El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-30

which the latter almost disem boweled
the author of his existence. Such IN
natural occurrences are not over COM
mon In Mexico, where flial obedience
is striking characteristic of the peo-
ple.-The Two Republics.
The police have made an important
arrest of q gang of cOunterfeiters who
had their place of business on Puente
del Rosario street. One of the de-
men Jose and Guadalupe Iturbe and q
companion in crime named Carreon,
who is q barber by profession, and dis
covered all tn ir secrets. A large
quantity Of metals and implements of
the manufacture of the spurious coin
were also seized.-Two Republics.
A victim to 1.-THE earthquake shock
was Juan Montiel, q mason, working At
the house of Lie. Daniel Casta media In
9Th Gale del SAVING. When the shock
came on he fell from q height of about
three meters and received Injuries
which at the time were thought unim-
portant. Yesterday morning his wife
presented herself at the seventh ward
police station with the announcement
that her husband was in q dying con-
ditiOn. He was taken to the station
and several severe wounds were found
on him. From the station he was
tr6uSI0rTSQ W tu0 Ju6rcZ uOopltol,
where It is thought he will not recover.
Mexican Herald.
Yesterday afternoon q mason called
Diego Monies de Oca fell dead In Ro-
sales street bleeding from the nose and
mouth. Gendsrme $685. sent for . litter
to the police station and when It came
left the corpse living on the street,
presenting . painful and dissgreeable
spectacle to passers by. 1t CHANGED that
the chief Of police passed that way and
he asked the gendarme why he left the
body where it fell. The gendarme
answered that it was forbidden to him
served to the police inspector. There
forte he was waiting for the personnel
of the fifth police station to arrive. The
worthy chief of police explained to the
gendarme his duty.-Mexican Herald.
A ludicrous scene occurred Saturday
evening near the chamber of deputies.
The police officials were notified that
there was q man lying unconscious
on the steps of the congressional build
ing, whereupon q stretcher was cent to
take him to the police station. He was
laid on the stretcher, still .uncop scious,
but while being conveyed to the conf
saria he recovered his senses and
startled at the predicament in which
he found himself he made one Jump
out of the stretcher and flew down the
street as fast as his legs could carry
him. Before the bearers .or the
policeman in charge could recover
from their surprise the man was too
far way to be caught and the litter
was sent back empty.-The Two Re-
publics.
Some time since MIR. g. r. Wear, of
this city, received information, more
however, in the way of rumor than
as q fact. that his half brother, Mr..
John w. Hill, had died at Chihuahua.
Mexico, of small-p0x. Mr.. Wear has
received q letter from Postmaster Jose
Hernandez, written in Spanish, but
which, translated, states the best in
formation obtsinable verifies the cad
report which reached Sherman, and
that the death occurred not at Chihua-
hua but at the little city of Torreon, in
the state of Coahuils. on December IL,
1898, and that he died OF smallpox, ss
reported. The deceased was we'll
known in Sherman, which was his
home for years, and here always went
by the name of Luke. '-Sherma an Re-
gister.