The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19

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Valley. He has committed number
of bold burglaries. Sympathy for
his widowed mother saved him from
| prosecution. but this last crime was
so much worse than the others that
his mother requested his prosecution
to save him from utter ruin. He
says he is willing to plead guilty, in
order to get as light a sentence as
possible.
HEMPsTEAD, April 16.-The Lum
Campbell case was continued by the
state. The defendant was anxious
| for trial.
MARSHALL, April ga party Of
New Jersey capitalists will commence
at an early date to erect cotton seed
oil mill at this point. They have con-
Guided final arrangements and will
| build one of the largest in the south.
Representative Caven and Senator
Pope arrived from Austin to-day.
The Texas and Pacific paid off to-
day, and the pay car will go to New
| Orleans Tomorrow
BAsTRoP, Aprit 16.-District court
convened to-day. There is a very
light civil docket, but the criminal
docket shows more cases than for
years heretofore.
The Bastrop gun club left yester-
| day for Houston, to take part in the
state shooting tournament.
There was very light frost this
morning, but no damage was done.
TYLER, April 16-Considerable ex-
element has prevailed here since Sat-
urday evening over the disappearance
of two boys, Johnnie Deshong, aged
fourteen, and Willie Townsend, aged
sixteen, who have been missing since
that time. 1t was learned that they
had drawn one hundred dollars and
had started for Sacramento, Califor-
MIA. SIR. +. L. Deshong and Mr..
Thomas Townsend Immediately
started in pursuit and traced them to
Dallas, where they learned that the
boys had purchased tickets to Sacra-
mento and were on their way there.
The boys were only few hours
ahead, and it is hoped they will be
overtaken and brought back.
A. Daniels, retail liquor dealer, was
to-day closed on an attachment of
Half, Weis Il Co., of Galveston.
FORT WORTH, April 16.-Sunday
afternoon two little children. Willie
White, aged five and half years, and
Minnie Howard, aged seven years,
were burned to death in a large dry
goods box on an open lot near Main
street. The children were playing
and had gone in the box to play. The
boy lit match, when the hay took
fire and burned both the children.
The coroner's jury to-day returned a
verdict of accidental death.
K. l.. Irvine, at one time agent at
Itasca for the Missouri Pacific road,
to-day sued the company for $4,000
for libel and false imprisonment. He
was arrested and jailed at Taylor on
the charge of embeZzlement. After
ward the accounts were found correct
and he was released.
A very good counterfeit silver dol
lar is circulating here very extensive
ly.
NJ. F. Hayes, desperate lunatic.
was jailed here to-day for attempting
to kill his wife and brother. He was
bitten by rabid horse two weeks ago.
w. F. Lake. merchant here, and G.
G. Brownlee, of Dallas, had asserious
difficulty on Houston street to-day.
Brownlee is very badly injured about
the head and face.
The mains of the water works
were to-day tested under 260-pound
pressure, and stood the test.
GALVESTON, April 16.-The dis
covery of the skeleton of Charles
Lamm in small frame house in
thickly settled portion of the city,
yesterday, and the indubitable evil
dence that he had been dead for
months, is the sensation of the hour
1t is strange that this man, recluse
though he was, should have died and
been left unshrouded for many
months, during which time the doors
of his house were never opened. 1t
is severe reflection upon that neigh
borhood kindness that prevails in all
enlightened communities. In speak
ing with one who knew the deceased
well, he said, "Mr. Lamm was a man
| of great pride of character, poor
man, but a proud and lofty-minded
Qne, and he is believed to have be-
1onged to the German nobility.
lie had been an officer in the PruSsian
army and was Free Mason. He
froze to death during cold night of
the past winter when probably weak
| and emaciated from inattention. He
was too proud to ask aims or seek
aid, and so when dying OF hunger
and freezing with cold he wrapped
himself in his scanty covering and
died." Lamm was known and es-
teemed by many who, if they had
known of his necessities, would have
cheerfully relieved them. He was
probably seventy years old, and from
all the evidence obtainable he must
have died during Christmas week
from starvation and cold. He has no
relatives here and if any elsewhere he
left no record of their whereabouts.
r. A. Warren, who cut Charles n.
Fogy, proprietor of the Atlanta
House, across the abdomen late Sun
day night, had a preliminary exami-
nation before the recorder this morn
ing, and in default of $1,000 bond
was sent to Jail. Mr.. Togy's condi-
tion IS precariouS.
A number Of the prominent men,
bers of the order of knights of Pyth-
las left for Dallas this evening to at
tend the councils of the grand lodge.
DALLAS, April 16-The printers of
the city organized typographical
union yesterday, with thirty-Seven
members, and to-day big strike oc=
CURED on the Daily Herald and the
men walked out. The strikers assert
that the foreman, who is a non-union
man, discharged two men who
had been instrumental in organ
iZing the union, and they then
demanded that the foreman
of the Office should be union man
and that the mechanical departments
of the Office should be under
the control of the union.
These demands the proprietors
refused to grant and assert that
no union men shall have employment.
No increase was made in the scale of
of prices. Thirty-fve cents per thou
sands ems was made as the scale and
it was satisfactory to the men. There
are about twelve or thirteen
vacant frames out of a
total of twenty tonight,
and FIVE non-union men and three
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