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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB
Last Meeting Was Held With Miss
Ella Mcknight.

The opening spring meeting of The
Twentieth Century Club was held
last Thursday afternoon March 18th,
with Miss Ella Mcknight, at her
home on West Jefferson Street.
This has been one of the Clubs
most interesting meetings. Attend
ance was good, and twas the Clubs
pleasure to have with it on this
occasion Mrs. Mcknight, the host
ess' mother.
Roll-call was answered to with
variety of interesting myths and
legends.
Old and new business attended to,
then came the lesson, from Folks
to Lincoln's administration, con-
Quoted by the teacher, Mrs. Ernest
Criddle,
1t is desired that all members give
further study to the Compromise of
1850, or the Omnibus Bill, at the
next lesson.
This lesson will also include a
general review of events leading up
to the Civil War, from 1919, to it's
outbreak. ROll-call is to be answer
ed with some quotations, or the
views of prominent men and writers
of that period, upon the slavery
question A full attendance of all
old and new members is earnestly
requested, at this meeting. At this
time may also come up the election
of officers for the Clubs year 10000,
and the discussion of the Clubs an
nual reception, or open meeting.
Miss Meningitis contest was an
unusual one and a very interesting
one, a measuring contest. The
prize, handsome cake plate, fell to
Mrs. Fears.
The Clubs next meeting will be
held with Miss Ora Miller, March
26th, 1903.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
Colonist Rate.

The passenger department of the
Houston and Texas Central Rail
road announces special low one
way colonlst rate of $25 from all
main line points to California. Tick
cts on sale February IL to June Is,
inclusive, and ii is probable that an
unusual number will take advantage
of this exceptionally low rate to WIS.,
it the Golden State. Tickets are
good for continuous passage, though
in California stop-overs will be al
lowed at all Southern Pacific sta
tions, while special rates have been
made to various points within Cali
fornia.
Especially fine equipment will be
provided, and the Pullman Excur-
sion Sleeping Car arrangements
which has been perfected assures
the traveller every comfort. In ad-
dition there will be operated free re-
clining chair cars aud comfortable
day coaches. The nearest agent
can supply all information desired
as TO rates, etc, or this may be OBJ
tanned by writing 10 :. r. b. Mcrse,
passenger traffic manager NJ. l..
Robbins, G.. z 4 T. A., or T.
Anderson, A. @. =. 4 T. A. at
Houston.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Among the Captains of Indus
try" portrayed in the March Cos
mopolitan is James b. Dill. MIR. Dill
was a member of the New York
party of capitalists who visited
Waxahachie about two years ago
and the following little character
sketch of the man will be interesting
TO those who met him.
James Brooks sDill, the famous
corporation lawyer, who has drafted
or suggested the organizations for "a
large proportion Of the corporations
formed in New Jersey, has come
to be known as the man who does
things A characteristic story
is told of Mr.. Dill. Not long
ago bAnking-syndicate in a
distant city found itself suddenly in
a legal predicament which required
immediate action-in short, papers
were being prepared to spoil a two
million-five-hundred-dollar enter
prise just at the moment of its birth.
II was decided to call Mr.. Dill up on
the long-distance telephone, and to
consult him upon provision In the
corporation law on which the sue
cess of the opposition depended. A
decision was required to be delivered
by nine O'Clock the following morn
ing, three hundred miles from New
York, and IL was then nine O'Clock
at night. On receiving the facts
over the wire at his home In East
Orange, Mr.. Dill's first step was to
send for two automobiles. One ma
chine was despatched for q stenog-
rapher. The other conveyed q
message to a clerk, telling him to
get ready to leave the city at once.
Mr.. Dill finished debating his opin-
ion just sixteen minutes before the
New York traIn..was scheduled to
leave "a station four miles from Mr..
DIPS house. The automobile, with
the clerk aboard, covered the dis
lance in thirteen minutes. Another
automobile was teiephoned for to
meet the clerk at the New York end.
He had barely twenty inmates to
cross the city and catch the mid
night express, but the opinion was
delivered on time the next day. The
document was Immediately submit
ted To the opposing attorney, vino,
on reading 1t, abandoned the injune-
tory proceedings altogether.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
A Relic OF the Alamo.

While attending meeting of the
Woodmen of the World at San An
tonic last week Attorney w. p.
Hancock visited the old Alamo
mission to see the many relics pre-
served therein. One which attract
ed more than ordinary attention
was an old execution issued by
Davy Crockett in 1918, when he was
a justice Of the peace in Lawrence
county, tennessee. This interest
ing document, while preserved in a
glass case, is showing signs of age,
the paper having turned almost yell
low. Mr.. Hancock made a copy of
the execution and it is given below
verbatim:
The State of Tennessee, County
of Lawrence:-To any lawful officer
10 execute and return. You are
hereby commanded that the goods,
ehattels, lands and tenements of
Isaac Shippman and Joseph Ian
caster you cause to be made the
sum of $3l.l9 debt and cost OF suit
q whereas William Shone OBJ
tanned judgment against the said
Shippman and Lancaster on the 10th
day Of November, 1878. Given I'M
der my hand this the 29th day of
November, 1918.
DAVID CROCKETT, j. Z.
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Tragedy Averted.

Just in the nick of time our little
boy was saved" writes Mrs w.
Watkins, of Pleasant City, Ohio.
Pneumonia had played sad havoc
with him and a terrible cough set in
besides. Doctors treated him, but
he grew worse every day. AT length
we tried DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, and our darling
was saved He's now sound and
well" Everybody ought to know,
it's the only sure cure for Coughs
Colds and all Lung diseases. Guar
anteed by Herring Drug CO., Drug
gists. Price SOC and Sl.OO. Trial
bottles free.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
More Riota.

Disturbances Of strikers are not
nearly as grave as individual dlsoF-
der Of the system Overwork, loss
of sleep, nervous tension will be
followed by utter collapse, unless q
reliable remedy Is immedi ately en-
ployed. There's nothing so efficient
TO cure disorders of the Liver or
Kidneys as Electric Bitters. It's q
wonderful tonic, and effective ner-
vine and the greatest all around
medidine for run down systems
1t dispels Nervousness, Rheuma-
tism and Neuralgia and expels Ma
lAria germs. Only zoe, and satisfae.
ton guaranteed by Herring Drue
CO., Druggists.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
Shooting at NEGROES.

Last night the sheriff's Office re-
eeived information from Midlothian
to the effect that somebody had
been shooting at the negroes on the
Kimmell farm near that place. No
one was hurt and the shooting is
supposed 10 have been done for the
purpose of giving the negroes a
scare. Deputy Sheriff Henry
Forbes went 10 Midlothian this
morning to make an investigation
of the matter.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
Cold Facts Demand Consideration

We don't ask you TO believe this
because we say it. We offer you
the unimpeachable evidence of those
whose evidence in the Byrne short
hand is measured by the results they
are enabled to accomplish with il,
the evidence of those who have had
the proof of the pudding, the evil
dence of PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO AXE
TO GRIND. We refer you to more
people who have finished shorthand
In this school the past year than
have finished this subject in all
other schools In the state combined
in the last two years, because OF the
following:
COLD FACTS.
LIST. The ByrEe shorthand can be
learned In half the time Of the other
systems.
2nd. 1t can be written one and a
half times as rapidly.
3rd. 1t 10 more easily read.
4th. 1t is more easily retained.
9th. The total expense of a short
hand course in Tyler College is not
more than half the usual cost OF
sneh q course at other places.
This is by far the largest com
mercial and shorthand school In the
south. More than 200 new students
have enrolled since January 5.
We secure positions for gradu ates.
If you would like the best business
and shorthand course, under the
beat moral and religious Influences,
for the least outlay Of money and
time, write for illustrated cAtalog,
redaesd railroad rates, ETC., free.
TYLER COLLEGE, Tyler, Ter.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Charles Stanley, an inventor of
San Francisco, is building a huge
air-ship to enter in the Worlds
Fair aerial tournament at St. Louis
in 1891. 1t is the most gigantic air
ship ever attempted, costing $780,
600, and the inventor proposes to
fly from San Francisco to st. Louis
in his machine.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
H. { T, c. Excursion Rates.

Mckinney, Meeting Board Trus-
tees Texas Presbyterian Univer-
sity etc; tickets on sale March 18th
and 18th, return limit March 2lst.
Fare $50.
New Orleans, La, United Confed-
crate Veterans Reunion; tickets on
sale May 18th and 18th, return limit
May oath, with extension privi-
leges. Fare 5000 for round trip.
r. Fl. BARROW, Ag't.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

The Missouri-Kansas zinc and
lead district is at work on a scheme
to build a large concentrating plant
at the Worlds Fair, ship four to
five car loads of mineral daily TO be
concentrated and let the Fair visit
ors see how the WORK is done in
that region.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
Pneumonia Follows a Cold

but never follows the use of
Foley's Honey and Tar. IL stops
the cough, heals and strengthens
the lungs and affords perfect secur-
ity from an attack OF pneumoia.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by b. w.
Fearis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Benedict Perry, aged twenty, of
New Haven, Conn, has turned out
some wonderful articles with jack
knife made to represent a modern
city. He intends to exhibit his
work at the Worlds Fair, St.Louis,
1904, and there will be few exhibits
which will represent more skill and
patience.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

1t has been proposed to repr O
duce Independece Hall forthe Penn
sylvania building at the Worlds
Fair, St. Louis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

The California Legislature has
decided on $3.50 600 for a State ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair, St. Louis.
This will be in addition TO the coun-
ty appropriation which will exceed
the state appropriation.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Oklahoma's joint committee on
the Worlds Fair has agreed to APP
propriate 10000 for the Oklahoma
exhibit.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Herbert w. Bowen, L. S. Minis
ter to Venezuela, reports that Pres
ident Castro will make an effort to
arrange his affairs so that he can
visit The Worlds Fair, st. Louis,
in 1894.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
.. j. ERWIN.
CONTRACTOR a. BUILDER

furnished and plans drawn
on short notice. knowledge Of the
details pertaining to
Masonry, BrIcklaying, Carpentry,
neney OF all structures Knowl-
edge, combined with skill, enables
me 10 get the best possible results.
Residence 100 North College Street,
WaxAhachIe, Texas.
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WORLDS FAIR NEWS-NOTES.

North Dakota has appropriated
$4,000 for the Worlds Fair, st
Louis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16

Prescriptions filed promptly snc
correctly at the Oriental Drug Store.
Thomas 4 Moore, pFoprietoTs. IS
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-16
X X TIME TABLE

No. 6 leaves 6 "a am
NO. &6 arrives IL -05 Am-Does not ran west Waxa
No. ~ arrives 4 AS pm-Does not run vest Naxa.
no. s. (mixed) leaves 80 am-Daily except sun.
no, q leaves :33 pm.
East Bound.
Ne Is leaves 8 30 Rm-Starts from WAxahaehie
No. ~ leaves 10 80 am.
No. q leaves sos pm-Starts from WAKahaehie
No. 81 (mixed) leaves as Im-Daiiy except sun
No. a leaves 81 pm
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
TRYING TO IhPEACH
THEODORE SHAFFER
Trial of President of Steel
Workers Next Friday.
DUE TO HIS DISAPPEARANCE
II Is First Case of the Kind in the Or.
ganization's History-Mr. Shaffer
to Make a Statement.

P1TTsBURG. Pa, Sept. 2s.-Theodore
J. Shaffer. president of the Amalga-
mated Association OF Iron. Steel. and
Tin Workers. viii be tried on impeach-
ment proceedings. The trial will take
place at the headquarters in this city
on Friday. 1t will be the first since the
organization of the association.
The charges against Mr.. Shaffer have
not been made public, but are fairly
well understood nevertheless. For two
weeks prior to Labor Day. Mr.. Shaffer
was absent from his office. although sew
eral important wage scales were to be
decided and the strike at the Port Vue
tin plate works, since lost, was pending.
Mr.. Skaters whereabouts were not
known to the public until he appeared
In Poughkeepsie. N. Y, on Labor Day.
made a brief address, and suddenly dis
appeared again. but reported at his
Pittsburg Office a day or two later.
There Is also considerable feeling
among the members OF the association
over the failure of the strike against
the United States Steel Corporation two
years ago.
The section of the constitution of the
Amalgamated Association on charges
and trials reads:
when charges are preferred against
the president OF the National Lodge. the
vice president of the first district shall
select several lodges. from which lodges
one delegate each shall be elected By
written ballot. Said delegates shall con-
stitute an investigating board. whose
duty 1t shall be TO investigate said
charges, and IL found guilty. said board
shall have the power to reprimand, sus-
pend, or expel"
The members of the trial board SO fal
as announced are Walter Larkin. o.
Lewis Avon. Lodge. Wheeling. w. Va
John Nestor, OF Youngstown Lodge
youngstown. Ohio. and Ezekiel Lomes
of the John F. Ward Lodge, Of New Cas-
tie. Pa.
The nature of the charges the delegates
will be asked to investigate win be rea'
to them by William VI. Gibson, vic
president OF the First Cor Pittsburg
district. when the meeting takes place
Mr.. Shaffer positively refuses TO talk Of
the subject, merely saying: Sooner o
later l will make a statement" Tn
other national officers are equally reti
cent.
All former presidents of the associa
ton retired with honor. Joseph Bishop
the frst president, still holds a positio
on the Ohio State board of arbitration
; John Jarrett has held several iinportan
Offices and was United States consul {
Birmingham. England. and IS now con
nected with the American Sheet Stee
Company. william weihe is in charg
| of the Ellis Island immigrant station
|, Mr.. Skaters immediate predecessor. n
NJ. Garland, was made surveyor OF I'll
: port OF Pittsburg.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
MAY USE TURBINES
ON BIG CUNAROERS
New Great Liners 800 Feet Long
to Be Equipped.

NEW YORK. Sept. 23.-That the rev
Cunard flyers. eight hundred feet long.
may be equipped with turbine engines
to obtain the speed necessary to con
form with the provisions OF the English
subsidy award seems likely. One strong
Indication OF this Is that Lord Inver-
clyde. chairman OF the company. has
named his investigating commission.
Although surprise TO the majority OF
steamship agents in this city. the an
nouncement provoked much comment
yesterday and also disclosed the fact
that the Cunard company has been
quietly conducting Investigations for
some time along this line.
From one in authority II was learned
that two leading representatives OF the
company were present at the trials c.
the turbine yacht Revolution, held more
than year ago, In these waters, ana
exhaustive reports OF her performance
were sent TO the English Office.
Many marine engineering architects
believe the limit OF the marine recipro-
eating engine has been reached In the
great Kaiser Wilhelm II. OF the North
German Lloyd feet Not as yet, how
ever, has this ship done as we'll as the
Kronprinz Wilhelm and the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, and from competent
authority II was learned yesterday tina.
the North German Lloyd may take up
the turbine.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
NEWS OF RAILROADS
AND OF RAILROAD MEN

in successful operation for the past
eight years.
In designing this locomotive the speci-
fications called for an electric locomo-
tive capable OF handling a 1.5o0-ton
train. including the steam locomotive.
but excluding the electric locomotive, on
a maximum grade of Ia per cent at ten
miles per hour, with corresponding
higher speed on lighter grades.
This required a locomotive weighing
approximately 100 tons on the drivers
for purposes OF adhesion. and thu engi-
neers of the builders decided that the
most practicable scheme was to build
an articulated locomotive consisting OF
two complete ffty-ton units operated
together as one locomotive by means OF
the Sprague- General Electric multiple
unit control.
The section OF the road to be operated
runs from Camden Street station
through the tunnel to the summit Of
the grade outside the tunnel. distance
OF three and one-haIf miles.
These locomotives are OF particular
interest to Washington, Commissioner
Biddle having decided that electricity
and not steam must be the motive power
used in the big First Street tunnel. II
is probable that the type OF locomotive
adopted for the Baltimore tunnel is go
ing TO be adopted in washington.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
zIEGLER EXPEDITION
PAST NOVA ZtMBLA
Captain Coffin, of the America,
Tells of Progress.

Nova Zembla was reached by the zieg-
Ter polar expedition on July 20. This
news was brought TO the United States
in a letter received by Mrs Edwin
Coffin. OF Edgartown. Mass. from her
husband, Capt. Edwin Coffin. who is in
command of the America, the vessel
which is carrying the party Of explorers.
William J. Peters, of the Geological
Survey, is member OF the ziegler ex-
pedition. and is the representative NJ the
National Geographic Society.
The letter received by Mrs Coffin
came by way of Hammerfest. Norway
In it the captain discusses the ex9edi-
ton as follows;
There Is vessel right ahead. and
will send this by her to you. 1 came VI
TO the ice the l4th, and have been trying
TO find lead in the ice eyer since
Reached the shores of Nova Zembla las
night at p. M, and then turned back
and will wait to push in the ice. Longi-
tude 1870. latitude 75.S2. This is tn,
farthest north ] can get now without
going into close ice. am well. and 81
are all hands. even the dogs. l an
afraid we won't get through until quite
late, as il is a bad year for ice. 1 hav,
just written short letter to Mr.. Zieg
Ter Everything works we'll on ship
board. and find the America a fine sea
boat ."
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
AM RICAN WORKING
HOURS GROW LONGER
Spanish War and Business
Panic the Causes.
UNIoNlSM IS MUCH WEAKER
Article in London Times" Predicts SAL
walton for Country in Down
fall of Trusts.

LONDON. Sept. 23.-In the course OF
two column article from an American
corr espondent the London Times"
printed an interesting review of the de-
velopment of business in the United
States.
The writer. an American, who re
turned home after an absence of nine
years. took an extended trip through
half the States in the Union" He says:
The average man in the United States
is giving at least an hour more per day
TO his business concerns than he die
twelve or thirteen years ago."
The writer attributes this increased
energy. first, to the renewed national
spirit" resulting from the Spanish
American war. and. second. to the sense
of economy. imbued from the severe de-
preston of 1S93-1s97," though he does
not overlook the display of vulgar os-
tentation and almost criminal waste by
small number of rich. idle, people in
the larger cities"
In infinitely Analysing Americas fu-
ture in the world OF trade, the writer
says:
The American is convinced that it is
only question Of time when the flnan-
cial center will be shifted TO New York
or chicago. but does not take into &C
count the fact that he has not yet de-
veloped banking system flexible enough
TO adjust itself to a commercial crisis. -
Trades unionism. the writer declares,
is weaker in the United States than
before, and while the wages in skilled
trades advance those In unskilied trades
decline
He concludes:
When the home demand declines. wher
prices and profits both in America and
every where else have come down tc
their natural level. when half or three
-four this Of the so-called trusts have
gc',e 10 the wall like other speeula-
tive companies. and finally when the
overweening desire for publicity and ad
vertising has given way TO a careful
study of the conditions in the four quar-
ters of the globe, then will American
competition become profitable TO itsel
| without being of necessity hurtful o.
dangerous to the industries of othe
countries"
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Special Trains.

Numbers Of special trains passed
through Washington last night and to-
day. A special over the Baltimore and
Ohio passed through the Capital on its
way to Louisville with several hundred
delegates on board who had been in at
tendance at the coIored Baptist convsn-
ton. which has been In session in Phil
adelphia. The Chesapeake and Ohio also
had several train loads OF. these dele
gates bound 10 their homes In Tennes-
see. Alabama and Texas. The movement
Of Odd Fellows has been heavy and both
the Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake
and Ohio have each had several specials
bringing them from the South and West.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
FOOT HELD FAST,
HE AWAITED doom
Unable to Extricate Member From
Switch Frog.

CHICAGO. Sept 23.-His face white as
paper and with a look upon IL that was
terrible to see, Albert Rutkoush was
gripped in the iron jaws of a switch
frog and saw the freight train bear
down upon him that was to end his
life.l
The accident occurred yesterday in
the Chicago and Northwestern Road
yards at Western Avenue and West
Fourteenth Street, where Rutkouski
worked as a switchman-
His dinner time had come and he had
seated himself at the side OF the track
and opened his dinner pail.
But before he began his lunch he saw
that ne had left a switch open. A few
hundred yards away a switch engine was
pulling freight cars about
Rutkousl1i left his dinner and closed
the switch Just as he turned back to
his dinner his foot caught in the frog.
He tried TO take his foot from be-
tween the rails. He found that he could
not move 1t.
He looked up the track and saw the
switch engine backing down upon him,
pushing a line of empty freight cars
He cried for help. No one answered.
He renewed his struggles to free HIM
self, and all the time the train came
nearer, coming slowly but surely
Other switchmen ran toward him. The
engineer did not see them nor the man
who was caught in the frog.
Rutkouski screamed IN terror. and
when the first car came close to him he
put his hands on to 1t as II to push ii
back
The next instant he was thrown IN
der the wheels and killed
His body was taken TO the county
morgue, where Mrs. Rutkouski and her
two children went a little later and
| identified e.