Waco Daily News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 28, Friday, August 14, 1891

              THE WACO DAILY NEWS. ES TA li LI SUED J U LI 16, ISSS. Entered at the Eos (office at Waco, Texas, as Secontf-Class Matter,
VOL. 4. NO. 28. WACO, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14,1891. 50 Cents Per Month
Sanger Bros
MILLINERY. !Window-:-Shades.
Grand Closing Sale of 25 Cents Each.
Millinery, Trim Dadoed Window Shades spring
med Hats and Bonnets. rollers complete for 25 cents worth
_______________ I 50 cents.
At $1.00 each, worth............ #3.00
At $2.50 each, worth........... 6.00
At $3.50 each, worth........... 7.00
At$S.oo each, worth $10.00, $i2.oo
aDd $15.00.
45 Cents Each.
Opaque and Holland Dadoed
Window Shades worth 75 cents,
quality all best spring rollers
450 cents EachJ”'“'
Children’s trimmed Sailors and
other shapes all nicely trimmed
->0 Cents.
We offer now a good quality of
and worth from $1.50 to $1.00, all j Lenoleum in several very attrac-at
50 cents each. tive patterns for 50 cents a yard.
SPECIAL SALE this week of' _
Ladies Underwear. MusqUltO Bars.
Take Passenger Elevator to, Special Reduced Prices on all
Second Floor. ; qualities.
Our Great Low Quarter Shoe Sale Still
Continues, also Special Sale of
Clothing for Men and Boys.
CHANGER - BROS
EVERYTHING ON - WHEELS!
S. A. OWENS & SON
Will on the first of August open at 705 Austin Avenue one of the
largest and best selected stocks of Buggies, Carriages and Spring
Wagons ever exhibited in Waco.
N. B.—We will continue to sell Wagons and Farming Implements
at our old house on Bridge Street. The: Man: Grocery: Co.
“Waco, Texas.
' Successors toKellum & Rotan and Shear, Davis & Co.,] WHOLESALE + GROCERS, Correspondence solicited.
THE TROY STEAM LAUNDRY.
-------and--------- BATH ROOMS. 211 S. FOURTH ST, - - WACC TEX.
This Laundry has recently changed hands and the new proprietor
guarantees to give satisfaction.
Laundry called for and delivered to any part of the city.
®3P“ Cleaning Clothes a SPECIALTY.
Jno. L. Humphries, Prop.
Purify your premises with lime. Free Gratis For Nothing.
Air slacked, Brown lime $1 per barrel
at Gaunt Bros.
Austin white lime for whitewashing.
Don’t waste your time in looking
around. We have the correct line of
shoes, and the sale is on for all time.
J. C. Stafford for bologna sausage.
Fair molasses per gallon, 30 cents.
1 lb. package roasted coffee and
prize, 25 cents.
25 ounces baking powder for 15 cts.
7 bars good soap, 23 cents.
If you can’t get goods at the above
prices you can have them free at My
Store, 625 Austin avenue, Waco.
J. C. Stafford for fresh fish.
The Georgia Alliance Faithful to
Democracy.
AN APPEAL FROM A LEADER.
Will the People Commit a Folly
That Will Undo the Work of
Many Years?—The Democratic
Party Must Retain the Victory it
Won Last Fall.
Special to The News:
St. Louis, Aug. 14.—A special
from Atlanta, says the following let-ter
from Senator Gordon, has just
been published :
Cranston’s-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.,
Aug. 3.1891.—Gen. C. A. Evans,
Atlanta, Ga.: My Dear General—
The reports in circulation just as I
was leaving home, to the effect that I
was in very bad health, were some-what
exaggerated. It is true that I
had lost about 25 pounds in weight
and that my strength and vitality
were very much depleted. It only re-quired
rest, however, and a change of
air to restore me to normal health and
vigor. I shall be at home soon, I trust,
ready to do all in my power to de-monstrate
the unwisdom of any po-litical
utterances or movements tend-ing
to weaken the faith of our people
in the national democratic party, or
to break their allegianoe to its fortunes.
It is easy to make manifest, I think,
the serious consequences involved
in such a movement. As to the
alliance, I have never doubted their
fidelity to the Democratic party. No
more patriotic, honorable or truth-loving
men live than the great body
of Alliance men in Georgia, and they
will not only embrace and stand by
the truth, but will sustain those who
sustain the truth. I realize fully that
the conditions around us are unpre-cedented,
but it can not be true that
Georgia Democrats who .for a quarter
of a century have stood unshaken in
their devo'ion to this great party of
people are about to abandon it in the
hour of its greatest victory won in
the cause of publio popular rights.
It can not be true that we are about
to commit the most consummate of
political blunders by striking down the
most powerful arm raised or that can
be raised for our defense. If such
blunder should be made by the
South it would render absolutely
worthless the most splendid victory
wen since the war in the interest of
economic reforms. It would post-pone
for a long period the possibility
of securing the relief we seek, and
which wise, just and conservative
Democratic legislation will bring to
the agricultural interests and to the
masses of the American people. It
can not be true that our patriotic peo-pie
are going to invite these delays
and the political woes which a disrup-tion
of the Democratic party would
assuredly entail. Of course you and
the people generally will uc-derstand
that circumstanced as I am
at present, even if I were capable of
seeking selfish ends at the sacrifice of
my oountrv’s welfare, I oould not now
have any political ambition to be grat-ified,
or personal interest to bn sub-served
by going again to onr people
for the purpose of disoussing these
grave issues. I shall go to them
therefore, without the slightest ap-prehension
of being misunderstood,
and with profound conviction that
neither they, nor the great body of
American farmers can be seduced into
hostility to the democratic party,
which is their natural, most sincere,
and most powerful ally. They will
not abandon the vantage ground gain-ed
in the cause of reform by the un-preoedented
political victories of last
fall, in the vain and delusive hope of
finding gieater safety and surer sue-cess
in a new political party.
Fraternally your friend,
John B. Gordon.
An Eicuntifii.
Special to The News.
Chicago, Aug, 14.—A big exour-sion
of Catholics left here to-day for
Lansville to attend the German Cath-olio
convention which is to be held in
that city.
1 Ml WO.
A Man Elopes with a Couple of
Women.
A MASHER FROM WAY BACK.
Tl»e Capers of a Good Looking
Vouiij Rarber—He Tlirotv* u
Whole Community into Fils by
Eloping Willi tl»e Wives of Two
711* 11 at Once.
Special to The News.
Annandale, Minn., Aug. .14 —
CLas. W. Windus, a barber hailing
from Minneapolis, has thrown not
only this village but the whole of
Wright county into social fits. He
has eloped with two pretty women at
the same time,both of them married to
prosperous men and each of them the
mother of three children. Each of
them is about 28 years of age, and
they are four or five years older than
the gay Lothario who had the hardi-hood
to engineer the remarkable
three-cornered matrimonial affair. The
two foolish women are Mrs. Samuel
Wells, wife of a merchant of this
place, and Mrs. Leander Watson, who
until a few weeks ago was the happy
spouse of a Smith Lake farmer.
Young Windus, who sails under the
name of Charles W. Edwards and two
or three other aliases when occasion
suits him, came to Annandale a few
months ago, and, being a good-look-ing
fellow, got on well with the ladies.
One day in July Mrs. Watson came
over from Smith Lake to visit her
friend, Mrs, Wells, aod the former
was introduced to Windus by the
latter. For several weeks after-
Ward Windus was pretty constantly
in the company of the women. The
affair came to a climax late last week,
when the trio disappeared. The sud-den
departure of the three, soon be-came
the subject of general gossip.
The husbands of the missing women
got their heads together and started
on the war-path. They learned that
their wives had gone to Minneapolis,
and decided to follow them. The
runaways were, however, posted by
some one in Annandale, and being
able to anticipate their husbands’^
coming, left Minneapolis. Upon re-turning
to Annandale, the two aband-oned
husbands consulted the county
attorney and a warrant was issued for
Windus’ arrest. The village mar-shal,
armed with this warrant, went to
Minneapolis. He was personally ac-quain:*!
with Windus and was not
long in locating him. But the clever
young barber had not put up so big
a job to be captured so easily. He
managed to slip away from the mar
shal, and was soon hid away in St.
Paul, where he has been living with
the women in true Mormon fashion.
Officers are still searching for him, and
he will doubtless be bagged in the
next few days.
SOLD AT AUCTION.
Tlie Historic Mansion of Camden
Park under the Hammer.
Special to The News.
London, Aug. 14.—The historic
mansion of Camden Park, near Chisel-hurst,
was sold at public auction to-day.
The house takes its name from
Camden, the antiquarian, who built it,
and lived and died there in 1623. It is j
also associated with the title of Charles
Pratt, Earl of Camden, but now widely
known in connection with Napoleon
III, to whom the house was lent by
the late Mr. Strode. Both, the Em-peror
and the Prince Imperial were
originally buried at Chiselhurst, in
the side chapel, which the Empress
built to St. Mary’s Catholei church.
On a. Tour-
Special to The News.
Washington, Aug. 14.—Major W.
J. Pollock, chief of the Free Delivery
System, started to day for a western
trip. About a month ago Major Pol-look
visited the leading oities of New
England, and he now proposes to look
into matters pertaining to free deliv-ery
in the West.
What’s the matter with going to
Joe Lehman,s and get a good dinner.
MAN MS THAI.
To Be Hanged Side by Side for
Murder.
ATROCIOUS AND FOUL CRIME.
Poison Administered to tlie
Womans Hun band to Put Him out
Of tlie Way—The Drug: Furnisked
By the Woonaus lover-Tliey
YVatch Him Die Together.
Special to The News:
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 14.—The
most sensational execution of the age
will take place to-day. David Jacobs
and Mary Johnson, both white, of
Chesterfield county, are to be hanged
for the murder of Wm. Johnson, the
husband of Mary Johnson. The eon-demned
couple were formerly well
thought of in Chesterfield, and great
pressure was brought to bear on Gov.
Tillman to commute their sentence
to imprisonment for life, but he has
taken no action and they will be exe-outed
about one o’clock this afternoon,
unless the governor interferes before
that hour. Briefly stated, the testi-mony
proved that Mary Johnson, who
was infatuated with David Jacobs,
poisoned her husband, the poison
being furnished by Jacobs. They
have constantly denied the crime,
and there is a story on good authority
that the convicted pair were led on to
a mock execution and even then
maintained their innocence. Their
spiritual adviser, Rev. Yonge, is so
firmly convinced of their innocence
that he has taken an aotive part in
securing signatures lo the petitions
for executive clemency. On the other
hand both the judge and the state’s
solicitor recommended that the law
be allowed to take its course. The
solicitor, in his report to the governor,
gives the following interesting partio-ulars
of the case :
The jury stood ten for conviction
and two against at a mistrial. The
jary convicted both defendants at the
last trial.' It was a foul and most
deliberate murder by the most de-spicable
means—poison administered
purposely in the shape of quinine as
medicine. Strychnine was found in
Jacobs’ possession. He first denied
having it at the inquest, but after-wards
at the inquest said it was to
kill crows. He made a bad showing
on the stand. There is not a miti-gating
circumstance for Jacobs.
When the spasms commenced Mary
Johnson blew a horn and Jacobs ap-peared
on the scene and she and he
sat near by the dying man, and both
advised against sendmg for a doctor
and both objected to an inquest and
post mortem. They endeavored to
have a hasty interment. They were
indecently familiar with each other.
The night of the death they whispered
to each other. The afternoon before
the fatal dose was given Jacobs sat up
unusually late, and apparently waited
for the horn to blow. It was a hor-rible
ease. Jacobs was really a
principal, as he was present at the
death and advised against sending
for a doctor, and would not evidently
relieve the sufferer if he could, and
sat there gloating over the death as
chief fingersmith in the job.
PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS.
Holding a Conference on Ike Price
of Cotton Picking.
Special to The News:
Greenville, Miss., Aug. 14.—
Meetings of planters and merchants
are being held to-day in various pre-
O’ncts of Washington and adjoining
counties to take general and concert-ed
action on the subject of fixing and
maintaining a uniform price for cotton
picking. Delegates will also be elect-ed
to attend a convention to be held
in Memphis next week, which has a
similar purpose in view.
An Even Hundred.
Special to The News,
New York, Aug. 14.—The one
hundreth performance of “Wand” to-night
at the Broadway Theatre will
be marked by the presentation of
handsome souveniers.