San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-18
STATE NEWS.

IlOuSlOl has ~ hS" DohhS .
democratic club.
Pleas Thornt ton is stabbed and kill
ed by Phillip Lee, at Dallas.
J. B. Humphreys, charged with
forgery of school warrants, has es-
capped from Jail at Austin.
A remarkable number of cases Of
fever is reported in and around Ports
DOro.
A house occupied by Mrs. Allen, at
Sherman, is burned, and supposed TO
be by incendiary.
Samuel w. West, Texas Pacific
railroader has patented a speed re-
corder for trains.
Fifty shearers from Mexico have
passed through Eagle Pass, on their
way to the LlanO and Concho rivers.
After drouth of several weeks, JEFF
fersOn has been visited by heavy
rain, which lasted one hour.
At Milford, Mr.. E. Finch was
knocked down and kicked by his
horse few days ago, and is thought
to be fatally hurt.
Charles Dooley, formerly manager
of the Galveston nine, has gone to
Oakland, Cal.
The plans of Mr.. Eugene 7. Heiner,
of Houston, are adopted for the new
court house for tunnels county.
A Mexican of Laredo, named Mar
tin Herrera, while herding goats,
drops dead of heart disease.
The Terrell public school is some
thing to be proud of, and many pa
rents are arriving in town to give
their children good education.
At PurdOn, Archie McLain, brake
man on the Cotton Belt, had his left
hand badly mashed and two fingers
cut Off while coupling some cars.
Mr.. VIM. Honaker, formerly
prominent merchant of Plano, and his
little daughter, Sallie, have just died
at Tampa, Florida, of yellow fever.
The Timpson Times is to be sold, as
Mrs. Bishop has accepted the position
of associate editor of the Sunny South,
at Atlanta, Ga.
A Chinaman. named Joe Vince,
working on a farm of Judge Terrelps
in Austin had been i'll, and while
taking a medicated bath, suddenly
dropped dead.
A dispute arises at Ell Paso about
crossing the Rio Grande, the Next
cans compelling the Americans to
cross Oh the bridge, and refusing to
let them ford the river.
A negro, attempting to steal ride
on the mixed train passing through
Elgin, fell under the cars, which cut
off his legs below the knee. He died.
in, clnxx,1x- 70
Seguin. The farmers report that they
will make without more rain, better
crop than last year.
John Kimbrough, II miles west of
Mckinney has lost his entire millet
crop from the igniting of a match
carelessly dropped.
An engine on the NJ. p. while
running through NJ. G. MOntgOm-
ery's farm at Eddy, set fire to the
stubble in his barn, and reaching the
grain sacks, destroyed the entire oat
crop. Loss 1000 bushels.
Mr.. s. S. Carson, a young man
driving the mail between Oakland
and Weimar, was held up by a masked
robber at o'clock on the morning of
Thursday. He took all the money on
board, which was 81. 40, and Carson 5
watch and chain.
A young man named Ellis, at Paris,
fell from the second story of the St.
John hotel, severely cutting his
head and neck.
The 12-year-old son of Mr.. J. R
Novel, of Gainesville, viii e moving,
was caught by the knife of the ma
chine and his arm nearly cut off.
His leg was also badly cut, and one of
his toes taken off.
Between Collinsville and Ethel,
Levi Dams and Howard Barrett, very
drunk, were racing furiously along
the road, when Barrett came in con-
tact with little boy, and the result
was that the formers horse was killed
and the boy greatly injured.
a Strange Fight.