El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-29
TExANETTES.


IN Galveston recently.
The Dallas Public Library associa-
ton has been organized.
Womaak & Perry are putting up a
brick block at Longview.
j. R Gibson, a well known ranch
man, was found dead in bed at San
Angelo.
Senator-elect Culberson and Con-
Ington on business.
Mayor Magoff1n was reelected mayor
of Ell Paso and the rest of the Demo-
cratic ticket was successful.
J. N. Vaughan, aged 65 years, and
Mary Jane King, aged 60, were united
in marriage at Waxa.. ACHE.
H. w. Garrow has been elected pres
ident of the Houston Cotton exchange
for the ninth successive time.
The Federation of N5omen's Clubs OF
North Texas were entertained by The
Dallas branch of the order last week
J. Il. Thomas general merchandise
from Sherman, was Lurglarized and
some money taken.
The receipts of the Dallas postoffce
for March were SIS, 453, as against $13,-
49, for the same month of 1861 gain
of $2014. or "A per cent.
Mrs. George Boyd and er 12-year-old
daughter, at Paris, both OF whom were
taken sick with meningitis, passed
away within q short WIFI e Of each 9th.
er.
John Bohl's saloon at Taylor was
broken into, 500 taken from the cafe.
several bottles of champagne abstract
ed, and several other articles spirited
away.
A barn of Pete MiscF section fore
man, one-half mile east of GAINESVILLE,
at the section house, W. burned, with
some 125 bushels of corn and some 9TH
er stuff
The general merchant Sc store of ].
W. Bradberry, who lives twelve miles
southeast of Terrell, vas burned
Loss estimated at $1,000, covered by in
surance.
Plovers are very numerous on the
prairies around Gainesville now, and
hunting parties so out almost daily
Some of them report large numbers OF
these birds killed
The j. A. Bennett plurTec case was
continued at Hillsboro on account of
important witnesses being absent. He
is charged with the murder Of Mrs.
Jenkins near Blum, in De- cember, 1897
The summer normal for Hill and
Johnson counties will be held at Hills
boro. beginning about June 1. Prof. T.
S. Cox, superintendent of the Hillsboro
public schools, was elected conductor.
]. w. Vance's drug store was burg,
farized at Rockwell. Jewelry, razors
and other articles to the amount of $50
was missed. An old plowshare was
used to effect an entrance through the
front door.
Fire damaged the Cameron compress
about 500, and cotton on platform
about $4,000. Sparks from an engine on
the San Antonio and Kansas Pass road
caused thel fire. Losses covered by in
surance. The cotton was covered by
marine insurance, the press by local
agents.
The jewe1ry store Of Joseph Baker
at Collinsville was robbed of about $12O
worth nf Thiaroc, ho
store by cutting the putty around the
GLASS of back window. Baker had most
Of the valuable jewelry in the safe. The
larger part of the goods consisted of
a number of gold rings.
A gang of seventy-five convicts from
the state pententiary, white men and
MeXicans, are at work at Paris improv-
ing the yards of the Texas Midland
railroad. Heavier iron will be laid in
the yards, and some switches built
They are watched by four guards.
The residence of William Bradford.
situated on the corner of Eighth and
Hyde street, in Texarkana was de-
stroyed by fire. The property was worth
$11oo and carried light insurance.
Bradford had recently furnished his
house, all of which was lost.
Work is progressing rapidly at |
Greenville on the clearing away of rub
bish on the burnt opera-house block |
Graham Bros store is also to be re- |
built at once. The opera house business
block will also be put up at the earli-