The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-09-12
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL's OFFICE.
THE STATE.
Items of Interest Happening Over the State
Not Usually Telegraphed.


Not Usually Telegraphed.
Corn is said to be selling at Salado,
Bell county, at l29 cents per bushel.
Marshal has just completed new
court house costing $4,000.
Bryan received 2,202 bales of cotton
during the month of August.
Mr.. Seals, living at Salado, was
shot and fatally wounded by Mr..
Bellamy.
The Tyler amateur ball team will
be in Fort Worth Saturday and Sun
day to engage the Fort Worth team.
A farmer in Fannin county has
produced six Irish potatoes weighing
nine pounds,
The prospective railroad from
Troupe to New Birmingham is being
agitated afresh.
There is considerable complaint of
the weavel being in the wheat and
corn up in Ellis county.
There has not been a business fail
ure at Wichita Falls or Wichita coun-
ty in two years.
Texas millers are jubilant over the
reduction OF the wheat rate from Kan
sas to Texas points.
The public free schools at Calvert
opened on Monday, with large at
tendance on the white schools.
The commissioners court of Mills
county has decided to erect a court
house, and work will be begun at once.
Sickness has been prevalent among
the county convicts OF Dallas county,
who are said to be recovering now
however.
New corn is coming in freely in the
husk, and is selling at prices varying
from 80 to As cents per bushel in Vic
toria county.
Charley Jackson, an esteemed young
man at Bonham, has been given two
years in the penitentiary for stealing a
pair OF shoes.
w. B. Moore, living near Tyler,
while going down into a well, was
overcome by damp air, and fell into
the water, dead.
The citizens of Floresvllle, Wilson
county, met on Saturday and organ
lied an aid society for the Confederate
Home at Austin.
A large paving force is busy bois-
darcing Elm street, Dallas, beginning
at the eastern limits of the city and
working westward
Crosby county has sold her four
leagues of school land situated in Don
ley county and will proceed at once to
erect three new school houses.
The Fort Worth natatorium is in
full blast, to the great delight of all
who delight to dive and swim in pure
artesian water. 1t is the biggest thing
III the town.
Little Ben Johnson jumped on a
rake which was hidden in a pile OF
grass at the residence of A. P. Boyd,
Paris sticking one of the teeth almost
through his foot.
Antony Davis, a colored man who
has been for long time employed at
the oil mills at Brenham, got his right
arm caught in some part of the ma
chinery and severely cut.
Mr.. Carnohan, near Weatherford,
has threshed about II 900 bushels of
wheat this season. The yield per
acre he says ranges from ten to TWEEN
| ty bushels per acre, and the quality
is fairly good.
Early last Monday morning the
barn on the Dimmitt farm, two or
three miles east of Georgetown, was
destroyed by fire. The Sun is in
formed that about 800 or !, 900 bushels
of corn were burned.
. The Austin branch of the Arkansas
Pass railway has been completed and
is now in operation to Luling. Sta
/ tions on this branch, and distances
from Sinner, are as follows: Dilworth,
1917 Gonzales, 2l.5 Slayden, 1877, and
Luling, 1872 miles.
The little daughter of Mr.. Gerome
Baker, on Main street between Elev-
enth and Twelfth, Fort Worth, while
playing in an alley yesterday morning
was kicked on the side of the head by
a horse belonging to Mr. Walldon, and
her head and ear were badly cut.
Laredo offers $4,000 cash bonus to
the international Fair association to
hold fair there from November % to
December 4 and guarantees rapid
transit by electric motor street rail
way between the grounds and the two
Laredos.
Maj. Hooks, prominet citizen and
merchant residing at Spurger, Tex,
was shot and instantly killed by
concealed assassin while sitting with
his family on the gallery of his resi-
dence Thursday night. Mr.. Hooks
leaves large family. No clue as yet
to the perpetrator of the dastardly
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