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" V H WACO-EVENING NEWS. t : . . .ft nl OL. 1 WACO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1889. NO. 174. , SANGER BROTHERS. ooooooooooooooooouoooooooooooooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBOOOOOOOQ ! CONTINUATION OF OUR GRAND. SALE OM MEN'S DEPARTMENTS OFFER ISM BARGAINS L i RETAIL DEPARTMENT In k Cor. Fillti aifl Atistin Streets. essiM Rnil Buyers of Clothing, Gent's Furnishing Goods and Hats should visit our Largo and Exclusive Gent's Department before buying. New Line of Trunks, Valis es and Hand Bags in all quali ties at Low Prices. j 't KN0X1 IOFI, STIFF iMD SILK Hill. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SANGER BROS. T. F. JOISTBS. "W. HC. JCXNTBS. JONES ' BROTHERS, We desire in our humble way to call the Public's attention to our varied and well selected Stock of BOOTS-and-SHOES. Our Lines are from the most Standard and Reliable Manufactors, and each and every pair is sold with a Guaran tee. Prices in tins Department rule the tsame as throughout our other depart- U' Hments THE VERY LOWEST. WE ARE SHOWING THEo- Best Line of Boys' Shoes in the City. To introduce our Shoes we will sell them on the Lowest imaginable Profits. All we ask is a call. Hmall Pox In tiftlveatoa. Galveston, Jan. 20. Tho oitv health authorities report this morning sixteen cases of small pox and thirty, two pcoplo in quarantine, with four more suspicious cases of sickness undor close surveillance Tho excitement in tho cast end over tho occupancy of tho old city hospital as a nospitni tor tno reception ot small pox cases has subsided, and tho po'ico and civilian guard liavo becu with drawn. Tho city council hold a Bpocial meet ing this morning, at which the matter was fully disonsscd, Tho committeo appointed at an indignation mooting reported to tho city oonncil that they had taken possession of the old city hospital building and whether their action is legal or not, they proposo to resist tho introduction of small pox in to tho buildinc. bv force, if nccenRaro. They asserted they were law-abiding citizens and tax pavers, but when they and their families wcro threaten ed with infection from a contagious discaso of which they woro free, thoy would resist its importation into their midst to tho bitter end. Thoy hoped tho council would not forco this issuo upon them. If thoy'did, thoy might expect serious trouble. Tho city en gineer was called upon and interrogat ed as to how long, by employing a largo forco of mechanics, and working day and night, it would tako to com plete tho pest house now under con struction at Fort Point. Ho replied Thursday morning He was di rooted by a resolution of tho city council to employ every means in his power to comploto tho building by that timo for ocoupanoy. In the meantime pa tients affected should remain in their domiclos. This action by tho eity coun cil has quieted tho pcoplo of tho East Eend and has inspired hopo throughout the city that tho loathsome discaso will bo quickly stamped out Thus far no whites are effected. tf The Oklahoma taaemen. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 29. The' wagon train that has been lying out side this olty will leavo for Arkausas City some tlmo to-day to Join the body Micro waiting to advauoe upon Okla homa. Pawnoo Bill said last night that this train numbers about sixty wagons. Ho loft to-day, by train, for Arkansas City whoro ho expeota to organize the bedy and oomnieuco tho invasion Saturday. Ho said ho never before felt so sangulno of the suooestt of tho Invasion, as ho had heard from Texas mid had. assurauoo from Mr. Parker of a largo force from Sherman and Gainesville. Deputy Kontz came up from the Territory last night, bringing with htm United States pris oners, and said there was a large number of men lying along the eas tern border of Oklahoma waiting for Pawnoo Bill or any other leader who could holp them Into tho promise laud. He saw very few soldiers, and wns certain Pawnee BUI would make a success of his movement. if RIAL ESTATE 1GM BTJ"2" -A.3JTID SELL ALL KHSJTDS OF REAL ESTATE. ;c&o:n::ey On Farm and Wild Lands on Long Time, at Low Rates ofv Interest, All Business will have Prompt Attention. . Mayfield - THE PAWNBROKER WIN omI pwlftflMVioMi, Will 'lend y no Money on yonr Diamonds, Watches or Jewelry. A fine line of Unredemmed PLEDGES Sid at ft GREAT BARGilN. For Housekeepers buying goods for the holidays will consult their own inter est by buying of Chas. Kast He has cords of butter, eggs and chickons, fresh and nice, at bottom prices, being the leader in those lines, and has all the fine Christmas grocery goods, be sides a brand new stock, bought since tho fire Ho is making a special drive on fine fancy candies, of wn'oh ho has tho largest and finest stock in the city, at discount prices Tho unprccedent good health of Waco for tho past two months is at last accounted for. Tho people have been buying their moat and lard from Crippcn, Fifth and Austin streets. Good meat makes rioh blood, and that is the kind of meat Orippen always sells, rich, juicy steaks and tender roasts. Mr. D. H. Snenoer. the piano and organ dealer of Waco and Central Texas, is expecting in daily from Boston, a specimen Parlor Grand Piano, which when It arrives the public will be notified and Invited to call and see. The new piano will be a delight to artists and lovers of muslo'. - Farmers In the country surround ing Waco, recognize the faot that the best flour they got comes from their home mills. Hence Queen City straight flour from the 'Waco Boiler Mills, is the most popular brand on tho market for them. The way our country cousins build up homo Insti tutions, is by buying homo made goods. 4 Order jour groceries, grain, feed, wood and coal from Geo. W. McLaugh lin. Satisfaction guaranteed. Go to W. D. Jackson and get a pho tograph of yourselt and child ren. 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. Tho latest society dances at Mr. Hook's select Dancing Academy, cor ner 6th and Washington streets Call for Locorine to euro bruises and sprains at J, E Sears, 425 Austin street. m If you never got a bargain boforo you can get it now in Boots and Shoes at Castles & White. t Wood and coal from & cents to a car load at Goo. W. McLaughlin's. On February 1st and 2d the H. & T. C. R'y Co. will sell excursion tickets from Waco to Navasota at $5.80, good to return until the 4th, on account of School Teachers' Convention. R. H. Hill, Agent, Cor. 4th and Franklin Streets. The wise man, who wants his money's worth in every thing ho buys, goes to D. II. Spencer to buy a piano or organ. Spencer scllc good goods at reasonable prices and on easy terms. I Ask your merchant for Mikada flour. It is guaranteed to bake up as white, to rise as well, and to bo stronger flour than any St. Louis, Missouri or Kansas flour on this market. t Go to your Unole Duff Dormau to buy your jewelry, or to borrow money. Opposite McClelland Hotel and south side square. Money to loau on country or olty property by E. M. Ewlng, attorney at law, 111 South Fourth street, waco. A nice Hue of Jewelry and fine watcn repairing specialty at a. j. Leslie's. The stock ol goods of Mr. Barney Feldhake is to be sold at auction Jan. 28th. Good goods in Boots and Shoes and at your own prices at Castles & White the MoBer old stand. T Dancing school for ladies and child ren. Open Saturday at 3:30 p. m., In tho Edith Blook. Castles & White, who bought the bankrupt stook of boots and shoes, are bankrupting prices tho way they sell. Fish aid game of all kinds, at the Silver Moon Call on G. W. McLaughlin for wood and coal. w The finest Mlnco Meot In the land a Joe Thompson's. Tako your oysters at the Silver Moon. Bargains in boot and shoes are to bo had at Castles & White's. For Moon. Knocking Doable Tragedy. Walnut Springs, Jan. 19. A mur der and suicide was committod ono mile oast of here early this morning. A ranehman, by tho namo of Charles Baloh, attcr killing his wife shot hini seli. Death was supposed to havo been instanteanous. No causo can bo as signed for tho rash act. Mr. Balch had only been married a short timo and was highly respected by all who know him. Whon found, both woro in bed weltering in their own blood, and a ghastly sight it was to behold. Tho verdict ol the coroner s lury was that Mrs. Balch came to hor death by a pistol shot, at tho hands of her husband who then with tho samo weapon killed himself. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Walnut Springs, Jan. 29. Early this morning A II. Green, a hired man at the houso of Charles H. Balch, ono milo from town, heard two pistol shots, ho went to their room and found both Balch and his wifo dying on the bed, each had been shot through tho heart. A nistol was lvintr between them. JL.. ". . ...... i The coroner s inquiry decided that Balch had shot his wife and then kil led himself. He was married two months ago, in Waco, to Miss Maggie Marney, of Mil-ford- Balch owned $1,800 on his farm. good meals go to the Siher If you want froth taffy oandy go to Joe Lehman's south 4th street. B. and 8, at Cotton Exchange. I.nmfcer Burned. Atlanta, Tk., Jan. 28. The Jef forson lumber company lost their dry houso, filled with lumber, last night by fire. The lots Is estimated at $.1000. It being a vory damp cold night, no watchman was on duty and therowaB no steam up to run the pump. Thoy succeeded lu raising steam lu about nn hour and stopped tho flamos before thoy spread into the lumber yards: There Is no lusuranco. m Early IlaUoon Aecenti. Tho following, taken out of an old book, says a writer in Tho Leeds Mer cury, will give an idea how tho early balloons wcro inflated, and will show, also, that Baldu In a decent in a para cliuto is an old invention: "On Sept. 21, 1803, M. Gnrncrln (tiled his balloon with hydrogen gas at St. Ocorgo's Parade, North Audlcv street. Tho cas was mado from diluted sulnhurio ncid, together with a quantity of iron filings, placed In thlrty-thrco casks to generate, and by communication with thrco larger casks or receivers, and then by tubes to the balloon. At 0 o'clock tho balloon rose with its long appendago of tho paruchuto, tho uoronout In tho little basket. Tens of thousands of spectators wcro fixed in astonishment and admiration at tho gal lant adventurer. For eight minutes tho balloon continued to ascend till it ar rived at such an immenso height as to bo scarcely visible. When Garncrln cut away from tho balloon tho parachute did not expand Immediately. It fell with great velocity for a short spaco of timo, when it opened, and tho descent became gradual, but attended with a remarkable oscillation hko a pendulum of a clock. Thcso vibrations ueenmo less as tho ground wns neared. Tho balloonist de scended in a flold near tho smallpox hos Eltal at St. Pancras without injury to Imsclf or tho parachute. l- A I i s A Bm Wrack. San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 28. At a lato hour to-night it beoamo rumored around the city that a horrible acoi dent ooturred this afternoon on the Southern Pacifio road, in whioh a largo number of pcoplo lost thoir lives. Railroad mon refuse absolutely to talk about tho accident, though thoy admit it occurred. From boat information obtainable it appears that an east-bound passenger train telescoped into a freight near Lu ling, fifty miles cast of this oitv on what is known as Iron Mountain hill. Tho wires between hero and Luling are not working, so that all direct sources of information aro out off. At 5 o'clock this afternoon soven or eight passenger coaches with sovcral phys eians woro sent out from hero to the scene of tho wreck. Hptiremo roar Decision. Galviston, Jan. 29,-Tho Supremo court disposod of tho following cases to-day : Affirmed City -of Galveston vs Peter Heminis, from Galveston. ' Reversed and romandod W. E. Du- Eroe et al. vs. J. P. Estell, from Mc onnan; A. B. Campbell vs. R. H. Coloman, from Coleman; R. S. Willis vs. E. S. Smith, from Brazoria. Reversed and rendered W. S Rodd et al. vs. A. R. Morris, from Travis for appellant; county of Galveston vs. Galveston Wharf Company, from Gal veston, for appellant. This appeal was takoa to rocover $3,688 taxes paid un der protest,in 1877. i The cheapest Shoes lu ohe city, aro to be had at Castles' White, the old Moser stand. . I "Thorn ei Hex." A villago in Now England camo Into possession of a neat and much needed town hall, tho gift of publio spirited citi zens. When completed, a meeting was held to dcdlcato tho new building. Speeches wcro mado by prominent citi zens, and special rcfcrcnco was naturally mado to tho chief benefactor, and to thoso who had been most octivo in for warding tho enterprise. Ono speaker mentioned tho names of fivo or six of thcso citizens, and sug- ested that a vota of thanks lie tendered icm. This was dono. A moment later a little wizen faced old man arose in tho back part of tho hall, and, in a sharp, penetrating voice, called: "Mr. Chocrmanl Mr. Checrmanl" Tho speaker being recognized, ho pro ceeded: "I jlst wanted to say that there's them cz hnint been mentionod, ez hcz done es muchcz them cz hex." Youth's Com panion. , Tba drowth of Berlin. Ono of tho morning journals recently published statistics showing tho growth of Berlin during the last seventeen years. Removed as it u far from tho sea coast, and situated upon a river which is only such in name, tho rapid development of tho Prussian metropolis ts ono of the marvels of tho ago. From 1870 to 1887 Berlin almost doubled Its population, adding 030,100 to its numbors, averaging 87,693 each year. Duringtho samo period tho number of lots built upon grow to 0,187, or an annual Increase of 864. In tho year 1870 thcro woro fifty-six persons to every lot upon which a houso stood. In 1878 this had increased to sixty, in Hi' ft'. i f-i 1 i & of tno population lias constantly in creased. Tho nvcrago rent of a dwelling in 1870 was 470 marks, which in 1887 had risen to 040 marks, or about $160. Berlin lias over 1,500,000 inhabitants at tho present timo. Berlin Letter. Money No Object. You can trust tho average Haytian negro with large sums of monoy, and ho will not steal A French merchant Informed mo that ho had on more than a hundred occasions sent thousands of dollars in gold coin and in paper cur rency over tho wild mountain road from Jacmcl to Port ad Prince by a single messenger, without losing a cent. On tho other hand, a fondness for potty nil fcrincr la universal. Tho same KenUo- man stated that after1 tho black mcescn- ger uenvereu mu muuuy uu uw u film 4sh trnnnlr lntl ihn rmm Allfl fit&l tha uuu w .v ... - -- 1-"" . canvas wrapping or tne parcel. now ,; York Ilcrali inplng Parties desiring board will consult their haterest by calliag at tho Silver mvva, 1 4 fil A'i- f i Us ; -. k L AOS'i ff ,-vV.UA,'- i pkV " j. Lt i :n ! -. r tr ftr t-r-.-F. &T .l..fct' "IfrY'V?' iX i' rt',i '.f&AV r,T :',. P '?. rv ,,-.