Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1899 Page: 3 of 8

                                
DEATH BY DUEL
Galveston Shooting Af-
fair Has Serious
Ending.
Deadly Duel.
i Galveston, Tex., June 28.—A fatal
Street duel occurred last evening about
5:30 o’clock in front of the Two Broth-
ers saloon, northeast corner of Tre-
mont and Market streets. Fifteen
shots were fired and eight of them took
effect in the bodies of the participants
and in twro innocent victims,
i James Johnson, a well known young
sporting man, was killed.
William Boyd was shot twice, break-
ing his right arm just below the elbow,
and breaking his left leg below the
knee.
• George Levick, 58 years of age, a
blacksmith in the employ of the gov-
ernment at the fortifications at Fort
Point, was an innocent victim, and his
wound is fatal. He Avas shot in the
right side and the bullet penetrated
the liver.
W. H. Goodman, engineer of the lo-
comotive used by the United States
engineers at Fort Point, was another
[innocent victim.
| He was shot in the apex of the right
lung. His wound is not considered
mortal by the surgeons.
I 'William Boyd and James Johnson
hre charged as the principals, and Jack
jNave is charged with having been im-
plicated in the death of Johnson.
! The story of the tragedy in brief is
jthat Johnson and Boyd came out of
ithe saloon at separate doors and, fac-
ing each other, pulled their six-shooters
land began firing.
: A third party was seen to step out of
pie saloon and fire two or three shots
jin the direction of Johnson.
■ When the smoke had cleared four
jvictims were lying on the ground and
fche guns of the two
empty.
Two Confess. ~
Athens, Tex., June 27.—The prelim-
inary hearing of the ten men charged
with the lynching of the Humphreys
commenced here yesterday with a tre-
mendous attendance. The widows and
children of the victims were present.
Assistant Attorney General Morris,
District Attorney Crook, County At-
torney Faulk and Guy Green prose-
cute, while Faulk & Faulk of Athens,
J. S. Woods and M. H. Gossett of
Kaufman and Starr & Allison of Ath-
ens defend,
i Folk Weeks was placed on the stand.
Five Young Radies Drown.
Lampasas, Tex., June 24.—A most
horrible accident, in which five young
ladies were drowned, occurred late
Thursday evening in the McCrea
neighborhood, ten miles from this
place.
The wife and five daughters of J. H.
Loyd and daughter of Mr. Joe Childers,
two of the most prosperous and high-
ly respected citizens of this county,
went over to Pitt creek, a distance of
three miles from their home, to spend
the day in fishing.
While over there four of the Misses
Loyd and Miss Childers, whose ages
drowned,
Mrs. Loyd and the remaining daugh-
ter are so prostrated that nothing def-
inite can be ascertained.
Sons and Daughters of Confederacy.
Greenville, Tex., June 24.—A camp
of Sons of Confederate Veterans has
been organized l^re, officered as fol-
lows:    Howard barker, commander;
B. M. Hagan, first lieutenant; Marion
Cameron, second lieutenant; George
B. Adams, adjutant; Joe McConnell,
quartermaster; Dr. M. L. Moody, sur-
geon, and Horace McMurtray, color
sergeant. .
A chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy was also organized with
Mrs. T. J. Gee, president; Mrs. R. K.
Lane, first vice president; Mrs. L. W.
Harkey, second vice president; Miss
Nita Watson, secretary; Miss Lorena
Etter, treasurer; Miss Pearl Arnold,
historian. The ladies asked until the
next meeting to select a name for the
chapter.
principals wers
Stuck to His Story.
; Athens, Tex., June 28.—Chronicled
jin columns of cold black and white,
[the developments of the second day
[of the preliminary hearing of the men
[Who a\ 5 alleged to have taken the lives
s Humphreys and his sons may
4eem tiiTged with sensationalism.
•In the dingy old room in Henderson
icounty, however, there^vas yesterday
presented the second acc of an intense-
ly realistic play.
' The bar was the stage; shrewd law-
yeis, cautious witnesses and anxious
prisoners were the actors, and a few
feet away, filling every nook and cran-
py, was a sensation-hungry audience,
j "p^ie ^ay began with the resumption
,of the cross-examination of John
preenhaw, interrupted by adjournment
the evening before.
i Po1 hours an almost ceaseless stream
J°f interrogatories were poured into his
ears. He stuck to his story. At no
time or by any means could he be in-
duced to change it.
i Polk Weeks was recalled and related
a few more occurrences at the hang-
ing.
' Jake Bennett testified to loaning a
;sadde to Weeks and George Henson.
Rev. Mr. Jackson and Jasper Hen-
«haw also testified.
In substance he said a plan was agreed [ range from 8 to 24 years of age, were
on to lynch the Humphreys; that Joe
Wilkinson approached him in regard
to the matter.
' “The persons who were in the par
ty,” he said, “were Joe and Walter
.Wilkinson, Mr. Brooks, John Green
haw, Arthur Greenhaw, Mr. Johns
Mr. Gaddis Mr. Stevens, Mr. Mahan,
• Mr. Sam Hall and myself.”
j After telling of the Humphreys be
ing taken out, he proceeded:
:    “Joe Wilkinson tied a rope around
the neck of one of the Humphreys.
Then they said something to the Hum
phreys about stealing Joe Wilkinson’s,
horse, and he was cursing them for
stealing the horse, and they denied
that they had done it. Then he talked
about the killing of Berryman, and
then he said: ‘You are harboring Patl-
pon to kill some of the rest of us.'
, The Humphreys said they were not
doing it, that they wanted him caught
just as bad as anybody.
“Wilkinson said he knew better. ‘Pie
has been sneaking around my house
and trying to kill me.’
“The Humphreys denied that. Then
we carried them on down the road
piece and stopped and sent a man out
to hunt a tree. He soon found a tree
and we carried them down there. We
talked around for a while trying
get them to tell where Patison was
We told them to tell us or we would
bang them. They said they did not
know where he was.
Finally we got them on horses and
took them under the tree. They ask-
ed me to climb up the tree and tie the
rope, and I refused. Then they asked
Mr. Brooks and he refused. Finally
they asked me again and I climbed the
tree and tied the ropes up there. They
pitched the ropes up to me and I tied
them. Then I climbed down and they
parleyed again about Patison, and the
Humphries again claimed they did not
know where he was. Finally they hit
the horses and made them run out from
under the men.”
“Who did that?”
“I saw one man.”
“Who was he?”
“Joe Wilkinson. He hit one of the
horses. I did not see the other. One
of the Humphries slipped down until
Lis feet were on the ground. I got
back up the tree and they raised him
up and I tied the rope up shorter and
.then the hand of one of them came
.untied, and they tied them together
again.”
“Who was it that tied the hands
back?”
‘ I think it was Mr: Johns. I am not
certain about that. They just let the
Humphries hang there until they died.”
“How about their feet being tied
up?”
Galveston Storm*
Galveston, Tex., June 28.—The wind
and rain storm which began Monday
.night reached its height between 2 and
■3 o’clock yesterday morning, the wind
attaining a velocity of forty miles an
;hour. No damage was done on the
island except that the gulf cut into
the shore in places as much as seventy
feet.
The schooner Dave Freeman, en
Toute to Galveston with a load of red
snapper, stood off shore during the
storm, and early yesterday was
beached about six miles below the city.
Conductors’ Picnic.
Mineral Wells, Tex. June 28.—Fully
3700 persons were present yesterday on
•the occasion of the picnic at Mineral
Wells given under the auspices of
Evergreen division No. 57 of Fort
[Worth, and Red River division No. 262
of Cleburne, Order of Railway Conduc-
tors.
1 A train made up of fourteen cars left
Fort Worth, while twenty-four car-
loads of pleasure-seekers
(through from Cleburne.
, The crowd was augmented at each
•station, fully 600 people joining the ex-
cursion at Weatherford.
Hon. J. W. Bailey spoke.
_ “Well, the feet of one of them was
tied up that I know of. That is, he
said he did. Then we got on our horses
and left. We rode north as well as I
could tell. This was only a short time
after the men were dead.”
John Greenshaw followed and corrob-
orated in the main Weeks’ testimony.
Pension Day.
Dallas, Tex., June 27.—Yesterday was
pension ady, the first one under the
present law granting pensions to ex-
Confederates who may come^ within
the provision of the law.
Quite a number of the old veterans
and a few widows of veterans were
present, putting in their claims to
Judge Kenneth Foree, who was filling
out the blanks and administering the
oath to applcants and hearing the evi-
dence of those who had their witnesses
with them in substantiation of the fact
that they had served in the Confeder-
ate army.
Forgot His Bride.
Dallas, Tex., June 24.—On June 1 Mr.
W. E. Bilheimer, physical director of
the Y. M. C. A., led to the altar Miss
Eula Lee Maddox of Fort Worth. They
have been spending a part of their hon-
eymoon visiting his folks in Little
Rock, returning to Dallas yesterday
and received many congratulations. At
the business men’s gymnasium class
yesterday afternoon the members
of the association celebrated the occa-
sion by presenting Mr. Bilheimer with
a beautiful cut glass water set. Judge
Anson Rainey, president of the asso-
ciation, made the presentation address.
It so completely upset Mr. Bilheimer
that he forgot to call at the associa-
tion parlor for liis bride as he left the
building going to supper.
Peculiar Accident.
Denison, Tex., June 24.—A most ex-
traordinary accident happened Thurs-
day evening, as a result of which Net-
tie Brown, colored, is suffering from
a very painful gunshot wound in the
right thigh.
Frank Brown lives on the corner of
Johnson street and Tone avenue, just
a block north of the point where the
body of Ep Reeves was found. Thurs-
day afternoon while no one was at
home but his wife, Nettie Brown, an
old muzzle loading shotgun fell from a
place where it was hanging over the
south window, the charge of buchshot
in it penetrating the baseboard of the
house, through the outer boxing and
six of the shot penetrated the fleshy
portion of the right thigh of Nettie
Brown, who was standing about ten
feet from the house in a little path
leading from the gate on Johnson
street to the front of the house.
Quintuple Drowning.
(Lampasas, Tex., June 26.—Particu-
lars of the quintuple drowning near
here are as follows:
Thursday evening Mrs. J. H. Lloyd,
her five daughters, Misses Bertie
Lloyd, 22 years; Belle Lloyd 20; Ethel
Lloyd, 14; Esther Lloyd, 11; Jewel
Lloyd, 8, and her niece, Misss Myrtle
Childers, 14, went over to Pitt creek, a
distance of three miles from their
homes, to spend the day in fishing.
In the evening Mrs. Lloyd gave her
young daughters permission to go wad-
ing. Shortly after the girls had gone
down the creek, the mother and Misses
Bertie and Belle, who were all up the
creek some 150 yards from the place of
drowning, heard screams for help.
Miss Bertie, noticing the screams
first, ran to their assistance, passing
her mother and sister, plunged into the
water only to share the fate of her
three sisters and cousin.
Then came the second sister, who
also piunged into the water to the as-
sistance of her drowning sisters, but
on arrival of the mother, who fully
recognized the situation she immedi-
ately secured a stick, handing it to
Miss Belle, and by a great deal of ex-
ertion, rescued her, but not until after
she was strangled into unconscious-
ness.
The mother then ran screaming to
the buggy, causing the horse to break
loose, but with some difficulty secured
him and went for her husband and
sons, who were thrashing four miles
away from the scene.
In an hour and twenty minutes the
dead bodies had been taken from the
water by Mr. Lloyd, father and uncls
of the young ladies.
The bodies were all found within a
space of six feet.
The supposition is that the creek
had washed out in deep holes of water-
from recent rains and the girls knew
nothing of it, and that Miss Ethel wad-
ed into deep water, as she was entire-
ly out of sight when the mother and
elder sister reached the scene, and the
other young ladies going to the as-
sistance only to share a similar fate.
The young ladies were all buried in
one grave, twenty feet wide, with sepa-
rate vaults. Mrs. Lloyd is in a preca-
rious condition.
Kainy Season On.
Washington, June 27.—Gen. Otis in
reply to a cable from the war depart-
ment asking for information regarding
the situation and conditions in the
Philippines yesterday cabled a long re-
ply as follows:
Manila, June 26.—Adjutant general,
Washington:. Rainy season. Little in-
land campaigning is possible in Luzon.
We occupy a large portion of the Ta-
galo country, lines stretching from
Imus south to San Fernando north,
nearly six miles, and to eastward into
Laguna province. Insurgent armies
have suffered great losses and are scat-
tered; only large force held together is
about 4000 in Tarlas province and
northern Pampagana.
There are scattered forces in bands
of 50 to 500 in other portions of Luzon;
in Cavite and Batangas provinces could
assemble possibly 100, though demoral-
ized from recent defeat. The mass of
people is terrorized by insurgent lead-
ers. Desire peace and American
protection; no longer flee on approach
of our troops unless forced by insur-
gents, but glad to come to them.
No recent burning of towns; popula-
tion within our lines is becoming
dense, taking up the land in cultiva-
tion extensively; kept out of Manila as
much as possible, as the city popula-
tion is becoming too great to be cared
for. Natives southeast of Luzon are
combining to drive out the insurgents;
No Choice.
Louisville, Ky., June .27.—The disor-
der in the Democratic convention yes-
terday continued without interruption
until after 5 o’clock, when the Goebel
men hit upon the plan to have county
chairmen to come to the stage and cast
the votes of their delegations. This
set their frenzied opponents beside
themselves with anger, but the roll call
proceded, the awful din increasing all
the while. County chairmen came to
the stage and the clerk had to lean
over to catch a word that was said.
The Hardin men and many Stone del-
egates did not vote.
After half an hour of the hardest
kind of work the ballot Was finished
and announced as follows:    Goebel,
352%; Stone, 261%; Hardin, 67.
Whereupon Olie James, a big-lunged
Stone leader, cried: “All Hardin and
Stone men refuse to vote.”
“They won’t do it,” the Goebelites
responded, and, sure enough, they did
not, and predictions that have been
made that the weakness of Hardin and
Stone would show itself in the lack of
control over their delegates were veri-
fied.
The last ballot, the thirteenth, re-
sulted: Goebel 320%. Stone 275, Har-
din 89. No choice.
Rumosed Trouble.
Havana, June 27.—It was persistent-
ly rumored here last evening that there
!h! insurgent leaders had been serious trouble at Nuevitas in
They claim the connction with the payment of the Cu-
Horse and Buggy Found.
Lovelady, Tex., June 24.—Asa Speer,
a farmer living four miles from here,
reports that his children found in the
woods near his house a horse and bug-
gy, with the harness and all complete.
stranger was seen to pass in the
neighborhood last Sunday evening
driving in a single buggy. The con-
stable here has taken charge of the
buggy.
passed
Maj..Wm. W. Gray, surgeon, United
.States army, now on duty at Fort Hua-
chuca, Arizona Territory, will proceed
to Fort Logan, Colo., and report to
the commanding officer, twenty-fifth
United States infantry, for duty, to
accompany that regiment to Manila,
P. I.
Partly Washed Away.
Hillsboro, Tex., June 27.—A report
reached here yesterday that the To-
wash flour mill was partly washed
away by a big rise in the Brazos Sat-
day night. The turbine wheels and
brick basement were washed away and
carried down stream. The mill is the
property of Capt. B. M. Boyd. The loss
will be felt by farmers within a radius
of thirty miles, as it will take some
•time to repair the mill.
Wife Killed.
Dallas, Tex., June 27—Last night
about, 7:30 o’clock Annie Linton, a col-
ored woman, was shot and killed on a
vacant lot just behind the second ward
engine house, not a great distance from
where the Garrett woman was shot
and killed Saturday night.
The husband of the woman, Oscar
Linton, surrendered to Officer Sterling
Price and was locked up in one of the
cells in the city hall holdover, charged
with the killing.
Jail Overcrowded.
Tyler, Tex., June 24.—There are five
inmates of the Smith county jail who
have been adjudged insane, and appli-
eations for their admittance to the asy-
lum have been made. There is no
room in the asylums for them on ac-
count of the crowded condition of
same. Sheriff Robinson has some of
his deputies exercise the unfortunates
by walking them in the outskirts of
town in the mornings and evenings
daily.
Bell Back.
Hillsboro, Tex., June 24.—Sheriff
Bell returned Thursday night from
Tolosa, Kaufman •county, with Sam
Hall and jailed him. Hall is charged
with being a party to the Humphreys
lynching. Mr. Bell left here hurried-
ly Wednesday morning with Assistant
Attorney General Morris. At Corsi-
cana he procured a team and buggy
and drove over into Kaufman county
and arrested Hall. A few miles fur-
ther in Henderson county he met some
Henderson county officials and Pope
Weeks was arrested.
Gored to Death.
Crowell, Tex., June 24.—Charley
Pig'S, a young man about 22 years old,
who lived in the eastern part of this
county, was cleaning ticks from cattle
preparing them for inspection. He was
in the pasture working alone and rap-
ed a large hurl, threw him down and
applied the necessary remedies, but
during the process of roping the ani-
mal he was gored in the breast, the
horn penetrating the lungs. He man-
aged to get home, a distance of one
and a half miles. Physicians both
from Crowell and Vernon visited him,
but death followed in a fow hours.
Probable C ittle Syndicate.
Austin, Tex., June 26.—Hon. M. L.
Grogan of Sweetwater, Tex., represent-
ative in the twenty-sixth legislature
from that district is here.
He is authority for the statement
that an English syndicate, with a cap-
ital of $100,000,000, has started in to
purchase all of the cattle in Texas,
with a view of cornering the cattle
market of this country.
He says in the panhandle and west-
ern part of the state the options have
been secured on thousands of head of
cattle and ranch properties wherever
.they are obtainable.
The options include cattle of all
classes, and by buying the ranches it Is
evident, he says, that the syndicate in-
tends to make their investments a per-
manen one in their nature.
It is estimated that the total number
of cattle in Texas is about 6,000,000
head, and their assessed valuation this
year will aggregate $60,000,000.
Mr. Grogan came here direct from
the panhandle, where these options are
said to have been secured.
He says the syndicate maintains its
headquarters at Fort Worth.
While drawing a load of corn to Gu-
thrie, O. T., H. Martin was killed by
lightning. William Rice, sitting by
him, was unhurt.
Awful Fate.
McKinney, Tex., June 26.—Electri-
cian Sam Morton of the McKinney
Electric Light company, met an in-
stantaneous and frightful death here
at 6:25 Saturday evening in full view
of the main business portion of the
town. In the discharge of his duties
he ascended a pole at the southwest
corner of the public square to effect a
connection to the main day current
wire, when his hands came in contact
with a “live” wire. Instantly a cur-
rent 1100 volts strong shot through his
body.
is United States’ aid.
near overthrow of the present adminis-
tration, to be followed by their inde-
pendence and recognition by the Unit-
ed States. This is the influence which
enables them to hold out; much con-
tention prevails among them and no
civil government remains; trade with
ports in our possession, a former source
of insurgent revenue, Is now interdict-
ed; not certain of the wisdom of this
policy, as the people in those parts are
without supply of food and merchants
,are suffering losses; they meditate
trade privileges, although the insur-
gents reap the benefits.
Courts here are in successful opera-
tion under the direction of able Fili-
pinos. Affairs in the other islands are
comparatively quiet, awaiting results
In Luzon. All are anxious for trade
and repeated calls for American troops
are received. Am giving attention to
Jolo archipelago and Palawan islands.
Our troops have worked the limit
of endurance. Volunteer organizations
have been called In, replaced by regu-
lars, who now occupy salient positions.
Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Utah are
now taking transports and the sixth in-
fantry has been sent to Negros to re-
lieve the California. These troops are
in good physical condition; sickness
among the troops has increased lately,
due mostly to ardous service and cli-
matic influences.
There is nothing alarming. Of the 12
per cent of the command reported sick
nearly six per cent is in the general
hospital, of whom 3 per cent is typhoid
and malarial fever; 25 per cent have
1 various ailments, 14 per cent of which
are due to wound injuries. Many offi-
cers and men who served in Cuba break
under a recurrence of ubCan fever and
the regular regiments lately are inade-
quately officered.    OTIS.
The Inadequacy of the number of of-
ficers mentioned in the last part of
the above cablegram has been remedied
by the sailing of the transports Zealan-
dia and Newport, carrying a number
of officers for regiments flh the Philip-
pines.
ban troops. The story is that the Cu-
bans, after receiving payment, charged
the guard and recovered the arms they
had surrendered.
In American official circles the report
is discredited. The authorities have
full confidence In Col. Moal, who is in
charge of the payment there, and are
satisfied that it is proceeding* without1
collision.
Royal Speeding.
Las Vegas, N. M., June 27.—Gov.
Roosevelt was given a royal speeding
1:30 o’clock yesterday morning on his
departure for New York City. Roose-
velt’s appearance on the car platform
was the signal for enthusiastic cheers
by the large crowd that had assem-
bled. The train finally pulled out of
the depot on its journey northward
and eastward, the band struck up the
strains of “A Hot Time,” the crowd
cheered and Roosevelt bowed to those
who had delighted to do him honor.
Meanwhile the enthusiasm of the rough
riders continued unabated.
At New York Mrs. Barrow pleaded
guilty to kidnapping the baby of Ma-
rion Clark and was given twelve years
and ten months.
A Petition.
Lexington, Ky., June 27.—The liabili-
ty of the Democrats to make any nom-
ination at Louisville caused Democrats
of this section to unite yesterday in a
petition to Rhae, Bronston, James and
other leaders of the anti-Goebel forces .
to make a fight to Ignore Chairman
Redwine, elect another chairman and
adjourn the convention to Lexington
by uniting the Stone-Hardin forces. It
is urged that no settlement can be
made in Louisville, and unless some-
thing Is done the party may suffer de-
feat in November.
Chicago Jews and people of the Jew-
ish nationality in all the large cities
of America are contributing funds for
the purchase of suitable testimonials
to be presented to Capt. Dreyfus, Emile
Zola and Col. Picquart. It is planned
to honor Dreyfus with a diamond set
and richly engraved sword.
Tina Walker Dead.
San Antonio, Tex., June 26.—Vina
Walker, a colored woman, living at 109
Ord street, was found in bed at noon
yesterday in the throes of death. Her
12-year-old daughter was leaning over
her endeavoring to calm her. The wom-
an had bitten the child in the hand,
and was endeavoring to bite herself.
She died a few minutes after the jhysi-
cians arrived. The cause of her death
has not yet been established.
•Sixteen Years After.
Paris, Tex., June 26.—Sheriff Fulg-
ham of Huntsville, Ala., came here to
get a colored man who was arrested by
local officers for murder.
Policeman Reuben Street was killed
in raiding a colored house in Hunts-
ville sixteen years ago and one col-
ored man was tried and hanged for the
crime. Another man made his escape
and was located here. Extradition pa-
pers have been asked for.
Mrs. Cliff Mitchell w§s painfully hit-
ten by a eopperhead snake at Denison.
Toledo Blaze.
Toledo, O., June 27.—Fire destroyed
the Michigan Central freight house,
partially destroyed the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton freight house,
burned 100 loaded cars and entailed a
loss amounting to over $300,000, a very
small part of which was covered by in-
surance.
A large number of small buildings
near the freight house were burned.
Two men were seriuosly injured.
Thomas Hennessy fell from a car and
James McGowan was badly burned.
The dock for several hundred feet is
ruined.
A C. Jones, a Dallas grocer, shot a
colored man in the left arm while the
latter was crawling through the tran-
som of the former’s store.
The Winners.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 27.—The
four-oared race over the two-mile
course was won by Pennsylvania.
Time 11 minutes 12 seconds. Cornell
was second. Time 11:14%.
The freshmen eight-oared race be-
tween Pennsylvania, Columbia and
Cornell over the two-mile course was
won by Cornell. Time 9:55. Columbia
was second, one and a quarter boat-
lengths behind Cornell. Time 10:00.
Pennsylvania third, three-quarters of
a length behind Columbia. Time 10:10
Rules Promulgated.
Washington, June 27.—The secreta-
ry of the interior yesterday promulga-
ted rules in relation to the selection
of reservoir sites by cattle grazers in
the western states and they will go
Into immediate effect. All applications the West Indies caused the sending of
for such sites now on file will, accord- "    ’    ”    ’ ’    ’    *
ing to the ruling, have to be with-
One of Trade.
Kingston, Jamaica, June 27,~It la
now announced that Jamaica’s e7.clu*
sion from the scheme of establishing
closer relations between Canada and
drawn and made to conform to the re-
quirements of the new regulations.
Claud Pain of Sabine Pass, Tex., had
an arm amputated owing to an acci-
dental shot.
Cannot be Doubted.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 27.—Brigadier
General Charles King, who returned
from the Philippies a short time ago.
in a letter to the Milwaukee Journal,
published yesterday, states that the ca-
pability of the Filipinos for self-gov-
government cannot be doubted, and if
given a fair start they could look out
for themselves infinitely better than
our people imagine.
The wife of Wash Garrett, who was
shot by her husband at Dallas Satur-
day, died Monday.
the reciprocity delegates to Ottawa. Tt
is also announced that the governor,
Sir Augustus Hemming, is shortly go-
ing to Canada, but the merchants here
declare the question fundamentally is
one of trade, and not one of politics.
Jamaica’s only reliance is in America.
Scores of prominent people in Wash-
ington have taken to cycling this sea-
son. Recent converts to the chainless
idea include Senators Woleott and
Chandler; Caut. Sigsbee, late com-
mander of the ill-fated Maine; Assist-
ant Secretary of the Navy Allen, and
Rev. Drs. Hamlin and Mackey-Smith.
The North Side Street Railway com-
pany of Chicago will substitute auto-
mobiles for cars Sept 1. Thirty hav*
been ordered from Par