The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-12-18
THE STA
POLITICAL DRIFT FROM FdKf7E
TEXAS-ALLEGED INTER
VIEW WITH REAGAg.
Passengers on the Cars Badly
Frightened by Imaginary
Train Robbers.
Daring RobDeT- -s-Dr. Wallace
KIlled-Yeliow Fever ina
Vessel at Galveston.
Details of the Fight at Catulla-
The Number Engaged
Mccoy Dying.
POLITICAL POINTS.

Reagan's Aspirations for GoVernor-The
Dallas Candidate-Claims of
North Texas.
Special TEX gram to The Statesman.
DALLAS, December 15.-At 8
o'clock this morning the Howard
house was destroyed by fire. There
were about forty guests, mostly trades
people and laborers, sleeI ing in the
building at the time, who barely es-
capped with their lives, losing nearly
ali their cloths and valuables. Loss
On the building, $1,000; insured for
$500.
Judge Aldridge to-3ay refused to
make permanent the temporary IN
junction IN favor OF the Texas " Pa
citic Railroad company against the
Dallas Belt Railroad company, to pre-
vent the latter from crossing the
tracks of the former, and the Belt
line will connect it's tracks at once.
l.. Wvrtelskey, of Decatur, was
arrested on charge of swlndling pre-
ferred by Blankenship 81 Blake, whole
sale dry goods merchants, of Dallas,
alleging that Wortelskey received
81 go worth of dry goods from them
on time, by representing that he had
$4,000 cash in bank when he had
nothing.
The interview with JJhn II. Re2-
gan in Washington wired here from
st. Louis, in which that gentleman
refused to beconsidered as a Cleveland
candidate, but expresses it as his am
bition to be governor of Texas and
close his political career in that office,
has been most fruitful topic of con-
yersation in Dallas to-day. The idea
of Reagan for Governor is not well
received here, except among limited
number known as old-tlmers. The
new comers and younger element gen
erally have a well settled idea IN their
minds that the next governor OF right
should come from North Texas. 1t is
well known that Hon. Barnett Gibbs
friends hope to see him elevated to
that position by regular promotion,
provided combination can be sue
Ccssfully made for Senator Coke to be
put in the cabinent and Gov. Ireland
in the United States senate. Then,
again, the man of all the men who is
thought of in this latitude, particu-
ularly in Dallas, for the democratic
nomination two years hence for gov
ernor, is Col. w. L. Crawford, the
brilliant criminal lawyer, and who has
preserved such manly and silent at
titude since the famous count-out af-
fair against him in the congressional
canvass in this county with Congress
man Olin Wellbora, two years ago.
His friends think the wrong imposed
upon Col. Crawford at that time
should be righted, and have determ-
ined to present him as their choice,
} and the choice of the northwest
,exas democracy for the nomination
for governor by the next state con-
vention. The announcement Of Judge
Reagan only appears to make their
partiality for Crawford more intense.
They argue that the eternal fitness OF
things suggests Col. Crawford, and
that Judge Reagan, being Southeast
Texas man, is in the wrong section, as
North Texas is entitled 10 furnish the
candidate.
The Dallas opera house was sold at
forced sale to-day. 1t was bid in ty
Jules G. Schneider for $4,000, for the
stockholders who had paid up their
shares. The building, without the
site, cost $4S,000 a year ago. There
were ten defaulting stock subscribers.
The house was dedicated last winter
by the Chicago Ideal Opera company.
The property is now estimated to be
worth $4,000.