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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1891
Page
4
Local rail notices list arrival times and connections to Weatherford, Mineral Wells, and Sarita, with superintendent A. F. McKay noting delays. Commentary criticizes health rumor coverage of Blaine and observes Ohio Democrats renominating Governor Campbell at Cleveland despite some discord.
In Padnegh Kentucky Republicans announce they will not field a state senate candidate and willback the Peoples Party nominee. The situation grows tense as political tensions rise.
At the Austin branch of the high er courts there remain indisposed of at the end of the term 1065 cases. Civil cases in Supreme Court 841, vil gid criminal cases in Court of Appeals 224. We either need more judges or better ones. Judge J. A. Warden, of Chatta nooga, Tenn., who killed his son in-law last January in a fit of intoxication, took an appeal to a higher chart last week by placing a pistol against his terople and, blowing his.
A Louisiana editor faced hours to leave his hometown after exposing elite society. He bought a Gatling gun, barricaded doors, ignored regulator orders, and posted a sign declaring he was still in business at the old site. More power to his pen.
Gohr y Alvarado young man from a Dallas home fell from a third story window last Wednesday. He landed on stone pavement, was found unconscious, but examinations showed no broken bones and he is expected to recover. A broken telephone wire reportedly contributed to the fall.
James Brown of Galveston drowned a man in the Bay weeks ago. The body was never recovered. While guilt is clear he cannot be tried for murder since the penal code requires body identification. He faces an indictment for assault with intent of murder as the sole charge available.
The notice names William Skeleton as the fattest man at 407 pounds and describes Dallas organizing a fat man’s club with a 200 pound admission minimum. A separate column quotes W. A. W. saying Alliance shows little dissension joining the third party and hopes reforms come through the Democratic party, arguing farmers can more easily steer it than build a new party to beat the old ones.
The 1892 race potential leaders Grover Cleveland and James G Blaine dominate discussion though health rumors swirl around Blaine with reports from Bar Harbor. Cleveland may face party splits over silver coinage while Blaines illness sparks uncertainty about his candidacy. An express car robbery at Texarkana on the 16th yielded about $150 after a lone bandit threatened the messenger and escaped unseen.
Early on the 14th Newberry, grandmother of three scheme children, alarmed neighbors after their throats were cut. Investigators and coroner’s inquest point to her guilt though motive remains unknown. West Superior Wisconsin suffered a cyclone causing extensive destruction, dozens killed or wounded as a house was lifted and wrecked.
The first batch of about thirty families was expelled from the Dumping Ground area by Indian authorities last Saturday. Many are destitute and claim their provisions issued by authorities were taken. A second detachment of about sixty families is expected soon as officials say the target is those refusing to comply. Residents fear the Indians mean business and some protest county relief.
A ragged scene from Petersons Weekly shows a boy weeping beside a newspaper office while a kind stranger asks what he cries about. The lad says his father has gone upstairs to strike the editor and may come down any moment. The piece reflects on debtors, delinquents, and idle men supported by industrious workers as taxes and prices rise.
In San Antonio Congressman M E Elliott says New York factional lines will merge before next year's Democratic convention with Cleveland favored for the presidential nomination. Canyon City Echo notes Foster orders resignations from absent department clerks and substitutes claiming pay, plus a Fort Worth man Thos Roche dies by suicide while temporarily insane.
A historical column discusses a new party drawing strength from swing states with Republicans, predicts no candidate will win a majority, the House will decide, and a Democrat like Cleveland or Polk ally could win. It notes Alliance ties, shifting European monarchies, grasshoppers in Kansas, and calls for more outspoken independent citizens.
A decade long county books audit reveals a $5000 shortfall in ex-treasurer Frank Gillespie’s accounts, now postmaster of Olney. Readers are reminded that political resolutions do not alter prices or crops, and gunpowder rhetoric aside, the public must support the government.
A lengthy promotional excerpt extols Texas as an economic and developmental powerhouse. It highlights vast mineral wealth, cotton and cattle leadership, expansive railways, plentiful tillable land, favorable climate, and strong public institutions. The author asserts Texas's future growth, diverse resources, and social stability. A separate note records two deaths: Rev. Corley at Selbyville and performer William Hanlon’s fatal fall at Lyons.
Arkansas City reports cattle driven off the Cherokee strip east of Rock Island railway with ejections planned on the west side tomorrow. Boomers threaten to burn cattle ranges in ten days unless cattle are removed and will burn prairies if cattle men return. The column also includes assorted editorials and anecdotes clipped from various papers.
A brief national note laments that Republicans did not allocate enough pension money to reach all their voters, suggesting shortfalls in social support funding and political impact.
A compact adage notes that mercy and generosity toward one's kin shape judgment of character. The saying implies moral value lies in daily kindness within the family circle and that such conduct forgiveness in others.
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