El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-28
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.
Texas.

Brenham has eleven cases of scarlet
fever.-Ex.
Red river has kept we'll within it's
banks the present season.-Ex.
Waco will ask for the state demo-
cratic convention next year.-Ex.
A large number of teachers are at
tending the normal school at Ksrens.
-Ex.
A public installation OF officers has
been decided on by the Masonic lodge
at Bryan.
J. o. Harper, steward of the North
Texas insane asylum at Terrell, has
resigned.-Ex.
A Mexican boy named Medina, aged
IL years, died of hydrophobia near
Corpus Christi.-Ex.
Two new cases of smallpox ares re-
ported by the county physician of Bee
county this week.-Bonham Newe.
John Campbell of Sherman, an en-
ploye of the county bridge department.,
died from overhead while at work near
Howe.-Ex.
The body of young Calvin Finley,
who was drowned in the Trinity river
near Liberty, has been recovered
Denison Herald.
Twenty dollars and gold watch
were what burglars got from the resi-
dence of w. B. Blasingame at Mineola.
|-Cleburne Herald.
Nietha Baldwin, colored, was shot
and killed at festival at Camden John
Brooks was arrested and granted bail
in the sum OF $3.50 -Ex.
Governor seyers has reappointed
Hon. George 81. Corey of New York
city commissioner Of deeds in that
state for the state Of Texas.-Ex.
A Houston man got seventy f We years
In the penttentiary as punishment
daughter Fort Worth Register.
II is reported at Beeville that work
will probably begin at Arkansas Pass in
. short time. the government engineers
having completed the preliminaries.
Mr. and Mrs. E. w. Harris of the
Greenville Herald will be delegates
association at Portland.-Fort Worth
Register.
Navarro county will have q new steel
cana is smacking its lips over the pro-
spects Of enlarging trade-Forht
Worth Telegram.
The crew of hands has finished set
ting up the Lowery round bale gin
plant at Mckinney and went to Farm
ersville, where they will build q
similar plaut.-Ex.
The Courier has made its appearance
of T.
weekly, fve-column folio. is owned and
edited by Ernest Logsdon, formerly of
the Trenton Courier.-Ex,
A summer normal school for colored
teachers and students will open in Ca
session on August II. F. G. Drake,
principal of the colored school of this
city. is conductor.-Houston Post.
One of the truck farmers of North
Laredo, Mr.. Nye. flushed shipping his
crop of onions raised on four acres OF
land, which amounted to over $4,000
pounds and neJted him over $500, or
more than 5000 per acre.-Houston
Post.
In the civil district court in Sherman
a rathe- novel suithas been ,broup ht, in
which damages in the sum of $40, 900
are asked. The plaintiff alleges that
the defendant. her husbands brother,
alienated the affections OF her husbad-
Elk.
A statement given out at the post
office department at Washington shows
the receipts for the postoffice at Dallas
for the month of May were S13, 45l, as
against 81; 1896 for the same period
last year. This is an increase of 1855, |
or IA per cent.-Ex.
Prof. J. Q. baltimore, chairman of
the Baylor university faculty, has &C.
cepted the appointment of principal
In the Waco High school to succeed
Prot James F. Lipscomb, who has &C.
cepted position in the public schools
in Nashvllle.--Houston Post.
Jack Gundy. negro, was literally
cut to pieces In q difficulty with an
other negro and is dying. His assaiIaut
used a razor. A negro has been ar
rested in Hillsboro, believed to be the
man who did the cutting and Sheriff |
Baker has gone after him.-Houston !;
Post.
A negro convict while attempting to
make his escape from the Dyer & Bert
rand plantation, near Richmond, was |
drowned in the BraZos, into which be |
had plunged. About two weeks ago |
this same convict escaped with q com
panion and in attempting to swim the !
river the latter was drowned The
mans name could not be ascertained II
Newe.
Governor T. B. Wheeler, who has re-
turned from the real estate conven- !
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