El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-08
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Texas.
Vincent Krasi dies at Taylor from q
overdose of morphine.
Second annual session of tax collec-
tors is being held in Austin.
The summer normal for Montague
and Clay counties will be held at Bowie
in July.
Freight for points west of Texas can
90 through the state in closed cars
from New Orleans.
Ssyers vetoes the bill authorizing
county courts to extend their sittings
to examine county finances.
Miss Bette Coplin. Is years old, q
sanctificationist, has been attracting
large congregations at Henrietta.
The county commissioners of John
son county have purchased. number
of teams and will work the county con-
victs on the roads.
Miss Elliott of Mt. Calm, aged Is
years, was seriously burned while try
ing to start fire in q stove with kero-
sene.-Houston Post.
The Santa Fe engineers were at Fort
Worth, and set the grade stakes for
the new passenger station. Work on
the structure, it Is given out by the
contractors, will be pushed as fast as
possible.
A contract between Eastland county
and a water works company was finally
contaminated, in which the county and
town will be supplied with q substan-
tial water works system for the court
house, Jail and town.-Ex.
Waxahschie is to have q wholesale
grocery house soon If the proper ar
rangements can be made. Big firms at
Waco, Fort Worth and Hillsboro have
been here figuring and looking over
the field of location and business.-Ex.
The state committee of industrial
education Is called to meet in Calves.
ton on the % inst to consider and adopt
q general plan of work for the promo
ton Of practical and Industrial educa-
ton among all classes.-San Antonio
Express.
Preparations are being made for q
two days. picnic and barbecue at Bal
linger on the ,2Sth and 10Th of June,
the occasion being an ex-confederate
reunion on the 18th and on the Goth is
celebrated the thirteenth anniversary
LOT the town.
The Katy bridge building depart
ment has enough work in the way of
building new iron bridges to keep them
busy during the entire summer. There
are about twenty of the bridges in ad-
ditition to those at Waxahachie and
Lorena which are in course of con-
struction.
Colonel c. W. Geers of the Denton
Monitor, the oldest paper of Denton
county, has sold to Prof. w. r. Coffey
of Aubrey half interest in that sheet.
Mr.. Coffey will be co-editor and bust
ness manager and has already taken up
that work. The paper will be enlarged
from five column folio to q seven-col-
umn. Houston Post.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Willehad sailed for Bremen with a
good list of passengers and full car
60 This was the first, fast first-class
passenger steamer in the foreign trade
to visit Galveston. It is believed the
visit of the Willehad will result in the
establishment of regular line of pas
senger steamers to foreign ports.
The Texas real estate convention
which is to meet at Waco next week is
attr acting good deal of attention
throughout the state and the attend
snce promises to be large. A number
OF very important papers to be read at
this meeting have already been pre-
pared that deal with the resources,
capa bilities and needs of the state. It
promises to result in. good adver-
tisement for Texas.-San Antonio Ex-
press