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If You Are Not a Subs riber. This is a Sample Copy; Read It. If You Like It, Give Us Your Order, mSTAltJ JSUMl) JUZT 18, 1888. Mntere* at the VostoQlce at Waeo, Texas, am Second Class matter. Vol. 6, No. 273. WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1894. 50c. Per Month. No More Attractive Spot in Our House Than Our LADIES’ READY-MADE COODS DEPARTMENT. On Second Floor, Where We Show Ladies’ Capes, Ladies’ Jackets, Ladies’ Suits, Ladies’ Skirts, Ladies’ Wrappers, Ladies’ Tea Gowns, Ladies’ Waists, Ladies’ Traveling Wraps, Children’s and Misses’ Dresses, Waists and Reefers. THIS WEEK WE OFFER: Ladies’ Waists, made of Imported Madras Cloth, Batistes and Sateens, Worth up to S3.oo, at...................................................$1 95 Each Ladies’ Gingham, Sateen and Printed Lawn Wrappers, worth up to $2.75, at 1.50 Each Ladies’ Blue and Black All-Wool Eton Suits, at Only-.............................................. 5.00 Ladies’ Custom-Made White Duck Suits, only................................................................. Ladies’ Printed Duck, Blazer Suits, only • Ladies’ Printed Percale Suits, Embroidery Trimmed, worth up to $6.00, at only VOTE FOR JOHN IN. CONNOR For County Treasurer. Because He Is Efficient. — That means that the office will be handled in a bnsiness-like, , correct manner, by one who knows how to manage it. Because He Needs It, or he would not work for it like he has. At the same time this is not an office that should be given as a charity only. Because Twenty Years a Resident and a worker for Waco entitles him to consideration above those who have never put in a lick or spent a penny. Because He Is an Honest, straight-forward Democrat, who has worked for the party ever since he was big enough to carry a torchlight. EXPLOSION AND FIRE Fatal Work in a New York Tenement. Peril»ns Leap Through Sheets of Flame Into a Friendly Blanket Below. THE BEST DRESSED PEOPLE ARE DELIGHTED WITH THESE 6.50 2.50 3 50 This Department is well worth a visit. The bargains we offer should certainly attract you. All Visitors cordially invited to visit this Department. 413 Austin ANY DAY THIS WEEK YOU WILL FIND IN OUR STORE 413 Austin The Greatest Bargains EVER OFFERED, AS WE ARE OVERSTOCKED. Fine sheer figured Indian Lawn, pretty patterns, worth 15 cents, This week, at...................... 10 cents A handsome line of sheer White Lawns, Satin Stripes and Plaids, in different pat-terns, worth 20, 25 and 30 cents per yard, This week, at..........20 and 25 cents per yard. 50 pieces fast color, Pointed Lawn, large variety of choice patterns; a quality sold every-where at cents, This week, at......................6| cents 32-inoh imported Zephyr Ging-hams, Satin Cheoks and Plaids, fast colors, and excellent styles; same quality sold this season at 30 and 35 cents, Our price this week.20 and 25 cents We will save you money this week if you take advantage of the Specialties whioh are being offered in Damask Table Linens and Napkins, Damask Towels, plain and with knotted fringe. 413 Austin. B. HABER, Manager. 413 Austin. DAMAGED BY FLOOD. Pueblo Suffering Greatly from Too Much Arkansas River. Pueblo, Colo., May 31.—It has rained incessantly for thirty hours all over the eastern portion of the state. The rainfall is one of the heaviest ever known. In this city the Arkansas river broke the levee in six places, and from the Union avenue viaduot to the postoffice, three quarters of a mile, all oellars are flooded and the water has risen two feet above the first floors. The electric street oars have stop-ped running, the works being flooded. Hundreds of men are out in boats rescuing families from the flooded houses, and removing goods. The five railroads entering the oity are tied up. The damage is at, least $100,000. The Journal office is flooded to the depth of six feet, and the Journal has been obliged to stop work. The flood is now receding, and it is thought all danger in this city is passed. The Fall at Denver. Denver, May 31.—The rain which began falling here at 3 a. m. yesterday still continues. The Piatte river is higher than it has been for many years, but no dam age is reported. The railroads running west and south are all tied up by washouts, and all telegraph and telephone wires are down be tween Denver and Pueblo. Heavy Damages. Denver, May 31.—Late reports from all directions give accounts of heavy rains and considerable damage. The rivers running through the canyons have becom VOTE FOR JOHN M. CONNOR, For County Treasurer. raging torrents. Many buildings have been swept away and trains delayed at many points in oonBe quence. The damage throughout the state will be very heavy. Its First Damage. Manitou, Col.. May 31—Pike’s Peak railway has been damaged by floods for the first time since it v built, and no trains are running The Rio Grande and Santa Fe rail-roads are blooked by washouts and landslides. Tracks Washed Out. Canon City, Col., May 31.—The rainfall here exoeeded by four inches the heaviest ever known be fore Both the Rio Grande and Santa Fe tracks east of here are washed out in places and in others are covered with rooks and sand. Worst Ever Known. Salida, Colo., May 31-—The storm in this vicinity exceeds any thing in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The Rio Grande rail road is blooked by rockslides, wash outs and damage to bridges. Sherman on Sugar. Washington, May 31.—The sugaT sehedule of the tariff bil was reached and Senator Sherman, of Ohio, took the floor to make a speech. In the oourse of his speech he asserted that .if President Harrison had been re eleoted and there had been no fear of tariff tinkering, the McKinley law would have yielded sufficient revenue, though the fall of silver and the increased demand for gold had something to do with the . present financial depression He also declared that the South was coming around from its doctrine that protection was unconstitutional, Miners Imported. Scottdale, Pa., May 31.—The situation in the coke region is quiet today. Two carloads of negroes were imported last night for the Frick and Standard plants, aDd today forty-two Austrians were run into the works of the Rainey com pany. Two Regiments Under Arms Pittsburg, Pa , May 31.—The offioers of the Fourteenth and Eighteenth regiments have been ordered to have their men in read! sess for any emergency. Some of the men are at the armories. New York, May 31.—A terrifio explosion, followed by fire,ooourred at 4:30 this morning in a distillery on the ground floor of a double tene-ment on Suffolk street, resulting in the death of Lizzie Yaega, aged fonr yearB, and serious injury to four others. Twenty families tenanted the building, and the explosion and fire cut them off from the stairway. Some of the older persons esoaped by oreeping on the narrow ledge of the second story to a window of t next house. Two men living in a house in the rear of the burning buildiDg got a blanket and used it as a net in whioh to catch the ohildren as they dropped from the windows above There were fifteen dropped in all through the sheet of flame which was leaping from the side of the build-ing between the windows and the blanket below in the rear yard. After the children had all been safely dropped the older ones jumped. Hyman Ehrenwost made the perilous jump in safety, but Mrs. Ehrenwost, who is quite heavy, broke the blanket by her great weight and was severely in-jured. The firemen who had arrived then set to work to save the rest of the occupants of the building. Chief Ahren found little Lizzie Yaega on the third floor, nnoon-scions. She died in a few moments after being removed to the hos-pital. Meyer Deitrich, aged 41, was badly burned in attempting to get out through the lower hall. Several persons on the top floor were overcome by smoke and had to be carried out by the firemen. The damage to the building is estimated at $15,000. Three persons were burned to death in the same building two years ago. New Arrivals. SELT, NICE FITTING AND COMFORTABLE SLEEPER, CLIFTON & DUKE. For Two Weeks Against an Income Tax. New York, May 31.—All ar-rangements for the big inoome tax meeting of business men to be held in Carnegie music hall tomorrow night will be completed today, when the executive committee will meet in the rooms of the New York Life Insurance company. Short speeches will be the rule, made by representatives from the different branches of trade. Letters of invi-tation will be forwarded t,o the New York members of congress to be present and hear what the business men of New York think of the pro-posed measure. It is thought music hall will not be able to acoommo-date all those who desire to attend the meeting. Not a Full Conference. Springfield, 111., May 31.—The coal operators’ meeting was called to order with C. C. Brown, of this oity, as ohairman, and Paul Morton, of Chicago, secretary. Forty opsr-ators were present. Southern and Centeral operators are not present and it is said they would not go into a conference unless the consoli-dated and larger operators did. The small operators are afraid the miners will stop all trains carrying coal, as they are now stopping freight trains and examinging box cars to see if they oontain coal., See Stark West Gold Fillings-.......... $1.00 Gold Crowns........... 5.00 Porcelian Crowns 5.00 Best Teeth, ) Upper or Lower j ' 10.00 All Work Ouarateed. Dr. Chambers is permanently located in Waco and his work is h'is best ad, henee these prioes, Ififth floor, Provident building. In the Senate. Washington, May 31-—Senator Mills, of Texas, alone voting no,the senate today passed a resolution de-daring that the United States will not interfere with the affairs of the Hawaiian Islands, and that the United States will regard inter, ference with the affairs of the Islands by any foreign power as an unfriendly aot. Senator Turpie today introduced a resolution for the abrogation of the Russian extradition treaty, and Senator Hill a resolution for open sessions for the sugar investigation. Both went over until tomorrow. Arbitration Failed. Birmingham, Ala., May 31.—The committee appointed by the citi-zens’ mass meeting to confer with the operators and miners’ committee with a view to adjusting the strike if possible, met with operators, but after a long conference nothing was accomplished, the operators declin-ing to recede from their original proposition for a twenty per cent reduction. The operators believe they have about won the fight, but strikers are firm yet. In a Drunken Row. St. Louis, May 31.—At 1 o’clock this morning, in a drunken row at Sixth and Elm streets, Guy Roths-ehilds was stabbed by Fritz Clark. The former shot Clark, killing him instantly. Rothsohilds, who was not badly wounded, was placed un-for fire insurance. C der arrest.
Object Description
ID | tx-waco-nwp-wen_1894-05-31 |
Title | Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 6 No. 273, Thursday, May 31, 1894 |
Date | 1894-05-31 |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 273 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Publisher | J.B. Bennett |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 8 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-wen_1894-05-31_01 |
OCR - Transcript | If You Are Not a Subs riber. This is a Sample Copy; Read It. If You Like It, Give Us Your Order, mSTAltJ JSUMl) JUZT 18, 1888. Mntere* at the VostoQlce at Waeo, Texas, am Second Class matter. Vol. 6, No. 273. WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1894. 50c. Per Month. No More Attractive Spot in Our House Than Our LADIES’ READY-MADE COODS DEPARTMENT. On Second Floor, Where We Show Ladies’ Capes, Ladies’ Jackets, Ladies’ Suits, Ladies’ Skirts, Ladies’ Wrappers, Ladies’ Tea Gowns, Ladies’ Waists, Ladies’ Traveling Wraps, Children’s and Misses’ Dresses, Waists and Reefers. THIS WEEK WE OFFER: Ladies’ Waists, made of Imported Madras Cloth, Batistes and Sateens, Worth up to S3.oo, at...................................................$1 95 Each Ladies’ Gingham, Sateen and Printed Lawn Wrappers, worth up to $2.75, at 1.50 Each Ladies’ Blue and Black All-Wool Eton Suits, at Only-.............................................. 5.00 Ladies’ Custom-Made White Duck Suits, only................................................................. Ladies’ Printed Duck, Blazer Suits, only • Ladies’ Printed Percale Suits, Embroidery Trimmed, worth up to $6.00, at only VOTE FOR JOHN IN. CONNOR For County Treasurer. Because He Is Efficient. — That means that the office will be handled in a bnsiness-like, , correct manner, by one who knows how to manage it. Because He Needs It, or he would not work for it like he has. At the same time this is not an office that should be given as a charity only. Because Twenty Years a Resident and a worker for Waco entitles him to consideration above those who have never put in a lick or spent a penny. Because He Is an Honest, straight-forward Democrat, who has worked for the party ever since he was big enough to carry a torchlight. EXPLOSION AND FIRE Fatal Work in a New York Tenement. Peril»ns Leap Through Sheets of Flame Into a Friendly Blanket Below. THE BEST DRESSED PEOPLE ARE DELIGHTED WITH THESE 6.50 2.50 3 50 This Department is well worth a visit. The bargains we offer should certainly attract you. All Visitors cordially invited to visit this Department. 413 Austin ANY DAY THIS WEEK YOU WILL FIND IN OUR STORE 413 Austin The Greatest Bargains EVER OFFERED, AS WE ARE OVERSTOCKED. Fine sheer figured Indian Lawn, pretty patterns, worth 15 cents, This week, at...................... 10 cents A handsome line of sheer White Lawns, Satin Stripes and Plaids, in different pat-terns, worth 20, 25 and 30 cents per yard, This week, at..........20 and 25 cents per yard. 50 pieces fast color, Pointed Lawn, large variety of choice patterns; a quality sold every-where at cents, This week, at......................6| cents 32-inoh imported Zephyr Ging-hams, Satin Cheoks and Plaids, fast colors, and excellent styles; same quality sold this season at 30 and 35 cents, Our price this week.20 and 25 cents We will save you money this week if you take advantage of the Specialties whioh are being offered in Damask Table Linens and Napkins, Damask Towels, plain and with knotted fringe. 413 Austin. B. HABER, Manager. 413 Austin. DAMAGED BY FLOOD. Pueblo Suffering Greatly from Too Much Arkansas River. Pueblo, Colo., May 31.—It has rained incessantly for thirty hours all over the eastern portion of the state. The rainfall is one of the heaviest ever known. In this city the Arkansas river broke the levee in six places, and from the Union avenue viaduot to the postoffice, three quarters of a mile, all oellars are flooded and the water has risen two feet above the first floors. The electric street oars have stop-ped running, the works being flooded. Hundreds of men are out in boats rescuing families from the flooded houses, and removing goods. The five railroads entering the oity are tied up. The damage is at, least $100,000. The Journal office is flooded to the depth of six feet, and the Journal has been obliged to stop work. The flood is now receding, and it is thought all danger in this city is passed. The Fall at Denver. Denver, May 31.—The rain which began falling here at 3 a. m. yesterday still continues. The Piatte river is higher than it has been for many years, but no dam age is reported. The railroads running west and south are all tied up by washouts, and all telegraph and telephone wires are down be tween Denver and Pueblo. Heavy Damages. Denver, May 31.—Late reports from all directions give accounts of heavy rains and considerable damage. The rivers running through the canyons have becom VOTE FOR JOHN M. CONNOR, For County Treasurer. raging torrents. Many buildings have been swept away and trains delayed at many points in oonBe quence. The damage throughout the state will be very heavy. Its First Damage. Manitou, Col.. May 31—Pike’s Peak railway has been damaged by floods for the first time since it v built, and no trains are running The Rio Grande and Santa Fe rail-roads are blooked by washouts and landslides. Tracks Washed Out. Canon City, Col., May 31.—The rainfall here exoeeded by four inches the heaviest ever known be fore Both the Rio Grande and Santa Fe tracks east of here are washed out in places and in others are covered with rooks and sand. Worst Ever Known. Salida, Colo., May 31-—The storm in this vicinity exceeds any thing in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The Rio Grande rail road is blooked by rockslides, wash outs and damage to bridges. Sherman on Sugar. Washington, May 31.—The sugaT sehedule of the tariff bil was reached and Senator Sherman, of Ohio, took the floor to make a speech. In the oourse of his speech he asserted that .if President Harrison had been re eleoted and there had been no fear of tariff tinkering, the McKinley law would have yielded sufficient revenue, though the fall of silver and the increased demand for gold had something to do with the . present financial depression He also declared that the South was coming around from its doctrine that protection was unconstitutional, Miners Imported. Scottdale, Pa., May 31.—The situation in the coke region is quiet today. Two carloads of negroes were imported last night for the Frick and Standard plants, aDd today forty-two Austrians were run into the works of the Rainey com pany. Two Regiments Under Arms Pittsburg, Pa , May 31.—The offioers of the Fourteenth and Eighteenth regiments have been ordered to have their men in read! sess for any emergency. Some of the men are at the armories. New York, May 31.—A terrifio explosion, followed by fire,ooourred at 4:30 this morning in a distillery on the ground floor of a double tene-ment on Suffolk street, resulting in the death of Lizzie Yaega, aged fonr yearB, and serious injury to four others. Twenty families tenanted the building, and the explosion and fire cut them off from the stairway. Some of the older persons esoaped by oreeping on the narrow ledge of the second story to a window of t next house. Two men living in a house in the rear of the burning buildiDg got a blanket and used it as a net in whioh to catch the ohildren as they dropped from the windows above There were fifteen dropped in all through the sheet of flame which was leaping from the side of the build-ing between the windows and the blanket below in the rear yard. After the children had all been safely dropped the older ones jumped. Hyman Ehrenwost made the perilous jump in safety, but Mrs. Ehrenwost, who is quite heavy, broke the blanket by her great weight and was severely in-jured. The firemen who had arrived then set to work to save the rest of the occupants of the building. Chief Ahren found little Lizzie Yaega on the third floor, nnoon-scions. She died in a few moments after being removed to the hos-pital. Meyer Deitrich, aged 41, was badly burned in attempting to get out through the lower hall. Several persons on the top floor were overcome by smoke and had to be carried out by the firemen. The damage to the building is estimated at $15,000. Three persons were burned to death in the same building two years ago. New Arrivals. SELT, NICE FITTING AND COMFORTABLE SLEEPER, CLIFTON & DUKE. For Two Weeks Against an Income Tax. New York, May 31.—All ar-rangements for the big inoome tax meeting of business men to be held in Carnegie music hall tomorrow night will be completed today, when the executive committee will meet in the rooms of the New York Life Insurance company. Short speeches will be the rule, made by representatives from the different branches of trade. Letters of invi-tation will be forwarded t,o the New York members of congress to be present and hear what the business men of New York think of the pro-posed measure. It is thought music hall will not be able to acoommo-date all those who desire to attend the meeting. Not a Full Conference. Springfield, 111., May 31.—The coal operators’ meeting was called to order with C. C. Brown, of this oity, as ohairman, and Paul Morton, of Chicago, secretary. Forty opsr-ators were present. Southern and Centeral operators are not present and it is said they would not go into a conference unless the consoli-dated and larger operators did. The small operators are afraid the miners will stop all trains carrying coal, as they are now stopping freight trains and examinging box cars to see if they oontain coal., See Stark West Gold Fillings-.......... $1.00 Gold Crowns........... 5.00 Porcelian Crowns 5.00 Best Teeth, ) Upper or Lower j ' 10.00 All Work Ouarateed. Dr. Chambers is permanently located in Waco and his work is h'is best ad, henee these prioes, Ififth floor, Provident building. In the Senate. Washington, May 31-—Senator Mills, of Texas, alone voting no,the senate today passed a resolution de-daring that the United States will not interfere with the affairs of the Hawaiian Islands, and that the United States will regard inter, ference with the affairs of the Islands by any foreign power as an unfriendly aot. Senator Turpie today introduced a resolution for the abrogation of the Russian extradition treaty, and Senator Hill a resolution for open sessions for the sugar investigation. Both went over until tomorrow. Arbitration Failed. Birmingham, Ala., May 31.—The committee appointed by the citi-zens’ mass meeting to confer with the operators and miners’ committee with a view to adjusting the strike if possible, met with operators, but after a long conference nothing was accomplished, the operators declin-ing to recede from their original proposition for a twenty per cent reduction. The operators believe they have about won the fight, but strikers are firm yet. In a Drunken Row. St. Louis, May 31.—At 1 o’clock this morning, in a drunken row at Sixth and Elm streets, Guy Roths-ehilds was stabbed by Fritz Clark. The former shot Clark, killing him instantly. Rothsohilds, who was not badly wounded, was placed un-for fire insurance. C der arrest. |