The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-08-16

kilograms from Eureka Springs,
to parties living IN Paris, Texas,
tells of the critical illness of Gener-
a Sam Bell Maxey. General Maxey
served through the Confederate war
aud was U. S. Senator for IA years
from Texas.
The Texarkana Rifles met last
night and elected Mrs. Frank Hitler
chaperone, Miss Nettie Smith spon-
sor and Misses Iona Fouke and
Annie Turner maids of honor. The
company will meet again on Monday
night to select colors.
When General Coxey made his
appearance at Hillsboro, Texas,
on the back Of the train, he espied
a small sign on a grass plot which
said, keep off the grass" The
General pointed at it and said, |
have seen that warning before
The Methodist quarterly meeting
will begin tomorrow at the College
Hill church and continue two or
three days, The people out there
lave made preparation for the
same and expect many of our city
people out to take part in same.
The Paris, Texas, base ball club
wiped up the ground with the Mar
shall, Texas, Sand Sappers, and the
papers Of Paris are Growing over
the matter. Never mind, TeXarka-
ia will send a club over to Paris,
and your enthusiasm will crawl in a
lole.
Three country jakes living near
Paris, Texas, organized themselves
juto a party Of white cappers and
burned a negro church and warned
The negroes to leave that neighbor-
mood Immediately. They are now
in jail and will, or at least should, be
sent to the penitentiarY.
They are learning mean and scaley
rricks down South as they have
hem in the north Up at Van
3uren there is a canning factory
ind they have been paying men,
BOYS and girls from IS to 90 cents
per hundred for Gaping the cans.
They have cut them down to 8 and
0 cents.
Some miscreaut threw a switch
at Stamps, which derailed passen-
ger train No, 4, northbound, on the
Cotton Belt last night about 8
o'clock, The engineer, fireman, and
Pullman car conductor, were con-
,iderdbly bruised up and injured.
Cor several nights passenger trains
aad been rocked there,
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Some sharper got up a coon cx-
cursiou to Fort Worth from this
place and then made the hotel
keepers believe he was going to
lump a lot Of white excursionists
down there and received 1926 as a
oonus, When those negroes arriv-
ed there the hotel men saw they
were sold out completely
Three hundred delegates, repre-
seuting the railroads of the United
States, are in convention at Fort
Worth, dealing with the strike ques-
tion, They will formulate some
plan whereby employees can get
their rights without resorting to
strikes, This is good movement
and we hope theymay hitupon such
plan,
The city editor is sporting a nice
silver match case, a present from
Sig IIccht 1t was made for cam
paign oddity we suppose as we find
Gree silver l6 to /" engraved ON
the side, with the head of the
Goddess of liberty and a Texas star
worked in with the words, west
ward the star of empire takes its
way Thanks Sig,
a-aa-aT>aas.-s
The game played yesterday be-
tween the second and third mines
was won by the former, the score
stood 8 to 10, This is game and
game and the third one will
be played next week, TeXark.
ana has some ball enthusiasts here,
but It seems that they are not
much ON the diamond, when away
from home They have proven
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