San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-05-19


charged with having outraged the
wife of Philo Pritchard, shot and
killed Otto Grier, one of a pursuing
posse, near Raleigh, n. C.
Prospective settlers on the Chero-
kee strip are growing exasperated
over the slowness and innumerable
delays in the interior department and
are making vigorous protest.
A Wells-Fargo express car on the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad, in New
Mexico, caught fire from a spark from
the engine and burned up, in which
$50, 600 worth of gold was melted.
Ed Braden and a young man named
Sypes were playing cards at Selmer.
Tenn, recently. They quarreled
over an ace. Sypes pulled his gun
and shot Braden through the heart.
Mrs. Fannie Kern of 1Ol Sixty
eighth street. New York city, re-
Gently gave poison to her two young
children and then shot them and her
self. All we're taken to the hospital.
A white man near Duluth, MINI,
recently enticed two little girls aged
3 and years. into the woods and
criminally assaulted them. One will
die. The citizens caught and lynched
him.
All the coal companies in the Jelli-
60 district in Tennessee have decided
to combine and form one gigantic Or
ganization with $3.50, 600 capital. This
does not include the Coal Creek dis
trict.
In Germany the electors of the dis
trict of Arnswaler, which elected
Ahlwardt. the anti-Jewish agitator,
to the reichstag, have adopted reso-
lutiens requesting Ahlwardt to resign
his seat.
The Canadian Railway has issued
instructions that American currency
of all description, including silver be
accepted at par over its entire sys-
tenn, as a convenience to American
patrons.
Patrick Bailey, who turned his wife
out in blizzard last winter near
Rockford. H., while she was in a
delicate condition. thus causing her
death, has been indicted for man
slaughter
Thomas NJ. Barr and James ?. Hol
land, a New York firm of coffee deal
ers. were recently arrested on a
charge made by the British bank of
South America of misappropriating
S75,01O,0O).
Sir Francis Jeune. president OF the
court of probate of England, has de-
clined to interfere in the case Of the
dowager duchess of Sutherland. i'm
prisoned in Holloway jail on a charge
of contempt of court.
At Spokane, Wash, recently, Dan
iel WhOrkins walked into the Saliva
ton Army barracks, shot Capt. Ida
Bennett dead and then fired two balls
into his own brain. Capt. Bennett
refused to marry him.
Handy Smith, residing near Gales
town, y. j.. wagered five dollars tn at
he could drink quart of whisky
within an hour On emptying the
seventh glass he fell dead. He leaves
a wife and six small children in needy
circumstances.
In the states OF Zacatecas, Chihua-
hua and Cohaluila, Mex, there is a
total failure of crops and the poorer
classes have no money with which
TO buy corn shipped from the United
States and sold by the public boards
of charity at cost price.
John Sandberg, at Great Falls.
Mont, was cleaning the furnace and
took a nap. Waking he crawled in,
instead of out. and fell into the dam
take, thence through redhot fue
filed with sutfocating gasses 100 feet.
Even his bones were charred.
The recent heavy rains caused the
Illinois and Sangamon rivers to rise
al an alarming rate Both streams
have been four and five miles wide,
entirely submerging several thousand
acres OF bottom lands. Farmers on
the low lands vacated their homes.
Mrs. Anna Howard Of Pittsburg.
Pa. dressed in mems clothes and
started on tramp to Chicago. were
her husband, who deserted her some
six months ago, is employed. At
Elkhart, Ind, she was compelled to
beg for the price of a meal, and the
above facts were elected Her wants
were supplied, and she went her way.
The town of Kowal, in Poland. has
been visited by conhagration- The
town has a population of between
5000 and 1000. The fire broke out
and spread rapidly, consuming 1l6
houses, including an infirmary and
asylum. No less than eighty persons
persisted in the calamitous visitation
and 800 families were made homeless.
The rumor to the effect that Cardi-
nal Gibbons is likely to be Pope Leo
KITS successor has caused considera-
hle amazemeut and doubtless Cardi-
nal Gibbons himself will have been as
much surprised by the report rs his
Roman friends. Never has there
been any talk in Rome Of Cardinal
Gibbons for the task of conducting
the church The next pope win in
all likelihood be an Italian.
Mrs. Jansen, 81 years of age, 4
very rich widow of Seattle. Wash
has had in her employ for the past
eight years a man named Nelson San
ford ostcnsibly as gardener, but in
reality he was her paramour, whom
she had promised to marry. She re-
Gently fell in love with another young
man named Frank Mckinley. however,
and promised to marry him This so
Sanford that he killed the
won an and himself.
A Mrs. Carson, residing near Lake
Kushaugue, y. Y, having apparently
died, was laid out in coffin. and
while Il wake was being held. those in
the death chamber were Mortified to
see the supposed corpse slowly rise to
an erect position. Nearly all of those
present were women. and they ran
out screaming in terror. A daughter