El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-15
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.
Texas.

Bowie is to have q round bale gin.
Victoria royalty entertained Terry's
Texas rangers.
Workman is again clear of smallpox.
Houston Post.
Brennan is agitating the issue of
bonds for sewer purposes.
c. Womack. printer and binder of
Waco, petitions in bankruptcy.
Mason reports the best rain and the
steadiest downpour in ten years.
There are four chairs for the regents
to fill in the state university now.
Dallas reports postal revenues in
| creased IA per cent over last year.
The Hocheim negro who assaulted q
white girl gets Is years in the pen.
County Attorney Bobbs, OF Jackson
county, drowned while fishing at Port
Lavaca.
AL Chambers, Collin county far mer,
kills himself after vainly trying to kill
his mother.
The grand jury at San Diego has sd
journed for the term, having found six
indictments.
Wolf supposed to be mad, attacks
three men in Rio Grande City, biting
them severely.
Temple now has an absolute fire
proof Jail, not stick of wood of any
kind being used in its construction.
John Goo Imam, one of Tyler's best
known young business man, suiclded
by shooting himself through the head.
That man supposed to be murdered
in Dallas and whose bloody clothing
were found is likely Barnard, of Sher-
man.
County Judge Ferguson has given
out q report of the county scholastic
census, which shows a total enrolment
of $685..
A colony of Turks are settling on
Elm, northwest of Mangum. There
are already elk families located and
more are expected.
Wichita Falls ia agitating the ques-
tioa Of mass meeting to nominate q
ticket for the government of the city
under the reincorporation.
The Hunt County Normal school
opens Monday at Greenville for a six
weeks session and quite large num-
Der of teachers have arrived.
The postoffice department has renew
ed the lease of the postoffice's premises,
Temple, Tex, at $500 per snnum from
July l, 1S97.-San Antonio Elk.
The suit II break the alleged ice
trust in San Antonio is set for June 16
| terest Is taken in the trisl.-Austin
Tribune.
A call will be issued next week for
| an organization of a camp of the Sons
and Daughters of Confederate veterans
of Denton and number have pro-
missed to join.
Dallas has sensation in the way of
missing man, bis clothes and paper
having been found in box car, with
evidence that be had S64O when last
seen.-Sau Antonio Light.
Arrangements are being perfected
by the business men of Ennis to erect q
grain elevator for the purpose of pur-
chasing and storing the large crop of
wheat and oats which Is now being
harvested in this section.
Pat Mays, q colored man, was found
Unconscious in lane two miles from
Hutto. BE was brought to town and
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face, inflicted by himself accidentally.
He is dying.-Houston Post.
Pilot Point, Tex; June 9.-P. J.
Powers fell from the top of the new
steel elevator, distance of 81 feet.
He accidentally stepped through the
hole in the top and fell on the inside,
He is not expected to live.-Deuison
Herald.
Dallas, Tex, June 9.-(Special Ser
vice to The Tribune Jack Roberts,
a negro, WAS seriously and probably
fatally wounded by L. A. Metzler, a
cigar at ore man. late last night. Rob-
erts is not expected to live.-Austin
Tribune.
San Antonio, June 9.-(Special SER
vice to The Tribune). A stranger was
picked up on the street last night suf-
fering from an overdose of laudanum
taken tc,allay cramps. The city physi-
clan, after several hours work, sue
ceeded in saving his life.
The scholastic census of Lamar
county, outside of Paris, Just COM
pleted, shows total of 6S6S white and
1857 colored children, which is an in
crease of forty-three white and a de-
crease of 113 colored children since
the census of last year.-Houston Post.
Terrell water works has a larger
quantity of water than ever before, but
In order to make effective a large Dor
tion of the water works addition the
city has lately put down. the city will
have to spend $4,000 or $4,000 more
This will probably be done at an early
day.
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