San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-09
STATE NEWS.

Georgetown.
The city of Uvalde will be incor-
porated on the 18th.
The Laredo "Kids" of the ball are
done up by Corpus Christi.
The H. & T. G. is putting another
side track at Van Alstyne.
The death is announced of Judge
w. A. Lindsay, of De Kalb.
Burglars entered the post Office at
Tyler, but fail to secure anything.
1t is estimated that 5000 watermel-
ons were eaten in Fort Worth on the
4th.
Fort Worth lawn tennis grounds
will be formally opened on Wednes-
day.
Such an abundant corn crop was
never known in Wilson county as at
present.
The Dallas Oakcliff railway COM
pany will issue 800, 900 bonds for i'm
provements.
Judge Hobby, of Polk county is
elected to fill the office of Judge Malt
bic, deceased.
Over a thousand dollars has been
bet i'm Laredo over the result of the
election this fall.
Professor A. McGregor, of Alabama,
is appointed superintendent of the
Waco free schools.
Interest in the horticultural fair to
be held in Tyler at the end of the
month is increasing.
Parties in the West Indies, are writ
ing for particulars of Southwest Texas
with view to emigrate.
The opera house of Ell Paso, which
cost 100000, has fallen in ruins; fortu-
nately no one was killed.
A large general merchandise estab-
lishment of J. A. Crook, near Green
VILE, is destroyed by fire.
Eugene Afford, son of General AL
ford, is held up by two highway men
in Dallas and robbed of S65.
The regular Missionary Baptist
Lincoln association of Texas, colored,
is in session at Hampstead.
In the great yacht race at Rockport
last Friday the Viola won. The
Alace came in close second.
Mrs. J. L. Miller, of Alvord, who
was d ul6u dlU0I
showing signs of hydrOphobia.
The aggregate wool receipts at Bur-
net last Saturday were 700, 900 pounds,
with the season pretty well over.
A bucket full of ice was picked up
in the Sweetwater valley, part of the
hail drifts formed five weeks ago.
1t is thought that the remains of the
Texas League (base balD and the
Southern League will be merged.
All the towns have been holding
animated mass meetings to select del
egates to the deep water convention.
A little son of Mr.. Oscar, at Calvert,
picked up a bottle of carbolic acid.
drank the contents and died in a few
moments.
The new mammoth hotel just COM
pleted by the Mexican International,
at Eagle Pass, will be open to the pub
lie on the Is.
Cow Bayou bridge, near Orange, is
under water, and another bridge at
that place had to be strengthened with
heavy lines.
A Mexican is shot down near Love-
lady by unknown parties. His wife
charges several prominent citizens
with the killing.
George Henderson, of Leonard,
while crossing his pasture, was at
tackled by billy goat, and severely if
not fatally wounded.
The citizens of Arson will have a
grand barbecue on the 18th to cele-
brate the 9TH anniversary of the Or
ganization of Jones county.
Monroe Lanham and Alvin Hope
were seriously injured by their team
running away as they were returning
home to Gatesville after dance in
the country.
From Mount Pleasant 20 cars of
Titus county coat will 60 out on trial
for fuel mines. If it works right a
force of 800 miners will be put to
work at once.
A colored woman at Eagle Pass,
who has before shown symptoms of in
sanity, and who was in the employ of
o. G. DOVE, informed the family the
other night that she had poisoned
their supper and begged them not to
eat it.