The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1878-06-01


watch and lot of stamped envelopes.
The loss amounted to about Sll00.
Judge McAdoo, postmaster. is absent
in western Texas. Tho office was in
charge of his deputy, A. NJ. Board.
From Rngic Pass.
EAGLE Pass, May 2j.-Andreas Por-
ter, sentenced to the penitontiary for
five years for assault to murder WIN.
McCane, committed suicide in the Jail
this morning by taking stry chime.
Great excitement aud indignation pre-
vail owing to the fact that the water
used by the court was found 10 con
tain poison. Judge Paschal discover
cd yesterday that the water had PEE
cnliar taste. Porter is supposed to be
the party who poisoned the water bar
rel, aud some think lac had assistance
from the outside.
LATER Since my last Telegram it
has transpred that Porter did poison
the water barrels from which the water
for the court was taken. He put near
" n bottle of strychnine in it. He
warned a prisoner yesterday not to
drink out of the barrel Donovan,
NhO nhh Nu' lll1UHfls ulu HOL ttll lulh
fact until this morning. Court adj
iourned to-day. Two convicts were
sentenced for hundred aud fifty
years each. Sullivan and Lombard
are still slightly affected BY the poison
intended for the court. >,.As-as
Suicide OF .HouiiIion,
COLuMBus, May 23.-Houilion com
mitted suicide in his cell, dying at 4
o'clock this morning, having taken
stryclninc. The public, though de-
priyed of witnessing the spectacle
generally express satisfaction. Houil.
lion left no confession, dying without
changing his expressed opinion.
Prosecution of the Train Robbers.
TYLER, May 2I.-'rhe cases of the
alleged train robbers were set GgC Tues
day. The cusc against Sam lAss tnnd
others, No. ll56, for the McsquLs/rob.
berry, was called and the government
announced ready for trial, The de-
fendants attorneys, Judge Bnrksdale
and Sawnie Robertson, of Dallas, and
Col. John Robertson of tyler, present
ed for Pipes and Ilcrndou, the only
principals under arrest, plea of abatc-
ment based upon the rebel autece-
dent Of three of the grand jury, under
section $50 of the revised statutes, to
which the u. 5. attorney excepted.
The exceptions were then argued on
both sides, and after argument the
court gave the opinion overriding the
plea, disagrceing with the opinion in
Second Wood Circuit Court Reports.
At noon, defendants moved the
court, under section 1923 of the revised
statues, to remit the case On account of
the difficult and important questions
involved in it to the next session Ot
the Circuit court, which motion the
court overruled, witlont argument, on
the grounds that only the district at
torney should make such motion.
The defendants then presented their
motion to quasli the Indictment, the
argument of which took all the even.
ing, and the court overruled next NOM
ing. Thereupon the defendants an.
nounced not ready for tlial, and pre-.
sented IN application for continuance.
The court ovcrruled the motion, but
ordered the cases transferred to Aus
tin to be tried July ,. All the cases
were treated the same way.
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LanR's Party Leaning.
WACO, May 25.-Grihd Master
Lang's speech at Bosqucyille to-day
was expected to be the opening of the
campaign. He confined himself more
particularly to grangers, as to their