El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-07
TEXA ).
WEDGED IN A WELL.

WEDGED IN A WELL.
An exciting accident happened at
Calamus. The two and a half years
old child of James Moore fell feet down
ward in forty foot bored well and
hundreds of men worked for hours try
ing to extricate it. At last butcher
lassoed the child's arm and drew it up
safely, amid the shouts of several hun
dred people. The child is doing well,
considering that it was wedged in the
bottom of a well forty feet under
ground for several hours and then pull
ed out by one arm
DIED IN CHURCH
Fred l.. Roberts, young man of
Waco. fell dead while sitting in the
choir of a church in that city. The
sermon had been in progress about
fifteen minutes when the pastor no
ticed a confusion in the choir. He
turned and seeing the young man was
the attraction asked the others to be
quiet while he was carried into the
vestibule. A physician was summoned,
but before he arrived the young man
died without speaking word. He had
left the supper table we'll and hearty
and had Joined in singing all the
hymns. The remains were shipped to
Boston, Mass, where his parents re-
side. He was married and had lived
in Waco about two years.
STRIKING ELECTRICIANS
Ell Paso is not the only city in which
an electricians strike exists. The
union employees OF the Dallas Electric
company went out on strike Tues
day morning. The cause of this strike
is the notice served on the union cleo |
hat
hereafter pay only $3.50 for nine hours |
instead of the state union scale of SO |
for eight hours. The company has the |
contract for lighting the city and the |
union says so far as public lights are
they will put the city in |
darkness.
COUNTY'S RICHES.
The oil fever is at great height in
county and lands are being |
leased all over the county Judge /
Rufus Hardy, of Corsicana. has been
leasing lands steadily for several
and now has several thousand
acres leased. He intends to soon put
in test wells for both coal and oil.
A San Antonio company is now leas-
ing lands and has already secured 1000
acres, on which they expect to hunt for
oil, coal and other minerals. Ignite
coal in many wells near koSSe is from
four to ten feet thick. A few miles
east of Kosse is some of the finest sand
for making glass in the world. 1t is
in it's natural state and entirely free
from dirt. About ten miles from Kos
Sc there is a mound of pure granite
several acres in extent. 1t seems to
have been the upheavel of nature as
here is no granite anywhere else in
the county. There is also some of the
LAY for friedrich and pottery work in
Texas. 1t has been worked to a con-
siderable extent but for lack of CAPT.
al it has been abandoned for several
TearS.
L STRICKEN FAMILY.
The family of Brice Robinson. a
tanker of Palestine, has been very h
lately. First the little ;
,aby died. Then Monday morning one (
# the boys had his arm broken while I
laying at school and that afternoon T
ne worst blow of all came. Two 9TH I
r sons of the banker were out riding g
vhen a person driving rapidly in a f
uggy collided with them. The buggy | +
haft passed entirely through the older a
ne, aged ten years, producing fatal n
round. The other one was injured. c
he entire city mourns with the unfor-
mate family.