The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-20
TEXAS NEWS IN BRIEF.

MIR John {. Moore. one OF the most
popular citizens of Calvert. is dead.
Prohibition was carried in Coleman
and precinct by l65 for to 50 against.
Twenty carloads OF pecans have
already been shipped this season from
Llano
1t estimated that ZOO bales of cot
ton remain unsold in the ne ghborhood
OF Taylor
Fire in the Central yards at Hous-
ton damaged cotton to the amount OF
about 5000
Some Of the enterprislng ladies OF
Huntsville have organized cemetery
association.
DR.. c. c. Gorham, city physician of
Laredo, Webb county, died in that city
a few days ago.
McGreggor Brothers store at Little
River, Bell county, was broken into
and robbed of 5000
The local option elcctiona at Milford
a few days ago resulted IN votes for
and 50 votes against
-George Il. Zimpelman viii probably
pull the postifiice persimmon off tho
official tree at Austin.
Hon Il. w. Finley has been spoken
of for the position Of state comptroller
by the Texas Financicr
VIM. Munger's saloon, at Smith
Vile. was broken into by burglars and
the safe robbed of 500.
Snow is three inches deep at CLAIR
cndon. Donley county, which is very
bad for cattle one ranges.
The right foot Of LeGrande Fain,
aged IA, was severed by a railyoad train
at Benton passing over it,
"A drunken negro at Colmesneil cut
and slashed two of the Holly brothers
and then made his escape.
The local option election at sulphur
Springs on the 5th inst, resulted in
445 votes for and $40 against.
-Dcvcrs, Liberty county, thinks she
bids fair, in due time, to become queen
of the praries. Well, why not?
Rev. j. f. Green, of the Sd ward
Tabernacle in Houston, is to preach and
give out the hymns another year.
A protracted meeting at the First
Baptist church in BRENNAN has been
started by the Rev. j. {. Midget
The Southwestern university at
Georgetown has changed its weekly
holiday from Saturday to Monday.
Whooping cough is in Rosenberg,
Fort Bend county, and nearly every
child in that town has touch of it.
A little boy ten years old was killed
by the cars at Longview. his head be-
ing mashed between two passing trains
A section hand named Warren
/ brakeman was run over by the cars
in the Santa Fe yards at CIcburne and
killed.
Hundreds of cmigrants from Gcor-
gia Alabama and East Tennessee are
passing through Memphis enroute to
/ Texas.
"A petition is in circulation in PEN
aletonvillc Bell county, asking for an
election to decide for or against local
option.
The Rev G, c. Rankin. pastor of
the Shearn Methodist church at lIous-
ton, has been retained another year AS
its pastor.
Not a white person was buried in
the cemetery at Bryan from September
rs to November %, nearly two months
and half
The present municipal iucumhents
of Austin were reelected by a large ma
iority on Monday last, thus endorsing
the dam enterprise.
j. W. Norton of Dallas, while driv-
ing of an evening a short time since on
White Rock, was held up by two high
wavmen and robbed of -.
The cotton crop around Jackson
vile has nearly ali been marketed, and
the total receipts at that place are 1000
is t, 900 bales less than last wear.
burglars at Bastrop seem to have
a peculiar liking for pistols. revolvers,
knives, etc, at least the proprietor of
gun store at that place thinks So.
Charles pepper of Weber, Goliad
county, was assassinated a couple Of
nights ago while on his way home from
Cuero.
The farmers around Giddings arc
compelled to let their cotton go at the
present market rate, as they despair Of
getting cents this year.
The young ladies' boarding house.
dining hall and small dwelling AT
Veal Station. in Parker county, were
destroyed by fire recently.
Fred Renard of Dallas was stabbed
to the heart about o'clock a. m ON
the 9th inst, while trying to stop .
burglar in the hall of his home.
AT the Baptist church in Caldwell,
on Sunday last, an old gentleman aged
II, vruu forward, confessed, and is now
a happy man. He had been Il slleptic
for many years.
While Mrs. Monroe, living near For
LostYllln. DeMilt countN WIS sittinm by