The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
NEwsY NOTES PICKED UP IN THE
STATE DEPARTMENTS
YESTERDAY.
Items Of Interest for the People and oihsial
Figures and 0pinisAs fer
County OniciAls.
From Tuesdays Dsily.l
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

| OF Sunday rest ana It's privileges 10 railway
men, and the lack OF suitable and reason
| able safety appliances on engines and
| freight cars, causing by this lack in this
nation an untold amount OF death and
suffering to train men, especially to brakes
men and yard men,"
| "'The Sabbath was made for man, so
| said He who spake as never man spake.
| The Sabbath would not be needed only as
mans good required it. Hence if no man
there would be no Sabbath. Let us first
| then endeavor to stay this great loss OF life
and limb to railroad men and then secure
to these saved men the Sabbath.
| "Note these startling facts. In the Kali
| road Gazette published in New York, issue
| of April 26 last, is found this statement,
| "A calculation based upon accident returns
| in the reports of state commissioners lndl-
Gates that every year some 200 able bodied
men are killed and over 10000 injured in
| the discharge of their duties as employees OF
| the railroads of this country
This statement stands unrefuted. This
of course, includes deaths and injuries from
| all kinds of railroad accidents. My special
| purpose at this time is to call attention TO
only two causes, or kinds of accidents, re-
| sulting in death and injury to train men,
| those that come from coupling and uncoup-
| ling cars, and from the continued use of the
old hand brake on freight cars. What part
| 10000 injured yearly comes from these two
causes alone in the nation at large, | am
| not able at this writing to say, but can
| furnish reliable statistics as to this matter
| as far as the state of Iowa is concerned"
| He wanted railroads to be compelled to
use automatic couplers and power brakes
| on all freight trains.
He makes powerful appeal in favor of
| Sunday rest for railroad men, and winds
| up by saying:
"These great corporations must be
| brought to observe this one day in seven as
| private persons do or the Sabbath will
be lost to us q people.
I'm the exigencies of railroad transporta-
| ton and commerce of . great nation like
ours there will bs-there inevitably must
| be-more or less of Sunday work impera-
tive. Our plea is for the rule, Sunday rest
| for train men, Think Of it, Christian
| men and Christian women of America |
Have we not ignored and shut out from our
Christian sympathy, and from the bonds of
universal brotherhood, to very great ex-
| tent unthinkingly it may be, but none the
less cruelty and inexcusably, this great
army Of the most faithful and uncomplain-
ing class of wage workers, who have served
the public at such d terrible cost of death
and sufferingP
I'm the name Of the Christian humanity
of this nineteenth century l bring the
claims of these men before the public and
| ask for them what we would ask for our
selves were our case theirs"
STATE DEPARTMENT..
The following charters were filed in the
| Office of the secretary of state yesterday:
| The Klngsland and Douglass Manufac-
| turing company, of Missouri; capital stock.
100000.
The Hall and Brown Wood Working Ma
chine company, of Missouri; capital stock,
100000
The Brown Tobacco company, of st.
| Louis; capital stock, 100000
| The f. c. Meacham Arms company, of
Missouri capital stock, 5000, 900.
| The P. j. Peters Saddlery and Harness
company, of Missouri capital stock, $4,000
The Clark Shoe company, of Missouri,
capital stock, 100000.
The Helmbocher Forge and Rolling
Mills company, of Missouri; capital stock,
100000
The Bornet-Nance Stove company, of
Illinois; capital stock, $4,000.
The Midway company, of Dallas; capital
stock, $275,000 Object, the purchase of
| real property and the accumulation and
| loan of money. Incorporators L. Il.
Marsals, T. G.. Greer and Bryan 7. Barry.
The Laredo Cotton Gin and Milling COM
pany; capital stock, $4,000. Incorporat-
ors: @. Villegos, J. c. Flynn, Allen Mac
Donald ard Dario Sanchez.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT
The comptroller yesterday deposited SILL
600 to the credit of general revenue.
The sale of land for taxes in unorganized
counties will begin tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The following charters were
filed in the office of the secretary of
state yesterday;
Baptist church of Baird, Tex; in
corporators: s. M. Moon, E. d. Foy,
John Rice.
St. Louis Printers Supply company;
capital, $4,000.
Getty Provision company, Of st.
Louis; capital, $4,000.
Missouri Iron Roofing and Corrugat-
ing company; capital, $4,000.
Newcomb Bros. Wall Paper COM
pany, of St. Louis; capital, $4,000.
Centennial Wire company, OF st.
Louis; capital, $4,000.
Prickly Ash Bitters company, Of st.
Louis; capital, $4,000.
Kupperl Bros. Manufacturing COM
pany, of st. Louis; capital, $4,000.
Geisecke Boot company, Of st.
Louis capital, $4,000.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco company,
of St. Louis capital, 100000.
Louisville Coffin company, OF Ken
lucky; capital, 100000.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
The sale of lands in unorganized
counties for taxes began in the comp
troller's Office at 10 o'clock.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Following~as issued yesterday:
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
Whereas, it has been made known
to me that necessity no longer exists
for the restriction Of general quaran-
tine;
Now, therefore, /, L. s. Ross, gov
ernor of Texas, do by the authority in
me vested by the constitution and
laws of this state, hereby declare the
quarantine raised, except at such ports
and localities as may in the opinion
la. "a.