The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-12
SHORT TEXAS SPECIALS.

GUIN.-scguin Is TO have new $40
Coo Ice factory.
LOTT Tho drouth is still on and stock
water is getting scarce
10TH Stricken & Co. of Calvert have
opened branch house here.
PORT LAVACA.--Real estate is changing
hands rapidly AT an advance IN the price.
BRISTOL. local option election in
this school district resulted in a pro vie.
tory.
soNoRA.-J. r. Mcconnell has sold his
ranch mostly leuscd land, to Mason coun-
ty parties for $500.
MARSHALL.--I Henry WILLIAMS was given
the dcath penalty on conviction of the
murder of Henry Brown
KAUFNlAN.-A farmer named De Golph
was struck by Texas Midland train and
seriously hurt He will recover.
BANDERA. Indictments for murder
against Z, c. and George Freeman have
been presented by the grand jury.
SAN ANGELO,--The preliminaries have
been arranged for three days steer rOp.
Ing contest, to be held here October H. is
aud H.
,sEGUIN.-The result of the local option
election mt Staples precinct, No. q, In
Guadalupe county, was 202 FOR and %
against.
sIPE SPRINGS. Mrs Carrie Smith was
an open frc in the yard near which she
was working.
KAUFMAN .-Niessrs Endle & Wolfe.
firm doing a small dry goods business al
Kaufman. have moved their STOCK or Eools
40 Wallis, Texas
r COMANCHE--r grand Jury has found
sixty-fve true bills mostly misdemcanors,
The court Will not be able TO clear the
docket at the term.
SAN ANTONIO The second child. Al
berto Gonzales. who was so badly burned
while kinding a fire with Kerosene, died
from the effects thereof
HUNTSVILLE. Tile work on the build
ings OF the sam Houston normal college
is proceeding apace ana everything will he
In readiness for the opening of the school.
DENISoN.-A company TO work the as
phalt finds near Ravia has been organized
at St Louis and active work is TO begin
as soon as the machinery can be procured.
ENNIS. The State mission board OF the
Bantlst association of Texas is In SESSION
here Rev s. H. Slaughter was made
PRECEDENT and Rev. A. Z. Schoheld secre-
tary.
SAN ANTONIO. The demand for exhIbi-
ton space and stock SEALS az the san An
tonic international fair is so great that
the management is compelled to enlarge
both.
ELGIN.-o. l.. Mckinley. white. was
bound over to the grand jury In $500 On n
charge of assault 10 rape The onense is
alleged TO have been committed seven miles
from here.
TEMPLE. The mayor is now holding star
chamber sessions investigating violations OF
the sunday law by the saloons. SO far
there has been no result so far as the pub
Tic Is aware.
CoPBRAS COYE.-Three children OF S.
W. Alexander were playing with powder.
TWO OF them were severely Injured by the
resultant explosion; one Of them nearly
bleeding to death.
CORPUS CHRISTI Two more dnc dow
Ing artesian wells have been struck Ia
Nueces county during the present week,
one with a capacity Of about 100 gallons a
minute ON Charles WeilSranch.
FORT WORTH States Attorney Lat
timore has forbidden the playing of cards
In places other than private homes. as pro-
vided for hy recent act Of the legislature
Notices have heen given BY all clbns
TYLER.--The Young son Of Marion Ken
nedy was sinothered 10 death In Pile Of
cottonseed IL Is supposed that he was
tunnclinc through the seed when there was
a eaveln and heS was unable TO extricaae
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