Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-10-18
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS


A bohemian farmer recently went
to Gonzales and secured q wagon load
Of Mexican cotton pickers. en- ar.
irving at his farm he told the MeA-
leans to feed their horses an camp
for the night, and as he turned around
one OF the MeNicans threw six
shooter down on him and demanded
his money. His son, who was stand
ing in the door at the house, saw tho
Mexican and taking his Winchester
ran TO his father'G aid. He. too, was
set upon and both father and son
badly beaten and bruised, the father
sustaining fractured skull besides
many dangerous wounds in the head
and body The MeXicans then re-
paired to the house and drove Off the
wife and daughter, after which they
robbed the house OF its money and
valuables. The sheriff and posse
started out late in the evening and
captured six OF the robbers, one Of
whom did the shooting and another
the cutting, and placed them in Jail.
At Nacogdochcs recently personal
| alteration occurred between Judge
James /. Perkins and District Attor-
ney w. Nj. lmboden, in which the lat
ter struck the former two blows with
his fist. Further trouble was pre-
vented by friends The two men were
eating Il lunch in restaurant and
discussing politics, The story Of the
affair told by bystanders is that I'm
bodcn was denying an imputation
that he had heard was being thrown
at him that he leaned to Populism.
Perkins replied that lmboden had
done worse-had favored black Re
pubIicanism and social equality.
Brown X Dabney, the dam power
house foundation contractors at Aus
tin. have succeeded in getting in the,
the seventh draft tube and in controll-
ing the troublesome flow of water
which has so long interfered with the
construction Of the power house.
There remains but ono draft tube to
be put iu and work on that has been
commenced. 1t is now considered
that the critical point Of the york has
been passed aud that the greatest OBJ
stacle to It's completion has been over
come, and that 10y December the
new water systom will be in operation.
Allen Storris, Il citizen of Maria,
lre'ldIo county met WIN tragic
death recently lie was travelling IN
/. a remote section OF Preside county
"hen ms morse threw MN ana broke
ms leg lie dragged himself Tor
miles, ana went three days without
1000 or wafer lie was unable to ma
Il haoitatlon' ana to END ms suffering
= ne shot himself through the mead
WIN pistol Before committing tne
ueeu ne wrote move uescrlnihg Ine
accident ana ms suffering ms oooy
wlth ms note upon him was found
iow days after
Az EastIahu' East!anu county re-
cenuy inc poiler OF L' - Do"ntaln
GIN blew up killing Engineer w. ~
a SKel,oh ana silghtly lhJur'hg " -
a 9earoorough' NeorEe IarNer ana H.
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I only cause ne Gun assign IS uhaV d
e lew seconds before the explosion oc-
T. CURED ne hearo MT, 0Nelloh say 10
+ farNer' 81 nave aoouJ I4o pounds
T. OF steam which was ABOUT Iorty
i 80 a., g.:
+ parties barely oscoPco WIN '"eir
= ily ,,.
+ Inc other evening at galveston Mr.
= and Mrs. Rudolph BulIascher gave
+ ocular evidence that IN tnelr case at
e least marriage Is not failure Ihey
+ celebrated their silver wedding by an
Y oyster feast to which were invited
o over 700 guests. Mr. bulIascher Is
G 46 and his estimable helpmate AZ
/. years oil age ana both are sun young
IL Of the twenty children VINO came TO
II their lireside during the twenty-five
IS ye"'' , ~ mo-. 10 '', a Moi, "a
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