Cisco Apert (Cisco, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CISCO APERT
W. L. WILSON, Pub!!****
CISCO.
TEXAS
Was a Partner of Grant
Mart'n T. Burke, of I«a Croese,
AYis., for many vcat> a well known
business man or that city, and by
mart tage a cousin of General Grant,
is the only survivor of the few* mat
who were associated in the famous
old leather store in Galena.
SEVEN HUNDRED DROWN
1NA HORRIBEE WRECK.
BIG FIRE AT CLEBURNE
Santa Fe Shop* Suffer a Heavy Fir*
Loss.
—01* hurno.To«w July 2* •'Proper**
THINGS IN BRIEF.
NzeugCoches tobacco raisers
harvesting the crop and are ent’
laftic over the quality'1 and yi<
II
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w Y
an
Still Guessing.
“They tell me,” said the young
man, “that you are very shrewd in
sizing up the female character.”
“Well,” replied die wise bene-
dict,- “I only failed on two occa-
sions.”
“And they were?"
“Before and after I was mar-
ried.”
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Russian Papers’ Scare Heads.
Tit* present war has prodtfbed
the first heading containing more
than a single line ever published in
a Russian newspaper. Previously
the most important news had never
been so honored and the death of
Queen Victoria, was announce with-
out any heading.
Laying for the Anarchists.
The pefcee department TJfrt
York has issued orders that a stcti-
ograplKr shall be sent to take in
full all sjKtcches made in public by
unknown anarchists. The reports
will be filed in department rec-
ords and will be used, if necessary,
in prosecutions that may be com-
menced. All the speeches of ‘John
Turner, the English anarchist now
in that city, are being recorded in
this way. ,
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Astonished in Oklahoma.
Walter Damrosch says that dur-
ing his tour of the country none of
his audiences*was so enthusiastic as
that which he found in Oklahoma
City. The theater there is the most
costly for its size lie ever saw and
when the lights arc all turned on
the place is as resplendent as a
fairy palace. Mr. Damrosch was
much astonished to find that many
of the audience were in full dre>s
and that their appreciation of good
music was quite equal to their' en-
thusiasm over the performance.
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Son ot “Babbling Brooke.”
Lord Brooke, an Englishman 22
years of age and quite marriage-
able. is about to pay a visit to.this
country. He is a son of the.
Countess of Warwick, who as
Lady Brooke was a fellow guest, at
Tnaivby Croft with the Prince of
Wales {now King Edward); when
the famous baccarat scandal con-
vulsed all England. It was she
who told of the trouble to outside*
er«, this earning her nickname of
"the babbling Brooke.”
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The Strenuous Life.
'What it means to be a “clr.S
men" may be illustrated by men-
tioning the clubs of which Ashbel
1\ KiteH, who died last month in
New York, was a member. lie
had membership in the Metropoli-
tan.' the Manhattan, New York
1 aeht. Lawyers’ Germania, Ards-
Ifv. St. Nicholas, Press, A non,
Liederkranz and the Metropolitan
Club of \V'ashiiigtoq./In addition
he was president of the Franklin
County Society, a member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sons
of the Revolution. New England
Society, Municipal Art Society, the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Dunlap Society. He was also a di-
rector in a number of banks and
other large corporations.
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Turk* Moving to Egypt
A minor yet interesting migra-
tion now going on is the exOdus
of 1 urks from their own land into
Egypt. The number who have left
Syria in the past eight years is
reckoned at 140,000, and would
have been greater but for the diffi-
culty in obtaining passports. The
eagerness to get to Egypt is due
portly to the security and fairness
of the English government, and
partly to Egypt’s new era of pros-
perity. Many of the immigrants
find employment in the manufac-
ture <?f Egyptian cigarettes, an in-
dustry. 'which grow* steadily 4n
spite of the fact that the tobacco
is not raised in Egypt.
grants, bound for N
lievod to have beeu drowned in the
North Atlantic on June 28. Out of
nearly 800 souls on liourd the Danish
steamer Norge, which left Copenha-
gen June 2',-only twenty-seven an*
known to be alive, and for the rest
no ho|>e is held out.
When la-1 seen the Norge was
sinking where she struck on the
islet from a deadly Atlantic reef
some tuO miles off the wi st coast of
Scot land.
Early in the morning of last Tues-
day the Norge, which was. out of her
course in heavy weather, ran on to
the Boekall rt*ef which, in the dis-
tance, l«**»ks like a ship under full
sail.
The ethigrants, who were then
awaiting breakfast below, ran on
deek. The hatchways were soaroalv
buila for the hundreds of souls, and
became clogged.
The Norge quickly began -1o go
down by- the hold. Eight boats
s'
morning in t
I froi
n the side
r*f the sinking
ship,
mis
ami
many of
the -emigrants
who
Forty mint
wur
e left on
ird, seizing life I
wits.
were discover
thr«
■w theheeh
v- into the sea
and
built of store
Wer
0 drowned.
everything th
(
’apt. Ound-i
L sav tie* survivors.
—coach shop
k! on the 1*
ridge of the do*
titled
icg mill. In
Santa it
* it;
e this
»ps at
Th
1 after the flames
these ' buildings,
were in ruins and
hev contained was lost I
paint shop and plan
addition to this, sev-
the
and
quarter
on
...I*.
sM until it
The Norge
and some six
v.iihl be seen uo mom
foundered suddenly, |
hundred
to ashes.
The. foreman
emigrants | The. foreman of the mechanical
wore thrown int^the water or drawn j department states that in his opin-
down with the sinking of the ship, j ion the lire started in the coach
Those who could swim tried to reach i shop, although
at this hour he is
the Loats. but these were already too j not positive on that point. He also
full, and their «*ceupants heat off j wid that in his opinioh the fire was j j€teJ their union passenger depot
the drowning wretches with oars. | due to spontaneous combustion. 1 t yforgan anq jast week the inter-
new Hem?,
e are 7ICQ
Mate Confederate pension
the amount paid for the
ending July 1 was $9.00.
Several borings have been made
by ranchmen, end they claim to
have demonstrated that a vein ten
11 feet thick underlies thousands of
acres in El Paso County.
Judge Robert Symington Gold,
professor of law at the University of
Texas, died at Jus residence in Aus-
tin, aged seventy-eight years, Wed-
nesday.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
and the Texas Central have com*
The lmat
h urs. Practically all of their of-
Fi ials handling.such crews were pas-
sengers an*l were unused 4o hand-
ling such craft. The lioat occupied
!*y the survivors landed at Grimsby
was a lifeboat.
One account says that three boats
v<re successfully launched, the oth-
er two holding about ten persons
inch.
The lift boat mad$ faster progress
and fell
'T1; fre intTT the nhl-rISSrtsrm
women and -children were hurriedly > known.
put. Six. of these Imata smashed ! The’rescue of tho>e on the lifeboat
!u!"'l!h,e..!‘,V:.of.th0 Norj?f>’ ami I took place at 8 o’clock of the moru-
, ing of June 28, the survivors con-
sisting of twenty men, one of them
their helpless inmates were caught
up by the heavy seas.
Two boat loads got safely away
Potatoes on Black Waxy Land.
Ililsboro: P. Non vis, who lives
near town, on the black wavy land,
planted two bushels of potatoes on
iess than a quarter of an acre of
land this year. Ho has just gathered
his crop, and realized thirty bushels
from the yield. He has used all he
needed, which would* make a bushel
or more. Six of the potatoes weigh-
ed three and tlireo-quartorjs pounds.
Last year lie planted a crop* between
July 20 and August 1, and had po-
tatoes all w inter.
Round Balers Improving Plant
Waxalmehie: Mr. Luke Harrison,
manager of the round bale cotton
gin at this place, has made a strong
denial of the report sent out from
Boston that the round bale compa-
nies would go out of business. Mr,
Harrison says his plant, the largest
one in Texas, is now making exten-
sive improvements, to facilitate the
handling of the large volume of cot-
ton anticipated during the coming
season.
Accidental Blow Killed Him.
Sour Lake: John Vickers died
from the effects of a blow received on
a seaman, six women and a girl.
JAPAN’S FOREMOST SOLDIER.
g£n. imr Azrpor/
Gen. Itet Kurokl, eonimantkir In
chief of the Japanese army in Man-
churia, is a valeran. of four wars. He
is credited with being an administra-
tor of the first class. He was a mem-
ber of the war council In Tokio before
taking the field, and from his previous
,, , , . .. , . . ., 1 campaigns he has gained an intimate
(lie head while at work for-tjie lb‘\- knowledge of the topography of Ko*
wood Oil- Company Friday after- j reh and northern China, which is giv-
noon. He was about 2.1 years old. inq him an immense advantage in his
lived formerly at Mexia, .where lie ' mJK“ements against the Russians. He
was lieutenant in the local military years old, but looks much young*
company of that eitr. He served in: er' “n<i iH as 1111 his feet as a
the Spanish-Anveriertu war wit}) the !”a" ™
. 1 ,, , , , in the war for the restoration of the
Mexia company. Deceased had lived mn<a(i0 in mg. He took the side of
in Sour Lake about a year, and wa- the mikado against his own clan of
a giuerul favorite. 1 le was single. the Samurais, and many stories-are
-1-- -♦♦♦-■-— told in Japan of his achievements In
A frightened horse driven by two hand-to-hand combats. Ten years la-
The btfildings were valued at
$75,000, and the machinery they
contained at $150,000. The pas-
senger coaches were worth from
$0000 to $10,000 apiece. Besides
the items enumerated must he in-
cluded a vast quantity of valuable
material and supplies, which also
went up in smoke.
The tire was discovered at 1 a. m.
At 1:40 it was under control, but
in that time much more than a
quatter of .4 iwiiUea -dolbtFs’ worth
of property had been destroyed. The
Cleburne fire department and the
member's of the fire-fighting force
employed in the shops responded
quickly to the alarm, and to their
good work is due the saving of the
rip track buildug, where freight
ears are repaired. "This building
contains a vast quantity of supplies.
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Student* Go to Harvest Fields.
New York: Having been accepted
by the State Free Employment Bu-
reau, forty men have started for the
wheat fields of Kansas and Ne-
braska. Several college students
are.already on the way and another
party is being formed. According
to the labor bureau, the college stu-
dent is m demand in the harvest
field, those who went lust year hav-
ing shown endurance far beyond
men who hat} been accustomed to
hard labor.-
daughters ffl D. M. Calvin, of Baris, j
aged 11 and 14 years, dashed against
a rapidly moving' train and was in-
stantly killed and both girls sustain-
ed fractured skulls. The injuries
ore believed to he fatal.
ter he
tlon.
Texa* Wool for the East.
Ft. Worth: Buyers of Texas wool
from Boston passing through the
eitv report that this season more
than 1,300,000 pounds of wool was
purchased., where it will be sold out
io wool manufacturers in Massachu-
setts. The price paid was front 11c
to 19c per pound. It was stated
that the wool was brought for sev-
eral hundred miles into San Angelo
from the New Mexico country to be
marketed.
Athens.: Six ears loaded with
peaches alone shipp'd from here last
week. The express agents say about
as many have been shipped by ex-
press. I11 no previous season has
Athens shipped more titan two cars
loaded ab/iie with peaches. The El-
berta season has fairly begun, and
shipped
seems the most formidable way of
fighting the boll weevil yet ex|eri-
mented with.
11. G! Williams and L. B. Curd, of
it is thought there will he .several or^j’ a
more cars shipped from Ttefe. This una-v ni$ht and Williams was killed.
kept together for some | ine omiuings were vaiueu at j lacking device was installed.
For refusing to testify before the
grand jury nnent the boycott in-
augurated by striking street car em-
ployes, Editor Max Andrews of the
Houston Labor Journal was incar-
cerated in jail by District Judge
Gillespie iu default of $100 fine for
contemptr
Besides England and France, al-
ready established in Mexican trade,
Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Denmark have recently established
steamship lines to’ that country
with a view to getting a share of
the rapidly growing trado of that
country.
Discouraged by an examination
for life insurance, which showed he
was afflicted with an organic dis-
ease that would terminate his life
before long. Allan T. Simpkins, sec-
retary of the Renault Lead Com-
pany, of St. Louis, shot and killed
himself.
A Cuban negro has confessed
that he was the perpetrator of the
bomb explosion recently on the
Cuba Eastern Railroad at Guantan-
amo, and Janies Stuart, a Jamaican,
who hd been arrested on suspicion
of. having caused the explosion, haa
been released.
The first ear of poaches to be
shipped from the Longview market
went out, last week to Northern
buyers. The car was handled
through the local agency of the
Gregg County Fruit and Truck
Growers’ Association. Other cars
will follow later.
The canning factory at Seagoville
made its trial run Friday. One
hundred and thirty-six cans of to-
matoes, were canned in thirty min-
utes. . The stockholders are well.
pleased with the little plant. The
manager expects to run steady after
J uly 4.
Returning home from Karnes
City, four Polish farmers were pre-
cipitated into the San Antonio Riv-
er. a distance of about 30 feet, by
the bridge giving way. None were
killed though all were more or less
seriously hurt.
Paul Morton was sworn in as sec-
retary of the navy Friday, and Mr.
Moody, retiring secretary, took the
oath as attorney general.
About 25,000 new life preservers
have been put in service on New
1 ork excursion boats since the Slo-
cum disaster. All the manufactur-
ers are working overtime, and the
preservers, are being added to the
boat equipment at the rate of 1000
to 1500 a day.
The death sentence tlas passed on
Jim Black.* convicted of the murder
of City Marshal Rilby Jordan? of
Ilowe, last fall. Aug. 26 is the date
of the execution.
Because he pasted advertising
slips on United States half dollars,
D. I’. IMialon of Harvard, 111., has
been arrested. He admitted that
he affixed to the coins slips stating
that if the money was brought to
his store, ho would give its value
in clothing.
A Mexican horse thief and a ne-
gro confined in jail at Athens at-
tempted to Overpower the jailor and
(scape. The Mexican was killed in
the attempt, but only after a life
nml death struggle by . the jailor.
W. R. llearst has again declared
hre nmt his followers Will sup-"
port the nominee of the St. Louis
convention faithfully, and enthus-
iastically. He made this declara-
ti«*n just after an hour’s interview
with John R. MeLoan.
McLeod Hotel Leased.
Dallas: T. H. Ginnery, proprie-
tor of the Metropole Hotel at Waco,
tnd M. I). Watson, proprietor of the
Delaware at Fort Worth, have
closed a deal by which they* secured
a ten years’ lease on the McLeod
Hotel building, with an.option for
the purchase of same within one
year. I11 speaking of the deal these
gentlemen say that the building will
he entirely refitted and newly fur-
nished.
helped suppress the insurreo
Machinery is being unloaded at
South Bosque for drilling severe
new wells, to demonstrate the value
of the oil field developed there.
It is said that Ross Clark a Lava--
ca County farmer and a railroad
man, will endeavor to enjoin the
propagation of the Guatemalan ants,
upon the grounds that they are lia-
ble to prove a greater damage than
the boll weevil they are designed to
destroy, and they may not be effect-
ive in that purpose.
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Coniraet has been let for the
building of a new depot at Mineral
Wells, to be completed by OeWier 15.
Jeff Burleson, Jr., a prominent
young man at Weberville, near Bas-
trop, was found dead in his room
Saturday night with a bullet hole in
his head and a revolver at his side.
The shooting is supposed to have
been accidental.
Nearly 1500 employes have been
laid off at the Pullman shops near
| Chicago.
There was a windstorm Friday
evening in Bowie County between
Malta and Now Boston, which blew
don about three hundred trees in
a 40-acre inclosur** and prostrated
the telegraph and telephone wires.
Didn’t Want to Go to Bed.
New York: A 13-year-old boy,
Alexander Johnson, has hanged
himself at the home of Frederick lx.
Allen, President of tlie village of
l'elham Manor, because his sister,
a maid m the family, compelled |Uiii
to ret ire early. Young Johnson had
just graduated from the grammar
school. Ho objected strongly on be-
ing ordered to bed, but finally went,
and was found hanging to a bed-
post.
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Big Blaze at Jefferson.
Jefferson: Fire Friday night
which originated in the hardware
store of Gorrane A Co. did damage
to the amount of about $lW,noo,
as follows: J. If. Rowell & Son,
wholesale and retail groceries, $25,-
000. Gorrans Manufacturing Com-
pany, dealers in hardware, imple-
ments, etc., between $75,000 and
$90,000. Both stocks are insured
for about half their value.
Seven thousand five hundred un-
ion miners in the employ of various
furnaces in Birmingham suspended
work pending the adoption of a new
wage scale, the other contract hav-
ing expired June 30.
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The silver 111 Hie Tnapmrv l«»*p1*i
under the Sherman net having been
coined, no more silver dollars will"
be coined until some sort of new
legislation makes provision there-
for.
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Cisco Apert (Cisco, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1904, newspaper, July 7, 1904; Cisco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth522650/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.