Building Boom - Slightly Smashed - Snake - Courts - Still At Large - Brueggerhoff
25 JUNE 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
Carpenters, brick and stone masons, laborers and stone-cutters are in great demand here, at good wages.
The building boom not only continues here with great power, but building material goes from here to other places by the car load.
As Mr. Chas. Orndorff and a companion were driving in a buggy Sunday afternoon, they attempted to turn sharply around the corner of Lavaca and Linden streets, which threw the momentum of the vehicle on two wheels. They gave way with the strain, and made a complete smash of both wheels. Mr. O. happened to be driving one of Mr. Miller’s well trained horses, and no further damage was done, and no one was hurt, though the occupants were very much frightened.
The other night Mrs. Jones heard her little canary making a terrific noise, and went to the cage and found that a chicken snake had coiled himself around the perch, completely hiding it, but she could not see anything of the little bird. On getting the snake out and killing it, she discovered that the reptile had wound the bird to the perch in the folds of its coils, completely crushing the life from the poor little canary. The snake was over three feet in length.
District Court. A. S. Walker, Presiding. J. P. Hart, Clerk
F. M. Brown, convicted recently of the theft of a check of $25 from Mrs. Greenley, and further indicted for stealing $20 in money and a diamond ring from the same lady, an of embezzling some pictures which one J. S. Pierce, it will be remembered, was indicted for stealing from Mrs. Edna White, withdrew his motion for a new trial, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. The Pierce case is set for July 16.
George Reed, a white man about forty-five years of age, was placed on trial on a charge of having February 3d last, stolen about $125 from the safe of Simon’s saloon, opposite the Raymond hotel, on Congress avenue.
Mr. Wm. Pearson, who was shot by Costley Friday, died of his wounds Sunday afternoon. So far no direst tiding have yet been heard of Costley. It is believed that the rumor that he intends to come in and surrender and depend upon clearing himself on proof of self-defense, is intended as a soothing syrup to lull the officers into carelessness in order to allow Costley to annihilate more distance and destroy more space, so to speak. Time alone, however, will tell. Now is a good time for Mr. Costley to come in.
In this city, on Sunday, June 24, 1883. William Brueggerhoff, in the forty-third year of his life.
Mr. Brueggerhoff was a Prussian, being born in that country November 8, 1840. He came to Austin a boy of less than fifteen years, and from that time, even through his youthful days, has been closely connected with the business and growth of Austin, having married here and fought his way from the foot to well nigh the highest point of our business community. For more than two weeks he suffered all the terrors of mortal sickness, but at last died peaceable, and it is believed with a full consciousness that the end was at hand.
Perhaps no man in Austin was of a more liberal mind or more public spirited than was the deceased. Quick to perceive an opportunity, her was equally quick to grasp it, and never lost sight of the hat that in conferring public benefits he aided in the advancement of his beloved city. For many years he had been a member of the city council, and no measure of public benefit, if shown him to be such, has he failed to support with all his might. This thoroughness and promptness was due the fact that he accumulated quite a handsome property, and was the manager of a lucrative business. In private life, as in public, he was highly esteemed holding positions of honor in the different orders to which he belonged, inclucing the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Honor and the Knights of Pythias, of which latter order he was Past Grand Chancellor of Texas. In attendance upon his funeral, which occurred at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, were all the orders to which he belonged, as well as the city council, the police force and the fire department, headed by a band. The pall bearers, eight in number, were selected from the different organizations, and after the funeral ceremonies, condected by Rev. Mr. Lee, of the Episcopal church, the remains were born by them to the hearse and the procession moved, it being one of the most imposing ever witnessed in the state. During the march the fire bells tolled and the business houses generally closed their doors, most of the business men being numbered with those who followed the hearse to the grave. The city hall, the Brueggerhoff building on the avenue, the fireman’s quarters and several other houses were draped in mourning, and the silence gave token that a feeling of general sorrow pervaded the community at the loss of one who was so generally known and so universally respected. The Statesman joins all who sorrow at the loss of so good a man, and offers its deepest sympathy to the stricken family and friends of the deceased.
