The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-27
STATE NEWS,

Victoria is putting up water works.
On the 21st Tyler received 46O bales
of cotton.
Queen City. East Texas, has had a
$4,000 blaze.
A $4,000 fire occurred at George
town Friday morning.
The Rockdale Messenger wants
Hubbard for the cabinet.
North Texas had the first frost of
the season Wednesday night.
The prisoners escaped from the new
jail at Rusk, by use of crowbar.
"Knight of the Nippers," rs what
the festive fence-cutter is now called.
Mrs. VIM. Davis has been Jailed at
Houston Tor alleged THEFT OF p pistol.
The Texas Express company has
paid the losses in the recent robbery at
Bryan.
The Houston officials have been on
the lockout for the Bryan express
robber.
The democratic majority in Texas,
it is said, will be very much over
100000.
Thursday night an attenl pt was
made to burn the North Texas town
of Paris.
Friday four Chinese ambassadors
passed through Ell Paso for the City
of MeXicn.
Mr.. Rufus Chatham and Miss Court
ney Hood were married at Weather
ford, Thursday.
The jury of inquest in the iO'Neal
case, at Houston, charged one Grady
with the murder.
Harry Sturtevant, colored, was
found near Palestine, with a. bullet
| hole in the head.
at Waco. three gamblers Were ar
rested, charged with shooting into
the Pacific saloon.
The pocket knife found on the scene
of the Bryan express robbery, had the
letters ]. A. upon it.
At San Antonio the circus leopard
escaped from its cage, but was roped
by COWBOY and recaged.
Texans feel so good they are going
to join in the festivities of Thanksgiv-
ing day with real vim.
Russell Crabtree, aged Is, at Sulphur
Springs, dbGClupUCu Su1CluO ny OAOOb-
ing himself in the shoulder.
A planter in Brazos river bottom,
near Bremond, says he will gather
this year SO bales off 80 acres.
BeY. HIS Thrall, presiding elder of
the San Antonio district, has started
for the conference at Baltimore
A man giving his name as Schnei-
der was captured at Waco while at
tempting to burglarize saloon.
Ike Range, negro, was shot and
killed at Wichita Falls in a street
fight with another negro Friday.
The editor of the Houston journal
calls for handkerchief to weep over
the defeat of democrat in Harris
county.
A German farmer named Pagel was
run over by wagon near Brennan,
his leg had to be amputated in conse-
quence.
Mrs. Fox, whom her husband re-
Gently attempted to murder, appeared
against him in court the other day, at
Houston.
At Tyler, Tuesday night, country
man named Fain, shot a Van Zandt
county lawel named Crow, but not
dangerously.
Since the completion of water-works
at Corsicana insurance rates were re-
duced from 20 to % per cent. below
former rates.
Capt. Talfour will soon begin work
on the Buffalo Bayou channel, below
Houston, for which he has $4,000 i'm.
mediately available.
Senator Coke would have attended
the cattle convention had not the ar
rival of Capt. Eads demanded his
presence at Galveston.
Bishop Holsey, a quadroon, presided
over the recent colored Methodist
conference, at Palestine. The NAM
Der Of members was about eighty.
At Marshal, Thursday night, they
had Cleveland bail, at which twenty
young lauies personated the states
that went for Cleveland and Hend-
ricks.
At Overton, East Texas, John
Presly, editor of the Observer, shot
and wounded John Price, proprietor !
of the paper. The difficulty grew out |
of notice by Price in another paper. |
AT the opening of the Women's !
Christian Temperance Union state !
convention, at Corsicona, Friday, Mrs. |
c. M. Winkler delivered an address of |
welcome. The attendance was limit
ed.
The portrait of Hon. J. d. Savers, !
which appears in Wednesdays Globe
Democrat, is not precisely correct. In |
fact, it isn't hardly so good looking as |
Z bo nouu oonnroccunop from fhic diS-
trict.
AT TIE court marsh al at Fort Clark
Lieut.. King was sentenced to be rep
rimanded by the general commanding
in department orders, for transferring
his pay accounts to bankers at Wash.
lngton.
A man calling himself Khbsch. and
himself. ae German con-
sui to Mexico, was arrested at Mar
shall. on dispatch from FL Paso. for
dog. 1t seems he bore the
name of Paros at Ell Paso.
Capt. 7. P. Miller was shot and
killed few days ago in Washington
by young man famed John
Ewing. The killing is sid to have
been deliberate. The murderer sur
rendered to the authoritii5.
Maj. Charles A. Bartcl, one bf the
most prominent railrodl MERLIN the ;
Iouth, died at his hom. in H uston,
Thursday night. He vas fhrmerly
of the Ce5tral bad one !
# the best men that evef lived
Mrs. Phillips, arrested in 3 buston {
N requisition from Kansas, flor al
eyed matchmaking mIn at bswego
nut of 81 1000, says therd no nth in {
he charge. She has hree ildren,
nd leaves two in Houston, ia ling the !
oungest back with her; II