Waco Daily News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 3 No. 196, Thursday, March 5, 1891

              VOL. 3- WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1891. NO. 196.
SANGER BROS SANGER BROS.
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Dress Goods.
Fashion fancies take hold of
^Maiden minds at this season,
leads them to the pretty and
beautiful that can always be
found on our counters.
Challies
What Pretty styles and
wonderful colorings and what
low prices mark them.
Printed Challies' .10 cents.
Printed Challies 12^2 cents.
Two color Printed Challies
18 cents.
Black and Dark ground
.printed Challies 20 cents.
Suitings
Such pretty styles at low
prices. We offer this week,
Printed Worsted Suitng . at
12^ cents a yard.
Striped and Brocades Mo-hairs
25 cents a yard.
“Reefers’ ‘Blazers/’
WHAT WOMEN WANT.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL
HELD IN WASHINGTON.
Resolutions Setting Forth tlie Ob-jects
and. Remands of the Fe-male
Suffragists—.Its
Growth, Etc.
Coachman’s capes, Military
capes, these are the popular
styles Spring wraps for la-dies.
We are showing a very
large assortment of them in
all styles and colors of ma-terial.
Blazers, $1.75 each.
Blazers, $2.50 each.
Blazers, $3 each,
Reefers,$2.50 each.
Reefers, $4 each,
Coachman’s Capes, $2.50,
$4 and $5, up to $12-50 each.
We also show a very large
line of beaded and lace wraps
all new novelties.
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
Great special spring sale of ladies’ mnslin underwear this
week. Every lady should attgpd, as these goods are being
sold very cheap.
Take Passenger Elevator to
To Second Floor. SANGER (ROT
Boston-Waco LandGo. OFFICE: 123 S. 5tli St., HOTEL KOYAL KLOCK
CERTIFICATES - NOW - ON - SALE. CERTIFICATES $100. - COUPONS SIO.
A LimitedNumber of the Best Lots at
NOW ON SALE AT
Opeftupdfed Dollars Each.
Call at the Office and See Plat and Get Full lnformation.-^g
THE KHEDIVE’S DIAMONDS-Mrs.
Fitch to Dispose of Her Bridal
Gift from the Egyptian Ruler.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 2—Mrs.
Thomas W. Fitch, daughter of the
late Gen. Sherman, to-day confirmed
the report that the famous Khedive
diamond sent by the chief ruler of
Egypt as a present to Miss Sherman,
in honor of her father, when she was
married to Lieut. Fitch, in 1875, are
to be sold. Mrs. Fitch said that the
death of her father had nullified a
promise made directly upon receipt
of the jewels that they were never to
be transferred from the keeping of the
family when Gen. Sherman lived.
The diamonds, although given at>ao-lueety
to Mrs. Fitch, were divided soon
after their receipt into four equal
shares, being given to Mrs. Lieut.
V Thackara^ Father Thomas Sherman
and P. T. Sherman, the four children
of Gen. Sherman. Each portion
amounted in value to about #35,000,
the whole collection equaling in value
a sum little less than $135,000. Al-though
appreciating highly the honor
in the gift bestowed upon the family
through her father’s military and civic
greatness, and the prestige giving the
owner of the famous jewels, Mrs.
Fitch said the whole collection would
probably soon pass out of the keeping
of the Sherman family. She herself
a few weeks ago authorized a relative
in New York to place upon the market
her share of the diamonds. Mrs.
Thackara has made known also
a similar desire, but po in-timation
of the intention of the two
male members of the family has
been given. Mrs. Fitch said her reas
ons for disposing- of the diamonds
were in no way influenced bv her bus-band’s
business misfortunes in connec-tion
with the Braddock Wire com
pany. On the other hand, she was
oompelled entirely by circumstances of
no special interest to the public. Be-sides,
Mrs. Fitch said the lieutenant's
withdrawal from the Braddock Wire
company did not leave him financially
embarrassed. His action was compel!
ed by the formation of another com-pany,
in which he is largely interest-ed,
to build a second wire works at
j Braddock. This enterprise is now
[ well under way.
Washington, D. C., March 5.—At
the final business session of the Board
of the National Council of Women
there were present t*he five general offi-cers
and the representatives of the
twelve associations now duly entered
in the council lists. The board con-sidered
unfinished business and passed
the following resolutions :
Resolved, (1) That the National
Council of Wom^n of the United
States send a memorial to the clergy-men
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
asking inasmuch as 92 per cent of the
membership of that denomination has
already by formal ballot expressed a
desire that women be admitted to the
general conference, that the clergy
shall in accordance with the will of
the laity grant the admission of women
to that body; (2) that the Council ask
that a woman be placed on the Sunday
school Lesson Committee, and on all
committees appointed in the various
churches for the revision of their
creeds; (3) that the Council urge upon
the National Reform Divorce League
tie eminent fitness and consequent
obligation of placing women on its
board; (4) that the National Council
of Women shill present to the proper
authority a formal request that in all
departments of its service that Gov-ernmeut
shall pay its employes equal
wages for equal work, and that both
in engaging and promoting its em-ployes
it shall consider efficiency and
not sex, and thus set up a standard
for the country.
Kesolved, That inasmuch as the
Columbian Exposition of 1893 will af-ford
an exceptional opportunity for
convening representatives of a'l coun-tries,
the officers of the National
Council shall invite the officers of the
International Council of Women, Mil-licent
Garrett Fawcett, President, to
hold its first meeting in Chicago in
the summer of 1893.
The Council also resolved to furnish
a block of stone or marble suitably in-scribed
to place in the monument to
be erected over the grave of Mary,
the mother of Washington, and voted
to commend to all organizations, bod-ies
of women, the objects of the Mary
Washington Society.
Resolved; That the general officers
shall appoint a committee of women
whose duty it shall be to report within
a year suggestions for a business cos-tume
for women, which shall meet
the demands of health, comfort and
good taste.
Resolved; That the Council ap-proves
the movement in preventing
the slaughter of birds for tbe sole pur-pose
of ornamentation, and that it
asks American women to imitate the
example of the Princess of Wales,
who has forbidden the use of the
plumage of singing biids on her
toilets.
Such has been the phenomenal
growth of the council, convening with
six regulatly entered organizations
and twenty-six organizations in fra ter-nal
relations at this date, that it num-bers
twelve (regularly entered and
forty-seven fraternally affiliated organ-izations.
Congratulatory letters have been re-ceived
from many distinguished peo-pie.
The Dew president will soon issue
an address, and the first annual eon-
Terence of the executive committee
will be held in May. Triennial meet-ing
will always be held in Washington,
in a building, steps for the erection
of which will now be taken.
was an intimate friend of Mrs. Sher-man
at that time. I was stationed at
St. John’s hospital and Mrs. Sherman
sent for me and asked that I take care
of the children that afternoon. She
stated that the colonel was about to be
baptised by Archbishop Purcell, and
thal she wanted to devote the whole
day to him. Whether that ceremony
took place at the archbishop’s resi-dense
near the catftedral, or at the
house, 1 am unable to say, but he was
baptised into the Catholic church, that
there can be no doubt.”
Slicrman Was a Catholic-
Cincinnati, O , March 5.—Sister
Anthony, one of the oldest and best
known Catholic nuns in America, in
an interview settles the much disputed
question of the baptism of General
Sherman in the Catholic church. She
says: “The Colonel,” for Sherman was
only a colonel then, “was baptised in
this city just before be started out in
one of the Virginia campaigns. I
Wax It John Wilkes Bootn?
Chicago, March 5.—A morning pa-persays
it is generallybelieved py the
people of Atlanta, Ga., that the Rev.
Armstrong, who recently died in that
city, was John wilkes Booth. Two
old and well informed citizens of At-lanta
are stopping at the Grand Pa
cific bote’, and they declare that the
people of Atlanta will not believe
otherwise. It is rumored since the
man,s death that he committed sui-cide
aad the Coroner will be called
to hold an inquest. In case it is suicide
an effort will be made to find some of
his private papers.
4.t Austin To-day.
Special to the Kewa.
Austin, March 5.—The senate
passed the bill authorizing the sale of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-way
lines ; also Kimbrough’s corpo-ration
bill.
The house reconsidered the vote re-fusing
to amend the long and short
haul clause of the commission bill,
and agreed to the amendment. The
bill was amended in other unimpor
tant particulars and passed under a
suspension of the rules
Killed Her Husband.
Port Gibson,- Miss., March, 5.—
Beatty Gibson killed her husband
Dave on the Alexander plantation,
near Rocky Springs, this county, last
night. The pair had been ‘ seperated
since Christmas and had tried to
effect a reconciliation. Failing in this
he attacked her with a club. He
knocked her down several times, when
she grabbed a meat knife and plunged
it into his neck. He died in twenty
minutes. She is in jail.
Low Dog: ill Chains.
Huron, S. D., March 5.—Low Dog,
a Sioux chief and brot her of Big Foot,
arrived here in irons yesterday. He is
charged with stealing two of Big
Foot’s children from the Indian school
at Fort Bennett. He refuses to give
any information concerning them, and
ai they can’t be found, it is thought
he murdered them. Big Foot was
killed during the recent Indian
troubles.
Gold Bara for Europe.
New York, March 5.— Application
was made yestrday at the assay office
for gold bars for shipment to Europe.
There was a rumor in Wall street
that two millions had been engaged,
but Superintendent Mason said that
the application was for less than
million. Mason would not indicate
the amount closer aud withheld the
name of the applicant by request.
The Gorbett-Jaeksou Fight.
Ogden, Vt., March, 5—Parson
Davis who has been recuperating some
time at Ogden, Hot Springs was join-ed
yesterday by Jim Corbett and they
left for San Francisco, where Corbett
will go into training for the fight with
Peter Jackson.
WACO'S CHARTER.
IT PASSES THE SENaTE WITHOUT
TROUBLE OR INJURY.
No Change in tlie Clause Helming
to the Social Evil—A Convict
Farm Wa»»ted--Tlie Com-miksiou
Rill.
Mr. D. M. Wheelan.
By reference to our announcement
column our readers will find the name
of Mr. D. M. Wheelan as a candidate
for alderman in the Third ward. Mr.
Wheelan Berved in that capacity two
years , his term ending last April.
His record during that time proved
him to be a safe conservative man
ready at all times to do the will of
his oonstituants. Dan Wheelan filled
the position creditably and will do so
again if the people of the Third ward
chose him as their representative.
A Candy Pulling.
The ladies of the Christian church
will give a candy pulling and social at
the home of Mrs. W. S. Blackshear,
1509 Austin avenue, on Friday even-ing.
Ten cents admission will be
charged and ten cents for the priv-ilege
ef pulling candy.
Austin, March 5.—Waco’s new
charter has passed the senate, and it
will probably be but a short time until
the house enacts it into a law. It is
the bill reported by the senate as a
substitute for the original bill, and
leaves the reservation business as it is
under the present charter.
The senate spent yesterday over
Frank’s bill to amend the law relating
to the establishment of state peniten-tiaries,
and providing among o'her
things for the purchase and mainte-
Dance of a convict iarm, if the peni-tentiury
board shall eyer find itself
with enough surplus money on hand.
A number of speeches were made
for and against the bill. Senator Har-rison
opposed it in a short speech,
full of practical pood sense, and ex-pressed
in his well known terse and
vigorous style.
The bill was ordered engrossed and
will doubtless pass the senate, but its
fate in the house is clouded in doubt.
The commission Dill still holds the
floor in the house. Terrell made his
argument in favor of the bill jester-day,
and defending the pdints attack-ed
in the speeches of other members.
His speech was a very strong one,
speaking generally, but " com-ing
down to special points was scarce-ly
what his friends had a right to ex-pect
from him. For instance, when
he got to the long and short haul
clause, considered by many the most
impor'ant in the bill, he dismissed it
with scarcely a word, as though it did
not deserve his consideration. Those
who oppose him on the long and short
haul business, of course, charge his
unwillingness to discuss tbe matter to
lack of understanding.
When he had finished the amend-menis
begaD to pour in. Gresdam
moved to strike out the clause deny-ing’
the railroads the right to sue out
writs of injunction and mandamus,
and made a very strong speech in its
favor. On an aye and no vote tbe
amendment was defeated almost three
to one. * *
King of Bowie offered an amend-ment
to make the commission elective.
It was largely defeated.
Gresham then offered rn amend-ment
to the long and short haul ,
clause, providing tbatit might be sus-pended
by the commission, when such
suspension would not operate to the
disadvantage of individuals. This
amendment would have put the bill
in the same shape in this particular as
the ones that came from the senate
and house committee on Internal Im-provements.
The way the substitute
bill stands it cuts off all advantage
to be derived from competition, and
gives all freight between given points
to the shortest line.
The amendment was lost by a vote
of 48 to 49. Shortly afterwards Mar-tin
of WiBe moved to reconsider. A call
of the houso was made, and consider-able
time employed in roll calls and
excusing absentees. The motion to
reconsider was pending when thehou6e
adjourned.
The clause of the bill denying due
process of law to the railroads in cases
where they think the rates fixed by
the commission are wrong, will have a
very hard time in the senate. John-son,
Garwood, Patten and others, are
loaded tor it, while Crane and Simp-kins
will lead the fight for it.
A good many members of the house
are expressing a disinclination to re-district
the state at the present session,
despite the plain talk the governor
gave them on tbe subject.
Cbicago and South America.
Chicago, March 5.—The Illinois
Central railroad will send agents to
Mexico, Central and South America to
develop trade between those countries
and Chicago, via. New Orleans. This
is intended as an off-oet to the New
York scheme of trade development via
Tampa, Florida.
E. E. Thompson paper haDger.