Sheriff in a Race - Request for Relief - We Suggest In Kindness - Fired with Rare Pluck - Some Dastardly Villains
12 AUG 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
A reporter overheard a deputy sheriff say yesterday the only time Sheriff Hornsby ever ran in his life was yesterday -- we mean ran from a man. Fritz Hartkopf and the sheriff had a race, but the sheriff covered the most ground. Ask the sheriff about it.
Mrs. Harrold, who lives at No. 1109, two blocks below the graded school, in the James property, is in very distressing circumstances. She is a widow, with quite a family, and sick in bed with no means of support. Something should be done to relieve her at once.
We suggest that the firing of canon as it was done by our military friends last night, is not just the thing, for several teams came near running away at the time, being frightened by the report. We would not say a word that could in any way injure the artillery company, but in all kindness we suggest that in the future the salute be fired somewhere else.
Mr. Ritz' house was burglarized on Thursday night. Mrs. Ritz was all alone at the time, in the house. Hearing some one at the window, she looked out and saw a man trying to gain an entrance. She took a loaded shotgun and with rare pluck fired it at the man, but did not hit him. He left in quick order after that. The house of Mr. Ritz is in the vicinity of the German-American ladies college. Mr. Ritz was upstairs and the burglar was trying to get into the house by a window in the lower story at the time he was discovered.
Some dastardly villains have been annoying the family of J. W. Hannig by throwing stones at the house at night and smashing out the windows. Mr. Hannig has been absent from home and during his absence the scamps have been doing the cowardly work. Last Friday night as Mrs. Hannig and her little girls were sitting at a table, a stone came crashing through a window glass, striking one of the little girls on the arm. Any person who is villain enough to do such an act to unprotected children deserves to be strung to the nearest tree.
