San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-21
STATE NEWS.
San Diego wants rain very badly.
Frank Tanner and Miss Bette Dreskill,

San Diego wants rain very badly.
Frank Tanner and Miss Bette Dreskill
of Austin, were married yesterday.
san JacintO Day is being very gene
rally celebrated throughout the State.
Work commenced on the Corpus Chris
Il end of the Arkansas Pass road yester-
day.
j. A. Goldstein, one of WacO's prOmi-
nent merchants, is on trial there for for
gerry.
Comptroller Swain and Treasurer Lub-
book have gone to San JaCintO it at
Dallas.
Ross opens his campaign for Governor,
and will commence swinging round the
circle May $.
A convention Of Opera-hOuse managers
for Texas and Arkansas meets at Fort
Worth May Il.
The Executive Committee of District
IS, Knights OF Labor, will convene in
Galveston to-day.
Mayor Broiles and the new Aldermen
took the oath of office at Fort Worth
yesterday evening.
Eighteen-hundred steel rails have ar
rived in the gulf from Perth-AmbOy for
the Arkansas Pass road.
Captain Remand Hotchkiss, survivor
of the battle of San JacintO, died at Pal
estine yesterday, aged g..
Two Mexican horse thieves were
lynched about 40 miles west of Corpus
Christi on Sunday morning.
The contract for grading the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe from Fort Worth
te GAINESVILLE was let yesterday.
J. A. Ball, of Denton county, is under
arrest at Mckinney, charged with en-
beZzling another mans money and wife.
Msnly, charged with killing Douglas,
in Laredo, was refused bail at Brown
vile yesterday by Judge Russell and
remanded to Jail.
The jury in the Henry Sickle murder
case, in Waxahachie, returned their YER
dict last night-murder in the first de-
gree and pententiary for life.
The Gulf, Colorado and Texas Rail-
road ia now thing of the past. The
stock has all been exchanged for Santa
Fe, and the Texas corporation dies.
Mining claims were filed by certain
parties on school section 81, block 6,
Texas and New Orleans survey. Speci-
!
paying quantities.
FL Paso has had shaking up among
the diZZy-courteZans, and one fallen sis
ter named Alice Abbott was fatally shot.
Alice was once the wife of a prominent
Louisville lawyer.
Cotulla, in this State. is making ship
ments of prickly pear to Tyler, where it
will be manufactured into rope and
paper. The first carload was billed
Monday by IL. Spohn & Co.
Dallas retired last night full of supper,
glory, enthusiasm and Veteran Assecia-
lion. San Jacinto Day dawned on the
big fair city in all its glory. OF the 400
members OF the Texas Veteran Associa-
ton about $50 are present.
The extension of the Fort Worth and
Denver railroad to Qusnah, in Hardeman
county, 80 miles from its present ter
minus, has been ordered. This road is
being extended southeast to Corslcana,
where it will connect with the Texas
Central.
Two Mexicans, Rez Martinez and Jose
Maria Cadena, left in charge of con-
stable at Collins, on Monday last, were
shot to death by masked party of seven,
who disarmed the constable Pursuit
was made, but the murderers were not
caught. 1t is an open question whether
they we're comrades Of the prisoners.
who feared a squeal, or whether they
were ranoher0s.
State Superintendent Baker has made
the following assignment of teachers as
principals of the summer normal schools
Beaumont, c. +. Johnston; Nacogdoches,
p. V. Pennybacker; Marshall, o. II.
Cooper; Atlanta, G. ii. Hobbs; Green
vile, Smith Ragsdale; Gilmer, w. J..
Lennon; Athens, G. W. Orr; Jewett, Ii.
+. Estell; Willis, IN. Gallagher; Colum-
bis, +. B. Smith; Gonzales, j. X. Dean;
Caldwell, Miss N. G. Breeding;
Flatonia, J. p Kennard; Bryan,
w. J. Croker; Mexia, A. +.
Hill; Dallas, Mrs. Ed. F. Warren; Nc
Kinney, Il. G.. Harris; Gainesville, j. r..
Hand; Seymour, B. NJ. Howard; Jacks
boro, c. A. Bryant; Hillsboro, J. NJ.
Carlisle; Waco, J. T.. Rogers; Lampasas,
Mrs. w. ID. House; Round Rock, Miss
Mamie Harrison; San Marcos, w. M.
Crow; Floresville, Miss Roxa Ray; Pear
sail, II. G. Pritchett; Fredericksburg, /.
ii. Bryant; Cisco, K. F. Comegys; Paris,