The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-25
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State EXCHANGES.

State Exchanges.
The recently organized fire company
at Kyle has received its handsome new
uniforms.
Geo. A. Johnson, the young Axtell
farmer whose recent disappearance in
Waco was mentioned, has not been heard
from yet. 1t is most unsccouutable
mystery.
The weather continues clear and dry
around Luling and the farmers are having
a splendid season for gathering their
crops.
The fish and oyster business at Corpus
Christi Is increasing, orders coming from
as far as Salt Lake City. Twenty-Five
shippers and more than 100 men are en-
ployed by one firm.
Crops in Medina, Uvalde, Edwards and
Bandera counties are reported good
everywhere, good range, fat stock and re-
turning confidence among the people.
Friday morning at Cisco, John L. Con-
greves, one of the editors and proprietors
of the Cisco Roundup, shot j. j. Thomas,
city marshal and deputy sheriff, in the
right arm, between the elbow and shoul-
der, breaking the bones all to pieces. The
difficulty grew out of a row batween the
two men Thursday night, during which
Mr.. Thomas became insulted at some re-
mark Mr.. Congreves' wife made in his
hearing, and cursed aud abused Congreves
and refectedupon Congreves' wife, andrun
Congreve sup the stairs that leads to his
printing Office. Friday morning Con-
groves met Thomas and demanded of him
that he take back what he had said about
his (Congreves0 wife, but it seemed that
Thomas explanation did not suit Con-
greves, whereupon he drew his revolver
and commenced shooting at Thomas, with
the above result. The attending physi-
clans think Thomas arm will have to be
amputated to save him.
Mrs. Nancy Hensley, of Abilene, arrived
in Waco on the Missouri Pacific ] a. m.
train Thursday on her way to Bryan. As
the train did not connect she ordered
colored hackman, Henry Virgins, to
drive her to the Farmers house, near the
depot. Instead of doing so he drove her
out in the country and far around, and got
into the carriage and made improper pro-
posals to Mrs, Hensley, who is a credita-
BILE lady, and the people believe her state
ment which she made to peace officers.
Virgins, the haokman, was not seen Fri
day, and is probably absent from the city.
Considerable excitement has been ocoa-
stoned by the incident.
A special from Texarkana says: The
present eyesore of Texarkana is the quar-
antine station established on the Texas
side two miles south of town. The stated
object of this quarantine business is to
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state employs and pays the necessary
help, and although the board of health and
public opinion alike condemn the quaran-
tine as no longer necessary, it is neverthe-
less continued, and large number of per-
sons from various sections of the country
detained. At this time no one here any
longer has the least fear of fever, and even
if they did there is no protection afforded
by the present management, the guards at
the station coming into town and going
about at will. twas not generally known
that so many people were detained
until to-day. This correspondents
Wednesdays dispatch first gave
knowledge to the local public. AT
first private kilograms we're sent out con
corning the report, aud the local papers
were preparing to put the correspondent
on the track when they we're placed in
possession of undoubted evidence show
ing the story to be true. Everybody wants
the quarantine raised, and the board OF
health on tomorrow will doubtless for
mally so petition Doctor Rutherford at
Dallas. AS at present conducted the
quarantine is regarded as a first-class
farce, and there is little doubt public
opinion, if nothing else, will at once force
its discontinuance. That Texarkana, one
of the highest, dryest and most healthy OF
Texas cities, should be published to the
world as yellow fever danger point is at
once absurd and unjust.
The Greenvile Banner says: Half q
dozen cats on woOdshed, engaged in q
rough-and tumble fight, would be- nowhere
in comparison with the contest for county
Offices in Collin county. Over there the
candidates appear to have proved each
other TO be thieves, liars, swindlers, de-
faulters, oppressors of the widows and
orphans, hypocrites, mugwumps, carpet
baggers, bigamists, drunkards, robbers
and almost everything else that is bad, II
we are to Judge from what we see IN the
Mckinney papers.
since the killing of County Assessor Hoff
man and Jane H. Holt 10 this city by q
cowardly assassin, says the Brennan
Banner, the most plausible and popular
theory held IN regard to the killing (ant
which was the conclusion arrived at by
everybody except some of the candidates
on the republican ticket, who tried u
make of it a political affair in the hope
that it would help their chances of cleo
tion) was and still is that the deadly chaIg
was not intended for Hoffman at all, Blu
for Holt, who was known to have man!
enemies, while Hoffman was an inofensiv'
man, not known to have an open or score
personal enemy in the world. This theor!
has been adopted as the correct one b!
the insurance company in which the lat
Joseph Hoffman had his life insured fol
$4,000, The insurance company has {
special clause in it providing that it vii
not be held to liability where
; person is murdered and killed de
3 signediy. II only insures agains
I accidental deaths, and such it has come Il
the conclusion that the killing of Hoffman
was, and has allowed the claim. A shor
| time ago the Banner stated that it wa
! rumored detective WAS in the city inves
( tigating the killing of Hoffman and Holt
/ and it was thought az the time he was 81
, emisssry of the republicans sent here t.
: work 40 bloody shirt material. But nov
q it seemb he was an agent of the insurance