San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-09
STATE NEWS.

Lockh8rt Is to have street railway.
Live Oaks crop prospects are good.
The Episcopal church at Cuers Is soon
to have a clergyman.
Farmers generally in Lamar county
are done corn planting.
The electric light building at Denison
was destroyed by fire few days ago.
Such heavy rain fell in Omaha, that
1t stopped farm work for few days.
Bosque county sheepmen we're never
more prosperous.
$65, 900 have been so far raised for the
Arkansas Pass at Austin.
Telephone will be erected from Center
to Teneto.
Vernon is having good substantial
building boom this spring.
Collinsville is full of happy farmers.
Shooting ARRAY at Dangerfield in a
saloon. No serious damage done.
The weather in Giddings is excellent
for farmers.
DeRison's stone and sand qusrries
add thousands Of dollars to the trade
every month.
The municipal election in Queen City
was very exciting. There were three
candidates for mayor.
Dave Mitchell. q colored barber at
Sulphur Springs, was shot while stand
ing before his looking glass.
The Corsicana iron foundry has just
opened, and is now under full blast with
plenty of contracts On hand.
Colonel Evans Jones, president of the
State Farmers alliance, has lectured In
Abilene to large numbers.
Everything looks beautiful at Henri
eta. Grass Ia growing rapidly, and
horses and cattle are fast becoming fat.
A new station and section house is
being built at Carrollton, which in due
time will be quite business place.
Terrell farmers are jubilant. Mr..
Stephens is working up the electric
light plant interest there.
Valuable leads have been found
among the mineral hills Of Montell in
Uvalde.
The spring clip of Webb and Encinal
counties will 60 over I,0O0, 900 pounds.
John Vsnnoy of Temple has been shot
by his partner, j. Chesthsm. The exact
cause Of the trouble is as yet unknown.
Rains have been. general through
Archer, and at present the soil is In bet
ter condition than 1t has been for years
Marion county should send a suitable
exhibit to the Texas state fair, as it will
be splendid opportunity to advertise
her iron ore.
The Mesquite Debating society meets
every Wednesday night. A base ball
club is soon to be organized there.
The miners of the johnson coal mines.
rs miles north OF Stephenville, are great
ly excited over the report that their
places are to be filled by convicts.
Kennedy Porter, son of Ex-Governor
Porter, was shot and fatally wounded at
Paris by Will Edmonds, on account of
the formers attentions to his sister.
The vote for a tax of 40 cents on the
500 valuation OF property for the pur-
pose of paying interest on school bonds
has been carried in Kerrvile.
The mysterious disappearance of Rob-
ert Deguire, a citizen of Alexander, who
has been missing since the night of March
%, has caused considerable excitement.
Weaver Bros. & Perry, the north
Texas stOckmen, have just bought 1000
two and three-year-old steers from Bee
county stockmen.
1t has been decided to build water
works for the county Jail in Waco. as
owing to deficiency in the wind mill
which supplied the prisoners there, was
quite water famine few days ago.
While out boating at Leonora two
men were capsized with their guns and
fishing tackle, and became sntangled so
that they were nearly drowned. A man
passing with . trained Newfoundland
dog sent him in after them, and they
were rescued.