The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16

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eight uIss Up the L.aLu river from L.suo
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movements sen 70 indicate .nz. re con.
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. coal from AgIlco
. Mrs. Amanda J. Bidder, formerly =.f-
. Of sI-Aayor B-idIer, died il Ts1s.kzrz
. very s7ddsnly Monday night. Sas 49,
lad! Of ers Intellect and education. and
?; one time moved n the be-. society
circles. b7, unfortunately about i've yssg=
ego scg zired an appetite for irtO1icz1t=
and az- long been q hopeless d.uuEzrd-
frequently cz1-irg street sensations e. Ill
IO1-s Of the day Or night. About eighteen
months ago hsr husband divorced her, and
left TIE cO1Etfy 70 make his home II Bay
City, Mich Ar=. BeiGlsr vss on Ire
streets intoxicated Sunday evening PIE
csdipg her dsa q. Several Of her old
friends attended her bedside a. ca= last
moments. Ine former husband Ess .e!e-
graz ned this morning ard promptly re-
piled assuming eli funeral e1Derses and
requesting the internent OF the body Il
the family 7aGl'. The ceazsd vas quite
beautiful.
Nov that Evau z. JONES mas declined !
70 make the race for governor, Ehy should I
net Marion Martin drop out and leave tue /
field open 70 new combinations Of al /
opposing elements 70 the democracy: I
When the prohibition convention set
Marion Martin up 20 their candidate they
believed tina, the farmer. the green
hackers, The republic .ns and all the Odds
ce1te; On him. bot the hope vss not
realized, and be l., therefore, By the logic
Of event, virtually out of the fight ard
ought 10 recognize the fact and withdraw
without Ceremony. The advice is purely
gra.uitous ard tnanzle-s, but i. is good
advice, nevertheless TIE Day loves 70
zee square political fight, and wants the
deck cleared for action By the removal Of
all trumpery that imps1es the freedom of
the combstsn.s, even if the hostile guns
are TO bear on the democracy Waco
Day.
The charter Of the Laredo In pcoyement
company has been forwarded 10 Austin,
The capital stock of the company is 800
300, divided into 10000 shares at 80 each.
The company has been organized for the
purpose Of acquiring aud disposing of
real property, the erection of buildings of
different characters, the accumulation and
loan Of funds, and for the construction {
and operation of a street car line in the
city Of Laredo. The directors of the
company are A. L. McLane, J. PaFlyun,
A. W. Wilcox, S. II. Bass, Thos. Ryan,
&. j. Macmauus and A. Thaison. This
company is a consolidation of the two
syndicates who applied recently to buy
large quantities of vacant property. In |
fact, their purchase consists Of about 42j
blocks, and comprises nearly all the
vacant property in Laredo proper and
What Is known as the Heights. in the east
;rn division Of the city. These people
have gbun dant confidence in
Laredo, and evidence the belief that is
Ritnin them by putting their money into
arge investments in Laredo dirt.
special from Brownsville OF August :
aya: Yesterday afternoon the body Of
IN unknown woman was found in the river ,
near the RamirsnO, three mills above | ,,
own. The remains we're those of An ]
Indersized, light plexiOned Mexican l.,
7oman of spare build. The face had :
zen eaten by fishes, so Identification was
The remains were dressed only :
b peticOat and sack end skirt Of dark
ray spotted calico, the sack being much
1rn. She was barefoOted. On examina- =
ion il was evident that most foul =
lurder had been committed, as she had
10 deep knife stabs in the back, and
bout the neck were marks of a rope >
his and the torn sack showed that the
lurder had been committed some dis %
Ince from the river and the body dragged ii
} it and thrown in. Judge Hume held an I
Iquest, but ELECTED no facts to throw o
ny light on the terrible crime. Il is n
I'D that a crazy woman is missing at A
anita Maria ranch, on the Mexican side. A
I'D it is thought she might have wandered "
, the river and fallen in. She may have G,
cen foully dealt with by some fend in i
imam shape. II is also Tumored that O
rl of the town in Matamoras named g,
homo Galuan has been murdered at one l,
the out town balls. C,
Alderman Robert W. Shaw, Of Calves F
IN, had the satisfaction Of putting load a
No. II shot into the anatomy OF a bur CT
ar at his residence Monday night. Three L
mes within the past few days the house +
Is been entered and ransacked, and Mr.. al
law determined to put a stop to these
jcturnal raids. Mr.. Shaw suspected a
lored youth named Milton Bryant,
rmerly employed about the premises,
ID now em ployed occasionally to do odd 81
BIS. Monday night Mr.. Shaw pretended ia
leave town on hunting trip, and even
ID his dogs put aboard the train. He
en- returned to the house which he G
ached through the alley, loaded one of dt
e barrels of his gun for small game and al
e other for grizzly, and waited. He did to
It have to wait long. Shortly the bur pi
pr made his appearance. broke open the