El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-20
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
Sherman will celebrate her fiftiett
birthday next month.-Dallas News.
The water supply at the deep wells i.
holding out splendidly at Sherman
Register.
The contemplated display OF the bat
tie of Manila in pyrotechnics has beer
indefinitely postponed.-Dallas News
The Trenton patriots unfurled the
stars and stripes from pole sixty6ve
feet high three weeks ago.---Bophsn
| News.
Farmers are very busy working
their crops this beautiful weather
Crops are good, weeds and ALTAR
ledge Ridge.
Ex-Confederates will be expected tG
be in camp at the fair grounds in Bon
ham on the night Of Wednesday, the
10th day of August.---Bonham News.
Yeno Fielder. brought to Langtry
from the east, five double-decked cars
of fine sheep and drove them to his
ranch on the Pecos.-San Antonio Elk
press.
A vein of coal thirty feet thick has
| been struck in we'll of Mr.. Grey
Whites ten miles west of Carrie
Springs, at a depth of 100 feet.-San
Antonio Express.
The Texas Midland railroad is build.
ing side tracks at Enloe. Arrange
ments are being made to burn another
kiln of 80, 600 cubic wards OF gumbC
bsllast.-Dallas News Special.
Two powerful narrow gauge engines,
Nos. 60 and 81, built by the locomoti.
We works of Schenectady, N. Y, for
the Interoceanic railway in Mexico,
passed though Marshall today.-Dallss
News Special.
County court has been in session
now two weeks. Mistrial and scquit-
tails show that there was many . hard
fought prosecution to the charge OF
selling liquor to minors. San An
tonic Express.
The request that Luling help pay
ments for the First Texas regi-
ment met with q hearty and prompt
response from the young ladies of the
city.-San Antonio Express.
The county schools have nearly all
been taken, only q few of the smaller
ones remaining.
All the colleges report having en-
couraging reports from their agents
and olicitors.--ShermsnR Register.
Special Officer John M. Norman, of
the Southern Pacific passenger depot,
left for Atlanta, Ga, last night to at
tend the Confederate reunion and Al
bert Peterson is holding down the beat
during "Dad's'' absence San Anto-
MO Light.
The five-room cottage at the north
east corner of West Commerce and
North Sabinas streets, Prospect Hill.
owned by Mr.. Bradford and occupied
by M. NJ. Jones, wife and son, was burn
ed to the ground yesterday morning q
little before six o'clock.-Ssn Antonio
Light.
j. w. johnson sustained q painful
pistol shot wound in the left leg yester-
day about Z AS p. m. 81 was sitting
down examining the pistol, 3S-calibre
Smith & Wesson. The hammer was
Clipped off and 1 suppose my hold
slipped and caused the explosion. -
Sherman Register.
Byron Fields, well known in
Colorado Springs, Col, was in
stantly killed in one of B. Lantry
Sons railway camps late yesterday
evening, the 18th inst. He was stand
ing in the door of the csboose of q
work train when q sudden jerk of the
engine threw him between the cars,
one car passing over him.-Dallas News
Special.
Texas has no reason to complain OF
the generosity of President Mckinley
in the matter of army commissions,
but the Texas volunteers would he
very grateful to the commander-in-
chief Of the army if he would give
them q chance to see actual service on
the field of glory, either in the West
Indies or the Philippines.-San An
tonic Express.