San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-09-29

trict court Of Brewster county has
been given against the Galveston.
Harrisburg and san Antonio Railroad
company for S79,07S l-20 acres OF
land, claimed to be Illegally held by
thas company. The lands recovered
lie in JEFF Davis, Preside. Brewster,
kimble. san Saba. Val Verde, Crock
EFT. McCulloch. Pecos. Buchel.
Reeves, SchIeicher, Sutton and Zavala
counties.
Mrs Josie Mahaffey was picking
cotton at her home, near Sulphur
Springs recently and her children
We're playing in the cotton PEN After
a time she noticed the playing had
ceased. and upon investigation dis
covered that her eldest child, a son
aged 8, had dug deep hole in the
seed cotton and had fallen in headhrst.
She extricated him from the hole. but
life had been extinct for some time.
At Dallas a few days ago a woman
was arrested and jailed for shooting
of a man thumb. From what could
be learned OF the case it appears that
the Young man had invited her to slA
on his lap. which she declined to do.
The young man then. in fit of zeal
ously, threatened her. and she turned
loose on with a six-shOOter, cut
ing OFF one of his thumbs.
OF the $500 convicts in the state
penitentiaries of Texas there is not a
printer or newspaper man, while there
are bankers, lawyers. doctors, pho
tOgraphers, minister, har-keepers.
cooks. BARRIERS and members of all
other callings and professions. The
cogwheel of justice must have slipped
an eccentric somewhere.
Col ". 5. Herndon figured with a
gun at Tyler recently. The trouble
was between Herndon and a Cotton
Belt conductor. Frank Mack. Hern-
don had lust been talking TO a party
OF ladies. when Mack came up. a few
words passed and Herndon pulled a
gun. He was arrested but gave
bond for his appearance.
At Vernon the jury in the case Of
lass Harrington. charged with theft.
returned a verdict of not guilty. This
was one Of the cases prosecuted by
the cattlemen's association and in
which there We 100 Witnesses
Much interest was manifested in the
trial. as it was considered something
OF a test case.
A confession has been made by Jim
Douglass. a prisoner in the Fannin
county Jail to sheriff Hughes of Gray
son county, by which a number of
thieves viii be unprecedented and con-
victed for having been engaged in the
wholesale theft Of cattle in Grayson.
Douglass was the recognized leader
OF the gang
Lee Bullock had his right arm cut
oil between the shoulder and elbow
by a san Antonio and Arkansas Pass
freight train recently It happened
at Blodget, three miles from Houston
He has q wife in san Antonio and is
brother-in-law of Officer Reed Of the
police force. He was trying to beat
his way.
Cl.,.1,- II.,,-ol1 a.. RoLo-,iar f.rr,ar
". 80 - dsD,sroYsI,, stabbed in
~ 49, AZ. Icon near the 5enot
IN Hauettsville. There is some IN
certainty as to who did the stabbing.
Wiley Jones a negro. charged with be-
inc a participant in the difficulty has
been Jailed.
=. ,rs1aua tho .o,.o.+a5 .1ection
case of Dawson vs.. McGonagil re-
suited in a verdict for McGonagiu.
In this case the plaintiff sought to re-
cover the sherid's Office OF Ector
county. held by defendant by ma
iority Of one vote.
The CITY council Of Dallas has pro-
vided for the issuance Of $50. 900 8 PER
cent twentv-vear bonds for the follow
ing purposes. Sewers and drainage.
$l5. 900; funding, SIS, water
works, $4,000; improvements, &c.,
600.
Mr.. L. Fitzhenry and Miss Ella
Perry of Hope. Lsvacca county. were
quietly married at the Mutt hotel. At
Victoria. recently, Justice Feuner
tying the knot. 1t was an elopemeut-
The bride and groom returned home
At NLcGregor, McLcnnan County re
Gently an operation vas performed on
p. B. Bussa. The right arm was am
putated, as was The shoulder blade
and part Of the collar none- lie sur
vived few days a"H "'ed'
The mysterious cattle disease pre-
vailing in some places in She west. is
said to have appeared at Kyle. Tex.
The disease aacc:s the eyes, and the
animals 90 totally blind IL Is SAID 20
be very contagious
A. Nsw Ws,srlv Walker county.
NJ. Thomas A6on:k a
p.r5.h ,.o,-a, cave b.rrb N ,rfplets.
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