El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-26
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Brenham records one heat death,
Thursday.-Ex.
The loss to the Katy railroad by the
recent flood 10 estimated at Sl5O, OOO.-l
Elk.
Governor Ssyers refuses to purchase
seed of any kind from speculators.-t
Elk.
Convention for Brazos river improve
ment will not meet for some time yet.
-Ex.
There is prospect of iron develop
ment in Llano county.-Sherman Re-
gister.
Galveston cotton men place the loss
of cotton at 100000 bales.-Abilene
Times.
Negro suspected of being the assas-
sin of Neil Lane captured In Bastron
county.-Ex.
Religious revivals are in full blast
at McDade, Taylor and Gonzales
Dallas News.
Very few Texans are enlisting in the
army for service in the Philippines
Denison Herald.
Rev. P P. Bolin, of Cincinnati, is
elected president of ST. Edwards col
lege, Austin.-Ex.
meet in annual convention in Novem-
ber.-Denison Heral.
State Health Officer Blunt has q fun
igating barge at Gslveston; cost ST.
500.-Cleburne Herald.
A large number of convicts have
been sent to work in the bottoms near
Hearne.-Pecos Times.
Around Sinton cotton pickers ore in
demand and will have plenty to do In
few days.-San Antonio Exp.
Colonel A. J. Baker, late OF the state
land Office, has opened q new bank In
San Antonio.-Yorkto News.
The summer normal examination at
Liberty is now in progress there being
eighteen applicants for certificates.
Owing to the late high water work
At the mouth of the Brazos cannot be-
gin before 80 days.-Cleburne Herald.
Austin has :sent $4,000 to the flood
sufferers, received from the St. Louis
Merchants exchange.-Cleburne Her
aid.
Juan Cara, guarding his melon
patch at Eagle Pass, accidentally
shoots dead his brother-in-lsw.
Elk.
All railroads in West Texas are car
rying guards in anticipation of an at
tack by Black Jack.-Ssn Antonio
Light.
Bud Ulmer, q dairyman of Paris, ,
was thrown from buggy in q run
away and seriously injured.-Fx-
change.
Army worms are depredating upon
cotton in the vicinity of Texsrkana,
aud much damage Is being done the
crop.-Ex.
Some forty applications for state con-
federate pensions lave been filed in
Tarrant county; eight of them have
been proved up.-Post.
At San Angelo last week 400, ZOO
pounds of wool was disposed of to A.
w. Littlehole, for which check for
$50, 900 was given.-Ex.
1t is said that 631, 900 melons have
been shipped from San Patricio county
this season, netting the producers $40,
00O.-Sherman Register.
During a thunderstorm some twelve
miles north of Hereford Mr.. Fred
Tomanishels was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.-Ex.
A grewsome account of sickness
among flood sufferers is being given,
andlmany deaths have occurred from
exposure and deprivation.-Ex.
Cornelius johnson died Saturday af-
ternoon at Fort Worth from sunstroke.
It was the hottest day of the year, the
thermometer going to 103.-Post.
The eighteenth annual session of the
Texas Bar association will be held In
the city of Galveston, commencing
Wednesday, the Goth instant.-Ex.
Gus Miller, aged IL, of Terrell was
badly hurt by the explosion of soda
water bottle; he is likely to recover,
though his life was despaired of for q
tlme.-Ex.
Lawrence Murrien of Aspermost was
shot and killed in the western part of
the country. Particulars are not
known. J. J. Hinton was released on |
$1,000 bond.-Ex.
At a meeting eff Winnie Davis camp,
at Waxahachie, U. G. ", programme
was mapped out for the entertainment |
of Parsons brigade, which goes into
camp here for two days. August 2 and |
g.
In the prohibition election Saturday |
at Milano the antis won by majority |
of five votes-for prohibition 48 against |
prohibition So. Milano has been q |
prohibition town for nearly five years.
Post.
A German gardener named Leopold |
Scherr, living at 1913 South Press |
street, San Antonio, killed himself |
with his target rifle. Scherr had been |
Respondent through i'll health for some !
time-Post.
The new Touring mill at Gates
Vile has been turned over to the mill