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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

San Antonio Texas. September 30
Near Lomba Alta. on the Monterey and
Gulf railroad one of the most dlsas-
trous wrecks in the history of the road
occurred yesterday. One life was lost
and four men were sent to the hos
pital badly injured and mutilated,
some of whom win die A freight
train loaded with dynamite and
matches left the track five miles from
Lamares near Iona Alta. causing the
dynamite and matches to explode. The
entire train of fourteen cars were com
pletely wrecked. torn all TO pieces, and
the track was torn up for several hun
bred yards. 1t will be several days
before the track is open The explos-
Ion was felt and heard in Lamares,
FIVE miles distant, the ground shaking
as If there was an earthquake. The
names of the dead and injured were
not learned here.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

San Francisco September % Pres
ident Charles M Hays of the Southern
Pacific company, formally announced
today that he would resign from the
presidency. In his announcement he
says:
THE change in. policy and organ ~
tion of the company consequent on the
change in the control of the Southern.
Pacific shortly after my taking service
with the company has made the place,
originally attractive to me, SO much
less so that several weeks ago volun-
tarily placed my resignation and sur
render of my contract with the COM
pany, at the disposal of the executive
committee. effective on such date and
on such conditions as might be agree
able to them. We have agreed upon
October l as the date upon which my
resignation shall become effective.
Announcement as to my successor, etc,
will doubtless be made shortly l
have no definite plans yet, but expect
to remain some weeks enjoying 1he
country with my family at Menlo
Park and will probably go East some
time early in December"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

San Angelo, Texas, September 30
A passenger on the ozona stage says
that report has been received at
that point that Bill Taylor. the Cole
man train robber who escaped from
the Brown county Jail, had killed two
more men In the Devils river coun-
try whom no enormously supposed
were after him.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02
Hughes Was Convicted.

Denton, Texas, September 2S.-The
verdict in the Hughes murder trial was
guilty, the punishment being assessed
at twenty-one years in the peniten-
tiary. Hughes was pronounced guilty
Of an unusually cold-blooded crime
that of numbering his old partner,
George Frampton. man old enough
to be his father. and afterward tying
his body beneath the waters of Milan
creek, five miles north of this city
The body was weighted down with
rocks and a rope around the neck, tied
to a root under the shelving bank
holding the body entirely out of sight
TO the casual passers. 1t was discov-
cred by party or seiners. The crime
had been committed several days be-
fore Hughes was arrested at Sherman
The case has attracted more attention
than any criminal case in recent years
one reason being the great number loI
women who crowded the court roqM
during the trial.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02


Beaumont. Texas September 2S.--
The Sanger we'll owned by the Com
monwealth Oil company, was brought
in Yesterday afternoon at 5:15. T
Sanger arrived in the city two days
ago to inspect and receive the well
when it came in. He was gratified
yesterday afternoon when least -ex-
pected by seeing solid six-inch stream
of oil take the place of the drill pipe.
Bailng was started at o'clock and it
was not expected to bring the well in
before morning. When bailing had
been in progress about fifteen minutes
they We're agreeably surprised to see
the well commence to bail itself and
before they had time to cap the pipe
and turn the flow through I pipe
1t was gushing iii regular Spindle Top
shape. The operations were conducted
by Sanger Bros driller and they have
the satisfaction of bringing in one OF
the finest gushers on the hill. Sam
Sanger of Waco is president of the
company.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

Longview, Texas, September 30
News has just reached here of race
riot at Hallville Harrison county.
Some parties went to negroes house
last night and whipped a negro so Sc
verely he died, and they then went to
another negro's house and called him.
The negro, Tom Walker refused to
come out, and then the parties kick
ed the door down and the negro shot
and killed Julian Atwood. white. At
$3.50 p. m. news reached here that one
negro had been hung at Hallville.
Armed citizens are in search of Walk
err, the negro WHO killed Atwood. He
is still at large The trouble came up
over some crop mortgages. The ne
groes secured advances on their crops
and gave as security a mortgage, and
it is claimed they refused to work
their crops thus entaling total loss
to parties who advanced the money
and Supplies.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

Savannah, Ca, September sO-The
freshet that came down the Savannah
river Friday was one of the worst
ever experienced by rice planters of
this section. The river rose foot
or more higher than ever known and
practically every rice plantation on the
river is under water. The water
reached its greatest height Friday
night 1t not only overfowed the
banks of the fields, but in a number
of places broke through the banks,
making wide washouts that can be re-
paired oily with great deal Of trou-
BILE and expense. The damage to the
rice will not be known until the flood
subsidies enough to allow repair of
the banks and the drainage Of the
fields. The water is receding at this
writing.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

London, September so.-The Daily
Express publishes report that Lord
Kitchener has asked for $4,000 more
seasoned mounted men and for power
to hang rebels. traitors and murdercrs
without reference 20 the home govern
ment
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02
"Chafee :"


eo,ol o,r,les If WINS the arst severe
reverso that has occurred for a long
t,,uo. cuu tha ofHc,ols wore NOT mn
,renardd for news Of inst This eharac-
ter in sonar in which the revolution
stortod Nv Ayuino1do continues. sa-
mar is a country about as large as the
state of Ohio and the American forces
n,r,hers hetwean 2oo0 and 1000 men.
,rbasa arm. distrihntod among various
nests in fine island a large number be-
ing locoted at the more important CEN
tore snain never. made any effort to
occunv somar and IT has only been
for nrobohlv three months mast that
tba Irnitod St,tes has undertaken that
r,o,,.
rho ,otost ronort made nv canerol
11rah.s ~ NO ,yo, ,onortn,ant was
thot no nunher Of insurgent riaes in
~. island ago,aootod soo Tho Fi,ininos
- rid ~ o,,er,l1o woreora and an
orat,ons ogo,nst mem ware ,l,a,cnlt
No. d;soata, y ron,nonv = ~ tha
ny,np, ,ns,,,tr,, oo,rrad 4 10 he,iovaa
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

the attorney generals Office relative to
their standing under the Texas anti
trust law. County attorneys over the
state have been Instructed by the at
torney general to proceed against all
delinquents, the penalty being from
$50 to $1,000 and imprisonment in The
penitentiary Of from one to ten years.
Twenty companies in Fort Worth are
involved.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-02

Washington, September 30.-News of
the disastrous fight between troops of
the Ninth infantry and the insurgents
in the island of Samar yesterday was
sent promptly by General Hughes,
commanding in that island, to General
Chaffee at Manila and by him trans
mitttd to the war department. 1t
reached the department during the
early hours today and Adjutant Gen
eral Corbin at once made 1t public af-
ter sending copy to the White House.
General Chaffees dispatch, which
agrees with the Associated Press dis
patch is as follows:
Manila. September 29.-Adjutant
General. Washington Hughes reports
from Dasby Southern Samar: Tween
ty-four men Ninth reg ment, United
States infantry. wounded. Have Just
arrived from Balaniga; roma nder
company killed. Insurgents secured
all company supplies and all rifles ex-
cept twelve Company was attacked
during breakfast; company seventy
strong. Officers Thomas A. Connell,
captain; Edward A. Bumpus, first lieu
tenant; DR.. r. S, Griswold, major sur
| oaOn osconnd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

to hold Marat to account reckon without
Mr.. Bax Follows a passage which would be
funny if it were not pathetically wrong
headed.
And now to the part played by Marat in
these events. That he did not, with one eXcep-
ton which shall notice presently, 1nStisate
the massacres is perfectly clear. The Sections
of Paris had begun to act for themselves
Marat and his Committee of Supervision at most
took control of the movement which had already
begun spontaneously But did Marat try
to prevent the massacres? Did he express dis
approval of them? To the first question 1t must
be answered that to prevent to dam the
powerful movement which had now seized the
whole of revolutionary Paris was beyond the
power of any man. Roland. Minister of the In
terror, could not have done it, even Danton, the
Minister of Justice. could not have done it,
These functiOnaries would simply have been
disregarded had they issued orders to the Sec
tons 10 hold their hand But it may be said
that Marat was more powerful for the moment
with the Partisan pOpuace than any official
organ of the State; this is true. but
his power lay in his being the nucleus and en-
bodiment of the dominant revolutionary feeling
carried to its logical conclusion. Marat like any
one else. had he opposed this feeling, this pOpu-
lar instinct of self preservation. would have once
and forever lost his influence. The second qUes-
ton We must answer with decided negative
Under all the circumstances which have
given in a few words, Marat did not and could
not. without being false to his principles, disap-
prove of the idea of justice being melted out by
the people themselves to acknowledged traitors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

indeed naively sanGune in the matter. He has
had more than one predecessor who has taken
a lenient not To say admiring. view of his hero's
character. and blandy remarks that the SIAN
derous portrait of Marat as person of shady
life or. still worse. as an 'inhuman monster has
already fallen To pieces the first touch of
criticism and honest investigation" This
find rather droli. Certainly MIR. Fax despite al,
his efforts. fails to prove his case. fails to de-
monstrate that Marat was not an inhuman mon
ster.
Mr.. l!ax begins his book with a brief sketch
of eighteenth century political conditions. He
then travcTses Marat's earlier years, his oCcupa-
tons in England. and his labors scientist and
physician he follows these pages with
count of the mans first political activities and
before he attacks the subject of Marat's work
Deputy ne treats Of him briefly lover and
husband So far the work passes muster. though
the author takes his man in science. in medicine.
in journalism and in politics perhaps shade too
seriously. 1t is. however, when he begins to
deal with such events the massacre the
Abbaye that he excites compassionate smile.
We have some significant words of Marats
which Mr.. Bax. glad to say, is candid
enough To quote. What is the duty of the peo-
pie? The last thing it has to do and the safest
and wsest is to present itself in arms before
the Abbaye. snatch out the traitors especially
the Swiss officers ard their accomplices. and put
them to the sword. What folly wish to give
them a trial! 1t is all done; you have taken
them in arms against the country. you have
massacred the soldiers why do you spare their
officers. incomparably more culpable? The folly
is To have listened To smooth takers who have
counseed to make of them only prisoners OF
war. They are traitors whom it is necessary
only To sacrifice Immediately. since they can
never be considered in any other light" Merely
to put such words these paper is to incur
u frightful responsibility. But il are inclined
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

official. is necessarily by instinct a liar and a
prevarlcator in matters which concern his col
leagues and his department, even though in
private life he may be man of the strictest
integrity and the most scrupulous truthfulness-
Furthermore for Marat, crimes committed
under the guise of performance of official duty
and commonly condoned this ground at
most mildly censured indicating excess OF
zeal, were the most heinous of all crimes. and
therefore demanded the severest punishment
The foregoing may be unpopular doctrine but
as long it is unpopular we venture to assert
that pure and just administration will remain
the exception in the body polite, it has been
up TO the present time
In these words we perceive the cloven hoof OF
the crassly prejudiced critic of existing insti-
tutions- We recommend Mr.. Bax to read that
powerful novel OF Charles Reade's 1t Is Never
Too Late to Mend He Will learn from the
book what he evidently does not know now that
corruption in one part of the body polite does
not necessarily mean that the whole body is
corrupt; he may learn. too that it is possible TO
sympathize with the unfortunate without de-
nouncing all those in authority as wicked men
The truth is that over this whole volume there
is the trail of the historical whftewasher the
man who has made up his mind TO believe in the
virtue of a creature regarded generally as a
rascal and a beast He makes a brave show OF
facts and documents. but neither his documents
nor his facts sufficient 10 justify his lofty
conception of Marat's character. The reader
Of his book who came to it altogether unfamiliar
with the history Of the French Revolution
would scarcely guess that the time had been
marked by some of the most bestial crimes that
the world has ever seen. and that Marat was a
conspicuous figure in the movement that pro-
duced them That MIR. Bax fails to give his
pages the faintest tinge of the emotion of horror
which must spring from serious contemplation
of the time seems to 10 argue not so much
scientific calm as an extraordinary insensitive-
ness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

now that governmental justice had. by it's acts
refused to deal with the matter At the same
time. we should emphasize that Marat is only
directly responsible for the popular action
one of the prisors-namely. that of the Abbaye.
What amuses in this solemn nonsense is
the writer's inability to perceive that his excuses
for Marat not excuses at all. that if man.
kind continues to regard him as an inhun,an
monster, it is because an honest man is expected
To protest against crime. and TO make an effort
to prevent it. whether. circumstances are against
him or not. Mr. Bax is very anxious tu dis
tinsuish between his hero's personal responsible
ity and that of the people with whom he was
identified but We notice that when he comes 10
the trial and execution of Louis XVI he finds
1t easy to look at things from a different point
or view. Whatever may think he saws
as Tn the King having been urged to his acts of
treachery and cruelty by persons of stronger
character than himself, who surrounded him. we
must not forget that these acts were done in his
name ana with MS consent even where they
were not effected by his express orders" Oh
viously. it is all question of whose. OK is beinr
gored The amable Mara, is not to have on.
feathers weight placed upon his shoulders that
can possibly be diverted to some one else Hut
poor Louis, Of course. must stand for eyerv-
thins' The truth is that Mr.. Bax has certain
" 'N''i''io iucas "hich apparently make il i'm
possible FOR him To avoid prejudice ON both sides
of the question with which he has attemntad ;,
deal. He says:
Marat knew that the official person the MEM
DER of the bureaucracy, is by nature a liar His
position carries with it that he should be pre-
pared To falsfy fact in the interest of the bureau
of which he is a member. That Marat was RIGHT
royal commissions. blue books and independent
Investigations galore afford us evidence MOI
SO MANY years ago. on some facts being brought
out on the evidence of prisoners with regard to
question of prison administration the Home
Secretary of the day begged the House of Corn
mons not to attach any weight to the statements
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

JEAN PAqi, MARAT- The Peoples Friend, By
ernest Befort BaX. With Illustrations Octave
PIP Xii, S53, Boston: Small. Maynard & Co
This Is one more of those books through which
divers authors are endeavoring to readjust the
popular conception of certain figures conspicuous
In the French Revolution. Naturally the forces
underlying that great upheavaI have been the
better understood ii has receded in time
from the point of view of the historian enabling
MN TO study it in an clearer and clearer
perspective. For the dsinterested searcher after
the truth-truth so very difficult to apprehend in
the cloud and fury of the period-we have of
course. nothing but respect. OF Mr.. Bax's good
faith we make no doubt But with the best will
in the world we cannot attach much weight to
his book He has set out to prove that Marat
the peoples friend" neither a dema-
gogue' nor 'madman but a statesman who
differed. however from most statesmen, in that
he possessed definite principles to which he re-
manned steadfasty loyal and which he logically
sought 10 carry into practice" He thinks that
his pages should suffice to prove his case and is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12
AITHIS.
BY C. CONSTANT LOUNsRERY.
YlSS

u CtNSIANE IOCNSBERY.
foreu hee. 4tthts. long ago,
Loved thee, nay. breathe il soft and low.
For all its shattered sweetness. So
fored thee. Attkis. hong ago.
Once, more than life thy slightest curl
loved to touch to call uline-CSirI-
Thou wonder wrought in rose and pearl
How Time has changed us in this whirI,
Yea. then thv hands about my brow
Were more than all these Iaure!S. how
They thrilled ME uttering every vowt
L cannot quite forget-Canst thou?
iored the; scarcely could saw
Il love thee in that bygone day:
Too sweet thing it seemed to pIay
The changes on Said / Away?
All. Wild regrets DER ruinSl Sweet
Too Maynard are Loves steaIthy feet.
How all my rhythmic pulses beat
The sad refrain relax. repeat
i lorcd thee. Att3iS. long ago.
Loved thee. nay, breathe il soft and low
For all it's shattered sweetness. so
torCd thee, AtthiS. long ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

of convicts. which he represented necessarily
unworthy of any credence whatever: but. on
the other hand to be always ready to accept the
explanations of persons in authority. at least
until they were traversed by the most conclusive
evidence Now this. we fear. is still the popular
attitude toward the official class. IL is the
contrary of Marat's attitude. it is of the
facts of history and of comparative psychology.
The convict. il is true. e., the man presum-
ably of more less criminal tendencies-may
not be the most reliable of witnesses. but he is
not necessarily or invariably liar On the
other hand. the bureaucrat. the functionary. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12
A SONG.
by WALTER HOGG.

HY WAITER HOtiIE
When pallid Dawn comes up the sky
And day and night for moments brief
Touch hands and lips the waking sea
BethinkS her of some ancient grief.
Haggard and wrinkled. gray and grim
She means the burden of her care
The ghost of that wild thing that leapt
BY day the winds wild sport to share
Belize the voices of the dead
Tossed in her bOundleSs charmed cayes
Since mans first ship was drawn to death
Haunt her above her beating waves
Or else there presses on her heart
The weight of immemorial age
Before the sun brings back TO mind
Her youths eternal heritage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

There be those who delight in arguing
not women the equals. in art and litcra-
ture. OF men. IL is wcariSome topic which
we have no intention of discussing: but there
is one point related to it which receives such
striking Illustration in contemporary literature
that we cannot refrain from noticing il. Was
there ever Il time in the history of the world
when women did as much literary work rs they
are doing to-day: The quality of their puliica
tons, whether good bad. does not concern
lis. 1t is the mere quantity ami variety Of
novel may he most conspicuous i'll this fed hut
ii does not by any means occupy Il diSprppor-
tionite amount of space, nor does poetry. which
we have been accustomed to look for Just after
fiction. Science and history find their celehrants
among women: books on art constantly ap-
pearng with their names the title pages;
works gardening and kindred themes repre-
sent them in large numbers; Impressions of
travel ar" constantly published ny women; thcy
give us numerous volumes on sport and noun
tainceIing ana these have nothing academic
about them. they are the work of women who
have passed through experiences as exciting
and as pcrilouS those which are commonly
supposed To befall men alone. biography of
course is always being written by women; in
England the number Of women who publish
their ancestors II really impressive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12
THE LARK.

The prettie Lark, climbing the welkin clear,
chants with CHER. heir, peir near my dear.
Then STOPPING thence seeming her fall to rue.
Aclieu, she says. adieu dear. dear adieu.