San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-28
STATE NEWS.

Winter ia still In Groesbeck, with pros
poet OF sleet or snow.
Laredo is to have Sir Thomas Grattan
Esmonde.
The oloudburst at Longview on Sum-
day wss most disastrous.
The rain storm In Paris on Sunday
was the heaviest Of the season.
There ia too much rain in Taylor for
the farming interests.
The closing exercises of the public
schoolat Wellborn took place last Friday
night.
A large force OF graders at Sherman
have begun preparations for the exten-
sive stock pens.
One Of the heaviest, and most destruc-
tive rain and wind storms struck Jeffer-
son on Sunday.
Capt. William Scott has left San An
gelo to establish headquarters at Balm
ger.
A joint stock company has been Or
gaDiZed at Carrigo Springs to publish q
paper to be called Javelina.
Temple is making active preparations
for the entertainment of the Texas Vet
eran association.
Harry Watkins, the cowboy speaker,
and reformed drunkard, has been giving
his experiences In Victoria; from there
be went to Floresvillc.
The Rutherford Rangers OF Houston
and they are practicing for it three times
q week.
The Jail at Canton caught fire on
hnf no IA
soon subdued. Three prisoners e.
capped.
Col. c. C. Poole, OF the Main Concho
Land Co., says he will ship $500 steers
and 1900 COWS to the Nation from bis
Borden county rancho.
The Knights Of Pythias In Hillsboro.
confer the third degree tonight, and
have got up fine parapherDalia for the
purpose.
The cattle men OF Wichita and adjoin-
! ing counties met in Wichita Falls last
Saturday for the purpose of organizing
the spring roundup.
The Kentucky Cattle company OF
Colorado have imported 100 head of
thoroughbred bulls from Illinois. They
! are said to be the finest ever brought to
Texas.
committee has arranged an active oam-
psign in behalf Of the settlement and
development Of Wheeler.
An old gentleman while lying asleep
at the hotel at Pilot Point, was robbed
OF 1874 10 gold, silver and currency, =
few nights ago.
An old unknown man dropped dead
on Monday In Houston, near the Cross
ing Of the Texas and New Orleans, and
the Houston East and West Texas rail-
roads.
The annual reunion of Star State No.
league, composed Of survivors OF the
former volunteer fire department., was
held Monday at the Giradin House. Gal
weston, and was the occasion OF feast
and fellowship.
A terrible windstOrm at Marshall on
Sunday, did considerable damage to
shade trees, fences, and several build
ings, and the heaviest rain OF the season
fell.
The children OF the Sessums have so
far recovered from their attempted pois-
oning by one or the other OF their par
ents, that they have been out on the
streets.
Excursions VIII be run by the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande railroad the first
Sunday In each month until further no.
tice, between Fort Worth and Granbury,
beginning next Sunday.
The directors of the Waco and Brazos
river railroad held a meeting in Waco on
Monday, and Friday a delegate from
Waco will 60 to Cameron to perfect the
railroad contract with the citizens Of
that town.
The president OF the immigration So
ciety informs the reporter OF the Laredo
Times, that Mr.. E. II. Ropes, represent
alive of the American Magazine, will
shortly arrive in Laredo to give the city
an illustrated writeup In that journal.
She is at Home.