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STATE NEWS.

famine.
Criminal court is in session in
Grimes county.
Beaumont is to have another
bottliDg works.
The residence of B. NJ. Couch
at Italy burned Tuesday.
The residence of J. J. Easley at
Doublin, burned Tuesday night.
There has been $500 bales of
cotton shipped from Rogers this
season.
-Navasota, Timpson, Dallas and
Grandview each had a business fail
ure Tuesday.
Mr.: NJ. D. Haygood has sus-
pended the publication of the Mar
BILE Falls Gazette.
Maj. Geo. W. Diamond has re-
Gently joined the staff of the
w ulGeSDOrO NEWS
Harry Tracy, the sub-treasury
advocate, spoke in the Opera House
at Bryan Tuesday.
-AdJutant General Mabry is re-
organizing the volunteer force and
making some changes.
Rabbi H. Schwartz, of Hemp,
stead, has moved to Waco, after a
residence there of 20 years.
Mr.. Ed. Howard, the business
manager of the Wichita Falls Her
aid is reported to have taken unto
himself wife.
w. NJ. :Imboden, late editor of
the Cherokee Herald, has gone to
Washington in the capacity of pri-
vate secretary to Hon. Horace Chill
ton.
The steamer Eugene is now
running between Columbia and We
lasco in connection with the Inter
national and Great Northern rail
way.
Section house No. 2, on the
Houston East and West Texas rail
way, burned Tuesday morning. A
few articles of furniture were saved.
1t will be rebuilt at once.
H. P. oglesby of Dallas com
mitted suicide at the St. Charles
hotel in New Orleans Tuesday He
was shot three times in the breast
and once through the head.
The noted seduction case
against johnson Garrison at Wealth
erford was concluded Tuesday, the
jury finding him guilty and assess
ing his punishment at three years in
the penitentiary.
The ball has been started roll
ing for 100000 company for the
raising Of rice in Jefferson county,
for which purpose no better land is
on top of earth than that between
Beaumont and Sabine Pass.
The following fourth-class post
masters have been appointed for
Texas: l, N. Comfy, Evans Point,
Hopkins county, vice J. B. Coppedge,
S. P. Morgan, West Noun
Jain, Upshur, county; vice V. E.
mickey, resigned.
The Austin Statesman says: 1T
nay be that Arkansas Pass will be
one of the deep water ports very
soon, after all. People who don't
know when they are beaten" some
lines s'er eople byrallying and
Une .4c.ory.
Mrs. Lee Avery, very highly
esteemed lady living near Groveton,
vas Tuesday morning fatally burned.
She stepped in front of the fire to
,aress one of her children and her
lress came in contact with the
lanes. Great sympathy is felt here
;or the family.
Secretary Bryan of the Texas
Worlds Fair association received ad-
vices Tuesday from Chicago that
Director General Davis and Chief of
Construction Burnham had passed
upon the plans for the Texas build
ng and had awarded the work to
Architects Gordon & Lamb of San
Antonio.
Deputy Sheriff John McCulloch
while giving chase to the negro,
Glenn Stovall, Monday night near
jumped off the passenger
rain while it was running and re-
,eived very severe injuries of an in
5ernal character. He was brought
% BRYAN Tuesday morning, and is
low lying at his home in an uncer-
ain condition.
Hon. W. S. Delany, county
Judge of Colorado county, Texas, |
Tuesday appointed DR.. Thomas c. |
Cook, of Weimar county, physician
If Colorado county to hold said of |
ice until his Succaccor cboD howe