The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

| DALLAS, June 29.-Charlie Gay and Robert
| Watkins, of Fort Worth, are in the city 10 Sc
| cure cedars, evergreens and ether decorative
| material for the celebration at Fort Worth on
| July 4th. Charles presence here at once
sprung the walking match topic among the
| sporting fraternity, number OF them desiring
| to match the Fort Worth veteran and favorite
| against c. Ii. Holman, of Chicago, for go-as
| yOu-pleaSe race in Dallas. Charles answer
| is that while he is not bantering anybody fol
a race if Mr. Holman or his friends are anXi.
Gus for such match and mean business, a
good race with hard cash up, he will produce
his money and meet their man for seventy-five
to name, and give him the best tramp he is
capable OF, and that he believes he can defeat
Holman or any other man in Texas The i'll
dications are tonight that Holman's friends
will talk business with Mr.. Gay as soon as the
one hundred yard foot race with Geo Williams
| is over next Sundry.
johnson, who killed a policeman in Texar-
kama and escaped, was seen near Dallas yes
terday evening, and positively identified He
was armed with a Winchester and six shoot
| ers. The TeXarkana authorities have so fan
fugitive.
Rains, charged with murder for killing his
brother, Hannigan Rains, after being out two
days and nights, were to-day discharged, as it
was impossible for them to agree upon a yer.
dict They stood seven for acquittal and five
for conviction of manSlaughter.
United States District Attorney j. C. Bigger
has gone to Waco to prosecute Jeremiah
Grigsby, charged with sending obscene litera-
ture through the mails on postal cards.
North Texas is now being marketed quite
heavily, and grades up in quantity much better
than was at first anticipated. Your cOrrespon-
amount of grain handled by Dallas dealers in
the past year, and gives the following as reli-
able : Wheat, 10000 BUSH. corn, 100000 BUSH
els oats 240, 900 bushels barley and rye, To-
000 This year the aggregate receipts at Dali
las will be at least one-third greater than the
foregoing, showing the increase will be i'll corn
and oats. The wheat area Is smaller than last
year. with barley and rye about the same.
GALVESTON, June 29.--Wednesday night a
daStardly attempt was made to violently kid
nap the thirteen year old daughter OF Mr.. j. s.
Winnie and Church streets. The family retired
TO their rooms as usual on the night in ques-
ton, about 10 O'Clock. In the apartment oeeu-
pied by the children there were two beds, and
the one occupied by the daughter and another
child stood directly adjoining a window that
opens out on "a back gallery. The house being
entrance into the apartment. About 2 80 Thurs
day morning, While the household was wrapped
in slumber, they were suddenly aroused by
piercing screams coming from the room of
the children. Mr.. Shrier sprang from
his bed and dashed into the apartment of his
children to find everything te dire confusion
His little ones were parals Zed with fright and
terror, while his eldest daughter lay suspended
half way out the window, between the gallery
and bed, SpeechleSS nom fright She was by
the aid OF restoratiYeS soon brought to- and
after a little while was able to tell her story
which i'll substance was as follows: At about
2:30 O'Clock she was rudely awakened from her
sleep by feeling herself being slowly drawn
across the bed in the direction OF the window
Al first she thought she was dreaming, and at
tempted to scream TO see if she was awake or
asleep, but rude hand being placed over
her mouth she for the first
time realized her true position.
The girl fought and struggled as hard as she
knew how, bus all to no purpose, and she was
being gradually but very slowly pulled out OF
the window, which she had now reached, as
the intruder seemed to be perfectly alive to
the danger of his position, if by any haste he
should awaken the other children and thus
raise an alarm. When the girl had been near
ly nalf drawn through the window, the in
truder, evidently believing that he now had
things all his own way, released for moment
his hand from over the girls mouth, when she
screamed and the sc0undrel hastily fled and
has not been captured. The girl is confident
her assailant was a white man. This is
not credited by the police. who be
lieve the wOuld-be abductOr was
a negro and this belief is confirmed by Lacase.
a French butcher on the corner of Thirteenth
and Winnie streets, who says that Thursday
morning about half an hour before the outrage
was committed a powerful negro entered his
shop and begged for some matches, and he Is
he is the man. Another negro was
sent to jail to-lay for attempting to violate the
person Of an eighf-year-0ld negro girl,