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VOLUME 31.
BKENHAM, TEXAS, THUBSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1S9T
NUMBER 3
WEEKLY
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STATE NEWS.
Cuero is to have a military
company.
Geo. Reese died from Sun
stroke at Lampasas.
The pecan crop
very heavy in
.county.
is reported
Gaudaloupe
guarantee a
in Gaudaloup.e
Late rains will
isecond hay crop
county.
There were two cases of
sunstroke at Sherman on the
26th inst.
The grape and peach crop
Is almost a complete failure at
Bastrop this year.
Thirty converts were bap
tised in the Colorado river, at
Hill's ferry, last Sunday.
A pumpkin weighing 105
pounds was" exhibited at the
' Tyler Fruit Palace" last week.
Col. Hunt has been appointed
Internal Revenue Collector 'for
.the 4th Texas district.
Mexicans are leaving Bee
county every day bound for the
cotton fields in Eastern Texas.
The city council of Bastrop
has passed a Curfew ordinance,
operative against youths under
.17 years of age.
Willis Gaskins, arrested as
tin escaped convict, was killed at
Sealey while attempting to es
cape from the officers.
Mr. Joe Strange, of Troy,
"Bell'county, lost two of his half
grown children from diptheria
last Sunday within a few hours
of each other. Considerable ex
citement exists there in conse
quence. "Uncle Henry" "Woodland, a
San Jacinto veteran and old
Texan, died near Reagan, Falls
county, last week. He was in
the Mier expedition, but drew a
white bean.
E. H. R. Green says Mr. Dil
lonwill undoubtedly be appointed
to the JEIi Paso collectorship,
and that Geo. L. Siebrecht of La
Grange will be the United States
marshal for the western district
of Texas.
Judge Reese denies the re
port to the effect that he had
transferred the Coleman i;ape
case to Harris county . on' a
change of venue, and states that
his case will be tried in "Waller
county.
W.J. Bunnell and bride com
mitted suicide at the Hutchins
House, Houston, on the 27th of
July with morphine. They had
only been married two days. No
satisfactory cause assigned , for
the rash act.
At Benton last Monday the
engine which- ran Horton Broth
ers steam thrasher exploded,
killing the engineer and injuring
nine other persons, two of whom
-will die. The thresher was
-completely demolished. '
N. B. "Wriggins, a furniture
dealer, was brutally assaulted at
"Waco last Tuesday by a burly
iackdriver, named W. WY St.
Clair, to whose divorced wife
"Wiggins had the politeness; to
apeak to at the depot a few
minutes before.
Emma, the 16-year-old
daughter of John Wulff , of San
Antonio, was ravisnea Dy a DiacK
iirute named Henry Kobmson,
who is now in the Bexar county
jail. The outrage was committed
July 28th. Robinson will be
Jiung.
A hard rain and hail storm
of a half hour's duration swept
over the southern part .of the
city of Dallas at 5:30 o'clock last
Monday afternoon. In the cot
ion mills section it approached
ihe severity of a hurricane. A
new storehouse, unoccupied ex
cept by Good Templars hall,. was
blown down and wrecked. Large
trees were torn up by the roots,
fences leveled and galleries of
the houses occupied by the op
eratives badly damaged iv The
force of the wind was confined to
half a dozen blocks and its
strongest sweep was through the
principal street of the cotton
mills district. Much alarm pre
vailed, but the people escaped
with only slight bruises to a half
dozen persons.
-J.nA. Mondav afternoon while
Mrs. Finney Davis, of Reisle,!
McLennan county, was Deing
conveyed to the insane ' asylum
at Austin, she sprang from the
rear end of an International rail
way coach, near Rockdale, and
was instantly killed.
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shoes;
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In our Gent's Furnishing Department,
we offer an unequaled assortment of
Shirts
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Of all Imaginable Designs, extraordinarily
cheap. ' i
Men's Straw Hats;
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and Helmets at a Sacrifice.. j
100 Hats for 25a
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InourDKESS GOODS
DEPARTMENT.
We offer nearly everything at '
Just One-Half Price,
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FALL
STOCK
Is Beginning to arrive and we
are pushing things to make
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WHOLES ALB A.JSTJD RETA.IZ.
Stay at Home and Rest.
Stay at home. The shade of
your own vine and fig tree is by all
odds the densest and coolest and
most satisfying to heated humanity.
To be lord of the domain makes a
man cool. Ho can lay down his
arms, as ifc were by doffing conven
tional attire and putting on negli
gee till nature is wooed and almost
won. Do not rush madly away
from home to seek surcease of pain
from prickly heat fishing, hunting
and picnicking are only roached by
wearisome effort and danger from
sunstroke. An excursion for com
fort is an abomination. If you at
tend to office, church and home du
ties it is all the effort that should
be put forth during hot weather,
except under compulsion. Take
things easy and you may become
comfortable yet Greenville Herald.
family declaring
of the charge.
his innocense
"W. N. Steed, recently ar
rested under a charge of assault
upon the person of 11-year-old
Annie Clough at Waco, was
found dead in his barn last Wed
nesday morning, having com
mitted suicide by taking stychr
nine. He left a note to his
There was a meeting and
temporary organization of the
ex-slaves of Texas held at Aus
tin on the 29th of Jul v, which was
(largely attended. A full board
of officers were elected and Hous
ton was selected as the next place
of meeting, and the 10th of No
vember was mentioned as the
date.
Job work
his office.
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neatly executed at
The King of Siam has an in
come of about S2,000,000 a year.
His royal palace is populated by
about 5,000 people, and is a little
city in itself. The ornamental
grounds comprise 25 acres, and
are surrounde'd by a wall 12 feet
high.
In the orchard of Samuel Rey
nolds of Lawrence, Kan., is a
Vandiver Pippin apple tree, forty
vears old. which measures twelve
feet in the circumference of the1 advertising is a business and
trunk. The boughs spread over all the principles of businesa
a circle having a diameter of 100 must he applied tb it.
feet.
A curious custom prevails ia
Bulgaria. All newly "married
women are obliged to remain
dumb for a month after marriage,
except when addressed by their
husbands. When it is desirable
to remove this restriction per- .
manently the husband presents
her with a gift, and then ahe can.
chatter to her heart's content.
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