The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-19
CREAM OF THE NEWS.

The State University has registered
PA students.
Galveston has subscribed $4,000 to
aid the Sabine Pass sufferers.
The taxable values of Anderson
county decreased $3sO,OOO this year.
Taxable values in San Antonio in
creased $1,153,O0O during the past year.
Mayor Galloway, of Temple, is to be
tried on charges of misconduct in Of
fee.
A case of diptheria at Navasota has
excited a good deal of apprehension
and alarm.
At Victoria, Bryan, Rusk and Tyler
subscriptions were taken for the Sa-
bine Pass sufferers.
Chartered on the 18th: Whitesboro
School Company and the Farmers Al
lance of Hopkins county.
The National Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Brakemen are in session at San
Antonio. They had grand parade
yesterday.
Daubney II, Maurey has been reap
pointed minister to the U, S. of Column
bia, the Senate having failed to act on
his appointment.
Sheriff Hornsby, Of Travis county,
on Sunday at Elgin, arrested one Ham
cock, charged with wife murder at
Austin last Christmas.
John Leigh shot Gus Edwards
through the heart at Prairie Plains,
Grimes county, on the 18th. The
trouble originated in love affair.
IN. Caldwell shot and dangerous
ly wounded +. NJ. Bell at Tyler on the
18th. Both are prominent citizens,
and the alteration is regretted by
their friends.
Col. James II. Pettigrew, a promi-
nent politician of Arkansas and men,
Der of the Utah commission under the
Edmunds ill,..died suddenly at the Pa
cific Hotel at Waco on the 18th.
Tyler sent $3OS to the Sabine Pass
relief fund, Bryan sends $500, Calves
ton City Council appropriated $500 to
the Sabine Pass flood sufferers, which
makes about $4,000 from Galveston.
In shooting fracas at Cottonwood
Springs few days ago Dick Huff was
shot in the knee by one johnson. The
friends of Huff in return shot john
son dead. An old feud was the cause.
A. X. Seigels, wealthy colored citi-
zen of FL Paso, was found dead in his
bed on the 18th, and circumstances
poiut to foul play, but coroner's jury
decided that death resulted from natu-
raj causes.
The annual report of the San Anto-
MO and Arkansas Pass Railway Compa-
ny has been filed with the Comptroller.
The company has paid for land, build
ing, rolling stock, engines and con-
struction, $2,2Sl $40; paid up stock is
sued, s., S41, s45; bonds sold, 81, 100000,
receipts for the year, $92,175
Biloxi, Miss, is a pleasant summer
resort on the Gulf coast, and when it
was announced there Sunday that 800
cases Of yellow fever and 20 deaths
from the disease had been kept from
the public, there was very general in
dignation among the residents and the
hundreds of visitors there from New
Orleans and other points.
The penitentiary report for Septem-
Der shows in that month receipts from
convict labor $55,44s. The expense of
maintenance was $SS,706 for material.
The management also paid out $4,000
for the Hardin plantation; $4664 for
mules for the plantation and $29s2 for
mules for other places. The total ex-
penditurcs were some $4,000. From
an analysis of the account it appears
that SO far as the maintenance is con-
cerned, the running expenses are kept
below the current earnings. Some
"a ono was drawn from the treasury,