The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 5 No. 10, Tuesday, February 14, 1888

              VOL. 5. NO- 10- WACO, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1888- PRICE 6 CENTS.
Erg Goods.
Sanger Bros.
ANOTHER WEEK OF BARGAIN DAYS MONDAY AND TDESDAY
SPECIAL SALE OE / Dress Goods!
ON THESE DAYS WE OFFER SPECIAL LOW PRICES ON
2,000 yards of Summer Silks,
3,000 yards of Gros Grain Silks,
500 yards of Black Silks and
500 yards of Brocade Velveteen,
-IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR-MONDAY
AND TUESDAY ONLY
Lot 1 at 25 Lents a Yard.
Summer Silks at 25 cents, worth 45 cents per yard.
Lot 2 at 30 Cents a Yard-
Summer Silks at 30 certs per yard, worth 55, and GO cents
Lot 3 at 371-2 Cents a Yard-
Summer Silk at 37J cents a yard, worth 65 and 75 cents
Lot d a t 50 Cents a Yard.
Colored gros gnjin dress silks at 50 cents a yard, worth 75
* cents a yard.
Lot 5 at 60 Cents a Yard.
Colored gros grain dress silks at 60 cents a yard, worth 85
cents a yard.
Lot 6 at 75 Cents a Yard.
Colored gros grain dress silks at 75 cents a yard, worth
81.00 and $1.10,
Lot 7 at 75 Cents a Yard.
19 inch black gros grain dress silks at 75 cents per yard,
worth $1.00 per yard.
Lot 8 at 19 Cents a Yard.
f Colored brocade velveteens at 19 cents a yard, worth
50 cents a yard.
LOOK FOE “NOTION” BARGAIN DAYS,
Wednesday and Thursday
On these two days we will offer a large lot of Special Bargains
in our Notion department.
er
33tg ©DOBS.
No Clearance
—SALE—
of Stock even a*
COST,
Can posssibly
Compete with
our grand
Slaughter Sale!
It is absurd
for
MERCHANTS
Of repute to
say that they
are Selling
Goods at a loss,
unless odds and
ends are offered
to lead people
to their houses.
$afconbrokct.
P A. W NBROKEB S
D. Domnau & Brother,
;The oldest established pawnbrokers in the city, No. 266, South Side Square,
Blue Front, Waco, sign of three gilt balls, and 611 Main Street, Dallas. Money loaned
on diamonds, watches, jewelry, furniture, clothing and all articles of value. Railroad
tickets bought, sold and exchanged. Highest cash prices paid for old gold and silver.
Notes discounted. Also a fine line of unredeemed pledges for sale at one-half of their
actual value. Before purchasing elsewhere it will be to your iuterest to call on us.
9reacrlon[ Srunsisu.
CASTLES, MORRISON & CO.
-PROPRIETORS OF THE-OLD
CORNER DRUG STORE.
Surgical Instruments and Physicians’ Supplies^ specialty.
Leading Prescription Drug Store in Central Texas.
BANKRUPT
Stock!
Grand and Renewed Efforts
to close the immense
stock of
CLOTHING,
Gent’s Furnishing Goods
and Hats yet on hand.
Profits have long ago Retired. Losses are to
continue from day to day.
&
We give you nothing but new and desirable goods, instead of
old shop-worn goods. Our former reduction of 33^ per
cent, on Clothimg, Gents’ Furnishing Goods and
Hats, now increased by an additional
10 PER CENT.
On All Purchases in these Departments.
Remember this stock is sold by virtue of the unrelenting
law. For that reason only the unprecedented losses thus
sustained must be endured without a complaint,
ALL SALES AT COST !
Thrown in the shade and amount to nothing, when you can
buy the same goods at less than 4o per cent’, of first cost in
New York City. The parties concerned are determined not
to leave a garment on the counter, if low prices will sell them.
We thank a generous public for kind encouragements
received.
M. N. ROSENTHAL,
J. A. SOLOMON.
Managers for H. B. Claflin & Co.
CAPTAIN DICK.
THE NOTED ROBBER KILLED IN
FRIO COUNTY.
A Fight With Burglars—Death in the
Bottle — A New Railway to the
Gulf—A Street Car Crushed—
Short in His Cash,
Death in the Bottle.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., February 14.—A
fearful disaster, the result of a drunken
spree by which six lives were lost, oc-curred
Sunday night at Silver Brook,
eight miles south of Hazelton. A party
of Hungarians went to' Hazelton to at-tend
the dedication of a new Polish Cath-olic
church. All became drunk and re-turned
home in the evening. When they
got to the house of a man named Mu-lick,
they indulged freely in whisky and
beer, maddened by the effects of which
they engaged in a fierce fight. Accord-ingto
the story of one Ehlman, while this
fight was in progress a lighted lamp was
overturned, and in an instant the whole
room was enveloped in flames and the
clothes of .those present set on fire
They rushed " wildly for ‘ the doors,
which they found locked. In their
druhken condition, some of them either
did not know what to do or were unable
to climb out of the windows, and remain-in£
in the room perished in the flames.
Five men and one woman were roasted
alive. Their names are John Eiias, John
Seddo, John Kobinko, Michael Yank-ovitch,
.Maiy Mulick and Paul Syk-awlsee.
Mulick and his wife were also
badly burned and will die. Mrs.
Mulick threw her baby out of a window
to save it from the flames,
but in falling it was fatally injured. Peter
Monks was terribly burned about the
upper portion of the body and his inju-ries
will prove fatal. Half a dozen oth-ers
were badly burned or injured by
jumping out ofthe windows. The story
of the turning over of a lamp is not be-lieved.
It is the opinion of many that
there was murder aommitted in the
house and it was fired to hide the crime.
Investigation is now being made.
Capt. Dick Shot to Death.
Austin, February 13.—The governor
re< eived the following dispatch to-day,
dated at Pearsall, Frio county : Have got
.Brock Cornett, alias Capt. Dick. He
fought to the last; had to kill him in
making the arrest. Have you any in-structions?"
If not, will bury him to-day.
Capt. Dick was the alleged captain of
the band that robbed the trains at Me-
Neill and Flatonia. He was an escaped
convict and his aliases were numerous.
Sheriff Olive Jof Williamson county,
who was at Pearsall to hunt up
Cornett, or Capt. Dick, tele-graphed
the governor later to-day
that the dead robber is fully identified as
the captain. John Barber and one
other of the alleged gang are still at
large. Three have been captured and
one killed. Barber when last heard
from was in south Texas, in DeWitt
county, and had a large amount of
money, it was reported.
An Innocent Man Pardoned.
Chicago, February 14.—A dispatch
from Columbus, O., says: After serving
eight years in the penitentiary on a life
sentence, Conrad Rautbach was yester-day
pardoned by the governor. The
judge that sentenced Rautbach, as well
as the jury and prosecuting attorney,
nbi< believe that an innocent man was
convicted, and but for Gov. Foster,
who commuted his sentence to impris-onment
tor life, he would have been hung
He was received on a life sentence from
Shelby county in April, 1880, for killing
a man at Hardin, near Sidney, he having
previously been sentenced to hang. His
sentence was commuted at the time by
Gov. Foster to imprisonment for li.e. It
is believed by those who signed the ap-plication
for pardon that it was a case of
mistaken identity. After being released,
he appeared at the office of Gov. Fora-ker,
and in tears expressed his apprecia-tion
of the clemency shown him.
A Fight With Burglars.
Bridgeport. Ills., February 14.—D.
S. Porter, a wealthy farmer, well-known
throughout the state, and his wife had a
terrible encounter with burglars Sunday
night, near Lawrenceville. Early in the
evening Mr. Porter responded to a
knock at the door, when a man
entered and placed a revolver
at his head. He threw his assailant to
the floor, and while struggling with him,
a second man entered and held Mrs.
Porter at bay with a revolver. She went
at this one with a poker, while her hus-band
struggled with the first. Two more
of the gang came in to the assistance of
their confederates, and a terrific fight
ensued. Some of the neighbors became
alarmed by this time, and the burglars
made a hurried departure. Mr. and
Mrs. Porter were badly and perhaps
fatally injured. He had received nu-merous
cuts from a knife and she was
injured internally, besides being badly
burned from seizing the wrong end of
the poker. The sheriff, with the whole
town for a posse, is making vigorous
search for the gang.
Crushed to Death.
New York, February 14.—Shortly
before 10 o’clock this morning as a Reed
avenue street car filled with people was
passing under a large derrick used in
erecting the elevated railroad structure
on Broadway, near Summer avenue,
Brooklyn, the ropes sustaining the der-rick
gave way and the derrick fell
on the car,crushing it in like an egg-shell.
Seventeen of the passengers on
the car «>'••* i-ioj-or! and twoneonle were
killed. Michael McNally, driver of the
car, was crushed to death. Karl Kush-ler.
a workman employed on the derrick,
was also killed. It was said .that some
persons were buried beneath the ruins,
and workmen are now engaged in remov-ing
the debris to learn if there are other
victims of the disaster..
The Pattillo Case.
Meridian, Tex., February 14.—W. L.
Pattillo, convicted at the August term
of the district court of this county
and given five years for murder,
and whose case has been in the court
of appeals since that date, was
called for Saturday by the convict
contractor to be conveyed to the peni-tentiaiy.
The supposed fatal defect in
the indictment, claimed to have been
discovered by his attorneys here, that
only eleven of the twelve grand jurors
finding the bill were ever sworn, docs
not seem to have had any visible effect
on the powers that be in the case.
A New Railroad to the Gulf.
New York, Februray 14.—The most
impoitant news of the day on Wall street
comes from Philadelphia. It is a state-ment
that the Rock Island railroad
proposes to extend its lines by 1200
miles, running tne extension to Denver
and the Gulf of Mexico. This work will
require $30,000,000, for which new
bonds will be issued. The Rock Island, by
its proposed Denver extension, will enter
into direct competition with the Burling-ton
and Quincy, and a new radroad in-volving
all the great companies in the
west may result.
Advice to a Prince.
Paris, February 14.—M. Paul DeCas-sagnac,
in a letter to Prince Napoleon,
requests him to order his son, Prince
Louis, to quit the Italian army, which
M. DeCassagnac says is openly organi-zing
against France, and to take his
sword where its point may not be direct-ed
against his country’s heart.
Snow Storms in England.
London, February 14.—There have
been very heavy sno\y storms in the
west of England, Scotland and Wales.
Two trains are snowed up between Bath
ancf Bristol.
Garden Seed and Onion Sets.
Just received from David Landreth &
Sons, Philadelphia, a full assortment of
garden seed and onion sets for this year’s
planting. They are all guaranteed fresh.
We bring only the sort that are suitable
for this section. New seed potatoes to
arrive about February 1.
Marshall & Heard.
Orders for ice cream, cakes and can-dies
solicited from hotels, restaurants,
parties arid private families. Special
price in quantities; at DeWeil’s.