The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-23
STATE NEWS.
Flaps and FIiphaps of the Precious Week
Throughout the State.


LampaSaS on the 18th.
At Flatonia, McCowan's gin house
was burned-loss $500.
Thomas G. Kennedy, an old citizen
of Piano, died the other day.
A bridge is to be built across the
Rio Grande at Eagle Pass.
The school at Dripping Springs has
over 100 pupils in attendance.
Coke and Col. Stewart addressed the
people at Beaumont on the 10Th.
Charles Rousseau stabbed a young
man named Brewster, at Longyiew.
Hon. John H. Reagan, addressed
the people of Corsicana Friday night.
The republicans of Robertson coun-
ty have formally endorsed Wash
Jones.
On the 18th, an unknown man I'D
ing a stolen horse was arrested i'll
/ Dallas.
The pecan crop in Texas is said to
! be the largest that has been known
for years.
Two freight trains were wrecked
near Sulphur Springs, Thursday. No
body hurt.
Laredo is very mad because the ex-
curSlonlsts were not allowed to stop
over there.
! j r. Land has been carried back
from Dallas to Alabama on writ of
requi, ition.
Lavro Canter, wealthy merchant
! of Mat amOraS, shot himself in the
head Wednesday.
John Clay, bricklayer, who had
his skull broken in a negro gambling
den at Waco, has since died.
Thursday night at Galveston, Rob-
/ ert Cooper, negro, fatally cut his wife
IN the abdomen with razor.
A Grayson county farmer named
kendale, was robbed of $50 by ne
gro hand on the place last week.
Thursday night Hon. James F.
Miller, candidate for congress, aG-
dressed large audience at Weimar.
Internal Revenue Collector Web.
Flanagan is removing the office from
Marshall to his home at Henderson.
G. G. Lieb, late county treasurer of
Washington county, is still in Jail in
default $25,000 bail for enlightenment.
Near Millican Mexican was called
to his door at night and badly beaten
by unknown parties. He was lett for
dead.
AT Del Rio, last week, W. J. Lyons,
young man, shot at his father but
missed. Family difficulties were the
cause.
Night before last the gamblers of
| Waco got on s"high lonesome and
went through the streets firing off
pistols.
At Santa Gertrudes, near Corpus
Christi, a Mexican attempted to stab
j. r. Jensen, who shot and killed his
aSSailant
A lady in Crockett, few mornings
ago, went to make up her bed after
breakfast, and found ceGtipede IN
der the cover. Umphg!
Brazoria county farmers are max
ing one and half bales OF cotton to
to the acre, and are paying rs cents
per hundred for picking.
A man named W. r. Cochrone was
killed at Palestine while cleaning a
tender at the round house. Another
nder was backed upon him.
Mrs. James White, well dressed
lady, appeared at the Dallas police
headquarters the other day in search
of her husband, who had abandone
| her.
The prisoners dug their way out of
the new jail at Decatur, and with a
piece of telegraph wire made their
way through an eighteen inch stone
wall.
Maj. Burke, of the Times-Demo.
Graf, backed out from buying the
Houston Post because the Worlds
Fair management don't want him to
go into it.
The Tyler town authorities had a
tough time falling a negro desperate
armed with a pistol and who had to
! be shot in the shoulder before sir
rendering.
At Waco a personal encounter
took place between County Judge
Gerald and Attorney Blair. about
some cases dismissee by Gerald. Blair
got the worst OF it.
At Coralitas rancho, thirty miles
below Laredo, the Vidauri family
were robbed Of $4,000 in greenbacks,
the boarding Of twenty-five years.
The money was taken by four armed
men.
AT Sherman, the other night. Joe
Williams, aged II, and Curtis Moult-
man, aged 10, entered store, stole a
lot of cigars. and went into the safe,
which they found open, but got moth
ing.
The Mexican papers are generally
recalling to mind the fact that the
year 1905 was one of famine in Mex
| leo, and predict that It's centennial an.
niyersary will see like state of af-
| fairs.
Week before last, Mr. George Clay.
ton. residing in Abilene, sold 1,6QG
head of sheep and 500 acres of land
situated eight miles east of Runnels
The sheep brought an average of 81 q
per head, and the land 1925 per acre
Paul Bremond, the owner of the
Houston, East & West Texas Narrow
Guage, in long letter in the Hous
ton Post declares his intention to ex.
tend his system from Houston to SaI
Antonio and from San Antonio tC
San Angela.
The managers and editors of thu
Houston Post, at its breakdown, were
all Yankees except the telegraph edi
tor. The Post turned off nearly al
the old Houston journalists, men whC
devoted years to building up Texas
to give places tothese strangers.
Wednesday John Lawson, a mulat
to, with scar on the cheek, attempt
ed to rape the wife of the section fore
man at Random station, ten mile.
from Richmond, and would have &C
complished his design but for the des
perate resistance made by the lady
He tore the hair out of her head an(
stabbed her twice in the arm. Law
Son escaped on horseback and Judg
Lynch awaits his capture.
Colorado Clipper; Mr.. hampton
who was only about Tenty years o
age, was engaged as brakeman o.
the railroad. Whil3 engaged Il
switching some cars in the yard here
hampton stepped between the engin
! and car TO uncouple while the car
were moving, and while walking
along his foot was caught by tn
breakbeam, and he was thrown acros
the rail, the wheel crushing his RICH
leg above the knee, and crushing tn
lower part of the body in horribl
manner.
Hamilton Herald: A man living
Kimble county killed the larges
snake, recently, that was ever hear
f of in this country. The snake Wa
found on the head of South Llano, i
Crockett county, and it measures owe
eleven feet in length, twenty-seve