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STATE NEWS

Jacksonville wants system of
waterworks
-Quanah wants system of water
works and street lights.
District court is in session at
Columbus.
The grand jury of Webb county
returned 70 indictments.
The big revival at Tyler closed
with 100 aecessions to the church.
The store and stock of Minis &
Son, at Alexander, was burned
Thursday night.
The Methodist church at Rea-
gan have. 5000 subscribed for i'm
proyement on their church.
The gin of Mr.. Murdoch of
Rising Sun, near Albany, was entire
ly consumed by fire Thursday.
Owen McClown plead guilty of
numbering Cally Knox, at Bryan,
and was given life sentence.
There were about ten accessions
to the Baptist church during the
protracted meeting at Eden.
There were ffty-seven acces-
sions to the Methodist church dur
ing the revival meeting at Eastland.
H. R. Trumbell, was struck by
train at Moore Station Thursday
and was taken to San Antonio for
treatment.
"A new paper is to be started at
Hampstead by Mr.. Nick Houx, of
Austin. A new outfit has been pur-
chased.
-Twenty-one Catholic sisters of
charity have been granted certifi-
Gates to teach in the public schools
of Texas.
Work on the opera house block
at Mineola is progressing nicely,
and 1t will be one of the handsomest
buildings in that city.
Jas. Stephenson, who was badly
hurt by the cars at Hampstead
about week ago is now doing well
and hopes of his recovery are enter
tanned.
Russell Harrison, president of
the Arkansas Harbor company, says
the stories of the company not act
ing in good faith are without foun-
dalton.
-Wofett & Brady's gin burned
near Lancaster Thursday-118 bales
of cotton and six car loads of seed
were burned. Loss $4,000 Insur-
ance $4,000.
Del Rio voted to levy a tax for
the purpose of building a new S10,-
900 schoolhouse, and bonds will be
issued and work commence on the
house at once.
j. S. Wilson, Burnett county
farmer, went to sleep at his gin the
other day and the screw worm fly
eggs II his nostrils and
he died from their effects.
The oil mill at Hampstead has
laid pipes several blocks to the rail-
road track and the oil is being
pumped into large oil tanks to save
the expense of barrels and drayage.
Neil Rix, of San Antonio,
with the murder of Lassa-
ter, at BeeYille, from where the case
was carried on a change of venue,
has been granted bail in the sum of
$4,000.
Patrick Purcell, Of Galveston,
has sued the Santa Fe railway COM
pany for $4,000 damages. He was
a passenger when the train had a
slight collision with switch engine
in the yards there some time since.
Mrs. Emma Fisher, divorce of
San Antonio, was arrested Thursday
at Eagle Pass, charged with kid
her 7-year-old boy who has
been at school there. The grand
mother Is the custodian of the child.
! A negro was killed on the
Douglass farm near Tyler Thursday.
A companion says a team ran away
with him, threw him out of wagon
and kicked him to death, but an in
vestigation of the wounds led to the
arrest of the other negro.
AT Mudville in Brazos county,
last Sunday, a negro man while care
lessly handling a pistol caused it to
be discharged, the bullet entering
the brain of a negro woman by the
name of Alice Williams, who was
sitting near instantly killed her.
Caldwell News.
-Jno. Fergerson, alias Chisholm,
against whom charges have been
preferred in Grimes county for horse
sealing in Waller county has been
arrested through the efforts of Sheriff
Faulkner at Seven Rivers, Arizona,
and has been brought back to Hemp
stead and turned over to the Sheriff
of Montgomery county.