The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State EXCHANGES.

State Exchanges.
A protective tariff club has been Or
q ganized at Houston to be known as the
i National Protection club"
The commissioners court at Cleburne
allowed old man Asa Billiard pension OF
IS per month. He is 1Ol years of age,
and the Oldest man in the county.
The Alliance mill at Mckinney is rap
} idly nearing completion, and by Septem-
Der 10 will be turning out flour at the
rate of $50 barrels per day.
The republican nominating convention
of the First congressional district will be
held at Beaumont on the 18th, when j. T..
Brady, of Houston, will in all probability
be nominated.
The Methodist church has now sixteen
effective bishops and two missionary
bishops one for Africa and one for
India. This is by far the strongest epis
copal force it ever had.
The Bodine Coal company, of Gaines
ville has been chartered swith capital
stock of 100000. The company will
develop the coal fields of Texas and
the Indian Territory.
Mrs. Louisa Pfeffer, and old German
lady, rs years of age, has mysteIiously dis
appeared from her home in Houston. She
started from her son-in laws residence in
the second ward to go to church and has
not been heard from since.
The democratic convention, which met
at Austin the other day to renominate
Major Ssyers for congress, administered
a slap to the San Antonio Express by
sitting down on its bantling, the Pro-
lection club.-Brenham Banner.
ex-governor John Ireland has filed
suit in the district court at Seguin
against the New York Life Insurance
company for the payment of $1,000 in
surance on his life for ten years, on the
Tontine Plan, which time has expired and
the insurance remains unpaid.
Waco rises in her might and says no
base ball shall be played in that city on
Sunday. Waco don't like base ball or any
other amusement except digging up the
bones of murdered people along the
banks of the Brazos or in the streets of
the city,-Houston Herald.
Foft Worth is agog over the hurried
tiittinn of Texas and Pacific employe,
said to be guilty of such practices as the
Pail Mall Gazette made famous few
years ago. The alleged details are revolt
ing. Obtaining money under false pre-
tense is added to the graver crimes.
Just so long as people play with guns
and pistols, and housewives kindle their
fires with kerosene, there will be never
ending chapter of accidental deaths
Death in any form is horrid, but for one
to lay down his life in penalty for the acts
of fools is the worst death imaginable.
The beef market in the northern cities
continues dull, and must ever be thus
while few men have control of the cattle
interests. A trust which has cleared
| $54, 100000 in year is theft from the
people in which the robberies of few
trains seem insignificant. - Alexander
| Alert.
The baggiug trust strikes the farmers
in vital part 1t will wiring hundreds of
thousands of dollars out of the hands of
the horny handed sons of toll this year,
and this keeps tens of thousands out of
the tills of merchants and per force out
of the pockets of mechanics. 1t oonsti-
tutes tax levied on industry by force
without governmental authority to levy
or collect taxes.-Waco Evening News.
Mr.. Stout, the milkman, who has a dairy
near San Antonio, lost seven COWS in less
than fifteen minutes. About II o'clock he
turned twenty head into sugar cane
patch and went to the house for dinner.
Before he had finished he noticed three of
the animals drop suddenly to the ground,
and before reaching the lot seven of the
twetny were dead and the others were
temporarily Frustrated.
The new mail and stage line between
San Angelo and Fort McKavitt, Menard-
vile and Kerrville, will begin on Monday.
A daily hack will run. This will bring all
the lower counties in direct communica-
ton with San Angelo, something very
much needed, as San Angelo is that
country's trading point.
There is sensation, known only to the
inhabitants of Government hill, which will
probably develop in the courts. ruined
daughter, faithless lover and an irate
father form the data for a story too foul
for the Times. The lover denies the
charge, but the daughter is persistent in
the plea that he alone is guilty. What the
outcome will be cannot now be determined,
but enough Is known to put every tongue
on Government hill to wagging.-San An
tonic Times.
A Fridays special from Brownsville
says: No change in the quarantine farce.
Postmaster Kowalski to day tried to open
by telegraph mail communications with
the other side, but failed. DR.. Wolff to-
day published the following: 81 hereby
officially certify that no infectious or con-
tagious disease exists at present at
Brownsville, Brazos de Santiago or their
vicinities, and this district is in the best
sanitary condition. further certify that
the city of New Orleans is recognized by
all health and quarantine authorities as
clean and healthy port at this date"
Mrs. Harris, the wife of tenant on
M. B. Saddler's farm in McLennan county,
MIXED a young COW and undertook to
separate her and the calf. The COW kept
rushing back into the pen, and, suddenly
becoming maddened, turned UPON the
woman and struck her to the earth. One
of the sharp horns entered the lady's hip
and lay the flesh bare to the bone. In
tsrnal injuries were also sustained, from
: which she will probably not recover.
A railroad employe named Manning
died in the st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
hospital at Tyler and was buried by the
hospital authorities. The rumor ngot
abroad that the corpse had been buried