San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-26
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quest, and heartily second the nomi-
nation of Benjamin Harrison. PRO
longed applause.)
STATE NEWS.

Public school at Refugio is closed.
A democratic club is organized at
Hamilton.
The slaughter of dogs will COM
mence in Houston, July 1st.
A young son of Major w. H. Crank
is drowned in the bayou at Houston.
The yacht Falcon leaves Galveston
for Corpus Christi to enter the regatta.
Rockport will have regatta and
sham naval battle on the 9th of July.
Gov. A. c. Hunt has put in Market
hal, Laredo, group of electric lights.
A large number of land hunters
from the north have been prospecting
in Richmond.
Recent visitors to Karnes county re-
turn with glowing accounts about the
cotton in that section.
DIR. Ditzler, of the NJ. Z. church, has
been delivering series of sermons to
crowded houses in Llano.
Severe rainstorm. accompanied by
heavy wind makes a rumpus in Cisco.
Several houses were blown down.
The government post at Del Rio is
virtually abandoned for the present,
there being mere squad of men left.
General Lew Wallace. of Indiana,
says the speech of E. H. Terrell, of
Texas, was the best of all the Harri-
son speeches made in convention.
In 1882 Llano county raised two
bales of cotton to the acre. The pres
ent crop prospect is as fiattering as in
1882.
The state capitol contractor has
commenced excavations around the
building for pipes to drain the base
ment.
The court house, nearing its compile
ton at Del Rio, is one of the hand
soonest and most substantial in west
Texas.
From Mr.. Harry Johnson's orchard,
in Del Rio, several thousand boxes of
fruit have been shipped at satisfac-
tory prices.
The Maxwell grant company have
now bought up about $4,000 head of
cattle. About 70 per cent are located
on the grant.
A movement is on foot in LlanO to
secure an extension of the Arkansas
Pass road from Comfort and Freder-
icksburg to that place.
Eagle Pass is still steadily improv-
ing; several new buildings have gone
up. The people are much alive to the
irrigation scheme.
James p. Clevenger, the murderer
in last December, of Jones Moore, in
Nacogdoches, for whose capture a
large reward has been offered, is
caught.
Two negro boys raided a melon
patch at Victoria few nights ago,
and each now wears internally load
of buckshOt as a memento of the occa-
sion.
The debris of the ntral freight de-
pot in Corsicana, lately destroyed by
fire, are cleared away, and work on
the new one will be commenced.
Mayor George Bursch arrests in
Calvert two men thought to have
stolen cattle in Falls county. Parties
from Falls come in and identify them
and the stolen property.
The lone highwayman again sue
cessfully holds up a stage short dis
lance from Ballinger. There were
secured over 500.
MI. leo. west mas moved from he
fugio another herd of 700 beeves. He
ships by the S. A. p. from San Patri-
clio county. Chicago is said to be the
destination of the cattle.
The hail storm of some weeks ago
completely destroyed the small melon
patches about Refugio, consequently
that fruit though beginning to come
in is not plentiful.
The people of Bracket are very
hopeful over the products of bounti-
full crop. Several cattle sales at
quite remunerative prices have also
been made there. ....
Yesterday morning during heavy
thunder storm at Eagle Pass, the
large warehouse of the Waters Pierce
company was struck by lightning and
instantly ignited. About three car
loads of oil were consumed. Total loss
s., 800. No insurance.
Dennison Silas is found at Omaha
in a dying condition from his skull
having been broken, either by a stroke
of violence or by some mysterious ac-
cident, and died from the effects of his
wound.
Local Military Buildings.