The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-30

playing four games. The boys have not
yet been paid off, but will receive their
salaries on Monday next.
Senior Loaza, Mexican collector of Gus
toms at Paso del Norte, reluctantly res
ended the order given some time ago
that American teams should not be al
lowed 10 cross tbs Rio Grande except on
the street ear bridge and paying heavy
tolls. Teams are now allowed to cross
anywhere. While the order was in force
it created great deal of indignation in
Ell Paso.
At 1915 O'Clock Tuesday a man at
| tempted to burglarize the residence of
: Frank Adams in the Fifth ward of Hous-
ton. John Dom lily, a brother.jn-law of
Adams, hearing noise, arose and saw a
man endeavoring to scale the fence. He
mmediately fred at the rascal with a
double barreled shotgun. The man fell
and halloed, "Oh God, he has killed me-"
Although it is presumed the man was
badly wounded, he escaped it is thought
by the assistance OF friends.
A negro named Joe Stevenson was
brought in to Paris from Depot We'd
nesday, and put in jai! on charge of as
sault with intent to kill white man
named William Mobiles, the proprietor of
a repair shop at Deport. The negro had
taken wagon to the shop to be repair
ed. The work was done, and to-day Ste
venson attempted to take the wagon
away without paying Mobiles for the
work. difficulty ensued, and the negro
struck Mr.. Mobiles on the head with q
~
for time his life was despaired Of At
last accounts MOBILES was thought not to
be fatally injured.
The boiler at Jackson's saw mill, three
miles west of Atlanta, Texas, blew up at
D. m. Tuesday, instantly killing Napoleon
Smith, colored, and wounding the fireman,
white man named Bassett, SO severely
that he died within an hour. The fireman
was horribly mangled, the whole right
side of his head being blown off. Four
other men were slightly wounded by the
flying debris. AT the time of the ex-
plosion there was no more steam than
usual, and it is supposed to have been
caused by some defect in the boiler. The
loss on machinery and fixtures is con-
siderable, as the mill is a complete wreck.
At o'clock Tuesday evening, at
Aubrey, Mrs. Martha G. Thompson, the
wife of j. H. Thompson, carpenter,
ended her life by shooting the top of her
head off with double barreled shot gun.
Her children were in the yard at the time,
but no one was in the house. She evidently
selected the gun as sure means. Last
April she tried to commit suicide by
taking two ounces of ch!oroform, and it
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saved. She has been in i'll health for
some time, which had unbalanced her
mind. She leaves several children.
The flow of city we'll No. 2, which was
by long odds the finest artesian well in the
city, has stopped almost entirely, the
water yesterday merely oozing over the
edge of the pipe. The defect, however, is
not beyond remedy, and the fault does
not rest with the source of supply. 1t is
said that the packer was not properly ad.
justed between the strainer and the 8-inch
pipe, and that the strainer has, in conse-
quence, filled with sand, which is not at
all improbable. The derrick has been re-
moved from this we'll to Twenty eighth
street, but temporary derrick will be
fitted up to remedy the defect and re-
establish the flow, which work may con-
sumo several days.-Galveston News.
The Galveston base ball club has not
yet been transferred to private manage
ment as expected. Col. W. II. Sinclair is
president of the association, and he has
not yet called meeting of the directors
to take action on the matter. Some of
the directors are growing impatient, and
say that if he does not call meeting soon
they will meet and take action without
him. A director, in speaking of the mat
ter Tuesday, said that the club had never
paid expenses. The gate receipts, to-
gether with the sale of stock, has not been
sufficient to meet expenses, but that does
not appear to be the cause of the desire
to shift the club upon other shoulders.
1t is lack of harmony among the di-
rectors.
On Sunday night man named Cave
naugh went to Luce's lumber YARD, on
avenue G, in San Antonio, to get
drink of water, and had to
place his hand under some lumber to get
cup hidden there. In so doing a rattle
snake concealed there bit him on the |
main artery of the wrist. His arm and |
body swelled rapidly, and but for the
young age of the snake, which was only
two years old, and the prompt remedies,
he would have died. As it is he is recov-
ering. He is ne phew of James Burns,
who died few years since from the
effects of rattlesnake bite. Mexican
living near Berg's mill was badly bitten
by rattlesnake and was brought to the
city yesterday. He was treated with the
usual remedies and is doing well. at