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DBNTOM COUNTY NEWS
SEMI-WEEKLY.
NEWS PUBLISHING CO.,
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- . . - TEXAS
Japs Go on Winning
The Bear Has Enough
A world's fair ode is so called be-
cause It Is paid (or.
Consider also the grass—how every
spire of It that grows has to hustle
for • living.
Naples has Been Pres. Loubet, and
Pres. Loubet has seen Naples and Is
in no haste to die.
The president of a Chicago woman's
club says "the cradle must go!" All
klght, but save the baby.
A discouraging feature of the base-
ball outlook is that half of the teams
of each league lose every day.
Two checkbooks with but a single
bank account may be the death of
love, as Nordica's case shows.
It may be true that money stupe-
fies the conscience, but disappointed
greed for office sours the disposition.
Panama wants to disband its army.
As it is not going to have any revolu
tions it does not see the need of
troops.
New York, May 27.—The Journal
says this morning: The Japanese are
almost within striking distance of Port
Arthur, and are slowly but steadily
fighting their way to the final defenses
of the stronghold. The Japanese, It
Is said, have profited by the work of
the British In South Africa, and ac-
companying Gen. Oku's advance Is a
Btrong naval brigade with a number of
six-inch guns from the vessel of the
squadron. It is believed that the final
assault on Port Arthur Is very near
at hand.
Togo's vessels are keeping a close
watch on the harbor, apparently tak-
ing no chance of a sudden sorties
catching him off his guard.
The Russians are believed to have
four battleships and an armored cruis-
er ready for service, and reports re-
ceived here speak of several subma-
rines.
London, May 26, 4:31 p. m.—A dis-
patch to the Central News from Toklo
says the Japanese have stormed and
where a Japanese attack was expeot
ed. The fighting Is uid to hav« taken
place to-day.
After the occupation of Klnchou the
Russians retired in good order to the
heights further south, which were at-
tacked by the full Japanese force and
carried a stubborn resistance.
Paris, May 20.—Russia is ready for
peace, If It can be brought about In
such a way as will not cause her too
much loss of prestige. This is the
news which reaches here from St. Pe-
tersburg, and while It can not be of-
ficially verified, it is believed in dip-
lomatic circles.
It is Bald that Russia realizes fully
that if she is to win ultimately, and no
doubt Is felt on this point by the Gov
ernment at St. Petersburg, it will be
ai an enormous cost in treasure and
men, from which Russia can not hope
to get any adequate returns. It is
realized, too, that Russian prestige In
Asia has suffered already, and even
though In the end victorious, it Is
captured the town of Kinchou, about bound to suffer more. Under the cir-
Mrs. Russell Sago says that Mr.
Sage will not give up his residence in
New York city, taxes or no taxes.
That settles it.
Andrew Lang doesn't find George
Ade funny. But what of that? Per-
haps George Ade doesn't find Andrew
Lang funny, either.
People who are disposed to discour-
age the practice of hitting a thing
after it is down should not overlook
the case of poor old steel.
It might be well for the Japs to
have a detachment of Russians con-
stantly on hand to be placed in front
when they pursue the enemy.
St. Louis. Mo., May 27.—The dedica-
tion of the Texas Building yesterday
proved to be one of the most brilliant
of the many functions of the kind that
have recently been held to inaugurate
State and foreign representation. The
Texas party, including the Governor
and commissioners, wives and lady
commissioners, besides many promi-
nent men and women of the State,
were first driven to (he residence of
President Francis, where they were
accorded a most complimentary recep-
tion.
A Chicago woman secured a divorce Accompanied by President Francis,
the other day thirty-six minutes after j the party drove to the Fair and were
filing her bill. This may justly be re- ] met at the main entrance by the crack
garded as rapid transit to single bless- j mn[tary band of the White and Black
edness. j Horse Guards. The long line of hand-
„ t I I r t i,-K ! some carriages with military guard at-
Probably a shortening of our politl- ! , "
cal campaigns is one of the earthly I traded much attent.on as it wound
impossibilities, but it would be a good through the grounds to
A Salt Lake girl received $4,000,001
the other day when she became 71
years old. Her friends are now anx-
iously waiting for her to pick out her
duke.
thirty-two miles north of Port Arthur.
In an earlier message the Toklo cor-
respondent of the Central News cabled
that Japanese spies bad ascertained
that the Russians had thirty guns at
Klnchou and numerous mines and
wire entanglements at all points
cumstances, therefore, It Is not regard-
ed as strange that the Czar's Gov-
ernment would willingly listen to any
suggestions properly made which
would bring about peace In a way
that would enable Russia to save her
face.
TEXAS BUILDING DEDICATED
thing if they were
densed.
materially con
In proof of Prof. Coe's assertion
fiat baseball is a part of the religious
life of a boy, it is only necessary to
point to the career of the Rev. Will-
iam Sunday.
the Texas
Euilding. Here the receiving line of
ladies, headed by Mrs. L. S. Thorne
and comprising some hundred well
known Texas hostesses, welcomed the
guests. Several thousand people, in-
cluding the officials of all the other
commissions at the Fair, were pre-
sented. The scene was specially bril-
Lieift. Rutropoff was seriously
wounded on the pontoon near Khus-
san the other day. It is said that he
Khussed frightfully when the Japs am-
putated the pontoon.
Mining Revival at Llano.
Llano: A new company has been
formed at Llano for mining gold, etc.
Last week Mr. Heath, owner of the
The president of the University of mining property five miles cast of
Michigan says the college graduates Llano, comprising 200 acres, sold same
are to be the captains of industry of
the futura. Pass the pick and shovel
to the self-made man.
Bass and trout fishing in early morn-
ing is now declared to be a mistake,
as game fish do not rise before 8
o'clock. This will certainly increase
the popularity of the sport.
to Mrs. Ella D. Adams of Chicago,
Frank W. Blackburn of Beaumont,
James F. Ware of Milwaukee and H.
S. Selman and T. F. Keath of this
place. It is understood they will per-
fect the formation of a large company
with ample facilities to carry out a
mining business on a paying basis.
i A certain number of the Panama
The theory that boys are descend
ed from monkeys has received an |
ugly setback. A Philadelphia gentle- Canal Commissioners, under the re-
man possesses a monkey who washes quirements of the President, shall re-
himself with soap and water. j main on the Isthmus all the time, and
— | the members of the body are gradually
A Norwegian chemist has discov- ! ieavjng for the scene of their work,
ered a new and cheap process for |
making alcohol from sawdust. After
this it may be easier to induce tramps
to operate on the wood piles.
It is officially announced that "the
last obstacle" in the way of the canal
project has been removed. Evidently
several thousand cubic yards of earth
and stone do not count as "an ob-
stacle."
Pennsylvania is considering a pro-
posal to equip herself with voting ma-
chines at a cost of $2,823,500. The
people are used to expensive political ]
machines over there and aren't a bit
staggered.
liant, the ladies wearing handsome re-
ception toilettes. The rotunda and sa-
lons were filled to overflowing by the
time formal exercises were begun.
President Francis paid a glowing
tribute to the enterprise of Texans in
welcoming the addition of the building
to the Plateau of States.
Judge Perkins then made the formal
presentation of the building to tha
Texas public.
Gov. Lanham followed in an elo-
quent address, giving a comprehensive
survey of the State's resources, and
was greeted from time to time with a
storm of applause. When he had fin-
ished the band played "Dixie," and the
great audience, hosts and guests, as
one man, went wild.
The toast to Texas was given by
Morris Sheppard, the eloquent young
Congressman. The guests were not
only charmed with the graciousness
anil beauty of Texas women, brilliancy
and courtesy of Texas men, but de-
clared the Texas Building to be the
most attractive State building on the
grounds, and its opening the pleasant-
est of like occasions.
BITS OF BREVITY.
JAPANESE VICTORIOUS AT KIN
CHOU.
Russian Stronghold on Nan Shan Hill
It Stormed by the Little Men.
Toklo, May 28.—The Japanese Army
swept the Russians from Kin Chou
Thursday morning, and In a desperate
night attack stormed the almost im-
pregnable position of the Russians on
Nan Shan Hill, west of Hallenwan.
The battle raged in the hills all
through the night, and telegrams from
the Japanese headquarters report that
the engagement Is still in progress,
and that the Japanese are still pur-
suing the Russians south of Nan
Shan, and the head of the Talienwan
Bay.
The Russians had made elaborate
preparations to check the Japaneso
movement south of the Liao Tung Pen-
insula toward Port Arthur. They had
fortified the high ground on the south
shore of Talienwan Bay, their works
extending to the east and west. The
extreme Russian right was at Pu Shan
Tao and the extreme left at Nan Shan
Hill. This hill was the strongest part
of the line; a series of batteries,
strongly placed, crowned its crest,
while rifle pits extended around its
sides. Mines had been placed lower
down on the hill and around the base
on the northern and eastern sides
were stretched well made wire entan-
glements. Another line of defense,
which was also protected with wire en-
tanglements, extended from Yen Chia
Tung near the head of Talienwan Bay,
due north of Liu Shia Tien, which lies
south of Kin Chou.
A strong Russian force was posted
at Kin Chou. It consisted of infantry
and artillery.
Wednesday morning nt 5:30 o'clock
the Japanese attacked Kin Chou, and
for three hours they had an artillery
duel with the batteries on Nanshan
Hill. The Russian gunners searched
the Japanese lines with their fire, but
failed to inflict much damage. The
battle was resumed at dawn on Thurs-
day. Three Japanese gunboats then
entered Kin Chou Bay, and, in co-op-
eration with the artillery on shore
Amos Stillman, who claimed the
credit of running the first ferry boat
between New York and Brooklyn, and
the first stationary engine in Chicago,
ic dead. He was born at Troy, N. Y.,
in 1818, and at sixteen commenced
firing an engine on the old Boston and
Maine.
J. W. Fike, the officer In charge of
the Grayson County convict gang, waa
arrested by federal officers, charged
with violating a process issued from
the United States Court, in refusing to
surrender a convict attached as a wit-
ness in a case on trial before Judge
Bryant.
A clever piece of wire tapping put
the Hot Springs pool rooms in the
hole one day last week.
Wattinger & Ledbetter have been
awarded the contract to construct the
$."000 building at the State Insane
Asylum to be used for the new de-
partment of Pasteur treatment.
The National Biscuit Company of
Chicago has decided to double the ca-
A man may feel like 30 cents, and
be told by his wife that he's worth
less than a penny, but if he gets hurt
in a railroad accident he never sues
for anything less than $5,000.—Boston
Home Journal.
Cattle for Cuban Breeder.
Temple: A big cattle deal has been
consummated here. J. G. Childers and
Sam G. Hale selling 1000 head of 3-
year-old steers to Edwin Marks of Cu-1
ba, delivery to be made June 20. Most!
of the cattle are off the Childers' ranch
near Rogers, and will be shipped to 1 "f its ",ant iU Fort Worth'
Cuba via Galveston, the number con- ! ,iml wil1' lnst"a'1 o£ working 100 Pe0'
traded for constituting nearly a full yle' utillze over 200'
cargo. The contract calls for thirty | In Hill County the candidates aro
high-grade males among the number j requirred to tell where they stand on
to be used for breeding purposes. the prohibition question.
The Hillsboro Commercial Club has
been reorganized with over 200 mem-
bers. It will be an active force here-
after in progressive Hillsboro.
At Houston Thursday morning a
negro named Walter Alexander waa
precipitated from a car and instantly
killed.
Young Willie K. Vanderbilt hasn't
broken an automobile record of any
kind for nearly three weeks. Young
Willie must be rapidly nearing the
point at which he trill consider life a
mere waste of time.
A Louisville man of the name of
Smith Invites the entire Smith family
of the United States to hold its next
reunion in that city at his expense.
Either he is a man of prodigious
Fort Worth's Great Growth.
Fort Worth: Fort Worth's new city
directory for the year 1904-05 is being
delivered by the directory company.
It shows the most favorable situation
for this city in its history. It covers
the entire field of the city's industry
and commerce, which represents 22,
4C4 names, and a population, by actual
count, the editors say, of 4G.200, show-
ing an increase of 4,585 names and
10,808 population since the issue for
1902-03.
Plans are completed to build a thea-
tre in Chicago that will be perfect in
every detail. The structure will l.e
twenty stories high an will cost $1,-
000,000 to complete.
Street Railway Proposed. A Gruesome Find.
Cleburne: At the meeting of the j Dallas: A negro boy turned over
city Council Israel Ureehen, R. I. E jlu the PoI1« officers a human foot,
Dunn and Mr. Sutton, all of Dallas. I wllich he claimed had been dug up
wealth or he underestimates the size I presented a petition asking tne council from the sand in Wall street, near
of the family. ,0 Rrant them, in the name of A. Stein 'he Santa Fe depot The matter was
and associatees, a franchise for a P>'t In the hands of detectives for the
A man who had $2,000,000 and who t|rat railway an(| general electric purpose of tracing down any crime
cide ^Chicago ^0,™^ No ' ■»*"»' The Proposition contemplates j that may be attached ,0 the fled. It
doubt he could, if he had cared to do 4 bonus of $25,000 and that the eiti-
so, have given the world some lm- icns subscribe at least $15,000 of the
portant particulars tending to prove proposed $100,000 capital stock.
that "money is cot all."
If lovers everywhere should express
their opinion of the St. Louis judge
who has just handed down a decialon
to the efTeet that 11 o'clock at night
is long enough for any beau to stay
■with his sweetheart, they might all
have to go to jail for contempt of
court.
Somebody says that the Parisians
furnish the gowns and th» American
women furnish the figures When It
takes three figures for a gown the
American father at once become* as
active factor in the little epigram.
General Assembly Adjourned.
Dallas: It was after C o'clock Thurs-
day afternoon when the Cumberland
was submitted to surgeons, who stated
that it had been severed with a reg-
ular ssurgeon's knife.
Doesn't Like to Guess.
Pretty Daughter I'd rather marry
Use worst man on earth than the best
one.
Horrified mother—Good gracious!
Presbyterian general assembly, after ; you craIJ.»
putting in a long day of hard work j Pretty Daughter—Not necessarily,
terminated its labors here by the f Yen soe, I'd know then right from the
hearty singing of the doxology. the of , start what I was up against and
fering of a prayer by one of its vener- wouldn't be kept guessing.
able members and the final rap of j ...
Moderator Settle's gavel, d'-claring the An unbridled tons'--* goes with an
next meeting would be in Kresno. Cal. i unburdened brain.
... ... . ,.. . , ,, | Giving happiness is the only secret
the third Thursday of May. 190S. j0? ge.Uug lt
International Mediation Would Be LI*
tened to Now.
Washington, May 28.—The State
Department is believed to be In ne-
gotiation with foreign Powcra with a
vlow of ending the Russo-Japanese
war. It Ik known that the war waa
the principal subject of business at
the Cabinet meeting. No formal step
will be taken, however, until there has
been some general or sufficient agree-
ment among the Powers to make the
tender of good offices effective or ac-
ceptable. The United States, lt Is
plain, is not interested In the Russo-
Japanese war except Insofar as Its
own mercantile Interests are concern-
ed. It Is just now to the mutual In-
terest of the United States and Great
Britain that the war *e ended.
There Is another consideration which
it is said entered into the discussion
at the Cabinet meeting. Both powers,
Russia and Japan, have repudiated the
charge that they are responsible for
strewing the sea with floating mineB,
which are a menace to the commerce
of all nations. Neither the United
States or any other Power is anxious
to take the initiative and prove that
either belligerent is responsible for
the strewing of the mines.
The International point now Is
therefore, to stop the war for some
other reason, and by the time of an-
other war the question of floating
mines will have been established by
some general convention of the Pow-
ers.
Dispatches from London, Paris and
Berlin indicate that Uiere Is good rea-
son to believe that the above mention-
ed negotiations are now under way,
for although no direct confirmation
can be had from the Ministries, the
report is current In these capitals that
advances have been made with a view
t ) procuring joint action 011 the part
of these four Powers toward a peace-
ful settlement of the Russo-Japanese
dispute, and that it is likely the Unit-
ed States will be depended upon to
make the first move, as this Govern-
After Long debate The Vote l» to
Unite.
Dallas May 26—After two days of
heatPd debate, the Cumberland Pres-
byterian general assembly last night
handled the question as to whether or
not that body should unite completely
with the Presbyterian Church In the
United States of America.
They heard the debates' patiently
and were prompt about giving a vote
of 162 for and 75 against the union
proposition.
The union proposition Is now settled
so far as the assembly Is concerned
and it was the expression generally
last night that with this recommenda-
tion It would have no difficulty In meet-
ing the approval of fthe various pres-
byteries.
All day yesterday the flfjht for and
against union was hot. The unionists
declared that the adoption of the reso-
lution moved, favoring the adoption of
the report of the committee on fra-
ternity and union, should prevail. The
man who wanted to see the union con-
summated said It was a day of trusts
ind mergers, and under God they be-
lieved It should be carried Into eccles-
iastical lines. They thought that the
revision of the confession of faith of
the Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America last year had open-
The Mississippi Town Almost Annlhll.
ated.
shelled the Russian position on Nan- : ment is untrammeled by treaties or al-
shin Hill. liances and is thus in a better posl-
. . , , ■ m r tion to take such action than any of
A Russian gunboat 111 Talienwan ! "u" . .
Bay steamed close to the shore and | the foreign nations.
shelled the Japanese fleet. From dawn
the batteries 011 both sides hammered
away at each other.
At an early hour the Japanese.In-, Qf an ant ln «uatemala
fantry moved forward and at 6.J0 , ■ ^ ^ of the bo]1 weevlI>
o'clock Thursday morning they enter-^ ,nterv|e,v publtghed is per-
San Antonian Tells of An Ant.
San Antonio: in connection with
the discovery by the Department of
ed Kin Chou, the Russians retiring
to the south.
The fighting continued into Thurs-
day night, the Japanese pressing to
the south and storming Nanshan Hill.
They followed the retreating Russians
thtrough the southern hills.
The reports received here fail to
cover the events on the Russian right.
It is probable, however, that the Rus-
sians have abandoned their positions.
No information is given concerning
the losses. They probably wore heavy
oa both sides.
The Russian resistance at Nanshan
Hill was stubborn. The Japanese made
a series of assaults and the Russians
finally yielded the position. The Rus-
sians abandoned this hill at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, retreating toward
Nanquan Ling, where it is understood
a second line of defense exists.
The Russians may rally at this line
of defense, unless they have been dis-
ordered by the defeat at Kin Chou
and Nanshan.
The Russians had a series of mines
planted at Tafangshan Station, on the
railroad, which were exploded. The
station was destroyed.
tlnent. Charles Westerlund, a well-
known mechanical engineer and a
native of Finland, asserts that a few
years ago the potato crop of that coun-
try was ravaged by a peculiar bug,
which was finally exterminated by the
Importation from Russia of 11 species
of small brown ants.
A Boll Weevil Enemy Discovered.
Washington: The department of
agriculture announced that an ant has
been found in Guatemala that is an
enemy to the boll weevil. It will be
immediately introduced Into the cot-
ton States. The greatest significance
is attacked to the discovery, which was
made by O. F. Cook, botanist in charge
of tropical agricultural investigations.
Instructions were cabled to have him
report immediately to the department
what assistance he needs In the way
of men and money.
Jackson, M1bs„ May 20.—With every
business house of any importance in
ashes together with a large number
of private residences, principal hotel
and the passenger depot at Yazoo City,
a town of 6000 people, forty-five mile*
from Jackson, is resting after one of
the most exciting days In its history.
The fire started at 8:30 o'clock yes-
terday morning, and burned until &
o'clock In the afternoon, destroying
total of 200 houses. The financial lost
will be the heaviest in the history of
Mississippi since the war. The fire
was ^hree blocks wldo and twelve
bhfks long.
The city is putting in a new system
of waterworks, and the old system,
which had wooden mains, was wholly
Inadequate to meet the demand. Pipes
burst all over the city, and lt was Im-
possible to get the water even to tho
first floor of the buildings.
The lire started In the residence of
Mr. Wise and, though there is some
dispute as to how. It originated, tho
general belief is that it had its origin
in defective electric wiring.
It Is Impossible yet to place an ac-
curate estimate upon the loss entail-
ed by the fire, but It is thought that
ed the doors of that denomination to j,j]0 t„ta| wm j,e between $2,000,000
them so that they could enlist consis-
tently under the same banner.
The antis were vehement Ih their
opposition to lt. They argued that they
would be obliged to continually make
apologies for their creed if they were
swallowed up by the Presbyterian
Church. They said that the negro
question was one that they could not
and $2,500,000. Some estimates are
even as high as $3,000,000. The total
insurance is between $800,000 and $1,-
000,000.
A Sweeping Consolidation.
Chicago: At a meeting of represent-
atives of the principal broom manu-
facturing companies of the United
solve, and particularly should they not j states held here action has been taken
want to invite the negroes to their tn form a combination of the princi-
general assemblies. They said, too, j pa, companies under the name of the
that they did not want educational re- j National Broom Company. The new
strictions placed against any man who company wjn be formed on a basis of
felt called to preach, as was the case, I actuai valuation. It was decided to
they hinted, with tho Presbyterian j inchide only about seventeen or eigh-
Church in the United States of Amer- j teen of the ]argest broom companies
ica- 1 of the country and to put the capital
This continued even into the debate j st0ck at about $4,000,000.
of last night, the final one upon the }
union proposition. Upon the assem- j Popu|ar Farmer Shot and Killed,
bling of the body in the evening it j
was generally understood that a vote j
was to be reached, after one speaker j
for each side of the contention had
Houston-Galveston Interurban.
Houston: Preliminary work on the
Houston-Galveston interurban begun
Tuesday. This announcement was
made by President William K. Scott,
Nick Kostcr, of Houston, a man of
seventv years, was found lying dead
by the side of the highway near Hunt-
ing Bayou with his neck broken. Near
the dead man stood the horse hitched
to the wagon from which he fell.
presented his arguments.
Judge Joe H. Fussell of Columbia,
Tenn., represented the antis at that
time. He fought mainly on the ground
of the contention that the Presbyte-
rian creed still was a fatalistic doc-
trine, one of foreordination, infant
damnation and predestination. By the
Cumberlands receiving the proposition
he felt that they threw away their
own identity, gave themselves up to
a strange creed which, consistently,
they could not believe, tnd entirely
lost their identity and influence.
Following him came Dr. S. M. Tem-
pleton of Clarksville, Tex., original
mover of the resolution commending
the adoption and recommendation of
the report of the committee on fra-
ternity and union, which in turn rec-
ommended the union. He took up the
arguments which had been advanced
by the opposition, and in a speech of
more than an hour endeavored to cov-
er the bulk of the points which they
presented. His talk was not Intended
so much for the purpose of advancing
new thought as that of summarizing
the points already made by his side
of the contention.
Terry McGovern, the pugilist, lias
Rogers: Silas Guess, a farmer, twen-
j ty-five years old, living north of this
place, has been shot and instantly
killed near his home. Mr. Guess has
a large number of relatives through-
out this county who have good stand-
ing, and he was not an exception. Ho
leaves a young wife prostrated with
grief, his father, who is in business at
this place, and several brothers and
sisters.
Women's Clubs Elect Officers.
St. Louis, Mo.: The American Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs elected of-
ficers as follows: President, Mrs. S.
Piatt Decker of Colorado; first vice
president, Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St.
Louis; second vice president, Mrs.
May Allen Ward of Boston; recording
secretary, Mrs. Mary Belle King Slier-
I man of Illinois; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Louisa B. Poppenheim of
j Charleston, S. C.; treasurer, Mrs. Per-
cy V. Pennybecker of Texas.
who has been pushing the project for mocracj s Opportumtj.
the past year or more. Most of thejunder the auspirfs
right of way between Houston and ; Jefferson D'-mocratie '
Galveston has been secured, and while | and was iniroour^ 1 to
there will be lateral lines to Laporte j Shaw, president '.I tt.a
and Seabrook the work of construe-j Mr. Brjans remark.
tion of the main line will be complet-
ed before the lateral will be taken up
Mr. Bryan Sneaks at Dallas.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan dellv- ,iuction"of ir(m wl„
ered an address to 4,500 or .',""0 per- 1
sons in the Fair Grounds auditorium
Friday night, tho subject being \><-
He appeared
Wednesday evening a son of Frank
Woods, Clairinont, shot his little sis-
ter, Maggie, six years old, and Grace
Houston, also six years old. Maggie
was shot just under the heart and is
dead. A ball passed througn Grace's
lungs. The little boy thought the gun
was empty.
Ten men were suffocated by gas
begun light training for his battle with ' from a small locomotive in a mine
Eddie Hanlon. which is scheduled to tunnel near Williamstown. Fifty oth-
takc place in San Francisco the latter < rs were brought out unconscious, but
part of July. will recover.
The Texas City Transportation Com-
Within the next thirty days the pro- pany cai)ital stock $2,500,000, has filed
it is stated , charter in the Secretary of State's
by leading dealers here, bo greatly
curtailed at the furnace in all parts of
the United States.
nan
Da
I the same lines as were ■!
'him in Chicago not lor.,'
A feature el ti.< eor:i:.-.1.' '1
erclsea of the Texas It '/t
lege for flirls at. Miifof'i »'*
First Grand Engineer Drops Dead.
Los Angeles: T. S. Ingram, first
grand engineer of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer- solo by Mi--» "
dropped dead at his desk at the con- ■ flings, who has I'mt in-
vention In this city Friday from apop- starting to c.rhool
lexy. Mr. Ingram was absorbed In hi? talented mils ' .ari
work, when he lost consciousness and piano, and ho t>< a\
fell from his chair and expired imme- her solo tha'
diately. His health had no' been ovation.
good for some time. Mr. Ingram, who
was C9 years of age, has been first
grand engineer since 18T3.
Has
•j. W. A.
ifjUation.
:.-j much
j:.ad-: by
< x- I
la** t-
W h
The saw in the Schlinter-Whiteman
Lumber Company's mill at Winsboro,
broke to pieces Tuesday morning
while in rapid motion and one piece
if it. hit Ed Dead man, a negro, on the
'bead, splitting his skull and instantly
killing him.
Nearly one hundred and f.fty lirit-
ish engineers, with 050 from the Unit-
ed States, will attend the joint ses-
Fion of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers and the Institu-
tion of Mechanical Engineers of Great
Britain, to be held at Chicago May ol
to June 3.
Sprinc. after f'/olinK around fo long,
is ringing *h»- doorbell at laet.
D. W. Haibr'iok and A. T Washing-
railway mail clerks, were killed
All for Uniting.
Buffalo. X. Y.: The general assem j ton,
bly of the Presbvterian Churrh in the ir. a wreck on the Vlckshurg, Pacific
United States by an overwhelming and Shreveport road at Haughton sta-
lopted the report of | tion. sixteen miles east of Shreveport.
viva voce vote ai
the committee on union with the Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church. The
resolution adopted included not only
favorable action on the report, but
recommende1 certain other steps to
be taken to secure the union of the
churches and to make plain the posi-
tion of the church.
Ment
'.an Col-
a piano
of Gid-
< ?• arm since
Hhe is a
In voice and
rf'hd' red was
. i '\ quite an John Henry Pavis, a negro man of
i Greenville died from the effects of in-
juries received by being run over by
a freight train at the Kellogg switch,
between this city and Kingston.
While Vale Gonzales, a lawyer, and
Daniel Madrigal, a merchant, were
conversing in the patio of Iturbide Ho-
tel at Monterey, Gonzales, it is alleg-
ed, drew a revolver and shot Madrigal
Birmingham. Ala.: Col. C. C Sheats.
one of the most noted characters in
Alabama's history, was found dead in
a hovel at Decatur. He had been un-
able to walk for several months. Coi.
Sheats was a member of the secession
convention and voted against Alabama
going out of the Union He was form
erly United States Minister to I)en
mark and was elected Governor Just
after the war but was not allowed to
*erve Formerly he was rich, tut died
a pauper.
Owing to the unusual cool spring I through the heart. No cause is assign-
the potato crop around Pittsburg has ; for the shooting.
been cut off about half. The crop bo- ! ^ meetjng Qf the City Council
gan moving this week.
F. M. Darst. formerly a reporter on
of Taylor the plans and specifications
were adopted for Taylor's new City
the Atlanta Constitution, cut his throat j w|jjch is to be erected on the
from ear to ear with a razor at Okla* \ square at a cost of not exceed
homa City. | jng |20,000.
I Chao Chu, son of Wu Ting Fang.
Triumph of the Art. former Chinese minister to the United
Old lady (to taxidermistl—You see Sta((.s an(, „ow vlce pres,dent „f the
or joursf man. ou se i< foreign board at Pekin, has been grad-
poor parrot only this summer, and i • '
here are his feathers tumbling out be- "»ted at the head of his class in the
fore your eves. Atlantic City high school. There were
Taxidermist — lor' bless yon. | thirty-one scholars >a the class.
ma'am! That's the triumph of the j _ _ ,
art We stuff them so natural that T- r Grmntham. who fell from an
they moults In their proper season.— excursion train near lienbrook. dieii
Tit nit».
The 5 o'cioek ten would probably _
he more popular with the fair sex if f WeatherfOrd.
marked down to
In Fort Worth. He was a member of
the mercantile firm of Guenry. Smith
4 Co. at Peaster, nine miles northwest
office. The purpose of the company is
to establish and operate a line of
steamships between the port of Texas
City, Texas, and the gulf ports of
Mexico.
Mrs. C. I. Tyree died at Sherman at
the advanced age of eighty years, leav-
ing six childfen, all of whom reside in
or near the city except one, Tim Tyree,
who is in Mobile, Ala.
Over 200 bridge builders throughout
Connecticut have returned to work
as the result of an agreement whereby
the companies agree to the demand
for an eight-hour day at fifty cents
an hour. Several big contracts have
been held up for months.
Gov. John Sparks of Cray son City,
Nevada, is in Georgetown, and wi/1
place upon the market his Williamson
and Milam County cattle ranch aggre-
gating about 12,000 acres. It will bo
sold to small farmers and stockmen.
Castellan!, the bacteriologist, claims
that he has discovered the bacillus
of dysentery. He is now conducting
th" final experiments and will shortIjJ |
read a paper on the discovery beforo
a medical association.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has adopted by a two-thirds vote a res-
olution which provides that ministers
be enjoined from marrying divorced
persons who are ineligible in the
churches belonging to the inter-church
conference.
The Alabama Democratic State con-
vention was held in Montgomery Wed-
nesday. While no instructions were
given the resolutions adopted recited
that at tfie present time Judge Alton
B. Parker is the most available and
acceptable candidate for the nomina-
tion for the presidency.
While superintending the construe- A
tion of a bridge across Pine Island
itayou. three miles south of Sour l*ak^
J M. Jackson, aged about SO years*
died from heart disease.
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