The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-11-17

TEXAS NEWS IN BRIEF.

was purgtdrlNeu ana roOpeu OF Sinu.
A pro,racted meeting is IN grogress
in the Methodist church Giddings.
Anderson is tearing down her old
courthouse to make room for new one.
-Pasturage in Wichita county is
said to he good and cattle in splendid
condition
Cotton receipts AT Dallas on Tues
day last were 52S bales, the heaviest in
ten years.
Local option was carried in Wood
Vile Tyler county, on the 9th instant,
by g. to "a.
Farmers around Luling say a good
fall crop of cotton viii be made on the
black lands.
The receipts at the state treasury
for November, up to the nth inst,
amount to 500. 900.
Aug. FRANKIE, aged 10, died in Bren-
ham on the nth inst. He had been
in Texas fifty years.
The residence of X. l.. Timmins, at
WaXahachie with all its contents, was
burned on the 9th inst.
The saloon keepers at Dublin are
option law in that town.
Joe johnson, in getting off car at
Beaumont, fell under the wheel and
had his left foot mashed.
A mardi gras festival on large
scale is being discussed by a certain
class of citizens in Dallas
All the public schools closed in
Houston on the 18th inst. to let tho
scholars attend the circus.
They have had no rain in Mason
county since November, 1892. Corn and
cotton will average half crop.
A seat gave way in medicine tent
at Brenham, breaking the leg of one
boy and injuring several others.
f.. Il. Riggs, u prominent stocllman
of Lexington, Lee county is dead He
leaves a wife and eight children.
Mrs. w. A. Smell died in Hearne a
few days ago, leaving three children,
one of whom is but few days old,
The farmers around Calvert say
their top crop of cotton will be better
in some places than their first crop.
A new morning paper is about to
be started at Fort Worth. 1t will be
democrat observation-disclosures in politics
Quail are plentiful around Burton
and the local sportsmen OF that town
are having Il splendid time in bagging
them
The citizens of Llano are a little
! perpleXed over the matter of who shall
succeed the present postmaster at that
place.
The Randle trial in Dallas. which
is now before the criminal court, is at
tracing considerable attention in that
growing city.
At gin. about four miles from
| Bonham. Martin Davis right arm was
caught in the saws and cut into a jelly
up to the elbow.
John Heisler was crushed to death
between two box ears at the star and
Crescent salt works in Grand Saline,
| Van Zandt county.
The general merchandise store of
| Lolie Stewart. ten miles from Gilmer,
has been consumed by fire, supposed to
have been incendary.
The gross receipts of the water
works at Fort Worth for the last quar-
ter were s21 ,92o. OBJ expenses, 50, $50. 40
net earnings. Sl2, 2dS-63
The A. and NJ. college at Bryan is
to have two threcinch rifle guns with
carriages and caissons of the latest and
most improved manufacture.
1T is stated. on good authority"
that Senator Mills has announced his
intention of supporting Senator Coke
for recollection to the IT, 5. senate.
in the trial at Dallas of |. G.. RAN
die, charged with killing Ed Randall,
motion to quash the Indictment was
overruIed and change OF venue denied.
Huntsville is about to- experience
n water famine as the cisterns in that
town have nearly become dry. All the
ladies of that lively city want it to rain.
-Brenham claims to have bad 10000
people on her streets on the day of the
circus in that town. Brenham must
have an Eli Perkins pushing the pencil.
Two armed men entered the county
treasurer Office at Seymour and rob-
bed the safe of 400, and then locked
the treasurer up in the safe and made
| their escape.
A big boy in the public school at
Trinity drew knife on the professor
and was about to cut his throat. but
some of the larger boys took the would
be murderer away.
The United States supreme court
has decided the Ashley land suit, in'
volving an interest to 1000 acres OF
land in the heart Of Dallas, in favor oi
| the present owners.