Waco Daily News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 268, Thursday, May 23, 1889

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WACO, TEXAS. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 23, 1889. SO. 268
BROTHERS. !F DEPARTMENT
to the inclement weather during the
Special bargain days in this department
JT week, we will continue these offerings
through this week, from the 20th to the 25th
WINDOW SHADES.
«] Special Bargains this Week. \>o
TAKE PASSENGER ELEVATOR TO 2ND FLOOR.
500 Holland Shades with gilt dados and patent spring rollers,
at 42 cents each, worth 65 cents.
500 Opaque shapes, fancy, dados and spring rollers, at 55
cents each, worth 75 cents.
300 Opaque shades, good quality, with fancy dados at 65
cents each, worth 85 cents.
Special lot of extra fine dadoed Opaque Shades at 85 cents
and $1, regular price $1,25 and $1.65.
We will also make some special offer-ings
this week in
LKi,»ii Initial k
cor. Fli and Austin Streets.
m.YCiKl^ - ]il^im
F. JONES 'W. I*. JOISTES. JONES : BROTHERS,
REAL WACO, TEXAS,
T3TT^r -A. 1ST 3D SELL _A.I_3L, IKIIISrDS OF
REAL ESTATE.
JUOYYP* MONEY
On Farm and Wild Lands on
Long Time, at Low Rates of
f Interest,
All Business will have Prompt
Attention.
REAL ESTATE,
Eire Insttranee & EoanAgents
Have for sale choice residences, Imsincss property, vacant lots and suburban
property in all parts of the city, ^^Correspondence solicited.
FORT, WILLIG & PATTON, 121S. 4th St., Waco, Te*.
JOHN D. MAYFIELD
BANKER.
XjJOfJN D. MAYFIELD. tX>
PAWN =t= BROKER.
JOHN D. MAYFIELD,
Secretary Texas Savings Loan Association,
- respectfully solicits your business.
100 rolls Fancy Mattings, worth 15 cents, at 10 cents.
100 rolls Fancy Jointless Mattings, actual value 45c, at 27*^.
Nottingham Lace Curtains.
We have two special lines of these cur-tains
whicn we will offer cheaper
than has ever been known before,
250 pair Nottingham Lace Curtains at 50c, regular price 90 cents.
A large, special line, handsome patterns, Nottingham Lace Cur-tains,
at $i.00, regular value $1.50.
These Prices are Good lor This
Week Only.
We would like a few
words with you on the
Carpet question.
Everybody in Waco
knows we have the larg
est, most commodious
and best equipped Car-pet
Department in the
state.
Everybody knows we
carry the largest stock
of Carpets in the city.
And we want every-body
to know that there
was an extraordinary
large sale of Carpets at
auction in New York
City some two weeks
since, at which we
bought very largely for
spot cash ; in fact, we
believe we have too
many, and have con-eluded
to offer them at
the lowest prices ever
quoted in the city for
New and Desirable
Goods. There are no
old “chestnuts” in the
lot; no old shop, worn,
moth-eaten goods, but
the very pick of the lot
that was offered.
BRUSSELLS CARPETS II
you can get in a variety
of patterns at 37^0, 40c,
45c, 50c a yard. These
goods usually sell at 65c
to 85c a yard.
Brussells carpets at
55c and 65c that used
to sell at 75c to $1.00. (W?
Brussels carpets at
75c that would be con* M
sidered cheap at $100 a |i|
yard. #]
Wilton Velvets at 90c ®
and $1.00; not a piece J|j
in the lot worth less than
from $1.25 to $1.50a yd
And we are also of-fering
this week a line of
all Wool Extra Supers
at 57^0 a yard; also all
Wool three-plys at 75c
a yard.
These are Bargains
and will not be of-fered
soon again.
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Cor. 5th and Austin Sts.
LEWINE BROS.
OFFER THIS WEEK
IOOO
Knee Pants
Sizes 5 to 12,
25 cents a pair.
50©
Knee Pants,
Sizes 5 to 13,
40 cents a pair.
750
Knee Pants,
Sizes 5 to 13,
50 cents a pair.
300
Knee Pants,
Sizes 9 to 15,
65 cents a pair.
100
Knee Pants,
Sizes 9 to 14,
75 cents a pair,
1000
Linen white
and colored Vests,
$1,00 Each.
Bargains in Clothing Dep’t at
LEWINE BROS.
Corner Austin and Sixth Streets.
LEWINE BROS.
OFFER THIS WEEK
50 Robes in boxes for $ i.
White and color-ed
Embroidered
Large Lot of Ladie<
White, Embroideref
Ready-made Dresses
at Less than Cost to
close out.
f\ A Calico Wrappers
UU 50 cents each.
New Lot Point
d Esprit Lace,
$1.50 a yard.
New Organdies,
New Lawns,
New White Goods,
Naw Challies,
lowest Prices,
LEWINE BROS.
Corner Austin and Sixth Streets.
PICO FURNITURE CO, UNDERTAKERS GOODS]
II Fine leol, Cement anl Metalic U Burial Cases, Burial Bobes, Etc. |
AN EXPERIENCED UNDERTAKER AT THE STORE NIGHT AND DAY. SCIENTIFIC EMBALMING.
OYER THE WIRES.
Telegraphic Miscellany Care-fully
Culled From Sundry
Sources.
Murdered by Choctnms.
Fort Smith, Ark., May 21.—Jef-ferson
Jones, Geo. Beams, and Jimson
Jones, Choctaw Indians, were exam-ined
to-day by United States Commis-sion,
er Brizzelard, charged with the
murder of Henry Wilson in the Wind-ing
Stair mountain, Choctaw nation,
March 13. Wilson, who was sixty-five
years of age, started across the
mountain on foot the day previous,
going to Polk county, Ark. He got
off the road by taking trails and came
to the house of Beams, where he in-quired
the way and tried to get change
for a $5 bill, thus displaying his
pocket-book. Jefferson Jones went
to show him the way, and when pass-ing
through a lonely spot on Holson
creek, shot and killed him. He and
his companions then robbed the body
and threw it in the creek. Beams took
the old man’s gun, which was found
in his house, and caused the arrest of
the murderers. Jefferson Jones ac-knowledged
the crime and showed the
searchers where the killing occurred.
The creek was then searched and on
May 14, just two months from the time
the murder occurred, the remains
were found minus the right hand, left
foot and leg and jaw bone. The body
was fully identified by the clothing.
Indian Traetics.
Standing Rock,Dak.,May 23—The
Indians here held a big council Sun-day,
and all agreed not to sign the
treaty unless paid $11,000,000 for
their land. They feel hurt at the way
the government is treating them in
regard to the treaties of 1867 and
1876, and they are realy getting no
more now than these treaties called
for. The bill gives Red Cloud'$28,-
000 for horses taken from him by the
government in 1876, and as the Stand-ding
Rock Indians lost three horses to
their one, but could not get anything
for them, they are greatly incensed.
The commissioners will go to the Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail agences first,
while the indians are in a good humor
over Red Cloud obtaining a large sum
of money, and it is probable that three
fourths of the males there will sign.
Tlie Carter Divorce Case.
Chicago, May 22.—The notable di-vorce
case of Carter vs. Carter, which
has been on trial for several weeks in
court before Judge Jamiesgn, was fin-ished
this morning at 9:30 o’clock,
when the jury came in with a verdict.
The suit was brought by Mrs. Leslie
Carter, who charged her husband with
unnamable offenses. Mr. Carter filed
a cross-bill, charging his wife with
adultery. The prominence of the
parties, the unusual beauty of Mrs.
Carter and other matters unusual in
such hearings made it a celebrated
case, and the court room has been
crowded since the trial began. Dur-ing
its progress, the testimony took
the listeners in imagination over a
good part of Europe; gave them
glimpses of the royal prodigality with
which Mrs. Carter lavished money on
personal adorments and equipage,
though her husband was by no means
a lich man; traced the payment to her
of several large checks drawn by
prominent merchants of New York;
made evident her friendship for hand-some
Kyrle Bellew, the actor; touch-ed
upon her relations with her physi-cian,
in short, developed secrets of
sensations enough to satisfy the ex-pectations
of the most pruriently in-dined.
The arguments were com-pleted
yesterday afternoon and the
case was given to the jury this morning
it was announced that an agreement
had been reached. The verdict,when
announced, was to the effect that Mrs.
Carter was guilty of adultery as charg-ed
in the cross-bill, and that Mr. Car-ter
was not guilty of the charges pre-ferred
against him in his wife’s bill.
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Carter was pres-ent
when the verdict was announced.
Dr.
Not Yellow Fever.
jASKSONvrLLE, Fla., May 22.-
Porter, state health officer, has ex-amined
a reported case of "fellow fe-ver
at Palmetto and pronounces it ty-phoid
malarial fever.
Shot His Prospective Father-in-I^aw.
Columbus, Ind., May 22.—To-day
Jesse Davis, a young man, shot Wm.
Newcomb, his prospective father-in-law,
producing a serious wound. They
met on the street and Newcomb ask-ed
Davis to discontinue visits to his
daughter. A quarrel then ensued, and
Davis shot him.
A Hydroecplialotis Prodigy.
San Antonio, May 21.—A negro
child of remarkable physical develop-ment
was brought to the city to-day
for medical treatment. He came from
Bastrop, where he was born ten years
ago. His name is Munroe Singers.
At birth his weight was twelve pounds.
After ten years’ growth he now weighs
forty-five pounds, thirty of which is
on the head. A few weeks after birth
the hydrocephalous developement was
noticed, and various artificial means
were resorted to with no avail to
check the frightful expansion of the
head. The child’s intelligence is re-markable,
his conversational powers
being equal to the average grown per-son
and his perceptive faculties ap-parently
being much keener. The
circumference of the head is 31 1-2
inches, while the latest measurement
from the base of the skull to the top
of the frontal bone is 33 1-2 inches.
The boy has perfect control of his ab-normal
cranium, which sets upright
and in a perfectly natural position.
The child’s height is 36 inches.
A Fair of IioririHM.
Omaha, Neb., May 22.—A woman
named Mrs. Scott and her daughter,
named Carrie Emaker, a pretty girl of
14, were arrested last night charged
with putting arsenic in the coffee of
Lewis Marvin,an elderly man,for whom
they were keeping house. Mervin
drank the coffee last evening, for sup-per.
He is dying. He says the wo-men
were after his furniture.
Wild Animal. Escape.
Chicago, May 22.—A passenger
train on the Chicago and Evanston
road struck a circus wagon containing
wild beasts in the suburbs of the city
last nightLthe cage of which was shat-tered
and two wolves, a lion and pan-ther
escaped into the streets. The
animals were pursued for many blocks
and finally captured, after a great com-motion
among the residents of the
vicinity.
TheFutal Bun.
Rockaort, Ind., May 22.—While
John Whitman, a young farmer, was
firing shots from a revolver one cham-ber
failed to go off, and turning the
weapon the chamber exploded. The
ball struck Whitman squarely in the
forehead killing him instantly. The
young man was married only the night
before.
Steamer Collision.
Montreal, May 22.—A serioucol-lision
occurred on the river this morn-ing
between the royal mail steamerl
Polynesian of the Allen line, comman-r
ded by Capt. Hugh Wylie, and the?
steamer Cynthia of the Donaldscj
line, commanded by Capt, John Taj(
lor, resulting in the sinking
of the latter vessel and the loss of 8 or
10 of her crew. The Polynesian le|
port shortly after 4:30 this mor~
and proceeded down Verenne’s
nel, opposite Point aux Tremble
She perceived the Cynthia inward!
bound. From the details obtained!
it appears there is a dangerous curvel
in the channel at this point, and that!
through some misunderstanding ofthel
“rules of the road,” the Polynesian!
-was brought into collision with ther
Cynthia, striking her on on the portj
bow and causing such a gap in heJ
side side as to sink her in a few min*
utes.
EIGHT LIVES WERE LOSt.
According to people in the vicinit!
some of whom witnessed the catastrl
phe, the collision took place abo|
4:40 o’clock, and in twenty minut
more the boat had disappeared; T1
bow, which was struck, went doi
first,‘lifting the rear ot the vessel
of the water, and then she lopped 01
throwing all but three men into the
water. The most of these could swir
and saved themselves. When a boat!
came to the assistance of the men onl
the hulk, they refused to leave un.tj]
the pilot, who was in great danger 1
drowning, had been saved. They ej
idently did not know of their pe
and when the vessel suddenly
one ot them, who was unable to
became the victim of his heroisr
was drowned, together with seven
ers, whose retreat from below hajj*
cut off by the inrushing water. 1
the Cynthia struck bottom, th/
a report like that of a cannon
shock that made the window
shiver and lhe chimneys tumble cl
Though the people in the Polyr
must have been quite aware
damages wrought, that vesselj
stop ped to tender aid.
Killed Hi. 19-Year-Old Wile.
New York, May 22.—Charles Wii-son
killed his wife, Louise, aged 91,
years, to-night, on the boulevard at
Eighty-first street, near which cornen
the couple lived. Wilson escaped