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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24
Karnes County Populists.
specisl to The Statesman:

Special to The Statesman:
kennedy, Tex, May 22.-The vote
of the Populist primaries, which were
held in this county last Saturday, was
canvassed at Helena today and the
following ticket was put in the field
for county offices: J, w. Rutledge,
county judge; NJ. B. Little, county at.
torney; Henry Lorenz, district and
county clerk; Judge Yeates, county
treasurer; G. G. Haynes, assessor, and
A. NJ. Marshall, surveyor. The ticket
is regarded as very strong one and
the Populists feel confident they will
elect the nominees. J. A. Terry OF
Runge was nominated as sheriff. The
Populist gain in the county is said to
be so per cent over last year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24

The common tube rose is an excel
lent illustration of a popular mis-
nomer. The plant is not a rose at all
and has no connection with the rose
family, Its name is a corruption.
The French gardeners always call it
plant tu5ereuse. or tuber plant, and
the latter part of the name was cor
rupted 10y ignorant persons into tube
rose. The similarity of sound no
doubt, led to the change of name and
consequent mistake, similar instances
having often occurred.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24
FARMERS EXCHANGE COLUMN,

Advertisements will be inse ted in this col
umn a the uniform rate of cent for each word
write your advertisement as concisely as pos.
sible, count the words and send advertisement
to this office accompanied by the amount by
postal note or otherwise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24
CAPITAL NOTES.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.


WASHINGTON. May 29.--The house
committee on judiciary today endors-
ed the report Of the Boatner sub-com>
lnittee which investigated the matter
of the injunction by Judge jenkins OF
the circuit court of the Eastern dis
trict OF Wisconsin against the EN-
ployes of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. A resolution aud two bills will
be reported to the house. The reso-
luton will set forth that the house dis.
approves of the action of Judge Jen
kins and holds that he exceeded his
bowers in enjoining the railroad men
from striking. The two bills are to be
reported TO be drawn TO carry into the
effect the sub committees recommen~
dation regarding compulsory labor,
which was rs follows:
Your committee recommends that
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria.
When she was Chilli, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gavethem Castoria.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24

NASHVILLE, May 22-At today
session of the general assembly OF the
Sonthern Presbyterian church the ex
ocntive committee on colored evangel J
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24

Cape jasamines, selected flowers;
no green buds; 100 for Sl,50, so for
81 90 at Mays.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Chinn..Iannn War GossIn.

The third army has left Ujinaon
aboard the transpor, The destina-
ton of this army is not known but it
is rumored that il is intended to oper-
ate in the Yang Use Kiang districts of
China. The Yang Use Kiang river has
a total course of $500 TO 5000 miles
and drains with its numerous large
affluents all the central provinces for
China. The tide ascends ii to Lake Pc
Yang, $50 miles from the sea beyond
which il is navigable for ESQ miles IL
may be navigatcd for 200 miles from
its mouth by ships of the largest class
and about 90 miles from the mouth is
situated the southern capitol of the
China, Nankin, one of the most import
ant cities of the empire. Ii is doubt
less Japan's intention to advance upon
Nankin.
IL Hung Chang To Dothrone the Emperor.
Washington: A prominent member
of the dip omatic world has received Il
letter telling of a conspiracy now well
underway in China, which, if not
checked, will result in the downfall of
the present government and the estab-
lishment of another with Ii Hung
Chang on the throne. Ibis will be
of the present emperor. Ii Hung
Chang, rendered desperate by the
abuse and degradation which has been
heapcd upon him by the emperor, has
concocted the scheme outlined above.
TIE communication states that he has
always had contempt for the emperor
who is of the tartar race, believing
that China should be ruled by Chinese.
Uncle SANS New Treaty with Japan.
Washington: Secretary of State
Gresham, in behalf of the United
States, and Minister Kurino of Japan,
in behalf of his own country, have
affixed their signatures to n new treaty
of amity and commerce between this
country and Japan. The cLief feature
of the new treaty is in its recognition
of Japan as a civilized country.
Pevious treaties have assumed that the
native courts were so primitive and
punishments SO brutal that it would
not be safe to trust American, British
and other foreign citizens to native
tribunals, and the foreign consuls were
given extra territorial jurisdiction in
their great treaty ports of Japan.
Washington: The Chinese have lost
the finest and most powerful vessel of
their navy-the great battleship Chen
Yuen, which stood the brunt of the
fighting at Yalu. The Chen Yuen in
leaving Wei Hai-Wei harbor accident
ally struck torpedo. She was
beaehed but was rendered useless for
lack of docking facilities. In despair
at the catastrophe, the commander.
Commodore Lin, committed suicide.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
A Most Brutal Murder.

Mrs. Ephrinm Maddox left the bak-
cry of Toyntou 81 Kudner, at Pontiac,
at 10 o'clock at night, with loaf of
bread. She lived in a cottage in the
eastern portion of the city, quite "A dis
lance from the business section. She
passed down Huron street, east to
Mechanic street, where she was found
dead, lying on her face in pool of
blood The body was taken TO the
home of her daughter and an autopsy
was held, which disclosed n wound
made by q blunt instrument which
pereh ated the scalp. and produced an
extensive fracture of the left side of
the skull, four inches back of the left
car wound sufficient to produce in
start death.
IN paying for the bread she had
taken wallet from her pocket, and
the theory is that this action was OBJ
served by some one who thought she
had considerable money, and that the
motive for the hellish deed was rob
berry. Her children say she had alittle
money in the purse and when the body
was examined the purse was missing.
The deceased was Gs years of age AMI
lived peacefully with her husband.
She leaves six children.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
CANAIGRE EXTRACT.
It Is to BE Manufactured on n Large
Scale In the Pecos Valley OF
New Mexico.

Hide and Leather, the vell-lsnown
organ of the leather industry in the
United States, made the important an
nouncemcnt in recent issue that n
large factory is about to be erected in
the Pecos valley of New Mexico for
the manufacture of canaigrc extract.
This extract, which is for most kinds
of leather the very best tanning ma
terial known, is made from the root
of the canaigre plant, which grows in
certain portions of the arid region of
the United States and northern Mexico,
and with especial luXuriance under
irrigation in the Pecos valley, where
from ten to fifteen tons per acre are
grown. The cost of raising and har-
vesting is no greater than in the case
of potatoes, and the farmers of the
Pecos valley are assured of n market
for all they can raise, at Sc per ton,
which affords them a handsome profit;
and n considerable acreage is being
planted at the present time. When il
is known that Europe and America
consume about 500, 600, 900 of tanning
materials annually, and that several
million dollars worth of inferior sub.
stances are each year imported into
the United States, the Importance OF
the industry can be appreciated. Large
numbers of farmers will doubtless &C
10 the Pecos valley in the near future
TO engage in this very profitable bust
ness.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fifteen of Kansas City's finest resi-
dcnces were destroyed by fire with all
the household goods.
Russians in Chicago are working
earnestly in movement 70 secure
more freedom in Russia.
Robert Earnest, steward of Witten-
berg college, Spring tield, o., was in
stantly killed and his son badly in.
Jured in runaWay.
Henry Wolf, % years old, son of a
well-to-do farmer near Dayton, at.
tempted suicide by swallowing 35
grains of morphine. He will live.
The body of Maggie Rodin, colored
was found at Memphis in an advanced
state of decomposition, in a house
which she occupied alone. Her clothes
had taken fire and she burned to death.
Gus Huber. jeweler of Fayette
ordered $500 worth of diamonds c. O.
ID. from a Chicago house. The night
the express office was robbed The
other day Huber sold one of the
rings and this clew led to his prompt
arrest for the robbery.
According TO dispatch from Shang-
hal, large Chinese cruiser broke her
propeller while trying to haul the
Chinese warship Chen Yuen off the
rocks at Wei-lIai-Wei, and the cruiser
is now said TO be lying useless at the
latter place. 1t is added that China
now only has four effective warships
left
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Anott. err of ohio's ravorlte Sons Dead.

Gen. VIM. Harvey Gibson, the silver
tongued orator, died at his home at
Tifin, @, in his 7ith year. The end
came quietly and peacefully. His ill.,
pess, which was of about three months
duration, consisted of a complication
of diseases. the foundation of which
was chronic diarrhTa. contracted in
the army.
Gen. william II. Gibson was b0fn III DEFER.
son county, Ohio May III, 1871. His ebrIt edu.
cation was resolved in tho pioneer days. IN q
log school house lighted with creased paper
windows. He began lite n carpenter, but en-
tered upon the study OF law in 1872, and was
admitted 10 the bar in December. 1874. lie
was o licensed minister OF the NJ. r.. church.
took carly aad great interest in politics, and
affiiatcd with the anti slaYery wings. In 1857
be was elected treasurer OF the state OF Ohio.
At the opening of the war he became colonel ol
the 4Dth o. V. I. From Shiloh TO Atlanta
he was never found wanting when duty called.
In the reports of all the campaigns and battles
i'm W-ich he served he was commended by
every suncTior officer. In January. ls9l, Presi-
dent Harrison appointed him postmaster OF
THIN.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Very MXsterious Murder.

A most cowardly and mysterious
murder was that of the assassination
of William Wiclwire and the shooting
of his sister at the formers home in
Climax township, Kalamazoo county.
About : o'clock at night a knock was
heard at the back door. An adopted
boy opened the door and man with a
mask on his face asked for Mr.. Wick
wire. Without waiting for reply he
pushed past the boy and entered the
dining room where Wiclwire's wife
and sister were sitting. The latter
noticed that tho intruder had in his
hand revolver and she tried TO stop
him. but he rushed into the next room
where he met Wickwire who was just
coming ont 60 see the cause of the
noise. The masked man at once
opened fire. Three shots struck Wick
wire and one struck his sister The
three graprAed with the desperate,
but he escaped before the neighbors-
whom the boy had called-could arrive.
No motive for the strange crime is
known. Wickwire's injuries were
fatal, but his sister was scarcely hurt.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30

The executive committee of the w.
G. T. L. has resolved that men must
not be admitted to membership in the
young ladies' branches.
Members of the Cook gang who have
been arrested are Charles Turner.
William Farris and Jesse Snyder, who
robbed McDermotts store and post.
Office in the Cherokee Nation recently.
The famous "Slseeter" is also under
arrest.
III. II. Holmes is one of the names of
one of the most villainous men of
modern times. lie was arrested in
Boston TO answer the crime of murder
of fellow william known as Pitzel
Besides this &c has four or five wives
in as many different cities; he has
swindled numerous insurance compan-
les by palming off mutilated medical
college corpses as relatives insured for
his benefit, and has beaten a dozen OF
more widows and orphans out of their
estates. lie confesseS to all but the
murder of Pitzel.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Train wreckers. Trials Blocked.

The examination of the five men
charged with train wrecking at Battle
Creek. has taken new turn and
dropped bomb at the prosecutors
feet. When the first witness was
called it was Bodewig, upon whom the
prosecution depended for SO much con-
victing testimony, but he created a
sensation by positively refusing to say
n word. An adjournment was then
taken until evening, when Stanley
Knowles. who has so often told the
tale of the clawbar TO the delight of
the prosecution, was placed on the
stand. He also refused to testify.
This virtually blocked the examination
and the court adjourned until Jan. ,,
ordering the five men to Jail.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Eicht mInnr. Meet Thelr pcatI,.

An experienced Italian miner put
off" an over-charge blast in the Blanch
coal mines at Golfers Station, w. Va,
and it ignited the coal dust in the
mine, and fearful explosion followed
carrying death and destruction in its
path. There were 4S men in the mine
at the time and eight are known TO be
dead. After the explosion there was
terrific whirlwind in the mine carry
ing everything before it. Two of those
killed were in the mine some distance
from and going toward the mouth.
The force of the explosion drove them
nearly one hundred yards out of the
mouth of the mine and landed Rooney
on the railroad track, killing him in
stantly, while Donnelly landed IN a
gulley, striking his head against
post. His brains were dashed out and
scattered for yards around.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
LctrSit.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.

NEW YORK: Dun's weekly trade review says
There is some change for the better. The gain
ts slow and in some directions not very dis
tinct but the signs of IL arc little more defin.
lie than of late. Tne most important of them
Is larger employment OF labor answering
better demand on the whole for manufactured
products. Much OF this Is due to the unnatural
delay OF orders for the winter. which resulted
from prolonged uncertainty, but II means
actual increase In earnings and purchasing
power OF the millions. and so gives promise OF
larger demand in the future. Prices OF farm
products in the aggregate do not improve. but
the prevailing hopefulness is felt In somewhat
larger transactions. The wheat market has
lost the gain OF the previous week Corn has
declined. receipts having much, Increased The
foreign demand for cotton continues. Textile
industries have added n few factories TO the
working list, against only one or two with
drawn. and there has been some improvement
in the demand for wooicns. Since August the
sales OF wool have been II per cent more than
last year, but % per cent less than in 1892.
The iron industry again records lower prices
for Bcssemer. The failures the past week
were BE- In the United states. against 3S5 last
year, and 81 In Canada, against ~ last year.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Prominen. Dotroiter's Strange Death.

Willard Parker, senior member of
Parker, Webb & Co, wholesale meat
dealers at Detroit, disappeared very
mysteriodsly from his home, and the
case was reported TO the police. No
trace of him could bc found until a
a message was received from Rich
mond stating that MIR. Parker was at
Commercial House in that town and
was in serious condition evidently
from an overdose of morphine. He
fingered for several hours nearly all
the time unconscious and finally died.
He was 6s years of age and his relatives
say must have taken the morphine 10
relieve pain as he was in ill-health.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
HAWAIIAN RoyaIlsts TaIk RevoIutIon.

Advices from Honolulu say: That
the government is still slightly in fear
of the royalists uprising has been evil
dent of late. All the guards in the
suburbs have been doubled, and a
close watch has been kept on all sus-
pected persons. The cause of this sud
den activity is the discovery of plot
to restore the ex-qucen. a consider
able number of guns and ammunition
have been secretly brought here dur
ing the last few months and the royal
lists evidently intend to make use of
them. No uneasiness is felt by the
government party, however, which
seems perfectly we'll satisfied that it
can hold it's own.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
The Bonds Bring I17.O77.

Washington; The bids for the $780,
600, OOO bond issue recently offered by
Secretary Carlisle were opened at the
treasury department and 1T was stated
that calculation showed that the
total number of separate bids was 297,
aggregrating S15I,350,y00. The larg-
est bid was the syndicate bid of the
United States Trust company, DreXel,
Morgan & Company and others, of
New York, London, Boston and Phil
adelphia, at ll7.O77 for the whole
amount or none.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Small Fox at Adrian,

The first case of small pox to make
its appearance in Adrian in 20 years
broke out in the City Hotel and the
victim was conveyed TO the pest house
north of the city. Mark Jones, aged
2s aud married. living south of Bliss
field, is the unfortunate. Seventeen
inmates of the hotel are in quarantine.
Forty transicnts took dinner at the
hotel with Jones and it is impossible
TO tell how many persons may have
been exposed. Jones was exposed to
the disease at Summit Ill, two weeks
previous.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
Smallpox Causing a Panic.

Several new cases of smallpox are
reported at Sebewa Corne RS. Ionia
county. Albert Bradley, of Sebewa.
died of continent smallpox. The
authorities arc taking all precautions
against an epidemic. but the exposure
has been so general that little head
way is made. There arc now no less
than Is cases in Dandy and Sebewa
Portland people held a public meeting
and will keep patrol on all points of
ingress to keep out parties from in
fected districts.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
why should She wish to Die.

Mrs. Henry Lybrook, a farmers
wife in good circumstances, committed
suicide at berrien Springs. No cause
can be attributed for the act as her
family life was very happy one. Two
ounces of laudanum was taken. The
body was discovered on the bank of
Che st. Joseph river where she went.
to make sure of death by
drowning. She was 2s years old.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
NEWS OF ALL KINDS.
EVENTS OF GENERAL INTEREST
AND IMPORTAN
Port Arthur, the Pride of China, Surren-
dcred to the Japanese-Chinese Loss,
1000 Men; Japs, 25O.-vust Stores of
Supplies, ETC.. Capturcd.-Other News.
Tort Arthur Has Fallen.

Che Foo: Dispatches have been re-
ceived here stating that the Japanese
captured Port Arthur after IS hours
fighting. The japanese army, under
the command of Field Marshal Count
Oyama, minister of war, consisted of
about 10000 men. The japanese navy
did not participate with the exception
of some of the torpedo boats.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
100 Horses t3aYasd.

A fire at Springfield, NJ, resulted in
the destruction of half block of build
ings in the business portion of the
city. Over 100 horses were burned tc
death. A white man named George
Brewer and a colored man named
Davis, sleeping in Titles barn, burned
TO death. Loss about 100000
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
NEW YORK: yradstrcct,s traoc review SAYS:

NEW YORK: Bradstrect's TRACE review says:
The features OF general trade for the past
week include an Increase IN distribution of
holiday goods. of heavy clothing hats. season
able dry goods. ana at various points hard
ware and shoes. This was stimulated by sea-
sonably colder weather and continuance OF the
feeling of confidence in a nearby improvement
in demand. At the south "a favorable influence
is a moderate advance in the price OF cotton.
The price OF wool is practically unchanged. Us
cloths, although they are hrmer The fact
that demand for iron and stce. has not fully
kept pace with the production is made plain in
semer down. Wheat. corn, sugar, pork and
lard are on the decline.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
That Hemeora,hIc ounrrel.

The Obetz quarrel and the row in
The homeopathic department of the
Michigan University came to climax
with the resignation of Dean 0betz,
and request of the regents that all
the other professors resign
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30

Italians throughout southern Michi-
gan arc returning TO their own sunny
Italy.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30

Fuller, the champion diver of Eng
land, tried To beat Steve Brodies
record by diving from the top of Tower
London bridge. lie came down from
the height of 210 feet with terrific
force and was taken from the water
dead.
Cincinnati officials think that the
''strangler' of Denver was the muir
derer Of Mary Ekart, of Dayton, who
was found cholScd to death in house
of ill-fame last July. New York City
and Buffalo also had similar cases in
Nav and June, and the Denver man is
thought to be the perpctrator of all
three crimes
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
STATE NEWS NOTES.
A CHAPTER OF THE DOINOS OF
MICHIGANDERS.

kalamazoo County the Scene of n Most
Murder. -- WeIl-to-do Farmers Wife
Suicided Near Herrien Sprlngs.-The
University Homeopathic Dean Resigns.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30

The lifeless' bodyap5 August Kinder,
a German living alone near Sebewaing,
svas found hanging IN his house.
pa GsH Of ssGnrWaiRiSSo,@ o.. oi Business
men at Lewiston with five deer in their
possession. which they were trying 20
slip out of the state.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30

Mormons are colonizing the South
Sea islands.
The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
China Sends Peace Emissary TO Japan

China Sends Peace Emissary to Japan.
Tien Tsin The chief of the imperial
customs here, De Ting, who was re-
Gently summoned to Pekin, has left
for Japan in order to arrange terms of
peace.
Washington. The departure of the
Chinese customs chief for Japan is re-
garded by officials here as the result of
Japan's demand for a direct offer from
China. The De Ting mentioned in
the cable is said to be Dictering, a
German, who occupies the position of
commissioner of customs. An Associ-
ated Press cable from Japan states
that China has intimated her willing
ness to pay an indemnity of 100, 900, 600
taels and in addition pay all the war
expenses incurred by Japan. This
would make the total offer of China
$4,000, 900 taels. The tael is Chinese
silver coin worth about IS cents, so
that the whole payment would be APP
proximately Sis, 900, 900 American.
Washington: II has become known
that Japan has declined the advances
of President Cleveland as mediator
for peace between China and Japan.
The correspondence has been kept
secret but it is known that Japan said
plainly that all overtures for peace
must come directly from China.