The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-12


started into the house, saying he could
shoot os well as anybody, when Sutton
shot him in the head with a pistol,
causing instant death.
At $50 o'clock last Mondey evening a
couL tryman driving leisurely up Main
street in Deni5on ran over and horribly
mangled 7-yegr old child of Golden
Adkins, in front of the Colonuede hotsl.
Tie chi'd's head was bruised and torn up,
a leg broken and the flesh torn off of the
limbs in a terrible manner. 1t is doubt
full if it survives its pinries. No blame
is attached to the driver.
/ A cclored man named Brown died in
| GAINESVILLE, Sunday, under peculiar cir
cumstances. He had been drinking heav-
! lily Saturday night and Sunday morning.
| He had violent commissions, during which
| he barked like dog and snapped ut
everybody and everything around him,
! even trying to bite himself. He was
wholly manageable and ditd in great
agony. The county physician diagnoses
the case as brain trouble, aggravated by
alcoholic stimulants.
An act entitled, "To Temples Seventh
Birthday" was uuavoidably left out of
PRAIRIE" shaggy named horses" wild
verbena" and "untamed wilderness" fights
of oratOry in the beginning of the article,
as well as the enthusiastic and highly col
ored picture drawn at the close.-all met
one common fate, the waste basket, from
the cause that the boys all belong to the
fire companies, and business for one day
had to make room for pleasure. Orr
readers should return thanks.-Temple
Times.
During the "stilly hours" of the fore
part of each night last week,
about train time, when old
luna cast her silvery rays athwars
the canopy or horizon, as the case may be,
a sad and lonely one was said to have been
seen meandering back aud forth upon the
railroad platform with measured and des-
pairing tread, end twas even said that
this same person was completed some
what like we, and, in fact, that he bore .
striking personal resemblance to us-Ah!
how easy We may be deceived Grand
view Sentinel.
A great deal is now said about the i'm
mepse profits enjoyed in the slaughter of
beef, as carried on by the Chicago beef
syndicate, and its sales in the esst; and |
thr friends of the slaughterers would have !
the public believe that all this talk is !
simply idle rant. No one can travel far, |
however without being convinced that the |
charge Of undue profit is founded on fact |
1t is only necessary to notice the special |
plants made by the different beef mag |
mates in the hourishing cities and large |
towns favorably situated for railroad COM
munication. Such local preparations, so
rapidly increasing for the sale of western
beef, are only explainable on the ground
Of immense profit. The cream Of the
cattle industry is now passing into fewer
hands than ever before.-Nat;onal Stock
man.
A grand trades display took place in
Fort Worth on the evening of the Fourth
which eclipsed anything of the kind ever
seen in the state. It'was in honor of the
nations birthday, and was also an expo
sition of the city's mercantile and man
ufactoring interests. All the heavy job
bling houses and many of the retailers
were represented in the line. Candy was
thrown from one float, cigars from an
other, chewing gum from another,
sodswater from another, and toilet
articles from another. On one of the
floats moulders were at work ard distrib-
uiiug metal souvenirs to the people along
the line. On another float, boilers makers
were actually riveting huge 120-horse
power boiler On another iron columns
were being prepared to go into a Dallas
building. The drummers were out, SEQ |
strong, dressed in neat uniform and
umbrellas, hand satchels and |
trade notices. 1t was the first parade of |
this kind in Texas, and was an immense |
success. The parade was more than two |
miles long and will be repeated during |
the session of the deep water convention |
in that city next week.
For some time past the Texas Pacific |
Railroad company have been trying to
get q concession from the Mexican gov
eminent to build a railroad bridge aero: 5
the Rio Grande at FL Paso, so as to make !
direct connection With the Mexican Ger
trail railroad and thereby save them the |
expense of s. per car for transferring |
over the Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe |
bridge. Accordingly the agent of the
Texas Pacific company went to the City !
of Mexico to try and obtain I bridge con-
cession, but for some reason the negotis-
lions fell through. After this citizen of
Mexico, Fslipe Arellano, succeeded in OBJ
tanning a concession for street railway,
which he tried to sell to the Texas Pacific,
but was declined after they found out they
could not use steam locomotives.
The generally supposed reason why the
Mexican government declined the con-
cession is the constantly changing chan
mel of the Rio Grande. This has added
largely TO the American side of the river,
which the Mexican government is inclined
TO look upon as its own.