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creek about two miles north of Alb
lene. II was subject to epilepti
fits, and it is thought he fell in tb
stream while in fit.
Conductor A. G. O'Hover, VIII
took all extra freight train over til
Cotton Belt Wednesday was kille
near Garland City. He was tryin
to go to the engine from his caboos
and fell catching his foot in tn
break beams and was dragged
mile.
The construction of $4,000
or $4,000 public school building il
Clarendon the coming winter an
fall says the Traveller, would contri
butte largely to the business activit,
and prosperity of the town durin!
the eight or ten months Of its con
struction.
One Davis and a man nance
Vaughn near Bonham, had diff
Guilty, Davis was kicked out OF ,
wagon by Vaughn who continued t.
kick his antagonist as long as h'
wanted to. Davas has since died O.
his injuries and Vaughn is under ar
rest.
j. W. Parham was fined $500
and six months imprisonment al
Hillsboro and when an officer ac.
companied him to his home to gel
bis wife to sign a check for the
money he got the officer to fill out
tile check and he skipped, making
good his escape.
The other day, says Ell Pasc
Herald, a baggage car loaded with
hounds, comprising some fifty in all,
passed through La Junta from the
East over the Atchison for New
Mexico. 1t is the object of the
ranchmen to breed these dogs as
rapidly as possible and train them
to protect the cattle and sheep while
on the range.
Pearl Younger, daughter ofSthe
notorious Belle Starr, denies that
she has been in any horse stealing
business, and says the reports pub
lished in the papers about her be
ing captured in male attire are all
bosh. She lives at Tomaha, in the
Choctaw Nation, and says she has
no desire to follow i'll the footsteps
of the mother, but is leading a quiet
life among her friends there.
Mrs. Burgett, of Denison, mas
had the remains of her husband, who
died in the insane asylum, at Terrell
taken up and shipped to Denison.
She did not examine the corpse, but
a gentleman who accompanied her
aud who was intimately acquainted
with the deceased identified the re-
mains as those of Burgett. 1t will
be seen that the rumor that his body
had been sold for dissection was
purely sensational.
The bids for the harbor work ut
Galveston have been opened at the
war department and it found that
the lowest bidders for the sandstone
jetty were B. L. Lantry & Sons of
Kansas City for $2,S49,064 and the
lowest for the granite jetty was by
Kicker, Lee & Co., of Galveston for
81, 553, 430. There were seven bids
in all, ranging from S2,0OO,O00 to
S5,000,000.
Monday night the postofice at
Queen City was burglarized and
robbed of considerable amount of
stamps and mail matter. A party
W. b. Anderson was suspec-
ted and Thursday he was arrested
and lodged in jail there on the
charge. The authorities at Queen
City were at once wired and res
pended to hold the prisoner for the
postoffice inspector, which will be
donw. When arrested Anderson had
upon his person about $50 worth OF
postage stamps of various denomi
and several pieces of mail
matter directed to Queen City and
belonging to persons living there.
"A case of the city of Flatonia
VS.. Tank Zee, was tried in the
court at Flatonia Thursday
The defendant was
charged with having used, in his
lecture of Tuesday night, language
calculated to disturb the peace
Tank Kee changed doctors during
his late illness there. and under the
second recovered. Ii the above
mentioned lecture he stated that he
lad had during his illness, but one
physician, and that was doctor No
:, that he would rather be the
Tronged than the wronger, the rob-
bed than the robber, the poisoned
han the poisoner. Doctor No. 1,
vas in the audience and hearing this,
night have done what he didn't,