San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-06-02

bond himself.
The Russian imperial council has
under consideration a proposal by
Count Verentzoff to make the Russian
peasantry the direct owners Of the
land they now till.
In st. Louis A. W Geisel gave A.
\. Dostal good beating and Dostal
sued Geisel for damages, the jury
giving him $500 Geisel says Dostal
firtcd with his wife.
Itis announced that the sentences
passed or DeLesseps. COntu, Fontaine
and Eiffel have been quashed by the
court de cessation on account of irreg-
ularities in the procedure.
George j. Gould has refused TO ac-
oept a new term as president of the
Pacific mail steamship company. ow-
ing to the pressure of other business
c. P. Huntington will succeed him.
Pennsylvania has recently had high
water. At Meadville the damages
are estimated at $3.50, 900, at Eric
$75O,00O, and the loss to the Pennsyl-
vaEia and Ohio railway is S1,00J,VJ).
The Northwestern Guarantee Loan
company OF Minneapolis, Mimi, has
gone into the hands of a receiver, the
Minneapolis Trust company having
been named by the court as re
ceiver.
The bodiAs u Rohel and Pallister.
who escaped some time since from
the death cells of Sing Sing prison,
y Y. have been found in the Had
son river. Both had bullet holes N
their heads.
L is worth recalling. :. Paderewski
sails away with $4,000 or so in hiS
inside pocket. that the pianist was
unknown three years ago, and at his
first concert in Londo, the rece.p.s
were only $50.
In the United States sou t at New
York Judge Lacombe has granted =
decree for S1.67l5l9 in favor OF the
Central trust company of New York
against the City railway improve
meut company.
Some time ago Rev. Dewitt Tai
mage told his congregation that if
they did not pay of debt OF 10000
on the church he would resign The
congregation paid it and he viii con
tinue-to preach
Amigo, Wis, was half destroyed
by fire and the little town Of Brant
has been completely wiped out. Thrift
buildings were destroyed in Brant.
also 1,0OO.OO feet of lumber and
3OO,0 feet of logs.
Reports regarding the crop Of win
ter wheat in European Russia show
that in 124 districts it is excellent, in
303 districts good and in ten districts
bad. Summer wheat in the southern
provinces is generally promising
At Columbia City, Ind, recently,
the boiler in Judd's sawmill exploded,
completely wrecking the mill and
killing Charley Judd, the S-year-old
son of the proprietor. Frank Hass,
a mill hand, and Christian Judd were
both fatally injured.
A Queenstown dispatch says the
British ship Lord Templeton, VIII ich
sailed from London for Philadelphia,
with Bombay as a further destination,
on April u, arrived there after loss
of eight men drowned, one killed on
deck and seven injured.
:, landslip at Vaerdalin, Norway.
juss north of Trondenien, converted
twelve large farms into lake Of
slime. Many farmers families are
believed to have been buried in the
mud. The storhing has voted 10,0)l
crowns TO relieve the dcstitutiOn OF
the survivors.
A freight train on the Blu Talo,
Rochester and Pittsburg road ran
away down heavy grade recently,
colliding with a work train. The
freight brakeman was killed and
three men on the work train were
buried under the wreck. The wreck
took fire and the three bodies were
cOnsuod.
The state of Georgia owns the
Western and Atlantic railroad, that
connects Chattanooga and Atlanta,
which is about 40 miles long. The
Louisville and Nashville system has it
leased and pays the people of Georgia
$50, 900 per month rental, which goes
for the education of the children OF
the state.
A Mrs. Angelo, a lady over %
years OF age was recently eaten up
alive near Port Eads, La, by
alligators. She had gotten of
a boat, and is supposed to
have stopped to rest in the swamp,
when she was attacked and was too
feeble to resist She was horribly
mangled. They drug her into the
slush water and bushes.
An attempt was made by burglars
recently TO blow open the safe Of the
Beaver deposit bank at Beaver. Pa.
with dynamite The robbers succeed
ed in forcing the outer safe. but the
inner Que, containing over <2D.0J0 in
cash and securities, withstool the
shock. The explosion aroused the
town, and the thieves were compelled
to make a hasty departure, taking
with them about 800 in silver, which
was left on the out side of the safe,