San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-22
STATE NEWS.

WIN rain.
Crops at Cuero are in satisfactory
condition.
Roads i'm all directions from Refugio
are in bad condition.
A new military company has been
organized at Fort Worth.
Houston furnishes only seven candi-
dates for justice of the peace.
Mrs. Alex. Nash, Kaufman, gives
birth to three living children at once.
The little boy of Mr.. Rumpel, Aus
tin, is badly torn by neighbours saw
age dog.
The recently organized social club
at Houston exists under the name of
"The Stays"
The cotton crop of Rockwell is
almost failure owing to excessive
rains, and worms.
Bankers convention, which has just
closed its session in Galveston, meets
next year in Dallas.
Mayor Common invites the lumber
men, in session at Waco, to hold their
next convention at Dallas.
a
carload of bulls from Van Horn to the
Indian Territory last week.
There are over 1000 acres of wheat
in Willbarger county and about
double that amount in oats.
The Laredo express robbers, Rem
terra and Cervantes, plead guilty, and
get four years imprisonment.
Corpus Christi has shipped ll2O car
loads of stock this season, and
handled !, 223, 449 bags of wool.
A gang of county convicts, working
on the highway, Dallas, made break
for liberty, and all but one escaped.
Superintendent Cooper, Of Austin,
received three crates, and one dozen of
assorted fruits, from Mr.. r. D. Nc
Clennach, Of Giddings.
The scholastic census for Bee coun-
ty shows 545 white children of schOl-
astic age and IS colored, an increase
of &c over the past year.
Apricots have been grown in Shack
elfOrd county this season, six inches
in circumference, and weighing one
and three-quarters of an ounce.
Mrs. Emiline Tyler, of Paris, is put
under bond to answer next Monday
70 charge of slandering Mrs. F. 4.
King. All parties are highly respeo-
table.
A negro convict, at work in the fac
tory of the penitentiary, got his arms
caught in the machinery, he was
wound up in the spindle and killed in
horrible manner.
The spring wool clip continues to
come in, some 400, 900 pounds having
already been received. OF this about
$50, 900 pounds have been shipped and
sold.
Houston papers say that warning
posts, with the legend mo bottom, y
should be hOisted on some of their al
leys where drays have been getting
begged daily.
At Halls Ferry, near Bonham, an
attempt is made to assassinate a
young man named Lyons, who was
riding along the road near the river.
He escaped. Assaulters not known
Preliminary survey by Engineer
Jones, of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railway, is started from Cole
man to Mason, and a connection with
the Arkansas Pass road.
Sam Page, one of the brothers
charged with cutting Frank Hiatt two
weeks ago, was surprised in field
near his house by the sheriff and
brought to LOngview and Jailed.
The grape crop is looking fine at the
old Mission Vineyard, Refugio. The
early white grape known as the
Malaga, is spoiled with too much rain
The congressional convention of the
ShOestring district, in session at Cor.
pus Christi, ratlfies the st. Louis plat.
form and dominates Grain by accla-
nation.
Seven hundred panels of wire fence
were destroyed by the fence cutters
around the farm of G. w. Martin near
Corsicana last Monday night. A
neighbor had 200 panels cut the same
night.
During the emancipation celebra-
ton at Hidalgo, Washington county,
two negroes had an alteration. Dep
uty Sheriff Will Parrott attempted to
arrest one who drew his pistol. PARROT
then fired in return, infiicting, it is
thought fatal wounds.
Two colored boys were out hunting
near Marshall. One said to his com.
panion in jest, ~ will shoot you," and
raising his gun, which accidentally
discharged, the shot went into the
boy and two rabbit dogs, wounding all
only slightly.
w. H. Coffee, ofSpringhill, found in
a gully ten feet below the surface, a