Waco Daily News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 302, Monday, July 1, 1889

              Semi the WEEKLY NEWS
to your friends in the Old
States. It will cost you hut
Fifty Cents, and it will he ap-preciated
many times that
amount.
KU THE WEEKLY NEWS is the best
Advertising' Medium in Central
Texas for reaching the country
Trade. It has t he Largest bona itde
Circulation of any paper in this
portion of the State.
YOL- 1. WACO, TEXAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 1, 1889. SO. 302.
SANGER BROTHERS
We are overloaded with
JVIATTJFIGS
and will sell this week
1000: ROLLS: 1000
Of plain, fancy, jointless
and inserted Mattings
BELOW COST
This is all we have to say
for them; prices will teh the
rest.
Take passenger elevator for
Second Floor.
We have on hand a full line of
United States
AND
Texas Flap.
in all sizes, also a large As-sortment
of
JAPANESElillNTERNS
AT LOW PRICES.
j SANGER-:-BROS.,
REAL ESTATE,
Fire Insurance «3te Iyoan Agents
Have for sale choice residences, business property, vacant lots and suburban
property in all parts of the city, 33“ Correspondence solicited.
FORT WILLIC & PATTON, 121S. 4th St., Waco, Tex.
JOHN D. MAYFIELD
BANKER.
<KlJOTiN D. M/IYFIELD.
PAWN -s~ BROKER.
JOHN D. MAYFIELD,
Secretary Texas Savings Loan Association
respectfully solicits your business.
ACO FURNITURE CO., UNDERTAKERS GOODS,
Fine Woofl, Cement ani Metalit U Burial Cases, Burial Rote, Etc.
AN EXPERIENCEDIUNDERTAKER AT THE STORE NIGHT AND DAY, SCIENTIFIC EMBALMING.
OYER THE WIRES.
Telegraphic Miscellany Care-fully
Culled From Sundry
Sources.
;Tlie Texas Exodus Movement.
St. Louis, June 29.—A dispatch
from the City of Mexico, referring to
the proposed exodus of negroes from
Texas to Mexico, notes the arrival there
of Mr. Ellis, one of the emigration
commissioners, who in an interview
says: “We have an appointment for
a meeting with Secretary Paricho and
we will then unfold our plans and
wishes, but I don’t mind telling you
now that I firmly believe we are com-ing
to Mexico 10,000 strong. Already
700 families have signed the agree-ment.
These are from the counties of
Washington, Wharton, Brazoria, and
Bastrop. They are all hardworking
men. many of them own farms and
some are large cotton planters. If we
can find a proper location in the
cotton growing belt of Mexico this will
soon be h cotton exporting country in-stead
of an importer of the staple.
Many farmers and laborers from Louis-iana
and Mississippi will join us and
as there is not the prejudice in Mexico
against colored men that there is in the
United States. I have no doubt wo
will have at least 2,000 families pledg-ed
to the movement as each family will
consist of from five to seven persons
who are tho best cotton raisers in the
world. You will see we will be a very
valuable contingent in Mexico’s re-sources.
To Hang.
Jefferson, Tex., Juno 29.—The
case of the State vs. Bob Hines, charg-ed
with murder, has occupied the en-tiro
week of the court. The crime was
the most brutal in the history of this
county, and at the last term of the court
he was given the death penalty. He
is charged with killing Ike Bailey in
March,. 1888. By some technicality
the verdict of the last jury was revers-ed
by the couit of appeals. The jury
retired about 11 o’clock and at 1:30
brought in a verdict of guilty of mur-der
in the first degree and assessing
his punishment at death. The verdict
was no surprise to the people, as the
murder was simply horrible, and it was
proven that Hines waited in the woods
for Bailey and deliberately shot him in
the back, knocking him off his horse.
He then went up to the dying man and
beat his head and shoulders into a
jelley with the butt of the gun. The
case has excited great interest in the
county.
Demoralized Officials.
San Antonio, June 29.—The grand
jury, who reported the result of their
labor for the J une term, complained
in emphatic terms of the laxity of the
sheriff, deputy sheriffs, constables, and
police officers in allowing so many
crimes to go unpunished and their dis-inclinations
to testify before the grand
jury. Judge Noonan, commenting on
the report, said that he experienced
the same difficulty in court and that
officers seemed to be oblivious to every-thing
except the pay they
draw. He also remarked that under
the recent enactment of the legislature
the matter would have to be altered
and the officers either resign or be in
jail the greater part of the time.
Order your groceries, grain, feed,
wood and coal from Geo. W. McLaugh-lin.
Satisfaction guaranted.
Under a Serpent's “Spell.”
Memphis, June 29.—H. P. Iledden,
who resides southeast of Denison sev-eral
miles took to the city last week
his little child, Sallie, to be treated for
a snake bite. About 6 o’clock in tl 3
morning the little girl left the hou e
with a pail on her arm to gather wi'd
blackberries near what is called Stone
Spring. The child was expected to re-turn
home in a fe;/ minutes, as the
family was to leave early to pass the
day with a neighbor. The child being ah-sent
something over an hour, Mrs.
Hedden proceeded to the spring. The
child was not there, and the mother
called her name loundly several times.
Receiving no response, she left the
spring and walked into the blackberry
patch to hunt up the child. Passing
through the patch she saw a scene
which made her scream and almost
faint with horror. The child was seat
ed on a rock and circled in her lap was
a large rattlesnake. The child was
caressing the snake, whose head was
slightly elevated and moving to and
fro. Sometimes the snake’s head would
almost touch the lips of the child, who
pushed it away without appearing to
anger the snake. The child was so
complefely under the spell of the ser-pent
that it paid no attention to the
mother, who screamed so loudly that
her husband beared her a quarter of a
mile distant and hurried to the scene.
When Mr. Hedden appeared the snake
placed itself in attitude of battle and
the air almost seemed to vibrate with
the noise of the rattler. Mr. Hedden
advanced upon the snake, the child fell
back as if in a swoon, and the snake
struck it on the thumb of the right
hand, and then sprang at Hedden, who
killed it with a rock. Iledden sucked
the wound, which he is confident saved
the life of his little girl. Saleratus
was also applied to the wound.' The
hand and arm of the little girl were
but very little swollen when she was
brought to the city for treatment. The
child states that she was sitting on the
rock picking berries when the snake
appeared, and that she was unable to
move when she looked at it; that she
was afraid of it; that when, it waved
its head to and fro in her face she felt
like going to sleep.
Texas Train Wrcclt.
Dallas, June 30.—The east-bound
passenger train on the Texas & Paoific
which passed here yesterday morning
went through a bridge just east of
Lawrence station. From what could
be ascertained at this distance it ap-pears
the engine and tender crossed
over in safety but came uncoupled,
and the rest of the train, except the
last coach, which was General Manager
Grant’s private car, went off the track.
The baggagemaster, Mr. Samuels, was
killed. The rest of the train crew and
the passengers escaped with a slight
shaking up. All that could be learn-ed
about Mr. Samuels was that he wa«
about 30 years old and a resident o,
Marshall! A train was made up here
last night for the west. There was no
train from Fort Worth.
A Cooil Wheat Country.
Wiciiita Falls, June 29.—The
yield of wheat is very fine, the crops
that have been threshed making an
average of twenty-six to thirty bushels.
Wichita proposes to scoop the prize at
the Dallas fair again this fall as the
banner wheat county of the state, as it
did last fall. The average yield will
be more than twenty-five bushels for
county.
Frank Grady, lawyer and notary
public, 119 South Fourth street. 1
Industrial Situation South.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 20.—The
Tradesman of July 1 will publish a
statement showing the industrial situ-ation
in the south as exhibited by the
mber of new industries established
”ing the last three months. It
ows that during the last quarter 1021
new industries have been established
against 690 in the previous quarter,
there were 1711 new enterprises be-gun
during the first six month of 1889,
against 1290 for the corresponding pe-riod
of the previous year, showing that
the south is going ahead at a more
rapid rate than ever before. What is
more significant, says the Tradesman,
is the fact that the character of the
industries is of a more substantial na-ture
and is on a much better basis
than in previous years.
Pity Them Both.
Indianapolis, June 30.—Saturday
David Ward, residing near Martinsville,
Morgan county, reproved his 19-year-old
son, William, because he had done
some work in an unsatisfactory man-ner
and for participating in a charivari.
The young man brooded over the ma*
ter and this morning shot himself
through the head, dying instantly.
Bisses* Crop Yet.
Cisco, Tex., June 29.—The wheat
crop throughout this section is turning
out immensely. John Dennis, report-ed
on the streets this morning that his
• other Hillie made 700 bushels of
. heat on twenty acres. He believes
i/s crop will turn out better than this.
The wet weather so far has done the
small grain but little damage.
Come Back to Stay.
B. T. Killough, the Wide-Awake House-
Furnisher.
If you need a chamber set, a tea set
or a dinner set, a bird cage, lamp, wa-ter
cooler, ice cream freezer or any-thing
in the line of wood, willow, tin,
crockery or glass ware; household hard-ware,,
cutlery, etc., from the cheapest
to tho best, call on B. T. Killough and
give him a lift.
NOTICE.”
I respectfully invite you to call and
if you don’t like my goods and prices
don’t buy. b. t. killough.
418 Austin St.
THE GREAT RAINFALL.
SCHEDULE OF SPECIAL TRAIN.
To be Run on July 4th Between
Waco and Corsicana.
7:00 A. M.
7:35 “
7:55 “
8:15 *•
8:35 “
3:55 “
0:15 “
9:40 “
STATIONS.
Lv. Waco
Axtell
Mt. Calm
Hubbard City
Dawson
Purdon
Waters
Corsicana
Ar. 7:00p. m.
6:25 “
6-05
5:^5 “
5:‘*> “
5: i
4: 3 **
4:20 “
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the board of
equalization of tlie city of Waco, Texas,'will
meat at the mayor's office in the city of Waco
on the 15th day of July, 1889, at which time
they will hear protests, if any. why the taxes
heretofore revised by such board should not be
made hnal.
Witness my hand officially, this, the T9th
day of June, A. D. 1889.
JONEY .TONES,
City Secretary.
Waco, June 30.
I>id it ever anpear to you, mother,
How simple it must seem to all;
S-iencer is selling so many pianos?
I*.ease let’s give him a call;
Estey organs, yon know, are famous,
No better has ever been made;
Chicago cottage is not to be sneered at.
Or even laid in the shade.
Remember his house, 704 Austin avenue.
* BLOW - YOUR - BIG - BAZOO! »
•------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------r--------------------•
Listen; There’s Money in Our Music and Our Concert Captivates Customers, Because the
Silvery Sound Means Sound Silver Saved to Every Mother’s Son,
Demoralization of the Woolen
Mills.
The torrents of rain which fell last
night and this morning flooded the
streets and led to some apprehension of
damage. The rainfall was immense in
a short space of time and all the low
places in the flats west of Franklin
street were flooded to varying depths
while ditches and sewers and gutters
proved wholly inadequate to carry off
any considerable portion of the flood
as it fell.
The geatest inconvenience happened
as usual to a small territory embracing
the Woolen mills and surroundings.
The embankment made by the Mo.
Pacific from 16th street to 20th
street and still further, catches all the
water which falls over a large scope of
country with only a culvert in Waco
creek to carry it off. The culvert is
entirely too small for any such a rain
as occurred this morning. A small
creek winds its way from 16th street
up to Dickeys hill draining all that
section and this in the great rain this
morning came pouring down an im-mense
torrent made up of the drainage
of a vast tract which slopes down to
the Mo. Pacific railroad track.
This mighty flood struck the track
the culvert was choked and unable to
carry it off and the consequences were
that it spread over all the low flat on
which the woolen mills is situated from
Franklin street to the railroad. The
mills have seventeen cottages there for
the dwellings of their operatives. And
the tier of these nearest the railroad
were soon in a sea of water with the
flood gradually increasing till it ran
into the houses. It produced conster-nation
and fear in which the crying of
children and screaming of women min-gled
with the roar of rain and the
rush of waters. People vacated their
houses as best they could and the
woolen mill- people were more busily
engaged in rescuing the tenants of
their houses than spinning cloth. Mr.
Iiirksey and others worked like Trojans
and the frightened people got out of
their houses and conveyed to the high-er
grounds of the mil! The railroad
track was covered with water which
gives an idea of the sea which there was
in that part and the seasonableness of
the fears of the people.
All but two or three of the houses
belonging to the mill were delgued
and will be almost uninhabitable for
several days on account of the condi-tion
of the yards and the approaches.
A considerable quantity of lumber,
shingles and other material on the
ground for five new houses, which are
being erected, were washed away.
Waco creek did not overflow its banks
and if the culvert had been largq
enough there would have been no over-
Alow. The mill men feel very justly
indigant over the laches of the city by
proper draninage facilities are
not given to prevent such overflows of
their property, as it works a great hard-ship
on them making the people whom
they are striving to place comfortably
dissatisfied and interferring with the
regular working of their mil!
Mayor Hinchman and Alderman Me-
Culloch were down their this morning
at the instance of Mr. Kirksey and saw
for themselves the havoc of the waters
and it is hoped that they will give per-sonal
attention to ameliorating the
situation of the mill owners who have
a right to feel aggrieved.
No damage seems to have been done
in other parts of the city. Streets
were flooded and sewers and gutters
were nowhere. The sewers could not
carry off the water. Fortunately
there was no wind accompa-nying
the tremenduous rain storm.
The Brazos river felt the effect of
the rain only partially. It has been
running half bank full for some days
and was increased a few feet by the
rain.
The rainfall according to the report ‘
of the signal service officer here was
3.20 inches.
Mr. Birdwhistle blows Ms horn to announce another Bargain Offer, in which we intend to
paralize prices and pulverize profits on Shoes and Slippers. Nothing reserved, nothing ex-empt,
but big reductions all around. We play by note, and if you set before us a Treasury
note for one, two or five dollars,we will play so that you will laugh till shoe powder runs ont
of the heel of your boots. Bring along yonr notes and y^lwill make the music.
405
Prof. J. C. F. Kyger, of Baylor Uni-versity
returned home on Sunday
morning from Galveston with his bride.
Prof. Kyger was married at Lake
Charles, La., on the evening of June
24th to Miss Eugenia Bryan, one of
the belles of Lake Charles, and daugh-ier
of Capt. J. W. Bryan, a gentleman
prominent in Louisiana. The Rev.
j)r. Burleson officiated, going to Lake
Charles for that purpose. The wedded
pair left for Galveston where they
spent a week returning on Sunday
The News wishes them
fpippiness.