El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-07
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TEXAS.
CoRsICANA's COTTON MILL.

CORSICANA'S COTTON MILL
The plant OF the CorsicGna cotton
factory will be started Monday. All
the machinery has been received and
the last pieces are now being put in po-
sition The operators for the mill are
ON hand and no hitch in the plans to
start Monday is anticipated. The mill
will employ $50 people. all white.
TWO MEN ARRESTED.
Sheriff Martin. of Lamar county. is
so satisfied that Thomas Skidmlre, or
that county. who was found dead hang
ing to a tree in Red River county. was
murdered that he has had two men re-
siding in Lamar county arrested and
taken to the Red River county Jail
at Gainesville. as suspects. to await
further investigation.
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS.
In 1882 Jim Franklin jumped a bond
in RunneIs county ard was a free man
until last Saturday when one of his
bondsmen saw him on the sstreet in
San Angelo and had him arrested. An
/, officer from Ballinger. the county seat
of Runnels county. went to San An
cello and got him and took him back
TO answer the old charge.
ONE OF MANY
A young man named Hall residing in
Freestone county was out hunting and
in crossing a wire fence set his gun
against a post He pushed wire
down SO as to make the hole between
the wires big enough to crawl through.
He pressed so hard that the staple
holding the wire to the post pulled out
and let the wire come down On the
l.. 6ivo
. entered his head and killed him.
FOUND A TORPEDO.
Tommy Kendrick, a 12-year-old boy.
living near Paris, found shining OBJ
iect which he thought was an orna-
ment off a horse bride. There was
piece of lead sticking in the side and
he wanted it out. He attempted to
pull it out when there was an explos-
ion louder than that of shot gun.
His hands were badly torn and one of
his ears mangled. The object was
railroad torpedo.
RACE HORSES BURNED.
J. NJ. Smiths racing stables. located
four miles west of Wills Point. were
destroyed by fire with all their con-
tents. including fifteen famous race
horses and all his farming imple-
ments. racing paraphernalia, 2,OOO
bushels of oats, 100 bushels of corn
and fifty tons of hay. Mr.. Smith was
in New Orleans attending the races
when his barn burned The fire was
discovered at 2 a. m, and had gained
such Roadway that no efforts to save
the horses could be made. The loss is
about $4,000 with no insurance An
application for insurance had been
made and the agent asked to go out
and inspect the risk but he delayed |
the matter until it was too late
HAVING FUN WITH BROTHER.
G.. B. Thompson and family were
picking cotton in Lamar county and a |
4-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy |
we're left in cotton pen. Mrs Thomp-
son kept a mothers watchful eye on
the children and it is well she did.
Noticing that for some time she could
not see the little boy she went to the
pen and found that the little girl
mad dug hole in the cotton and placed
her little brother in it, after which she
covered him up and was on top of the
cotton packing it down when the
mother arrived. She hurridly uncov-
cred the child and found him limp and
lifeless. but after working
with him a while she succeeded in re-
viving him. Five minutes longer I'M
der the cotton would have made his
impossible.
HOUSTON SCHOOL BURNED.
The Fannin school house in Hous-
ion was badly damaged by fire Tues
day afternoon. About $50 the prin-
cipal was notified by man living in
the vicinity of the school house that
that the building was on fire on the
roof. He notified the other teachers
and then tapped the bell 1t being re-
cess time the pupils suspected moth
ing wrong and walked quietly out,
thus preventing panic. The books /.
and clothing OF the pupils of the up
per rooms were destroyed but the be- !,
longings of all the lower room pupils ,
were saved. The building cost $780, .
BOO and the damage amounts to about ,,
IS per cent of its value. Timers had
been at work on the roof repairing
damage done by the storm and 1t is
thought that the fire originated $
them I
A BARBAROUS MURDER. +
While sitting in a saloon in Dallas I
intoxicated. Pate Balm had his cloth I
ng saturated with turpentine and ig- I
lited The flames soon enveloped him c
md he screamed for help. Policemen I
-ushed in and put out the fire but too I
ate. Balm only lived a short time. :
put long enough to make a statement. c
Ipon the strength of which Eugene a