El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-02
Neighbor-
hood Notes.
Texas.

1870
Texas.
A Hutto. Texss dispatch says: On
s.turd.v nv.n;np where the little g.
vear-oId son of Oscar Anderson was
1la-yinr s.csmping out" with his little
hrother And .ister his clothing caught
on Are and he was burned to death.
His remains we're Inferred in the
Swedish cemetery at Palm Valley TO-
day.--Houst0n Post. 4
General W. T. Meriwether, we'll
known in confederate circles over the
south. died st San Antonio December
81. AGED IS years. While on the street
this morning he fell to the sidewalk
unconscious and was removed to his
home. where he fingered until tonight,
| when he died. Death is said to have
resulted from heart Misunderstanding
Jim Wood, q well-to-do colored man,
who lived about ten miles from Grove
ton. and near Pennington, was murder
ed last Saturday night in his little
store house on his farm and the house
burned. PARTICULARS cannot be obtain
ed. The news of the killing did not
reach Groveton till this morning
sheriff j. G. Collins hastened to the
scene of the tragedy and has not yet
returned. Houston Post.
The Woman's Relief Corps at Waco
is making elaborate preparation for
the celebration of the fifty-third an
niversary of Texas Statehood. Thurs
day, December 20. hon. o. L. Strib
ling viii be the orator of the day
Other speakers will be present, includ
ing Hon, W. n. Atwell, United Statel
district attorney of the northern dis
trict of Texas. Full program has no
yet been announced.-Exchange.
Profit. M. Carlisle, the retirin,
state superintendent of public instruc
ing school for boys. He expects t.
locate It In Hillsboro. The sohoo
grounds and buildings will have al
estimated cost of 5000, The attend
ance.giil be limited. The purpose o
the s,ol will be to give young mer
phy and mental and moral train
ing H. to fit them to enter the stat,
uniY .ity.-E1change.
Al .ivate telegram WAS received Il
the Fly last night stating that GU
boH.were safe and sound on Cuban soil
The second battalion, in which il Con
r paty L, sailed from Savannah on th
: transport Michigan last Friday and a
rived in the harbor ct Havana yeete
= DAFT The Texas regiment, the Thir
Nebraska and the Second Louisiana
+ cotnpresing the First bridge, will Z
doubt be kept together and will be ST
toned about six miles from the oity
Hsvana.-Austin Tribune.
A special to the Register fro
Gainesville says: Sheriff Womaok n
lc&ved q telegram this afternoon fro
hB deputy, Horace Hunter, who hi
| ILL., Oh hn oh
! HID up and robbed Posten and Rue
a tteir store in Warren's Bend la
thursday night. stating that he hi
dptured one of the three men WI
y committed the deed. The man captu
is an Indian. The telegram W,
7. bnt from Davis, I. T., and Depu
d [unter will arrive tonight on Il
buth bound Santa Fee train with I'll
): risoner.-Fort Worth Register.
Denison, Texas, December 26.-Tl
j. National cotton seed oil plant, near
i ii destroyed by fire yesterday NOR
Ag, will be rebuilt but will be clos
Re- dPwn the balance of the season. T,
L. hundred men !are thrown out of el
>: lloyment. The plant was fully cove
y ID by insurance. Manager Fese
+ aid today that the loss might 20
= high as S75 900. The plant represer
> tn outlay of $3.50, 900. The impressi
s prevails that the fire was an incendia
Z origin. The automatic IRE ext
= guisher would not work and had .
E parently been tempered with.-Ho
& ton Post.
E Lieutenant Laubaoh, in charge
the recruiting station of the regu
& army at Dallas, on December start
& fen recruits to Fort Stevens, o.
y Lieutenant Laubach says he wants
e ty able-bOdied men at once for t
e Seventeenth infantry, now in the Pr
|" lippines. The recruits will sail FRI
4 New York on January Is and go
e the Mediterranean and the Suez can
|" and returning will come across I
- Pacific to San Francisco, thus getti
4 q trip around the world. During I
" current month Lieutenant Laubs
e has enlisted forty-five men and
e lacks just three of having enlisted
" regulars at the Dallas station t
f year, but he has four days to go or
e make up the 600 before the year en-
!" Exchange.
= A Terrell, Texas, dispatch says: T
~ Sibley, boy sged years, was S
n in the breast and killed last nj,
u while walking home late with
~ mother from Christmas tree at
: colored church. There were others
! the party who were shooting Ron