The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-09-04

4 A force is at work tearing away the
two-story brick. corner Main and RuslI
Avenue. Denison. preparatory TO the
erection of three-story granite block.
The drawbridge OF the Texarkana
and Fort Smith railroad across Red
River. north of Texarkana is finished.
/ 1t is $50 feet long and cost 800. 600.
Rabbit .scalps are coming in almost
by the car load at Sterling City. The
commissioners say if the people don't
stop it they will bankrupt the county.
/ The Morgan line of steamers have
been withdrawn from the Galveston
port. Passengers will now have TO go
via New Orleans to reach New York.
Fifty acres OF watermelons are re
ported to be rotting on truck farm
near BrenEam. The negroes in the
immediate vicinity term it DC Garden
OBJ Edum
The assessor of Greer county has
/ completed the tax rolls for 1891.
Total valuation 81. 04s. 3l3; last year.
1902, sos; increase, $40, 800, or over
| sc per cent.
Standard gauge ties and rails have
been distributed as far as Burnett and
by September 18th narrow gauge
trains will be running through to
Marble Falls.
/ While excited over catching large
ish in East Fork. and in striving to
ana it, Armus Galloway of Mesquite
stumbled and cut his foot nearly off on
II CLASSY fragment.
In a recent alteration at Corpus
Christi, Walter Dinney was badly cut
by L. Dreyer n butcher. The cut
measured eighteen inches, extending
from throat to back.
While Henry Parker was attempting
to couple a threshing engine 20 the
thresher near Quanah, the engine ran
backward catching and crushing his
lead. He died instantly.
The train struck J. II. baltimore of
Jacksonville while he was standing on
tle main track. and. carrying him
some twenty feet threw him to one
side, with slight injuries.
The English Opera company, which
has heen playing at the Oak Cliff
thea;er for the past fifteen weeks
closed their engagement few weeks
ago and left for New York.
The additions to the school building
and to various stores at Mexia are
Nearing completion. All the carpen-
tors there are busy and the demand
for more houses is growing,
A few days since two dagoes Gu
gagged in a rough and tumble fight in
bur dive at Houston. and when separated
it was discovered that one of them hac
suffered loss of his upper lip.
The big red gin with its twelve gin
stands, having a capacity of 100 bales
por day, is undergoing repairs at Deni-
son for the purpose of handling the
large cotton crop in that vicinity.
Mrs Anna Pinson, so years old. who
lived near jacksonville. died ON the
nth inst She was one of the pioneer
sc tiers of Texas City years arc
and died on 'fre a first settled.
G. d. Hoffman, %ho resides near
WoodlaHd. has on ,rn. =
| wIfidHr71fe calls JAG eep. -
the offspring OF COW and is . we'll
developed half sheep and hali cali
DoJlne
y Recent heavy rains extending from
Boracho to Sierra Blaneo, insures fat
cattle all winter. The people are in
clined to attribute these to the scientific
ex posions of Gen. Dyrenforth's party
nelr Midland.
a young man by the name of Toh
VIM. in the absence of minister,
took upon himself to conduct a revival
at Long Creek and for u week or more
ne has been pleading with the careless
quite successfully.
Hiss Minnie Lane. John Sparks. his
wife. and their three children were re
Ger tly crossing the railroad track in a
wa gon at Geneva when freight train
RAJ into the vehicle dreadfully man
Cling every occupant.
Following are the successful appli-
car IS for the Peabody normal: Mrs.
Emma Hagerman. Ranger; Miss An
ME Evans. Waco; j. X. Mcbride,
Lolleoak; j. II. Morse, Georgetown;
j. ". Ross, Houston.
J. few days ago the Ardinger & Rose
bui ding at Dallas together with sew
era adjacent buildings. were COM
pie ely destroyed by fire involving a
loss OF about 5000. 900. The flames
caught in the third story.
Miss Lee Strole one of the most
bea Itiiul young ladies in Comal eoun-
ty. mas suddenly disappeared. She is
into llectual and modest and has never
mad a lover. Her father is wealthy
and fears she has been foully removed
As per rolls footed up by the camp
troll er recently, taxable values increar-
ed Menard County $500, So; Schlei-
cher $109, SSS; McCulloch, 1874:
SABINE, $50, 694; Uvalde, 1918. 916.
and decreased in Blanco S1S, O34;
| Madison Slz, go.
Tie recent voting contest at Dallas
for the Eminence scholarship has
cl05td. Miss Johnnie Slater winning
by handsome majority. The Official
count results were: Miss Johnnie
Slater 90, SOC; Miss Annie Boren, i2,-
7S6 and Miss Stella Henderson, 1921.
b, F. Brownlee. young MN living
several miles east of Paris was drown
ed while SEEMING in Red River a few
days SINCE. He stepped in hole be-
yond his depth and was sucked under
by whirlpool. Two of his compan-
ions n their efforts to save him, came
near losing their lives.
Ed to-. Easterling o: the Del RIG
Record left home several weeks ago
leaving his paper in charge OF the
foreman. lie returned to find the
people in mass meeting on the street
preraring to boycott him. During his
absence the paper had written up
several prominent citizens.
Tho residence of August Schroeder,
near tireenvine was burned with its en-