El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-22
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Texas

The dispatches say that a voting ma
| chine was used with great success in
| Roc hester, N. Y. We think the one
used in Austin did fairly well.-Austin
Tribune.
The last strand of wire was strung
| today on long distance telephone cir
cult connecting Austin and other Tex
lance of 1000 miles. The circuit takes
in New York and all important East
ern points. Tribune.
Houston Lee an attorney of this city,
was shot through the arm last night
| by his s1ster-in-law, who mistook him
for burglar. She had new pistol
and Lee had twitted her about bel
afraid to use it If burglar were to
come. He tried to brighten her and
| succeeded. Now he knows she Is not
afraid to shoot.-San Antonio Express.
Some time during last night the safe
in the depot at Tyler, Texas, on the
Cotton Belt road, was blown open with
dynamite. Officers here were soon no
tilted and at once left for the scene.
The last reports are that the officers
are CD the trail of the perpetrators.
News is hourly expected of an arrest.
Houston Post.
A law was passed by the last Texas
legislature prohibiting the shipment
by railway or express of all kinds of
wild game, with the exception of wild
ducks and geese. This caused big
decrease in the slaughter of deer quail
and wild turkeys by market hunters,
and the protected game have multi
plied.-Exchange.
The turbines of the city power and
- lnln fri0 inh MI al
with cells early last night, compelling
the plant to shut down. No street
cars could be run last night and only
six cars could be operated today. The
work of clearing the cells out of the
turbine Is not yet mpleted.-San
Antonio Express.
Sergeant Charles j. Norbery, COM
pany r. Eighteenth U. S, infantry, re-
tired. is in receipt of fob chain from
Manila which is made from Spanish
gold coins. the largest being about the
size of ten dollar gold piece in U. S.
currency and the smallest about the
size of a 81 80 gold piec'. four pieces
composing the chain, each piece being
connected by two links.-San Antonio
Light.
It is now believed the elegant new
Tarpon Club house on St. Joseph's is
land, near Arkansas Pass, will be read v
for formal opening by Dec. Is. A
telegraph line, including two short
cables, will be constructed to open con.
nectiOn with the mainland, and an
electric car line OF about three miles
in length to run from the club to the
Pass aud bath houses on the beach is
one of the enterprises in cOntempla-
tion.-Exchapge.
Judge o. W. Williams put neat
L. ,<~lx IL
ola precinct Tuesday. Most of the Mex
ic ans out there got the judge to make
out their tickets for them. No one
was running for justice of the peace,
but the judge put Matt Cope's name on
every second ticket for the position
and "GovernOr" Roberts's name on
the alternate tickets, the result being
decided by the few American votes
cast.-Pecos County Pickings.
Populists will be very scarce in the
next Texas legislature. The number
will not exceed three in the house and
there will be none in the senate. It is
not unlikely. judging from the returns,
, that G. F. Hurley, populist, has defeat
ed Calvin Thaxten, democrat. in the
!; district composed of Mason and Llano
counties: that j. r. Frost, populist,
: has defeated G. w. Mcdonald, dem
| OCTous IL WIG COmp OScQ Vi dlO
Pinto and Eastland counties, and that
w. A. Skillerm, populist, has defeated
]. B. STRIPPING, democrat, in the dis
trict composed OF NacoRdoches county
Two years ago there we're seven pop
ulists in the house and two in the
, senate Austin Tribune.
A miniature representation of the
battleship Maine, on exhibition ir
Beeville in attracting considerable at
ention and eliciting from those wht
see it much praise for it builder, Mr.
!, w. II. Rudolph, we'll known Beevile
carpenter. The vessel is about foul
feet in length and ia perfect repre-
sentation of the Maine as she appeared
just before leaving Norfolk for Havana
1t was made from photographs ant
descriptions of the ship as published
in the Scientific American. The arm
, amept, search lights and every minute
detail of the originals trapping is com
pleted. A San Antonio saloon man ha:
: bought the little ship for 500. Mr.
RudOlDh will sOOn heOin the cOnstruc.