The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-08-21
HOME AND FOREIGN.
Gleaninss from Crimes Calendar Served to
Suit the General RUsh.
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTEGs.
Foreign Flashes Across the Wave Ris with
News OF National Moment from
Other Lands.

Al Woodo.uc, by. recently, Polk
Williams shot and killed Joseph Laycl
n quarrel over a horse.
!. H. Tower, prominent business
man of Chattanooga Tenn. dropped
lcad while at his business.
Frank J.. Pratt station agent at
Taiala. 1. T.. was recently struck by
freight train and cut to pieces.
Investigation has developed the fact
that Iowa has no law to punish either
! principals or abettors in prize fights.
At Meridian. Miss. Mrs. Barield. a
widow IS under guard in her house,
charged with the murder OF her now
born babe.
Ii. ". Burton of Americas, Ga. is
in the hospital at Birmingham, Ala,
badly beaten up by three men who
robbed him.
Frank Lee has absconded with $500
belonging 70 the telephone company
at Montgomery. Ala, for which he
was a clerk.
Dudley Stewart, colored. was hit by
ball in 4 game Of baseball at Flor
eBee- Ala. recently and fell, breaking
both his legs.
By contact with an electric light
wire at Memphis, Tenn, recently
Eugene Rogers a roof repairer was
horribly burned.
The renewal of an old quarrel near
Iona City Mo-. caused David Snod-
grass to shoot and kill a neighbor
named Jennings.
The sub-treasury candidates for
representative and senator have been
elected in the Carrollton Miss, dis
trict 10y good majorities.
Robert luminous. aged II years, is
under arrest at Kansas City, Mo, for
criminal assault on his three cousins,
H. and years OF age.
Robcr; Tanksley OF Wichita. Kan.
who was bitten by house dog some
time in May died recently OF the most
horrible form Of hydrophobia.
A. Elgin. H., recently John Ander-
son, Il mailman in the insane asylum
attacked aud killed George r. Lind
say, fireman OF the institution.
Three moonshincrs have been cap
tured and eleven illicit distilleries de
stroyed by Collector Spears and a
posse in Monroe county, Tenn.
The latest arrest at Rochester, \.
y. Is that OF nicyclist who steals a
wheel in one toxn, rides to another
and sells out and so on around.
/ Heavy rains for the past few dayo
have sUamerged Duck Hill Miss, to
a depth OF several feet and crops and
railways have suffered severely.
Henry Smith was taken to the
woods near Blockton. Ala, recently.
tied and shot to death. His dog lay
whining near the body when found.
{ lis reported that the cotton crop
( in Mississippi, Arkansas North Louis
lana. Tennessee and Alabama has
been greatly injured by heavy rains.
! At Iron Mountain, Mo, Flora
Greeneu, q pretty French girl, is near
death from poison supposed to have
been administered by = ,aisetsd lover
At Oakland, Cal, Il few days ago
II. T. Tolim. young stenographer,
was shot and killed by John Howell,
( father OF the girl ne asked TO marry.
c. c. Mcknight auditor of the
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
railway, has oeen arrested at Mem
! phis. Tenn, on 2 charge Of embezzle-
ment-
At Milwaukee, Wis, recently a
champagne drummer from New York
/ took a nine hours nap in bath tub
filed with cold water. He was not
injured.
The state board OF pharmacists ha.
revoked the license of Dr. John .
Blydes Of Hot Springs, Ark, on the
charge Of employing men to drum NJ
/ practice.
1t is now reported from Philadel-
phia, Pa, that Marsh, the fugitive
bank president has been heard OF al
the town Of Tegucigalpa, the capital
of Honduras.
At Detroit. Mich, . few days age
for some unknown cause Charles Big
| ley walked into his brothers packing
| house and with with a rife shot Fred
Garland dead.
/ Mayor Fletcher OF Little Rock Ark,
has taken things into his own hands
and the fakirs and the tinhorn gam
blers are deserving the city on every
outgoing train.
George W. Roberts OF Covington,
Ga, has lost his mind over having
shot his father by accident in attempt
ing to protect the old man from "a
negro's attack.
Mayor Grant of New York denounces
/ in no measured terms the excise law.
which closes saloons on Sunday and
allows the big hotels to SELL and wants
them all closed.
Engineers on the Marietta and
North Georgia railway claim that
Manager Glover has not carried out
his recent agreement and the strike
will be renewed
Charles D. Skillinss. local news
paper man of West Superior, Wis
claims he is heir TO a fortune of So,
600. 600 in Portland, Me. He has just
made tho discovery.
The waters of the river at Pine
Bluff. Ark, are now almost under the
walls OF the hotel Truelock, another
strip Of the town 60x25 feet having
gone into the water.
Myers Grillette, who said he was in
debt and had been deserted by his
friends, attempted suicide at Boyce,
La. few days ago by shooting him
self through the neck.
At Franklyn La, recently Wesley
Edwards and Coleman, two colored
youth in d playful mood handled q
gun carelessly and the fosner had the
top OF his head blown off.
\ number of Mississippi valley lum-
bermen have purchased about million
acres Of land in Oregon granted to the