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(Succcssors to Mcllhenny Co.)
wholesale dealers in
Jry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hats,
CONSIGNMENTS OF
Cotton. Solicited.
©OUSTON, .*.... TEXAS.
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Office of Publication': Nos. 1st and 1s6 Mechanic Street, Gai.veston.
Entered at the Postoffice at Galveston as Second-class Matter
VOL. XLVII—NO. 80.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1888.
ESTABLISHED 1812.
FIREWORKS PARKHOTEL.
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AT THE
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AT 9.15 SHARP.
FREE PICNIC.
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DALIAN'S GARDEN,
J"-u_l;y- 14
THE FALL OF THE BASTILE.
GRAND CELEBRATION. FREE TO ALL.
Cotton -i- Again,
'{There Is some Cotton still In the
country, scattered here and
there, and held for future ship-
ment.
Lampasas Springs, Texas,
On Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad.
i3ff~ ALTITUDE, 1200 FEET.
Now Open for the Season.
Excursion Rates! Hot nnd Cold Sulphur
Baths! Specially adapted to the euro of
"heumatism, Dyspepsia, Liver an'
Kidney Diseases I Finest Swim-
•When you get ready to ship please
do not forget that we have made
a success of the business of hand-
ling Cotton during the last fif-
teen years, and that nowhere
else can you obtain better results
If as good.
ILmong our numerous r>«+rons
there are several ,csS spin-
ners' buyei 0( St'uo ua quite
liberally,an \.AiJiiey ought to know
what they are doing.
ffffl. D. CLEVELAND & CO.,
HOUSTON.
TOBACCO!
TOBACCO!TOBACCO!
We will sell at Factory Prices.
We carry a Large Variety.
Now Is the Time to Buy.
HEIDENHEIMEfl & CO,
Pure Strawberry Brandy
A DELICIOUS LIQUEUR
Distilled from the best fruit
All who taste it praise it highly. Send a trial
order.
A. J. TRUCHARD & CO.
STATE AGENTS.
GALVESTON.
Heaflprtmfor Nun.
This being tho saason when stocks of
Tobacoo are being replenished, we invite
business in this line, and are prepared to
Male Exceptionally Low Figures!
We are taking orders for assorted lots
direct shipment from factory, thus sav-
ing considerably in cost.
Gust. Heye 8z: Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
ANALYZED
gy Professor Henry Leffman of the Jefferson
Medical College, who gave the following certifi-
cate in 1879:
I hereby certify that I have examined A. & H.
Myers' Schuylkill Whisky, and lind the same to
g, oea pure article, free from poisonous substances
and suitable for fell purposes for which a pure
Whisky may bo required.
First degree of merit awarded for quality at
the New Orleans Exposition, May, 1H85.
Wholesale Agents ft** Texas—CHAS. DAL-
IAN, Galveston; HUGO Sc SCHMELTZER, ban
Antonio; E. M. TILLMAN. Dallas.
H. SCHERFFIUS
Manufacturers1 Agent for
Farm and Mill Machinery,
Winship Cotton Gins.
^HOUSTON ... TEXAS.
J. B. PARKER,
Successor to Goo. C. Lester,
Live Stock Commission Merchant,
Houston - - Texas.
(Maes—Comer Ccueress una Fannin Stv
ming Pools in the world, oper-
ated by the owners.
Heirxnry Holton,
THE TREMONT
Summer Rate—Any Floor,
$2 OO IE?e:r? Day.
BEACH HOTEL,
3STOW OiFIEISr,
Under the management of G. MoGINLEY.
READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
50 Lynch Sprinklers,
For destroying cotton worms. Owing to other
work under contract the further output of these
valuable machines for this season must be cur-
tailed and parties wanting them should apply
early. Address MILBUKN GlN AND MA-
CHINE CO., Memphis, Tenn.; or SIMPSON &
HART WELL Agents Houston, Tex.
THE WEATHER.
cotton region bulletin.
Stations.
Galveston
Abilene
Belton
Brenliam
Columbia —
Corsicana —
Cuero
Dallas
Hearne
Houston
Huntsville...
Longview—
Luling
Orange
Palestine
San Antonio.
Sour Lake...
Waco
Weatherford.
Tyler
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AUSTIN LOCAL ADVICES.
Number and Disposition of Convicts—
Trouble Browing at Hempstead—Notes.
Austin, Tex., July 13.—Superintendent of
Penitentiaries Goree is here and reports 8377
convicts on hand, of which number 744 are
at Huntsville, 857 at Rusk, and tho balance
on farms and railroads. He estimates at
Rusk that $40,000 worth of iron has accu-
mulated under suspension of the demand
for pig iron, which is general.
The governor has an anonymous letter
from Hempstead inclosing the Junius cir.
cular. The letter charges a deputy sheriff
with saying: "The day after Alcliin was
killed we got the man we were after, and
we ain't after anybody else now, and that if
tho rangers are removed we will name the
men who can't walk the streets of Hemp-
stead."
The letter and ciroular indicates an ugly
state of feeling, which may induce the re-
tention of the rangers there for some time.
Th» comptroller's accounts show a fall-
ing of of occupation taxes for the past year
of 596,000, attributable mainly to a reduced
number of retail liquor licenses taken out.
Superintendent Cooper is gratified to
state that the reports on school affairs by
county and city treasurers are being re-
ceived more promptly, and without excep-
tion are free from tho errors and blunders
manifest in last year's reports. This im-
provement is attributed to the new law.
He thinks the estimate of $2,040,000 avail-
able school fund estimated for the ensuing
year by the comptroller is too low, being
short $140,000 on land leases and $120,000 on
interest on sales of land made during the
year.
The County Farmers' alliance met in the
agricultural department in the new capitol
this afternoon and had a lengthy session,
electing officers and discussing public
affairs.
The attorney-general, in response to an
inquiry as to whether a person can escape
taxation on his money by converting it into
non-taxable treasury notes just before Janu-
ary 1, his sole purpose being to avoid taxes,
lays down the law to be that such fraudu-
lent evasions are condemned by the courts.
The cases he cites were in point. Tho
United States supreme court sustained his
his position. The letter is addressed to the
Bell county board of equalization.
HOPING AGAINST HOPE.
Maxwell's Attorneys Still Hope to Save
Maxwell from the Gallows.
ST. Lofis, Mo., July 13.—Messrs. Martin
& Fauntleroy, attorneys for Hugh M.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, have not yet given
up hope of saving their clieut from the gal
lows. Mr. Martin said this afternoon that
the governor in his decision had overlooked
many strong points made by the attorneys,
and it is their intention to make a vigorous
effort to have the governor go over tho
ground again.
"Will you get up more petitions or sim-
ply make another appeal to him?" was asked
Mr. Fauntleroy.
"I can not say yet. His decision is a pe-
culiar one, and the position taken by him is
extremely illogical. He says that even
though this man had not had a fair and im-
partial trial, and even though, to quote his
own language, the state officers have been
guilty of conduct that lias incurred the dis-
pleasure of the right thinking people; of the
state, he is powerless to interfere. The gov-
ernor places himself in exactly the same po-
sition a man hired to fill a grave would be
in if he discovered the corpse was alive and
jTet went on filling the grave because the
physicians, who are supposed to know bet-
ter, had pronounced tho man in the coffin
dead."
WASHINGTON SPECIALS.
THE TARIFF BILL LAID ASIDE FOR
OTHER HOUSE BUSINESS.
Aiding* and Building Up American Shipping
Interest a Republican Disguise—Mr.
Randall Can Hardly Survive—
Grave Apprehensions—Notes.
washington, July 13. — [Special] — Tho
tariff bill was laid aside in the house to-day
in order to give the postoffice committee a
chancc? ]io prevent the conference report on
tho regular postoffice appropriation bill,
as the republicans gave notice the other
day that they would insist on having
three hours to debate the ocean mail sub-
sidy amendment tacked on by the senate.
The democrats agreed to the proposition,
as they were anxious to have the question
freely discussed in order to show the coun-
try tho attitude of the men who are propos-
ing to throw away a large sum of money
under the guise of
aiding and building up
American shipping interest. Year after
year the republicans try to grant this sub-
sidy, but their schemes have been repeatedly
balked since the democrats have had pos-
session of the house. In the last congress the
subsidy advocates gained many votes in the
house, as a number of the democrats repre-
senting districts along the coast voted for the
senate amendment, but their strength was
more than offset by the votes of republicans
from the west and northwest. The managers
of the bill say that the house will hold out
against the proposition until the senate is
compelled to abandon the thing. A vote
was not reached this afternoon. It will be
taken up to-morrow early in the session.
Some strong speeches were mado by the
democrats to-day.
mr. randall
can hardly survive.
Washington, July 13.—[Special]—It is
is extremely doubtful if Mr. Randall can
live but a few days. Only his vigorous con-
stitution, it is thought, can sustain and
pull him through. Dr. Mel'in, when seen
by The News correspondent to-night late,
said it whs a very serious relapse, and he
did not feel in the least safe in believing the
patient can last long.
grave apprehensions.
2.30 a. m.—Mr. Randall had four hemor-
rhages to-night, and lost sixteen ounces of
blood.
There are grave apprehensions as to his
ability to withstand a further recurrence of
the attack.
the colored democrats.
fred douglas a tool.
washington, July 18.—[Special]—The re-
publican leaders at Washington are more
concerned about the democratic negro con-
vention to bo held at Indianapolis on the
25th instant than indicated,since it is learned
that they are taking active steps with a
view of capturing that meeting, and from
all accounts they will rely more on the
power of money than persuasive argument.
As was expected they are already denying
that they intend to send any agents out
there, much less to contribute money to buy
some of the leaders as has been charged.
J. Milton Turner and other prominent" ne-
groes still stick to their former belief, that
it is currently reported on the streets that
Senator Sawyer lias placed a check for
fl0,000 in the hands of Fred Douglass for
use at the Indianapolis gathering. It is the
prevailing opinion now among the negroes
of democratic and independent proclivities
that Douglass will put in an appearance at
the Hoosier capital. They anticipate an
attempt on his part if he goes there
to run things,
but Turner is of the opinion that Douglass
will have a livelier time than that expected
by his co-politicians here, when he tried to
beat Perry Carson for the national republi-
can convention.
Carson, in an Interview published last
winter, said that the reason of Douglass' de-
feat was because he had lost his influence
among his race by marrying a white woman
anil trying to play the part of a negro aris-
tocrat, and that he imagined on his return
from Europe he could be elected a delegate
to Chicago but he failed, owing to the fact
that the black voters wanted a genuine and
not a "professional" negro to represent
them at Chicago. •
It leaks out the republicans are anxious
to break the force of the Indianapolis meet-
ing, because they fear that a considerable
loss of the negro vote this year would make
jit hard for them to carry several states
which have heretofore been saved to {hen-
party many a time by the negro vote. The
negroes hold the balance of power in both
Ohio and Indiana.
department notes.
texas pensions.
washington, July 13. — [Special]—In-
crease: Joshua C. Brown, Edna. Mexican
widows: Elvira A., widow of Calvin J.
Fuller, Bouham.
texas postoffices
Texas postoffices established to-day: Wil-
liam Field, Need, Lamar county; George F.
Hudson, Rennor, Collin county; M. D. Car-
roll, Thurman, Shelby county.
E. W. Brewer lias been appointed post-
master at London, Kimble county.
fort worth a division.
Postmaster-general Dickinson said to
Judge Abbott to-day that he had concluded
to issue an order making Fort Worth a di-
vision of the postal railway department.
Mr. Abbott has been trying for some time
to have this done, and not until last Mon-
day did the postmaster-general signify his
intention to do so. To-day, however, he
said to Judge Abbott and Senator Coke that
he wouldjissue the order at once creating the
division.
congressional proceedings.
house.
washington, July 13.—Mr. Blount of
Georgia submitted a conference report on
the postoffice appropriation bill. An agree-
ment has been arrived at on all the amend-
ments except that known as the subsidy
amendments. The rate of postage on seeds,
plants, bulbs, roots and scions lias been
fixed at 1 cent for each two ounces or frac-
tion thereof. The report was agreed to,
and then Mr. Bingham of Pennsylvania
moved to concur in the senate subsidy
amendment, with an amendment reducing
the appropriation from $800,000 to $450,000,
authorizing the postmaster-general to in-
crease the mail facilities no^ only between
the United States • and Central and South
America and the West Indies, but between
the United States and China, Japan, the
Sandwich islands and Australia, and pro-
viding that American ships carrying mails
shall lie allowed four times the rate of com-
pensation they now receive. A long debate
ensued.
The question presented in the amendment,
said Mr. Bingham, was not one of subsidy
or bonus but a uuestiou as to the establish
ment of the completion, under the law of
1853 as applied to the sailing American
steamships under the existing conditions of
ISSS. If the conditions to-day were differ-
ent from the conditions of existing at the
time the law of 185* was passed, and they
undoubtedly were different, a fair readjust-
ment of the compensation a 1 lowed to Ameri-
can vessels for carrying the mails should bo
made.
Mr. Blount of Georgia opposed the motion
to concur and expressed his firm antagon-
ism To the subsidy system.
Mr. Dingley of Maine supported the
amendment. Unless something were done
to increase the compensation to the Ameri-
can steamship lines now running to South
and Central America and to the east, he
predicted that before five years had been
passed there would not be a single Ameri-
can steamship line left.
Mr. Holman of Indiana attacked tho
principle of a subsidy, referring to the rec-
ord to read the resolution of inquiry adopt-
ed in February, 1874, into the charges that
money had been used to secure the passage
of the Pacific Mail subsidy. He said that the
house had been dishonored by the results of
that inquiry. Yet it was now proposed that
that very steamship line should receive an-
other subsidy after having driven honor-
able prominent men into obscurity and dis-
honor. The house proposed to do that.
Mr. Owen discussed amendment in a com-
niercial point of view, and advocated that it
is a means of advancing the business inter
ests of the United States in the great con-
suming countries of South America. South
of us lay an empire richer
than the Indies, containing 50,000,000
people who were inactive and without gen-
ius; they imported annually <500,000,000
worth of goods-—$450,000,000 from Europe
and $50,000,000 from the United States. It
was (lie part of patriotism that congress
should do what it could to enible our peo-
ple to reach out and secure this rich market.
Mr. Nelson of Minnesota said that the
argument that the American shipping did
not exist because of a rebellion which oc-
curred twenty-five years ago was to liim all
stuff and nonsense, all fuss .and feathers.
The trouble was that the government had
put the merclian t marine in a sort of straight-
jacket. It is said to the people wishing to
engage capital in navigating the high seas:
You cau not engage in this enterprise un-
less you buy American vessels. This was
putting the merchant inartlic lu a straight-
jacket. [Applause on the democratic side.]
Mr. Dockery of Missouri made an elabo-
rate argument against the system of subsi-
dies, and contended that tho effect of the
pending amendment would be to discourage
the .building of additional lines and to ena-
ble such poor men as Jay Gould, Russell
Sage and C. P. Huntington to prevent any
Competition being built up to the
Pacific Mail Steamship con\pany. He
wanted to see American prowess restored
upon the sea, but he did not believe it could
bs accomplished by means of subsidies. If
it could be, the subsidy, instead of being
$450,000, would have to be from $5,000,000 to
•$8,000,000 a year.
Mr. Adams of Illinois dwelt on tho im-
portance of securing commercial relations
with the Argentine republic by means of
two lines of steamships, one from New
York and one from New Orleans, and he
spoke of the growth of that country and of
t lie great advantages which would accrue to
the business interests of America if so
fine a market could bo secured for Ameri-
can manufacturers and products. Ponding
fur'hen debate the house took a recess until
O'clock, evening session to be for the con-
sideration of private pension bills.
senate.
Mr. Dawe3 presented the remonstrance
of a largo number of wool manufacturers
and wool growers against the legislation
proposed in the Mills bill. Referred to
committee on finance.
The house bill appropriating $300,000 for
the location of a branch of the National Sol-
diers'home in Grant county, Ind., anil the
bouse bill approving certain acts of the
Twenty-seventh legislative assembly of the
territory of New Mexico as to the funded
indebtedness were passed. Tho senate then
went into open executive session, and Mr.
George resumed and finished the speech be-
gun by him yesterday in favor of the ratifi-
cation of the fishery treaty.
Mr. Dolph made a long address in opposi-
tion to the treaty. Ho quoted from the of-
ficial correspondence of Minister Phelps
and of Mr. Bayard, secretary of state, to
show that the operations of the Canadian
government against American fishermen
had been a flagrant violation of treaty
rights, nnd had been resorted to for thepur-
poso of driving the L'nited States into
admitting Canadian fish free; and ho assert-
ed that it was proposed by the pending
treaty to surrender the American position
concerning the treaty and harbors, and the
American claim to reciprocal commercial
privileges, and to purchase commercial
privileges for American fishermen with tho
remission of duties to the amount of a mil-
lion dollars.
Mr. Call offered a resolution, which was
adopted , calling on the secretary of the
treasury for evidence in the treasury de-
partment relating to property of the
United States, or to which the United
States has a valid claim, held in adverse
possession against the United States, with
recommendations on the subject. The house
bill appropriating $50,000 for a public build-
ing at Brownsville, Tex., was reported and
placed on the calendar. The senate then
adjourned till Monday.
general washington news.
the river and harbor bill.
New York, July 13.—A Washington spe-
cial to the Herald says: There docs not ap-
pear to bo any substantial basis for the re-
port that the president proposes vetoing
the river and harbor bill. The president
was entirely satisfied with the bill as it left
the house, and members of the committee
do not believe he will veto it simply be-
cause the senate has chosen to increase the
amount $1,500,000.
the cowdon outlet scheme.
Senator Chandler to-day introduced a bill
to provide for the construction of a lake
Borgne outlet to improve the low water
navigation of thq, Mississippi river from
New Orleans to Cairo, and incidentally to
reclaim and protect the valley lands of the
Mississippi river and tributaries from over-
flow. Tills is the celebrated CoWdon outlet
scheme. As compensation for the work
Cowdon is to receive $500,000 per foot for
each foot that the Hood line of the Missis-
ppi river shall be lowered at New Orleans,
lcksburg, Helena, Memphis, the mouth of
ed river and Cairo within sixty days after
the outlet shall have been opened.
resignations of diplomats.
The president has accepted the resigna-
tion of Hon. Geo. N. Lothrop, United States
minister to Russia, to take effect August 1.
Mr. Lothrop is not in good health.
Another diplomatic resignation may be
looked for before the close, of the present
year, that of Mr. Lambert Tree of Chicago,
present United States minister to Belgium.
Mr. Tree, like Judge Lothrop. is said to
have grown tired of his foreign residence,
and is seriously contemplating a permanent
return to this country.
News from Fort Davis.
Font Davis. Tex.. July 13.—This section
has been visited by two splendid rains, the
best this year. Grass was very good before,
and now the stockmen are more cheerful.
County court has been closed. No crimi-
nal docket, and but one civil cmso came to
trial, One plaintiff recovered from the Gal-
sj
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ARKANSAS CONVICT CAMPS
Found to Bo in Very Unwholesome Condi-
tion— lleport of Iuspector.
St. Louis, Mo., Jul y 13.—A Little Rock
(Ark.) special says that Dr. Canlell, tho
penitentiary physician, has made a report
to the board of prison commissioners on
the condition of the various convict camps
throughout the state. Some of them were
found in good condition, while others are in
a deplorable state.
The Gracie camp, in Arkansas county,
consists of one rough stockade t wenty by-
twenty feet in dimensions and nine
feet high, in which forty-four men
are housed. There is no dining room
and the men are fed with a plate and cup
while standing. The sleeping arrange-
ments are utterly abominable. The men
are stretched out- on a platform and their
bedding consists of cotton bagging and cot-
ton seed bags, which are absolutely filthy,
they not having been washed in four years.
The pen has no windows or gratings, and
but one small door. The diet consists
simply of bread and meat tho year round,
and is very poorly prepared.
Another stockade at Palarm camp of
18x34 feet and 8 feet high was found to
have eighty-six convicts in it, but, twenty-
eight of them were removed to another
(amp. The convict lessees have been noti-
fied to give this matter immediate attention
and improve accommodations for convicts
at once.
THE BROWNSVILLE BUDGET.
Tho Fifth Infantry Arrives—A Girl Drowned
—An Old Bandit Captured,
Brownsville, Tex., July 18.—The steam-
boat Bessie arrived from up river at about
5 p. m., having on board tho paymaster and
Company D, Fifth infantry, which will go
into garrison here. This is tho first time
we have had any boys of tho Fifth at this
post.
This morning at the Tomatcs ranch an S-
year-old girl, named Rios, fell into the river
and was drowned. The remains were swept
away down the river and lost.
It is reported that Juan Polanco was re-
cently murdered on the road near Villa
Monaez by unknown parties. Polanco has
been for some time missing and there was a
suspicion of foul play.
Zacarias Reyna, an old bandit, wanted in
Zaragoza. state of Nueva Leon, was cap-
tured by Major Cel3o Cuelar, who happened
to run on him at Santa Cruz, and just as he
was about to .put himself under the wings
of the American eagle.
GREAT SUFFERING
In tho District Irately Devastated by the
Great Storm.
Wheeling, W. Va., July 13.—A special to
tho Intelligencer says: A relief committee
met yesterday afternoon to hear the report
of the sub-committee that visited the de-
vastated districts. Terrible suffering is
reported which far exceeds all anticipations.
The people in the lowlands are without
food, clothes and homes. Tho committee is
doing all in its power to alleviate the suffer-
ing. It is impossible to appreciate the loss
and suffering, and one can not realize the
suffering until it has been revealed by per-
sonal contact. Fully 125 families, aggregat-
ing over 500 people^ are suffering and in
need of the necessaries of life.
Laredo Local News Notes-
Laredo, Tex., July 13.—The cor*raetors
of the Mexican National iron bridge across
the Rio Grande at this point after^nany
days commenced to-day to erect tho first of
the seven spans of t he bridge. At the rate
tho work progressed on tho first day the
structure will be finished by the 15th day of
August, providing the river does not take a
raise.
Parties in St. Paul, Minn., are negotiating
to securo a company of Mexican hull fight-
ers at Laredo to proceed to that city. It is
believed that the bull fighters are intended
for Cody's Wild Western show.
A young American girl 12 years old, an
attache of Orrin's circus, now performing
in Nuevo Laredo, Mex., made her escape to
this side of the river last night, and her re-
puted guardian, an acrobatic performer
named Nelson, lias been trying all day to
secure possession of her without success.
He claims that the child was given to him
by her mother, but the girl states that she
was kidnaped, ami has been treated ever
since with great cruelty.
An unusually large number of passengers
arrived to-night.
Brenham News Budget.
Brenham, Tex., July 13.—I. W. Soady ar-
rived here a few days since with a proposi-
tion from a Shreveport company to erect in
Brenham tho Webb cotton compress within
sixty days, with tho further guarantee that
it would perform the quantity and quality
of the work performed by the Moss press,and
allowing a test till January 1,1889, Before an
acceptance of the machinery is asked. M.
Rosenliaum yesterday secured enough sub-
scribers to insure tho acceptance of tin-
proposition and other subscriptions flowed
in to-day, when an organization was per-
fected by the following board of directors:
Captain S. Ii. Allen, M. W. Hnlsell, M. Bo-
senbaum, II. C. Alexander, R. B. Semplc,
Frank Jones and H. Levin.
Tho charter has been applied for, with
the capital stock at $50,000. There isvcon-
siderable enthusiasm over tho success of
the project. Mr. Soady will leave in the
morning for Shreveport, all the necessary
documents having been signed.
Several head of cattle came in to-day !o
swell the list of those which are to i;e
slaughtered for t lit* ex-confederate reunion
and barbecue here on August 2.
Wills Point Local Pointers.
Wills Point, Tex., July 13.—Tuesday
evening, this side of Terrell', the FortWorth
and Wills Point passenger train killed a
man who failed to get off the track. The
engineer discovered him and whistled the
alarm, but before he discovered that the
man was not heeding the warning the train
was so close that it could not be stopped in
time, although every effort was made to
do so. Tho remains were brought here and
an inquest held, but no facts were elicited
bearing upon who he was or where ho was
from. Some citizens* recognized him as a
painter who stopped a few days in this city
about two weeks ago.
The congressional race is exciting consid-
erable interest in this district. The people
are very enthusiastic in support of Colonel
Kilgore, and would regret to see him de-
feated after the record ha has made. The
full strength of the democracy of Van
Zandt county will be for him this time.
Every precinct, and tho county convention
has indorsed him some time ngo, and will
do so again.
Farmers are complaining of too much
rain.
Tho surveying corps of the Air line
reached this plaufe to-day. Tho present line
will run war tho city corporate limits,
veston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
way company $55 75 for the lo.-,s of a valise.
Plaintiff had the valise in the passenger
coach with him and under his own care, un-
checked. When the train stopped at Val-
entine he stepped out of thecoacli for a cup
of coffee. Returning, he found tho valise
gone. Upon these facts plaintiff recovered.
Sublux "Tobacco which from
~ -4g r
East to West cheers the Tar's labor
or the Turkman's rest. The "Seal
of North Carolina" Plug Cut is the
undisputed leader of Plug Cut
Smoking Tobaccos throughout the
world. It is absolutely pure.
MARBURG- BROS.
DAMAGING STATEMENT
READ AT CHICAGO CONCERNING THE
ALLEGED DYNAMITE PLOT,
Tho Court-Room Crowded to Hear the Ro;oV
Ing—One of the Six Makes a Confession-
How tho Cartridge Was l'laeed
on tho Track.
Chicago, 111., July 18.—A startling out-
line of tho case against the members of the
Brotherhood* of Engineers and Firemen,
accused of complicity in the huge dynamite
plot against the Chicago, Burlington wid
Quincy road, was formally presented in
court to-day. Tho statement was made by
United States District Attorney Ewing im-
mediately upon the arraignment of six of
the accused—Chief Bauerisn and his com-
rades Gooding, Wilson, Bowles, Broderick
and Smith. The presentment caused a
great sensation among the crowd of rail-
road men, lawyers and reporters, that filled
every inch of the court-room.
The statement, of the district attorney
was apparently based largely upon a con-
fession by one. of the six. Alex Smith sat
apart from tho other defendants, and not-
withstanding tho efforts of his brother, who
was present, in court, doggedly declined to
be represented by t he brot herhood attorneys
or liave anything to do with them. After
Commissioner Hoyne had refused defend-
ants' request for separate examination for
each of them, the district attorney arose
and recited the facts he proposed to prov
' ig "
During the examination the cheeks of
Bauerisn and Gooding fairly
seemed to burn.
Tho others did not betray much surprise
and maintained a cool demeanor.
District Attorney Ewing spoke as follows!
May it please the court, I desire to say, in
presenting the statement of what I expect
to prove, that I think it will appear from
tho evidence that, on or about May 2v) last,
at tho town of Kola, four or five miles from
Aurora, there was a dynamite cartridge
placed upon (lie track ol the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy road and it exploded.
Evidence will show that a few days prior to
the explosion at, Eola, Bowles, one of the
accused, went into the room of Chairman
Hoge of tho brotherhood, at the hitter's
rooms in tho Grand Pacific hotel, mid
showed him a number of
dynamite cartridges,
and that they talked there about the use of
these cartridges. A few days afterward an
explosion took place at Eola. It will.appear
further that somo three or four days before
tho explosion and after the conversation hi
tween Bowles and Hoge, Bowles met,Smith
about the use of dy-
namite; told him how it could be used; told
and talked with him
him something of the explosive power and
invited him then to go with him and they
would fix some. Evidence will further
show that on the night, of the 29tli day of
May last, about 0 o'clock, Bowles procured
a buggy and horse and with SuiLi
drove down
to Eola. On tho way Bowles showed Smith
a dynamite cartridge which corresponds
with the cartridges found in tho possession
of theso parties. They drove in this litt le
town nnd drove fifty or sixty yards from the
railroad, when Bowles got out of the buggy,
went over to tho track and put the cart-
ridge on the rail, coming back and report-
ing that he had done so; that they drove
back to Aurora, and just as they were Hear-
ing the town the explosion took place and
piyt of that engine was wrecked. A day or
two later Bauerisn met Smith on the street
and said that, Bowles
left a package
for him at Peck's hotel. Smith went to the
room of the hotel as directed by Bauerisn,
and found a cartridge and caps. A few
days after that Bauerisn met Smith on the
street and asked him if he had sot off any
of that stuff yet. This was on the 14th day
of June. Smith told him lie had not, ana
Bauerisn replied that that would be a pretty
good night to do it. Smith got the cartridgo
and went to south Aurora, and put tho
cartridge on the track of the.Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy. Next day after ho did
that ho met tho defendant Bauerisn, and
Bauerisn again asked him if lie had let off
any of that stuff.
He told linn that he had, and Bauerisn
told him ho thought so, because he had
heard the explosion. Now the evidence will
show that on that night there was an explo-
sion at that place. We pass now from that
time to a couple of weeks later, between the
15th day of Juno and the 1st of July. Bowles
was away and there was a correspondence
between liim and Bauerisn and some others
concerning his whereabouts and what ho
was doing. That correspondence, in tha
handwriting of Bauerisn, showed Bowles
was doing some business that was very se-
cret; that he must be very careful no one
was watching him; that if he believes that
man he suspects is really following him to
shoot the d—d , and telling him not to
buy any more stuff at present for various
reasons.
Tho district attorney further stated that
on July ft Gooding gave Smith a letter to
his wife, and that oil presenting it she gave
Smith a package containing cartridges, a
fuse and eaps, Smith put another paper
around the bundle and delivered it to tho
brotherhood hall at Aurora. At the hall
there he met Broderick, Bowles, Bauvrisn
and Wilson, and said to one of them: "That
package is out in tho ante-room."
The evidence will show that a very iittlo
while after that IJroderick, Bowles, Bauer-
isn and Wilson all went out of the hall
together; that Broderick had this package
in his arm; that they went down to the
train together coming to Chicago, and
tho three leaving Bauerisn, took the
train to come hero and carried that
package into the train, and were arrested
upon tho train; and when the package
was examined it was found to contain four
half-pound dynamite cartridges, and in
Broderick's possession were a nuntfber of
these fulminating caps that can be used for
no other purpose that I know of but to ex-
piodo than internal stuff.
The remainder of the district attorney's
statement was taken up by describing the
deadly nature of the cartridges, as demon-
strated by an experiment made by him and
tho United States marshal yesterday.
J. J. Kelly, secretary to Chairman Hoge,
was placcd 011 the stand and told how
Bowles had brought dynamite to lioge's
room in the Grand Pacific hotel. The pack-
age was opened in the presence of Hoge.
John »1. Kelly, a somewhat dudish look-
ing secretary to Chairman Hoge of the Bur-
lington strikers' grievance committee, took
the stand. lie know defendant Bowles
under that name. Last May he saw hiux
at a meeting of stridors in the Grand
Pacific hotel. Attorney Donahue tried to
bar out any testimony against Hoge, bo*
cause the chairman was not on trial, and
also any evidence us to this dynamite bo-
cause it could not lie shown that it was the
same found on. the train, but the court
let the witness go on. Kelly told how
Bowles cames to the strikers' room at the
Grand Pa«iUe with a package, said to be
dynamite. The package was opened in the
presence of Hoge, a man named Fowler and
the witness. It was marked Hercules, with
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