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V lmk & All OVER THE STATE. Crisp and Choice C'U'ngj Condensed Iho Daily Press. from RACY ROUND-UPS RENDERED READABLE. A Complete Breviary of Interesting (term Gathered from All Parti of the Empire State of Tern Carefully Selected, m At Sherman leccntly, In ausner to a tolepnun from GalnesUllo to tho chief of pollco, l'atiolmaa Anderson took In churgo nnd placed In detention two girls, Misses Llla Chaudlon und Maude ltossoau, duughtets of well-to-do and rospoUed families In Gaines ville. They woto at tho homo of a cousin of tho former when tho ofilcor found them. They were taken back home. Hyllo Burnett, a onstable In tho Sowers' precinct, Dallas county, ar rested Alf Meyers wanted In bhack elford county on a chargoof burglary, ,llurnctt let Meyers get hold of gun, hen Myors started to run with Uur netJ a'te r him, and shooting began between them. Burnett Is dead, and Meyers le In jail wounded In thieo places. Tho body of Mrs. Miles Stacy was found hanging near Datngerfiod. The ropo suspending her corpse was made of'somo clothing known to havo been worn by her. Tho garments woie torn into strips of equal width, tied together and tulstcd into a ropo. No eauso for self-destruction Is known, unlc ss It was on account of bad health. Frank Milllkan cut his wlfo serious ly, If not fatally, and then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Tailing in this ho then shot himself in the forehead with a load of squirrel shot, but this failed to kill him. Ho was arrested by Deputy Spaiks and Constable Massey and lodgod in jail at Giddlngs. Charloy Stevens and Beu Williams of Hlslug Star, Eastllnjj county, were oleaning some guns and pistols. Stevens had oiled a slxshootor and .laid It down. Williams, not knowing It was loaded, took it up and snappod it. Tho ball passed through tho palm -of his left hand, and turned up, lodg ing under tho collarbone Henrj C. Tarks and Miss Belle Rhodes, Will Hanson and Miss Llllle Shcller, all of Denlson, eloped In tho samo carringo and woie driven to Justice Mixon's residence In North Denlson and married 'while sitting in the carrlago. - f JAt Eastland, UttJujFred MurchllbJ found'ajlaf ee jallber fcartrldeoSand -pceehWflf-niasb." Jtj on(TooekSjIt explddedtearlngfaway" thoj' flesh i on thumb 'and forellnor of ono'of his hand. The doctors say tho hand will bo saved. Nathaniel i. nrors Is In jail ut Sun Antonio. Ho b wanted at La mar, Mo., for Ualn lobbcry m i :ia ho will go without lequlsltiou pu(uis Near Blaokjack ,(ioi". IlnpMiu county, Mi lam x M. 1 h.l i s an oU Iran, droppoa de. J liu vatvittug Mr. A. 1'unt, un old conuadu in urnw At LongUew loct'ntly Cai tain IJhk Kvans, wlillo switching In the juncll n yard, got his foot caught in a car itnd had tho bono broken noar tho unklo K. ,f. Cash, who shot and killed ltobort Karl at (Julntunu, hrazoila county iecnt,, after a tin ce day's ex amining trial has been rofused bull. Smith county peaches aro Boiling lnDenerfoi' ii76U per car, guaran teeing a not prollt of 50.). Veiy hoavy shipments are being mado. T. A. Lather, an old mun living near Wllmcr, shot himself while ox amlng a pistol, tho ball ontorlng his foot, lnlllctlng a painful wound. Squlro Joffoison, tho Robinson county nogro rapist, carrlod to l'alos tlno for safe keeping, Is still in jail. Ho is G feet 7 Inches in height. Vlccnta Davilla shot and killed a woman named Virginia Gonzales near tdlnbui g and then tried to kill him self. Jealousy was tho cauBO. At New Biaunsfels while two citi zens wero watching tho rain a mete orlo rock fell closo to thorn, which they took to bo a cannon ball. At Yoakum an unknown man came to his death by drinking water from a bauol that had been used for hold ing a cotton worm destroyer. Miss Kate Molntyre of Philadelphia, Fa., Is visiting her sister, Mrs. J, T. McGraw, in Tort Worth, whom she has not soon for thirty years. b- A MINISTER IS SHOT AT I'.'hllo Talking lo (t'tr Husband, a Woman Pullio Down on Him. Crazy TWO MEXICANS ARE t KILLED AT AUSTIN. Domingo Grandoi Run Over by a Train at Hempilead and li Kllltd-MVot and Stabbgd to Death In Walker Cow luntjr. ;" LULINQ. Tex.. Aur?. 14 Mrtr Lewis, wife dfja shoemaker who has Leon living1 hWgbnly -a short time, oxhibltod filgnso "dementia yosteulay morning. Ho v. i J. M. White, who Ilvos near theriiStag that It was neeesaty to ifrf' stops loiestiain her, aUempteitLjlnteivIew with her husband. Shemjylolently protested and d.splayodsfii revolvor, Baying: White, if yotfSdonH leave my hus band alono antfpet out from here, I will shoot youfctr, K0Vt Mr. White a3 a llttlo b16w in obeying her; ho lepeatod hor command, and on his further refusal Jo' tobey flred at him, but missed heri'mark. She was after ward arrested by, tho county officials and will be hefd. lincstralnt until tho necessary procedure to send her to tho asylum can bo .had. TakeaVllU Own Life. AtJSTry, Tex,' Aug. 12. Harry Cnmpboll, a well-known cotton buyer committed eulctdo shortly after 0 o'clock yesterday morning by shoot ing himself at hlsjf father's rosldoneo, on fled River street. He came in fiom Fredericksburg, having boon lit ing there with his family sinco tho close of tho la?t cotton eoason, and It was supposed holntended to work for A white girl child, apparently about some of the cotton handlers hcto. four days old, with its head crushed. Nothing In his action Bhowed that he was found floating in the Coloiado conti tnplated killing himself. Later rivor at Austin. No clow. Campbell sat up In bod and placed tho Dr. Douas, who lives a few miles tho "iU7Zlo to his breast and flred, tho from Tyler, exhibited a box of raisins , ball going through his body and tho which he manufactmed from muscat headboaid tho bed. grapes raised on his farm. "'"'' m .tit i I Two Mexicans Kllletl, Two nogroes wore held up by mask- . m r , ed highwayman in Dallas recently. Austin, Tox., Aug. 14.-Saturday and robbed of flOl. No clow. ' clSht as tn0 Houston & Texas Central , , . . -T 8 o'clock oxpross; was pulling out of Cy Bennett wanted in Isavarro the yards and had?passed tho last sec county on soen Indictments has been tion house, just outBldo of tho city airested In Kaufmsn county. HmIt8 it ran iuto a Wfl-on containlng 1'xourslons aro being enjoyed from two Mexicans, killing both and mak- Victoila to Tort Lavacca, as also ing kindling wood out of the wugon. from Galveston to Houston. It seems that thoyVero attempting to A petition Is being clioulated for a cross tho track just ahead of the train local option election in the Leonard Qnd woro not qulteguick enough. precinet of 1 aunin country. Alexander, who was recently arresteff In Franklin county, charged with train robbing at this placo May 24, had a preliminary trial jcatorday and his bond was fixed at 42500 to await tho action of tho grand jury It Is supposed that Kid has already tutned state's evidence In tho case. A prominent tanchman of this placo was arrested yesterday and his bond fixed at fSOOO. After his arreBt. while tho oillcers wero seat chlng him, ho and Doputy Sheriff Good fellow got into a dltliculty and several blows passed. Goodfollow has a vory black oje. At this writing offlcors ho Btartcd after Will Toaguo, who Is out on Noah Armstrong's lanch, and will tearrest him and placo him under bond in this samo robbing caso. A GENEflAL BREVIARY.! Interesting Hems (rem Alf Over (ha Soleclecl Irm Various Sources. Worlt" Dlotl on tho Train, Tempif, Tox.r Aug. I2- Thursday, just beforo tho Bouth-bound Santa To rolled into Temple, Mr. J. I). bpears, a passenger died. Ills home wat in San Angelo, and ho hud been to Dal las for treatment, being far gono with consumption, aggravated by a bowel trouble. lie was accompanied by a young man as attendant and neither thought a few moments before that thero was any immediate danger. Ho died suddenly and without premoni tory symptoms. The body was em balmed here and shipped to San An golo. A RILL AND COMPREHENSIVE" REVT,V, Embracfflfl Srtoui atrf Samillonal Happbnlnoi, n& Current Nei Covering Manjr Topkt ol Interest 10 All Rciitft, TederaP Judge Kow of Las Angeles, Cat., has decided that soction 1 of tho Geary act, providing for imprison- mo nt at hard labor, lain contravon-' tion of tho canstitutlon of tho United Statos, and an unjust and infamous punishment whore no eriine is com mlttod. Ho Iwld that the remainder1 of t&o act Is valid. Suit for $20000 has boon com monced In the United States court at Topcka, Kan., sgalnst tho Hock Is land railway by 13. S. Stahley, of Hor ton, who claim? damages to that amount by reason of injury to hhr spino whilo in tho smploy of the com pany. I'oterMndlson. a Mormon bishop, of Salt IakG, Utah, had a hoarlng be foro Commissioner Dudley on tho chargo of unlawful cohabitation and was bonnd over to tho grand jury In fcOOO ball. Tho alleged plural wife, Anna Madson, who is tho principal witness, held In $200 bond. Mrs. Cora Host ot Canton, III., has brought ault for 5000 againt J. D. Tntnl Kxploilon. Marshall, Tex., Aug. 10. While the 6 o'clock whistlo was blowing at tho Marshall Lumber company's plan, incr milt vostoidav mornlm? tho bolter exploded, killing ono whlto boy and a j Smith, a saloonkeeper of that place, negro mun oumgnt unu uumy injur- i 0P ttu0gcd damages. A year ago, Ing another white boy and two whlto Andrew Wai field killed Best and It men. Tho killed aro Tom Smalloy, 17 was 8ata Warfleld was drunk and had vears old, Ed Kennedy, colored, and procurod his liquor at Smith's saloon. Tom Hill, a lfl-yuar-old boy, who dlod . . n . , ,n --- tn i, fhnn Jn i,mi. nf.m. )kn. At a recent execution for murder in ivuaiii.it, uu viuiittu nu oiii uug uu cunenct Joe Imght, a workman, and John HUI, night watchman, woro scalded about tho faco. Qunrantlnc Austiv, Tox., Aug. 12 Quarantine has been doclatod and established against Pcnsacola by Stato Health Olllcer Swcaringen undor tho general proclamation Issued by tho governor March 29. Any person coming from clear sky, and the stars from iensacoia wunoui a permit, ai iuo bolder quarantine station will bo sub ject to fine jtnd imprisonment. Stations have beon equipped at all eastern railway entrances to tho state and every offort will bo mado to keep tho stato clear of tho disease. S. C. Prince, city marshal of Waxa hachle. has reslgnod and A. V. Par- Foucht With KnUcn. Corsioana, Toi'Aug. 14, John u' arriTmiTiri liorl it vu.v, .Wftt State Health Olllcer Swearnengon, has had a car toad of rags stopped at Kaglo Pass. They were from Duran go, Mex., where small pox and typhoid fever have been raging, an,d aro billed to parties In St. Louis, Mo. The county attorneys In their con vention at Fort Worth passed resolu tions asking tho twentv-fout th legis lature to repeal tho law that gives defendants twlco as many peremptory challenges as is allowed tho state. Gustavo Sloan found a handsome pearl In an oyster shell at Velasco recently, which is the third largest pearl found there this year. Two others were found by negiocs, who sold them for $S3 and $50. At Sherman, recently, a son of Mrs. Myra Waid, a widow, dropped a coal of fiie into some looso powder which ho found In the yaid. It ox plodcd, soveicly burning him about the head and face. 'Iho session of tho university for 189391 will open in the departments oflltotaturo, science, arts and law at Aubtln, September 27, 1898. De partment of medicine at Gahebton, October 2, 1898. J, II. Hobbs has filed suit against the rrlsoo railroad at Paris for $U 000 on account of Injuries caused by the bursting of a steam guago on a locomotive whlto he was employed as .fireman. fho step-daughtor of J. 13. Moore, who lives six miles northwest fiom Grcemillo took an overdose of mor phine. The doctor who waited on her said that her condition was critl-cal. A negro named Bill Smith, whose farm is about five mites southwest of Hempstead, had his house, stable and .farming implements burned, being .struck and sat on fire by lightning. Recording Clork Cross of tho land oflico deposited with tho comptroller fees received during tho month of July as follows; Office fees, $373.40; patent fees, $519; total, $927, ift At HalsviUe, Harrison county, A. S. Buchanan was thrown from n tram car. His arms was broken in itnreo places and he was otherwise .seriously hurt, ) The police of Fort Worth denomi nate a band' of tough small boys ta lUiat City as the "corn dodger gang.'1 !.... . .it Mrnnp nnri .inn vvi yeg naaeen appotniea. j iuuliaef,a5a,W'rfh5hii.tf ni.3,r7yrrvri3T'-".ijL '-' . "i-ti. ? TUB .Catholic churehTdestroved dur-l'rv.'.rvwnn.risr-iiiJl "TV 5?j:;r-ti,LiLTh: 'lnff.tbo laST TOag Mr.WJ'o Witfawllo, aftojftwo fmofl faml tSllflft nvnlnna tint WW "tTWWJ,U5r.-..:...j.-i.iyjS. ,il5i tS'?..i. t. Tho newspapers and city aiithorl- othem, rssulttngln Yatts being out ties ol Fort Worth aro still alter twice In the short rlbi to the hollow, tho variety theaters. and he Is In a critical condition. A mineral well near San Augustine Stiodo was badly cut In tho lott arm. Is said to possess all the properties of ' ' . tho Wooten wells. Killed )r a Train. Tho boll worm has appeared In1 IlEsirSTEAD, Ter., Aug. 14. A small numbers In several parts of man, supposed to bo a Mexican by Lamar county rcRlstratlon papers found on his body A school house to cost $2700 has , ia"a ban AntonW 1892, was run been contracted for at Claude, Arm- ?voj- and decapitated by an engine tho roundhouse Saturday. Ho had a ticket from Chappell Hill to Houston. The certificate of registration has tno name of Domingo Granados. strong county. Waco is to havo a creamatory to cost $G500. 'Iho tower will be nlnety- flvo foot high. A Moxlcan cut a negro with a knife at Waxahachlo recently, Tho Mexi can is in jail. Ci ops in Gtllesplo county aro a co ra pleto failure, on account of tho dry weather. M. L. O'Neal shot ancgioat Jeffcr on recently and surrendcied to tho sherltT, An 8-year-old negro girl was re cently drowned at Koxton, Lamar county. The Populists aro to havo a stato conference at Waco on August 18 and 19. Victoria is considering the advisa bility of extondlng her water system. Tho San Antonio and Aransas Pass hotel at Camcion has beon completed, J, G. Upton, 18 years of ago. has been adjudged insane at Utcenvllte. A Mexican lion is killing stock in Grayson county, near Denlson ' Tho assessed valuation of tho town of Vernon foots up $1,512,887. Typhoid fever prevails to some ex tent in Limestone county. Tho dog catcher Is doing a good business In Fort Worth. The yield of rice promises to bo ovy largo in Oiange county. Austin Is just now boasting of its absolute healhiulncss. Maggie Dovcns took morphine at Fort Worth and died. The antl-scalpors law goos into ef fect on the 8th Inst. A stave und head plant Is soon to bo, erected at Orange. As a whole the hay crop Is light In the state. Sneak thieve aro working Tyler. Cameron is Improving some. Loxingtoi wants a hotcL Convict Escape. Waxaiiaciue, Tex., Aug. 11. The county convicts whilo being worked on tho publlo roads aro usually chalnod In camp at night. As they woio thus camped out noar Saidls, Will Goodwin, a negro, managed to bieak his chain and escape. Ho is still at large. Cruckeil n Hufo. Gladeyater. Tex,, Aug. 11. Burglars entered L. J. Everett's sto"e bUIo of a post. The rope did not work good and the exocutioner, altnr tlmo, put one hand over tho victims mouth and choked him to death with the other. A hoavy rainstorm, lasting fifteen minutes, foil at Leavenworth, Kas., lecontly. The ourious feature of tho storm was that tho rain fell from a horizon to horlion" wore In viow all the while. Gov. Lewolllng of Kansas, has par doned Frank Duroln, the joint keoper who lied ftom Topeka leaving finos nnd forfeitures amounting to $13,000 unpaid. Duroln has settled all money claims of tho state against him. Tho Kansas commissioner of labor has no titled the state board of publlo works that hereafter contractors must at this placo Wednesday night, ana I do amy nouueu mas meir oiupiuyu.r bloonenihisttsafo;:twlthidynamite.,Lmust'not work'to exceed oight hours1 limortgagesandJinsurnarpo'lffis'jTOA ' ihSTamounlirbf .$5000'and a round rdUrnKar- r.mmlt. lT.' recantlv. Im- cantlv, trfp rallroadtlckot to St. Louis; also mediately after death her body began an orucr irom a mercanuio assocui- to turn white In spots. Uy evening, tion at Galveston to tho agent of tho who n tho burial took placo, tho le International and GroatNorthern rail- mains woro almost white way at Longvlew for a ticket to Gal- .,,, .i . t- ,aiAnfltat,.n All tho southern counties of Lng oston and return. , . . , . . . naw, 4T IUUU ULU UllUUU tii U JJUUiV UIOl IUU plague of wasps. Millions of the in- llt jn. sects, natcnea oy me noi, ary season, olllceis. j Shot Mtul StHblietl to Death. Rivlieside, Tox, Aug. 14. Yos tor day ltasmus Brown shot and stnbbed Follx Jackson to death. Bad fooling eisted between them for years. Jackson Is tho father of the boy who killed tho girl hero a week ago. Biown sut rendered to Justice Holland. Attempted As a nit. Boniiam, Tox., Aug. 11, Sam Mar tin, day yardmaster of tho Toxas and rueifio railtoad at this placo, was ar rested jostordayon a charge of at tempted assault on Aril la Anderson, a gill 18 years of age. His bond was Uxcd at $590, which ho gavo. Attuokil by a Cow. IowA Fakk, Tox., Aug. 12. As Mis. W. O. Moborly was on her way to her daughter's sho was attacked by a vicious cow and sustained serious wounds upon her body and limbs and was gashed to the skull on the top of tho head, Tho cow was shot. In a Dead Stupor. BASTRor, Tox., Aug. 12. Julius Bonensch of Winchester took mor phine Thursday evening at the resi dence of Col. Wash Jones. He was found in a dead stupor and has been In a dying condition over .since with little hope of hisrecovory. Kndoil rut ally. formation has just reached here' from uttaolc flm?19 and m011 afl W)U aa aU bcnlelchor county or mo Killing oi "" 1 William Schwaldos. Ho had a diffl-1 A colored buy 15 year old lost his culty with Tom MoDowoll. About llfo at Topeka, Kan., In attempting to six months ago he got into a dltliculty win a wager of 10 cents that he could with Tom's brothor, who was killed, board amoving train. Ho succeed ed Iho shooting is tho culmination of in getting on a car, but was killed in family trouble botween Schwaldes getting otf, and McDowell. Tom McDowell was At San l'ranclsoo, Cal., Judgo Levy last seen en routo for Dol Kio, where ha3 Uocidod that Christopher B. R er. uu vmliiiuu iiu nuuiu suriuuuvi-u uiu an allegod son of tho late Ur. Wash ington llyer, is an interloper and en titled to nono of the estate valued at $1,250,000. At Kansas City, Mo. , Coroner Langsdale has commenced an inquest Into tho death of Honay S. Klmoie, who died July 24. His son suspects foul play, and suspicion restB on Mrs. Blmoio. Tho Christian Kndeavors of Nova Scotia, Now Brunswick and Brine 1 Id ward Island, held a thiee day's coa entlon at Halifax recently. Theio wero -J53 delegates present. The Tennessee penitentiary com mission has selected tho property of tho Brushy Mountain Coal company at Harrlman as Its site for tho new state prl&on und tho coal mines. Ono of the agricultural phenomena of Kansas this year is blooming sweet potato vinos, which aro reportod from various sections of tho state. Michael Forsham has left Water town, N, Y., to walk to Los Angeles, Cal. He oxpects to roach his destt-' nation in about six months. At Atlanta, Mo., a few days ago,, would-bo train robbers tore up a rail, but the station agent flagged tho train and proventod an accident. Tillle Markoe, tho Hemlngton, N. ' J., j oung woman who attempted sul-j cldo by drinking London purplo n a cup of tea, is out of danger. Turnips over two feet in circumfer ence and weighing five pounds aro a Jlor Out III Hntlim. San Antoxio, Tex., Aug. 12. G. W. Gurlach, a Get man butcher, sui cided hero at dark yesterday by blow ing out his brains with a 33-callber pistol while mitTcrlng from dellilum, superlnducod by fover. He loaves a wifo and child with Bin all means. Ho was a member of tho Garton eroln, 17 jours old ami a natlvo ot Fuorbach, Germany. Took I.iiudaiiiim, Houston1, Toy., Aug, 10. Yes tor day afternoon thcro was consldciablo oxcltomont in tho neighborhood of tho crossing of Trinity and State streets, in tho fourth ward, north, over tho nows that Mrs. Dorosha, an old lady living in that locality, had taken an ounce of uidanum. Doctors wero called and tho most skillful tieatment was applied. She "will re cover. A Hold llnrglar. Hendfuson, Tox,, Aug. 10. A bur glar enteted tho resldenco of Tom Bucknor at Pino Hill, in this county, scoured tho koys to his storo house and Bafe and opened both, from which $-1000 was secured. Blood hounds have been sent from Husk to run tho burglar down. At this tlmo there is no clow. Train Itobblne Caat. Coleman, Tex., Aug. 11. Kid Severelj lturued. Dallas. Tox.. Augt. lO.-iYesterda? i at 9:25 a. m. a fire causod in lighting prominent feature ot tho landscape in) a gasoline stove broko out at 33 t;a-1 hi. Clair county, Missouri, ruth street in a houso occupied by I The Oklahoma tomato crop is vory Mrs. S. W. Cooper. No damage was dono to tho house, but MIbs AlUe Cooper' b right hand was severely burned while she was trying to ex tinguish the flames. largo this year, and it la oxpeoted' that tho 22,000 can factory will bol run to its fullest capacity. Thoro aro Bald to bo three people in' Louisiana who are over 115 years old.)