San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-23
STATE NEWS.


The Methodists have begun to build
their $40, 900 church at Paris.
A citizen of Waco is arrested for
making assault on married lady.
The Texas Press Association held a
meeting in Galveston last Saturday.
Gordon w. Shanklin, an old Texas
settler dies at Bolton in his ninetieth
year.
Two young men at Mt. Pleasant ARE
imprisoned 20 days for carrying
pistols.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
undation of the railroad bridge at
Ballinger.
At Colorado in the last two days,
$4,000 pounds of wool have been sold
at good prices.
Within q mile of Cisco a coal mine
is being worked that has five foot
vein of fair coal.
The closing exercises of the Bellevue
school occupied two days and were
largely attended.
The Ell Paso Browns beat the Las
recent game of 6 to 8.
Miss Jennie Diffy, young lady of
Hillsboro, is adjudged insane. and
sent to Terrell asylum.
A grass widows club is started at
Eagle Pass, with regular meetings
seven nights in the week.
Gen. Juan A. Hernandez, of the
Mexican army. is in Ell Paso. He was
given banquet at Fort Bliss.
The Louisiana Oil and Mining Co.
have been sinking another well in
Nacodoches, with great success.
Miss Maude Burleson, sister of the
Fort Worth Gazette correspondent at
Waco is dead of malarial fever.
Cuero is dull and dusty, the weather
warm and dry, but good for the grow
ing cotton, which is doing finely.
A committee of five is appointed by
the Board of Trade, Corpus Christi, to
select delegates to the deep water con-
vention at Denver.
A syndicate is formed in Laredo,
of citizens, and outside capitalists, for
the purpose of buying all the vacant
blocks from the city.
John Lisle, of Garlic Springs, adj
vertises in his local paper for wife,
applicants to write, giving age, sex
and previous condition.
DR.. F. A. Thompkins, a prominent
physician of Sandy Point Is danger
ously shot by man named Dick Day,
who was arrested and Jailed.
The little 13-year-old daughter of
blind widow lady at Dallas is run
over, and seriously injured by a
horse and buggy driven by Mr.. Jim
McCullock.
William Testard, of Gonzales,
charged with murder, is found guilty
in the second degree and sentenced to
% years imprisonment. An appeal
will be taken.
Mr.. B. Barrow brought into Beau
mont the scalp of wolf half grown.
While rounding up cattle, he saw
four wolves, but only succeeded in
killing this.
J. r. Rushing, living in the north
ern part Of Brownwood, kills Albert
Moore, his brother-in-law, for alleged
criminal intimacy with his daughter,
who is also Moore's neice.
The wife of w. L. Cain, of Tyler
finding a negro burglar in the house,
armed herself with sixshooter and
held him at the point of it, until her
husband could arrive with officers.
Jose F. Brosig, mayor of New Lare-
do, is arrested by an order from the
City of Mexico. 1t is reported that
several of the aldermen are to be AZ
rested. The cause is not made public.
A conductor on the NJ. P. receives
at Denison warning of train robbers
who would be likely to meet him at
Armstrong tank. Everybody was ON
the defensive, and when the train was
met by the robbers, they were speedi-
ly put to fight.
Mr.. A. n. Staniels, of Lake Creek,
Nueces canyon, went to light fire,
when the match which she Lit ignited
with flying spark, q five gallon
pump of oil. The house was soon in a
blaze. Her husband rushed in and
managed to drag her out. Their little
child was burnt to ashes.
AS young white woman at Austin
was leading horse to the river, a
negro called out to her to halt, which
caused her to run in apprehension of
assault. He fred at her, but missed.
She escaped home. The negro has
not yet been caught.
Miss Bridget Griffen, an operative
in the Blankenship & Blake factory,
Fort Worth came near being killed
by her dress. being caught in the
machinery. By the pluck of Miss
Bessie Gouger who tore her away