San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-25
STATE NEWS.

paper.
The state fair is booming in every
part of the state.
Parties in Grandview are shipping
cotton to Chicago.
The nights at Eagle Pass are so cool
that blanket is necessary.
The alliance of Center is assessed
$1,000 by the Dallas exchange.
A terrific gale from the north struck
White Wright on Saturday night.
Gov. Ross pardons Sam Reeves sent
to the penitentiary for horse theft.
Cleburne is full of delegates in at
tendance on the Baptist state conven-
ton.
There is movement i'm Austin to
inaugurate system of county turn
pixies.
Harvest is nearly over at Arlington.
The weather is clear and expressing
ly hot.
An association for the founding of a
female institution is organized in
Paris.
Another heir of the Bean estate
has materialized. He is a Kentucky
Bean.
A watermelon feet of 5000 melons
comes up the bayou to the Houston
market.
General land office operations show
increased sale this month, and leases
are keeping up.
Round trip tickets are being sold to
Fort Worth on account of the Teach
ers' convention.
Prisoners in the GAINESVILLE Jail tried
to make their escape, but were pre-
vented and captured.
A young lady of Greenville has COM
menced the study of medicine under a
prominent physician.
A number of citizens met in Navar-
70 county have organized what they
call the peoples party.
Thieves broke into the stable of Mr..
L. NJ. Chattin, Temple, and stole from
him fine bay horse and buggy.
The knights of Honor gave grand
picnic at Blossom Prairie; twelve
lodges with 500 members were pres
ent.
Corn crops have improved in the
past two weeks at TimpsOn, but will
not be full; the cotton is badly in the
grass.
S. G.. Satterwhite is arrested near
Bryant's mill in Cass county for dis
til1ing and selling whisky without
license.
The Southern Pacific is hauling
large quantities of lumber from east
Texas for Denver, via the Fort Worth
and Denver.
The corner stone of the Henry Rosen-
berg free school, Galveston, will be
laid next Saturday evening with ma
sonic ceremony.
A two-year old child of jeweller in
Waco falls out of a two-story window
to the ground, and does not appear to
be in the least hurt.
1t has not rained in the Panhandle
for over month. Things are drying
up. A match dropped on the mes
quite would start a prairie fire.
Mr.. Jim Blevins, living near White
Rock, killed very large chicken
snake. He found in it a large COW
horn, and in the horn a prairie rat.
Two 16-years-old boys are arrested
at Mt. Pleasant for stealing the con-
ductor's hat and cutting a seat in
first-class car on the east bound Sher-
man branch train.
Philip Ungehener VS.. Bowser &
Lennon and the city of Dallas, sues for
$4,000 damages, sustained by a fall
into street excavation, left unguard-
ed by lamps or fence.
Mr.. George w. Coster, of Jefferson,
has presented $40 gold medal to the
Light Guards to be competed for
monthly, each member wearing it I'M
til some other member wins it from
him.
The Dallas State Fair association is
negotiating with Baldwin, the Cali
fornia marvel, who is the first one to
Jump from balloon with the aid of a
parachute, to give parachute descents
during the fair.
A chew of wax exploded in boys
mouth at Whitewright, his mouth
was filled with smoke and blood, and
one of his teeth was blown out. He
had the wax in his pocket to which
the head of a match must have stuck,
and he put it in his mouth without
knowing it.