San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-07
STATE NEWS.

Ounce WllkerS0n murders VIII
Blake at Holland.
The Nations hotel at Beeville is re-
ceiving more additions.
New cotton is coming in at Yoakum,
several bales day.
The weather at Halletsville is hot
and dry, and rain would do much
good.
The Waxahachie Commercial club
has filed charter with the secretary of
| state.
Harry Wallace, a notorious burglar
| is brought to Sherman and tried for
em5ezzement, and convicted.
The colored people of Washington
county held grand emancipation
celebration at Brennan on Friday.
Judging from present outlook the
cotton crop in Fort Bend county
this year will aggregate not less than
10000 bales.
The amateur brass band of Laredo
has secured subscription which in
sures music on the church plaza two
nights in the week.
J. J. Keith, fireman ON the South
ern Pacific road, was badly mangled
between two cars in a freight train,
near Alleyton, yesterday morning.
Reinhardt Dick, an old and respect
ed citizen of Columbus, who emigrated
to Texas from Cologne on the Rhine,
has just died.
DR.. Deree, the geologist has discov-
cred an ineXhaustible quarry of rock
near Laredo, which will produce a ce-
ment equal to the Rosedale brand.
The league schedule committee met
in Houston Saturday and is at work
arranging a new schedule to 60 into
effect on the Goth.
The challenge cup for southwest
Texas base ball players, is a hand
some silver one. 1t was given by the
c.. B. F...and S. NJ. T. societies, through
! A. w. Harrison, on their - anniver-
sary.
The Coryell county democratic con-
ventiOn has passed a resolution to
support no man for legislature who
does not pledge himself to Richard
Coke for national congress.
Major Stanley NJ. Jones has COM
pleted the maps of the Cattle Trail
railroad from Albany to Mason, and
they present line second to none in
! Texas.
While playing on the frame of a
building in course of construction, the
little daughter of r. G. Brown of
Rusk, fell and was painfully hurt,
AMI also had her wrist broken.
A soldier of company E, 10th infan-
try, EN- route to Fort Clarke, from
Ringgold barracks attempted to swim
the Rio Grande, and was drowned,
Saturday night.
J. NJ. Rice, the head plasterer who
disappeared from Waco with $500
given him by J. f. Stone, to pay the
hotel, is still missing.
Mr.. Joe Gunter of Dallas, has in his
office cows horn, Is inches in diam
eter, the largest ever seen in that
part of the country.
Jerry mccarthy, of Yoakum, who
was shot in the head in an alteration
with DR.. Wilson, July l, will recover,
with the loss of one eye.
A flat boat man coming down the
! Bed river, brings news of a horrible
tragedy discovered last Thursday. 40
miles above DenisOn. Near the mar
gin of the stream were the murdered
| bodies of q man, woman, and
child. There is no clue to the perpe-
| traitors.
J. c. Lane, express agent at Big
Springs, made an attempt to escape
into Mexico, after having extracted
$1,000 from an express package, adj
dressed to J. G.. Smith, after having
forged the latter's name in a receipt
for the sum. He was arrested in Ell
! PaSo.
A clerk of Charles Scheuber & Co.,
liquor dealers, Fort Worth, lit a
match to look at a brand on a barrel,
the match fell into the alcohol and
! ignlted it, causing fire with a loss
on the stock of 5000, fully insured.
A man named James Kelly, regis
tered at the fremont house, Hous-
ton, from Dallas, enters the room Of
Mr.. p. r. Neusum, u guest in the
! house, and attempts to rob him, but
Mr.. Neusum Overcame him, and call
ing others to his help, they took the
thief to the police station.
Charles Perkins, alias Wilson, the
desperate, who killed seven mules
and one horse in the Choctaw nation,
shot and killed two U. S. marshals
and one citizen while resisting arrest,
along the Red river. He swears he
will never be taken alive. He is still
at large.
A big scheme engineered by lead
ing business men of DenisOn and
| sherman has come IN lipht The