San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-20
ghe Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE, 20,
STATE NEWS.

been organized.
Things political in Madisonville
county are red-hot.
Clarendon complains of being too
dry.
Subscriptions for the shell road
Houston are increasing.
Wedding is Texas principle indus
Try this year.
The State bankers association is in
session at Galveston.
Eagle Pass receives 1900 muttons
from Mexico for northern shipment.
Beeville holds meeting, and elects
delegates to the deep water conven-
ton at Fort Worth.
Live Oak county democracy want
F. H. Church as representative of the
S5th legislative district of this state.
The long talked of foot bridge across
the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass will
materialize very soon.
The Commercial Travellers Protect
i've association will meet in Fort
Worth July 4th.
The age of admission of law stu
dents in the State University, has been
raised from 16 to Is years.
Southern Pacific mails, through
Houston, have been delayed on ac-
count Of the washouts.
The Union Labor party is gaining
great foothold in Sunset among the
farmers.
Palo Pinto county gives 100 major
ity against local option in the recent
vote on the subject.
About so cars of fine beef cattle were
shipped from Henrietta to northern
markets during the past week.
Democratic convention of this con-
gressiOnal district is called to meet in
Taylor, probably about July 81.
Several stockmen will locate their
families at Midland this fall and win
ter for church and school privileges.
1t has rained at Columbus almost
necessarily for three days. The earth
is covered with water.
The WACO Light Infantry have ar
ranged for an exhibition drill and ball
on the 4th of July.
The Texas state convention of the
Christian church meets today in
Waco.
Much of the oats at Goldthwaite has
not been cut, owing to the scarcity of
the reapers.
Mr.. James Parsley, who lives on
Red River in DeKalb county, has been
seriously, and perhaps fatally beaten
near his nome, by unknown parties.
Notwithstanding the high express
charges, there is being shipped from
Decatur to Colorado large amount Of
fruit and vegetables.
Deputy Sheriff E. E. Taylor has ar
rested and jailed at Weatherford,
George Copeland and Frank Kirby,
cattle thieves.
Rev. A. A. Johnson, president Of
Texas Wesleyan college, Fort Worth,
| received the degree of doctor of divin-
! ity from the De PAW university,
Greencastle, Ind.
The United States court at Dallas
gives Julia A. Floyd $4,000 damages
against the Houston and Texas Cen
trail railroad for injuries sustained at
Richardson.
W. McCallum, justice of the peace
in Colorado, was badly bitten on the
| ankle by rattlesnake, but by the
application of soda and ammonia and
liberal rotations of whisky his life
was saved.
An attempt was made in Houston
Sunday night to burglarize the resi-
depce of Gus Warnecke. He was not
at home, but his sister, young lady
Of 10 UOt her hrOther'S niStOl and
opened fire, and the burglars de-
camped.
d. G. Kolp, secretary of an Iowa inn
migration society, has bought three
sections of land twenty-five miles west
of Wichita Falls, ON the Fort Worth
and Denver road, with the view OF
making a colony.
Prickly pear feeding in southern
Texas appears not to have been so pro-
fitable this past winter, owing to the
quantities of rain having hurt the
feeding qualities of the same.
Washouts on the Southern Pacific,
Orleans trains coming farther west
than Beaumont. No eastern mail since
Sunday.
| Annual commencement exercises OF
the State University are now in prog
ress. There are eight graduates in
the departments of arts, letters and
science, and twenty-eight in the de-
partment of law.
A Dallas duel between Louis La.
Salamier and Bob Wells is remark
able, from the fact that neither was
wounded, though they stood only