El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-04
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Texas.

Oren ID NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOsG.
There have been ffty-pine cases of
scarlet fever during September and
five deaths, one a negro in Houston.-
Fort Worth Telegram.
Henry Stewart. negro, was shot
but not fatally wounded by Night
Waterman Dick Black, whom he at
tackled with q rock at Navasota.-
Houston Post.
The negro Mssons of the state are
now seeking q location to establish
home for their orphans: farming and
Industrial education will be given
especial attention.
The public schools, which were clos
ed at La Grange three weeks ago on
account of scarlet fever, were reopen
ed, the fever having entirely disap-
peared from this section.
The enrolment of university students
at Austin for the session which begins
next Monday commenced yesterday
and from present indications there will
be an increased attendance this year.
Eek.
There IL a scourge of slow and
typhoid fever sweeping near Sanger.
The disease is of q malignant type as
marked by the death rate. The maj
d.
Dallas News.
Private Secretary Cravens of the
governors office has been invited to
tective association day at the San An
tonic fair and will probably accept
Houston Post.
The San Antonio International Fair
will open its gates just four weeks
q hoin
made indicates that everything will
be ready for opening by that date
San Antonio Elk.
A great number of dead shad, cat
fish, CARS and mullet are floating
down the Brazos and Bernard rivers
and. of course, the gulf beach Is lined
with them. No one can explain the
cause of this strange phenomena.-Dal-
las New.
The city council of Waco has fixed
the tax levy at 81. 92 on the 800. This
Is three cents below last years levy
and includes q tax of 81 cents for re-
funding special street paving taxes
collected some years ago.-San Auto
MO Exp.
Citv Physician Whitehead of Fort
Worth has been engaged all the after
noon in vaccinating the children of
the city who intend to attend the pub.
lie schools, which open on Monday,
Oct. 2. About one hundred children
were vaccinated today aud the work |
will continue.-Dallas News.
Fire this morning totally destroyed |
the old temporary capitol, which was
erected in 1882, Immediately after fire |
destroyed the state capitol the year |
before. Tho building was used from |
1882 to 1888 Is the capitol, pending tho |
construction of the present magnif- !
cent structure. It cost sos, OOO.-Dal- |
las News.
The attorney generals department
has advised the fish and oyster COM
missioner that article 45 of the Code Of
Criminal Procedure clothes him with
ample authority to overcome any re-
the discharge of the duty of inspecting
fish brought to market imposed upon
him by law.-Dallas News.
The governor today issued a requisi-
ton on the governor of the state of
who is wanted in Texas to
answer to charge of murder. A re-
QUESTION was also issued on Governor
Ste phens of Missouri for man named |
Mccoy, who is at present in that state
and wanted at Austin on q charge of
assault to rape.-Fort Worth Register.
United States marshals are making
life extremely miserable for the moon
sinners in Henderson,, Erath, Palo
Pinto and other sections of the state
and during the past six months have
made many arrests of Illicit distillers
The officers are now in Erstlan county
rounding up band. A still has Just
been located in that county and arrest
will probably be made this week.-Sau
Antonio Elk.
Burglars entered the court house at
Cleburne and broke into County Clerk
desk and turned his papers
upside down, and finding nothing went
to the sheriff's Office and to the county
judges room. They found nothing
as everything of that nature
is locked in the vaults at night. The
boldness of the parties was simply as
and the officers are using
every means to apprehend the parties.
Fort Worth Telegram.
The abstract of the condition of the
National banks of Houston, Texas, at
the close of business on September I,
as reported to the comptroller of the
currency, shows the average reserve to
have been 5000 per cent, against So 90
per cent on June 80. Loans and dis