The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 1

1 More Negligee Shirts arrived yesterday. Styles that have been sprung since our first showings of summer fashions. In Pongee, Collars on and off, In. Madras, $1.50 and 22.00. Every man's neck and sleeve size.

Light and dark shades. ROBT, COHEN, Correct Clothes for Men and Boys. GALVESTON. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1905-TWELVE LIST OF DEAD GROWS Succumbed to Montague Storm and Seven More Are Fatally Injured and Seriously. ESTABLISHED 1842 SICKEM3D BY MILK, Buhr Ground Graham Flour, The pure old fashioned kind, put up in small paper bags for family use, Ask your grocer for it.

TEXAS STAR FLOUR MILLS AND GRAIN ELEVATOR, GBlvestao, Texas. THE COUNTRY SWEPT CLEAN All Crops Ruined, Trees Broken and Denuded of Verdure' Course and Character of the Storm--All Kinds of Articles Scattered Over the Country--All Unprotected People Met Death--Work of Relief, Twenty-Time In Orleans Ho.pK.l Have Typhoid. Special to The News. 3, Now Orleans, July as- sisront house Burgeon, three sisters and twenty patients of the Charity Hospital aro tonight laid up -with ty- phoid fever as a result of drinking milk that was delivered to the hos- pltal. It was scoured from the dairies at Hammond, and believed to be the purest of tho country.

A minute examination by the hospital bacter- iologlst today developed the startling fact that it not only contained ty- phoid fever germs, but also lockjaw germs. An Indignation meeting Is being held in-Hammond tonight and a sweeping investigation is on. CRIMEA ON THE VERGE OF REVOLT Crews of Several Ships at Theodosta Join the Chouknin Distrusts the Loyalty of His MeiwAnarchy Reigns in the Mountains of the Caucasus, JNO, ROGERS GO, Cotton Factors and Commission COTTON, advances made on cotton Correspondence solicited. OALVE8T3N TEXAS HOT A HOUSE IN WHITT ESCAPED DB' STRl'CTIOK OR DAMAGE ON WEDNESDAY. HE WAS HIT BY FLY1HG TMIDER-A CHURCH WAS DESTROYED BY UCIIT.MNG.

SDJIEIISIIOIITOIITOIB Public School Bnlldlns nncl TTTO Gin Were Destroyed--Farm Honne Was Demolished. 6PECIAI, TO THE NZTCS. Mineral Weils, July In a very meager way has been received here from WllliS. twelve miles north of here, to the effect that the house of George Vestal, jour miles north of Whltt, was destroyed yesterday evening about 5 o'clock by a se- ycre wind. The Methodist Church In Whltt was blown fiway.

The building of Churchill Son was Hown from its foundation. Both gins wore destroyed, two blacksmith Shops blown away, the public school build- Jns destroyed and tho Christian Church demolished by lightning. Every windmill was blown away. Mr. B.

Powell, it Is stated, was severely injured by flying timber. Tho mall hack was blown with the driver libont a hundreds yards and the hack dam- egcd to the extent of about J30. W. D. Easley, a merchant, store and (roods, damaged to tho extent of $1.000.

The front of J. D. dough's grocery and dry Koods store was blown away. Dailey Son, general merchandise, store and goods, dam- nged to tho extent of 51,000. Ths store building owned by John Buster Son was blown to atoms and the- stock of merchandise was completely destroyed and scattered for about SflO yards.

Not a house in the town but what was Injured and blown from tholr foundations. Tho total loss to the owners is estimated nt about 525.000, and the damage to corn and sorghum in and around Whitt was FC-vrre. So far as can bo learned none was seriously hurt. All the wires arc down between hero and and no further details can be secured concerning the storm, but it is currently reported a several houses north of TVliItt, in addition lo Gco. were completely demolished.

Bnciii. 10 THE Niwr Nocona, July from Hi storm which swept through a portion Montague County on yesterday afternoo; twenty-five people are dead, seven are per haps fatally injured and twenty-two mor or less seriously Injured. Something Ilk 100 farms have been devastated crops de stroyed, cattle killed and houses demol ished. The dead: Infant child of Lawrence Pillow. H.

B. EARL. G. H. EARL and SADIE EARL.

MBS. MARY LESTER and four children, MRS. S. L. TUMBLINSON and child.

MRS! C- C. SHACKELFORD. LINNIB SHACKELFORD, daughter of R. G. Shackelford.

CLABE WHITE. MRS. 1KB WILLIAMS. PRANK EAKIN, son of Sam Eakin, MRS. HENRY JESSE.

MISS ALICE SIMPSON. The Injured: Luther Raines of Bowie, head slightly cut; Dick Lunn of Bowie, hand bruised and cuts: Mrs. Lawrence Pillow and infant child, seriously: two children of Mrs. S. L.

Tumblinson; James Simpson; Milton Moore, arm broken; Charles Hobhs, fatally; C. H. Williamson, leg broken; Miss Nannie Austin, seriously; J. J. and son, Frank, the latter, seriously; R.

G. Shackelford and wife; Z. W. Shackelford serious; Shackelford four children; Irb Williams, severe shock and bruises; Raymond Christian, EC- scalp wound; brother of same, hurt in hip; 12-year-old daughter of Mary Lester, badly Injured; Frank Wood, bruised in chest and otherwise; Isom Jameson, bruised; Mrs. 'H.

E. Earl, probably fatally. The funerals of H. E. Earl and daughter and of Clabe White took place from Montague today.

The Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Pillow was burled from the residence of Charles Sterlin. near Montague. Tho other dead were burled from Nocona.

The storm, which was In the nature of a cyclonic hurricane, seems to have come out of the northwest, first striking south of Belcherville and traveling in a southeast- through the Barrel! Springs About WIU. nOHISO.V KILLED. Jiff Sfcot nt Clone RnnRe With SholK-uti, prnOuT. TA THE Nrn'S. Shrevt-port.

I.a., July Orovft. nbout mile west of tho cui-, was tho mno of a' tragedy this afternoon, will liohlson receiving nt closo range tho eon- lmt.i of a ihotgun. dying Instantly. The. nro socking a man who In with tho shooting.

At a Into hour hls tvenlni ho had not been orrcsted. neighborhood. It then passed through the valley of Sail Creek and finally formed out In the. country to the cast ot Montague. The path of the cyclone was about six miles long and about three miles, wide, except through the Salt Creek country, where the hills contracted It somewhat.

The storm was preceded directly by an hoar-fi cool breezes, which had succeeded a day of very great heat, when the wind rather quickly, but not suddenly, increased In velocity until the full force of the storm was on at about 3:30 o'clock. Just before the cyclonic wind arrived there was a slight fali of hail, and immediately after the wind subsided large hall and rain fell in abundance. The windstorm lasted about forty minutes, and the rain and hailstorm about the' same length of time. In the path of the cyclone destruction life and property was practically complete. In very few instances did any one escape death, unless protected by a storm cellar.

The farm houses, residences, barns and everything are gone and the ruins scattered. Wagons and farm Implements arc in many instances demolished. Clothing, household linen and the iike clings in the riven trees and prostrate fence wires. Broken biby carriages, Kovyimr machines tnd clocks scattered around tho country arc witnesses to the fury of the storm. In some cases only a vagrant chicken or hungry cat Is the sole living thing to be seen.

The fields directly in the path of tho storm are absolutely denuded of their crops. At a short distance they appear as bare as the highways. Nearer at hand the stripped stalks of cotton may be seen. The woods skirting Salt Creek and back along the ranges of hills which border it Jnok as though they hail been deadened two or three years ago. Tops and branches nnci practically all verdure are gone.

Many trees are torn up by the roots, some of them two feet in diameter. There many reports to the effect that scantlings, boards and lighlnlnp: rods were blown through trees. Dixie sohnol house, which was about the middle, of the storm pnth, was totally demolished nnd wholly carried away. There is not a splinter left npnn the ground to Indicate that a house ever stood there. Tho principal property damage nnd loss of llfo was In the Barrel! Springs neighborhood.

Thin because it Is rather thickly settled, being one of the moat fertile farming districts In this county. Tho losses In tho other portions of the storm bolt worn loii, simply for the reason that they are more sparsely populated. No cyclone Insurance was carried. O. P.

Green was elected chairman. 300 people were present, among them being J. H. Matthews, T. C.

Phillips, R. W. McDaniel, B. P. Patcher and Walter Caufleld of Bowie, who gave assurance- that tho peo- plo of that town would help.

A relief committee was created with G. F. Green aa chairman and the following members: 'Ex- County Judge Lev! Walker, County Judge Geo. S. March, G.

W. Allen, Mrs. W. W. Cook and Mrs.

Dr. Sherlll. A subscription of (KO in cash was raised at the meeting, A resolution was passed asking the committee to call upon other communities for aid. Drs. Yeakley, Yantls.

Younger nnd Mitchell of Bowie, who drove to the stricken community as soon as the news reached them last night, returned homo this morning after aiding in caring for the wounded. Some of the personal experiences are worth relating-. J. A. Knlpp of who was driving from Nocona to Montague, had Just reached the Dixie school house when the cyclone struck.

The air Immediately filled with rails, timbers, stone and a little of everything. His buggy overturned and blew with him about thirty yards. "I managed catch a gate post," said'Mr. Knipp, "and held on tight, Tho team crowded on alongside of me and I got them by the bits and leld on. While so doing 1 1 wan struck in the lead by a.

piece of timber, hut was not Inured. The hailstones, which were as large guinea eggs, hurt me most. Then, there were slugs of Ice as big as my finger. This morning I have been over some of the trlcken country. Trees aro stripped, top to ottom, crops are skinned, cattle ana horses with pioc'es of timber sticking in them and yith eyes put out are around.

No one can escribe the scene, nor the awful noise that Jie storm made." When the storm struck tho country just orth of Montague, Lawrence Pillow and Is wife determined to save their two chll- ren by each going out of the window on lib leeward side of the house. As they ttempted to do EO the children were blown from their arms. Several hours afterwards tho body of one of the children was found about three-fourths of a mile from the house In a pasture. It was fearfully lacerated and both eyes were Hanging from tlia sockets. The other child was found about a quarter of a mile from the house; It and for the storm sufferers.

All the towns In Montagus County are sending assistance. The extent of the damage can not be estimated at this time, but it- will reach many thousands of dollars. The greatest damage and loss of Ufa was In the Barrel Springs community. All the bodies so far recovered have been taken to Nocona, that being the nearest railroad point to Barrel Springs- The citkens of Gainesville will raise money tomorrow and send to the storm sufferers, as assistance Is badly needed. Tyler Simpson Company of this city wired J50 today to Montague.

NOCONA STARTS RELIEF, Meeting: Helil ana Subscriptions Hc- cclved--Storm Moved Contrary to the Rule of Its mother were seriously injured, but they will probably recover. In the Immediate neighborhood H. B. Earl, son. and daughter were killed, but Mrs.

Earl escaped with injuries which may provo fatal. Mrs. Mary Lester and four children, who recently came to this country from Von Buren Co-unty, Arkansas, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Sam Tombiinson, In the Barroll Springs country. The two sisters, four of the Lester and one of the Tombiinson children, are dead, and two Tomblinson children injured.

Another Lester child was Injured. Both legs were amputated today and it is not expected to live. One of the noteworthy experiences was that of Luther Raines and Dick Lunn, two yovmg men of Bowie, who were out buying eotton. At the time of the storm they were at the "Uncle Jimmy Strong" place, where a family named Ross resided. In all there were thirteen In the party, eight whom got in the storm cellar.

Tho other five remained in the house, which was completely demolished. Lunn and Raines were the only ones hurt, and they but slightly. They have found one wheel of their buggy and are, still looking for their horses. The town of Montague was not directly in of tho storm. It suffered no loss or lire- and not very heavy i ooa jimpcriy.

The court house and school house were practically unroofed. The Methodist Church was destroyed and tho Christian and Catholic Churches careened so that they will have to be demolished. The Baptist Church alone remains intact. H. W.

Roc's hardware store was unroofed and a new slock nr goods damaged. (The general stock of J. Vauglinn wns damaged in the same way! The Masonic hall and an unoccupied brick building were unroofed. Some damage was done out at County Jail. Total propely loss In Montague is estimated at JI5 000 to RELIEF IS NEEDED.

SPECIAL TO THE XEWH. Nocona, July this morning Mayor Rowland called a massmccting of the citizens of Nocona for the purpose of taking steps to relieve those in distress and to help take care of the dead, and investigation, relief and soliciting committees were appointed. The people responded liberally. Nine hundred dollars was raised In a few minutes, and in a short time clothing, bed clothing, food and other necessities were sent to those who most needed them. Tho following contributions were sent In to the relief committee: T.

R. Simpson, Port Worth, 525; Merchants and Planters Bank, Sherman, $50; Robert, Sanford Taylor, Sherman, Tyler Simpson, Gainesville, J50: O. T. Lyons Son, Sherman, J50, and other valuable assistance promised by them. Ten of the storm victims were buried here this afternoon.

Nearly all tho business houses were closed during the burial services. One was burled at Long Branch Cemetery, west of here, and five at Montague. The first damage done by the storm was one and one-half miles east of Belcherville, where it seems' to have originated, and, contrary to the law of storms, it moved in a southeasterly direction, varying in width from 300 yards to'three-quarters nf a mile, ltd path for about -four miles forms the quadrant of a circle, of which Nncona is the center. It Is strewn with wrecked houses, swept fields, ruined crops and other marks of destruction There are in the'vicinity of Nocona about twenty-four farm houses more or less-damaged--some moved slightly on their foundations, others blown down and still others scattered along the path of the storm. Some cotton.fields look from a distance like newly plowed ground.

Cotton stalks In other Holds are stripped and wraDDed with wheat and oats straw. Many grain tlelds are swept, but not general. The News correspondent saw full grown oaks stripped almost entirely of branches, bark off and bespattered with mud. Others were pulled up by the roots and scattered hither and thither. Much stock, such as horses, cattle and mules, was killed.

Snakes, jack rabbits and rats wore also found dead along tho course of the cyclone. Pieces of scantling and lathing were found driven into the ground. One man, a Mr. Poindexter, had two horses and two mules carried one-half mile Into a neighbor's pasture, with one the horses killed and the other with a broken. It is estimated that the damage In the way of property loss in the territory contiguous to Nocona approximates $50,000.

These losses embrace grain, corn and cotton crops, orchards, stock, barns, smokehouses, farming implements, fences, houses, household goods, bed clothing, wearing apparel, notes of various kinds, money and other valuables. Two school houses are completely and one badly wrecked. During the storm a disc-shaped hailstone fell here which measured six inches in diameter and two inches thick and weighed one and one-half pounds. Larger ones are reported. A heavy downpour of rain accompanied the storm.

St. Petersburg, July news as came from tho Black Sea and Caucasus during tho day was extremely alarming. The whole Crimean Peninsula Is on the verge of revolt and anarchy reigns In the mountains of the Caucasus from Batoum to Baikal. Only brief details are available on account of the rigid censorship established by Admiral Chouknin, commander of the Black Sea fleet. Even foreign 1 Embassies having Consuls at Theodosia, Crimea, have not received any word.

At Theodosia the workmen are backing the mutineers. The crews of several ships in the harbor have joined the mutiueere and the well-to-do class of people has fled in panic. The guns of the Kniaz Potemkin are trained on the city, presumably because the authorities could not or would not furnish the Potemkin with coal, and a bombardment momentarily expected. Only six hours away, on the other sid of the peninsula, lies Admiral Chouknin' fleet, which consists of six warships, no counting Rear Admiral Kruger's squadron lies at anchor under the menace of th guns of the fortress. Chouknin evidently i afraid to test the loyalty of his crews setting them the task of capturing th mutineers' ship.

According to reports current in St. Peters burg, four torpedo boats, with voluntee crews on Balled for Theodosia to sink the Knlaz Potemkin, but tho reports lack confirmation and must be accepted with reserve. Tho Tremltelny, which actually had volunteer crew on board for that purpose, and missed her quarry at Kustenjl, left Varna yesterday. Several boats which Lewis Nixon built are at. Sevastopol being completed.

Mr. Nixon has not been hoard from and telegrams dispatched to him remain unanswered. This does not indicate cause for alarm so far as he personally concerned, but It Is due to censorship. However, it tends to confirm the extreme gravity of the situation. Telegrams from Caucaeus state that a situation bordering on anarchy has existed for months and say the news of th mutiny.

OA board the Kniaz Potemkin made an electric impression and was the signal for a general movement, with which the troops and police are absolutely powerless to cope. Railroad traffic In all directions has ceased and the people are fleeing on horseback and all kinds of vehicles over the roads and trails. Almost consternation prevails In official circles here. A In Rmmlann. St.

Petersburg, July on the Bourse slumped badly today on the news from Southern Russia. liussian 4s fell y. point. IlEPUSE TO GO TO MANCHURIA. Merlin, July correspondent at Knttowlti, Silesia, says he learns from an altogether reliable source that'Slxteen men were designated in J.

each company of the Lithuanian Life Guard Regiment in Warsaw to BO to Manchuria June 28, and that on that day the men so designated refused to go and their comrades refused to make them do so. The Colonel of the Lithuanian regiment, sent to another Life Guard regiment, named the St. Petersburg, for help, but the men re- -J. fused to obey orders, which -was also the case with third Life Guard reg- itnent, the Kexholm. The Colonel of the Lithuanian regiment then applied to the military commander of War- saw, Lieut.

Gen. Komoroff, who sent 'f a detachment of to the Mbkotow camp. Some of the fllutl- neers flred on the Cossacks, who re- turned tlM fire, fourteen altogether being killed before those who resitted were arrested. that there has been the wildest exaggeration regarding the number of casualties resulting from the rioting at Odessa. Ho Elves the following lisi-res: Of the mob 49 wore killed and 75 wounded.

BLACK SEA SITUATION, ItuMinn Fleet to ttnell tke Refuse to Attack the Rebels. OMB A RUING THEODOSIA. London, July correspondent of the Dally Mall at Odessa says that it is reported that the Knlaz Potem- kin is bombarding the town of The- odosla; that the town Is burning, and that the soldiers of the garrison are engaged In looting. says It Is also reported that another torpedo boat has joined the mutineers. .5.

.5. .3. DISSENSIONS A THEM. Stated That One-Half of JtntUeers to St, Petersburg, July p. Sea fleet has gone to Theoflosia, according to advices received by the Admiralty late this evening.

Admiral Chouk- nln's warships left Sevastopol lor'Theodosia about noon today and should arrive there his evening. The result Is awaited'with most Intense anxiety. Dispatches received from the Governor of' Simferopol, who IB executing the decree of martial law at. Theodosia, says that half the crew of the Kniaz Potemkin desire surrender, but they are-prevented from olng BO by the revolutionists. re wl? re only aix companies of troops Theodosia yesterday, but reinforcements I a and artillery have been disked th 0 ra aSlOP I and Pr bably It transDlres that the torpedo boat which ccompanied the Knlaz Potemkin was owed all the way from KustenjI to Theo- osia and was not sunk es was supposed An 1 i nclal re rt from Gen.

Kahanoff. he Military Governor of Odessa, declares Odessa, July p. authorities are well informed about the movements and operations of the Knlai Potemkin at the various Black Sea ports. the opinion prevails hero that she will not return to menace Odessa, the officials here view doings but not coupled with any particular alarm. The fact that the Knlai Potemkin Is at large cruising In the Black Sea, threatening ports and holding up steamers and other craft Is beginning- to bring criticism on the naval authorities owing to their apparent slowness and lack of energy in pursuing and terminating her piratical career.

The torpedo boats, which it Is reported are trailing the Knlaz Potemkin. havedone nothing, although the whereabouts of the battleship has never been a secret If the fleet Is in earnest It can easily meet the renegade vessel within a comparatlTely few hours. The belief IB general, however, and there is general confirmation of It, that the main difficulty confronting the fleet regarding the Knlaz Potemkin lies In the fact that the crews of the ships are strongly disinclined to engage the mutinous battleship. It is reported on good authority that their crews have actually refused to attack her. In the meantime commerce on the Black Sea Is being slowly resumed and coastwise and other steamers are clearing from Odessa on their former schedules.

Is resuming its normal life. strong undercurrent of uneasiness, easness however, and further disorders are expected. Just at present the reign of military law as the recollection of the recent lesson are acting ns strong deterrents to unruly persons. The police are active In making arrests and In deporting suspected persons House to house searches are frequent and have resulted in the finding of a num- aer to" 11 It Is believed that practically all the Jews arc armed. COMMITTEE IN COMMAND.

Good Prevails on tke KbUc Potemkin--No OIBcers Were to Be Seen. Theodosia, July correspondent of Lssociated Press who tno 'otemkln In company with tho Mayor 'ound the battleship commanded by an ilected committee of seven, headed by 'Ensign and Quartermaster' Alexleff, a mm n1 nlc 9 the Russian navy, everything Was In order and good dlsein- ine prevailed. Ail the guns weTM load'S. md It was said that the mutineers hidTtL ull complement of ammunition. The crew onsisted of 750 men and there were fiftBan more In the torpedo boat No.

276. No of" cers were to be seen, but It was rumored hat there were several ensigns among the rew held prisoners and costumed as sail- DBAR nnOWJf RISES TO MAKE AX EXPLANATION WHY HE IS NOT A Btil.L. A STORM AT DALLAS. Two Chnrclics Off Their nnd Vegetation Hnlned by the Hail Yesterday. of Moiitnprnc nnd Nocnim Are liiK (Jrent nonl in That Direction.

SPECIAL TO THE Dallas, July and vicinity was visited by a heavy bail and windstorm this afternoon, which did much damage to crops find property. The storm was a combination of wind and hail, and the former blew two churches off their foundations, wrecked the race track grandstand at the Fair Grounds and tore down many of fence and shade trees. The hailstorm was one of tho heaviest that has fallen In this section of the country. Tt lasted but twenty minutes, but in that lime the enrth was covered i hailstones from throe to six inches deep. All fru 11 and firowiiiK vegetables were ruined, ami trees were of leaves and fruit where they stood in th; path of the storm.

Window panes were beaten out. and it is feared that much damrtge 1ms been done to the Rrowlng cropa. Luckily the storm cloud hit the cdKu of tho city, and the main pnrt of the town escaped. It extended eastward, however, into tho cotton nnd corn growing section, and crops suffered extensive damage. REACH IN 'PRESENT PRICES HIGH ENOUGH." I'HEDICTTS, HOWBVEn, A FURTHER ADVANCE SHORTLY.

lion of the boll weevil in districts In the belt. Influences of speculation In cotton are being felt In the price of shares In the Cotton Exhange. F. A. Longshore today purchased one share for $7,250.

Immediately thereafter was bid for another. SUMMARY OF NEWS STATE. Rice Industry estimates the Texas-Louisiana crop at about 4,000,000 bags. Program of the Sheriffs' convention at Houston next week. Seven cars were wrecked near Alpine.

A mail carrier was nearly drowned near IIFIOEICK OF SPfCOLIIIOI So complMe were tha and ro apparent of the t-HuMlon that steps worn token even last night to tho ntrlrke.n people, and today orRanlzn- tion wns effected nt a meeting hold at Montague, the county sent, to nollclt he.lp from the. outsldo nnd to distribute money and provisions. Thin mcotlnft wan cnlltnl to order by An- slsUnt County Attorney D. M. Smith, and Brcciju, TO Tnc Nrws.

Gainesville, July the cy- clono Wednesday afternoon in JtomnBiic County, the doiilh list grown to hetwcc-n twenty-live and thirty. half of these dcntlia WTO people who were serloupiy injured In tho storm and auec-umtKd to 'their wounds. Aliout (lllpi-n were lililod oiitrlKht. The cyclone formed weal of nnrvel Spring's nnd trnvoled In a direction for seven or dglK miles. Us path was from 11 quarter to thrc.e-|iinrtpr.i ot H.

mile wldo and overythliiff was destroyed. Homo fifteen houses wore demolished. The llarre.l SpihiKii school houso about three miles noiithwcst of Noconu. and here tiio cyelono formed. The court house nt MontaKuo was damaged RlKiut $1.000.

Severn! churches and a number of liouxn.i wero unroofed but no lives wero lout at Montague. Tho citizens ot SI. Joe rolflcd 1325 today TEXANS ABROAD. In New York. BPKCIAL TO NEWB.

New York, July nrrlvnta nt New York hotels; Galvcston--Martha W.ishinRton. C. Scaly. Houston--Hoffman, S. Siimuelh.

Sun Antonio--Imperial, H. L. Ransom. Tcxns--Aslor, K. 11.

Wade. DnlliiH--St. Donl8, W. B-iypr, L. Wob- Rter; Hoffman, K.

Allen; Imperial, T. Wir. wife; Fifth Avenue, King Jr. Llano--Crtfimonolitnn, Opp. Tyler--ttrnmlwny Centra), M.

N. David- ron. Terrell--Fifth Avenue, Ftldor. An tor. A.

F. Hancock. Price of Co cm Ext-Unnerc Enhanced in Value--Two Shnres Ilronpbt 914,750. New Orleans, July surprise has been occasioned in this market, over Louisiana and Mississippi and in the ranks of tho Sou thorn Cotton Association because P. Brown, the erstwhile bull leader, has turned bear and offered to pell 20,000 bales of July cotton at existing prices.

This flop of. Brown is one of the pe.n««tions in the local sensational cotton shuntlnn. Brown's action hns caused many weak-ltneed brothers lo become weak and the lonp traders sro showing the effect in several quarters. Brown did nothing today. Prices advanced 25 to points with normal conditions about the ring.

Brown was not conspicuous. Every one was looking for dynnmile. in the market Fomewhtro, but up to the (tinning hour they Imd not found H. Brown explains his change of heart by Faying that hn thinks present prices are high enough and that good reaction Is in although there be a still further advance shortly, "I think It a bad said, "to force prices too high nt this noauon of the. 3ear, I'ltlnmlely I belluvo In much higher prices.

Bulling cotton at lie In very dif- proposition from bulling II at tlvc to 7o. think purchases should not bo mado only on big breaks. Another thing we aro a lo have improved crop conditions Yom now on." W. H. director of tho Stole Kx- Derlmcnt Station, line takon up tho dostruc- Beer Is 25c a glass and butter 51.S5 a pound at C.

P. Diaz, across from Eagle Pass. Arrangements are completed for the Baptist convention at Lampasas. The new City Commission of Houston got down to active labors yesterday. Tile Texas Women's Pi-ess Association elected officers, choas Bi Campo for meeting and adjourned.

Noberto Benavides, convicted of assault to murder, hung himself in Laredo jail. A high wind at Whitt damaged or destroyed wery building in the town. The Helslg Building at Beaumont i burned. At Hyatt two nig negroes pitched onto a little negro, one of whom was killed and the other wounded. Thb presentation nf the other side of tho International-Texas Company pipe line contract was made before the Railroad Commission.

State Superintendent Cousins has issued a circular letter on transfers of pupils and examinations. More awards were made by the State Purchasing Agent. Tiie Lincoln District Association Is In session at Hearne. The Old Landmark Association Is holding its sessions at Hryan. More raids of drinking clubs have been made In Bell County.

Arrangements for (he canal convention aro being made at Victoria. Dnllns gets the 190(5 meeting of the District and County Clerks' Association. Twenty-five people are dead aa a result ot tho Montague County storm. 3, .3. .5.4.

,5, TEXAS WEATHER. Washington, July Texas-- 4. Showers Friday and Saturday. cept fair In northwest portion; fresh. southeast winds.

A West Texas--Fair Friday and. Sat- urday. nOJIRSTIC. Root succeeds Secretary of State. Kducatlonnl Assoelatlon Kllhu Hay.

Tho National elected officers. C. .1. Dtvlln, TopMta, fllcn a volun- Inry petition In bankruptcy. Fourth of July were 19, Injured 3.1K).

closed: Qnlvrotnn. ai lo SI up; Now Orleans, 50 to points up; New York, 23 to 26 points up; Liverpool. 6 points up. Spots--Middling Galveston, New Orleans, JJHic; New York, ll.lOc; Liverpool, 5.S93. "Bull" Brown, New Orleans, La, tells why he has become a bear.

September wheat closed down, corn unchanged, oats lower and provisions New York stocks closed Irregular; bonds steady. FOREIGN. Ths Crimean Peninsula is on the verga of a revolt armix-ny i-eigns in tho mountains of the Caucasus. Reported that the Kniaz Potemkin bombarding Theodosia, The Kniaz Potomkin is commanded by a committee of seven. Lithuanians refuse to go to The Mikado addresses the peace envoys.

Labor supply at Panama is 5,000 men short. Smallpox Increases in Valparaiso. Chile is negotiating an extradition treaty with Argentina- Many coming to the relief of the Guanajuato sufferers. is BENAVIDES HANGED HIMSELF, Trouble Stnrlctl nf (he Tall of DOB, Folloivoil by Annnnlt nnd Conviction. Srtcui.

TO Ten NEWS. Laredo, July Bcnavldcs, the Mexican peddler who was given two years in the penitentiary by tho Jury yesterday on a vhnrso of nr.sault to muracr. his victim on old water cart driver, who accidentally run his cart -wheel over the tall of dopr hi-longlnar to nehavldri wns found hniiEinB by tho neck from the nppcr BratlnB in his cell. The mnn linrt torn 11,1 his blanket in make the rone with which he hung himself. A Millionaire Aulpltlp, Wlnsled, July body of Win- Ihrop Turney, a millionaire owner of a minn In Sonora, Mexico, wan found todny in a pnntiiro In tho town nf Oolebrook.

Them wns ix hulliu wound his heart and hi? mud elnspnl a revolver. It Is mimwsed that dcsjjondc-ncy, 1)110 to poor lioalth, nd him to commit mifclde. Ho ofTM y. nnd a grmluato of the Yalo of.