The Caucasian., 1911-06-01
OTHER
TEXAS
ETENTS,

total loss. Inc no.
tel was owned by A. P. Welborn and
was valued at SO, 600, with insurance
of 81, 500. Mrs. J. L. Anderson los4
most of her furnishings, with insur-
ance of 81, O00 Westbrook & Co. lost
two stores worth SO, 900 and stock
of groceries, with no oinsurance. Frauk
Galloway fell from ladder and was
| badly hurt.
At Brownwood the first trial held
under the law making it penitentiary
offense for selling liqnor in prohibi-
tion territory when two or more sales
resulted in Jim Weeks being given a
couple of years in the penitentiary.
Nus. Aaron Gugenheim, a promi-
nent San Antonio lady, is dead, aged
thirty years.
Fear that ghouls would steal his
body and hold it for ransom caused
followers of William Glenn Voliva at
Zion City, H., to conceal the fact of
the death Of millionaire, James
Currie, of Big Springs, Texas, for al
vault could be installed in the Zion
City cemetery Currie owned As, 600
acres in Texas and an expensive home
in Jion City, where he had lived for
the last two months with his wife and
two children as a member of the
church founded by Alexander Dowie.
He died and beyond the mere fling of
a death certificate no information of
the death was given oat untilthe body
was inferred in the steel vault.
Governor Colquitt let it be known
that he will submit nothing for con-
sideration al the special session in
August until the appropriation bill IS
disposed of. Numerous requests are
being received by the governor for
submission of general and local meas
ures, but the appropriation bill will
hoxe to be enacted first before he will
decide on anything else.
Suing at San Antonio for $40, 600
damages, Ed Holcombe was given a
verdict for S. against the Southern
Structural Steelcompany. Holconbe
alleged the defendants had made Ii
belous statements concerning him. In
he Fifty fourth district court the case
was tried
Brigadier General John L. Bulls,
%. S. A., retired, died at the army
post hospital at Fort Sam Houston,
near San Antonio, following stroke
ial1 ho
before while witnessing boxing tour
nament in the post gymnasium. When
General Bulls left home he was en-
ioying his usual health Although
about seventy years old he was re
marka bly, healthy and quite alert.
The sport had been in progress for an
hour when he was suddenly stricken.
General Bulls was formerly paymas-
ter and with General Nelson A. Miles
captured Geronimo, the noted Indian
chief, in 1886 General Bulls was
retired in 1905 with the rank of briga
dier general
Gaines Harrison, a negro, while he
was unloading some freight from
car in front of the Rotan Grocery
company's establishment at Cameron
he had both legs broken by truck,
heavily loaded with freight, running
over him.
A sneak thief entered the tent of the
Methodist pastor at Humble, Rev. G.
E. Thomas, while he was conducting a
meeting. Shortly after he retired his
pants, containing s14, the nights col
lection, were taken.
According to a decision of the su-
preme court in the case of McLennan
County VS.. Albert Boggess, a justice
of the peace is not entitled to fees as
clerk Of his own court, and that he
may make no deduction from fines for.
the purpose of paying himself such
fees.
G. G. Thorpe, seventy three years of
age, was crushed to ceath BY a trainof
freight cars on the Texas Central rail-
road at Waco. He was on a visit
from Byal sbnrg, Tenn, TO Mrs. S. VI.
Beardsley, his daughter, and started
to crawl under the -trGin at a crossing
rather than wait for the train 10 pull
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