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WACO DAILY NEWS, JANUARY 16 1892.
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R. CHRISTOPHER.
dltor and Oonoral Managor.
Largest Ciroulaiion of any Paper iu
Central Texas.
dabnorlpUon. SOconts por month, or 5.00 per
year In ailvanco-WiMLY News $1.00. per yoar.
Eutorod at tlio Waco poatoffloo as boo
ond class mall matter.
THE NEWS IS THE OFFICIAL OR
GAN OF THE CITY OF WACO.
CASH IN ADVANCE.
To InBnre publication In the News all advor
licmcnte received at this olllco mast bo ao
otuupanleri by the cash, except Id cases
where c ntrarts oxlat.
"I ii in lor free commerce with all
liiittiis,-TlioiiiUh Jefferson.
CARELESSNESS AND TAXATION,
Tht farmers of Texas loso enough
every jeer from tho destruction of
property on account of exposure to
the elements than it would tako to
provide adequato shelter for all their
farm muohincry for years to oorno
The News has muoh to say of politics
those diys but fools cesstiajncd no
and then to pay something abont tho
practical, every day things of this
life. We aro just beginning a new
year and another crop and our farmer
irieeds are corning to the city every
day layiog in their supplies for tho
year and providing tools wit!
which to niako tho now crop.
It would astonish any living man to
bo shown tho figures which would
reprcbent tho valuo of wagons,
plows, hoes, harness, and so forth,
that are allowed to ruin every yoar,
in this country for want of oaro and
protection from tho weather. The
average farinor will oorno to town
in January, buy a now wagon, upon
the materials of whioh a tax is levied
by lliti MiKinloy bill, of from 10 to
60 per cent; also a plow, taxed 50 per
cent; set of plow gears, taxod from
10 to 45 por cent; and ho is ready
to go to plowing. Ho loads every
thing else in tho wagon and goas
home, throws tho plow down in the
yard, hangs tho gear on thofonoo and
feeds his horses in his wagon. None
of these valuablo artioles are shelter
ed from tho sun and rain whon not
in uso and as a conscquonoo most of
them last only ono year or maybe
two and tho next January the farmer
duplicates his bill. He pays for the
benetit of the Amerioan manufaoturor
a tax of about 15, on tho wagon $3,
or M on tho plow and $1, on his gear
making Bay $20, taxos on his farming
utensils. If ho buys a good suit of
woolen clothes ho pays 100 per oont.
tax or say $1U. If ho buys his wifo a
nice dress ho pays not less than 60
per cent, tax or about $6, Hero are
purchases amounting to only about
$70 and $36 of that is taxes. About
J 6 of this goes into tho United States
treasury and tho $30 goes into tho
pockets of tho Amerioan manufac
tures. It is not at all strango to
The News that tho farmors cf this
country aro Buffeting from financial
ntringenoy, and it is loss strango that
they mix a little politios with their
farmiog just like wo do in our edi
torials. Tho Dcniooratio Exeoutive commit
tees of both tho states of Indiana and
Iowa havo served notice on tho party
at largo that Gray and Boies aro in
the race for the nomination for pres
ident. Thu Tammany Tiger ooged
in New York is not supposed to knov
anything about any candidate savo
Hill.
The theory that tho snow and so
vero froezo will hauo a vory salutary
effect upon people sufforing with la
grippo is very plausible. That la
grippe is opidomio and caused by
r somo speciGo germ is believed by
many nnd if this is truo the late
freeze will destroy tho germ.
ARANSAS PASS STRIKE.
Outlook Favorable to the Rail
way Authorities,
THOUGH STRIKERS ARE CONFIDENT.
No rrclglit For Connecting Mnr Tlio Or
dor of Itnllwny Conductors ami Knglni-cru
llolil Sleeting In Houston, lint the lit
milt It Not Known.
San Antonio, .Tim. 10. At their moot'
ing Friday evening tho strikers pushed n
resolution thanking tho employes of the
Southern Pncific and International nnd
Great Northern for refusing to handle
or transfer freights of tho S;in Antonio
nnd Aransas Pass. Thoy also thanked
their frionds at Ilenrnu for tho manner
in which thoy entertained tho scabs.
Grand Chief Ramsey, who has been tc
Chicngo in conference with Mr. D. II.
Robinson of tho Aransas Pass, telegraphs
to tho Order of Railway Telegraphon
hero that ho has been trying to innko n
mutually witisfactory settlement, but
so far has fniled. Ramsoy, who has gone
to Tennessee to straighten out some
troublo there, may come hero.
Ono of Lee Hall's men cnino in Friday
night with J. A. Wells, operator at
West Point, charged with interfering
with tho Sap trainmen.
Tho receivors received a telegram Fri
day announcing that n bridge n mile
and a half from Yoakum had been fired
but tho firo was extinguished before
more than trifling damngo was done.
They offer a reward of $350 for the cap
ture and conviction of the incendiaries.
Seven of tho throttles of tho disabled
locomotives have been found at Yoak
um, contemporaneous with tho ocea
sion when tho company was ready tc
run them through.
Extra local freight trains wero run
Friday. Tho company has not sent out
any freight for connecting lines or asked
them to handle any. Tho strikers claim
to havo authentic information that the
managers havo cut down, without no
tice, tho wages of tho bridge mechanics
CO cents por day.
Hopes for it Settlement-.
Yoakum, Tex., Jnn. 10. All passen
ger trains wero about on timo and twe
fi eight trains wero sent out from here
Friday. Now men continue to arrive
and barring tho surveillance of the evei
constant guards tho railroad service is
blowly but steadily recovering its nor
mal condition. Tho strikers who were
bordering on despondency Friday wero
elated Friday by encouraging reports
sent them from San Antonio. One mem
ber of tho committee sent to other
points returned Friday. Ho said ho had
visited Fort Worth, Temple, Cloburao.
Taylor and Palestino nnd finds them ali
solid for tho strikers, nnd that they art
going to boycott tho San Antonio and
Aransas Pass. Each of these places
made up from $100 upward for the strik
ers Ho says that whilo tho chiefs ol
tho Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, Brotherhood of Railway Con
ductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen nnd Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen hove not yet officially nn.
nounced the strike as legal, yet thoy art
in sympathy with and will uphold the
strike.
A letter from ono of tho committee
says that ovorything is bright for tht
strikers and that they expect to have it
declared legal before tho week is out,
that Chief Telegrapher Ramsey has de
clared tho striko legal and ho is trying
to settlo tho matter with D. B. Robin
son, who, it is stated, is virtually gen
oral manager of tho San Antonio and
Aransas Pass, nnd is at present in Now
York. A tolegram to tho samo effect
was sent to tho committee at San An
tonio by Acting Grand Chief A. D.
Thurston from Vinton, In. Ramsoy is
reported to bo on his way to San An
tonio, which point ho will reach Satur
day night, when the strikers think il
will bo settled. It is also roported thai
Chief Arthur will reach San Antonio
about tho same timo.
A warrant for tho arrest of an engineei
named Jamison on a charge of assaulting
"Smoky" Hall was sworn out before
Judge Montgemery by tho county attor
ney of Lavaca county late Friday
evening.
Union Meeting Itesoliitlnns.
Gainesville, Tex., Jan. 10. At b
union mooting of 200 railway employes
nt Gainesville at tho hall of tho Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, after dis
cussing tho San Antonio and Aransas
Pass striko, tho following resolutions
woro passed: "
That they wero firmer than ovorii
their support of tho brothers who wort
out on the San Antonio and Aransas Past
railway and as thoy considered the cnust
just would continue-to givo them theii
financial and moral support.
That thoy deplored tho action taken bj
tho grand officers in wiring officials ol
different roads instead of communicating
with tho officers of subordinate lodges,
nnd that they consider tho fight on b
tweon capital and labor and would makt
this an issue.
W. II. CuitMiNas, for Conductors,
C. D. Johnson, for Engineors,
S. J. Ecles, for Firemen,
C. A. HAnms, for Brakcmon,
W. H. Taylor, for Switchmen.
Considering tho Striko.
Houston, Tox., Jan. 10. Fridaj
night tho Order of Railway Conductor!
and Engineors nnd other trainmen held
u special mooting on the subject of tin
Aransas Pass striko, but thoy seem nn
willing to mako public tho result of tht
meeting. They claim, howover, thai
thero was nothing of public interest
transacted. Thero is a belief, however
on tho outside that somo nctiou wni
taken that did not abet the osition ol
tho strikors.
Unci I'll 1 1 it i .
Columdus, Miss., Jan. 10. R. W
Wood, general merchandiso at Banks
ton, Ala., on tho Georgia Pacific rail
way, a few miles from this city, hm
failed. Liabilities, !0,000; assets, small
Lew priced cotton and small collection:
1 ie c.nibo.
GENERAL SAM HOUSTON.
KfToftto Unto IIM Stnttif I'IimtiI In tlio
Kittluiiiil Cniillol.
Washington, Jan. 10. Tlio Texans in
Washington aro malting nn effort to havo
tho statu6 of General Sam Houston, at
ono timo president of tho Texas republic,
later senator of tho United States from
Texas, nnd later still governor of Texas,
placed in the statuary hall in the Capitol.
Volume 15 of tho Statutes at Largo pro
vides that "Tho president is hereby
authorized to invito each nnd every ono
of tho states to provido and furnish stat
ues in marble and bronze, not exceeding
two in number, for each of its deceased
porsons who have been citizens thereof
and illustrious for their historic renown
or for distinguished civil or military
hoi-vices, such as each state shall do
termino to bo worthy of this nationnl
commemoration; and when furnished
tho samo shall bo placed in tho old hall
of tho houso of representatives in tho
Capitol of tho United States, which is
hereby set apart, so much thereof as
may bo necessary, as n national statuary
hall for the purposes horein indicated."
Under this provision of law ninny of
the states have provided statues of their
most eminent citizens. Texas, however,
is not yet represented, neither is Missouri,
in tho statuary hall. State Senator J.
C. McGinnis has time and timo again
tried to induce tho Missouri legislature
to make provisions for placing tho stat
ues of General Frank P. Blair nnd
ThomnsH. Benton. Tho Texans here
tofore have- not seriously considered the
propriety of having their state repre
sented, but now they nro seriously talk
ing of urging tho legislature of tho state
to mako provision for placing tho statue
of Houston nnd Rusk, or Austin, or some
other eminent citizen of tho common
wealth. If the legislature should fail to
make provision for providing those stat
ues, an effort will eventually bo mndo to
make up a public subscription to have
tho btntuo of Houston at least provided
for tho national Capitol. It has long
been a regret to Texans hero that theii
state is not represented in the statuary
hall, and from present appearances a
serious effort will now bo made to have
this remedied.
A .Sc-nsiitlon in Court.
Ottumwa, Io., Jan. 10. Judgo Dowoy
of Washington county, who has been
holding court for Judge Burton, -who is
stricken with paralysis, created another
sensation in court Wednesday. He
noticed one of tho trial jurymen, W. S.
Clark, apparently dozing in tho box.
Summoning him before him ho asked n
fow questions which revealed to the
judge's mind that tho juror was in a
state of intoxication. "Sheriff, tako that
man to jail and lock him up until 0
o'clock tomorrow morning, then bring
him to me," thundered tho judge.
Ho then discharged tho jury and
ordered tho case carried over to another
term. It was tho first timo a juryman
was over known to bo drunk in this sec
tion, and tho judge's keen perception has
terrified jurymen and attorneys alike.
Tho judgo has created a string of sensa
tions during his stay. Ho holds night
session to push tho business, and n few
ovonings ngo took a case from tho jury
that involved $10,000 damages in a rail
road action which had been tried before
Judgo Babb of this district, but in which
tho jury could not ngreo. It is expected
Clark will got tho full oxtcnt of tho law
for contempt of court.
Drugged nnd Hoboed,
Omaha, Jan. 10. .T. S. Sipplo, a
wealthy Galesburg (HI.) citizen, was be
fore tho county physician charged with
insanity. Ho is a prominent stockraisei
of Galesburg, and recently went to Cali
fornia on business. Whilo returning on
Sunday between Donver nnd Omaha, he
drank with a stranger ho hnd mot on the
train nnd became unconscious shortly
ufterward. When ho camo to himself
ho was in tho county jail, hold as nn es
caped maniac. Ho was found by the
polico Sunday wandering nround the
city uppnrently delirious. Thoro waa
nothing on his porson by which to iden
tify him and ho could not tell his nnino.
Ho had $3,000 in his pockot when ho
took tho drink, also sovcrnl diamonds
and a fino watch. Physicians said ho
was suffering from the effects of a pow
erful drug. Ho wired his family at
Galesburg for funds nnd at noon
recoived by wiro $1,000. Ho io still
vory ill.
Tatul Wreck,
Minneapolis, Jan. 10. A special trail
carrying tho Andrews Opera companj
was derailed near Brninard on tin
Northern Pacific railroad early thL
morning. Tho sleoping car caught fiii
xnd two members of tho company wor
Burned to doath.
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