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Real Estate Transfers. W. R. Baker and F. A. Rice to C. C. Keithly and T. H. Campbell, twelve acres in Hutchins, $360. - o o o - A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. ______ Man's Chest. While at
his ranch near Hutchins last week, Maj. J. I. Reeks met with
a very serious accident. He had occasion to prod a mule with
a long pole, one end of which, was sharp. Maj. Reeks held the
sharp end in his hands, and as he punched the mule with the other
end, the animal kicked and drove the pole over three inches into
the major's flesh, just to the left of his chest and below his
shoulder. His wind pipe was almost severed. He drew the pole
from his body with his own hands, and although growing faint
every moment from the loss of blood, he rode four miles to Hutchins,
where the services of a physician were procured. After dressing
the wound, he took the train for home and is now resting easy
at his home on Gaston avenue in this city. - o o o - A STRANGE CHARACTER. ______ Woman, but Gives no Particulars. Southern Afternoon Press. - o o o - Ed Martin has leased the John Gillespie farm at Hutchins, and will take possession at once. Mr. Gillespie will move his family to Dallas and make this city his residence. - o o o - CITY NOTES. Congressman Abbott sent in his recommendations on the following applicants for postoffices: C. H. Bussey, for Hutchins; Geo. O. Alvis, for Ennis, and Henry Galbraith, for Terrell. - o o o - Dee Burgess says Hutchins and vicinity will send 1,000 people to the Trinity river navigation celebration. - o o o - _______ Morning. Editor
Joe Green of the Lancaster Herald is in the city. Said he to
a TIMES-HERALD reporter: - o o o - REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Z. T. Kilpatrick and wife to R. W. King, lot in Hutchins, $350. - o o o - Rev. Charles A. Burton, the boy preacher of the Christian church, is holding a protracted meeting at Hutchins, and drawing large crowds. He is only 17 years of age, having only attended school about two months in his life, but one would judge from his language, that he was a graduate of the highest schools. Considerable interest is being manifested. - o o o - ______ Evening. The
commissioners court canvassed the returns of the local option
election recently held on the Rose Hill precinct and announced
the result yesterday. Rose Hill is dry -- very dry -- by a vote
of 50 for, to 18 against local option. - o o o - _____ Humor. The local option election recently held at Hutchins is said to have given rise to two factions in that locality, the wet element representing one faction and the dry, the other. One faction accuses the other of maliciously endeavoring to procure an indictment for horse stealing against one of the men on their side. The wet ticket people are disposed to make a test in the courts of the right of a portion of a community to dictate what sort of beverages the whole community shall regale themselves with. - o o o - ______ Hutchins. On
the 25th of November, an election was held at Hutchins, at which
fifty-four votes were cast for prohibition, and forty-two against.
The vote was canvassed at a meeting of the county commissioners,
Dec. 6, 1893, and the usual order of publication made. Now comes
Wm. Moroney, a saloon keeper, with a complaint in Judge Gray's
court, and asks that said election be nullified for the following
reasons: - o o o - Added February 18, 2004: REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Deeds. W. K. Rawlins, by Sheriff, to W. B. Thompson, September 4, 1894, 16 acres in the town of Hutchins, $50. - o o o - FROM THE STOVE. ______ No Insurance. John
Miller's house, on the Hutchins road, two miles from the city,
was destroyed by fire last night. - o o o - Added March 20, 2004: REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Deeds. L. B. Cody and wife to W. E. Payne, August 17, 1894, 1 acre, division 21, of Hutchins, $250. - o o o - SCHOOL HOUSE LOOTED AT HUTCHINS. _____ ______ Boarding House Where They Were Left by Mrs. Todd, Who is in Waxahachie. Last
Thursday night, the public school building at Hutchins was looted,
and all the books belonging to the school and to pupils that
do not take their books home to study, nights, were carried away,
evidently by some one who had had to buy school books, and who
thought, that if he could sell them for even half price, he would
make six months wages out of the speculation. - o o o - PERSONAL. C. E. Collins, formerly agent ofthe Houston & Texas Central at Hutchins, has been appointed assistant ticket agent of this road at the Union depot. - o o o - REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Deeds. C. H. Busey and wife to H. W. Horn, March 19, 1895, part of block 47 of Hutchins, $500. - o o o - CITY NEWS NOTES. Alf Floyd, living two miles west of Hutchins, Tuesday, drew something over $500 out of a Dallas bank and returned home. During the night, a burglar entered his room and stole it. Mr. Floyd has no clew to the robber. - o o o - HUTCHINS PEOPLE SHY THEIR CASTOR. _____ in Great Shape. Flem
Bledsoe, Dr. Carnes and John Gaston, of Hutchins, went before
the Commissioners Court, yesterday afternoon, to call the attention
of the court to the Hutchins road as the shortest, levelest and
broadest thoroughfare from the city to the south line of the
county, and, in fine, the only road the Commissioners could consider,
if they followed the strict letter of the law. - o o o - Added June 15, 2004: GRAVEYARD FIRE. Hutchins, Dallas Co., Tex., Jan. 1. - The grass in the cemetery caught fire to-day, but did only slight damage before it was extinguished. A few pickets around a grave here and there were burned. - o o o - |