The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
STATE NEWS.


STATE NEWS.
Events and Incidents of Recent Occur
ence within the Points of the
Lone Star.
Prohibition was carried at WaXa-
hachie.
Heavy rains have fallen west of
Laredo.
Overton, east Texas, voted against
local option.
There is a good deal of sickness in
Titus county.
The wheat and oat crop in Uvalde
has been good.
Local option has been carried at
Temple by Y majority.
Maj. Penn took into the fold over
100 sinners at Henderson.
Hon. R. @. Mills addressed a big
crowd at Salado on the 10th.
Mrs. Taylor Stevenson died near
Floresville, recently of cancer.
Maury Order, a Waco lad, shot
himself in the arm while out hunting.
A contractor named Strickland has
suddenly disappeared from Fort
Worth.
Forber, who killed Champion at
Tyler, is out on 500 bail, the killing
being in self defense,
A woman calling herself Sarah
Childs, attempted to drown herself at
Houston the other day.
John Woessner, a prominent Corpus
Christi banker, suicided by shooting,
at that place on the 10th.
Miss Scales, of Burleson county, fell
in the fire recently and was burned to
death. No particulars are given.
Ed. Turvin has been arrested at
Houston for bigamy, having, in the
absence of his wife from the city, mar
ried Miss Martin.
Gainesville is no SLOUGH of a town.
The Improvements made there since
we last visited the place are of most
substantial character.
In the district court at Marlin, John
Morgan, charged with an attempt to
burglariZe a house. was given two
years in the penitentiary.
w. r. Lyle, the San Antonio news
paper man, who shot a man in that
city year ago, is reported to have
just killed man in Chicago.
The Hallettsville Herald and Plan
ter wants circus to strike that town.
What for, in the name of goodness?
A circus is nearly as bad as an cpl
demic.
A young man of Marshall, during
the delirium following congestive
chill, got hold of a revolver, and COM
menced firing at the members of the
family about him.
A Mexican by the name of Coma
les was brought to San Antonio by
deputy United States marshal on the
charge of smuggling. In default of
So 600 bond he was placed IN Jail.
George Woodside, fireman on a
freight train of the Texas g Pacific
railroad, fell from a tender of the
engine and was fatally injured. He
was brought to Marshall, and SubSe-
quently died.
A Dallas doctor knocked James
Briggs higher than kite, by admin
istering tour grains of morphine n.y.
perdermically. Briggs was state
agent for the Buckeye mower and
I6dD0Ts I16 LEAVES d ldllll1y.
The Bandera Enterprise says: The
camp-meeting which closed at the Pc
can grove last Sunday night, lasted
eleven days, and resulted in fourteen
conversions, eight accessions to the
church and the baptism of two in
fants.
Waco papers complain that the beds
of boarding houses in that city are in
tested with vermin, and local poet
gets off an ode to the blood-sucking
tribe, which reminds one of Byron's
ode to 'the bard that scared to elegise
an ass"
At Laredo, last week, swarms of
humming birds were seen in the gar
dens and groves in the city, no one
knowing whence they came, or
whittier they are going. Old resi-
denters say this migration may be OBJ
served about the same time every
year.
Tom Brumley and Grade Smith,
charged with killing Ike McAdams.
near Caddo Mills, in Hunt county, on
the 9th, were lodged in jail at Sui
phur Springs, by officers of Hunt
county. Brumley acknowledges the
killing, but says he did it in self-de-
Tense.
A severe wind and hail-storm re-
Gently visited Sandy Point, Brazoria |
county. A lot of convicts under |
guard were at work in a field; several |
of them were injured, the guns of the |
guards were knocked out of their |
hands and their clothing was beaten
to rags.
Laredo Times: Mr.. John McClane,
a sheep raiser of Live Oak
county, is in the city, en- route
to the interior of Mexico to
for sheep ranch. Mr.. Nc
Clane is raising only thoroughbred Me-
limos and is under the impression that
he can find better range and do better
in Mexico than in his present location.
AT Houston Max Busch found Hen
~ Herfurth, an old German, dead in
sbe clubhouse back of Hanson's
,ailor shop, 202 Preston street.
Herfurth was printer, and set type
.or the DeutSche Post and Zeitung
whenever he could get work. Her
,urth worked for long time with
Hugo Lehman.
Crockett Patron: Mr.. Gus LeGory
ost his beautiful Jersey last week with
Icclimating fever. She died at nine
cen months old, having brought a {
,alf before she was sixteen months {
Id, and since then yielded one and a
lalf pounds of butter per day. She /
vas considered one of the most beau {
iful and valuable of her breed ever S
'rought to this section. @
Laredo Times: About o'clock this {
corning Mr.. Joseph Sielski was Y
Weakened by his wife, who an Z
ounced the fact of the presence of 7
mother in the room. He got out of $
ed and seized a revolver just as the I
urglar cleared the window; and, run Q
ing to the door, Mr.. Sielsk was ena- q
led to fire one shot at the rascal, and u
ursued him until he made dive .
Ito the mesquite brush. Mr.. Sielski U
Iys he could have secured him had it q
ot been for the thorns sticking his =
ct, as he was barefooted. "