El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-11
The Spectator.

About year ago a man cut his
throat in u bed room of one ofEl Paso's
hotels. The cause of his rash act was
q mystery and remained 30 until o few
days ago when in letter to the chief
of police his relative sent the
following statement which
he had left behind him:
I'm the first place married q widow
with Q grown up daughter. My father
visited our house very often, fell In
married her. Sony father became my
son-in.law, because she was my
fathers Nife. Soon afterward my
wife had a. son he was fathers brother
in law and my uncle, for he was the
brother of my step mother. My
fathers wife, i. e., my step-daughter,
also had g son. He was
of course, my brother, and in the
meantime my grandchild, for he was
my grandmother I was my wife's
husband and graadchild at the same
time. And as the husband of one
grandmother is his grandfather, I am
my own grandfather" It was on that
account that he sought relief in death.
Romulus, the strong man, who tried
to throw q consumptive bull in the
Juarez bull ring last winter and failed
disastrously, has recently made bis ap-
pearance in ST. Louis aud according to
g Dispatch: &c. w. Whitney. man
ager of the late Commercial club, has
Jan. %, when he proposes to give
wrestling match between q bull and .
man. An Italian who clsims
to be the strongest man in
the world, and who has been
wrestling with bulls throughout Mex
leo. is in the city and will take the
m ans part of the contract. In his per.
formances the Italian attempts to emu
late the deed of Ursus as told in Quo
Vadis. He excites the b. ute to mad
ness and then tries to break the BULLS
neck by getting q hold on its horns. If
he makes both of the BULLS shoulders
touch the ground he wins the match. I"
present year q shower of meteors. such
as fell in 1888 and 1865, will occur again
in November or December 1899, the
exact date to be announced by the as
tronomers prior to that time. There
are five eclfpses also booked for this
year, three of the sun and two of the
moon. A martial eclipse of the Gun on
Jan. IL, and one on June will not be
visible in this country. The annular
eclipse of the Gun on Dec. will be Wis
ible only in the northern limits of the
on June % will not be visible here
the only eclipse that will be visible in
this section is partial eclipse of the
moon on Dec. 16.
II the papers are an index of q city's
growth and improvement, and we most
emph atica!ly believe it is, the. Ell
Paso has improved wonderfully the
past year. The Times and HERALD
are the two leading papers of Ell Paso,
and each shows q marked Improvement
in the comparative email time of one
year. The reason they are enabled to
give better service and larger papers is
because they have better support from
the people; and the reason the people
can do this is because there are more
of them-the town fs growing.-Dona
Ana County Republican.
E. L. Giroux is in trouble, says the
Solomonville, Bulletin, according to
reports, for selling sailed mine. Mr..
Giroux entered into negotiations for
the Bell copper property on the re-
servation before it was cut of. He is
q brother of Joseph L. Giroux, super
intendent of the United Verde. We
are well acquainted with Mr.. GirOux
and hope he wi put through.
Charles Mehan is quoted by an ex-
change as saying that 1t is not with
the Chinese that inspectors have the
most trouble but with the American
that make their living by
ANN OO1inO Chinese into this country
and making money by so doing. These
fellows post the Cinnamon and tell
them how to answer the court when
arrested.
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