Jacksonville Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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JACKSONVILLE,
TEXAS,
M-L OVER THE STATE,
interesting: Cnllings on Various Subject*
Taken from tlia Daily Dress.
MAN FOUND INJUBED.
ONE SIDE OF HIS HEAD IS
SCALPED CLEAN
the People’s Building and Loan asso- ATT AVPB THE WORLD
ciation, whose accounts are supposed U YV
to be short, had been placed undei
Ho is Supposed to Have Been Struck
by a Train—Will Moseley and George
I.yne Fight at Palestine—A Karnes
County Duel Results Fatally.
To the teachers and students in the
State of Texas: As you know, Emory
was almost destroyed by a cyclone on
March 17 last. It blew away our
school building with the rest. We
had it just completed and newly
•seated, and at the time of its destruc-
tion we owed on it over $1100. We
ask that each teacher in the state
take up a collection in his school and
send to us to enable us to get a new
house, as we are not able ourselves
to pay for one and the time is now
here for our school to begin. Send
<us what you can, be it ever so small,
and you will receive the gratitude of
a ijeedy and grateful people. If any
person in the state feels disposed to
aid us in this hour of need it will be
gratefully received. Prof. D. F.
Sutherland, principal Emory high
school.
J. N. Cardwell of Nolan county re-
cently brought to Sweetwater thirty-
six young ratilesnakes about twelve
twelve inches long each. One of this
number was only about nine inches
long, but had two separate and dis-
tinct heads and tails. Their bodies
came together about four inches from
the heads and making only one body
for about two and a half inches and
then separated into two tails of two
and a half inches in length. He killed
all but eight, which got away. The
mother had five rattles only.
Part of a freight train broke loose
at Mineola recently and going down
the hill collided with a mixed train at
the crossing on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road. Ike Carter, head
brakeman on the Katy, was instantly
killed; Andy Metcalf, engineer, and
A. Wagner, fireman, on the Katy en-
gine, were shocked and slightly
bruised; Miss Mattie Weaver of
Gainesville, a passenger on the Katy
train, was slightly bruised on the
forehead.
The town of Point Isabel, on the
Laguna Madre, Cameron county, was
recently swept by a severe cyclone.
Several houses were unroofed and
wore tossed a hundred feet in the air,
falling 200 yards away twisted and
broken. One house was lifted from
its blocks and set down some distance
away, the family within being un-
harmed. No one was injured, but
much damage was done to property.
Charles H. Lednum of Dallas has
filed suit in Tarrant county district
court against Morgan Jones and John
D. Moore, as receivers of the Fort
Worth and Denver City railway com-
pany, for damages in the sum of $11,-
000. It is alleged that Mrs. Lednum
was seriously injured by a train fall-
ing over an embankment near Tus-
cosa on June 11, 1894.
The breach of promise suit brought
by Battie McAnally for Effie Jones vs.
W. S. Knuckles came up in the dis-
trict court at Henrietta recently. A
large number of witnesses for both
sides were in attendance. Some
startling testimony was disclosed.
The jury rendered a verdict for the
plaintiff for $2000 actual and $1000
pecuniary damages.
It is said that within the next few
days a call will be issued by the heads
of the different railroad organizations
for a convention of railway men to be
held in Fort Worth or Dallas during
October. The meeting will be for the
purpose of discussing at length the
recent order of the Union PaciOc
which forbids its men to take part in
politics.
It is said that a large agricultural
company will on October 1 make Fort
"Worth its southwestern supply depot,
and that on December 1 a wholesale
hat house, rated at $300,000, will
open a branch house there.
Civil Engineer Wisner of ..Detroit,
Mich., arrived at Quintana recently
to begin a survey of the river and
jetty works for parties interested in
property there and at other points in
Brazoria county.
A party of gentlemen and ladies in
buggies encountered a nest of yellow
jackets near Jasper recently by turn-
ing out of the road to get around a
bad place. All were stung, but no
further trouble.
At Waxahachie one night recently
while on his way to a party, Tommie
Gris ter slipped off a bridge and broke
his left arm again, which had just
healed from a brake received from a
previous fall.
A pistol in the pocket of Joe Light-
foot, a colored boy, at Fort Worth
one night recently was accidentally
discharged. The ball entered the
ankle and was cut from the bottom ei
the foot.
At Terrell a few days since, white
working with a blow-off cock on i
locomotive at the Midland shops, Jim
De Shields was badly scalded about
the face and fiis eyes were painfully
injured.
Temple, Tex., Sept. 19.—Near the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas depot
yesterday morning a man was found
badly injured, presumably having
been struck by a train. Nearly one
whole side of his head was scalped
and there were two deep wounds near
the left ear. He was nearly dead
when found and was brought to the
office of the company’s physician,
who dressed his wounds. The man
gives his name as S. V. Brookfield
and says his father is I. N. Brook-
field and that he lives at Gainesville.
The wounded man has papers show-
ing that he was a section boss on the
Santa Fe at Crawford. When in-
jured he was making his way to a
farm where he had engaged to pick
cotton. He refuses to return to his
home and threatens to destroy him-
self if he cannot get out and go to
work.
A Palestine Figlit,
Palestine, Tex., Sept. 19.—Will
Mosely and George Lyne became in-
volved in a difficulty in a saloon here
yesterday morning, and after hot
words and a few blows they proceeded
to a vacant lot on Spring street, where
Mosely suddenly turned on Lyne with
his knife, stabbing him in the top of
the right shoulder and cutting a gash
about three inches long and not quite
to the hollow in his right side. The
wounds are painful but not dangerous.
Mosely was promptly arrested, but in
a few moments afterward he broke
and ran from the officer and was not
captured until rfter a race of nearly a
mile. Fie was placed in jail and will
have a hearing this morning. Both
parties are well known in railroad
circles.
arrest by the Mexican authorities,
i the news being brought by visitor!
’ to that city who returned yesterday.
Mr. Lucy left here before the requi-
sition papers for Suttler were issued,
it being understood that they should
be sent him the next day, and th«
supposition is that upon his arrival
in Monterey, finding Suttler about tc
depart, he precipitated a scrap with
him which led to the detention o:
both parties, thus giving the docu-
mentary authority for Suttler’s ar-
rest and return to Austin time tc
reach Monterey.
Fought to a Finish.
Gatesville, Tex., Sept. 17.—Satur-
day morning about 8 o’clock a streel
duel was fought with 38-caliber pis-
tols between J. L. Goodman, editor ol
the People’s Voice, and B. Y. Arm-
strong, editor of the Gatesville Star,
in which both gentlemen received
shots which caused death almost in-
stantly. Goodman was shot in the
left leg just above the ankle and
through the heart. Armstrong was
shot in the right side just below the
heart, the ball lodging in the left side
just under the skin. J. J. Beeman, a
bystander, was shot in the back oi
the head, and while the wound is bad,
it is not thought toQbe fatal.
HAPPENINGS OF GENERAL IN-
TEREST TO ALL.
A Comprehensive Epitome of Serious
and Sensational Sortings Condensed
from all the Leading Dailies for the
Fast Week.
Plarry Snyder, who travels over
the southwest with a large peddlers’
Wagon and supplies small stores with
notions for a St. Louis house, was
held up and robbed by highwaymen
twenty miles southwest of Guthrie,
O. T., the other night. They took
his entire stock of goods and loaded
them into a wagon; also stole his
watch and a large sum of money
which he had collected from custom-
ers and then tied him fast in the
wagon so he could not give the alarm.
Charles Rector and a boy named
Morris, while inspecting a cave six
miles east of Bristol, Term., discov-
ered two skeletons forty feet below
the surface. The cave had long been
known, but no one had ever ventured
to explore its great depth. In all ten
skeletons were taken out and were
adjudged to be the bones of women
and children. One skeleton was
The difficulty occurred over a news- j f°u“d in. a ,sittlnS posture, with a
paper controversy of some months’ fkull resting inithe arms, which-were
duration between the two editors. 11J f°lded across the knees.
is said that Armstrong fired the firs 1
shot, but it is almost impossible tc
get the straight of it. Armstrong was
a member of the local lodge of Odd
Fellows and will be buried by that
order. Goodman carried a life insur-
ance policy for $2000, and Beeman,
the wounded man, a policy of $1000.
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A terrible state of excitement exists
in and around Antlers, I. T. A gen-
tleman from Antlers says that the
Choctaws who recently committed
murder in Cedar county over the
Choctaw election have threatened to
kill all witnesses against them, which
has so alarmed the witnesses that they
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The combatants stood high in this have left their homes and gone into
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A Mexican Murdered.
Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 14.—At
10 o’clock Wednesday night the life-
less body of a Mexican named Vingino
Vargas was found in the suburbs of
this city. The body was stabbed in
twelve places, The murder was re-
ported by a woman, Teresa Calaana,
who lives near the house where the
murder was committed. Suspicion
pointed to a woman and two men who
live with her, as the murdered man
was a witness against her brother,
who is now on trial in the district
court for cattle theft. The trio were
at once arrested and the case is now
being investigated by the grand jury.
A Karnes County Duel.
Kenedy, Tex., Sept. 19.—Monday-
evening Bill Bos worth and Sam Brad-
ley met R. E. Burris and Theo. and
Foster Butler. There had been bad
feeling between some of the men.
Six or eight shots were fired. The
horses attached to the wagon in
which Bosworth and Bradley were
riding became frightened and galloped
along the road and stopped at the
house of Bradley’s father, when Bos-
worth was found to be dead and Brad-
ley mortally wounded. Neither Bur-
ris nor Butler were hit.
Stepped Into a Boiling: Vat.
Palestine, Tex., Sept. 18.—Jesse
Wallace, a negro, fell with one leg in
a vat of boiling water at the ice fac-
tory some ten days ago, scalding his
leg'up to the thigh. Nothing much
was thought of it at the time, but the
flesh is falling from the bone and his
condition is reported as such that he
cannot live.
camp at Antlers, where they will ho
near Locke, to whom they look for
protection. They are expecting to he
attacked at any time.
A frightful runaway occurred in a
funeral party near Irondale, O., re-
city. both being prominent members
of the church and both leaving fam-
ilies.
A Narrow Escape.
Sherman, Tex., Sept. 15.-—About ]
a. m. yesterday cries of fire, fire, :
awoke * Warden Wilkins and the cently, in which fifteen persons were
guards at the alms house and on in- j injured. While the cortege was re-
vestigation they found the alarm tc turning from the cemetery one team
be from the cell or room occupied by frightened, dashed into another car-
Ed Gray, an inmate of the hospital, riage, wrecking it and causing the
A bright blaze in another apartment, second team to run. Both dashed
that of Charles Cook, showed the into teams in front and four teams
cause. The walls were already ig- plunged down a steep hill, completely
nited from the nearly consumed pile wrecking the vehicles and throwing
of bed clothes, and Cook’s face and the occupants under the horses’ feet.
hands were badly blistered. Water ( Mrg< Charles Garret, aged 26, was
V, -...... | Mrs. Charles Garret, aged 20, was
applied from bucket and hose SOODi murdered at her home in Lebannon,
had the blaze uuder coutrol, though ~ ■- - - -
in just a little while the whole
of the endangered section, in
the construction of which wood was
Pa., recently, by her husband, who
cut her throat from ear to ear. Gar-
ret had just been released from the
the construction of which woou wa® j eastern penitentiary after serving
used, would have been m a blaze, and j three and half s for assaulting
the lives of the five lunatics end an-; jgrael jjnrht and arrived at Lebanon
gered. Cook had found a match m from Philadelphia at night. He went
the open court m which they are al-. tQ hig wite,g house and killed her. He
lowed to exercise. He implored the egcaRed and is etill at large,
warden not to send for the physician,
unless it was to have something ad-
ministered that would kill him, and
escaped and is still at large.
At Washington, Thomas Taylor, 33
„„„„ .... ......... .... years of age, killed his wife, who was
repeatedly expressed a desire to die. j 25 years old, by shooting her recently
He is the same man who recently ! with a pistol, which he then turned
jumped head-foremost into a deep on himself. Taylor’s wound is not
Enoch Davis, the wile murderer,
was executed at Lehi Junction, Utah,
a few davs ago. He was placed in ss>
chair and blindfolded, and at a signal
six soldiers shot him, firing through a
loophole in the tent. He died in three
minutes.
Alexander Shields’ stable, near
Bound Brook, N. J., was entered dur-
ing the night recently and its prize
stallion, valued at $15,000, stolen.
The horse, ridden by a negro, was
seen passing through town during the
night.
The Middle Georgia and Atlantic
railroad was sold at auction at Savan-
nah, recently, under foreclosure.
The road was bought by the syndicate-
holding the foreclosure mortgage. It
will be operated as heretofore.
The lawsuit with reference to the
hacienda ot El Zapotal between E. J.
Surley & Co. and J. A. Mackey of.
Texas has been decided by the su-
preme court at Jalapa in favor of Sur-
ley & Co.
The Lexow legislative committee of
New York are unearthing and expos-
ing a world of villainy of every kind,
which has been going on in New York
city for years under police protection.
The working men generally in
Chicago are, it is said, joining the
People’s party. Candidates for
congress, state senate and legislature
have been nominated by them.
Capt. W. P. Bridgeman of the war-
ship Baltimore died at Tacoma,
Wash., recently of Asiatic cholera.
He contracted the disease while in.
China a short time ago.
The Lexow committee has discov-
ered testimony showing that certain
police officers in New York have hab-
itually protected green goods men.
Forty thousand men who fought to
save the union marched through the
cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny,
Pa., during the recent reunion.
The Chinese army in Corea is in
had shape. The general is incompe-
tent, the officers disheartened, the
men exhausted and dispirited.
The Chinese agents are offering
bribes to soldiers of the British gar-
rison to induce them to desert and
enter the Chinese service.
The officials have discovered in Sic-
ily a vast association of sheep stealers
having branches all over the island..
Arrests are being made.
On his fifth trial William G. French
has been convicted of murder at Ash-
land, Wis., and sentenced to sixteen,
years’ imprisonment.
A dispatch from Rome says that at
the consistory in December Satoli will
receive the red hat and will then leave
the United States.
Agricultural depression in England!
is shown by the fact that a farm "
rented for years for $6000 a year n<
well, but escaped practically unhurt.
dangerous, however, because his wife
pulled his arm to one side just as he
was about to put a bullet through his
This' heart. Jealousy was the cause.
A Bold Act.
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 17
morning about 1 o'clock a party en- j oR tank 0n a west-bound freight
tered the home of Mr. Hanway at 261 train on the Chicago, St. Paul, Min-
South Harwood, chloroformed Mr. neapolfe and Omaha railroad exploded
Hanway and tied a young lady by the near Roberts, Wis., recently, burn-
wrist with one of her garments. The . up two freight cars and a ca-
young lady screamed and her mother bo&ose_ While the passengers were
ran to the room and found a man on , • .------*-■— ^ --------^
the bed by the side of her. As soon
as she entered the room he ran
through the front door and escaped
He entered through a
burglar took Mr. Hanway’s pocket-
being transferred around the wreck
another tank exploded and scattered
the burning oil broadcast. Several
and escaped, j peopie were badly burned,
window. The | 1
A white man was found the other
Shot Himself.
Itasca, Tex., Sept. 18.—A report
came in yesterday morning that Henry
H. Johnson, living two miles west of
this place, had shot himself through
the head with a Winchester. The
cause is thought to have been political
and religious overwork. He leaves a
wife and seven children to mourn his
loss.
Another Bobbery.
Waeldeu, Tex., Sept. 18.—A. W.
Wright, a white citizen of the Possum
Trot neighborhood, while returning
home early at night with $85, was
robbed at Pecan bridge, four miles
out. Papers were sworn out charg-
ing G. W. Hamon and George Page,
both colored, with the robbery.
Both were arrested and jailed.
Counterfeit Silver.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 19.—A
number of counterfeit dollars are in
circulation here and the federal au-
thorities are investigating them. They
are all dated 1872 and on first sight
appear to be well executed, but are
lighter than a genuine dollar and have
not tlie proper ring.
book and went through other rooms morning on the Memphis and Charles
looking for money. Officers are in ton railroad just outside the city-
pursuit of the scoundrel.
limits of Memphis, Tenn., with his
throat cut from ear to ear and almost
Tragedy as Winchester. speechless. He gave his name as
Winchester, Tex., Sept. 15.—Jerry Paul Burke and says that he was cut
Beaseley killed Manuel Johnson about by John Fletcher, who has not been
10 o’clock Thursday night at this arrested. Burke’s condition is crit-
place. Beaseley had been down town ical.
and on returning home found Johnson j R R R Woodward a rich man was
in the house. After some words be- j tbr0WG jn Richmond street jail,
tween them Beaseley drew his pistol Brookl n y., recently for a trival
and fired three times, two of the shots offenge> He did not try' to get bail
taking effect with the above result. ; at once> butj wanted to test the offi-
Beaseley gave himself up to an officer | c^a|g> B payments of small sums he
and was granted *a preliminary hear- j had a carpeted room, splendid grub,
mg ana his oond fixed at $o00. _ I he , of wkisky, and the freedom of
prisoner, however, preferred going to j gtreets witkout bail,
jail. He will oe removed to LaGrange.
" - • ' Recently near Daravala bridge,
Both parties are colored.
Feet Mashed.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 18.
day morning Newt Griffin was run
over by a switch engine on the South-
ern Pacific track near Vick’s stock
yards above the city and both feet
were mashed nearly off at the ankle.
He was brought to St. Joseph’s in-
Hoonah city, India, the Mohamme-
dans listening to the reading of the
Yester-1 Koran in mosque objected to the mu-
sic of a Hindoo procession. The latter
persisted and a fight lasting three
hours followed, during which the
mosque was sacked. One man was
killed and many injured.
Some time since an Indian named
ulvu6„. to ~---• some ume since au xuuiau u#uicu
firm ary, but up to a late hour had | Applegate was wading in Biddle pond
not rallied and can hardly live. He in Choctaw county. I. T., spearing
had been in the employ of Mr. Tay- j figb> While the Indian was thus en-
lor, but at the time of the accident j „acred an immense alligator gar ran
was out of work. He has a wife and ! • with sword-nointed snout
one child,
friends.
penniless and without
Arrested in Mexico.
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 18—It was re-
ported here yesterday that Detective ------ .. ---------------
Lucy, who went to Monterey a few j viously warned by an anonymous let
days ago after Secretary Suttler of j ter to leave.
White caps at Work.
Velasco, Tex., Sept. 15.—A letter
from the town of Columbia says nine
44-caliber bullets were fired a few
nights ago through the house of a
Hebrew merchant who had been pre-
into him with sword-pointed snout
and pierced him through the stom-
ach, causing death in a few hours.
The murder of Horace Philley. near
Reno mountain, Arizona, a few days
ago. has been found to be the work of
the famous -‘Kid.” Sheriff Thompson
is hard on the track with a strong
posse, so that the speedy killing or
capt,are of the Apache murderer seems
probable.
brings but $1500.
Matthew- Whatly is reported to have
been burned to death in Randolph;
county, Aal., by moonshiners he had
run to earth.
Delegates from thirty-five labor
organizations in New- York city met
and resolved to vote the People’s
party ticket.
B. F. Haggerman, son of a Phila-
delphia millionaire, w-as arrested in
Chicago on a charge of robbery a few
days since.
The state department has been no-
tified of the alleged unwarranted ar-
rest of American missionary teachers
in Turkey.
Col. Thomas G. Lawler of Illinois
was elected commander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic at,
Pittsburg.
The sultan of Turkey has given 300
Turkish pounds for the relief of the
sufferers from the forest fires in Min-
nesota.
Many governors of states denounce'
the English committee that has come
here to investigate southern lynch-
ings.
. There is talk of the organization:
by race-horse owners of a great co-
operative racing associatien or trust.
All the Russian thistles within
twenty miles of Fremont, Neb., have
been pulled up and ted to the hogs.
•Thousands of happy children shut,
out of school for lack of room,” says
a late New York paper.
The train dispatchers want a law
requiring' ail dispatchers to have a
government license.
Too much rain at Duck Hill, Miss. A.
for the good of cotton, and farmer*
have the -‘blues.”
Specials from northeastern Nebras-
ka and western Iowa report killing
frosts.
Snow fell in Nebraska a few days,
ago. It was followed by a heavy
rain.
Texarkana, Ark., is about to secure^
a big wooden ware factory.
During recent floods in Spain se^
eral lives were lost.
The late flood at Lucknow, India,
did much damage.
In Galicia 120 deaths are reported
from cholera.
McKeesport, Pa., is 100 years old-
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