San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-15
STATE NEWS.

At Bryan is the 18th annual meet
ing the state grange.
The Erath County Fair has filed its
charter.
Martin Woessner of Corpus Christi
has been released on 3, 900 bond.
Only seven prisoners are in the Jail
of Johnson county.
A meeting has been called at Vic
tOria TO elect delegates TO the Denver
deep water convention.
The first grand democratic rally in
Tarrant county will take place at
Mansfiel on Saturday.
Mangum, Greer county, was visited
Saturday night by terrific wind
storm, which blew down some houses.
The governor, attorney general
and secretary of state have left Aus
tin for Dallas.
Il. J. Parrish fell from the ratters
at the pavilion in Fort Worth and
had compound fracture of the ankle.
The safe of the Texas Express Co.,
at Whitewright, has been robbed of
S111.50.
Twenty-four bushels of wheat and
fifty-five of oats to the acre have been
raised in Hardeman county.
There was Farmers Alliance pic
mic at Greenbriar, near Lewisville,
last Friday.
The Fort Worth and Denver is i'm
proving the stock shipping facilities
all along the line, in anticipation of
heavy business.
DR.. w. F. Buck of Pecos City, has
committed suicide by cutting his jugu-
Pecos City some time ago.
Harry Stanford, an old citizen liv-
idg near Brazos Point, fell in his cellar
and received injuries that will prove
fatal.
A Geographic order has been re-
ceived at Laredo for 80 blocks of I'M
improved Laredo property, showing
that the Laredo boom is heard of a
long way off.
An attempt was made in Fort
Worth to burglarize the store of w.
GOldstein, but the burglars were
frightened away by an alarm of fire
and tiremen coming up the street.
State Health Officer Rutherford,
who is at Lampasas Springs, today
telegraphed the governor that the re-
port of yellow fever at TeXarkana is
false.
The commissioners court of Gle
burne have allowed old Asa Billiard,
who has reached the age of 100 years,
a pension of s. per month.
The Cisco Roundup will issue a
special addition of 10, 900 copies on the
first of October for distribution at the
Dallas State Fair.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over Kyle on Monday, which at one
time looked as if it would devastate
the whole place.
Mrs. Harris, the wife of tenant on
the farm of Mr.. NJ. B. Sadler,
McKennan county, has been terribly
gored by COW, whose sharp horns
laid open her hip to the bone. She
has small chance of recovery.
DIR. G. H. Huddle, of Paris, has mar
ried his divorced wife, Mrs. Alice f.
Norris. They had been separated
about two years, but met, woOed and
were welded again.
At the Tennessee colony, Palestine,
Ed. Ross, colored, who had been
separated from his wife, demanded
that she should return and live with
him. On the woman's refusing, Ross
drew a sixshooter, and fired on her,
shooting her eye completely out.
Sixty three head of cattle belonging
to Sellars & Harris, of Tredell, are
found lying dead in pasture, sup
posed to have been poisoned from
drinking the water from an old dip
ping vat in which Cooper's sheep dip
was recently used.
An italian employee of Sitterl's
saloon, Victoria, while intoxicated,
fell off a gallery to the street below, a
distance of 20 feet, but with the pro-
verbal luck of drunken men and
babies, escaped with slight injuries.
Mr.. D. H. Hart, clerk of the u. S.
court in Austin, whose fence in Milan
county was recently cut, received the
following, "You will please leave this
gate unlocked, or you will get your
id wire cut, yours as ever' (signed)
TEXAS COWBOYS, OR WIRECUTUERS.