El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-23
Ell PAsO DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1899.

pressed that the gentlemen interested
will meet their reward.-Two Repub
lies.
Efforts are making with prospect OF
success to have direct steamship con-
nection between Mexican Pacific ports
and Japan and the Philippines .-Das-
las.
A brick fell from a height of fifty
feet onto the head of a luckless PEG in
palace. He will probably recover,
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
ps sssur y;S at an 1890 80 2 2; n; 5 y9uog
Vinas, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head with q 38 calibre
pistol. The Cause of the rash act is
said to be.connected with the fire which
burned up the distillery of the elder
Vinas last Wednesday night.-Mex-
lean Herald.
The authorities are looking for the
paymaster, or former paymaster of the
National tannery. It is charged that
he was recently given a check for $500
and was expected to cash the same and
use the money to pay off workmen. In
stead it appears hat. he appropriated
the mount TO MS own US Gu ana Q16ap
peared.-Two Republics.
The Mexican International R'y has
completed it's branch to BerEejillo, a
station of the Central situated in the
important and rich district of Tlahua-
lilo, state of Durango. This new rail-
way line will increase the Importance
of the district of Mapimi, so well
known for its agricultural products,
mineral and industrial.-Two Repub-
lies.
been i'll for ten days with stomach
trouble. On Friday she grew worse
and on Saturday was considered
dangerously i'll. But on Sunday Mrs.
Diaz commenced to mend. II the i'm
provement continues through this
week, the President will present his
request to Congress for permission to
visit Chicago.-Stsr of Mexico.
About 500 of the $50 new freight cars
ordered by the Mexican Central this
year have been delivered and put in
use Five of the SO large engines ordered
have arrived and are now at work. Be-
sides the engines and the freight care,
the Central has also ordered 16 new
passenger, coaches, 8 of them first class
and the rest third class. The first
class coaches are vestibuled:-Chihua-
hua Enterprise.
that metz Opolis was visited by q small
cyclone two or three days ago and o n
siderable damage was done to public
and private property. The trees in
the Alameda suffered terri bly,. A
large water tank in the factory of the
COmpania de Artefactos was blown
down crushing six e one fatally.
L -s-l-l- 49,
city were badly damsged.-News.
Mexico has been for 800 years a
great producer of silver INT gold.
This year will furnish over 500, OOO,-
900 in silver and as much gold as he
that no one has frozen to death nor
fallen through the ice is search of
either metal. It has been produced In
q country where it is possible for q
miner to raise his living in many cases
on his own claims.-Modern Mexico.
S. P. Crsasinger, the Barefoot
Money-to-Loan man of Los Angeles,
Cal, has invested some of his large for
tune in Mexico. He has purchased the
Soledad ranch about 20 miles from
Gusdalajara formerly owned by MI. r.
P. Arce. 1t contains 10, 900 acres and
is devoted to fruit and cattle raising.
WIZ ST0dLlu$oE 1uGcuQS W StOCk tu0
ranch more extensively and increase
the acreage of fruit.-Chihuahaa En-
terprise.
A horrible murder is reported to
have been committed in tho Puente
Santisimo street yesterday at about 100
p. m. The murderer stole up behind
his victim and stabbed him in the
neck with a large knife. The assassin
was about to repeat the blow when an
American whose name we did not
learn, caught his arm and hurled him
away. The murdered nan breHthed
his last in a few moments. The assas-
sin made an effort to get away, but
was caught in a grocery store near by
and taken to the 9th police station
Elk.
The yellow fever has practically
in epidemic form in Cordoba,
but in 0rizaba it is increasing In viru-
lepce, which is q matter o. sstoufsh-
ment to medical men, who have regard
that town as a sanitarium for this
port. The fever has practically ceased
at T~ehuantepec, but has broken put at
Tuxtepec. Jalapa has so far escaped
the disease, owing to energetic meas
taken to prevent contagion. Pas
sengers on the trains from this port to
JalSpa are vigorously disinfected on
arriving at that city. The fever ap-
pears to be abating here.-Dallas
News.
A Life And Death Fight.
Mr.. w. A. Hines of Manchester, a.,
writing of his almost miraculous escape