The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 4, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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TRAIN KILLS CHILDREN
LITTLE BOY AND GIRL LOSE
THEIff LIVES UNDER A
FREIGHT TRAIN.
FATHER IS BADLY INJURED
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Kirbyville, Tex., June 1.—Josephine
and Jake Ponsico, aged 4 and 8 years,
■were run over by a.flight train here
yesterday and both instantly killed.
v Nick Ponsico, their father, while
trying to get them from under the
car, got his arm and hand caught un-
der the car wheels and had it badly
torn and lacerated.
While walking around the depot a
freight train pulled in. The mother
and some of the children of the Pon-
sico family were on the opposite side
of the freight train from the depot
and when the passenger train came
they made an attempt to crawl under
the freight to get back to the depot,
and while crowling, the freight train
started and caught two of the children
under the car wheels.
Government War On Rats. s
Washington: Rats are receiving
continued attention from the Agricul-
tural Department; the campaign start-
ed against them made some progress
in the extermination of the pest. A
recent bulletin issued by the depart-
ment figured out that a rat can eat
60c worth of grain a year, and if all
the rats in the country were fed on
grain at once, it would cost more than
$100,000,000 a year to board them. It
has been estimated that a pair of rats
and their progeny, breeding without
interruption and suffering no losses,
would in three years increase to more
than 20,000,000.
TOM BARNETT SHOT TO DEATH.
Was In Cell Under Sentence of Life
In Prison.
Abilene: Tom Barnett, convicted
of the murder of Alex Sears and sen-
tenced to serve ninety-nine years in
the penitentiary, was shot to death
Friday morning about 1:30 o’clock by
a mob of masked men, who entered
the jail where he was confined, await-
ing the section of the highe"r court.
About fifty masked men assembled
in the jail yard and began seeking
,entrance to the jail. They were met
at the door by Jailer L. L. Peevy, wrho
was overpowered and badly injured
about the back.
After about a half hour’s work the
mob finally succeeded in breaking
through the outer door of Barnett's
cell, but could not force the inner
door. Some one in the mob cried:
“Let’s shoot him,” and his words were
followed by a regular fussilade of
shots from Winchesters and revolvers.
Fifteen shots in all entered Barnett’s
body.
Packery Business Enormous.
Boston, Mass.: The four big Chi-
cago packers, Swift, Armour, Morris
and Cudahy, and their associate, the
National Packing Company, do an an-
nual gross business of nearly $800,-
000,000, a total greater than that of
the Steel Corporation in its biggest
year, 1907, when gross sales reached
$757,000,000.
Put Main On Causeway.
Galveston: The county of Galveston
Tuesday entered into a contract with
the city of* Galveston for the placing
by the city of its duplicate water main
in and on the causeway. This neces-
sitates widening the concrete arCh
bridge portion of the structure three
teet- The estimated cost of this is
$35,000, of which the county agrees,
for the additional space it receives on
its roadway space, to pay one-half of
the cost of widening.
Storm Strikes Bryan.
Bryan: The severest hail, rain and
Windstorm in the history of Bryan
came Tuesday. Skylights were smash-
ed, awnings and trees blown down and
many stores flooded and stocks badly
damaged. The fire bell tower, water,
and light plant smokstack and three
negro houses were demolished. No
one was hurt. The storm was two
miles wide and eight miles long, in
which all crops and gardens were prac-
tically destroyed.
Celebration In Walnut Springs.
Walnut Springs: Wednesday has
been, one of note to both the fraternal
and social elements of Walnut Springs
especially to the Knights of Pythias
and the Pythian Sisters, under whose
leadership a big plcnie was inaugurat-
ed and successfully conducted. The
attendance was large, the order being
represented by members from Merid-
ian, Morgan and Glen Rose.
Methodists Raise Big Sums.
Dallas: That $29,585.87^h|td been
raised for all purposes in the Dallas
district during the last sir-nforiths was
the report made Wednesday atetfie dis-
trict conference of the Methodist
Church, Dallas District, in session in
Oak Cliff. This amount did not in-
clude the sum raised for missions, to-
taling $2,5300.
Johnson County Old Settlers.
Alvarado: Johnson County’s Old
Settlers’ Reunion has been set for
August 11, 12 and 13. Executive com-
mittee met last Tuesday and appoint-
ed the necessary committees to pre-
pare for same at the association’s
park and pavilion at Alvarado.
, Killed In Auto Wreck.
San Antonio: In an automobile
wreck Saturday Joe E. Yeargan, a
prominent real estate man, was almost
instantly killed.
Active Farmer Aged 105.
Cooper: A couple of days ago J.
C: Cauley, who lives near Rattan, in
this capnty, was in town and looking
exceedingly spry and healthy for a
man of his age. He is now 105 years
old and will be 106 in January, 1910.
He was born in Ireland and has been
in America seventyfl-ve years.
$25,000 Fire In Fort Worth.
Fort Worth: Damages totaling
about $25,000 resulted from a fire in
Fort Worth Monday.
Granted Texas Permits.
Austin: The State Commissioner of
insurance and Banking has granted li-
censes to the Philadelphia Life Insur-
ance Company of Philadelphia and the
Royal Neighbors of America, a fra-
ternal organization of Rock Island,
111., to do business in Texas.
New Braunfels Has Big Fire.
New Braunfels: Two large feed
sheds, adjoining the Landa oil mill,)
caught fire Sunday and burned to the)
ground with all their contents. Ten
thousand bushels of corn, an immense
quantity of cobs, two tons of baled
hay, 2,000 tons of baled shucks and
.other feed, and a large com sheller,
besides a box car were destroyed.
OVER $1,700,000
REDUCTIONS MADE
GOVENOR CAMPBELL STRIKES
NUMEROUS ITEMS FROM GEN-
ERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
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EXPECTS NO TAX INCREASE
Expresses Belief It May Be Only Five
Cents . Next Year—Sends in
Proclamation.
Austin, Tex., May 81.—Having cut
more than $1,700,000 out of the gen-
eral appropriation; having a promise
of the University that $100,000 of its
appropriation will not be used; having
made a contract which will obviate
the necessity of spending $250,000 for
a State water and light plant, and
having previously vetoed a bill ap-
propriating $200,000 for a tubercu-
losis sanitarium, Gov. Campbell feels
that the tax rate this year will not
be higher than that of last year, 61-4c,
a*d that next year it may not be
over 5c.
The most notable vetoes In the ap-
propriation bill are those which cancel
all the appropriations for scholarships
at the State normal schools, the sum
aggregating $140,000, and those can-
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GROUNDLESS PRIDE.
Roderick Hudson, a well-known de-
igner in the employ of a leading New'
ular movement of rebellion against
Paris fashions.
“Why take our fashions slavishly
from Paris?” demanded Mr. Hudson.
“American fashions are better. They’re
the best in the world. Why, then, be
hypnotized into the belief that a fash-
ion, just becauses it’s Paris born, is to
be followed like holy writ?
He struck his clenched fist against
his palm.
“Imitating those Paris fashions
blindly,” he said, “we are as foolish
as the English in their slavish imita-
tion of the king.
“I remember when I was head cutter
for Snip & Co. in Sackville street, Pic-
cadilly. One day a little fat man wad-
dled in to be measured for a frock
coat. He looked like an apple dump-
ing, and as I passed the tape over his
'soft curves I could hardly keep from
^aughing.
“When I came to measure his waist,
nstead of drawing his stomach in, the
ay a man usually does, this chap
ctually swelled it out.
Sixty-twp/ I called to the mark-
investing His Profits.
r “What are you going to do with the
money you get for your crops this
year?” ~
“I guess I’ll git one o’ these here
centaurs I read about in a book to
run the new carriage I bought last
year.” *
“Why, a centaur is an imaginary
creature.”
“Well, this is an imaginary car-
riage.”
OVER 30 ARE KILLED
IN ZEPHYR CYCl
TOWN NEAR BROWNWOOD SCEN*
OF CALAMITY—SCORES
INJURED.
SEVENTY-FIVE HOUSES RAZED
Strip Three Hundred Yards
Swept—Fire Add* to the
Horror.
Wide
ONLY POSSIBLE REASON.
celing all appropriations for new
“d|er. *nd the’fat man“sa?d i'ompoully:
“ ‘Perhaps it will interest you to
Quanah Terminal Improvements.
Quanah: Workmen for the Quanab,
Acme and Pacific Railway Company
have begun breaking dirt for the
terminal grounds and depot. This is
quite a boom in the way of building,
and there is now something like fifty
or sixty business houses in course of
construction, giving employment to
many carpenters.
Supplies For State.
Austin: The State Purchasing
Agent is making ready for his twenty-
eight-day annual advertising campaign
which will begin June 1. It is his duty
by law to advertise for four weeks in
eight daily newspapers of this State
for bidders on suplies to be furnished
the nine eleemosynary instituions for
a period of twelve months.
No Liquor at Camp Mabry.
Austin: A feature of Adja. Gen.
Newton’s orders regarding the 1909
encampment of the Texas National
Guard is that no liquors will be per-
mitted to be carried upon the ground
except for medical purposes, and that,
the sale of Intoxicants will be pro-
hibited in camp and within one mile
thereof.
High Water Delays Trains.
Beeville: High water between Bee-
ville and the Coast, from a six-inch
rain which fell In a few hours in that
section Saturday, has caused a tempo-
rary merger of four important rail-
ways, the Galveston, Harisburg and
San Antonio, the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass, the St. Louis and
Brownsville and the Mexican National
Meteor In West Texas.
Dublin: A large meteor passed over
this city Sunday. The heavens were
lighted up as bright as day for about
a minute and was immediately fol-
lowed by a terrific explosion, which
shook the earth as If by an earthquake.
Windows and the iron awnings about
the city rattled as if shaken by some
unseen power.
Reports Heavy Hall.
Fort Worth: Reports received Mon-
day are to the effect that a heavy hail-
storm passed west of the city about
four miles In width, extending from
Benbrook, twelve miles west of the
Texas and Pacific, to Iona, four miles
further up the line.
The crate factory of Paris has ship-
ped out- between 250 and 275 carloads,
of knocked down fruit and vegetable'
crates to different points during the
present season.
Thrown On Wire Fence.
Pottsboro: Misses Etta Sharp, Julia
Holden and Alva Holly were seriously
injured in a runaway accident Monday
night. The horse became frightened
and ran, throwing the young ladies
from the buggy into a wire fence, cut-
ting them severely.
Mechanical College, amounting to $90,
000, among them the item of $60,000
for a new dormitory.
This bunch of vetoes may be epoch-
making^'-lot' unlike other vetoes of
Items in this bill, it is not to be based
upon the ground of economical ne-
cessity, but Is based upon the ground
that the Legislature has no constitu-
tional right to make such appropria-
tions. The Legislature has for many
years been making appropriations for
such purposes, notwithstanding the
constitutional objection has often been
raised. Each member of the Legis-
lature is permitted to appoint two
pupils to each of the normal schools,
and each of these pupils has been
granted a scholarship carrying a cash
allowance of $50 a year. This will
now stop.
As the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College: the college according to
the Constitution, Is a branch of the
University, and when the constitution
was framed it was considered that the
college would share in the available
funds of the University. But the col-
lege was years ago granted independ-
ence from the University Control.
What it will do in the future to pro
vide new buildings, since Gov. Camp
bell has cut it off from legislative as
sistance it is difficult to forecast. The
past two years it has been necessary
to quarter hundreds of students it
tents.
The Govenor vetoes the item of $1,
068,900 for the payment of public
debts, he cut the appropriation for new
buildings of asylums and took big
slices out of the Controller’s Land and
Health Departments, vetoing the item
of $30,000 to build a detention hospital
at Galveston. This item was to come
out of the special quarantine fee fund
Because of the provision which
makes any item appropriated for the
first year available for disbursement
In either year, Gov. Campbell cut many
second year allowances, saying that
the allowances for the first year were
sufficient for both years.
The items stricken from the gen
eral appropriation bill by the Govenor
total $1,703,084, or nearly 20 per cent
af the bill. Add to that $100,000 which
‘he University regents agree not tc
use, and which Gov. Campbell treats
as vetoed the aggregate of the vetoed
Items is $1,803,084. Add to that the
$200,000 for a tuberculosis sanitarium,
which the Govenor previously vetoed,
and the $250,000 for a water and light
plant, which he approved, but will not
use, the total deductions from appro
prlations are $2,253,084*
The general appropriation bill at il
aow stands it $4,189,224 for the year
ending August 31, 1910, and $3,706,443
for the year ending August 31, 1911,
hereinafter referred to as the first and
second years, respectively, and $53,037
af miscellaneous items which are im-
mediately available, making a grand
total of $7,848,304. Add to this $1,683,-
017 of special appropriations and de-
duct from same the water and light
item of $250,000, which will not be
know, cutter, that my waist measure
Is exactly the same to a quarter-inch
is that of his most gracious ma-
jesty.’”
IN THE FA8HION-ABLE QUARTER.
Customer—These strawberries are
so very small.
Clerk—Yes’m. That’s the style in
strawberries. How many boxes did
you say?
A Murderous Maid.
First Admirer—She looked daggers
at me.
Second Ditto—She cut me dead.
Third Ditto—Well, I must say, when
she came out in that stunning rig she
paralyzed me.
Fourth Ditto—I think she’s just kill-
ing.
Scientifically Studied.
“So there is a war cloud hovering
over Europe?” said the diplomat.
“Yes,” answered the weather ex-
pert “But it’s the usual sort It con-
tains possibilities of atmospheric agi-
tation, but no real thunder and light-
ning.”
NERVY.
Mr. Pennypacker—What! You back
here again! Why, I gave you a dime
when you were in here only three
days ago!
Myrtle—She Is going without a new
spring hat this year.
Marion—For what reason?
Myrtle—Because she has to.
Fatherly Advice,
“Dad,” said the country youth who
had just graduated from the district
school, “I have long cherished a desire
to go on the stage, and have at last
decided, with your permission, to—•”
“My boy,” interrupted the old gran-
ger, “all the world’s a stage. You
hitch the mules to the big red plow
and transfer the outfit to the ten-acre
lot behind the barn, where you can
enact the star role in the beautiful
drama entitled, ‘Down on the Farm.’
Traced.
“Wise men tell us that the eun
draws water up to the clouds from
the river,” remarked the scientific
boarder as he cracked an egg with his
spoon.
“I believe so,” commented the come-
dian boarder.
“Then we understand how the rain
comes down in sheets.”
“Sure. I guess the sheets come from
the river bed.”
DIDNT CARE FOR HIM.
Hewitt—Is your wife fond of gen-
tlemen’s society?
Jewett—I guess so; she says that
I am no gentleman.
A Glimpse of the Past.
The giant—his name Is of no conse-
quence—was putting on his seven
league boots.
“Including, of course,” he explained,
“both the major leagues, and per-
haps the Three Eye. I’ve forgotten
the names of the others.”
Having already put on his Sox, he
fared forth, and went on a terrific
bat
Nervy Newton—Perfectly true, sir,
used and" the aggregate of all appro- but try as 1 may 1 can>t cut ray living
priatiohs of the Thirty-First Legis 1 ex*fnses down t0 less than three and
Two Burn to Death.
Hereford: Henry Milam and his
5-year-old son were cremated Saturday
night on W. M. Linville’y farm. The
lamp exploded, setting fire to the
Scholastic xC$nsus of Temple.
Temple: The scholastic census of
Temple is nearly complete, and thus
far shows a total of 2,260 children of
school age, ^vhich is an increase of
exactly 10$$ oyer the year previous.
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Bond issues Approved.
Austin: A $202,000 Jefferson C’oun- j
ty refunding bond issue was approved
bv Assistant Attorney General Sluder,
Monday. The bonds are for court-
house, bridge and road improvement
purposes. .
lature, as approved, is $9,381,821.
The Govenor makes this statement:
That the gross appropriations made
by the Thirty-First Legislature were
$3,577,170, more than those made by
;he Thirtieth, and that the items ve-
toed by him, plus the $250,000 water
and light item, deducts $2,251,481
from the total.
It will thus be seen that the aggre-
gate increase in net appropriation ii
$1,325,689, or $391,320 less than thf
Waters-l’ierce Oil Company fine.
a third cents a day.
Ice Cream, Etc.
“When a young man reaches the age
of 19 he begins to appreciate the dear
girls,” said the sweet thing in the pink
peach basket.
“Yes,” sighed the tall youth, who
nad been taking long detours to avoid
ice cream signB, “it is then that he
begins to appreciate how ‘dear’ they
xre.”
Shame to Take It.
"I’ve got a regular cinch.”
“What Is It?”
“Well, I’m going to take a little rail-
road trip, go I bet.one man that the
train would be wrecked. Then another
man bet me that it wouldn’t be robbed.
I can’t lose, can I?”
Concise.
Lively Young Man—What
think of the straw vote.
Old Deaf Man—Hey?
ENEMIES NOW.
do you
Medical Board to Meet.
alveston: The State Medical Board
1 meet in Cleburne, June 20, 21 and
j 22, and on those dates will hold ex-
jam i nations for the issuance of certifi-
i cates to practice medicine in Texas.
Electric Plant at Clifton.
Clifton: Machinery for a new elec )
trie power plant is being installed and
will be ready for use in a few days
This plant supplements tlie water
plant, already in use and will insure
Clifton twenty-four hours' electric sor
vice every day.
Never Again.
The country parson was condoling
with the bereft widow'.
“Alas! he continued, earnestly, “I
■ cannot tell how pained I was to learn
' that your husband had gone to heaven.
We were bosom friends, but we shall
\ever meet again.”-—Lippincott’s.
The Farmers' Union has organized a
company in Celeste, and will erect a
gin. The contract for all the reach in
erv has been made for building the
gin house, which will begin next week tot said Arkansaw.
Just the Name.
Ostend—Pa, didn’t some eccentric
writer say that the ark Vested some-
where in Michigan.
Pa—I believe he did, my son. But
why do you ask?
Ostend—-Why, it’s a wonder he bad
Brown wood, May 81.—At 12:15
o’clock Sunday morning a cyclone
struck the little town of Zephyr, the
first station on the Santa Fe east oi
here, and almost completely destroyed
the town.
Over thirty dead and a score oi
more Injured was the awful scene to
greet the survivors after the cyclone
had gone.
The cloud came from the west
first struck in the edge of town and
cut a strip 300 yards wide through
the most thickly settled part. Not a
building w&s left in its path.
The first news to reach Brownwood
of the storm was brought by a
who came from Zephyr on a ha
and asked that help be Bent at once. A
relief train containing physicians
all who could be summoned to go and
assist In the relief work left he;
4 o’clock this morning. , L
The regular train which leaves
at 7 a. m. also carried a large
to assist in the work. Another
carrying food, clothing, and
went again at noon. The
Zephyr are dazed at the a
the disaster, but people from here
went to the relief of the sufferers
the matter well in hand, and- differ
committees have been appointed
look after the wants of the
and to attend to the burial of
dead. *• -
To add to the seriousness of
situation fire broke out in the
ness part of town, destroying
Zephyr Mirror building, Cabler’s
ber Company, Zephyr Mercantile
pany.
Several business houses were
destroyed by the storm, among
being Cobb & Quarrel’s barber
Wren’s drug store, Cobb &
wagon yard and livery stable. ▲
ber of horses were killed in the
stable.
The number of buildings
destroyed is placed at
Hardly a building in the town
ed being destroyed or dam
ing moved out of place or
lights broken.
The new public school bull
handsome three-story structure,
totally destroyed.
About thirty minutes
storm struck the town the
adjourned their meeting at the
house. Had they been in the
it is believed not one could
escaped.
Out of seven persons who
Zephyr last evening to spend
six of them were killed, among
being Thad Cabler, County Clerk,
and two children; Prof. T. H.
wife and one child. The other
of Prof. Hart to so badly
can not live. Thad Cabler’s father
also killed and his mother
Juries which will prove fatal
Thirty coffins have been sent
here Sunday to Zephyr, Tex., to
the victims of last night’s cy<
large number was put to work
this morning digging graves. The
ies of Prof. Hart’s wife and child,
lost their lives in the cyclone,
brought here on the first train
morning for burial. There w«
large number of the Injured
here, as not enough homes were
in Zephyr to care for the injured,
people here were quick to furnish
lief for the sufferers.
The merchants opened their stores
and gave whatever was needed.
Zephyr a donation was made for
sufferers by the hundreds who flocked
to the scene of the storm.
A relief train from the scene of the
Zephyr cyclone reports Dr. W.
Wrenn, Mrs. W. H. Hicks and N
Cabled, had all died from their Injur- >
les. It is stated several more are —
pected to die before morning.
Twenty-one of the Injured were tak-
?n to the hospital at Temple Si
night. Another body found near|
ruins of the school building, that of a
young lady, has not been Identified,
and was badly mutilated.
sag
Sweet Singer—Wasn’t be grand?
He said my complexion reminded him
of peaches.
Comedian—He should have said
canned peaches.
Sweet Singer—Canned peaches?
Comedian—Yes; preserved by chem-
icals.
Fifty witnesses were sworn Friday
In the Federal Court at Dallas in the
action of the Government against Fred
Fleming, D. A. Templeton and A.
Elliott, charged with the use of
mails to defraud In connection with- •!
the business of the Western Bank A
Trust Company.
Portrait of Capt. Steele.
Mexia: Capt. Alfonso Steele 1«
Monday- for Palestine, where he
for a final sitting in connection
the painting that is to be made
Miss Nannie Crownin. It will be
embered that this painting was
ed by the last Legislature. '
Wills Point’s public auditorium to
about completed and the city to
possessor of a comfortable buildin
well finished, and which will;
modate any number of people
to come together for some
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 4, 1909, newspaper, June 4, 1909; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542822/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.