San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-08-19

days ago Docausc Le 4dlleu 70 get m
expected letter.
Near Mif1in, Tenn. the other day
Mrs. Hendrix a poor widow. was
struck on the head with a hoe and
killed by the son OF the man for whom
she was working.
At Nashville Tenn. a few days
since, four convicts were injured. one
fatally, by the explosion Of a dynamite
cartridge in a sewer in which $50 OF
them were at work.
J. w. Williams. a prominent citi-
zen OF Silver Springs. Wilson county,
Tenn, died recently from the effects
of n wound received during the war
while he was a confederate soldier.
Frederick Kayser, a miser of Dayton
o.. who was worth $500, 600. bu,
drove garbage wagon. recently
hanged himself because his daughter
reproached him for his way OF life.
At St. Louis Mo. recently. Anette
Carroll an lS-year-old girl commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine Her
only reason for the act was that her
father would not pay his grocery bills
-Four men were killed and fifth IA
tally injured by the explosion OF the
boiler in Hartnell Il Smiths shingle
mill near Gaylon Mich, the other
day. The mill was completely wrecked.
Two hundred persons we're injured.
over thirty seriously. by an explosion
OF gasoline which followed freight
wreck on the Big Four road near
Springfield, Ohio. a few nights past
Continued heavy rains are becom-
ing alarming to planters around
Jeanette. La. who nave not yet laid
by their cane. which has attained 4
phenomenal growth. Corn is made
and rice is very fire.
While partially deranged Mrs.
Charles Gray. OF Galesburg IL. drove
of in buggy few mornings ago and
the following morning her BODY was
found in Lake George park She was
a daughter OF the Rev. $ Crane
Alice Mitchell, the maniac murder
ess OF Memphis. has been taken TO the
insane asylum at Bolivar. Tenn. Be
fore her departure she was taken TO
the grave of Freda Ward where she
showed emotion for the first lime.
The east-bound limited passenger
train on the Big Four road collided
with freight train at Edwardsviile
Junction Ill. a few nights since the
engineer and fireman being killed and
many passengers injured. some fatally.
At Stinchfed's lime kiln in South
GAINESVILLE, Tenn. recently Thomas
Mallory and Pitts Seat quarreled about
10 cents and Mallory struck Seat with
steam drill fracturing his skull and
INJECTING wounds from which he will
die.
a little girl aged years. has told
me sheriff OF Chester county Tenn,
a story regarding her mothers death
which, if substantiated, VIII convict a
son Of Reed Robinson. living near
Miffiiu. Teuu.. OF horrible brutalities
and murder.
On the Georgia Pacific road, neal
Greeuyille. Miss. recently. IA mule
WAS found entangled in j bridge
Conductor Waiter Mclean ana crew
undertook TO extricate il, but the mule
bit McLean's leg in sucn 4 manner
thai he may die
At Worcester Mass. few days
ago. Gustave Reidei. 4 thriitless Ger
man, shot and seriously wounded his
nard working wife. ana then fired two
bullets into MS own worthless body
He will die. and the woman's condi-
ton is doubtful.
The newest thing in the way OF q
trust Is combination among trunk
men. 1t has just leaked out that re-
Gently the National Trunk company
had a quiet meeting in Chicago and
increased its capital stock from 5000 =
600 to 81 500, 600
At San Francisco, Cal genuine
German noblemau is il the Alameda
Jail as a government prisoner oeiug
charged with violation OF the postal
laws in sending OBSCENE letters 10 DIR.
j. b. Eigholse OF Tacoma. Wash.
His title is Count Claude dc Baden
A fatal difficulty occurred near
Chapel church. in the Wilsouyille
beat near Shelbyville. Ala. recently,
in Which Tom Nevins, aged ~ years
was STABBED and instantly killed by
Young Blamed aged l6. Politics
caused the trouble. Blamed ESCAPED.
Charles Finley, l9 years old. son Of
late State Treasurer Findley Of Cali
fornia- has been arrested on two
charges OF obtaining goods under false
pretenses. He secured diamonds va
ued at 500 by representing himself
as a son OF President ToOin. OF the
HiDernia Bank of san Francisco.
Masked hignwaymen recently at
tempted to stop Superintendent James
II. Kinkead OF the Occidental mine
at Virginia City, New One Of the
robbers was wounded ana afterwards
caught
At Providence La recently three
children OF Robert Dorsey, coiored,
the eldest 7 years. being locked up in
their cabin while the parents went TO
church set the place afro aud were
burned to death
FOREIGN.
Revolution in Spanish Honduras Is
nearing a crisis
English anarchists express sym
uathy for the Homestead strikers
Twenty thousand persons are IN re-
bellion against the government ia
Northern China.
Cholera has broken out at ST.
Petersburg and Al other points in
Russia hitherto free from the disease.
German medical experts warn
Americans to be extremely careful
against any injection OF cholera from
Europe.
CI.detcna's paaiaritv in the house OF