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The Refugio Review.
Only Paper In the County.
J. D. AUTRY, Publisher.
Subscription $1.00 Per Annum.
VOL. 1.
REFUGIO, TEXAS. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1899.
NO. 20.
AMERICANS MOVE
After the Retreating forces in
the Philippines
AND OVERTAKE SOME Of THEM.
Uncle Sam’s Soldiers Carefully Any Overl
Act Avoid and Not Single House
Set on Fire by Them.
Advancing On.
Starting in an easterly direction
along the road to Pansanghara, a
party of sixty sharpshooters un-
der Lieut., Suthern of the Wash-
ington regiment came upon a
trench across the road about one
mile from Santa Cruz. Lieut.
Suthern was wounded.
The Americans then advanced
with the mounted guns and four-
teenth infantry and the battalions
in the center, Link’s battalion of
the first Idaho infantry on the
right and Fraine’s battalion of
the first Forth Dakota infantry
on the left, both flanking. The
trench was carried without loss
to the Americans. Pansangham
was found deserted.
One Filipino was killed and
five wounded near Togas. Eight
North Dakotans were ambushed
and all but one shot.
Additional Filipino dead of the
fight of the 12th north of Santa
Cruz swell the list to 150.
The Americans have committed
no overt act3.
Ratifications Exchanged.
On the afternoon of the 11th.
at the white house the treaty rat-
ifications of peace between the
United States and Spain were ex-
changed in the presence of sever-
al distinguished mon. After the
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formalities were gone through the ’ of the British third class cruiser
president issued a proclamation,
announcing that peace had been
restored. Bellamy Storer, it was
announced, had been appointed
ambassador’to Spain.
M. Cambon, the French minis
More Samoan Trouble.
A party of 105 British and
American sailors were forced to
retreat to the beach in Samoa
after having been caught in am-
bush on a German plantation on
April 4. Lieut. A. IT. Freeman
Fauranga led the expedition. The
lieutenant and American Lieut.
Lansdale of the Philadelphia lost
their lives. Two British and two
American sailors were also killed.
The natives engaged were 800 of
ter conducted the affair for the Mataafa’s warriors. They cut off
Ten-Dollar Dinner.
The dinner of the Democratic
club at New York city on the
evening of the 13th in honor of
the birthday of Thomas Jeffer-
son was largely attended.
Thirty-two tables were set and
each one was piled with a mass of
roses and ferns entertwined. Ful
ly 800 guests were present,
The stage of the Metropolitan
opera house, where the dinner
was held, was set with a gorgeous
palace scene of the court of
Louis XIV- At the west end of
the dining hall was the inscrip-
tion: ‘Jefferson; 1743-1899. Dem-
ocratic Club.” This was com-
posed of incandescent lights and
surrounded the picture of Jeffer-
son.
Perry Belmont introduced Au-
gustus Van Wyck by referring to
the lattter’s canvass for govern-
or. Justice Van Wyck’s refer-
ences to trusts and state canals
and the “inadvisability of an al-
liance with Great Britain” aL
tracted more attention than any-
thing else he said.
Kobert B. Roosevelt and Con-
gressman Cummings also spoke.
Spanish government,and the first
secretary of the French embassy
bore the Spanish copy. After the
exchange of courtesies the cere-
mony began. The president stood
and Ambassador Cambon and
Secretary of State 1 lay sat at a
desk. The powers of the secre-
tary of state and the ambassador
were examined and then the read-
ing of the p'roctocol, which, was
•n French, followed. The presi-
dent handed M. Cambon the
American copy of the treaty. It
was handsomely embossed, bound
in morocco and incased in a black
morocco p*- tfolio, and then M.
Cambon handed to the president
the Spanish copy, also engrossed,'
and bound in morocco and in-
cased in a maroon colored moroc-
co box. Secretary Hay took the
document and filed it away in the
state department.
The Legislators.
The state senate Wednesday
took up the Dallas charter and
got it as far as the third reading,
when the absence of a quorum
was discovered and the measure
went over.
House passed bill providing a
purchasing agent for state elee-
mosynary institutions.
Senate bill authorizing Texas
and New Orleans Railroad com-
pany to purchase and operate the
Sabine Pass and Texas Trim!:
railways passed the house.
At Austin.
Tuesday in the senate David-
son’s bill in regard to investment
by counties of permanent school
fund in their own bonds passed.
House went into cosiimittee of
the whole at the morning session
Tuesday7 and discussed the appro-
priation bilk ;
The amendment offered Mon-
day by Messrs. Phillips of Lam-
pasas and Kennedy to appropri-
ate $5588.79 for the payment, of
the Hogg & Robertson fee was
defeated.
Vendors of fruits were ex-
empted from the tax.
An amendment was adopted
exempting vendors of purely re-
ligious literature from the tax.
The measure passed.
Raft’el Speaks.
Dr. Joannes Raff el, the former
German president of the munici-
pal council of Apia, Samoa, has
arrived at Berlin. He says Chief
Justice Chambers decided in fav-
or of Tanu because lie is a prose-
lyte of the English missionaries,
while Mataafa is a Catholic. The
doctor says Mataafa is the only
king the Samoans will tolerate.
The tone of some of the Ger-
man papers has been quite bitter
the past few days.
the heads of the officers killed.
Priests of the French mission re-
covered the heads and sent them
to Apia. The manager of the
plantation was arrested and put
on board the Tauranga on affida-
vits declaring that ho urged on
the rebels.
In a previous engagement Ma-
taafa had twenty-seven warriors
slain, while the European forces
sustained no losses.
The news from Samoa has cre-
ated an uneasy feeling in official
circles at Washington and full
particulars from Admiral Kautz
are anxiously awaited, as the ad-
miral confirmed by brief cable
the above report.
Filipinos Fled.
Gen. Wheaton started out at
daylight on the 12th with the sec-
ond Oregon and tenth Pennsylva-
nians and two guns to drive the
rebels from the American right
flank between the railway and the
foot hills'. He met with slight
resistance near Santa Maria and
had one man wounded. The en-
emy bolted when shelled by the
artillery and burned and aban-
doned Santa Maria, where 1000
rebels were reported to have been
concentrated. During the day the
day the enemy retreated toward
the mountains, burning villages
as they went.
A boiler exploded in the works
of the Standard Electric Light
company at Dallas,but fortunate,
ly no one was injured.
John E. Obern, chief of the
Santa Fe, N. M., fire department,
was killed by the California lim-
ited train while passing though
Topeka, Kan.
Capt. E. M. Phelps, an old
ranger, is now chief clerk in the
adjutant general’s office at Aus-
tin.
Mrs. William Ridenour, whose
husband is in the work house,aad
one William Kinneman, so the
neighbors thought, near Chilli*
cothe, O., were too intimate. So
Kiunemail was adorned with a
coat of tar and feathers and ad-
vised to make himself scarce. He
t°ok his departure instanter.
The temporary superstructure
of the big Willis avenue bridge
now being built over the Harlem
river at New York city fell, kill-
ing four men and seriously injur-
ing six others.
The forty-sixth annual con-
clave of the grand commandery
of the Knights Templars of Tex-
as convened on the 12th at Fort
Worth. Twenty-three of the
thirty state commanderies were
represented. After a parade the
religious services preceding the
business session were held at the
hirst Baptist church. The busi-
ness sessions were well attended,
ban Antonio is the next place of
meeting.
Greek Pleasure Yachts.
Most historical records deal-
ing with the sport of yachting
commence with the well-known
quotations in Evelyn and Pepys.
Reference to Thucydides and
Polybius, however, proves beyond
doubt that small craft built for
pleasure purposes only were com-
mon enough with the wealthy
Hellenes as far back as five cen-
turies ago.
The early decades of this cen-
tury are but dimly lit up, while
the previous centuries are devel-
oped in almost total darkness.
Here and there we come across
occasional data, in old prints and
books, but a connected history
does not exist, and plenty of
scope is left for the imagination.
Suetonius is our authority for
the statement that the luxurious
Romans well knew and appreci-
ated the pleasures to be derived
from roaming about the seas.
This writer describes at some
length the display of luxury
on board the Emperor Caluigu-
la s yachts. Along the upper
decks there were built what
would correspond with the mod-
ern deck-house, which were fitted
most sumptuously with paintings,
statues and mosaics in the prin-
cipal apartments, while the bath
rooms contained baths of bronze
and marble, and even a library of
b&oks was carried on board. Cov-
ered walks ran alongside these '
deck houses, with fruit trees and
rows of vines planted in flower !
pots, which leads one to surmise !
that the Romans were fair weath-
er sailors rather than daring nav-
igators of choppy seas.—London 1
Pall Mall Gazette. I
Quoits an Ancient Game.
That quoits is now played chief-
ly in the country is the fault of
those who do not play it and
bring it into fashion. It is no
doubt a very ancient English
game, and Its beginnings are lost
in the mist of ages. Hakluyt
mentions it in his book of “Voy-
ages,” so it was well known in
Queen Elizabeth’s time, when it
probably was one of the favorite
sports of Merrie England. In
some parts of the country the
rustics used to employ horse-
shoes for want of properly made
quoits, and there are districts in
which the quoit is called a,
“shoe” even to this day. This
gives us the clew to the most
probable origin of the sport, and
hints that the first game of quoits
was started by throwing old
horseshoes at the hob or mark,
and from this gradually grew up
the practice of having quoits spec
ially made for throwing. So
much for the discus legend. As
for the word “quoit” itself, its
etymology is more than doubt
ful, and it gives us no clew what
ever to the origin of the game.
In an interview at Paris Agon-
cillo is vuoted as saying that the
Americans have never realiaed
they cannot whip the Filipinos;
that the latter have 1500 Ameri-
can prisoners. The wet weather
is arriving and fever will soon at-
tack the American troops and
disorganize them.
The Wilson parole bill, which
was intended to secure the libera-
tion of the Younger brothers
from the penitentiary,was defeat-
ed in the lower house of the Min-
nesota legislature.
Col. Wm. J. Bryan addressed
the Missouri Jefislature at Jeffer-
sod City. He spoke from the
capitol steps and about 2000 per-
sons were present to listen to his
address.
Robert Gibbs Barnwell, the at
one-time famous pro-slavery ad-
vocate, has passed away at Tallu-
lah Falls, Ga,
A new Alaskan mail route is to
be egtabl^jiedi
Dr. Nancy Guilford, convicted
of mansiaugjhter at Bridgeport,
Conn., on a plea of guilty, was
sentenced to ten years’ imprisons
ment and a fine of $1 also as-
sessed.
The Choate-Hollister furniture
factory at Oshkosh, Wis., em-
ploying 250 handsf burned. Loss
$200,000. Two machine works
were also destroyed.
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Four men were shot in a fight
at DevieTy? Avk„ two of them fa-
tally.
Women as Letter Carriers.
r , Tffiwe recently retired from the
Bristol postoffice a postwoman
whe was born in 1825, and who
must have been delivering letters
for the best part of sixty years.
S'k? was seventy-two years of age
whtr she retired, and it is esti-
m ted that she must have walked
a quaiter of a million miles dur-
ing a long service. Although she
served a very sparsely populated
dfclrkt she was never stopped
no* molested in any way on her
round and it is needless to say
that she gained the respect of all
with whom she came in contact.
T j. - I. ( rds of Her Majesty’s Treas-
ury recognizing the exceptional
circumstances of this woman’s
service granted her half pay in
habitants of her native village
took the occasion of her retire
Bremen t to present her with a
handsome testimonial.
Another postwoman in the Bris*
til district lias just succeeded her
aunt as sub-postmistress, the lat-
ter having served for forty-seven
years a.nd reached the astonishing
age of ninety-five. The niece had
served for forty-two years as post-
woman, so that she must be well
on to sixty on taking up her new
appointment.—Chambers Journal
W hat Love Is.
Miss Sophia Loury employs an
exceedingly communicative old
colored man to attend to odd jobs
about her studio now and then,
and his sayings have become pro-
verbial among Miss Loury’s fam-
ilies. He came to work one day
not long ago very full of the
goings’* on of a young man he
knew, who was in love,
“But what is love, uncle?”
Miss Loury. ,
Oaele wagged his head wisely,
“Miss Sophia,” he said solemn-
ly, “love is dizziness, unizziness
and inattention to business.
And really I don’t know7 of any
definition more concise, complete
and altogether adequate than
Xhwtr-W^hingtoti fmt
The Round Table.
The round table was not pecul-
iar to the reign of King Arthur,
but was common to all ages of
chivalry. The proclaiming a great
j tournament (probably with some
j curious solemnities) was called
■ holding a round table. Dugdale
, tells us that the great Baron Rog-
! er de Mordmer, having procured
, the honor of knighthood to be
' conferred upon liis three sons by
! King Edward, he, at his own
cost, caused a tournament to be
j held at Kenilworth, where he
! sumptuously entertained one hun-
| tired knigkhts and as many ladles
j for three days, the like whereof
! was never before in England,
: and there began the Round Table,
so called by reason that the place
wherein they held those feats was
environed writh a strong wall
made in a round form, and on the
fourth day the golden lion, in
sign of triumph, being yielded to
him, he carried it with all the
company to Warwick.
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His Painful Blunder.
After a long and tiresome wran-
gle over the admissibility of the
question, the attorney for the
defense turned to the shorthand
reporter.
“I will ask you to read that
question over again.” ,
The reporter, who had been
scribbling aimlessly during the ar-
gument, picked up a pad of paper
that lay before him and absent-
mindedly, read:
‘At the time this took place
did you—O, my darling Nettie,
you don’t know how I miss you—•
Then he blushed, hastily picked
np the other pad, and read the
question in full, while the law-
yers tittered, and the big juryman
in the end seat shook his fat sides
and stuffed his handkerchief into
his mouth.—'Chicago Tribune.
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Clocks Without Hands and Face.
In Switzerland they are making
clocks which do not need hands
and faces. The clock merely
stands in the hall and you press
a button in its stomach, when, by
means of the phonographic inter-
nal arrangements, it calls out
“half-past six,” or “twenty-three
m juntos to eleven,” the case
may be,
Marrifcle Death.
“Poor Siddons! His dead body
was found on the banks of the
-Schuylkill yesterday.”
'•'Drown himself.”
“The supposition is that he
j drank ^ome of it.—Philadelphia
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Letter Size of Stamp,
The smallest letter that ever
w7ent through the New York
postoffice was sent last week. It
is just the size of a two cent post-
age stamp—not the large ones but
the small style, about five eighths
by three quarters of an inch in
size.
There was naturally no room
ontlie front side of the envelope
for the address, so it had to be
written on the back.
It bears the address of Miss
Bessie Meyers, 325 Amsterdam
avenue, and was written by S. D-
Lewis of 12 One Hundred and
Twenty-third street.
When the envelope is opened
the little letter drops out in just
one half an inch wide by eleven
sixteenths of an inch long. It has
four pages and is neatly written
and perfectly legible without a
microscope.
It contains just 134 words.
The letter was so small that it
looked just like a postage stamp
in the letter drop at the Eighty-
fourth street and Columbus ave-
nue branch postoffice. When it
was discovered to be a genuine
letter the canceler put it through
his machine with great care. He
handed it to the carrier who took
special pains to see that it got to
its address safely,—-New York
Journal.
An Object Lesson.
When the good people of Wolf-
ville. Nova Beotia. Started to
church on a recent Sunday morn-
ing they found moorej^ut regular
intervals lifting the street, small
flat-boats taken from the barn of
a gentleman who runs a boat
merry-go-round during the sum-
mer. On lamp-posts, printed in
large type, notices were nailed:
-Fei‘ry-4ieru ;’l—iXfrris ferry for the
postoffice,” etvc. Upon buoys fixed
in the mud were pasted such no-
tices as these: “Keep to the right
and avoid sunken rocks and sub-
marine mines;” “Pleasure boats
will please not get in the way of
the ferries,” and in one particu-
larly bad spot this met the eye:
Here were lost nine precious
souls, and a man from Gasper-
eaux.” In a prominent place the
mayor was bung in effigy, with
the following placard above
him: “God help the people! I
can do nothing.”
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Dangers of Talking.
“Is one of your mistakes talk-
ing too much?” asked a lecturer
of an audience of women. “I fear
it is. And another is not having
enough fun. Nearly every woman
is a miser of jollity. Men are wil-
ling to catch pleasure as its flies.
But women must have everything
just so before they can abandon
themselves to enjoyment, and
then they are usualuly too tired
to take it. It’s a disease, but for-
tunately not incurable. Women
say it is easy to talk this way, but
that one can’t be laughing when
one is hurried and worried. All
can say is that you might be as
hurried, but you wouldn’t be as
worried if you did laugh. I hap-
pened once to speak of my hus-
band to a little girl, and she said:
“Why, I didn’t think you were
married.’
“‘Why?’ I asked.,
“ ‘Oh, ’cause--’
“ ‘Cause why?’
“ ‘Cause you laugh so much,’
“Wasn’t that a commentary on
matrimony !*,
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It lifts been discovered that: al-
cohol is among the byproducts
which can be obtained from coke
oven gases.
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There is no easier way in the
world for one to lose a good name
than 10 have it engraved on the
.handle of an umbrella* ...
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Autry, J. D. The Refugio Review. (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1899, newspaper, April 21, 1899; Refugio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth849052/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.