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Department OF

Department OF ry,s.
Agriculture, insurance ~ reSss.
Austin. Texas, January 20 l'oS
To all whom 1t nay concern
I9 ss5iI n y paul FIRE AND MARlESHE NJ,
bas ia ali respects folly ampliea VEN '1 10
~ uo oalS5rsnv holds a certificate OF anShoI
~ froa this offlce emitting Il 70 aS the
ness In this state for one year, az Ssv
ist day Of January, 1903 70 'ns
OF DeeeInoe Gwen under my hand e .p
seal seal. az office u A taTs writ W.
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ten Commissioners.
o. COTTON & Bro Agents
Houston. Texas
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One Mans Experiences.

s!ngleton--Is It true that married women
so through their hnsbanda pockets,
wederiy--Mine Doesn't
slngletcn--Is that sos
wedeEiy-rt 20. When abs sets % ths
bottom OF them aha stopA
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Coal Strike Inquiry.

Philadelphis. Pa, January So.--Wirn mo
execution OF the presentation OF statistics,
ne Goa Operators closed their case beeore
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.rz-rNNrv-rhere IS much sa q g sgeI.
~ - aver tho appolntlnent 81 ~ S a, lie
iw sa ,rare az tie new disuieI sSs.-
IA 4 native OF Collin eounJ'
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Master Commissinner

k,ss- VitIhle annual meeting OF the Young
anoc, s,ssaal Real Estate and building
les vas adjourned Ia meet al
p'tes ~ (, tHnesday. February 8. ia the
4 Trees. House. for the election
Iavs MO- y. The amending Of the by.
|'ssztd OT tFansacting Of any business
,.iseAolse, Is important that eYery
Ssshle. sacs sa.ould be present. Jas. f.
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the coal strike commission today. II Is car
pected the striking miners will begin TO
| call witnesses IN rebuttal Monday.
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ATTORNEYS DIRECTORY.

L. B. MOODY,
Attorney for First
National Bank OF Houston,
i0O9I5 Congress Avenue.
ALEXANDER BARTTLINGCK, attorney
nofarv public and United States commits
sioner Office 1010h Congress. u
MUM d MUM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CROCKETT, TEXAS.
W Il Townsend, Attorney at Law ana
Ina Countv National Bank. Lufkin Texas
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TILE WANT ADS
bring big results.
.src1AL NOTICES.

..------.- this day sold out my
k<rE-I hiys L. baden OF Galveston,
"A, hpp % ~ whom ! recommend "a
<ltss taN ia assure them that ne
~ ifiends. r s entire satisfaction.
4 -dSs &c .a sssf for tneir past patFonage
j ~ is sSaS will patronize the new
"A Harrison. .o,,e 7 viii saw thu,
',.sssIss e Harrison friends and til,
"a az Neil vii patronize me.
[S1c % ss s9ire = satisfaction. Very r
slspiee Faden, successor 10 IL,
s1slb, d rs prairie avenue.
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PROFESSIONAL.

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THE BIG STOCK OPERATORS

others would jotn IN the settling after the
break was wen under way
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Crimes and Criminals.

Mrs. Elvan Bachman of Allentown,
Pa, while suffering from melancholia,
killed her two infant children and cut
her own throat.
Washington Seligman, banker aud
broker, while suffering from a nervous
ailment, attempted suicide by cutting
his throat, at New York.
Testimony before the st. Louis
grand Jury is to the effect that $4,000
was paid to defeat the bill to reduce
the fees OF the excise commissioner Of
st. Louis.
Thomas McMasters, wealthy and a
Burgess OF jamestown, Pa, has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
three times and then hanging himself
with a halter.
Herbert Woodcock, hardware dealer
of Bridgeport, Ohio, who had been I'M
der treatment at the sanatorlum at
Battle Creek, Mich, committed sui
eide by shooting.
A mob secured the keys from the
night TAILOR at Madison, Fla, too out
Washington Andersen, a negro, and
lynched him. He was accused OF muir
dering his cousin, John Walthrop.
Semuel Temple of Montana was ar
rested at Newark, n. j., on a charge
of having blown open the safe of the
Catasauqua Steel and Iron company
and stolen 81, 900 worth Of platinum.
Lee Turner of the "Quarterhouse."
where several persons were recently
killed, shot and killed his h~alf-brother.
General" Turner, at Jackson, Camn-
bell county, Tenn. Self-defense is
claimed.
John Mcmahon, captain of a fire
company at Terre Haute, Ind, COM
mitted suicide with poison because
after seventeen years of abstinence
tie old habit reasserted itself over
him.
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Resume Of the ncWs.

\ father and son, named respective
~ Max and Karl Bradt, who were con-
victed of murder, have been executed
at ~Straubing, Bavaria. The son was
bcheaded first. The father wept when
he was brought to the scaffold.
The commemoration of the ami
versary OF the death Of Jellacio, the
former banuj Of Croatia, was the occa-
sion of renewed disturbances at
Agrain. A crowd stoned the police
and thirty-ive arrests were made.
1t is reported that Signor Marconi
has been indisposed for several days
in Rome. a physician found him on
the verge Of a nervous collapse and
ordered that he take a prolonged rest.
He is going to the Riviera.
The sultan's ENJOYS who are charged
with a paciicatory mission to the
rebels have arrived at MeliIla. Moroc.
co, with $4,000. The rebel chiefs
have chosen a new pretender named
Hubolka1er. He is a Moor of good
family.
A letter from DR.. Holloway saws
that the excavation Of the Ishtar gate
at ancient Babylon is finished. 1t is
Of imposing size. Six hundred cases
Of tiles, relics and other objects which
once decorated the palace of N6bu-
chadnezzar have been shipped to Ger
many.
It is announced that Mr.. Kruger, the
former president of the TranSyaal,
will pay a visit to St. Petersburg in
June to attend the 200th anniversary
Of the laying Of the foundation OF tie
city by Peter the Great. Mr.. Krugsr
will come with a deputation from the
Dutch town Of Zaandam, where Peter
the Great worked as a ships caTpen-
ter.
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From the Capital.

Postmaster General Payne denies
that he intends to resign.
Secretary Root has ordered a court
martial of Second Lieut.. Oliver P. Rob.
inson, Thirteenth infantry, on charges
Of being short in his accounts OF can
teen money.
Secretary Hitchcock will soon ap-
prove the contract providing for the
sale to the Stearns Lumber company
Of about 100, 900, 900 feet of timber On
allotments in the Lac du Flambeau
reservation in Wisconsin.
The record Of immigration during
the fiscal year will exceed that Of 1882,
the banner year, when 78S, 1872 was the
figure. For the first ten months Of
this year the record is $40, III, and a
total Of $4,000 is expected.
Chief Justice Fuller has ordered the
permanent release of the two Louis
vile attorneys, w. w. Watts and David
A. Sachs, who were committed to Jail
in Indianapolis last February for con
tempt Of court in connection with
bankruptcy proceedings.
The controller Of the treasury holds
that contractors who agreed to fur
nish coal to the government last win
ter, but who were compelled to pay a
higher price on account Of the coal
strike, will have to stand the loss
themselves.
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From Other Shores.
Spain is recognizing her navy.

Spain is recognizing her navy.
Nine. Emma Calve, the singer, who
took an overdose of aconite, has re-
covered.
The Philippine government has sup
pressed two seditious plays, n in
Manila and one in Batangas.
It is reported that Turkey has
agreed to buy two warships when
have been built for the Argentine Re
public.
The Brazilian commission was en-
Enthusiastically received on it's arrival
at Santiago de Chile, and will be gen.
erously entertained.
Argentina has notified Sweden OF
her intention to equip an expedition
in August to search for the Nordensk-
fold expedition in the Antartic.
The supreme court at Manila has
decided that Dorr and OBrien, re-
spectively proprietor and editor OF
Freedom, are not guilty of sedition.
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Casualties.

A quarter Of the population Of St.
Hyacinth, Que, is homeless owing 10
a $500, 900 fire. Several industrial
plants were burned.
Frank Daniels, the comedian, was
thrown from a horse at Rye, N. Z,
and So seriously injured that it will be
many days before he can return 10
the stage.
Fire at Glenshaw, Pa, destroyed the
plant Of the Glenshaw Glass company,
the Wrttmer Brick company and Jack
son and Murray hotels, and the resi-
dence of John II. Meyers. The loss
Is s100, 900, with little insurance.
The SO 900 automobile in which
Henri Fourier broke the worlds one
mile record on the Coney Island boulc-
ward in November, 1901, was smashed
between two New York electric cars
while being towed by another ma
chine.
A waterspout broke in the valley of
the Pappio river, near Omaha, and in q
few minutes the little stream was a
raging torrent. Great damage was
done to crops. Plattsrlouth was a
heavy sufferer. The damage will aD-
proyimate SIS. 900.
Thomas Collins, a tramp who had
become weakened from hunger and q
long ride on the bumpers of a freight
train, fell from the steps of a Newark,
N. j., residence and was impaled on a
picket fence, one of the iron points
penetrating his lung. He may re-
cover.
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It May Mean a Big Strike.

Chicago, May H.-The general man
ayers Of the railroads met yesterday
and decided not to grant the % per
cent increase demanded by the freight
handlers. It is said to be the inten.
ton of the roads to refuse any in.
crease or compromise whatever. This
will cause a strike if the threats of the
freight handlers are carried out I'm,
less the railroads offer to compromise
or arbitrate the indications are that
Chicago commerce will soon be greatly
reduced, If not stopped, by another
freight handlers strike.
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Arsenal Is Blown oP'

Santo Domingo, May 70 :, n
arsenal at Santiago was oio"A ueut
enemies of the present Cove .rons
Gen. Frias was killed aend t"e rbi
persons MORALLY woundeu ,varei
troops are pursuing Gen. Jose If III
who is said to be the au'l,or vhtl
explosion. The gunboat ooi INNS Z
was conveying Gen. Des' cone q
Sanchez. has been lost on othes
pada. Deschamps and lou hit tl
saved themselves in a po'.
remainder of the crew was f"
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MANY MEET DEATH
ToRNADoEs CONTINUE THEIR
WORK OF DEATH AND DE-
STRUCTiON.
TWFNTY-fOIR tilIS ARR lOSl
TWO TORNADOES CAUSE AWFUL
HAVOC IN STATE OF NE.
BRASKA.
IWfNTY-fOtR LIVES ARE LOST
LEAVES PATH OF DtAIH AND RUIN
EVERY BUILDING IN PAIN Or
TORNADO is BLOWN ~
PIECES.

Hastings. Ncb.. May GA series OF
heavy storms. two Of which developer
into the worst t~Ornadoes that nave
visited Southern Nebraska for years,
passed over portions of Clay, FRANK
lin and Kearney counties last night.
Tventv-fOur persons lost their nNes'
tventv-odd we're more or less serious
" injured and a number of others re-
ceived minor injuries and several are
missing.
Every dwelling and O~utbuilding in
the path Of the tornado was blown TO
pieces. and the financial loss thus far
accounted for will reach about S5o,ooo.
Near Norman, at the home OF Dan
lei McCurdy. a number Of relatives
and friends were spending the day,
and not an inmate escaped death or
serious injury. Two miles south If
Upland. German Lutheran services
we're being held in a sChoolhouse
when the storm struck and demolished
it. killing four Of the occupants, IN
Guiding the minister, and injuring a
number Of others.
The storm was equally destructive
AZ Fairfield, but the people were
warned of it's coming and sought Gel
lars for safety. Six dwellings were
blown to pieces at that place, but their
occupants, with a few exceptions, es-
capped injury.
More Fatalities.
A correspondent who returned from
the storm district yesterday afternoon
reports three persons killed at Cowles
and one person killed and three in
jured at Hartwell, which points. it ap-
pears; were also in the line of the
t~ornadoes.
There were two separate tOrnadOes,
both originating within a mile of Fair
field. The first n moved to the
northwest and the second off to the
southwest. The one to the northwest
passed close to the town of Pauline,
killing six persons. Southeast OF
Norman, Neb., three persons living in
the same house were killed. MANY
members Of farmers families in the
track of the storm fed fed from their
homes, while others sought shelter in
cellars. Farmers driving to town re,
port that they were unable to find
members of their families from whom
they were separated during the storm,
The nine members Of the family Of
Peter Hockinson were scattered in the
storm, but were reunited late yester.
Cay. The Hockinson house was car,
RED away and completely demolished
Many Buildings Damaged.
st. Joseph, Mo-, May &c. - Twenty
buildings were damaged here last
night by a heavy wind storm, accompa.
MED by a rain which amounted prac.
tically to a cloudburst. In South st
Joseph a dozen fran buildings were
blown to pieces. Street cars were
stopped for an hour owing to a de
moralization of the wires. The full,
extent of the damage cannot be as
certained at this time.
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A~UGRONEFF'S ARREST
LED to a Wild Story Of a Plot to A:
Sassinate the President

Butte, Mont, May 27.-A story was
started yesterday and sent from Butte
OF an alleged plot to kill President
Roosevelt, but the police denounce 4
As a pure fabrication without tho
slightest basis. The story says that
Count Augroneff, a Russian nihilist, is
uIder arrest. Augroneff is a common
race track tout and was arrested at
spokane for %defrauding Butte people
he IS neither a nobleman nor nihilist
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StNtRAl PERSONS ARE KILN.

%
ais Way -o'-in we" q the nun.
Der OF "accldehts' some fatal, in Tia
first stage of the PARISH Madrid ant.
mobile race from Versailles IN p,,
deaux, Premier Combps has forbidao,
the continuance of the contest ~
French territory. The second s,,,,
Of the race, which was TO have bas,
continued on Tuesday. included A m,
over French territory from Bordasp,
to the Spanish frontier. prani..
Combes' action will probably lead h
the ace being abandoned.
1t is reported that the Spanish poz
eminent has also forbidden the coo.
tiruance of the race on Spanish terri.
tory.
The first stage in the Paris. Nadra
automobile race from Versailles ii
Bordeaux. 343 miles. finished at nom
Yesterday. when Louis Renault dashed
a. a furious pace into Bordeaux,
Having Made a Record
run Of eight hours and twentyseysa +
minutes. An hour later VI. Gabriel ar
rived with a still better record Of eight
hours and seven minutes.
II Is estimated from the times made
that these automobiles covered sixr
two miles an hour IN the road outside
the cities. These victories, howevg,
were Clouded by a series Of accidenE,
having in one case at least, a fatal re
suit. At least two cars We're wrecked
and Marcel Renault. the winner Of the
Paris-Vienna race last year, Lorrana
Barrows. a very well known autome
bilist and Renault's chauffeur, were
seriously, it is believed, fatally III
jured, while BarrOw's chauffeur Eas
killed. Moreover, an uncOntrmed fA
port says that a serious accident oe
Cured near AngOuleme, in which Two
occupants of an automobile, the ovr
er of which is not yet known, VeFs
seriously injured and two
spects+ors Were Killed,
Tit. ,,~ - ooo.aoo.r ~, ~
IIns 49,. Ea,o - rMr
of tho pnmhar of contestants in M
race and the great sneed and power q /
their machines.
Versailles passed a night Of wild e.
citement. II is estimated that a hun
drad Thousand narsons crowded into
tine little TOWN m witness the start d |
he race Soldiers with fixed bayones
Iired the track for some distance
from Versailles. During the afternoa
word of the accidents began to arrie
and cast q cloud over the event. The
automobile club Of bordeaux received
a disnatch at a O'Clock saving that
Renault was unconscious and, ii Vs
feared. diving MANY lesser bresk |
downs and ~asuaIties are reported !
Late in the afternoon an unconfrna
report came from bordeaux that a SER
Gus accident had occurred near An
pouleme two occunants Of an autone
bile being thrown ont and injured and
two snectators killed. No names q
details was given.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

James B. Marcum was shot from be-
hind in Kentucky the other day. He
is the t%hirty-irst victim OF the feud
with which he is identified. 1t is
hoped this feud will soon be ended
now. as only a few of the parties to it
are left.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

There is a woman in a Cincinnati
hospital who is afflicted with a strange
malady which makes her sing contin-
ually. The S is very unfortunate,
but she may get over it. Ragtime is
said to be dying out.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

President Roosevelt occasionally
ses the word bully" when in an en-.
thusiastic mood. This is said to be
distasteful to several eminent authori-
ties in Boston. and somebody ought to
tell him of it.
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incl guns would be awfully unlucky
to anybody who might happen to get
into a controversy with the men be-
hind them.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

A Philadelphia man has paid $1,000
for the original manuscript of Poe's
poem "The Bells" II Poe could have
got that much money for all the poems
he wrote he would doubtless have con-
sidered himself the luckiest bard ex-
tant.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

Sir Thomas Upton is having all
kinds of preliminary sport with the
the Shamrock III. He always gets the
bulk of his fun on the other side of
the Atlantic.
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A JURY ACTS.
lndicts Two Men for Murder of Mar.
cum at Jackson. ky.

lndicts Two Men for Murder of Mar.
cum at Jackson, Ky.
Jackson, KY, May 27.-After an all
days session Of the special grand
jury to and from which the principal
witness was escorted under protection
OF a. guard of soldiers. Curtis Jet and
Thomas White were last night indict.
ell for the assassination of James B..
Marcum. The action taken by the
grand jury was prompt. and decisive
and there is a growing impression that
justice will at last be administered in
the Hargis-Cockrell feud, of which At
torney Marcum was the latest victim.
Aside from the protection accorded
Capt. }. b. Even by the militia, the
proceedings were unmarked by any I'm.
Usual incident. The work of selecting
a grand jury was brief. Only eight
witnesses were examined. Capt. Even.
THE principal witness, has been a
prisoner in his home since it became
known that he would testify. At the
time Marcum was killed he was stand
iAS DNSA'S I'LL III Tie curt mouse
door with his hand on the attorneys
shoulder. A
Squad Of Soldiers
escorted him from his home TO the
court house and back again after he
a been for two hours in the grand
jury giving testimony. The
streets were crowded during the
Journey but no demonstration was
made.
The indictments were returned last
evening after the jury had spent two
hours in weighing the evidence.
Curtis Jet is already under arrest,
having been arrested several DAYS
g on a warrant charging him with
the murder of Marcum. Thomas
White who was indicted Jointly with
Jett, lives in the mountains some dis.
lance from Jackson. 1t is said tina,
witnesses testified that he was the
man who passed near Marcum and
Even a moment before the shooting.
A deputy sheriff with a squad of sol.
d;ers started for Whites home in the
mountains last night to arrest him
Inc party carried provisions for two
Gays. Another squad of soldiers witt
a deputy sheriff will bring Curtis lett
irom winchester to Jackson to-day.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

Farmers will be interested to learn
that a millionaire yachtsman has just
laid out a fine squash court at his
summer place OF Long Island sound.
1t is quite different from the old-fash-
Toned squash field.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

II wild animals could read, they
would have the fun of their lives by
reading what the wise writer's have to
say of their habits.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

The thing that puzzles a mother
most about her baby is how it resem-
bles it's father and yet looks so much
like both George Washington and Ma
pOleon.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

An American girl has become the
Baroness Andre de Neufiize. We
should hardly have imagined that a
name like Newfies could have been
made to look SO mayonnaise as all
that.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

To put out a fire in a Nova Scotia
coal mine the ocean was turned in.
Neptune No. / can do the business with
neatness and dispatch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

When the kings of England and
Italy met they kissed each other four
times. Let us hope there is nothing to
the theory that germs may be carried
in whiskers.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

A woman thinks she is having a real
good time when she can find some
thing to cry over without actually feel
ing bad.-New York Press.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

The 81 fine inflicted upon Baron de
Rothschild for speeding his automo-
bile in Paris will doubtless be a good
lesson to him.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

An amateur baseball club at Bay
onne, N. j., has a 1~5-year-old girl
pitcher that is said to be a wonder.
And thus the baseball also becomes a
woman's sphere.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

All Ohioans do not succeed in secur-
ing federal Offices. An Ohio man has
been imprisoned for failure to support
his fsnily.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

A Northwestern university professor
says coffee is as bad as whisky. He
fails to explain whether he speaks
from experience or not.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

Russia presents its respects to the
nations and would be delighted to
learn what they are going to do
about it.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

BY keeping her hand on her own
Aoney the countess of Yarmouth will
have a powerful lever to make her
husband be good.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

1t is just as easy to lose money in
the new New York stock exchange a.
it was in the old one.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

There is more to be learned from
n living woman than from a whole
Smithsonian museum of anthropology.
Life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-29

The fellow was right who said for
tune seldom knocks at the door of the
knocker."