San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-13
STATE NEWS.

shipments OF cattle and sheep were
heavy at Abilene last week.
The ladies of Paris propose to fur
nish free reading room.
The Sanchez murder cases come up
for trial at Eagle Pass today.
Uvalde will barbecue and other
wise celebrate the 4th of July.
A good soaking rain has fallen at
Canadian and crops are assured.
Gen. John NJ. Claiborne, of Calves
ton, takes charge of the Farmers AL
lance at Dallas.
The little village of Kernes is again
excited over the prospects of a new
railway.
The revenues of the Paris postoffice
for the year ending May 81, reached
Sl0,76O.
County commissioners court is in
session at Beeville, as board Of
EQUALIZATION.
Grand jury at Laredo returns bills
against all the parties connected with
the Express rObberies.
The continued rainy weather is Civ
ing the farmers the blues around Aus
tin.
The business of SAP at Beeville, is
more than double than what it was
last year.
A fine rain has fallen in San Saba,
securing the corn crops, which will be
the largest since 1873.
Yesterday was the great wool sale
day of the sheepmen of Coryell and
Hamilton counties at Gainesville.
The 18th annual convocation of the
Protestant Episcopal church in north
ern Texas convenes in Dallas today.
Negotiations are on foot for free
bridge over the San Antonio river be-
tween Victoria and Refugio.
Ponciano Cara tried to commit sui
eide in Brownsville by shooting him
self in the chest, but he will probably
survive.
The drill board reports to the stock
holders in the interstate drill are, re-
ceipts S69,3SO, and expenditures $685.
900.
A quiet old colored man, named
Pete Walter, of Canton, was called to
his door and shot. then his body was
dragged out into the yard.
Kyle, with population of seven CT
eight hundred, has splendid system
of water works and one of the best fire
companies in the state.
The estate of be Ash, of Palestine,
valued ar $50, 900, all made in Pales-
line, was equally divided yesterday
between the widow and only son.
A contract has been written, and
will probably be signed, by which the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass rail-
way company will purchase the Waco
and Brazos Valley railroad.
The rooms of the Texas State &c
logical and Scientific association
the cotton exchange, Houston, open
yesterday. Many new specimens
added.
Walter Hunter, young lad, while
playing in the suburbs of Paris ran
INTO barbed wire fence and lacerated
his face in terrible manner, one Of
his eyelids was torn nearly off:
Mrs. William McLain, of Palestine.
shoots himself through the heart.
Grief at the loss of her two daughters
who died within an hour of each other,
had unsettled her mind.
Earnings of the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe for the month of May were
C-I ,UOO.tO, all Increase OF 300, IUJ.01
over the corresponding month of last
year.
DIR. Bacon Saunders, assisted by
| several local physicians of Bonham,
| removed stone weighing $40 grains
for the bladder of a 1O-year boy. The
operation was successful.
Fort Worth is selected as the place
| for the Texas Summer School of Meth
DDS, an assemblage of Teachers, who
| come together with the object of gain
ing normal training from a faculty of
the most prominent educators in the
country.
Frank Hyatt while participating in
literary gathering in Longview, was
called out by the three Page brothers
who cut him a slash on the shoulder,
and wounded him otherwise, which is
thought fatal. They escaped.
S. G. Kahn, county assessor of Ell
Paso, was publicly chastised on the
streets of that city by Mrs. Watson,
and on the day before had his Jaws
slapped by another irate Ell Paso
woman whom he had slandered.
In Earnest