Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-05
AFTERNOON NOTES.
Mr.. ]. P. Hodge and family have
returned from their summer trip.

Mr.. 7. Hodge and family nave
returned from their summer trip.
Dewiers ladies' and gents oyster
parlor crowded day and night.
Misses Louise and Sadie Pearre have
returned from their visltto Dallas and
have brought back several OF their
young lady friends with them.
Yesterday was clear beautiful Sun.
day and nearly every one embraced
the opportunity of attending church.
Every religious edlfce was filled both
in the morning and evening.
Marriage licences were issued Sat
uIday afternoon to George Montgom-
cry and Jennie Douglas; H. M. Jones
and Laura Nalley; Thomas Childress
and Annie Miles.
Mayor Hinchman returned yester.
day from Kansas City, where he has
been for the past week engaged in
business matters. He returned be-
fore he finished his business, but was
determined to be in Waco on election
day to cast his vote for Mills.
The officers made a raid on a den
of crap shooters Saturday night and
arrested two white men and nineteen
colored men who were playing in a
deserted room on Bridge street. The
whole gang is in Jail and most of them
will visit Mr.. Darwin shortly.
Complaint, is being made that the
engineers on the south bound night ex.
press on the NJ. X, & T., road fire.
quently neglects to stop their trains
at the railsoad crossings and whistle
There is state law requiring them tc
do this and heavy penalty prescribed
in case it is not done.
Anne Overlook, young woman
who resides in Dynamite alley, so
named by the police, made an at
tempt last night to take her own life
by swallowing what she considered to
be an overdose of morphine. The
dose was not sufficient and she re.
covered, but was too i'll this morning
to answer the charge against her in
the police court for vagrancy.
Mayor Hinchman's smiling coun.
tenance graced the bench of the pc.
lice court this morning and his honor
fined the following persons:
Ed. Townsend, drunk, S.; Mike
Palmo, abusive language, S.; Billy
Caruthers, drunk, SIS; Thos. Weyder.
man, drunk, SIS; George Crippen, vel
ling, SIS; Carl Cook, assault and bat
terry, SIS; VIM. Simmons, drunk, S.
Monroe Green, drunk, SIS.
The town is full of strangers who
have come in during the last few day:
and the superstition is that they came
here to vote. We have no reglstra
ton laws and the only way to pre-
vent fraudulent voting and doubling
is to have challengers at each poll
who know everybody in the ward ane
when stranger offers to vote MAKE
the judges swear in the vote.
Last night an electric meter which
which was suspended to post nortl
of the city hall building got out O
fix, and the current of electricit.
being obstructed set fire to tn
machine, burning up the wood fran
work, and melting the metal parts
1t was in good way to have burne,
down the post, had not the Electric Co
shut Off the current. This was til
reason Of the darkness in East Waco
Since the first day of November tn
following foreign born persons hav
, filed their sworn intentions to becom
citizens of the United States in tn
county clerks Office: ]. E. Krizar
3 Moravian, I'll years old, been IN Amer
! lea two wears; John Busek, Moraviar
aged AZ years, been in America seve
years; Frank Kolar. Austrian, age
| 50 years, been in America seve
! years; Frank Kolar, Austrian, age
90 years, been in America seve
years; A. McClellend, Scotchmar
g aged IS years, been in Amerio
twenty-three years; Gustave Weide
man, German, IS years old, been
o America eighteen years; Jonath;
Harris, Irishman, age, ffty-sevt
years, been in America twenty year
a. Fine comb honey at Joe Thorn