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at Seguin, was recently rear
rested at Giddings and taken
back to Seguin- The reason
given is that the bond upon
which he was released was not
considered good.
In Sherman, the other day
a colored uncle" aged about
"a, married an aunt aged II
and lacked IS cents of paying
for the license. He promised
to pay the clerk with the first
job of embarrassing he could
get.
= Mr.. Fisher, the "Bois d.
! Arc king" shipped 200 bushels
of Bots d Arc seed to Kansas
city Monday, and 800 bushels to
Kansas. Tuesday. - D. S.
Mays. for whipping his wife, was
fined Sroo and sent to jail, fall
ing to pay the fine.
= There was war at Sugar
Loaf, on Cowhouse creek, Bell
county, the other day. Knives
were freely used and also pis-
tolls. A man had his arm badly
cut and was stabbed in the.
shoulder; another was danger
ously shot. Cause: bad whiskey.
The Marshall Manufacture
ing company is now in full OPP
Grafton. 1t is very extensive
foundry and machine shop. turn
ing out all kinds of castings and
machinery. Manufacturing es-
adjustments build up towns.
This is a move in the right di-
rection for Marshall.
- In the case of the state VS..
c. w. Crozier, charged with
the murder of S. NJ. Hunter,
tried at Bryan last week, the
jury failed to agree. Crozier
and Hunter had a quarrel in a
newspaper Office in Bryan. no
one being present. Hunter
was shot and killed.
= Three armed men rode
into the village of Rock Hill,
Collin county, the other day and
arrested four citizens, keeping
them under guard while Thomp-
sons store was plundered. The
robbers were unknown and un-
masked; they made no effort to
conceal Their identity.
-Bonhan Nezus: Eleven mar
rage licenses issued during
February - No police arrests
this week, Isn't it about time
for spring fights to set ial -
The Fannin Light Guards have
taken the necessary steps to-
ward organizing under the new
law governing the militia.
-Navasota Tablet Last
Wednesday the two iron truss
bridges over. the Brazos and
Navasota rivers, were sold at
public auction,by John H. Owen
trustee, to satisfy a deed of trust
given by the Navasota and
Washington county Bridge com
pany. The bridges were bid in
by H. Schumacher at Sc, 500.
= A Sherman woman nam
ed Lynch swallowed FIVE grains
of morphine; her husband COM
ing in a few moments after
wards, she told him what she
had done. He took her to a
doctor shop where stomach
pumps were put to work to bail
her out. When the doctor man
told her she was running a great
risk of going to Kingdom
she said II don't care"
j. A. Estes and wife have
skipped from Rockdale. Estes
lad been a prominent member
If the Baptist church. Some
,ears ago he deserted his wife
md family, taking with him the
woman whom he now passes as
lis wife; she is said to have left
husband and children. The
acts in his history having leak
d out, it became necessary for
i'm to skip. The Rockdale .
Messenger writes the festive Is /
S up in a column article.
= One T. B. Owens was left !.
Waco in charge of Mrs. Tut !
e's wagon and team with in a
:ructions to bring it home, Mrs.
uttle having left in buggy. b
he was hardly well out oftown S
efore Owens took the wa ron P
I'd horses to an auctioneer for ~
lie. The outfit was promptly
I'D, but parties present recog- e
zing the property, procured t
e documents and in less than t,
n minutes from the time the a
lctioneer knocked the wagon
i'd horses down" Owen was in :.
i. Ii
- A Young ladv of Johnson