The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-08-21

Moss eAaas LUCKY IN oouat
u0fe iindssf's Nnfdef statement Ihe
tiiy t1Hnrii and the waffiHa street
Nniiwnts \ notei scandal
MUmnu Assaulted,

loUt Wurtu, Aug, ~. special.
Nose Harris was acquitted In the ITO
corlcr's court to-day ~ unlnwfully
carrying u pistol, the testimony show.
showing ho was In danger ~ bolng At
tackled los tSladcj j. ". Putm'n.
Rufus Lindsey makes the following
remarkable statement In writing Ia the
HERALD correspondent, u IN headed;
"MuHDER ny HrtrS LISnsEN,'
and II ~ follows, capitalization and
spelling ~ he wrote IL;
august :, my brothers and went to
the Dallas reunion, staying two or
three days. Returned home; my sister
aud my stcp-father and myself were
talking In peace and guiotudo No hard
feelings Existing Between Us After re-
firing Ia my Bed fell oil Ia sleep. A.
well as | Remember | went Ia sleep on
my face. II appears 10 me there were
several men trying To kill me In my
sleep When arose ! GRABBED my pistol
and went To shooting after shooting
several shots some one screamed then
ran oil All that remember of shooting
ut was my Brother Johnney II seemed
that him and several Others
were trying TO kill me, II
appeared To me that they had
thrown u cot ON me before ! went 10
shooting, l then left, and the next ]
knew ! was on the Railroad. then
heard them say they extended Ia kill mo.
then went to my brothers for some
clothes and told him about II. ! told
him had shot some of them, thought
Johnny and old man Right, but did'i
think had killed them, ! then went
Ia Cnss Co.. near where my wife and
children lived. Vhere | was arrested
and brought Ia this place and put in
Jail. When | left my brothers took
the Dallas road to Kccnan's Crossing, on
Elm, from there 10 Plano, and from
there 10 Grecnvllle, from there To Blk
Sack Grove and the sulphur Springs,
and to Mount Pleasant and Mr.. lIickcs'."
The City Council met to-day and re-
ceivod the opinion of their Attorney, j.
Y. llOgsett, ON the street railway mud |
die. He holds, the Rosedalc To be the
farther, that al any time the Council can
order the track torn up and removed, |
or ut any time withdraw the privileges !
granted To any street ear line, where |
upon the council repealed all of ordi- !
nance No. 40, passed in 1874, giving the |
Fort Worth Street Railway company. |
the right over all strects,and combining il |
to Main street and such other streets ~
by ordinance since that time.
The road is nearly completed, but since |
this opinion, no work will be done al
night. The Fort Worth company will go |
To the courts.
The Overland Telephone company was
right of way over the streets.
1t was ordered by the Council, that the
ordinances lately codified be printed in
book form.
Simon Robert will get a new bale Of
cotton tomorrow, raised by u. Floyd,
10 miles south of the city. This will be
the first bale received grown in this
The first bale received here
came from Bowie ut O'Clock tonight,
shipped by l.. Sigmund to John A.
Thornton.
Word was received by the Sheriff this
that Jim Dewett had struck h S
,tep-mother on the head with SIN
shooter at Whites Chapel, seven miles
rom Grapevine, and that she was eX-
)ected to die. Deputies Maddox and
Tucker have gone after Dewett. No
urthcr particulars can be obtained unit!
hey return.
The property of the Investment com
,any, all papers and material foots up
80 900.
Emma Cross, a negro woman, suicided
his morning by taking sixty grams of
Phil McCusker is back from Washing
on with his Kiowa and Comanche "big
eds" where they went to consult with
he Secretary of the Interior as
heir lands to cattlemen, VIII
would pay for them, thus putting
something into their treasury. Assist
mt Secretary Josiin advised them by
III means to lease the lands, and they
will so report to their tribes. These
wo tribes at least will vote to sustain
he lease law.
AS he has been known to Il O citizens
# Fort Worth, j. w Pierce has been
lty for some time and has healthy
,ank account. A lady, Mrs. j. L.
Weaver, arrived here yesterday fror.
Indianapolis and had Pierce, who tn II d
mt to be j. p. Weaver, arrested r
dultery. Pierce has had
Woman at the hotel who ever,
ne supposed was his wife, b, t
gho deserted her husband when Wea. er
eserted his wife. and has lived win
i'm since. Weavers desertion of his
,ife was infamous. He took all the
money, leaving her destitute, with three [
hildren nearly blind to care for. In
february Weaver returned to 1Idianap-
lis to straighten up some business, ,
,hen Eden, the husband of Viewers
oncubine, met him at "A hotel, and shot u
i'm in the back of the neck with a
2-calbre Smith e Wesson AS soon
$ Weaver was arrested, Mrs. Edon
isappearcd, or she too would have been
AIKEN in custody. Weaver was granted
all in the sum of 5000. Mrs. " eavcr has
Robert Mozart to attend to
er case, and will doubtless recover
ONE of this worlds goods now pos ]
assed by the man Weaver alias
w. Pierce, which will
id her. in taking care of her
eserted and unfortunate children. Ii d
'ould not be very surprising if Weaver {
'ere taken out and treated to coat of t
n and feathers, for those of our citizens +
Tho have heard Mrs. Weavers story !
nd some who know it to be true speak :
cry plainly about his infamous action. d
There was u law and order meeting, .
ccording to call, at the courthouse to
light. Twenty Thousand good citizens
aid away while four good citizens and
,urteen gamblers, who took back seats,
let. One of the four took the chair ,
ne ncted as Secretary, and
Y unanimous vote OF
Tree, long resolutions, denouncng B.
line, were passed. The result of the
eeting shows either the law and order
sople to be in gigantic minority in
lis city, or the people generally salts Z
ed with the existing order of things. :,
he resolutions cover too much paper TO |,
ire them to the HERALD tonight. "