San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-26
STATE NEWS

The Phillips murder trial is the sensa-
tiOn Of the state.
Mrs. TObin's testimony in the Phillips
murder trial fully eXhonerates Comp
troller Swain from the accusations that
his political enemies have made con
corning his questionable relations with
the murdered woman.
SloVinski, a Pole. Is under arrest at
Galveston for the murder Of George
StOckt. a German farmer from Taylor
who WAS en- route to Germany. The
Circumstantial evidence against the
prisoner is very strong, the murdered
mans money and other effects having
been found in his possession.
Four prisoners in San Diego jail ind
ing their cell door unlocked on Monday
night quietly departed for other scenes
and pastures green.
Fort Worth patiently heard PA
tienCe" by a home troupe last Monday
night and enjoyed it.
Brown, Of Fort Worth, wholesale gro
Ger, obtained a verdict OF $1,000 against
the w u. Telegraph company in the u.
). court at Dallas yesterday. This is
the third verdict rendered in his favor.
Senior Merylander. former customs of
fetal at New Laredo, receiving permits
sion to cross his secondhand furniture
free of duty. attempted TO bring over
lot o. new furniture and the whole was
seized.
Simon Richards, found guilty of muir
der in the second degree, for the killing
of Archie Streng, was given five years
in the penitentiary by Jefferson jury.
The comptroller has purchased $4,000
of the BosQue county six per cent bonds
at par, for permanent school fund invest
ment.
Pure salt has been fOusd in StOnewall
county. The yield is $50 per cent of
pure salt in the specimens analysed.
Mrs. r. X. Red principal of Stewart
academy, is dead and buried.
The body of murdered man, still
warm, WAS found AT Ysleta yesterday,
and recognized as that Of one MOntes. a
citizen of SaTagOSSu, in Mexico.
Lieutenant Governor Gibbs'is a candi-
date for congressional honOrs; so says a
Dallas dispatch.
The railway from CuerO to BastrOp
will be put under construction at once.
The sam Houston normal institute re-
ceives no student under IS years; all APP
plicants must be residents of the sena
tOTisl or representative districts from
which they seek appointment, and must
agree to teach as many sessions in the
public schools Of the state as they attend
sessions at the institute.
MCGregOr is engineering picnic with
Joint discussion of the three (whCeyer
they are) gubernatOrial candidates as
attraction.
man named Anderson, arrested in
McGregOr for the theft of two mules,
was seized with commissions on being
taken by the officers. He looks like a
feeble minded person.
Weimar had an immense jOllifcatiOn
over the success of her soldier boys at
the LAGRANGE drill. Speeches, anvil
firing, flags, professions, transparenCies
and big supper filled the bill.
Crawford versus Dun, libel suit for
$4,000, is the great COrsicana sensation
this week.
The decision in the Lizzie Clements
arson case at Paris will probably be rem
dered to-day.
Stlson & Case, of Tom Green county,
shipped their wool clip TO Philadelphia
this week; weight $4,000 pounds.
Joseph +. COCkrell. Of Abilene. posi-
lively declines to run for the legisla-
ture, though urged thereto by Taylor
county citizens.
Charles Eppner, n popular business
man of Palestine, has married a Miss
Rarbsry Grove. He has provided for
himself pleasant life shade, having APP
propriated to his own use a 6cautifu'
Grove.
The main bridge across Little Cypress
creek, on the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas railroad, burned Monday night.
Brazoria special complains Of greater
heat and drowth, poorer crop and stock
prospects than ever before known in that
region. Vegetation all burned up ana
streams dry.
Mexia reports 1913 school children;
white 262, cOlOred 1871. An increase of
rs over last year.
Dallas school board has purchased
the Jones female college for public
school building, price $4,000. The
building will accommodate nearly 1000
pupils. and has p acres of ground at
tacbed. The real estate is valued at
$4,000.