"Went for His Mother-in-Law.
St. Louis Jaly 30. A dispatch from
Clarksville Mo. says the romantio matri
monial experience of T. Davis of this
oity was terminated Sunday night by a
pistol shot from bis brother-in-law Tom
Vaughn. Daring the last ten years Davis
has been married three times to the same
woman. There were two divoroes and the
pair recently made up and were again
married. The wife's relatives however
were violently opposed to Davis. Last
Saturday Davis assaulted his mother in
law and Sunday Vaughn shot him.
Vaughn claims to have aoted in Belf-de
fense. He is under arrest.
A Flimsy Story.
Under this heading the Globe-Demoorat
of Sunday has the following special tele-
gram: Washington Jaly 29. A romanoe whioh
has not even the merit of ingenuity in
construction has appeared recently in the
Washington dispatches to some of the
demooratio newspapers attributing the
appointment of Joseph W. Burke as
internal revenue oolleotor of the
Third Texas distriot to tbe pur-
ohase by Mr. Burke of tbe fall stook
of dot iing for bis etore in Austin at a
wholesale olothing establishment alleged
to be kept by Postmaster General Waoa-
maker in Philadelphia. The published
story charges that Burke was given a let-
ter from the postmaster' general to the
secretary of the treasury recommending
him for the appointment and the impli-
cation is that this letter was given because
Mr. Burke had replenished his Austin
store at Mr. Wanamaker's store in Phila-
delphia. When the attention of the post
master general was called to the story be
merely shrugged his shoulders and said
with a snap of his fingers:
"The statement is net worth that muon
attention."
A few cold facts will show that Mr.
Wanamaker is warranted in treating witr
oontempt the charge. In the first plsoe
he does not sell olothing at wholesale at
all. It would be impossible for the Austin
clothing etore of Mr. Burke to be stocked
at Mr. Wanamaker's Pailadelphia estab-
lishment. In the next place Mr. Wana-
maker does not have tbe honor of this
Mr. Burke's acquaintance and never wrote
a letter recommending bim to office. No
such letter is on file in the letter books
at the pontoffioe department and
no suoh letter can be found
at tbe treasury deparroent.
This alone is sufficient to koook the foun-
dation from under this flimsy charge.
Moreover Secretary Wiodom happens to
remember all about this particular ap-
pointment inasmuch as it was made only
last week and he declares that the name
and influence of the postmaster general
had nothing whatever to do with the selec-
tion of Mr. Burke for this internal eol-
leotorship and tbst they were never men-
tioned to bis knowledged in connection
with it.
The Land Pirate.
Special to the Statesman.
Waco Tex. Joly 29. James Newsom
who has been oharged with being the
"lone highwayman" gave bond to-day ia
the sum of $5000 and was released after
a continued confinement siaoe November
1887. His bondsmen are: D. P. Giy mer
ohant; J. W. Rose cattleman; W. J. Win-
gate lawyer; all of Batlinger. Newsom
has been granted a new trial.
A CURIOUS CASE.
Injunctions Against Sootlah Bite Masons
Doing Certain Things.
Cxdab Rapids la. July 30. An aotion
was begun yesterdty in the distriot oourt
at Manon that will startle Masonio circles
more than anything else perhaps of late
years. .!
Judge Preston of the Eighteenth ju-
dicial distriot on the petition of 0. E.
Barnes of Burlington j. O. Graves aad
Henry B -nnett plaintiffs and grand offioers
of the Iowa consistory of that branoh
of Soottish Rite Masonry oommonly
kuown as Cernean ordered a temporary
injunction against the grand lodge of
Iowa Auoient Free and Accepted Masons
restraining them from putting into effcot
the legislation of the last grand lodge re
ferring to the Cernean bodies and whioh
commanded Mtstor Masons to leave the
ooneistory of Iowa and of that Rite under
penalty of expulsion. The petition states
that as the body represented by plaintiff
does not confer Blue lodge degrees and
the grand lodge or its subordinate lodges
do not oonfer the twenty-nine higher de-
grees the grand lodge has no jurisdiction
whatever and its aotion is illegal arbi-
trary oppressive and prosoriptive of their
iuvidual conscience and the Masonio re-
lations are hurtful to their standing as
good and reputable oiiizens. This is the
first time a Masonio body has appealed to
a Btate court and the aotion of the su
prrme oourt to which it will finally go
will be a preoedent for other states. Time
for heariug argument of the injunction
will be in the October term of oourt at
Marion.
TEXAS CATTLE.
A K cent and New Construction Put Upon
the Illinois Btook Law.
Chicago III. July 30. The Illinois state
live etook commission has made another
ruling with regard to the yarding of Texas
oattle at the stook yards. Hitherto the
law has been oonstroed to require that
Texas oattle arriving in Ohioago shall be
yarded together and separate from other
oattle aud great complaints have been
made that no distinction was made be-
tween oattle that had Texas fever and
other oattle that were sound and healthy.
Now the commission has oonstrned the
state law to refer only to oattle from tbe
infeoted distriot of the southwest. There
are inspectors at St. Louis and Kansas
City whose duty it is to certify to the
authorities here oonoerning all oattle
passing through those placet whether or
not they are from the infeoted distriot
and they are then to be treated here.
Aooordingly hereafter the Btook yards
will have no jurisdiction of these oattle
and if they are not certified by these in-
spectors are to be loaded outside of the
infeoted distriot. They will still be
yarded with oattle from that distriot.
GALVESTON CUSTOM HOUSE.
Employes Resigning Saying They Won't
Serve a Day Under t Negro.
Special to the Statesman.
Galveston July 80. Ool. William P.
Hudgins who for the past fonr years has
ably filled the position of speolal agent of
treasury department in this distriot when
interrogated to-day said it was true that
be had been asked to resign and has for
warded his resignation to the seoretary of
the treasury at Washington and would va
oate his office to-morrow morning. He
thought Ool. Moore of S?n Antonio would
succeed bim in the office. The custom
house employes here who have served
the government faithfully under Oolleotor
Capt. C. O. Swaeny are daily resigning
and entering other avooatlons and when
the new oollentor appears to take charge
of the offloe he will have to oome fully
prepared to fill all olerloal positions at
onoe with competent persons or the busi
ness of tbe oust jms service at this point
will be seriously retarded as the present
inoumbents say they will not serve a day
under a negro.
Mr. J. J. Diokerson newly appointed
United States marshal for the eastern dis
triot of Texas was qualified to day and
entered npon the discharge of the duties
of his offloe. His first offioial aot was the
appointment of John M. Whalen deputy
marshal at Galveston and E. L. Angler
deputy marshal at Huntsville. Mr. Dick
erson left by the afternoon train for tbe
interior for the purpose of appointing
deputies.
Charles Levis ex-manager of tbe Gal
veston base ball team has left for bis home
in St. Lonia.
The Confederate Reunion.
Special to the Statesman.
Llano Joly 27. To-morrow quite
number of tbe good old heroes of the Con
federate army will start for their homer
carrying with them sweet recolleotiont of
their reunion at Llano.
On Thursday there were abont 2000
people on the grounds. Tbe principal
exercises of the day consisted of enrolling
and drilling. To-day there were about
6000 people on the grounds. The pro
gramme was as follows:
Prayer by a. i. McNeil.
Music by band "Dixie."
Address of welcome by Capt. F. Opp.
Masio by band "Bonnie Blue Flag."
Reply to Capt. Opp by Col. W. A. H.
Miller.
Music by band "Maid of Monterey."
Address by R. J. McNeil and J. M.
Moore.
Big barbecue dinner.
Addresses by Dr. 0. 8. Reeves and Col.
H. R. Melonis.
A colleotion was taken np on the
grounds for the Confederate Home fund.
There was quite a liberal oontribntion.
A boy got badly hurt at the raoe track.
He was thrown from a ronning horse.
There will be a big ball at tbe oity hall
to-night. .
Fire In a Lumber Town.
Special to the Btateeman.
Beaumont July 30. At noon to-day
when everybody was at dinner the whistles
of the different mills sounded a fire alarm
when it was disoovered that the magnifi
cent dry kiln of the Beaumont Lumber
company was on fire from tome unknown
cause. In a short time tbe water works
began to play on the fire but to no avail
Happily the wind shifted to tbe westward
and saved tbe One planer near by. Tbe loss
amounts to almost $6000 partly oovered
by insurance. Several people were over
come by the heat. T. L. Lrgon onr
popular news dealer was among those who
were over heated and now lies in a some
what precarious condition. What might
have been a serious eonfUgration was
arrested by the prompt fire work done by
the oitiiens of tbe town.
Another Fool. .
Special to tbeSUUNnsn.
Tins Tex. July 30. J. A. MoBryde
who for sometime has been cooking in a
restaurant in this oity took morphine last
night and died from the effeots early this
morning. The suicide left a letter stating
that he would not be here muoh longer and
telling friends how to dispose of his
orldly goods. MoBryde bad been paying
devoted attention to a woman for some
time past and it is supposed that trouble
growiog out this is the oause of the rash
deed. . .-
U.'xi Fever.
Kansas City July 27.-8. H. Pieroe of
the bureau of ani nal industry has been in
the oity several days investigating numer-
ous reports of Texas fever among cattle
in the stock yards here. He oonoloded
hii labors to-dsy finding the tumors to
be without foundation. National and
state sanitary laws whiob apply to atook
yards have been the inspeotor says rig-
idly enforoed. There it no danger he
adds of oattle contracting any infeotious
diseases at Kansas Oity.
Mississippi Kniiihts of Labor.
Mebidian Miss. Joly 80. The state tS-
sembly of the Knights of Ltbor of Mis
siBsippi will meet in this oity on Tuesday
August 6. - All of the leading points in the
state will be represented Vtoksburg Nat-
ohez Jaokson MoOomb Oity Biloxt and
other towns where there are looal asBem-
bliss. The looal assembly here has ap
pointed a oommittee to make arrange
ments for reoeiviug and entertaining vis-
itors. Knights from other states will re-
oeive a cordial welcome.
Eliminating the Knlgbts.
Bibminobam Joly 80. The Trades Coun-
oil by a vote of 15 to 20 have eliminated
the Koights of Labor from their organ-
ization. The Trades Counoil la the central
organization of the different trades onions
In Birmingham district for purposes that
are oommon to all. The Knights of Labor
insisted on being represented at the Coun-
oil by one delegate from eaoh of their
lodges as this would give the Knights a
arge numerioal strength.
Chief Hubbard.
Chicago July 80. Chief of polioe Hob-
bard aooompanied by Lieut Alexander
Ross left for Winnipeg last night. The
h let is determined to have Burke here
and as soon as a full benoh at Winnipeg
renders its deoision t ! probable the
prisoner will be started south. The chief's
objeot in going to Winnipeg is to person
ally superintend bringing the prisoner
and wlsnesses Carlson and Mortenson
baok to Cbioago. Bo muoh has been said
about assassinating them that ht deems
It good judgement to exercise every pos-
sible precaution to assnre their safety.
Fisher Family In Luok.
Mabshall Mo. July 80. Information
has just been reoelved here that the estate
of a man named Fisher who died in Ger
many some years ago is to be divided
among the Amerioan heirs of whom
there are seventy-two. Twenty-two of
them live In this oonnty and several in
Illinois. The estate Is valued at $1000-
000. - Aransat Pasa Hallway.
Special to the Statesman.
San Antonio; July 80. The tie op on
the Ssn Antonio and Aransas Pass road
remained nnohanged to-day. Good order
was preserved. ' At a late hour to-night it
is reported that tbe $50000 neoessary to
pay tbe workmen before operations oan be
resumed on the system bat been raised
and that the pay oar will leave the oity in
the morning. General Manager Yoakum
at 11 o'olook to-night stated that the dif-
ferences with the men bas been patobed
np and that traffia will be resumed all over
the system to-morrow.
POIVDEH
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This Dowdsr never rarlse. A mansl ofarltv '
strength and wholmomenMt Mure economics
than turn ondlnar? kinds and eonntrt be sold In
S'imi) Uttoi with the multitude nf low test abort
weight alum or phnsphatn pnwdera. Ho'd only
lirs. K 'T.T Beik PowDiaCo. 06 Wall
street New York.
fcreaa from Dyspepsia
Indigestion and Tool
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