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San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

may prove fatal accident. by steam
escaping in some way into the fire
box. which he opened and was imme-
diately covered with steam, fire and
boiling water. He was blown from
the cab and fell upon the rock ballast,
bruising him considerably. He was
scalded from head to foot and in fall
ing the flesh was torn from his hands
and arms, presenting a horrible sight.
He was picked up by a south-bound
train and brought here to physicians,
who dressed his wounds. One OF
them accompanied him to Denison.
His name has not been learned. The
flyer was about two hours late and
was running at a high rate of speed
when the accident happened. The
cause of the explosion is not known
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

THE calling together of a parlia-
ment OF religions in Chicago is an
event in the worlds history that the
most liberal and sanguine believer OF
a hundred years ago could never
have dreamed 1t has a flavor 4
the glories Of the promised miIlen-
ium- 1t Is a fitting feature of the
winding up Of the enlightened nine
tenth century. 1t is another case
OF the lion and the lamb living down
together. and the LAMB Is not inside
the lion, either. A hundred years
ago such az assembly would have
been impossible in any other way
than under the egis or flag of truce,
and then every delegate would have
been armed 10 the teeth. The worlds
progress Was never more forcibly
presented.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

once for a visit to St Louis while in
its holiday attire The railroad com
pauies have made such concessions
in rates. and have enlarged the low
rate area so materially that the ex-
pense attached to attending the car
nival has been reduced TO something
quite insignificant. Specially low
rates can be obtained for the conclud-
ing illumination displays on Oct. Il
and 10. Oct. y is Spanish and Italian
day and the event will be celebrated
by parades OF brilliantly uniformed
cavalry The 18th is Pythian night,
when thousands Of Knights OF Pythias
will be in line.
The Examinations are so gorgeous
that - one can afford to miss seeing
them An illustration is given Of the
revolving electric star made up Of
nearly 1000 electric lights in constant
motion and with rapid changes in
color. The other electric set pieces
and panorama, twelve in number, iu-
clude a lovely floral arch in natural
colOrs, brilliant pyrotechnic effects.
an executive arch with portraits Of 81
the Presidents of the Union and of the
governors OF Missouri. and some ex- =
ceedingly appropriate Columbian pan
Drama. There are in addition oveI =
10000 gas lights with colored globes
lining the sidewalks of the PrinoiPs IS
streets. In all there are over 10, 90 =
lights used in the Nominations, whio
rival the greatest triumphs OF Psril
and cast into inslgniicancs the fabls =
grandeur of the orient.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Among the rare eggs OF birds ST
living that of the blue red-wing
grosbeak is probably the most valu
Bile. a well-marked set being wor
anywhere between $500 and $500
At a recent auction sale of zoologi,
rarities in London a fine set of gold
eagles eggs, two in number, we
knocked down at SO, aud SIS we
exchanged evenly for one egg Of
swailow-tailed kite. The egg OF {
Pallas sand grouse is usually qout
by dealers in natural history sper
mems at about ST, but there are d
ceptions TO this a. 10 all other rul4
Il is an Asiatic species and was neyI
known TO nest farther west ;han lad
until the year 1880, wh1p a set s.
taken in England. The idenji,y
both bird and eggs was certain a
the egg collectors went Wild foris
with. They first offered ten tin
the market value OF suci eggs. y
the competition was Sc lively
they there were two o themfs a
finally sold for 5000. 100 times u.s.
list price"
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20
BEAUTIFUL MRS. eEgCHER.
A south Carolina Belle Whom the Mi
kado Caused to Be Behssdsd.

Many newspaper readers will doubt
less remember the shock they felt in
the fall Of 1854, when they read that
the fair and frail Countess Pourtales
had been beheaded by a special edict
of the Mikado of Japan. It may now
be interesting to recall briefly the
main facts in her strange and event
full life. Miss Mary Boozer, the re-
puted daughter OF Peter Burton, her
mothers second husband, was born
near Columbia, 5. c.. some time in
the forties. Her mothers first hus-
band was welded on his deathbed in
Philadelphia; the second died in
very singular manner in Columbia,
the third committed suicide in
Newberry, South Carolina, and
the fourth was abandoned by the
muchly married but beautiful woman,
whose remains now repose in a pau
per's grave in New York. Such were
the antecedents OF the lovely Countess
Pouatales. When Cen. sherman left
Columbias smoking ruins il 1865
among those who followed his army
were Mrs. Feaster and her daughter
Mary, or Marie, as she called herself.
Boozer. The young woman is repre-
scented as having been accomplished,
graceful. vivacious and with a color
more transcendantly beautiful than
the rose, and before she had been
long in New York she fascinated and
became the wife of the wealthy
John Beecher. She lived in
magnificent style, her toilet at
the park and at the jerome club
house, exciting the envy OF every one
who saw it. But she soon began a
Irritation with a prominent member
of the jeuncsse dore of New York,
Mr. Lloyd Phoenix. but, in a fit of
jealousy, shot at him as he passed up
his sisters steps on Fifth avenue.
After her husband separated from her
she fed TO Europe in pursuit of Mr..
Phoenix. In Paris Mrs. Beecher
sported on her divorced husbands
money. generously given TO her, and
led a life OF luxurious pleasure. She
had the handsomest turnout on the
Bots, and gave most sumptuous din
ners. Count Pourtales then fell in
love with aud married her, and though
Paris was crazed with her beauty
perhaps for that very reason-he .
sailed with her for Japan as an at
tache Of the French legation. In
Japan she carried on so lively hirta-
ton with the French officer that
Count POurtales claimed that their
marriage had been Illegal, and, leay-
ing her, returned 70 Paris, whittier
she followed him. After another
round OF the widest extravaganza in
Paris she fascinated --, whom she
married aad who accompanied her
back on her last voyage to Japan It
was not long after their arrival that
her third husband abandoned her on
account OF her too great intimacy
with the prime minister OF Japan
she became the mistress
OF the prime minister, who made
every effort to keep her in strict Sc
clusion, but without avail, for she
soon took up with a japanese official
This so exasperated the prince that
at his request the Mikado issued a
special edict and she was beheaded-
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

McALEsTER, I. T., Oct. l2.-Deputy
United States Marshal Rufus Cannon
has returned from the Creek nation,
and he reports a lively fight that took
place last Wednesday with a gang of
outlaws near Fifty-two Spring, on the
line between the Creek and Seminole
nations. Cannon and another deputy
named Stantieid we're after a gang of
whisky peddlers who were plying their
vocation near the residence of Lon
Thompson, another deputy mar
shall. Thompson told the deputies
that he had met the gang of despe-
radoes the day before near his place.
The deputies then started back to
ThOmpson's house. The desperadoes
saw them before they got near the
house and came out to meet them.
\ hot fight was waged for more than
an hour, during which Cannon says
there were OVER 200 shot fired Joe
Pierce was killed and all the outlaws
horses were killed. All of the out
laws were wounded, but they es-
capped. The deputies escaped unin-
lured, though several bullet holes in
their clothing and a hole in Stanfeld's
hat shows that the gang were shoot
ing at them.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

The most interesting of all moons
are the two that attend Mars, each
about sixty miles in diameter. That
planet is just one-half the size Of the
earth; its surface is divided into con-
tinents and seas. having as much land
as water: it has an atmosphere, clouds
frequently concealing its face, and its
seasons are about the same as here,
though the winters are colder. Be
cause one of the moons travels around
it three times as fast as Mars itself
turns, it appears to rise in the west
and set in the east. while the other,
really circling in the same direction
at a speed comparatively slow, rises
In the east and sets in the west. Thus
both moons are seen in the heavens
at the same time, going opposite ways.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

ST. LOUIS. No, Oct. s.-The Co
lumbar festivities in this city oon-
tinue TO attract visitors from all di-
rections. The territory which looks
upon St. Louis as its natural CONNER
cial metropolis is represented by tens
OF thousands of citizens, while from
more distant points the attendance
has been and continues very large.
The foreign commissioners, who came
down from Chicago to witness the
Yelled Prophets parade and the other
ATTRACTIONS, were a unit in pronounc-
ing the street Examinations the most
magnificent ever witnessed, and they
were also delighted with the expost-
ton. the fair, and the city generally
During their stay they were able &
see the largest brewery in America,
largest drug house in the world, the
largest shoe factory in America, and
several other manufacturing and re-
tail establishments Of mammoth pro
portions.
The tenth annual exposition will
terminate one Of its most successful
on Oct. p. and as this practi-
cally includes the carnival. it is i'm
portant that arrangements be made at
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. ia
special from Bentonville, Ark, says:
Robert Cash, who lives four miles
north of this place, met deal in u
most horrible manner. He was work
ing at sawmill in the neighborhood
when he accidentally fell on the saw
aud his body was almost sawed in
two. In addition to this his arms
were fearfully mangled, most of the
flesh being torn from one and the
bone cut in the other. He came from
Fannin county, Texas, to Bentonville
six months ago.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 12.-Ex-
s9"e'' Reed st pped at
Indianapolis Tuesday night to take
rest on his way from Chicago to Gin
einnati, but got little of that
much needed article, owing the Re-
publican landslide. He spoke at Gin
cinnati Wednesday night. In an in
terview Wednesday morning he ex-
pressed the opinion that the Sherman
repeal bill viii not pass the senate
and that Senator Voorhees,. by his at
titude toward the compromise sena-
tors, was pushing against a rope of
sand.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

SAVANNAH, Ga, Oct. 13.-Marsh
Walker, the negro ravisher of Helen
Young, deaf and dumb girl last Sat
urday, was shot and instantly killed
by squad of mounted police sixteen
miles from Savannah yesterday morn
ing. The squad found Walker in a
house. He attempted to escape, and,
Selling a musket, fred on his pur-
suers. A volley was then fired into
the house and he was taken out dead.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

AMERICAN flremen recently went
TO Londen and opened the eyes of
that somewhat sleepy city to the
possibilities attainable by the fight
ers Of the Ire fend. Now some dis
tinguishea foreign commissioners
have been shown how American ap-
plianoes faeilitats the gathering OF
great harvest. square mile of
wheat being sSt and bound while
they were Watching the operation
AmeIic has unriValed resources and
the most approved methods OF realiz-
ing upon them There is no chance
for hard times to continue long in a
country 30 blessed. If its Legislators
do their duty.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct. 9.-This
city has raised a relief fund of So
600, and steamers, luggers. skiffs and
trains have been sent in every direc-
tion TO extend relief The only
new developments is the Intelligence
from Bayou Sandress. leading from
the Grand Isle district. that there are
a hundred deaths along that section.
making about 1900 deaths between
Chieuiere and Bayou Cook. 1t is safe
now to number the deaths at 2O00 and
over.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

YoUNGsTowN, o., Oct. IO.-James
Campbell, a retired saloon keeper,
shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded Patrick Tinney, a guest Of
the family, last night. Campbell had
been drinking. The murderer was
arrested and Tlnney was taken to the
hospital. There is no known cause
for the crime.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

CHICAGO, H., Oct. "a sensa-
tional suicide occurred yesterday on
the railroad track at the foot of Mon
roe street. From papers found on the
suicides body he is believed to be
Henry Kerschaw, editor and manager
of the New Orleans Commercial.
Early yesterday morning the man, as
a freight train drew near, placed his
neck across a rail The train severed
the head from the body. Letters
found in the mans pocket led to his
Identification.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

London has a donkey show every
year. 1t Is conducted by very impOr-
tant personages for the benefit of the
coStermongers. Prizes are given for
all sorts of excellence, but the highest
prizes are awarded 10 the donkey
showing the best care, the object of it
all being to make the coster kind to
his donkey. The affair is always a
great success, the donkeys and don
key carts looking smart with their
roses and ribbons, and some OF the
donkeys showing coats like velvet.
There were siXty-seven entries at the
show held recently.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

CHICAGO, H., Oct. 13.-Frenzied
with fright and driven into a stampede
by raging fire that broke out last
night in the Wallace street barnes of
the Chicago City Railway company,
nearly 600 hoses were burned to
death. The 49, were entirely des.
troyed and the total loss by the com.
pany will reach $4,000 The fire
was discovered in the northeast cor
ner of the upper floor and gained so
rapidly that before anything could be
done to save the horses the entire
building was in flames and soon des-
troyed. Fifteen only survived of 57G
horses in the building. Thirty cars
and 200 tons of hay and 800 bushels
of mixed grain also burned. The
origin of the fire is mystery.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

According 10 expert calculate
the Coliseum OF Rome seated S1.t
spectators. whild 60,oO more COZ
have found standing -oom- The (
ternal circumferencebf the Colisel
as it stands to-da' Is LIS feet.
long diameter 5Ij feet.
short diameter $40 feet ,
arena IS 279 BY 40 feet, ard t
height Of the building 90 feet Iav
is still standing bur stories OF t
original structure. It was, IN
probability, the largest building
auditorium arrsngemGt ever know
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20
KILLED Two at One Shot.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, Oct. ia
fight occurred at campmeeting near
Sacred Heart on Monday that resulted
in the death of two men. A young
man was disturbing the meeting when
his brother, who is a deputy marshal,
attempted to quiet him. The distur-
Der undertook to shoot, but his
brother got the first shot, which
passed through the disturber's body
and striking another Ian, killing
both instantly. The parties are prom
inent Seminole half-breeds.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

TIE decree issued by the French
government announcing that an in
ternationAl exposition will be held in
Paris in 1900 removes any doubts
which may have existed regarding
the willingness Of the French to
enter into competition with the
tremendous show now open in Chi
cago They are going to try to beat
the magnificent achievements OF this
year, and there is no reason to doubt
that a glorious exposition will be the
result
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

rounding field and has q narrow ditch
or indentation running across the top
The mark. so tradition says, was
made in this way: A sheep thief in
the dead OF night, while leaning
against the bowlder TO rest, placed
his booty above on the Fat surface Of
the stone. The man had the sheep
tied with a rope, and in its efforts to
escape the creature slipped on the op-
posite side, and the rope. catching
under the thief 5 chin. choked him to
death. The indentation IN the rock
was made by the friction OF the rope
while the dying man was engaged in
an effort TO extricate himself
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Deering binders-a make that is used
exclusively by the Dalrymple< From
Alton they iourneyed to Fargo, where
they were royalty received and shown
the marvellous result OF the western
pluck, which in a season OF hard times
had built solid city of brick and NOR
tar on the bed of ashes that had lain
smoking there only ninety days be-
fore From Fargo the guests re-
turned to Chicago brimful of enthusi-
asm over the wonders they had seen.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

The celebrated abyss of Jean Nou-
vean CvancIuseJ is one of the most in
tsresting in France and perhaps in
the world. 1t is simply q vertical
pipe. s to y feet in diameter, run
ming down in the earth for about 500
feet, where it ends in kind OF cham
Der, from which another abyss OBJ
structed By the debriss descends for
an unknown distance into the bowels
of the earth. 1t is supposed to be the
vent of an ancient geyser.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Warren county, North Carolina,
has the smartest hog. During forest
fires lately this hog saw the flames
approaching her bed of straw. in
which was her young brood. She
rooted out a hole near the bed, de-
posted her pigs in it and then lay
down over them. The fire passed over
singing the hair of the old porker,
but the little squealers were safe
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

waves in advance of the bullets, even
the latter are moving faster than the
velocity Of sound. In one case where
the bullet was moving considerably
faster than sound travels in the air 1t
was preceded by an atmospheric dis
turbance which, at the moment the
photograph was taken, was half an
inch in advance of the point OF the
bullet. Even when the bullets were
travelling four times as fast as sound
the atmospheric disturbance kept
ahead OF them.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20
A PUELlC DEMONSTRATION.
A Plain Proof That Consumption is Cura-
BILE Given The Prnfa..lon.

A Plain Proof That Consumption is Cura-
BILE Given the Profession.
CLEVELAND, Oct 9, 1S93.-The
physicians appointed by the press OF
this city to report on the public dem
onstration of the Amick treatment
which has been in progress here for
the past two months state that of the
ten consumptives one died, three are
apparently cured, being now free
from all symptoms of the disease,
four show marked improvement and
two a slight gain. The greatest in
crease in weight was three pounds in
four days. The demonstration has
not yet ended, although DR.. G. b.
Sturgeon admitted tonight that the
treatment had already accomplished
more than the Cincinnati discoverer
claimed it would Thirty or more
local physicians are testing the treat
ment with outfits of medicine such as
DR.. Amick IS distributing to doctors
everywhere, but this is more to show
their patients what the treatment will
do for each of them. The majority OF
the profession interviewed evidently
believe in Amick. but many of them
accuse him of violating the code.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Oct IO.-W.
A. Carpenter, his brother and five
other men left White Fish bay, Mich
igan, in a fish boat Friday night with
a load of freight for Au Train. The
boat has been found bottom side up
and freight marked Carpenter has
been recovered. The body of w. A.
Carpenter was found off Deer Park
yesterday.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

The capitol at Washington, whose
cornerstone was laid a century ago
has cost the nation $1S.000,000 As
capitol buildings go. the people have
got their moneys worth in this one.
1t has grown from small beginnings.
but it stands to-day model of classic
grandeur and simplicity. challenging
the sdmiratiGl Of the world.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

You've MIS- CYECs w. FIELD says
the reason she has gone into the
millinAry business rather than into
some other line Of trade is because
the profits In making bonnets are i'm
mense. A good many husbands have
long suspected as much. Now they
know it
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Miss ANTHoNY-there is but one
says that sho was impelled to remain
single because OF the custom OF call
ing the wideU a ''relict" OF her de-
ceased husband, and she would
rather remain forever unmarried
than have hsr existence recorded for
futurs generations rs the '.relictn OF
any man. Well. Susan need not do
that She might marry a good,
tough. Smoke-seasoned man and die
first. TheA he would be the relict
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. IA
representative OF the Mexican land
company was seen at the Palace hotel
Monday evening. He had heard the
report that lower California had been
purchased by a syndicate and would
be annexed to the United States. He
stated that the reported purchase had
no foundation whatever.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

TEE uncertainty OF the next great
war Expresses military Europe like
nightmare. No such change in the
conditions Of war has ever before
come in peace. The effective rife
fire in 1870 was limited to 500 to
500 yards; it Ia now 1,200 to 1900.
Artillery opened then at two mile
range; it does the same work now at
four. Tho best rifle could kill then
at a milo; now the service weapon
will bore bwS men two miles off.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Some people will DO anything for
money. Recently two physicians ad-
yertised in New York for a man who
would submit to a surgical operation
which might possibly be fatal, in con-
sideration OF $4,000. They received
l42 replies, the greater number Of
which were bona fde.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

THERB-euAErIEs OF a pound OF sac
charine will sweeten 1000 pounds Of
glucose The aea at the boarding
house whs puts Ave teaspoonfuls OF
sugar in his cup of coffee should ask
his landlady to furnish saccharine in
stead.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

LITTLE Rock, Ark. Oct. TO-. A.
Jones, a brick contractor of Jackson,
La, was shot and fatally injured at
Magnolia, Ark, yestesday while
trying to separate a workman and a
man named John Mullins, who were
engaged in a fight. A brother Of
Mullins did the shooting.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

Statistics show that the entire
agriculture of the world furnishes
employment to 2SO, 1000, 900 men and
represents an invested capital of 1924
900. 900, 600. The annual product IS
worth over $4,000, 0OO.OOO 1t is
estimated that the civilized nations
pay annually for food SIS, 200, 600. OOO-
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-20

LONDON, Oct. 10.-A dispatch from
Vienna says arrests continue 10 be
made at Prague in connection with
the recent young czech riots. OF the
800 czechs present at the banquet on
the night before the state of the minor
siege was proclaimed hardly one will
escape arrest or trial for lese majestic.