San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
mbe SAN ANTONIO TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 3D. 1885,
STATE NEWS.

SOtUOn Is very udChWdIu dp Il ar
field.
Rhome's thermometer has registered
1O4 degrees in the shade.
Heavy rains are falling at San An
gelo, with no prospects of stopping.
A switchman ON the International
at Laredo is severely bitten by
dog.
The proposed ten months school at
Longview is voted down by Is ma
jority.
The friends of protection in Hamil-
ton have organized Protective Tar
iff club.
The Bernard river has not been as
high at Columbia in AZ years as at
present.
The extension of the Sante Fee road
to San Angelo is being pushed as fast
as possible.
The Hill County Medical and Surgi-
cal association has been converting at
Hillsboro.
The railroad surveying corps is near
ing Beeville. They were in yesterday
to lay in supplies.
There are still about 10000 pounds
of wool at Colorado and a heavy buyer
is anxiously looked for.
Grading is commenced at Wayne
on the North Texas Land and Timber
company's Log railroad.
The Chautauqua assembly at San
Marcos is augmented day by day by
many visitors and workers.
The work of boring the artesian well
on the court house square Gainesville,
will probably be abandoned.
Doans has had fine rain which as
sures one of the largest corn crops
ever raised there since farming began.
Cattle at Doans are in fine condition,
and shipments are made all the time,
although there is complaint of low
prices.
Two men, Speers and Nolan, are
jailed on charge of horse theft from
Halsell's pasture, about miles from
Graham.
Business of all kinds is improving at
Abilene, and the effect of good crops
on the trade of the town is beginning
to be felt.
Mr.. Nolan Bond, near Garvin, is &C
cidentally shot in the arm by little
boy who was handling an old pistol
supposed to be harmless.
The first train load of Texas coal
ever used for commercial purposes has
been received at Fort Worth from
Newcastle, Erath county.
A colony of the religious sect called
Dunkards, have purchased $500 acres
of land on Bray's Bayou, near Hous-
ton, and propose to settle there.
A heavy rain at Denton is flooding
the streets, alleys and waterways. A
child was washed off it's feet and
drowned in one of the waterways.
Stephenville is waiting anxiously
and patiently to hear some faint
sound of the rumbling of the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande railroad from
Granbury.
A shooting ARRAY took place last
Saturday near Giles academy, Delta
county. John Brooks and Ward were
the actors. The latter is seriously
wounded.
Young Walter Dove, of Corpus Chris
ii, is shot and instantly killed by
Martin Woesner. The cause is not
known. The boys have always been
the best of friends.
Tom P. Varnell gives the biggest
bond ever given in the state, good for
100000 for his appearance at the next
term of district court, Hillsboro, for
the murder of Jonas Lard.
The school board of Dallas has let
the contract to the Sidney Furniture
company of Sidney, Ohio, for the fur
niture and supplies of the new Harri-
son street school building.
A bold attempt at robbery and out
rage was made last Tuesday in the
small hours at Galveston, at the
house of a working man, corner of
Avenue N and 10Th street, by an I'M
known person.
A white boy, Will Overstreet, a
prisoner at Fairfield, kills another
prisoner, a colored boy, named John
Peyton, alleging that the negro
cursed him, and tried to drink out of
his cup.