San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-12-02


tional bank received injuries fro
which he died.
At Beaumont recently. sam Vii
kerson. coiored beat his wife with
club and then started after ncr
brother Sdh an AK. when the latter
shot and killed him.
The estimated acreage Of wheat in
the Abilene country is 30 per cent
greater than that Of last year ana the
condition of the crop could not be
better at this time.
A supposed BOY was arrested al
Beaumont recently, VINO turned out
TO be a girl masquerading in boys
clothes. She is dumb rs an oyster
concerning her autecedents.
Lon McLendon, foreman Of tho
Santa Fe switchmeu at Cleburne. fell
under the wheels OF a switch engine
while making a coupling a few days
ago and was crushed 10 death.
John Strickland an ex-conyict
killed Cannon Adams near Athens re-
IN ntly by striking MIN on the head
" ith stick Of wood. Strickland re-
ceiVed a pistol bali in the arm.
Henry Lee, colored, was run over
and cut to pieces by train at Hous-
ton few nights. The arms and legs
were severed and strewn along the
track and the oody disemboweled-
A difficulty occurred at Flatonia
recently. between q. g. johnson,
printer in the Argus Office and Nealv
Hamilton. in which the latter re-
ceived several knife wounds ABOUT the
head.
Mrs. Augusta Kock OF BRENNAN
who keeps a restaurant was robbed
OF her cash box few mornings ago.
which contained So dollars in money,
a pair OF earrings and a set OF false
teeth.
An unknown man fell into an old
cistern at Waco recently and came
near losing his life from choke damp
before assistance reached him When
tlken out he was unconscious, but
soon recovered.
1t is said that a successful expert
ment with cotton harvester was
made near Dallas recently. The ma
chine picked 500 pounds OF cotton in
one hour and the work was cleaner
than hand picking.
In saloon fight at Pilot Point re-
Gently John French was stabbed to
death by man named Vowel The
killing was unprovoked and the result
of bad whisky imoibed by the per-
Detrator OF the deed.
In Il quarrel about a woman at
Waco, recently, Henry Griffin shot
Albert Slaughter twice, one ball tax
ing effect in the nip and the other in
the shoulder, producing wounds that
may prove fatal. Both colored.
The Jim Hogg pipe foundry at the
Rusk penitentlary made its initial cast
the other day ana everything worked
satisfactorily. 1t is an extensive
plant and will manufacture a large
per cent of the states iron product
w. I. Gunter living five miles west
OF Salado, met with an accident few
nights ago which resulted in instant
death. He had been OF at work and
started home after dark. but missed
the road and walked of bluff, fall
ing about thirty feet
\ sow over the kicking OF a dog at
Dallas. recently, resulted in the kill
ing OF John Shea a butcher. by
Walter Billups. grocer After
Billups had riddled his victim with
buckshot ne then fred two shots from
a revolver into the oody OF the dead
man.
Eli Mcconnell has been jailed at
Weatherford upon complaint OF Mrs.
S. L. Pearson charging him with an
assault upon Pearl Sharpe her p
year-old adopted daughter Earnest
Carnahau was also arrested for a sim
liar offense committed upon the same
child.
Charles Stevens, colored, has been
Jailed at Weimar charged with one OF
the most heinous crimes ever COM
mitted in that section. He murdered
his Io-month-old stepdaughter by
forcing nitric acid down her throat
death resulting in few hours. He
was refused bond.
Is is reported from Seguin that dur
ing the recent buFing Of William
Moetzers gin MS l3-year-old son was
caught In the flames and roasted to
death and d second son was so badly
burned he cannot recover. The
cooked flesh fell from his arms leav-
ing the bones bare
Otella Warren. the little daughter
Of W. H. Warren OF Decatur was
playing around Il fire in the yard
few mornings ago when hor clothing
ignitea and she was perhaps fatally
burnsd. The child was burned nearly
all over its hair singed and its face
crisped by the hamea
At Houston few nights ago George
W. Phillips, driver for the Texas ex-
press company. was driving down
town when his fine team came in con-
tact with a live electric wire which
was dangling in the air. The horses
both dropped dead and Phillips him
self was badly shocked.
At Pittsburg, recently Z. L. Mar
tin. an insane man. escaped Jail
While enjoying his liberty he secured
a fine horse and saddle from a livery
stable and just as the passenger train
was pulling out of town he rode onto
the track in front OF the engine and
ran several hundred yards until his
horse ran inlo a bridge Then the
lunatic either jumped or fell of and
the train crushed the horse 10 death.
At Flatonia recently Dr. r A.
johnson procured a livery team for
the purpose of visiting patient in
the country. Later he returned
driving the team as though nothing
was the matter, but it soon developed
that he was entirely unconscious.
When brought to ne explained that
the team became frightened and
kicked themselves from the buggy
and the last thing ne remembered was
being thrown over the dashboard.
The mystery is how he manged to re-
hitch the horses and get homo in an
unconscious condition.
At Corpus Christi recently, while