San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-10-27
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
carsns Happenings Of General Interest 10 the
Reading Public.
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL soR1lSGs.
IRON the Leading Dailies Of the County
Tor the Past Week

monster express locomotive, designei
oy Michael Reynolds, consulting en-
Eineer of Wolverhampton, which con
stitutes a complete departure frOr
modern practice The horsepower
2O00 and the speed 100 miles an hour
The driving wheels are twelve feet i
diameter; there are three cylinders O
forty inches, twenty eight inches ant
eighteen inches in diameter, aul
S0-inch stroke. Tho boiler pressur
will be 200 pounds. 1t is proposed Il
run from London to Edinburgh. so
miles, in six hours. The boiler is be
Iieved to be the largest in the world
Senator Henderson has introduced
a resolution in the senate directing
an investigation of the rumor tina
the Union Pacific railroad has gon,
into the hands OF a receiver, and if so
by what action and under what cir
cumstances and what steps are neces
sary to protect the interests and Sc
cure the Indebtedness of said rail
way company to the United States
reporting by bill or otherwise
General Wade Hampton, commits
sioner of railroads, in his annual re
port recommends the appointment o
a commission having full power K
settle the indebtedness of the bond
aided Pacific railroads to the govern
ment. The commissioner also re
commends that the Thurman act be
amended so as to apply to all Pacific
railroads which have gotten bond;
from the United States.
The gross earning for the first week
in October compared with 1892 of Ger
tain railways are as follows: Interna-
tional and Great Northern, 1867, 900
increase, $4,000. Mexican Central,
1929, 500; decrease; $l8, 406. Mexican
National. SSO.051; decrease, $1S, 563.
Missouri Pacific, 1852, 900; decrease,
$4,000 Rio Grande and Western,
f10S, 100; decrease. $40, 800.
The first wedding in Perry, Chero-
kee strip, occurred a few days ago.
Justice Clayton performing the cere-
mony, the parties being Mr.. George
A. Marshall of Illinois and Miss Mary
Wagner of Texas. A large crowd as
sembled and congratulated the couple
and then went off and bought the
bride handsome present.
At Oklahoma City, Ok, NJ. R.
Krausnick has commenced a suit
against John Brogan for $1,000 dam
ages, alleging alienation of his wife S
affections. Both are prominent citi-
zens of that city, and the defendant,
Began, is candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket for mayor for the new
town of Perry, in the Cherokee strip.
Nathan Robinson and Mrs. Curtis
Robinson, the brother and wife of
Curtis Z. Robinson, of Chicago, who
died in April, 1892. leaving an estate
valued at 1000, 900, have began pro-
ceedings to break the will left by
Curtis. They claim that curtis was
never legally married to his first wife.
At Memphis, Tenn, the name of
Uriah w. Miller, prominent attorney
and politician, and one OF the charter
members of the Tennessee club, has
been stricken from the roll of prac-
ticing attorneys in circuit court. The
charge was the failure to turn over
certain money collected for a client.
At San Francisco a big combination
of street railways has been completed
with a capital stock of S18, 900, 900.
or this the Southern Pacific company
controls IS per cent. This combine
ton includes sixteen street car lines
and controls nearly all the travel of
the city
Henry W. Scott, associate justice of
the supreme court OF Oklahoma, is
believed to be the youngest Judge in
the country. He is only IS years old.
He was register of the land Office at
Larned, Kan. at % and has already
written several standard legal works.
At Ledore, l. T., a short time since,
an Indian shot and killed Handy Lee
lore. Both parties are Indians. Le-
fore was shot through the head. dying
instantly, the ball entering just below
the right ear and lodging under the
skin behind the left ear.
An experimental boring has been
made in one of the South Africa gold
fields to a depth of 25O0 feet, and
expert figures out that this Dor
ing has developed the presence of
about $3.50. 900, 900, 900 worth of
ore.
Thomas c. Crap, reported to be a
a citizen of Chicago, was recently
found dead with his skull fractured in
a by-street of Birmingham, England.
1t is supposed he was murdered in a
rab and the body thrown where he
was found.
One-third of the engineers and con-
iuctors on the East Tennessee. Yir-
GINA and Georgia railway system will
on November be laid off indefinitely
for refusing to accede to an order Of
the receivers reducing their wages 10 |
per cent.
The Wagner sleeping car conductor
Of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
through train to Chicago was robbed
at the Moberly, Mo, depot,
Of forty-eight tickets, with return cou-
Dons to Texas points and one annual
pass.
1t is believed that a petition has
been sent in secret to Rome from |
Montreal asking that papal ALLOCATE
De appointed for Canada who shall |
nave the same power as Monsignor
Satolli exercises in the United States.
A mysterious epidemic of diarrhea |
prevails in the workhouse at Green
yich, England. Two inmates are al
.eady dead, and others are in dan
.erous condition, The symptoms in
many respects are similar to cholera.
Emperor William has appointed the
rown prince of italy la suite to the
LETT regiment, of which he recently
.ssumed the honorary colonelcy. |
This appointment is likely to renew
he Franco-ltalian bitterness.
Miss Anna Bowers, aged 81, who
ecured valuable claim IN the Cher
kee strip, died at Guthrie. Ok. re-
emily from the effects of the expos
re while waiting upon the line and
making the run.