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What People Do and Say – the Happenings and Sayings of a Day in Condensed Form
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The Rio Grande is very low.
Yesterday was Sullivan day in El Paso.
The many friends of Mrs. Dr. Yandell will regret to learn that she is very sick.
Sullivan is a bigger man than the Fourth of July in El Paso just now.
The Santa Fe street cars are running regularly now.
Next Friday night city council will tackle the cheap water question.
The old Browns were defeated by Tuttle’s nine Sunday afternoon on a score of 10 to 7.
Yesterday was a slow day for news. A reporter could hear nothing but prize fight talk.
Nothing new has developed in the White Oaks railroad matter. The representative of the New York syndicate is expected to arrive tomorrow.
The El Paso Light Infantry failed to hold a business meeting last night on account of the small attendance.
The TIMES and its patrons are indebted to Chief Operator Frank R. Patterson, and Night Press Operator Barnes, of the Western Union, for the full report of the Sullivan-Kilrain fight and other telegraphic news published this morning. Despite the negligence at the headquarters of the Associated Press, these two young men succeeded in giving the TIMES a good news service last night.
Mrs. Theo. Eggers leaves today for New York on a visit to relatives.
E. S. Mausell and J. Buckner, of New Orleans, are at the Grand Central.
Detective J. P. Long, of Houston, came in Sunday and left yesterday, going west.
J. S. Hart, editor of the TIMES, leaves today for the East to be absent several weeks.
A triangular fight took place on San Antonio street yesterday afternoon. Two canines and a Mexican were the combatants. The Mexican was down at one time and the two dogs were fighting over him.
The residence of Mrs. H. Smythe, on San Antonio street, was burglarized Saturday. The thieves got away with a number of valuable articles.
The Joran Sisters’ concert, given in Juarez Sunday, was a musical and financial success.
Next Sunday, the 14th, will be the one hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Bastile, and will be duly observed by the French citizens of El Paso.
“Sullivan can whip any prize fighter in the world, two a day,” was the enthusiastic exclamation of Mr. Minter when he heard the results yesterday.
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El Paso On the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight
“Who whipped?” was the question propounded to the TIMES reporter at every corner yesterday morning. Everybody was on tip-toe of expectation over the great fight between Sullivan and Kilrain, and every other man you met had just heard some one reading a reliable telegram from New Orleans. On Saturday no backers for Kilrain could be found in the city. But, yesterday a few put up money on him when big odds were offered.
When a telegram was received at the TIMES office announcing the arrest of the pugilist the crowd began to speculate on the possibility of the fighters coming to El Paso to settle their dispute, and a telegram was sent inviting them to come. At 12 o’clock came the joyful news: “The men have entered the ring, shook hands and the fight commences. Sullivan gets in one of his right and Kilrain goes down.”
Here everything was a shut off on the ground that the wires were down. As 8 o’clock rolled around and still nothing could be heard from the battle ground, a few knowing ones were confident that Sullivan had been whipped; that Kilrain had out winded; that “Sullivan’s legs are no good anyway,” etc. But these knowing ones crawled into their holes when authentic information was received that Sullivan had won the fight. Only a few hundred changed hands here on the result.
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