El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-01

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Texas.
All Texas is badly in need of rain.
Ansunknown white man was run over
by train at Round Rock.
Dallas wants the governor to call an
industrial convention soon.
The water in Lake Mcdonald at Aus
tin. continues to- fall and If there Is no
rain soon the town will be in darkness.
Elk.
The commissioners court of johnson
county has Endorsed sixty-one appli-
cations for pensions under the new eX-
Confederate pension law.
The boxes at Cleburne have all been
placed for free mail delivery and the
service will commence in Cleburne
September l with three carriers.
The ice factories at Waco cannot fill
more than 10 per cent of the outside
orders. consequently an ice famine
exists in many towns near by here
Elk.
The Cleburne public schools will open
September IL. The enrolment this
session of 1999-19OO is 200 in excess of
1898 80, which shows how the city is
growing.
The public school of Alvin opened
with full corps of teachers and about
It's pupils we're enrolled. Quite
number of children did not attend on
account of the warm weather.
No poison was found in the stomach
of George Odneal, of Sherman. who
died in the latter part of July, and a
verdict of death from natural causes
will be returned by tue coroner.
The united Moderns of Den YER, Colo. :,
is the first fraternal organization to
qualify in the department of insurance
under the new law governing and re-
gulating fraternal societies doing bust
ness in this state.-Register.
State Revenue Agent Jameson and
Attorney General Smith are on their
way to Gatesville to file suit against
ex-Superintendept Mcclure, of the
state reformatory, alleging misappro-
priation of certain funds.-Ex.
A large number of negroes are ar
irving at Texarkana from Little Rock,
and they give as their reason for leav-
ing there the excited condition incl
dental to the recent negro depredations
at that place.-Denison Herald.
The owners of rubber tired vehicles
of Waco. are protesting somewhat
against the use of oil on the streets.
They claim it does great damage to the
rubber. Some bicyclists are also I'M
easy from the same cause.-Ex.
The water.question at Fort.Worth is
becoming serious one here and meas
ures have been adopted by the water
works department to prevent the sup
ply from being so depleted as to in
terfere with health, comfort and safety
The county commissioners of Dallas
sitting as a board of equalization are
today passing up the franchise assess
ments of the corporations in Dallas
county. The Texas and Pacific and
Katy railroads alone aggregate sixty
nine millions. A big fight is being
made by the corporations.
Julio Albania, the most popular Mex
lean citizen of Rockport, was shot and
almost instantly killed this evening by
q negro ex-convict. Albania was walk
ing along the street unaware of the as
sassin g presence when the shot was
fred. The murderer fed, but was pur-
sued and captured and is now in jail
Elk.
The educational department at Aus
tin is very busy at this time revising
the laws pertaining to that depart
ment. The new laws passed by the
Twenty-sixth legislature and the old
laws are being arranged SO that they
can be used for ready reference with
out the trouble of having to look up the
old and new laws.-Ex.
The oldJoe Bailey Rifles of Pilot Point,
which served as company G in the Sec
ond Texas regiment, has been reorga-
nized with many of the old officers and
men. First Lieutenant Bob Endom is
captain: First Sergeant Jesse Moffitt is
first lieutenant and Dr.Orlando Buster,
who served in the hospital department.,
is second lieutenant.-Ex.
eagle was run over and killed by a
through freight train. He had start
ed to catch the.handle of the car when
he was drawn under the wheels and
his head was severed from his body, as
were also q shoulder and arm. His
face was so mangled that his parents
could not recognize him. He was 10
years old.-EX.
For some time past wagons with
heavy loads have been passing through
the capitol grounds at Austin in direct
violation of the rules which provides
for fl ne of S25 for the violation there
of. Superintendent Sam Harlan of
public buildings and grounds. states
that he is determined to enforce this
rule and that all violstors will be
promptly fued.-Ex.
The pension clerk in the com ptrol-
ler's department at Austin has so far
received 2461 applications for pensious
under the new act. These applications
are from 112 different counties in the