The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-01
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JULY.

decorators went on a strike. Contract
to build the Carnegie library Of san
road was formally turned over TO the
Frisco, aud h +. Yoakum was elected /
president. The hrst train on the Cane
Belt went into Bay City
.. The charter of the Blackwell Enid aud |
Texas railway approved by the attor-
ney general. The new owners Of the |
Nelasco Terminal road assumed charge.
4. The corner stone OF the Cucro cotton |
mill was laid with great ceremony. |
thousands being In attendance Coy
ernor SaSers made a speech.
4. The Sixth congressional district demo !
cratic convention met at Meridian. 81. |
The Ennis street fair and carnival |
began
5. An oil company with S30O00.0O0 and |
a lumber company with S1o.oOa0n0 !
with headquarters In Houston. were IN /
corporated. =. Mrs NJ. NJ. Blanks 81
choir In the University. Six business /
houses were burned Mt Mansfield aud
two Mt Longview.
6. The round house. adjoining structures
and rolling stock belonging to the Den
Yer road at Clarendon were destroyed |
by fire, DIR. L.. w, Groce Of Hampstead
killed. The State entered suit 20 re-
cover lH9.stO acres of land In Wthb |
county. After taking 1l57 ballots the
Meridian convention adjourned 70 meet
at Dallas on July s.
s. The charter OF the Velasco. Brazos and
Northern railroad was fled
D. The new oil refinery at Corsicana put In
operation. Schlelcher county was or
ganized.
10. Fourteen business houses were burned
at Joshua Fire nj Galveston destroy
I'd seven residences. Dudley G. Woo
ten was nominated at Dallas on the
4o46th ballot by the democratic con
Nention Of the Sixth congressional dis
trct.
10. 4 row Of brick business houses wrre
DESTROYED by fire al Cooper -. In n inil
delivery at Brownwoot. Bill TAYLOR,
convicted Of train robbery escaped.
Is. The funeral of ex-governor Hubbard
took place Mt Tyler. There were six
Victims of the kerosene con MS follows
Two at Cuero. one at Taylor. one at
Bonhaiu. one at Grsenville and one at
Cleburne.
II. a fisherman was drowned by rat
tsh near Dickinson Samuel May, the
oldest settler In Harris county, died. -.
Representatives of independent tele-
phone companies met at Fort Worth
and organized an association. Irish
potatoes sold In Galveston at 81 per
blishel.
IS. Site for a rice mill at Bay City was
purchased.
10. The Texas volyntecr guards eucanlp-
ment began M AAstiu
p. The trial Of the negro soldiers for mnr-
derinc police officer in El Pgso he
80 gan at Dallas on change OF We.
%. Two young men were killed anl
third badly shocked by lightning near
Hco,
"a. Trouble between the Santa Fe and the
announced. County Judge Reed Of
Atascosa county was killed and his son
shielded
| 25. The Cotton Growers Protective asso.
! trades strike at Fort Worth was
! ordered of The Huntington properly
NJ Galveston was transferred 10 the
Southern Pacific improvement company,
% g. J. Hartman was appointed superu.
ffendcnt Of the Louisiana division NJ the
| Southern Pacific
| 30 Lumber work. nj Rnaun,o,t wave
given shorter hours at the same pay as
! heretofore paid Lightning set fire to
| gas in the Beaumont oil field, but IL
was distinguished before any damage
| was done.
81. The Jury in the Cortez case convicted
him and gave him fifty years for the
murder Of Constable SchnobeI, The
Southern Pacific ordered the necessary
equipment to substitute fuel oil for
coal on its several lines.
AGeGsT
l. Engineer Richie completed his inspec
ton OF Buffalo bayou ship channel.
| 2 Juan Rocha was hanged 10 san An,
~nio for the murder Of Grinsinger.
ne corner stone of cotton mill being
built by negroes at Dallas was laid
A. The First National hank of Austin was
| closed by government hank examiner
4 big packing plant was destroyed by
fire at Dallas.
| o. The private banking house Of ]. II
MaNmond & Co. Of Austin suspended
6. The Twenty-seventh Legislature mrt II
e,XY,t,r9ordinary session, Peter Sawyer
killed his father near Warren aud ther
ran until he dropsed dend.. Genera
John $. Griffith lle1 at Terrell
., The commission liked dat rate o
IL cents on crude petroleum and rule
that Ga pounds shalI constitute a gat
lon in place Of "a.
3. The state mineral survey began IT.
Investigation of Texas petroleum I
o. silver spike was driven at Navasot
70 sgnaliZe the completion Of tb
Montgomery branch Of the Santa Fc.
10. Fort Worth cot both the swift an,
Armour packerIes.
IL. The contract for the epilephc asylum
ed the jail in Gonzales with the in
> tenhon of lynchlnG Gregorio Cortn7
! but owing to the determination Of tn
sheriff they did not succeed.
! IL. The work OF removing the bodies O
! storm victims to the cemeteries in Ga
weston was hegun.
a IA. Eufkin was visited by another dse'
I trous IRE. -. Thirty thous.nd peopl
assembled at Bonham TO help the cit
4 zens iuhllate over cotton mill an
= II. - Stare treasurer announced tha
n only cash would he received for due
20 his office, which barred cheeks
n drafts and money orders.
q | 10 The roads which he Houston an
e Texas Central decided 20 absorb o
a the 18th Instant, met and ratified q
action OF the Central....T NJ, Campbe
|
ernor no matter who else entered Il
l. field.
n 90 Congressman Lanham announced thi
he would be n candidate for governor
7 Abe Wildner murderer Of Mrs. Cal
10 well was burned at the stake mes
= Whitesboro. J. John Ripper. neg
e soldier, was convicted OF murder
Z Dallas and given n l'Ce term
ii 81 II was announced that the Katy W
v spend half million In roadbed il
movements in Texas.
N % The formal transfer OF ~ Austin al
,e Northwestern the Fort Worth ~
"a New Orleans, tue Central Texas nl
"A Northwestern and other roads Into Il
Central system was made.
Of %. The house refused 10 impeach or &c
pr sure Treasurer Robbins, The ofneia
OF Zapata county issued ap appeal
n help; deplorable condition, as the
ne suit OF the drouth.
A "a AS result Of q row in san Anguish
70 county one man was killed one pro
he hhly fatally wounayd and two othe
badly wounded
"a 25 The district attorney OF Young coun
Al dismissed case because fhe court
* criminal appeals had Sndered conh
re ing opinions IA Mexican was mohp
M, al Kennedy hy other Mexicans.
III ! o6 n o men Werc killed ny gas VII
~, 1 trying ~ check n well AT Beaumont