San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-08
STATE NEWS


Ting up.
Abilene thermometers registered l0l
in the shade yesterday.
The United States District Court at
Galveston has adjourned sine die.
The French bark Agrlcola arrived
from TampicO has gone into quarantine.
The Womans' Christian Temperance
Union Of Texas, is in session at Austin.
The Tyler term of District Court
opens Monday, Judge Saoin presiding.
The ball opens at Sulphur Springs to-
day between Sui. Ross and Comp.
Swain.
FL Paso is building break-water to
guard against an expected rise In the Rio
Grande.
Wichita Falls is receiving large con-
signments of wool from neighbOring
counties.
The May term of the United States
Circuit Court at Galveston, opens on
the 10Th.
The State Bee-keepers' association has
just closed very interesting session at
Mckinney.
Customs received at FL Psso | asst
month were $3.50, duties on Mexican i'm
portations.
Whitewright has hopes of getting
both the A. Il. & Sante Fe and the
Frsioo roads.
Fort Worth reports loss to her bust
ness from the railway strike at from 30
to 40 per cent.
The Graham-Lamb murder trial is
occupying the court at Waco. Case has
gone to the jury.
Eleven committeeman have been heard
from; seven favor Galveston for the con-
vention and four favor Dallas.
An unknown man, supposed TO be
railway laborer, shielded in TeXarkana
school-house on Thursday night.
The charter of the Guadalupe and San
Antonio Rivers Stock Association has
been extended from five to ten years.
The Congressional committee has com
pleted its work at Fort Worth for the
present and is now en- route TO Calves
ton.
Stock are doing well all over Southern
Texas and fat cattle are coming into the
market in sufficient quantity for home
demand.
Sheriff Elder, of Helena, was badly Bit
ten by rattlesnake this week, but has
pulled through all right and is now out
of danger.
James Reynolds horse stumbled over
yearling, while he was driving cattle
near Whitewright on Thursday, and
Reynolds was killed.
San Marcos had double wedding yes
terday, the high contracting parties be-
ing Hugh MCGEE and Minnie Bagley;
DR.. Breton and Miss Branch.
Ten coaches of excursionists from
Waco attended the Walnut Springs bar
becue. The great speeches were by
Lieut.. Gov. Martin and Prof. Collier.
Hard times and no work has compelled
a Denison man, named Shears, to make
application for admission Of himself, sick
wife and helpless family into the aims
house.
Word comes to cattle men under date
ofThursday last, to drive no cattle up
the Pecos Valley, as there is neither
grass nor water, and the cattle on range
are doing badly.
Goliad court has adjourned. Copious
rains have greatly benefited that
county. Large business at Pettus sta
ton is promised from Goliad way when
the Arkansas Pass road is completed.
Sheriff Brito broke up gang of horse
thieves two miles uD the river from
Edinbnrg yesterday morning, wOunding
one of the bandits and capturing IL
valuable animals stolen from stOckmen
on this side of the border.
The ten.year-old daughter of the
Southern Pacific agent at FL PasO ran
away from home early in the week.
After the country had been unsuCcess-
fully secured she was found in the
Mexican school in PasO Del Norte all
serene.
p. d. Barry. a member of the general
executive board of the Knights of Labor,
is at Fort Worth. He says If the board
of District No. 7S unanimously declared
the Mallory boycott off, subsequent
action by less than full board could
not reinstate it, and the boycott is in
fact now of.
Howard County parties have sued
County Surveyor Carson, as State agent,
to compel the sale of lands to them
under the seven section act of 1888.
They insist that the action of the Land
Board restricting sales of less than seven
sections is illegal. The AttOrney-Gen-
eral has telegraphed George w. Smith,
of Colorado City, to go to Big Springs
and assist Mr.. Carson in the suits which
have been instituted.