The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-30
STATE NEWS.
Flaps and Fliphaps of the Precious WeeI
Throughout the State.

Flaps and Fliphaps of the Precious weeI
Throughout the State.
The drouth continues at Orange.
1t showed at Ell Paso Friday night
Seven inches of rain fell at Browns
vile.
The Houston Post has suspended
publication.
Giddings and Grain spoke at Vic
/ toria Friday night.
Judge Kennard is i'll at Navasota,
with typhoid fever.
The office of deputy collector at
Arkansas is abolished.
Messrs. Grain and Giddings spoke
at Cuero On the 22nd.
Mr.. ]. w. Mitchell proposes to start
the Houston Post again.
Henrietta, Clay county, is in the
midst of a building boom.
The Henrietta Shield uses cuss-
words in his Sunday column.
Four hundred sacks of wool were
shipped from Abilene Friday.
a Houston law firm has sued the
Texas Western Railway for $3.50.
John Hubbard, while hunting near
Denison, was accidentally shot in the
leg.
NV. White had his pocket picked
at the circus at Cleburne the other
day.
w. G. Shumate. of Houston, was
arrested at Waco, charged with swim
ding.
The corpse of young man was
found near Valley Mills; supposed
suicide.
The residence of E. Mather, Brazos
street, Houston, was burned Friday
night.
Patrick McDermott, was accident
" killed while out hunting, near
Bracket.
At Jewett, Thursday, Gov. Ireland
and Hon. John III. Reagan addressed a
large crowd.
Tobias Mitchell, manager of the
Houston Post, has gone to New Or
leans on visit.
Gen. J. B. Robinson. of Waco, will
spend the winter at Golead with his
invalid daughter.
Henry McTiere, express agent at
Crockett, has been arrested for forgery
and embeZzlement.
Five men have been arrested at
Houston, charged with robb1Dg John
Thompson, of $500.
Virginius was played in the Fort
Worth opera house to large and
fashionable audience.
At hotel in Paris George Rose was
robbed of his watch and diamond
studs, valued atover $500.
Julia Harry, who came from the
Indian aTerrltory, aged %, suicided
near Dallas, by shooting herself.
Gov. Lubbock arrived in Abilene
Friday evening, and preparations were
made to give him a big reception.
The family of Mortimer Smith, at
Navasota, were poisoned at breakfast,
by Rough on Rats, it is supposed.
The man who is supposed to have
burned the court house of Montague
county has been captured in Kerr
county.
An incendiary fire was started in
the heart of the town of Brennan, the
other night, but extinguished before
it got Roadway.
Porter Rochelle, negro ex-convict,
has been arrested at Dallas for foIg-
cry. The same crime for which he
was first sent up.
James Anderson, of Houston, who
disappeared from his home few days
ago, has been found wandering around
in an insane condition.
At Fort Worth. Mrs. G. II. Shutter.
wife of an express agent, fell over the
balcony at her boarding house, sixteen
feet, and broke her ankle.
Near Stephensville, Deputy Sheriff
Turnbon was shot, dangerously, from
the bushes by one Pickelsimen, of
whom the deputy was in pursuit.
Newt. Owens, convicted of the hor-
rible murder of Matte Owens, at
Crockett, has made a confession, i'm
pllcating another negro In the crime.
Ex-Governor Lubbock made rous-
ing speech at Weatherford, Wednes-
day night, in which he defended the
financial pclicy of the state govern
ment.
At Crockett Thomas L. Stanley,
charged with the dreadful murder of
G. W. Montzingo, pleaded guilty of
murder in the second degree and got
off with five years.
The statement is made in special
to the News, that Mr.. w. II. Coyle had
declined to become purchaser of the
Houston Post. Several members of
the business and editorial staffs had
left the city.
A night OF two ago two men rode
up to the house of a negro, Robert
Allen, at Harrisburg, near Houston,
called him out and riddled his body
with buckshot. No cause for the muir
der is known.
at the circus at Henrietta the other
day a drunken Indian mounted the
cage containing the giraffee and at
tempted to make the animal drink out
of his bottle. A cowboy drew his
pistol on the Indian, but was prevent
ed from damaging Lo.
A store-keeper named, j. J. Alix,
was fonnd murdered in his store, at
Clinton, eight miles below Houston.
He was first knocked in the head, and
the body dragged to the molassf S
barrel and the faucet turned on. The
money was taken.
A special to the News from San
Antonio announces that the veterln-
airy commission, present in that city,
have concluded that Texas fever is
indigenous to cattle in this state, and
the germ of the fever is parasitic to
the grasses in the pastoral regions.
IL Paso Lone Star: Gov. Pacheco, of
the states of Chihuahua and Morelos,
Mexico. is expected to arrive in Paso
del Norte on Saturday, October %.
Great preparations ale being made to
entertain the honored gentleman in
right royal style. Over $500 have al
ready been subscribed toward tender
ing him a grand reception.