Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-16
SAN ANTONIO.
Incidents OF the Railway Robbery
Clown In Tragic Situation
The New Bridge.

Special TO tho Gazette.
San Antonio, November Is. Butcher.
q clown In Doris circus, was one of the
passengers robbed yesterday on the
Mexican national train, IN Mexico. by
band of twenty MeXicaus organized
In New Laredo, Mexico. He had been
on visit tohis brother, who is mining
In Candalia, Coahuia, Mexico. Ii is
said the clown raised his hands and
gave up like little man, The rob-
berry Is said to have been planned mt
Laredo, Tex, by MeXicans and Ameri-
cans, and that their arrangements were
perfected in New Laredo, Mexico. Sew
ernl persons who were on the train ar
rived here to-day, among them Hon.
V. o. King, late commissioner of in.
surance, statis les and history of this
state, who had u pistol presented on
either side of his head They all
say it was desperate affair, and that
there was no chance for defense.
Much interest is taken in the robbery,
especially by the railroad, MS no efforts
are To he spared both on this side and
in Mexico to secure the arrest and pun
ishment of the bandits. 1t Is rumored
that the railroads have put up $4,000
to bring the perpetrators to Justice.
to be constructed across the Rio
Grnnde at Laredo are now being
worked on, and he track-laying force
aie to commence as soon as cars are
run across the Rio Grande.
Col. w w. Hungerford of the u. q
II. q. railroad was here to-day to me-
gotiate for the sale of an extensive Goa,
district belonging to Gov. Hunt. and
to which the road now runs. What
he accomplished has not been made
public. The Hunt mines are in full
blast, and "a head stock and a shaft
have been erected and cages put in
and coal Is being cut with compressed
air cutters under better system than
ever before was i'll use in the South.
The sale of these mines will open
district aDoVe along the Rio Grande
which is rich in coal. Regarding the
purchase of this road by Col. Hunting
ton, Col. Hungerford simply said that
Mr.. Huntington wanted it, and the
deal for these coal lands now being
made Is probably between Governor
Hunt and Colonel HUNTINGTON, and
the only remaining difference in the
transfer to Huntington consists in the
deposition of these coal lands.
Secuudino Escanino, u Mexican,
was to-day convicted of murder in the
first degree, with the death penalty.
He killed another Mexican south of
this city IL April, 1850.
Cetain lands fenced in on Galveston
Island, embracing siXty-four acres, he
longs to Colonel Anderson of this
city. The fencers have offered Col
Andre VS. 10 lease the land at $40 per
annum, which the colonel laconical!y
refused. The land is embraced in the
pasture fence recently run across Gal
weston island.
The rain continued to fall all last
night and to-day, and the country is
literally drenched with moisture.
Considerable anxiety is felt for persons
having poor cattle, on account OF the
cold damp weather.
The meaning of the names Secundi- !
no Escalero, the Mexican convicted of
murder and given the death penalty
here to-day. is second ladder and
the name of the murdered man, Ven
tua Deltorro implies "bravado of the
bull" So it appears that even Il maui
of the second round of the ladder can
overcome the viciousness OF the bulls