Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-08-11
NEWS m BRIEF.

The Chelsea jute mills at Brooklyn
have closed.
Good rains have fallen in north and
northwest Texas.
Forged railroad tickets are scattered
over the northeast.
The city marshal of Waxahachie,
Tex, has resigned.
The Pecos Valley railroad is receiv-
ing new locomotives.
The National Cornice and Iron COM
pany of st. Louis assigned.
Secretary Herbert fsvors the build
ing of many more warships,
A coal black negro turned white after
death in the Indian Territory.
One prisoner killed another in the
Will county Jail at Joliet, Ills.
The safe of A. B. Conley at Decatur,
Tex, was opened by robbers.
Edwards candy factory at Fort
Worth was destroyed by fire.
The life of the president Of Guate-
mala is threatened by enemies.
Mrs. Dora Webber was jailed at
Guthrie, O. T., for horse stealing.
County and district attorneys in
Texas have formed an association.
"Rev." Isaac NJ. Blanton, a bigamist,
was committed to Jail at Memphis,
Five hundred homeseekers left Mem
phis Wednesday for Texas to locate.
The Empire Cordage company of
Champaign, Ills, has closed its works
Schnaubelt, the bomb thrower, is
reported to be living in Springfield, o.
Mr. Balfour, in speech in England,
advocated double standard Of money.
The Earl of Aberdeen, Canada's new
governor general, was dined in London.
The Colorado miners tramping east
are being very coldly received in Kan
sas.
The steamer John w. Fowler burned
at her moorings near New Albany,
Ind
Roscoe Sagely was shot by guard
while trying to escape near Muskogee,
1T.
The cotton mills at Woonsocket, r.
l., have all closed for an indefinite pc
riod.
Three thousand people attended the
Confederate reunion at Clarksville,
Tex.
John Neihmeyer met with q serious
accident in his field near jefferson
City.
The old stock yards barns at Kansas
City were burned and 35 horses per-
ished.
Quiet prevailed at shaft No. at Bed
ford, Mo-, but crisis is expected at
once.
Trouble is again brewing in the
Choctaw nation and war may be the
result.
John d. Bond is under arrest at st
Louis for selling counterfeit railroad
tickets.
AT meeting of miners at Leaven-
worth it was resolved to sustain the
strike.
The Tennessee penitentiary commits
sion has decided to operate state coal
mines.
Colonel Hughes of the Kansas state
militia is being tried by court martial
at Topeka.
Kansas farmers will meet in Great
Bend Aug. to consider the subject Of
irrigation.
Milt Wall, negro mail carrier, was
arrested at Seattle, Wash, for robbing
pouches.
Lizzie Perkins, a negro girl, fell into
creek near Paris, Tex, and was
drowned,
Miners at the Buffalo mines in Up
per Michigan are threatening to cause
trouble
Speaker Crisp is still reticent as to
the makeup Of the new committees of
the house.
The senate and house chambers are
both In readiness for the assembling Of
congress.
William Kennedy was run over by
a handcar near Adair, l. t., and seri-
ously hurt.
Governor Stone has pardoned John
Hatfield of Douglas county out Of the
penitentiary.
At a church row near Jefferson, Tex,
Bunk Taylor, colored, shot four men
and escaped.
Geo. Kistner has confessed that he
fired the shot that killed Bradshaw near
Quincy Ills.
Professor John Campbell is being
tried for heresy before the Montreal
presbytery.
Jake Loser, implicated in the murder
of Ben Levison, was admitted to bail
at Little Rock.
The Ford's theater relief committee
furnishes some interesting information
as to It's work.
Three members of kuklux organiza-,
ton in Tennessee were shot by brothers
Of their victim.
An elaborate programme for the g..
A. r. encampment at Indianapolis has
been arranged.
Colonel Mansur, second comptroller
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