San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-05-26

government.
A Wilkesbare, Pa, girl, whose re
creant lover failed to show up for the
Wedding CEREMONY, has sued him 70:
the cost of her trOusseau and the we'd
ding breakfast.
At Hudson. Mich, a sheriff and
posse overlook and arrested eight
robbers Afterwards the robbers got
the drop disarmed the officers and
went their way.
The Scotch-Irist congress of Amer
lea held its fifth annual session at the
city hall in Springfield, o., with about
200 delegates present from all over
the United States.
Cape jasmines grown in Texas ar
being distributed at the Worlds fair
by Mrs Caruthers, and Mike Gal
lager. who paid $4,000 for the floral
privilege, objects.
At Paris. France. a few days since,
Colcumbet's ribbon factory in Steit-
enne burned down. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000 Several FIRE
men were injured.
James Fitzgerald recently exhibited
at Boise, Idaho, the largest opal ever
found in the territory. 1t weighs
more than 500 carats and is remarka
bly, free from flaws.
1t is reported that the collapse OF
the revolt in Cuba was due to the
government buying off the leaders
This method was adopted because it
was cheaper than fighting.
John G. Williams fell 7G) feet into
the Gagnon mine at Butte. Mont, the
other dag, from the 30O-foot level to
the bottom. He was instantly killed
and the body horribly mangled.
Miss Venie Scromberg of Chicago
was enticed from her home recently
by her lover, whose name is Butler
He is in Jail and she is held in re-
straint as the prosecuting witness.
At Chicago Emma Werner, the Z
year-old daughter of Charles Werner.
was found dead in an alley few days
since. She had been brutally assault
ed and choked to death by an nm
known fiend.
The bank of Victoria at Melbourne,
Australia, has suspended. On De-
cember last it had 97,O)O,O0O de-
posits. The capital of the bank was
81, 100000. The liabilities are about
double that aYnOup.
A school boy named Grueber shot
Father Purnka in Olmutz, Austria, re-
Gently. with revolver and then killed
himself. The priest will recover.
Purnka had interfered in Grueber's
love affair and the boy was seeking
revenge.
Two masked robbers at Laketon,
KY, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
on the refusal of the express messen-
gers to open up, blew hole in the
side Of the car, made them open it,
took $1,000 and left. The passengers
were not molested.
Destitution is decimating the popu-
lation of the rural districts of central
and southeastern Russia. Fevers
have followed everywhere in the path
of the famine and the utmost suffer
ing prevails in the provinces Of Sarta-
tori, Samara and Voronest-
At GAINESVILLE, Ga, few days since,
Mark Ford was shot and brutally
beaten to death by a mob led by his
I,,.o+bar D,,-o nor-o ,,-,- n moon,
sinner and Mark a church member,
who, Dave charges, was the cause OF
him Dave losing his distillery.
At Camden, Ark, few days since,
Jessie Norman of Bearden, Ark, was
killed with an AK. Jim Stewart, Dick
Benson and Abe Crane, all young
negroes, were charged with the crime,
and subsequently they were found
suspened to telegraph poles east OF
town.
George Phillips. a Brooklyn, y. Y,
green goods man, was shot recently
and fatally wounded by man named
Joseph Hall, who went there from
Steelton, Pa, for the purpose OF buy
ing $1,000 in counterfeit money, which
ne believed could be passed without
detection.
At Texarkana. Ark. recently.
white boy was struck and had his foot
crushed by the cars in the local TeNa.
and Pacific yards. He is only Il years
old, and in rags when the accident
occurred. He gave his name As Breck
Tunstall, and says his home is at
Weston, Tex, where his mother re
sides.
Rev D. H. Greer. pastor of st. Bar
tholomew's church. New York city.
recently asked his congregation for
$50, 900 to repair the church building
with The next Sunday it was paid
in. The members have given $1.o55,-
900 in the four years Of his pastorate,
$500, 900 of which was spent for char
ity direct.
At Yuma, an investigation of the
Arizona territorial prison. recently
revealed thirty-two daggers, butcher
knives, saws. files and slungshots
besides morphine and other drugs.
Several boxes of goods about to be
shipped out by McInery, the former
superintendent, were seized and found
to contain prison property. McInery
was arrested and held for the grand
Jury.
At London Home Secretary Asquith
has finally intimated that the dowager
duchess of Sutherland, sentenced to
six weeks Imprisonment " Presiding
Justice Jeune of the court of probate
for burning a document which she
had been permitted to see by order of
the court. will not have her sentence
RENTED by the home Office, but will
have to remain in Jail the full six
weeks.
At Helena, Mont, says dispatch,
Harry Gross and William Gay. who
came from Wyoming recently, are
thought to have been killed in fight
with officers in the mountains near
Castle. The desperadoes had killed
Dan,,+, Sherif RAIDER who attemDted