El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-30
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Texas.

Fort Worth packing-house meat cut
tiers are to organize union.-Ex.
Several mild cases of smallpox are
reported at and near Hearne.-Ex.
Jake Williams, living near Ennis.
was bitten by copperhead snake
Elk.
Terrific heat caused q young man of
Denison to commit suicide.-Dallas
News.
Mr.. Bedford WAS struck by lightning
at Luna, and thought to be fatally in
jured.-Ex.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Tele phone company has completed Its
lire la 20 Rhome.-Ex.
Governor Sayers sent cavalrymen to
Orange because he had no rangers at
hand.-Bonham News.
The Montgomery county tobacco.orop
is said to be large and OF the finest
quality.-Denison Herald.
The delinquent taxes due the city of
Corsicans from Jan. /, 1890, to Jan. l.,
1898, amount to over $40, 0OO.-Ex.
Hon. w. J. Hannah of Limestone
county, has seen the errors of populism
and returned to the democracy.
The public square at Honey Grove is
to De sprinkled with crude oil shipped
here from Corsicana.-Houston Post.
No trouble at Orange, but there has
been an air of excitement. More
negroes have left town.-Yorktown
News.
Red River county assessment rolls
have been finished and show an in
t. nct 0f QQC1
584.-Ex.
Waco Ia figuring with q Corsicana
firm for q regular supply of crude oil
for street sprinkling purposes.-Sher-
man Register.
A fire at Mckinney destroyed two
flour mills, an elevator, much flour and
wheat and damaged other elevators. -
Fort Worth Telegram.
In a cutting ARRAY at Luling, In q
chile restaurant, Juan Augustine was
cut twice very badly in the abdomen.
San Antonio Express.
Judge T. s. johnson. assistant in she
attorney generals department., sp-
proved an issue of $4,000 of Bexsr coun-
ty bridge bonds.-Corsicans Sun.
A telegram confirms the news that
the Philadelphia committee will take
charge of the Port Arthur companies
backed by ample cash.-Fort Worth
Register.
The commissioners court In session
at Hillsboro will take up the applica-
tions of ex-confederates for pensions.
One hundred and thirty have been
fled.-Ex.
Out of the first ten applicants for
pensions, the comptroller approved
four, returned one for additional in
formation and rejected the others
Denison Herald.
A mob has surrounding the Jail at
Nacogdoches for the purpose of lynch
ing a negro; the jsilors declare they
will protect him and have so far stood
of the lynchers.-Cleburn Herald.
There is to be an old settlers re-
union at Rhome in September. A
great many prominent speakers have
been invited to participate in,the affair,
and have accepted.-SAn Antonio
Light.
At meeting of the city school board
at Cleburne, the new ward schoolhouse
was accepted. Mrs. S. S. Leonard,
rendered her resignation, and Miss
Mary Woodwork was elected to fill
the vacancy.-The Star.
The city council of Mckinney at a
meeting heard the report of the en-
gineer expert on McKinney's water
works. The report was lengthy and
favorable, with the conclusion that the
city lie in possession of q good system.
The acceptance of the plant will be at
a meeting In the near future.-Ex.
J. w. Southern, a farmer, mirac-
ulously escaped death with slight in
juries to himself in q grade crossing
accident q few miles east of Sherman,
on the Texas and Pacific railroad An
east-bound freight struck his wagon,
killing one mule and disabling the
Other. The wagon was badly wrecked
and Southern was thrown out violent
ly.-Dallas News.
usual amount of sickness is.sreported; in
days there have been eleven
burisls. Black jsuudice, diphtheria
and measles are the diseases from
which the deaths occurred, one family
losing three mem bers from the first
mentioned disease and two more of the
same family are now sick with the
same mplaints.-Houston Fost.
If county judges and commissioners
in Texas do their. full duty under
the states confederate pension law,
applicants will soon find that it 10 not a
federal political scheme for helping
certain men along with their consti-
tuencies, but a generous provision for
the destitute confederate soldiers or
widows. The more frauds that creep
in the less.the really deserving will get.
To unjustly swell the rolls is to take
bread out of the mouths, possibly, of
some heroic soldiers now destitute
Post.
New Mexico.
The new jail at Alamogordo, costing