The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-18

is now on hand to lay the track into
Waxahache.
| Another business trouble is reported in
Houston. G. Krumback has had his stock
attached by his several creditors. His
liabilities, as far as known, are about
| $4,000; assets not known.
Dr. V. 0. King, of San Antonio, has re-
ceived information from Washington that
he has been nominated as consul-general
and secretary of legation, at Bogota, Bra
I'll, by President Cleveland.
Taylor now has telephone connection
with Manor, Elgin, McDade, and Bastrop.
A line is being pushed forward to Hous-
ton, and in about ten days Taylor people
can telephone all the way to Galveston.
George Adams, the murderer from
Eagle Pass, was carried to San Antonio
Wednesday, and placed in Jail, pending
his journey to the penitentiary. His SEN
tence has been committed to life impris-
onment
About six thousand clerks, telegraph
operators and yardmen have been laid OF
by the Missouri Pacific on account of the
strike. The company had, when the
strike commenced, $4,000 men in its en-
ploy,
Bohny and Kingdom pleaded guilty
each on ten charges, and Louis Tasnocht
to two charges of selling whisky on Sun
day in Dallas. They were fined $50 ant
costs in each case, making total OF
about $1,100.
Gen. Stanley has just issued a new ros
ter of troops serving in the department
of Texas. There are no changes from
that published in February, except in the
stations of some of the companies serving
on the frontier.
Dallas paid on March l, to Drs. Mo
mand and Sims $132 for vaccination OF
people not able to pay. They charge
fifty cents per head for such patients
The contract was let several days ago b.
the board of health.
George Waugh, president of the Unlver
sal Building and Loan association OF Sal
Antonio, has been arrested for swindllng
The facts are not yet all given, but thos'
known do not seem to be sufficient grouni
to arrest for swindling.
Small pox has almost disappeared from
Fort Worth, there being but one case a
present within the corporate limits NJ
new cases have developed within the pas
week, and the few inmates of the pest
house are all doing finely.
The Williamson County Musical asso
citation met March 10. No business o
importance was transacted. The mem
bership is now twenty two, and will sool
be increased to thirty. 1t meets on tn
second Wednesday in every month.
The railroad shop boys were in attend
ance zen masse" at the trials of the par
ties accused of keeping Mr.. Stimus fror
helping to get out freight engine, o.
Wednesday last, in Taylor. The littl
court room was crowded to suffocation.
; There was a railroad meeting in Maso
on the first of this month, and the col
' clusion reached at said meeting was tha
fifty thousand dollars would be the bonu
} to be given to the first railroad whose de
}. pot was within one half mile of MasOl
e Judge Masterson has ordered the II
l ceiver of the Houston Savings bank, ID
g D. F. Stuart, to turn over and deliver
the proper owners all articles, notes an
: drafts belonging to them, that were place
h in the vaults of the said bank for sa:
n keeping.
The totol disbursements of DALI
S county for 1885 amounted to $S3,7S8.l
/ of which $4,000 was spent in the COZ
q struction of roads and bridges. The poo
farm, after the sale of fifty bales {
cotton yet on hand, will have cost tt
i county about $4,000.
. Special master in chancery, j. NJ. M
COrmck, in the Texas d St. Louis raj
way cases, will be in Waco on Friday an
u Saturday next to hear claims against tt
e road, and will make an effort at that tin
y to close up business appertaining to n
office in this connection.
IL Tramps are becoming troublesome
i different parts of the state. GalvestC
authorities shipped car load to the ma
land few days since, ard a farmer W;
/ shot by one near Fort Worth, merely b
Z; cause the farmer objected to having h
u rails burned by the knight of the road
The Bethany Alliance of Collin count
. has taken the initiative in giving its OPT
q ion of the boycott business. 1t says
* merchant has the right to sell Stetso
hats or coon-skin caps and haul his goo
e on Mallory steamers or ox-wagOns, ju
IS as he pleases. 1t is simply question
e liberty.
The marriage of the charming wide
TT and the woung man, in Waco, after an a
g quaintance of half a day, is about
st come to a fms almost as soon as
started The widows other hubby
n neither dead nor divorced from her.
m rumor says, and husband No. is tryil
c. to get divorce.
There is great objection raised by Il
Nv citizens of Bexar county to working Il
J. roads under the road law there. Thu
~ say that there ought to be a regular 70,
gang, paid by the county, as the prese
70 system is a hardship on many, and nur
- bers who receive the greatest benefit fro
- good roads do nothing to keep them
order.
:, A committee from the Knights
- Labor called upon the postmaster of 81
a. Antonio, and requested him to keep t
postoffice devilery, money Order al
stamp windows opon until p. m. He ]
III piled that with his present force it W
q impossible, but promised to forward
20 proper memorial to that effect to Was
u ington.
Trinidad Alvarez and Senior Paredez,
Us Ell Paso, Mexico, fought duel to the dea
st in the suhurbs of that town last Sund;