The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Special kilograms

FORT WORTH, April 25.-The city
was crowded to-day with people tc
see the water works test. Fifteen
streams, each one hundred and fifteen
feet high, were thrown at once. Our
citizens are delighted.
Nineteen car loads of cattle passed
over the Fort Worth and Denver
road to day bound for Wichita Falls.
John Glover, arrested for ATTEMPT
to kill l.. o. Fondbille at Mansfield,
was to-day granted bail.
The city paid its floating debt to-
day, $21. 500.
JEFFERSON, April 25.-The COM
mittee to locate the new asylum meets
at Dallas next Tuesday, the first prox.
They will visit Jefferson, and the
health giving waters and cooling
springs of Marion county at an early
day on tour of inspection.
A party in search of an alleged rap
lst IN Cass, county were here last
night.
The Jefferson cotton compress has
squeezed fifty thousand bales of cotton
this season. Besides twenty thousand
uncompressed have been received.
The steamer Alpha left at p. M,
to-day.
CoRsICANA, April 25.-President
Paramore, General Manager G. w.
Ristine, Superintendent Vandyne and
the directors of the Texas and st.
Louis railroad, arrived here to-day by
special train on.a tour of inspection
and to confer with a delegation from
Dallas relative to the building of the
branch of the narrow gauge from Mt.
Pleasant to Dallas. 1t is understood
that the narrow gauge people favor
the project and if the necessary ar
rangementS are consummated they
will as soon as the northern connec-
tlon is made move their forces to Mt.
Pleasant andpush the proposed line to
an early completion.
WACO, April 25.-An eight-year-
old boy named Ovid Clark to-day
shot and fatally wounded Joseph
Miller, boy about ten years old. He
used an Old rusty pistol which was
broken and had but one chamber
loaded. The ball, a thirty-eight
calibre one, entered just above the
right nipple and passed through his
lung and lodged in the wall of the
house.
Prof. Chas. Heard, who was ar
rested at McGregor three weeks ago
upon requisition from Illinois for
forgery, returned here to-day accom-
panied by his aged mother. There
are five indictments for forgery
against him at McLeansborogh, Hi
nois, and he is under $29OO bond to
return for trial next September.
DALLAS, April %. - After three
days effort the citizens have succeed
ed in raising the renewal of the $780,
600 cash bonus to the Texas and st.
Louis Narrow Gauge railroad COM
pany, and extended the time for them
to reach here, from Mount Pleasant,
till April 1, 1884. The citizens COM
mittee, consisting of Hon. Barnett |
Gibbs, Samuel j. Adams, r. V. Tomp-
kins and William White, went to Cor
sicana to-day to meet the railroad di-
rectory and accompany them to Tyler, |
the railroad men having notified them |
that they would meet them at Cors j. |
cana last night,
Incendiaries attempted to burn st.
Patrick's Catholic church. Kindling
wood saturated with coal oil
was placed under the building
and set on fire, but failed to
destroy the building. The church has
just been completed and was dedicated
last Sunday. No clue to the incendi-
aries.
A stranger named Kepplar died sud-
denly in the city to-day. His father
in East Tennessee was telegraphed to
and replied to turn the body over to
the Masonic fraternity. The latter
not satisfied of his being all right
with the order, declined to assume
any thing in the premises. The father
then notified Dallas parties to bury his
son in rosewood coffin. 1t was af-
tergards learned that the deceased
had been az employee of Joe Fox, of
Fort Worth. That gentleman being
notified of his death ordered
the remains of the deceased
buried as the father had directed, and
he FoX) would defray all expenses,
which was done.
Deputy Sheriff Matthews, of Gala
han county, came here to-day, and
w. Wilcox, who had commit
ted some crime in Callahan county
and then jumped his bond, on which
4 young widow was surety. Wilcox
was found at Grapevine, twenty miles
west of Dallas.