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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
FROM GALVESTON.

Success of the Refrigerator Beef Project
Galveston's Enterprises.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GALvEsToNApril 13.-The committee OF
cattlemen representing those interested in
the refrigerator and shipment of beef to
England, which have been in daily con-
ference with Galveston capitalists also in
terested in the enterprise, received ca
blegram this afternoon from the
London correspondent of the bank
ing house of Adone & Lobit
that the English syndicate, who were to
receive and pay for this beef, we're per-
fectly solvent and capable of carrying out
their part of the contract This contract
calls for the delivery by the Texas parties
on shipboard at Galveston, every fifteen
days of 600 English tons of 2,240 pounds
each, of dressed beef chilled to the bone
for shipment to England, the English
syndicate paying for each cargo
after it is thoroughly chilled
specially constructed for this purpose,
this contract to hold for two years, subject
to a renewal to five if agreeable to both
parties to the contract. This will require
the erection here of cold storage ware
house capable of housing and chilling, II
necessary, six to eight thousand oarcasses
per month. The beeves for the filling OF
this contract are to be slaughtered at
Fort Worth, Columbus and Victoria,where
they will be Immediately loaded on cars and
rallied to this point as rapidly as possible
and stored in the cold storage warehouse
This warehouse is to be erected and man
aged by the Texas cattlemen, the parties
to the contract, and located within easy
reach of the wharf. Galveston capitalists
agreeing to give $4,000 cash toward the
erection of the warehouse and secure the
grounds for its site from the whar
company. Efforts to this enc
are already being made anc
the beef refrigerator enterprise
and the opening up of a new market TO-
Texas beef is regarded as permaneu
by those interested in bringing this i'm
portant result about.
To-day the banking firm of Ball, Hutch
ings g. Co., subscribed $4,000 to the Gal
weston Cotton mill, thereby making tn
total amount subscribed to date for tn
enterprise $27O,O00. An effort is als'
being made to establish rope factor
here, which is meeting with tiatterinl
! success.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
THE FOREIGN SERVICE.

The bullet for the English magazine rifle is
to be nickel plated.
The Turkish naval force is composed of
$4,000 seamen and 900 marines.
A new code of signals for the handling OF
ships in foggy weather is proposed.
A new repeating rife has just been adopted
in Germany by the emperor's order.
The largest Turkish vessel is English built
and has displacement of S,76O tons.
German authorities are questioning the
utility of continuing bayonet exercise.
The navy of Norway consists of forty-four
steamers, four being ironclad monitors.
Russia will build this year one armored
cruiser of 5000 tons and two cruisers Of 6,OOO
TONS
The navy Of Denmark consists Of thirty
three steam vessels, nine of which are iron
clads.
The Heligoland, Of 5,345 tons displace-
ment, is the largest ironclad in the Danish
navy.
The new Jarrow torpedo boats are to be
built of galvanized steel and will be sixty feet
in length.
The small arm factories in Germany are
going ahead in the manufacture Of weapons
of reduced caliber.
Out of 419 swords recently tested in Eng
land only 1858 passed the standard; twenty
five were broken in the striking test.
The period Of service in the Turkish navy
Is twelve Years, five of which are spent
In active service, three in the reserves and
four in the redif.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
Rearing Broilers for Market.

The system of rearing broilers for
market, employed by George B. Stapp,
of Hope, Ind, presents enough inter-
esting as well as useful features to at
tract attention, and has recently been
described and illustrated as follows, in
American Poultry Journal:
The building is 70 feet long and IL feet
wide, ordinary "drop siding" being used
in its construction. The remarkable fea-
ture of the system is the long furnace
which extends the full length Of the
building, and is arranged to warm the
different pens in such q manner as to
make the ordinary brooder entirely I'M
necessary. This furnace is fired at one
end as shown in the sketch. Along the
top, ordinary tiles are arranged side by
side, for warming the air on the principle
sometimes utilized in greenhouses. The
furnace and the floors Of the pens are
covered with cement
The incubator house, which is an aux
iliary to this house, is built on exactly
the same plan, but is only twenty feet
long. The floors Of both houses are GOV
cred with straw chaff to the depth Of two
inches. Ample ventilation is provided.
For the first three weeks of their live
the chicks are kept in the incubator house
where the temperature is 60 to 70 dogs
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
HOUSE FOR REARING BRoILERs.

HOUSE FOR REARING BRoILERs.
at six feet from the furnace. They are
then removed to the brooder house, and
placed in the room nearest the firebox OF
the furnace, where the temperature is
the warmest (65 degs.) and at the end of
each succeeding three weeks they are
moved one room further away from the
warm end of the building. The temper
allure in the eighth QasD room is or o
dogs. lower than near the fire box. Thus
the chicks fresh from the incubator are
given the warmest quarters, and by the
time they have reached the further end
of the brooder house they are Of market
able size, and q succession Of matches is
nicely accommodated. No other warmth
is needed than that furnished by the long
furnace. The chicks sleep upon the chaf
without any covering. On q very cold
morning they may be found scattered
along the side of their room next the
furnace, but as the temperature is uni
form all along the furnace and the cement
floor is also warm for some distance they
never huddle together. The advantages
of this system over the common brooder
are freedom from crowding and the alb
solute security against loss in case the
source Of heat should from any cause be
disarranged.
With these essential principles thus
| fully provided for, any good system OF
feeding will make broiler rearing on q
large scale a success. Mr.. Stapp's bill Of
fare is. Boiled rice the first three days
rice and wheat cooked together for the
next ten; after which, or as soon as they
will eat it, comes wheat and cracked
corn. The first few days they are fee
four to six times day; after that, thre'
times regularly. For variety they hav'
the usual bran and meal mush, seasoned
with little cayenne pepper; also meat
cooked or raw, three times week. Thei
green food is chopped onions and heat
. Of cabbage to pick at. Sloppy feed !
avoided and no water is given them un
| til eight or ten days old. No sand Is sup
Piled until they begin to eat dry grain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

A Young Man Charged With the At
tempted Lockwood Assassination.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, April 13.-Since the
shooting of Banker Lockwood last Mon
day night the police and detectives have
been merely arrestinG every stranger en-
countered on the streets or found in the
hotels who in the least resembled the de-
scription given by Mr.. Lockwood OF the
man who assaulted him. Each time the
party arrested proved to be the wrong
man. This morning, however, Chief OF
Police Shsrdeen nabbed handsome
young fellow with smooth face and brown
eyes on Houston street and when Lockwood
visited him at the police headquarters
he atssonoe declared with great positive
ness that the young man was his assallant.
Justice Heron held an examination this
afternoon, when it was developed that the
accused was Harry Newton, who had been
stopping at fashionable boarding house
on Soledad street since the first of Janu-
airy, with his young wife. Newton is
member of wealthy and prominent
family at Vicksburg, Miss, and came here
for the benefit of his wife's health. He
shaved off his mustaohe yesterday, ard
this was the immediate cause of arrest on
suspicion. He was remanded to the
county Jail tonight to await the result OF
his examination on Monday. 1t is claimed
by his friends i'll the boarding house that
they can furnish an alibi for him when
called to the stand. About half dozen
ladies conversed with him on the from
veranda of the house until about
10 O'Clock on the night Of
the assault on Mr.. Lockwood, which
occurred not later than 8 O'Clock Monday
evening. Sensational results are expected
on resumption of the examination OF
Monday morning, when it is expected tc
be brought out in testimony that the ar
rest of Newton was brought about by the
failure of one of the female boarders a
the boarding house, to extort money from
him.
1t was announced at department head
quarters that an order will bt
soon issued for the abandonment of For
Concho, at San Angelo. Only one com
pany of the Nineteenth infantry, undel
Captain Powell, is now stationed at For
Concho, and this company will either b.
transferred to the San Antonio post or tt
Mount Vernon, Ala.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
AFFAIRS AT GoLDTHwAITE.

Arrested for Burglary Narrow Escape of
sLittle Child.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GoLDTHwAITE, Tex, April 13.-Deputy
Sheriff Whit Smith to-day arrested Tom
Ingle and Maury Stearne, two youths of
our town, aged about ID years, each upon
a charge of burglary. About two weeks
ago the stores of Harris Brothers
and Ed Kirley were entered
by unknown parties and quite a
large amount of pocket cutlery stolen.
The entrance was made by breaking
through the back window. The case was
at once put into the hands of Deputy
Smith, who worked quietly until to-day,
when he secured a confession from
the Ingle boy. He told the officer where
they had the knives hid. Upon going to
the spot they found twenty-seven pocket
knives of different qualities. IDgle stated
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

that they stole over forty altogether,
but that he had traded several, which led
to their arrest. Ingle was living with Mr..
Ed. Kirby, and Maury Hearne is the son
of w. I. Hearne, one of our most promi-
nent citizens. The affair caused great
surprise.
Another light rain fell to-day.
A little child of Mr.. O. d. Hammond
was poisoned this evening by eating an
apple, which had Trough on Rats" placed
in it to kill rats. Fortunately its
mother found it with the apple before it
had eaten much of it, and a physician was
Immediately summoned and administered
an emetic, which soon relieved its stomach
of the poison.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
SAN ANTONIO.
Horrible Crime -Murder and Ar
son In the Vicinity of the
City.
The Alleged WouId-Be Murderer
of Banker Lockwood -
Suicide.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.


SAN ANTONIO, April 13.-News of most
horrible crime committed about thirteen
miles east of here on the st. Hedwighs
road last night reached town to-day.
James Mcdonald, ~ years of age, kept a
small store in the neighborhood, and he
and his wife, aged 65, lived alone in the
store. About O'Clock last night the
neighbors discovered the store enveloped
in flames, and by the time they reached
the scene of confagration the building
was burned to the ground. The charred
remains of Mrs. Mcdonald were found
in the debris and the groans of her
husband in the brush, about 100 yards
from the smouldering ruins, were heard.
The old man was found with his head al
most pounded to jelly, and beside the
body of the wounded old man was found
large clab with which the deed had
doubtless been done. He was carried to
the nearest neighbours house in an uncon-
scious condition, and was brought to the
city this afternoon and placed in Santa
Rosa hospital. He has not as yet been
able to speak.
A young negro, 81 or % years old, is
supposed to have done the bloody work
for robbery. On Thursday the negro rode
fine gray horse to McDonald's store,
which he sold to Mcdonald for SIS. The
negro, In giving the bill of sale, signed
the name of Willie Evans, and, after pock-
citing one-hslf of the purchase money, left
saying he was going to Seguin. A farmer
named Teiffer says he saw Evans lurking
around the neighborhood yesterday, and
from this it is supposed the negro com
mitted the heinous crime for the purpose
mentioned, from the fact that bottle Of
soda and large spoon were found beside
the PROSTATE body of Mr.. Mcdonald. II
is supposed he was enticed into the brush
under the pretense of administering to
sick horse, and there murderously as
saulted, his assassin thinking life was ex
tinct when he left him. Officers are
securing the country in every direction
for the murderer. Mcdonald has three
sons living in Montague county and son
in-law, Judge Wade, of Whitesboro.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Its Dissolution Creates Sensation Among
Business Men at Houston.

Its Dissolution Creates Sensation Among
Business Men at Houston.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
Houston, April 13.-Like a clap OF
thunder from clear sky, came the an
nouncement to day that the International
association had been dissolved. People had
come to think that the pool was fixture,
and that the laws of the state and de-
cisions of the supreme court amounted to
naught. Recently Commissioner Waldo
visited Austin and had conference with
Attorney general Hogg, and on
his return the tip was
given out that all was well. The lnterna
tional association was fixed institution.
But it appears Hogg didn't take the same
view of the law Templeton did. When
Commissioner Waldo called upon him and
explained matters railroad men here high
in position did not anticipate any such
sudden collapse and were taken greatly by
surprise. Merchants and shippers here
generally seem to be very happy over
the downfall of the pool. The
effect of the dissolution OF
the association Is to throw
out of employment about ten clerks in
this city and one weigher at each junction
or common point in the state. Major
Waldo was anxious to receive the receiver
ship of the Missouri, Kansas d. Texas
when that road went into the hands of 6
receiver, and it is understood that he hat
standing offers to accept the traffic man
agership of two or three large roads.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
SHEEP HusBANDRY.
Advice to Beginners by Wisconsin Grower
of Experience.

Advice to Beginners by Wisconsin Grower
of Experience.
Numbered with reliable papers read
before the Wisconsin Farmers institute
is one by Harrison Cole, of Dane county,
to beginners in sheep husbandry. Fol-
lowing are extracts of interest to pros
pective sheep growers:
In deciding the breed be guided by the
branch of sheep husbandry you intend
to follow. If you wish to raise lambs to
sell at from eight to twelve weeks old
you must have one or both parents of
the coarse wooded variety for the sake of
early maturity. If your object is wool
and mutton there is no breed that
is equal to the Metinos. They will
herd in large focks better and do well
on less feed than any other breed.
In starting a flock it is generally the
most profitable to buy the best of the
kind, but if you lack means the next
best thing is healthy old sheep from q
large flock. Put by themselves, they
will often renew their age and prove not
bad investment, but avoid young or
middle aged culls; they lack constitu-
tional vigor and are the most worthless
stock one can purchase,
Having selected your breed for speci-
flo purpose, press steadily forward by
breeding to fixed type. On the subject
of coarse and fine woods Mr.. Cole gives
figures which are decidedly in favor of
the fine woods for money in his section,
where soil and climate are well adapted
to the Merinos.
On fattening sheep Mr.. Cole says: 81
think the best age at which sheep fatten
is to years, but all the way from
lambs to that age you can pick out sheep
that will fatten well. Feed grain in a
fiat bottomed, dry trough, if possible-a
trife at first. Increase until you reach
to one and one-half pounds each per day.
In damp, muggy weather feed lighter
Be sure and not feed so as to have them
leave grain in their trough. Do not dis
turb them in the morning; let them gel
up of their own accord, and pick around
q little before you feed them. l like
mixed grains for sheep better than feed
ing all one kind, and in coarse feed alsC
give as great a variety as possible, bu
the same kind at a stated time each day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
How to Regraft Old Pear Trees.

Fig. 1 represents tree with dozen
crafts inserted into the lower branches
for forming a new rounded head. To
prevent the upper branches from reduc-
ing the vigor of the newly started CRAFTS
q broad ring Of bark is shaved from the
stem Just above the inserted gratis. The
next season the portion of the tree above
the ring may be sawed off, and the
wound covered with grating wax or
shellac varnish, and the CRAFTS will soon
take possession and form we'll rounded
head. The new trees bearing from half
a bushel to a bushel of handsome pears
the third year. If the whole of the tree
were to be headed back and grated the
same year, many water sprouts would
spring UP among the CRAFTS and a check
be given to the tree.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

NO. old PEAh Ihhho hHphAf A'D'
Grating at the top of the tree to pre-.
vent undue shading Of the newly started
CRAFTS would do for tree of horizontal
growth like the apple, but in an erect
growing pear tree it would throw the
new top too high. AS represented In
Fig. 2, where the dozen inserted gratis
would be seven or eight feet from the
ground, if the lower limbs were worked
the following year the larger CRAFTS
above would shade and abstract the vigor
from the new ones. Fig. 8 with a nat
urally horizontal growth has enough of
smaller shoots sufficiently near the
ground for forming new top in the CEN
ter above the lowest branches, to allow a
portion of them to remain till the next
year, when the grating of the whole
may be completed. .....
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
AGRICULTURAL. COLLEGES.
Facts of Interest which Are Not Gener-
ally Known.

ally known.
In submitting his fourth annual report
to the president, Commissioner Colman
briefly recapitulates the work done by
the various divisions of his department
in applying the latest results of scientific
discoveries to agricultural practice. The
aim of the department is a practical one
and in the direction of economy and va
riety in production, through the union
of science and experiment. The past
year has been one of activity, and new
sections and branches have been organ
lied, the work of which will prove Of
great value to the future agricultural
operations Of this country.
The appropriation by the national
government of $4,000 per annum to
each of the states and territories which
have established agricultural colleges or
agricultural departments of colleges,
in accordance with the act Of
congress approved March 2, 1881
has led to the establishment of new
stations or the increased development Of
stations previously established undct
state authority in thirty-seven states and
one territory. In several states two or
moro district stations are in operation;
in others the stations have several
branches under one head. Counting these
latter as single stations, the total number
at present is forty-two, but counting the
branches separately this total number
would be not far from fifty.
Readers and the public in general can
hardly fail to be surprised at the rapid
growth made by this enterprise for ele-
waiting agriculture by the aid of science,
when it is remembered that the first ag-
ricultural experiment station in the
United States was established in Con-
necticut in 1875, whose example was
slowly followed elsewhere until in 1885,
some seventeen Of these institutions had
been organized in as many states. Since
then, under the impetus furnished by
the lberality of the general government
separate state stations had increased tc
the number before stated. Most Of the
new stations are now in actual operation
bulletins and reports are being published
and the investigations cover q very wid'
range of topics Of interest to the farmer
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
what Others Say.

To make a success Of peach growing
one should select elevated sites and warm,
sandy soils, or localities near large bodies
of water. In most situations peach Or
chard should be well cultivated. So adj
vises a practical horticulturist.
Among the latest notable features OF
the poultry business is that Of Matching
ducks by incubator and fattenipg them
for early market. 1t is claimed to he a
very remunerative business.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

Bobby Whose ts .rngr IS a grocery
Look, pa, what cot for my birthday-a
regular little groc cry store" His father
Vndulgently1-" o, yes, that's NICE" Bobby
ANT IL, tho oghl Little places for cof'
Zee ana suP ar and spice, and say
I1ougn, Pa, here amt no sand drawer
Harper's .szar.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

NO. 2-OLD PEAR TREES hEGkApAED'
Fig. A represents tree Of that excel
lent but crooked growing variety, the
Winter Nelis, grated at standard height
on straight stem, and is thus trans,
formed into o shapely tree; varieties OF
slender and feeble growth may be placed
unon such beautiful growers as the Buff
fun. Fig. shows pyramidal dwarf a
few wears old, from which all the
branches have been cut, except those
into which thrifty gratis have been in
serted quite near the main stem in order
that the bearing portions may be near
the center. The appearance of such
tree, after a years growth, is repre-
scented by Fig. 1.-the shoots having already
grown two feet or more, and require thC
same care and skill as would be needed
for other dwarfs, says Country Gentle
man. from which the above was taken
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
Suicided &C Bastrop.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
BAsrRop, April ia German by the
name of A. Gasman, committed suicide
here to-day by taking morphine. He
came to this place several weeks ago from
Austin, where he has been in business,
and went out to the city cemetery where
he took the fatal drug.
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Ills unwise, youthful friends,
To disregard teeth
That are running TO decay.
SO with SOZOD0NT bruzA,
Or they won't be worth rush
And speedily decompoee away.

Mrs. Lugsby-"O Mr.. Grumsby, the
doctor says, is suffering from, elephantia-
SIS" Mrs. BagsbJ-"Caughtit at the show,
1 suppose. Hereafter no boy Of mine
shall 90 to see the elephant without having
been vacoinated. You can't tell exactly
what the elephants fetch over here IL.
their trunks."- Drake's Magazine.
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Accidentally Killed.

special Telegram 10 tne olAIesHau'
FoBT WORTH, April 13.-Claud Booth
12-year-old son of Frank Booth, l1vi
near Birdville, Tsrrsnt county, while -
get shooting with other boys, was s. '-i
fhe ege th;s morning The hall LOO rot il
Che brsin and death resnlted inst, lged il
Antly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18

When a man buys belt for a piece of
m lchinery he wants the best. There is no
better than the famous Jewell Leather
Betting. 1t is pure oak aimed and A. 1.
in every respect. Il. W. Hubbard, Mfrs
Special Agent, 936 Conn Aerce st., Dallas,
Texas,
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Struck by Lightning.
Iz..-..-. g., A. o.a.a..

ARLINGTON, Tex, April 13.-The new
Cumberland Presbyterian church at this
place was destroyed by lightning at 5
O'Clock this morning. 1t was handsome
edifce, and lacked only one weeks work
of completion. The loss is about $4,000;
no insurance. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
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Little, "But Enough"

As Mercutio said of his wound. We refer
to Doctor Pierce's Little Pellets, which
are small, swift and sure in cases OF sick
headache, biliousness, constipation ana
indigestion.