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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1889
Page
5
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stanley Matthews died last Friday morning. Attorney General Miller and Judge Gresham are mentioned as potential successors in reports from The Graham Leader.
The United States built the most railroad miles in a single year in 1887, totaling thirteen thousand eighty one miles. In 1888 output declined sharply to seven thousand miles.
A new law mandates that only a single bond is required of justices of the peace and public salaries are addressed. The measure tightens financial obligations for local officials and standardizes bonding rules across jurisdictions.
Ochiltree, described as a lurid bar of the tio Grande, applies for the position of minister to Mexico, signaling a controversial bid amid diplomatic postings.
The Mikado of Japan led a peaceful transition abolishing absolutism, creating a national parliament and adopting a constitutional government. The movement, planned by a unanimous people, marks a rapid leap toward civilization unseen in half a century.
Wright cites a grim report noting 328,726 divorces granted in twenty years. The New York Herald describes vast domestic misery with over 300,000 families broken by legal action, early hopes ruined, tears and estrangement.
Gen Sherman makes an urgent personal request to the president that Gen Joseph E. Johnston be retained as railway commissioner. Johnston was appointed by Cleveland and surrendered to Sherman twenty four years ago next April. The position is non political with no patronage, making ratification probable.
The Ft Worth & Denver railroads invest heavily in advertising the region as a land of opportunity. Incoming trains reveal migration from many states as people seek homes in a former stock range. Wichita County alone has welcomed at least 200 families this fall and winter with more arrivals daily.
A fragmentary quotation reflects on folly driven by others opinions and the chase for gold and glory, suggesting a warning against vanity and empty desires. The lines imply a critique of those governed by external praise rather than true values.
A group of senators and representatives in Washington discuss raising salaries, arguing over $5000 a year, with Senator Chace of Rhode Island resigning partly over pay concerns. The DallasTimes Herald criticizes the move, citing past back salary grab reactions and noting many in Congress could not earn their salaries in private life.
The piece compares 1816 to 1889 price relations, noting corn yields buy more goods now. It cites nails, blankets, broadcloth, eggs, salt, calico, and a broader farmer’s ability to trade crops for essentials, arguing farm prospects are hopeful and farm products improve.
The World reports that Chauncey M Depew has been offered the English mission within the last two days and after serious consideration has signified willingness to accept.
A damaged OCR line quotes F. Nerton on people who imagine the world on their shoulders, describing weariness and contemplation of burden. The legible portion hints at a reflective, somber sentiment rather than a news event.
A chronology tracing Texas status from Spanish discovery to annexation and statehood. It notes Spain’s claim, the 1800 and 1803 treaties, Florida exchange, Mexico’s independence, Texas Republic formation, 1846 statehood, 1861 secession, and 1865 Union restoration.
Lucy Parsons headlines Twelfth Street Turner hall celebration marking the eighteenth anniversary of the Paris commune. About 2500 attendees react as she declares a revolution is coming whether peaceful or bloody, with a single life aim to make rebels of all. An anarchist speaker later remarks they have hung the anarchists but do not dare to hang anymore.
In Amari llo Texas at about 5 am two robbers shot at telegraph operator F B Parker at the depot door after entering the office they bound hoodwinked him and opened the safe taking about 850 in railroad money. They fled, and search for the culprits continues.
The excerpt argues money is exclusively created by the lawmaking power not by farming. It claims governments serve rings and usurers, forcing citizens to work harder and save more to obtain more money. Tribane.
GAINESVILLE TEX March 20 Fence cutting is going on again in the western part of the state and farmers are very annoyed. Several miles of fence have been cut in Clay county. Saturday night one and a half miles of barbed wire fence near Post Oak in Clay county was cut by the knew their work thoroughly between the posts. Farmers are arming themselves and searching for the cutters.
The administration denounces Watts of West Virginia as a threat to the Republican vote. The Fort Worth Gazette argues his continued tenure risks corruption and questions the president’s reasons for retaining him.
A new incendiary blaze struck the Reading lumber company yard in Reading Pa this morning. This marks the fifth attempt to set property alight with a cumulative loss estimated around $40,000 to the owners.
Mrs. HS Flynn of Crockett is found murdered near her home south of the courthouse. Doctors say she was struck with a blunt instrument and an apparent neck chok ing. She lived alone with a son in Galveston last heard from. Local officers pursue the crime.
The Rising Sun Independent reports the arrest of Tascott in the murder of millionaire Snell of Cottage. Despite a large $80000 reward, authorities have not identified the suspect. recent notices come from several points, but no confirmation has been made.
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