Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 214, Tuesday, March 19, 1889

              ’ VOL. 1 WACO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1889. NO. 214
SANGER BROTHERS.
ARE DISPLAYING
EMBROIDERIES
AND
Dress Trimmings
OF THE
latest IJVIPOFTATIO^
In high-class and exclnsive Eu-ropean
Novelties. Artistic Per-sian
Gimps. Silk Irish Point Em-broideries,
Drapery Netts and
FLOUNCINGS
Everything especially new. We
also call attention to the late de-
- signs of Blood Chantilly Flounc-ing,
63-inch wide, for Killomay
Cloaks, and the Marie Stuart and
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cuffs & Collars
SANGER BROTHERS.
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JONES
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BROTHERS,
WACO, TEXAS,
-AISTD SELL ALL IKHSTIDS OIF
real estate.
On Farm and Wild Lands on
Long Time, at Low Rates of
Interest,
All Business will have Prompt
Attention.
J. D. Mayfield,
Will furnish Cash to buy Waco
Real Estate. Small monthly pay-ments.
Persons desiring to sell
their property can always have their
Vendors Lien notes cashed at face
value by calling on
John I>. Mayfield.
< RETAIL DEPARTMENT t*> Trustee Sale;Clothing
Cor. Fifth aid Austin Streets.
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Your attention is called
to our new arrival* of
Mattings, Linoleums, Oil-
Cloths and Carpets.
Possessing as we do un-bounded
facilities in the
way of buying in the
largest (inantities, we are
enabled to offer unusual
advantages.
Our Carpet Dep’t is the
largest and most elegant-lo
equipped in the South,
and has been uniformly
successful since its incep-tion.
We pursue the same
policy in this dep’t as we
do throughout our estab-lishment,
viz.: Prices the
Lowet, Assortment the
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line of Youths’, Boys’
& Children’s Suits,
bought at a
Trustee Sale.
These Goods were bought by
us way under value and
to Boom uur
ClothingDepartment
We will sell them at a
Small Aflvance on N. Y. Cost.
Don’t delay as these goods are
bound to go and you will
Come at once before sizes are
broken.
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Trustee Sale; Clothing
Rival Street Railways.
Telegraphic Miscellany Care-fully
Culled From Suudry
Sources.
Steamer Seized for Opium Smuggl-ins:.
Port Townsend, W. T., March 17.
—The steamer Walla Walla of San
Fi^ncisco, plying to Puget sound, was
seized by customs officers for omitting
proper entries of freight on the inward
manifest. She took four barrels sup-posed
to contain sauer kraut which
were taken through to Tacoma with-out
being entered on the customs rec-ord.
The freight list at Tacoma indi-cated
that the barrels came from San
Francisco consigned to Ellenburg.
Shortly afterward the barrels were seiz-ed
by customs officers and found to
contain opium valued at nearly $10,-
000. The barrels were carried through
in shipments. The barrels were put
aboard the steamer at Victoria and se-cretly
taken through to Tacoma. Pen-alty
for false entry is $1000. The
steamer was enroute to Vancouver when
she was seized to-day. Last evening
the officials furnished $5000 bail for
appearance Monday for trial. The of-fieials
claim they can prove a conspira-cy
and will cause the steamer a deal of
trouble for bringing opium into the
country.
The ship officers disclaim all knowl-edge
of the shipment of barrels. Ta-coma
customs officers worked the case
up, and think that many hundred thous-and
dollars’ worth of opium has heen
smuggled in thismanner.
Mary's Not Crazy Vet.
Baltimore, Md., March 18.—Dr.
John Van Bibber, who attended Mary
Anderson during her stay in Baltimore
last week, emphatically denies the re-port
that her mind is affected.
‘‘I am always very averse,” said he,
•‘to saying anything about the symp-toms
of my patients, as such matters
are confidential but in the face of these
absured reports about Miss Anderson I
am glad to enter an emphatic denial.
Miss Anderson is in an abnormal, ner-vous
condition from overwork and in-somnia,
and is suffering from nervous
trouble that has given her great pain.
She is not suffering from any mental
ailment whatever, nor has she shown
any symptoms of such trouble. She
is weak and nervous and unable to
stand the severe strain on her part in
the play she is in this season, and it is
better she should take an extended
rest.”
A Terrible Tragedy.
Bonham, Tex., March 18.—Perhaps
never in the history of Fannin county
has occurred a more shockingly tragic
accident than that just reported from
Tulip, a little town on Red river six-teen
miles north of here. It seems
Mr. J. C. Sims, one of the largest plant-ers
on the river is the unfortunate per-petratoi
of the terrible accident. Mr.
Sims’ daughter has been confinedto her
bed for some time with fever and her
friend Miss Lucy Webster had gone to
spend the night with her and just af-ter
daylight thismorning was sitting in
the room when Mr. Sims came into the
room and took his winchester from its
rack preparatory to killing a squirrel.
Not knowing that his son had filled the
magazine with cartridges he commenc-to
work the lever and snap the gun
when it went off, the ball crashing
through the brain of Miss Webster,
entering the forehead and passing out
the back of the head. The terrible ac-cident
has shrouded the commmunity
in sorrow.
Chill Wants Europeans but no Chinese
San Francisco, Cal., March 18.—
Late advices state that the Chilian gov-eminent
has issued a decree prohibit-ing
the immigration of Chinese into
the republic. The Chilian government
has sent orders to its immigration
agents in Europe authorizing them to
give free passage to all who desire to
emigrate to Chili, where on arrival they
will receive board and lodging for fif-teen
days. The Bolivian and Chilian
governments are engaged in a dispute
over the action taken by the latter in
Antofastogo. The Chilian minister of
foreign affairs, in reply to a protest
from Bolivia, says: Chili considers
as annexed to her territory all land
south of parallel No. 23, that Chili ex-ercises
determined jurisdiction over
the rest of the coast, and while Chili
entertains most friendly intentions to-ward
Bolivia, it does not accept the
condition of the coast to be such as
claimed by Bolivia.
Only 850,000 Short.
Indianapolis, Ind., March 18.—Ex-perts
appointed by the county commis-sioners
to examine into the shortage
of John E. Sullivan, the absconding
county clerk, have found a shortage in
trust funds of about $35,000. In ad-dition
to this there is $15,000 secured
by fraudulent representation from the
county treasurer, making the aggregate
stealings from the county $50,000. It
is believed that this money was taken
1 to Canada.
Houston, Tex., March 18.—Several
times this morning it looked as though
a riot could not be avoided. When the
new street railway company began to
drop their ties along congress street
the gang in the employ of the old com-pany
followed up and dropped each al-ternate
tie Then began the tug of
war to see which crowd would get the
rails down first and the result appeared
to be a stand-off. On one block are
three rails, two laid so closely togother
as to render it impossible to run a car
over the track, The forces of the old
company were marshaled under Alder-man
Freund and those of the new were
led by Alderman Underwood. The
streets were so thronged with people
that the workmen could hardly drive
the spikes and more than once there
came near being a collision between
the forces which would resulted in
bloodshed. Work was finally sotpped
on the hostile ground by the courts,
the city sueing out an injunction against
the old company, and the old company
enjoining the Boyd Bros. The injunc-tion
suits will be heard by Judge Mas-terson
at 4 o’clock to-morrow. His
honor, Mayor Smith, has placed Col.
Sinclair, Manager McGregor and Sup-erintendant
Freund under arrest for in-terfering
with the new company.
Want Connection with Waco.
Hamilton, Tex., March 18.—Our
railroad eemmittee on correspondence
has received several letter* from
Brownwood, San Angelo and other
points along the proposed western ex-tension
of the Texas Grand Trunk rail-way.
These all promise hearty co-epe-ration
in the effort to induce the com-pany
to build west lrom Waco. It is
safe to say that a thorough organiz-ation
will soon be perfected along the
entire line from Waco to San Angelo
and a strong, determed pull made for
the road. The committee claims that
the natural resources and advantage*
of the country along the proposed line
are so vastly superior to those of any
other route contemplated that, with
liberal offers of right of way and sub-sidy,
Hamilton is certain to get the
road.
The First Chinese Woman.
Dallas, Tex., March 17.—The ar-rival
of a Chinese family, consisting
of a man, woman and child, furnished
the spectacle for a crowd ot curiosity-seekers
to-day. This is the first time
that a Chinese woman has been seen
in Dallas.
A Diamond Among the Marbles.
Mrs. L. C. Abraham, then living on
Euclid avenue, lost a diamond which
was one of a pair of ear rings, the pair
being valued at $1,000. The diamond
wffen lost was incased in a gold ball.
More than ten months passed, and, as
there was no response to the advertise-ments,
it was given up as lost. But
strange things happen in this prosaic
world, and Mrs. Abraham is again in
possession of her diamond. It was re-turned
to her last Friday, and it came
about in this way. About the time the
stone was lost a workman named John
Scott happened to look into the gutter
and there saw the small golden ball. He
picked it up and the next day showed it
to some of his fellow employes. He oven
offered it as a gift to the workman at
the next bench to him, but he said:
“What do I want with the thing? It’s
no good; only a brass plaything.”
So Scott took it home and gave it to
his children. The little ones had a bag
of marbles, and they added the golden
ball to the collection, rolling it about the
floor. This sort of thing was kept up for
ten months. One day last week a woman
living in the neighborhood called on the
Scott family and the youngsters were
rolling the golden ball about the floor.
The woman picked it up, examined it
closely and said: “Why, there’s a crease
right around the center of it.” The two
women went to work on it until the gold
ball was opened, and right in the center
of it was a dazzling and precious gem.
A consultation was held among the
neighbors and Scott took the diamond
down to Chafer & Becker’s and showed
it to Mr. Becker, who advised him to ad-vertise
it. Finally the advertisement
was read by Mrs. Abraham. Her hus-band
went down to see it, and could
scarcely believe his eyes when he beheld
the sparkling gem lost by his wife nearly
a year ago. He gave the finder a reward
of $50 and restored the missing earring
to his wife.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Paper rrom VTooiI.
The discovery of the value of wood in
paper making is credited to Dr. H. H.
Hill, of this city. About forty years ago
the doctor visited the paper mill at Vas-salboro,
and after looking over the 111a-cliinery
suggested the feasibility of using
wood, and asked why the manufacturers
did not get a few bales of excelsior from
Augusta, where it was made, and try the
experiment of making paper from wood.
“It can’t be done,” said the manufactur-ers.
“Have not you as much gumption
as the hornets, whose nests are made of
wood paper?” asked the doctor. The re-suit
of the conversation was a letter,
some time later, from the firm’s whole-sale
agents in Boston, asking what they
were putting in their paper to make it
so much better than it had been. It was
the wood, then first used in this way.- •
Kennebec (Me.) Journal.