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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
UNITED MINE WORKERS.
STRIKE ORDERED WILL BE DlSREGARDeD
AT CERTAIN MINES.
Temporary Suspension of Cotton Mills---
Tinplate Workers Compromise Car
riage Works Shut Down for -Four Weeks,
and Carpet Works for Two.

A special from Washington, Ind,
says: "The order of the national
board of the United Mine Workers,
commanpding coal miners to strike, will
be disregssded here. Cabel & Co.'S.
mines have been ont since May / on
account of q disagreement, and Will
sons miners continue at work, having,
by consent of the State organization,
made special agreement with their en-
ployes"
Notices were posted in the Everett
and Pemberton cotton mills, Lawrence,
Mass, Saturday, informing the EN-
ployes Tint operations would be sus-
pended until Monday, July ~. No
reason is given for the shut down.
About 2, 900 operatives will be affected.
A special from Middlesboro, Ky,
says: "There will be no strike of the
coal miners in the Middlesboro district.
The miners get geod wages and are
satisfied, and no walking delegate, it
is said, could force them out. They
will disregard the order to strike"
AHSAO 40 tOob ACJOiOiuS huOuS tuO
business and working people of Elm
wood, Ind. The tinplate management
there has signed the wage scale on a
compromise of Il per cent increase.
The factory begun with full force
Monday.
The Bigelow Carriage Works, Clin-
ton, Mass, which employ over 900
hands, closed down Saturday for four
weeks. The firm states that it is over
stocked, with dull market. The mill
will probably resume work August LIST
on regular time.
The Roxbury Carpet Works plant,
Boston, Mass, has shut down tempo
rarily. throwing about 800 people out
of employment without warning. Mr..
Butler, treasurer of the company.
said: owe expect to open as usual
after two weeks. Competition is SO
keen that we were obliged to take this
step."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
I Nicnragunn Canal Commission.

The New York Herald's Washington
special says: Upon the return of Presi-
dent Mckinley from. Canton. he will
send to the Senate the names of the
men who will form the new Nicsraguan
Canal Commission. The slate as made
Thursday bears the names of Rear
Admiral John G. Walker, U. s. N,
retired; Capt. Oberlin NJ. Garter,
corps Of enjineers. U. S. A., and Prof.
L. NJ. Haupt, who formerly held the
chair of engineering, in the Univesity
Pennsylvania. The slate was prepared
by Mr.. Mckinley after consultation
with secretary of War Alger, Secreta-
ryof the Interior Bliss, Secretary of
the Navy Long and Brigadier General
wilson, chief of engineers United
States army. The president is anxious
tosecure as members of the proposed
commission men of known ability and
Integrity and whose report will be
yithout question.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
ASSASSINATION IN ALABAMA.

Serious Trouble Threatened---ouist Re-
stored.
Sheriff O'Brien, of Birmingham, late
Saturday afternoon received message
from Blossburg notifying him Of
prospective trouble between the whites
and blacks and requesting that deputies
be sent out to prevent it. Chief Dep
uty Sheriff Wornock, with o strong
squad of deputies, hurried to the scene.
A few nights ago Mrs. Jas. Brown,
wife of q miner, was awakened by some
one attempting to get into bed with
her. She screamed and her husband
rushed in from the next room, only to
see o negro leap out of tho window and
escape. Several negroes were arrested,
but Mrs. Brown was not able to iden-
tify any of them. Friday Jim Thomas,
a negro, stated that he knew who the
guilty party was and could point him
out. He failed to do 50, however, and
Saturday at 10 o'clock Thomas dead
body, riddled with bullets. was found
in q guich mile from the town. This
excited the negro population greatly,
and the refusal of the local magistrate
to hold an inquest unless directed by
the coroner to do so, added to the ex-
citement. About 100 negroes, it is
said, then began to arm themselves and
to make threats of violence. The
whites also secured arms and prepared
for trouble. Four deputies were sent
over from Brookside, but the force
was deemed insufficient. and Saturday
evening another force went from Bir-
mingham. The presence of the officers
restored quiet.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Murder in Calcnsieu Parish.

Sheriff A. l.. Loyons and Deputy
Web Young returned to Lake Charles
from MY site Thursday evening with
Arch Ashton, Oliver Bloodworth and
Halls Buxton in their custody. The
first mentioned is accused of being the
murderer Of Andrew Ashworth, Of
whom he is a nephew. and the other
two of being accessories to the crime.
The story of The crime as related by q
Mystic citizen is that last Tuesday Mr..
Ashwor h came upon his nephew,
Archie, SHINING sheep, which be
thought had been stolen from bis pas.
tuSe, As the old man adyspcel be
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
More SuustroIxes,

Saturday morning George Harper,
aged about 40 years, was found dead
in his room, at 5l8 Chartres street,
New Orleans. The coroner viewed the
body and gave certificate of death
from congestion of the brain, due to
the heat. Also gardener named NJ.
Ladibe, residing on. Toiedano street,
near Carondelet, while at work in the
garden at Mr.. McCaleb's residence,
No. 1928 st. Charles street, was pros
trated by the heat, but not discovered
for some time after. The ambulance
was then called, and he was taken to
the hospital, where his condition was
pronounced critical.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
PLANTATIONS FOR SALE.

1st. The Azucena or Ralstan place,
back OF Waterproof steam gin, dwell
ing, eight double cabins, eight mules,
and farming Implements; 200 acres In
cultivation, and 800 in the trect. Will
be sold at bargain.
4th. Disharoon plantation, just be-
low Hard Times Landing, containing
700 acre 9TH several cabins. Will be
sold at SJargain.
9th. Westwood plantation, on Ten
sas river, containing ], ,408 acres, about
half cleared. Would make Q good
stock farm.
A cotton plantation, 900 acres, 400
in cultifttion and under fence, 16 first
class q pins; good steam. gin, now
boiler; q mules and full plantation
equipment. Price cheap and terms
easy.
A cotton plantation, 800 acres, 325
in cultivation, IL cabins, steam gin,
barn, five mules and full equipment,
will be sold cheap and on long time 10
q good man.
Alton plantation on Bayou Vidal.
containing about 1900 acres. House
and gin in fine condition. Cheap and
and on easy terms
The undivided half interest in $50
acres Of land of section 25 end section
23, township 10, range east. This
land sdjoins the Highland plantation,
about 9 miles back OF Waterproof,
owned by Messrs. Miller, who own the
other one half of this 960 acres. A. L.
Hopkins, surveyor, says there is por-
ton Of this land under cultivation.
Also 80 acres, being northeast quar-
ter Of northwest quarter Of section s6
and the southeast quarter of southwest
quarter Of section 25, township IL,
north range 11east. On this land there
is said to be cypress break.
Besides the above I have for sale
tracts of land improved and un;m-
proved which will be sold in large or
small quantities, and for . low price
and on easy terms. Apply to
a. A. GARRETT,
At'ty-atLaw,
st. Joseph, La
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
District Court Adjourned.

The district court, at Covington, R.
r. Reid, presiding; ID. s. Kemp, dis
trict attorney; John ]. Stroble, sheriff;
H. r. Warren, clerk, adjourned Satu.-
day after week of hard labor, with
the following convictions: March
Wheat, IS months in the penitentiary,
for resisting an officer and cutting with
intent to kill; Cilas Powell, 2 years, for
larceny; Willie Reid, 2 years, for lar
ceny, With large civil docket dis
posed of the court and public feel proud
in their new quarters in the new court
house.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Run Over by an Engine.

A. d. Atwood, aged Al years, white
man, watchman at Barron & Nugent's
saw mill, twenty-three miles north Of
Alexandria, on the Iron Mountain
Road, was run over by an engine Sat-
urday morning, near the union depot
at Alexandria. Atwood got off the
track TO avoid an engine that was going
head on, and as he stepped back an
other engine backed over him. His
right leg was very badly crushed. The
wounded man is in destitute circum-
stances and has wife and four chill
dren. But little hopes of his recovery
are entertained.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
The Arrester Arrested.

Saturday msrning Patrolman Dob
bins, of Atlantis, Ga., arrested negro
under very peculiar circumstances. He
was standing on his beat and William
Bailey approached him and asked him
to arrest a white man for some disor-
der. The officer thought the negro
suited the description of one wanted in
Admission, and he made some inquiries
The negro, thinking the policeman
Was after information in order to ar
rest the white man, glibly told all
ahout himself. In in a few minutes
William Baily was occupying . cell oil
the police barracks on Q charge ol
gssad larceny aOmmisssa In Alabama,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Railroad Trestle Burned.

AT abeut ten o'clock on Tuesday last
trestle just north of Siess station on
the Iron Mountain railroad was burned,
supposed TO have caught from. the
sparks of passing engine. The pass
enger train which left Alexandria at
4:30 o'clock Friday morning was de-
layed by the burn nine hours. The
south bound train Friday night was
only detained about two hours, and
from now on there will be no detention,
as the trestle has been rebuilt.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
rennessseI Feud Revived

A shooting ARRAY occurred Saturday
at Helenwood, Tenn, mining town
on the Cincinnati Southern road, in
which the old Blskenship- Pemberton
feud was revived. ]. d. Blakenship
became involved in quarrel with one
of the friends of the Pembe rton fami-
ly, pistols were drawn and all hands
began shooting. After the smoke had
cleared away Blankensbip was found
to hsve been mortally wounded and
two other participants had received
wounds. Sheriff Duncan5 of Scott
county, was fhot in the leg while try.
ing to stop tie difficulty.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
ST. JOSEPH, La, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1897.

spoke kindly to the boy, Don't shoot
your old uncle" "Yes 1 WILL" said
the boy, and leveling his double-bar
relied shotgun he shot his old uucle
down in the road and left him where
he fell. 1t was six hours before he
was found, and be lived twelve hours
after he was shot. Constable Cooper
says he had hard work to keep the boy
from being lynched by the enraged
people.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Unidentified Body Found Floating.

A foater was caught in the river at
Alexandria. Saturday morning at 7:40
O'Clock, just opposite the courthouse
and an inquest was held and it was
agreed that no came to his death by
drowning. The corpse was that of q
white man about feet inches high,
about 40 years old and had a 50-cent
piece in his pocket, and on piece of
paper was written the word, "Falber, Z"
which might be his proper name. The
body was very much decomposd, and
the hands and other parts greatly eaten
away by fish. In fact he had no hair
on bis head,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
His Right Hand Crushed.

An employee of the belt line electric
street railway, at Shreveport, named
Mott Ogleby, had his right hand fear
fully crushed while attempting to clean
a cogwheel on a car Saturday. Apply
sician was summoned, who found it
necessary to smputate the first and
second fingers on the right hand.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
A Big IeYec Outfit.

]. G. Hodges great levee outfit, CON-
plising l65 head of stock and imple-
menis in proportion, was landed at
Bedford's levee, in Madison parish,
La, last Friday evening. 1t took four
hours to discharge the outfit, it is
stated. Mr.. Hodge is the contractor
for the new leyee at Bedford's.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Shot and Killed by His Sister.

Dave Brent, colored, while engaged
in an alteration with his sister, at
Boyce, Saturday morning, was shot
and almost instantly killed by his sis
ter. The coroner's verdict was that
Brent came to his deeth from a pistol
spot wound at the hands of his sister,
Stella, and one Jim Wells.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
TERMS OF COURT.

TT is ordered that the terms of Court
L in the twenty-third judicial Dis
trict be fixed and held as follows:
JURY TERMs.-Second Monday in
April; first Monday in October.
CIvn TERMS. First Monday in JAN
uary; fourth Monday in May; first
Monday in July; third Monday in No
.vember.
1t is further ordered that this order
be spread on the minutes and copy
thereof published in the official news
paper of the parish Of Tensas.s
Done and signed at Chambers this
18th day of August, 1896.
HUGH TULLIs,
Judge 23rd District.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
i. o. o. F. Omccrs Installed.

Friday evening the grand master of
the State, w. A. Stidley of West
Lake, visited P NJ. Dickinson Lodge
No. GO, !. o. o. F., New Iberia, and
installed the following officers for the
ensuing term: A. ]. Csmmack, N. G. /;
j. NJ. Werhs, V. g.; E. p. Landry,
secretary. Mr.. Sidley left Friday in
company with Capt, John L. White
aDd J. NJ. Werhs for Abbeville, to Or
gan re q lodge there.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Executive Appointments.

Gov. Foster has made the following
appointing r. W. Horn, justice of
the peace Seventh ward of Grant, vice
b. A. Forston, removed from the par
ish. ]. W. Scarborough, police juror
Second ward of Ouachita, vice G. B.
Ludliry, removed from the parish,
Nathaniel Hoggatt, of Madison, notary
public.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Many Pro.tration. in Chicago.

The highest temperature recorded in
the annals of tho weather bureau for
the month of July in ten years was
reached in Chicago. Saturday, when for
two hours the Thermometer registered
50 degrees; and the mercury went up
and down until finally it made one
supreme jump to 81 degrees. On the
business streets men resled and sick
ened as il plague. stricken, and women
and children vainly sought relief from
the heat. 1t was the hottest day of the
year and the hottest July day Chicago
ever knew. There were many pros,ra-
tions, police and hospital ambulancss
being kept busy all day caring for those
who sank under the scorching rays, and
up to midnight but one case had proved
fatal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09

From all sections of the country be-
tween Monroe and Vicksburg, planters
report excellent crops, especially Of
corn. West of the Ouachita the hill
farmers are well satisfied with the out
look
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
LOUISIANA HAPPENINGS,
A NEWRAlLRoAD PROPOSED FOR coU.
sHATTA
Negro Girl Kills Her Brother---Trestle On
the Iron Mountain Railroad Burned ---
Run Over by an Engine at Alexandria.
Proposed Red River Road.
Farmers Institute.

A Farmers Institute will be
held in Monroe on July 10Th, under
direction of Major j. -G-Lss, commits
sioner Of agriculture. The main sub
ject for discussion will be diversified
farming.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
s. q. PATTERSON

Has opened stock of dry goods, gro
ceries, liqCors, cigars and tobacco and
general ch.ndise OF the choicest
kind at the Ste Rart store, on the planl
road, in st. joseph. He is not only
the Poor Mans Friend but a friend
to all, the rich a. we'll as The poor, the
''lofty" as well Ms tho "lowly." Equal
justice and prices to ALL Give him 9
call: may2S-1yr
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Ernest a, Brown,
LIVERY STABLE,
Main Street, Natchez
(sUccEssoR To TURLEY PARKRR)

SUCCESSOR To TURLEY PARKER)
Keeps on hand for sale OF hire, at
reasonable rates, frst-class saddle and
harness horses and comfortable vehi.
cles. He will be glad to see his Ten
sas friends and to serve them in their
purchases OF stock, which he will guar
antee to sell at crock bottom" prices.
Orders solicited. mav2S-1vr
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Threw a Lamp at a Burglar.

]. j. Thorburn. of the firm of Thor
burn & Ball, of West Alexandria, had
an experience Thursday night which
he will not soon forget. He was sit
ting in his bed room, just back of his
storehouse, at 1870 pm, and about
to retire, when he heard a call at his
door, which he answered, and on open
ing the door saw a whiteman standing
with gun in bis hand, saying: Throw
up your hands, or 1 will kill you. "
Thorburn at first thought it was joke,
but soon changed his mind, as he was
then convinced that it was for robbery I;
so, having In his hand a coal oil lamp,
he threw the lamp in the mans face,
when the man went off. Thorburn,
being in the dark, wanted to find his
pistol, and in the search for it struck
his head against the bed post, cutting
quite a cash on the side of his head
and stunning him for several seconds.
Thorburn says he would recognize the
man If he we're to see him again.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS.

We take pleasure in announcing the
arrival of our new stock of Sugar,
Corn, Green Peas, Okra, Mutton
Chops, Tomatoes in and 3-pound
cans. Sardines in every grade. Try
kippered Herrings, Herrings in. Toma-
to oSauce, Sliced Smoked Beef, Deviled
and Potted Meats. Now is the time
for Fruit Cakes. Try our cleaned
Currants, Citron, Raisins, Prunes. We
have the Queen Olives in bulk, also
pickles of every kind. Fancy cheese
is speciality, such as Edam, ,Pineaps
pie, Rocquofort, Supsago, Swiss and
Cream. We pay the very highest
market price for Turkeys, Chickens
and Eggs
MILLER 81 RUOFF,
11G N. COMMERCE ST., NATCHEZ.
aDril IT
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
MONEY TO LEND.

I am prepared to place loans on
good plantation property in Tensas
parish with first-class loan company
on ten years time.
II. A. GARRETT,
Attorney-at-Law,
st. Joseph, La
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
s. CHAs: YOUNG. b. r. YOUNG.
YOUNG g. YOUNG, -
ATTORNEYS AT LAW

8. Chas. Young, for eight years
Judge of the Ninth Judicial District,
and B. F. Young, who has practiced
at the Tensas bar for. the past eight
years, have formed q partnership for
the practice of law in the courts
of the Parishes of Tensas and
Concordia, and in the Supreme
Court of this State. Special
attention will be given to the examina.
tion-of titles, placing and securing OF
mortgage loans, collection of debts,
and the purchase and sale Of lands. }
feb %
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09

Father and Sons Charged With Murder.
Friday night Deputy Sheriffs Walters
and Holland and Detective Murphy, of
Shreveport, returned from Vivian, La. :,
on the Kansas City, st. Louis and Gulf
road, where they arrested Tycus Hart,
ST., Tycus Hart, Jr. and Robert Hart,
the two latter beings SONS of the first
named. The father and two sons were
arrested on q sworn out by Thomas
Woford, who accused the trio of foully
numbering his father at James. Bayou
Ferry on June %. The suspected men
were brought to Shreveport and con-
fined in the parish Jail pending their
trial. The people of Vivian were 80
incensed at the terrible murder of old
man Wofford that they offered reward
for the arrest of the guilty parties and
induced Gov. Foster to offer an addi-
tional reward of $3.50. The parties
arrected would not make any statement
for publication, saying that it would all
come in the trial next week.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09

Will practice in the parishes of Ten
sas, Concordia and Madison, and in
the Supreme Court.
Particular attention paid to collec-
tions, the sale and lease Of lands, and
placing of loans ON real estate.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09
Proposed Red River Road.

VIM. Edenborn, of Chicago, ad-
dressed number of citizens of Shreye-
port, on the building of railroad down
the Red river valley to Coushatta. He
and several of his friends will return to
their city in about ten days. In the
meantime he will submit proposition
to a committee composed of chairman,
W. F. Taylor, J. B. Ards, Henry Flor
sheim, j. H. Jordan, p. Youree, W. s.
Pelick, J. NJ. Foster, 1. Barron. 1t is
believed that Mr.. Edenborn is con-
nectod with the management of the
Gate City Railway, which is being
extended from Texarkana and has
already crossed with its rails Caddo
parish.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-09

IIG N. COMMERCE ST., NATCHEz.
april II.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-10
The Birds Balance of Power.

In recent lecture Professor Will
men Stone, of Philadelphia, cited many
facts to show that birds are natures
great check on the excess of insects
and that they keep the balance be-
tween plants and insect life. Ten
thousand caterpillars, it has been es-
timated, could destroy every blade
of grass on an acre of cultivated
ground. In thirty days from the time
it is Matched an ordinary caterpillar
increases 10000 times in bulk, and
the food it lives and grows on is vege.
table. The insect population of
single cherry tree infested with ap-
hides was calculated by prominent
entomologist at no less than 12,OO0,-
900! The bird population of culti-
waited country districts has been esti-
mated at from 700 to 1000 per square
mile. This is small compared with
the number of insects, yet as each
bird consumes hundreds Of insects
every day the latter are prevented
from becoming the scourge they
would be but for their feathered en-
emies. Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-10
an improvement in fancy feathers,
from Newark, n. j.
COUNT TOLSTOl.

Sketch Of the Career of the Great Rus
sian Novelist and Social Eeformer.
Count Lyof Nickolaivitch Tolstoi,
the most prominent of the Russian
novelists, is also social reformer.
His great ancestor was Peter Tolstoi,
the friend of Peter the Great. The
author of Gamma Karenina" is now
nearly seventy. Gamma Karenina" is
pronounced Tolstoi's masterpiece. Of
Anna herself George Meredith says
she is the most perfectly depicted fe-
male character in all fiction. Tolstoi
believes in the literalness of the
words of Jesus. he holds that the
only rule of life is the precise living
up to the maxims of the Sermon on
the Mount. AS a youth Tolstoi at
tended the University of Kazan, and
at the age of twenty-three he entered
the army and went with his brother to
the Caucasus. He fought in the Cri-
mean War, and at it's close resigned
his commission and devoted himself
to literature. One of his earliest
works, 'War and Peace" is most ap-
praised by Russians. 1t deals with
the invasion of Russia by Napoleon.
Since he brought out Gamma Karenina"
in 1876 Tolstoi has given himself up
to social problems, with the hope of
supplying mankind with better
moral and religious philosophy than