El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-04
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Diphtheria is prevailing in the Bs-
cite neighborhood, Navarro county
Elk.
The COMPTROLLER Ia receiving many
applications for pensions.
News.
The examination of teachers for
county certificates has closed at Den
tOn.-Ex.
at Cleburne for the erection of an OPP
era house.-Bonham News.
There have been over ifty-five ap-
plications for Confederate pensions
filed at Mineola.-Forktown News.
A postoffice has been established
at Beatrice, Frio county, and John M.
Campbell commissioned as postmaster
Elk.
James Wise, of Wolfe City, aged 30.
q telegraph operator on the Santa F'e,
su1cided by taking morphine. He leaves
widow.-Ex.
The Rudd Rifles of Marshall, have
decided to become one OF the ten COM
psuies that will leave Dallas to take
part in the reception to New York.
The thirty-third volunteer regiment
was recruited up to its full compile
ment of mon at San Antonio and has
begun drilling and practice.-Ex.
In q fight on a farm near Franklin,
Winnie Henderson, negro woman,
WAS stabbed to death. Sallie Smith,
also colored, was held in bond of $1,000.
-Ex.
The remains at Cisco of +. G. LIE
Veaux, who committed suicide in the
water works pasture, will be shipped
to New York today for burial.-Hous-
ton Post.
E. F. Myers, q farmer living q few
miles south of Mckinney, was seriously
in ured by runaway team near Car
utn station on the Houston and Texas
Central railroad.
A bout five miles east of Eastlsnd
freight train ran off, dltohing three
cars loaded with crossties. No one was
hurt. About $50 feet of track was tori
up.-Yorktown News.
Manuel Gardea, we'll known
character of CIudad Porfirio Diaz,
Mex, met instant death by falling from
the Rio Grande railroad bridge, dis
lance of 40 feet.-Eagle Pass.
The board of managers of the North
Texas insane asylum met at Terrell
and awarded contracts for the
supplies of the institution for the COM
ing quarter, amounting to S27 ,O0O.-Ex.
B. F. johnson, superintendent of the
Lamar county poor farm, has resigned
after holding the place several years.
James Newberry was chosen by the
commissioners court to succeed him.
Elk.
At Gatesville the commissioner
court awarded the contract to take out
the hot air heating apparatus in the
court house and put In steam heat to .
Waco firm, At q cost of $3lOO.-Dallas
News.
A case of genuine scarlet fever was
discovered at Mckinley today. The
patient is Mrs. John Kegsns, and pro-
per quarantine regulations have been
imposed to prevent q spread of the dis
ease.-Ex.
The city council and commissioners
court at Cleburne Jointly let the con-
tract for the building of steel double
bridge across Buffalo creek at the foot
of Main street. The contract price
was $l590.-Ex.
Free mail delivery goes into effect at
Cleburne Friday. Postmaster Dickson
has verything in readiness to begin
on that date. The carriers have been
busy learning their routes for several
days yorktown News.
Mrs. r. M. Robinson, wife of Engi-
neer Robinson of the Santa Fe, living
In the Byers addition at Cleburne, was
bitten last evening by copper
head or spreading adder snake and
the wound is serious.-Ex.
The city authorities of Waco have
begun the enforcement of ordinances
designed to regulate junk shops and
second hand stores and prevent
"fences' for petty thieves being oper-
ated in such guise.-Houston Post.
While working at culvert ten miles
below Greenville on the Texas Mid
land railroad, w. II. Carson and J.
Rucker we're severely injured by the
culvert caving in. Both men were in
jured in the back and Carson in the
leg.-Ex.
Sherman capitalists are interesting
themselves in the matter of a cracker
factory, and are canvassing the field
thoroughly. It is estimated by them
that the local consumption of crackers
in the city is about $780, 900 pounds an
nually.-Houston Post.
Cotton Ia pouring in at the rate OF
200 bales day at Waxahachie, and by
another week it will run up to 500 bales
q day. Should the weather permit,
cotton will all be picked by the middle
of October. If it rains it will only
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