The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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The Post-Signal.
VOL. XXXIV,
PILOT POINT, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1912.
NO. 20
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Look at the msides
boys suits we sell.
Any one of them will show
you just why it is rightly
named
Rip it open, take a peep at
it's thorough construction.
You will find it "wear proof"
indeed. Extra care where
the strain comes •— buttons
sewed tight, honestly made
through and through.
Our spring suits are great.
Every good style in all the
new fabrics and colors is
represented in our stock—
there's a big assortment to
select from.
Suits—the good
kind* |2*5oto$io
Osborn's
Work Gloves
are guaranteed not to
rip—a feature that ap-
peals to laboring men,
We have them in all
leathers, with or with-
out gauntlets. Guar-
anteed not to rip, $1 to
$2 50 per pair.
Men's Work
Clothes
Our stock of Men's Work Clothes was never more
complete. ; Overalls and Jumpers of the very best
quality. Whipcord, Kahki and Corduroy Pants,
Full cut Work Shirts, Underwear and Hosiery thac
keep you warm and resists hard wear.
Our Work Shoes are the best. Working men should
come here for their clothes because we make a speci-
alty jof that department, selecting and offering for
sale only the kind that has been tested and we know
will wear.
New Shirts, Shoes and Ties for Boys.
H. M. Russell & Go.
The Boys' Store.
GREAT FIRE RAGES
AT BAYOU CITY
Hundreds of Homes and Many
Factories In Ashes.
LOSSES ARE TREMENDOUS
Most Disastrous Conflagration In
the State of Texas Occurs at the
City of Houston, Damage Being
Several Million Dollars.
Fire starling in a vacant building
at the corner of Hardy and Opelousas
streets, Houston, at 1 o'clock on the
morning of the 21st instant spread at
I rapid rate, and soon aliout 250 res
idenc.es and a number of industrial
enterprises were in ashes. Over a
score of persons were injured, but
none seriously. Property loss is es
timatcd at over J6,000,000 Some of
the plants consumed were valuer' at
one million dollars.
When the (ire broke out thera was a
pale blowing from the northwest and
the temperature was near to. freezing
The flames leajied with lightning like
rapidity from house to house andfrom
plant to plant, and the liremen could
not controi it for several hours. The
district involved was thickly tenanted
with both homes and industrial estab
lishments. some of the latter employ
ing hundreds of hands.
Burned area varies in width from
150 yards to half a inile and is one
and one-half miles in length.
The number of residents of the fire-
swept district was approximately 8,850
and as the flames advanced a perfect
army of night clad men, women and
children dashed on and on, being com
polled tf> flee be ore the flames. Small
hou>esto the northwestof the firesoori
were tilled with refugees. Relief par
ties looked after their welfare. The
refugees lost practically everything
In many homes there were sick, but
all were conveyed to places of safety
Never before did Houston have such
conditions to confront.
About 8,000 telephones wore put out
of commission. Railways tost many
cars and tracks were dan.aged. Fol
lowing are some of the losses:
Cleveland compress and warehouse
McKadden compress and warehouse
Standard compress and warehouse.
Fifty thousand bales cotton stored
Dew Bros.' syrup factory.
Hudson pencil factory
St. I'airick's Catholic church and
academy.
Thirty-six loaded cars of cotton on
Southern Pacific railway tracks, not
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Are You Aware?
In the course of a year the balance of your watch
makes 157,680,000 revolutions.
THINK OF IT!
In time the oil gums, produces friction, and wears
the delicate bearings, destroying their high finish
and perfect fit, thus ruining an accurate timepiece.
An ordinary machine is oiled daily. Your watch
should be oiled once a year.
Let us examine it; an honest opinion from us
WILL COST YOU NOTHING!
West
Side
Square
Pilot
Point
Texas
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eluded in previous cotton item
Houston I.iggitt Lumber company's
yard
Rogers Paint company
K. ft. Ilarrell lumberyard
Co-operative Manfacturing' company
Southwestern rice mill.
Industrial Rice Milling company's
plant
Houston Lumber company.
Mcl lhenny cotton pickery.
Iloosier Vinegar company.
Texas Tinners' Supply company.
Ten miles of railway switches and
tracks damaged.
The baby of Charles A Favor, Jr.,
was suffering with cerebro-spinal
meningitis Owing to the nature of
the child's illness rescuers shunned
the place. When it became apparent
the house must bum the mother car
ried her boy to a dimly-lighted and
cold switch shanty, where she held
him in her arms the remainder of the
night.
A dozen families sought refuge in a
cave under a bank of Huffalo bayou
Many of the Harriman line strikers
lost their homes and personal effect!)
and but few of them carried any lire
insurace.
The burned compresses were mod
ern and represented an enormous ia
vestment The Cleveland compress
losses, including cotton therein, will
foot nearly $2,000,000 and the Stand-
ard nearly $1,000,000.
Two tramps asleep near the Hudson
peneil fnctory jumped into the bayou
and swam across
MRS.STREIGHT ACQUITTED
On Previous Trial She Was Sent
Up For Life by Jury.
On change of venue from McLennan
county Mrs. Minnie Lee Streight was
acquitted at Gatesville. Tex. She was
charged with the murder of her hus-
band, T. E. Streight, at McGregor on
the night of June 18, 1910. Streight.
who was editor of the Mirror, was
shot in bed. His wife testified that lie
attoaked her and she killed him in
self defense.
First trial was held at Waco and
resulted in life imprisonment, but the
court of criminal appeals granted her
a new trial.
After the killing the lower court re-
fused to grant defendant bail, but
Presiding Justice Davidson of court
of criminal appeals granted bail for
$10,000, For this action people of
McGregor hanged him in efligy.
The Dallas Semi-Weekly News
and Post-Signal one year $1.85
MANY KILLED III
A MEXICAN CIH
Scenes of Excitement Prevail
Puebla.
ATTACK ."ADE UPON JAIL
V
Twenty-S - n Prisoners and Also
Guards L .30 Their Lives Santa
IVIaria T :n by Federal Troops
After Six-Hour Battle.
Twenty-seven prisoners and prison
guards were killed at Puebla, Mex ,
in a fight which marked an attempt at
jail delivery. Twenty nr.en escaped. A
force of cavalry wnich was hurriedly
dispatched to the prison guards had a
severe Fight with the escaping pris
oners.
Federal soldiers took Santa Maria,
in Morelos, after a battle that lasted
six hours. Zapatistas, who had held
strong positions about the town, were
driven out. One Federal captain was
killed and several of his men wound
ed. The rebel loss is not known
At Salina Cruz, in Oaxaca,there was
some unrest reported
Because of a burnedbridge not far
from Guaymas, Sonora, caused delay
of trains for twenty-four hours
GRAVE DUG AFTER DARK.
Negro Trying to Learn Rea on
Is Ordered Away.
A mystery lias puzzled the polics at
Dallas. A hole four feet deep and
about the same length was dug on
Wall street, in the southern portion
portion of the city, and covered up
Mounted Officer W D. Williams in
vestigated the case, found the alleged
grave and dug it open, but discovered
nothing
A negro living near by informed the
officer that the hole had been dug
between 1 asd 2 o'clock that morning
by two men and a woman.
"I saw one of the men," said the ne
gro, ' early this morning. I went out
to see what was being done. One man
told me to get back in the house or he
would kill mc I got back as fast as
possible "
CYCLONE AT SHREVEPOFT
Eight Persons Killed and About
Fifty Injured,
A cyclone at Shreveport killed sev
en negroes and a baby, blowing latter
some distance. About fifty persons
were hurt. A number of houses were
demolished Damage was done in ttie
adjacest country also
FIVE MEN HI1
ON ONE GALL
Quintuple Execution Takes Place
at City of Chicago.
FOUR FOR SAME CRIME
Determined Efforts Made by Con-
demned Murderers' Attorneys
to S ave Their Clients Were of No
Avail Whatever.
Five murderers were hanged in the
tounty jail at Chicago while counsel
were vainly trying to secure a stay
>rder on the ground that their clients
were insane.
Those meeting death were Frank and
Ewald Sliiplawski, brothers,and Phil-
j lip Somn eriing and Thomas Schultz,
1 slayers of Fred W. Guezlow, Jr., a
truck farmer, who was held up, robbed
and murdered while returning to his
home on the outskirts of Chtcago.
Thomas Jennings, a negro, who
took the life of Clarence Hiller,a rail
road official, after trying to rob his
residence, was the fifth to swing.
Guelzow, who had been married a
little over a year, pleaded with his as
sailants to take his money but spare
his life for the sake of his wife and
month-old child. Instead, his slayers
attacked him with knives, revolvers
and clubs. After they had killed him
they mutilated his body. Wheu ar-
rested they were trying to sell their
victim's horses.
A few hours before his execution
Ewald Shiplawski wrote the widow of
Guelzow asking forgiveness.
Cone Johnson's Mother Oles
Mrs Emily M. Johnson, horn in
South Carolina in 1835, and mother
of Hon. Cone Johnson of Tyler and
Dr. Clay Johnson of Fort Worth, de
parted this life at Corsicana. Dr. S
W. Johnson, resides at Dallas The
surviving daughters are Mrs Carrie
McHann of Georgia and Mrs W E.
Matcheetof ('orsicana, at whose resi-
dence Mrs. Johnson died.
WIND DAMAGE.
San Antonio and'Austin Among
Places Visited.
Wind blowing forty miles an hour
caused thousands of dollars' damage
at San Antonio Houses were un-
roofed and electric signs demolished.
Several persons were injured by fly-
ing wreckage and a horse killed by a
brick wall falling on him Telephone
system was crippled
For five hours a terrific wind blew
over Austin and vicinity. A number
of residences and some business hous-
es unroofed. Some negro cabins with
their terrified occupants inside were
rolled over and over about 100 feet
The $1,000 giant coaster in an amuse-
ment park was wrecked In the county-
thousands of trees were uprooted and
houses and barns blown down. The
electric power plant was out of coin-
I mission several hours and the city in
' darkness.
Hail did great damage to property
at Queen City, Cass county. Nearly
' every roof was damage.
Much darna e was done by wind at
Eagle Pass.
For twenty-four hours traffic was
blocked by snow in the Dalhart sec-
tion. There was a hervy snowfall in
the Midland country.
Worst snowstorm i i sixteen years
raged at Enid, Ok!a.. and vicinity. A
Iraiu stuck in a snowdrift.
One-Third Destroyed.
One-third of the business portion of
Crosby town, Tex., was destroyed by
fire. Loss is estimated at $25,000.
Kennedy Issues Call.
A. M. Kennedy of Mart lias issued
I call for a meeting of those peisons
who favor the presidential primary
plan to meet at Waco March 2 Mr.
Kennedy stated in connection with t'tie
call for the conference that it has no
connection with the contest for 1! e
presidential election.
% CALL ON
SCOTT <k FLAKE.
FOR
jjjj Horses, Mules and Mares, flule Colts, Second U
Hand Wagons, Second hand Cultiva-
(i tors and Cotton Planters
KAFFIR CORN
GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1912, newspaper, February 23, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291205/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.