The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-22
STATE NEWS
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Stass Exchanges.


T-s Gzz5z-1ps r.7=r Is Oh big rise,
stopping work o. The bridge OF tn= Bee
vie extension Of the SoltnsrL Pzcifc
road. Tnis makes the third tine within =
n5lta that soEk hzs bean interrupted b.
aiga water.
The Victoria Street. Railway Company
commeEcsd rcnuinZ thsir cas- OF thz l2.h-
While the republicans =. H=nrist-s wee
esIeor ting tn=i- national victory b. firing
snviis and hrs=5rks OF tie public 50 asr=
OF Saturday night some CnpFincipIs5
sco1ndrels exploded Two dynamite car
tridZss II the croEd- bit fortunately 10
==rio1s bOdil! harm resulted, although the
concession smashed every Eintoz il the
court ho1se, nearly every 81 ore frOo. and
enrsiled = loss Of nesrly 5000.
4 f=v nights ago fire vas discovered IL
the nsE Prssbyiecizn ca1rca a. Sscog-
dOcEes- nov in course Of construction aud
nearing eompI=siOo. The E0o- vas sztz-
rated with OF! and set OF Ire b. a. inc=l-
diary for the purpcss Of robbery
TIE Laredo Real Estate and Abstract
company has purchased from = S. L5uis
syndice e 500 los, making one OF the
most important transactions in the city.
DEE. ". Bryan. Of san Angelo, visited
Coleman in his oEHcisl capacity - deputy
grand master Of tins knights OF Pytliss,
on Saturday night, AID Instituted lodge
o: that order Tiia eighteen charter men
bers.
Three nez steel cells are b=ing put n
the Hunt county jail, thereby doubling tue
cell capacity. With thIs addition there
zisl be room 70: forty prisoners.
A colored nan living three miles north
Of Brenhsu reports tia; T1s=ds! night
jim Ellios became enrsgei ct his father,
Andrew Elliot, aud assaulted the old MAI,
beating him badly about the head and
body and biting piece O1t OF his cheek.
His brothers int=rfersj, =hsa he drew 2
pistol and shot at his father, but Eithou;
hitting him. The parties are all colored
and live on the S;ruckmeyer place, near
Brennan.
Mis- CarIo:a Bsnsvides, eldest daughter
Of Cris.obsl B=nsvides, vas married Wed
ne=dsy morning al Laredo 70 NJ. Mariana
Naldez. The Wedding Ess one OF the
most fashionable and brilliant ever Wit
messed il the city. Ths bridal presents
we're costly aud NUMEROUS. Over 200 in
vitsd guests "a: dOEn 10 2 s0up.uous re
pas: provided g; the residence OF the
brides parents.
The Wharf company, OF Galveston, de-
cls-ed e dividend Wednesday Of 80 cents
per share for November. The city Es;s
s., III az its share in this di7idezd.
4 white woman created & sensation at
Paris Tg=slay night by shooting into
the residence Of Mr.. c. Frahnsr with
pistol while the latter wss at supper, she
bal. barely missing Mr.. Frahnsr's head.
II is alleged that Mrs Morris was shooting
at Mrs. Herrsn, lady board=r at Mrs..
z rahner's, Who was sitting az the supper
table a. the tins and who also came near
being hit. Mrs. Morris Is 2 stranger
here, and the cause Of her bold act Is IN
known, as Mrs. Herreu Processes absolute
ignorance OF any cause except that her
sister and the woman had a misuuder-
standing a few months ago.
The locating committee mas selected
vha. Is known a. the driving park
for the site for the new
Waco female college. The lind be-
longs to Fort Worth and Dallas CAPT
talists. The same parties own ninety
eight acres Of land in that quarter of the
city. They gave the board Of trade fifteen
acres and q cash bonus to have the col
Isge located on thsir property. $4,000
building will be erec.ed and the work will
be commenced shortly.
The beef trade is very slow in southwest
Texas Just now, as rsnchmen want
Nb5csro ,rfesz rrIiob oE caorza doe= MT
offer shippers any margin. But tie
trouble is that at present Chicago prices
are not more than should be realized here
on tue ranch, and, as the cattlemen of this
section are not forced TO sell, they can
wait till tina. market improves Fort
Davis News.
1t is too early to foreshsdoE what is
likely to be the policy of the democratic
party on the tariff in 1892. If that g1ss-
ton ia then an issue in politics the de-
mocracy will no doubt be found on the
side of it's ancient traditions, protesting
against protection and fighting for reform
that will bring the tariff as nearly as may
be to strictly revenue basis. We incline
TO the opinion, however, that within the
next year or two the tariff will be so re-
Yised and reduced, By consent of msmbers
of congress Of both parties, that 1t will be
eliminated as a political question for
series OF years, and that new issues will
: pring up to attract public interest. II
the tariff is no. reformed it will be the
duty of the democracy to renew its fight.
Waco Day.
Harper Richardson, negro lover of
Ellen Anderson, also rOlored, appeared
before Judge Barnes and Sheriff Lewis
yesterday and accus I'd Ellen of poisoning
her husband, who died some months ago
in an epileptic fit. He said that in one
of Anderson's spasms he saw his wife
give him fatal dose of poison, and that
she said to him (Richardson) at the time
that "this will fiI him and the doctors will
suppose that he died in fit" Richardson
said he had never mentioned the matter
before because he had promised Ellen he
would keep the secret, but now she was