The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-21
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ing and wheat harvesting.
CARRoLLToN, Mo-, June 13-A
terrific wind storm visited this cit,
yesterday, and the citizens fled t.
cellars for safety, but no very seriou,
damage was done
SAN FRANCISCO, June ID. = The
large steamer, Canton, arrived here
to-day and brought 742 cases of opi
600.
COLUMBUS, o., June 13.-Jacot
Hllllard was found dead, hanging in
MS room last night. He was regu-
lar minister of the Methodist Episco-
PAL church. 1t was quite Il shock to
to the community. He leaves a wife
ana SIX children. Cause, insanity.
LITTLE Rock, June 13.-The Ar
kansas river at this point has risen
twenty-six feet in the past twenty
four hours, and is still rising one inch
an hour. 1t stood twenty-five feet at
dark. The planters are throwing up
temporary leveeS to protect the cot
ton. Tonight it is about on stand,
with another rise expected, owing to
more rain in the Indian Nation.
DETROIT, MICH. June 13.-Nettie
Lyon, eight years of age. was ensiced
away by tramp while going on an
errand at Cheboygan. last night. She
was found in dying condition this
morning. She had been outraged. and
stabbed in the left lung and otherwise
terribly injured. The greatest excite
ment prevails. A large body of citi-
zens are securing the country in pur-
suit of the villain.
New YORK, June 13.-The trial of
John Dewey, charged with libelling
August Belmont, was resumed to-day.
M. j. Costello claimed the statements
made by Dewey in the article alleged
to be libelous were fully justified by
facts, and also said, the controlling
influence of the district attorney in
his prosecutions of the defendant was
purely political.
Assistant district attorney Fellows
charged that the counsels statement
was wilful falSehood.
COLUMBUS, GA, June 13.-At
Rockford, Coosa county, Alabama,
Jordan Corbin, negro, entered the
house of peaceful citizen, BENJAMIN
Candin, and shot him while living
down. The wife jumped up and the
negro shot her down. The son started
to give an alarm, and he was also
shot. All were instantly killed. The
daughter, aged fourteen years, es-
capped and gave the alarm. There was
no provocation whatever. The coun-
try is being secured for the fiend.
CHILLICoTHE, Mo-, June 13.-A
tornado visited this city, doing con-
siderable damage. The high school
bell tower is injured; Milbank's engine
room and j. l.. Myers barn We're I'M
rooted. Currie's barn was moved
from its foundation; Woolfskill's res
ldence, five miles southeast from here,
was demolished and the family carried
through the air 500 feet and Mrs.
Woolfskill badly cut. At Utica near
here the Baptist brick church was de-
molished, and at Sumner City. eigh-
teen miles southwest, eleven buildings
were destroyed. Thousands of trees
were uprooted and three-fourths of
the apple crop around here destroyed.
NEW YORK, June I3.-At meet
ing of the directors of the Western
Union telegraph company, Jno. Jacob
Astor was elected director, in place
of Amasa Stone, deceased, and j.
Terry member of the executive COM
mittee. Gen. Eckert, acting presi-
dent, made financial statement
showing net revenues for the quarter
ending June so, partly estimated at
81, 900, which, with the surplus on
April l, $3,545, 252, foots up SIS, 270,242.
After appropriating interest and the
amount of $1,399,750 for quarterly
dividend, a surplus is announced of
$3,743,7 1872.
The directors declared a dividend of
IL per cent, payable on and after Ju-
ly 16; and on the removal of legal re-
straint prohibiting such payment to
stockholders the record at the close of
the transfer books on the Both of
June. The books of transfer of the
capital stock of the company in New
York and London will be closed at
o'clock, June 80, and be reopened on
the morning of July II.
MYSTIC BRIDGE, CONN, June l3.-
At the dedication of the soldiers
monument to-day, while salute was
being fired in honor of the governor
by a battery of artillery from Fort
Trumbull, William and Sedgwick's
post q. A. R., who were there at the
time, received the contents of two
guns in their ranks. The first dis
charge was received by Williams post,
but the second which was more
serious, was received by Sedg-
wick's post. Eighteen men were
injured more or less seriously.
Commander Brewer of Sedgwick's
post, Norwich, was peppered from
head to foot with powder entering
his side and limbs, and it is feared his
injuries are fatal. Carl Young, of
Norwich, was wounded in the leg and
is bleeding profusely, and is also pep
pered in the face, head and body with
coarse powder. The injuries of the
others are less serious. The injured
were consigned to private residences,
and medical attendance was promptly
summoned.
COLUMBUS, o., June 13.-The
met to-day. There were about forty
in attendance. The platform charges
both of the great parties with bribery
and corruption in securing nomina-
lions and carrying elections; with
fostering monopolies; with extrava-
gance in the taxing power. They de-
mand abolition of the national bank
system and the substitution
of legal tender paper money
for present currency demands.
That railroads be required to reduce
their present extortionate tariff, and
the restoration to the people of the
public lands appropriated to corpora
tions. 1t declares that all men have a
right to part of the land and that if
general prices upon the amount of
currency in circulation demands it;
temperance reformation, and abolition
of the convict contract system. a
full ticket was nominated. Charles
Jenkins, of Mahoning, is the nominee
for governor.
ST. LOUIS, June 13.-Four striking
coal miners and two women were
arrested at Collinsville to-day, for as
sault on the workmen of the Abbey
mine, on the streets in that town last
Friday evening. They will be tried
before justice of the peace to-mor-
row.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 13.-Ar-
mex Ridge, while resisting arrest, was
shot and killed by the sheriff's posse
at Danforth's saw mill, fifteen miles
south of this city. Ridge was want
ed on a charge of assaulting two ne
groes. He was grandson of John
Ridge, chief of the Cherokees, and
cousin of Col. Boudinot.
LOIISVILIE. KY. June 13-The