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Evaporated Peaches, Evaporated Apples, Prunes and Currant, Fresh Country Butter. Cheap as Anybody. Moore & Thompson, Jellies, l’ickles, Fine Teas, Chipped Beef, Lunch Tongue, Potted Ham, Moo^e & Thompson. f Vol 2 No. 2^ ©to ffiontjfc SANGER BROS. Everything is Fast Assuming Shape in Our Stocks. FOR THE COMING FALL A.ND WINTER, We are new Hilled np with all the newest things that have been produced by foreign and home manufacturers. ALL THE NOISE AND CONFUSION T ,,ver and ladies will now find it very pleasant trading in our store. We Imvti still a f«Vw m re modern improvements to put in, but these will not in any way interfere with our business. mitelMitaliii »ii» an nmis To a line of light weight Imported Wraps, that we bought very low, and that we are offering way below value. OUR NEW LINE OF DRESS GOODS Combine all the new popular things, w'th low prices. TIIIUTYEIGIIT INCH ALL WOOL CASHMERES IN TWENY NEW SHADES At 50 Cents a Yard. This is a Beautiful Cloth that we imported ourselves, and is the best value ever ofiered. OUR BLACK AND COLORED SILKS Combine all the best standard makes and we can compare prices with all the large Eastern cities. SANGER BROS. ILfquorB. From this date I will slaughter prices on all Liquors, and for cash will sell cheaper than the same goods are sold anywhere in the state. The Following are a Few of My Reduced Prices on Strictly First Quality Wines: Claret and Rhine Wines, per dozen ........................................................................................$2 50 Claret and Rhine Wines, per case,.......................................................................................... 5 °° Angelica Wine—the best, per gallon...................................................................................... I 25 Catawba Wine “ “ “ “ 1 25 Port Wine—a good article............................ I 5° Sherry Wine “ “ I 5° Sherry Wine—a superior article................................................................................................... 2 00 Native Wine—3 years old,......... .............................................................................................. 1 00 I. A. GOLDSTEIN, wFrnT.Rl.q A TTE .AIsTD EBTAIL LIQtTOE DEAI.EE ^re&cnpttou Dntgoists. CASTLES & MORRISON'S. OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE Leading Prescription Drag Store In the City. Best Stock Oi Patent Medicine. BERTHE TRIUMPH CIGAR.—E— Waco Texas, Saturday Evening, September q, i88a TELEGRAPH NEWS. IIOKUIBIjE MASSACRE OF CHINESE IN WXOMING TERRITORY. Hunting Down ami Boasting the Heathens1 he >Vabash Strike Still in SuspenseGeneral Synopsis of Current Note,. IN GENERAL. Rock Springs, Wy., September 4 — Yesterday, for the first lime in many years, there was not a Chinaman in Ruck Springs except the dead and wounded. The five or six hundred who have been at work in the mines here, have been driven out and and nothing but heaps of smoking ruins mark the spin where Chinatown stood. The feeling against the Chinese has been gowing stronger all summer. The fact that the white men' have been turned off the sections, and that hundreds,of white men were seeking in vain for work, while the Chinese were being shipped in by the car load, strengthened the feeling against them. The miners gathered on Front street, about one hundred of them armed with guns, revolvers, hatchers and knives, and proceeded toward Chinatown. Before arriving there they sent a committee of three, warning the Chinamen to leave in an hour. This they agreed to do and started to pack up but in about half an hour tl e white men grew impatient and advanced upon the Chinese quarters, shouting and firing their guns in the air. Without offering resistance, the Chinese fled with whatever they could snatch up, to the hills about nine miles east of the town the miners fired at them as they went. Soon a black smoke was seen issuing from the peak of a house in Hong Kong, then from another, and very soon eight or ten of the largest of the houses were in flames. Half choked with fire and smoke, numbers of Chinamen, came rushing from the burning building with blankets and bed quilts over their heads to protect themselves from stray rifle shots: and they followed their retreating brothers into the hills at the top of their speed. A laundry in town was next visited and the inoftensive inmates shot dead. All the employers of the coal department of the railroad were ordered to leave town, which they did on the evening train. During the night all of the Chinese houses in town, nearly fifty, were burned to the ground and a number of Chinamen, who were within, fled from the burning buildings. The light of Thursday morning revealed some terrible sights. In the smoking cellars of two Chinese houses, the blackened bodies of six Chinamen were seen; three others were in the cellar of another and four more bodies were found near by. From the position of some it would seem as though they had begun to dig a hole to hide themselves, but the fire overtook them, burning the extremities to a crisp and leaving the upper portion of their bodies untouched. Another body was found charred by the flames and mutilated by hogs. The smell that arose from the smoking ruins was horribly suggestive of burning flesh. Further east were the bodies of four more, shot down in their flight. A coroner’s jury was summoned, which, after examining the bodies, gave a verdict that eleven Chinese had been burned to death and five shot by parties unknown to the jury. A number were found seriously wounded, and how many more may still be wounded out in the hills is unknown. Large numbers of Chinese have been picked up by the trains going west and a number of cars of provisions have been sent out for them. It is rumored that the mormon miners in camp are to be ordered out, but no action in that direction has yet been taken. Chicago, September 4.—The Daily News, Ottawa, ills., special says: “The ^supreme court this morning overruled the motion for a continuance in the case of Joseph C. Mackin, convicted of perjury in the election fraud cases. It was argued that as Mackin was under a sentence in the United States court a decision in advance of one pending in the United States supreme court would prove a conflict in jurisdiction. This and other points regarding Mackin’s bondsmen were overruled. It is expected that Mackin’s case on appeal will be heard next Wednesday. St. Louis, September 4,—At 11 o’clock this morning Chairman Powderly and Secretary Frank Turner, of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, called at the office of General Manager Talmage and submitted the following as their ultimaturn in the matter of the Waoash trouble: “The general executive board of the Knights of Labor ask— I. That a general order be issued along the Wabash lines, instructing master mechanics and foremen that no discrimination must be made in the employing of men on account of their being members of the Knigh s of Labor. 2. That all employes, who have, in any manner, taken an active part since the 16th of June, in the settlement of the trouble, be given their positions held prior to said 16th of June, at once. 3. That all other employes who were locked out June 16th, be reinstate 1 on or before October I, 1885. 4. That all who have come out since then in support of those locked out on date be also reinstated on or before October I, 1885. In answer to the above demand General Manager Talmage, of the Wabash, stated to Powderly and Turner that the Wabash was in the hands of a receiver and that the court was always asking the management to cut down expenses, consequently he could not put the men to work now as he had neither the work, or money to pay them. In regard to the demands made in regard to October he declared that he could say nothing now, as he did not know what the demands for labor or the financial condition of the road would be at that date. St. Louis, September 4.—Jailor Seigmund, who has charge of Lucius A. White under arrest here for counterfeiting Brazilian treasury notes, received today a letter from United States District Attorney Pearre, of Waco, Texas, stating that a writ of habeas corpus had been issued tor White who is wanted to testify against his brother Joseph H. White, now under arrest for the same offense at Waco. Jailor Seigmund will probably start for Waco with the prisoner tomorrow. THE STATE. Galveston, September 4.This island has been visited by an unusually Jjeavy rain fall the past three days. Since 5 o’clock Tuesday evening nine and thirtyhundredths inches of rain has fallen, inundating the streets, and many places to the depth of fifteen inches. Rain fell almost incessantly today, the signal service register showing five and seventythreehundredths inches for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 o’clock this evening. Austin, September 4.—Good rains have fallen in this section during the past few' days, but they are too) late to benefit cotton. In many localities the crop has been cut off at least a fourth, and in some instances on the high lands more than onehalf. A. H. Belo & Co. filed an amendment to their charter today, increasing their capital stock to 8300,OCX), and the number ot directors from three to five. Hugh Swain, son of Comptroller Swain, was passed for the West Point cadetship today. James Goggin of Austin is alternate. As yet no clew has been found leading to the discovery of the perprepators of the terrible crime of Sunday last. Graham, September 4.—The prohibitionists have carried Young county, with 109 votes to spare, and one precinct to hear from, which will probably lessen the majority a few votes. Denison, September 4.—Two desperadoes giving their names as Smith and Mccglaughlin today fired off their pistols near the post office and mounting their horses raced up Chestnut street, discharging their weapons as they went. Officers followed and captured them and they are now in jail. It is thought they are wanted elsewhere for serious crimes. Greenville, September 4.—The little village of Lone Oak, in the southern portion of this county, is today in ashes. Eight business houses were burned. The loss will aggregate $15,000; insurance about $3,000. Georgetown, September 4—The New York dispatches containing accounts of the HollandDavis tragedy creates considerable sensation and comment here. This or a similar bogus firm of late have been writing to several citizens here trying inveigle them into some of their many swindling operations and and one of two have been extensively fleeced by them. Holland lived here several years ago, and was well and favorably known. Longview, September 4.—Yesterday morning a large hole, 7x13 feet, and five feet deep, was noticed by passengers in the lumber yard of W. S. Robinson, and on inquiry, it was found that it had been dug the night before, and that a pile containing about 6,000 feet of lumber was moved in order to dig gin J a particular spot. The remains of a half rotten box were scattered about, and one man picked up a $5 gold piece from under one of the rotton pieces, while a few steps away another lifted a $5 greenback. Such a scrambling as was (hen inaugurated by the crowd assembled can be imagined. Dancing Academy. I will reopen my dancing academy at Armory hall, on Thursday, September 3rd, 1885. For particulars ask for circulars at any book or music store. Respectfully, 8271w. R. G. Cheesman. LAST NIGHT’S FIRE. An Exciting Time, But Not Much Material Damage— The Details. At fifteen minutes past nine o’clock last night an alarm of fire was sounded from box five, and a few minutes afterward the alarm was turned on from box six. From that on the alarm was all in confusion. It was ascertained that fire was burning in Mr. W. R. Sill’s feed store, on Austin street. The fire department was on the ground in five minutes after the alarm,but it was some time before they could get the hose attached to the plug,owing to it being sunk too low in the ground. After the hose was in readiness it was still some time before water was thrown through the nozzle, and in a few minutes the hose bursted and the water had to be turned off. It was a fortunate circumstance that there was no wind blowing, for with the number of mishaps there is no telling how much damage would have been done if a strong wind had prevailed. The fire engine was attached to the plug on the corner of Sixth and Austin streets and when it went to work the fire was easily put under control. The house is owned by Mr. Jas. I. Moore and insured in the Royal Insurance company. His loss will not exceed $ 100. Mr. Sills had in the morning taken out $800 insurance in the Commercial of San Francisco, Jones & Lowry agents. Mr. I. Gaither’s stock, adjoining Mr. Sills, was slightly damaged by smoke and water. He was insured in the Fire Association of London, Jas. I. Moore & Co. agents. The theory as to the origin of the fire is that on yesterday Mr. Gaither was burning some trash in his back yard and Mr. Sills was in the habit of leaving his back window lowered and the supposition is that a spark fell into the hay through the window, igniting it. COURTS TODAY. In the city court J. B. Saunders was fined $2 and John McKay $2.50. Both for being drunk. In Justice R. W. Davis’ court yesterday afternoon and this morning was consumed in hearing the case of I. A. Goldstein vs. Carnahan and Kinsey, a suit on a promissory note. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $125.00. In the case of the State vs. Mike Williams, on complaint of A. Rosenfeld, charging him with passing a $20 counterfeit bill on Mrs. Rosenfeld. The lady refused to swear he was the man and the case was dismissed. Strange Fatality. Martin’s Valley, Pa., August 28.—Mrs. Sarah Truby, of this place, is an aged widow. Her son John, aged thirtyfour, worked on the East Branch railroad. Jason, another son, aged thirtysix, was an employe in the state quarries. Wyman, a third son, thirtyeight years old, was a miller. They lived with their mother, having no families of their own. On Friday night last John, while running to turn a switch, fell into a cattle guard and broke his neck. On Salurday morning, before the news of John’s death reached home, Jason was drowned in a pit in the quarries! recent rains having filled it with water. Jas. Whittaker arrived in the village at 9 o’clock Saturday morning with the news of John Truby’s death, and met Wm. Jackson, who was bearing the tidings of Jason’s sad fate at the same time. The two walked together to the mill where Wyman Truby wsrked to break the news to him first. There was a crowd about the mill, and, as the two messengers arrived on the scene, men were carrying Wyman Truby’s dead body out of the building. He had been suffocated in a grain bin. Less than twelve hours intervened between the death of the first brother and the last one. The news of the death of her three softs so affected Mrs. Truby that her life is despaired of. The three bodies will be buried in one grave. Uncle Sam’s Silver Shipment. Times Democrat. The process of loading the Swartara with her cargo of standard silver dollars was begun yesterday. The ship brought with her about 2,500 pine boxes, two cubic feet in dimensions. Each of these will hold 4,000 of the dollars of our daddies. They are filled at the mint, loaded some ten or a dozen at a load upon an ordinary float and hauled down the levee for two or three blocks, to where the Swartara is moored, at the head of Meadville street—the first instance of a manofwar tied up to the levee since the war. There is much ado over the transfer. Stiff marines guard the boxes from the time they leave the mint until they are safely hoisted to the decks of the Swartara. The process of loading is a tedious one, and it will be ten or twelve days before the cargo is complete. The mint officials do not know how much silver they will ship, as final directions have not been received from Washington; but the Swartara’s officials are expecting to receive about 2,000 boxes, half of Price s Cents. which will be transferred to the Yantic at the quarantine station, where she is now lying rather than have her crew’s clothes washed in bichloride oi mercury. The Swartara carries no ammunition and will sail with her silver millions and only a few kegs of powder, giving every encouragement to whatever buccaneering enterprise our prosaic time can muster. —Sanger Bros, today received their fine engine to work their steam passenger and freight elevater in their enlarged store. The engine is twenty horse power and will be placed in the cellar recently constructed in the rear of the store. The store begins to show the handsome appearance it will make when the work is finished. Up to date the expense of improvement is abort twenty thousand dollars which added to the orlginal cost of the building which was twentyfive thousand dollars makes the total invested in that piece of property fortyfive thousand dollars. —The farmers are very much discouraged about their cotton crop. Those who were sanguine about a month ago, of three fourths of a bale to the acre, have gradually come down to about one fourth to the acre for old cotton; though they still claim that they will make one third of a bale to the acre with the young cotton. —Hotel, restaurant and boarding house keepers should be on hand tonight at 8 o’clock, next door to Wilson’s restaurant, to secure bargains in table and bed linen, comforts, blankets, crockery, etc., which will be sold there at auction by Auctioneer Tom Simth. • PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Sioux chief, Two Bears, calls President Cleveland “Oldmanwiththehonest heart.” The Marquis of Lome has ar. ink bottle made of the hoof of Lord Clive’s Crimean charger. Mr. Thoman, of the civil service commission, has bought a $14,000 house in Washington. A man in Webster county, Mississippi, buried his wife Tuesday and married another Thursday. The exempress of Mexico is fortyfive. The doctors note an extraordinary improvement in her and anticipate a complete recovery. Pat Sheedy, the Chicago turfman, used to be a bootblack and stable boy, and is now worth two hundred thousand of the dollars that were then so scarce with him. Henry Ward Beecher has accepted the invitation of the Boston board of aldermen to deliver the public eulogy on Gen. Grant in that city. A novel method of , suicide was that attempted by an insane man at Brooklyn, N. Y., a few days ago—throwing a large cobblestone in the air and letting it fall on his bare head. The Hon. E. B. Washburne has placed in the Washburne memorial library the old stone ink bottle from which ink was taken to sign the articles of General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Guy Min, a Chinese orator, told the religious people of San Francisco, recently,. that he thought it curious that the Americans would spend millions to secure a Jiome for his countrymen in heaven, while they refuse them such a boon in the United States. If you want a Rogers or Wostenholm pocket knife call on Horsfull & Cameron The best assortment ever seen in Waco.— Itc. Consequential Durham Damages. Victoria Advocate. During the week, as the train on the New York, Texas and Mexican was approaching the depot, a sucking calf was killed by the engine. Soon afterward the owner applied at the general office for payment for the ammal. He placed the value of the calf at $10 and claimed $30 consequential damages for the reason that he expected to have sold that amount of milk from the mother cow, which, by the death of the calf, would not be yielded by her. Attention Company. All members of the Lone Star Guards are commanded to meet at their Armory at 8:30 this evening September 5th. Business of importance. By command of J. E. Elgin, Capt. F. W. Makeig, Sec. Ladies don’t forget the fact, when you want a domestic articie prepared on short notice, such as flavoring extracts, furniture polish, bed bug poison, grease eraser, jewelry and silver cleaner—as well as toilet specialties, Florida and calogne waters, shampoo, hair dressings, teeth preservers, etc., W. L. Tucker’s “Lion Drug Store” is the place. The old reliable Schuttler, Fish Bros, and Milburn wagons sold by W. R. Briming * ham.—62im.
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-day_1885-09-05 |
Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 2 No. 253, Saturday, September 5, 1885 |
Date | 1885-09-05 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 253 |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Publisher | The Day Publishing Company |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 4 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-day_1885-09-05_01 |
OCR - Transcript | Evaporated Peaches, Evaporated Apples, Prunes and Currant, Fresh Country Butter. Cheap as Anybody. Moore & Thompson, Jellies, l’ickles, Fine Teas, Chipped Beef, Lunch Tongue, Potted Ham, Moo^e & Thompson. f Vol 2 No. 2^ ©to ffiontjfc SANGER BROS. Everything is Fast Assuming Shape in Our Stocks. FOR THE COMING FALL A.ND WINTER, We are new Hilled np with all the newest things that have been produced by foreign and home manufacturers. ALL THE NOISE AND CONFUSION T ,,ver and ladies will now find it very pleasant trading in our store. We Imvti still a f«Vw m re modern improvements to put in, but these will not in any way interfere with our business. mitelMitaliii »ii» an nmis To a line of light weight Imported Wraps, that we bought very low, and that we are offering way below value. OUR NEW LINE OF DRESS GOODS Combine all the new popular things, w'th low prices. TIIIUTYEIGIIT INCH ALL WOOL CASHMERES IN TWENY NEW SHADES At 50 Cents a Yard. This is a Beautiful Cloth that we imported ourselves, and is the best value ever ofiered. OUR BLACK AND COLORED SILKS Combine all the best standard makes and we can compare prices with all the large Eastern cities. SANGER BROS. ILfquorB. From this date I will slaughter prices on all Liquors, and for cash will sell cheaper than the same goods are sold anywhere in the state. The Following are a Few of My Reduced Prices on Strictly First Quality Wines: Claret and Rhine Wines, per dozen ........................................................................................$2 50 Claret and Rhine Wines, per case,.......................................................................................... 5 °° Angelica Wine—the best, per gallon...................................................................................... I 25 Catawba Wine “ “ “ “ 1 25 Port Wine—a good article............................ I 5° Sherry Wine “ “ I 5° Sherry Wine—a superior article................................................................................................... 2 00 Native Wine—3 years old,......... .............................................................................................. 1 00 I. A. GOLDSTEIN, wFrnT.Rl.q A TTE .AIsTD EBTAIL LIQtTOE DEAI.EE ^re&cnpttou Dntgoists. CASTLES & MORRISON'S. OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE Leading Prescription Drag Store In the City. Best Stock Oi Patent Medicine. BERTHE TRIUMPH CIGAR.—E— Waco Texas, Saturday Evening, September q, i88a TELEGRAPH NEWS. IIOKUIBIjE MASSACRE OF CHINESE IN WXOMING TERRITORY. Hunting Down ami Boasting the Heathens1 he >Vabash Strike Still in SuspenseGeneral Synopsis of Current Note,. IN GENERAL. Rock Springs, Wy., September 4 — Yesterday, for the first lime in many years, there was not a Chinaman in Ruck Springs except the dead and wounded. The five or six hundred who have been at work in the mines here, have been driven out and and nothing but heaps of smoking ruins mark the spin where Chinatown stood. The feeling against the Chinese has been gowing stronger all summer. The fact that the white men' have been turned off the sections, and that hundreds,of white men were seeking in vain for work, while the Chinese were being shipped in by the car load, strengthened the feeling against them. The miners gathered on Front street, about one hundred of them armed with guns, revolvers, hatchers and knives, and proceeded toward Chinatown. Before arriving there they sent a committee of three, warning the Chinamen to leave in an hour. This they agreed to do and started to pack up but in about half an hour tl e white men grew impatient and advanced upon the Chinese quarters, shouting and firing their guns in the air. Without offering resistance, the Chinese fled with whatever they could snatch up, to the hills about nine miles east of the town the miners fired at them as they went. Soon a black smoke was seen issuing from the peak of a house in Hong Kong, then from another, and very soon eight or ten of the largest of the houses were in flames. Half choked with fire and smoke, numbers of Chinamen, came rushing from the burning building with blankets and bed quilts over their heads to protect themselves from stray rifle shots: and they followed their retreating brothers into the hills at the top of their speed. A laundry in town was next visited and the inoftensive inmates shot dead. All the employers of the coal department of the railroad were ordered to leave town, which they did on the evening train. During the night all of the Chinese houses in town, nearly fifty, were burned to the ground and a number of Chinamen, who were within, fled from the burning buildings. The light of Thursday morning revealed some terrible sights. In the smoking cellars of two Chinese houses, the blackened bodies of six Chinamen were seen; three others were in the cellar of another and four more bodies were found near by. From the position of some it would seem as though they had begun to dig a hole to hide themselves, but the fire overtook them, burning the extremities to a crisp and leaving the upper portion of their bodies untouched. Another body was found charred by the flames and mutilated by hogs. The smell that arose from the smoking ruins was horribly suggestive of burning flesh. Further east were the bodies of four more, shot down in their flight. A coroner’s jury was summoned, which, after examining the bodies, gave a verdict that eleven Chinese had been burned to death and five shot by parties unknown to the jury. A number were found seriously wounded, and how many more may still be wounded out in the hills is unknown. Large numbers of Chinese have been picked up by the trains going west and a number of cars of provisions have been sent out for them. It is rumored that the mormon miners in camp are to be ordered out, but no action in that direction has yet been taken. Chicago, September 4.—The Daily News, Ottawa, ills., special says: “The ^supreme court this morning overruled the motion for a continuance in the case of Joseph C. Mackin, convicted of perjury in the election fraud cases. It was argued that as Mackin was under a sentence in the United States court a decision in advance of one pending in the United States supreme court would prove a conflict in jurisdiction. This and other points regarding Mackin’s bondsmen were overruled. It is expected that Mackin’s case on appeal will be heard next Wednesday. St. Louis, September 4,—At 11 o’clock this morning Chairman Powderly and Secretary Frank Turner, of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, called at the office of General Manager Talmage and submitted the following as their ultimaturn in the matter of the Waoash trouble: “The general executive board of the Knights of Labor ask— I. That a general order be issued along the Wabash lines, instructing master mechanics and foremen that no discrimination must be made in the employing of men on account of their being members of the Knigh s of Labor. 2. That all employes, who have, in any manner, taken an active part since the 16th of June, in the settlement of the trouble, be given their positions held prior to said 16th of June, at once. 3. That all other employes who were locked out June 16th, be reinstate 1 on or before October I, 1885. 4. That all who have come out since then in support of those locked out on date be also reinstated on or before October I, 1885. In answer to the above demand General Manager Talmage, of the Wabash, stated to Powderly and Turner that the Wabash was in the hands of a receiver and that the court was always asking the management to cut down expenses, consequently he could not put the men to work now as he had neither the work, or money to pay them. In regard to the demands made in regard to October he declared that he could say nothing now, as he did not know what the demands for labor or the financial condition of the road would be at that date. St. Louis, September 4.—Jailor Seigmund, who has charge of Lucius A. White under arrest here for counterfeiting Brazilian treasury notes, received today a letter from United States District Attorney Pearre, of Waco, Texas, stating that a writ of habeas corpus had been issued tor White who is wanted to testify against his brother Joseph H. White, now under arrest for the same offense at Waco. Jailor Seigmund will probably start for Waco with the prisoner tomorrow. THE STATE. Galveston, September 4.This island has been visited by an unusually Jjeavy rain fall the past three days. Since 5 o’clock Tuesday evening nine and thirtyhundredths inches of rain has fallen, inundating the streets, and many places to the depth of fifteen inches. Rain fell almost incessantly today, the signal service register showing five and seventythreehundredths inches for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 o’clock this evening. Austin, September 4.—Good rains have fallen in this section during the past few' days, but they are too) late to benefit cotton. In many localities the crop has been cut off at least a fourth, and in some instances on the high lands more than onehalf. A. H. Belo & Co. filed an amendment to their charter today, increasing their capital stock to 8300,OCX), and the number ot directors from three to five. Hugh Swain, son of Comptroller Swain, was passed for the West Point cadetship today. James Goggin of Austin is alternate. As yet no clew has been found leading to the discovery of the perprepators of the terrible crime of Sunday last. Graham, September 4.—The prohibitionists have carried Young county, with 109 votes to spare, and one precinct to hear from, which will probably lessen the majority a few votes. Denison, September 4.—Two desperadoes giving their names as Smith and Mccglaughlin today fired off their pistols near the post office and mounting their horses raced up Chestnut street, discharging their weapons as they went. Officers followed and captured them and they are now in jail. It is thought they are wanted elsewhere for serious crimes. Greenville, September 4.—The little village of Lone Oak, in the southern portion of this county, is today in ashes. Eight business houses were burned. The loss will aggregate $15,000; insurance about $3,000. Georgetown, September 4—The New York dispatches containing accounts of the HollandDavis tragedy creates considerable sensation and comment here. This or a similar bogus firm of late have been writing to several citizens here trying inveigle them into some of their many swindling operations and and one of two have been extensively fleeced by them. Holland lived here several years ago, and was well and favorably known. Longview, September 4.—Yesterday morning a large hole, 7x13 feet, and five feet deep, was noticed by passengers in the lumber yard of W. S. Robinson, and on inquiry, it was found that it had been dug the night before, and that a pile containing about 6,000 feet of lumber was moved in order to dig gin J a particular spot. The remains of a half rotten box were scattered about, and one man picked up a $5 gold piece from under one of the rotton pieces, while a few steps away another lifted a $5 greenback. Such a scrambling as was (hen inaugurated by the crowd assembled can be imagined. Dancing Academy. I will reopen my dancing academy at Armory hall, on Thursday, September 3rd, 1885. For particulars ask for circulars at any book or music store. Respectfully, 8271w. R. G. Cheesman. LAST NIGHT’S FIRE. An Exciting Time, But Not Much Material Damage— The Details. At fifteen minutes past nine o’clock last night an alarm of fire was sounded from box five, and a few minutes afterward the alarm was turned on from box six. From that on the alarm was all in confusion. It was ascertained that fire was burning in Mr. W. R. Sill’s feed store, on Austin street. The fire department was on the ground in five minutes after the alarm,but it was some time before they could get the hose attached to the plug,owing to it being sunk too low in the ground. After the hose was in readiness it was still some time before water was thrown through the nozzle, and in a few minutes the hose bursted and the water had to be turned off. It was a fortunate circumstance that there was no wind blowing, for with the number of mishaps there is no telling how much damage would have been done if a strong wind had prevailed. The fire engine was attached to the plug on the corner of Sixth and Austin streets and when it went to work the fire was easily put under control. The house is owned by Mr. Jas. I. Moore and insured in the Royal Insurance company. His loss will not exceed $ 100. Mr. Sills had in the morning taken out $800 insurance in the Commercial of San Francisco, Jones & Lowry agents. Mr. I. Gaither’s stock, adjoining Mr. Sills, was slightly damaged by smoke and water. He was insured in the Fire Association of London, Jas. I. Moore & Co. agents. The theory as to the origin of the fire is that on yesterday Mr. Gaither was burning some trash in his back yard and Mr. Sills was in the habit of leaving his back window lowered and the supposition is that a spark fell into the hay through the window, igniting it. COURTS TODAY. In the city court J. B. Saunders was fined $2 and John McKay $2.50. Both for being drunk. In Justice R. W. Davis’ court yesterday afternoon and this morning was consumed in hearing the case of I. A. Goldstein vs. Carnahan and Kinsey, a suit on a promissory note. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $125.00. In the case of the State vs. Mike Williams, on complaint of A. Rosenfeld, charging him with passing a $20 counterfeit bill on Mrs. Rosenfeld. The lady refused to swear he was the man and the case was dismissed. Strange Fatality. Martin’s Valley, Pa., August 28.—Mrs. Sarah Truby, of this place, is an aged widow. Her son John, aged thirtyfour, worked on the East Branch railroad. Jason, another son, aged thirtysix, was an employe in the state quarries. Wyman, a third son, thirtyeight years old, was a miller. They lived with their mother, having no families of their own. On Friday night last John, while running to turn a switch, fell into a cattle guard and broke his neck. On Salurday morning, before the news of John’s death reached home, Jason was drowned in a pit in the quarries! recent rains having filled it with water. Jas. Whittaker arrived in the village at 9 o’clock Saturday morning with the news of John Truby’s death, and met Wm. Jackson, who was bearing the tidings of Jason’s sad fate at the same time. The two walked together to the mill where Wyman Truby wsrked to break the news to him first. There was a crowd about the mill, and, as the two messengers arrived on the scene, men were carrying Wyman Truby’s dead body out of the building. He had been suffocated in a grain bin. Less than twelve hours intervened between the death of the first brother and the last one. The news of the death of her three softs so affected Mrs. Truby that her life is despaired of. The three bodies will be buried in one grave. Uncle Sam’s Silver Shipment. Times Democrat. The process of loading the Swartara with her cargo of standard silver dollars was begun yesterday. The ship brought with her about 2,500 pine boxes, two cubic feet in dimensions. Each of these will hold 4,000 of the dollars of our daddies. They are filled at the mint, loaded some ten or a dozen at a load upon an ordinary float and hauled down the levee for two or three blocks, to where the Swartara is moored, at the head of Meadville street—the first instance of a manofwar tied up to the levee since the war. There is much ado over the transfer. Stiff marines guard the boxes from the time they leave the mint until they are safely hoisted to the decks of the Swartara. The process of loading is a tedious one, and it will be ten or twelve days before the cargo is complete. The mint officials do not know how much silver they will ship, as final directions have not been received from Washington; but the Swartara’s officials are expecting to receive about 2,000 boxes, half of Price s Cents. which will be transferred to the Yantic at the quarantine station, where she is now lying rather than have her crew’s clothes washed in bichloride oi mercury. The Swartara carries no ammunition and will sail with her silver millions and only a few kegs of powder, giving every encouragement to whatever buccaneering enterprise our prosaic time can muster. —Sanger Bros, today received their fine engine to work their steam passenger and freight elevater in their enlarged store. The engine is twenty horse power and will be placed in the cellar recently constructed in the rear of the store. The store begins to show the handsome appearance it will make when the work is finished. Up to date the expense of improvement is abort twenty thousand dollars which added to the orlginal cost of the building which was twentyfive thousand dollars makes the total invested in that piece of property fortyfive thousand dollars. —The farmers are very much discouraged about their cotton crop. Those who were sanguine about a month ago, of three fourths of a bale to the acre, have gradually come down to about one fourth to the acre for old cotton; though they still claim that they will make one third of a bale to the acre with the young cotton. —Hotel, restaurant and boarding house keepers should be on hand tonight at 8 o’clock, next door to Wilson’s restaurant, to secure bargains in table and bed linen, comforts, blankets, crockery, etc., which will be sold there at auction by Auctioneer Tom Simth. • PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Sioux chief, Two Bears, calls President Cleveland “Oldmanwiththehonest heart.” The Marquis of Lome has ar. ink bottle made of the hoof of Lord Clive’s Crimean charger. Mr. Thoman, of the civil service commission, has bought a $14,000 house in Washington. A man in Webster county, Mississippi, buried his wife Tuesday and married another Thursday. The exempress of Mexico is fortyfive. The doctors note an extraordinary improvement in her and anticipate a complete recovery. Pat Sheedy, the Chicago turfman, used to be a bootblack and stable boy, and is now worth two hundred thousand of the dollars that were then so scarce with him. Henry Ward Beecher has accepted the invitation of the Boston board of aldermen to deliver the public eulogy on Gen. Grant in that city. A novel method of , suicide was that attempted by an insane man at Brooklyn, N. Y., a few days ago—throwing a large cobblestone in the air and letting it fall on his bare head. The Hon. E. B. Washburne has placed in the Washburne memorial library the old stone ink bottle from which ink was taken to sign the articles of General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Guy Min, a Chinese orator, told the religious people of San Francisco, recently,. that he thought it curious that the Americans would spend millions to secure a Jiome for his countrymen in heaven, while they refuse them such a boon in the United States. If you want a Rogers or Wostenholm pocket knife call on Horsfull & Cameron The best assortment ever seen in Waco.— Itc. Consequential Durham Damages. Victoria Advocate. During the week, as the train on the New York, Texas and Mexican was approaching the depot, a sucking calf was killed by the engine. Soon afterward the owner applied at the general office for payment for the ammal. He placed the value of the calf at $10 and claimed $30 consequential damages for the reason that he expected to have sold that amount of milk from the mother cow, which, by the death of the calf, would not be yielded by her. Attention Company. All members of the Lone Star Guards are commanded to meet at their Armory at 8:30 this evening September 5th. Business of importance. By command of J. E. Elgin, Capt. F. W. Makeig, Sec. Ladies don’t forget the fact, when you want a domestic articie prepared on short notice, such as flavoring extracts, furniture polish, bed bug poison, grease eraser, jewelry and silver cleaner—as well as toilet specialties, Florida and calogne waters, shampoo, hair dressings, teeth preservers, etc., W. L. Tucker’s “Lion Drug Store” is the place. The old reliable Schuttler, Fish Bros, and Milburn wagons sold by W. R. Briming * ham.—62im. |