El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
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Texas.
Stephenville has q 1O-year-old bar
Der.
| Hunt county has organized bar as
ISOLATION.
| San Marcos is to have q telephone
exchange.
| The web worm is annoying farmers
! at Castroville.
There were fine rains over this Sec
ton yesterday and last night.
The boil wevil has appeared in con-
siderable mum bers at Leesville.
DIR. Horace Bailey committed sui
eide at Commerce. No cause assign
ed.
Elgin farmers have vegetable as
ISOLATION that ships their truck pro-
ducts to the northern market.
The state superintendent of public
| buildings and grounds Is improving
| the appearance of the capital campus.
The Dickens Doings says that ne
groes are so scarce in that section
that they are looked upon as curiosi-
ties.
The county board of equalization is
In session At Waxahachie, and will
value all property in the way of taxing
Tx.
City Treasurer Hall of Sherman re-
ports balances on hand IS follows:
Cash $50, 1874 3s, bonds taken up and
held S9372.16; total S69, 057.54.
The citizens will sign petition and
serd 1t to the sdjutsnt general asking
81 A.
ted into the States Volunteer Guard.
The county court house at Marshall
burned on the It'll. 1t caught from q
timers furnace and was under head
way so quickly that 1t could not be
saved.
Next Monday the city council of
Sherman will hear report of the COM
mittee on public works relative to
petitions asking for extensions of
water mains.
F. A. Waters fell from a wagon while
going to his farm near Terrell, by one
of the wagon wheels falling into rut
He was knocked unconscious and badly
bruised up, having fallen on his head
Austin has a Sunday closing law.
San Antonio has q wide-open prsc-
tice. Sunday excursion trains from
Austin to San Antonio take SO many
passengers that the capital city seems
deserted.
The Hunt county ex-Confederate
veterans are called to meet
in Greenville June II to
arrange for their annual picnic
All camps in the county are requested
to send delegates to the meeting.
An assassination upon Rev. A. Cole
colored Baptist preacher, was at,
tempted near La Grange in what is
known as the Bethssida settlements.
while he was on his way home from
church after the night service.-Ex.
Sam Breeland, constable at Perry,
Falls county, was murdered near his
home. Breelsnd had been active in
ferreting out white cappers in his pre-
c1nct. The man who is charged with
the killing is at large in the Brazos
bottom.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
w. Kendall has appointed William
principal of the Dallas city
schools, and Miss Minnie Marsh, prin-
cipal of the Denison schools, as exam
lners for the Denton normal. The ex-
will be held June IL, Is and |
Ia.
Inc new passenger station was
opened to the public today, and ,Mexia
low has as pretty a little depot as any
own of its size on the road. A new
reiRht depot is also to be
quilt, and altogether the company will
pend several thousand dollars in i'm
,rovements here this year.
Joseph Pelz, an Austrian aged IS
yesrs, formerly of Kansas City, killed
,imself in Fort Worth by shooting a
'S-caliber pistol ball through his head.
oelz placed the gun in his mouth in
he presence of his wife and fired the
stal shot. Chronic sickness prompted
he deed.
Governor Savers Gays that the call
made by him for conference of gov
rnors is strictly non-partisan and that
t is very DESTROYS that each state shall
re represented at the conference by it's
GOVERNOR and attorney general with re-
ard to the political party without