El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-31

Neighbor-
hood Notes.

Wharton is to have a sugar refinery.
There is plague of flies at Hills.
boro.
Sherman is badly in need of q sew
erage system.
The Hubbard Encampment I. o. o.
F. has been reorganized.
Houston has purchased property for
q New Central fire station.
It Is likely that Mount Vernon will
have electric lights in the near future.
G. L. Marshall of Waco, received
three mortal wounds in fght,with j.
A. Tison.
Ten thousand dollars have been col
lected at Waxahachie for q new Bap-
fist church.
In a difficulty at Weesatchee, Joe
Kidder was slightly wounded by pis-
toll ball. Tx.
A little child of w. F. Ramsey of La
kenon ate matches, from the effects of
which it died.---Ex.
Heating & Taylor, the train robbers
convicted at Coleman, have been taken
to the penitentiary.
An original pension of Sc per month
has been granted Thomas E. Cater of
Leander Tex.-Ex.
Two Mexicans attempt to swim the
Rio Grsnde river at Laredo to avoid
arrest and one is drowned.
The Sunday School picnic at Tyer's
lake at Lovelsdy was largely attended
and was great success. Sex.
County commissioners at Round
Rock, have ordered local option cleo
ton to be held in this precinct June 1.
Houston Post.
Thomas L. Stsnfield of Terrell. Tex.
has been ad mitted to practice as an
attorney before the interior depart
ment.-Dsllas News.
The city council of Denton has decid-
ed upon the issuance of 800, 900 worth
of bonds to take up all the floating in
debtedness of the city.---Ex.
Goodwin Bros. have been awarded
the contract for furnishing fuel for the
public building at Tyler, Texas for the
next fiscal year.-Dallas News.
The 3-year-old son of J. n. Reagan
of Terrell drank large bottle of laud-
anum; while made very sick, it is pro-
bable that he will recover.---Ex.
the body of Shelby Deeds, killed
some days ago, at Kaufman is to be ex-
humed and an autopsy held. as there is
dispute as to the manner OF his death.
Elk.
It will be q very short time before
department of Texas is re-established.
1t will not be extensive as before but
will be added to after the war in the
Philippines.
Three men are now in jail at Athens.
charged with completely in the murder
of James Humphreys and his two sons,
who were hanged last week. No date
has yet been fixed for the examining
trial.-EX.
Miss Willie Bass of Longview, won
the laurels in the Mozart conservatory
at Liberty, Mo-, this season, and with
this distinction goes q $1,000 piano,
her as q trophy.-Ex.
In several places wheat harvest has
begun and the merry hum of the binder
is abroad in Denton county. The cut
ting will begin in earnest Monday. The
Sabbath was broken to considerable
Post.
The protracted meetings in Kavan-
augh church Greenville are we'll at
tended every mig hit and are very inter-
esting. The holiness tent is also filed
kept up all of this week.-Ex.
Jacksonville.-A meeting of the
board of trustees will be held in jack
sonville for the purpose of selecting
a site for the Baptist college to be
located there. DR.. J. N. Vermillion
will be president of the institution.
District Judge w. G. Taliaferro
spent Sunday in Culvert, the guest OF
his brother-in-lsw, Hon. Scot Field.
Jude Taliaferro, in conversation with
The Post reporter, expressed his high
of his Endorsement by the
bar of this district for the vacancy on
the court OF civil appeals bench
Post.
The veterans of San Antonio who
have charge of the grand celebration
which is to be held in San Antonio on
July are doing everything possible to
make the coming event success. The
latest move is to decide to invite Rear
Admiral Schley, in the hopes that he
may come to add luster to the celebra-
Antonio Express.
Mr.. Nelson Brown, prosperous
young farmer living near Louise, was
attacked and badly hurt by young
mule which he WAS breaking; the in
furiated animal grabbed him and shook
him as a dog would rat. After he
lad been released by assistance it was
found that his arm was badly torn and
broken and will probably have to am
Dutated.-Houston Post.
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