The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
Hammer. Rollins was arrested and turned
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ties were Walter Robinson and Miss Mary
Lou Harrison, daughter of Gen. Tom Har-
rison, of Waco. The groom is % years
old and the bride 16.
In the northern part of the town,a water
melon thief was caught in the act of bag
ging melons in Bookie Bowen's patch, of
Dallas, when he got pretty well filled with
shot. He gave his name as Dave Wech-
ster. He was brought to town and lodged
in Jail.
The general barbecue in connection
with the reunion of the gallant Thirty
second Texas cavalry, to be held Saturday,
July 81, at McGehee's grove, San Marcos,
will be great success, The district COM
mittees are busy at work and subscrip-
tions are freely offered.
penitentiary contractor came down
on the Central Friday afternoon to Bren-
named Baker, who is under sentence for
twenty-five years for numbering deputy
sheriff in western Texas. The prisoner is a
hard looking customer.
Major Penn has telephoned the people
that he will be at LOckhart the last Satur-
day in this month, and will preach for
them two or three weeks. 1t is to be
hoped that much good will be accom-
plished. All are invited to attend, and
come prepared with well filed baskets.
Bill Brown, the young coon who was in
! jail at BRENNAN on the charge of stealing
trowsers, is not in Jail now, or was not
late last evening. Friday morning as
Paul, the colored man, went up stairs to
| turD no mt n tho -rnun1
Bill, Watching his chance, stepped down
stairs and made good his escape.
Mr.. w. H. Graves was visiting day OF
two ago in the eastern part of Lamar
county, and reports that he saw on the
farm of Mr.. G. w. Finch, stalk of corn
containing forty ears in cluster like g
bunch of bananas, and that the topmost
ear of the bunch measured three and {
half inches long, and one and half
inches thick. Who can beat it?
Tuesday night at u o'clock, the Littl'
mill, located in the western portion o
Montague county, was discovered to b,
, on fire, and before necessary aid to quencl
the flames could be secured the who'll
building was enveloped in flames and be
yond control. The mill was owned b,
| N6O. SdIptIlItE o. W. iONui 1893, al
Guiding mill, grain and gin fixtures
amounts to at least $4,000. No insurance
Dave Shelton, negro, of Fort Worth
was killed by lightning bolt near Wan
taga, during the storm Tuesday evening
:: The examining trial of young Mother
!, all and his companions, charged wit
y, raping colored girl, near Waco, too
place yesterday.
/ I Col. John w. Hall is in Waco again afte
" a months absence in the country west c
Waco. He says fearful drouth has pre-
=. vailed where he has been.
The Temple Times assumes that eitht
Swain or Ross are the choice of the PEE
pie, and that one or the other should
l, nominated. 1t favors Swain.
Frank Motsiak young German livir
h near BRENNAN, was seriously if not fatal
wounded last Thursday by the accident
r. discharge of his gun while loading it.
During the high wind at Fort Wor
D yesterday evening, two carpenters we
at blown from the building on which tn
were working, but fortunately were n
hurt.
Frank Turner the white man arrest
III at Waco for the burglary of Miss Ed
Grants room, has already served ter
in tine penitentiary for stealing a suit
10 clothes from Mr.. Majors.
The Advertiser is requested to give pu
;, lie notice that barbecue will be given
Alum creek, near Bastrop, next Wedne
day, July Ia, at which everybody, and Il
candidates IN particular, are invited.
n A fish fry and picnic will be given
the citizens of the Julian Springs neig
borhood, Friday, July 10th. The sprin
are located ten miles east of Denise
Everyone is invited to attend, and graz
time is expected.
" Five miles of the Bastrop and Tayl'
, road, from Elgin, was completed Saturd
III last, and the hands are at work with
seven miles of Bastrop. A few mo
weeks and old Bastrop will be a railro
town, and the old place will strike
boom unprecedented by any town in t
nr state.
When the wind was at its height at Fc
Worth Tuesday, Ed Mower, the cigar ma
e. shut up his shop, went home, and crawl
into hole in the ground he had dug as
'e storm house. He remarked that he h
I'll dug the hole seven years ago, and Tut
lie day was the first time he had ever had a
W use for it.
=, From a gentleman at Dellison, W
- came up from Mineola yesterday evenir
~ it was learned that very severe rain a.
wind storm visited the section of count
in and around Mineola, Wood count
The wind did considerable damage, u
IS roofing trees, blowing down houses a
fences. Crops were not materially da
to aged
er From the Denison News we learn I'll
it now turns out that George White, t
st wealthy farmer of Collin county, who
O. was thought, had been murdered, comm
of ted suicide by shooting himself with
pistol. The strange part of the story
" that after shooting himself he return
r. the pistol to his pocket folded his ar
ne across his breast, and in that mann
e. died
An old colored woman, who has be
ne cooking for Mr.. Davis Brizzolarl's fam
is for some time past, was severely burr
ill on Saturday evening last, at Madisonvi
in through the careless handling of Ike
sene lamp. As she was leading lii
child from one house to another, hold
a, the lamp above her head, the little oh
~ stumbled, and endeavoring to catch
10 child, the lamp gave way, covering
> head and shoulders with the burning flu
The old woman, although burned "
~ badly there is homes of her recoyery. .