El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-22
TEXAS.


General Miles's chief of staff prom
ounces the Texas troops a very fine
body of men.-San Antonio Express.
Work has commenced preparatory
to laying asphaltum sidewalks in front
of the Grand Central depot in this city
Houston Post.
The telephone line being built on
Marshall street by the Telephone com
pany, will be the finest in the city
San Antonio Light.
Postmaster Clifford has had tarpau-
Inns placed over the windows of his Of.
fee on the east side OF. the federal
building.-Ssn Antonio Light.
Col. E. P. johnson of Eagle Pass,
special agent of the United States
treasury department, Is at she Menger
on his way home WashinRton.-San
Antonio Express.
The Houston and Texas Central is
erecting q model combination freight
and passenger station at Burton to
take the place of the one latly des.
troyed by fire.-Houston Post.
Mr.. Robert Burns, assistant com
mercial agent of the Tucson and Texas
Central and Sunset railways, accom-
panied by his wife and child, is spend
Ing a pleasant vacation at La Porte
Houston Post.
After an absence of forty years from
his native state, Mr.. j. S. Swope left
yesterday morning for Dunlap and
other points in Iowa, where he will
visit his sisters and scenes of his child
hood. Houston Post.
The Arkansas Pass has established q
new station between mile posts 100 and
191, two miles west of Falls City. Cen
eral Manager Monserrate has named
the station Hobson, after the hero OF
the Merrimac.-San Antonio Express.
Adolph Toepperwein, San Antonio's
famous young rifle expert, will pro,
badly leave for New York shortly 70
give exhibitions of his skill in fancy
shooting. He has received several
Hattering offers for his services.-Ssn
Antonio Express.
"A battered straw hat was seen
| floating down the river under the Mill
bridge, late yesterday afternoon and q
large crowd of people collected on the
the owner of the hat had been drowned
San Antonio Express.
The ten new horses selected for trial
in the service of the fire department
were subjected to a very thorough test
and six of the number were purchased
by the city yesterday through Mayor
Pro Tenn Denney and Fire Chief Col.
lins.-San Antonio Express.
Near Willis the first crop of tobacco
has been harvested and now the rains
! are causing the suckers to put out.
which insures start on the second
crop. Although this much good has
| been done by the rains, the tobacco
| In the barns was very much injured by
the continued down-pours, causing it
to mould. Houston fost.
Near Cypress, Henry Meyer, Jr., his
wife and year old boy, were attacked
by q negro, the parents literally cut to
pieces and the child cut and his skull
crushed, with an axe.
The parents and child We're sleep
ing, on their gallery, when attacked
by the brute. A ten year old brother
of Meyer, sleeping in an adjacent
screams and saved himself by fligh t
and Meyers baby girl by throwing a
lot OF bed clothing over the.crsdle.
After rsnsacking the house for val
uables the fiend. passed into field, at
the back Of the house, pulled off his
bloody shirt, and proceeded deliberate
ly to eat watermelon. The entire
community was quickly aroused and
citizens headed by officers are
searching for the murderer -Cleburne
Enterprise