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PALESTINE TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 2 1909
Churches Destroyed at Zephyr By the
Cyclone Will Be Rebuilt By the
People of Above City
Herald Special
Port Worth Texas June 2 Port
Worth church people here today de
cided to undertake the rebuilding of
the Baptist and Methodist churches
at Zephyr destroyed Saturday last by
a cyclone A meeting is to be held
Thursday to discuss plans for raising
funds and a general collection will
likely result for this purpose
ENOUGH FOOD AND CLOTHING
But Money Is Needed For Relief of
Sufferers at Zephyr
Herald Special
Brownwood Texas June 2 The
relief committee looking after the
tornado sufferers at Zephyr have au
thorized the Texas News Service to
announce that no more food and cloth
ing Is needed by the stricken town
but that more funds are wanted for
repairing and rebuilding the homes
destroyed The Brownwood relief
committee is visiting the scene of the
disaster daily and doing all possible
to relieve the distress Rev Morris
of Foit Worth today advised that the
Fort Worth churches purpose assist
ing in rebuliding the destroyed
churches
No additional deaths are erported
today
AN UNUSUAL SUICIDE
Man Planned Out Manner of Death
Out of Usual Had Planned Well
Manner of Taking Off
Did Her Spirit Return to Earth
Sterling 111 June 1 Friends and
neighbors throughout Whiteside coun
ty are discussing in awestricken
whispers today the strringe events as
sociated with the burial this morning
of Mrs Emma Stelzer who vowed in
a death message unless her funeral
was conducted from the house of Ja
cob Warner the man she loved she
would send her spirit to haunt and
to vex him for the remainder of his
life Warner scoffed at the strange
threats and would have nothing to do
with her funeral The pastor had
scarcely begun to read the burial ser
vice when the earth around the open
grave caved in Just as the pall
bearers were about to lower the cas
ket into the grave one side of the
grave caved in against and caught the
casket holding it like a vice
President D J Neill of the Farmers
Union Says Farmers are Or
ganizing Against Them
Herald Special
Fort Worth Texas June 2 Presi
dent D J Neill of the Texas Farmers
Union here today stated that the farm
ers throughout the state are organiz
ing against automobiles and are car
rying guns for the drivers He says
he expects to hear of a killing at any
time Hundreds of local unions he
declares are adopting drastic resolu
tions against automobiles
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To the north damage is reported
other than to tobacco and cohi is
blown and washed but not hurt great
ly The wind at Melrose is said to
have been even stronger than here
and west the local telephone plant is
seriously impaired only temporarily
however as it will be back in work
ing order in a day or two Two hun
dred and twenty telephones were put
out of commission
T WANT TO SELL
Conference at Austin Leads to Belief
That Waters Pierce Co Wants
to Stay In the Field
Austin Texas June 2 E B Per
kins attorney for the Waters Pierce
0 company was here today confer
ring with Judge N A Stedman De
velopments are expected in reference
to the court orders for an inventory of
the property for the purpose of mak
ing sale of same It is understood the
corporation is not agreeable to this
plan and prefers to retain hold on its
Texas business even through a re
ceiver
PRESBYTERIANS OF CANADA
ThirtySixth General Assembly Will
Open at Hamilton Tonight
Hamilton Ont June 2 The thirty
sixth general assembly of the Presby
terian church in Canada opens here
this evening for a session of two
weeks There is practically a full at
tendance of the ministerial commis
sioners and the arrivals tomorrow
are expected to make up the comple
ment The representation of elders is
also large and includes many distin
guished men prominent in former as
semblies
There are many big questions that
will come before the present commis
sioners Church union Is the most im
portant of these and it is predicted
that it will cause a keen discussion
The basis of union has already been
agreed upon and it remains for the
assembly on behalf of the Presbyte
rian church either to accept modify
or reject it altogether
lorena Man Hangs Himself
Waco Texas June 2 Ira Aerl a
prominent citizen of Lorena McLen
nan county was found dead hanging
to ihe rafters of his barn early this
morning He left the house saying
he would feed the stock He was suf
fering from ill health He leaves four
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Cleburne Texas June 2 W E
Dean aged fifty years killed himself
n i i Hi Bin 1 1 ne hung a
shotgun on the wall adjusted so it
would empty its load into a spot on
the bed tied a string to the trigger
laid down on the bed and pulled the
string As a result the entire load
went through his stomach causing in
stant death He was despondent and
ill He leaves no family
BOTH LEGS CRUSHED
M K T Brakeman Dies at Waco
After Accident
Herald Special
Waco Texas June 2 Ollie Wald
ers an M K T brakeman died
this morning as a result of having
both legs mashed in the yards here
He was unmarried and had relatives
living at Tyler
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Crqps Seriously Damaged Some of
thi Tobacco Farmers Put Out
3jL of Business
Nacogdoches Texas June 1 A ter
iff
rificjjvind and rain storm visited this
section this morning about 5 oclock
doinggfconsiderable damage here in
the Hitv1 and entailing a great loss to
the crops Two clouds seemed to
form johe in the northwest and one
in thesoutheast and met sweeping
downfoh the city like a regular twist
er Trees were uprooted fences awn
ings jggns and outhouses were blown
downRnd streets were rivulets the
electrjcjal display was vivid and sev
eral Jtolts struck but no damage re
sultegrom them About two inches
of rahufell in an hours time the wind
continuing for about thirty minutes
A galjlery of a business house was
demolished and the blowpipe at the
Haywani mill was blown down doing
a damage of G00 and causing the
plant o close down Farmers from
severa miles around reported heavy
wind and rain and corn blown down
and broken Cotton is not damaged
exceptjpy the rains
The creeks in the city and the Mo
ralo afe higher than for months and
fears o overflows are entertained
The total rainfall has
today been near
three jnchs making about seven and
a halfuhirlng the past week The en
tire damage in the city Is estimated
at abolii 2500 while the damage to
crops cannot be stated Heavy cloud
inesstpnight indicates more rain
Additional reports coming later this
evenirigisay that considerable damage
was done east of this city too The
wind and rain were unusual and sev
eral barns were blown down and
crops hurt Two farmers had barns
to blow down on stock one pinning
several head under the timbers re
qulririgffour hours to saw them out
AnotherTiad stock injured by a barn
fallingin them Two or three tobac
co Nb atCjS re reported demolished
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