El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18
Mexico.

A telephone line is being projected
between this city and Amecs.-Ex.
According to a just estimate Iguala
now has a population of 13,OOO.-Ex.
Near Jilotepec Tuesday Maria Julia
ma WAS struck by lighting and killed
Monterey Globe.
Gen. Lazaro Cara Ayala has been
made q permanent brigadier general
of the militia.-Ex.
Mexico took s27, 900 (gold) worth OF
American sewing machines in the
fiscal year ended June 30th last.-.Ex.
It is reported that q rich deposit of
coal has been discovered at the Arroyo
Hendo, near Reynosa on the Rio Gran
de.-Ex.
Advices from the Santa Clara gold
diggings state that some 600 miners
are there yet, who are doing we'll with
their olsims.-Ex.
On the road near Zscualpau Jose de
La Luz and Jose Cayetano were attack
ed by Q party of footpads and robbed
of blanket and SlO.-Two Republics.
Colonel Pate has disposed of his ia
nous race horses, Artemus and Sena-
tor Morgan, having sold them to Mr..
L. L. Lamar, who has shipped them to
the States. It looks as though the
daysOf racing were over in Mexico
Two Republics.
A woman was arrested by the police
of Mexico City for i'll treating her
daughters and at the comissria it was
found that che was crazy, an attempted
abduction of one of her girls having
preyed on her mind so much that she
lost her re8SOn-Ex.
Recently while playing around the
wood pile at the railroad station at
Guadslajara five year old boy named
Pablo Montoya, was run over by To-
connective and had both legs cut OF,
during while be was being taken to
the hospital.-Mexican Herald.
The plans for the new bull ring that
it is proposed to erect on the Cslzada
de la Piedad, in the City, we're pre-
sented to the supreme board of health
last week for approval. The plans are
by the architect Samuel Garcia Cuel-
lar and the cost of the work is $50, 900
The plaza is to have q seating capacity
of IA 900, J. J. Moylan & Co. have the
contract for the ereo ton of the edifice
which is to be of wood on foundation
of masonry.-Ex
Some of the capitalists in the United
States who were thinking of investing
in Mexican enterprises are getting
needlessly scared over the exaggerated
reports sent to the northern press, in
regard to the Yaqui troubles. Fortu-
nately the government has taken
prompt measures to quell the trouble
and the whole question has not caused
as much talk here as the escape of q
dozen Apsches from the reservation
would In the States.-Ex.
A concession for q steamer line to
touch at all the gulf ports from Pro-
gresso, in Yucaton, to Bagdad, on the
Rio Grsnde, granted by the govern
ment to Mr.. A. Bulnes Tabares, of San
Juan Bautista, Tobssco, has been de-
clared forfeitad, for failure to comply
with the stipulations thereof. The
thing has since been started by the
concessionaire. By some peculiar
deposit put up.-Monterey Globe.
Don Daniel Lopez, mining agent of
the district of Iguala was robbed dur
ing the night of the 9Th inst. The
burglars forced their entrance by bend
Ing the iron rails in front of the win
dow and ransacked the Office. Besides
money they pocketed jewelry, consist
ing of rings, chains. brooches, ETC.,
valued at $500. There ia no clue yet as
to who committed the robbery but no
doubt the burglars were we'll acquaint-
ed with the Observation-Disclosures Her.
aid.
Col. J. Lopetegui, the jefe politico
of the Tholulgu district, had invited
last Sunday, the prominent citizens of
Iguala to a meeting of the "Junta pa
friction" for the purpose of fixing the
program of the festivities of Indepen-
dence day, Sept. 16. In former years
the prefecto appointed the officers, but