The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-01
SHORT TEXAS SPECIALS,

glst, is dead. sam CneTry Is III gei'
charged with the staying.
LoNGVIEW-A 10y named John Casey
accidentally shot OFF bis hand near town
while foolng with a shotgun.
CoRsGCANA-Cors!ca has received
% 600 bales OF cotton TO date by wagon;
The congresses have compressed S0Vp
bales
pALLAs-T case of NJ. Hardcastle.
oharecd with the murder of DR.. j. j.
Wray, Is on trial In the criminal district
court.
PAL EsT1N1G-Mr. oliver Of Mexia Is
thinking Of beginning the publication OF
ii morning daily paper IN tins city al an
early date.
DEN1soN--Ed Thornton. a former resi-.
dent OF benson. is reported to have been
crowned IN Deep Fort. /. T.. during the
recent high water
GRYAN--wm =. Riggs had his right
foot badly mashed in the Houston and
Texas Central yards by the wheels OF
moving freight car.
LEXGNGTON-The play entitled "'fne
Deacon" rendered by local talent, wan1
wen patronlzed The audience was wen
pleased with The concert.
made by Mckinney police was made snt-
urday night when thirtyseven arrests
were made at one time for gaming.
WACo--At a chris tmas party of col9red
PEOPLE on enc op me ola ac,a 6raIo1 r 1e
Charged and S9iie Ann jarrett fell dead,
her head riddled with bucksho,.
TERRnLI-Wh standing, near 4
caught on ira. BY presence, of mind SHE
extinguished the flames with no further
damage than the burning Of her skirt
FORT WORTII-Peter Sergeant. con
victed and given twenty years imprison-
guard 20 the First Christian church and
regularly bpused. lie Is an aged man
ana viii hardly live out his term.
ned ~.rN H..
organized lodge at this place with a
membership OF twenty one. II. c. Slb-
soft was elcttcd noble grand; X. y. BroSk.
vice graud;p. 4. shores secretary A. w.
| Brock. treasurer.
| FORT HoRTH-The First National
bank londed an express wagon with silver
| aud drove ,,p to the court house ana
down to hc city hun to pay its STATE
| something .bovo 1850. aud the dollars
weighed over 80 pounds
| 1RIN1TY-A champion hunt was In.
! judged In by nearly every one mere and
/ H. II. Johnson and ". l.. Long were iht
captains. Johnson won the honors ny
several points. Frank Y. Parker Won
| hrst prize. a i'ne hunting Jacket.
FORT WORTH--The fourth of the dis
| trict meetings Of schools OF Instruction OF
! the order of knGhis Of Pythias VIII lle
| held at Temple. Thrso have heretpior,
/ h, en- hold. at Gre, ~ He. Fort Worth and
! r0lestina., at all of which the attendance
| Was very large.
PLUM-Nothing has developed to throw
ary. Light on the tragic death of MIS-
found on her body with one chamber
| empty inclines some TO the theory of sui
eide. while Others as firmly believe thai
she was murdered.
EMoRY-An attempt was made by un-
known parties to hurglarize the vault II
which were kept the tax collectors rolli
md books and the money collected foi
the ptesent year, which amounts TO sew
| eral thousand dollars. The combination
to tho vault was badly battered
PABIS-Dcputy Marshal G. h, V. Ham
iton and Josh Slaughter, his posseman
were arrested and lodged N jal charged
Cherokee crossing of Blue river, Len
Young being killed al the same time,
TYLER-Phonso Butler o. browning, II
this county, WIS seriously cat aud hurnec
about the hands. face and eyes by TIT
explosion of a cnn OF powder, In reach
ms down for the powder he dropped
I lighted cigarette into Il, with the ahoVi
results. Ii i1 feared he viii lose one o
his eyes,
sJERMAN-W Wills Waller, aged abou
%, who was raised in this city but iaor,
1 lately making MS home near Gage Post
ofnce, IN this comfy, died from gunsho
Evans, near Lark, n small trading sta
ton IN the thicEnsaw Nation, two mile
from Red river and ahput twenty nv,
miles from sherman. farmer has sur
rendered.
CLEBl RNE-In the district court room
Nugil Thompson picked up a chair Wit.
which 10 strlNe Dock Gufiin. Gufnn drew
his pistol and Was eniy prevented iron
and Deputy Long Thompson and GufHi
are bro,N-rs- ih-iaw. and the former hu
Just been given eleven and half year
In the pon.tentiary for attempting to nun
der Gufnu and his son