The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 308, Monday, January 2, 1888

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THE POPE’S JUBILEE.
A GRAND PAGEANT IN THE
CITY OF ROME.
The Crown Prince—Bad Medicine for
Tramps—End of a Strike—A Deadly
Political Quarrel—The Postal
Telegraph—Other Notes.
Senator Sawyer and the Postal Telegraph.
Oshkosh, Wis., January 2.—When
asked whi ther he was in favor of the
postal telegraph scheme, Sfenator Sawyer
said he would favor a bill which had
been before the committee three years
ago. That was, that the postmastergeneral
advertise for proposals to do
government telegraphing and all other
business at a price not to exceed 20
cents for twenty words, including the address
and signature, for 1000 miles and
under; 25 cents for distances between
1000 and 1250 miles, and not over 50
cents for twenty words for any greater
distance within the United States;
night messages at halfprice. The government
to furnish room in postoffices
where wires run and at other points it
may designate. The company to furnish
operators and the government to deliver
the messages at free delivery cities for
letter postage. If the government receives
no bids at the above prices, then
the postmastergeneral be instructed to
advertise for proposals for the purchase of
all lines in the country and report the
bids to the next congress. This plan,
Senator Sawyer stated, would be similar to
that adopted by the government in the
operation of the mail service.
The Papal Jubilee.
Rome, January 2.—Fortyeight cardinals
and 238 archbishops and bishops
were present at yesterday’s jubilee mass,
and it is estimated that there were 30,000
persons in the audience. The pope
prayed for a long time in his private
chapel and then received the homage
of the court cardinals in the Sala Ducaie.
* While assuming his sacerdotal vestments
the pope was overcome with
emotion and fainted, soGtrong salts wet^e
administered and he soon returned to
consciousness. He then ascended the
gestatorial chair and was borne on the
shoulders of the sediari, attended by
cardinals, to St. Peter’s church. Just
before he was fully vested for the altar,
he again fainted, remaining unconscious
a few minutes. The mass occupied
twentyeight minutes. After pronouncing
the benediction, he again seated himself
in the gestatorial chair and was
borne completely around the altar to tlie
Capello de Saceramento, where he offered
up a prayer of thanksgiving. During
the ceremony the pope wore the
tri pie crown presented to him by Emperor
William.
A M ther’s Dream.
Reed, Pa., January 2.—Mrs. Jacob
Condon, living a few miles from this
place, dreamed a few nights ago that her
yearold baby was burned to death, and
she sent word of the burning to her husband,
who was working at a distance trom
home, by James Portlewaith, a neighbor.
The next morning she told her husband
of the dream. She was despondent, but
he laughed at her fears and went away to
his work. Late in the forenoon Mrs.
Condon left her kitchen to go
to the woodshed, a tew steps away
While she was there she heard her baby
screaming. She ran into the house and
found the child lying in front of an open
grate wrapped in flames. The mother
threw an old coat about the child and
smothered the flames, but it was so bad'y
burned that it died in a few minutes.
As Mrs. Condon went to the door to call
for assistance, James Portlewaith was
passing the gate, and she sent him to her
husband with the terrible news. Everybody
up here is talking about the remarkable
story.
A Tennessee Tragedy.
NaSHYILLE, January 2.—A tragedy
was enacted Saturday night at Bethpage,
Summer county, Gilbert Neal being shot
through the heart by Ephraim Claiborne,
after a quarrel caused by a trivial remark
made concerning Miss Mason, a
young lady residing in that section. Neal
was a guest at a narty given at the residence
of Jos. Anderson, and starting
home was followed by Claiborne and
three other men. As Neal neared his
home Claiborne drew his revolver and
shot and killed Neai. The victim is a
son of Amos Neal, a prominent resident
of Bethpage, and Claiborne is a section
boss on the Chesapeake and Nashville
railroad. Claiborne fled after the shooting,
and a posse are in pursuit.
Chattanooga on the Tariff.
Chattanooga, January 2.—At a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce tonight,
the following resolutions were
adopted : Resolved, by the Chamber of
Commerce of Chattanooga, That our senf*
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ators and representatives in congress be
requested : 1. To favor raising the revenue
for the support of the government
by a tariff upon imports so adjusted as
to prevent unequal burdens and encourage
the development of our material resources,
and at the same time afford
just compensation to labor. 2. That it
13 the sentiment of the people of Chattanooga
and the territory contiguous
thereto, that no reduction should be
made on duties on coal, iron ore or their
products, as such reduction would be
vitally detrimental to the interests of
large sections of country, of which this
is the commercial centre.
The Crown Prince.
BERLIN, Jan 2.—The reports concerning
the Crown Prince’s condition present
the best aspect possible. Since
Bismarck renewed the pressure for a regency
no adverse reports regarding the
prince have been permitted. The opinion
of Berlin experts, that the disease is cancer,
has not altered and Dr. Mackenzie’s
latest diagnosis failed to dispel the belief
that ultimate cure is impossible.
Prince Bismarck’s appeal to Crown Prince
Frederick William to consent to the establishment
of a regency, although re
pulsed, will now be renewed in view of
danger of an outbreak of war. The best
men in political and military circles feel
the necessity of their being, in the event
of war,, an active working regent competent
to perform all political duties and
in accord with the army. It is impossible
for the Crown Princess to act as regent.
Official circles in discussing the
question of regency put the princess entirely
out of consideration. Prince William
is now in prime health, his old ailments
have disappeared, and he is showing
himself to be an energetic worker for
his coming trust of Germany. Only a
small court party will continue to oppose
a regency if the Crown Prince remains
an invilid.
The Lash for Tramps.
Jacksonville, January 2.—At the
close of today’s session of the criminal
court Judge Loton Jones created a stir
by sentencing six tramps, now in jail, for
entering a house and using portions of
it for fuel to receive thirtynine lashes
each, next week, under a law still on the
statute books. He then said he intended
to clear them out of this state,
and addressing the sheriff ordered him
him to arrest every suspicious character
or tramp found, even if it took fifty deputies
to do it. Further, he said he
would hold court open from dav to day
and give all the tramps arrested a good
dose of the lash. The people are well
pleased at this, for Florida becomes the
tramp’s paradise in the winter time, and
thousands flock here, menacing life and
property, even now within a radius of
four miles of this city. There are four
or five camps, with probably 300 or more
tramps, who all live by begging, thieving,
plundering and murdering at times.
End of a Printers’ Strike in Chicago.
Chicago, January 2. The job and
book printers’ strike has terminated, and
the defeated strikers are slowly returning
to work. The nonunion men are being
discharged as fast as the strikers return,
notwithstanding most of the employing
printers swore that not a man who came
to their aid should ever be discharged to
make way fora striker, no matter how
good a worker said striker might be.
The gradual end of the strike, or more
properly lockout, is appreciated by the
newspaper printers and such job printers
as were not involved in the general work.
They have been paying a weekly assessment
of 10 per cent, toward the support
of the strikers, and were much relieved
Wednesday when it was cut down to 5,
owing to the small number of strikers
and the liberal aid of other unions.
The Reading Strike.
Reading, Pa., January 2.—Yesterday
an informal meeting of representatives
from the Knights of Labor assemblies
in this city, whose membership consists
principally of Reading railroad employes,
was held. The situation was
again fully discussed, and it was given
out as the sentiment of employes that
under no circumstances would they
strike, because they considered it impolitic,
and on the ground that it would
not help along the cause of the Knights
of Labor. A number of assemblies in
the neighboring towns telegraphed here
that they would be guided by the action
of the Reading assemblies. Eighty
men were employed here today and
sent to Port Richmond to take the
places of strikers.
Wisconsin Ways.
Warsaw, January 2,—Larry Butler
was shot through the heart last night
by Louis Schlicht. The former owns
the City hotel and the latter the Hotel
Northern. Butler had been going from
saloon to saloon, and engaged in a
quarrel with Schlicht in the barroom of
the Hotel Northern, because the
latter refused to sell him
a drink. They grappled and Schlicht
drew a pistol and shot him. Schlicht
hurried to jail and surrendered himself.
Several hundred men surrounded the
jail, determined to lynch him. Sheriff
Healty declared that he had a posse of
men armed and any hostile attempt
would be met with a volley. The crowd
then dispersed.
A Noted Horse Thief.
Joliet, January 2.—The greatest horse
thief in the west was discharged from
prison yesterday afternoon, after serving
nine years from Henderson county. His
various names are Glenn Van Skout, alias
Yank Bradshaw, alias George VanZandt,
alias Jas. Green. He has served six
terms in Joliet prison, and is the most
inveterate thief of his kind known. He is
venerable looking, white haired, aged 68
years,and has had his neck stretched three
times on suspicion ot horse stealing, to
force"information from him without avail.
He has served thirty years in Joliet prison,
and his total sentences embraced
seventytwo years.
A Deadly Political Quarrel.
New Orleans, January 2.—A serious
shooting affair took place yesterday in a
saloon, in which Administrator Patrick
Mealy was mortally wounded, Mike
Walsh dangerously and Donel Markpainfully.
A quarrel over local politics was
the cause. Louis Gare and John Gibson
were arrested for the murder.
The Jubilee in Spain.
Madrid, Jannary 2.—The queen, accompanied
by members of her court and
cabinet ministers, attended the jubilee
mass today. All the government officers
were decorated and at night brilliaritly
illuminated in honor of the pope.
Members of the radical clubs left their
cards at the Italian legation as a protest
against the papal festival.
A Menace of Peace.
Vienna, January 2.—The Official Gazette
is of the opinion that the czar’s
consenting to the publication of forged
documents sent to him relative to Germany’s
policy tells weightily in favor of
the menace of peace. Soldiers of the
reserve force have been summoned for a
week’s drill with the regulars in the use
of the repeating rifle.
The Kaiser’s New Year.
Berlin, January 2.—Emperor William
observed New Year’s by giving a reception
to his ministers, members of the
diplomatic corps, generals of the army
and colonels of the Life Guards.
CHURCH NOTES.
The Week of Prayer—Services at the
Churches.
The services of Cumberland Presbyterian
church were fairly attended yesterday.
The pastor preached at 11 a. m.
from the text: ‘‘Set thine house in order
for thou shalt die and not live.” The
subject was: “New Year Reflections.”
The subject for the evening was: “The
pastor’s wish for the spiritual and temp
iral prosperity of the church.” The
text was: “Beloved, I wish above all
things that thou mayest prosper and be
in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
—ii John 2.
The first meeting ot the week of prayer,
recommended by the Evangelical Aliiance,
will be held at 7.30 p. m. at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church. Rev.
B. H. Carroll has been appointed to
lead the service this evening. All the
Christian people of the city are cordially
invited to attend these meetings that
will be held in the various churches
during the week. The following is the
programme for this evening’s service:
MONDAY, JAN. 2—THANKSGIVING.
For our acceptance with God through
Jesus Christ and the liberty of united
access by one spirit to the throne of
grace; for the enduring goodness of
God; for answers to prayers during the
past year; for the growing spirit of
Christian unity; for the maintenance of
peace on earth; for ever widening fields
given to the preaching of the gospel;
for souls gathered into the kingdom; and
for all who have dedicated themselves to
the servic? of Christ. (Ps. 23, 66, 98,
100, 103, 133, 146; Sam. 21 & 10; 1
Chron. 2910 & 15; Isaiah, 12, 261 & 9;
Luke 17—11 & 19; Eph. 1; Rom. 12; Heb.
210.)
New goods arriving by the car load.
50 varieties of canned fruits and vegetables.
Preserves, jellies and jams in glass,
wood and tin.
Atmore’s Mince Meat in 5 and 18 lb.
pails.
New mackerel in 5 lb. tins.
Fresh Imported Olive Oil and Olives.
The largest stock of fine groceries ever
offered in the state.
Purchasing by the car load from first
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