San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-27
STATE NEWS.

A street railway is organized at
BOnham.
Old Port Lavaca is looming up as a
summer resort.
Rain is needed at Au stin and sur
rounding country.
Waco has large importation of
bootblacks from Fort Worth.
Another newspaper will appear at
Corpus Christi early next month.
Abilene is fattered over the large
number of prospectors arriving there.
The ex-confederates had grand re-
union at Eastland Friday and Satur-
day.
John White shoots Mexican in
self defense, six miles west of Kauf-
man.
Thing manufactured at Athens is
pronounced equal, if not superior, to
fine brick.
A Tarrant county farmer claims 100
bushels as the product per acre of his
cOrnteld.
A German named Clotten, has been
arrested i'm London for threatening to
murder Gladstone.
The Commercial hotel, and two adj
joining cottages, are burned to the
ground at Marlin.
Waco is now practically without
waterwnrks. The contract is up with
the Waco Water company.
Cook county for the first time, put
her county cOnvicts to work on the
public roads this week.
The citizens of Callaghan county
want to have a grand barbecue at
Baird about September |.
Mr.. III. Stillbauer of Bremond, while
rounding up cattle near Reagan, was
injured by his horse falling on him.
A negro is captured at Tyler sup
posed to be the one who shot at Com
missioner Mitchell from ambush.
About 5000 people were present on
Wednesday at the laying of the court
house corner stone at Huntsville.
Jas. Cohellar sends President Cleve-
land IS pound water melon from
Omaha, Texas, which he raised him
self.
The insurance clerks and bank
clerks will cross bats tomorrow at
Dallas for the benefit of the Womans'
Exchange.
All the miners at Gordon, working
in the Johnson coal mine, have struck
on account of some of the hands being
discharged.
A new banking firm has been start
ed in Ell Paso under the name Of the
Merchants Exchange bank, capital
stock of 100000.
Tyler is full of people thronging to
the horticultural fair. One of the
finest displays of fruit ever shown in
Texas is exhibited.
The pasture fence of DR.. w. r..
Barnes, near Rockwell, has been re-
peatedly cut down lately by the
"Knights of the Nippers.'
Commissioner Foster states that
there are in the state 1,427 Judgment
orphans, under Is years of age, one
third Of whom are colored.
A dozen warrants are issued in Waco
for the arrest of as many young gen.
tlemen on charge of violating the sun
day law by base ball betting.
The pasture of Mr.. Waters at Ter
rell has been visited by wire cutters.
His long pasture fencing is cut in
more than hundred places.
John Leonard, conductor of a freight
train on the III. & II. c., is killed at
Navasota while switching train.
He had been in their employ for II
years.
Several special trains have arrived
at Sherman, bringing prospectors and
excursionists from Georgia, Alabama
and other states east of the MississiI pi
river.
Mr.. Abrams of the T. p. land office
at Dallas, is having prepared for the
exhibition at the fair, samples of
fruit raised on the line of the II. p,
and invites further exhibits from that
direction.
Charley Perkins laborer, shot and
killed seven fine mules, and one
horse belonging to Mrs. Moore, at
Rocky Comfort, II miles north of De
Kalb, valued at $1,000, because she
could notpay him $50 which she owed
him.
Mr.. A. NJ. Bruni, a wealthy mer-
chant of Laredo, has received two
pulsameter pumps, with capacity
Of 10000 gallons per hour each, and
a fifty horsepower boiler, with which
he will irrigate his farm 20 miles be-
low Laredo.
The oldest town in Texas, and it is
believed in the United States, is
Ysleta, on the Rio Grande, near Ell
Paso. 1t is we'll established his
torlcal fact that Spanish military ex-