The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
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The highest velocity of the wind Sun.
day evening, at Fort Elliott, was sixty
miles per hour.
w. E. Wright was arrested at Palestine
on Saturday and taken to Caldwell on 6
charge of horse theft.
Temple has bought the first bale of cot
ton raised each season in Bell county the
past three years. We must have it again
this year.
squad of convicts at the coal camp
sixteen miles south of Rusk seized theil
guard and disarmed him and took to the
woods. posse is in hot pursuit.
The revolutionists are taking arms from
all passengers whom they find on the
roads. 1t is safer now to travel through
the upper country without pistol.
One of the most severe wind and sand
storms we have ever experienced struck
Mobeetie on Sunday evening last. There
was very light sprinkle of rain, but moi
enough to lay the dust.
w. Williamson, saddler, of Clifton, tool
his gun Saturday morning and said he
was going fishing. He has not been seer
since. His boat was found locked to a
tree with the key in the lock.
man by the name of Scott travelling
for house in Tyler, was found hanging
to limb in creek about two miles west
of Winona on Saturday by negro, who
rescued him. His was narrow escape.
Last night, at Houston, the store OF
Mr.. Frank Talmon, on San Felipe street
in the fourth ward, south, was broken into
and robbed of about $25 worth of dry
goods, etc. No clue to the thief as yet.
young brute, named Will Pevoto, met
young girl, 10 years of age, on her way
home from school, near Dexter, and
criminally assaulted her. He was arrested,
but escaped. A reward is offered for his
apprehension.
Chas. Emory, Louis Bousman and
"Catfish Kid" the three men charged
with murder in Tascosa, arrived at Mo-
beetle from Clarendon on last Monday
evening, and are now confined in our
new county jail.
A man named Moses Green brought to
Houston, last Friday, hoop snake all
covered with hair an inch long-the
snake measured six feet three inches in
length-where it was seen by quite a
number of people.
Deputy Sheriffs Maddox and Tucker
last Sunday night arrested a negro man
named Joe Cotton, at Fort Worth, on a
charge of stealing lot of clothing from
a man named Harris at Colorado City.
Cotton is in the county jail.
Interest in the colored campmeeting
being held in the Fourth ward, at Hous-
ton, north, still increases. The tent is
crowded every night, and several CONVEX
sions are recorded, Rev. B. W. Whitehead,
pastor. The meeting will probably last
for several weeks longer.
The wire cutters deprecated on W. F.
Sons pasture fence on Sunday night, five
miles west of Brentwood We also learn
that Mr.. Lev. Baugh's fence has been cut
and considerable wire destroyed. The
guilty parties ought to be caught and
made to answer for such outrages.
MIR. Tom Muldoon, night yard brakes
man at Temple, had the sad misfortune
to get his left leg broken between the
knee and ankle, and his foot most severely
bruised on last Sunday morning, while on
duty in the yard. Dr. Rogers was called
in, and the sufferers wounds properly
dressed.
Ed. Drake, youth of about fourteen,
was attacked by vicious dog early yes
terday morning, near the colored Baptist
church at Denison. The clothes were
torn and the left arm lacerated. Only
for the timely interference of a colored
man, who beat the dog off with stick,
the boy might have received fatal inju
ries.
The grand gathering of the old ex-con-
federates, which takes place at Waco the
4th, 9Th and 9th of August, is fast APP
preaching and will soon be here. All the
old 'rebs" should go, and take look into
each others faces once more before they
are called hence, not for the good they
done, but for the honest, patriotic and
heroic effort they made in defense of their
homes, institutions and country.
A case of shooting with intent to kill
took place this week, mile or two above
Victoria. 1t seems that Mr.. j. A. Owens
tions on his watermelon patch. few
evenings since, while party of boys were
on the premises, a load ot shot was dis
charged at the crowd, slightly wounding
one. When Owens was arrested he claim
ed that he had found it necessary to place
a loaded gun in his watermelon Patch, so
arranged that it would be discharged by
trespassers engaged in stealing melons.
Owens was bound over in the sum of 5000
tonds to await the action of the grand
jury.