The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1896 Page: 4 of 8
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The Abilene Reporter.
PUBLISHED AT
KBILENE - TEXHS.
ABILENE PniNTINQ COMPANY.
FRIDAY MARCH 6 1896 .
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BAST-SOUMD TASUNCZ1U
Uo. 6 arrives from' the west at. . 9:26 p. m.
Leave for Fott Worth at 9530 p; m.
No. 4. leave for Fort Worth at. . . laso a m.
WKT-BOOND PASSINGS.
No 3.' arrives going wett at 3:31 p. m.
No. 1 arrives at... ..2:50a.m.
Note No. 1 only run as far as Abilene
arriving here at 2:50 Ju m. and returning the
same morning as No. 4 at 10:20.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year $1.00
Six Months...... 50
Three Months.......... 25
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
HATES FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR
OFFICE.. '
Congress....... ....$25.00
State Senate... '..".. 15.00
Representative 1500
District 10.00
County.. 5.00
Rrednct ...-. 3.C0
The above ratss do not include price for
Wastes on ticket which wQl be 51.50. . No
.candidate's name will be put on tickets for
less than price of announcement and $1.50
for name on ticket.
We are authorized to announce W. S. O.
'Johnson as a candidate for re-election to the
office of City Secretary at the ensuing April
election.
"We are inthorized to announce J. W. Hamp-
ton as a candidate for the office of City Secre-
tary at the coming municipa election.
' We are authorized to announce J. J. din-
ton as a candidate for re-election to the office
of city Marshal at the coming- municipal elec-
tion. We are authorized to announce C CT Jack-
son as a candidate for sheriff and tax-collector
or Taylor county suVject to the action of the
democratic primaries.
We are authorized to announce J. P
Woolen as a 'candidate for sheriff and tax-
collector of 'Taylor county subject to the ac-
tion of the demoaatic primaries.
We are authorized to announce J. M. Cun-
ningham as a candidate for the office of county
treasurer of Taylor County Texas subject to
the action of the democratic primaries.
We are authorized to announce R. D. Wag-
"staff as a candidate for the office ot county
treasurer of Taylor county Texas subject to
the action cf the democratic primaries.
. .
We are authorized to announce T. Knaus
a candidate for the office of county treas-
wrer of Taylor county Texas subject to ths
action of the democratic prisaries.
We are authorized to announce M. C. Lam-
"beih as a candidate for re-electionto the office
of comity and district clerk subject to the ac-
tion of the democratic primaries.
r We are authorized to announce A. S. Hard-
wicke as a candidate for the office of County
Attorney of Taylor County subject to action
of democratic primaries.
We are authorized to announce D. G. Hill
as a candidate for re-election to the office of
"totaly judge subject to action of democratic
primaries.
We an authorized to announce J. W.
Christopher at & Candidate for re-election to
thejomce of Tax Assessor ot Taylor county.
fa are authorized to announce W. A Min-
terSr. as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Justice of the peace Precinct No. I.
Subject to action Democratic Primarits.
jThe Cattle Raisers' association
lets at Fort Worth next Monday
Tbe city has rmde great preparations
(oca royal reception1 of tbe cowmen
aad an enjoyable and profitable meet
4 conSdently.expected.
Jf the New York legislature pasres
-thtbill authorizing the consolidation
of the cities of New York and Brook-
lyn the consolidated city will have
abjpot three million people making it
tk second largest city in the world
tasking in point of population next to
London.
.
(The supreme court has overruled all
alignments of error in the ce of H
li Homes under sentence of death
Ibf the murder of Pietze) and affirmed
tk judgment of the court below.
Hfemes has lately been making active
preparations for the gallows and is
said to have sent for a Catholic priest
who has since visited biro several
tttaef
The New York Herald in its fore-
cast ot the republican national con-
vention from returns of delegates thus
far elected and an estimate of those
to be chosen finds that Mckinley at
present is far in the lead; that he is
almost certain to receive at. lcait 396
votes on the first ballot. Read will
come next with i8a Allison will have
139 and Morton tal
The work of. preparing tables of the
electoral votes of the states has already
begun in Washington city and else
where. The strangest thing about
these speculative tables is that Texas
is placed in the doubtful column
though iu view of the disturbed con-
dition of the democracy the doubtful
column would seem to be the proper
one for the Lone Star state to occupy.
The London Times" says that the
action of the American congress ac-
knowledging the beligerency of the
Cuban insurgents gives "every reason
to anticipate a war which may prove
a much more troublesome one. than
the Washington politicians' expect."
And there is also every reason to be-
lieve that on the part of the Times
the ''anticipation" is father to the
thought
No Monometallism says the St
Loots Republic. Carlisle and Cleve-
land are no better judges of politics
than any other two men who have had
elementary education in practical
party management. Their economic
views may compel them to uphold the
single gold standard but when they
predict an overthrow of the bimetallic
doctrine in the democratic party' they
become romantic. There will be no
monometallism in the national plat-
form. And this applies to both kinds
of monometallism.
Far-reaching in their results as the
republican quarrels in Washington may
be regarded tbe St Louts Republic
thinks they are nothing to compare
with ours and will not be until repre-
sentatives from states like Ohio and
Pennsylvania begin to denounce Reed
and McKinley. We democrats want
to see explosions. from republicans who
count We want to see the fur fly in
Illinois Ohio and Iowa. Carter and
Teller have done well enough as indi-
viduals; but when weighed in the
great scale of national politics they
have cot the heft.
Speaking of the decrease in population
in Kansas 97000 since 1890 as
shown by a census taken in that state
last year the Gainesville Banner says:
'As Kansas is pretty prolific in the
matter of babies considerably more
than one hundred thousand people
have left that state within the past five
years Poor crops and a treacherous
climate have caused many of them to
seek new homes in the south and else-
where but the curse of populist dom-
ination has also cost the state thous-
ands of citizens and millions of dollars.
Populism is very expensive wherever
tried.
Prof. Foster predicts that after a
warm wave a cool wave will crass this
section about March 8th. He says
that the third disturbance of Match
will be of unusual force and will pro
bably cause tornadoes in some of the
southern states. This disturbance will
cross the central valleys about the 14
and serious results from killing frosts
in some of the southern states are
probable. Mr. Foster gives special
warning of a blutard in the upper
Missouri valleys not far from March 16.
By Missouri valley he means all the
country drained by the Missouri river
and its tributaries.
Owing to some infernal A. P. A. in-
terference the formal unveiling of the
Marquette statue at the Washington
capitol last Monday was dispensed
with. Threats had been made by a
crank actuated by A P. A. fiends that
the face of the statue would be disfig
ured and it was feared therefore that
a public gathering about the statue
might be attended by some unpleasant
incident. It was however announced
that speeches in the senate by Senator
Mitchell and others upon Father Mar.
quet?e the eminent missionary and
heroic explorer would be made Friday
and Saturday. To prevent A. P. A.
fiends from accomplishing their nefa-
rious work of defacing the statue it
was deemed pruderit to have the statue
guarded by police day and night the
entire past week.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company one of the oldest and most
extensive transportation systems in the
United States and until recently one of
the most profitable has gone into the
hands of receivers. John K. Cowcn
'its prertdent and Oscar G. Murray its
third Vice president will hereafter
operate it for the benefit of the credi-
tors and bond ho'dcrs under the direc-
tion of the United States court. This
action was taken after' a prolonged
struggle against the inevitable and was
the immediate result of the failure of
the directors to negotiate loans to pro-
vide for interest and other payments
due and about to become due.
It has developed that the recent
cotton states exposition at Atlanta was
not a complete success. As an exhi-
bition it left much to be desired and
from a pecuniary standpoint it failed.
The total receipts from all departments
were $487621.85 and the disburse-
ments while not completely summed
up exceeding this by a considerable
amount Or the 1386863 admission
tickets collected at the gates 433935
or more than one-third were compli-
mentaries or press passes. But the
show had at least the merit of attract-
ing attention to the south and to south-
ern industries and in this respect it
has fulfilled its purpose. Ex. '
The president and his cabinet are
said to be strongly opposed to the
present recognition of the beligerency
of the Cuban insurgents and to any
declaration concerning their indepen-
dence as embodied in the senate and
house resolutions recently passed on
that subject Although the president
and members of the cabinet person-
ally feel the sympathy common to all
Americans with those Cubans who are
contending for self government they
feel that in their official action they
should not depart from the well settled
principles which were followed by for-
mer presidents and secretaries of state
during prior insurrections in Cuba.
Gubernatorial speaking of what
possible importance it is what Gov-
ernor Culberson thinks of the silver
question or what land Commissioner
A. J. Baker whom Judge Hardy sug-
gests as the "sound money" condidate
for governorr-thinks of the silver
question? Neither of them can have
anything officially to do with the sub
ject and their opinions about it are
of just as much value as that of any
other democrat and no more. The
one has made an excellent governor
and the other an excellent land com-
missioner and the people want them
in the same service for another term
and there they will be sure to place
them unless they refuse to serve
again. Houston Post.
The supreme court decision in tl.e
Greer county case which contrary to
expectations had not been handed
down at latest reports but which is
daily expected it is believed will be
against Texas and in favor of the gov
ernment. fiy such A decision the land
will come under the ciaim of the
Choctaw Tadians for all that section of
Indian Territory. It was in anticipa-
tion of a decision in the case adverse
to Texas that Congressman Cockrell
from this district not long ago intro-
duced a bill in congress which is still
pending suspending the action of all
laws against the settlers of Greer
county whose claims will be affected
by an adverse decisiqn to Texas.
BI0T3 IN HOME.
The disastrous defeat of the Italien
army tinder command of Gen Nara-
tierj at the hsnds of the Shoans on tbe
3d inst. in Abysinnia has caused great
excitement in Rome. The frency
grief and anger of the populace are
reported to be beyond description and
control There was disorder and riot-
ing Wednesday in Rome and all other
Important cities throughout Italy which
in many instances the police were una-
ble to suppress. Everywhere the peo
pie are assuming a most threatening
attitude and dentonstartions against
Crispi's ministry and even against the
king are reported from all parts of the
kingdom.
The loss of the Italiens in the ter
rible conflict is placed all the way from
3000 to 10000 while some reports
say that the army was annihilated.
On account of the caotic condition
in Rome the upiversity has been clos-
ed the ministry has resigned and con
fusion and terror reigns supreme the
end of which no one can tell.
tlHral Jba4 AMKuUi.
Judge F. G. Morris has handed
down his decision in the case of the
State against the Houston and Texas
Centtal and Galveston Harriiburg
and San Antonio Railway companies
to recover money due the Stato which
was loaned to the railroads out of the
special school funds between 1857 and
1859 under legislative acts of 1856.
The amount to be recovered by the
state from the Galveston Harrisburg
and San Antonio is $447567.58; from
the Houston and Texas Central
$673109.56.
The .amount is a first lien on said
roads and a degree of foreclosure on
said roads ts rendered for the benefit
of the permanent school fund of Tex-
as. With all the raw cotton handled and
all the finished fabric sold here there
is not a thread spun in Houston.
"'Tis true 'tis pity 'tis and pity 'tis 'tis
true." Now what's the matter with
organizing our forees and going after a
cotton mill? There are some mighty
good times just ahead with lots of
money looking for investment in the
south. What's the matter with a cot-
ton mill for cotton! Age
The same remarks are applicable to
every other city in the cotton growing
sections of Texas and the only reason
that can be assigned for the inexplica-
ble indifference of the people in these
Texas towns is either a failure on their
part to realize the great advantage of
cotton mills in the greatest cotton
growing state in the Union or an utter
want of enterprise to raise the neces-
sary capital to build them. The per-
perplexing phenomenon cannot be ex
plained in any other way.
The Cattlemen's Convention.
In its report of the cattlemen's con-
vention held on the aistult at Midland
the Midland Gazette says: The called
conventton of the Texas and Pacific
Cattle Raisers' Protective association
held here today was one of the best at-
tended conventions ever held in west
Texas.
The delegates on hand were from
all points between El Paso and Abilene
and the value of the cattle represented
was approximately $60000000. The
one absorbing question on hand was
that of the nuarantine arid th rernni
Drociamation of S-rrPt fnrn
Unhke those who abuse the secretary
delegates here today' understood the
situation and consequently not a word
in criticism of that official was ventured
They without exception laid the blame
at the doors of the state authority and
themselves. In each of a dozen or
more addresses delivered the fact was
freely adverted to .that the state quar-
antine line had not been enforced last
year and it was this fact that prompted
Secretary Morton to issue his procla-
mation of Jan. 27 placing an embargo
upon the entire state.
A (Startling Decision on Divorce.
The New York Journal of the 1st
inst states that the supreme court of
the United States has just handed
down a decision making the startling
assertion that persons under the ban
of divorce in one .state who have mar-
ried in another state are criminals and
can be arrested for bigamy ; that de-
cision illegitimacies children born of
such unions.
The Journal continues: "A broad
and general principle is hete laid
down wh'ch becomes operative as in-
terpreted by good constitutional law
yers in all the states. Wherever there
are persons who have been divorced
and are married again wherever there
are children bora of such marriages
and where there is property affected
by such contracts the influence of this
decision wit be 'felt. The status
of thousands of divorces and millions
of property is involved in the decision.
The decision places it within
the'powe'r of many men and women to
punish by imprisonment those from
Whom they were divorced and remar
Tied in defiance of the decree prodibit-
ing a guilty husband or wife from re-
merrying during the life time of the
other party. Such marriages are biga-
mous and all their offspring are declar-
ed by the court to be illegitimate.
To ascertain an indication of the
demoaatic sentiment of Iowa on the
money question all the democratic
members of the legislature have been
interviewed and of the a8 of them
at representatives and seven senators
all the senators and 18 of th rep-
I resentativci declared for sound monv.
Buggies Surries Hacks
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We have just received a car of the
well known and reliable Racine-Carriage
Co.'s Buggies Surries and Spring
Wagons. We desire to say that it is
the finest line of work we have ever seen.
The material workmanship and elegance
of finish cannot be surpassed.
We have them at prices that defy
competition and would be pleased to
have you examine them. Come and see
even if you do not buy now.
Respectfully
Ed. S. Hughes & Co.
Ior;ey to pay
By Tilto9 J. Brtz Catuyer
ROOM 7 BASS BUILDING ABILENE TEXAS.
I have some good farm lands that I will sell in small tracts with
small amounts paid down and give long time and easy payments
for balance due.
MILTON A. BRETZ ABILENE TEXAS.
SPATJDING BEO'S.
Plumbing and Machine Shop i
Full stock of Pipe and Fittings Bath Tubs
Sinks Etc. Etc. always on hand.
Machine Repairing a Specialty.
Southeast of Freight Depot Abilene Teias.
American Coal Mining Company
STRAWN TEXAS.
New Mines. Located one mile east of Strain..
The coal from these mines is of excellent quality .and being thor-
oughly cleaned is equal to any coal in Texas market. We guar
antee it and solicit a share of the trade of the Abilene country.
Ask your dealer for it
IDOTJO-riSS BROS. AO-TS.
MENSING &. EATON
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2305 AND 2307 STRAND
GALVESTON TEXAS.
Will Buy your Wool Hides Tallow. Pecans Eggs Poultry
and other produce.
Highest Cash Price Paid.
Send for their Price List.
THE KIEFER PILL COMPANY
Just to make you acquainted with the merits of their cele-
brated nills will send you one box in a sealed envelope post
age paid on receipt of ten cents in silver or postage stamps.
25 doses of the best laxative and liver pills for just ten cents.
Send at once addressing
Klefer Pilf Company Abilt nt Tex8'
This offer is good for a short time only.
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The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1896, newspaper, March 6, 1896; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330930/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.