El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-08
! Neighbour
} hood Notes.
Texas.

Sherman's new park is to be lighted
by electric lamps.-Dallas News.
There has been much sickness in
the vicinity of Groesbeck, since the
July overflow Eek.
Work has been begun on .the new
| Odd Fellows building at kaufman; it Is
to be modern two-story.-Ex.
The attorney general approved s47,-
| 500 courthouse and jail, and $4,000
bridge bonds for Karnes county.-Fort
Worth Telegram.
The state health department has re-
ceivedi Information this morning
that the smallpox cases in
Preside county were under CONTROL
Elk.
h. Torrstatt of Paris has instituted
suit in the district court against the
Frisco Railway company to recover
S25, 900 damagessfor personal njuries.-
Elk.
The money has been raised and the
contract has benn signed for a first
class compress to be in operation at
Overton by October 10, 1899. Houston
Post.
There has been seventeen spplica-
tions filed with Judge Wilson at New
| WI luz COulcOST6Gc p0uSlOuS 10 Q6t6,
two of whom are widows.-Houston
Post.
The holiness camp meeting at Scots
| vile continues to be largely attended.
| Many conversions have been made.
Three services are held daily. The
meeting will close Saturday.-Ex.
W. r. Dunkinson, operator of the
Associated Press on The News, met
two 10 h. II
in the morning on the 5th inst, at
Galveston while In bathing.-Ex.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company will begin shortly
the erection of line from BridReport
to Sebree and Jacksboro, which will
largely facilitate business with all the
towns west.
A little daughter of Mr.. M. A.
Belcher of Ennis, while swinging at
the barn fell on the sharp corner of q
feed trough and cut long deep gash
in her thigh. A physician used sew.
eral stitches in sewing up the wound
Elk.
The West Texas Fair and Roundup
o OCT % Ss to neld %. at The Abilene nrse
MUM list for the agricultural and hor-
ticultural departments has been pub
lished in advance of the regular cata-
logue, in order to induce farmers and
gardeners to begin in time to save
nice exhibits for the occasion.-Ex.
Percy Curtis, the negro who was
charged with an attempt at criminal
assault upon the person of q married
woman near Texarksna, last April.
was caught few miles from here and
brought to town. Before Justice p.
G. Henry, Curtis was sent to Jail
in default of $3.50 bsil.-Houston
Post.
Paul Harrison, living three miles
southeast Of Denton. was found dead in
his stable by his wife on the 5th inst.
He had started to visit some neighbors,
she thought, but as the time went by
and he did not return, she went out
into the lot to attend to the stock,
when she found the body lying prone
upon the ground, as stated above.-Ex.
On the 4th. while the little daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Willard of S3I
West Texas street Denison, was playing
with toy stove, her clothing caught
fire and she was SO severely burned
mother who was very i'll with typhoid
fever, made heroic effort to save the
child's life, and was severely burned
herself and is in very critical condi- |
tion.-Ex.
The work on the new Masonic Wi
dows and Orphans home at Fort Worth |
will be completed about Sept. /. A |
boiler house 72x64 feet, to cost 1862. 20, |
room for engines, boilers, |
ETC., will be erected. There will be in |
the rear a swimming pool 15x19 feet.
Several bath rooms will also be fitted |
up. A brick stable, with ample room
OF uni al h.!
erected on the premises.-Dallas News.
Some person unknown applied a
lighted match to the mouth of the
tubing in the salt water and gas geyser
On the W. J. McKie farm, near Corsi-
cana and ever since there has been
shooting up from the we'll to q height
Of fifty feet a column OF flame sEat
Eliminates the country around for
1uite q distance. The gas burns
brightly and makes roar that can be
heard several hundred yards.-Dallss
News.
Reports of operations in the oil field
,ear Corsicana for the months of July
show that during the month twenty
wells were drilled in, of which twelve
we're producers and eight we're drv
holes. During the month three wells
we're abandoned, and at the beginning
u August there were nine being drill
ID and eleven rigs were In place.
The total of producing wells is 412, dry
loles 81, gas wells and "a have been
Observation-Disclosures Post
State Insurance Commissioner JEFF
erson johnson has issued notices to
insurance agents that the attorney
general has construed the overhead in
'urance act to mean that q local
agent regularly appointed, may write
business anywhere in the state by
paying the required tax. This con-