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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1S95.
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highway robbery ami murder itself. Noth-
ing would do more to break up nests of
vice and schools of crime by which the
peace and safety of thf country are threat-
ened than a fair application of the vagrant
laws. The makers of the constitution had
' this refl vtion in mind when they provided
i for laws by which overy hive could rid
: itself of its dangerous urones. The failure
to continuously and effectively ertforce the
laws passed under this provision leads nat-
urally to^ indolence, dependence, vice and
crime.
FRIENDS AND FRIENDS OF JUDGE
REAGAN.
Van A'-dyne News: It is not Judge Re a-
can's frit tils that are making all this talk
a;» : hi*n far g vernor. It is his < u- mu-s.
1 -i r t:.»!. • ston-Di»l!as News, his
crt a .est em ray. who desires to defeat Gov-
ernor Culberson.
Gatve.'.on-Dallo • N\ vvs: The Van Alstyne
organ and other desperate opponents of
Judge Reagan will not find it easy ; > ■
vln -e many s nsible people that Colonel
Wynne of Fort Waai. Major Faulk of
Aust n and half a hundred editors who at>-
pushr ;; along the candidacy of the a ;e of
Palest, n a: • "his en amies." The News is
n. t respons . le for the meash-s now
, troubling the adminivtr.;!ion basics.
Hoc* ton Post: Will The N-.w answer
' t'ii.s que.-.ion? Is it in favor - f Judge Kea-
tran for
Why? The answer is easy. The claimants
I are afraid of the law. It is cash and not j
• constitution they are after.
The Austin Statesman strives in vain to
. report the recent speech of the 'Old Al-
calde" to the convicts in the penitentiary,
j-dt goes about it like this:
R. , ntlv he was called upon to deliver
an address to the inmates of the state pen-
itentiary. He consented, and after view-
ing h:- audience for a few minutes, began:
"Gentlemen—hut, no," he hesitated. "You
are not gentlemen, or you would not be
here." He paused for another moment.
"Fellow citizens, then " He stopped
a^ain. "No, you are not citizens, either."
The governor grew impatient for wan: of
something to say. "Well," he began agin,
at doesn't matter what you are, I'm d—n
glad to see so many of you here."
The Sherman Daily Journal will be pub-
lished af«r October 1 by Cash Sirplese.
J. F. BovWs will be editor.
Comptroller Bowler's position in the sugar
bounty case is as sound as an honest dol-
lar.
Austin is moving to secure a cotton fac-
; tory.
8enator Mills to Chairman Dudley: "The
■ introduction of the gold standard was done
by a democratic congress near the admin-
! istrution of Andrew Jackson, and was th*
LOUISVILLE IS FATED.
out of the murder cf Mrs. Thca. The sec-
ond vietim was John Thomas, an old negro
who. with Will Caldwell, who was lynched
Tuesday, was implicated in the murder.
1
Another Terrible Catastrophe
Which Many Persons Are
Injured.
in
GRAND STAND COLLAPSED
No. Th.. N. - is n .- for JuJee JfcujMa. r, "ul 01 ^ tttott t0 ^ ore S°M <0 ,ou?
. Th.r.- ure ivrtainlv f.-»- ,hwU- or pap-r. That standard was reORn'-wS
:» Texas to when, it is n■■■,«.ry to Rive j '> ;i cunsnss in ltoS as the
I tii'.s informal] in. Tile N« ws stands ready, j C01
! however, to do the old nubile functionary | lit ions, a
j and veteran politician justice and to give j |ni"1Hahuia >
to his frie.Kis and supporters a fair and J""1*™™* th
1 full hearing. It' there is any reason why ' "ow " t0 fl
1-K1PAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1805.
1HK MiW.S' Tit A Yl£ LING AGKNTS.
The following are the traveling representa-
tives of The Galveston News and The Dal-
las News, who ar>.' authorized to solicit and
receipt for subscriptions and advertisements
for either publication: H. P. Simonds, J. A.
Sloan, T. B. Baldwin, C. S. Dulin, Tom C.
Swope and Ed A. Gebhard.
A. H. BELO & CO.
September 3, 1S95.
HONEST MONEY, BUT PARTY POLI-
TICS.
While Senator Mills declares and argues
ably for sound money his letter to Chair-
man Dudley concludes with the ordinary
surrender of the party candidate. He says:
We have twice in our history tried the
experiment of making a compound stand-
ard of gold and silver and signally failed
in both instances, * * * No one would
have dreamed of coining silver dollars for
our circulation, either with or without lim-
it, if silver had remained at a premium, as
it was in lS">:t. * * * i object to the silver
:':and'ard being adopted in lieu of the ex-
isting standard because it will defraud all
creditors out of one-half the value of their
debts. Every de.bt contracted since Janu-
ary 1. 1871), w;*h contracted on the gold
nandard. * * * No person would receive
the least benefit from the change of stand-
ard to silver except the man who owes li»0
cents and wishes to pay it with C»0. Me
would, under the silver standard, be able
to discharge his debt by paying one-half of
what he promised. H< would have the*
<-;her half of his neighbor's property for
nothing. * * * Believing that the silver
standard would prove injurious to the pto-
ple of the United States,' and especially to
■that part of them encaged in growing cot-
ton, I am unwilling to take any st
legislation calculated to imperil that great
industry upon Which the welfare of my
constituency so greatly depends. * * *
Every man. woman and child who is paid
in money for services receivts the highest
poraslbl" remuneration when they are paid
with the best dollar that can be kept in
circulation. * These figures prove that
it is the poor man's money, the money of
every one who works for wages. The wage
#orker is always chrated l»v any depre-
ciated money, more by depreciated paper
money, because it has no intrinsic value to
check its expansion. The wage worker al-
ways gets the most for his services when
•the dollar in which he is paid is the dollar
of the commercial world. The whole people
except speculators and connnei dal gamb-
lers are injuriously affected by depreciated
mon-ey of any kind, but the injury is felt
with crushing effect by the man or woman
whose life depends upon constant employ-
mint and daily earnings.
After showing very clearly that the pro-
posed free coinage is rank with fallacy anil
with disaster and is foreign to the require-
ments alike of justice and democratic
equality Senator Mills concludes with the
following lamentably abject pledge of con-
tingent surrender:
I will dismiss this part of the subject
with this statement. 1 am a public servant
and a representative of the people of Texas
in the senate. I recognize the obligation of
a representative to iviiect th" will of his
constituents or resign his trust. In the last
state convention a proposition to coin sil-
ver without limit at hi to 1 was negatived.
TTntil a different dclivcian. • is made by
th? democracy of 'IVx-s 1 shall vo:eaga:n-t
the ratio of iij to 1. If the state convention
of my party, which assembles next year,
should declare in favor of that proposition
my vote shall reflect their will, not mine.
* * * We must stand by our party or-
ganization and support its standard bearers
against all comers.
^Considering the clearness and force with
which Senator Mills presents the essent-
ially undemocratic character and the ex-
treme public pernlciousness of the free sil-
ver contention it is certainly difficult to
conceive just how he could ever in a con-
templated contingency believe it to be his
democratic or patriotic duty to join in the
work of promoting the prevalence of the
free silver fallacy and the infliction upon
the country of the horrors of a 50 per cent
flat silver policy. If really persuaded that
free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 is undemo-
cratic, unsafe, dishonest, a help to gam-
blers, a wrong to creditors, a continuing
fraud and robbery of wage earners and of
all classes who work for money, as he con-
tends, then surely he should not feel bound
by the arbitrary declaration of any assem-
blage, claiming to represent ami speak for
•any party, to accept the dictum and es-
pouse a measure confessedly so outrageous
and calamitous.
j <!N>lonel Wynne, Major Faulk, II
' Henderson and hundreds of others should
j be abused because they are for Reagan
j The News has fail d to tlljd it. There are
j good grounds for believing Governor Cul-
i in rson unable to carry another election for
| governor. Judge Reagan is the logical ean-
j dldate of the free sMverites. He has been
j consistent and courageous in the advocacy
• of this hensy. He has not flickered in the
j socket. He is the source of ability and
strength whence the younglings of his
s. iaool have drawn all that they have. He
is their leader. He has not forfeited his
right to become a candidate by accepting
a reappointment on the railroad commis-
sion. To accept this place was not to sell
out to the m. n who tendered it. If so the
very a*ct of tendering to him the place was
tricky and dishonorable. By retaining a
place on the commission Judge Reagan ac-
commodated Governor Culberson. The obli-
gation, if any such t'hing was created, was
[ against the governor and not in his favor,
if either of the men is under any obliga-
tion whatever to stand aside for the other,
then the younger man should certainly be
expected to do so. In the face of all these
facts the friends and beneficiaries of Gov-
ernor Culberson begin with the tactics of
last campaign by declaring '.he old man
fully disposed of. After inducing him to
declare that he is not a candidate they re-
peat eagerly his statement and, with their
hands upon the the majestic sanctuaries
of their appetites, they wall their eyes to
heaven and eloquently proclaim that the
"old man has said it and will not go 'back
on his word." When The News dares to
trifle with these sacred things, so to speak,
by publishing statements from Colonel
Wynne, Major Faulk and Colonel Hender-
son, or an expression from a newspaper
here and there, in favor of Judge Reagan's
candidacy, these unctuous fallings solemn-
ly slap their rotund and consecrated com-
missary magazines again and swear that it
is the enemies of the old man and not his
friends who are urging his candidacy and
that The News Is the leader of the conspir-
acy. The friends of Governor Culberson do
not claim outright that the sage of Pales-
tine has been bought with a price, but they
suggestively Imply that he has. If they do
not consider such to be the case, why do
they question his right to become a candi-
date for governor? They do not assert,
as they did at the beginning of last cam-
paign, that he has promised Mr. Culberson
to hands off, but they insist that he has
committed himself and assert that his
hands are tied. Did they tie him while he
slept in confidence and innocence? Who
tied him. The very men who have attempt-
ed more than once to do so now stand up
to accuse his real friends and supporters
of treachery.• The News does no-c agree
with Judge Reagan and is not to be count*
ed for him, but he has the confidence and
devotion of some honorable citizens who
favor his candidacy and who are saying so.
These supporters are not of the office-
grasping trust who have attempted to tie
his hands, to induce him to make a verbal
forfeiture of his rights, to fasten him to
the shelf and who hold up their hands in
dramatic horror as soon as hi& name is
mentioned in connection with the guberna
torial position. The News never opposes
any man in this way. It is a modern meth-
od of campaigning for which The News ha
no respect. Expressions of Judge Reagan's
friends in favor of his candidacy will be
fairly given in this paper in spite of the
protests and false accusations of his ene-
mies who pretend to adore him while stab-
bing him in the back.
I best that could be attained under existing
| conditions, and as conditions have grown
immeasurably worse since then, in my
the best thing that we can do
follow the example set for us
Travis ! democratic statesmen in 1853, and let
the existing standard remain, as they did,
and coin silver and fractional silver as a
subsidiary metal, and coin all that will
float at par with gold."
Secretary Carlisle does not intend to be
funny, but when he makes Apostle Rea-
gan prove by his free silver scriptures that
the latfc Congressman Kelley did not know
the contents of his own bill he creates un-
intentionally a ripple of delightful mirth.
Did Kelley know anything?
Justice Brewer has slapped at the pro-
fession again, lie said at Detroit the
other day that it would be a blessing to
the profession If half of the licensed law-
yers could be drowned.
Pitus County Free Press: A plenty of
iat money is what the people need. They
ion't need money based on either gold, sli-
ver or bonds. There is not a merchant in
Mount Pleasant that would not be in bet-
ter condition it there were more money in
circulation. They don't care anything
about the tiat or intrinsic value, either, if
it serves their purpose, which Is to ex-
hange commodities, and liat money is all
that will do it. In fact there is no money
except flat money.
Advocates of free silver at 1g to 1, re-
gardless of intrinsic value, parity or high
water, may not know it, but they are In a
contention that leads out naturally to the
liatism which the Titus county paper de-
mands.
The olive branch tendered by Cyclone
Davis has been trampled Into the mud.
Senator Mills holds that "money that is
below the highest standard is a money
that cheats the wage-earner at every
turn."
There has probably never been a country
whose laws were more favorable to debt-
ors than are the laws of Texas.
The Midland News, "devoted to live
stock, science, art, business, fruits and
vines," will be conducted by F. P. Reid
during Editor Griffin's engagement as su-
perintendent of the Stanton public schools.
While Hundreds Were Viewing the Farade,
of the G A R —They Are Tnrown Down
and Many Are Ser.ously Hurt.
OLD SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NEWS, j
Mr. Alex. Fitzgerald a Reader of The News j
Many Years.
Columbus. Tex.. Auc. 20.—To The News: I !
was a subscriber to The News for three or ;
live years before the price of Th • News |
wan less than $5. I think my subscription
began in 1853 or 1854.
ALEX. FITZGERALD.
Alex. Fitzgerald was born in Madison
j county, Alabama, came to Texas in 1837,
; has been a reader of The News thirty-five
or forty years. He continues to read it.
i He writes as follows: "I consider The
News head and front of most of the papers
j published in the state or United States in
all local or foreign matters."
The statement that Baby McKee saved
his little cousin from drowning winds up
with the ex-president's timely arrival,
Governor McKinley will find it very hard
to overcome this effort to use brownies in
the campaign.
Judge Seth Shepard's opinion regarding
the free gift of public money to sugar fa
vorites controlled the comptroller in his
recent refusal to indorse their demands on
the treasury. They are no more entitled
to a special provision for premium or
bounty than are cotton raisers, wheat rais-
ers or the producers of garden truck.
There is no clause of .the constitution
under which the advocates and beneficia-
ries of such a. provision can find shelter.
It was conceived and initiated under the
cunning genius of McKinleyism as a cam-
paign fund, offered by politicians eager to
satisfy and buy the support and votes of
the sugar farmers. Special privileges to
none.
Florida leads off with two killed and a
dozen wounded by a cowardly mob in the
bushes. Negro hands who worked at a
saw mill at Westville were attacked while
asleep by outlaws with Winchesters, who
expressed their determination to stand up
for white supremacy.
Senator Mills declares for Morrison of
Illinois as a suitable presidential candidate.
Large shipments of broomcorn are going
to northern markets from Vernon, Tex.
Lord Salisbury will possibly stir up a
European war.
SSAi' SHOT*.
VAGRANT SCHOOLS OF VICE AND
CRIME.
The vagrant laws for which the consti-
tution of Texas provides furnish potential-
ly if not actually one of the very best
preventives of theft, robbery and other
crimes. Section 4G of the constitution pro-
vides that "the legislature shall at its first
session after the adoption of this constitu-
tion enact effective vagrant laws." This I A difference over a claim amounting to
the legislature attempted to do; but, taking 1 a nickel caused 5(H) workmen for Sieged
Some of the papers are little more than
handy organs of professional office-seekers.
The cotton crop will now proceed to bring
the gold back.
I
it that an effective law is one that is en-
forced, the attempt appears in many in-
stances to have been unsuccessful. This is
thus, notwithstanding section 28 of the con-
stitution, which provides that "no power
of suspending laws In this state shall be
exercised except by the legislature." The
vagrant laws have been suspended at wi'll
In this state by high and mighty officials
all the way up from justices of the peace
or city recorders to the governor of the
state. It may seem kind at first glance to
thus disregard an official oath in order to
accommodate the vagrant, but in the end
Bros.' cloak manufactory of Chicago to
march out on a strike.
Six veterans were prostrated by heat and
seven members of the Kentucky state mili-
tia were blown to atoms during the Louis-
ville celebration of the G. A. R.
Senator Manderson, attorney for the
sugar bounty claimants, notifies Comp-
troller Bowler that an appeal to the secre-
tary will be taken and that the comp-
troller's authority to refuse to sugar his
Campaign wind will not make the ship
of state sail.
One's wife makes him smoke to-day and
beseeches him to quit smoking to-morrow.
The patriotic American girl takes a
colonel and leaves the foreign count to
play waiter at a fashionable restaurant.
No slave of fashion enjoys the blessings
of freedom.
The American Idea is to celebrate.
The square dances are going out, but the
belles and beaus continue to play "hands.'
The deaf man misses a great many un-
pleasant sounds.
When a gentleman has to take something
back he proceeds to take back water.
Nobody has ever explained just why
Adam failed to sue Eve for a divorce.
Clubbing rates—Five dollars per head.
We do not take what we want; but what
we can get.
The most extravagant lawyer can save
his exceptions.
A FRIGHTFUL DEATH.
Durrant, Miss., Sept. 12.—Se'orge, the 13-
year-old son of Mr. Albert Dickens, met a
fearful death this morning wtvile riding a
mule in the Big Black swamp, a mile and a
half front town. The mule threw him and
his boot hung in the stirrup, dragging 'him
for a mile through the woods and Jumping
a fence With him. His head was beaten
into a jelly, both arms broken, his neck,
back and ribs broken and the fle.-:h fearful-
ly torn front his body.
THE CHICAGOANS INVITED.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 12.—The committee of
prominent southerners appointed to invite
the citizens of Chicago and the northwest
to the Cotton States and international ex-
position arrived here to-day. A large party
of Chieagoans met the Atlanta delegations
outside the city limits and came with them
into the city. Elaborate entertainments for
the southern guests have been arranged,
including a dinner at the Union League
club.
FOR GALVESTON.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 12.—The steam yacht
Argo has been sold by the Argonauts to
Oscar M. Springer of Detroit. She will
be taken to Galveston, Tex., where she
will be used in surveying. During the
world's fair she carried many persons to
and from Jackson park.
ThXAS NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
Cotulla Ledger: John H. Reagan and Sec-
retary Carlisle are now bucking.
Huntsville Enterprise: In all sections of
the country where the most progressive
people are at the front it will be noted
that preparations are being made for ex-
tensive fruit planting. t
Victoria. Times: What the governor of
Texas recently said to the governor of
Kansas was very different from what the
governor of North Carolina once said to
the governor of South Carolina.
Brownsville Herald: Should the demo-
crats compromise the differences now-
threatening to divide them, success will
again be theirs next year, but should thev
fail to agree, they will go down in igno-
minuous defeat. It Is the same old story-
united we stand, divided we fall.
Victoria Advocate: At Brownsville the
cry is on to San Antonio, on to Victoria,
on to Laredo: at San Antonio on to Brows-
vilie; at Victoria on to Brownsville, on to
Lagrange: at Refugio on to any place that
a road can be built. With this multiplicity
of "on tos" il would seem that we should
get some railroads.
Cuero Record: Webster Flanagan has
been interviewed on the financial question
and said: "Well, the truth is the world and
the rest of mankind know how we stand
on the silver question. See national plat-
form, 1892; state platform. 1891. We are re-
publicans and will have, if possible, a
dollar worth 100 cents any and everywhere,
whether it be gold, silver or paper. We
demand that every dollar printed or uttered
by this government shall be as good as any
other dollar; and in this we agree with Mr.
Louisville. Ky., Sept. 12.—While 100,000
people were watching the fireworks along
the water front to-night a portion of the
grand stafld, on which were seated at least
10,000 people, gave way and many were In-
jured. No fatalities have been reported.
Those injured so far as known are:
John Farris, a farmer of Brookiine, Mo.,
post 219, foot crushed and amputation
necessary.
Mrs. Ilarshfleld, Louisville, foot crushed
and leg broken.
Mrs. J. H. Vreeland of 743 Third avenue,
Louisville, ankle crushed.
Miss Mat tie Morgue, Jeffersonville, Ind.,
foot crushed.
Miss Fedora Starr, Louisville, foot
crushed and ankle sprained.
E. J. Burke, veteran, Springfield, Mass.,
foot crushed, toes amputated.
Miss Eva Willis, foot crushed.
.Miss Freida S. Enn, 1912 West Jefferson
street, ankle broken.
Mrs. Julia Adklns, 1212 Westchester
street, right foot sprained.
Mrs. Maggie Ferris, 33C6 Portland avenue,
left foot and ankle crushed.
A 12-year-old son of Dr. Peter Gunther,
foot crushed.
Colonel Joseph Packard, editor of the
Naw Albany Tribune and oldest editor in
Indiana, foot crushed and ankle broken.
Miss Bennett of Evansvllle, Ind., foot
crushed.
Mrs. W. C. Nooness, 1315 East Broadway,
wdfe of President Nooness of the Kentucky
wagon company, leg and foot crushed.
W. H. Gregg, Bluffton, Ind., back
sprained and right leg broken.
George De Long, Bluffton, Ind., foot
crushed.
Minnie Hayes, daughter of Dr. John
Hayes, 500 Walnut street, Louisville, left
foot crushed.
Rider Stein, 1905 Main street, Louisvile,
right knee crushed.
F. D. Overton, Ninth and Broadway,
Louisville, ankle crushed.
Henry Hart, Louisville, leg broken.
Kate Hines, daughter of Alderman Hines,
right leg broken.
Mrs. A. J. Thurber, Moorehead, Ky., left
knee crushed.
Benjamin Scroggln, Louisville, instep in-
jured.
Mrs. McMillan, Chicago, internally in-
jured and both legs badly bruised.
R. R. Glover, Louisville, foot crushed and
head "bruised.
Mark Waldon, South Louisville, leg
crushed.
Steve Gubtman, South Louisville, foot
crushed.
Carrie Donnelly, Pittsburg, internal hem-
orrhage.
Robert Vaughan, Louisville, right foot
crushed.
WillBam Wilson, Louisville, Internally.
Lula Tinge, Louisville, internally injured.
Mrs. Matilda Hayes, Louisville, legs bad-
ly bruised.
Mrs. Donald McDonald, wife of Building
Inspector McDonald, foot crushed.
Frank Martin, Louisville, both legs bad-
ly bruised.
The portion of the grand stand which
fell was about 400 feet long and 60 fe«?
wide. It was elevated at the front about
2 feet. Immediately behind this were seats
elevated 8 to 20 feet. On the entire stand
there were 50,000 people. Had the seats
been elevated to any great distance from
the pavement many deaths must have re-
sulted. As it was the platform on which
the seats were placed swerved to the rear
and then settled to the ground with a
crash. As it careened the planks of the
seats were forced together and the feet
and legs of hundreds were caught as in a
huge trap. The noise of exploding bombs
and fireworks and the noise of the crowd
was so great that only those adjacent to
the part of the grand stand which fell
could hear. Had it become generally
known, a panic would have followed.
As to the exact number of people in-
jured it will probably never be known.
Four policemen, who were stationed at
that part of the stand, said that they saw
from fifty to seventy-five people taken
away by friends in vehicles. They assisted
at least as many more to get back on the
street back of the stand. All the ambu-
lances and patrol wagons in the city were
summoned, and those only slightly in-
jured were taken to the hotels at which
they were stopping or to their homes.
On the portion of the grand stand which
fell there was a scene of horrifying con-
fusion. Mr. Vreeland, assistant city editor
of the Courier-Journal, was present when
the accident occurred.
"It was awful," he said. "I saw men
and women falling everywhere. Whether
they were fainting from fright or pain I
could not say. Then a panic followed.
Those who escaped being caught in the
trap made a mad rush for the entrance,
trampling over those who had fallen, while
those who had been caught sereamed for
aid. Meantime the vast multitude on all
sides continued to cheer and applaud the
grand fireworks that continued to explode
and light up the sky."
A number of Grand Army veterans who
were witnesses of the accident say they
saw many people who had been bruised
1 and injured about the legs taken to car-
j riages and sent to their hotels and homes.
I They did not stop in the excitement to
ANOTHER LIBEL DECISION.
Ga4vet?ton Tribune.
By diivt of hard and expensive fighting in
the courts, the newspapers of Texas are
getting a line of decisions to take the place
of the present inadequate law libel. The
latest definition of the rights of newspapers
comes from Judge E. R. Sinks of the
Washington county district court in the
case of C. G. Dement vs. the Houston
printing company for alleged '..be! in the
H out ton Post. The item complained of was
au follows:
Uiddings, Tex., Nov. 21.—C. G. Dement,
formerly of Washington county, and who
was at one time a Baptist preacher, w •$
jailed last night on the charge of horse
stealing. His son-in-law, Joe tHouston, was
Jailed as particeps criminis. The horses al-
leged to have been istoleu were the property
of J. C. HiMsman of Ledbetter.
It appears that the arrest was illegally
mad? and Dement released. But the fact
was not denied that Dement was actually
taken in charge and placed in jail. The act
of arrest was without due warrant of law
and the circumstances were correctly an I
specifically published by the Post. The
judge holds:
1. When there is no malice, proof of the
truth of the matter published is a complete
defense to a suit for u-lbel for the publish-
ing of such matter.
2. I conclude that the publication was
literally true, and that the arr-st and im-
prisonment of plaintiff being illegal and un-
just does not affect the fact that he was
jailed, charged with horse theft. The pub-
lication 'being true, the plaintiff hats no
cause of action -against defendant, and
judgment will therefore be rendered for the
defendant.
The onliy thing noteworthy about the
case, which is almost parallel in circum-
stance and conclusion to one recently tHied
in New Orleans, is that there should have
been any suit at all. That action upon
such flimsy complaint is Indulged for a
single moment b> Texas courts or enter-
tained by reputable attorneys is evidence of
the totally demoralized condition of the
principles of Olbel in Teias jurisprudence.
So outrageous is the law, by statute and by
early decisions, that speculative attorneys
an 1 grasping plaintiffs have been educated
into the practice of entering suit against
newspapers without the slightest real cause
for action in the hope of securing compro-
mises an the cheapest way out cf litigation.
Happily, the judicious mind is turning in
th? direction of c >mnton sense, though the
legislative perception is stil'l asleep, and
soon newspapers may publish the truth
•without having to pay for the -sins- of law-
breakers or the mistakes of law officers.
The Post is to be commended for making
the tight "straight up," and the press or
the entire state should emu'iate the example
of refusing to compromise in such litigation.
Judge Sinks' decision is not final and will
he reviewed on appeal by the superior
courts, but there is hardly a doubt that it
will be sustained.
OSCEOLA MINE HORROR.
Houghton, Mich., Sept. 12.—A party of
men went down shaft No. 4 of the Osceola
mine and found twenty-three dead miners
at the fourteenth level and two at the
third level. Five are still missing.
THE COLD RESERVE.
clients wili be denied. The senator also ! Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle, and they agree
declares his purpose to resist the efforts I with the great financier, John Sherman.
| get their names or addresses.
NUMBER TWO.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 12.—Passengers ar-
riving here this evening by steamer from
I Osceola, Ark., confirm the report of the
i second lynching at that place, growing
THE SYNDICATE MAKES A DEPOSIT.
Washington, Sept. 11.—The announcement
that the syndicate had deposited in the
subtreasury $3,000,000 in gold was received
at the treasury department with much sat-
isfaction. No intimation had been received
that a heavy deposit might be expected and
the early notice that $1,100,090 had been
withdrawn made the news all the more
gratifying. Secretary Carlisle said It way
good news. Other officials said that at no
time had they doubted the purpose of the
syndicate to protect the reserve and the
action to-day confirmed them in their be-
lief.
The true amount of the reserve at the
close of business was $99,070,003.
NO WITHDRAWALS.
Washington, Sept. 12.—So far as reported
to the treasury department there were no
withdrawals of gold to-day at New York
nor wrere there any deposits of gold except
in the regular course of business. The true
amount of the reserve at the close of busi-
ness was $99,512,000.
The demand for Columbian half dollars
in exchange for g'old at the subtreasuries
of the United States, except San Fran-
cisco, continues without abatement. At the
present time there remain unsold only
$822,000. These are perfectly new, never
having been in circulation, and have the
same legal tender and redemption qualities
as other half-dollar pieces.
TREASURY STATEMENT.
Washington, Sept. 12.—To-day's statement
of the condition of the treasury shows
available cash balance, $182,065,269; gold re-
serve, $97,612,000.
CARLISLE ON THE RESERVE.
New York, Sept. 12.—A special to a local
paper from Washington says:
Secretary Carlisle said in an interview:
"Unless there should be another scare in
regard to the gold reserve, such as we had
before, or a financial panic, neither of
which things, in my judgment, Is likely to
occur, there will be no necessity for an-
other bond issue in October to preserve the
reserve. The present removal of gold from
this country is not due to any lack of con-
fidence abroad in our national finances. It
is simply the result of trade conditions.
Our merchants are importing immense
amounts of goods from Europe, wHhich indi-
cates that they expect a big business this
fall and winter, and our gold goes abroad
to nay for these importations.
"The large sums spent in Europe this
summer by traveling Americans has been
another drain on our finances.
"By October 1," continued Secretary Car-
lisle, "our cotton and wheat crops will
come to the markets and the gold reserve
in our treasury will go up. There is, in my
judgment, no cause for alarm in the pres-
ent shortage." •
THE ACTUAL QUOTATIONS.
New York, Sept. 12.—The stock exchange
records fail to confirm the reported drop of
2 per cent to-day in the price of the new
government fours. The actual quotations
here were on the first call 122%(£rl23 for the
registered fours and for the coupon
bonds. The closing quotations yesterday
were 122#122V& for the registered and 121*4
(ad21^ for the coupon bonds. • Since Mon-
day the registered fours are down 2 per
cent in the bid price and the coupons %
per cent. The cause of the downward
tendency of the bonds is the belief in
many circles that a new government loan
is impending. As a matter of fact, the
visitation to the city of Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Curtis on Tuesday
of this week was popularly ascribed to
the negotiations to this end. Well In-
formed financiers discredit the rumor that
Mr. Curtis himself stated he was not aware
of any immediate probable change in the
treasury situation. In the first rise after
the issue of the new fours the bonds sold
up to 124% and on the second rise, about
two weeks ago, to 123%.
GOLD IN ENGLAND. „
New York, Sept. 12.—1The Evening Post's
cablegram says: The Bank of England's
coin and bullion Increased only £287,0001Ms
week, although the net influx of gold from
abroad was £446,000. The details were: Bar
and United States coin bought. £858,000;
£200,000 exported to the cape; £100,000 to Al-
exandria; £62,000 to South America and £50,-
000 to Rio. The impression prevails that the
syndicate can not go on providing the
treasury with gold without importing, and
that, of course, would be distinctly un-
profitable. Other markets were irregular.
Kaffirs were off color, but Australian
mines were buoyant.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
CHOLERA AT TANQIERS.
Washington. Sept. 12.~United States Con- I
sul Barclay at Tangiers, Morocco, has ca- j
bled the state department as follows: j
"Cholera prevailing here not yet pro- j
nounced Asiatic. Average mortality Is six j
_
A POLAR EXPEDITION.
London, Sept. 12.—Word has been re- :
eelved here that the yacht Windward, j
carrying the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar !
expedition, which sailed from the Thames i
on Julv 11. 1894, has arrived at Vardo on <
the north coast of Norway, after having
broken cut of an iceberg between Franz
Josefland and Barentsa.
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
London, Sept. 11.—The British associa-
tion for the advancement of science opened
its eighth annual meeting at Opechen to-
day. Marquis of Salisbury, the retiring
president, delivered the presidential ad-
dfc'ss. tfter which Sir Douglass Galton
was e*ho8en to succeed him.
RECEIVER FOR AN AUTHOR.
London, Sept. 12.—An order of court has
been Issued appointing a receiver for the
affairs of George Augustus Sala, the well- I
known newspaper writer and author.
ITEMS FROM MEXICO.
City of Mexico, Sept. 12.—The official ga-
zette of the federal government denies any
intention on the part of the administration
to enter into a concordat with Rome, which
would be directly contrary to the spirit of
the constitution, which makes an entire
separation between the church and state.
Partido Literal, which is the semi-official
organ of the government, says there is no
danger to our liberties. The government
is strong and respected by the Mexican
people and accepted by the country, and
docs not need to lean for support on any
one. For this reason there is no reason
for diplomatic alliance with the Vatican.
The Rowe brothers' case continues to be
the topic of great interest. The Mexican
Herald editorially advises the government
not to surrender them, taking the ground
that self respect demands, in view of the
astounding charges of the Iowa news-
papers against the highest officials ot the
country, that Mexico should retain these
alleged fugitives, punishing them if proved
guilty of bringing stolen funds into the
country under ample provisions of the
penal code. The Herald says it is far from
exaggeration to say, as we do, with the
full consciousness of facts, that Americans
resident here, from all parts of the union,
are heartily disgusted with the contempti-
ble tone of the press of Iowa, in discussing
the Howe case.
In the last fiscal year Vera Cruz custom
house collected in duties of all kinds and
port dues $16,329,390. The value of Imports
was $16,125,879, of which $2,224,017 came from
the United States, the remainder largely
from Europe. Exports via Vera Cruz were
valued at $27,377,038, of which $14,007,916 were
for the United States. The great bulk of
American goods come in over the frontier
by the trunk line railways.
Michael Frank, owner of the Bella Jar-
din era clothing store here, died, leaving
$3,000,000, being one of the richest Hebrews
in Mexico ana distinguished for his liber-
ality and enterprise.
The imprisonment of students at Morel in,
the capital of the state of Michoacan, is
said to be due to their opposition to the re-
election of Governor Mercado.
Father Recundino Martinez, a famous
Catholic preacher, has created a sensation
by delivering a sermon attacking that un-
patriotic clericalism which brought Maxi-
milian to this country. The liberal papers
applaud the patriotic priest.
Skeletons of aboriginal inhabitants of
Mexico are being disinterred to be placed
on boards painted red for the edification of
the congress of Americanistas.
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
SKIRMISHES IN CUBA.
Havana, Sept. 11.—Battalions of the So-
ria and Gallacia regiments left for the
province of Santa Olara to-day to reinforce
General Arderlus. The soldiers were given
an enthusiastic farewell by the population
of Havana.
Official dispatches report the burning of
•the small village of Buyeceto near Mancillo
by an insurgent band. The government is
in receipt of a report of m skirmish 'be-
tween a company of loyalists under the
mayor of Ambal. a town near Mel ilia, and
Rentedios and a band of insurgents. Two
of the latter Were killed.
The insurgent forces under General Sera-
fin Sanchez are reported to have twice at-
tacked a small fort at the village of Fo-
mento, near Trinidad, in the province of
Santa Clara. The attacking body was on
one occasion obliged to retire after suf-
fering considerable loss.
Official dispatches state tlhat the insur-
gents under command of Carillo attacked
the town of Oharco on the river Hondow,
province of Santa Clara. After a brisk
fight the insurgents were forced to retreat.
As they took their dead and wounded with
them the loss sustained by the insurgents
can not be stated.
CONDITION OF THE CUBANS.
London, Sept. 11.—The Havana corre-
spondent of the Times says: I have just
returned from the proviince of Matanzas,
where I found sympathy with the rebels
in all parts traversed. Everywhere the
economic situation is that Ut is difficult for
planters to obtain advances and they are
unable to obtain employment for the labor-
ers. Hence great numbers are unable to
earn enough to support life. This is a di-
rect incentive to join the rebels; with them
food is plentiful.
In southwest Matanzas the bandit, Ma-
lagas commands a band of 700 rebels, in-
cluding 200 Spaniards. An ex-Spanish offi-
cial. who is now a planter, gave it as his
opinion that the thing to be done if Spain
would not lose Cuba is to grant a complete
measure of self-government.
The Cuban leader of the abtonornists in
the Colon districts stated that the auton-
omists of that district regarded the central
command at Havana as weak and Qot as
furthering the cause of Cuban autonomy.
The time is arriving when Spain must
offer absolute autonomy if she wishes to
keep Cuba.
Gomez is advancing towrard Santa Clara
with the object of allowing Roloff to ad-
vance into Matanzas.
General Campos has wired to Madrid not
to send further reinforcements.
COLLECTING EVIDENCE.
Wilmington, Del., Sept. 12.—In the LTnited
States district court District Attorney Van-
dergrift said that the evidence to be pre-
sented to the grand jury in the matter of
the alleged Cuban filibusters might con-
sume a week's time.
POLITICAL.
TO USE FORCE AT THE POLLS.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 12.—Colonel D. S.
Troy, until recently a prominent democrat
and ore of the leading lawyers of the state,
who a few weeks ago joined the populists
in the interest of honest elections and free
Silver, as he said, and whose plan for an
honest election and free silver convention
to meet in Birmingham November 13 next,
was adopted by the populists, is out to-day
in a two-column letter in Che state organ
of the populists which makes interesting
reading.
Colonel Troy endeavors to explain under
what circumstances the use eif force at the
voting places would be l^gal and justifi-
able. He regards the willful refusal of the
county officers to have on the board of
election inspectors an intelligent repre-
sentative of the opposition whereVer prac-
ticable to do so as sufficient evidence of a
fraudulent purpose to debauch the election
franchise, and any honest, law-abiding
citizen, he asserts, has the same right to
prevent the election being held by them as
he has to prevent any other violation of
the law in his presence. He thinks that
under these circumstances whatever
force Is necessary to stop the election
should be used, thou ah blood has to be
spilled. He recommends that they organize
citizens' boards called "upholders of the
law," such boards to be fully officered ami
armed and to go the polls and prevent by
force the opening of the voting places un-
less they have a fair representation on the
boar ! of election inspectors. One such
board should be formed in each precinct
and they should, if necessary, come to the
aid of each othe;. Those suggestions he
will submit to the convention to be held
here in November and thinks that such
actions as he suggests will secure honest
elections.
M'KINLEY AND FORAKER.
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 12.—The political
sensation to-day is the comments made
upon the pronounced utterance of Gov-
ernor McKinley at Springfield in favor of
ex-Goverhor Foraker for United States
senator and his urgent plea that speciul
attention be given to the election of the
legislature. Those who are accustomed
to reading between the lines maintain
that the unexpected position of McKinley
is a part of a combination that is of na-
tional interest and ;hat among other things
it means that Ohio will be a unit for Mc-
Kinley for president.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Milwaukee Sentinel: A New Yorker has
thoughtfully sent one of the newspapers
his autobiography, with a request not to
use it until after his death. This is a pre-
cedent which should be followed in all
places by eminent men who know how to
tell the truth about themselves.
* * «
Boston Herald: William C. Whitney's
wealth is estimated at $10,000,000. Probably
Levi P. Morton's fortune would figure up
very close to that round sum. They are
easily the two richest men with presiden-
tial bees in their bonnets at the present
time.
♦ * *
Baltimore American: A western man 's
in a peculiar quandary. He is wanted for
murder, and also as heir to a large for-
tune. If he claims the fortune he must
risk hanging, and, if he prefers to take no
chances of that, he loses the fortune, it
is literally a case of his money or 'his life,
and professional pessimists and cynics' wi'l
be interested In watching for h'.s action to
decide which of the two is worth the big-
gest risk.
• • •
Boston Traveler: A French general pub-
lished a letter, in which he said that some
German official was guilty of theft during
the Franco-German war, and the German
emperor grew angry and denounced the
Frenchman as "a cowardly liar." Great
Scott! Does William wish the world to be-
lieve that there isn't, and never was. a
scamp in the whole German army"* Be-
sides, when he wants to pass around the
courtesy of the lie, why doesn't he "take
a fellow of his size?"
♦ * ♦
Springfield Republican: The duke of
Aumale, who had already given to France
his palace at Chantilly, stored with 'ines-
timable historical treasures, has now
bought of his nephew, the duke of Or-
leans, the equally famous chateau of Am-
boise, in Touraine, which he intends to
nresent to France, for use as an asylum
for soldiers and sailors injured in active
service. This Orleans prince is a good
Frenchman, whatever the rest of the fam-
ily may have been.
# * ♦
Louisville Courier-Journal: Prof. Moore,
the new head of the weather bureau,
thinks that captive balloons can be of
great use in collecting meteorological data.
A north pole expedition by means of bal-
loons has been projected, and inventors are
constantly struggling with flying machines.
The possibilities of ballooning are just as
attractive to scientists now as they were
a hundred years ago. when Benjamin
Franklin was foremost in predicting re-
sults, but little of much value has been
accomplished.
♦ » *
Savannah News: Platinum Is very val-
uable. Ten thousand dollars' worth of it
was the other day stored in a vault at a
chemical works in New Jersey. In the
vaults there was also some sulphuric acid,
sulphuretted hydrogen and other chem-
icals. Burglars dynamited the-vault in an
attempt to get the platinum, but the ex-
plosion of the dynamite broke the chem-
ical jars, and the vile odors that came
from them drove the burglars away. There
ought to be in this a suggestion for the
protection of bank vaults against burglars.
* * *
Syracuse Standard: Cholera is raging in
Japan. It will be difficult to stamp out
that pest until the Asiatic nations co-op-
erate for the cleansing of its breeding
places and thoroughfares. The Japanese,
as the most enlightened people of Asia,
should, and doubtless will, employ every
scientific agency in battling with this
scourge. The people of the Orient need
to get rid of their fatalism first of all and
then to cultivate a faith in science. Their
fatalism, however, Is so much in their tem-
perament and is so largely sustained by
their climate that, the overcoming of it
must be the work of centuries if it shall
ever be accomplished.
WEATHER AND CROPS.
Medina, Bandera Co.—A good rain has
fallen here, which improved grass and late
gardens '
Oak woods, Leon Co.—Farmers all com-
plain of boll wprms and caterpillars and
the dry weather. Cotton is opening rapid-
ly; weather is too hot to pick, mercury
standing to-day at 98. Oak woods has re-
ceived up to this elate forty-five bales; not
over one-half crop of cotton in this coun-
ty.
Creedimoor, Travis Co.—Cotton picking is
in full blast. The most of the crop will be
gaJthered here In the next ten days. No
chances for the plant to make any more, as
all young cotton 1s opening and all squares
are falling off and no blooms; crop will
not exceed one-quarter bale per acre on am
average;* no rain.
Stockdale, Wilson Co.—Cotton is coming
in very rapidly and is being marketed as
fast as gathered. Merchants here are pay-
ing from 7*4 to 7Vb cents per pound. The
spring crop will soon be gathered and un-
less the recent rain will be the cause of
some fall crop the cotton raised in this
section w ill be about one-'half as much as
was raised last year.
Calvert. Robertson Co.—The hot, dry
weather Is causing cotton to open rapidly,
and the first picking on hill lands will get
half of this season's crop. There have
been 1500 bales received up to date. Know-
ing ones say that Calvert will receive
about half as much cotton as last season.
The price here for the past week has been
above the market. The farmers generally
are in far better spirits than this time last
year. While the crop is far less, the price
has reached a satisfactory height, though
many believe it will go to 10 cents before
November 1.
Within five ^ears 650,000,000 young cod
have been hatched and turned loose in
Trinity bay, Newfoundland. As a conse-
(1 quence the bay is now swarming with cod.
NEWSPAPER RECREATION
Jazzam: "Where are you living now?"
Chizzamj "I ain't Hiving; I'm iboardiing.'*
Raxbury Gazette.
• * *
Prof. Lom'broso says that criminals 'have
no wisdom teeth. That is an inducement to
be wicked.—Worcester Gazette.
• * *
"But why do you persist in calling Po-
liceman O'Flirty a rain beau?"
"Because he never appears till the storm
is over."—Exchange.
» ♦ ♦
A novel is about to be issued with the
original Utile, "The Leg Pullers." It ought
to have a good run, and probably wiil'l be
bound In calf.—Lowell -Courier.
♦ * »
"Where was Magna Charta signed.?"
asked a teacher in a South of London
board school.
"Please, sir, at the bottom."—Tit-Bits.
* * *
Pater Famllias: "Hurrah! I've fallen heir
to a million."
Mater Famllias: "Isn't that grand? Now
we can begin to take ice."—New York
Weekly.
* * *
Hoax: "There goes a man who once took
the nerve completely out of me."
Joax: "What is he, a fighter?"
I-Ioax: "No; a dentist."—Philadelphia
Record.
* • #
"Jones seemed to be awfully mad when I
overtook him this morning."
"What's the matter. 1 wonder?"
"Why, you see, I had the faster horse."—
Chicago Tribune.
» ♦ •
He: "Maria, elo come and hold the baby
and let me run the lawn mower awhile."
She: "Great goodness, James, do you
want the neighbors to think I'm a brute?"
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
« • •
Uncle: "Well, Bobby, what did you learn
at school to-day?"
Bobby: "I learned that the world is round
and turns on hinges like that globe in the
library."
Uncle: "Well, w*hat do you think of
that?"
Bobby: "I think, uncle» that they are
asking me to believe a good deal for a
small boy."—London Xit-Bits,
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