The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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GRAIN BLOCKADE.
All of th« Roads Needing More Car* to
Move the Oraln.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 10.—The
movement of western grain to Europe
by way of the gulf ports surprised the
•east last year. This ^sar it will astound
it The west never had such a crop
in the fii;st place; it never had such fa-
cilities for transportation; it never
had such favorable rates. Elevators
all over the great grain districts are
choked to overflowing; long lines of
grain-loaded freight cars fill every
switch and siding for miles around
Kansas City, and the fields have only
begun to be harvested. What will it
all be when the last mower lias passed
over the last farm, and the last c»r is
loaded, is almost beyond conjecture.
"If we had 5000 new cars we could
not bogin to handle the business," said
Superintendent J. H. Pickering of the
Pittsburg and Gulf road yesterday
morning. "Look here," and he showed
the reporter a telegram from another
road saying: "Every switch at our
junction is blocked. The trasfer track
even is full. Can't you move some
cars? Hurry."
"I've got engineers working all over
this vicinity and still we are choked.
We must be 2000 cars behind hand,
but this is only the beginning; the
grain movement has hardly begun.
What we will ao when it really comes
nobody knows."
Robert Gillham, general manager of
the same road, was equally in despair.
"We haven't the rolling stock to ac-
commodate the traffic now and the
movement has only started. We've or-
dered more cars and we are borrowing
all we can get from the east, but they
only help. The big grain movement
this year is by the southern ports.
Everything is going that way."
The Pittsburg and Gulf has ordered
750 new freight cars. One contract for
250 was let Saturday to the Pullman
people, another for 250 went to Barney
& Smith, and a third for the same
number went to the Missouri Car and
Foundry company. The Pullman com-
pany already had orders for 300.
"We expect new cars at the rate of
fifteen a day by the last of the week,"
said Mr. Gillham. During the last six
weeks the Pittsburg and Gulf has re-
ceived thirty new engines.
The same reports of the big southern
grain movement come from the other
roads, the Memphis and the Katy in
particular, also the Missouri Pacific
and the Santa Fe. Hither by their
own lines or by connections these
roads all reach either Galveston or
New Orleans. The Texas and Pacific
has already ordered 400 new cars to
handle its grain business and the other
roads are crowding their cars through
as rapidly as possible in order to get
them back again.
"To sum it up," said a railroad man
yesterday morning, "We're going to
open the east's eyes this year. In the
first place we are going to scare them,
because we are going to send all this
big grain crop to the gulf, and then we
are going to make their eyes bulge
when they see their dividends come
in. That's the way we do it in the
west."
Kansas City'c wheat receipts yester-
day were 831 cars more than the total
received at Chicago, Minneapolis, Du-
Luth and St. Louis, the other four im-
portant primary markets in this coun-
try. The total receipts for the three
weeks during which the new crop
movement has been under way,amounts
to 6097 cars, or about 4,000,000 bushels.
Fully half of it is going south, and
more would go that way if the trans-
portation facilities were adequate.
A Bad Negro.
Purcell, I. T., Aug. 10.—Saturdaj
night about 11 o,clock th* oeople of tht
business portion of the town were ex-
cited by the loud and vociferous talk-
ing of a negro, threatening to kill any
person with whom he came in contact.
He proceeded unmolested to Mr. L.
C. Wantland's house, in the northwest
edge of town, and entered the house
immediately and took hold of the hand
of an employe and began swearing and
beating the man in the face and say-
ing, " you, I will kill you."
Mr. Wantland, who was sleeping on
the porch with his wife and children,
being awakened and alarmed by the
disturbance within the house, secured
his Winchester, rushed in to the assist-
ance of the young man, and seeing
the negro ordered him to leave the
premises. The negro refused, but after
a little persuasion and a few serious
threats started to walk away. He only
went as far as the gate, where he
wheeled and sprang upon Mr. Want-
land, grabbing the Winchester with one
hand and in the other he had a large
knife, with which he began cutting
and stabbing Mr. Wantland, cutting
him all over the arms and chest. Sev-
eral of the cuts reached the heart. Mr.
Wantland fell to the ground almost
dead.
The negro took the gun and started
to town, shooting along the street and
threatening to shoot any person who
dared molest, him. Reaching town he
proceeded to take in all the lunch coun-
ters, billiard halls and dives in the city
and frightened all the occupants, who
left immediately upon his entrance.
He next visited the Love hotel, where
he found a number of traveling men.
It was only a few moments until he
dispersed the crowd. Leaving the ho-
tel, he again returned to the Want-
land house, but before he reached the
house he was shot at by some one,
which seemed to frighten him away,
but he still continued to swear and
threaten the life of every one.
On returning to town he was met
by Deputy United States Marshal W.
E. Kelly, Mat Cook and others, who
surrounded him and ordered him to
siirrended, but he refused to do so and
held his Winchester in hand, cocked,
ready to shoot when Mat Cook rushed
upon him and struck him on the head
with a Winchester which knocked him
senseless, inflicting a severe wound on
the negro's head. The blow bent the
barrel of the wincnester almost to an
angle of 45 degrees. The negro was at
once removed to the federal jail, where
he yet remains.
PREMIER OF SPAIN KILLED.
MILITARY ENCAMPMENT.
GOLLI CONFESSED.
iSnys He Killed Senor Canovas to Avenge
the Barcelona Anarchists.
Madrid, August 10.—The assassin
Golli has confessed that he killed Sen-
or Canovas to avenge the Barcelona
anarchists and the insurgent leader,
Don Jose Rizal, who was executed at
Manila, Philippine islands, on Dec. 30
last, as the instigator of the Philippine
rebellion. Dr. Rizal denied that he was
a rebel leader, but he admitted that he
had drawn up the statutes of the Phil-
ippine islands.
In Golli's room the police found yes-
terday a large double-barreled pistol.
It appears that when he left the house
he carried a parcel, which is believed
to have contained a bomb. The theory
is that he hid this somewhere in the
fields.
A dlspavch from Barcelona says that
Golli arrived there in December, 1895,
coming from Marseilles. He was em-
ployed in the printing office of the
Review of Social Science, managed by
the anarchist, Tarrida Marmal, former-
ly imprisoned in Mounst Muich fort
Tess at Barcelona.
Golli was implicated in the terrible
crime of the celebration of Corpus
Christy although he left Barcelona a
tew days before it occurred. He waa
denounced to the police for complicity,
but he had already disappeared.
Shreveport, jLa., Crowded With Viitorg
in Attendance.
Shreveport, La., Aug, 10.—This
city wears a gala appearance and is
filled with visitors.
The encampment of the first regi-
ment, L. S. N. G., for 1897, is now be-
ing held at the fair grounds, now des-
ignated as Camp Foster. The first
company to arrive was company I of
Natchitoches. Then came the Monroe,
Ruston and Lake Providence compa-
nies. The late train brought company
E of Baton Rouge, company H of Ham-
mond, the Lake Charles company and
regimental band.
Miss Blanchard, the sponsor for the
regiment, gave an informal reception
at her home yesterday morning to the
regiment. The Trevezant and Caddo
rifles of this place both gave good
drills at the camp.
Tfcavy Rainfall.
Meridian, Miss., Aug. 10.—The heav-
iest and most disastrous rainfall this
section of the country has experienced
in years occurred Sunday and yester-
day.
Four days ago the mountain streams
in this part of the state were almost
dry from the prolonged drouth, but
last night they were roaring torrents,
sweeping everything before them.
Bridges have been swept away, fences
carried off, and in the lowlands sur-
rounding the large streams corn and
cotton have been nearly ruined. The
damage to property in East Mississip-
pi and West Alabama in the shape of
bridges, fences, etc., will be heavy,
while the crop loss is large.
Found Floating In a Bay.
New York, Aug. 10.—A special from
Sag Harbor, N. Y., says: "The body
of Joseph Gilbert of the Gorham Man-
ufacturing company, New York, has
been found floating in Noyas bay by
the launch Lorna Doone. Young Gil-
bert, who was 20 years old, left Sag
Harbor with a lad named Bartell of
Perth Amboy Wednesday in a canoe.
Thursday the canoe was picked up on
the beach with a hole in it and the
boom broken. The body of young Bar-
tell had also been picked up at South
Hold, near here.
Ha Waa Assassinated at Santa Agaeda by
an Anarchist.
Madrid, Aug. 9.—Senor Canovas del
Castillo, the prime minister of Spain
was assassisnated yesterday at Santa
Agueda by an anarchist. The murderer
fired three shots, two of which struck
the premier in the head and the other
in the chest. The wounded man lin-
gered unconscious for two hours and
died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
His wife was but a short distance away
when he fell.
Madrid, Aug. 9.—Senor Canovas del
Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was
assassinated yesterday at Santa Ague-
da, by an anarchist. The murderer fired
three shots, one of which struck the
premier in the forehead and another
in the chest.
The wounded man fell dying at the
feet of his wife, who was with him,
lingering in agony for an hour and
then passing away with the cry of
"Long live Spain," which were the last
words upon his lips.
Santa Agueda is noted for its baths.
The place is between San Sabastlan,
the summer residence of the Spanish
court, and Vottoria, the capital of the
province of Alavau, about thirty miles
south of Bilboa. The premier went
there last Thursday to take a three
weeks course of the baths, after which
he expected to return to San Sebastian
to meet United States Minister Wood-
ford, when that gentleman should be
officially received by the queen regent.
The assassin was immediately arrest-
ed. He is a Neapolitan and gives the
name of Rinaldi, but it is believed that
his real name is Michele Agino Colli.
The murderer declares that he killed
Senor Canovas 'in accomplishment of
a just vengeance," and that the deed
is the outcome of a vast anarchistic
conspiracy. He is believed to have ar-
rived at Santa Agueda the same day
as the premier, and lie was frequently
seen lurking in the passage of the
bathing establishment in a suspicious
manner.
The remains of Senor Canovas will
be brought here to-day. Marshall Mar-
tinez Campos has gone to San Sebas-
tian to attend the queen regent.
Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader, has
sent the following telegram to the gov-
ernment:
"I have heard with deep pain of the
crime that has thrown us into mourn-
ing, and I place myself at the orders
of the queen and of the government.
Most of the liberal leaders have sent
similar messages, placing themselves
at the disposal of the government.
NEGRO MOBBED.
The Reason Why.
"I never got any favors from any
body, all my life."
"Did you throw around a few your- |
self occasionally for seed2".
He Was Shot to Death for Attempt at
Criminal Assault.
Glenwood, Ga., Aug. 9.—Nathan C.
Mason, a young negro who has been
employed for some time at the resi-
dence of Dr. Charles A. Powell, in this
place, attempted an assault Saturday
night upon Mrs. Powel in her bedroom
and was captured after a fierce strug-
gle by her husband, who he held his
captive while other members of his
household went for help and In a short
time nearly fifty of his neighbors,
armed with guns and pistols arrived
at the scene of the assault
They took the negro from Dr. Powell
and carried him some distance down
the road, where it was discovered that
in their haste no member of the mob
had been thoughtful enough to supply
himself with a rope.
There were sugegstions that Mason
be burned to death, but this was op-
posed by the leaders of the crowd and
it was finally decided that, he should
be shot In military fashion.
He was unconscious from fright and
rought handling, but revived sufficient-
ly to understand his fate and pleaded
wildly for his life.
After being given an opportunity to
pray he was placed aganst a pile of
rocks and the mob drew up in a semi-
circle in front of him. At a signal
from one of the leaders every trigger
was pulled and a shower of lead found
lodgment in the negro's body.
VIGILANT WON.
the Double Century Yacht Race Ron Was
a Success.
Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 9.—The double
century yacht race of the New York
Yacht club from Vine Yard Haven to
Mount Dessert, for $5000 worth of plate
offered by Commodore J. Pierpont Mor-
gan, was finished yesterday afternoon
off Bakers Island light with the sloop
Vigilant leading the fleet of twenty
boats by many miles, after a run
marked out by smooth seas and winds.
The Vigilant won the cup in the sloop
class, leading the Navahoe at the finish
bx 50 minutes.
The race in the schooner class waa
much closer, and the Colonia, although
finishing 10 minutes ahead of the Em-
erald, won the $2000 cup by only 21
seconds.
The entire 178 miles from Pollock
Rip lightship was sailed without a
sheet or halyard being pullod in.
Disastrous Explosion.
Sofia, Aug. 9.—A disastrous explo-
sion occurred Friday at the cartridge
factory of Rustchul, on the Danube^
139 miles northwest of Arna.
Forty-six persons were killed1 out-
right and very many others were in-
jured. The lives of sixty off the latter-
are despaired of.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria,, on re-
ceipt of the news of the explosion, vis-
ited the sufferers who had been taken
to the hospital, and caused! money to.
be distributed to the families, of th®
victims.
Decision Rendered.
Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 9.—Tho supreme
court has affirmed the decision of the
lower courts against the PraUrie Cat-
tle company. This was a test case
brought against the county treasurer
of Beaver county (No Man's Lancdl) by
a number of cattle owners whoso herds
range in Beaver county, buifc who them-
selves live in Colorado.
Several thousand dollars tax per an-
num were involved and the Colorado
cattlemen must pay the Beaver county;
rates.
Th« strike
Pittsburg, P., VV2"!!2
Sunday was considered a day of
among the strikers, probably the me**
effective work among the Plum Cree£
miners was performed, and as a result
the strikers have been assured that
considerably less than 200 men will be
at work to-day at these mines.
A large mass-meeting was held at
Camp Isolation at Plum Creek yester-
day afternoon, which, in addition t
about 1000 others, waa attended by
about 2000 women, the wives a,nd
daughters of the miners who are still
at work in the Plum Creek ^ine. Not-
withstanding the fa£t th**- deput es
visited the homes of these people yes-
terday morning and advised them not
to attend the meeting, nearly every
wife, brother and -watrkoktaol- stersi
wife, brother or husband attended.
Because of the many restrictions put
on the strikers, they have been un-
able to get a chance to argue th^ir
cause with the Plum Creek workmen
and the occasion given them yesterday
was taken advantage of to the full.
The unusual opportunity was the re-
sult of the missionary work of the
wives of the strikers from McDonald,
Finleyville and Carnegie. These wom-
en have been working assiduously dur-
ing the past week and secured the
promise of the wives of the working
miners to attend the meeting and bring
their husbands. The result of the
meeting was the assurance from near-
ly a hundred men that they would join
the strikers to-day, and they they- are
to desert the pit, leaving only eight
days' wages back, which, judging by
the action of the company in the case
of the Sandy Creek strikers will be
refused them. If this plan does not
miscarry, the strikers think it will on-
ly be a question of a very short time
until the DeArmitt mines are tied up
completely.
Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 9—The
week just closing finds the miners'
cause at low ebb in the Wheeling dis-
trict. Since the refusal of the Boggs
Run men to join the strike the efforts
of the united mine workers, organized
to keep men out at Elm Grove, Glen-
dale and Moundsville, have met with
poor success. The strike leaders have
come to the conclusion that they can
accomplish little or nothing unless
there is a supension at the Boggs Run
mines, and it was learned last night
that next week will witness another
supreme effort to bring out these men.
The plan of procedure to force out
Boggs Run is not known, but it is said
to be in the way of a miners' demon-
stration against the works.
There has been a large decrease in
the amount of West Virginia coal go-
ing west on the Baltimore and Ohio,
Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling
and Wheeling and Lake Erie roads.
Practically none is being sent to the
lakes on the two roads, and the Balti-
more and Ohio is handling not more
than 100 cars a day, a decrease pf 150
cars compared with the previous
week.
Exposition Attractions,
Paris, Aug. 9.—A hundred projects
for the attractions for the Paris ex-
position of 1900 were submitted yester-
day to the committee. They included
the building of a copy of Bartholdi's
statue of liberty in New York harbor,
600 feet high; the construction of a res-
taurant under water, to be built of
glass; an enormous vertical screw, to
be built with a nut, fitted as a safe;
reproduction of the Trojan horse, ca-
pable of holding 1000 people, and plans
for fitting the Eifel tower with a spiral
railway and a toboggan chute.
Dr. H. W. Green was killed near
Reswell, N. M., recently, by being
thrown from his horse. .
^ The hog may be kept growing and
tftrtfty through August as well a*.May,
provided the May conditions are furn-
ished, and this is possible on most
fawns, writes J. A. Dobie in National
Stockman. One of the most important
of these is pasture. It is possible to
grow hogs successfully by soiling, but
I it requires more attention and work
than most farmers are willing to be-
stow. A grass run affords the growing
1 pig that exercise so necessary for his
proper development, and the succulent |
1 grasses are rich in the muscle and
bone-forming material. Grass and
clover are loosening to the system, and
are just suited to his wants in dry, hot
weather. It matters not how well cared
for in other respects, the pig will never
be thrifty in summer unless he has
plenty of pure, fresh water. This im-
portant point is, perhaps, more often
neglected than any other. Slop will not
answer the purpose of drinking water
entirely, though it is, of course, a par-
tial substitute. The man who has
never had the job of carrying water in
a pail to a bnnch of hogs has no idea of
the amount they will drink on a dry,
hot day. The man who will pen up
bogs, or any other animals, in a lot or
ffeld entirely destitute of shade ought
to receive the attention of the humane
society. Such protection from the sun
as a wire fence affords is hardly suffi-
cient. Shade trees here and there will
do fairly well, but nothing is equal to
a wood lot. If the ground be low and
damp, and is covered by a dense un-
dergrowth through whieh the snn
never penetrates, so much the better,
but shade of some kind they must have
In order to thrive and grow. Some good
hog growers believe that hog baths are
unnecessary. Others believe that a wal-
low of mud Is better than none I knowi
from long experience that the hog will
do tolerably well without any bath ex-
cept rain, provided he has damp earth
and dense shade. He will do still better
if he can have a bath of clean water at
will. But rather than allow him access
to a foul wallow of thick mud I would
prefer that he never see water except
to drink. In these times we must look
carefully to these little details if w®
grow hogs at a reasonable profit.
Watering; Work Horses..
In the beginning of the working, sea-
son in the fields 1 would, like to make a
suggestion in the interest of the farm
horses and their owners. I do not be-
lieve that it is night or profitable to
make a horse work five hours in hot ^
weather without water. When an anl* 0r
mal is suffering the tendency is to lose*
in weight, and that a heated horse does
suffer when deprived of water for a.
number of hours is evident to all who
have tried to restrain our teams from
drinking when the stable is reached at
noon or night. At ten. o'clook in the
forenoon and four in the afternoon, or
near these hours,, water should be fur-
nished. It pays me to stop my work
and take the team one-fourth, of a mile
for water,, if none is nearer at hand.
The animals are refreshed, suffering, is
prevented, and more work can be done
upon a given amount of feed. Best of
all, the driver feels more like a Chris-
tian. A small barrel swung upon a
bent axle of two cart-wheels, with a
po>e attached, can be used for fields
remote from water. The cart can be
drawn behind wagon or cultivator or
drawn direct by horses when no im-
plement need be taken. For young
horses-especially water, should be kept
in the field. When this humane plan is
adopted, it should, be adhered, to strietly.
—Ex.
Hard-Workedl Horses.—The nature*
of farming is such that at times horses.
must be worked very hard in order
to do the work at the proper time, aud
at other times, the farm horse has com-
paratively little to. do. This can. not
be helped. When the horses work hard„
owners aim to feed, all they will eat
without waste, and then they can not
keep them in flesh. Should they feed
them as heavy when idle, it would well
nigh ruin them. The farmer's judg-
ment is needed, here as muoh as in any
part of the farm management. It ia
all right to feed a horse the same ra-
tion the year through, it he has steady
and uniform work, but when he works
hard for several months and. than, does
but little for a time, this can not he
done, and it requires, judgment in in-
creasing and diminishing th& ratioa
to. suit the work.—Ex.
The French cruiser Linois lias been
ordered to Crete. ■*'
Hot Milk as Nutriment.—1£ attuy oaa
doubts the nourishing, properties of
milk, let a. test be made of the. follow-
ing preparation of it. When very
weary or. weak from exhaustion, heat
some milk to the scalding point until
a thin skin begins to wrinkle upon the
surface, and then drink it a& hot at
possible. It refreshes almost instantly^
and restores the exhausted vitality to &
surprising extent as soon a& it is taken.
It is more nutritious thau any of tha.
beat teas made from meat extracts or
e\en from fresh beef.—ELs-,
Feed of Sows.—Too many men allow
their brood sows and stock hogs to rum,
together and partake of the same
tion. Corn alone is the food of thous-
ands of stock hogs, but such a diet far
brood sows will knock the profits off
the pig crop much of'tener than many,
suppose—Ex.
J
Eusttis, Me., News la fuied with re-
ports tlat bears are thicker than
sheep.
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