San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-02
STATE NEWS.

Big Springs went under water about
three feet during Mondays storm.
A coal mine has been unearthed 10
miles east of Sherman.
The Sulphur mills will soon have to
shut down on account of low water.
Associate justice of the supreme court,
Wood, is in Dallas hearing equity cases.
Active preparations are making for
the Lampasas normal school.
Greenville wants water-works and
less beer saloons of the dive sort.
Center Point is moving earnestly TO
secure an extension of the Arkansas Pass.
The corn mill and elevator of S. p.
Young q Co., Dallas, burned yesterday.
Loss 10000; insurance. $4,000.
The Galveston Interstate drill man
agement offer $4,000 for the best drilled
company, spot cash.
The deaf and dumb ASYLUM and the
ItllOtson colored institute, Austin, are
holding examinations to-day.
Iampasas wool receipts are beyond
all precedent and tine stOrehOuses are all
full.
The encampment flag is flying at Lam
pasas, and preparations are being made
on every hand to entertain the soldiers.
The Corsicana Knights of Labor will
celebrate on July 3, and the Texas Home
Guards of that city will give an exhibit
ton drill.
Navarro and Henderson counties are
reported as enthusiastic for Hon. Marion
Martins, candidate for governor.
The Kerens Light changes hands to
come out full-1edged supporter of
Marion Martin.
A fracas between white and a col
Ored man near Mount Pleasant. on ac-
count OF the trespass of horse of the
former, landed both parties in Jail. The
white man with broken arm.
The Milan county farmers hold meet
lngs to devise ways and means for ex-
terminating the grasshoppers which are
devastating the county.
The state land board to avoid suits at
law 10 compel acceptance Of bids, has
declared all school, university and asy-
lum lands to be agricultural lands until
the classification by the state agents is
completed.
The Land board leased 535 sections of
school lanes yesterday, and sold six sec
tions for actual settlement to parties
locating in Lipscomb and Ochiltree
counties.
The two-fair-city will have two con-
ventions. One to represent the county
at the Galveston convention, one to
represent the county in the congress
sional convention.
Waco did not observe Decoration day.
The town is all torn up over an attemp-
ted outrage on the person of little 10
year-old daughter Of Mrs. F. J. Nally,
widow OF the county commission er who
died last year.
An FL Paso dispatch reports the kill
ing OF two men by Indians on the ranch
of Colonel Joe Hampson. near Camp
Thomas, Arizona. The murdered men
were ranch foremen.
Well gas suffocated John Monty, who
descended 20 feet into a well at Marien-
field to rescue Julius Cox, who was in
an unconscious condition. Monty saved
Cox's life at the sacrifice Of his own.
Justice linn, of Fort Worth, was ar
rested and taken to Dallas, charged with
obstructing United States officer In the
discharge of his duty. Zinn fined a
United States deputy marshal Tor arrest
ing man In his court without warrant,
after having been previously cautioned
not to do so.
Manager Henry Greenwald, OF Calves.
ton, Is to have charge of the San Anto-
MO opera-house. His circuit will in
clude Galveston, San Antonio. Austin,
Houston, Dallas, Paris, Waco, Bonham,
Beaumont, sherman, Texarkana, Lake
Charles and Little Rock.
The later returns from Palestine show
that the explosion Of the boiler of engine
No. 720 was simply terrific. Five en-
gines were badly damaged, one was
nearly driven through the side of the
round house, men were Frustrated sew
eral hundred feet away, and large frag-
ments Of wreckage we've blown 1000
feet.