El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Texas

The Greenville Rifles have reor-
ganized with J. F. Nichols as Captain.
-Bonham News.
Peter Mahoney, q boy ID years
old, was drowned nearSan PAtricio.-
Cleburne Herald.
The commissioners coutt at Conan
che has decided to build a new jail
and will consider bids the first week
in September.
The Thirty third volunteer regiment
has been recruited up to its full comp
lement of men and has begun drilling
and rife practice.-Denison Herald.
The work of placing the material on
the site of the county asylum for the
detention of incurables began recently
at Sherman and work on the same will
be pushed rapidly.
A special to the Tribune from San
Augustine says: Crank Dixon,
prominent young man, was occidental
ly shot and killed on the 22nd night
by his companion'"-Ex.
During the recent floods deer emf
grated from the Bernard bottoms of
South Texas to the San Jacinto river
bottoms and there they are reported as
unusually plentiful.-San Antonio
Light.
The state board of education has
purchased $4,000 Bexar county bonds.
The remaining $4,000 of the issue will
be purchased by Bexar county commits
sioners with the permanent school
fund of that county.-Dallas News.
The comptroller has received tax
rolls, which shows increases in all but
one instance, rs follows: Crockett
county. increase s21O, 66l; Moore coun-
ty, increase S58, 243; Refugio county,
increase $72, 2S5; Colorado comfy, de-
crease, 953 $40; Harris county, increase
S720, $50.
Waco butchers say they will have to
follow Fort Worth's example soon and
says he regards the advance in the
price of cattle Is due more to the
operations of the trust than to the law
of supply and demsnd.-Fort Worth
Telegram.
News reached Waco the other night
that at Bruceville, in McLennan
county, DIR. j. B. Harris. county chair
man of the populist party, and J. B.
O'Brien, editor of the Bruceville pa
per, had both been shot. DR.. Harris
Is reported shot in the head and body,
supposedly fatally.-Dsllas News.
The people of Cook Springs neigh
borhood, four and half miles north of
Sherman, are wrought up over the
presence of Q beast in that section
which makes night hideous with it's
bowls. Those who have seen it say it
is larger than an ordinary dog. They
believe It is q panther.-Dallas News.
Railroad men In Dallas say the re-
duction of cents per 100 pounds asked
for by the grain men between Texas
ta vsfv
crossings will not be granted. The
matter was up before the traffic men at
yesterdays meeting, but NO definite
answer was made.-Mail Tele-
gram.
There are no new developments in
the sm sllpox matter at Denton. The
one case has been isolated and those
exposed to the disease have been de-
tanned. The scare that was at fret
felt hsdd led out to q great extent, as
the prompt action of the officers has
relieved the minds of the people,
Dallas News.
Mics Sallie Lee Dunn, q young lady
living nine miles west of Beckville,
died yesterday from the effects OF .
burn received some days ago. It is
the same old story. She had started
a fire in the stove and it was not burn
ing to suit her and she poured oil on
the fire from q can. The can exploded.
Dallas News.
Nearly all the gins in this county
have commenced to run, and several
bales of cotton have come in. Farmers
in many stations report boil worms and
the hot, dry weather had damaged tire
cotton. Local buyers do not look for
over 10000 bales at Paris. and some of
them think the receipts will not reach
that igure.-Dallas News.
Mrs. r. V. Philips has filed suit for
divorce against her husband, John
Philips, who was convicted of train
robbery in 1897 and Is serving q five
years. sentence at Huntsville. Philips
with Thomas Sullivan and John Ward
held up Texas and Pacific train near
Benbrook and robbed the express
messenger of S400O.-Depison Herald.
The leading cotton buying firms of
Paris have signed an agreement to
abolish what are known as the "street
rules" which enabled the buyer first
seeing bale of cotton to bid on il, and
prevented other buyers from bidding
until he permitted them. The prac-
tice was distssteful to the farmers, and
general satisfaction is expressed that it
will be discontinued.-Da News.
Railroads entering Waco are protest.
ing vigorously against the valuation of
property made by the city board of
equalization. The valuation is almost
double what it has been heretofore and
the representatives of the railroads
have been wrestling with the board
nearly all week. The valuations were
raised on the showing from the rail
road commissioners, who submitted an
estimate of the cost of construction of
the roads, even showing the cost of
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