San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-18
STATE NEWS.

Travel to Laredo continues to in
crease.
A fire in Dallas on the 18th instant de-
strOyed two cottages.
Terrell has at last secured the com.
press.
Texas has twenty-tbree Y. M. c. asso.
Citations, all In active operations.
A lot Of fat mutton were sold the other
day at Del Rio, for $4 per head.
The young folks Of Francisco had q
leap year ball week ago.
A meeting of the Texas Loan agency
was held at Corsicana on the 10Th.
Coal mines are to be developed at
Eagle Springs.
The village Of Chanoyville wants in
corporation.
Bonham has the military fever.
The movement in cattle has fairly
commenced in the section round Edna.
CoDoho county cattle companies are
to have artesian wells sunk on their
ranches.
= DR.. J. M. Fry, of Elmo. was elected
president Of Texas State Poultry associ-
alton.
The capacity OF the roller flour mill to
be built by the st. Joe Milling Co., will
be 100 barrels daily.
Overton is on a boom, and the chill
dren there are rehearsing for May fes-
tival on large scale.
Final action in the matter of the
Arkansas Pass extension to Austin has
been postponed till May 1st.
1t is reported in San Angelo that the
troops at Fort ConchO will be moved to
Utah and Dakota Immediately.
The commissioners court, Travi,
county, awards contract for new Jail to
Lowell q Miller, of Brownwcod.
A canvas Of the legislature shows that
Coke has stronger following than all
his rivals combined.
A drove of $500 head Of cattle has
beer started from the Hash Knife ranch,
in Baylor county, for Montana.
A gentleman in Taylor has been killed
by falling with his horse against barbed
wire fence. He was literally cut to
pieces.
Fire has destroyed Mr.. John Thomp-
sons house In Crawford. Lose from
$500 to 1000.
There are reports that fine anthracite
coal has been struck at I.lano, and that
an artesiaa well has been bored, which
Is one half petroleum.
The Texas Capital Granite Co., with
q capital stock of $l,000,000, hes been
chartered to develope granite and mar
BILE quarries. establish manufactures,
etc.
The body OF Walter Knapp. who was
drowned in the South Bosque, has been
recovered.
A boy while trying to rope a mule
was thrown by the animal and the rope
became tangled round his neck and he
was strangled to death.
W. J. Bowder and Mrs. s. A Bateman
drove up In front of Squire Martins, Sun
day morning and had the marriage cere-
mony performed over them in the mid
die of the road at Rockwall.
During the thunderstorm at Browns
vile on Monday, a bolt of lightning
struck the cross on the top Of the ocn-
vent. splitting of the front of 1t. Itthen
glanced Of and fell In cornfield near
by.
Barney Neff has been arrested in Clar-
endon on the charge of stealing three
lottery tickets belonging to 81. c. Ram
say.
William E. Ellis, while out hunting at
San Angelo, slipped and fell, and his
gun struck the ground, and went of,
blowing the top of his head of.
The cooperative store at Cedar Hill,
Dallas, has been entered by burglars,
who blew the safe open with dynamite,
and got away with $l,050 and lot OF
notes.
Quite an excitement has been created
at Hitchcock by the attempt of man
named Hartman to murder Opitz, the
man with whom he was lodging.