The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-02
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State EXCHANGES.

State Exchanges.
There was a wreck on the Santa Fe at
Justin, forty miles south of Gainesville,
Thursday night. The trucks on one of the
freight cars gave way, and ten cars rolled
over into ditch. j. M. Kuox, a young
man who was making his first trip on the
road, jumped or fell off, and was caught
under the wheels aud horribly mangled.
His remains were shipped to relatives in
Parsons, Kan.
The case of Pablo Gonzales, charged
with the rape of the 10-year old gill,
Alouis Sails, was concluded before Justice
Gester, at Laredo, Friday morning. The
evidence of DR.. j. p. Arthur, the physi-
clan who examined the victim, was con-
elusive, and the defendant was bound over
in bond of $4,000. He was unable to
give the bond, and was remande to Jail.
I Thursday morning at Mckinney an old
man named William Boswell quarreled
with his step-son, Ben Daniels, and the
two exchanged blows. The old man, who
was some 60 years of age, soon after left
home and failed to return Thursday night.
Neighbors searched the fields and he was
found in the corn field with his throat cut
The step-son was arrested, but the coro-
ner's inquest, after thorough investiga-
ton, reached the conclusion that William
Boswell committed suicide, and the step.
son was discharged.
Alex. Mitchell, leading colored man of
Smith county and one of its commission
| ers, wrote a note to Sheriff Marsh Wednes-
day saying he had been shot from ambush,
and asking that officers be sent to appre-
| fhn -
| learned that Mitchell was quite seriously
hurt. He is teacher, and it was while
going to his school that he was fired upon.
| The sheriff sent two deputies and some
coon dogs, the best substitute for blood
hounds that could be procured on short
notice.
Col. g. w. Fulton, well known stock
man of southwestern Texas, is quoted as
saying: "What southwest Texas needs is
more farmers to raise proper feed for fat
tening beeves for market. Grass fattened
cattle will not compete with the northern
fattened stock. We want our cattle fat
tened with the kind of feed used In the
north. We have Just the soil and climate
for raising this feed, but we lack the
farmers to raise it. 1t will pay them and
it will pay the stockmen, and 1 want to
see more agriculturists among our immi-
grants, "-Weatherford Sun.
Mr.. Cameron has returned from San
Antonio, and it is summary of the stu
alton to say that the Brazos Valley rail
road is still not technical fact. Legal
difficulties arising under the constitution
of the state are the obstacles which stand
in the way of consummation of transao
tions between Colonel Cameron and the
Arkansas Pass company, which is condi-
ton precedent to the acceptance of the
contract for the grading. 1t is difficulty
which can he overcome by a change of
plan, and all the parties being agreed, the
construction of the road is only deferred,
not stopped. Waco Evening News.
A special from Eagle Pass says: The
merchants of Piedras Negras are not over
come with delight at the prospect of the
speedy completion of the highway bridge,
| which is now assured; they seem to think
| it will rather tend to lessen their business
They need not be afraid; with the free
zone on their side no one is likely to come
to buy from the merchants of Eagle Pass
If the free zones are not abolished in
Mexico, nor the heavy duties reduced on
this side, the towns on the American side
of the Rio Grande had better pull up their
stakes and move across.
A committee of the Waco city council
and President @. W. White, of the Waco
Water company, held conference Friday.
1t was the first time for two years that
| the city council and the Waco Water
company have been inclined to confer,
formal communication in writing during
the period named having been the only
| interchange. The object of the confer
ence was to make arrangements for a
temporary water supply against fire. The
council committee offered President
White $40 per annum for the use of the
eighty hydrants of the water company.
He wanted $75. The meeting ended
without agreement as to price.
TWAS no little fight Mills had on his
| hands. 1t was fierce from the first and
only those on the inside know how bit
terly it was waged. That Mills bore
himself well, all the way through, is
conceded by friends and foes. There
were many, even of the former, who
thought the man unequal to the task.
He was not experienced as a leader and
he lacked, it was said prime requisite
for leadership. Ability to curb an i'm
petuous nature, to hold himself down, as
it were, in crises where self command is
all important. But the wrong breaks
that he made we're few and of no dis
astrouI effect. He improved all the time.
His opponents, wary as foxes, and the
smartest men on earth, dug pitfalls and
laid snares to entangle him. He walked
around the pitfalls and the snares were
vain. His weapons were the resistless
logic of truth and justice. He had right
on his side, and he won.-Houston Post.
Thursday morning, on an early Sher-
man train, four young people passed
through en- route to the Indian Territory.
They got on the train at Van Alstyne and
brought friend with them in the person
of Elder W. l.. Goss, Primitive Baptist
minister, and their object was to reach
Gretna Green before their plans could be
frustrated by parental objection. The
facts in the romantic little affair are, in
substance, that for some time two broth
ers, p. A. and w. j. Rountree, have been
paying their attentions to two sisters,
Misses N. A. and M. A. Record, against
the wishes of the young ladies' father,
who finally forbade the young men visit
ing his house. The young ladies, aged
respectively II and 16 years, expostulated