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THE OALVESTON DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1893.
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THREATENED NATIONAL DISTEMPER
OF ANARCHY.
In the face of accumulating portents
of epidemic desperadolsm affecting the
social, civil, political and business af-
fairs of the country, it Is hard for the
most inveterate optimist to keep his
faith from misgiving and his hope from
languishing. A moral and mental In-
fection of violence, ferocity. Intolerance
and contempt of law and liberty seems
to have become diffused like an all-en-
veloping miasma. Intelligent apprehen-
sion can hardly say that any quarter Is
free from Its presence or proof against
Its advent, or In what new form of
acutenea* and virulence it may not
break out anywhere at almost any
moment. Alluding to some of the most
commonplace eruptions of this distem-
per as Indicating "lawlessness every-
where" In fact or In potentiality, the
Atlanta Constitution says:
Tho deplorable lawlessness on the out-
skirts of New Orleans, and at Roanoke,
Va., can not be defended, but when we
turn our attention to other sections of the
country It will be seen that they are also
more or less under the domination of Judge
J.ynch. At Lebanon. III., the other day a
white man wanted to marry a black wom-
an twenty years his senior. Under the
laws of the state he had the right to marry
her, but the citizens gave him a beating
and ducked him in a pond and drove the
woman out of town. At Columbus, Ind.,
Mrs. Schrader was taken from her home
by whltecaps and whipped on the be re
back until the blood was drawn. The
woman was respectable and the whltecaps
were all prominent and well-to-do citizens.
The victim's offense consisted in her re-
fusal to allow her children to be brought
up in the Lutheran church. If this sort of
thing is to go on every state In the union
should be represented In the approaching
congress of anarchists In Chicago. Tho
fact Is. our people are so busy with their
own affairs that they fail to note the tre-
mendous strides of anarchy in this coun-
try. At first, lynch law was only resorteiJ
to as a punishment for felonious outrages
upon women. But the spirit of lawless-
ness never stands still. Give it an inch and
it will take a mile. The men who delight
In lynching have grown bolder, and they
now murder the kinsmen of a criminal
who refuse to reveal his hiding place, and
whip a woman for the crime of being true
to her religious convictions, and burn cot-
ton gins because their owners will not hoid
their cotton until the price reaches 10
cents. All this would Indicate that our
civilization is only skin deep. There Is an
lnexhaustlb! layer of barbarism just under
the surface and a mere scratch reveals it.
After all, however, the case is essen-
tially not as bad as Its seems to be
from Its outcropplngs on the surface.
A true discernment will find upon a
complete analysis of the situation, that
the real trouble—that which lends the
greatest sum of encouragement, tempta-
tion and opportunity to the most dan-
gerous elements of anarchy—is not "an
Inexhaustible layer of barbarism just
under the surface," but an apparently
Inexhaustible layer of evil lmpotency to
maintain necessary conditions of justice
and order and of law and liberty just
on the surface. It is true, as observed,
that "the spirit of lawlessness never
stands still. Give it an inch and it will
take a mile." But how comes it that
the Inch has been given? How comes
it that mile after mile has been taken
In a triumphant procession of lawless-
ness that threatens to stretch out to
the crack of doom? There Is but one
(explanation—the .absence of adequate
authority to deal effectively from first
to last with every form of lawless ag-
gression upon rights of person and prop-
erty and of trade and industry. Owing
to feebleness and cowardice (where under
better civil arrangements there would
have been all the requisites of courage
and vigor the fatal inch was originally
given. Owing to the same feebleness and
cowardice, fostered on all sides by the
prevalence of a local vote securing and
vote exploiting Itch among politicians
and officials, miles and miles of terri-
tory have passed from the dominion of
civil order to the dominion of red-
handed anarchy. Here and there high
civil functionaries seem to despair of the
situation. In Mississippi Judge Mayers
of the Rankin district suggests the des-
perate expedient of lighting anarchists
■with weapons of anarchy. Charging the
grand jury, he "advised the people to
shoot down any man prowling around
their premises who could not give a
good account of himself and promised
the people absolute Immunity from the
laws." He was referring to the prowlers
who do the work of the whitecap 'or-
ganization of cotton gin Incendiaries.
Grant that a citizen would be safe from
legal prosecution for unlawfully killing
one of these whltecaps. But how could
he be safe from their vengeance? The
presumption Is that his life would not
be worth an hour's Insurance. Madness
Uaa In the direction suggested. There
can be no cure for the evil In question
by methods which would multiply local
feud* to un extent gradually broadening
to the worst horrors of civil war. There
la but one sure remedy for a spreading
distemper of anarchy. It I* to meet the
spirit of lawlessness at overy point and
In every form with the crushing force
of a civil authority omnipresent und om-
nipotent to enforce the law and compel
obedience under the last alternative of
death to the Incorrigible law defter.
The rentpayer Is a taxpayer as well
as the owner of the property.
A PARALYZED MARKET.
Populists and others are Inclined to
assume that the operations of wealthy
stock brokers and Investors are shaped
to Influence political action. One with-
out prejudice and with a fair knowledge
of human nature should view such a
conclusion with distrust until he could
see Just where the parties alluded to
would make something more by the re-
mote consequences of political action
than by participation In the business of
the day. How many men buy or sell
farms with reference to prospective
tariff or financial conditions? How many
are deflected from any business course
until after there has been some change
produced which dictates a different line
of action to others as well as them-
selves, Irrespective of the politics of the
person Interested In the particular line
of business? Those citizens who have
taken on trust such statements as those
regarding stock exchange combinations
to depress business may turn to similar
statements that the manufacturers com-
bine to stop business to Influence tariff
legislation. There may be some truth
In them to this extent, that men will
throw away what Is of no value to seem
to be throwing away. But just let any
of those men have a chance to make
anything by a deal and see if he will
really make a sacrifice. It Is something
like striking for a principle In the labor
world. Therei Is such action, but It
Is action against the current of human
motives in general. And who will credit
the shrewd business men who handle
stocks successfully with any large
amount of that sentiment which pur-
sues a political or other object of a
more or less altruistic character? The
Idea is enough to provoke a smile on
the exchange. The class referred to
would be delighted to get rich on a
rise In silver or a fall In gold if such a
move were possible. It is not sense to
suppose that the Inaction of the senate
on the Sherman law can affect shares
and Investments generally otherwise
than with paralysis, for of course the
value of the dollar depends upon It.
This Is why the Investment market
stands still, and a decline Is threatened.
Wisdom Is just as much better than
riches to-day as It was when King Solo-
mon first tried them both.
SENATOR VOORHEES' WORDS.
The New York Herald italicizes the
following paragraphs from speeches of
Senator Voorhees regarding the In-
sufferable work of the windy obstruc-
tionists:
Public opinion Is a law unto this body, as
It is unto every other body. Public opinion
lias caused kingdoms and empires to topple.
1 pray the day may be far distant when
public opinion will arraign the senate of
the United States as a body of obstruction
and hindrance.
Can senators who are opposed to the bit-
ter end justify themselves by defying the
great underlying principle of American lib-
erty, of the proper government of the
world? If a government Is not governed by
a majority shall It be governed by a min-
ority?
After a question has been discussed legiti-
mately, fully and fairly, further debate Is
not the enjoyment of the freedom of dis-
cussion, but is a resort to obstructive
methods to prevent the majority from
transacting the business which is entrustea
to it.
What governs In this body? A majority
placed you, sir, in that chair. A majority
of this body places the officers in front of
you, and every official being within the
range of my voice is the creature of laws
springing from majorities. The founda-
tions of liberty everywhere, in this land
and in every other land, are laid in the
principles of a majority.
If the repeal members have the ma-
jority In the senate they claim to have,
why do they not put a stop to the farce
that has so long prevailed there and
force the vote the country wants? This
senatorial courtesy business does very
well when It Is of minor consideration,
but when the whole country is deeply
Interested In having business dispatched
it should be forced to Btand aside or
take a back seat. Sixty or seventy mil-
lions of people can not afford to wait
for courtesy which is limited to less
than 100 servants who are employed to
do as the country directs. That less
than 100 fiddlers should be permitted
tc make more than 60,000,000 people to
dance, Is, to say the least, disgraceful.
The bill repealing the federal election
laws will be voted on October 10.
It seems that the proposed vote on
cloture In the senate can be delayed
quite as long as the vote on silver,
which It is designed to facilitate. The
rules under which the senate is talk-
ing are merely loose regulations of an
everlasting wind storm.
Weigher Cochran seems to have
dropped the golden rule when he picked
up the golden bar.
In one of the New England states a
few years since a Canadian Frenchman
was seen standing outside his house
one night In his night shirt, holding at
arms' length a yaller pup, and this, too,
when the mercury was below zero.
When asked by a neighbor what he was
doing he said that he was trying to
freeze that pup to death to prevent it
from keeping him awake any more by
Its barking. This story is brought to
mind by Senator Voorhees' plan to
freeze out the sliver men by "slttln' 'em
out."
Some proud parents seem to send their
sons to school expressly to whip the
teachers.
The Mississippi river and other large
rivers of the world are said to be run-
ning lower and lower each succeeding
summer. Is it possible that the water
supply of the earth is being diminished
continually, or are the floods finding
new subterranean routes to the sea?
The firecracker of our civilization
grows larger and louder every year.
The income tax bill introduced by
Congressman Richardson of Tennessee
proposes a tax of 2 per cent on $3000 to
$0000, 5 per cent on $5000 to $10,000, 10
per cent on $10,000 to $20,000, 15 per cent
on $20,000 to $30,000, 20 per cent on $30.-
000 to $50,000, 30 per cent on $50,000 to
$100,000 and 40 per cunt on all over $100,.
000. Mr. Richardson'* bill falls to run
the table up to the point of confiscation
of the whole pile. He considered the
bill as presented strong enough to please
his constituents and secure his re-elec-
tion. He will go the whole hog later.
The Memphis Commercial declares
that "the age of woman Is at hand."
Well, out with It. How old Is she?
The past month has been a season of
disastrous railway accidents. Hardly a
day has passed without a fatal derail-
ment or collision. What has caused so
many wrecks? Are they traceable to
the fast train servlcu to the world's
fair?
So far as anybody knows justice was
the first public weigher.
The whltecaps of Mississippi, Louis-
iana and other states are Industriously
engaged night after night In manufac-
turing campaign bombs for the repub-
lican party.
The trouble with the American people
Is that there are not mints enough to go
round.
If Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
had been cast Into a fiery furnace In
this country somebody would have
stooped down and asked them If It was
hot enough for them.
The people of this country may decide
after a while to let the senate go
Gallagher.
If there is one man who Imb disgusted
the president of the United States It is
the Individual who wired him one day
congratulating him on the advent of
his second daughter and sent In his ap-
plication for an exceedingly foreign
mission early the following morning.
When It comes to senatorial courtesy
It seems the people are not In It.
No train robber will waste any time or
ammunition on you If you tell him you
are returning from the fair.
Many a would-be reformer has gotten
afraid he was burying his talents in a
napkin and gone forth to make an ass
of himself.
The Illinois Central robbers used
ropes in their business, but it seems
the ropes are to be turned against
them,
The present season of rain will doubt-
less put an end to the fiery weather
during which thermometers, the dust
and the sun have been trying them-
selves. We have turned the equinoctial
period and may hope now to round off
the year with some pleasant fall
weather. We shall all be happy If we
can only keep cool until the frost falls
on us. __________
SNAP SHOTS.
Family politics should never be per-
mitted to break up a wedding.
Advice is good, but It can not take the
place of more substantial help.
No man knows what a day may fall
to bring forth.
The Gorman Herald captures a bushel
of "Snap SHcts" from The News and
calls them "Big Guns."
Men who mean business do not waste
much time saying so.
It is generally understood that a rich
sinner Is much harder to save than a
poor sinner.
The only way for some people to
change their situations Is to go else-
where.
Nobody has ever been able to make
Cupid turn loose.
One has certainly helped the world
some if he had merely varied the mo-
notony.
The best way is short and to the
point. __________
STATE PRESS.
What the Paper* Throughout the Stata
Are Talking About
The Cold Springs Sentinel has an edu-
cational department and says:
We will print under this head any-
thing pertaining to educational mat-
ters, short reports of teachers' meetings,
letters from teachers, trustees or any-
one interested in school work. Any
questions that any one may desire
answered, If of general interest, we will
gladly answer. We invite all Interested
in the work to take a part. We will
be assisted In this department by Su-
perintendent Clark.
This is a good thing in a newspaper.
The first regular county Institute for
white teachers will meet at Cold Springs
academy on the 27th and 28th of Octo-
ber. The programme includes essays on
the following themes: "School Manage-
ment," "Advantages of a uniform series
of text books for the county," "How
shall we get the parent interested in
school work," "Should prizes be offered
In school," "What punishment should be
Inflicted upon unruly pupils," and a
debate on the question "Texas should
have a compulsory school law."
San Antonio boasts the most cosmo-
politan and mixed population of any
city In Texas, yet the Light says:
The American who marries a Chinese
girl should be condemned to wear Chi-
nese togs, sport a cue, eat with chop-
sticks and live in the Flowery kingdom.
The faot that he is an American officer
and is to wed the daughter of a flowery
robe of high degree does not alter the
fact of Its incongruity.
A Sabine Pass letter to the Beau-
mont Enterprise says:
The dredging boat is laid up for re-
pairs, and work on the jetties has been
progressing slowly for a week or two.
The San Angelo Standard describes
the work of irrigation In Tom Green
county:
Situated in the forks of Middle Con-
cho and Spring creek, seven miles south-
west of San Angelo, is the well known
Twin Mountain farm, owned by Captain
J. S. Fowlkes of Dallas. It contains
1100 acres, 850 acres being in cultivation,
under ditch and subject to irrigation.
The land Is rented to truck farmers at
from $10 to $15 per acre per annum,
and the other farmers are taxed one-
third of everything raised except cot-
ton, of which Captain Fowlkes receives
one-fourth. The farm has a river
frontage of five miles.
An Ironwood correspondent of the
Vindicator writes:
Thursday Mr. J. N. Smith of Iron-
wood killed a deer that weighed 204
pounds grogs, had seven points to the
horn.
The Liberty Vindicator says:
The drouth which has prevailed here
for more than a month Is beginning to
be lerlouily felt, not only by crop
grower*, but by everybody. The grass
1* drying up rapidly and water on the
prairies has about given out. Here In
town It 1* very dliagreeablc on account
of the deep sand, which Diako* It really
difficult to walk.
The Olddlnga Newa says:
We should feci proud of Lee county;
without a doubt Lee county Is the most
peaceable county In thu state and is
very densely populated.
Uniformity In spelling does not pre-
vail among Texas papers. The Bronham
Herald say*,"Old Vlrglnny and Klntuck
are among the leaders In the currency
debate." The Floresvllle Citizen says,
"And so Congressman Breekenridge of
'Old Kalntuk' Is going to 'stand' for re-
election." The different ways people
had of pronouncing the name caused the
legislature of Arkansas some years ago
to pass a law declaring the proper pro-
nunciation to be Arkansaw. When this
writer was a boy Louisville was called
Loulvltle and St. Louis St. Loul.
The Port Lavacaen remarks:
Another glib tongue politician has
been caught and tries to escape by stat-
ing that The Galveston News lies. The
public, however, believes The News.
The paper Immediately produces wit-
nesses to prove that l'opullst Chapman
of Brazoria county did declare that
Governor Hogg would join his party
and be sent to the senate by it. It has
become common in Texas for politicians
of the Zene Chapman stamp to denounce
the press, and the policy of The Galves-
ton News In being provided with wit-
nesses should be generally followed.
The Beaumont Journal falls to see
just how any permanent reformation
can be worked In Beaumont by religi-
ous revivals so long as the sidewalks
remain In their present demoralizing
condition, and rise up ever and anon to
give the penitent sinner a back-set.
Makes 'em cuss?
Conspiracy to beat Coke! To the
rescue I Is the cry of his organ, the
Waco News:
The Fort Worth Gazette seems to
think all the high an holy aspirations of
which the "black daggers" used to
boast have evaporated and the height
of their ambition and the aim of all
their future labors will be to defeat
Coke, the people's friend, for re-election
to the United States senate. They will
seek by combining all opposition to him
in each county to elect the members of
the legislature. Ifc populist districts
they will unite with them; In republican
districts they will work as royal re-
publicans, and In the counties where
they are strong enough they will fight
as administration democrats.
Yet the Waco organ represents the
senior senator as resting supinely on
his "brains," and says, "the enemy
have on their hands a harder Job than
the one they tackled last November
when they met their Waterloo."
The Commercial Traveler says:
Major Charlie Edwards of Texas, but
late of Velasco, has gone to St. Louis
and will probably make that city his
home In future. GharHfe started out in
life as a traveling man, but after a
while degenerated into a Journalist.
Finally, during a lucid moment, he
broke out of the sanctum and became
advertising manager for the Velasco
syndicate. He also carried a pocketful
of passes as an officer of the Velasco
Terminal railroad, and promised to re-
form and do better. But old habits are
difficult to shake off, and he has again
taken to newspaper work. This time he
will be associated with John A. Lee's
St. Louis Interstate Grocer.
The Brownsville Herald suggests a
new study In schools anij ^reuts:
Urbanity is one of the branches taught
in the public schools of Mexico. The
usual courtesy and politeness which
characterizes the people of that country
prove that It Is not taught in vain. It
might be well for the United States
should our public schools adopt the
study. Americans are noted abroad for
their abrupt and seemingly uncourteous
manners. "As rude as an American"
Is a common expression In the interior
of Mexico, which reflects little credit
upon this nation. If urbanity may not
be taught In our schools It should at
least be taught In our homes.
In , tlje long 6 ago boys In country
schoolsWere taught to bow on enter-
ing a room and take oft their hats to
every one they met on the road; but
few ever kept tij> the latter practice
when they became men.
The Jacksonville Banner tells farmers
how to become miserable:
If a man wants to get for himself a
first class case of the blues, Just let
him put in about half an hour reading
some prominent third party paper. If
It don't make him feel all out of sorts
and cause him to become disgusted with
himself and the balance of mankind,
and regret that he "didn't die when he
was a baby," he might as well give up
all hope of ever becoming a pessimist,
and make up his mind to accept the
fate that lies before him—that of for-
ever remaining contented with his lot
upon this earth. Such a man couldn't
become discontented If he wanted to.
The Trinity Watchman is exclusive in
Its estimate of people. It says:
Beware of the man who unloads
twelve dozen summer egg3 of his own
raising on the market at one time and
claims they are "fresh." Piety pales
before the temptation to shove the re-
fuse of the barnyard upon a helpless
public. Of all pesky creatures the sun
is compelled to shine on may the good
Lord shield us from a too frequent con-
tact with that class of self conceited
beings who have allowed a small modi-
cum of success in life to earn for them
the phrase of being "stuck up."
Brother Wheeler of the Brownsville
Herald boasts that he has cut his eye
teeth:
Editors should have a care how they
criticise a contemporary's English. One
never knows but what in an evil hour
the typo or proofreader may make the
critic himself ridiculous by butchering
his copy. In the hey-dey of our youth
as an editor we thought it a great thing
to catch our contemporaries tripping,
but experience, the teacher of young
editors as well as of fools, has made
us somewhat wiser.
The typo and proof reader get the
blame for many things of which they
are not guilty, Jom the reader as well
as the editor. But no one applauded
them for following copy In General
Claiborne's edltqrlal*.
The Fort Worth Mall says:
The Clark democrats have declared
war against no (man. They claim, and
the claim is badked by facts, that they
are the democratic party of the state,
and that they are In line with the dem-
ocratic party of the nation. The Clark
democrats indorse President Cleveland
and the natlonl.1 democratic platform,
and support the administration on the
financial question. The doors and win-
dows of the party are open to all who
will come in, nj> matter who they may
have voted for last year.
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"RED DOG" FINANCIERS.
New York Herali).
It was a piece of characteristic Impu-
dence for the New York bankers, who have
been Issuing clearing house certificates, to
order Senator Voorhees to come to Wall
street to take
dog" financier^
them go I
have to de.
ake their com
iders vant to
to Wiahlngtc
commands. If the "red
air their view* let
ihtngton a* ether people
HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
TWO 0ABE8 OF PI8T0L8 USED WITH
HORRIBLE EFFEOT.
Atlanta and Pittibnrg Tragediei ~ They
Quarreled, the Talking Friend Here
and Religions Differenoea There,
Atlanta, Ga., 8ept. 26.—Last night Cha*.
Herring, one of the beat known young men
about town, ahot hi* wife In the neck and
right breast, then *ent two bullet* Into his
own breast.
They had been married ten year*, and
everybody thought thein happy. A day or
two ago they had a quarrel, and *he in-
sisted upon going to live with her alster
and threatened to seek a divorce. A friend
told him of some of her movements that
looked questionable, and on going home
they quarreled, with the above result. Both
are In a critical condition.
COUNTERFEITERS IN THE TOILS.
New York, Sept. 26.—An extensive coun-
terfeiting plant was raided at Livingston,
S. L>„ last night and Angello Delnoce and
his alleged wife were arrested. The police
secured over $1,000,000 in counterfeit bill*.
There were four in the gang altogether,
two men and two women. Before State
Commissioner Bellows at Brooklyn to-day
Delnocs waa held In $60U0 and the woman In
$2500 ball. It seems Delnocs Is an expert
engraver and had charge of an extensive
plant In the Argentine republic. On ac-
count of the revolutionary troubles he re-
turned to this country about three months
ago. He entered Into an arrangement with
a man named Perrin to make counterfeits
of Argentine currency and the women were
to dispose of it for good American specie
and bill*. Perrin weakened and gave in-
formation to the police, which led to the
raid.
WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 26.—Samuel G. Stod-
hart, car accountant of the Carnegie steel
company works, this morning Bhot his wife
In the heart while she was sleeping. Then,
placing the muzzle of the revolver In his
mouth, he sent a bullet crashing through
his own brain. Insanity, caused by reli-
gious differences and despondency over
business troubles, led to the awful deed.
Stodhart was 15 and his wife two years his
Junior. The couple had been married six-
teen years and had seven children, the
eldest a girl of 15 years. Mrs. Stodhart was
a Catholic. The two frequently quarrelled
over the education of the qhlldren. Re-
cently Stodhart's salary was reduced 15
per cent. This also preyed on his mind.
He arose at 5 o'clock. After smoking a
cigar he took a bulldog revolver and fired
at his sleeping wife. The first shot killed
her. Then he turned the weapon upon him-
self and ended his miserable existence.
The children were awakened by the shoot-
ing and rushed out of the house screaming
with fright. When the neighbors arrived
both parents were dead. The crime was
evidently premeditated, for last night he
told his oldest boy that times were hard
and If anything happened to go to the
neighbors.
FAVORED A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 26.-At Kenne-
dale, a little town on the branch railway
between Fort Worth and Garrett, about
eight miles from here, late last evening
Reese G. Arey, a farm hand was killed.
Sheriff Euless was notified and Deputies
Hord, Gunnells and Swan went out. This
morning Gunnelss returned. He says:
"The saloon where the fight begun and
the sidewalk where It ended .ooked like a
slaughterhouse. Arey had twenty-eight
cuts and stabs, and eleven of ihese, the
doctors said, were fatal wounds. There
were three In the stomach that disembow-
eled him; one in the right side through
the kidney; several under the left arm
near the heart; one thrust gouged through
the heart, and one in the left side of the
neck that must have cut the iugular, for
the blood, they said, spurted from that
as from a fountain."
Smith, the accused, has a very extensive
family connection In that part of Tarrant
county. He said as he left the bloody
scene (hat he was going to town In the
morning and give himself vup.
A WOMAN SHOT.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 26.—A letter was
received here to-day by Minnie Arrlngton,
aged 14 years, from Constable Cressman
of precinct No. 2, Lampasas county, to the
effect that her mother. Mrs. M. E. Arrlng-
ton, was shot and killed by J. E. Baxter
last Thursday,
Baxter was a tenant on a farm owned
by Mrs. Arrlngton, about eighteen miles
from Lampasas, and she went there to ef-
fect a settlement of accounts. She was a
woman of high strung, Independent charac-
ter, who has been engaged In buying and
selling live stock for some time past. The
circumstances of the shooting are n* *
known, but It is supposed a violent alter-
cation arose with the above results.
The alleged murderer Is In fail at Lam-
pasas.
Mrs. Arrington leaves three daughters
and one son. She was divorced a year
ago from her husband. Tom Arrlngton,
who now lives in Arkansas. She leave*
a nice little property.
FOUND DEAD.
Bastrop, Tex., Sept. 26.—The body of a
negro gambler with a bullet hole through
his head was found Thursday lying near
the track of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad near Smlthville. At West
Point the night before he was quarreling
with another negro gambler, which was
the last seen of him alive.
A few nights ago at Sayers' station a
negro shot off both of his hands acci-
dentally. He was standing with his hands
clasped over the muzzle of a loaded and
cocked gun, which shot off through his
hands and on up through the side of his
head. His wounds are not liable to prove
fatal.
A LIEUTENANT INDICTED.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 26.—Lieuten-
ant Buck of company E, and Sergeant
Iinze and Private Sheffield of company D,
Slxtenth Infantry of the regular army,
stationed at Port Douglas, have been In-
dicted by the grand Jury for murder in the
second degree. The indictment is a result
of the killing of Joseph D. Leonard, an
ex-soidler, at the fort, June 12 last.
Leonard was Intoxicated at the time and
had been causing trouble at the fort by
reckless driving. He was repeatedly warned
to desist but refused, and in an attempt to
arrest him lie was killed for resisting.
Lieutenant Buck was born In Mississippi
and appointed from Texa*.
SURRENDERED HIMSELF.
Tyler, Tex., Sept. 26.—Between Red
Springs and Sand Flat, about twelve mile*
north of Tyler, yesterday Dr. Stead was
shot and killed. James Mathis surrendered
to the sheriff, saying he had killed him.
Mathis refused to make any statement.
The shooting occurred late in the evening
but nothing was known of it until mid-
night, when Mathis came to town. Justice
Prestwood went to the scene of the killing
last night and found the body unmoved.
There were no witnesses to the affair. No
particulars obtainable.
PLAYING WAR,
Caldwell, Tex., Sept, 28.—Sunday evening
two young negroes were handling an un-
loaded shotgun. Careless Thompson claims
that they were playing war, but Silas Car-
rol died a few hour* after with shoulder
and hand torn off.
PULLED IT TO HIM.
Edna, Tex., Sept. 26.—News has reached
town that Victor Logan, aged 16 years,
son of John Logan, living near Demlng'a
bridge, Matagorda county, accidentally
ahot and killed himself yesterday morning
by catching hold of the muni* of a gun
to lift It out of a barn. The whole top
of hi* head wo* blown off.
BHOT BY A RIVER GUARD.
Laredo, Tex., Sept. H—A party Ju*t In
from up th* river report* that Jo»e Ma
Boiquei forded th* Rio Grande on horae-
back forty mile* above h*r* for th* purpose
of visiting a friend on the Mexican aide,
and while recromilng late In the evening
was fired upon by four Mexican river
fuurda, two of the shots taking effect.
he guard* evidently mistook him for a
horse thief. Bosque* ha* been brought to
New Laredo and Is doing well.
STRIP CASUALTIES.
Outhrla, Ok., Sept. 26,-Near Perry a man
named Nesbltt died from Injuries and waa
burled on the prairie*. A woman with him
tell* conflicting atorlea, and It 1* believed
he was murdered.
The body of an unknown man of about
40 years of age wo* found on the Hunne-
well trail to-day with terrible wounds In
the head.
H. S. Morgan of Chicago fell from a train
at Perry, sustaining a broken arm and
other Injuries.
REWARDS AT SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, Cal„ Sept. 26.—Reward*
amounting to $3000 have been offered for the
arrest and conviction of the dynamiters
who caused Saturday night'* explosion.
This Include* $1000 offered by the Coast
seamen'* union, to which organization the
crime Is attributed by the police.
INCENDIARIES OF MISSISSIPPI.
Brookhaven, Mlas., Sept. 26.—Fred K.
Griffith, a colored farmer living fourteen
miles southwest of that town in
Franklin county, had his cotton house and
contents burned by whltecaps. A cotton
gin and contents owned by Dan Sarsen In
the southern portion of Lincoln county was
burned to the ground.
HE WAS PARALYZED.
Shiner, Tex., Sept, 26.—Mr. Bergmann, a
farmer living nine miles west of here, met
with a serious accident on Thursday of
last week. He was fixing a bolt under his
wagon when the horses gave a sudden start,
throwing him over and dislocating one or
two joints In the small of his back. He Is
paralyzed entirely In his lower extremities
and Is not expected to recover.
SEVEN HUNDRED SHAKEN.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 26.—Th* Atlan-
tic and Pacific express on the Michigan
Central, east bound, consisting of sixteen
coaches, was run Into by the Detroit and
Chicago express, also east bound, near
here this morning. Seven hundred pas-
sengers were badly shaken up. Na one
was seriously Injured.
REQUISITING FOR DELL AKIN.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 26.—Governor Crouse
has issued a requisition on Governor Hogg
of Texas for the return of Dell Akin un-
der arrest at El Paso chained with being
an accomplice of Barrett Scott, treasurer
of Holt county, Neb., who absconded with
something like $70,000.
A WOMAN THE CAUSE.
Calvert, Tex., Sept. 26.—A negro by the
name of George Jones, who lives on, Dr.
George McLendon's plantation, shot and
mortally wounded Louis Hood last night.
The trouble was about a woman.
RUMORED FIGHT.
Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 26.—It Is rumored here
that a fight has occurred in the territory
between the Remmert gang and a posse cf
United States deputy marshals.
INSANE PREACHER.
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 26.—Rev. I. B.
Brown suicided this morning by throwing
himself Into the canal. He was Insane.
LABOR MATTERS.
IRON WORKERS SUBMIT.
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 26.—An amicable
settlement of the differences between
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Workers and the Pittsburg manufactur-
ers was affected at the joint scale con-
ference this afternoon. A settlement
was made by the finishers agreeing to a
reduction of the minimum card price
from 2 to 1% cents per pound. This
means a 10 per cent reduction In wages
at the present card rates, but If the
prices advance under the sliding iscale
wages will be increased accordingly.
The cut will not affect puddlers or
workmen In other departments. The
conference was harmonious and the
workmen anticipate an early resump-
tion of all mills In the district.
COUER D' ALENE MINES,
Spokane, Wash., Sept. 26.—Operations
have been resumed at Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mines on the company's terms.
The force will be increased as rapidly as
possible. The Knights of Labor and
miners' union having sanctioned the re-
turn all other mines In the Couer d'
Alene district are expected to start.
Within a week over a thousand men
now idle will be at work. A jubilee Is
in progress In several mining towns.
BIG FOUR EMPLOYES.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 20—The chairmen
of the various committees representing
the employes of the Cleveland division
of the Dig Four road leave for Cincin-
nati this evening. It Is said they are
voting on the question of a strike in
this city to-night, but the final decision
will not be reached under three or four
days.
Assistant Chief A. B. Youngson of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
left for Cincinnati yesterday.
Chief Arthur claims to know nothing
of the situation.
POLITICAL.
THE MINT HAS THE BAG.
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY RE-
TURNB $1000.
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS.
Allentown, Pa., Sept. 26—The annual
convention of the democratic societies of
Pennsylvania met here this morning.
Mayor Allison delivered the address of wel-
come.
President Chauncey Black responded,
speaking hopefully of the future of the
democratic party In the state and pre-
dicting the early overthrow of republican-
ism.
Temporary Chairman Robert E. Wright
In a brief speech denounced Senator Cam-
eron for his speech in the senate yester-
day and advocated tariff reform, honest
money and honesty in high places.
A recess was taken till afternoon.
When the convention reassembled the
committee on permanent officers reported.
For president, Chauncev F. Black,
York; secretary, J. D. Norman, Harrls-
burg; treasurer, B. E. Wright.
A long series of resolutions affirming dem-
ocratic principles and denouncing the re-
publicans was adopted, after which brief
addresses were made by General John C.
Black of Illinois and Congressman Tarsey
of Missouri. Altoona is the next place of
meeting. Adjourned.
This evening there was a "rand banquet
in Central market hall. Covers were laid
for 1200.
NEAL AND FRANK HURD.
Toledo, 0„ Sept, 26.—T. Neal. democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio, opened the
campaign In this part of Ohio with a large-
ly attended meeting here this evening as-
sisted by the eminent free trader, Frank
H. Hurd. Both made free trade speeches.
It I« the Amount Stolen Augwt 13 in
Traniferring the Money From Cin-
cinnati to New Orleani.
A MILLIONAIRE'S LIFE WORK.
New York Tribune.
George J. Gould promise* to devote hi*
vast energies and abilities to the work of
dodging th* tax** upon hi* fortune.
New Orlean* Time*-Democrat.
Yesterday a welcome visitor paid a vlalt
to the United States mint, and for a brief
time wa* entertained by Mr. Walah, the
courteous chief clerk of the Institution, who
act* as the head of that branch of the fed-
eral government during Superintendent
Cade's absence from the city.
The visitor was none other than an em-
ploye of the Southern express company,
and he was a* well pleased as waa Mr.
Walsh at the nature of hi* errand. He
went to the mint to return the $1000 which
had been stolen from the company lost
month, and the pleaaure he felt In return-
ing the aubsldlary coin to the government
was enjml to the pleasure experienced by
the goprnment's representative In getting
It back again.
It was on August IS, an admittedly un-
lucky date, that the bag of uncurrent coin
was stolen from the express company's
office, and it waa on Friday that the money
was returned to Its original consignee.
On August 12 there was shipped to New
Orleans from Cincinnati seventy-one bags,
containing $1000 each, of uncurrent subsid-
iary coins, which were Intended to be sent
to the local mint for recolnlng. some of the
coins being old and very muoh worn. The
shipment was made through the agency of
the Southern expiess company, and the
money was received In this city all right.
It was counted by bags on its arrival here,
and this counting was made three or four
times before the discovery waa made thut
the shipment wa* one bag Bhort of the
original number sent from Cincinnati. Mys-
tery at once surrounded the robbery, and
try as they could no trace of the lost bag
could be found. It was known that the
entire shipment had been received all right
by the company, and that the bags were
all In the office on Sunday. August 13, the
day of the robbery. The steal was made
between 12 and 3.50 o'clock of that day, but
by whom and how are matters which have
remained a mystery until yesterday when
the big bag was returned to the United
States mint.
The company lost no time In getting to
work on the case, but work as they could
the detectives were battled by the mystery
In which the affair was shrouded.
Two weeks ago the government made a
demand upon the company for the lost
money. The demand had been put off
from day to day In the hope that the
company would be able to catch up with
the thief. Mr. Cade, superintendent o-
the mint. Mr. Cade, superintendent of
formal demand for the bag of money or
Its equivalent, $1000. This letter brought
forth a communication from Mr. Pardue,
who wrote the superintendent, asking
him for a description of the stolen money.
Though It is not positively known, It Is
believed that when the letter was written
by Mr. Pardue it was done with the in-
tention of gaining time in which to re-
cover the bag. It was known at that
time that the detectives who were at work
on the case had struck a good clew and
were "In sight" of a solution of the mys-
tery. A day or two of delay meant a
great deal to the company, and It was to
gain this temporary delay that the de-
scription of the coins was requested. Tha
reply of Mr. Cade was to the effect that
tho government hod entrusted the company
with $1000 of subsidiary coins which had
not been delivered, and he again called
attention to the necessity of the company
making the loss good.
The trail struck by the detectives pfoved
a hot one and from what clews they then
had the case had been worked up. The
delivery to the mint was kept quiet and a
representative called on Mr. Pardue at his
office.
Mr. Pardue admitted that the missing
money had been returned to the mint by
one of the company's representatives, but
further than this he would not express
himself. He was dumb on the point as to
the character of the money which bad
been returned to the mint, nor would ho
say the bag was the stolen one. In brief,
he made the bare admission that the
money had been returned to the govern-
ment.
From employes of the company It was
learned that no Information other than
that outlined above had become known
genorally In the office. The simple fact
that the money had been returned wa»
known. Beyond this the employes were In
Ignorance.
Those who had been long with the con-
cern. however, said that It was no Infre-
quent thing for a compromise to be mada
by tho company with robbers who were
willing to give up their spoils provided
they were not prosecuted Every Indica-
tion points to this having been done In
this case. The trail struck by the de-
tectives, the letter from Mr. Pardue to
Mr. Cade, the quiet manner in which tho
return was managed, and the reticence
of Mr. Pardue on the subject all point
to this having been effected. If a compro-
mise had been effected with the thief tha
company could not afford to give any
further particulars of the case than tha
bare announcement as to the refunding of
the money to the government. Anything
further from the officials would be tanta-
mount to an accusation against the thief.
They are, Judging from the inquiry mada
into the affair yesterday, willing to let
the matter drop, being content with the
recovery of the stolen money.
o
NEWSPAPER RECREATION.
The toadstool crop has been a painful
success. [Washington Star.
The cup that cheers Is now the Bren-
ton's reef cup. [Boston Herald.
After all It must be admitted that Britan-
nia rules the Navahoe. [New York World.
Anarchist Emma Goldman is probably
guilty of not knowing any better. [Evening
World.
The receivers of the banks continue to
lose their jobs with pleasing frequency.
[Washington Post.
The fiend: "Her face is her fortune."
The enemy: "How interesting! Made It
herself, too, didn't she?" [Life.
Annexing Utah and Nevada Is the kind
of Mormonism that the country will ve-
hemently applaud. [Boston Herald.
If silence is golden perhaps It is neither
just nor generous to demand it of the sil-
ver senators. [Baltimore American.
Mr. Cleveland Is understood to think that
Esther is a very pretty name, but that
John would have been a better one. [Bos-
ton Globe.
The assertion that Embezzler Weeks
used the money In steel speculations looks
like a polite case of bad spelling. [Wash-
ington Star.
Kentuck had another shower of fish tha
other day. It is a strange state where the
fish have to go to the clouds for water.
[Boston Traveler.
What the senate needs, but is not likely
to have, Is some Oliver Cromwell to come
along and say: "Take away those bab-
blers." [Swansea Gazette.
"Auntie, what do you think of the pic-
tures in the art galleries?" "Wa-al, I
think people kin git Into slch attitudes,
but I don't approve of it." [World's Fait!
Puck.
He: "How do you like Lord Fopplngton,
Miss Barrow?" Miss Barrow: "Not at
all. He can't pronounce his r's, and I do
detest being addressed as Miss Bowwow."
[Tit-Bits.
She: "Oh! Isn't that a bull?" He: "Yes,
but you needn't be afraid so long as I'm
with you." She: "But I'm afraid you
wouldn't be with me long if he came this
way." [Drake's Magazine.
The St. Paul News says that Emln Pa-
sha has succeeded at last in filling a long-
felt want. The savages may have found
him filling, but he must have been far from
satisfying. [Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Biggleswade: "My dear, how on
earth did you ever choose such an awk-
ward, slatternly, ignorant creature as that
new servant girl?" Mrs. Biggleswade:
"My love, I didn't choose her. She chosa
me." [Puck.
It was the first she had ever baked, and
she said proudly: "Do you think I could
go Into the bread business?" "My dear,"
answered her husband, gently, "If they
sold bread by weight, you'd make youa
fortune." [Washington Star.
Chicago bootblack: "See de old hunks
wld de eyeglasses? Watch me fetch him.
[Raising his voice.] Dazzling brilliancy
Imparted to pedal coverture* for a reason-
able pecuniary compensation while you
linger. The Old Hunks [front Boston! I
'Here, boy." [.Chicago Xrlbua*.
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