The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-08-28

for gas since last March, in the
country east of Wichita, has dis
covered vein of coal three and a
half feet thick, eighty feet below
the surface. Widows has leased
2,700 acres of land, and says he
will put down shaft at once and
make preparations for mining the
coal. He is an old miner, and has
put down several shafts in Indiana
and Ohio.
WHO OWNS THE GAS.
Anderson, Ind, Aug. pa
novel question has been raised by
temporary injunction granted to
restrain the Consumers Natural
Gas and Trust Company from op-
Grating a new natural gas pump
ing station on the ground that it
will exhaust the supply of the 9TH
er companies, drawing from the
same territory. This is the first
time this question has been
brought to an issue.
1T MAY BE so.
Paris, Sunday, Aug. 27.-Emile
Blavet telagraphs to the Petit Bleu
from Rennis that report is current
that General Mercier has fled to
the Island of Jersey. The rumor
is unconfirmed.
MISSOURI MURDERER SENTENCED.
Linn, Mo-, Aug. 27.-John Hol-
loway, who shot and killed Jules
Boillot last Christmas eve, near
Aud, in this county, was tried be-
fore Judge Hirzell. Holloway be-
ing unable to employ counsel, the
court appointed Attorneys w. NJ.
Davidson and Gus Monroe to de-
fend him the jury brought in a
verdict of murder in the first de-
gree, and this morning Judge
Hirzell, after denying a rehearing
of the case, sentenced Holloway
to be hanged October 6. An ap-
peal to the Supreme Court will be
taken.
RESULT OF HURRICANE.
San Juan De Porto Rico, Aug.
27.-An official report has been is
sued by the President of the Sup
erior Board of Health, showing
that there have been 2312 burials of
victims of the recent hurricane.
One thousand families are missing
together with their houses. The
report states that the number of
destitute persons is $50, 1000.
1t is estimated that it will re-
quire 5000, 900 pounds of rice
and beans and $3.50, 900 pounds
of Goldfish to allow of a ration of
pound a day being issued until the
crops can be gathered. seventeen
weeks hence. The cost of these
supplies would be 1925, 900.
MEXICAN JUSTICE.
Wichita, Kan, Aug. 27.-Ed
Turner, formerly an engineer on
Missouri Pacific from Ell Dorado to
Fort Scott, has written a letter to
his wife here from Arizoba, Mex,
saying he has been in prison for
five months for being in a wreck
on the Mexican and Vera Cruz
Railroad. He did not have a trial,
and is dot able to get one. He ex-
presses the fear that he may be tas
ked out and shot. as engineers are
frequently treated in Mexico. and
sends an appeal to Gov. Stanley
for help as an American citizen.
G.. B. Clark. another engineer on
the same road, is in Jail with Tur-
ner for being in a wreck on June
%, and he also appeals to Gov.
Stanley for help.
TWO MEXICANS KILLED,
Waco, Tex. Aug. 27.-Two
Mexicans were killed by the south
bound flyer six miles north of this
city on the Missouri, Kansas, and
Texas Railway this morning. The
two men were almost strangers,
one being known as Antonio and
the other as Frank Lagrier. They
were horribly mangled. 1t is sup
osed they were asleep on the track.
The accident was not discovered
until the train arrived here, when
a hat was found on the pilot and
bloody clothing on the trucks.
CHILD THROWN N RIVER
Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 81
The tiny body of a male child,
apparently three or four days old,
was found lodged in a pile of
rock on the south side of the Mis-
souri, river, near the foot of the
Fourth street yiaduct, at 6:3O
o'clock last evening. by a negro
fisherman, Henryl Johnson. The
BODY was badly decomnosed and