The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
STATE NEWS.

ct STATE NEWS.
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at Hsps and Mishaps of the Past Week 1
d. Texas Territory.
Id The new Victoria Jail will cost ST.
it 600.
d d. No rain has fallen at Waelder il
y four months.
ii Corpus Christi is shortly to vote OF
w prohibition.
" Sherman was visited by a heav.
70 rain on the 18th.
lie Goliad college opened with 1873 stu
t. dents. Rain fell there recently.
% The prisoners in the Fort Worth
calaboose escaped few days since.
Il Ten freight cars were wrecked a
E Woodlawn, near Longview, last week
. William Henry was drowned in
? Lake Fork, near Quitman, on the
> 10Th.
f George Taylor was shot and killed,
g at Gainesville, by Prof. Newland, on
the 18th.
Elisha Embree, ST., was buried at
Bolton one day last week with Mason
ic honors.
Eeight carloads of excursionists
returned to Laredo from Saltillo, Mex,
Thursday.
The Mexican anniversary was cele-
brated, with great eclat, at Matamoros,
on the 18th.
DR.. McGregor, of Waco, has sold his
ranch of 1900 acres, near McGregor,
for $24,O 600.
Rufus Smith, arrested at Fort
Worth for horse stealing, confessed
his crimes.
The people of Atlanta, Tex, are
fearful lest the drouth will destroy
their potato and pea crops.
Thursday night, F. w. Hammond
died at Hammond station, from
wounds received in cotton gin.
The big sensation at Houston last
week was the seizure of the Office of
the Post, by U. S. Marshal Tracy for
debt.
The fourteen-year-o daughter of |
G. w. Henri, near Round Bluff Ferry,
Grayson county, has been missing
some days.
The Waco Wooden mills are turn
ing out fifteen hundred yards of cloth
Geans) per day, which is said to be of
excellent quality.
At Bells, Grayson county, a negro,
Joe Cravens, assaulted Officer George
with knife. The officer shot at the
negro, grazing his cheek.
AT Wills Point, Van Zandt county,
fifteen wagon loads of lumber left
town in one day to he used in build
ing country school houses.
The taxable property of Anderson
county as shown by the tax rolls for
1884 amounts to $3,324, S04, which is
an increase of $117,804 oyer that of
1888.
DR.. Daily, of Paris, successfully per-
formed the difficult surgical operation
known as tracheotomy and removed a
watermelon seed from the bronchial
tube.
A man is very lucky to find desira-
BILE land anywhere in Texas at less
than So an acre, and still people come
to Texas expecting to buy land at so
cents.
at Hampstead, recently. Is. V.
Legrand, of the Santa Fe, was married
to Miss Dixie Clarke, sister of the
COibOl VI tAO W. ICpuu1ACo, S1'y VI
Mexico.
A row. occurred some days ago at
Laredo between half dozen of the
demi monde. The trouble resulted in
severe disfigurements to several of
those engaged.
Nora, daughter of Richard Allen, a
prominent negro politician, of Hous-
ton, was refused admission to the
ladies' car on the Sunset road. Richard
threatens to sue the company.
Recently, according to the Hemp
stead Courier, j. III. Farr, well known
editor of that place, shot and wounded
John W. Ellison, of the same town.
Ellison cursed and abused Farr.
A special from Paris says the weather
is still very dry, and cotton is opening i
very fast. The whole crop will be {
gathered and sold before Christmas.
The crop will be nearly one-third less
than last year. 7
AS the passenger train from Calves :
ton recently pulled out of the junction t
at Longview, it started rapidly, and
James Whiteside, the fireman, STEP {
ping on piece of coal, was thrown ,
from the cab and killed.
In this state the killing of prairie
chickens is forbidden from March LIST 7
to August 1st; killing of quail part ,
ridges) forbidden from March LIST to )
September 1st; killing of buzzards,
carrion crows and tree birds forbid
den at all seasons.
j. w. Bryan, a farmer, living near !
HARDWOOD. was met on the road as he
was going home by gentleman with
drawn revolver, who invited him to
hand over his money. The Invitation
was so pressing that Mr.. Bryan COM
piled and gave up $25 or $50.
The other day track walker saw l
mans clothes lying by a tank two
miles east of Arlington. He pro- {
cured assistance and the body of a
man was taken out of the tank. He I
had a card in his pocket with this /
device: John Gulether, Fort Worth, ,
Box 49," s
Mr.. Wiley B. Newman, of Winkler, /
in the northeastern part of Navarro
county, near the Freestone line, met
with a painful accident last week. !
While ginning, one of his hands was !
caught in the saws, in some way, and
badly cut up. DIR. Grayson, who at !
tended him, had to amputate two of
his fingers.
Groesbeeck Era: The editor of the
Era, in company with Mr.. j. A.
Shriver, paid brief visit to Person
vile Monday. The cotton in that Sec
ton looks quite well, considering the
drouth. 1t is mostly open and the
people are busy picking. Wewere in
formed that corn enough has been
made for home consumption.
Burnet Bulletin: 1t is thought oil
has been discovered on Mr.. George
Smiths place, on Rocky. In boring a
well black tar-like substance is
taken out by the bucketfGl from
depth of sixty. four feet, that burns
and sparkles when fired with a match.
There are over fiftY-one feet of oil and
water in the well.
AT Marshall negro man, John
Williams, was detected in the act of
burglarizing a freight car in the rail-
road yard last Thursday. He had
broken the seal and was preparing to
enter the car when seen. An officer
went for him. The negro resisted,
giving the officer a severe blow, and |
then ran. After a chase of mile or
more, the officer captured him and |
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