San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-14
STATE NEWS.

| option June s.
Terrell is booked for d speech ut Fort
Worth Saturday.
Wichita county complains Of short
| Oat crop owing to drOuth.
Hopkins county joins the ranks OF
those who cry more rain.
Waco fire department was unrepre-
sented in the State convention.
The Clark Creek Crab Canning Fac
! tory is a new Houston industry.
The Garrison hotel will be rebuilt by
August 10. Contract has been let.
Trinity, Brazos and Washington
| County Sherifls advertise stolen horses.
Grading on the Abeline and San An
CELLO road will commence Immediately.
Wool receipts at Abeline are increds-
ing, and prices are good, 10 to 20 cents.
Brennan county is well along with
its farm work, and crop prospects are
good.
j. S. Price has sued the Espuella Cat
tie company for $4,000, breach OF con-
tract.
The State Alliance will be called upon
to settle the question OF politics III the
local alliances.
Parsons Seminary is calling for first
class principal to take charge of the
school this fall.
The new $4,000 courthouse of Ander-
son County. has been accepted by the
Commissioners.
The Newly refrigerator went mp the
flume Wednesday by the spontaneous
combustion route
Josh Jackson, another perjurer IN the
.l,. Dol
goes up for six years.
Vernon and Wellbarger counties are
ENJOYING boom that appears TO have
good staying qualities.
Vernon. Travis county, reports Their
mOmeter IS in the shade and several
cases of prOstratiOn by heat.
DIR. Briggs, of Galveston, prenches the
baccalaurpate sermon at the University
commencement. June BIG.
GAINESVILLE is arranging for her pri-
mary elections; the County Alliance is
the bugbear OF the office seekers.
The taxable property Of FL Paso is
$4,000, 600. and the vote to bond for
sewer construction was unanimous.
Prof. Smith Ragsdale, candidate for
State Superintendent OF public schools,
is in Austin looking after his fences.
The attendance at the firemens' tour
nament, Gainesville, is small, owing to
the refusal of the railways to give passes.
An Express Messenger. on the MeXi-
can National between Laredo and Sal
tiIlo, has b9en arrested for smuggling a
lot of calico.
Prof. Phillips. of Austin, is charged
with aggravated assault and battery
for having too severely whipped little
cOlOred pupil.
The contractors for the Dallas and
Greenville road failing to come 10 time,
}. F. O'COnnOr & Co., of Dallas, have
taken the job.
The Fort Worth and Denver City rail-
way ask from Vernon u bonus OF 100
acres of land, right-of-way for eight
miles and $4,000.
Judge Evans has been empowered TO
settle with Mary A. Newcomb for the
McLennan county school lands in East
land county; price, $4,000.
DR.. Ansell Is charged by the Fort
Worth grand jury with perjury while
testifying before that body as 10 his at
tendance upon the wounded strikers
April 3.
Lieutenant Davis. of the Fifteenth
united states 1nlanlrS, anu MISE
Pauline. sister of Editor Paul Hart, of
the FL Paso Times, were married We'd
nesday.
Houston has too much married man
in the person Of AdOlphe Kasselberg,
who skipped the town last night on
learning that his wife was en- route from
New York.
Three cOnvicts. employed at the Kan
sas and Gulf Short Line coalng station,
near Alto. made good their escape
Wednesday night, taking one of the
guards guns.
The Scotch granite cutters at Burnet
are terribly disconnected, and bitter
feelings and hOmesickness are cropping
out everywhere. They claim that Berry
deceived them.
The Grand COmmandry, in session at
Corsicana, elected officers last evening
as follows: Il. A. Lubbock. Right Emf
neat Commander; John A. johnson, Vice
Eminent Deputy Grand Commander;
Charles Davis, Eminent Grand Generals
simo, John Martin, Eminent Grand
Captain General; J. c. Carpenter, Emil
nent Grand Prelate; T. p. Hawley. Emf
nent Grand Senior Warden; l.. NJ. Knep
ley, Eminent Grand Junior Warden;
Henry Sherflers, Eminent Grand Treas
urer, Robert Brewster, Eminent Grand
Recorder.