The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-08-26
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deer and killed it that the dogs ran
through her yard.
The cotton crop around Bolton will not
be as large as last years crop. 1t has
been injured by the boil worm and the
drouth.
Bob Adams, charged with the murder
of Lawn Wakefield, was lodged in our new
Jail on Thursday last, at Mobeetie, by AL
Gentry, sheriff of Donley county.
Little Ida Franks was kicked by horse
and seriously injured one day last week,
at Pleasanton. Medical assistance was
summoned, and she is doing as we'll as
she can.
Miss Ella, daughter of Capt. j. L.
Steele, met with very severe accident
this week, at Cisco, by stepping on the
tooth of garden rake. The wound was
very painful.
| Late arrivals from San Angelo say that
the Mexicans about San Angelo are steal
ing horses and leaving for the frontier
1t seems to be the general impression
among them that there is to be war.
Eight prisoners in Jail at Cotulla at
tackled the guard, knocked him down and
made their escape. They knocked the
taller senseless and left him for dead.
Five of the party have been recaptured.
The rain seems to have forgotten US,
and the grass that looked so promising a
short time ago at Huletown has retired
from business, and the cattle look as
though they contemplated ''closing out at
cost" soon.
The artesian we'll at Cisco has reachad
depth of nearly 1000 feet, and the past
few days the boring has been through a
good article of marble. The city having
bought the machinery, will bore through
into China or have water.
| The pasture fence of Mr.. Moore, en-
closing about $50 acres on the Colorado
river, was cut and almost entirely demol-
ished the other night near Brentwood.
The guilty parties ought to be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
Last Sunday R. G. Thompson drove a
span of mules belonging to Joe Fitz-
gerald, from Tulip to Bonham. The day
being very warm, one of the mules became
o7erheated and died short time after ar
irving here. The mule was valued at $3.50.
1t is said that the horned frog, if con-
fined by sieve or other article over an
ant hill for two or three days, will destroy
the ants. We know from experience that
ants are decided nuisance and hard to
destroy, and we should like to hear from
some one who will try the above remedy.
4 Last Wednesday morning a difficulty
occurred in the eastern part of Mineola,
in which Mr.. B. M. Adams shot L. III.
Davis, filling his arm and side with SPUR
rel shot, The difficulty grew out of set
Element about wagon and team. Davis
wounds are painful but not dangerous.
While on the way to the nation with a
hunting party in the early part of the
week, Dave Wake was thrown from a
wagon and seriously injured about the
back. He was brought back to Paris and
medical assistance was summoned, and
with careful attention will pull through all
right.
A fire last Wednesday night at Paris
destroyed Mrs. Hooks ice factory and Mr.
Worley's residence, just across the street
The factory was insured for $4,000, and
the building occupied by Mr.. Morley was
insured for $780, and was only prevented
from spreading by the active work of thu
firemen-
A man, evidently laborer, was fount
in an unconscious condition near thu
Santa Fe trestle, Monday morning, a
Fort Worth. He received the necessary
attention and is now reported as out o.
danger. The cause of his prostratioI
was heat and whisky. His name was
not learned.
The Gotten crop, which a short time
back, was so promising in Houston coun
ty. has fallen back in various places so az
to be almost failure. In lew favored
localities it is still fairly good, but the
continued drouth and the bollworm is
playing havoc with the most of the crop
On Sunday little German girl abou
six wears old, left her fathers house anC
, got lost in the brush. She wandered
about until it is supposed she persisted
from want of water and from exhaustion
as she was found dead on Tuesday morn
ing. She was the daughter of Germal
J living on farm about the Renfro plac
near Belmont.
Mr.. H. G. Eppler left at this office on
day last week, Cisco, some very fine specl
mems OF JOHNSON grass anu OelndH ILL
lett grown on his place. The grass
five feet high, we'll headed, and full o
good fodder All who have tried tn
johnson grass are we'll pleased with i
and regard it as one of the best forag
crops that can be raised in this section.
A few days ago an old colored mar
named Jerry Brady, was cleaning out
l we'll on Tyler prairie, in the southeast par
of Houston county, and was overcom
with foul air. Another man, Dub O'Nea
tied rope around himself, and was lie
down. and succeeded in tying the rope t.
, jerry. O'Neal was apparently dead whc
he was drawn out, but was brought t.
, again. Jerry was also hauled out but wa
? dead.
S lightning has been playing some quee
/ pranis at Mobeetie lately. Besides melt
: inc the steel back and blade of knife i
4 Mr.. Ofield's pocket without killing hin
4 it has knocked an axe out of the hand o
S Jim Burdick, destroyed the sight OF on
i of R. C. Nails horses and used up on
T. of Captain Arrington's horses so that n
r cannot be used. 1t is also reported tina
|, unite a number of cattle have been kllle
by the same agency.
= James Dickinson was tried at Rusk 10
murder and sentenced to the penltentlar
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