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Of babies. She left a couple Of
them on the train at Longview.
but was followed and the dar-
ings were res tored to her
= Ed. fIussey, a printer in
the Advance Office at Fort
Worth, walked Off the gallery
in front ofthe office while asleep.
falling a distance oftwenty feet,
dislocating both ankles.
" Parties going to Waco
with six-shooters and do wen
to remember that it costs $780,
20 to appease the peace and dig
nifty of the city, etc.-if they are
caught. If they amt caught it
does not cost anything,
Last Sunday morning
about ? o'clock seven masked
men went to Henry Bishops
store in Hidalgo county and
calling him down stairs murder
ed him, robbed his store and
outraged his servant girl.
AS the time for the farmer
to use his moving machine and
other labor-saving contrivances
draws near, the doctors grow
cheerful and provide themselves
with plenty Of lint, splints, ETC.,
ready for immediate use.
= Mary Lyles, ayoung lady,
living in the fifth ward in Hous-
ton was severely injured by the
explosion of a small can Of pow
der, ignited by a spark from a
passing locomotive. Her face
and eyes are badly burned.
= Robert Moore, aged IS,
shot Francis Manning at a cab
in on a plantation in Harrison
county. Bob says he was only
trying to scare Francis and had
no idea the pistol was loaded.
Francis lived only two hours.
= Mexia has a brass band.
and like every other brass band
ever organized, it starts out with
plenty Of wind Ind the idea thasa
in less than six weeks it will be
the biggest thing in the way of
a brass band in all these United
States.
= Dan Thompson, a boy
about Is years old, a variety
actor by profession, got into a
row at Gainesville last February
and was struck on the head
with a brick, fracturing his skull.
He died from the effects Of the
blow in Dallas the other day.
A gold coin thoughtto be
an English sovereign, bearing
date 1923. was recently plowed
up in a field near New Bedford,
Tarrart county. Il is suppos-
ed to have been lost by one Of
a party of EngIishmen who
were in this country on a grand
hunt in 1870.
Last Sunday night Bish-
ops store on the lower Rio
Grande was robbed, and Bish-
-op murdered by seven Next
cans. The Mexicans fed to
Mexico and Gen. Canales COM
handing the Mexican forces
has had five Of them captured
and notifies the Texas authori-
tics that they viii be turned
over.
= Byron Glasscock, a noted
desperate, was arrested by cor
poral Hughes and two rangers,
in the hills about twenty miles
above Austin. He has been
engaged in many robberies in
different parts ofthe state and
is supposed to have been the
head Of a gang Of highwayIhen,
that operated near Austin last
winter.
= Brownsville has one more
unfortunate, the Democrat tear
fully records the fact thai. the
editor of the Cosmopolitan had
his house robbed Of various ar
ticles, among other things a
pewter quarter and a good half
dollar. The Democrat has faith
in the loss Of the pewter quar-
ter, but that his brother editor
had half a dollar IN the house
he can not believe 9
= A. w. Jones, a negro, who
for the past four years has
been in the Waco jail, and who
has twice been convicted Of
murder, was released on Tues
day. He was charged with be-
ing accessory in the now cele-
brated negro mason murder of
The evidence against
Jones was purely circumstan-
.ial. Seven negroes were tried
or the murder and two are now
n the penitentiary under life
sentences.