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AUSTIN, TEXAS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10 l
NO 13
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COURTRIGHT.
The Noted Texas Desperado and
Character Assassinated in Fort
Worth Last Night.
Ha is Slain by Luke Short
the Port Worth Boss
Gambler.
Jpeiial Telegram to the Statesman.
I'.hit Won ru, February 8. Jiin Courtright, the
;JI-known character of Texas, was assassinated
t-idglit between 8 and 9 o'clock, before the White
h'leohant saloon, by Luke Short, the gambler who
figured so prominently in the trouble at Dodge
Ci'j , Kan., in the winter of 1862 and 188, when the
i.tobling fraternity took possession of that town
dad were finally expelled by a vigilance committee.
Lu'.e Short has long been the king gambler of
Fort Worth. Courtright has been mixed up in
id 'i.iy desperate affrays, and at one time had ac
quired the title of a desperado. His daring esca
patl.) was his escape from the Texas State Han-He;'.-,
and the oHlcera from New Mexico some two
yours ago when extradition papers had' been se
cured, and Courtright was to be taken to New
M-ilcotobetriedfor murder. For more than a
yes: Courtright was a fugitive, spending his time
in New Orleans, New York, Dakota and Canada.
A lnrge reward was offered for his capture, but the
offices never caught him. About a year ago he
g ive himself up, and asked to be taken to New
-Mexico. This was done, and he was acquitted.
ini e his return to FortWortk, as a free citizen, he
aa acted in the capacity of private detective, and
urlng the strike of April last he served as deputy
nlted States marshal, under General Cobell.
iring the present winter. The gamb
lers: under tae leaaersnip oi inline
Sheet, revived Keno. The young men of the city
jn -,-r'j fleeced to such an extent that some leading
vci'.Uens, it is said, including some of our best and
iuuet pruminent merchants employed Courtright
s, tit prosecute enongh cases against the gamblers to
itiut a stop to keno. This fact is what is supposed
: to Lave led to the shooiiug. Courtright was taken
' murvare, and was shot four times
ihe.ore he had time to draw. One
,Ulia' took effect near tue ueart, aeatn resulting in-
' st intly.
Luke Short was at once placed under
Wrest. Coutright leaveB a wite and a 15 year old
lua ighter. lie had many frienda among the busi
mi'is men of the city, due to his bravery. During
'jtlii- ;iot last April, it is learned, that Courtright's
jftunner, B. Ball, tired on Short during the affray
uri'3 Is also under arrest.
HINT3 FROM HASKELL.
Tin Drouth Ended Efforts to Secure a
Railroad,
h, e ual Telegram to the Statesman.
!( iskell, February 8. It seems that the drouth
i a out to eai,jr now fortffhe gives tie rainy
w.iv.her. ForjisTpial days the atmosphere has
i n tilled witlf a mixture of rain, sleet and enow,
v i.i '.h was left on the ground in a frozen state,
l . ir. night it mettled and to day the clouds promise
oiv) igh ra n to last for a season.
'I' e railroad committee, whioh was appointed
; ,-t Monday night, has been working vigorously
, .-' weel'., ana Hie amount oi tuoir subscriptions i.s
. viv sometiiin over fl'i,'). Vm will be uble
for a riili ind u farly twice that amount. A
'ting ol tho citizen-) will be had to-morrow
:iirhi at vMili a delegate will 1)9 elect'!, whose
tiuty It will be to meet the stockholders of the Pen t
Worth Western, ou the ISuki of March at Fort
Worth, and to negotiate with tiicoi in helitilr oi
fie citizen of liaikeli
A bright look ot sutiliction teats on the face of
ttie et'.iruy ariiou- row as he turns the soil upside
d.Mvn prepare ory i planting his crop of rorghuui,
O'lts. etc , ami a mueral eigu i relief wool up-Mt;l.f"Oiutt'v:rf.ri,l(.'innVi-(luv
when iln-v awoke
"to fto'I the slt.-t an 1 Ice ebtnguA to v.-iter which
ii'orn the ere. Iwda afford - relief to tlw thirsty
cattle.
OEOKGETOWN.
Woody Stubbing Allray One Mun Dan
gerously Cut Local Maltevs.
Special Tele-grim to tho Statesman.
GKonoBTowv, February H. On J'K'rrv cnek.
aho it dgh' miles out, another ftori.mf- affrcy oi
: -in i-1 i('H:.'r hiv. It weiiu tuiil a man named John
Kisner and Shin Furieh were at the honseof the
latter'e brother. Kisner and Shin Farish being
di uok, got into a row, and finally begun to a tight.
H'liott Salyer, a bystander, became involved, in an
ctfort either to illit or part the combatants. Shin
1 f.rish thereupon ripped out a knife and stabbed
Sidyer, the knife entering under the left shoulder,
cutting into Hie lungs, lie then cut John Ilisner in
the mouth, almost taking his upper lip off. Salyer's
wounds are reported critical and his physicana
iv his recovery will be a miracle. He had a hem
niorage this morning. Shin Farish has skipped;
his two brothers have Been arrested.
District court finally adjourned to day, after
trying Fat Murray for assuult with the intent to
m'lrder. The accused assaulted a mexican in a
drunken row. at Taylor. Christmas with a very
murderous looking knife, and the strangest thing
nhom it is the Mexican has never been heard of
f aiace. The failure to find the corpus delicti saved
a iriai lor miiruer. rue jury iounu Murray gumy
O' an aggravated assault.
Judge A. S. Walker and District Attorney Rob
ertson returned home for good this evening. '
Maj. J. W.Lane, our efficient district clerk,
hai purchased him acaligraph for his olllce.
))r. J. A. Denson.of Granger, is in town.
lion. James A. Kamsey, of Corn Hill, is among
oi.r people.
Oapt. J. C. Morrow is at home again from an ex
tended canvassing tour.
A new firm has started operations here in the
way of hardware, stoves and tinware, styled S. T.
Atkins & Co., Messrs. Whittle & Harrel repre
senting the company. A fine stock of the same is
arriving.
Your reporter desires to state concerning the
aermon preached by Dr. Held, commented on in
yesterday's Statesman. The doctor did not single
Acatin ootas a epeciully wicked city, but apoke of
it as illustrating the sins of cities generally.
Salvation Oil has ne superior as a pain remedy,
au it coats only 25 cents a bottle.
Failure at Temple.
r.r,nt..1 Tl ...
i Temple, February 8. Quite A ripple of excite
4 liient was created here this morn id g by the an
nouncement that the Temple & Ooesville co
operative business had been sold to Lessera, Rosen
thal & Sulomoj, of Waco, on payment of a debt to
t.'.oni. The liabilities are placed at from $4(1,(1011 to
J 'i,0 JO, and assets that are available are placed at
1" than .$25,000. Several creditors are on the
ground and threaten attachments. The business
wa? incorporated and managed by M. M. Williams,
If a Dyspeptic will take Simmons
Liver Regulator.
"Up to a few woeks ago I considered
myself the champion Dyspeptio of
America. During the years that I have
bean afflicted I have tried almost every
thing claimed to be a specific for Dys
Pi psia in the hope of finding something
that would afford permanent relief. I
had about made up my mind to abandon
n'.l medicines when I noticed an endorse
ment of Simmons Liver Regulator by a
prominent Georgian, a jurist whom
trew, and conolnded to try its effects in
my case. I have used but two bottles,
and am satisfied that I have strnck the
i tr ht thing at last. I felt its beneficial
i fleets almost immediately. Unlike all
ct'ier preparations of a similar kind no
ifjcial instructions are required as to
i at one shall or shall not eat. This fact
; -ne ought to commend it to all troubled
:A Dyspepsia." J. N. Holmes, Vine
i id, N. J.
genuine has our trade mark (Z) in red
front ot wrapper.
J. H. ZEILIS & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
who is regarded as a good business man as well as
a man of integrity. The greater part of the debts
are owing in Waco.
BURNET BUDGET.
Movement to Display Burnet's Mineral
Resources to the World.
Special Telegram te tke Statesman.
Bi'unet, February 8. There was a large crowd
out at the court house lam night to listen to a lec
ture on astronomy.
The office of the Burnet and Mason stage line
will be removed from the Western hotel, in this
city, to the Burnet hotel.
Major Seth Ma'iry passed through this city yes
terday on his way to liis ranch in Mason county.
Mr Ike Colin, a drummer from Now Orleans, is
now very sick at the Burnet hotel in thla city.
Several hundred broad gauge ti-s are now being
delivered at the depot, in luia city, for tho Austin
& Northwestern railroad.
Hon. Carl Uoeth, member of the house from
Blanco county, passed through town yesterday, ac
companied by his daughter, on their way to
Austin. . ,
Llano county has just sold to parties In New
York, $7500 worth of school house bonds, realizing
1)5 cents on the dollar for them. These bonds are
to run ten years and bear 8 per cent, interest
Mr. R. J. Whiteman, of Concho county, is com
fortable situuted at the Burnet hotel.
Mr. R. T. Burnham, overseer of the Slick Rock
road, has filed his annual report: Kleven men
subject to road duty; also Henry Fhillipps, over
peer of the Corwin and Colorado road, recommends
li. Bolinghouse as his successor; twenty-two
men subject to road work; also II. C. Jackson,
overeoer of the third section of the Burnet and
Smithwick mills roads, recommends C. W. Stin
nett as hie successor, and reports eleven men sub
ject to read duty.
The verdict of the coroner's jury In the case of
Miiler, charged with killing McKay, at the quarry,
in this county, was that -McKay came to his death
by knife wounds; said knife in the hands of Miller.
Miller has engaged Vaid Jt Hammond to defend
him, and his preliminary trial will come' off on
Friday before Esquire W. E. Morgan, of this pre
cinct. Mr. u. R. L. Tuberrille appears ta be leading in
tlie race for mayor of this city
Quite a strange move is now being made in this
city to do away with the city goverament. But
should the matter ever be brought to a vote It will
undoubtedly be defeated.
We understand that at the next meeting of the
commissioners' c urt, which will be held in this
city next. Monday, County Judge Crews will recom
mend that the county make an appropriation for
the purpose of making a proper display of the
mineral resources of this county at the Smith
sonian Institute, at Washington city, so that east
ern capitalists can see the great advantages Burnet
county offers for investment of capital. Uen. A. R.
Johnson will furnish a 1 the materials free of
cost to the county, in consideration of the counties
paying for the dressing of the atone and express
charges on shipping.
Pontotoe, in Mason conuty, has one of tlie finest
school buildings and largest attendance of pupils
of any town in that western country. Prof. Burney,
a graduate of the Sam Houston Normal school, is
principal. Prof. Burney is a good educator and a
fine scholar his average at the Normal school be
ing 9'iVt per cent, lie is a brother of Senator
Durnev of the twentieth legislature.
SUPREME COURT.
List of Cases Decided in the Supreme Tri
bunal at Galveston.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
Galveston, February 8. In the supreme court
to-day the following case was affirmed:
J.s. miner vs. Jew iorgs xexas i.ana com
pany, from Houston county
x ue io
manded:
The following cases were overruled and re-
Citv Bank of Sherman vs. Valentine Weiss,
from Jefferaon county.
G. A. Kabb (guardian) vs. M. A. Rogers, et. at.,
from Nueces county.
The case of tue State vs. E. J. Lxcas, et. al.,
fioiij Auttin couutv, was submitted on certificates.
.Motio.iB for a re'li-aring were submitted in the
foH.iwin .' ca ;pb :
P. II. Cumin .li, u al., vs. Hilderbrandt & Co.,
from Harrix co.inij.
J.J. .Hayes vs. Mary Blaton, administratrix,
f'Miu l.lhrtv ..n,.
Join; Well ; ..( I wile vs. City of Houst'n,
f.oin Harris . iit
Motion hv ,; i to dismiss appeal was sub
piittiil in 'lie .; . J. D. Campbell va. MrryJ.
Durrett. et. i ., . ; Cameron county.
trie INCIDENT.
London, K. . ' I. From an interview with
Cj;t. l)unne, i' in charge ot Stanley falls,
oiiV''K-go rier, drriae the recent successful at
t:fc iiy Arahs, and who is now in London, it ap
pr in at li' and Lieutenant Deabois defended the
phii-e ni.lil thvir ammunition was exhausted. The
Arabs tn-r. ir..ack.'d the station with a rush and
c.i-rlr- i ev-.-rytiiir before them, when the whites
t mmi I u.'i-..i.-iH''y to fly. Deane ordered pe
tiMkwi l :'.'-i oii the buildings, and Jet them on
!!. 1'ii. ii I.;.' an-: his parly escaped through
underwood, he and Dea'iois fell from a slippery
rock into the river. Djane swam ashore, leaving
Deabois clinging to tlie rock. While Deane was
seeking assistance for Deabois the latter became
exhausted and fell away from the rock and ivai
drowned. Deane find into the jungle, wi-re he
was hunted and tracked by Arabs tor a moiitu. 11a
was barefooted all the time, and had ouly a blanket
to cover him. He was wounded in the thih and
arm, and lived on locusts and wild fruit uutil
I'niud nud rescued by friendly unlives.
THE F1SUEUY COKHKSrONDENCE.
London, February 8. Sir James Ferguson, par
liamentary secretary for foreign uff ji.a, stated in
the house of commons last evening the corres
pondence between Gieat Britain and the United
States relative to the Canadian fisheries question
would, in a short tim?, be laid before parliament.
The correspondence, he faid. contains full infor
mation about the hiaiory of the whole affair down
to a very recent date. A dispatch from the Do
minion government containing suggestions as to
the modus viraudi between Canada and the United
Stateaisnow on the way to London. The im
perial government could not. therefore, send a
proposal to Washington until the Canadian dis
patch ia received and considered.
COItltKSI'ONDENCK WITH KU33IA,
London, February 8. Ollicial dispatches which
have passed between the Russian and British gov
ernments regarding the Bulgarian question are
published Tney show that the czar approved of
the course of Gen. Kaulbars in Bulgaria, and de
clared that efforts to restore the independence of
that country would be continued.
Lord iddesleigh, then foreign minister, in reply,
said the Russian government s impression of
events of Bulgaria differed widely with those of
the British government. England was equally de
sirous of maintaining the treaties relative to Bul
garia, and of obtaining a pacific solution of the
difficulty.
STICK EXCHANGE FLAT.
London, February 8, 3 p. m The stock ex
change markets are very flat, on lower quotations
from Berlin and rumors that Alsace-Loraine
would be declared in a state of siege.
Adjudged Insane.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
Palestine. February S. Frank Peoples, who
attempted suicide on Saturday by throwing himse f
in front of a movinir enuine. was adjudged insane
in the county court to day, and will be sent to the
insane asylum ai Terrell, lae nnionunaie man
is almost constantly in a raging condition and begs
to be killed, and believes that he is soon to oe ex
ecuted. His first indication of insanity was during
the Christmas holidays. He came to town, took
three drinks ot liquor and went uomeand cut nis
throat with a razor. He has never been quite
rational since.
, Closed Out.
Special Telegram to thi Statesman.
McKiN.tEr, February, 8. John C. Scott, dry
goods, was closed by attachment last night, the
attachment aggregating about $3 00. The goods
will invoice about ten or eleven thousand dollars.
SPAIN'.
IRRITATION AGAINST THE FRENCH.
Madrid, February 8. Much irritation is caused
in Spain bv the news that the French minister at
Tangier, had induced the eultan of Morrocco to
assent to an alteration of a portion of the frontier
which adjoins Algeria, so as to secure to France
the fertile valley of the Mu Iweego river, and also
important strategic positions commanding the
valley.
GERMANY.
TnlNKS THE INDICATION SERI0CS.
Berlin, February 8. The Berliner Nachrichten
savB Geaeral Von vloltke, in receiving i deputa
tion of conservative electors, declared the .political
situation wa most serious, and authorized tue
deputation to give publicity to his statement.
A pleasant, safe, reliable and cheap remedy i
Dr. BuU's Cough Syrup. Price 2fi cent.
THE M'MILLAN CASE
The Examining Trial Begun
Yesterday Morning.
Synopsis of Testimony as Taken
by Justice Calhoun.
The examining trial of John McMillan,
charged with the murder of Mike Gran-H1.-11,
was oommenood before Justice Cal
houn yesterday morning. Mr. McMillan,
attended by his counsel, Judge Sheeks,
was in the court room. Always quiet and
retiring in manner, a stranger would
never have seleoted from the crowd the
modest an unassuming young man to be
the one against whom so grave a oharge
was pending. The following is a synop
sis of the testimony that was taken yes
terday. The examination will be con
tinued to-day:
Mr. Ben Fessel, n witness for the state,
being duly sworu upon oath: My name is
Ben A. Pessels; I liye in Austin, Travis
oounty, Texas; I know Mr. JoUn McMillan
(pointing to the defendant as the John
McMillan); I have known Mr. MoMillan,by
sight, some years ago, when he was in the
employ of Mr. Fuedberger; I know what
occurred in the store; I had just arrived
a few moments at the store on January
31, at Sohoolherr fc Bro.; Mr. McMillan
was standing on the sidewalk speaking to
a man; I could not tell wheteer a customer
or not; Mr. McMillan entered the store,
seated himself on a stove; he was facing
the street; he had hardly taken his seat
when Mr. Grannell made the remark;
''Is it alive?" Mr. MoMillan turned his mous
tache with both hands; Mr. Grannell then
said, "by God it moves, I believe it is
alive;" Mr. McMillian arose from his
chair, and walking towards Mr. Grannell,
the forefinger of his hand extended in
Mr. Grannell's direction, said: "Don't do
that again." Mr. Grannell making some
querry response, Mr. McMillan said, "God
dam you or dam you," (I can't say the
exact words) don't do that again, as Mc
Millan said, "God dam you," don't do
that again, Mr. Grannell said, "you don't
God dam me," and started to the front to
meet McMillan, MoMillan walking in the
same direction to meet Grannell. When
MoMillan entered the store and seated
himself on the stool Mr. Grannell was stand
ing about 'the middle of the dress goods
counter behind tho same; when Mr. Mo
Millan approached Mr. Grannell, he was
standing about opposite him on
the front side of the counter;
as they approached each other
Mr. Grannell had to go to the end of the
counter and wait, ho, Grannell, being
behind the counter; as they met about
the outside oorner of the counter Mr. Mo
Millan did not cover tho same distauce in
approaching Grannell a3 Grannell did in
approaching MoMillani to ths best of my
knowledge Grannell struck the first blow;
hardly had the blow been struck when he,
Grannell, seemed to reel back, and, when
I saw him, lie was lyitiif on the edge of
the sidowulk on the outside of the store;
Mr. McMillan turned about and passed by
me down the aisle toward the rear of tho
store; when Mr. Grunnoll reeled back he
exclaimed: "Oh! ..God!.. I . nm stabbfed!
Ben, I am stabbed!"' I immediately ran
towards where he was lying, when he again
said: "I am stabbed, vun for a doctor!"
1 immediately wont for a physician,
and from there went to the
Driskill hotel for Louis Sohool
herr; when I arrived at the store
Mr. Grannell was lying inside the store on
the floor; immediately after the difficulty
MoMillan walked to the rear of the store;
he had something in his hand; tho weapon
ia his hand, to the best of my knowledge
nnd belief, was a two-edged blade, about
six inches long, I judge; I did not see the
weapon any more; that is the last I saw
of McMillan or the knife; if ho had the
knife in his hand when he was sitting on
the stool I did not see it; his back was
towards me; I did not see the knife in Mo
Millan's hand at any time before on that
day; the knife I saw in MoMillan's hand
when he went to the rear of the store did
not have the blade of a pocket knife;
from what I saw of the knife I judged it
to be a dirk or dagger; I did not hear Mc
Millan say anything, nor the deceased,
except what I have already stated;
I am a clerk at Sohoolherr & Bro.'s;
deceased and defendant were also em
ployed there; they did not get along
asrreeably together; I think they wore un
friendly pretty near all the time MoMil
lan had been in the store; Mr. McMillan
had been in the store about five weeks; the
morning of the difficulty, Mr. Grannel ad
dressed soma words to Mr. McMillan; if
they had any quarrels previous to the
difficulty, I did not witness it; at the
time of the difficulty, in whioh deoeased
was stabbed, deceased had nothing in his
hand; I do not know whether deceased
had his coat on or not; at the time of
the difficulty, the persons in the store
were Mr. Grannell, Mr. McMillan (defend
ant), Miss Emma Wolf and myself; those
are the only persons I saw in the store;
I don't think I would have any doubt of
the defendant being the person who stab
bed Grannell as he was
the only person in reach
of Grannell at the time;
as far as I could judge from the motion
the defendant struck back at deceased.
Cross-examined by counsel for defend
ant: Tho person to whom defendant
was talking at the time he was standing
in front of the store, was a gentleman; I
do not know who he was; Grannell was
standing on the south side of the store
when MoMillan came in from the front of
the store; MoMillan sat down on a stool
on the north side of the aisle; I was stand
ing on the north side of the store, behind
the hosiery oounter a counter directly
opposite the one behind which Grannell
was standing at the time McMillan was
seated on' the Btool; Grannell was about
eight feet farther back in the store than
McMillan; if Grannell pointed his finger
at McMillan, whon he first addressed him,
I did not see it, but from the manner in
which he spoke, any one
could have easily seen that
he addressed himself to defendant;
I considered the remark made by Gran
nell addressed to MoMillan to be a
guying one; I do know of Granrell
carrying a pocket knife, but if he ever
carried a pistol I did not know it; if he,
(Grannell) at' the time he advanced
towards McMillan, put his hand back
towards his hip pocket, I did not see it,
on the morning of the day of the diffi
culty, I think Grannell made some remarks
to McMillan, the substance of whioh were,
I think, to invite McMillan out in the
back yard; I do not know of Grannell
making the remark, to some one, that
MoMillan had out him with a ' pooket
knife; Grannell seemed to realize that he
was mortally wounded and asked me to
get Father Peter for him; I do know that
Grannell had a pair of brass knucks
some months ago, it may
have been six months, for he tryed to sell
them to me, I did not buy them.
Re-examined by state: Mr. Gran
nell did not, at the time he
made the remark just before the dilHonlty,
have a vicious look on his face. He did
not look to be angry at that time; when
Grannell came from behind the oounter, I
thought there would merely be a fight; I
did not think it would be anything seri
ous. The expression on Grannell's face
at the time he came from behind the
counter was that of an angry man.
J. E. Kennerly, a witness for the state,
being duly sworn upon oath, says: I live
in Austin, Travis county, Texas; I am a
city policeman; I was a policeman on the
31st day of January last; I saw the defend
ant on that day; I know nothing of the
difficulty except that he was pointed out
to me and I arrested him; he wub on Con
gress avenue in a stora known as Sohool
herr &, Bro.'s; I oannot say how long after
the difficulty I arrested the defendant; not
longer than five minutes I think; Fessels
and a young lady were in the rear of the
store when I entered, and the defendant,
I am not positive in regard to Mr. Pessels,
but it was a young man; the defendant
was about thirty feet from the front door
when I arrested him; he had on his coat at
the time I arrested him; I saw nothing in
his hand when I arrested him; after I took
defendant to the police station I searohed
defendant, and found a pair of soissors
and a pooket knife, it was a small knife,
four-bladed with one of the blades brokeu
out; blades two and one-half inches loug;
I examined the knife; there was no blood
on the defendant; before I arrested
McMillan I carried the deceased into the
store with some others; I asked the de
oeased who did this and he said MoMillan;
Mr. Simon then called my attention to
the defendant and I arrested him, the de
fendant; the deoeased had no coat on
when I assisted to raise him from the
side walk, but he had a vest on; I saw no
knife or pistol or weapon of any kind on
or about him; I would have seen any if he
had had any in his hands; I was about
the fourth or fifth person who reached the
defendant.
Cross-examined by defendant: I gave
the knife to Billy Uornsby; I made no
search for weapons on the person of Gran
nell. I. S. Simon stated: My name
is I. S. Simon; I live in Austin,
Travis county, Texas; I know defendant;
I have known him thirteen or fourteen
years; I also know deoeased; I have known
him ever since he worked for Sohoolherr
&, Bro.; I saw defendant and deoeased on
the 31st of January last, between 2 and 3
o'clock, at Sohoolherr Bro's., store on
Congress avenue, in Austin, Travis county,
Texas; my attention was oalled to Sohool-
herr's store by deoeased, who was sitting
on the curbstone, holding to a post and
crying for help; aftor hearing hiir. I loft
my rebtaurant and went over where de
ceased was, to find out what was the mat
ter; when I got over there the young lady
whp.0is;fe4, tos. Rohoolherr Bros, tteeinodi..
very much excited; I asked her who cut
Mike Grunnell; she said John McMillan
did it; I then turned to look for McMillau;
I snw him back in the roar of the
store; he seemed to be busily en
gaged for a few minutes; I saw him work
ing among some blankets and quilts; he
worked with them for a few minutes; he
then advanced toward the front of the
store, until he pot half way to front door
as far up as the first counter; he waited
there; he did not have anything in his
hands that I could see, but I did not look
closely; I saw in the store at that time
Miss Woolf, a policeman, myself and sev
eral others, who brought Mike in the
store; I asked the policeman why he did
not arrest the man; he told me that he
did not know who it was that did the cut
ting; I then told him the defendant was
the man who did the cutting, and then the
policeman arrested defendant; I saw no
weapons of any kind about the person of
deceased, or on the sidewalk anywhere
about him; if there had been any weapon
of any kind visible I could have seen
them; when my attention was first called
to deceased no one was about
him, but before I reached him several
persons had gotten to him; I remained in
the store quite a while after defendant
had been arrested; I closed up the doors
of the store to keep the crowd out; the
deceased had en no ceat; he may have had
a knife in his pocket; I did not look to
see, I don't know what deoeased had in his
poo kets.
Cross-examination: When I first saw de
fendant I was standing in the front door
of Schoolherr's store; McMillan wbb in the
store, in the northwest corner of the room;
I was about 100 or 125 feet from defend
ant; I saw defendant among the quilts
back there; what he did I do not know; I
do not know what he did with the quilts,
but do know he was not folding them; I
did not make any search for anything at
the place I first saw MoMillan;
I saw Mike when he was un
dressed; he was then at the hospital;
I did not see defendant do anything ex
cept he was moving about there in the
northwest corner of the store among those
quilts.
Miss Emma Woolf stated: I know de
fendant in this case; I have known him
for about six weeks; I knew Mike Gran
nell; I have known him for the past two
years; he is now dead; deceased and de
fendant were, on the 31st day of January
last, clerks in Sohoolherr Bros.' store, in
the city of Austin, Travis county, Texas;
I was in Schoolherr's store at the time of
the difficulty between deoeased and de
fendant, on the 31st of January, 1887; it
occurred between 2 and 3 o'olook in the
evening; I was employed by Sohool
herr Bros. at the time; Mr.
McMillan, the defendant, wag out
on the sidewalk in front of Sohoolherr
Bro.'s store on Congress avenue; he walked
in the store and sat) down on the front
stool in front of the door on the right
hand side as you go in the store; Mr.
Grannell was standing behind the oounter
on the opposite side; when Mr. MoMillan
came in the store Mr. Grannell made the
remark, "Is it alive," or something of that
kind; when Mr. Grannell made this re
mark Mr. MoMillan arose from the stool
and started towards the counter behind
which Mr. Grannell was standing; Mr. Mo
Millan said some words and cursed Mr.
GrannelL and said something: what he
said 1 do not know; I stepped back about
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that time; Mr. Grannoll Baid: "I will not
take it," or something of that kind, And
walked from behind the counter where he
had been standing; ns Mr. Grannell
walked around towards Mr. McMillan they
olinohed eaoh other; I again walked back
I did not know that deoeased was stabbed
until he walked out on the sidewalk, and
said, "My God, I am stabbed;" McMillan
thon stepped back towards the rear of the
store just how far, I do not know; he
came forward again and picked up some
thing on the floor; what it was, I do not
know, and then stepped back again; de
fendant thon stepped forward again, just
as the policeman came in the store; when
they brought deceased in the store I
asked to be excused and left; I don't know
whether deoeased had on his coat or not,
but think he did; I never saw anything in
defendant's hands; I did not look to see
whether defendant had anything in his
hands or not; I saw defendant step back
towards the rear of the store, but I don't
know how far back he went; I did not
notice how far back defendant went; my
-attention was attraoted to the
scene on the sidewalk; when
defendant came in the store and
took his seat on the stool; I did not
notice any knife or weapon of any kind
about him; I did not see anything in de
ceased's hands; he was f acinar me when I
first saw him after he was stabbed; I think
he had his hands up to his side, but oan
not say positively as I was very much ex
cited at the time; if there had been any
weapons on or about the person of de
ceased, or on the sidewalk near him, I
could have seen them; I don't know what
deoeased may have had in his pockets;
deoeased and defendant had been in the
Btore together for about six weeks; I
don't think deoeased and defendant were
on friendly terms; I never saw them
speak to eaoh other while I was there; we
all worked In the same store.
Cross-examined: I never saw any
weapons in the hands of Mr. Grannell;
that same morning in the back part of
the store I heard him say: "Is It
alive?" and "If it will come
outside of the store
will not be five minutes," or some such
words; Mr. McMillan and Mr. Pessels run
baok then; Mr. Pessels was at the booki;
I can not say that it was spoken to Mr
MoMill an; that was the first time I ever
heard him pay it; I do not know that he
was in the habit of taunting Mr. Mo
Millan; when Mr. Grunnoll spoke, at the
tune of tho diluoulty, I was standing just
outside of his cotiuter; as soon as he said
thone words I stepped to the outujde of
uut counter on tue norm suie, near tne
baok nnd; in the morning, at the time
Grannell nindo the remark that I spoke
of, he was walking toward the back end
of the store, and went right along; I did
not see him put his hands baok as if to
his hip pooket; as he said the words I
looked up and then looked down again;
I have been in the same store with Mr.
Grannell for two years; he is not a rough,
cross and orabid man, but is rather a man
of a playful and jocular disposition; Mr.
Grannell is an Irishman and witty. On
the morning of tho 31st of January, when
Mr. Pessells, deoeased and defendant were
in the rear of the store, none of them
seemed to be angry; from the manner of
deceased I did not think he was angry,
but in the evening when deceased started
from behind the oounter towards defend
ant both Seemed to be angry.
Dr. F. P. McLaughlin, a witness, says:
"My place of residence is at the city hos
pital in the city of Austin; I am a phy
sician and surgeon; I knew Mike Grannell
by sight; I saw him in the evening of the
day he was brought to the hospital and
examined his wounds; he had three
wounds, a slight wound on the anterior
part of the left arm, about one or two
inches from the shoulder; he had another
wound posterior to the shoulder, about
three-fourths inoh in length and one and
one-half inches deep; the third wound was
in the left side, a little posterior to the
axellary line; the wound in the skin was
obliquely and between the ninth and tenth
ribs; then the knife penetrated between
the eighth and ninth ribs, the out between
the ribs was about the same size as the
one through the skin, one and three-fourths
inches in length; the instrument passed
through the lower part of the prural cavity,
outting the diaphram, it being the same
in size as that through the skin and ribs;
the diaphram being out just a quarter of
an inch from its attachment to the ribs,
the instrument penetrated the stomach,
making an incision about one-half an inoh
in Ienirth; I found the contents of the
stomach in the prural and abdominal cav
ities; there was no foreign body found;
I considered the wounds fatal; deoeased
died from the shock caused from the
wound.
Cross examined: I cannot say whether
any of the important blood vessels were
cut; I measured the depth of the wound,
and found that from the outside of the
skin it had penetrated about two and a
half inches, as near as I conld judge; I
think the wounds could have been done
with the knife shown mo, (the knife being
the one identified as the one taken from
the prisoner at the time of his arrest.)
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Tips, the prominent hardware merchant,
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from many good friends, will attend the
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gether, and with the wishes for a bon voy
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DOMESTIC.
Legal Inquiry Into the Causes of
the Accident of White
Eiver Junction.
Convict uobollion at Asheville,
N. C.--An Ignorant South
Carolina Negro.
White Itivia Junction, Vt., February 8.
Ollicial investigation into circumstances connected
with the railroad disaster, of Saturday, began to
day under direction of the board of railroad com
missioners of Vermont.
The llrst witness was Chae. H. Pierce. He was
engineerof the unfortunate train. After describe
ing the train, he said: "We sliMiild have
left by the time table at 1:40 s. m., but were an
hour and a half late, leaving at u:10 a. m. We ran
at regular schedule rate, making up no time before
tlie bridge was reached, then slowed up, as usual,
and a little more so, as the air brakes seemed to
take hold better. We applied the . air brakes about
three times the length of the train back from
the brlilge, -which was the usual
place. Never went over the bridge
wiiiioui slowing up; enouid judge me speed ot
the train to have been about eight miles per. hour.
1 noticed nothing unusual; no jar or jerking ot
any kind before reaching the bridge, or, in fact,
any time until my engine came to a standstill. I
was sitting on my seat looking ahead when the
first unusual thing occurred, which was the sound
of the alarm bell from the care.
We were then about the middle of tho bridge. It
struck but once; my hand was within a foot of the
lever which applies the air brakes. The brakes
were left off before reaching the bridge. We
never work steam across a bridge. I applied my
rakes inatautly but did not reverse my engine at
all. After applying the brakes I looked oat ot my
window, then being about two-thirds ot the way
across the bridge, and I saw the rear Pullman
ot the train falling from the rear
end of the bridge. In failing it drew the three
next cars with it, when the coupling evidently
broke between the smoker and first passenger car.
Haggage Master Cole, employed on th train
which went down, said that the first Intimation of
the trouble was, he should juuge, at the end ot
bridge, where there was a sharp
shock. My theory is that the first
passenger car was oil the track before reaching
the bridge, but because of frozen ground, it ran
smoothly until the bridge was reached.
George Parker, brakeuuin, who Jumped fromtli
train just before it retuhed the brl.igo, teuiled
that the train was going at the rate of seven
or eight miles an Lour. He remembered
seeing lire fly from the n heels, rails ami spikes as
the cars passed him. He could not say whether
all the trucks of the cam w'r off the truck or not
when he jumped; were euro the rcur oues were.
Did nut know of the conductor applying
the air brakes; did not algii.'il the
engineer did not know of the conductor doing so.
Witness' duty would havn been to pull the bell
cord or apply the car brakes. The reason he did
not was that he was so rxcltedthe car shaking
badly, up anil downj eliould think there w re
twenty five or thirty passengers In tlie forward car.
MEETING IN CAMP.
Forty Convicts Babel and Itefuse
to
Work and are Pirod Upon.
Asheville, N. C, February S A meeting took
dace yesterday at the convict camp, four miles
rom the city. For sevxrul wwks these men have
been restive, complaining of the hard work im
posed upon them, and alleged lack of food.
During the pact week several
new criminals ' were added to the
ganir, and on Saturday night there were eU!encef
of coming trouble. AU!y Sunday the men hud
dled close together and refused to talk to the
guards. When dark i.uue and the men were
ardered to retire far tlie night, the party refused
to do so. Several offlcei i entered the stockade to
reason with the men, v hen they were n.et with
fusilade of stones which mo convicts had quietly
stored away In barrels. TluoUicera retired, closed
the gates quietly, and put og douhl wiitch for the
night. The forty rebels sat up all nl'n-lit, makiug
tlie night hideous with their curses.
Yesterday morning whtn the force was
ordered out to work, si.rty answered
but forty still refused. The guards, who only
numbered ten, tired over the heads of the men, but
cries of defiance were the ouly reply; the meu, say
ing they were not afraid of blank cartridges. The
guards discharged several volleys directly into the
mutinous crowd peppering them profnsniy with
bird shot. This brought them to their H.'nv'.:), but
secured for them a place ln.the hospital instead of U
on the road. They still declare they Will not
work.
AN INCHED TILE BTORV.
A Negro Who Has Just Heard of His
Emancipation,
Cimu.KSTotf, H. C, Fel iii.iryU. Information of
a reliable character has j e t been received, of the
discovery of a negro man In one of the narrow val
loys near Hogback mi'U.-aila, not fur from
Oreenvllle, who has jnl learned of
hie emancipation. He lea gieat. broad negro of
heavy physique. His history ie, since the war, ho
has been working for Al. Holly, and (hat he was
not allowed to come buck to his kin
folks, and that he was floi'ged by his mat-ter
who gave him no money and few clothes- The
man's name Is Vouman. He ran off. He was only
recently heard of by his brother, w lis lives niar
Greenville, and who rescued him from servitude
last week.
CANADA.
BItlTISIl UI.UFT.
St. Johns, February 8. A distinguished British
naval officer and member of the imperial parlia
ment, now in the city, says the imperial govern
ment will dispatch s reinforcement to the North
American squadron early in the spring to actually
support Canada's protest against American poach
ing in the fisheries.
BEACU AND IMNLAN,
Toronto, February 8. Mr. Beach has accepted '
Ilaulan'e challenge to row on the Nepean river.
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