El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-03
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Texas.
It was the bloodiestsC christmas DalIa:
has known for years. There were
scores of drunken brawls, a race riot
three killings and numeroussstab bings
Henry Hunt was killed by Thorn as
Purvis as he was standing in the door.
way of q saloon.-Fort Worth Re.
gister.
Burglars entered the store of r. G.
Thompson at Axtell Dec. %, blew open
the safe and took what money there
was. leaving everything else in the
store untouched. The amount OF
money obtained could not be ascertain
ed. Officers are working on the case.
but without any clew, as the burglars
did the work during the night and
made their escape and it was not dis
covered until sthis morning.-Houston
Post.
The governor today addressed let
ter to the Texas delegation in congress
calling attention to the failure of the
federal government to settle the &C.
counts of Texas merchants who fur
nished supplies to the quota OF volun-
teers raised in the state for the war
with Spain in spite of Adjutant Con-
ersl COrbin's telegram of April q,
1898, to the effect that all necessary
expenses in the premises would be met
by the war department--Austin Tri-
bune.
A Galveston dispatch says: @. Dart,
clerk of the United States court, as
special examiner, has begun taking
testimony in the case of D. Sullivan,
the San Antonio banker, VS.. A. Il.
Pierce, the we'll known cattleman.
They were formerly partners in the
land and cattle business, They in
corporated it. About two years ago
Pierce bought Sullivan out, Sullivan
now asks to have the sale set aside and
to have reinstated to him the full va
lue of his $3.50, 600 stock In the COM
pany. The suit involves an immense
quantity of land in southwest Texas
Austin Tribune.
Now that the court 'of appeals has
rendered decision declaring that no
license is required to gather oysters
from the public oyster beds Of the
state the oyster men of this section
especially feel jubilant. The oyster
law as far as 1t pertains to setting
aside a limited season for culture,
meets wish universal approval, but the
discrimination against the wholesale
men has been deemed unjust, as it is
almost an impossibility for the men-s
majority of whom are Mexicans,
Greeks and Italians-to derive q live
ihood from their labors on account
of the low prices paid by the dealers
and the tax assessed against them
Houston Post.
The Fourth Texas infantry physic-
ians have made q good record since
en- teripg the service, having Lost only
eight men out of 1900 in the six months
which the regiment has been in Uncle
Sans service. One CT these WAS re-
jected by the surgeon and died in the
camp hospital; one died of apoplexy q
few days after enlistment; two died of
bowel impaction, both of whom were
past the DOCTORS remedies when they
reported for treatment; and two of
pneumonia and two of typhoid fever.
All combined makes the death rate
less than obtains among the came
number of civilians during an equal
length of time, and speaks remarka-
bly, we'll for Major E. N. Shaw and his
assistants, Lieutenants Smythe and
Halsell.-San Antonio Light.
Mrs. B. Masso of Whitnesville.
Mass, died this morning al the resid-
ence OF Mrs. j. P. Blessington, aged So
years, says Waco dispatch, Dec. Is.
Mrs: Masso was sister of the late J.
T. Bless1ngton, the city sanitary in
spector, who died Morday, December
10, and came from her home in Massa-
chusetts to see her brother buried.
She WAS i'll when she arrived on De-
cember %, and was not able to attend
the funeral Sne saw the face, how.
ever, which she had not seen since he
left Belfast, Ireland, forty years ago.
and exhausted with grief and the EFF.
feet of severe cold, she went to bed.
She had grown steadily worse since
the funeral, dying at $50 this morniug
the same hour of the day to a minute
that m srked the demise of her brother
a week ago last Monday. The remains
will be shipped back to her home for
burial. Mrs. Masso died of bronchi-
t:s.-San Antonio Express.
A Dallas dispatch, Dec. 26. saws:
Fire at Wood and Markets streets at
o'clock yesterday evening destroyed a
saloon In the district of Dallas known
as the Reservation" While the
building was burning, Felix r. NAL
Tory, shipping clerk for the whole
sale firm of Speer, Steinman & Co fell
20 the pavement unconscious. Police
Officers Shea and Ssnderson worked on
the man for twenty minutes until an
am bulance and surgeon arrived, but
could not revive him. Mallory died on
the way to the hospital. He was