San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-12
STATE NEWS.

The bayou, Houston, is ON a big
rise.
Farmersville is having too much
rain.
There is considerable sickness in
Brennan.
The cotton compress at Yoakum, is
nearing completion.
The Sweetwater mill and Gin COM
pany have organized.
A brakeman at Jonesville, is killed
while making a coupling.
Preparations for the Taylor county
fair are rapidly going on.
The Central Texas NJ edical associa-
ton assembled Tuesday, in Waco.
A new federal building is immedi-
ately to be commenced in Ell PasO.
Col. C c. Galloway, vice-president
of the Citizens bank, of jefferson, is
dead.
Fourteen young men were arrested
in west Dallas, Sunday, for disturbing
the peace.
A grand fish fry picnic, and politi-
cal speaking will take place at Vino
ma, on the 18th.
A Mexican laborer employed by the
Southern Pacific at Del Rio, is killed
by the switch engine.
West was visited on Tuesday with
the heaviest rain of the season, doing
great damage to crops.
The New Orleans Team cross bats
With hn cn1 x1yi,H
up the ground with them.
The court house excitement has
broken out afresh. MeXia's prospects
are getting better every day.
The building boom at Sulphur
Springs continues. Contractors can
not keep up with their work.
Tom Stewart, former railroader
and mechanic, has lost his life in
Houston by being RIM over by freight
train.
Wheat threshing is the order of the
day at Gatesville. Wheat is turning
out larger yield per acre than ever
before.
Two members of the notorious Nc
Dade gang, of Waller county, have
been in Austin. Their movements
are closely watched.
The farmers of Graham are at loss
what to do with their grain. The
heaviest crop ever raised in the coun-
ty Is on hand, and no mill to grind it.
The little son of James Sacre, of
Gainesville, fell off high fence and
broke his neck at OakIands, I. T.,
where they were spending vacation
on their ranch.
The last of the yachts that partic-
ipated in last weeks regatta has
hoisted sail and left Corpus Christi
yesterday morning.
Judge Dibbrell, of the peniten tiary
board, after general inspection, says
he is highly pleased with the pros
poets of the prison industries.
A tussle occurs at Linden, between
E. C. Greene, editor of the Queen City
Herald, and G. A. Kessler, editor of
the Cass County Sun, over a political
assertion published by the latter.
W.. C. Sparks, farmer near Mount
Pleasant, plowed up skeleton, sup
posed to be the bones of an Indian, as
he found pieces Of pottery near by.
The Railroad Station Agents asso-
citation, representing all the railroad
interests of the state, in session at
Waco have appointed their officers.
A bloody fight takes place in the
water at TayIor's bayou, Harris coun-
ty, between Harvey Walker and the
youngest of the Alverson brothers, in
which the latter was badly beaten
up.
The work of removing the ruins of
the opera house Ell Paso has COM
menced. The owner has not decided
whether to rebuild the whole struc-
ture as before for theatrical purpose,
or to make two-story store room out
of it.
Captain Atkinson has paid to Mrs.
Charles Herb, widow Of the late Pro-
lessor Herb, the sum of Sc, 1000 in settle
ment for any damage suit which
might be instituted by his estate
against the Navigation company.
The accident which cost Prof. Herb
his life occurred to the company's
barges while returning from the
Volksfest.