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Evaporated Peaches, Evaporated Apples, Prunes and Currant, Fresh Country Butter. Cheap as Anybody. Hoore & Thompson, Jellies, Pickles, Fine Teas, Chipped Beef, Lunch Tongue, Potted Ham, Moo^c & Thompson. Vol. 2 NO. IsQ. Waco. Texas, Monday Evening May 11, i88v Price c; Cents. fflro (EontJB SANGER BROS China Mattings. WE HAVE IN STOCK KILL mi Mil Wo Must Unload During this Month. WE ARE MAKING OUR PRICES ACCORDINGLY AND ARE SHOW IS G AFTER MARY YEARS. How the Nemesis of Fate Pursued and Overtook Charles Warren. A TRAGIC WAR TALE=A FATHER RESCUED BY A FAIR DAUGHTER. THE MAh’, NOtV MXTYFOUR YEARS OLD, Alt RESTED Edit MURDER—WILL THE SEXTEXCE BE EXECUTED! at 12 12 cents per Yard. Fancy, Jointless Matting at 15 cents per Yard Plain and Fancy Matting at 18 cents a Yard. A Great Assortment for 20,2212, 25 and 30 cents per Yard. IN FINE MTTINNS WE ARE SHOWING THE RARE AND CHOICE DAMASK BRAND. CARPETS ARE ADVANCING DAILY, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO NAME THE EXTRAORDINARILY LOW PRICES UNTIL JUNE 1st, WHICH WE HAVE BEEN MAKING FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. LOOK.. 65c. Extra Supers 65c. 90c. Three Plys 90c. MOQUETTS, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES, YELYETS Heavy and Lace Curtains, Turcoman Portiers, Matts and Ruggs, Oil Cloths and Linoleum at SANGER BROS. Htquors. TILL ATUT ini A pure wine is often the best medicine you can nse, and the most pleasant to take. We handle the purest and best only. One Gallon Claret Wine 80c Ten Gallon Claret Wine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.00 One Gallon Texas Wine $1.00 Ten Gallon Texas Wine ... . $8.50 California sweet and dry Wines, and Imported Ports, Sherries and Madeira Wines at exceedingly low prices. I. A. GOLDSTEIN, WHOLESALE JYTsTH) RETAIL LIQUOE DIELAILIEiR “Anheuser’s,” is the only American Bottled Beer successfully introduced in Europe. Srescriptiou Dcugttisis. CASTLES & MORRISON’S. OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE Leading Prescription Drug Store In the City. BestJStock Of Patent Medicine. THE TRIUMPH CIGAR.AKII Truth is stranger tnan fiction. The facts that The Day, in the following lines, lays before its readers, make it one of the most tragic tales of real life ever known, recited, listened to or read in Texas. We shall give it as briefly and yet as succinctly as practicable. The east bound train of the Texas and St. Louis road came steaming into Waco at 10:30 a. m. yestesday. Among those who got off here were Van Hall, head of Hall’s detective agency, of this city, and an old, grayheaded, bent and decrepit man. Hall kept close by the side of his companion and the two drove hurriedly to the county jail. They entered, Hall interviewed the jailor and guards, and then the party went up stairs to the prison room. The iron door was unlocked, the old, grayheaded man passed in and the door clanged to again. Then the old man broke into tears, sat down and wept. He said: “It has come at last. I am lost.” A reporter of The Day was there and the following were the facts as he learned them. It was in the stormy period of the outbreak of THE GREAT CIVIL WAR that Charles Warren, then forty years of age, stabed and killed John Burton, an Englishman, who will be well remembered by old residents as “John Bull.” Burton lived in Waco. Warren was a farmer, who'lived east of.the river. Bath weredrinking men. Warren came to Waco on the loth day of May, 1861. He imbibed freely of spirits and by evening was under the influence of his potations. Burton, during the day, had an altercation with Layton Puckett, then a citizen of ^Waco, but now dead. It grew out of a difference of views as £to the war then inaugurated between the sections. Burton took the union side of the argument (as he always did) and the dispute was hot. Warren and Layton Puckett Jwere close friends and _Warren heard of the quarrel. He vowed to take his friend’s side, saying “I can whip any man who tries to impose on Layton Puckett.” Then word was brought to Warren that his horse, which he had hitched on the plaza, had been taken by Burton and rods around town. This news completed the sum of Warren’s grievances. He said he would see Burton later in the evening and he did. The two men met AT SUNDOWN, in front of a building that stood where is now the Central City Hotel, on Bridge street. Words passed, Warren drew a knife and stabbed Burton twice. Burton made an exclamation, staggered across the street and died. Warren mounted his horse and rode rapidly to his home. The next day he was found, at his home, and arrested by the then sheriff, Mr. Twaddle. He waived a preliminary examination, failed to give bond and was jailed. The grand jury was in session and indicted him for murder. His trial came on IN NOVEMBER. 1865. Our honored townsman, Hon. N. W. Battle, was the district judge. James F. Davis, now one of the justices of the peace in this precint, was retained by Warren as counsel. It was a fair and intelligent jury that heard the testimony and the verdict rendered was guilty of murder in the first degree, with the death penalty. One of the twelve jurors, (Mr. Parks, at B. Alexander’s) is living in Waco today. Another was John Coats, a brother of our townsman, Geo. Coats. He is living east of the river. Another was Eli Jones. He is living, on middle Bosque. There may be others yet living but most of them are dead. Mr. Parks told the The Day repoiter this morning: “IT WAS A COLDBLOODED MURDER, and it was my conscientious opinion then that Warren ought to be hung. The murder was wanton and unprovoked. It really grew out of political disputes. Burton hadn’t a sign of a weapon. The testimony showed that he made a plaintive and conciliatory reply when accosted late that evening by Warren. The latter stabbed him to death without any provocation and Warren wasn’t so drunk but what he had sense to get on his horse and ride home as brisk as he could.” Mr. Parks paused a moment and then he added: “But nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since then. Warren is old and decrepit. He has probably suffered enough. I vo ed on that jury to hang him, but I would sign a petition now for his pardon. Let Yim make his peace with God and die, wnenAis time comes, at home.” MR. C. A. SPARKS, now living in Waco, was one of the principal witnesses for the state, against Warren. Be told The Day this morning: “I saw Warren stab John Burton. I saw the latter die. I knew both men very well. Burton was a quiet, inoffensive, worthless man. Warren wasn’t much better. He would get drunk and quarrel every time he came to tbwn. I thought then that Warren ought to he hanged. But he is too old to hang now. The governor ought to commute his sentence.” Judge N. W. Battle says he cannot recall the case, although he was district judge then. So many episodes of the kind occurred in those rough, pioneer days, that his memory is defective as to some of hem and this one in particular. As we have aid the jury adjudged. THE DEATH PENALTY for Warren. His counsel, Judge Davis, made a motion for a new trial. Judge Battle overruled it. Davis gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court of the state and Warren was remanded to jail, to await . the decision of the court of last resort. Pending the consideration of that appeal Judge Battle ordered Warren to be removed, for safe keeping, to the county jail of Freestone county, at Fairfield. That was in December, 1861. Warren was convicted on Nov. I2fh, i86r. He had a young daughter. REBECCA WARREN. Shortly after his removal to the Fairfield jail this daughter went to Fairfield. Without revealing her name or relationship to Warren she sought out the jailer at Fairfield, pleading poverty and friendlessness and obtained employment in his family as a domestic. Watching for an opportunity she stole the keys of the jail from the jailor’s pocket one night and RELEASED HER FATHER. There is another story that a company of Confederate soldiers, passing through Fairfield, and hearing that Warren was in jail there for killing a union man, released him, but those who ought to know best say the devoted daughter did it, as above described. She married Andy Farris, once a citizen of this county, and is living now in Erath county. As soon as he was at liberty Warren enlisted in a Texas regiment and served the four years of the war as a Confederate soldier. When the strife ended he went to western Texas and settled down to farming. In the meantime his wife died and he married again, The judgment against his life still remained on the court records here. The supreme court, when news was received that he had escaped from jail,dismissed the appeal. By some means Van Hall heard that Warren was living in Lampasas county. He brought the case to county attorney Taylor’s attention. The latter asked if the records were on file in district clerk Beasly’s office here. Mr. Beasley hunted up all the facts, as to matters of record, and placed them in Mr. Taylor’s hands. The latter sent them to Austin and on April 22d ultimo Acting Governor. BARNETT GIBBS offered a reward of $200 for Warren’s arrest and delivery inside the jail door of McLennan county. Van Hall took the necessary papers, weut to Gatesville, secured the cooperation of sheriff Lamham of Corye county, and on Friday night last Hall ana Lanham arrested Warren. He was found in a mountain cove several miles north of Lampasas and brought here as above described. He has a little stock ranche in Lampasas county, but says he is a poor man. He is now sixtyfour years old. He says he never changed his name and has visited Waco several times since the close of the war. His case excites much sympathy and numbers of people have visited him at the jail. County attorney Taylor will write to Austin and ascertain if the supreme court ever made any order in Warrelfi’s case. If it affirmed the sentence of the lower court the old man must hang unless the governor intervenes. Judge Rimes will not take any steps in the matter until the clerk of the supreme court is heard from. It is altogether probable that the governor will be petitioned to exercise clemency in Warren’s case, and The Day hopes he will. The man has suffered for the last twentyfour years and is too old to be sent to the gallows now. THE SUNDAY LAWnow IT WAS OBSERVED IX THE CENTRAL CITI YESTERDAY. A Hearty Obedience Yielded and No Arrests—Publie Opinion on the Law—How Fort Worth Kept it Yesterday : o: “Now this is what we ought to have in Waco every Sunday—this is the way a decent, Christian community should spend their Lord’s day. Observe how quit and orderly everything is. All the business closed and nobody at work. But good day, I must catch that street car and go home.” And the speaker, who is a businessman and church, ■member hailed the car and was gone. The driver on the car looked as though he had heard the words “nobody at work,” and couldn’t appreciate them—he was working the same as on Monday or any other week day. In a moment another business man (but not a church member) stepped up and out of the fullness of his heart spake: “D—n the Sunday law. I am in favor of a decent observance of Sunday I think the people need one day of rest out of seven and if they want to go to church, all right. But this is puritanical and unreasonable. It is an outrage on personal rights and the legislature that foisted it on a free people were either numskulls, demagogues or fanatics, that’s the way I size it up.” The two opinions, as above given, represented the extremes of public sentiment expressed to The Day yesterday, time and again, as to the Sunday law of the state and city,revived(after a long period of somnolence that seemed to be death) and enforced in Waco yesterday. The discussion and disputation over the matter opened before Sunday came. It was the leading topic Saturday and yesterday and men argued for and against it with zeal and emphasis. But the law was observed. Every place of business (not exempt under the statute) closed as the town clock tolled twelve Saturday night, and remained closed until midnight last night. The saloon men were especially careful and scrupulous in their obedience. All the drinking that was done was done in private rooms and with beverages purchased Saturday. The soda fountains were quiet and mineral waters could not be had. Bath houses and ice cream parlors were closed. All the cigar stores and stands were shut up. Even the bootblacks ceased work. The law was enforced and obeyed, so far as one could judge yesterday, to the letter. The city was quiet and orderly. We do not know, though, that it was any more so than on other Sundays, for Waco is generally a quiet and orderly town. People went to church in about the same proportion as usual and hundreds got vehicles, took basket dinners and went to the country or fishing. Hundreds also went out to the driving park, where they could enjoy a spin around the course or a drive through the grounds. At De Francis garden the proprietor sat mournful, silent and lonely. His place was deserted—no beer,no soda, no music, dancing —nothing. He said the Sunday law would be his ruin. The milk wagons went around as usual, but people who wanted ice did not get it as readily or as easily as on other Sundays. And thus the day passed away and Waco woke up this morning feeling for once in her history she had obeyed a Sunday law that is as rigorous as any sumptuary enactment of modern times. Inquiry at the recorder’s office today developes the fact that not a complaint has' been made of violations of the law. Marshal Moore states that his force did not make any arrests and he does not believe there were any violations. There was a rumor that some of the saloon men would file complaints against the newspaper publishers, for having work done on Sunday, but up to this time nothing of the kind has been done. It is too early yet to form an opinion how the law will work. It is also too early to see how the community, as a whole, likes it. When it is enforced for several Sundays opinion will begin to take shape. The Day repeats what it said Saturday, that if the law is to be enforced at all, it shall be rigidly and to the very letter. No exemptions should be made or partiality shown. While on this subject it is worth while to note that in Fort Worth yesterday the chief of police instructed his force to not interfere with any business except the saloon men and cigar dealers. The recorder, though, said he would fine all violators. Several traveling men who got in yesterday morning were somewhat disgusted when they found they could not get shaved or a bath—not to mention a cigar, drink of beer, or mineral water. They said Waco was getting entirely too pious. AT FORT WORTH. Special to The Day. Fort Worth, May n—Noon—The Sunday law was enforced here yesterday, so far as saloons and cigar stands were concerned. No other line of business was interfered with.| No arrests were made. The Gazette m&de what it calls “a narrow escape*.” Saturday night, in the pressence of Jake Johnson (the well known sporting man) and another gentleman on Main street near the White Elephant, Recorder Feild had instructed deputy marshal Rushing to take six policemen and after 12 o’clock Sunday morning to arrest each and every person working on the Gazette. Rushing refused and when he laid the matter before Acting Marshal Scott, that officer told him to do nothing of the kind, so no arrests were made and the Gazette was printed as usual. RAILROAD RACKET. Summer Excursions—Change ol Officials—The T. and St. Louis. Trav. Jones, ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific road, has instructions to put on sale the usual summer excursion tickets to Colorado, Denver and Pueblo. The round trip rate is $56.45 and the tickets are good until October 31. President Paramore, of the Texas and St. Louis railroad, left for New Orleans Saturday night. Ilis mission there is to see U. S. circuit Judge Pardee, and endeavor, if possible, to have the decree, recently issued for the sale of the road, set aside. He has a strong array of facts to present to Judge Pardee. Mr. R. B. Dickey, for so long the agent at Waco of the Texas and St. Louis railroad, has resigned that position and was succeeded today by Mr. C. L. Gates, late soliciting and traveling agent of the same road. It is well understood that the company appreciated the value of Mr. Dickey’s services and dfd not want to part with him, but he de dined to remain. Mr. Gates is a veteran railroader, and will take hold ofjthe work as though he had been there all the time. STATE NEWS. Brief Notices ol Sunday’s Happenings in Texas. Palestine, May 9.—At Oakwood, sixteen miles west of this city, Mr. Yale Manning was crushed to death by a piano which he was assisting to move from an express wagon. Mr. Manning’s father and mother recently died within a few weeks of each other. All that is now left of the family is a little girl who is heiress to a large estate. Mr. Manning, who was an estimable young gentleman, will be .buried in this city. He lived only half an hour after the terrible accident which makes his young wife a widow. Texarkana, May 9.—A route agent named A. W. Adleta was arrested here this morning by Inspector Dice for Jrobbing registered packages. For several years a systematic robbery of these packages has been going on, and inspector after inspector has been foiled in an effort to unearth the thief. On Friday (Adleta’s run) Inspector Dice started three decoy letters from the Fort Worth postoffice, containing $54, and on arrival here the money was found missing. Adletarwas at once arrested and money and packages found concealed in the inside lining of his valise. Gainesville, May 9.—The body of S. W. Hatch, whose mysterious disappearance was mentioned last night, was found yesterday about nine miles from Arbuckle, Indian territory. His throat was cut from ear to ear, and his hand grasped a bloody knife. In his pocket was a flask of whisky, and his pocketbook was untouched. He was addieted to strong drink, and it is supposed that he had been drinking and was seized with one of those fits of despondency to which he was subject. Illustrating His Sermon. New York Times. The minister was struggling to put on a new fourply collar and the perspiration was starting from every pore. “Bless the collar,” he ejaculated ; “O, yes, bless it. Bless the blessed collar!” “My dear,” said his wife, “what is your text for this morning’s sermos?” “Ffourteenth verse ffiftyfifth psalm, he replied in short gasps: The wwords of his mmouth were s smoother than bbutter, but wwar was in his hheart.” An Inducement. “ I don’t know about going bail for you, Sam. You are a bad nigger and ought to be locked up. You’re a disgrace to the community.” “ I knows I is, sah, I’se a bad niggah ebbery way. But if you’ll go my bail dis time, boss,I’ll jump de country tomorrow mawnin* and nebbefcome back.”
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-day_1885-05-11 |
Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 2 No. 159, Monday, May 11, 1885 |
Date | 1885-05-11 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 159 |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Publisher | The Day Publishing Company |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 4 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-day_1885-05-11_01 |
OCR - Transcript | Evaporated Peaches, Evaporated Apples, Prunes and Currant, Fresh Country Butter. Cheap as Anybody. Hoore & Thompson, Jellies, Pickles, Fine Teas, Chipped Beef, Lunch Tongue, Potted Ham, Moo^c & Thompson. Vol. 2 NO. IsQ. Waco. Texas, Monday Evening May 11, i88v Price c; Cents. fflro (EontJB SANGER BROS China Mattings. WE HAVE IN STOCK KILL mi Mil Wo Must Unload During this Month. WE ARE MAKING OUR PRICES ACCORDINGLY AND ARE SHOW IS G AFTER MARY YEARS. How the Nemesis of Fate Pursued and Overtook Charles Warren. A TRAGIC WAR TALE=A FATHER RESCUED BY A FAIR DAUGHTER. THE MAh’, NOtV MXTYFOUR YEARS OLD, Alt RESTED Edit MURDER—WILL THE SEXTEXCE BE EXECUTED! at 12 12 cents per Yard. Fancy, Jointless Matting at 15 cents per Yard Plain and Fancy Matting at 18 cents a Yard. A Great Assortment for 20,2212, 25 and 30 cents per Yard. IN FINE MTTINNS WE ARE SHOWING THE RARE AND CHOICE DAMASK BRAND. CARPETS ARE ADVANCING DAILY, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO NAME THE EXTRAORDINARILY LOW PRICES UNTIL JUNE 1st, WHICH WE HAVE BEEN MAKING FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. LOOK.. 65c. Extra Supers 65c. 90c. Three Plys 90c. MOQUETTS, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES, YELYETS Heavy and Lace Curtains, Turcoman Portiers, Matts and Ruggs, Oil Cloths and Linoleum at SANGER BROS. Htquors. TILL ATUT ini A pure wine is often the best medicine you can nse, and the most pleasant to take. We handle the purest and best only. One Gallon Claret Wine 80c Ten Gallon Claret Wine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.00 One Gallon Texas Wine $1.00 Ten Gallon Texas Wine ... . $8.50 California sweet and dry Wines, and Imported Ports, Sherries and Madeira Wines at exceedingly low prices. I. A. GOLDSTEIN, WHOLESALE JYTsTH) RETAIL LIQUOE DIELAILIEiR “Anheuser’s,” is the only American Bottled Beer successfully introduced in Europe. Srescriptiou Dcugttisis. CASTLES & MORRISON’S. OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE Leading Prescription Drug Store In the City. BestJStock Of Patent Medicine. THE TRIUMPH CIGAR.AKII Truth is stranger tnan fiction. The facts that The Day, in the following lines, lays before its readers, make it one of the most tragic tales of real life ever known, recited, listened to or read in Texas. We shall give it as briefly and yet as succinctly as practicable. The east bound train of the Texas and St. Louis road came steaming into Waco at 10:30 a. m. yestesday. Among those who got off here were Van Hall, head of Hall’s detective agency, of this city, and an old, grayheaded, bent and decrepit man. Hall kept close by the side of his companion and the two drove hurriedly to the county jail. They entered, Hall interviewed the jailor and guards, and then the party went up stairs to the prison room. The iron door was unlocked, the old, grayheaded man passed in and the door clanged to again. Then the old man broke into tears, sat down and wept. He said: “It has come at last. I am lost.” A reporter of The Day was there and the following were the facts as he learned them. It was in the stormy period of the outbreak of THE GREAT CIVIL WAR that Charles Warren, then forty years of age, stabed and killed John Burton, an Englishman, who will be well remembered by old residents as “John Bull.” Burton lived in Waco. Warren was a farmer, who'lived east of.the river. Bath weredrinking men. Warren came to Waco on the loth day of May, 1861. He imbibed freely of spirits and by evening was under the influence of his potations. Burton, during the day, had an altercation with Layton Puckett, then a citizen of ^Waco, but now dead. It grew out of a difference of views as £to the war then inaugurated between the sections. Burton took the union side of the argument (as he always did) and the dispute was hot. Warren and Layton Puckett Jwere close friends and _Warren heard of the quarrel. He vowed to take his friend’s side, saying “I can whip any man who tries to impose on Layton Puckett.” Then word was brought to Warren that his horse, which he had hitched on the plaza, had been taken by Burton and rods around town. This news completed the sum of Warren’s grievances. He said he would see Burton later in the evening and he did. The two men met AT SUNDOWN, in front of a building that stood where is now the Central City Hotel, on Bridge street. Words passed, Warren drew a knife and stabbed Burton twice. Burton made an exclamation, staggered across the street and died. Warren mounted his horse and rode rapidly to his home. The next day he was found, at his home, and arrested by the then sheriff, Mr. Twaddle. He waived a preliminary examination, failed to give bond and was jailed. The grand jury was in session and indicted him for murder. His trial came on IN NOVEMBER. 1865. Our honored townsman, Hon. N. W. Battle, was the district judge. James F. Davis, now one of the justices of the peace in this precint, was retained by Warren as counsel. It was a fair and intelligent jury that heard the testimony and the verdict rendered was guilty of murder in the first degree, with the death penalty. One of the twelve jurors, (Mr. Parks, at B. Alexander’s) is living in Waco today. Another was John Coats, a brother of our townsman, Geo. Coats. He is living east of the river. Another was Eli Jones. He is living, on middle Bosque. There may be others yet living but most of them are dead. Mr. Parks told the The Day repoiter this morning: “IT WAS A COLDBLOODED MURDER, and it was my conscientious opinion then that Warren ought to be hung. The murder was wanton and unprovoked. It really grew out of political disputes. Burton hadn’t a sign of a weapon. The testimony showed that he made a plaintive and conciliatory reply when accosted late that evening by Warren. The latter stabbed him to death without any provocation and Warren wasn’t so drunk but what he had sense to get on his horse and ride home as brisk as he could.” Mr. Parks paused a moment and then he added: “But nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since then. Warren is old and decrepit. He has probably suffered enough. I vo ed on that jury to hang him, but I would sign a petition now for his pardon. Let Yim make his peace with God and die, wnenAis time comes, at home.” MR. C. A. SPARKS, now living in Waco, was one of the principal witnesses for the state, against Warren. Be told The Day this morning: “I saw Warren stab John Burton. I saw the latter die. I knew both men very well. Burton was a quiet, inoffensive, worthless man. Warren wasn’t much better. He would get drunk and quarrel every time he came to tbwn. I thought then that Warren ought to he hanged. But he is too old to hang now. The governor ought to commute his sentence.” Judge N. W. Battle says he cannot recall the case, although he was district judge then. So many episodes of the kind occurred in those rough, pioneer days, that his memory is defective as to some of hem and this one in particular. As we have aid the jury adjudged. THE DEATH PENALTY for Warren. His counsel, Judge Davis, made a motion for a new trial. Judge Battle overruled it. Davis gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court of the state and Warren was remanded to jail, to await . the decision of the court of last resort. Pending the consideration of that appeal Judge Battle ordered Warren to be removed, for safe keeping, to the county jail of Freestone county, at Fairfield. That was in December, 1861. Warren was convicted on Nov. I2fh, i86r. He had a young daughter. REBECCA WARREN. Shortly after his removal to the Fairfield jail this daughter went to Fairfield. Without revealing her name or relationship to Warren she sought out the jailer at Fairfield, pleading poverty and friendlessness and obtained employment in his family as a domestic. Watching for an opportunity she stole the keys of the jail from the jailor’s pocket one night and RELEASED HER FATHER. There is another story that a company of Confederate soldiers, passing through Fairfield, and hearing that Warren was in jail there for killing a union man, released him, but those who ought to know best say the devoted daughter did it, as above described. She married Andy Farris, once a citizen of this county, and is living now in Erath county. As soon as he was at liberty Warren enlisted in a Texas regiment and served the four years of the war as a Confederate soldier. When the strife ended he went to western Texas and settled down to farming. In the meantime his wife died and he married again, The judgment against his life still remained on the court records here. The supreme court, when news was received that he had escaped from jail,dismissed the appeal. By some means Van Hall heard that Warren was living in Lampasas county. He brought the case to county attorney Taylor’s attention. The latter asked if the records were on file in district clerk Beasly’s office here. Mr. Beasley hunted up all the facts, as to matters of record, and placed them in Mr. Taylor’s hands. The latter sent them to Austin and on April 22d ultimo Acting Governor. BARNETT GIBBS offered a reward of $200 for Warren’s arrest and delivery inside the jail door of McLennan county. Van Hall took the necessary papers, weut to Gatesville, secured the cooperation of sheriff Lamham of Corye county, and on Friday night last Hall ana Lanham arrested Warren. He was found in a mountain cove several miles north of Lampasas and brought here as above described. He has a little stock ranche in Lampasas county, but says he is a poor man. He is now sixtyfour years old. He says he never changed his name and has visited Waco several times since the close of the war. His case excites much sympathy and numbers of people have visited him at the jail. County attorney Taylor will write to Austin and ascertain if the supreme court ever made any order in Warrelfi’s case. If it affirmed the sentence of the lower court the old man must hang unless the governor intervenes. Judge Rimes will not take any steps in the matter until the clerk of the supreme court is heard from. It is altogether probable that the governor will be petitioned to exercise clemency in Warren’s case, and The Day hopes he will. The man has suffered for the last twentyfour years and is too old to be sent to the gallows now. THE SUNDAY LAWnow IT WAS OBSERVED IX THE CENTRAL CITI YESTERDAY. A Hearty Obedience Yielded and No Arrests—Publie Opinion on the Law—How Fort Worth Kept it Yesterday : o: “Now this is what we ought to have in Waco every Sunday—this is the way a decent, Christian community should spend their Lord’s day. Observe how quit and orderly everything is. All the business closed and nobody at work. But good day, I must catch that street car and go home.” And the speaker, who is a businessman and church, ■member hailed the car and was gone. The driver on the car looked as though he had heard the words “nobody at work,” and couldn’t appreciate them—he was working the same as on Monday or any other week day. In a moment another business man (but not a church member) stepped up and out of the fullness of his heart spake: “D—n the Sunday law. I am in favor of a decent observance of Sunday I think the people need one day of rest out of seven and if they want to go to church, all right. But this is puritanical and unreasonable. It is an outrage on personal rights and the legislature that foisted it on a free people were either numskulls, demagogues or fanatics, that’s the way I size it up.” The two opinions, as above given, represented the extremes of public sentiment expressed to The Day yesterday, time and again, as to the Sunday law of the state and city,revived(after a long period of somnolence that seemed to be death) and enforced in Waco yesterday. The discussion and disputation over the matter opened before Sunday came. It was the leading topic Saturday and yesterday and men argued for and against it with zeal and emphasis. But the law was observed. Every place of business (not exempt under the statute) closed as the town clock tolled twelve Saturday night, and remained closed until midnight last night. The saloon men were especially careful and scrupulous in their obedience. All the drinking that was done was done in private rooms and with beverages purchased Saturday. The soda fountains were quiet and mineral waters could not be had. Bath houses and ice cream parlors were closed. All the cigar stores and stands were shut up. Even the bootblacks ceased work. The law was enforced and obeyed, so far as one could judge yesterday, to the letter. The city was quiet and orderly. We do not know, though, that it was any more so than on other Sundays, for Waco is generally a quiet and orderly town. People went to church in about the same proportion as usual and hundreds got vehicles, took basket dinners and went to the country or fishing. Hundreds also went out to the driving park, where they could enjoy a spin around the course or a drive through the grounds. At De Francis garden the proprietor sat mournful, silent and lonely. His place was deserted—no beer,no soda, no music, dancing —nothing. He said the Sunday law would be his ruin. The milk wagons went around as usual, but people who wanted ice did not get it as readily or as easily as on other Sundays. And thus the day passed away and Waco woke up this morning feeling for once in her history she had obeyed a Sunday law that is as rigorous as any sumptuary enactment of modern times. Inquiry at the recorder’s office today developes the fact that not a complaint has' been made of violations of the law. Marshal Moore states that his force did not make any arrests and he does not believe there were any violations. There was a rumor that some of the saloon men would file complaints against the newspaper publishers, for having work done on Sunday, but up to this time nothing of the kind has been done. It is too early yet to form an opinion how the law will work. It is also too early to see how the community, as a whole, likes it. When it is enforced for several Sundays opinion will begin to take shape. The Day repeats what it said Saturday, that if the law is to be enforced at all, it shall be rigidly and to the very letter. No exemptions should be made or partiality shown. While on this subject it is worth while to note that in Fort Worth yesterday the chief of police instructed his force to not interfere with any business except the saloon men and cigar dealers. The recorder, though, said he would fine all violators. Several traveling men who got in yesterday morning were somewhat disgusted when they found they could not get shaved or a bath—not to mention a cigar, drink of beer, or mineral water. They said Waco was getting entirely too pious. AT FORT WORTH. Special to The Day. Fort Worth, May n—Noon—The Sunday law was enforced here yesterday, so far as saloons and cigar stands were concerned. No other line of business was interfered with.| No arrests were made. The Gazette m&de what it calls “a narrow escape*.” Saturday night, in the pressence of Jake Johnson (the well known sporting man) and another gentleman on Main street near the White Elephant, Recorder Feild had instructed deputy marshal Rushing to take six policemen and after 12 o’clock Sunday morning to arrest each and every person working on the Gazette. Rushing refused and when he laid the matter before Acting Marshal Scott, that officer told him to do nothing of the kind, so no arrests were made and the Gazette was printed as usual. RAILROAD RACKET. Summer Excursions—Change ol Officials—The T. and St. Louis. Trav. Jones, ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific road, has instructions to put on sale the usual summer excursion tickets to Colorado, Denver and Pueblo. The round trip rate is $56.45 and the tickets are good until October 31. President Paramore, of the Texas and St. Louis railroad, left for New Orleans Saturday night. Ilis mission there is to see U. S. circuit Judge Pardee, and endeavor, if possible, to have the decree, recently issued for the sale of the road, set aside. He has a strong array of facts to present to Judge Pardee. Mr. R. B. Dickey, for so long the agent at Waco of the Texas and St. Louis railroad, has resigned that position and was succeeded today by Mr. C. L. Gates, late soliciting and traveling agent of the same road. It is well understood that the company appreciated the value of Mr. Dickey’s services and dfd not want to part with him, but he de dined to remain. Mr. Gates is a veteran railroader, and will take hold ofjthe work as though he had been there all the time. STATE NEWS. Brief Notices ol Sunday’s Happenings in Texas. Palestine, May 9.—At Oakwood, sixteen miles west of this city, Mr. Yale Manning was crushed to death by a piano which he was assisting to move from an express wagon. Mr. Manning’s father and mother recently died within a few weeks of each other. All that is now left of the family is a little girl who is heiress to a large estate. Mr. Manning, who was an estimable young gentleman, will be .buried in this city. He lived only half an hour after the terrible accident which makes his young wife a widow. Texarkana, May 9.—A route agent named A. W. Adleta was arrested here this morning by Inspector Dice for Jrobbing registered packages. For several years a systematic robbery of these packages has been going on, and inspector after inspector has been foiled in an effort to unearth the thief. On Friday (Adleta’s run) Inspector Dice started three decoy letters from the Fort Worth postoffice, containing $54, and on arrival here the money was found missing. Adletarwas at once arrested and money and packages found concealed in the inside lining of his valise. Gainesville, May 9.—The body of S. W. Hatch, whose mysterious disappearance was mentioned last night, was found yesterday about nine miles from Arbuckle, Indian territory. His throat was cut from ear to ear, and his hand grasped a bloody knife. In his pocket was a flask of whisky, and his pocketbook was untouched. He was addieted to strong drink, and it is supposed that he had been drinking and was seized with one of those fits of despondency to which he was subject. Illustrating His Sermon. New York Times. The minister was struggling to put on a new fourply collar and the perspiration was starting from every pore. “Bless the collar,” he ejaculated ; “O, yes, bless it. Bless the blessed collar!” “My dear,” said his wife, “what is your text for this morning’s sermos?” “Ffourteenth verse ffiftyfifth psalm, he replied in short gasps: The wwords of his mmouth were s smoother than bbutter, but wwar was in his hheart.” An Inducement. “ I don’t know about going bail for you, Sam. You are a bad nigger and ought to be locked up. You’re a disgrace to the community.” “ I knows I is, sah, I’se a bad niggah ebbery way. But if you’ll go my bail dis time, boss,I’ll jump de country tomorrow mawnin* and nebbefcome back.” |