El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-26
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| Texas.
The Belden Monitor is now publish
ing daily edition.
Ex-Collector Michel, of the Browns
Vile district, is dead.
Ennis has eighteen passenger trains
arrive and depart daily.
The summer normal at Greenville is
running with 100 students.
Two boys, members of "a picnic par
ty, drowned south of Dallas.
| Prospectors for oil are preparing to
bore several wells in Brown county.
Beeville is making extensive pre-
paration for celebration of the Fourth.
Railway commission will not estab-
lish grain rates for Texas for some
| time.
Eagle Pass railway clerk shoots
man on the Mexican side of the river
and is in jail.
Texas Grain Dealers association
will test the constitutionality of the
weigher's law.
Clay Ford, the La Grsnde murderer,
has requested of Sheriff Loosen that
his execution be public.
The compress men of the state have
united in urging upon ginuers the ad
option of the 54x24 inch bale.
Farmers in Hunt Icounty have pur-
ceased this year twenty five steam
binders.
A colored man at Brennan had
paid all his debts and predicted that
L. t.
died accordingly.
Several farmers in the vicinity of
Praha, Fayette county, are success full
ly growing wheat and putting it in q
mill to grind it into -four.
Government Agent Baldwin of the
fish commission has turned loose 1000
perch, bass and other fish in the Bos-
que, few miles above Waco.
Charles Corner, formerly engineer
of Austin and engineer of r. r. COM
mission, is appointed to good engi-
neering position in South Africa.
The Elmo depot of the Texas and Pa
cific Railway company was broken int
by burglars on the 23rd. Three watch
es are all that is reported missing.
A puchofa dance is being given in
memory of dead Chickssaws by the |
near Conway, Chickasaw |
nation. 1t has been in progress sever |
al days.
Tay Tor Parker, a negro commonly |
known as "Waco," went to sleep on the !
Katy track in the western part of the |
city on the 21st and was killed by the
flyer.
Representative Kennedy of Mexia,
announces the following appointments
to the Sam Houston normal. Miss Ida
Prairie Hill, and Miss Alice
Baker, Kosse.-Ex.
Attorneys are circulating a petition
asking for the appointment of F. M.
Etheridge, a prominent Dallas attor-
ney, to the law chair in the ate Uni
versity in place of Judge Gould resign
sd.-Ex.
There is considerable activity among
The architects of the state who are
anxious to be employed to prepare
plans and superintend the construction
of the different new buildings whose
erection was provided for by the late
legislature.
A coon at Ennis loaded up to oele-
orate emancipation day. He had a
outcherknlfe and two seven shooters,
one rim fire and the other q center
ire, and he had rim fire cartrid ges in
he center fire gun.
A white person we'll known in Nava-
ota. was arrested charged with an as
ault upon person related to him by
He appeared before
squire Forester, waived au examina-
ion and in default of bond was COM
nitted to Jail.
Several cities in South Texas that
rave not already done so, are taking ,
be matter Of public schools into their
wn hands. This is as it should be.
Increase the educational facilities of a :
ommunity and you thereby pave the i,
Vsy for the betterment of its general !
ocisl condition. oakum Herald.
Seven governors have responded IA
orally to Gov. Savers call for a con- I
entlon In st. Louis next September to
onsider the trusts, but among them ,
he governor of New Jersey is not in :
luded. New Jersey Incorporates near :;
all the trusts, and the governor !
hlnks, perhaps, the state has a good )
Citizen. i.
The new city council at Galveston
3 deadlocked on the election of city I
Ulcers. Five of the aldermen are E
by Mayor Jones', appoi e
1ents. but seven of them have twice
lrned down every nomination he has t!
1ade. The fight is really ON the city l
reasurship. Daily meetings are being 4
cid Fort Worth Telegram. I
young man by the name of Haw-
ms was Instantly killed recently in I
larksville while chasing q COW at h
leeds tank some five miles west of (
ere. He was going at full speed 4