The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-22

force to preserve health after the
water subsidies. There is no appre-
tensions of further calamity.
A WOMAN MURDERED.
BOSToN, March 18.-In Watertown,
about eight miles from here. Mrs.
Carleton was murdered in the hall
way of her own house about 40 last
night. The door bell rang and Mrs.
Carleton answered. Her daughter,
coming down to see who the visitor
was, stepped upon the body of her
mother at the foot of the stairs, with
her skull crushed with large rock.
Officers are looking for her husband,
liquor dealer in Boston. Mrs. Garlic
ton was 30 years old and had two
children, and was far advanced in
pregnacy. Her husbands name is
Edward Carleton, who arrived at
Watertown about midnight and then
first learned of the murder. Friends
here say Carleton did not leave Bos-
ton for home until 10 o'clock at night.
EGAN AND THE NEW IRELAND.
WATERBURY,, CONN, March 49,
At the close of the lecture on st. Pat
rick by Father Lilley, of Ohio. to-
night, Father Walsh introduced Pat
rick Egan, former secretary of theland
league, as the little man who made
the British lion trmeble. Egan said
Ireland is to-day in the hands of Il
most brutal and coercive foe, who is
hanging innocent men, bayonettiDg
women and shooting children. Eng
land is, he said, with her spies, in
formers and packed juries, trying to
crush out the national life of Ireland;
but there is new Ireland on this side
of the Atlantic which she cannot
trample out, and which will hold her
to a reckoning for crimes committed at
home. He believes Ireland's long night
of slavery, is approaching its dawn.
and that measures for her national
independence would be successful.
THE IMPRISONED AMERICANS.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1S.-CapJ.
Dickman, of the steamer Foley, from
Aspinwall, reports four Americans,
B. 5. Lewis, G. H. Barnes, L. ID. Scott
and Alex Stewart, incarcerated at
Panama upon suspicion of being en-
gagged in robbery from the vaults of
the Panama Railway company of $50
600 gold coin, shipped in two kegs.
Scott and Lewis say they LETT Panama
the day after the robbery for ASpin-
wall on business, arriving at Aspin-
wall they met Stewart, and the three
were arrested at breakfast. They
were taken back to Panama and i'm
prisoned. Barnes was arrested after
wards. Their baggage was searched,
but no gold found. The four prison
ers addressed protest to the United
States government, declaring they are
innocent and asking redress. They
say they have not been given a
hearing.
ARRESTS FOR ELECTION OFFENSES.
CHARLESTON, March 18.-In Clar-
endon county, this state, Saturday,
Charles Wilson, deputy United States
marshal, assisted by two conStables,
arrested nine white men and one col
ored man, all respectable merchants
or farmers, and took them from their
homes without allowing them to
change their clothing or make other
preparations for journey, and car
ried them to Graham, locked them up
all night and then took them to Flor
ence. where they are to be held until
Tuesday to be examined by the
United States commissioner. Wilson
said the arrest was for election of
lenses, but would give the prisoners
no more definite information of the
charge against them. Bail was offer
ed for the prisoners, but Wilson re-
fused it, giving as reason that to do
so would deprive him of his mileage.
Great Indignation is caused by the
proceedings. The prisoners are all
Democrats.
ATTACKING WOMEN.
LONDON, March 18-Lady Florence
Dixie was attacked at Windsor yes
terday, by two men disguised in
women's clothes. Her dress was cut
with daggers in several places, but
she received no injury. Lady Flor
ence was walking in a secluded spot
when man asked her what time it
was. She replied she had no watch,
and afterward noticed, though they
they wore women'S clothes, that their
faces had been shaved. Much
alarmed, she started to walk away
and was followed by the men, one of
whom seized her. She struggled to
escape, but, seeing their daggers, fell
in swoon. This oc CURED at fOuI
o'clock in the afternoon, and she did
not recover her senses until AS
Lady Florence has been Frustrated TO-
day, and the story of the affair was
elected from her only at intervals
She says the preservation of her life
is attributable to her st. Bernard dog
which she suppOses protected hel
while she lay in the swoon. She had
no reason to suspect immediate
danger, although she had been some.
what fearful since the receipt Ct let
tiers about the land league. The last
thing she remembers is of the men
pushing a quantity of mud in
her mouth. On her recovery
she found the palms of both
her hands cut across and her glove
severed. There were two dagger
holes two inches apart in the right
breast of her dress, and broad steel
corset ribbon was broken by the
weapon, which had penetrated the
inner lining of her dress at the first
stroke, and to the corset at the second
stroke. Lady Florence supposes she
unconsciously struggled with the
men, assisted by her dog, until the
scoundrels were disturbed by a cart
passing in the woods. She received
threatening letters while in Ireland
recently. One man wore green
dress and large hat with veil, and he
it was who attempted the assas-
sination. No arrests have been
made, but the police have a slight
clue to the scoundrels. 1t is believed
the men were bitten in the struggle
THEY WILL HAVE THE ROAD.