Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 163, Thursday, January 17, 1889

              VOL. 1 WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1889. NO. 163.
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DIVIDEND SALE
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SOME EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS
X 1ST
-:-FINE SHOES.-:-
GENTS’ SHOES.
We are closing out several makes and offer
same at very Low Prices.
Best French Calf, Lace, Button and
Congress in French and London toe,
Best Hand-sewed, reduced from
$7.50 to $6.05 a pair.
Hand-sewed Kangaro and French Calf
Congress Shoes, reduced from $7.00
to $5.45 a pair.
Cordovan French Too Congress, Hand-sewed,
reduced from $6.00 to $4.10
a pair.
Hand-sewed London Toe Bals, Best
French Calf, reduced from $6.0Q to
$4.55 a pair.
Best French Calf,Patent Leather Dress
Shoes, in Congress and Bals, re-duoed
from $6 00 to $4.00 a pair.
Our entire stock of L. Boyden’s regu-lar
$5.00 Shoes are reduced to $3.50
a pair for this sale. They include
the Best $5.00 Shoe ever sold, and
are a Great Bargain.
New Orleans Box Toe Congress,
Crimped Vamps, reduced from $6.00
to $3.70 a pair.
BOYS’ SHOES.
Boys’ Best Calf London Toe Bals, a
Splendid School Shoe, reduced from
$2.50 to $1.90 a pair.
Boys’ French Calf London Toe Lace
Shoes, reduced from $3.50 to $2.45.
A Big Drive in Boys’ Bal, Button and
Congress Shoes, reduced from $1.75
to $1.20 a pair
Youths’ Dress Shoes in French Calf,
reduced from $2.50 to $1.85 a pair.
FELT SHOES AND SLIPPERS BELOW
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Men’s Felt Slippers reduced from $1.85
to $1.35.
Men’s Felt Slippers reduced from $2.25
to $1.65.
Men’s Felt Tourists reduced from $1
to 70 cents.
Men’s Felt Slippers reduced from $1
to 65 cents.
Men’s Wool-lined, Leather Sole Slip-pers,
reduced from $1.75 to $1.10 a
pair.
One Lot of Medicated Flannel-lined
Shoes, Leather Soles. People with
Rheumatism should wear them.
Extra sizes for swollen feet, reduced
from $2.25 to $1.35 a pair.
SHOES HA YE NEVER BEEN OE-FERED
AT SUCH PRICES AS WE
ARE SELLING THEM AT DTJR-ING
THIS SAT^E. EARLY
PURCHASERS WILL GET
THE BENEFIT OF BEST
ASSORTMENT.
«1 EVERY DEPARTMENT IN OUR >
LARGE ESTABLISHMENT
Is now prepared for this Great Sale
and Reduced Prices rule throughout.
Be sure and get some of the Bargains
offered in this
EAT
ooooooooooooooooouoooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooosoooooooo SANGER-:-BROTHERS.
Order your groceries, grain, feed,
wood and coal from Geo. W. McLaugh-lin.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Wood and coal from 5 cents to a car
load at Geo. W. McLaughlin’s.
Buy feed at Duvall’s 309. Franklin
Go to W. D. Jackson and get a pho-tograph
of yourseli and children. *
40,000 first-class cigars at I. C.
Meek’s Commission and Auction
House 318 Austin street.
Leave orders for coal and wood with
McLaughlin.
JL
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
Our Sales prove that Moderate Prices will
eventually bring trade, and we
propose keeping the prices
down to the lowest limit.
This week you who are in
need of a good Suit of
Clothes can save from’
$2.50 to $10 on a
Suit by visiting ^
our Clothing
Department
A Good Suit for $5.00,
A Better Suit tor $7-50.
An all-wool Stylish Suit
for $10 that’s worth $15
Just Examine our line of Slylish
Garments at
$12.50. $15.50, $18.50, and $20.
This Stock is entirely too large,
and we must reduce same, no mat-ter
what this Sacrifice may be.
We are showing the most ele-gant
line of TROWSERS ever
brought to this city.
Lessing, Solomon & Rosenthal,
Gor. 5th and Austin Streets.
We are still selling the best
40 Cent Kid Gloves.
We are still selling the best
60c. Kid Gloves.
We are still selling the best
90c. KID GLOVES.
We are still selling the best
10c. Hose.
We are still selling the best
12 l-2c. Hose.
We are still selling the best
20c. Hose.
We are still selling the remainder
of our Cloaks and Wraps at
Sixty Cents
On the Dollar.
In fact, we are still Selling and will
Continue to sell our goods at the
Lowest Prices,
Which will always he found just a little
Lower Than Other Houses.
Lessing, Solomon & Rosenthal,
Cor. 5th and Austin Streets.
?- F. JONES. w. jrones.
JONES: BROTHERS.
REA ji™ L ATE AGENTS,
WACO, TEXAS,
BTJY A3ST3D SELL ALL IK LINT IDS OB’
REAL ESTATE.
Killing at Dallas Yesterday.
Dallas, Jan. 19.—This mornibg at
10:30 o’clock as M. J. Bradley, the
well known base hall catcher, was com-ing
up Maine street from the Windsor
hotel to Swope & Mangold’s, he was
shot down like a dog by Tom Angns,
a hack driver, who followed him and
fired in his hack inflicting a wound
which produced almost instant death.
At the first shot Bradley turned and
ran toward the Cabinet saloon and he
fell dead just as he reached the side-walk,
almost in front of the door. An.
gus was immediately arrested and put
in jail. There were numbers of peo-pie
who saw the shooting, and all pro-nounced
the affair a red-handed mur-der.
It is said that Bradley was warn-ed
of Angus’ intention this morning,
but he evidently anticipated no trou-ble,
as he was totally unarmed. No
conversation took .place at allj the as-sailant
simply drew his 45 calibre pis-tol
and fired into his victim’s back.
Bradley csfme to Texas last spring with
the Joplin ball team, which in Texas
league represented the city of Austin.
He, with Red Ehret, constituaed the
star battery of the league. He was
released by Austin last summer and
toward the close of the season signed
with Dallas. Some days ago he signed
with St. Joe for the season of 1889,
and his intention was to proceed there
as soon as his trial ended. His home
is in Oil City, Pa., where his parents
still live, and they have been notified
by wire of his unfortunate death. The
affair produced a profound sensation in
this city and will be a surprise to the
base ball circles of the country in
which he was well known.
The Pistol Bill.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 16.-—Interest
centered in the senate this mornnig.
The hill to annul the pistol law, leav-ing
it in the discretion of the jury
whether the ‘'totter” of a deadly weap-on
should be fined or imprisoned or
both, was up for discussion, and some
verj; lively speeches were made there-on.
A particularly sharp discussion
occurred between Senators Burgess and
Simpkins on the question of personal
liberty, a discussion from which both
emerged entirely unhurt and in per-fectly
good humor. Burgess wants the
law amended and Simkins wants it left
alone. Senator Atlee made a strong
argument in favor of an amendment,
and Cranford, the brilliant young sena-tor
from Hopkins, delivered a ringing
speech in favor of the law as it is now.
Captured Attain
Sherman, Jan. 16—Deputy Sheriff
Whitesides of this county arrived in
the city this afternoon with James
Smith whom he brought from Salem,
111., under a requisition from Governor
Boss of this state. Smith is charged
with committing an outrageous assault
upon a little girl eleven years old in
this county during last summer. He
was tried in the district court in this
city during last fall, resulting in a
mistrial,standing elveven for conviction
and one for acquittal. He was releas-ed
on a bond of $750 and shortly after
flew the country, and was captured in
Illinois, through the co-operation of the
officers and detectives of that state and
those of this state. He will be held
in jail for trial at the March term of
the district court.
On Farm and Wild Lands on
Long Time, at Low Rates of
Interest,
All Business will have Prompt
Attention.
- Mayfield -
THE PAWNBROKER Will cast) your Lottery tickets.
Will lend yuo Money on your Diamonds, Watches
or Jewelry.
A fine line of Unredemmed PLEDGES For
Sale at a GREAT BARGAIN.
For good meals go to the Silver) Call for Locorine to cure bruises and
Moon. • sprains at J. E. Sears, 425 Austin
For meals go to Joe Lehmahn. * street.
A Featliered Mugwump.
Mr. Henry C. Hamilton, one of the
most truthful men in Georgia, tells of a
great curiosity which Bob Kenyon, an
old negro man, is raising on Mr. "Hamil-ton’s
place in Dalton. The object may
be described as a fowl mugwump. It is
half duck and half chicken, its father
being a duck and its mother a hen.
The mugwump is about the size of a
frying size chicken. It is of the femi-nine
gender. The head and breast are
built like a hen, and the back, tail and
legs are formed like those of a duck.
But, strange to say, the creature is not
webfooted. The fowl mugwump cackles
like a lieu, and in walking wabbles like
a duck. Hr. Hamilton says that he was
in Dalton Sunday and spent an hour
looking at the freak. He says that it is
the funniestjthing he ever saw in a barn-yard.-*-
Atlanta Constitution.
Kiddle’s cheap \or cash me^t market,
south side of the square, is doing a
rushing business. Riddle is always
first in his line, selling the richest, the
fattest and juicest of meat at bottom
rock prices. His customers follow him
and one who trades with him once he-comes
a regular customer. You can
buy fine porter house steak at Riddle's
at 10 cents per pound, and all other
meat in proportion. Take your basket
around there.
The wise man, who wants his
money’s worth in every thing he buys,
goes to D. H. Spencer to buy a piano
or organ. Spencer sells good goods
at reasonable prices and on easy terms.
Dr. P. R. Heugst, physician a*id
surgeor. Headquarters at William-
%on’s drug store. J
An Epicure.
Unto a little nigger,
A-swimming in the Nile,
Appeared, quite unexpectedly,
A hungry crocodile.
Who, with that chill politeness
That makes the warm blood freeze,
Remarked: “I'll take some dark moat
Without dressing, if you please I”
-Life
How He Smoked Father’s Cigars.
H. N. Willey, one of the clerks of the -—
-----hotel,' has given up smoking—for a time.
This he is doing of his own free will and ac-cord
and without a particle of outside influ-ence*
being brought to bear. An old time
schoolmate was in the city a few days ago,
and as they and some other friends were
chatting Willey’s chum offered him a cigar,
and appeared very much surprised when in-formed
that he had quit the habit. “Well, I
never imagined you would give up smoking,”
said he, “for more persistent beginner never
liver! I must tell you fellows about the
time Willey’s father first caught him
in the * act. Henry, here, was coming
down the street in the village where we
used to live with a big cigar stuck in his
mouth and making a regular steam engine of
himself with the smoke rolling back of him
in clouds, when on turning a corner he sud-denly
ran against his father. The pater gave
him one sharp look, but passed on, saying
nothing. That evening at homo and after
supper the father invited Henry out into the
kitchen. The boy was not as hardened as he
is now, and it must bo confessed he followed
the old gentleman in' no little trepida-tion,
knowing not what to expect. When
they arrived there the father’s movements
were still more mystifying, for ho pro-ceeded
to build a rousing hot fire in the
stove and carefully closed all the windows
and doors, effectually preventing any cool air
from entering and any of the heat that was
beginning to belch from the large cooking
stove from escaping. ‘Take a seat, Henry,’
said the father, ‘and let’s be sociable; I noticed
today that you were smoking; I did not
know you had acquired the habit, but, as you
have, take one of my cigars,’ and he handed
out a large, black looking torch, apparently
strong enough to make an old salt weaken.
Henry took it and began puSing away,
talking pleasantly to his father the while.
W hen he had finished it the old gen-tleman
gave him another, and this, too,
quickly vanished. The third was produced,
and as Henry lighted it his father began to
look worried, which feeling increased as the
weed gradually burned to a stub. As Henry
threw it in the fire his father got up, and,
wiping the perspiration from his face, said,
wealdy: ‘Well, Henry, I guess I’ll go.’
‘What, so soon?’ said the young imp as well
as he could without laughing outright. ‘Well,
if you must, good night, but l wish you
would leave another cigar; I should like to
enjoy myself by this nice fire a while longer.’
Henry’s father tells the story himself, so it
must be true.”—Chicago Herald.
Keeping His Children Honest.*
“Madame,” said a seedy looking individual
to tbo lady of the houso where he had called,
on Oak Grove street. “Madame, I only ask a
pittance. I am not hungry, and if you were
tojjivo me employment at your woodpile, it
would only delay me in a scheme I have out-lined
whereby I can inako an honest living
for myself and little ones. I ask simply for
$1 to help along my enterprise."
“Have you a family in destitute circum-stances?”
asked the lady, with pity in her
face.
“I have,” was the reply. “I havo eight
children who I am trying to bring up to lead
honest lives. I cannot bear to think that one
of them should be driven to do a dishonest
act.”
“Will this help you?” said the lady, with
tears in her voice, at the same time handing
him a dollar.
“It would, indeed,” was the reply. “It
will help mo carry out my enterprise during
these warm, autumn days.”
“What is your enterprise, my good man?”-
asked the lady.
“I’m going to buy a boat, madarno, with
which I shall be able to steal wood enough
from Hennepin Island not only to keep my
family warm this winter, but have some to
sell. My children shall not be driven to acts
of dishonesty through their father’s poverty.
Madame, may heaven bless you for this con-tribution.—
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Plan Failed.
“Now, here’s the plan,” said one tramp to
another, as they leaned against a fence on
Sproat street the other day. “You see that
brown house?”
“Ido."
“It has a for sale sign on it.”
“Yes.”
“Go and ring the bell and tell the woman
you want to buy the houso for, say $5,000.
She’ll bo glad to seo you. In looking about
just mention incidentally that if she has any
old clothes to spare you are making up a box
for tho African heathen. It’s a big scheme
and must work.”
Tho other went over and rang the bell, and
the door opened and he disappeared. He soon
appeared to view again, however, and. with
that sort of movement which comes to a man
when kicked.
“Well, what’s the matter?” asked tho other.
“No go.”
“Did you see tho woman and offer her
$5,000?”
“No. I saw the man and found that the
place had been sold for $9,000! It’s no use,
Jim. Wo hain’t worth shucks on finance.
We’ve got to go back to the destitute family
racket.”—Detroit Free Press.
How Scarborough Got In.
A good story has just crept into daylight,
of which W. W. Scarborough is the hero.
Years ago ho went abroad, and among other
cities visited was Florence, then the capital
of Italy. While ho was there one of the
great fetes in the gardens was in progress.
Mr. Scarborough was very anxious to attend,
but was told by the secretary that nobody
but big officials were allowed to witness the
festivities. At once the eminent Cincinnatian
straightened out his towering form and, ad-dressing
the Italian in Spanish, not being
conversant in ffis native tongue, said: “1 am
president of tho Company Gas and Madison
Turnpike. ’’ This announcement was received
with a most profound bow, and the distin-guished
guest received tho needed admission
papers. Afterward, in rehearsing the story,
Mr. Scarborough said that tho gentleman ap-peared
to be completely overwhelmed, espc-cially
by the latter official dignitary replying:
“Either, signor, will be sufficient.”—Cincin-nati
Enquirer.