El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-18
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.

Galveston has golf club.
Cooper is to have q daily paper.
Gold has been found near Belmont.
Three negroes are in jail at Beeville
for fence cutting.
Navesota is raising the money to
build a cotton mill.
The Mascot theater in Galveston
has changed hands.
All of the school laws of the state
have been published.
The methodist church at Bonham
has been completed.
Smallpox now exists only in Fannin
county, it is reported.
The Denison Rifles have elected Miss
Mamie Cuff as sponsor.
Sixty carloads of coal in compress
bins at Paris burned up.
The Texas flag has been adopted as
the banner OF Ithe university.
State senator Odell declares for
Bailey in the senatorial race.
Sweetwster expects to have her
| railway under construction by Xmas.
A boy in Austin had his head crush
ed to q pulp between q wheel and
| car.
Fort Worth's population is now 49,
600, an increase of 5000 in the past three
years.
| The work on the passenger station
| at Fort Worth will be completed by
the first.
The Quad slupe Stock and Fair as
socistion begins it's annual meeting at
Seguin next Thursdsy.
| A negro 80 years old made q vii
famous assault upon an S-year-old
white girl in Houston.
Express companies can not legally
refuse shipments according to anew
| ruling of the railroad commissioner.
| The county of McLenon is going to
try the experiment of making all able
bodied conviots work in the public
roads.
| Thirty Irish hardy postulsnts for
the Sisterhood of Divine Providence
have left Liverpool en- route to San
Antonio.
The citizens of Rusk county are
highly elated over the prospect of q
500, 600 cotton factory being erected
in Henderson.
The high school board of Austin sold
to eastern capitalists the $50, 900 worth
OF bonds recently voted to erect high
school building.
From reports from different sections
of the county, the pecan crop in the
section of Corsi.: an q will be short this
year-in fact, . failure.
The governor has offered q 5000 re-
ward for the parties who dynamited
the house of Albert Francois, at Jack
sonville, Texas, in September.
The gross receipts for the postoffice
at Dallas for Septem Der, 1899, we're
Sl5, 1874. against GA, TAO for the same
period last year, being an increase of
1904.
The comptroller now has q large
force of men at work arranging and
compiling in alphabetical order the
pension applications which he has ap-
proved.
The following counties have sent
their tax rolls to the comptroller, show
ing increased valuations over last year
az follows: Cooke county, 1865, 1856;
Grimes county, 1925, 900.
The scarlet fever scare has about
su bsided at GOnZ ales, as there have
been only three or four cases and they
are very mild. School will commence
again on the 23rd instant.
The city council has placed before
the citizens of Rockwell the PROPOSE
tion to issue $500 city bonds, the pur-
pose of which is to bore an artesian
we'll to supply the CITY with water.
It's understood here that as soon as
work is begun on the Brazos River I'm
provement, a line of steamers will be
put on by New York capitalist to
hanole the business of the barber.
Bank clearings at the Fort Worth
clearing houses for the week ending
Saturday, October IA, were al, 745 225, 10
for the corresponding week last year
81, $50, 349 "A, an increase eff $215, 875. Sc
Peter Nelson, colored, of Ellinger,
was shot in the neck, the ball lodging
below the left shoulder, just under the
skin. He died of the effects about two
hours later. 1t Is said to have been &C.
cidental.
The public school opened at Cha
pell Hill on Monday last with q list O
forty-three pupils, which is considered
q very respectable opening. Mrs. D
P. Perkins is principal and Miss Sadie
Elliott assistant.
Every diphtheris case in Corsican,
ia now past the danger line, the pa
tients reported convalescent and the
yellow flags taken down from the isol
ated premises where the cases were
Some OF the cases were quite serious
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..