San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-17
STATE NEWS.

Dallas has Tippecanoe club.
There are several cases of measles
in Eagle Pass.
The Sunset has shipped carload
of chickens to Denver.
Miss Annie Richardson, of Waco,
elopes with Mr.. Ed. Moore.
Conrad Jackson was hanged yester-
day in Waco.
The Santa Fe will be completed to
San Angelo by the first of September.
White & LennoX, of Gainesville,
furniture dealers, are closed by at
tachment.
The Cleveland and Thurman club
held a ratification meeting in Fort
Worth last night.
The Galveston League association
has secured J. Behan, Of the New Or
leans team.
Dick Flemming, recently from Lon
don, Eng, dies at Texarkana from
sunstroke.
Large capitalists from Chicago have
been in Mt. Pleasant prospecting and
testing the coal mines.
The Jumbo Cattle company shipped
20 carloads of fat beeves to Chicago
from Colorado yesterday.
The farmers and laborers' conven-
ton met in the courthouse, Bastrop,
Saturday.
Thirty carloads of cattle were ship
ped yesterday from Corpus Christi by
the Texas Land and Cattle company.
Two heavy freight trains collided at
Longview. The engines were fear
fully torn up. No lives lost.
Col. G.. c. Fitzgerald, of Ell Paso, has
completed in st. Louis solid, strong
organization of his international smell
ter concern.
Crowds from Georgetown have been
attending the camp-meeting at Round
Rock, which is conducted by the
cowboy preacher"
A track velocipede ran into a gang
of section men near the depot at Eagle
Pass on Saturday, and injured two of
them painfully.
No rain at Bastrop for week. The
farmers are taking advantage of the
weather to work their cotton, pull
fodder and save sorghum.
Matters in shipping circles have
been quiet in Corpus Christi for the
past week, but hotels and hackmen
have been doing a flourishing bust
ness.
The st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
railroad are putting up a large water
| tank on their track near the compress
building at Hillsboro.
A stock train ran Off the track 20
| miles east of Texarkana, completely
smashing IL cars, fatally injuring the
| engineer and killing and manning
several hundred cattle.
The sheriff at Sulphur Springs re-
ceived telegram from CarrolPs Prai-
rie, stating that a young man named
Gambline had just been killed near
there. The sheriff with bloodhounds
is out after the murderer.
Mrs. Lucretia Martin, of Willow
Hole, Madison county, gave her grand
child of a year and a half old dose
of morphine by mistake for quinine,
and it died before medical aid could
reach it.
| In consequence of a washout on the
| Fort Worth and Denver road, the
north bound passenger is precipitated
through a bridge near Clarendon, and
the engineer and fireman killed. No
passengers injured.
Mr.. VIM. Sears, thrifty farmer of
Blooming Grove is killed by his self
binder passing over him, and man
Cling him fearfully.
Rainey Carter, colored, is arrested
in Fort Worth, having in his posses
sion pearl-handled pistol that was
stolen from the Lindell hotel some
two weeks ago.
| B. X. Sweat and Richard Green, Of
Texarkana, who were crippled last
March in attempting to board T. P.
train, have brought suit for $4,000
damages.
The negro church at Smithville is
the scene of row. Ned Wilson ad-
vanced within four feet of the preach
er Ben White, and fired four times,
failing to hit. The preacher then
drew knife and cut Wilson nine
times.
| Ho! For the Sea.
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