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The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
AMERICAS WORST FAILING.

Commenting upon the result of
the investigation of the system of
police extortion and official black
mail, in that city, the 'The New
York Sun" has this to say:
The New York police investiga-
ton has shown in its last develop
ment slavish willingness on the
part of New York merchants to
truckle to police blackmail, They
wanted peace and the use of the
sidewalk and they paid the ward
man" for it, Millions for defense
but not a cent for tribute never
seems to have occurred to them.
Actually the only man in New York
trade yet found who turned and
fought police blackmail in his own
poor unsuccessful, but still courag-
eous way was a young American
from Constantinople with a little
fish stand. If the merchants of
New York had fought, the police
would have been exposed before
this and with a general disposition
to fight wholesale blackmail would
have been impossible. Most of oul
civic abuses spring from like fail
ure to fight official wrong Our un
willingness to fight for our civil
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.

A California newspaper INDUCES
in patriotic egotism to the extent
of declaring that the "Gold State"
has for years been the possessor of
the biggest trees the largest cab
bages, the slickest gamblers, and, in
fact, the superlative of most things
now comes forward with the claim
to having the most welded woman
on record.
Mrs. Marie Lemon, who recently
departed this life in Alameda, and
whose estate is now in contest be-
cause she left it all to a trumpet
spirituahstic medium, forgetting all
about her relatives in various parts
of the country, was in many ways
a remarkable woman. She had
Travelled from one end of the United
States to the other, been around
the world several times, but it was
her matrimonial experiences that
made her unusual among her sis
tiers. She had taken no less than
thirteen chances at the lottery of
marriage, and, like most inveterate
players of a game, she had drawn
blanks the greater part of the time.
She had once been possessed of
great personal beauty, which, to-
gether with a charm of manner,
made her born to rule over the
hearts of men and turn their heads
and the world topsy-turvy The
history of her checkered career,
extending over a period of sixty
years is 4 romance with matrimony
as the foundation fact. She was
once the belle of California, shown
from the Grand Salon to the musty
cabin of merchantmen, and COM
pared with the general average Of
her sisters, her husbands were as
the sands Of the sea.
Exactly how many husbands she
had no one seems to remember, ev-
en- her nearest relative, Mrs Rach-
ael Neal, the sister who is contest
ing the will, does not know Mrs
Neal can remember thirteen very
distinctly, but she thinks that there
are more and that some of them
got away in the mazes of memory.
But for want of better and more
authentic information, the unlucky
numbering of Mrs, Neil will have
to be taken as the best evidence of
Mrs. Lemons success in drawing
from the matrimonial wheel of for
turne.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
Worn out in Harness

In the harness Of every day busl-
ness work men and women wear out
prematurely. For some of us it is
not easy, for others again, it is i'm
possible to get out of harness. 1t
is the inhexible yoke, the strongly
forged unbreakable shackle of inn
perative servitude needful to our
selves and those most dear to us.
The weight of it often bows many
of us into the grave before
our time, but it is undoubtedly true
that there is means of rendering
the burden less onerous, and of nit
igating the ailments that unremit-
ting toll especially of sendentary
kind--has a tendency to produce.
Over worked clerks in counting
houses, mill operatives, book keep
ers, type writer's and others testify
to the reviving, restorative effects
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and
its power of renewing physical and
mental energy when overtasked
and on the wane. Dyspepsia, fail
ing vigor, rheumatic, bowel and
kidney complaints yield to this
benefcient medicine, which. is a
preventive of malaria and counter
acts the effects of exposure in in
clement weather.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
STATE CONVENTION ADJOURNs.
After Nominating James F. Richie
for Commissioner of State
Lands.

News from Little Rock, today,
announces that the State Demo
cratic Convention, of Arkansas, for
1894, is how over and has passed in
to history, to be regarded in the
future as one of the great achieve
ments of Arkansas Democracy.
A strong and able ticket has been
nominated which will carry the
State against its enemies, singly or
united by a majority unprecedent-
ed.
The convention adjourned at II
o'clock yesterday morning after
nine ballots for State Land Com
missioner, Capt, James Richie, the
one armed veteran of Jefferson be-
ing nominated in the thirty-third
ballot.
This was the most hotly contested
nomination in a Democratic State
Convention since the nomination of
James P. Eagle, in 1888. Yet the
contest closed leaving not a trace
OF bitterness among Democrats,
who left the convention a unit for
the success Of the ticket in Septem-
Der.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.
1.-THE Exodus" as Applied to Spain
August Srd, 1892, by, En-
ma Lazarus,

The Spanish noon is a blaze of
living fire and dusty pilgrims crawl
like an endless serpent, along tree
less plains and bleached highroads,
through rock split ravines and
castellated, cathedral Swallowed
towns.
The hoary patriarch, wrinkled as
an almond shell, bows painfully up
on his staff, The beautiful young
mother, ivory pale, well nigh swoons
beneath her burden; in her large
enfolding arms nestles her sleeping
babe, round her knees flock her lit
tie ones with bruised and bleeding
feet, Mother, shall we soon be
there?'
The youth with Christ-like coun-
tenance speaks comfortably to IA
Their and brother, to maiden and
wife. In his breast his own heart is
broken.
The halt, the blind are in the
train. Sturdy pack horses labor
iously drag the tented wagons
wherein lie the sick athirst with fe-
yer.
The painting mules are urged for
ward with spur and goad, stuff
ed and heavy are the saddlebags
with the wreckage of the ruined
homes.
Hank to the tinkling silver bells
that adorn the tenderly carried
silken scrolls.
In the fierce noon glare lad
bears kindled lamp; behind its
network of bronze the airs of heav-
en- breathe not upon its faint purple
star.
Noble and AFFECT learned and
simble, illustrous and obscure, plod
site by side, all brothers now, all
merged in one routed army of mis-
fortune.
Woe to the straggler who falls by
the wayside no friend shall close.
his eyes.
They leave behind the grape, the
olive and the fig, the vines they
planted, the corn they sowed, the
garden cities of Andalusia and Ar
agon, Estremadura and La Mancha
of Granada and CASTLE; the altar,
the hearth and the grave of their
fathers.
The towsman spits at their gar
ments, the shepherd quits his flock
the peasant his pillow, to pelt with
curses and stones; the villager sets
on their trail the yelplng cur.
Oh, the weary march, oh the up
torn roots of home, oh the darkness
of the receding goal.
Whittier shall they turn? for
the West hath cast them out and
the East refuseth to receive.
O, bird of the air, whisper to the
despairing exiles, that today from
the many masted, gayly hammered
port of Palos, sails the world UNI
yelling Genoese, to unlock the gol-
den gates of sunset and bequeath a
continent of freedom.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevcrs
and permanently curing constipation,
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak,
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, yon will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
BARELY ESCAPE LYNCHING.

A dispatch, under date of June
18th, from Brookfield, Mo-, says;
A lynching was narrowly averted
here today Sheriff Barton was ex-
pectedin from st. Louis with George
and William Taylor, wanted in this
county for the murder of Gus
Meeks and family near Browning.
But the Sheriff had been notified by
telegraph that there was danger
should he bring his prisoner to
Brook6eld tonight and he stopped
at Macon City and placed them in
Jail there.
Where the train arrived 1000 per-
sons we at the depot and when they
discovered the prisoners were not
on, preparations to leave for that
point were Immediately made.
Talk of going to Macon City was
INDUCED in but was finally given
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
1T STRONG SUPPORT.

Furniture that is not pleasing to
the eve is fit for nothing but a barn
Elegance is one thing and strength
is another, but there is not the
least reason why the two should not
90 together in furniture, To say
that a thing is cheap does not nee
essarily make it cheap To say
that our furniture is cheap scarcely
does it Justice, 1t fills the bill in
attractiveness and cheapness.
Our Carpet stock is not surpassed
in this section of the country Com
plete line of all grades and prices
ANY and all goods sold for cash OF
easy payments
WOODFIN FURNITURE co.
1O4 e. Broad ST., TeXarkana, Ark.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30

rights is a disgraceful American
failing. Blackmail by the police.
Petty abuses on the sidewalk, small
nuisances in our streets are all en-
dured because the Americans have
not got the fighting civic temper
A man who knows of case of
blackmail or oppression and does
not drive it home to punishment
makes himself a partner in the vile
crime. He cannot dodge the re-
sponsibility. What he conceals he
protects and the punishment and
exposure of any crime of which he
has knowledge is the first duty of a
good citizen Without this prompt
and vigorous aid from good citizens
the heads of police force or the
managers of any department of the
public service cannot exclude cor
ruption, They may hunt for it,
they may punish it when they can;
but unless the community is ready
in each of its members to hunt cor
ruption down the instant it shows
up no discipline and no watchfulness
will prevent corruption. One chief
cause of the superior honesty and
integrity of the English police is
that the English public fights
blackmail whenever it appears and
chases it down. More of the same
virtue is needed here. 1t is
sadly lacking
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30

We carry decidedly the largest freshest and greatest
Orment of Family Groceries, Produce, Supplies and gen
ea EaabeS of any house srctyin our line ALL KINDS
OF FEED BEST CREAMERY BUTTER and CHEESE
ASTECIALTY. Our prices assist us in building up bus
mess which enables us still further to cut on margins
Families hotels boarding houses and railroad contrac-
tors deal with u.s. because they
GET WHAT THEY PAY FOR.
Goods delivered free in city limits.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
WE WILL RUN FOR
TEN DAYS
The Following Articles:
The Following Articles:

32-ineh Summer Challie,
I'll t-2c., worth 15c.
27-ineh White Ground
figured Lawn, at &c., cheap
at Zoe.
400 bolts Bingham, stripe,
checked and plaidS, at &c.,
cheap at 15e.
wellington Prints, all
STYLE patterns, at &c.
Parasols worth 1925 for
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
The Ladies

The pleasant effect and perfect
safety with which ladies may use
the California liquid laxative, Syr-
up of Figs, under all conditions.
makes it their favorite remedy. TO
get the true and genuine article
look for the name OF the California
Fig Syrup Co., printed near the
bottom of the package,
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30

sure she heard someone in the coal
house.
"I believe it's old Wheeler, I
said.
$50 do /, replied my wife; but
be careful, Henry, and don't get
into any trouble with the old skin
flint she added, as hastily dressed
myself.
Softly tiptoed out to the coal
house, and sure enough there was a
man there, hard at work with a
shovel, 1t was Singy Wheeler, and
he was throwing coal from his bin
into mine
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30
NO. 253.
EDUCATION
IN
ECONOMY.

Practical economy for the peopl
takes its proper rank among public
services. Onr June sale is at the
present time doing more than any
other ever did to give both wage
Garner and wealth the real savings
of the first, the wisdom of both.
The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-06-30

zoe.
ParaSolS worth $1.75 for
$1.25.
Parasols worth $500 for
$3.50.
Parasols worth 1925 for
$1.75.
Parasols worth $2.75 for
1925.
Parasols worth 1915 for
$2.75.
The herald., 1894-08-30

Kinleyism will disappear as dark and
hideous blight from our statute DookB.'
THE fight will go on, not may be in
snch general engagement and pro-
tracted struggle az we have Just passed
through, but with that steady and re-
sistless pressure that will take one after
another stronghold OF privilege, until all
shall disappear before the advance Of pub
lie opinion and public emancipation. II
the closeness OF the vote in one house of
congress gave opportunity for few to
combine against the people and against
all the rest OF their party and obstruct
its faithful efforts to redeem it's pledges,
the overwhelming mass OF the Demo-
Gratis in the country are subject to no
just criticism. They have kept the
faith. They have been true to their
principles. We may denounce those
that failed US in this fight; we are not.
therefore, subject to condemnation
by our opponents. If we have
done less in the way of reliev-
ing the people of the burdens
then we had hoped and promised, they
would have done nothing at all. If we
have anywhere favored a trust and
found it too strong for our complete dis
Judgement in the fret attempt, we have
never failed to find them sturdily and
solidly arrayed for its defense. The
weapons with which monopoly has
fought US, they have forged and tenn
pered, and supplied the entrenchments !;
the fortresses behind which privilege
has shielded itself from our attack, they
have builded for it. stone by stone and
stronghold by stronghold"
Strong resolutions endorsing Wilson 8
course were adopted.
The herald., 1894-08-30

darkness, the exhausted survivors,
many of them badly wounded, sue
ceeded in reaching Ampenan. The
Bslinez captured quantity of arms,
ammunition and provisions in these en-
gagements, andialso captured the guns
and effects OF Colonel Van Pabst's force
that have been abandoned in order to
save the wounded.
News of the loss sustained by the
Dutch forces has caused great excite
ment throughout Holland and 1t is be-
lieved when the losses OF Van Pabst and
Blyvelt columns are added to those
sustained bv the Vettsr column, the
loss in killed, wounded and missing will
be over 800.
1t is admitted, even in military circles,
that the almost simultaneous defeat of
the three columns of troops is the most
severe reverse which the Dutch army
has Sustained at the hands OF savage
troops in all its wars ever fought.
The people are olamoring for the latest
news from Lombok. and the government
is urged to promptly dispatch the
strongest regiments possible to the
island.
The governor-general Of the Dutch
East Indies has summoned a council OF
the naval and military commanders,
who are determining upon the decisive
The herald., 1894-08-30

OF Lombok, near Java, was much more
serious than at first supposed. The dis
patch says that General Vetter, the
commander of the expedition, was sur
prised at IL O'Clock at night. The firing
was continuous until morning, and the
Dutch in this engagement lost IA KILLED
and 55 wounded.
AS the water supply Of the column
failed and foraging was impossible, the
Dutch troops were compelled to retreat
toward Mataram, the capital of the
island. During the retreat the Dutch
lost heavily, being continually hHrrassed
by the natives and ct one portion OF the
route they found that barriers had been
raised. The obstructions were so stout
ly defended by the native warriors that
the troops were unable to force a pass
age and were consequently compelled to
make long detour in order to avoid
the blockaded route, and in so doing
they lost more men. The Dutch sue
ceeded in reaching Ampenan on August
9th, with total of casualties far in ex-
cess of the number first reported. The
killed number officers and 53 men;
there were II officers and l54 men
wounded and 6 officers and 14S men are
missing.
1t now appears that two other col
umns Of Dutch troops operating upon
the same island have sustained heavy
loesea and endured much suffering.
These are the columns commanded by
Colonels Van Pabst and and Blyvelt.
Later advices from Lombok say the
attacks upon the different columns of
Dutch troops were the result OF pre-
concerted plan on the part OF the leading
native chiefs in Balinez. Colonel Van
fabst's column, after seeing the prom
isee OF the chiefs executed, was return
ing to the Tjakara, when it was attacked
while fording the river, by the Balinez,
whose hostility was unexpected. The
colu nun only succeeded in regaining the
road to Tjakara after sharp fighting and
heavy loss.
After harrassing retreat, the Van
Pabst column was approaching Tjakara
without seeing any further signs of the
enemy, when suddenly from the walls
of the place, from every loophole and
every point OF vantage. a hailstorm OF
bullets was poured into the column OF
Dutch troops. Tie latter were COM
pletely taken by surprise and began to
fslter. To make matters worse, the
Balinez had no sooner opened tightupon
the head of the column, than its rear
was also exposed to terrible rifle hre.
Thus the advance and retreat OF the
column were alike cut of and made
Impossible.
The Dutch troops were completely
caught in the rat trap ambush. and had
it not been that nightfall came to their
assistance, there is little doubt that the
entire detachment would have been
As it was under cover OF
The herald., 1894-08-30
The Wine Syndicate Falls Through.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 29.-The syn
dicate of wine growers and dealers has
fallen through. For this season, at
least, growers will find their own mar
kets for their grapes and the wine
merchants will make individual con-
tracts with growers. The immediate
cause OF the failure to agree is alleged
to be the too exsoting requirements Of
the growers. The California Wine as
socation, composed of dealers, has
adopted resolution practically refusing
all that the growers demand. so that
renders further negotiations unneces.
sary. The growers state that the sea-
son ie too far advanced to secure control
OF so per cant. of the grape crop, the
quantity considered necessary for the
successful carrying out OF the syndicate.
The herald., 1894-08-30
GEORGIA UBLICANS.

The State Convention Divided Into
Three Factions.
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 29.-The Republi-
can state convention met at IL O'clock
One faction wants to put out straight
ticket, while another wants to endorse
the Populist nominees. and the third
wants to do neither; therefore the ses-
sion ia likely to be stormy. 1t is not
likely the convention will nominate a
ticket. While it may not endorse the
Populists, white and colored will be
urged to vote for the Populists. All OF
the counties are represented. The con.
vention will be in session two days.
Henry Johnson, negro lawyer oi
Butts county, was elected temporary
chairman. A committee on credentials
was appointed. Pending the report OF
this committee the convention could
not thoroughly organize.
The herald., 1894-08-30
Texas RepublIcanG.

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 29-The "black
and tan" convention has been unable to
do anything, owing to deadlocks in all
the commistees. Two adjournments
were taken because of this. Curry's
forces claim they will control the con-
vention after permanent organization !;
that w. Flanagan will be permanent
chairman and John Grant chairman Of
the state committee. The chances of
fusion with the Populsts, as against
the Democratic state ticket, seem to be
slightly in favor of it.
The convention nominated the follow
ing ticket: W. X. Mskeson, governor;
R. B. Renfrow, lieutenant governor; A.
H. Colwell. superin tendent OF education:
]. NJ. hurley, attorney general; G. A.
Tomlinson, comptroller.
The herald., 1894-08-30
Nominees Tor Coueress.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 29.-W.
Alden Smith WAS nominated for congress
this afternoon by the Republicans Of the
Fifth district.
WINoNA, MINI, A1g. 29.-James
Tawney WAS renominated today for con.
gress in the Minneapolis district, by
acclamation.
HILLsBoRo, Tex, Aug. 29.-J. O.
Abbott was nominated for congress by
the Sixth dstric. Democratic convention
on the 3309th ballot.
DALLAS. Tex. Aug. 29.-The Republi-
cans of the Thirteenth congressional
district nominated I'll. B. Kenyon for
representative in congress-.
The herald., 1894-08-30
BRAKES WOULDN'T WORK.
An Electric Car Crashes Into a Passen-
ger Train.

An Electric Car Crashes Into Passen-
ger Train.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-An electric car
collided with a passenger train on the
Chicago and Northern Pacific railroad at
the Forest Hill crossing. Three persons
were seriously injured and number OF
others badly shaken up.
The injured:
John Briggs, left leg crushed and in
jured internally.
Z. H. Keys. badly injured about the
head and body.
Mrs. Mary Burns, cut about the head
and body.
The cause OF the collision was the re-
fusal of the brakes of the electric car to
work. The motorman was unable to
prevent the car from running upon the
crossing and smashing into ths train.
The herald., 1894-08-30
KEY TO THE SOUND.
Oregon Short Line Again Under Union
Pacific Control.

Oregon short Line again Under Union
Pacific Control.
OMAHA, Aug. 29.-The appointment
of the Union Pacific receivers for the
Oregon Short Line, at Cheyenne yester.
day, has provoked much comment
among western railroad men since it
practically reunites the Union Pacific
system, which was lately threatened
with total segregation. The appoint
ment OF the Union Pacific receiv.
ers over the Oregon Short Line
considerably strengthens the lover
land" situation and gives the key to
the sound country into the hands of the
Union Pacific. Should the road have
broken away from the fold, as in the case
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
company and the Union Pacific, Denver
and Gulf company, it would have seri-
ously embarrassed the main line, and
earnings would have fallen off in conse-
ouence. Had not things been different,
the Burlington, Rio Grande and even
the Rock Island might have gone into
the sound country on traffic basis,
but now the Union Pacific is
in a position to fight the boycott
inaugurated in '92 against the road be-
cause it demanded the long haul one
way. This appointment OF Judge Riner
closes the Ogden gateway in the interest
of the Union Pacific. and it will con-
tinue to entrench itself in conseo uence.
There was time when it was seriously
thought the Oregon Railway and Navi-
CATION company might absorb the Short
Line, in which event the whole eitua-
ton of the west would undoubtedly
undergo change.