The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-21
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

State Exchanges.
Arkansas Pass, it is said, is to be the
coming city.
The Colorado is being bridged opposite
the town of Bastrop.
The school lands in Childress county are
fast being bought up by settlers.
The citizens of San Angelo are making
a move to establish city park.
Crop reports from all parts of the state
point to a most abundant harvest.
The city of Houston has issued new
compromise bonds in lieu of the old ones.
Thos. Manson, one of the aldermen of
the Corpus Christi city council, died on
last Sunday.
The Williamson County Alliance has
decided to take no stock in politics dur
ing the coming campaign.
The plant of the Electric Light an
Power company at Marshall has been
tached BY eleven different parties.
Negotiations are on foot looking to t
establishment of free bridge over th
San Antonio river between Victoria an
Refugio.
The Frio county democratic convention
tabled a resolution against free wool and
meats and endorsed Grain and recon-
mended W. Showalter, of Larado, for the
state senate.
N. q. McLane, a farmer living two
miles from Texarkana, while giving in
structions to one of his colored en-
ployes the other day was assaulted by
him with an open knife. The nego in
ficted several horrid gashes, and IN de-
tense Mr.. McLane slashed him in the
face, nose and neck, splitting his tongue
in two. 1t is thought the negro will die.
The Burlington contested will case is
set for Monday in Fort Worth. There is
something near S15O,000 involved in the
suit, and it promises to be an interesting
one before it closes.
At called meeting of the Corpus
Christi board of trade steps were taken
to celebrate the Fourth of July with a
regatta on the bay. Different railroads
have promised one fare rates for the
round trip, and the money prizes have
been assured.
county, thinking to increase the weight of
number of hogs he was about to take to
market, gave them all the salt water they
would drink. Fourteen of them died on
the way to town or before they could be
weighed, and the tricky farmers net loss
was about $3.50.
A few days ago the st. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas Railway company discharged
its yard crew at Mount Pleasant as mat
ter of economy and entailed the duty on
the road crews of doing their own switch
ing. The men revolted, and threatened
to lynch the trainmsster with bell cord,
but were prevented.
Facts only will be submitted at the deep
water convention on July 10. Fort Worth,
all Texas and the states and territories,
north and west, want deep water on the
Texas coast, and the plsceselected for the
expenditure of an appropriation is sec
ondary consideration.-Fort Worth Mail.
Jack Demaez, who has been only two
weeks married to a 14-year-old wife, at
tempted suicide, at Fort Worth, by shoot
lug himself. His wife knocked the weapon
aside and the ball passed through his
wrist. Depressed by debt and inability to
earn enough to support his family the
cause.
Messrs. Harry Bierschwale and Philip
Malsack made visit last Sunday to the
Splller mine, about twelve miles from
mere, where the Wakefield iron syndicate
nave their dismond drills at work. At the
depth of thirty feet fifteen foot vein of
very fine quality of iron has been found,
and in three holes that have been drilled
the same success has been met with in
IN striking iron at depth of only from
twenty-five to thirty feet.-Mason News.
Each day adds the very general interest :
in the project for deep water at some Of
the Texas ports. The entire press of the
state, with few exceptions, have urged
large at Tendance of business men at the
Fort Worth convention of July 10. It's
a decided feature of the Texas press com
ments that nearly all favor deep water at
the most available place, while few urge
Galveston as the place and others Arkansas
Pass. The Tribune continues, as before,
to go for the point that the general gov
eminent can secure q sufficient depth of
water for the largest sized vessels at the
earliest day and at the least cost. If the
government should appropriate, say, two
millions of dollars 10 Galveston and
IKE sum to Arkansas Pass, the deep water
problem Will soon be solved satisfactorily
and ehectively.-El Paso Tribune.