Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 42, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 24, 1891 Page: 1 of 8
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Xfi ak A Si s 5
VWIWW
fast Kepilblicaus
Pacific cni l Republicans have rallied
vid o day arc uiuiiuiichii with treat conli
iicthai they < about to secure the
th < they have been lighting for ever since
a inlustration began They claim to
i at ahfnruii i > to have a cabinet ofti
c a > d tliat i tie lucky man is AI At Kstee
o i the chairman of the natioual Ke
rihcan convention which nominated Har-
rison The California men claim the presi
bas had his eyes opened by the trip to
nonia and he sees the necessity of hav
auviser from the Iacilic coast in his
caoiet
> when this cabinet was first made
as talked ol for a place but he wanted
oi ner the attorneygeneralship or interior
p foiin and neither of these could bo given
loliini liut as Attorncy General Miller is to
ii tin new court trench a place is made
or bun to his liking and California men
a i he is to have it
Miiri Territory
it begins lo look as if President Harrison
n l about to try the temper of the country
lamiinga policy of acquisition in the
huK it infusing something like spirit into
i itoiiI ol his administration From
I uropped seniioilicially and by persons
s unused to be very guarded iu their titter
am in all iuestiousof policy it is learned
a small schemes of annexation in both
lie Atlantic and Pacific oceans are about to
brought forward The island of St
I linnias which was once reached for is
i > w desired again and there is talk of an
Tort In iovive the last Hawaiian trcrtyof
1iar teal cession of the Sandwich inlands
D Mole St Nicholas and Samaiia bay aro
i be only points in the West indies that
thf administration has in view for possible
tnai satiotts Longing eyes are again
ik n cast in the direction of the island of
s Thomas which is to the eastward of the
r and of lli vli and more directly in the
cvsi in route of steamer lines through the
Vest liulies and directly in the track that
v be followed by European vessels to the
> H uigua canal
Ilie advantages of St Thomas over St
> ti hulas Morlo ale chielly that it can be
mure easily defended and that it is mani
ts better to have a naval station on
i o < ii States territory than on territory
in longing lo another nation which might
tit olve courtesy more or loss in tho affairs
t that nation There is no disposition to
uDiidon MnU St Nicholas and if there is
tii hiiiv of getting the former the latter
vi I not no dropped Possession of both
v mid not be undesirable as the mole com
le outs the windward passage while St
r nimas commands the passage of the east
a > d the Mona passage on the west
Disgruntled Leaders
The old standbys of the Republican party
iu Massachusetts are very much disgrun
ea at the nomination of young Mr Allen
ne see themselves in the near future de
I rived of political power and leadership
i driven Irom office as well It is a dreary
ista for tbem to look down Mr Crapo
lias been seeking the governorship for
any vcars and his failurethis time makes
virv certain that he will never enjoy the
st met inn of governing tbe old common
peath It is more than likely that with
Hoar Dawes Crapo and a number of others
tin ancient regime either lukewarm or
i iuv opposing the ticket that Governor
l issel will be reelected and Alassachu
si almost safely placed in the Democratic
Cul ri
loict ltumiing Weil
In Iowa Governor Boies is making a vig
ormis canvass The adoption by the Rc
pjblicaus in their platform of the prohibi
ii idea and their determination to stand
weakens the party wonderfully Mr
U heeler the Republican candidate is a
fimer and cannot make a speech of any
hunt but rocs around talking to the people
while his running mate for lieutenantgov
nor is a lecturer of the Farmers Alliance
He was nominated on iiis soldier record
f appeals that he served a few months
ir the cnse of the war in a Missouriregi
nt and that without anv distinction-
s nee that time he lias tried several things
fruling among them but was always a
f i tire lie will probably fail to be electe d
eutenantgovcrnor of Iowa
A Pierre llattic
Jovcrnor Campbell returned ttr Ohio
from the scacoast with renewed health and
Vigor and opened his campaign in a spien
itui spec Ii He showed the iniquities of
InMihmlev bill and also bow Maj Me
Kmlev the author of the bill was attempt
ig tododge a discussion of it which would
not be permitted He then showed that
while McKinlcy was now so bitterly de-
nouncing silver coinage lie bad for years
been an advocate of it and voted for the bill
passed In the last congress Quite a num-
ber of distinguished leaders have gone to
dlao to assist iovornor Campbell in bis
< aiivass and it is probable that fully as
manv Republican speakers from other
sates will assist McKinlcy The battle
here is going to be a very tierce one
Campaign Opened
The canvass in New York was opened on
the Republican side by Mr Fassett and
Mr Vroouian at the Brooklyn opera house
They both speak and are both good and
ngressivo lighters The Democrats will
have to be on the lookout and do splendid
work in that citv because Fassett is a born
politician with plenty of money bmius uud
nerve and is ambitious to liecome the young-
est governor New York has had except
one and that was Governor William II
Seward LieutenantGovernor Jones too
is making some trouble for the party but it
is not probable that it will amount to a
great deal There is some dissatisfaction
nlso among the County Democrats and the
Stechler Democrats but all these matters
will be arranged before the election time
and the Democratic ticket will probably ob-
tain its usual majority
Kn lii11 Interference
The English government is interfering in
the affairs of the Sandwich Islands Since
the building of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way and the establishment of lines of
steamers running from tbe ports on Van
coiiver sound to Japan China India and
Australia it has become very desirable for
England to secure possession of tho Sand-
wich Islands or the great port of Honolulu
where tho navies of the world could be
sheltered and forts built which would pro-
tect them from any outside attack The
fBc
tiaited States cannot allow England to ac-
quire any sort of foothold on the Sandwich
Islands The effort to do so will be a suffi-
cient cause for war een if it could not be
prevented ia any other way
Looks Like Murder
Special to tho Gazette
Ttlei SviiTn County Tex Sept 23
Yesterday afternoon two negro men were
gathering and hauling corn on Dr Douglas
farm about four miles southeast of the
city One of them was a negro wiio be-
longed permanently on tho place and tho
otlnr was a sort of tramp whom D Doug
las had hired to work a few days Some-
time in the afternoon tho strange negro
went to the house reported to Dr Douglas
that the team had gotten into a yellow
jackets nest ran away and threw the
driver out kicking him under the wagon
and the wagon ran over him Dr Douglas
went into the tiield and found the negro
dead
He did not make a closo examination of
the wounds but thinking about the matter
later on he did examine the wounds and
concluded that they were not made as the
strange negro had stated Dr Douglas sent
to town for officers Justice of the Peace
Smith this morning held an inquest which
resulted in the arrest of tho strange negro
who was brought in and placed in jail this
morning An examining trial may result iu
dovelopins the real facts Everv thing dis-
covered so far points to foul murder
llrotliers Charged wltn Murder
Special to the Gazette
Texakkaxa Bowie Coustv Tex Sept
2 Tho sheriff and posse returned this
morniug from Roberts station the scene of
yesterdays killing with two young men
George and John Oldham brothers iu
charge as the suspected murderers of E
M Roberts The Oldhams deny their
guilt and there is nothing hut circum-
stantial evidence so far against them
They were placed in jail
FAIR AT BONHAM
FANNIN COUNTY PPODUCTS
MAKE A GOOD SHOW
Tlio tJovernor ami stair Will Attend
IrieR Awarded Several iouit
Jtaced Competitive Drill
Tannin County Zair
Special to the Gazette
Bumiam Fannin Coixtv Tex Sept
J Tho Fannin county fair opened today
with a good attendance Weather line and
promises lo continue so The Greenville
Fifth regiui ent band is here and discours-
ing sweet music to an appreciative crowd
They will give free concerts nightly during
the fair at music hall The agricultural
hall looms up grandly and it is enough to
make a man hungry and cause his mouth to
water to walk through it The fruit dis-
play is tho line = t we oversaw There are
fruits of all kinds artistically arranged in
large glass jars pears of various kinds
apricots plums grapes peaches strawber-
ries raspberries quinces figs apples etc
of all varieties Some of the apples and
peaches weigh over sixteen ounces There
are ripe tomatoes as large as saucers wa-
termelons weighing from sixty to seventy
six pounds lieets onions red pepper
goobers corn sixty ears of which will
shell a bushel stalks of corn with two and
three fullgrown ears bundles of barley
wheat oats millet potatoes of all kinds
pumpkins squashes and so on ad infinitum
I saw a cotton stalk with over 150 full
grown bolls and as many squares The
scene surprised the average Fannin county
man For best standard bred trotting stallion
Noble Mont owned by Mullins Redman
took lirst premium Robin Wood owned
byA B Scarborough took second pre-
mium
Best standard trotting mare Winnie
Woodford owned by Air Edmunson of
Sherman took lirst premium
1 lien followed the races Tiireemiuuto
pace one mile best three out of live heats
three entries Hal Bostick Dollie W and
Dinelle
Fiiot heat Won by Doilie W Time
2 J
JSecond
Second heat Won by Hal Bostick Time
24 Third heat Won by Dollie W Time
2S4 = j
Fourth heat Won by Hal Bostick Time
240Fifth
Fifth heat Won by Hal Bostick Time
20j
Half mile dash entries Bob Purdy
Trixy Gardner Jim Ollic Leamington
Big John Red Buck and Cut Off Dollie
Raco won by Trixy Gardner lirst Bob
Purdy second and Leamington third
Time
Four v earold stake
Mont Richelieu and
best three out of live
trot entries Noble
Casket One mile
First heat Won by Noble Alont
241Second
Second heat Won by Richelieu
240Third
Third heat Won bv Richelieu
23V <
Fourth heat Won bv Richelieu
23There
There was some heavy betting
Time
Time
Time
Time
on this
race One pool table lost 400 successively
on the lirst two heats and got sick and quit
Much money changed hands on the races
today
The balloon took lire and it was by the
utmost exertions the flames wero smoth-
ered It was about onethird inflated when
tiie lire broke outand all hands turned loose
when it rose up in the air to a considerable
distance fell to the ground and the flames
subsided The professor says he will have
it repaired by tomorrow and will certainly
make the ascension The governor and
staff will be here Friday
Kecoril Day
Special to the Gazette
Boniiam Fannin Countv Tex Sept
23 Wednesday the second day of tho fair
dawned bright and clear A slight shower
fell yesterday evening laying the dust and
cooling the atmosphere The Honey Grovo
Rifles the Greenville Zouaves and the Den
ison Rifles arrived this morning and went
into camp on the fair grounds These com-
panies arc eutcred for the competitive
drill The Honey Grove RUlcs drill this
evening
This is Honey Grove day and there is a
larger crowd in attendance than yesterday
Continuing my walk through the exposition
building which was filled with the sweet
strains of the Sixth regiment band who
are eighteen in number I next passed into
machinery hall Here I found machinery
of all kinds sewing machines buggies
carts wagons of various makes cooking
stoves heating stoves Doth wood and coal
plows and agricultural implements of all
kinds homemade bricks homemade furni-
ture and all taken together makes a sight
worth seeing and which should make every
citizen of Fannin county proud to know that
such enterprise exists among them
Lady Pendleton won tho pace and trot
race John Basie driver
Give Away won he threequarter mile
race Time 115 the best record in tho
state Newt McElroy driver
Miss Bettie won the threeyearold trot-
ting race T Chalsell driver
Wants Damages
Special to the Gazette
Galveston Tex Sept 23 The Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe railway company
was sued in the state district court today
by Patrick Purcell to recover 10000 dam-
ages to his person Purcell was a passen-
ger on the Santa Fe train that had a slight
collision with a switch engine in the yard a
few weeks ago and claims he was violently
thrown against the back of a seat and his
back injured to the above amount
xx t 4 j
GOOD FOR ARANSAS
Russel
Harrison and Wheeler
Talk for It
THE DREDGE TO GO TO WORK
Some Malicious Stories Denied About the
bor and the City
MILLS IN OHIO
Har
The Enterprise a Legitimate litislncYS Un-
dertaking and Kvery One Con-
nected With It Acting in
Good FaitlL
A Straight Talk
Special to the Gazette
New York Sept 23 Russell B Harri-
son was seen at his oftice in the Judge
building by a Gazette reporter this morn-
ing and was asked if he had anything to
say iu reply to the charges of fraud brought
against him in connection witli the Aransas
Harbor land company of which he is pres-
ident by a correspondent iu Texas of a-
New York newspaper He said there is
scarcely anything in the story as it ai >
peared that is true The enterprise is a
legitimate business undertaking and every-
one connected with the company is acting
in good faith I certainly have not be-
lieved and do not know that any officer of
the company in Texas made misrepresenta-
tions to induce people to buy lots in the
town The Aransas Pass harbor company
with which I have no connection agreed
after securing the privilege to do the work
from cougress to secure deep water for
the harbor and our town Our eempany in
order to assist agreed to give them a large
bonus iu land when deep water was se-
cured The leading spirits in the harbor
company are connected with the
San Antonio and Aransas Pass rail
road system This road passed into
the hands of a receiver unexpectedly to me
some months after I had taken tho presi-
dency of the town site company The fi-
nancial condition of this road and those con-
nected with it is duo to its being in the
hands of a receiver and the great Baring
failure of last fall which produced great
stringency in money over the country lias
very naturally delayed operations The
suspension of work on the dredge boat is
commented on as a sigu simply of failure
I have information from Texas that the
dredge boat will commence operations
again in a very short time and complete the
roadbed for the terminal railroad to tho
harbor and furnish a channel for vessels
from the natural deep water of the harbor
to the town
Goveruos Wheeler who stands very high
in public opinion inTexasreprescnted to me
in a letter received this morning that the
company has completely complied with
every promise made to those who have be-
come interested in it He writes vvv aro
doing all we can to contradict the malicious
stories and correspondence which appeared
and as will appear the statements recently
published are without foundatiou and are
made in malice We are satisfied we
will be able to bring to grief the
parties responsible for them While
all ot this is unpleasant we feel that
our condition will be shown so different
from what ese stories said that the fact
will redound veatly to the companys bene-
fit
Harrison aa iA A telegram from
Corpus Christi appearing this morning on
the subject is absolutely untrue Itcharges
that the enterprise is a failure and makes
other untrue statements Corpus Christi is
a town near Aransas harbor and there are
parties there who would do all they could to
break down ourenterprise out of jealousy
Jle Tlks Teiat to His ISuckeye ltrethreu
Governor Campbell
Present
Coixmbcs Onio Sept 23 Two thou-
sand people last night heard Roger Q Mills
who watits to be speaker and Congressman
Outhwaite who is also perfectly willing to
be called to preside over the deliberations
of the lower house of congress talk tariff
from a platform Governor Campbell sat
between the two congressmen and acted as
master of ceremonies and referee Intro
ducing Mills the governor said His name
is a household word wherever the people
are oppressed by the unjust and vexatious
tariff and is identified with the bill passed
by the representatives of the people and
defeated by representatives of the monop-
oly iu the senate which had it become a
law would have taken off some of the bur-
dens which have been riveted and fixed
upon the people by tho bill of a gentleman
who will never bo governor of Ohio
Modesty he added when the cheering
ended prevents me from mentioning the
name of the man who will be
Alills was in good spirits and apparently
on his mettle He varied his regular tariff
speech with quaint Texan remarks which
kept the audience in a roar as when he
said of the alleged benefit of the tariff to
workingmen The tariff helps the laborer
Why gentlemen the manufacturer ho gets
it iu his pocket book the laborer he gets it
in tho neck
Outhwaite spoke briefly and heard Mills
through and did not attempt to rival the
Texan either in logic or wit
LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS
A Fort Worth Young Man Succeeds iu Cap-
turing a Cooke County Lady
Special to the Gazette
Gainesville Cooke County Tex Sept
23 Last evening Air R L Davis a sales-
man in a grocery house at Fort Worth came
to town and procured a license for himself
and Aliss Kate Aledkipt to marry and re-
quested the county clerk to keep the facts a
secret He and Aliss Aledkipt who is an
accomplished young lady of nineteen and a
daughter of Capt W AI Aledkipt of Sivils
Bend have been engaged for some time but
her parents refused to consent to the mar-
riage Davis wrote to Aliss Aledkipt to
meet him near her house last night pre-
pared to elope but the letter fell into the
hands of her parents and they watched her
closely She finally managed to escaio
from the house but without her shoes She
turned the horses loose to prevent pursuit
and met Davis who had procured a car-
riage
Her flight was discovered by her par-
ents who sought her around the house
but the absence of the horses prevented ef-
fectual pursuit
Once in the carriago with her lover the
whip was plied and at 3 oclock this
morning the carriage stopped at the resi-
dence of Judge Hayworth in this city He
was hastily awakened and married the
couple while they sat in the carriage
Tho youug folkstook the 6 oclock train
south this morning
>
A MURDER REVEALED
A Mystery of Twelve Tears standing
cfeared
Special to the Gazette
Cherokee Kan Sept 2a Twelve years
ago George Cotz a farmer living east of
here was found in the road dead with a
gunshot wound in the back of his head
His face was beaten until it was past all
resemblance to a human face It was not
known that he had an enemy in the world
and as neither his team nor his money was
stolen the cause of the murder has been a
mystery Ivom that day to this The officers
A FATAL SHOT
made a search for the murderer in a j > or
functory way but not the slightest clew
was ever had to the perpetratorofthe deed
Cotz left a family of wife and two chil-
dren in fairly good circumstances and the
farm has been so well handled that they
aro now comfortably off The widow could
throw no light on the munlec1as she was
not aware that her husband had ever in-
jured anyone She knew of up wrong done
by him which would call fir siich ven-
geance
The mystery has now been cleared by the
confession of a man on his dying bed in
Minnesota William Wallace has been an
inmate of the state insane asylum for
twelve years He was found waudering on
the streets of Alinneapolis with blood on
his hands and was wildly demented There
was no possible means of identifying him
and he was sent to the insane asylum He
refused to give his name and during all
these many years has not said a word His
silence was known to be from obstinacy
and many efforts were made to induce him
to tell his name but without success About
two weeks ago he he became very ill and
rapidly sunk and died Just before he
died however lie appeared to recover his
lost reason and called the physiciau to his
side and asked if he had been arrested for
the murder He supposed he was in prison
and when told where ho was and how long
he had been there he told how he had met-
a farmer on the road near Cherokee Kan
and a sudden desire to kill aad jiossessed
him He shot the man and then mashed
his face to a jelly The confession was for-
warded to the officers here and the mystery
was solved
THE ALLEE HABEAS CORPUS
Now in 1rojjresH at San Antonio Some
2v ew Kvidenee and the Same Con-
tradicted Not Finished
Special to the Gazette
Sax Antonio Tex Sept 23 The ha-
beas corpus trial of Alfred Alice charged
with the murder of Editor Bowcn of the
Cotulla Ledger began today before Judge
W W King of the Fortyfifth district
court
Alices counsel introduced a man who did
not appear at the original trial His
name is William Stanley and ho
lives in Shelliy county Tex He
swore that he was on the train
on the day of the killing and iu a position
to see every detail of the tragedy Alice
lie said entered the car and walked down
the aisle shaking hands with ono or two
friends As ho neared Bowcn the latter
arose from his seat iu a stooping ivosition
pistol in hand and fired point blank at
Allee This was the first shot of the af-
fray Allee then drew his weapon and the
killing of the editor followed
All efforts to shake Stanleys testimony
were vain
Gus Dryfus a drummer for the Dallas
paper company and Julius Hasting travel-
ing for a San Antonio house llatlv contra-
dicted Stanleys testimony They swore
that Allee tired the first shot and that
Bo wen did not fire at all
The trial will last a couple of days longer
Allee who has been in jail since he was
denied bail at the pielimiuary examination
in Pearsall is pale with his long confine-
ment but otherwise unhurt His wife and
children are here
Col
VELASCO
W L Maloue Tells What He Knows
by His Own In estimation of the
lort A Koomiu City
Special to the Gazette
Austin Tex Sept 23 Col W L
Alalone arrived hero today from Vclaseo
where he spent last week inspecting and
casting a horoscope of the future
great He says unqualifiedly that Yelasco
is the coming deep water port of the
gulf He goes further ami says that
there is no doubt about it It is a deep-
water part now the depth on the bar now
being by his own measurement seventeen
feet four inches The conditions are such
that a channel that will admit vesses of
deepest draught will soon be a fact ac
accomplished
The greatest activity exists in the new
town and property is booming The new
hotel will be opened Friday and business-
men are there laying the foundations for
industries of various kinds
Among them a sash door and blind fae
tory and a bottling works Piledrivers
are sinking cypress piles in tho river for
wharves and slips and the railroad con-
necting Yelasco with the Brazoria tap of the
International and Great Northern will be
completed November 1 Ten million feet
of lumber have recently been received for
building including crossties for the rail-
road and extensive preparations are being
made for the great sale of lots in November
Yelasco is tho Eli of gulf ports and
winged insects shuu it as mortals do
plague
MUST PAY THE PENALTY
the
James Fisher Convicted at Cooper for Kill-
ing His Hrntherlnlaw Austin
Hardy The Case Kcvievved
Special to tho Gazette
Pauh Tex Sept 23 James Fisher was
convicted of the murder of Austin Hardy
at Cooper today and his punishment as-
sessed at death Fisher killed Hardy
on Sunday July > They were
brothersinlaw Hardy having mar-
ried Fishers sister Hardy had
a little daughter ten years of age
Fisher had endeavored to lead her astray
About July 1 lie went to Airs Hardy and
told her that her husband was guilty of
incest with their own child She itidig
nantly denied the charge On July 4 Fisher
went to a big barbecue and went to his
fathers and remained all night His
father had no use for Hardy Tho
next day he took his fathers pistol and
went to Hardys and found him in the
field Approaching him he told Hardy that
if he did not own up to having had criminal
relations with his own child he would kill
him Hardy declined to do so aud Fisher
shot nim
Hardy managed to get the pistol from
Fisher but could not use it
Fisher gave up at once His defense was
homicidal mania
The people of Delta county unanimously
indorse the verdict
Shot Through the Braiu With a Target
llillo Kesult of Monkeying
Special to the Gazette
San Antonio Tex Sept 23 At Del
Rio Val Verde county late yesterday even-
ing George Pfeffer and Thomas Reynolds
were shooting cigars out of each others
mouths The weapons used were target
rifles The light was failing and the men
were drunk At the fifth shot Pfeffer fired
too high and to the left The bullet entered
Reynolds brain He is dead He was
twentyeight years old unmarried and of a
jovial disposition
Threat in A Bow
Special to the Gazette
JSan AsttoNio Tex Sept 23 There
were three assignments here today Fred
Lahaureade saloonist to Otto Wahrmand
Thomas H Abbottshoe and leathcrlindings
to George Cahn and Johnson Son gro
cers to C Huberich In all of these failures
the assets and liabilities were not large as
they were small concerns
FOR THE POPE
The German Catholics Declare
for Temporal Power
AMERICA FOK THE CONGRESS
They Protest Against Interference With the
Mother Tongue
A Ilatforin Adopted at liufTalo Which is
1lain and to the Ioint on Matters
otCathoIic Policy and
Principle
PRIKsTEN VEKEIN
Buffalo N Y Sept 2I Accepting at
full value the information offered today
wii V e
HE FORT WORTH GAZETTE
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO
ANCHORS
Harrison Casting His in Several
Directions
A TUB TO CALIFORNIA WHALE
The Administration Wishes to Fire the Ameri-
can Heart
This Will lie Done by liuvlug Island In the
Atlantic and Paclllc Oceans Kstee
to Go in tin Cabinet It
is Said
Ill tile Old N urih State
Special to the Gazette
Wviiivgton Sept 2 Senator Ransom
ast arrived from North Carolina says the
armors Alliance does not threaten
tie Democratic party in his state
lie fight t here is merely between two fac
ans of the party for supremacy The Al
lanee faction wishes to fret ontrol of the
party not to dcstrov it Iledoes rot tee
jt then is any third party in t
FOET WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY SEPTElIBEPt 21 1891
arrest and for which he was tried and ac-
quitted Davis was deputy sheriff of this j
county and at the time and in his oBiciil ca i
pacity had something to do with that case
and out of that she shooting yesterday
grew Air Davis at once surrendered him-
self to Deputy Sheriff Smith
Gave ionil Ituried
Special to the Gazette
CorstCANA Nvvnio Cocntt Tfx
Sept 22 Alex Breelaud tin other man
who was arrested for complicity in the
Cook school house cutting and shooting
scrajre on Sunday last furnished bonds and
was released from custody today
R J Tucker who died from an overdose
of morphiue yesterday was buried here to-
day by tho Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias
A fire at Walters on the St Louis South-
western road this morningdestroyed Frank
Rogers cotton gin LossVSOO insured for
1000
rather ami on iu Jail
Special to the Gazette
Svn Antonio Tix Sept 23 D D
i Alerrili and his sou Robert were jailed to
from within the portals of the Priesten day because they failed to furnish a bond
Vorein tbe 200 GermanAmerican ecclesi-
astics present were occupied solely with
details such as the method of electing their
officers and similar subjects usually dealt
with in an organization s bylaws Although
the vereia is four years in existence it
seems the members have heretofore nearly
or wholly dispensed with such formalities
tho proceedings it is declared being in the
nature of a free interchange of views tend-
ing to promote their common interests en-
couraging a fraternal cooperative spirit
among themselves and requiring little if
anything in the way of documents or
records Today the session after Father
Lewrichers chilling experience of yester-
day was not invaded by any outsider ami
the secrets of the conclave if any were held
hack from inquirers remained safely con-
cealed Intense curiosity prevails as to tlte
private deliberations of tiie priests Inter-
est during the day centered in the final
business session of the open congress late
this afternoon free to lay members and
priests alike The chief proceeding
was the adoption of a plat-
form setting forth the attitude
of GermanAmerican Catholics on public
questions before adjourning till tomorrow
It is understood a letter that was read iu
the priests meeting from Arch-
bishop Elder of Cincinnati afforded
much satisfaction to the mem-
bers Tho communication dealt
with the language question and according
to one of the priests favored German to in-
culcate the first Christian rprineiples
where German is the common language of
tho family the idea being that these prin-
ciples should be taught in the mother
tongue
Prior to this business meeting however
came a final session of the GermanAmeri
can Catholic young mens association The
latter body after much discussion resolved
to receive iuto their organization not only
societies composed of unmarried men exclu-
sively but also those having married
men as members The association was re-
ported as having fiftythree branch socie-
ties located mainly in Missouri Illinois
Wisconsin Ohio and Nou Jersey with a
total membership of about live thousand
A resolution to connect a saving institu-
tion with the young men s association was
rejected as impracticable for the present
the rivTronvt
With delight the GermanAmerican con-
gress embraces also in this year the
opportunity of pointing out pub-
licly and distinctly its position
on the Roman question namely the
temporal power of the pope As free
American citizens we will not tolerate auy
interference with the free expression of
our views on this extremely important
church matter The objection or false
supposition that it is inopportune to
discuss openly the Roman question in our
country can only bo explained by tracing
it to pitiable deception or to want of cour-
age in showing fearlessly our truly Catho-
lic convictions Tiie entirely free exercise
of the highest apostolic power according to
Gods ordinance is intimately connected
as well with the welfare of the entire
church as with the territorial independence
of the holy see willed by divine provi-
dence It is a necessary means iu our pres-
ent political and social situation to secure
aud accord that freedom in its full
meaning of the word We will never
cease to courageously sustain the
holy father and in accordance with his in-
tentions in his admonitions every one in his
own sphere and according to his ability for
that right of the head of the church and to
strive with all legal and legitimate means to
regain the freedom due to the successor of
St Peter In this respect wo greet with
the utmost tilcasuro the idea suggested at
the recent Catholic congress held in Ger-
many to call an international Catholic
congress for the purpose of urging the re-
storation of the temporal power of the pope
as ani udependent sovereign
We believe that our beloved country is
the proper place for holding such a congress
since we nvo not hampered by political
prejudice and imperial intrigues
As Catholics of the United States we
consider it an honored duty to adopt the
resolution of our brethren in Kurope We
believe the time has come when an interna-
tional congress can convene for the pur-
l > ose of aiding in the restoration of the
popes temporal power and we consider no
time more opportune than the occasion of
the Worlds fair at Chicago in 1VI3
We declare that education without a re
ligious basis can but be productive of evil
results We protest therefore against
every interference with our parochial
schools and csirecially we condemn the so
called Poughkeepsie plan in which religion
has been made a sideshow and hence ean
have little or no religious influence in edu-
cation
We demand the full right and liberty to
retain without interference from anyone
our German mother tongue together with
the language of the country
We protest auaiust the attempt to en-
croach upon the rights of the Indian in the
selection and practice of their religion
We protest in the name of liberty and
justice against the attempts that are being
made to withdraw from the Indian schools
the supjiort of the government under the
hypocritical plea of supportinc public
schools inasmuch as hereby there is openly
deelred opposition against Christian edu
cation and especially against the Catholic
church
The following officers were elected Rev
B Hepl of Pittsburg national president
Philip Schindle of New York vicepresi
dent Charles Och of Pittsburg recording
secretary Joseph Reiman ot Pittsburg
corresponding secretary Joseph Alatti of
Buffalo financial secretary Henry Rcss of
St Louis treasurer
Directors II Vandevel Cleveland
Henry C Kramer Fort Wayne William
Knoltc AVhecling W Va A H Rogcman
Chicago Louis Schell Chicago
Archbishop Katzer of Alilwaukee was
chosen protector of the Central band of the
Catholic young men of the United States
The business session of congress this
afternoon was occupied much of the time
by Wilderman of New York explaining the
modus operandi of the Carlbaromean so
sietyof Germany
Welcome and Valuable
Special to the Gazette
Willis AIontgomert Countt Tex
Sept 23 The heavy rain which fell today
is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
in that it has extinguished the forest fires
which have been raging and which threat-
ened the arnihilation of a vast area of pine
timber
Serious Shooting at Con roe
Special to the Gazette
CONROE AIONTGOMEKT CoiTNTT TEX
Sept 23 John Bell was shot here yester-
day evening probably fatally by County
Clerk J II Davis Bell is tho mac who
some timo ago killed a deputy sheriff and
constable in Tyler county while attempting
of s500 each They are charged with steid
ing sixty head of horses from IT L John-
son nf Aloore station a few miles west of
here The stock was driven ott in a bunch
and sold in > > in Antonio for s HM about
onefourth uf their value It is one ol the
biggest horse stealings which has occurred
in this section for ten years past
Henry Wattersoii > r Ilyin
Ltftlsviric Ivy Sept 23 Hon Henry
Wattersoii the venerable fath
tor of the CourierJournal is
IKiini of death at the residence of his son in
this city
GARZA NOT IN IT
Tlio Curtain About Itenilv to be llrairn on
til Iarce in Which Io was tilt
Principal Churartor
Special to the Gazette
SvnAntomo Ti Sept 23 The fol-
lowing dispatch contains the latest news of
Cetarino Garza the illustrious Alexiean
revolutionist It was received by the Daily
Express at 10 p m and is dated Rio
Grande Tex
Lieutenant ALigil AUtrek with forty men
of the Fortysixth Mexican cavalry from
I nvdo left Camirgo yesterday pursuing
the revolutionists Col 1 Cavazos a
nephew of Gen Cortinas with tr tips from
Alatamoras is also in pursuit Lieut Car-
ter with twentylive men of troop G
Third cavalry from Laredo reached here
last evening Lieut Lamjiornu with troop
C Fort Ringgold returned from tip the
river scout this morning There is
scarcely any excitement now on either side
of the river-
A reliable Alexiean gentleman now here
says he saw eighteen revolutionists at his
ranch at the Santa Lucia twenty miles
southeast of Catnargo at i a in the 17th
headed by I E Garza E Rama who
shot two soldiers and a policeman recently
at Camargo was with them They were
well mounted and armed with new and old
Winchesters and pistols Garza looked
jaded and haggard stating he had not slept
for live nights They took cooked and ate
two sheep at the Santa Lucia ranch thence
they went to the Jobalia raiiohlifteen miles
further south where they were joined by
fifteen more men Since then nothing defi-
nite has been heard from them They have
no packmules Gen Rui Sandoval is not
with them
At the Azuaear ranch on the Kith the
pressed thirteen horses and some arms but
got no recruits The excitement on both
sides of the river is nominal They
not numbered 100 at any time Tho
is about closed
haw
farce
Kicitelneut Subsided
Special to the Gazette
Bkownsvilli Cameron Cocntv Tex
Sept 23 The excitement caused by Gar
zas insane invasion of Alexico has subsided
Nothing can be heard of his whereabouts
It i evident he and his gang
are back in Texas United
States troops are still on the look-
out for him at river crossings The hand
fulof troops that garrison around at this
place are ordered back to the post to relieve
the lonely watch of the doctor aud the
teamster The revolution is ended
A CLOUDBURSTS VAGARIES
A Parmer has His House Moved In an
trupleasant Way
Special to the Gazette
Beatrice Neil Sept 23 A report has
reached hero of a cloudburst which by its
vagaries almost equaled a Kansas cyclone
David Till an Englishman has a farm on
the river about seven miles from this city
and he has his barns and sheds along the
banks in such a way that part of the stream
is withiti the iuclosure in which his stock is
watered j without t he necessity of having
a pump worked Just baek of the barns is
the house facing the roadwhich runs along
between two nf his fields This was Hie
situation a few days ago but things are
changed on the farm now The house is in
the river behind the barns This change
was caused by a waterspout or as they arc
called in thus country a cloudburst
Last Wednesday afternoon Till and his
men were out in the fields while the women
folks had gone to a neighbor s to have a
friendly chat The house was locked up
and no thought of danger was had About
3 oclock a storm was seen coming from tho
southwest and it assumed a very angry ap-
pearance Till and his men uuhitched the
horses and hastened to tho barn They had
just got safelv housed therein when the
waterspout struck the place The house
was lifted bodily from its foundations and
was swept around iu a half circle until it
was directly behind the barn and was then
deposited in the river The water was about
two feet deep and the first floor was cov-
ered The storm did cot affect the bams or
sheds except so far as a heavy downpour of
rain was concerned After the storm
passed it was found that not a thing had
been disturbed in the house with the oxco >
tion of tho things that were wet by the
water flowing over the first floor It will
cost aoout J OO to put the house back on its
foundation again but Till says ho is glad to
have got off so easily
WOULDNT INDORSE IT
The Alliance Legislature of Georgia
funeH to Approve the Ocala
Platform
IJe
Atlanta G 4 Sept 23 This morning in
tho Georgia legislature the much mooted
Ocala resolutions as indorsed by the Alli-
ance and demanded by them of the next
congress was introduced by Barrett of
Pike county for the approval and indorse
ment of that body The resolutions wero
defeated by vote of SI to 63 This is somewhat
of a triumph over the third party movement
in this state as it clearly indicates that the
Alliance men of the legislature who are in
tho majority of that body are not in sym-
pathy with any measure that is directly
opposite to their views as Democratic mem-
bers
A S15000 Tilaze
Special to the Gazette
Coxnoc AIoxtgomert Countt Tex
Sept 23 Yesterday the mill shed ma-
chinery and about 150000 feet of lumber be-
longing to I L Garwood at Medley six
miles south of here burned Loss 15000
insurance 6900
A70L XV NO 314
QUIET LAST NIGHT
The
Excitement in the
Lands Dies Out
News of the Oprninc
Special to the Gazette
the oiiening is obtained very
New
A GIRL WINS A GOOD CLAIM
She Jumps
a BtfF that Six Vu
Follow Her Over
a Dare Noi
ASpecitl Agent Iteport to Secretary So
hie One Tiiuu > lti Iprnril tlio
Other vtiU bo ToDay In
Uians tirt Kicii
GrniKiK O T Sept 23 The news ot
slowly for
many miles of rough rocky road inter-
venes between here and the Indian lands
lhe sun shines hot and people come iu
slowly
A courier from Teemuseh The southern
county seat at noon brought a statement
from Governor Steele that he would deeiara
the town sile open at noon touiorrow
Throe thousand ieoploaro waitiug out-
side the lines of soldiers
The northern county seat will not ba
erof theedi I thrown open before Saturday noon Tna
lying at the i o peofile awaiting impatiently outside the
tovn have staked off the entire half section
adjoining into town lots They will ba
doomed to disappointment however for
under the present laws the county seat is
the only town that can exist in be Iowa
Sac and Fox lands This is a stretch of
country fifty by thirtysi miles and is left
with but one town No other town can be
started until congress amends the law
Couriers in from Chandler say Ilia there
is absolutely no water supply and that ih o
ple aiv sunering greatly Water sc is at 25
cents a drink
In tho Sac and Fox lands the grass was
fired last night anil the settlers were com-
piled to tight fin all day
Air Alalone of Sumner Kan had his
buggy aud harness burned and his horses
got away
A horse ridden by Fred Bowers of Ar-
kansas City ran against a tree and ho was
thrown and probably fatally injured
A tolNli lAUV s Mi Tom
Aliss Etigena Jones of Alauhattau Kan
rode ten miles with six men rode over a
bluff where they wore all afraid to follow
and secured the finest claim in tho land
Alauy of tho crowd aro returning disap-
pointed in not finding the laud a perfect
paradise Rough and broken as it is there
is much of it unlit for farming
The officials at the land ofliie have made
more entries than has ever been known m
a single day and tonight hundreds of nO
ple are still in line and will remain there all
night
Alauy contests are already tiled and end-
less litigation will result
A Wonderful Peat
GiTiiniE O T Sept 23 Elmer Ale
Guire formerly of Winlield Ivan now of
Chicago accomplished a wonderful feat at
the opening of the Indian lauds He rodo
from this city to Chandler and back on a
bicycle making the entire distance ot
ninclynino miles in eight hours and a
quarter He traveled over rough roads
part of the way on aii Indian trail and beat
every horse iu the country
Pistols Plashed
Gctuuik O T Sept 23 Excitement
here is subsiding Iu front of the laud
office there is a large crowd waiting to iilo
mi claims Fully ini0 people wexe in lino
when the office was opened this morning
and when the doors wore opened the crowd
made a rush and for awhile it looked as if
there would be a riot Several men were
shoved off of the small porch leading to the
doorand instantly many revolvers Hashed in
the air The police however took a hand
in the affair aud prevented further disturb-
ance
This evening Mayor Spangler will station
an ollicer at the door of the laud office
who will issue numbered tickets to
tiiose who desire to file and
in the uiornitig the liutnlrors of theso
tickets will bo called out aud iu this way
further camping out all night iufroutof
the office will be avoided
On the train which came in here last
night about 3V more people arrived Tha
conductor said that all the roads leading to
this city were tilled with wagoits hoisenia
And pedestriaiisheaded this way
The report circulated last night that sev-
eral persons had been killed yesterday can-
not be verified today There was somo
trouble at Iowa village over a valuable
claim known as Pecan Grove An old
negro ran his team nine miles in fortyeight
minutes and arrived ahead of a man
who attempted to drive him off
The negro showed fight and
downed the man with a hatchet The man
received a very severe wound on the head
but will recover
Gov Steele started from Teetimseh lor
Chandler this morning to open th new
town site at ifoou tomorrow Soldiers have
Chandler under military rule and
will not allow any one to approach
nearer than within thirty feet of the line
The first iierson lo arrive yesterday who
started at noon from the bonier was Elmer
AIcGuire who rode through on a tricycle
making the run in three hour
A large crowd of lot boomers arrived at
Chandler hist niglttaiid camjred out about
the town site They aro very indignant be-
cause tho town has nor been opened to set-
tlement and swear they will stake out a
rival town on an adjoining quarter section
and shift thesite of the town to that quar
ter They had intended to begin work this
morning but as yet they have done nothinsr
about it
Special Agent Wright says that the south
county seat was oiened yesterday noon A
number of Iowa Indians came here this
morning They made a great deal of money
yesterday showing lroomers desirable loca-
tions One Iowa Ixiy thirteen years old
made S > in this way Indians covered tha
ground pretty thoroughly and say they saw
no disturbance of any kind It is the gen-
eral impression that the lands were oeo
pied without any great disturbance
The bloodshed that was looked for In
connection with the oiiening of the lands to
settlement yesterday did not come A cou-
ple of cowboys told a negro that ho hail bet-
ter move on as he had killed two negroes
already and frightened a darkey fresh
from Texas who spread the story and a < it
went down the line it was that
two men had been killed A dozen
other stories of the same nature
occupied the tongues of everybody Only a
fewtendurfeet believed tlieni The rush
was not accompanied by a single killing
The negro colonists were not very suc-
cessful iu their rush A few of them got
good claims but in the majority of cases
white men will contest the claims Three
or four negroes would settle on a claim
and prove up forty acres each but tha
white man wants ISO acres I ost night
was beautiful Nature was kiud to tho
thousands lying out of doors butit was not
sweet sleep and quiet dreams for many
ol them Water was scarce aud many Had
neglected to carry even a drink The great-
est interest however was a prairie fire
all over the new lands They were burning
brightly filling the air with smoke of a pe-
culiar odor Some of the fires were started
to drive men oft of claims while others
wero started by men hunting for section
stones and the stones were hard to find
Alaj WefgeL special agent of the interior
department says that many of tho stones
have been dug up by the Indians Tho
country was surveyed seventeen years ago
against the wishes of the Indians aud tha
noble red men followed the surveyors about
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