Van Alstyne News. (Van Alstyne, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1898 Page: 1 of 4
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BUY LAND.
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I have some choice
prairie land for sale
cheap, and on easy
terms. Call on
Van Alstyne News
buy la:
S. P. EVANS, PKOP
HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLES' RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BY INFLUENCE, UN BRIBED BY GAIN.’
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I have some vjery
choice prairie lai id for
sale cheap, and on
terms Call on
S. P. EVANS. VOL. lr.
Keep Out the Flies!
Screen doors, Screen windows all
Complete, at lower prices
than ever before. •
Pure Water Insures Good Health
Galvanized Cisterns male at borne. All kiods of
plumbiDg done. Both tubs and bath fixtures.
Call and see us.
LOUIS O-ARVER & CO
VAN ALSTYNE. TEXAS.
Fielder <k Sheridan,
VAN ALSTYNE. GRAYSON COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1898.
SUBSCRIPTION, »I
NO. 23 s. P. EVANS.
hold it from them. With what
surprise, even indignation, would
they regard the neglect of this
sacred duty by those who knew
and loved him in life when they
NOT HEEDED.
HOW WHEELER AND HIS MEH WENT
FORWARD.
Among the small crowd of sol-
diers who passed through Union read of the grand achievements
Station yerterday on their way'antl noble devotion to duty of
home on. furloughs, others on this, one of the noblest aons of
discharges, was Private Williams their beloved state.
J en route to Kansas City. He was j If the men ot our community
an orderly under Gen. Shafter.
and carried messages back and
forth from the General, five
miles in the rear, to the firing
line.
During the time the tiring was
the hottest, he said, the General
was the farthest in the rear, and
sometime was utterly unable to
see his forces. Still he 3tood
Dealers in.
Lumber and Builder's Hardware
Corrugated iron, Lime, Cement,
Paint and Oils, Best material
At The Lowest Market Prices!
are too much absorbed in money-
getting to devote a little time to
this work, I appeal to our public-
spirited women, in the trust that
there may be raised up among
them some such patriotic lady
and many of them, w%o possess
the refined sensibilities and
elevated sentiments and genius
and executive abilities, and en-
back and gave orders. Some- j thusiasm in a great work of a
# * Gulledge #
THE NEW
DRY GOODS HOUSE
Have Now a Complete and Most Carefully Selected Stock of
DF^Y GOODS, CLOTHING 0ND FURNISHING GOOC
times the orderlies brought back
reports which much disturbed ,
and excited the General, and he
often sent verbal messages in j
return.
Kate Cabell Curry to devote to
this already too long neglected
labor of pat lotism and love.
Indeed the tribute would come
with more fitting grace from the
Come and see as when yon want lumber.
Once there came a report that Pure hearts and refined natures
our trR|»ps were getting the worst
of the tight, and
Gen. Sfatafter -ent me forward
with a jiiessage to Wheeler to
withdrafi&and retreat.
Wheeler
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It ia our pleasure to Show all Goods and
. e «r. y
Our p
invite you to call often and
ti
keep posted on styles
and prices.
ices art ab> ately the lowest -it all
u s, quality and style consider’
ed, it- a noted fact, as we
sell for cash.
£>ress Patterns in the latest styles, braids, laces embroideries handkerchiefs, glove3, ribbons,
Ladies underware, hose, corsets in all styles.
of cultured woman than from
immediately j hor brother of grosser clay.
Throckmorton in all the tender
graces of chanty, in all the sym-
pathetic movement of his heart
toward distress, suffering and I
Gulledge & Barnett,
s.
Cash Merchants.
called in Generals
W. K. HfcNDERSON
VAN ALSTYNE,
Bates and Kent, and after a brief afflictions of others, was more I ARS I I ALL -STREET
consultation, it was decided not feminine than masculine in his i 4 * ’
BUILDI
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AN ALSTYNE, TEXAS
«. W. LEWIS,
DEALER IN
TEX AS 11° heed Gen’ Shafter’s orders. ! make-up, while in all the ma»cu-
' They took the matter in their fine virtues of courage, chivalry
own hands and ordered a charge and probity he stands without a
to the front. In a short while peer,
the tide of battle was changed and
the day was won for the Anieri- me here, and that is, that the
cans, all because the General’s
commands were not heeded.
At the conclusion of the battle
DKILI^G FILIPINOS.
San Francisco, Sept. 23.—The Germany’s
One other suggestion occurs to J Evening Post prints an article ( American
to-day in which it
statue might lie appropriately. the alleged plans of the German-
plcced on the court house terrace in regard to the disposition of
lion that the United States gov-
ernment has been informed of
attempt to frustrate prefer
acquisition of the
makes known j islands.
Washington, Sept. 23.—The
navy department officials
MILKS SUMMONED.
MIMING
rJN (;i>K-s
K\TU »N
TION .
Stores. tinware.
Aanafactarer of tin. cooper and
Sheet lr aware P»:en* -x-nal.c
fines, rooting, guttering and ail A
Kinds of job work a special'?.
PR VOTICAL TINNER. ^
South side Mai shall St
Van Alstyne.
Washington. Sop
or within the building itself, j the Philippines. It will be re-I growing uneas* over the publicity HlT ia-
Gen. Shafter called called up the Ulay is so remembered in the j raembered that some time ago the given to the r<alf abject of the ? , . *
nL the
officers, and they denied receiving court house at Lexington and its' Post published an exclusive ar- tnp to the Ph’.IqV'-^o the ,X t:ti”-^ 1 "
theorder. Then the orderly was corridors seems to the observer j tide regarding the seizure of the Oregon and the L A
called up, and would have been as he gazes to give back again in 1 Ladrone Islands by the United It i-belie' ’ jL x ’"'^ny <
court-marshaled had it not been the spirit echoes of the past, a States. The details of this i T""' v .
whispered reproduction of his on the part of the governor™ j A'itf'ucsro.
matchless eloquence. All this, were furnished by a geutlem I cau battle-hips aid.
—--*****--— however, js for the consideration high in the opinion of gc.ern- retaliate by incrca-fug qMtul-
THE J. \\ . THROCKMORTON 0f the association when organized, j ment officials of both this country ron if the Oregon and Iowa pa--
MONT MENT. , K. DeArmoxd. ^ and Germany. Honolulu. Tlie government will
Mill the people of Texas do j ***** i The same gentleman now states watch closelv t, ■ i iv« ment of
themselves the hnnor of erecting; ^ n»i« u Tour opportunity. tPat Gcmiacj is cadc.ivo: nr to Gtrma •• ,,n
>\ \i.
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conduct i
breadth b
After coi
i* Wa-hin
act of tbe leg s a'ure of thii
of Texas. approved Feb. 1,
‘.drew and a bit
ed LI eiaiuns against the
Fiat, s government giowidg
of IntLan <!• relations pric
the 2Stb of February, 1835.
large amoaut of money is
Mb ,38l g<
o ft
for the interference of the three
under generals.
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BARGAINS!
, , . Ou receipt of tea cents, cash or sttunps,
|a monument and statue to the , generous sample will he mailed of the embitter the followers of Agui- and Iowa have* -ailet
memory of our dead patriot and Se!*Th*****.„,™ i Paldo against the Americans and
(statesman, J. W. Throckmorton?
* J M ill they in that ddferee attest
M© have a complete stock of the beet Saddles, their appreciation of a life-long.
Harness, Plow Gear, iu fact everything unselfish devotion to the public
kept in the weal of their rtate—of a charac-
j ter so elevated in its moral and
j physical courage, so grand in its
, . . j manl) mold, and so conspicuous-
at t e lowest puces lor cash. Me lj able, honorable and honest in
Lave some buggies that we desire to sell and all its relations to private and
special low prices will be made ou them. Have public life as should command COST OF NAVAL VICTORIES,
jjiet received a luil iine of long distance axle the admiration and love of a peo-
ple to whose service he dedicated
all the great gifts of his mind
and heart. I suggest that the
Sadlery and Harness
Business,
have sotr
special lo
just recei
buggies and carriages.
Welker Bros
The date of their departure is
that they have officers in the next Tuesday, but navy officials
rauks of the Filipinos secretly j said today that the -ailing-might
drilling them. be deferred a tew days in order
The gentlemen in question says that the -hip- may set out iu the
that this has been going on for, best possible condition. The
year-, and prior to the interfer- only contingency which can cause
enceof the United States in the j these vc—els to n mam at llono-
Philippine affairs almost every j lulu indefinitely ^s that the Ger-
German \essel that landed there man squadron, u;th the excep-
carned one or more officers in tion of a ship or two, shall leave vvlij°j)e
disguise and stacks ot arms and j the Philippine islands and cease
ammunition for the insurgent-. interference in affairs which are 1j Q v ;l
. 1 he Post’s informant has just exclusively Hispano-Amcncan
the HmiuunitioD used bj Dewey; received „ letler from
to destroy Mootojo a fleet, $-17
strite the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
5ti Warren St., New York City.
Rer. John Reid. Jr., of Orest Falls, Mont.,
recommended-Ely’s Cream Balm to me. 1
ean emphasize his statement, “It is a posi-
i tire sure for catarrh if n-e<1 as directed.’’—
Rey. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely’s Cream Balm is the acknowledge!
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents.
Washington, Sept. 22.—-Cost of
VAN ALSTYNE. TEXAS.
AMERICAN
I SILVER I
L TRUSS. J
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Easy to Wear.
Retains \/Xa pressor- on
Severest _ V Hips or B.ck.
Hernia I No cndervc.ips. J
|Srith Comfort. I K«% er do’, es.
a«airacTiratu> ar
102 -U!n St.. BUFFALO. N. Y.
the vanous counties of the state,
to their people the
City Drug Store.
A full stock of the best and extending
Purest Drugs,
Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles.
Stationery,
Cigars.
Schoolbooks. Prescriptions mort f eddious,
an author-
_________ . ! itative source in ILfenburg giving
personal friends of Gov. Throck- ''",h cost ot the ammunition used the details ot Germany's future
morton, here at his home, meet Schlev llestro>' Cervera’s pian in regard to these islands.!
together and organize a Throck- aTU Sampson in his bom-
bardments of
ntiago. ihM \\ :
thing done. Both
.Shafter wi" be a-kc
the -land. Gen.
upon Chairman Do
quested that he he i;
fore the* comuussioi
•tandinc of thj k
that Gen. M.'-** iia
mind to be satisfied
less than a congres.;
gation.
From another s
that Geu. Miles ha-
of the Snntiiigo cat
toimulated, an<l wh
g-ition i had he wi- ;
rigorous, acute au !
Miles prefer- to trn
congress, but in sp
asked to u
the comnii'-mp. S
>e a-ked
Thi- can be stated |
and 1 hop<
to yoa may
il mm fpr the
is daim.*7
M il Y1 Mill WANTED.
for yoi, said
ith nothing
n J1 i n v e.—t i-
>4 t
do.-tor.
nal physician, I
f it is true that
. !■• $p. or
inrig t h ;
little more tnan
d L.e fair itatienj.
ud the doctor,
in vi
what
Kun q>ean
people are una-
inderstand the popu arity
fa-hionale j'hysi-
that
old bachelor declares
the - veet girl graduat^ will
ent in time.
morton monument association, Uiiru,IieuLS OI Santiago, not to
that an address be formulated to exceed *100«000. These are the
Ask your
Druggist
f-*r agencrcia
tO CENT
TFIAL SIZE.
CATARRH
PIIILlPPINi:
The plan is a- follows:
Germany w ’dl send numerous j ,!
_ , trading vessels to the islands and : 5 ’^163111 Ddiffl
figures of the ordnance officenM>f ,will arnj 150f000 Filipino:-, be-
DO COCAII.e,
............ww . ...r-----, ~~ ( nwciynor alj utLcr
people the Jbe *partmeDt. ■who »relsiJe9 furDi;(ti[,g Kiopp .nd i
; privilege of participating in this aug ling at tlie wulelJ printed artniery for field use. The island- Oiy^usurfwonca
testimonial of gratitude. The aSse^*on thit oui ships fired am- _____________
association should be thorougn. mun'^on cost •2,000,000r *** * 1 " ’ inn»mri«t
aud complete in its organization, j new ,Jattle-ships \iill . use | §enor Aguinaldo will be prepared
with its president,vice presidents, j s“okelfSs Powder aD<1 ^e sup- to make aQ on#|augi,t on tj,e
plied with guns ranging from the
4 to the 12 inch. The new 12-
It op.'c« anj cleanses _ _ _ _
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* German officers, and by February h«:» and r- j u ua M.wrane. n*»t. re-
secretary and assistants, treas-
urer and all the committees re-
quisit as to accomplish the work!'nck gun as e^ec^Ive as
• . I tlift rtrnjo n f 1 ‘Tinnh min i n rn n /ta
a ppecialtji
^L. A. Cartwright,
Van Astyne,
&
Texas.
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W. S.MAH/VR,
Livery, - Sale - and - Feed - Stable
Keep* On hand at. all times the
beat boggles and teams, and in-
vitee all who want to take a
iloe drive to call and see him.
Drummers' Outfits
Furnished en Short Notice.
Jefferson St.. Van Alstyne, Texas.
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economi- j
cal and satisfactory manner, aud
all the powers, duties and respon-
sibilities of each officer and com-
mittee clearly and specifically
defined in the articles of asso-
ciation.
Will some one take the initia-
tive ?
Already McLennan county has
erected, or is erecting, a monu-
ment and statue to her worthy
and famous son, the Hon. Rich-
ard Coke. Shall the ashes of our
Throckmorton, certainly not less
worthy and famous, lie unnoted
among the indiscriminate sleepers
of the city of the dead? Or shall
we, w ith loving hands and hearts,
mark his last resting place with
marble, so that our children and
children’s children, through all
time, may be able to point and
say: “Here lies one of the great
sons of Texas, who never faltered
in his concientious convictions of
an onslaught on
American forces.
To aid this plot, the letter says
that Germany is trying to induce
Manila, Sept. 2;—C
James Gordon Bcunett-
to Herald and Po^t.—AI
tomorrow Aguinaldo wb
ly inaugurate t’ue republi
Philippines by a great
tion.
Invitations have been
___- . . „___ - to the principal array oi
Snivel of Ta»te ar.4 Smt !. Fni! SiaeJbc.; Trial I 1
•iM ljc.: MDruCTirta or / m. I QCWSljanCr Corfu I »U>iollf -
liLX BROTHERS. 06 Warn a street. New York ; . ‘ 1
; -------- ! leading Americans h n*.
Lra-
extenetl
the preseot 13-mch guD id raDge china tu -J^reiaae a larfie nun;.
and asking farce. Thi. is ^ of blg vesieU ostensibl5
.cb.aved at the expense of weight t0 8lrengthen ,.er Mv,( but reaMj
bet the difference usull .n favor M be beW for trantfer to Ger.
of the new design. For .nstanee, many ehoald complications arise,
the present 12-inch gun weigh. 4b The Gcrmac ag?nt8 „.ho ,;ave
tons, against 52 tons for the uew ma(je a repQri ,heir
gun. ut t is %un ta es t *, ment sar that It will he impossi-
place cf a 13-mch gun, which bu fol. tbc Ud,U(1 States t0 |an<1
weighs bl tons, so that a consid-| more than men m tbe
erable saving is effected. About
Philippines before Aguinaldo is
the same rate of gaiu .. aecured readv to make hi
IQ flll tuG iGdvlGr CJil>JrG8i rpi 4 x
lne uertuan correspondent says
tt ‘^ty, whether amid the shrieking
I*" , *“ ^ death dealing shell of the battle
field or in the councils of the
sUte and nation, where be stood
•eu^enr tuba
*2c.p[ina ®P!9 Pa*
jr suite ana nation, wnere fie stc
j j JO 3IIIrJ 0)9[dlHO[J y 4 Pbralter of patriotism, and a$
a guardian of the public interest
•a.v.04 oqi at DJnoq9 zaae ‘
jo oatq jseaij aiq ot
while the biliowb of_ partisanship
and demogogy and seif seeking
ambitions lashed in impotent fury
against his impregnable opposi-
tion.”
Our descendants deserve tb»s
^heritage and we should not wHh-
The new gun will send its pro-
jectile at the enormous velocity
pf 300C feet a second, which is
about 50 per cent, greatei than
the velocity of the present 13-
inch shell.
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Perhaps some people do not
know that the sphnix got its
reputation for l>eing very wise
by keeping its mouth closed for
3,000 years.
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M hen a man is swamped in
speculation a lot of wreckage
comes to the surface.
Kissing may be unhealthy but i
every girl considers herself an
immune.
The actions of a 13-mch gun
speak louder than words.
a Tear and
no
J MHiia Jetton* t»aJid.
lev alor*. Monthly SIS. Refer
eeft-ortrtTaaf ttaaperf «■
Herbert *. Hue*. Pn* . Dept M
mp lS-Mv.
that America’s only hope is to
disarm the insurgents.
The Po^t regards the recent
ordering of additional troops to
Manila after their mustering out
had been ordered, as an indica-
Tka Beret iettot
keen i. Actee
iBirS tertBer
too., I
FA FAYETTE MON CM ENT.
Austin, Texa-, Sept. 2*>.—Proc-
lamation by the governor:
As evidencing the interest of
the United State- iu the Paris
exposition it is proposed to erect
in Paris. France, mthe name of
the youth of the United State-, a
The transport Arizona, having
on board navy recauit- anil aa
immense lot of mail, arrived to-
day. It is the fir«t home mail for
sexeral month-,
coke: knew.
m«?numct to Geu. Lafayette, to
Aasiio, Texas, Sept. 28.—The
following is an ?xtriic* tiom a let*
. ter addressed by Senator Richard
be unveiled and dedicated July 4, 0oke 0Q Dec 24. 1875, to the
1’"" A The means necessary for delegates in congr* as. cart
the erection of such a memorial of Hod> s. B. Maxey:
are to be by popular contribu-i have the honor
tiocs from the people through
the agency Iff the school-, col-
leges and universities. Pursuant
FURNITURE
I have in Ptock atom*
plete iine of Furniture
and undertakers’ go>de,
which will be sold a;
The Lowest
Cash Prices.
N. B.: I am making a
specialty of refrigerators
Get you one acd' ireep
things cool.
S. L. McKinney,
Van Alstyne. Tex,
to the request of the Lafayette
Memorial commi-*ion. Oct. 13.
1738, is hereby designated as
“Lafayette Dav,” and the trus-
tees and principals of tho public
and private schools, and the au-
ul yonr
attention to the following matters
of intereat to the state requiring
attention at the national ctpital: j
1 Tbe government of the Unit-!
od States bolds a baiaaoo of iclOl
113.27 dae the str.te of Texas,
from funds left m xbc ha>;4s of
the former to pay the debts of
the repablic ot Texas. No claims
and nm-1 is believed to have leeu present
farnl for the iaet
231268
thoritics of tbe colleges
versities of the state are request- j ed sgaiost this
ep to devote a part thereof to ap-1 fifteen yt*&*v, xnd tL * deb s or ’be
proprtte exercises a’*d the storv 1 republic of Texas are believed to
ot oar struggle for indejiendence. i h*ve been fully eatisfieu iaa
Contribution- should be s-'nl to 8?*tt5 needs the bilance ofttis
Charles G. Dawes, comptroller fond and onght to have if.
of tae currency, Washington, ^ * Bend encloa*d statejneafa
D (jl from the office of c rmpiroller of
In testimony whereof I have: aceowc!•, ebo* mg amoa&lB
her-unto set my hand and caused eXh®a<5eiJ lbc * il** Taxas
the seal of the sUte to he affixed ‘roetler defense fr uaUeZSibor
Febraary, 1835, fo tb > c^m u nce
mtet of the late cl\ I war. a^il
from ibe commenti: v.i of A.J.
□amiiion’B admtm ration a*t*r;
the war to date, it * »tu->a%k ag-
xm UwJ.- gregating $1^36,48', Ji. t
We pruit everything you need I ^It will be raaona .rod that by •
at the citv of Austin this the 29th.
day of September. A. D., 1898.
C‘. A. Cclock.- >x, Gov'emtir.
By the gov.: J.M*. Madden, i
Secretary of state. }
AMD
WOO
Knows that the Peerless Rem Jy
ior Diseases of the Liver,
Kidneys and Bladder is
Or. J. H. McLEATB
UVEA
KIDNEY
BALM..
it has Cured Thousands of Eta
pexate Cases. Try It.
PRICE, 1100 rut BOTTLE.
Dick &<jnd
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