The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Special kilograms.
DALLAS.
Lspecial to the Statesman


DALLAS. August limited States Marshal
Goslng, of the western district of Texas. and
Deputy Niggh arrived to-day and lodged
Silsbee, the mail rObber recently captured in
New Mexico. in the Dallas Jail. Silsbee was
route agent and in a wreck on the Houston
and Texas Central railroad. near COrscana III
1881, robbed the mail of about $50 and fled.
He has since been in Chihuahua and IN New
Mexico under assumed names: He confeSSes
to the crime and will plead guilty i'll the fede-
raj court at Dallas in October.
The business men of Dallas to-day subscribed
$1,000 to the Dallas base ball association, to be
given in prizes i'll tournament for the anna
teur championship of the state, the tOurna-
ment to be played on the grounds of the Dallas
base ball association, commencing Monday,
August %; competing clubs to pay per cent
entrance money, which is $50. All texas clubs
desiring to enter can correspond with j. G.
McNealUs, secretary of the Dallas association.
This morning about O'Clock a fire was dis
shanties at the corner of Main and Market
streets, and was under good headWay Wnen the
fire department arrived. The flames licked up
the buildings quickly, as everything about
them was dry and very cOmbu>tlDle. The cor
ner was occupied by a saloon ana restaurant
and shoe shop, several families and a negro
boarding house. The shantieS we're al west
of the Grand Windsor hotel, the finest III
North Texas, and for time It looked as though
il also would be destroyed, the fire coming III
through the windows, setting fire to the 1urnl;
ture and causing Il panic among the guests ana
employees. The hotel was damaged about
5000, and the furniture S4Ol-fully insured.
The property destroyed on the corner was
worth but little-probably S25O0-and was as
near nuisance, as far as the eye is concerned,
as could be. There was no insurance on 1t.
DALLAS, August 3, A posse VI mounted
farmers came riding into town tonight, armed
with shotguns, and escOrting man tied with
a rope and riding a horse in the midst OF his
captOrs. The prisoner was turned over to the
sheriff and lodged in Jail. His name Is Jos,
Muelshan, who broke into the house of a
planter named j, A, Fuller, in the absence OF
the family this afternoon. and burglarized It
Of "a lot of property. Fuller came home as the
burglar was fleeing. A posse chased the Dur
glar two miles, but could never get shot at
him. When exhausted he laid down on his
back with his hands up to save his life, and
valuables away in his flight and refused 70 tell
how much he secured and his CaptorS did not
have time to see. He is good for the penl-
Tertiary.
Postmaster CragO, of Paris, Texas, has re-
signed, and it is presumed a successor VIII be
appointed in a day or two. There is Il big
crop of candidates.
W. A. Carroll, agent of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railway, to-day received teie-
gram from Oscar q. Murray, general 1relght
and passenger agent, that the Santa Fe IS now
ready for through freight business from Dallas
and all points in Texas to st. Louis, Chicago
and Kansas City and the north and east gen
orally, via the Texas and ST Louis road, and TO
start The business at once. The new. combina-
ton will no doubt be formidable rival 10 me
Gould system,
Deputy Revenue Collector Cochran, of the
fourth district of Texas reports the peach and
apple crop very large and OF fine quality, and
that the indications are numerous applications
will be made to establish diStilleries for the
manufacture of applejack and peach brandy.
A heavy rain fell throughout this portion or
Northern Texas this afternoon, breaking a
long drouth. 1t will be of great value to the
growing crops, particularly cotton, which was
beginning to suffer greatly.
Private information received tonight from
the United States military academy at West
Point, by parties in this city, announce that
another serious haZing case has cast gloom
over that institute. 1t is announced that CADET
Beaumont b. Buck of Dallas, who became so
well known in connection with the haZing
trouble which led to his shooting Cadet John
Il. Thompson, jr., of Ohio, three years ago, is
under arrest with eight other cadets. II APP
pears that new cadet, or ''pfebe, y was hazed
very badly, and that Cadet (priyate) Hortin-
gOn, OF Illinois, is charged with taking the
principal part in the affair. The trouble seems
70 be between the second and third classes OF
the cadets, and as Mr. Buck, now the fifth ser
geant out of sixteen in his battalion, belongs
to the second class, his friends here are at
loss to know how he is made to appear con-
nected with the affair. The statement is made
that Buck and the others under arrest refuse,
as Il matter of honor, to answer queStlons ana
Col. Merritt the academy superintendent, Is
understood to advocate expulsion, or at least
a years suspension, and, as MIR. Buck has
had such serious trouble in the Thompson at
fair, it is feared that extreme measures may
be used, whether the present case merits 1t or
not.
Parties at West Point are inquiring for the
whereabouts of Congressman John Rea-
gan, of Texas, to get his interest in behalf OF
the cadet under arrest.