The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-15

well-knOwn and highly esteemed cltlzen
of Mckinney, was found lying in an in
sensible condition near his residence, two
miles south of Mckinney. His injuries
seem to have been inflicted with an ak,
as the front part of his skull Yves broken
by some instrument of that sort. Suspi-
cion points to young man III his EN-
ploy with whom he had difficulty the
other day. The young man was jailed to
await Developments.
On last Monday, at Rockdale, white
boy, 10 years old, named Will Frazier, had
an alteration with Rube Taylor, negro
boy 13 years old in which the latter was
severely stabbed under the left shoulder.
1t appears that Taylor had been in the
habit of meeting Frazier and beating
him, and at the time of the cutting Tay-
lor had followed him up and thrown a
brickbat, which grazed his head, and be-
fore Taylor could throw another, Frazier
advanced on him and stabbed him. Frazier
is held over until further developments.
At Bonham, on Saturday night, July 3
two neighbors living between this place
and Dodd City, named James Cawley and
W. B. Johnson quarreled while returning
home. Johnson began cursing Cawley
because he would not give him a cigar
and drawing knife made a dash foI
Cawley, who drew pistol and fired three
shots at Johnson who reeled and fell. He
then dropped his pistol and wrenching
the knife out of Johnson's hand cut his
throat from ear to ear He then returned
to the city and gave himself up and was
committed to Jail.
In the vicinity of Halesboro, on last
Sunday evening, shooting ARRAY occur
red which resulted in the death of one of
the participants. A man named Brown
had forbidden John Caldron to come
to his house, when one Grubbs com
menced cursing and abusing him. Brown
then crossed over the fence and made an
attack on Grubbs, when Caldron caught
Brown around the neck and placing pts.
toll to the old mans back and fired
Grubbs and Caldron were taken to
GAINESVILLE and jailed.
At Ballinger, last Wednesday evening
shortly after shutdown, enc of the most
atrocious, cold blooded murders on record
occurred. The murderer, Billie Collins
bartender of Willie Flies bagnio, while
sleeping off the effects of a days dissipa
tion ordered the cook to bring him up
his supper-which the cook was prepar,
ing. In the meantime Collins slips up
behind the cook and strikes him in the
head-with piece of timber eight feet
long by 2x3 inches, crushing the skull
The man lived but a few hours.
Considerable excitement was caused
at Gainesville the other day, June 2S, by
the finding of bottle above the water
works, in which was the following note
II, Bessie La Tour, was drowned two miles
above Gainesville. Tell my parents al
Homer, La" A diligent search was made
but no body found,
On last Saturday evening at Carthage
Pamela county, young Finch Gary and a
companion, while out hunting, stopped a
few minutes to rest. Finch, in picking up
his gun, it was accidently discharged, in
ficting very painful flesh wound in his
arm, but was doing we'll at last accounts
About one mile northwest of Seguin, in
the mosquitoes, Messrs. j. B. Dibrell and E.
Moheim discovered the body of dead
man. Circumstances lead to suicide, as
there was a whisky flask and an empty
bottle labeled laudanum near the body.
The name of deceased was George Tell.
At Lorena few days ago, Ephraim
Ward, met with horrible death-by be-
ing run over by a steam thresher. Before
the engine could be reversed his entrails
were literally torn from his body by the
relentless cogs.
In the vicinity of Luling, near the rail
road bridge, two little brothers, aged 10
and Is years, sons of Mrs. Marrow, were
drowned last week while learning how to
swim.
Mr.. Tom Hall, who had been working
in Runnels county, met with a serious &C
cident on Monday last by being thrown
from his horse, but is now up again.
Near Harold, last week, Tom Bishop,
a cowboy, well known in Giddings and
Bastrop counties, was called to the door
and shot. No clGe to the murderer.
At Duck Greek, near Dallas, Lee Harris
assaulted a fellow workman with an ak
and inflicted probably fatal wounds. He
was jailed at Dallas.
At Shady Park, Dallas, the other day,
Willie Wright, aged 20 years, was run over
by the Central train. His wounds may
prove fatal.
At Montague, July 6, A. E. Cash, a jew
eler, suicided by taking morphine, hard
drinking supposed to be the cause.
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