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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
BRENNAN BRIEFS.
A Forger Gets sos From Bank-Boy
Accidentally Killed Himself.

Brennan, Tex, Nov. 16.-(Special.)-
A slick forger touched the First Ma
tional bank for sos today. Early this
morning, on the pretense of getting up
a medical directory, he secured the sigma
ture of DR.. John s. Holland. This he
forged and presented to the First Ma
tional bank. The check was drawn on
the First National of Galveston and DR..
Hollands name appeared as endorser
The check was drawn in favor of r. Il.
Grant or Gaunt and the stranger pur
ported to be the payee. The money was
paid over and the stranger disappeared
and has not been seen since. Shortly
after his departure the check was sent
to DR.. Holland for identification, but he
pronounced it forgery. The forger is
about % years old, 5 feet 8 inches in
height, is smooth shaver and wore a dark
suit of clothes.
A 15-year-old son of julius Schlitzkus
who lives five miles north of town. acct
dehtally shot and killed himself this
evening.
A 2-year-old girl of J. S. Colbert (col-
ored) was badly burned while the parents
were absent from the house in the cotton
patch.
Commissioners court adjourned Friday
evening.
Justice court is in session in Whitman
today.
The Musical society met last night and
had good practice.
Mr.. %. G. Abbott had his hand badly
lacerated in the machinery at the I'm
plement factory this evening.
a young German by the name of Ste
gend, who lives in the old Lochridge
place, five miles north of town, acct
dentally discharged A Colts pistol on
Friday, the ball striking and piercing
| the fore-finger of his left hal,l and rang
ing downward entered the let leg. The
| boy is seriously, but no dangerously,
wounded.
Hill, had a gun to explode in his hands
some days since, which badly burt and
SCARED his face.
AT the Friday evening shoot of the Gun
club G. l.. Wilkins won the gold medal
by score of % out of %. Louis Swear
ingen of kenney got the consolation
prize.
Rev. G. III. Brooks is here from Chap
pell Hill.
Mr.; Robert Chappell is here from Chap
pell Hill
Lawyer Paul McCombs of Austin is
in the city on business.
DR.. s. T.. Styles has returned from
Chappell Hill.
Mesdames John Ralston, VIM. Perry
and VIM. Schuerenberg are visiting Hous-
| ton.
Internal Revenue Collector Kaufman,
| accompanied by his mother, returned to
Austin this morning via Milano.
Lawyers r. J. Swearingen, G. B. Eel
der, j. M. Mathis, w. r. Ewing and
County Attorney Buchanan attended JUS
tice court at Whitman Saturday.
Hon. b: S. Rogers left Saturday morn
in,
to dedicate an Independent Order of Odd
Fellows hall that had been named for
him. We congratulate him on the COM
pliment paid him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
CIVIL APPEALS-SECOND

Fort Worth, Tex, Nov. 16.-(Special)
Court of civil appeals, Second judicial
district, at Fort Worth, Tex:
Joseph Litz & Bro. VS.. j. d. Skinner,
from Wichita, reversed and remanded;
The Fireman's Fund, Santa Fe Railway
Company VS.. w. NJ. Jago ct al, from
Denton, affirmed The American Fire
Insurance Company VS.. A. ]. Center,
from Shackelford, reversed and remand
ed; The Penn Fire Insurance Company
ct al. VS.. A. J. Center, from Shackelford,
reversed and remanded: The Fireman's
Fund Insurance Company VS.. A. j. Cen
ter, from Shackelford, reversed and re-
manded; Citizens Insurance Company VS..
Shrader & ROGERS, from Hardeman, re-
versed and remanded; The Liverpool,
London and Globe Insurance Company
VS.. A. j. Center, from Shackelford, re-
versed and remanded; ID. NJ. Osborne Il
Co. VS.. w. A. Taylor from Hale, dis
missed for want of jurisdiction; Phoenix
Assurance Company VS.. A. ]. Center,
from Shackelford, reversed and remand
ed; The Home Insurance Company VS..
A. ]. Center, from Shackelford, reversed
and remanded
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21

am IN = very phd conuition.
Ny courses have stopped from
catching cold, and the pain 10
fearful. lam all bloated up; and
the pain In lower part Of my body
10 terrible. My back and head
fache all tho time. What shall I
ldo for it?" Miss L.,
pes Moines.
Mrs. Lizzie Decline. "a. Grand
Street, Jersey City, relates her
miseries resulting from womb
trouble, from which she was -,
lieved and cured by the timely
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table Compound. She ends her
letter by saying, 81 owe all to
you"
Mrs. Newton Cobb, OF MancheS.
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pound, and I am happy to say 10
has cured me OF painful menstru.
atlons and backache. My suffer.
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get your advice"
Misc Jennie --, Chicago,
states that she Is twenty-five
years OF age; occupation, sales
woman In large dry goods store.
Constant standing has brought
on womb trouble, the symptoms
OF which she describes fully. She
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There are several girls know
who have written 20 Mrs. Pink
ham, aud been cured by her I'd.
vice and medicine"
Miss Mary Smylie, who resides
at 207S Il. Susquehanna Avenue.
kensington, Phila., writes;"Iam
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eleven hours every day. l have
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
SENDING OBSCENE

SENDING OBSCENE LITERATURE.
Yesterday morning in the Federal court
II. NJ. Little presiding, Peter Erban Of
Burleson county was given an examining
trial for sending obscene literature
through the mail and bound over ~ The
SUN Of $500 10 await the action Of the
Federal grand jury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
TIRED on BEING WE'LL FED.

Nashville, Nov. 16.-B. Il. Brooks, the
editor of the Daily Herald, who has been
in Jail for contempt of court for two
days. decided today to tell the grand jury
all he knew and was released after doing
so.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
WOMaN'S SUFFERING.
RELIEVED BY MAIL. HOW IT II
DONE.
How a Woman Works for Her Sex.
l,rsaAL 70 QUE LADY .raDrrs.l

Seated at her desk in the bureau Of
correspondence, this wonderful woman
opens her letters from all parts of the
world. A few extracts from their con-
tents tell the story
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Four Lives Lost on Aylmer Lake,
Ontario.
THE ACCIDENT DUE TO THE CAP
SIZING OF THE CRAFT.
A Baptist Minister Tarred and Feath-
cred at Westmoreland, Kas., tho
Charge Being that He Had Crimi-
naliy Assaulted a Young Girl.

OTTAWA (Ont.), July ga terrible
drowning accident occurred on Aylmer
Lake this afternoon, by which four lives
were lost. Alexander, Walter and Ed
ward Brophy. sons of George +. Brophy,
Superintendent of the Ottawa river
works, President of kootenay Mining
Company, and one of the directors of the
Ottawa Electric Railway Company.
Percy Winfield, the 1O-year-old son of
Rev. Winfield, Chaplain to the
Governor-General and Countess Aber-
deem, and Ray Mall. son of
Edward Mial, the Commissioner of
Inland Revenue, all started from Aylmer
ia skiff belonging to Mr.. Mall for sail.
They had been out but short time when
still breeze capsized the boat. The
three Brophy boys, -. -, and 16 years of
age, respectively. land young Winfield were
drowned. Young Mail when rescued,
three hours after the accident, was cling
ing TO the boat in an almost unconscious
condition. 4 party with graphing irons
lett here at 7 o'clock for the scene Of the
accident and are searching for the bodies.
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THE CUBAN REVOLT.
y Woman Who Cuts a Prominent Fig
ure in the War.

n woman Who Cuts Prominent Fig
ure ia the War.
New YORK, July 26.-When Cuba shall
become free country the Republicans
will tell their daughters how woman
made the uprising at Puerto Principe
possible. They will tell how she brought
TO Puerto Principe 800 rounds of ammu-
milton when it seemed as though every
avenue for securing materials was closed
ana how all the noble sons of Puerto
Principe went for her blessing before
speeding away TO the country and tho
mountains TO tight for Cuba's freedom.
Mrs. Carldad Aguero de Pichardo ar
rived III New Y 1ork few days ago from
Cuba by way of Key West. Recently
she appeared at the meeting Of Cubans IN
Hardman Hall, and only those who
knew what this noble daughter OF o noble
family has done for Cuba could UNDER
stand the wild enthusiasm of the audience
when she appeared. Mrs. Aguero is
known TO Cubans as 'The Prophecies"
She has q commission from the MARQUIS
de Santa Lucia, leader of the Puerto
Principe patriot forces, and is empowered
to collect funds and purchase supplies of
ammunition for the revolutionists.
The name OF AguerO is known to all
Cuban patriots, and wherever Mrs.
Aguero de Pichardo goes enthusiasm fol-
lows. TO World reporter who called
on Mrs. Aguero she gave the first account
that has been obtained Of the uprising in
Puerto Principe.
The Aguero family is one of the oldest
in the province of Puerto Principe. At
the time OF the last great Cuban revolu-
tlon, IN 1865, the AgueroS were at the
hight of wealth and power. They were
patriots to the back bone, and at tho call
to arms in 1865 five sons of Mrs. 4 Aguero's
frther went into the revolutionary ranks,
and numerous relatives OF all branches
of the family followed. Three sons of
the AguerOs were killed. All the pos
sessions OF the Agueros were given up TO
the patriots or cOnnscated. They we're
absolutely stripped of their possessions,
and, to intensity the hatred the family
bore towards Spain, two OF the sons, Gas
par and Diego. were captured by the
Spanish forces and garroled.
There were still left three sons and
daughter. The daughter married a we'll
to-do physician Of Puerto Principe, be-
coming Mrs. Carload AguerO de Picnardo.
Seven years ago the doctor died and his
wife continued to live in the capital city
OF the province. Mrs. Aguero is a woman
OF magnificent presence, with high.
white forehead, a fine head and face fulI
of power. She is rather above the aver
age hight OF Cuban women, and, while
her gray hair and experience justify her
ago as 40, there isn't wrinkle to tell Of
the exciting times she has SEEM
In the province of Puerto Principe
there was also a noble, the Marquis de
Santa Lucia, who SO hated Spanish do
miniOn that he threw off the yoke finally
and became citizen of The United States.
Since lS45 this man has been working for
Cuba's freedom. In 1868 he was one of
the Presidents Of the Provisional Govern
ment. He is now over 20 years old.
When other provinces in Cuba rose last
year Puerto Principe remained apparent
ly unmOVeQ.
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SHORT on WEIGHT.
Claim Made by Ffsh-Buyer Under
Arrest at Portland.

Claim Made by a Fish-Buyer Under
Arrest at Portland.
SEATTLE (Wash.). July 26 - julius
Berghoff, a fish-buyer, who was arrested
at the instance of New York detective
on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses from Charles L. Mattloge
OF New y ork and whose case has been
postponed until August 23d. makes the
following statement concerning the dim
Guilty: Berghoff entered into q contract
with Mattloge to furnish him mum Der
of carloads of fish at an agreed rate. The
fish were furnished him. When Berg
hof purchased the fish here the heads
and tails were weighed. When lie sent
the fish East the heads and tails were cut
Oft, in order TO save freight. This did not
suit MattIoge. who claimed that he was
short on the weight, and claimed addi-
tiOnal fish TO offset the heads and tails.
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CoRBErT DIVORCE SUIT.
Defendant willing to Pay Plaintiff
Handsome IncOme.

Defendant willing to Pay Plaintiff a
Handsome Income.
New YORK, July 26-The hearing in
the suit brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbett
for an absolute divorce from her husband,
James j. Corbett. upon the ground of his
improper conduct with Vera Stanwood,
was resumed to-day before Referee Ed
ward Jacobs. Mrs. Corbett was present.
and was accompanied by Miss Marie
King. Corbett was not present. Lawyer
Sullivan ask ed that the case be dismissed,
upon the grounds that there was no
proof of the plaintiffs charges. and that
such proof as had been put in was de-
fective. Referee Jacobs said that if the
defendant did not put in any testimony
be would file his report.
Corbetrs lawyer assured Referee
Jacobs that his client was ready and will
ing to pay his Wife 9l00 week alimony.
The hearing was then adjourned until to-
morrow at 10:30 A. NJ.
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AssEMBLYMAN LAUGENOUR,
His Disappearance Does Not Alarm
His Friends.

His Disappearance Does Not Alarm
His Friends.
WOODLAND. July 26. - There is be-
lleved to be no warrant for the sensational
dispatches sent out from Woodland last
night concerning Assemblyman Laugen-
ours alleged mysterious disappearance.
Several Woodland people have seen and
conversed with him both III Sacramento
and San Francisco since he left Woodland
a week ago.
His financial embarrassment has been
generally known. There is no doubt but
that his property was ample TO cover all
his liabilities, but he could not realize
upon it and made conveyance to his
mother, who is security for the bulk of
his indie debtedness, and who is abundantly
able 10 meet all her Indebtedness.
There is no necessity for alarm. No
body will lose a dollar unless it be his
mother. His friends haveIno doubt that
as result of the sensational dispatches
that have been given publication he Will
make his whereabouts known and give a
satisfactory account OF himself.
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End of Slavery in New York.

Governor John Jay, although a slave
holder. was enlisted in q movement foI
abolition, and in his third attempt be-
fore the Legislature secured the passage
of an Act, April, 1879, providing that all
children born Of slave parents alter July
4th ensuing should be free. Slavery had
gradually been mitigated in its severity,
and the number of slaves, Il SOB, was SO
small in it's ratio to the total population,
then nearly LOCO, 900, that the institution
had lost much OF its commercial and So
cial significance. Then q declaration
was adopted in lol7, on the recommends
ton of Governor Tompkins. that all the
inhabitants of New York should be fres
after July 4, 1877. Here is the language
of the statute: Section 16, Title VII. oil
the Revised Statutes of the State OF New
York: Every person born within thIa
State, whether white or coiored, is freei
every person who shall hereafter be born
within this State shall be free, and every
person brought into this State as slave,
except as authorized by this title. shall be
free" Section ! provides that IN per-
son held as q slave shall be imported, IN.
troduced or brought into this State, on
any pretense whatever Except IN the
case of fugitives from other States, OF
persons brought into the State lnvolun'
tarily by Captains of vessel, etc.. Every
such person shall be free. Every person
held as a slave who hath been introduced OF
brought in this State contrary to the laws
in force at the time shall be free -
Brooklyn Eagle.
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A JOCKEYS DEATH,
His Body Found Hanging TO q Barbed
Wire Fence.

His Body Found hanging TO q Barbed
Wire Fence.
San DIEGO, July 26.-George Etter, a
we'll known jockey OF this place. was
found dead III the mountains near AL
pine to-day. His body, which was badly
mangled. was found hanging on barbed
wire fence.
E.ter had been visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Graham, who lives IN the vicinity, and
while there had been engaged In breaking
q thoroughbred colt Tor Mrs. Stratton.
He had the colt out yesterday. and when
he did not return at night considerR Die
anxiety was felt for him. \ searching
party was organized, with the result that
his body was found this morning.
The horse that be was riding had evil
dently SHE'D when near the fence, and
thrown the unfortunate jockey i'll such a
way that his chin and neck fell across
the tops of the barbed wire. His feet
must have remained in the stirrups. for
be had evidently been dragged for some
distance along the fence. Ills neck was
SO deeply gashed that his head had almost
been cut oil. lie must have bled to death
very quickly.
Etter's parents live in the Last.
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Lac. Wis. While on visit to Milwaukee
she saw Leon, or Cofman, perform. and
tell in love with him. He held out in
ducements TO her to 60 with him. and go
on the stage. Birdie followed the actor.
and Tinally ran away with him, and they
came West with a com bination of per-
formers, who became stranded in Port
land.
The girls story is peculiarly sad one.
She says within an hour after their mar
riage he struck and abused her. saying:
Now Pm your master, and you've got
to do just what I tell you, or III beat the
life out OF you"
Birdie is about II years Of age, and says
her parents have never heard from her
since she lett them.
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VIOLENT HURRICANE.
One Reported to Have Swept Over the
Coast of Japan.

oue lASpOIlSu 10 tI;iSe swept over the
Coast of Japan.
PHILADELPHIA, July pa violent
hurricane was reported to-day by cable
to the Maritime Exchange, to have swept
the coast OF Japan, during which many
vessels were wrecked and their crews
drowned. The information of the loss of
life was meager. The cablegram was
sent from RuchinotinZ. The German
steamship Helen Rickmers aud the Nor
wegian steamers Liderhorn, Herman
Wedel and Jaristrug, the British steam
ship Rentala and the ship Manuel Suchet,
from Philadelphia, were all blown ashore
and all are believed 10 have been totally
wrecked except the Rentala. The loss
of life on shore is reported TO be large
The ship Manuel Suchet sailed from
this port four months ago for Hiago,
Japan, with a cargo of case oil, taken ON
board at Point Breeze. She was a first
class iron vessel worked by crew of
twenty-seyen men. She had discharged
her cargo and was getting under wsy Tor
san Francisco when the hurricane struck
her
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were tearing it to pieces. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the men drove
them away. a doctor was called and
discovered two fractures in its skull
which had caused death. There is no clew
TO the perpetrators OF the deed.
While the excitement was at its hight
the three-year-old child of Mrs. Nettie
White was found starving to death in her
apartments where she had left it. When
the little one was taken out and cared for
the citizens were unable to restrain them
selves. and gathered about the house and
tore it to pieces. wreckiug the furniture
and destroying everything it contained.
Mrs. White cannot be found. and her
whereabouts are unknown.
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STORMS IN THE EAST.
Hall Does Great Damage to Corn in
Iowa.

Hall Does Great Damage to Corn in
Iowa.
ELDoRA la, July 26.-Two inches Of
rain fell here tonight. a hailstorm
passed through the center of the country
from northwest to southeast. Corn in
that district is all destroyed Much dam
age has also been done by the lightning.
ROCKFORD (Ill.). July PA terrific
electrical storm passed over this city to-
night. One man was fatally injured.
GALENA un.), July 26.-Houses are
flooded here by a cloudburst and many
washouts are reported on the lines Of the
various railroads running in here. Tele-
graphic communicates is interrupted.
EAU CLAIRE (Wis.). July 26.-Clara
Scamish. Is years OF age, was instantly
killed by lightning at Altoona City to-
day. One boy was paralyzed. three men
stunned and several houses burned.
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Fire at Madison, Wisconsin,.

MADISON wis.,, July 26.-Fire started
between the poorhouse and the asylum
and got beyond control in few miputes,
spreading in all directions. Superintend-
ent l.. II. Edwards, who went on the roof
TO fight the fire, fell to the ground dis
tance of thirty feet. and was seriously
and perhaps fatally hurt. The buildings
will be complete loss. and it is reported
that some of the inmates were burned.
There were over 100 inmates in the build
ings. Telephone communication has
been cut Oft and nothing definite can be
learned until messengers arrive.
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SHOT TO PIECES.
Fate of Man Who Assaulted a Child
III Mississippi.

Fate of n Man Who Assaulted a Child
III Mississippi.
ST. LOUIS (Mo.), July pa special to
the Chronicle from Hattiesburg, Miss,
says: Tom Johnson, arrested on the charge
Of assaulting and numbering members of
the fairfield family in Perry County last
Sunday night. and who has been in the
hands of a mob since yesterday, made
confession at o. clock this afternoon. He
was notified what would follow and was
given the choice between being shot and
hanged. He chose the former, and at
once a volley OF deadly rifle shots was
poured into his body. He was literally
shot to pieces. 1t is believed that john
son, whose home is in NesLoba County,
thirtyive miles northwest of Meridian,
was also implicated III the murder ami
robbery OF w. II. Farmer and his wife of
this city about three weeks ago.
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SUSAN b. ANTHONY.
Unfounded Report That tho Woman
SuffragIst is Dead.

TOLEDO (O.), July pa report reached
this city tonight that Susan B. Anthony,
the renowned advocate of woman suffrage,
had died suddenly at Lakeside, O.. this
afternoon, where she was in attendance
on the summer assembly.
1t was learned later that the only
foundation for the rumor was the fact
that Miss Anthony had been taken i'll
during the morning with tainting spells.
Her indisposition proved to be nothing
serious, and private message received
here at $40 p. NJ. from Mrs. l.. 5. Frey,
prominent Toledo woman suffragist, con-
veyed the information that Miss Anthony
had entirely recovered, and was to lecture
at the evening session OF the assent bly,.
Miss Anthony takes the place of Rev.
Anna b. Shaw of Boston, who was un-
able to appear because of illness.
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T'arred and Faathered.

LEAvENwoRTH (Kas.), July 26.-T. S.
Rocks, the Baptist minister at West
moreland, the county seat OF Pottawatto-
mie County, was tarred and feathered
last night by four masked men, who
came to his house in q carriage and took
him to the woods. accompanied by his
wife, who insisted on going. The minis
ter is now at farmhouse in critical
condition. The whitecaps accuse him of
assaulting girl, and says he will be shot
if be returns to the county. Threats are
made of lynching on both sides. Mrs.
Rocks says she knows the men and will
get warrants for them.
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RAILROAD DISASTER.
Twelve Persons Killed and Many

Twelve Persons Killed and Many
Others Injured.
PARIS, July ga railroad accident
by which twelve persons lost their lives
and twenty-five were more or less seri-
ously injured occurred near st. Bruise
to-day. a train heavily laden with pill
grims, who were returning from the
shrine of Sainte Dauray, was in some
manner not yet known thrown off the
track and wrecked. Assistance was
speedily sent and everything possible
was done to relieve the sutferings of the
injured. The dead were taken to ST.
Bruise.
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= Very Good Reason.

Ethel (aged 4l-Did you know Adam
named all the animals?
Frances taged 3)-Did he name the ele-
phant?
Ethel-Of course he did.
Frances (after wondering pause
How did he name the elephant?
Ethel lin superior tone)-Why, sup
pose he looked at the elephant and said:
Il think you look just like an elephant,
and [ guess Ill call you-elephant." !"
That's the way he did it.-Harpe1's Bazaar.