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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1903. OPERA HOUSE. Saturday Matinee and Night GRAND BENEFIT TENDERED TO TREASURER Earle B. Walker SWEET CLOVER With the Versatile Character Comedian MR. OTIS B.

THAYER SUPPORTED BY MISS ESTELLE CARTER AND The Original Company. Elegant Scenic Embelishments. A Play That Will Linger Lovingly in the Memory of Playgoers. Matinee Prices: 25 and 50 cents. Seats are now on sale at the box office.

Inter-Collegiate FIELD DAY FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Teams from University of Texas, Baylor, Agricultural and Mechanical, Southwestern, Austin College, Fort Worth and Trinity Universities will compete. SATURDAY, MAY 9TH AT 2:30 P. M. SHARP. ADMISSION.

.50 CENTS. FRANCIS FISCHER General Contractor Cut Stone and Brick Work Specialty. Rough or cut limestone furnished. Austin, Texas. HOTEL SUTOR (Formerly Hotel Saige.) STRICTLY EUROPEAN PLAN.

RESTAURANT A LA CARTE J. H. PATTRONE, Manager. Driskill Hotel Perfect sanitation, commodious, well furnished, best lighted and ventilated rooms in the south. DINING ROOM A LA CARTE Artesian water throughout the house, We solicit your patronage, IRWIN DANIEL, Manager.

AUSTIN WHITE LIME CO. Manufacturers of White Lime, and dealers in Cement, Plaster, Hair, Sewer Pipe, Acme Plaster, A. F. MARTIN BRO. Office 415 Congress Ave.

KENILWORTH INN. Biltmore, Asheville, N. on Southern railroad. In the Land of the Sky, Open throughout the year. Best appointed and most luxuriously furnished hotel in the south.

Adjoins and overlooks Mr. Vanderbilt's estate, Biltmore. Magnificent mountain scenery, dry and invigorating climate. Private park of 160 acres. Fishing and hunting.

Golf links on hotel grounds. Famous Swannanoa Golf club nearby. Electric cars to Asheville every fifteen minutes, All water used from fifteen celebrated springs in park. Special summer rates. Write for books.

EDGAR B. MOORE, Proprietor. Also Gladstone hotel, Narragansett Pier R. I. Mallory Line GALVESTON AND NEW YORK.

Wednesdays and Saturdays at Noon. Cheapest and Best Way CABIN $40, THIRD CLASS $20. Wednesday Steamers call at Key West, connecting with P. 0, S. S.

Co. for Havana, Miami and Tampa, offering the shortest and most direct route between Texas, Florida and Cuba. For passage and further information apply to ANY RAILROAD TICKET AGENT or to J. B. DENISON, Agent.

Galveston. Bosche's Troy Laundry Is the Best Both Phones 73. 806 Congress. THE DELICATESSEN OPERA HOUSE CAFE. Austin's Swell Restaurant Cuisine Superior, Gastronomic Delicacies, Finest Confectionery and Frozen Dainties.

Cold, Refreshing, Delicious Drinks. We please the most faatidious epi122 curean. W. H. MILAM, Proprietor, West Sixth street, Next to Postoffice, Austin, Texas.

A Five or Ten Cent Package of our moth balls will be enough to save hundred dollars or more damages 'to the winter clothes you are putting away now. Can you afford not to buy a package? J. W. Graham Prescription Druggist. Successor to Graham Andrews.

912 Congress Ave. FOR YOUR HEALTH Try a can of Walker's Red Hot Chile Con Carne. A Square Meal for 10c. Ask your grocer. SOLD EVERYWHERE.

Natural Mineral Water, BROMO-HYGEIA, An imitation of natural mineral water is an imposition on the public. Bromo-Hygeia can not be successfully imitated. Watch this space for analysis. Pure, sparkling, and a delightful beverage. STAR BOTTLING CO.

Distributers. Free Delivery. Phones 246. MARSHALL HOUSE, Mrs. M.

E. Marshall, Proprietress Delightful Rooms. Central Location. 205 East Seventh Street. Austin, Texas.

SELF HELP IS THE BEST HELP Help yourself by getting a Little Home Savings Bank and making regular deposits. We pay 4 per cent INTEREST on deposits in the Savings Department. First National Bank Austin, Texas. COUNCIL TO RESCIND ITS SEWER CONTRACT SHAPE OF THE DRAIN AND MATERIAL TO BE USED WILL BE CHANGED. It was learned yesterday that the city council at its regular meeting next Monday night would rescind its action in awarding the storm sewer contract to John Fields of Fort Worth and would readvertise for bids on new plans and specifications.

At the last meeting the mayor was ordered to withhold his signature from the contractor's bond until such time as the council had fully considered the matter. At the same meeting the shape of the sewer was changed from circular to horseshoe. that the action the in Yesterday it was, plainly intimated changing the shape not only took the contract away from Mr. Fields, but also gave power to the council to go ahead and readvertise for bids made up from the plans and specifications that would have to be drawn in order to bring the sewer to the required shape. As is now intended, the sewer is to be square at the bottom, with a circular top.

The material which was first settled upon was concrete made with either gravel or crushed stone, but now it is proposed to have the square bottom made of brick or stone and the arched top of concrete, and to readvertise for bids SO as to allow all to have an equal show under the new specifications. At the coming council meeting the exact material to be used will be decided upon and bids will be asked upon that material alone and upon no other. In this way it is hoped to avoid the confusion arising from a multiplicity of materials and the different methods of figuring on them, which is claimed to have caused trouble when the last bids were submitted. The specifications at that time called for crushed rock used with concrete, while John Fields, the man who secured the contract, made his Bid on the basis of using gravel. The others bid on rock.

The Picnic Postponed. Major Carruth, the chairman of the committee representing the different Sunday schools, decided yesterday, with several of the superintendents of the different Sunday schools, to postpone the picnic to be given at Pease Park Saturday, May 2, until Saturday, May 9. On account of the recent wet and cold weather the roads in the park are all new, and will be muddy. The shade is 50 dense that the grass will be wet. So as to have a good time, they have wisely postponed the picnic.

Postponed. The Audrey's Troubadours' entertainment that was to have at Hyde park theater last night and tonight was postponed to May 4 and 5 on account of the weather. Several new features will be added and it will be brim full of local hits. A Thoughtful Man. M.

M. Austin of Winchester. knew what to do in the hour of need, His wife had such an unusual case of could stomach and liver trouble, physicians not help her. He thought of and tried Dr. King's New Life Pills and she got relief at once and was finally cured.

Only 26c at C. O. Yates' drug store. ED W. COPES IS ACGIDENTALLY SHOT YOUNG MAN WAS KILLED WHILE CLEANING HIS RIFLE FOR INSPECTION.

WAS WORKING ALONE WHEN IT OCCURRED Cartridge Left in Gun at Li Last Target Practice Was Discharged and Blew His Head Off. Edward W. Copes, aged 19 years, one of Austin's most prominent young men, accidentally killed himself with a Springfield rifle at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian association. He was cleaning his rifle for inspection last night when it was discharged and fatal wound inflicted. The ball entered the right eye and tore the whole top of his head off, scattering over the floor.

John Lee, small pieces of skull and braidioned porter, was the only person building at the time young Copes met his untimely death and he was in a different part of the building. Lee heard the shot and upon an immediate investigation he found Copes lying near the front window of the gymnasium, which is on the third floor, in a pool of blood. Lee ran to the window and called Joe Murry, a clerk at Raatz O'Reilly's, who had heard the shot and came out in front of the store. Mr. Murry hurried over to the Young Men's Christian association and went up to the gymnasium.

When he entered a ghastly sight met his eyes. He and the colored man viewed the body then Johnson and immediately the police notified station. Judge Mat. The dead body was lying on the left side and the muzzle of the gun resting against the right cheek. Copes' head, or the portion left of it, was in a pool of blood and pieces of his skull and brains scattered around on floor several feet distance from the body.

One piece of skull about an inch square was picked up at de least twelve feet from the body and portion of his brains were sticking on the ceiling to the punching bag stand, which is about ten feet from the floor. There were several chairs setting around and one, evidently the one he was using while cleaning the gun, was three or four feet to the right of him and near thine window. cleaning rod and a small bottle of oil were sitting on the floor. Several small pieces of rags were also found nearby. From the way the ball entered it leaves the impression that the unfortunate young man was looking down the barrel of the rifle at the time it was discharged.

The bullet pierced the right eye next to the nose and ploughed its way through the top of the head. It was a lead ball and that accounts for it inflicting such an ugly wound. Had it been a steel bullet the wound would not have been near so large, but the Springfield rifle ball is noted for tearing people all to pieces when it strikes them. The eye was terribly powder-burned and from the nature of the shot the the face when it was discharged. more than two or three inches from muzzle of the rifle could not have been After the arrival of Justice Johnson and the officers the body was removed down stairs to Rosengren's undertaking parlors and taken in charge by a verdict that the deceased came to his it for burial.

Justice Johnson rendered Undertaker McCulloch, who prepared death from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted accidentally by himself, Mr. H. B. Copes, brother of the dead boy, was the first of his relatives notified and he advised their mother, Mrs. J.

B. Copes. Mrs. Copes was at her home at the time and her son had not been away from her more than two hours when the sad news of his death reached her. She is heart broken and her grief can not be expressed in words.

Dr. Wright, an uncle of young Copes, was also informed and he immediately went to the home of Mrs. Copes, realizing what a shock it would be to her. The brother of the deceased was the only one of his unmediate relatives who viewed the remains in the undertaking establishment, which were later taken to the residence of his mother. Lee, the porter, who was the only person in the building when Copes was killed, was seen shortly after the occurrence by a reporter.

The darky said that he did not see the young man when he shot himself, but that he was on the scene a few moments later. "When I first saw Mr. said Lee, "he was standing in front of Petmecky's store and when I came along he asked me when I would open up the hall. I told him that I was going down there now and he came along with me. "I unlocked the door and both of us went up stairs.

He asked if the armory was open, and I told him I thought so, and he went on to the third floor. I proceeded to do my usual work about the place and was at work when I heard the shot. "At first I thought that is was cap, but in about two seconds I heard fall on the floor. ran to the gymnasium and saw Mr. Copes lying near the front window.

I called a man across the street et and after he came over we notifled the officers. "While we were going up stairs Mr. Copes remarked that they would have inspection tonight and he wanted to clean his gun." Professor Will Brady, quartermaster sergeant of the Austin Rifles, the company of which the deceased was a charter member and one of the organizers, stated that Copes remarked to him Tuesday night that he wanted to get down to the armory Wednesday morning in time to clean his gun before going to work. Quartermaster Brady also said that several members of the company, including the deceased, had been out at target practice recently and he supposed that the cartridge was left in the rifle by mistake. This explanation accounts for the gun being loaded, as the rifles are not supposed to be loaded while at practice or in the armory, A mother, two sisters, Misses Lucy and Marie, and a brother, H.

B. Copes, survive the deceased. The dead boy was be announced later. The dead boy was a general clerk for Major Ira H. Evans and had been for the past several years.

The funeral services will occur this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, from his late residence, 514 West Fourteenth street, Rev. Dr. Wright officiating. The young man will be given a strictly military funeral, the Austin Rifles, of which the decensed was a member, and the Governor's Cadets participating. For this purpose the Austin Rites are requested to assemble at their armory at 3:30 o'clock, from which place they will march to the residence, Ag a mark of honor to their deceased comrade, Captain Jos.

C. Gilbert detailed a guard of honor last night to attend the body. Three men are: on duty, the guard being changed every two hours during the night, this guard being continued today until the hour of the funeral. Ench. member of the company is wearing a band of crepe oft his arm and this will be continued for thirty days.

The young man will be interred with military honors, with the exception of the final volley. Taps will be sounded. The pallbearers selected for the fu- GRAIN GRAIN COFFEE If you use Grain-0 in place of coffee you will enjoy it just as much for it tastes the same; yet, it is like a food to the system, a distributing the full substance of the pure grain with every drop. TRY IT TO-DAY. At grocers everywhere; 15c.

and 950. per package. neral are: Ed Palm, Henry Schaffer, Earl Cornwell, Tom Butler, Bryan Williams, Malcolm Graham. These young men belong to Corporal Estill's squad, of which the deceased comrade was a member. NEWS OF A DAY AT THE CAPITOL THE STATE BOARD OF TION HAS MONEY TO INVEST.

LEGISLATURE STRUGGLING TO PAY STATE'S EXPENSES But the School Fund Has Enough to Go Around the Numerous Counties Which Will Pay Interest. It is a fact worth noting and no less remarkable than interesting that while the legislature in the second story of the capitol building is struggling mightily to dig up money enough to supply the wants starving state institutions, the state board of education just below in the first story is begging for some kind of investment for surplus cash. The board instructed Secretary of State Hon. J. yesterday to issue the following announcement: "The state board of education composed of the governor, comptroller and secretary of state, directs attention to the authorities in counties contemplating the issuance of bonds, to the fact that 4 per cent bonds at par are desired by the board as an' investment for the school fund." It is funny that one department of the government announces that its various institutions are very needy, while at the same moment another department announce they have "money to burn," or "chunk at the birds." Charters Filed Yesterday, Charters were filed yesterday afternoon as follows: Add-Ran college of Herford, Deaf Smith county, no capital stock, but owns property valued at $10,000.

Incorporated by S. Loveless, F. Herron and L. Gough. The Ross Avenue Christian church of Dallas, no capital stock.

Incorporated by G. A. Harmon, Frank T. Payne and M. L.

Leach. Passenger Paid. Passenger taxes Tavere paid in the comptroller's department by the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway, amounting to $33.61, which is 1 per cent of $3360.66, the gross passenger earnings for the quarter ending March 31. The Texas Mexican Railway also paid its passenger taxes, amounting to $69.95, which is 1 per cent of $6995.22, the gross passenger earnings for the same quarter. They Want a Switch.

The railroad commission yesterday heard the petition of S. G. Barrett of Huntsville, asking that the International and Great Northern be required to place a switch or spur track at his saw mill. The railroad had declined to place the switch at that place, as it did not think it a suitable place. After hearing the evidence the commission took the matter under advise- ment.

Will I Save the Tax. It is not expected that any charters will be filed in the state department until after May 1, as by waiting until after the first such corporations that are contemplating filing charters will save the payment of a double franchise tax. Several charters have been received by the state department and they will not be filed until Friday morning. Notice of Hearing. The railroad commission yesterday afternoon issued a notice for a hearing on Tuesday, May 19, to take up and consider a proposition to establish such rates on tropical fruits in car loads and less than car loads, between points in Texas as may appear just and proper.

Purchased Bond Issue. At a meeting of the state board of education it purchased an issue $7000 San Saba county bridge bonds for the benefit of the permanent school fund. These bonds were registered by the comptroller's department. Amended Its Charter. The White Steel Gate company of Waco yesterday afternoon filed an amendment to its charter, adding the of farming implements to the purposes for which it was created.

Granted a Permit. Commissioner of Insurance Clay has granted a permit to the Mutual Aid Fund association of San Antonio to do business in Texas. This is a fraternal organization. Annual Statement Papers. Annual papers were received by comptroller from the tax collectors and assessors of the following counties: Jack and Knox.

"Mrs. Jones seems to be heartbroken over her husband's death." "Yes, even her hair has turned black Life. A TEXAS WONDER. Hall's Great Discovery. One bottle of the Texas Wonder, Hall's Great Discovery, cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes gravel, cures diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and lame backs, 1 rheumatism and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in both men and women; regulates bladder troubles in children.

It not sold by your druggist, will be sent by mail on receipt of $1. One small bottle is two months' treatment and will cure any case above mentioned. Dr. E. W.

Hall, sole manufacturer, P. O. box 629, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials.

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found it the quickest relief I have seen. I gave a bottle to a little girl who often had to stay out of school from the inconvenience, who afterwards told me it acted like a charm and she could go to school. Yours truly, MRS. B. R.

McCARTHY. QUARANTINE LAW HAS BEEN ATTACKED QUESTION OF CONSTITUTIONALITY IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS. RILEY TRENT DROVE CATTLE ACROSS LINE His Attorneys Contend the State Can Not Create a Board and that Board Fix Penalties. The constitutionality of the cattle quarantine act was attacked yesterday in the court of criimnal appeals in the case of Riley Trent of Fisher county which was submitted today on oral argument. Trent was tried and convicted in Fisher county for violating the quarantine law by driving cattle across a line fixed by the live stock sanitary commission.

The attorney representing Trent questioned the legality or constitutionality of the line as fixed by the sanitary commission, which conforms to the federal line, and also the independent line fixed by the sanitary commission over which defendant drove his cattle. One of the principal points on which the law is attacked is that the legislature has no right to create a sanitary board and delegate to that board the right to fix penalties for violating the law. Prominent lawyers here believe that the law wil be held, unconstitutional. The state was Assistant Attorney General Martin and Senator D. E.

Decker, and the defendant by Major Buck Walton of Austin, and Hon. J. A. Beall of Waxahachie. Court of Civil Appeals.

The following pleadings were had yesterday in the court of civil appeals, Third district. Reversed and rendered Southern Oil Co. vs. E. H.

Church, from Navarro; Western Union Telegraph Co. vs. John 'Callaghan, from Dallas; Delaware Insurance Co. vs. Monger Henry, from Bell; Texas Fire Insurance Company of Waco vs.

Knights of Tabor Lodge, from Camp. Affirmed Missouri, Kansas and Texas vs. Denison Nelson, from Grayson; Alfred Crebbin vs. Henry A. Moseley et from Dallas; E.

W. Hardin et al. vs. C. W.

Neal et from Rockwall; L. J. Allen et al. vs. J.

C. Foster, from Red River; Western Union Telegraph Company vs. Zack Belew. from Dallas; Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway company of Texas vs. H.

C. Storey, from Hays. In the case of Mont Somes vs. Pearl Ainsworth et from McLennan, the motion to dismiss appeal is overruled and new bond tendered, approved and ordered filed. In Hugh McClellan, executor, vs.

T. F. Mangum, administrator, from Collin, motion to dismiss appeal, was overruled. Rehearing refused--M. A.

Cooper Co. et al. vs. L. M.

Sawyer, from Hamilton; Geo. Gilbert vs. A. R. Gossard, from Travis; A.

W. May vs. Annie Jackson, from Dallas. Submitted for rehearing- Jas. Walraven vs.

Farmers and Merchants National bank et from Sterling; T. T. Bowman vs. G. D.

et from Red River; Missouri, Kansas. and Texas Railway Co. of Texas vs. Richard Flanor, from Hunt; Ethel Clough et al. vs.

B. M. Worsham et from Travis. Other motions submitted--Gulf, Colorado and Santa Co. vS.

L. F. Blanchard, from Milam; to certify dissent to supreme court; M. H. Laucheimer Sons et al.

vs. J. R. Saunders, from Coryell, to file conclusions of law and fact; Mont Somes vs. Pearl Ainsworth et from McLennan, to strike out statement of facts and briefs.

Court of Criminal Appeals. The following proceedings were had in the court of criminal appeals yesterday: Appeal Dismissed Davis Mason, from Comanche county. Affirmed- Sol Denis, from Harrison county; Henry Calhoun and Charles Hofheinz, from Travis: A. Sparks, from Harris; Frank Dalton, from lis; Oscar Ditmar, from Karnes; Willie Haley, from Jackson; Ernest Foster, from Robertson. Reversed and Remanded Fulton Blocker, from Limestone county; Isiah Manuel, from Burleson; Ernest Stone, from Ellis: Charley Coleman, from Freestone; Aaron Thomas, from Falls; W.

H. Pollard, from Montgomery. Reversed and Dismissed -Leander Lee, from Gonzales county. Rehearing Granted: Reversed and Remanded -Aaron Lively, from Navarro county; W. F.

Bottoms (2 cases), from Jack; Will Cubine, from Montague. Rehearing Denied- -J. Blackwell, from Montague; Morgan (3 cases), Walter Racer (2 cases) Walter Faucett (2 cases), from Mitchell county. Submitted on Briefs for AppellantJack Smith, from Bell county. Briefs for State- Berry K.

Willis and" Young Dewberry, from Smith county: Charles Holland and Bob Fields, from Harris. Briefs and. Oral Argument for Both--Riley Trent, from Fisher county; Sam Locklin, from Gillespie. On Motions. for Rehearing- R.

L. Meeks, from Bell. county: W. A. Pigford, from Runnels; Oscar Heinen, from Bexar; F.

R. Lively, from Montague. Will Use Culverts. In all likelihood the county commissioners will soon adopt the method advocated by Otto Bergstrom in placing culvetrs and storm sewers along the county roads. Yesterday Mr.

Bergstrom was in long conference with that body explaining the advantages of his system and the beauty of the culverts used. A model of storm sewer was shown and its merits were demonstrated from the practical viewpoint of an experienced engineer. Jake Sorrels on Trial. Yesterday the work of empaneling a jury to try the negro, Jake Sorrels was begun. Sorrels was.

a section hand working under another negro named Sam Crane at Manchac in May 1901. Words arose between the two relative to a piece of work, and Sorrels is charged with having slain Crane. The jury was completed about 7 o'clock and locked up until this morning when the trial will proceed. Police Court. (Acting Mayor Shelley.) Renice Atkinson, disturbing the peace.

Fined $10. Jim Shands, disturbing the peace. Fined $10, John Garsman, intoxication. Fined $10. Benny Wilson, disturbing the peace.

Continued. Burney Thorpe, fighting. Not guilty. Fifty- Third District Court. (Judge George Calhoun.) State of Texas VS.

George Monson, for murder. Jury out. of Texas vs. Jake Sorrels, for murder. On trial.

Case of Charles Hofheinz. The case of Charles Hotheinz, A saloon keeper of Austin was affirmed yesterday by the court of criminal appeals. The defendant was tried and convicted and fined $20 for violating the Sunday law by keeping his saloon A thick suds of Ivory Soap in lukewarm water and a soft cloth will restore the polish to parlor furniture with very little effort and not the least chance of harm. The vegetable oils of which Ivory Soap is made fit it for many special uses for which other soaps are unsafe or unsatisfactory. open on Sunday and selling liquor on that day.

In the opinion the court says is no controverting the fact that there the saloon was kept open on Sunday for business, and held that the defendant be guilty of violating the that time whether or not he had law at actually sold any intoxicating liquors. Court of Civil Appeals. Special to the Statesman. San Antonio, April following proceedings were had in the Fourth court of civil appeals today: Affirmed- -City of Ennis vs. N.

M. Gilder, from Ellis county; J. M. Powell, guardian, vs. W.

H. Taylor, from Fannin county; Morker Manufacturing company vs. Texas Contract company et from Kaufman county. Reversed and Remanded- Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad vs. S.

A. Lovell, from Grayson county. Reversed and Rendered -Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway of Texas VS. L. C.

McDowell, from Rockwall county; Texas Moline Plow company et al. vs. Kingman, Texas and Implement company, from Dallas county. Motions Overruled--S. H.

Walton Vs. R. C. et from Ellis county; S. H.

Watson vs. R. C. Boswell et al, from Ellis county; S. H.

Watson vs. T. M. Wirike, from Ellis county; St. Louis Southwestern Railway company vs.

W. E. Hughes, from Dallas county; Mary Smye VS. J. N.

Groesbeck, from Bexar county; Houston and Texas Central Railway company VS. W. W. Batchler, from Ellis county. Marriage Licenses Issued.

C. F. Clark and Lena M. Farrer. W.

H. Whisenant and Laura E. French. J. W.

Simpson and Mrs. Mattie E. Wilson. W. M.

Proctor and Mrs. Dasie Bouldin. Raymond Sterne and Bessie Hancock, THE SELECT KNIGHTS WILL PAY THE CLAIM WARM TIME AT GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS HELD LAST NIGHT. Tuberculosis came very near breaking up a meeting of the Select Knights of Texas, held last night in the Knights of Pythias hall at Seventh and Congress. The assembly was called to consider the claim of a member whose wife had died in possession of a certificate of the order.

The payment was protested, because it was shown that the deceased had tuberculosis prior to her application for membership, and had signed an application concealing the fact. The evidence showed, however, that the woman was not aware of her condition, and that the husband alone knew the facts. The evidence also indicated very clearly that the direct cause of death was abcess the liver, although she had died without the attendance of a physician. On the showing the claim was ordered paid. The discussion nearly broke up the meeting.

Every time a member tried to say tuberculosis he turned red in the face and choked up. Some of the assaults on that word were funny enough to make a brass monkey laugh. When Chief Montgomery took the stand to testify, he never batted an eye. When he came to the name of the disease he looked about him calmly and confidently, and said "consumption." Everybody knew what that meant, and later when another witness tackled the big hard word, some one called out: "Say consumption; that's what it is." The discussion will doubtless lead to a reform in the method of passing upon the applications for membership. WEDDINGS IN AUSTIN.

Whisenant- French. At the First Baptist church yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the presence of numerous friends, Mr. Walter H. Whisenant of San Antonio and Miss Laura E. French, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Horace G. French of Austin, were united in the holy bonds of the matrimony, church, Dr. J. officiating.

A. French, pastor The altar and choir gallery of the church had been transferred into a bower of beauty by the fair hands of woman, with fern, evergreens and a variety of the loveliest cut flowers, while the church was brilliantly lighted, presenting a striking contrast with the elements without. Mrs. H. G.

Collins, the church organist. presided at the organ and promptly at 4 o'clock to the strains of the wedding march, the happy pair came down the right aisle the church, presided by four ushers, Messrs. Paul H. Smith, Charles W. Foster, Frank H.

Booth and Louis North. At the altar they were met by the minister, who spoke ceremony of this church and pronounced a prayer for their happiness, during which music was rendered in the softest notes of the organ. The ceremony over, the wedding party retired by the left aisle and took their carriages. The bride was attired in a beautiful creation of Paris mouselline. The groom is a graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical college and of the pharmaceutical department of Chicago university, and hold a re- Tutt's Pills stimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and are Wha equaled as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE, In malarial districts their virtues are widely recognized, as they possess peculiar properties in freeing the system from that poison.

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