The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-09-19
THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Happening Over the State
Not Usually Telegraphed.

| Items OF Interest happCnhiH ONVh INV S'-N~
Not Usually Telegraphed.
There are some cases of diphtheria
in Sherman.
On account of bad roads the Con-
federate reunion at Sherman was in
definitely postponed.
The COWS in and around Marshall
are afflicted with disease which de-
creases the quantity of their milk and
ruins the taste of it.
The prisoners confined in the Duval
county Jail broke from prison on the
night of the 18th and all escaped but
one.
G. w. Gillespie, prominent lum-
Der dealer of Fort Worth, has made
an assignment for the benefit Of his
creditors.
The Cumberland Presbyterian synod
has voted to locate the state female
seminary at Weatherford, and the cit
liens of that town are rejoicing.
Engineer Martin reports that the
track laying force on the Dallas and
Waco road are within six miles of
Waxahachie and laying from half to
a mile of track per day.
The crop of wheat in Kimble county
was very good and many farmers har-
vested from 20 to 80 bushels per acre.
The yield of syrup from sorghum has
also been large, and thousands OF tons
will be saved for forage.
The First Baptist church at Dallas
is under way and soon this magniti-
cent church structure will be far on
the road to completion, and by the
last of December if not earlier in the
month its spire will pierce the purple
of the heavens and sounds of praise
and thanksgiving be heard within its
walls.
j. Green, of Minneapolis, Mimi, ar
rived in Vernon Saturday evening,
and will begin preparations at once
for the organization and opening OF
the State National bank, with a capt.
tai of 100000, the papers for which
have returned from Washington.
A proposition has been submitted
to the people for the erection of cot
ton mill in Sulphur Springs. A num-
Der of public spirited citizens have
taken hold of the matter. There will
be meeting of the merchants ex-
change and citizens tonight to con-
slider the proposition.
B. F. Bridges carried cotton to Bel
ton last week from Corn Hill baled in
duck cloth, and was allowed eight
pounds extra by the purchaser. He
says he never intends to wrap another
bale in jute until the blarsted trust is
busted higher than Gilroy's kite.
BRENNAN Banner; One of the foul
est and most brutal crimes ever COM
mitted in this county occurred late on
Saturday evening. Max Breuner,
young German farmer who lived be-
tween Burton and Greenvine, about
four miles from the former place, went
to Burton with a bale of cotton, which
he sold and pocketed the proceeds,
about $50. While in Burton he ex-
changed his old wagon for new one,
but did not pay for it, intending to
pay off bis cotton pickers with the
proceeds of his sale and to pay for the
wagon when he sold some more cotton.
He started home late in, the evening,
and when within mile of his house
was shot by some one from ambush
with a rifle. Two balls entered his
chest, one piercing his heart, and
third passed through his bowels.
People living in the neighborhood
heard the shots, and few minutes
later when the team passed by the
first house on the road without
driver and with blood on the wagon it
was at once surmised that q murder
had been committed and vigorous
search was instituted. 1t was then
after dusk, and the dead body of
Breuner was not found until 3 O'Clock
Sunday morning. TWAS found about
100 yards away from the road
in patch of tall weeds
with one of the pockets turned and
the money which he had derived from
the sale of cotton missing. Breuner
was sober, industrious young man,
had been married only a little over
year and left young baby only three
days old. Circumstances point unerr-
ingly to one Jim Williams, a negro
who was engaged in picking cotton
for him, as the murderer. Williams
was the owner of a repeating rifle, ac-
cording to his own statement, that
would shoot twelve times, and an
empty cartridge shell was found by
the dead body. At last accounts
Williams had not been arrested.