The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-11-13
Laredo is after a WOODEN mill

Inc continued drOuth at MeXia.
Limestone county, is getting TO be a
serious matter i
The Star and Crescent furnace q
Rusk is nearing completion and viii
go in blast In few days.
A farmer recently exhibited on the
streets of Weatherford pumpkin
measuring four feet in length.
Rain is badly needed in the section
surrounding Hubbard. Water is very
scarce and stock are suffering.
Farmers of Cooke county say that
more wheat will be sown in that sec
ton this fall than ever before.
The Greenville city jail was partially
destroyed by fire few mornings ago.
All the prisoners were rescued.
At depth of 100 feet moderate
flow Of natural gas was struck in the
arteslan well being sunk at Abilene.
j. o. Boyce, who runs a mill near
Burnett recently had his foot caught
in the machinery and almost torn off.
A movement is on foot at Abilene to
have the city divided into wards,
which will probably meet with success
Mulkey and Burnett the famous
evangelists, have planted their batter
les and laid siege to the city of Hub
bard.
Work has begun on the artesian
well at Bonham. The contractor guar
antees a supply of 800 900 gallons
daily.
The farmers of Greer county are
putting in an immense wheat crop.
Fields that were sown early are already
green
Continued dry weather in portions
of Tarrant county is killing young
wheat and stock water is getting very
scarce.
The late strange epidemic. raging
in and around Fort Davis, ana which
proved so fatal to children, has about
subsidized.
At negro fandango near Hemp
stead, recently, Alex Mann was shot
in the head and mortally wounded by
George Palmer.
Henry Rogers. employed at a gin
near Honey Grove, was recently
crushed to death by a bale of cotton
falling upon him
In a recent negro dance fracas near
Holland, Bell county, Joe Stone,
white, was perhaps fatally and Bob
Reed. colored. seriously wounded.
The enterprising citizens Of Man
gum, Greer county, are hard at work
raising bonus to secure a Touring
mill with good prospects of success.
In a recent wreck at Colmesneil. on
the Southern Pacific railway, COnduc-
tor Jewell had bis leg so badly in
jured that amputation was necessary.
Bolton boasts the champion cotton
picker of the state in the person of j.
r. Fletcher. "a years of age. In a re-
cent contest he picked 992 pounds in a
day.
The 7-year-old child of William
Smith, living near Seguin, was burned
to death few days ago. She was
playing with matches and set FIRE to
her clothing.
The project of an international
dam across the Rio Grande above
Laredo, for the purpose of irrigating
lands on both sides of the river, is
being discussed.
In difficulty over a game of cards
at Eureka, near Corsicana, few days
ago Brooks Kelley. white, was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by Louis
Fielder a negro.
The first cotton successfully raised
in Hardeman county, consisting of
seven bales, has just been marketed
at Quanah. 1t was classed as mid
ding and good middling.
In a recent row at Columbus be-
tween Ernest Rochfort a contractor.
and John Jay, bricklsyer, the former
had his head caved in with beer
faucet and will probably die.
The three artillery companies of the
state, located at Dallas, Galveston and
BRENNAN, have formed an artillery
battalion, and S. L. Crawford of Gal
weston has been elected major.
1t is reported from Thornton that
the severest drouth for years is upon
that section. Cattle are furnishing for
water, and many are being shipped to
market to keep them from starving to
death.
Jerry Nolan, a laborer on the Pecos
cutoff bridge, near Shumea, was
killed a few mornings ago by the
bursting of rock which was being
lowered from the bluff to the river
below.
At meeting Of the commissioners
court at Hampstead an order was is
sued for the erection of three new iron
bridges, crossing Iron, Clear and
Three Mile creeks. The price agreed
on is IS. 400. so.
Fort Worth officials are greatly
worked up over the discovery of the |
dead body of Martin Mooney hanging
to the limb of tree near that city. |
Mooney was railroad man and had "a !