El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-12

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Rev. Dewitt of Hillsboro, is assisting
Rev. r. r. Crockett. The church will
be dedicated at an early date.-Hous-
ton Post.
E. 81. Woods, q young stranger, was
arrested in Houston charged with
swindlinR. He had circulated a petit
tion asking for money to relieve an in
firm railroad trainnan named Martin,
and misapplied the funds collected.
IA. Smith, living one mile south of
Denton showed limb of q Golden
Beauty plum tree, on which the fruit
was clustered almost like grapes. On
the limb two feet in length were no
less than seventy plums, and all the
trees are alike.
Late on the 7th., q bsptizing on Sis
ter Grove creek in this county, an
ARRAY came up between two young
men in which one of them, Seymour
Foster, was shot through the right
filed and placed in the hands of deputy
sheriffs in that section of the county
Forth Worth Telegram.
ne 6oJuGbuG general nus beut z uus
to the following companies for the pur-
pose of the Reorganization act: The
Miller Rifles of Waco, the Stone Fort
Rifles of Nacogdoches, the Lyons
Light infantry of Sherman. He has
also received the muster roll of the
Trezvsnt Rifles and the Lawrence Ri
fles of 3remond and will ship th EN-
guns very shortly.-San Antonio Ex-
press.
Comptroller Finley in response to in
quiries from county judges as to the
right of the county judge to cast the
deciding vote in the hearing of appll-
cations for pensions under the act ap-
proved May ID, 1899, where the COM
mission cannot agree as to the right of
an applicant for a pension and there il
plates q unanimous approval by the
court.-Fort Worth Register.
Bulah Wilson, mulatto woman, was
ehot and killed at Smithville on the
It'll. The evidence developed at the
husband, Will Wilson, were both
asleep in the same bed near q window
when pistol was fred through the
screen window, the contents taking ef-
feet in the heart of the deceased, kill
ing her instantly. A warrant was
sworn out against q negro charging
him with the deed. He has not been
arrested.-DAllas News.
At the meeting of the school trus-
tees Of Victoria Friday night the fol-
lowing teachers we're elected for the
ensuing term: o. E. 81. Mundt, Misses
Myrtle Barnes, Allie Dean, Madge
Duncan, Adele Leuchner, Nestie Wad-
dell, julia White and Martin for the
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Frazier, Andrew Cavil and VIM. Cavil.
Ivis not expected that the free schools
will be opened before January 1. 1900,
by which time the new buildings to be
erected will be completed.-Ex.
New Mexico.
A Rocky Mountain show company
has been holding forth at Springer
Elk.
The new Presbyterian church at
AlamoRordo will be opened for services
August 13.-Ex.
]. 81. McCutchen will start q new
weekly paper at Albuquerque called
the Industrial Advertiser.-Ex.
The Pecos Valley railroad, it is said,
has almost completely cut off the cattle
drive to Clayton.-Pecos Times.
Hillsboro is now without q Roman
Catholic clergyman, Rev. T. Albrecht
having been transferred to an Arizona
The smallpox situation at Deming is
now we'll in hand, the number of cases
decreasing right along. No more
danger is APPRENTICESHIP.
W. n. Seamon, a grand lecturer of
the Masonic lodge of New Mexico was
in Roswell from last Thursday until
Monday of last week, instructing the
mem bers.-Ex.
Arthur G. Good of Buffalo, has &C.
oepted the position of assistant to Hen
ry Sutherland, local manager of the
Improvement company
Alamogordo News.
The Socorro Chieftain thinks that
the mayor of the town, who has posted
notices on the lawn of the city park,
has just heard of the noted order that
Cleveland gave Coxey's army.
Lem Patten 10 driving 100 head of
borses from Demine to Midland, Tex
as, where he will endeavor to sell
them. It is cheaper TO drive them
til an to chip by freight.-Deming Head
light.
A. K. Glover, formerly bookkeeper
Of the Alamogordo Lumber company,
has gone to Natchitoches, L., where
he has accepted the position of auditor
of q railroad being built.-Alamogordo
News.
The Carlsbad Current predicts that
plenty of artesisn water can be secured
in the vicinity of the Dark Canon wells