Jacksonville Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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Jtedmonmlie
J. a MCFARLAND. Pwlfc.
JACKSONVILLE.
W AS.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Interesting Cullings on Various Subjects
Taken from the Daily Press.
Land owners adjoining- the town of
Matagorda appear to be abourt unan-
imously in favor of moving their
courthouse next month to the center
of the county on a high prairie east
of the head of Cottonwood creek.
The name of the new town will prob-
ably be Bay City. The location is
one' of the best in South Texas, and is
;pn the line of the San Antonio and
Gulf Shore railroad survey to Velasco.
At Peach Tree, Jasper county, re-
cently Hardy Hancock, aged 81 years,
was attending divine services and be-
ing called upon to give his religious
experience, arose and after talking
several minutes said he felt prepared
to die, and as he sat down his form
tottered and fell. Efforts to revive
him proved futile and in a few minutes
a physician present announced that
the old man was dead.
The boys on the beach west of the
jnouth of the Brazos are having great
tport .killing devil fish. They har-
pooned one monster recently fully 25
feet broad that struck out for deep
Water Like a hurricane, towing a yawl
full of fishermen several miles before
the line broke. Several other large
ones were shot and harpooned in the
breakers between Quintana and the
mouth of the San Bernard.
O. G. Klcwk, a farmer living in Wil-
barger county, shot his wife and then
himself recently. Mrs. Klock was
shot through the heart and evidently
killed instantly, while Klock was shot
ahrough the head and died soon after.
No one except the children, a small
boy and girl, were present, and to a
traveling machine agent who came up
goon after the killing, the boy give
the information.
Mr. Joe Pangle the tax collector
of Burnet county, was at his farm
near Marble Falls, when his pistol
dropped from his pocket and going
off shot his foot. The wound is very
painful and dangerous and it is feared
that amputation will follow.
The Democratic congressional con-
vention of the Fourth district voted
5600 times, whereupon all three of
the candidates withdrew, and Hon. D.
B. Culberson was nominated as the
opponent of Hon. J. H. Davis, thej
People’s party nominee.
In 1892 there were 5,010,175 sheep
in this state, valued at $1.55 a head,
or a total of $7,808,239. Now there
are only 3,814,404 sheep in the state,
valued at 95 cents a head, or a total'
of $3,623,685. This is a net less to
Texas of $4,184,554.
At McKinney the other morning D.
C. Jackson took an overdose of mor-
phine. Physicians were called and
succeeded in preventing death. Jack-
son had recently sold his farm and
moved to town and placed his money
in cotton futures.
Cotton is coming out in Karnes
county and the prospects for a fall
crop was never better. Up to a few
weeks ago the cotton crop in that
vicinity was very poor. A half crop
will be made now, as indicted by pres-
ents prospects.
The little 3-year-old daughter of
David Jones, a San Antonio mail car-
rier, was playing with matches one
evening recently, and set fire to her
clothing. She was horribly burned
and died from her injuries.
During a recent storm the barn of
J. J. Blayeds, a farmer living a few
miles from Ennis, Ellis county, was
struck by lightning, killing a mare
and a colt and destroying the con-
tents of the barn.
On the George Rue ranch, a few
miles from Whitesboro, Grayson coun-
ty, one night recently, an old man
named Garrett died in intense agony,
having swallowed carbolic acid for
branuy.
At Cuero recently a colored man
named Luckins dropped dead while
trying to get in a hack preparatory
to taking the train for the east.
Heart disease was the cause of his
death.
While Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Still were
going to church recently at Overton.
Rusk county, their horse ran away
and threw Mrs. Still out of the buggy,
breaking her §,rm and dislocating her
wrist.
The taxable values of Freestone
county for this year are $2,780,814, as
against $2,718,448 for 1893, a gain
this year of $62,366. The total rate
. of taxation per $100 this year is 74£
eents.
Hon. T. J. Tilson of Hunt county,
has published a letter repudiating the
Democratic platform and declaring
bis purpose to affiliate with the Pop-
alist party.
During a recent heavy rain in Mav-
erick county the dam above the town
®f Piedras Nigras broke and the town
was overflowed by two feet of water,
The collector of internal ^revenue
reports that Fort Worth paid. Through
his department last year $129,000, of
which $60,000 was a tax on beer and
whisky.
The Populists of the tenth congres-
sional district met at Columbus and
nominated Gen. S. C. McBride of Bra-
zoria county on the first ballot.
County Judge Little of Karnes coun-
ty has submitted a $43,000 issue of
courthouse bonds to the attorney-gen-
eral’s department for approval.
D. C. Holliday, ex-chief-of-police of
Texarkana, was run over and killed
by a Texas and Pacific engine in the
yards at that place recently.
The Waco branch of the American
Federation of Labor met recently and
condemned the ninth plank in the
state Democratic platform.
The Sealy Rifles at Galveston have
been mustered out of service, and the
commissions of that company’s of-
ficers have been revoked.
Many farmers at Elgin, Bastrop
county, are hauling their cotton seed
home and housing them. Prices of-
fered are not satisfactory.
At Grapland, Houston county, the
crops are excellent. An abundance of
rain. The sugar cane crop will be
above the average.
The Bee division Knights of Pythias
of Beeville, was awarded a prize of
$400 for traveling the longest distance
to Washington.
Two boys at Floresville recently
went hunting, and one of them acci-
dentally shot the other in the foot.
W. C. Braon recently delivered his
famous lecture “Gall,”- to au over-
flowing house at Courpus ChristL
Ellis county’s total' tax valuations
amount to $13,815,476, or $337^267
more than assessments of 1893.
The total taxable values in Lime-
stone county amount to $6,923,560, an
increase of $158,560 over 1893.
Fannin county’s assessment runs
this year to $10”073,875, an increase
of $135,715 over last year.
The assessment rolls of Frio county
show a decrease of $154,554 in taxa-
ble values in one year.
Harrison county has just redeemed
two more small raiirord subsidy bonds,
amounting to $700.
Forty-eight divorces were granted
at a late session of of the district court
of Travis county.
Hundreds of hogs, horses and cattle
were drowned during the recent flood
in Uvalda county.
At Elgin, Bastrop county, cotton
brings from 6 to 6^ cents, corn on the
streets 40 cents.
The first bate «cff cotton sold at
Goperas Cove, Ooryelle county, was
bought by J. S. Clements & Bro. —
price 6j. It weighed 563 and was
classed good middling. A premium
of $20.25 was added to the price.
ALL OVER THE WORLD
HAPPENINGS OF GENERAL IN-
TEREST TO ALU
Entirely two much rain for cotton
and hay interests at El Campo
Wharton county.
It is estimated that Duval county
will produce 3000 bales of cotton this
season.
Counterfeit $5 gold pieces and sil-
ver dollars are being circulated at
Dallas.
Crops are short at Reagan, Falls
county, and cotton worth only 5£
cents.
The coal fields of Texas cover a
larger tract than the state of Connect-
icut.
Giddings has 209 white and 122
colored children of scholastic age.
Lexington, Lee county, has incor-
porated by a vote of 1 majority.
At Cuero 3000 bales of cotton have
been shipped so far this season.
Two coal mines are being opened
up near Milano, Milam county.
Work will soon begin on George-
town’s $20,000 school building.
G. A. Riddle has been arrested at
Dallas on a charge of forgery.
Cotton seed sell for $6.50 a ton at
Bartlett, Williamson county.
The artesian well is still going
£own at Ennis. Ellis county.
■ Cotton has been successfully grown
this year in Hall county.
Old cotton is being marketed at
Belden, Morris county.
Cotton pickers get 50 cents per
Jiundred at Rockdale.
Grapevine, Tarrant county, has a
pew school building.
The asphalt mines in Uvalde county
are being developed.
The long drouth in southwest Texas
seems to be broken.
The public schools of Dallas will
open September 17.
Clay county has a Fair association
duly chartered.
Ennis, Ellis county, now wants a
board of trade.
War is being made on the weeds at
Greenville.
Carthage wants more brick store
Louses.
{ Corn is selling at San Marcos at 45
cents.
Greenville talks of a board of trade.
The Rio Grande is on a big bocm.
Too much rain in Waller county.
Burglars are working Beaumont.
Rusk has a brass band.
At Joshua, Johnson county, re-
cently, a little -son of Rev. Putman
was kicked by a horse recently and
was thought to he dead for quite a
wTaile, but was finally brought to and
is thought to be out-of danger.
A horse being driven on East Four-
teenth at Fort Worth, recently, by
Mrs. Harry Preston became fright-
ened and ran away. She was thrown
out of the vehicle and sustained injur-
ies which may prove fMal.
At San Antonio Hie 3-year-old son
of George Galloway recontly strayed
away from his mother and fell into
Ban Pedro creek and was drowned.
The mother discovered him a few
minutes after his death.
Lee McAfee, ex-sheriff o* Grayson
county and at present,a United States
marshal, was arrested at Greenville a
few days ago, charged with the kill-
ing of Louis Lopez, a Mexican tamale
3ian of that place.
Considerable complaint is made at
country churches in Eastland county,
about saddles being cut to pieces and
other depredations committed. James
Speegle was arrested for this offense
and fined $43.30.
A convention composed -of delgates
elected by the trade unions and trade
councils will meet at Fort Worth
September 9 at 10 o’clock to take
some action regarding the coming
state election.
At Navasota a few days sines Ma-
rion Myatt, while cleaning his pistol,
accidently shot and killed a young
negro man named Will Ions. The
man killed was an ex-convict. Myatt
was released.
T J. Irvine of New Orleans is in
Velasco in the interest of a cotton
and cotton seed product exporting
firm with headquarters in New York
that may establish a branch there.
County Judge Pearson, of Kent
county, submitted a $10,000 issue of
jail bonds and a $13,000 issue of
bridge bonds to the attorney general
for approval a few days ago.
Mr. Austin Robinson of Reagan,
Falls county, has a part of three crops
of cotton on hand now. He was of-
fered 9£ cents for the most of it once,
but he wanted 10 cents.
Dr. Burkey, the food inspector of
Galveston, makes the startling state-
ment that but few dairies from which
Galveston receives its milk supply are
in a healthy condition.
J. A. Bell has been arrested in Mc-
Lennan countv on a charge of seduc-
ing Miss Dora Bell at Water Valley,
Yalabusha county, Miss. He will be
taken back.
A. Comprehensive Epitome of Serious
and Sensational Sortings Condensed
from ail the Leading Dailies for the
Past Week.
Nine cars of copper en route from
Mexico to Liverpool, England, passed
through Laredo a few days ago.
The culture of tobacco has been
proven to be a success in Montgomery
county by several farmers.
Dublin, Erath county, boasts of a
kershaw 63 incnes in circumference
and weighing 113 pounds.
R. T. Baker paid $7.50 and $9.50
for 1 and 2-year-old steers a few days
ago in Menard county.
Cotton pickers get 40 cents and
board in Lavaca county, and moro
pickers arc wanted.
Another good rain at Beeville and
cattle in that section will go into the
winter rolling fat.
It has been proven by experiments
that apples and pears do well in
Wharton county.
A good rain recently at Bartlett.
Williamson county, but stock water
is still scarce.
In Wharton recently bystanders
enjoyed a “scrap” between two col-
ored women.
Corn is selling at 40 cent3 at Bam
dera and cotton pickers get 50 cents
per hundred.
Beeville is cut off by the fire insur-
ance companies because of inadequate
protection.
The enterprising citizens of Vernon
gave a prize of $100 for the first bale
of cotton.
The Deaf Mute association held an
interesting meeting at Rockdale re-
cently.
Red River county foots up an as-
sessment of taxable values at $4,041,-
590.
Sheep are rapidly changing hands
in Crockett county. Prices private.
Entirely too much rain at Wharton,
and cotton prospects are not so good.
At Taylor August is known as the
wet mouth of 1894. Too much rain.
The range is fine in Concho county
and stockmen want to buy steers.
Crops are splendid at Joshua, John-
son county. Cotton opening fast.
The range in Aransas county, ow-
ing to recent rains, is fine.
The sweet potato crop in Anderson
county is very promising.
Thera are eighteen inmates in the
Waller county bastile.
During the sessions of the congress
just adjourned W. C. P. Breckinridge
failed to answer to his name 244
times, Boutelle of Maine 239, Cochran
of New York 237, Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania 232, Dingley of Maine 259, Dol-
lier of Iowa 234, Gear of Iowa 224,
Gillette of Massachusetts 266, Heinar
of Pennsylvania 255, Hopkins of Penn-
sylvania 237, Houck of Tennessee 256,
McDowell of Pennsylvania 257, Scran-
ton of Pennsylvania 257, Settle of
North Carolina 256, Storer of Ohio
244, Tavlor of Tennessee 252. Wheeler
of Illinois 250, White of Ohio 264,
Wright of Pennsylvania 270.
Six negroes, members of an organ-
ized gang of incendiaries, were
lynched by a mob near Millington,
Tenn., a small town on the Chesa-
peake, Ohio and Southwestern, thirty
miles north of Memphis, one night
recently. The names of the dead are
Daniel Hawkins, Graham White, Ed-
ward Hall, John Hayes, Robert
Haynes and William Warner. They
were under arrest, in charge of two
two dectectives.
At Hoboken, N. J., a few evenings
since Paul Genz shot Miss Clara Ar-
nim, his sweetheart, five times in the
head, killing her instantly. On the
way to the station house Genz prat-
tled feebly: “Oh, my darling, I have
killed you. Yes, I’m guilty: I mur-
dered her. I shot her. I couldn’t
live without her. My Edelweiss! My
Edelweiss! Hang me, for I killed
her.”
In New York city one day recently
a woman aged 70 was evicted from
her home and camped out on the side-
walk. Another of the same age was
knocked down and run over by a hack.
A man of 75 jumped off a dock into
the East river. A woman of 80, a
patient in the almshouse on Black-
well’s Island, had tired of it all, and
her body was picked up in the river.
By the accidental upsetting of a
candle in a dwelling at Sata Manica,
Cal., recently, the 5-year-old son of
Mrs. R. Grims and the 3-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Dominique were
burned to death. The parents were
out walking. Upon their return they
found the charred remains of their
babies among the ashes, which alone
remained of the home.
At St. Louis, Mo., recently when
reproached by his wife for failure to
properly provide for his family,. Henry
Loosche, in a fit of anger, shot her
four times. The bullets lodged in her
head, shoulder and abdomen. Loosche
then shot himself twice and then cut
his throat. Both are at the city hos-
pital in a dying condition.
J. L. Bay was recently arrested at
Memphis, Tenn., and taken to Little
Rock, Ark., to answer four indict-
ments against him by the grand jury
of Pulaski county, Ark., charging him
with grand larceny and embezzlement
of sums ranging anywhere from $14,-
000 to $100,000 from the state treas-
ury.
A desperate fight occurred the other
night among tramps on a Lake Shore
freight train between South Bend and
LaPorte, Ind. Three men armed with
revolvers attacked others, throwing
one from the train. Seven miles west
another was robbed, thrown off and
badly hurt, and another was shot.
At Germanton, Pa., Jane Finley,
aged 20 years, was shot the other
night three times by Matthew Dun-
lap, 20 years old, her rejected lover.
Dunlap met the girl on the street and
shot her once in the breast and twice
in the back. Miss Finley is in a crit-
ical condition. Dunlap escaped.
As a result of the recent forest fires
in Minnesota, $1,000,000 can be added
to the amount of loss occasioned this
Beasor.. It is doubtful if $1,000,000
will cover the entire loss when the
Because her sister* imlaw did; not
call for her to attend the wedding of*
her brother-in-law, Mrs. Lydia Per-
ringer of St. Louis, Mo., took paris;
green with suicidal intent.
Albert Perrin of Perrin & Co.,stamp
dealers, is resisting extradition at
Albany, N. Y. He is charged with
taking $10,000 worth of diamonds in
San Francisco in 1884.
Abbe Brenau, formerly vicar of the
Church of Entremay, convicted of
murder of Abbe Fricot, was executetWraF
at Lavad, France, a few days ago.
Forest fires in Wisconsin and Michi-
gan caused a dense volume of smoke
to settle over lake Michigan recently,
rendering navigation dangerous.
The rupture in the domestic rela-
tions of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vander-
bilt, of New York, have reached the
point of separation and divorce.
There is a serious division of senti-
ment in the national Democratic com-
mittee as to the charactor of cam-1
paign literature to be sent out.
Deer and partridges are so abund-
ant east of Rutland, Vt., that farmers
are demanding damages from game
clubs for loss of crops.
There is not more than $220,000 of
mortgages in Oklahoma county, O.
K. Not more than $100,000 is on the
farms in the county.
Alfred May of St. Louis, because of
unhappy relations with his wife, re-
cently took “Rough on Rats,” thus
committing suicide.
Democrats and Populists of Iowa
have effected a combination which
may defeat Congressman Dolliver, the
Republican.
The grand jury failed to indict the
men arrested for the tar-and-feather
outrage on Adjutant-General Tarsney
of Colorado.
Two-thirds of the village of Wetzell,
Mich., including a big woodenware
factory, was destroyed by fire a short,
time since.
Mrs. Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt
Armstrong Downs is recovering, and
nobody believes that she is “about 75
years old.”
James C’Connor and John A. Shan-
non have been arrested at Chadron,
Neb., for murdering a companion for
his money.
Seventeen thousand citizens voted
to abolish the house of lords at a mass
meeting held in London a few even-
ings since.
An ear of corn eleven inches long
and with eighteen rows is the best
thing Henry county, Mo., could do
this year.
damage to standing pine and loss to
is estimated.
The international peace congress
adopted a resolution instructing the
international bureau to approach the
various European governments with
a view of putting a stop to the war
between China and Japan.
J. R. McMillan, president of the
International Immigration society,
states that a contract has been closed
with an African steamship company
for the transportation of 500 negro
colonists to Liberia.
A railroad between Coalzacoalcos
and Saline Cruz, Mexico, which opens
a new means of transportation be-
tween the Gulf of Mexico and the Pa-
cific coast, has been completed re-
cently.
At Chicago one day not long since
three robbers entered S. Franklin’s
picture frame factory while he was
at lunch, covered the office boy with
revolvers and robbed the till of $1100
Under the new tariff bill Michigan
furniture manufacturers expect to sue
I cessfully compete with England.
China is collecting a large army at
Pekin. The government by decree
has made the banks lend her 10,000.-
000 taels.
A Polo, 111., ordinance prohibiting
the soliciting of orders for goods for
future delivery has been held to be
invalid.
According to the report of Commis-
sioner Seymour, 21,496 patents were
issued during the year, and 13,187
expired.
Flames starting from an unknown,
cause destroyed property in South
Bend, Ind., recently, valued at $25,-
000.
Lee Lam, a Chinese storekeeper at
Kansas City, Mo., who failed some
time since, has been adjudged insane.
Hon. L. P. Morton has signified his
willingness for the Republicans to
elect him governor of New York.
A stage coach rolled down a hill
near Meeker, Colo., recently. Its five
occupants were badly injured.
Nancy Hanks has lost her laurels.
Robert J. has made a mile in 2:03| on
the Fort Wayne, Ind., course.
Monday, September 3, was labor
day and was generally celebrated
throughout the country.
In a recent fire in New York two
lives were lost and $17,000 worth of
property was destroyed.
Two Kentuckians fought aduel with
knives over the Breckinridge cam-
paign and one is dead.
The abdication of King Alexander
of Servia in behalf of his father, Milan,
is said to be imminent.
Congressman William L. Wilson of
West Virginia has been renominated
by the Democrats.
The native press of Shanghi claim
several victories for Chinese arms
over the Japanese.
In a recent head end collission at
Camden, N. J., two passengers were
instantly killed.
There have been twenty-one cholera .
deaths in the village of Nidzwedzen, H
East Prussia.
Serious troubles have broken out in:
Peru, and the habeas corpus has been
suspended.
Somebody stole a Bible from a
church near Carterville, Mo., a few
days ago.
Charles Greer, the famous Missis-
sippi counterfeiter, has been arrested
at last.
A small cyclone did considerable
damage at Louisville, Ky., a few days
since.
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