El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-22
TEXAS.
MILESTONE EXPLODED.

MILESTONE EXPLODED.
A dispatch from Greenvile says that
a peculiar accident occurred at Aving-
er on Saturday. A milestone in corn
mill exploded and killed a man by the
name of Bolin and seriously injured
another man. 1t is supposed the stone
became overheated by friction The
force of the explosion sent pieces Of
the stone through the roof.
OLD FIDDLER'S CONTEST.
The old fiddlers' contest in Terrell,
at the opera house attracted many con-
testaRts from outside the county. A
committee of arrangements received
all the contestants and prepared enter
tainnent for them. Among the con-
testants we're Dr. Burt Gray of Peede.
who took with him violin OF 1tal-
ian make. dated 1916. 1t Is antique
workmanship and is of inlaid work.
1t is composed of 600 pieces of wood.
Others are Major Shines, of Plano,
aged "a years, already the winner in
three contests; J. M. Gum, from Ma
varro county; Ounce Robertson, of Nc
Coy; w. A Allen, of Quillan; A. w.
johnson, of Rockwan-
A qarade took place in the after noon
with City Marshal Kellar in front,
Mayor D. c. Anthony next. and j. F.
BOggs, master of ceremonies; the Ter
rell brass band; the Craddock Light
Guards and carriages containing twen-
ty old-time fiddlers.
A STOCKMAN KILLED.
A Mr. Anderson, a stockman from
West Station, was instantly killed at
the south yards in HillsbOrO while at
tempting to catch Missouri, Kansas
and Texas train while in motion The
engineer saw him in his endeavor to
catch on and tried to slack up for him.
and succeeded to great extent, but MIR.
Anderson lost his grip and his body
was thrown squarely under the trucks.
No blame whatever is attached to the
railroad employees. Mr.. Anderson
went to Hillsboro to ship eight cars
of cattle to St Louis. His remains
were sent home for intcrment-
A NARROW ESCAPE.
A farmer living south of Paris. near
Atlas. started home down the Texas
Midland track on foot. He stumbled
and fell in a cattle guard two miles
below the city. His head struck one
of the timbers, which rendered him
unconscious. Farmers boys riding
along the public road near the cross
ing saw him fall and noticed that he
did not get up. They heard a train
guard they dragged him out just in
time to save him from being killed by
the north-bound passenger train.
OVER A GLOVE.
4 serious cutting ARRAY occurred
yesterday at Mount Olive Baptist
church. six miles east of Paris just
as preaching was over and the farmers
with their wives and families were
loo riry for f.
ed about glove A young man lost
the glove three weeks ago and offered
a reward for its return. Another
young man met him at church yester-
day and told him he had it. Insinua-
tionS as to how he came in possession
of the glove led to the exchange of hot
worLs and they adjourned to the
woods to settle the trouble. During
the encounter one of them was stab
bed over the eye. A cousin of one of
the boys was present at the difficulty.
but was taking no part. The father of
one of the young men, hearing the
noise made by them. ran to the scene
and thinking that the spectator was
taking sides against him, assaulted
him with pocket knife The boy
threw up his left arm to ward off the
blow. He was stabbed under the left
armpit. By this time the father learn
ed tnat ne was not the one VINO was
engaged in the fight with his boy and
made an attack on the other young
man who was stabbed in the forehead.
In this attack the other of the COM
batants was cut seriously on the arm.
The muscle was severed and he nearly
died from loss of blood. 1t required a
dozen stitches to sew up the wound.
XIII Ii the DIN OUNUN UNNNU
KILLED BY BOERS.
News has been received in San An
tonic that Sidney Wallace. a young
man of that city who went TO South
Africa with a shipment of mules and
afterward enlisted in the English ar
my, had been killed in a fight with
Beers. A column of $50 men fell into !
a trap laid by the Beers, and the Eng |
lish colonel and twenty men were |
killed and thirty wounded
FELL FROM BARGE
A body supposed to be that of James |
Kelly. was found floating about three |
quarters of a mile up Buffalo Bayou |
from the La Porte bridge at Huston by |
1 passing boat. A rope was thrown |
around ii and the other end tied to a
tree, leaving the body IS found in the
water. Justice Malsch was notified by !