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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
SAN MARCOS.

The COMMUNICATIONS and Personal
Mention-Death of an Aged Minister.
Special Telegram to The Statesman.
SAN MARCOS, April 14.-The "Chau-
tauqua Assembly" management are max
ing very extensive preparations for the
coming session, which commences June
81. The programme for the season will
be the most attractive of any previous
one. Among the number that have al
ready promised to lecture may be men
toned the following well known gen
tlemen, viz: DIR. w. @. Black,
of Mississippi, whose well-known lecture
on Genesis and Geology last year was
the talk of all Chautuavuans; DR.. JAS. Gill
bert, of Indianapolis; Doctor Young and
Doctor Tillett of Nashville; Hon. W. L.
Herrdon and Hon. Chas. Gibson. There
will be an effort made to secure the
Reverend Doctor Dewitt Talmage for one
or more nights.
San Marcos continues to boom. 1t
now claims population of over
5000 souls, with fair chance
of doubling that number within
the next two years. Although San Marcos
was not represented in the immigration
convention, its citizens are Watching the
movements of the committee with vigilant
eyes and will lend helping hand to any
thi that will tend to advance the
material development of our town, county
or state.
Mr.. Arenbeck, formerly citizen
of north Texas, has just COM
pleted double story business house on
the lot where the postofice used to be.
Judge Wood has purchased the 7. H.
Ellison property on the north side of the
square and intenGs to build two fine
brick buildings for business houses at an
early day.
Our town council have granted per-
NIT and what assistance financially that
they can to Mr.. Tom Code for the
purpose of giving the head of San Marcos
river a thorough clearing out. 1t is Mr..
Codes calculation to run small steam
boat or the river during the session of
the assembly fer the accommodation of
visiting Chautauquans.
The new Hofheinz hotel is in running
order, and visitors all comment on the
artistic taste with which it is built. 1t is
undoubtedly an honor to the town.
Reverend Mr.. Belyin, an old settler of
our town, and prominent Methodist
minister in his younger days, quietly
passed away, surrounded by his family
and friends, both of which are legion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Delegates Appointed.
Decial telegram to the Statesman.


SAN ANTONIO, April 1.-THE Bexal
county republican convention for the
select on of delegates to the state con
vention, at Fort Worth, ON April "a, wher
Texas delegates to the republican national
convention will be elected, was held in
Turner hall ihis morning, with the follow,
ing result
A. j. Evans, H. L. Degener, E. II. Ter.
Iell, @. W. Ogden, @. G. Cresznn, W.
Hehing, ST., Dave Williams, j. R. Davis,
L. W. Madorasz, Walter Patterson,
DIR. W. Under, W. j. Locke,
DR.. F. Terrell, W. S. Messler.
slternates-C. l.. Sauer, H. Terrell, G.
NJ. Kingsley, M. NJ. X. Taylor, S. NJ. John
son, DR.. SlOcum, Joe Umscheld, DR.. Geo.
Clafford, Captain Simon Turner, j. @.
Cole, H. A. Ellis, Z. Elemdorf, w. Scott,
and II. O'Neil The delegates go to Fort
Worth uninssructed.
A resolution offered by ex-Secretary
of State Jas. p. Newcomb, demanding
that strong anti-prohibition plank be
put in the next state platform was voted
down. The mention of John Shermen's
name ELECTED immense applause in the
convention.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
BURNETT BUDGET
Sudden Death of an Old Citizen-Rev j.
j.. Rountree.

Sudden Death of an Old Citizen-Rev j.
i. Rountree.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
BURNETT, April 14.-Early this morning
news reached town of the sudd5n death of
an old citizen, j. l.. Rountree, which oc-
Cured at the residence Of bis daughter,
Mrs. King McFa land, about five miles
west of Burnett Mr.. Rountree had gone
from his home here to visit his daughter,
as he frequently did, and in the evening
Mrs. Mcfarland went out TO the lot TO at
tend to milking the cows, leaving her
father sitting on the porch, During the
milking she went some Ii tie distance away
to drive up a cow, and on her re-
turn. she found her father ly-
ing on the ground in the cow
pen dead. He had come out from the
house aud had, no doubt, been stricken
with apOplexy, as he was in his usual
health, which was remarkably good for a
man of his advanced years. The deceased
was about 80 years old, had lived in this
county long time and was one of its
best and most respected citizens. He was
the father of twenty-five children, most of
whom grew up and now survive him
Among these, the 70 lowing are known to
your cores pondtnt: Reverend Felix
Rountree, OF Junction City; W. B. Roun-
tree, of Eden, Concho county; j. l.. Roun-
tree, jr, Mre. Frank Thomas and
Ms. j. I. Woodward, of Burnet
Mrs. Robert Lewis, of this county, and
the daughter at whose house he died. He
was a man of remarkably strong constitu-
ton, and had passed through all the hard
ships of early frontier life in this part of
the state, and had hardly known a days
serious illness up to the time of his death.
The funeral services were held at 3 p. m.
to-day at the Baptist church.
Nothing is going on in district court
except the rendering of decisions on civil
cases previously taken under advisement
by the court.
A horse race for $500 is billed to take
place next Saturday near Bertram, the
respective owners of the horses being
Reuben Boyce, of Burnett, and a man
named Russell, Of Liberty Hill.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Secrets of O Cavern.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
MARBLE FALLS, April 13.-A mile and a
half north of this city, on the Shin Bone
ridge, is a cave, the mouth of which
has been closed up with large stones as
far back as Ihe memory of the Oldest in
hsbitant runs. Yesterday, Mr.. Charley
Campbell and some assistants, commenced
opening up the mouth of the cave with a
view of exploring it. When they had
gone two or three feet below the mouth OF
ths cave they found the skeleton OF
a man, supposed to be an old person,
as the teeth, though sound and we'll
preserved, we're worn down almost even
with the iawbone. To day the explorers
re-entered the cave and dug their way
through the main entrance to a depth of
thirty feet or moro, when they found an
other skeleton, this time apparently of
uiddIe-eged man with large, fine teeth IN
good condition, and full, round fore
head. Not vestige of clothing was
found or anything to indicate what man
ner of persons they were or how they
came there. The cave will be explored
further. A daily hack now runs between
this place and Granite CT y and Burnet,
CONNECTING at the latter place with trains
on the Austin end Northwestern, carrying
passengers ard small parcels and pack
ages of freight. Colonel Leitnaker, OF the
Austin and Northwestern railway, Is now
having tickets prepared to be sold al
Austin and local stations of his road ever
this line 10 Granite City and Marble Falis
The fishing is extra good here now. MT
Patrick McKenna, of Spencer, Mass, an'
pauions, caught sixteen very mt
ones to day with rod and line in yer!
short time. Parties coming here to ms!
should bring good tackle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Houston Wins by a Scratch.

special Telegram to the Statesman.
GALVESTON, April 14.-The second game
of the Galveston Houston series resulted
in victory for the Houston babies by a
scratch. Slattings and Troy were the
home battery against Flood and Lob
book. The giants batted Flood without
difficulty, and scored three runs in the
third inning. 1t looked US though Gal
weston had the game until the. eighth
inning, when Godart made first on clean
hit, but, in stealing the second, the
crowd thought he was fairly
put out, but the umpire ruled him
safe. Again when Godat came home the
ball reached the home plate at the same
instant, ard the crowd called out but the
umpire held otherwise. The babies then
scord two more runs, with two men out.
These rulings of the umpire caused
great deal of dissatisfaction. Smith and
Dewey lost the game by errors. The
score by innings:
Houston 00003 IA
Summary:
Earned runs-Houston, q; Galveston, 0.
Base on balls Houston, 3; Galveston, 0.
First on ErrOrs-HoustOn, l; Calves
ton, 3.
Left on bases-Houston, Z; Galveston, 6.
Struck out-Flood, Z; Slattings, 6.
Double plays-Smith, Dewey and
Dolly.
Um pire-Denni5.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
The Union Bakers.

CHICAGO, April IA strike among the
union bakers has been decided upon, and
probably tomorrow morning the men will
quit work. The cause of the trouble is
exactly similar to that which led to the
brewers strike. The bakers belong TO the
Central Labor union, as do the brewers.
The Boss Bakers union signed an agree
ment with their workmen as to wages and
hours of work, agreeing also to recognize
the union rs union. Some weeks ago
they met and determined to have nothing
further to do with the union, and began
10 hire non-union men.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
A jail Breaker
Special Telegram to the Sta esman.

Special Telegram to the Sta esman.
GIDD1NGs, April H.--Late yesterday even
ing Joe Ponton, who has gained somt
reputation for Jail leaking-havine
broken the Jail at both Brennan and
Austin-tried playing another one of his
old tricks. He completely tore off the
door of his cell, breaking one of the
hinges and tearing off the other one, and
also breaking very strong lock with
thirteen pieces. With what he did all
this the officers are as yet unable to dis
cover. They have found only bucket
handle and piece of a bucket hoop,
He completed the job within two hours
Sheriff Brown is able to keep him only
by the most COZ ant watchfulness.
Crops are doing finely in th,se parts
We had quite nice shower of rain here
day before yes terday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
SUICIDE IN JAIL.
The Monster Who Killed His Daughter
Ends His Own Life.
-. Al. S,Anan


Special Telegram to the Statesman.
WEATHERFoRD, April 14.-J. n. Aston
hung himself in the county jail last night.
Aston is the man who murdered his
daughter, Mrs. q. W. Turpin, near Pool
vile, this county, last Monday
morning, stabbing her forty-three times
This morning at $3.50, Jaller Cleveland
went up to the jail TO release the prison
ers from their cells. When he unlocked
the cell doors all the prisoners left their
cells and entered the corridor except
Aston. Mr.. Cleveland called to him to
come out. No response was heard. He
walked round to Alston's cell and found
Aston hanging on the side Of the cell.
Aston had torn his mattress up and made
arope with which he hung himself. He took
the water bucket that was in the c5ll, and
stuffed blanket in it, 50 if it should fall
over it would make no noise.
The blanket was turned up, and
ne stood on this bucket and tied a
rope round his neck ard tied the other
end of the rope to the bars of the cage,
as high as he could reach. He then tied
his hands together with a string and ran
his right knee through between his hands,
so as to prevent his hands from coming
to the rescue of his neck in
lis last struggles. All being
ready he kicked the bucket from unde II
his left foot and dropped, meeting his
death by strangulation. Yesterday
Aston was brought before Justice
Squires, who informed him that he could
not be forced to make a confession or
atoFamapt and If he did he was warmed nj
the consequences. Aston remarked that
he had no statement 10 make, but he
would plead guilty to the chsrge. Those
who saw Alstos are of the opinion that he
was perfectly sane.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
A Live Man.
Special Telegram 10 the Statesman.

bpGtlHI ItIc!,THIII 10 IIU DIdIt5IIIuI'
Fort WORTH, April 14.-Tbe president
of the board of trade of this city has is
sued call for Monday, the 10th inst, to
take action to sustain the Texas immigra-
ton headquarters in st. Louis, and con
tribute to the same financially. The lead
ing citizens here are alive to the import
ance of contributing to the support of the
said Office. John Howard, agent for
Texrs, is here, and intends visiting Waco,
Austin, San Antonio and Houston. Hav-
ing met with encouragement here as we'll
as at other points, st. Louis excepted, he
will push the work on his return to ST.
Louis to the best of his ability.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Injunction Denied.

New ORLEANS, April 14.--Judge Voor-
hees yesterday denied the petition of the
republican party for an injunction re-
strsining the registrar of voters from ap
pointing certain boards of commission er;
to serve at the coming elections, on whict
boards the republican party is without
representation. The judge holds that the
remedy is lot sought in proper way
that, though the law requires that eacE
party be given representative on eact
board, it is not competent for the cour
to interfere by injunction with the pre-
limlnary preparation for an election.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Marhla Falls.

Special Telegram TO the Statesman.
MARBLE FALLS, April 14.-Capt A. N
Leitnaker ana Secretary A. ID. Woodbridge
of the Texas Capitol Granite company,hav
been spending several days here and at
the Granite City, making preparations for
laying off the new city and clearing off
the sire t.. Mr.. Woodbridge has stretched
his tents near the beautiful spring just
north of the rock, and in a few days his
axes will be ringing in the woode,
and then the old time quiet and
lore mess of this valley will be gone for
ever, and the drill and chisel of the gran
tie cutters and the whoop and hurrah of
new towns will have come here to stay.
Railroad men are very reticient generally,
and Captain Leitr aker is no exception to
that rule; but his actions speak louder
than words, and say emphatically that the
railroad is to be pushed through to this
town in hurry. Crop and garden pros
poets are very fattering in this valley,
though little rain would be of benefit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Sprinp Floods.

M1NNEAPoL1s, April 14.-The Big Siou1
river has overlooked IFS banks and don,
considerable damage in the vicinity Of
Sioux Falls, Dakota. The Illinois Cen
trail railway bridge, east Ct the city, ha
been carried away; also the Milwaukee,
bridge at Reyes, eighteen miles south o
here. Over 1000 feet of Milwaukee tract
at Elk Point has been swept away, en-
iirely cutting off Communication with
Sioux City. The river is rising, and it ii
feared much more damage will be dene
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Fighting Editors,

MACON, Ga, April 14.-Thos. j. Norris,
editor of the Democrat was assaulted and
beaten into insensibility, yesterday, by
Alexander Hudson, EDITOR of the Macon
Times. Hudson came up behind Norris
and struck him on the head with heavy
cane, continuing the blows until Norris
fell TO the ground. 1t is feared his skull
is fractured and death will result. The
assault grew out of a bitter quarrel which
has been waged between the two demo
cratic papers for some time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
KILLED BY HIS WIFE.
Fatal Results of Stab With Pair of
Scissors.

L HGdl ItSSullS VI u LoGup w Iuh "t VI
Scissors.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
BoNHAM, April 14.-Iu the country, four
miles south of here, occurred last night a
family row, which resulted in the fatal
wounding of Joseph Fur by his wife.
Furr and his wife separated several We eks
ago, the woman returning to her step
father. The couple quarrelled frequently
over the possession of child, which,
since the separation, has been living with
the mother. Last night Furr went
to the place where the child was
staying and attempted to take it. He
was discovered in the act of leaving by
his wife and her sister, Mrs. Campbell.
The latter armed with shot gun, the
former with pair of sciss ors, called the
man to stop. Refusing to do so Mrs.
Campbell fired, missing him, but threat
ening to shoot again if the child was not
retucned. Fur then came back with the
child. Commencing to scold his wife she
struck him in the side with the scissors
inficting fatal wound, from which he
died to-day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Preparing for the Convention
cial Telegram to the Statesman.

WACO, April 1.-THE county prohibit
ton convention met in the Waco temper
ance hall this morning at 10 o'clock. The
OBJ ect, as stated, was to organize a per-
manent prohibition party in the county
and select delegates to the state conven-
ton, which meets in Waco, April 25
There were about forty delegates present
The delegates to the state convention
were instructed to vote for the Hon
NJ rion Martin for governor.
A resolution was passed that after the
state convention county convention be
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19

Messrs. Gregg and Parks have been in
conference recently with Representative
Page, of Houston county, the represen-
tative district adioining Anderson on the
south, and these three faithful. adherents
of the peoples interests, go to Austin
with fixed determination of opposing all
schemes of iObbery in disposing of the
cash surplus. They will oppose all
measures looking to the expenditure of
the surplus, save those for the reduction
of taxation and paying the free school
taxes
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Dallas Beats San Antonio.

ODSSlhl ISleSIdlLl W Iuc otnlcrlHdu'
SAN ANTONIO, April 24.-In the second
of the series of games to day, between
San Antonio and Dallas, the visitors won
by score of 8 TO O. Scott and Hantell
did the ordnance work for San Antonio
against Crothers and Weloh for
Dallas. The result of the game
was due mainly to wild throwing
of Hontell and the poor playing of Smith
in covering third. Crothers displayed great
head work in the box and SCOTS delivery
was remarkably swift. The visitors
pounded only five of SCOTS balls and the
home team three of Crothers. WEIGH did
some very fancy base stealing Con-
siderable grumbling YVES done by San
Antonio over decisions of the umpire.
The following is the score by innings:
San Antonio .........0 90 0 0 0 90
Dallas. ...........""..0 1 0-3
Umpire-Hanlin.
Tine of game One hour and forty min-
utes.
Lewis did the heavy batting of the day,
scnding a sky-scraper over TO left field
and outside the fence, and scoring home
run for Dallas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Petition to the Governor.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
HUNTSVILLE, April IA petition is
now being gotten up here addressed to
the governor asking that he pay no at
tention to any petition at all asking exec
utive clemency in the W. Fl. Roe case,
but to proceed with the enforcement OF
the law as set forth by the verdict Of the
jury. 1t is being largely signed through
out the county, though many think it will
not be necessary to send the same.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Aubertin, the man who fred a reyoIv.

Aubertin, the man who fred revolver
at M. Jules Ferry, in the lobby of the
chamber of deputies, and who is still the
tenant of cell No at Mazas, has just
concluded literary effort entitled,
appeal to France and 10 the Whole of
Europe; Second Warning to Bismarck"
Aubertin states that he himself already
holds thousands of bomb-shelIs in reserve
for the Pruasans.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19

called, and a full prohibition county
ticket be placed in the field.
At 2:90 the republican convention met
in the court house. The object of the
convention was to select delegates to the
state convention, which meets in Fort
Worth. The delegates go uuinstructed.
The convention was composed mostly of
negroes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Union Labor Delegates.


Special Telegram to the Statesman
FORT WORTH, April 14.-At conven-
ton of union labor delegates of the Sixth
congressional district, Sam Evans, OF
Fort Worth, and Doctor Andrew Young,
of Cleburne, were elected delegates to the
Cincinnati national convention. jerome
@. elrby was endorsed for congress.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
SENSATION IN COURT.
A Jurist Says Whisky Was Used on the
Jury.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.


Houston, April 14.-Quite sensa-
ton was created in the civil district court
here to-day by serious charges made by
the defendant IN the Body ct al. vs.
Elijah Smith case, on motion for new
trial. Last week the jury found verdict
for $4,000 in favor of the plaintiff, and,
in their motion for new trial to day, the
counsel for the defendants, on moving for
new trial, submit ed the affidavit of
Juror Jacob Koch, who states that whisky
was sent to the jury room, and that ten of
the jurymen got drunk and forced him
Koch and another juror to agree to the
verdict rendered, and that they never sub
mitted until after a rough and tumble
fist fight. Mr.. Smith, the defendant, is a
heavy owner in the Texas Western Rail
way company.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Legislators &c ming.
Special Telegram to the ststel man.

bIIbCIdI 7 tItgIHIH 10 lIIt DIhlot IIInII'
PALESTINE, April 14.-Senator A. w.
Gregg and Representative Bedford Parks
left for Austin this morning to be in
readiness for entering upon the duties at
the coming extra session of the legislature
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Announcing for the Senate.
.al TELEGRAM to the Statesman.

DALLAS, April 14-Hon. R. s. Kim
brough, of Mesquite, announces to-day
as a candidate for the state senate, to
succeed J.B. Terrell. MI. Kimbrough rep
resented Dallas county in the house of the
Nineteenth legislature. He favors in
creasing the boundaries of the city OF
Dallas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-19
Mandatory Burned.

HAvERHILL, Mass, April IA fire thi
morning in the shoe mandatory Of
Harold f. Blake, Washington street, ex
tended through the block, causing a'losi
of $4,000.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1888-03-22
A p~UT ERN CYCLoNE.
Great Damage 90 Property and several
Persons KILLED.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March pa cy-
clone passed over Calhoun, Georgia, and
East Tennessee last night and did great
damage. Several lives were lost near
Lendirs The residence of j. Williams,
three miles east Of Lendirs, was com.
pletely swept away, and carried off Will
liams in the wreck and killed him. The
body of Mrs. Williams was found to-day
in Tennessee.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1888-03-22

Three Mez Killed in Washington Ter
rifory.

ST. PAUL, March Especial from
Spoken Falls says three men, Pelkey,
Pendleton and Pipkins, have been muir
dered at Priest Lake by Indians.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1888-03-22
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
News From Everywhere
THE STEMS PASS TRAIN ROBBERS
The stolen Money aud the .Bewelry
F0und ON Their Bodies.

SAN Francisco, March D. 2-Detective
Hume received information that after a
fight between the pursuing party of rail.
road officers, aided by Mexican troops,
aud the Stems Pass, New Mexico, train
robbers, the officers found on the bodies
of the slain robbers all the diamonds and
other jewelry stolen from the express
train and all OF the money taken but
S400.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1888-03-22
THE CHINESE TREATY.
nennis Kearney Does Not Like it.

WAsHINGToN. March % Dennis
Kearney had an interview with the Pres.
ident yesterday and denounced the pend
ing Chinese treaty. He said that under
the clause permitting Chinese worth ST.
600 to return in case they left the coun-
try, each 81 900 would be made to do
duty for thousand incoming Chinese.
The President said he thought the treaty
would be at least tried for while.