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THE AUSTIN DAILY STATESMAN. VOL. XX. AUSTIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1892. Hi ICE FI VE THE CAMBRIDGE WRECK FARM NOTES remedy saiust tocxlng during a thunder storm.

It ia safe to conclude, therefore, that in all cases it is the bacar a which sours the milk, and if there ems to be a casual connection between the thunder and souring it is au indirect one only. Climatic conditions have hastened bacteria growth, and have also brought on the thunder storm. fewer of those implanted in hia nature by his master, the devil, and carefully cultivated from the Adamicage to the present time. TKAVI3 COUNTY ANNUAL. The fourth edition of this handy little annual, published by Albert Schutze of Austin, is before me and is worthy of notice.

As usual It is a piece of goed typographical work and is crammed full of information in daily If inand by tne people and difficult to obtain from other sources. Amongst o' tier things i gives the full text of 1 ne latest alien laud law, and that for itie protection of live stock from glanders; abstracts of the new laws relating the administration of estates, assignments, arrests, divorce, eto. THE POPULAR 8HEEIFF. Universal Sorrow at Georgetown Over the Assassination of Sheriff Olivs. Special to The Statesman.

Georgetown, Sept. 11. A gloom has been over the city since this morning, when the news first reached here that Sheriff John T. Olive ha been dangerously and probably fatally wounded at Echo In Bell county lat rdght, by receiving the contents of a shotgun in the body while standing on the platform waiting for the south bound train. Great crowds of people have stood around the telephone all day, talking to par-ties at Tavlor.

where Mr. Oil 3 a tunity to compare tho English Compartment cars aad sleepers "with American coaches The Great Western railway will exhibit the antiquated locomotive "Lord of the Isles," one of the first used on that road. Several of the railways will show their signaling systems. According to present plans the Ohio state buildiug at the World's fair 111 be dedicated at the same time as are the general exposition buildings. Speeches will be made by Governor McKinley, ex-Governor Campbell and Senators Sherman aud Brlce.

President Harrison is expected to deliver au address at the unveiling of Re-bisso's equestrian statute of William Heury Harrison, which will stand in front of the Ohio building. Members of the North American Turner Bund are making elaborate preparations for their exhibit at the World's Fair. They will occupy 4.r00 square feet in the Liberal Arts building and 112.5(H) square feet for outdoor drill, in which probably 5000 adults and several thousand children will lies in a dying condition. His family nave gone to his bedside. John T.

Olive Is about 40 vears of ncn. ha lived iu this county since boyhood. He was elected sheriff of this county in 1884 and re-elected In 188(1. In 1888 he refused to made the race. Was again elected in 1800 and is now the nominee of the Democratic party for re-election.

'Perhaps he haj caused more orimlnals to be brought to justice than any man of his age in the state. WESIER1T REPUBLICANS. They Elect Delegates to Fort Worth and Condemn Hogg and Hoggism. Special to Tho Statesman. Ban Angelo, Sept.

11. At the Tom Green county Republican convention held last night for the election of delegates to Fort Worth resolutions were passed endorsing Harrison, Held and the Republican platform, condemning Hogg and Hoggism and recommending that in cases where the prospect of success does not warrant Republican nomination for state olfices, the united support oi the party should be given to such good man regardless of their political faith and the best methods to secure the overthrow of the demagogues aud the defeat of those seeking office under their banner. A resolution proposed by Geo. B. Jackjon, colored, condemning the separate coach law as class legislation and contrary to the spirit of the constitution, was also passed.

Delegates uninstructed. FANNIN COUNT? FAIR. Seme Fast Steppers and Crack Banners to Entertain Visitors. Spt-clal to The Statesman. BoNtiAsr, Sept.

11. The fourth and best fair and races outside of Dallas held under the auspices of the Fannin County Fair association will throw its gates open Tuesday the 13th. Premiums and purses in all departments are very liberal. Four cars of horses arrived last night, among which are Dolly record 2.21; Lady Pendleton, 2.24 1-4 aud Midnight, 2.2'J. These will enter for all classes.

C. B. Jackson has returned from Gaines-villeand secured the following stables: Benedict's, with a string of five; Ozee, with a string of three; Wash Hampton, with a string of six; Mc-AflVe, with a string of one. Altogether twenty-seven or thirty runners with more to come this week. Sport in Bonham bids fair to be long remembered.

ENGLAND. COLLISION AT SEA. London, Sept. 11. The Cunard line steamer Servla, Captain Dutton, just arrived from Queenstown, reports that on the Cth Inst, at 3 a.

In a dense fog she ran down the sailing vessel Undaunted, Captain Lewis. But little damage was done and no lives lost. Eornet Budget. Hpecial to The 8tiiiiiin. Burnet, Sept.

11. The Third party people held a meeting at the court house Saturday evening for the purpose of selecting speakers to visit tho different parts of the county, and to select an organ for their party to be patronized by the Populists. As Burnet county could not furnish a simon pure paper The People's Journal of Lampasas was made their organ. Mlrabilia 5c Cigars. Havana Markets.

Hanana, Sept. 11. In the sugar market during the week prices asked ky holders were too high for buyers. In consejuence nething was done. Quotation are as follows: Molasses sugar, regular to good polarization, 3-4 to 52.50 gold per quintal; Muscovado, nominal, centrifugal 02 to 96 degrees polarization, in hogsheads, bags and boxes, 7-8 to 3.40 7-8.

Htocks in warehouse at Havana and Matanzas 28 boxes, 479,000 bags and 240 hogsheads. Receipts CI bags, 74 hogsheads. Exports 78,000 bags and 400 hogsheads, all of which go to the United States. Edited by John C. Edgir, Duval to whom all eonimiiiucauow for UxU column should be addressed.

1 WET OB DRY DIRT WHICH? A few days ago The Statesman published a report of a regular meet ing of the city fathers in their palatial quarters on the hill, where they sac riflced their brain power and physical energy in the construction of new laws and the amendment of old ones for the better government of the city One alderman, Inspired with the im portance of good, level thoroughfares, proposed an ordinance compelling the making good of all damage done to streets by gas companies, water com panies or individuals and providing that all holes and trenches should be filled with dry dirt firmly packed dow n. His head is level on that sub ject but his plan was challenged by anothr alderman who proposed an amendment to the effect that the fill in of holes be done with moist soil. This alde'man has never set fence or gate posts or he would have known the superiority of dry over moist soil for making a firm ana permanent lou It is true that when soil is a little moist Its particles adhere readily and eem to make a solid mass, and it is -solid as long as the moisture remains, but as it dries out there is a shrink age, leaving a depression of the sur face, or, in tne case of a fence post, i loose, wobbly one. Anyone familiar with our black prairies has noticed how smooth and level they are in moist weather and that during the dry seaeon they are split open, sometimes to the risk of life or limb of parsing animals. This change of conditions is entirely owiDgtothe swelling or contraction of the soil, as is influenced by inois ture or heat.

This cracking of soil in summer is one of the troubles of the black land farmer. The soil is a great absorber of moisture and also retainer wnen properly prepared and subsequently treated, but wnen improperly haudled It will release moisture almost as quickly as it absorbs it. When turned up in wet lumps it will soon be as void ot moisture ab if covered with so many bricks, and the bad effect will extend over a whole season. It will nearly always pay to delay plowing until land is in proper condition, and it will always pay in the case of black waxy land. Old timers know this and act This hint is for the ben efit of beginners and non-observers.

The wonoerful productiveness of our black lands is a source of wonder, pleasure and profit to their fortunate owners, wuerecumvauou umumu thorough, and even where very im perfect, land has retained its product iveness lor thirty years witnout sign of failure. This is largely due to the Satural fertility of the soil; in other vords. to the presence of plant food but I think the cracking of the soil nlavs a very important part in the matter. While it hastens the evaporation of moisture it admits atmos phere, the oxygen ot which is so essential to plant life. The cracks serve another purpose, they swallow ap much migratory vegetable matter and rainfall, which would otherwise be lost, or at beet, enrich the surface So that the farmer who complains that his cotton "shed," owing to his ind cracking, gains in fertility of soil, olten without deserving it; as the cracking is generally me resuu oi oau preparation and insufficient cultivation.

Tbil Is a world of compensations, and everything is mixed wita mercy; though some of us dwell too much ou its miseries, and fail to take advantage of good opportunities that crowd us every day. ELECTRICITY AND MILK SOURING. I recently referred to a bulletin just issued by tho department, en milk fermentations, and published an extract showing the cause of milk Every dairyman should secure a copy as it contains the latest discoveries and conclusions of scientific ob-servers and is a valuable document. It states that a consideration of the subject of the souring of milk would not be complete without reference to the effect of electricity. The popular belief that thunderstorms will eour milk Is so widespread that it would seem as if there niust be some foundation for it.

It has been asserted by many that the ozone produced in the air by electricity causes" the milk to become sour. In experiments which electric sparks were discharged over the surface of the milk, however, little or no effect has been produced upon it. The conclusion is that electricity is not cf itself capable of souring miik, or even of materially hastening the process. Nor can the ozone developed during the thunderstorm be looked uton as of any great impo tance. It seems probable that the connection between the thunderstorm and the eouria? of the milk is one of a different characetr.

Bacteria certainly grow most rapidly in the warm, su'try conditions which usually precede a thunderstorm, and it irequentiy happens that the thunderstorm and souring occur together, not because the thunder has hastened the souring, but rather because the climatic conditions which have brought the storm have at the same time been such as too cause unusually rapid bacteria growth. Milk deprived of bacteria will certainly keep well during thunderstorms. Dairymen find no difficulty in keeping milk if it is cooled immediately after being drawn from the cow an 1 is kept cool. Milk submerged in cool water is not affected by thunder. Dairyman find that daring "dog day" weather, even when there is no thunder, it is just as difficult to keep milk as it is during thunder storms, and they also find that scrupulous cleanliness in regard to the milk vessels is the best possible A HEAVT FREIGHT TRAIN DASHES INTO A PASSENQEB TRAI5.

Six Passengers Were Killed ard Forty Wounded, Many of Whom Will Die. Dense Fog Prevailed and Signals Could Not Be Seen in Time. Boston, Sept. 11. Following is the complete story of last night's wreck horror.

The great Quiney accident was recalled last night when the through freight express train ou the Fitchburg road ran iuto a passenger train standing on the outbound track at West Cambridge Junctiou.telescop-iDg the rear car, killing six persons outright aud injuring nearly forty others, three of whom have since died. Passenger train 131, due to leave Boston at 10:15 p. m. started on time. When West Cambridge Juac tion was reached the engineer found it necessary, owing to a dense fog, to run close to the cross over in order to see if he had right of way from the signal tower located close by.

The express freight train, west bound, came thundering along aud crashed into the rear car of the passenger train wun the result above described. Cars were piled upon each other in Inde scribable confusion, completely block ing the tracKB lor fully 100 yaids. The pilot and cylinder boxes of the freight engine were poked under the forward truck of the rear passenger car, which made it almost impossible for any huiuun being to escape without injury who occupiea seats in that car. On the rear end of the car a man's legs were dangling, the trunk being found a quarter of a mile down the track. The prevailing impression was it was a tramp stealing a riue on the pilot of the freight engine.

The rear brakeman of the passenger train who was sent back CUOfeet to notify the engineer of the freight train of danger ahead, states that he went back as directed and signaled the freight aud his signal was answered by two whistles which is the usual answer that all signals have been seen and noted. The reason of the collision he feels sure, was that the enginer of the freight could not control his train which was thirty cars heavily loaded. As soon as the crash came there was a wild rush to get out of the cars. Frantic men and women rushed about in a purposeless way, ehrieking and groaning. Soon another source of dinger developed.

Flames began to burst from the wrecked freight cars. The Are department responded promptly and soon put out the names. Complete list of killed and Injured, as far as known, is as follows: Killed S. J. Sullivan, Boston; Leon O.

Raymond, Winchendon; John Hudson, Watertown; James Lane, East Watertown; John H. Barnes, Newton; MisRettalaylor, Waltbm; Benjamin Tuck, Waltham; Miss Margerie Adams, Waltham; II. II. Moorefleld, Watertown. Injured C.

Doyle, Waltham; John Reagan, Watertown; Frank Mills, Watertown; Andrew Doyle, Water-town; Edward Doyle, son of above; G. M. Spear, Waltham; Thomas O'Connell, Waltham; Fred Warren, Waltham; Robert Orr, Newton; Herbert P. Goodwin, engineer freight train; Mary Dardis, Watertown; Eleanor Ahern, Florence E. Park, Boston; Kate White, Cambridge; G.

S. Murphy, Waltham; William Ahern, Watertown; Pete' Whitney, Watertown; John McPhee, Water-town; Patrick Downey, Thomas E. Berby, George Good, Mrs. Fahey, James Smith, C. S.

Hall, Waltham; Mrs. George Wright, Cambridge; Mrs. Mary Ann Elliot, Newton; Harry Elliot, Thomas Cain, Watertown; Thomas Teunon, Water-town; John Mullen, Watertown; Mrs. Stevens, painful injuries; Mrs, Welch, Watertown; Richard HoIJis, Water-town. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.

Arrangements have been completed whereby excursion trains to the World's Fair, by whatever road they may arrive iu Chicago, will run within the Exposition grounds aud discharge their passengers there. No transler of passengers at any point will be ne cessary The Southern Pacific railway has re cently subscribed for $20,000 of World's lair stock, lhe various transportation lines of the country have an aggregate of about $1,000,000 of the stock. A heroic statue of Heiidrik Hudson, the discoverer of the Hudson river, will be placed in New York's Woil l's Fair building. More than 10,000 men are now at work in getting the buildings and grounds ready for the great exposi tion of 193. On number of the structures work proceeds day and night.

Woruierlul progress is being made, and it assured that all will becoinpiet iu time (or the opening Carl fagenbeck, the celebrated German collector and tamer of wild animals, is in Chicago to arrange for the extensive zoological exhibit which he will make In Midway Plaisance at the World's fair. He will exhibit lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, bears, monkeys, in great number, and will show the largest happy family" ever sfen. A very interesting exhibit in the transportation department of the world's Fair win ne made by the B'eamship and railway companies of England. The roiiecuon or models of battleship. va-'-itH, steamers and mercK ant vessels will be more complete timo was ever before exhib ited.

The Londo.ii and Northwestern railway will send i.ver a complete train of cars headed by a great com pound locomotive named "Great Britain." This will affjrd aa op por participate. In the covered space the" Turners will have model classes taught hi gymnastics in accordance with their system, now in vogue in their societies tud the Chicago publio schools. The exhibition represented by their commission Includes 3.50 societies, with a membership of 60,000, of whom 6000 reside in Chicago. The United States ship Constitution is about to start for Italy to collect works of art for the World's Fair. These art treasures will remain in constant custody of the government, and will be returned aftor thFalr in the same manner as brought.

Miss Ellsabet Ney of Hempstead, a descendant of Marshal Ney of franco, will execute in mrble the statues of a number of Texas heroes for exhibition at the World's fair. In 1822 a patent was issued to Jeremiah Bailey of Pennsylvania for a mowing machine, and he constructed two machines the same year. Ills believed that these were the first ever made. A number of years later a patent for improvement on this machine was secured and sonit fifty of the improved machines were built. Only two of the original patem were ever made aud one of them is still in existence, owned by Samuel Worth of Marshallton, Pa.

He will exhibit it at the World's fair, where, as a pioneer in agricultural machinery, it will attract much attention. The knife of the machine is circular and had a combined rotary and forward motion. New York stale proposes to exhibit at the World's fair complete data, including photographs, of all the monuments which have been erected to soldiers of that state who served in the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812, or the war of 1801. The World's fair board of lady managers has issued a circular which is being sent to all the woman's organizations in tho country for the purpose of securing information to be used in a catalogue of the organizations conducted by women for the promotion of charitable, philanthropic, intellectual, sanitary, hygienic, Industrial or social or moral reform movements, The idea is to secure information sufficiently elaborate to base conclusions on regarding tho growth of women's work in the way of organized societies, and the good accomplished by the same. All this from the various states will be duplicated from the encyclopedia being prepared under the auspices of the iady managers of the woman's building.

The statistics collected through their efforts from every country in the world will form a most voluminous mass of valuable information. It is the Intention of the lady managers to publish these statistics of woman's work throughout the world in a convenient and inexpensive form. The volume will be given away or so.d for a nominal sum, as may be advisable, In the woman's building during the exposition. The exhibit to be made at the World's Fair under the direction of the bureau of hygiene will be of special public interest and value, because it deals with sanitary subjects in every phase. Physical development, food supply, preparation of food, cooking aud serving, dwellings and buildings, hygiene of the workshop and factory, food inspection, quarantine, receptien, cure and protection of immigrants these are a few of the subjects to beillustrateJ by the bursau.

JH.very possible sanitary precaution which tends to prolong life and minimize the dangers from disease will be shown either by actual appliances or models; the evils of the "tenement" and "sweating" systems will be brought out very forcibly by models of old-style tene ment and sweat shops exhibited, besides models of the best possible apart ment houses aud workshops. Heat ing, lighting and drainage systems win be shown in contrast with exhibits illustrating the diseases and deformities caused by unwholesome trades and professions, or equally un- wholesomequarters lor the working- men, he various state noaros oi health are already preparing exhibits of the methods for the bureau, and the comparison afforded by such exhibit is expected to be very valuable, affording experts an unusual opportunity for study. Mr. F. Brewer, of Nebraska, has beea nominated for chief of the bureau.

The same conditions would affect the milk in exactly tho same way, even though no thunder storm were produced, and this effect is frequently observed during the warm, sultry autumn days. KOADS. It has been suggested that, the American roads placed under a system of government supervision, aud be divided somewhat as the French roads art: First National roads. These are to be built and maintained by the general government, aud be locuted with reference to military and postal requirements. Hecond State roads.

These are to be built and maintained by the several states, and connect the various localities of the states and be planned with reference to the national roads. Third County or neighborhood roads: These to be built aud maintained by counties and townships, and be located with refsrence to the classes just mentioned. Those who advocate this idea say that if our common roads were Improved by some such plan as this, we would soon have them in charge of competent and educated engineers. The national roads would probably be in charge of army engineers; the state roads in charge of engineers graduated from the agricultural and mechanical schools, and the neighborhood roads In charge of local men, who, once having had the example set them of how good roads are built, would be entirely competent to do what is usually necessary to be done in making a road of lesser importance. But even under such a plan as this, each county should have au engineer to design the difficult work, determine upon the location of routes and inspect construction and repairs.

Htrange as it may seem, the proper location of a country highway, pre sents to the engineer more comp'ex problems than the location of a ra'lroad country people do not understand this aud are not willing to believe it, therefore the crossroads storekeeper and the village blacksmith are usuaily thought to be entirely competent to decide upon the best route lor a coun try road. Harper's eeKiy. OATS AS flORSE FEED. A correspondent in Farm News says oats are an expensive grain to use aud about the only way farmers can aflord to employ them is in feeding horses. For every other purpose tor which grain Is needed it win pay bet ter to sell the oats and buy some thing else.

For feeding the horses it will not pay to have the oats threshed. Feed in the shear and tney win maKegoou use of the straw along with the grain. One trouble about putting sheaf oats away in the mow is that the mice are apt to trouble them. An exchange says that if the oats are salted in layers as put in the mow the mice will not touch them. This would also have the effect of miking the horses relish the straw more.

The salt sprinkled over the straw would gather moisture from the atmosphere and this would be au advantage iu making the ripe straw more palarable. A peck ot coarse salt to the estimated ten of straw would be alxjut the right pro portion. It was an old time practice to salt hay when put in the mow, but few do it at present. Occasionally an old farmer brought up in New Eng land, clings to the practice. THE VIRTUOUS MULE.

The last issue of Texas Farm and Ranch devote considerable space to the horse and his relation to the human family, and gives some valu able information about various breeds and their peculiar fitness for certain kindsofwork. But while the editor Is evidently an admirer of the horse, he is a lover of the mule, and extols the virtues of that hybrid animal in a way to make Sam Jones greea with envy, lie says: wnen tne aevu gathers up his jewels, with the assas sins, incendiaries, infanticides, out rage fiends, slanderers, and patent medicine peddlers, he win not overlook the silly witling who attempts to air his empty pate at the cost of the patient, plodding mule, it is a sorry mule indeed that has not more "horse sense" than any one of these leather-headed scribblers who would poke fun at him. Under the circumstances the mule is not to be blamed for kicking, and If he could only reach his maliguer with his good right hind leg, "the remains" would show that his power as a kicker had not been exaggerated. The truth is. a well bred and fairly fed mule is as gentlemanly a beast as ever served a master, while the most beastly of men is he who cannot appreciate worth in his superior, the mule.

There are fewer vicious mules than vicious men. For every kicking mule there are ten men who are worse kickers, and for less provocation. For every fence-breaking mule there are ten men who ureas an tne counts in the decalogue. For every stubborn or intractable mule there are ten men so set in their bad ways that if one were to rise from the dead and preach to them a week, they would stiffen their necks and harden their hearts. For every quarrelsome mule there are ten men wt are common brawlers.

Men have a hundred vices for every one that marks the character of the vilest mule. The mule never gets drunk and abuses its family; never burns his stable for the insurance, never op presses the poor and fawns upon the rich: never slanders his neighbor; he commits no murder, or robbery, or outrage; he ia not a glutton, a gambler, liquor seller, a calamity nowier, a hypocrite or reader of the Sunday Sun. This would be a better ail-rouna world if men possessed more of the sterling qualities ol the male and Extracts from new city ordinances, new apportionment of Travis county, cjiumissioners and Justices pro ducts, scholastic census aud lint of school trustees, polling places and presiding officers, qualification of voters, rules of Alliauce cotton yards, quantity of wire required to fenco any given area, and of seed to plant au acre, besides a lot of items of special value to the farmer. Peorgetowa Special to The Statesman. Georgetown, Sept.

11. Great excitement prevailed on the streets this morning when the wires brought the news of the shooting at Echo, at 2 o'clock this morning, of John T. Olive, Williamson county's popular sheriff. Mr. Olive was returning from a visit to the Belton races.

County Attorney It. A. John and Mr. Olive's wife and children left at 9 o'clock this morning for Taylor, where the wounded man was carried. The first reports received here pronounced Mr.

Olive's wounds very dangerous, and probably fatal. Later news is more favorable, and there seems a possibility of his recovery. Mr. Olive's friends here are legion, and his misfortune has occasioned the deepest regret. The following delegates will start Monday morning for Fort Worth to represent Williamson county in the state Republican convention: Messrs.

lvincaid, Berkhardt. W. K. Makem son, Nat Q. Henderson, P.

Monroe of Georgetown, E. E. Diggu of Bound Rock, Dave Murphy, J. L. Wood ward, Hugh Burns, Ed Sampson of lay lor.

Though uninstructed, the delegates, with one or two exceptions, are opposed to a Republican nomina tion for governor aud favor the en dorsement of George Clark. En thusiastic Clark men here believe that if Williamson's Republican vote goes to Ciark he will carry the county by lrom 200 to 400 ma oritv. Rev. Horace Bishop has pitched his great gospel tent on the campus of the Fitting school fan annex of South western university) and will inaugurate a seige of general warfare against evil doers. A gentle, steady rain fell this afternoon: AT NEW YOBS HABBOB.

The Strictest Quarantine Regulations Being Enforced, so Far Effectually. New York, Sept. 11. A number of steamers arrived and dropped anchor in the lower bay to await the arrival of health officers. Among the arrivals were La Chanipaigne from Havre and Aurania from Liverpool.

They showed clean bills ot'healtb, and after being inspected were allowed to drop anchor off quarantine station. Other arrivals were the British steamer Martelle from Hull aud the steamer Clintonia from Shields. All will be closely inspected, and if it is found that cholera has made its appearance on board any of them, they will be treated similarly to the Infected ves sels at present undergoing quarantine The steamer Obdam was released from quarantine at 6 a. in. today.

The Normania transferred her passengers to fire island. On the Hcandia today Mary Jarawitx, Anna Olsen and aiaiKe MirsKe, three children, were taken ill with cholera and Theodore Olsen, 3, died of the same disease. BULLET THEOTJGH HIS HEAD. A Noted Bio Grande Mexican Shot by an American at a Fandango. Special to The Statesman.

Del Rio, Hept. 11. At a Mexican dance in East Del Rio last night Epltaccio Vilialobas, the Mexican editor and deputy sheriff whom the Diaz government has been trying to extricate for alleged treasonable offense, was shot in the head and instantly killed by Willis Pafford, a young American and son of one of the oldest citizens. A statement of an eye witness is to the effect that Viilal-obas called Pafford out to talk to hirn; that some Altercation arose and Villai-obas pulled his gun, bvt Pafford was too quick for him and got the drop on bim with the above result. A dozen onflicting reports, however, are cir culated, and It is hard to run them down to any reliable source.

Pafford surrendered to the sheriff and is now in jail to await trial. The American youths had been warned by the Mexi cans not to attend their balls. A Negro Family Bow. Special to The Statesman. Brenham, Sept.

11. Last night about 10 o'clock in Camptown, Geo. Brown and Ben Bradley, negroes, had a row. Brown beat Bradley on the head, cutting an ugly gash In the forehead and another on the back of the head. The wounds appeared to have been made with brass knucks, though Brown denies this, cUiming that he kicked him.

Bradley is in a very precarious condition. Brown was arrested and Jailed. The row was about famdy matters. They are brothers-in-law. Highest of ail in Leavening Power.

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