Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - December 23, 1887, Galveston, Texas to Company Wholesale Dealers in Dry Notions Boots Shoos and Hats j DOT J fiom era lu who would hf to Kivo ua F union OPERA IDS THE OF THE WORLD r VOL NO 241 TEXAS i3 ESTABLISHED 1812 SPECIAL WASHINGTON NEWS GRAND WAYS AKD MEANS COMMITTEE REVISED Death of Congressman ment Reform Bulterworth Recommended Commercial TRAVELERS We have now lor an Railway Map OF Tme to Data of Railway in operation la towns upon Hue distances with accuracy towns In 1000 and over lOo By Hall Ifco H BELG 4 PUBLISHERS GO OE Full Blast WASHINGTON December Tho sneaker fully Intended last night to tho ways and means committee to-day but at tho a hitch occurred prevented him from leg out his wishes The formation of tha new and means committee as revised to night had been made and it will the following well-known members and their rank on the committee Is aa here K Q Mills of Texas chairman democrat Benton of democrat C II of iv C F o democrat IS S Cos ot democrat W of Indiana demo cmi Tamer Georgia crnt W L oil West Virginia D Kelly republican Thomas M Brown of Indiana B- Keod of Maine re- Wta of Ohio of The repeated statements that H- of Lcalf Inua was to huva a place on ths nre not bv tUe air Osy xot be Mr of JIM to-night or Mi1 of Ohio Tiie action oil jibe to-day in the give discharged employes extra pay to the com- on case a gloom the to that by tbe death or Congressman Michigan By referring tha resolution to the particularly means death to the resolution acd will to home and do without The who were on the roll acd friends of ex keeper wid worked for hts re- election It has In the pist to of this kind a month's pay but retrenchment and reform is being cut Tie death of Congressman fat cf Michigan makes the third death in this home In City and a mark ot the tsuite to meet on the 4th of January Bills were to-day By Senator To extend tha laws of the United States except of those viding tor Che pre-emption of timber culture and t Jano entries cf public 1 over It alto creates the land district ot By Senator For the erection of a at Helena Ark THK HOUSE COLO BODIES OF PERSONS FROZEN cf Sc to Sudden Changes MAKK OP the met to day tbe desk recently pled by Mr Moffatt of who died In Providence moraine draped in emblems of mourning and decked wilb Mr Adams of Illinois offered a resolution for lie payment ot a month's salary to the honee employes who were on the rolls on December B bet who liave been charted or may be prior to uary l Mr Bland ot Missouri to refer the resolution to the committee on nays 01 Beraman of Oregon a tion increasing the membership of the com- on livers and to seventeen to on Kan December farme 1 Barred L C Clark living near connty went to on Monday fcr the of getting coal Kelt more irg lie was found abont six miles from The animals were also Clark's wife and three children had in ths meantime nearly perished A brother and sister named Robert ani Sarah residing In county found without fuel San Cay They tore down a abed to burn the lumber and that night all bat a amount which had stolen from them In the tho man went to Horace home until nearly mid- eight and Sue had been without all He tiled to revive fitter bit to avail reported from l that of a farmer l Cunningham's Plantation is one sugar estates in the south and its products rank first-class load after carload of both Sugar and Molasses are now coming in and selling rapidly Please correspond with us placing your orders and you will serve your inter- ests thereby We are prepared to fill large orders from jobbers as well as ordinary orders from ers and all mill be pleased with the transaction HOUSTON Eon cf Louisiana and Kane of New died before congress assembled In the last congress were seventeen Mr ot Ohio who has been at death's door for the past week la ise not yet out of danger The death of Representative Moffatt day will in all probability be the means of a democrat being his Ha was the successor ot the notorious Jay A bell who wne the bulldozer in the Gsi field Hancock campaign Hubbell will it Is said be nominated by the republicans to succeed Moffett but It Is doubtful If he ccn be elected as he is unpopular while was the most republican in tie tha resented by a democrat it will give tha democrats a and safe majority should the election of a president be thrown in the Representative Hare to-day recommended W A Squires for postmaster at Henrietta over which there has been a bitter contest there being abont twenty applicants The postmaster at Flatonia Fayette having Representative has recommended 6 B The newly selected is not related to the con- gressman Judge Moore has received a letter from Marshal Kanila of the Western district saying lie will not resign the as he had Moore says kin baa splendid officer and the re- consideration of his plans has simplified possible complications in the selection of a successor George of and Judge Hancock of Austin left for home this leg Hancock would not have been able to have gone had EOS the clerk at the hotel gone in hot pursuit of him at the depot to give him his pocket boat with about in 1C he had left behind him A minute more it would hiva been stolon THE SENATE in his death the delegate zeit a bereavement and his icn a wise and able congressman I SSr Borrows then offered a ot were adopted of the regret witu which taa I house had heard of air f providing tcr tha appointment of joint committee of savan three senators to intend the funeral I ar J escort the of the deceased to j tie place of burial j Louse then at as a mart of re- I to the memory of the deceased ad J om ued to meet on January NEWS PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMISSION WASHINGTON December report of tbe commission to investigate the affairs of the Pacific railroad will not be sent to congress by the president after recess SUBMITTED The secretary of taa treasury to trans- mitted to congress estimates to meet the deficiencies in tee expenditure la the departments of the government for the fiscal year ended Juno SO and prior years amounting to He alao an estimate lo meet the urgent demand the for the fiscal year ending 36 and a schedule of claims to allowed by the auditor on the readjustment act ot ISSo The president will receive on Sew day according to the usual programme Tbe president will be assisted by Mrs Cleveland and the ladieu of tha cabinet Cleveland's Saturday afternoon re- A family of loar The honea were aad tUe wes obliged to abandon the wagon aid walk t the nearest A two-year old child fioz to in ite father's arms before was reached Ntb December the organized county ot Perkins tbe j of a man and boy Is reported Thay I were to make their ranch l from when a storm j them Both were to 1 man named John Brant who htd been on construction work on lie Black hills the river road was found dead a mile ont from on the Kansas line dead have been discovered although g Is reported as being very EP La December day vas extremely cold ice forming f et iu into sleet and hail this after To night at ac early hirer the er lias moderated bat the heav- ens more Tex December 22 his kein tie and day this at the Windsor hotel of Iran O the exhibit to The Iros eiUd'iit- crop to in is mcch ot while by a from lit iron Kin company of that four in the cnt and proved to bo well adapted to the manufacture ot bar iron Each specimen stood a test of over to the ana aa assayed 60 percent pare Iron A DARKY AND WE IS BROS 13 Dry Goods Shoes Hats Eta Invite of new Alont Seasonable Which wlit Wft tin pr to line A THAT IH Ed C Joe Spirting Ken Elfven Shots it Each Other but Hit Man He Puts Disunite Cartridges n His Big Result O colored living wo or west city placed some dynamite car in the oven of bU to thli morning Boon after explosion took place nearly destroying bU house bis IS daughter and an in- fant 1j rnr old and Injuring teir atd BIS trite CONVICTED But Comes a for iLe to the Governor Tex regular blizzard straci this place before and since that time vro bave had a norther Tha Vex December who has been on trial since Tuesday np charged with the murder of D jc Licy a negro in Temple on June 3 last WM con- cf in the district coart here evening and his testtd at two years in the penitentiary Bat with their tha jury brought In a to tbe by every member asking that the man bs The petition for pardon forth idence adduced oc the trial charge ot the and the of the jary A similar petition will aUo be by the whom be was tried the attorney and other prosecuting cf is A petition from citizens hero known tbe prisoner for will ajro to Governor Ross The killing brought aboat made bribe Lacy abont of brother Ttx December Kd C Helton Joe two of the proprietors of the Rambling rooms got into a difficulty ia re- gard to the cse of one of the poker In the building and after an angry of tried the effect ot festive tlx shooter Eleven as neither participant bnt with to a local The room filled with men at the time tie began but rant called a majority away and the room being clear the men were left In good petition to practice their k Ed ot fnu Hattoa ia a mill before he died shot shot aad d It from hU very walked over to fallen weapon picked It up Bed the picnic spattered the on tLe faro table ued hio on the right jaw the spinal col an n r.lijctlag a that will Hatton fired bis f Inn and shot hit a and napped pistol twice Ia the meantime placed a star with no results Alter the fan had aud Cutler Meadows in oit of the wet A held at to decide amount of bonds and after Irg tbe testimony of the bond o wae fixed at with Alax C C llcuartney ana Jerry mm band was pat at with Alex as After the walked if to the White Elephant and his wi'Cud before a then entered a carriage acd hosie Dr Kin and apoc examination pronounced the wound as very from and In in the Bank room for six or seven was former proprietor of tha White saloon of city men aie well known to the sporting ciry cf the state The V In the Atl from 3 till r will begin on I stood at S moraine and January 7 and be continued on Jt is still turning colder CHRISTMAS I We Have for tho holidays anil Also to tho best Chat Leville O LI net St St and Clarets I- HauB I Martell Cognac antl I for Christmas Trees GUST HEYE CO A Ask our salesman to show a sample ol our CIGAR iJ you wist Road Cart Free 10 JUST 1000 Barrels Louisiana 500 Barrels MOLASSES TEE with oar corn without on corn oats sped etc etc I hn best Mill 10 asd 12 Commerce St December Introduced a to provide for the ment of claims for damages by Indian depredations He said there were some claims aggregating some CCO or It was a shame that for thirty years congress had declined to take action on these claims The was referred to the committee oa Indian affairs Mr Basils from the committee on epi- demic diseases reported a authorizing the removal of the quarantine station from island It removes the station to some other Island In the gulf of Mexico or to some pass In the Mississippi delta Calendar The senate tien toot up tbe joint tion introduced on the lash in- stant proposing a constitutional en the subject of marriage and di- vorce and prohibiting bigamy and The proposed amendment is In following Congress shall have power to legislate on the subject of riage and divorce by general laws cable alike to all the states and territories and neither bigamy nor polygamy shall or be permitted within the Halted States or an place subject to their tion Mr Dolph addressed the senate in anp port of tie joint resolution the of marriage relations of the many varying marriage and divorce laws in the several states of the union and of the propriety of having a tem governing marriage and divorce throughout tha United States He denied that he wna Influenced in Introducing the resolution by any desire to pave the way for the Utah as a state and alter giving a sketch of the history of tbe Mormon church he declared his opposition to tSe admission of Utah as a state co long as there was any possibility for the continuance of the domination of the Mormon hierarchy At the close ot his re- marks the joint was ordered to 119 on tbe table Mr Cullom Baying that he proposed to submit some remarks on it after the reassembling of tho senate The senate bills to establish two tional land offices in Colorado and to re- move the political disabilities of Abraham C Me i era we re taken np and passed The presiding the of a special committee to the condition of the five civilized tribes of Indians as Messrs Butler Morgan Dawes Cameron and Mr Teller introduced a to provide fa r education of Indian children Referred Tie senate then on motion of Mr son went into executive and attar half an hour open session was resumed when a message from the house announced the death ot Representative Moffitt of Michigan Oa motion ol Sir Balmer the usual resolutions of regret were adopted and a committee was appointed consisting of Messrs Palmer Teller and Jonss of Ark tLe alternate Saturdays throughout the Government receipts so far this month amount to being an excess of over the disbursements for the period Hon T Williams of Maryland lobe secretary of tbe legation to Brazil O B minister to Turkey Also tha following among other J C Gilmer Honey Grove Tex J H Harrison Sulphur Tex C arkana Tex C II Adams B A J O Taylor Ttx H JE Tex 13 B Carlisle ot Haw Orleans to be to Bolivia J G Walker of Texis to be consul at Bogota HEW IN V a to that Which curred in HEW evening paper says ibis city is in danger of an ex- plosion to that which occurred In Rochester yesterday It points out that a five-inch pipe runs entirely across tho island at street and Hudson and and is used liy tbe Standard Oil company as a line be- tween its works at Weehawken J and Hunter's Point L I It says that though it was supposed the pipe was to be used for crude petroleum nothing to pre- vent its use for naphtha and that under Euch circumstances a leak could toe sewers and other numerous with dangerously explosive gas I is suffering terribly CriT er continues to moderate in this city of Kansas To-night tha is above and is slowly rising Encouraging reports are coming the west which go far to remove tbe impression which seems to have gono out that there Is extreme in ras from tbe lack of food and fuel Walla them undoubtedly been isolate J cases of death and of Iroin a scarcity of or coal is no doubt that tha condition of bten greatly exaggerated by irresponsible pardons A from Arkansas City near tbe Territory line less than one inch of snow fell there and thit there has been no suffering there whatever adds that the people of Arkansas City wonld be glad to seed presents to tastr Agreed to by lint Upon by tha Othar Br Louis Mo December special from L T says nothing definite has yet in the Cherokee election troubles Thursday night Special Agent Armstrong drew np the following was agreed to and signed by the Downing We the undersigned as representative men of the parties to which we belong re- cognizing the emergencies as an apparent came do bereby agree to best efforts to have tlie national by common consent meet to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of re- and computing as tho law provides tie vote cast at tbe recant election August agreeing that the matter of ao con- vening the council shall not be by ua taken hereafter as a precedent nor made the basic of future argument The have not yet agreed to It Their leaders drew np another paper de- the same condition of aft Mrs that before the seizure of the executive office by Chief Mays and signifying their willingness then to compromise eastern friends if the will known their individual necessities Clark county Kaa which has re- poi ted as being the region where the most prevailed sends an emphatic de- nial ot tbe c lories to the to-night through Hon A L Cowden at the county seat Ur Cowden storm abated was a strone wind only four ol enow fell and the thermometer did not go below zaro Ko suffering or of life is reported throughout following Co tha Associated from in the south central ot tbe state was The only effect o: tbe at this place has been to stop work on maar now being erected here Plenty of coal here and there has been no scarcity season dispatches to News from points within a radius of miles indicate that there has been no suffering from the cold There are EO advices of any scarcity of food or fuel The backbone of the blizzard is broken and to-day was bright and sunshiny NO SUFFERING THAN USUAL CITT Kan December conversation with the representatives of tbe eleven counties southwest of Kansas the learned those conn ties lias been no more suffering from ibe cold snap than is usually experienced by people who are provided against sucu I emergencies by clothing food and fuel Xo deaths have been reported from tha cold I and the people are well provided with food i aid fuel the coal famine having come to i an end abont two weeks ago The Sentinel of this city has correspondents In twelve from whom it hears regularly and it osn authoritatively that in tha lies of Scott Wichita Breely Hamilton I Kearney Finney Grant i Morton Stevens Baward Gray and i Held there has leen no more sugaring I the usual Inconvenience from cold in any G from Norfolk i e Cape Henry the i Catherine W M j from had encountered sprung a leak The crew were kept at the from Saturday until Sunday when the and they were Almost ex- The captain and steward were drowned The taken aboard also by Ibo storm and she wa towed here with aeven feet of water la the hold BLOWS OCT TO SXA December 22 A sale with rapidly railing ter began at I o'clock to-day from the southwest changing as it increased to the northwest with snow squalls At p m he wind suddenly increased to a hurricane from the northwest reaching a velocity of over sixty miles per at ucd still continues ara a as toe sea is very A of which tils aftercocn have nearly all put more or vessels which to coxe in were oat to JiAR December un known schooner struck on bar aid has colors down for ance W THE supplier when about ten miles of place collided with a work train which had on board abont 200 laborers Fireman 1 avis of Cherokee died from the of His Engineer Caffel it in a ical condition having received In- la the and internally Many ot the were slightly injured A COLLISION CiX December 22 This log a collision occurred on the Northern now known the Onto and Kortl western toad at a paint three and one half miles Tha Montgomery accommodation coming and the outgoing passenger going met at Bloody llao engines were MrE Pr.i-.tor living at Bouth Norwood were Collins had an ankle broken by j Glasgow had a leg broken a badly maenad foot Charles passenger Injured lace That the the A Three Livei Lost The huge wave at Baracoa on the 4th was the result of a three days blow or norther At 4 o'clock p m an wave was seen from which the people fled toward the The wave struck the beach and broki and flowed la about feet Nearly 550 buis and houses were destroyed No sere lost The beach was swept clear of every habitation that stood upon i- The rocks which previously were covered with f artb were washed clean Tae nor of Baracoa telegraphed to the for nid for the houseless It was not a tidal wave f j i attend the funeral at the deal THE Meteorological reports received at Galveston December SQ 1887 at 2 p m Observations at tho same moment ol time at all December A Daily News special from Topeka Kas lays the Wind last fl 8 San Palestine 30.20 82 58 80 28 58 30.121 13 16 NE 00 NE 6 M N It in western Kansas has greatly Improved during the past four hours The weather has moderated and the supply of coal is being increased Twenty I loads were shipped to-day from the ECH Topeka and Banta Fe mires in Colorado which will at once to towns most in need of fuel it is believed will supply destitute localities for one week and railroad of- think b that time they will be able so the demand Every effort is tcp node by the company to get from 1 a m For eastern Light rains warmer to 11 variable northwesterly cu Kan fitting by a falcon Drinking Tex December Mike an employe on the Fe road walked into the of T C Branton this morning and took a near the stove Boon he was observed breathing card anil acting strangely eo a physician was called in who pronounced him dead Fitzpatrick has been working lor tbe Santa Fe abont two years daring which time has been on many in Temple and was getting off a big drunk when he died Excessive drink was tha cause to which the coroner attributed death FOB THE Went Adrift in the Wanted to Keep a Sharp Lookout lor It NEW December The owner of the big astray on the Atlantis has sent a fully steamer In search of it and Collector Magone sent out the revenue V S Brant to search for it and warn vessels to look ont for it as a dangerous customer to run afoul of Livingstone Tex December 22 caee of the State against J JS R Freeman charged with the murder of Mil to a wick has been on trial Monday The jury in halt an hour after the case was sub- mitted to them returned a verdict of not res OF The in the are Acquitted in e CHICAGO Ii December The trill of Dr St Dell and Captain Freer Indicted for conspiracy in aiding oi W J came to a gulden close this noon The at- acknowledged in open coart that be had cat to and Judge Collins ordered tba jury to brine In a verdict of acquittal and the state the other indictments against them Too Captain ct BJake who has kept iu Canada since the escape till HOS C tive Be c C ot Michigan died ai 7 this morning at MRS T WILSOX WACO Tex Mrs John T Wileon wife of tie the St Charles hotel died to-night Cherokee County Iron waa to a I Tie WM I M Cotton at Alto ALTO Tex December The Farmer's alliance made heavy of cotton GOODS Tex December 22 The Dreebin Lewis stock of that some days ago by H B Co and others has been ordered to be Deware will cell the In and continue the same from day the is disposed ot Due of date of sale will be given Also saloon stock aud hotel of O f Crosby who was attached a few ago Ocean December chant Prince December K F thews New Orleans for Heral December Amy Dora New Orleans LIVERPOOL December bany and Texan New Orleans Kiw December Steamers Cardiff old Yucatan Liverpool or WIGHT i December 22 Kew Orleans for Bremen Macs Decomber Biberian from Glasgow B from Antwerp Botn liad teavy weather December Trave from for rter
