San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-16
STATE NEWS.

Dallas has an annual wholesale trade
Of SGT, 900.
Texas has the largest school endow-
ment Of any state In the Union.
Wool receipts in Burnet on Monday
were $1,000 pounds.
Burnett for shipment to Chicago
Sir John Fender has received from tho
queen the decoration Of K. G. II. G.
Sixteen car loads Of stabilized beevss
were shipped from Victoria to Chicago
last Sunday.
Mr.. A. H. Manuldin of Honey Grove
has attempted suicide by morphine. His
condition Ia thought serious.
The Knights Templars Of Brennan are
assisting 10 the Masonic services in
Austin.
Houston is hankering to meet Dallas
again. The fight will take place in
Houston.
A brutal husband in Blum, NJ. B.
Classified, lie killed by Mr.. HerOd, at the
residence of his wife's mother.
Natural gas has been discovered In
Galveston at the Cold Storage oom-
pany's artesian wells.
The Houston Post OF Yesterday con.
tains comprehensive write-up Of
Orange.
The old Lehman house, at Waco, Is to
be remodeled into an elegant new hotel
at cost Of $4,000.
DR.. Urish Haynie fell from his loaded
wagon at Anderson, and dislocated his
shoulder.
Victoria is called "the city of roses"
from the profusion of that popular
flower.
Among other beeves shipped from
Cuero, MIR. Robert Bennett had one that
would kick the beam at ITO pounds.
Cattle at Edna are fattening rapidly,
and shipments to the eastern and north
ern markets promise to be very heavy in
the next four or five months.
Dallas Union Lodge No. 1910, Grand
United Order of Odd-Fellows, oolored
society, had its ninth anniversary cele-
bratiOn on Monday.
The British government has ordered
that two modern thirty-ton guns be
mounted on the central bastion, facing
the sea, at Sheerness. Other measures
OF defense will be adopted on the
Thames.
A woman rode on the passenger train
rom Fort Worth to Dallas on the "blind
baggage" Though several times put of
by the conductor, she persisted In get
ting On again, and declared her determi-
nation to ride to Terrell.
At the examining trial of Henry, Dave
and Jennie johnson and Eliza Kemper,
before Justice Jennings at Floresville,
for the murder of Church, the colored
school teacher, the first two were re.
manded to Jail without bail. Jennie
johnson was discharged and Eliza Kem-
per admitted to bail In the sum of $1,000.
The st. Louis Wire company files suit
against the Washburn and Moer manu-
featuring company, Sanborn & Warner
Of Houston, and Roberts, Hsrdwick &
Taylor company of Sherman for $500,
CD damages. Conspiracy to injure
plaintiffs business is alleged.
On Monday a thunderbolt struck the
residence Of MIR. A. Friedlander, in
Waco, knocking through part of the roof
and doing considerable destruction.
Two children of the house were serious
ly shocked. His Is the third house in
the city struck with LIGHTNING in q
week.
Emperor Francis Joseph, accompanied
by all the members OF the imperial FAM
lily, the Austrian and Hungarian minis
tiers and the foreign diplomatic repre-
sentatives, was present in Vienna at the
unwilling Of q monument to Empress
Maria Theresa. A grand banquet at
the palace followed. An imperial de-
cree has been issued naming several
regiments after Maria Theresa and Em-
perors Joseph III, Leopold IL, Francis
and Ferdinand and eighteen regiments
after famous generals.