Waco Daily Day Globe (Waco, Texas) Vol. 10 No. 38, Monday, January 2, 1893

              VOL. X NO. 38. WACO, TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1898. PRICE 5 CENTS
Whittinghill. Jones & Goddloe.
WINTER REDUCTIONS.
In order to clear our store as much as possible
before receiving our stock of spring goods, we will
offer many bargains which you cannot afford to
miss. See below a few of our special offers.
CLOTHING!
Beginning Monday and continuing Fifteen Days
we will offer our entire stock of Clothing including
Overcoats and Men’s Woolen Underwear at a dis-count
of 2o per cent! Can you afford to miss this
great opportunity of saving one dollar of every five
you invest in Clothing and Woolen Underwear.
Whittinghill Jones » (Joodloe.
509 Austin Avenue.
We Wish all Our
Patrons and the Public in
Oeneral
DEATH OF WILSON WILLIAMS.
Maybe it Was Negligent Homicide— County At-torney
Blair’s Views.
A
VERY
HAPPY
NEW
YEAR.
Thanking You for Past
Favors and Assuring
Regarding tlie death of Wilson Wil-liams
in' consequence of a wound in-dieted
by a shotgun in the hands of
James Mason, the inquest did not de-velop
anything that would contravert
the theory of accident. County At -
torney T. A. Blair said negligent hom-icide
might lay in the case and he will
continue to investigate until he is en-tirely
satisfied. It is certain that pub-lie
safety demands strong reprobation
of the reckless handling of fire arms
and Capt. Blair can be relied upon to
secure just punishment of the boy if
punishment is deserved.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
Remains of G. W D. Cook Sent Home-
Rebecca E. Piercy
Mrs.
Messrs. Walter Connally and Fred.
S. Mansfield, of Tyler, kinsmen of
Mr. G. W. D. Cook, whose sudden
death at the Hotel Palmo has been
hitherto mentioned, arrived Saturday
and took charge of the remains, which
they escorted to Atlanta, Georgia,
where the funeral and burial will take
place, probably to-morrow.
k ir ns
You of Our Appreciation
and Ever Increasing Ef-fort
to Merit it, We are
Truly Yours
&
Mrs. Rebecca E. Piercy.
Mrs. Rebecca B. Piercy, wife of
Mr. R. S. Piercy, proprietor of the
Waverly hotel, died at noon Saturday,
aged 31. The funeral was conducted
at the hotel yesterday afternoon and
the remains were interred at Oakwood.
The funeral and burial were largely
attended by sympathizing friends.
N. B.—Monday Morn-ing
We Begin Our Invert-tory
and Will This week
Offer Bargains in Every
Department.
JNO. WILSON,
CIVIL ENGINEER
Waco, : : Texas.
Twenty-five years experience. Ten
'years experience as a hydraulic engineer
Consulting estimates furnished, Eogin-eer
Waco Water Power and Electric Co.
•Office over Farmers and Merchants’ Na-tional
bank.
LAST NIGHTS FIRE.
The shed room of a cottage on Mary
street, west of Sixth street, took - fire
last night, shortly after 9 o’clock. The
cottage is owned by Mr. Weslow and
occupied by Granville Robertson in
the front portion, while Ella Hickman
occupied the shed room. It was in
the shed room that the fire started and
to which it was mostly restricted.
Ella’s things were nearly all destroyed
and Robertson suffered removal loss,
his effects being thrown out hastily
and broken. Ella says a white man
cursed her on the street and threatened,
her with harm and she thinks he went
into her room while she was out and
touched it off with a match. There
was no insurance and no great loss,
the fire boys had reached the scene in
time to prevent spreading of the fire.
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To our many friends and patrons in and out of
Waco we extend the compliments of the
season. In honor of the New Year
OUR STORE WILL CLOSE TO-DAY NOON.
Our Great Annual January Clearing
and Alteration Sale has begun and good
Bargains are being offered in all Departments.
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A CELESTIAL SOCIETY.
THE CHINESE HIGHBINDERS ARE
PUSHING THEIR WORK
_____A-The
Chinese Exclusion Act and Its Provis-ions
Collecting Casli to Knock it
Out—A Chinese Visitor.
Memphis. Jan. 1. — United
States Inspector F. N. Wicker, of the
treasury department yesterday, in con-versatio/
i with a newspaper reporter,
stated in reference to the Chinese
question that one Tam Yuen Sun, a
Chinese, arrived in this city last week
and represented himself as the author-ized
agent and representative of the
Chinese Six Companies which were
vested with authority to collect from
each resident Chinaman of this city
the sum of $1 for the purpose of test-ing
the constitutionality of the Chi-nese
exclusion act of the United
States, enacted May 5, 1892.
A number of the Chinese in this
city to whom this man made applica-tion
for money expressed grave doubts
as to his honesty and authority to
make said collections, and demanded
of him to show proper credentials in
support of his claims, which he was
unable to produce.
He, however, Succeeded in raising
about $200 from several parties who
are said to be running a Chinese lot-tery
in this city. Tam Yuen Sun
claims to be a prominent member of
the notorious “Highbinders,” which
is the “Mafia” organization of the Pa-cific
slope and which has terrorized all
peaceable-minded Celestials who have
fallen under their ban, and was using
the name of that deadly band of assas •
sins to extort money from his country-
1 men in the city.
*i Several days ago Tam Yuen Sun
| left for New York threatening those
who refused to accede to his demand
to return within the next ten days
clothed with ample authority from
Chinese Six Companies to substantiate
his claims madh, and that he would
make it warm for those who dared
to question his commission and au-thority.
Colonel Wicker further said that
the Chinese generally are not fully in-formed
as to the text of the exclusion
act, one of the provisions of which re-quires
all Chinese residents in the
United States at the time of the pas-sage
of this act to be registered' and to
receive a certificate of that fact, which
certificate is a virtual guarantee of
continuous, undisturbed residence in
the United States, and of protection
by the government.
This act is virtually a safeguard for
the Chinese now residing in the United
States, and is so recognized by a
number of intelligent Chinese, but
they are being educated by interested
parties through, ihercenary motives
that the act is one of oppression, aimid
at the abridgement of their liberties
in this country, and is used to collect
the $1 per head from the 170,000
Chinese within the domains of the
United States for the alleged purpose
of employing legal services to test the
constitutionality of the act, when
in reality it is a money-making scheme
on the part of a few leading Celestials
who are'shrewd enough to see an op-portunity
of defrauding their country-men.
The Highbinders’ association in this
city is no myth, and has its headquar-ters
at No. 10 South Basin street and
numbers about forty members, where
they have their sign conspicuously
displayed. It is true that the mem-bers
belong principally to the better
and more intelligent class of Chinese
in the city who have been induced to
join the society under the impression
that their personal property would be,
safer by reason of their membership.
A large majority of straightforward
and law-abiding Celestial citizens of
the city are bitterly opposed to the
modes and aims of this organization,
and would much prefer to sever their
connection with it, as it neither re-spects
property or the laws of the
country in which they reside, and
that they consider its actions as crimi-nal
as the dastardly outrages of the
Italian Mafia and repugnant to Ameri-can
civilization.
A prominent American, a man of
nerve, and one who is thoroughly con-versant
with the Chinese affairs, has
been engaged by the United States
government to investigate and crush
out of existence this deadly society,
not only in this city, but throughout
the whole United States.
Colonel Wicker has made a coiq-plete
study of the Chinese question,
and is thoroughly familiar with all ,the
laws of this United States relative to
Chinese immigration.
Colonel Wicker has traveled through
different portions of the United States,
principally in California, where the
Chinese colonies exist, and has he-come
familiar with all the different
phases of Chinese life.
Colonel Wicker, since he has been
assigned to duty at this port, has sue-ceeded
in preventing a • number of
Chinamen from locating in this city,
who, had it not been for his vigilance,
would have evaded the laws of the
United States while in transit to Cubal]
He has succeeded in having a num-her
of Celestials who attempted to
violate the exclusion act brought be-fore
the United States court and re-turned
to China. He has also ar-rested
a number and had them con-victed
for smuggling opium into this
country.
The Little Frenchman
Has moved to 113 North Fourth street,
in the McLelland hotel block, where
he will be pleased to meet his old
friends and make new ones. First-class
dyeing and cleaning. I have
now, also, a first-class hatter from the
east in my employ. Call to see me.
A. Friedman.
A serviceable present a set of Rogers
& Bros knives, forks and spoons at
Levinski’s.
THE BIG FELLOW TALKS.
JOHN L SULLIVAN POURS OUT
HIS TALE OF WOE-To’an
Audiencj at the Windsor Theater.
Reiterates the Statement That He
Was Fairly Whipped.
New York, Jan, 1.—An enthusias-tic
audience filled the Windsor theater,
where the John L. Sullivan company
was playing last night and were treated
to a stirring speech by the ex-champ-ion
which lasted five minutes. Sulli-van
spoke very seriously on the con-troversy
he had with his hackers, about
the newspapers and the reports that
he would again enter the prize ring to
regain his lost laurels from Champion
Corbett. The speech was a great sur-prise
to the spectators. They were
not in the least aware that the big
fellow would publicly tell of the al-leged
mean treatment he had received
on the part of his backers. During
the progress of the play he stepped
to the footlights and stretched forth
his muscular arm as a signal for the
audience to lessen the enthusiasm.
Immediately there was a deep si-lence
and even the drop of a pin could
be heard when he cleared his throat
to give vent to his feelings. The
conquered champion said, . among
other things, that he had not the
remotest idea of fighting Corbett
again. He stated with trembling
voice and moistened eyes that his day
had come at last and that he was no
longer young or energetic enough to
battle against youth or strength.
“Corbett,” he said, “whipped me
fairly and honestly, but when I fought
him I was already a wreck of old age
and reckless living. ” (Loud cries and
cheers of “John, you could yet whip
him with proper training. ”)
‘ ‘I am making a comfortable living
in the theatrical profession,” he con-tinued,
‘ ‘and I am perfectly satisfied
without whipping other people. There
is one thing, however, I wish to say,
and that is, if I was still champion I
would fight within a year. Corbett
refuses to, but after all he must be
given credit for the clear brain he
possesses.”
Sullivan also said that the allega-tions
he made against his hackers
were based on sound facts, hut he did
not make any personal attacks oh their
characters nor did he mention their
names. As far as the reports were
concerned that he was crazy, he said
that they were all bosh, as his per-sonal
appearance and speech would
prove. When the defeated hero fin-ished,
the audience literally jumped
out of their seats to cheer and applaud
his speech.
A. ®
Happy New Year.
If our shoes you wear
Old Time will declare
That a Happy New Year
To you now is due.
But if not the case,
Come down to our place
At a Nancy Hanks pace
And, buy a good shoe.
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