The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
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225 pupils.
The Tascosa water works are now an
assured fact. The mains are all in the
ground and all connections made.
Sheep and cattle in western Texas are
reported exceedingly fat and the grass
finer than ever known. There is no fear
of loss of stock the coming winter.
S. E. Lane, the printer who killed
Wilson, the merchandise broker, at Dallas
about month ago, was married on the
9th to Miss Barbara Saunders, who in her
evidence asserted that the deceased had
insulted her.
colored girl about 6 years old, named
Leonora Smith, was found drowned in a
cistern at Galveston few days ago. She
had been playing about the cistern and it
is supposed accidently fell in.
The earliest sale of fall wool known in
the history of San Antonio took place on
the 9TH, the price paid being 15l4 cents
1t was the Robert Thompson clip, of
Maverick county, and com prised eighteen
bags.
The city council of Laredo was in regu-
lar session Friday evening. The privilege
to build street railway was granted to
the Laredo Improvement company.
Thirty-six blocks we're set aside as city
cemetery, ten blocks for school purposes
and ten blocks for plazas.
The Dallas, Archer and Pacific en-
gineers have been called in after running
line as far as Grapevine. The engineers
say they do not know the reason for this
summary stopping of work.
The city council of Greenville, at their
regular meeting Thursday, made the final
arrangements for a complete system of
water works. The company is composed
of three of tAe leading business men of
that place and three st. Louis capitalists.
j. M. Cook, of Greenville, one of the com
pany, says the work will begin in a few
days on the new enterprise. The city also
accepted the proposition of the same
company to erect an electric light plant.
1t is thought that the coming one will
be great winter for feeding throughout
the whole United States, as it is now
thought that the country will harvest a
great deal more of feeding grains this
year than ever before, with rough feed
and forage crops to correspond. With
probabilities pointing to 2,000,000,0O0
bushels of corn and an increase of 10 or
IL per cent in oats, with the west full of
hay, and with measureless stores Of fod-
der almost certain to be available every
where, the opportunities for feeding are
better than ever before,-Exchapge,
Some months since young man by the
name of John Bies came to Brownwood
"broke" and was given home at Mr..
Meichinger's. About three weeks ago his
intimacy with Mrs. Meichinger caused the
old man to forbid his staying at the
house any longer. Mrs, Meichinger left
home in few days, and Thursday Bies
and she were married in Goldthwaite, and
on their return Thursday night the deputy
sheriff met them, and they are now in
Jail. Bies is said to have a wife and
children in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Meichin
ger has three children. Bies is said tC
be sailor, and left his ship at Galveston
in April or May last.
For some time past the Missouri Pacific
and Santa Fe have been hauling cattle
from Territory points to Chicago at $3.50
per car, while the rates from Texas points
has been 800 and $40 per car. This
naturally initiates against Texas cattle
graphing to the officials of the roads
urging that Territory rates be advanced
or Texas rates reduced. Mr.. Newman, o
the Missouri Pacific, telegraphed tina
something would be done, and Mr.. Muir
ray answered that rates would probably
be restored on Monday next. The rat
war has injured Texas greatly.-For
Worth Gazette.
The late deep water convention held a
Denver cannot but result in much gooC
to Texas. Throughout the entire pro
ceeding Difference to the wishes and de-
sires of the Texas delegates seem to have
pervaded all the representatives of tn,
other states, so much so that in the effor
to please all parties some sectional strife
was permitted. The majority of Texas
delegates, however, were instructed for {
"deep water port" and the convention ad
journed with that as their central idea
The importance of the subject is nov
fully appreciated, and the combined in
fluence of the states and territories will
! not fail to be felt in national legislation
Temple Times.
August Hornung, assessor of Medina
county, while in San Antonio Friday
reported a corn crop made by JOSEPH
z Biedger, who lives four miles from Castro
vile. On forty-eight acres Mr.. Biedge
gathered 1858 bushels, sacked and weighed
an average of ffty-six bushels to thu
acre. Mr.. Hernuug also says that thu
fields of Medina county are filed with wilc
pigeons, which are being slaughtered il
numbers by sportsmen. They are tn
regulation dove -colored Bird, with whit
elbows to their wings, a white ring nea
the tail, and about twice the size of tn,
quail. They paid their first visit to west
ern Texas two years ago, and then disap'
peared suddenly.
A special Friday from Eagle Pass said
. Ed. Hale, an engineer on the Mexican
International, while running switch en-
CINE in the yards at QuerroD, ths junction
, between that line and ths Mexican
National, backed over man and killet
him. Hale whistled several times ant
tried also to stop, but the man was to-
close to avoid. The soldiers tried to ar.
+, rest Hale and colored man who was act
= ing as fireman, but he cut loose his en-
CINE and made for the United States
= After running some 1875 miles he had Il
l abandon his engine, and being picked u
5 by freight train was brought into Pie
dras Negras. Last night, while lesvinI
Torreon he was fired on by the guards an
his engine literally riddled with bullets
He footed it over the bridge last nigh