The Day (Waco, Texas), Tuesday, January 21, 1890

              SEVENTH YEAE. WACO. TEXAS. TUESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1890. PRICE 5 CENTS.
IN A TWINKLING-SUCCESSORS
TO.
LESSING, SOLOMON, ROSENTHAL & GO.
THEGREATEST ■. SALE
Ever Inaugurated in Waco!
$2o,ooo.oo WORTH OF Carpets, Rugs
Linoleums, puttings and Dtageries
AT COST!
We have just 30 days time to dispose of this stock,
as we need the room for other departments.
This sale is for CASH ONLY and the goods will not
be sold any other way. Such a chance will
not happen very soon again.
Read the List and Judge forYourseives
Genuine Axminsters, usually sold at $1.85, in
our cot-tsale, go for $1.31 per yard.
Best quality Moqucttes, usually sold at $1.75,
in our cost sale go for $1.31 per yard.
Royal Wiltons usually sold at $1.50, in our
#post sale go for $1.10 i>er yard
Velvet Carpets usually sold at $1.35, in our
cost sale go for 93c per yard.
Fir*t Quality Body Brussels, usually sold at
. $1.50, in our cost sale go for$1.10 per yard.
Second Quality Body Brussels, usually sold at
$1.25, in our cost sale go for 89c per yard.
Tap Brussels usually sold at $1,' in our cost
sale go for 73c per yard.
Tap Brussels usually sold at 75c and. 80c, in
our cost sale go for53c and 64cper yard.
Tap Brussels usually sold at 60c and 60c, iu our
cost sale go for 42c and 45c per yard.
| Genuine All Wool, Three-plys, usually sold at
| $1 in our cost sale, go for 6714c per yard.
All Wool Two-plys, usually sold at 75c, in our
cost sale go for 52J$c per yard.
All WoolTwo-plys, usually sold at 65c, iu our
cost sale go for 43c per yard.
Cotton-Chain Two-plys, usually sold at 50c, in
our cost sale go for 37*4c per yard.
Cotton Chain Two-plys, usually sold at 45c, iu
our cost sale go for 3lU,c per yard.
Carpets as low as 1714c per yard.
All of our Straw Mattings at strict cost.
All of our fine Draperies, Lace Curtains,
Partierres and Shades at cost.
All of our Rugs at cost.
All styles of Poles at cost.
Remember everything iu this department at
strict cost.
We desire also to call your attention to the many reductions made in our
other departments, toch as Dress Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hosiery
and Gloves, House Furnishing Goods, Laces and Embroideries, Millinery,
Cloaks, to make room for our Spring stock, which is arriving daily. I. LOE WE N STEIN
AND COMPANY,
SUCCESSORS TO
DEATH DEALT BY THE TOUCH OF AN
ELECTRIC CURRENT.
Mistaken Himself—A Case of Poisoning—
Mu/.zling the Press—Three Men and
Two Horses Browned—Fieures
on the Boston Fire.
Another Electric Fatality.
Newburgh, N. Y., January 20.—This
morning at 9 o’clock a man stopped his
horse in front of F. W. Parson’s shoe
store on Water street and tied the ani-to
an awning post. He then went away
and in a few minutes later the horse
touched his nose to an iron post and fell
into the gutter like a log. Thomas Daw-son
ran to help the horse, but no sooner
did he place his hands on the animal
than he (Dawson) fell dead. Thos.
Salt/ who saw Dawson fall hastened' to
his assistance and took hold of him to
lift him up, but received a" terrible shock
and he too dropped to the ground as if
dead. An electric light wire had sagged
and lay upon an iron rod extending
from the awning post to building and
the full force of the electric current was
passing down the iron post into the
ground. Mr. Saltz was only stunned.
He got up, brushed his clothes and
walked away. Neither was the horse
killed, it was cut loose from the post,
lifted to its feet and driven off. Dawson
was a laborer and a large and powerful
man, weighing over 200 pounds. There
is great excitement and indignation in
the eity.
Mistaken in Himself.
Chicago, January 20.—A dispatch
from San Antonio, Texas, says: “A
man claiming to be one of Judge Longe-necker’s
assistants in the Cronin trial at
Chicago was brought to Santa Rosa hos-pital
last night in an insane condition.
The man is possessed of an hallucination
that members of the Clan-na-Gael are
after him with knives dripping with
blood.” Hon. W. J. Ilines when shown
the above dispatch at 2 o’clock this
morning by a local reporter said: “Judg-ing
from mv action in getting up at this
time of night to talk to reporters I should
say that I am the man. The case, how-ever,
is probably that of some poor fellow
who has become insane and imagines he
was an attorney in the Cronin case. The
only man now out of town who was as-sociated
with the prosecution is Kick-ham
Scanlin, and he went to New
Bington.
HUNG IN EFFIGY. UNTEMPERED WINDS- END OF THE WORLD.
The Aberdeen Incident to be Investigated i
and Resented.
Washington, January 20.—The hang- I
ing of Secretary Proctor in effigy will be j
considered at the cabinet meeting next
Tuesday. This interesting insult to the
head'of the war department was perpe-trated
at Aberdeen, Miss., an official re-port
of which reached the attorney gen-eral.
Private letters upon the subject
have been received by other members of
the cabinet. There is a decided senti-ment
held by the administration that
the affair cannot be allowed to pass un-noticed,
especially as a public building
of the United States was made use of in
the disgraceful business. Aberdeen has
one of the prettiest Federal buildings in
the South. The general government tin-ished
it recently of a cost of $150,000.
When the news of the.death of Jeffer-son
Davis reached Aberdeen the citizens
of the place draped the property of the
United States and placed the govern-ment
flag at half mast. Then they ob-tained
the clothes of a man, stuffed them
with straw and suspended the effigy
from a rope stretched across the street
between the Federal building and a
structure opposite. The effigy was
labelled “Secretary of War.” The in-suit
was offered Secretary Proctor be-cause
he did not lower the flag upon the
war department building in token of re-spect
to Mr. Davis. The custodian of
the Federal building at Aberdeen is the
postmaster. The postmaster is a South-ern
lady who still holds the office under
a commission from the Cleveland ad-ministration.
I LESSING, SOLOMON, ROSENTHAL &Co.|
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CORNER OF FIFTH STREET AND AUSTIN AVENUE.
WE ARE THE LARGEST DEALERS IN
Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry.
In the state, and undersell all competition. We buy and sell for cash.
D. DOMNAU & BRO.,
Pawnbrokers aod Jewelers,
AUSTIN AVENUE, OPPOSITE MCCLELLAND HOTEL, WACO.
----- Also Dallas and Temple.------
Sole Agents for Big and Little Louisiana
and Mexican Lottery Tickets
A Case of Poisoning.
Buffalo, N. Y., January 23.—Frank
Feirly, ti German shoemaker 74 years of
age, who lives at No. 47 Cypress street
with his widowed daughter and little
girl, in a fit of desondency early yester-day
morning proposed to his daughter
that they should all end their lives by
poisoning themselves, and with some
oxalic acid in the house drugged the
coffee. All three drank the coffee. Feirly
is said to have a terrible temper and to
be a slave to liquor. He has a slim
chance of recovery. The woman’s case
is serious, though the little girl will re-cover.
Muzzling the Press.
Kansas City, January 20.—Judge G.
M. Troupe of the district court now in
session at Winfield, Kansas, does not
believe in too much press freedom. A
short time ago the Winfield papers pub-fished
some comment of the judge’s eon-duct
of a case. Judge Troupe on Satur-day
had Henry and Lee Vincent, pub-fishers,
and J .* W. Henthorne, editor of
a paper, brought before him and fined
each of them $100 and costs for contempt
of court.
'■ Tl»re© Men and Two Horses Drowned.
Oquawka, 111,, January 20.—Elmer
Freed, Silas Tracy, Chas. Wilson, and
Alexander Wliiteinore, of Gladstone,111.,
were drowned in Griswold’s slough, near
Burlington, Saturday night. They start-ed
for a dance but their team became
unmanageable and backed the wagon
over the bank and broke through the ice.
The body of Freed was recovered. P>oth
horses were drowned.
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for everything in our line. We have in stock a complete line of fine old
Whiskies and Brandies of the best and most popular brands, such as OLD
PEPPER. W. A. M'BRAYER, OLD CROW, T. J.MONAAK, BELMONT,
KENTUCKY CLUB. In California Wines: SWEET CATAWBA, JACKAY,
ANGELICA, SHERRY, MACATELLE, MALAGA, MADEIRA, and many
more standard and popular brands of Wines and Liquors. Also a complete line
of Cordials. Our line of Imported Wines and Liquors is superior to any in the
city. Call early, we are offering special inducements, and extremely low
prices from now till after the Holidays. We are headquarters for Claret
Wines, 25 per cent cheaper than any other house in the city.
H. HVC-A-'Z'EIR,., NO. 415 AUSTIN STREET.
Figures en the Boston Fir©.
Boston, January 20.—The official fist
of losses by the Thanksgiving fire is
made public by the Boston Protective
department. From these returns it ap-pears
that the total loss was $5,845,388;
insurance involved, $5,395,933, while the
loss to the insurance companies was
$3,173,438.
A Race Riot.
West Point, Ga., January 20.—A fatal
collision occurred between whites and
blacks Saturday night. Both sides were
inflamed with liquor when the first
collision occurred in the evening. In
attempting to quell the disturbance
Deputy Marshal Burdette received a
serious knife wound in the back. This
further enraged the whites who paraded
the streets until 3 o’clock in the morn-ing,
when a more serious encounter
occurred, knives, pistols and shot guns
being freely used. When the battle
ended it was found that Nolan Sherrell
had been shot through the head and
killed. Alexander Davidson had re-ceived
a bullet wound in the leg and
Wesley Freeman was dying from the
effects of a pistol ball in the groin. The
three last named were all colored, the
whites escaping with little injury.
Satte«ns.
For early spring wear, just opened at
Lewine Bros.’
Au Ominous Dream.
Washington, January 15.—The party
of Atlantians who accompanied Mr.
Grady to Boston, all remember that he
left them at the depot here going on,
and went over to the Metropolitan hotel.
There he met Congressmen Kilgore and
Crain, of Texas, and Herbert, of Ala-bama,
with whom he chatted quite a
while. “You know,” said Mr. Kilgore
this evening, “lam somewhat supersti-tious,
and whenever I think of the death
of that beloved and gifted young orator
1 cannot but recall something he said to
me a night, or two nefore his Boston
speech. He was telling us about what
he intended saying in Boston, when,
with a smile—but not exactly that bright,
genial^smile which, on most occasions,
illuminated his honest face—he said,
But, gentlemen, you know I feel some-what
peculiar. A young man on the
Constitution, who has been with me for
years—Charlie Johnson—came into my
office yesterday before I left Atlanta and
said:
• “Mr. Grady, I wish you would not
go to Boston.’
“When I asked him why, he said:
“Well, 1 had a dream last night. I
dreamed I was in Boston with you, and,
while you were speaking, somebody iu
the audience shot you with a noiseless
pistol and killed you.’
“ ‘Then,’ said Mr. Grady, with a
laugh, ‘I told him that decided it. He
didhot come. ' Of course, nothing like
that is going to happen, but somehow,
what he told me has occurred to me a
dozen times since I left home.”
“That is all he said*” remarked Mr.
Kilgore, “But I remembered it when I
heard he was sick, and it flashed across
my mind when I heard of his death. It
is a strange coincidence.”
H©1<1 for Shooting a Maj.
Baltimore, January 20.—John K.
Egan, of St. Louis, is held at the police
station charged with shooting A. D.
Atlev, a saloon keeper, who tried to eject
Egan.
Assigned for all Their Creditors.
New York, January 23.— Flag & Co.,
dealers in new rubb ir goods at No. 905
Broadway, have made general assign-ment
to Isaac Cox without preferences.
A Deplorable Killing.
Greenwood, Miss., January 20.—Mr.
E Y. Coleman, manager of the Pillow
plantation, was to-day shot and killed by
the Hon. W. S. Barry, at the latter’s
law office. Mr. Coleman, who for some
time has been slightly demented, walked
into Mr. Barry’s office, and while the
latter was engaged with two gentlemen,
began to roundly abuse him and curse
him, calling him vile names and threat-ening
to cut his throat. Mr. Barry,
knowing his state of mind and being
naturally of a peaceable character started
to walk out of his office when
Coleman grabbed him and commenced
cutting at him with it knife, inflict-ing
a slight wound on one of the ringers
of his right hand. Mr. Barry then
pulled his revolver and fired at him
twice, one ball striking him in the
abdomen and the other a few inches
above the heart. The affair is greatly
deplored on account of the prominence
of the parties. Mr. Coleman is a cousin
of Judge Coleman, Mr. Barry's law
partner, and when of sound mind was
an exemplary young gentleman of good
character. Mr. Barry is, as already
mentioned, a partner of the law firm of
Coleman <k Berry,ex-representative from
Leflore county, an extensive planter and
junior member of the mercantile firm of
\V. S. Barry & Co., Shellmound.
SHORN LAMBS AND ALU Of HERS GET
I T IN THE NECK ALIKE.
An Unprecedented Snow Blockade
Throughout llie Northwest—Only One
Wire Between Chicago and tne
Pacific Coast.
A Great Snow Blockade.
Chicago, January 20.—The snow
blockade in the west and northwest is
one of the most complete on record.
Not only has travel become au impossi-bility
on western divisions of the Central
and Northern Pacific, but telegraph com-panies
are equal sufferers and every
through wire is down on both these
routes. The only means of telegraph
communication with the Pacific coast
now is an indirect route over the South-ern
Pacific and the volume of the busi-ness
transacted is necessarily limited.
Washington and Oregon are shut off from
communication with the entire world,
with the exception of one little zigzag
wire that still ticks feebly between San
Francisco and Portland. The Western
Union repairers are
SNOWED UP HALF A DOZEN PLACES
in the West and there is little prospect
of renewed communication until the
raiUoads have mastered the elements.
The snow blockade on the Central Pa-cific
is at Emigrant Gap, near the sum-iuit
of the Sierras. Last night eight
west-bound trains were snowed in and
the prospects of the road being opened
in the next forty-eight hours are very
poor, as snow plows cannot work through
the ice and the force of the shovelers is
inadequate. There are 1500 men at
work, but as the snow is seven feet deep
on a level and fathomless in the cuts ; the
work of clearing the track while the
snow falls is tremendous labor. On the
Southern Pacific there is '
COMPLETE SNOW BLOCKADE
at Sissons, near Mount Shasta. Col. Fred
Crocker of the Southern Pacific, who \vp,s
going north, has been snowed in there
for three days in a special train and
hopes to get out to-morrow. The South-era
Pacific road has been greatly injured
in the Tehaehapi mountains by wash-outs,
and beyond Los Angeles the
FLOODS HAVE DONE MUCH DAMAGE.
The only unobstructed road now is the
Atlantic and Pacific, but as this depends
on the Southern Pacific connections be-tween
the Mojave desert and San Fran-cisco
travel on that may be delayed at
any moment, as it has been raining
heavily in Southern California for sev-era!
days past, while it is snowing in
Northern California. Western Union
advices this morning are that snow is
still falling throughout the West so that
prospects are by no menus encouraging.
IN MINNESOTA.
St. Paul, January 20.—A heavy storm
accompanied by a gale set in about 10
o’clock last night and a regular blizzard
is now racing throughout the Northwest.
As yet there has been no interruption of
railroad traffic or telegraphic communi-cation,
but the storm is very*severe. Be-tween
five and six inches of snow has
fallen on a level and the prevailing high
wind has drifted it badly, especially in
the southwestern portion of the state.
Rendered Crazy bv Love.
Chattanooga, January 50.—Emil
Raum, a young German, has gone crazy
over a peculiar love affair. He started a
bakery and was doing well, when he
suddenly conceived an attachment
for Miss Netta Wallace, a beau-tiful
girl of eighteen summers. He
never met Miss Wallace, but so violent
was his attachment from seeing the
young lady on the street that he sent
her notes proposing marriage. It finally
became so unbearable to the girl that an
officer was sent to Itaum to inform him
that his note writing must cease. Raum
became violent and threatened to blow
up the house in which the young lady
lived with dynamite. He is closely
watched by the police, but has not yet
been arrested.
Tndian Delegation.
Kansas City, January 20.—A delega-tion
of Kaw Indians headed by Wah
Shon Gah, governor of the tribe, passed
through here to-day en route to Wash-ington
to consult with President Har-rison
regarding the sale of their lands.
The Kaw Indians are anxious to sell
portions of their lands and take up the
remainder in severalty.
It is Booked ior This Year oy North Car-olina
Baptists.
Charlotte, N. C., January 20.—Much
excitement prevails among the people of
many western counties on account of
alarming sermons being preached by-ministers
of the Baptist denomination.
It is said that a few days ago a confer-ence
of twenty preachers of the faith was
held at Brushy mountain in Wilkes
county. Rev. Israel Hollock, one of the
oldest preachers in western North Caro-lina,
and possessing great influence
among his brethren, presided at the con-ference.
The preacheas debated on the
coining of Christ or the end of the world,
and finally agreed to preach that the
world would surely and certainly come
to an end this year. Their preaching is
said to have greatly stirred up the more
ignorant class among the farm people,
and it is feared that it will effect the
crops to a certain extent, farmers who
believe the doctrine concluding that it is
of no use to make any preparations
ahead.
Florida Steamboat Stink.
Pensacola, January 20.—The freight
and passenger steamer Willie C., plying
between Pensacola and Milton, sunk at
her wharf at the last named place at an
early hour yesterday morning. Her car-go
of provisions and feedstuff’s was badly
damaged. But one person was on board,
and he succeeded in making his escape.
It is supposed that the vessel grounded
during low tide, and careened to such
an extent that the rising tide filled her
before she could right herself. She will
be raised with little difficulty.
Embezzler Fortner.
Memphis, January 20.—An extradition
has been issued by Gov. Humphrey for
Jas. M. Fortner, the embezzling treasu-rer
of Riley county, Kan. The prison-er’s
counsel got a writ of habeas corpus
before Judge Dubose, of the criminal
court. The judge heard argument and
agreed with Fortner’s attorneys that he
could not be held without a warrant, but
as Fortner was preparing to walk out of
court the judge made the clerk swear
out a warrant in regular form and or-dered
Fortner to jail to await the extra-dition
process.
A Singular Operation.
Chicago, January 20.—A strange oper-ation
was performed at the Presbyterian
hospital yesterday on a six-year-old
Rockford boy. He wa3 paralyzed on
Christmas so he could not move a muscle.
The spinal column was laid bare and a
clot of blood removed, and, it is said, he
will get well.
A Gigantic Counterfeiting Sclieme.
New York, January 20.—The Even-ing
Sun publishes a sensational article
prospecting to give details of the gigantic
counterfeiting business said to have been
carried on by certain citizens of Mexico.
It states that these individuals have
within the past two years coined 5,000-
000 of our silver dollars, and after ship-ping
them across the border have dis-posed
of them with profit to themselves
of 20 cents on each dollar. The Sun
says that during the past few days ru-mors
to the above effect have been afloat
in Wall street but have been confined to
a few prominent bankers and finan-ciers
who have taken extraordinary
precautions to prevent reports from get-ting
beyond their own little circle.
Within the past four months, or perhaps
longer, it has been noticed by .bankers
and all men who have a great deal to do
with money in that portion of the United
States contiguous to Mexico, that there
has been an unwontedly large number
of United States silver dollars in circu-lation.
This fact has been noted by £
bankers in Texas and New Mexico and ^
Arizona. As soon as attention was
called to it hankers naturally be-gan
to speculate as to causes of it and to
attempt to track back payments made in
silver dollars. Certain it was that these
coins could not have been shipped from
the United States coinage mints without
the knowledge of local banks in Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona. It was found
that many of these coins could be traced
to Mexicans living across the border
who had given it to them in exchange
for commodities purchased in this
country. Then arose the question
where did these Mexicans get. those
United States silver dollars in such
large quantities. Then began a regular
investigation which led td the disclosure
of many suspicious circumstances too
small to be noticed by themselves, but
forming significant links in a chain of
evidence pointing to one of most re-markable
international crimfs, if such it
may be termed, that the world has ever
known.
This is the conclusion which bankers
in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have
arrived at as a result of their investiga-tions
that a band of Mexicans calling
themselves a “Private Bank” have been
coining United States silver dollars and
then uttering the same to Mexicans who
gave them in return for goods purchased
on this side of the border. Perhaps there
is more than one of these institutions;
perhaps a half a dozen. Gentlemen who
are investigating this gigantic plot, if
such it proves to be, are of the opinion,
deduced from many minor details, that
this wholesale counterfeit has been going
on for over two years and that at
least 7,5000,000 counterfeit United States
dollars have thus been foisted on the
citizens of this country by keen witted
Mexicans. How the dollars are uttered
the investigators do not know. It is
possible that the “Private Bank,” or
Mexican coiners of United States money,
utter the coins directly through their
own employes to people across the
border in the United States. In that
way they would secure themselves the
whole of profit of about 28 cents on each
coin. Or this idea seems much more
plausible: They give the coins to
Mexicans at a compromise value, some-thing
between 72 cents and $1, the
Mexicans who thus assume the risk in
connection with passing the dollars, it is
a small risk to get their coin for less than
$1 in consequence of that risk.
B. A. Little & Co. have choice country
and creamerv butter.
Limestone county yellow yam sweet
potatoes at J. A. Early’s.
A good home near Baylor University;
will sell cheap or will take some unim-proved
lots and balance cash; a bargain.
Waco Trading Co.
For Sale
Cottage of four rooms, lot 50 by 165
feel, on Barnard street.
Jno. T. Battle,
Real Estate.
In Christmas gifts you’ll soon invest;
Jackson’s photos are the best.
Large, new mackerel—this season’s
catch—at B. A. Little & Co.’s.
Ten dozen eggs for one dollar, at J. A.
Early’s.
Time is money.
Neat engraving, fine watch and clock
repairing, cleaning and regulating, is
bone reliably by A. J. Leslie, at Am-bold’s,
on Austin avenue.