The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

| military com panies in the state.
! About 5000 bushels of oa's are said to
have been shipped from Holland, Texas
to different points in Texas, Georgia and
Alabama.
The contractor for the boring of an ar =
tesian we'll at Hillsboro has been at work
since last September, and has not struck
How of water yet.
The order of Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers of the states of Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas, will meet at Tyler on
August 10 and 16.
The business of the Texas Pacific rail
way Office at Abilene, for July amounted
to $4,000, nearly double what it was the
same month last year.
A commission man at Fort Worth says
that cowmel who have sold their beeves
at home this year, had made more money
than those who shipped to market.
Workmen excavating for building at
Waco the other day dug up the bones of a
human being and horse mingled, and
about peck of flint arrows AID spear.
heads.
DR.. Deree, geologist, claims to have
discovered an inexhaustible bed of lime
stone rock near Laredo, which will pro-
duce cement equal to the famous Rose
dale brand.
Quite sensation was created at Waco
the other day by Bruce Gerald, son of the
postmaster, administering Gaming to L.
NJ. Walker, Sook-keeper, who had been
talking freely about him.
The crops in Houston and Trinity coun-
ties are reported to be III poor condition.
Much of both the corn and cotton crop
has been abandoned, and the cotton is
generally suffering for rain.
The Texas Tram and Lumber company's
Eagle mill at Beaumont cut 137, 431 feet
of long leaf yellow pine lumber in one
day. This is the largest cut ever made by
one circular saw.
The Weimsr Gimlet says there are
about 8 $50 votes in Colorado county. OF
this number there are about 1000 Ameri-
can votes, 800 Germans, 400 Bohemlans,
and 1,400 colored.
The seventh day adventists are to hold
an annual camp-meeting at Terrell to
commence Tuesday, August 81, and to
continue one week. Their camp will be
in the Griffith grove west of town.
dispatch from Cat Springs, Austin
county, says that the cotton crop Will turn
out 10 per cent less than it did last year.
At first there was too much rain, and now
the continued drouth is causing the cot
ton to shed.
A little daughter of @. F. Conrad, living
at the San Jose mission, near San An
tonic, was attacked and bitten by mon
ster rattlesnake while in the COW lot play
ing with her little brother. The limb be-
came terribly swollen and turned black
from the poisonous virus, but, although
she suffered great agony, her life was
saved.
Prairie fires on the line OF the Southern
Pacific road in West Texas have entailed
great loss. The fires have extended to
the valuable cedar brakes near Uvalde.
Mr.. John w. Miller is the greatest sufferer.
His loss is roughly estimated at 10000
acres of grass and fifteen miles of fencing.
The railroad company has seventy men
fighting the flames, but everything is so
dry and parched that it burns like finder.
The oldest man in Lampasas county and
probably the Oldest man in the state is
Charles Hodges, who lives with his son-in-
law, DIR. W. p. Mauldn, near the center
of the county. He was born in North
Carolina, February IA, 1882, and was 1O6
years old his last birthday. He was in the
war of 1912. DR.. Mauldin is SO years old
and is hale and hearty, going to Tampa
sas frequently, distance of fourteen
miles, and returning TIE same day. He
would be taken for man of not over 55.
There was time in the history of
politics when a candidate, defeated for
the nomination of a Convention, was
solicited to become an Independent candi-
date because there had been a combina-
ton formed which secured the nomination
of his opponent. Like the man that he
was he replied "No," and to-day no man
is stronger politically in Bell county, and
the democracy of the county have hon
ored him and will continue to honor him.
Temple Times.
A fire occurred at the steam press works,
a mile and half from Gainesville, Satur-
day night, which destroyed the barn and
sheds and a quantity of agricultural
machinery which had been stored by
Stevens, Kennerty g. Spragins. The ma
chlnery destroyed is estimated to have
been worth $1,000, upon which there is an
insurance in the Sun Mutual for $780,
The barn, estimated to have been worth
$500, was insured in the Planters and
Merchants, of Mobile, for $500. In ad-
dition to the above there were burned
forty tons of hay, 200 bushels of threshed
oats and ten acres of sheaf oats, upon
which there was no insurance.
Saturday D. d. bod, who is held in Fort
DAVIS in custody upon the charge of
numbering ID. M. Hickman at Valentine,
by some means unknown procured bar
of iron in his cell and thus broke his
shackles. About O'Clock, p. No., the
jailer, Gus Adell, opened he cell for some
purpose, when, being unarmed, the
prisoner greeted him with the weapon and
escaped from the cell. The jailer's room
is near at hand, and the prisoner at once
stepped in this room, seized a double.
.barreled shotgun, turned it upon the jailer
and forced him to open the remaining
cells. In the meantime the taller gave
the alarm by screaming murder, and in
ten minutes the Jail was surrounded bv
armed men, who fortunately were near
at hand with their Ninchesters.
Adell, the iaielr, by a des-
perate chance had armed himself, and the
prisoner, bod, Immediately fired upon
him. Five or six shots were then passed
by the jailer and the prisoner on the in
side. Adell, the jailer, received a pain