San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-16
STATE NEWS.

The Waco Evening News publishes
its first issue this evening.
Dallas wins against New Orleans in
the game of Saturday.
John Eden. carpenter, died of SUM-
stroke at Dallas, on Friday.
Fort Davis has been visited with
splendid rains.
The Titus county convention was
held at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday.
Rain has fallen in Freestone every
day for weeks. 1t is too wet to pillow.
A married woman named Lemane,
in Ell PasO commits suicide by NOR
phine.
The French celebration of Saturday
was extensively observed in Calves
ton.
The depot that was burned by
lightning at Kempner, has been re-
placed by another equally as good.
Wool receipts at the last of the
week at Burnett, were $4,000 pounds
principally from Mason county.
The district court on Saturday at
Corpus was crowded with people
listening to the testimony in the
WoeSSner-DOVe case.
In the eastern part of the Red river
county, near Rosalie, John Gibson in
fiicts dangerous knife wounds on Bud
Hinson.
Among recent gifts to the Bayland
Orphans Home, Houston, is hand
sOmely framed picture of the late
Emperor William.
TT,;@oI Sto+n, ro,,.,,1 Nfooro |.
wife arrived in Ell Paso, en- route to
New York, to be at the marriage of
their daughter.
There is a change in the vice-pres-
idency of Baylor university, Waco,
DIR. Andrews retires, and Professor
Thompson takes his place.
The iron bridge of the Mexican Ma
tional railroad at Laredo, over the
Rio Grande is being pushed to COM
pletion.
E. l.. Hagan, who absconded from
San Saba on his marriage day, has
returned and proposes to fulfill all his
promises.
The Fort Worth & Denver will
carry 600 families over it's lines by
fall, who propose locating in the Pan
ndnule cOunUleS.
A little 12-year-old boy, nephew of
G.. B. Dealy, of the Morning News,
Dallas, is run over by boy on horse
back, and dies from his injuries.
In the individual drill of the Victo-
ria Rifles, the prize was handsome
gold medal, won by Sergeant M. L.
Potash.
j. w. Soady has arrived in Bren-
ham with propositions from Shreve-
port company to erect the Webb cot
ton compress within sixty days.
S. H. Weaver, building contractor
at B eckville, on giving orders TO some
workmen which they appeared not to
like, was attacked and seriously in
ured by one of them.
w. A. Batson eX-constable of Mar
shall, has his foot so badly mashed
between the cars that amputation was
necessary.
Eagle Pass is immensely proud of
her Juvenile brass band, which she
raised, and is prepared to lick the
first man who says they are not the
finest of their size in the state.
Charley Clay, colored, visiting his
mother in Corpus from Mexico, meets
an old sweetheart, and renewed his
of love to her. On her re-
fusing to marry him, he shot her,
then blew his brains out. She will
probably die.
The contract for building a dormi-
tory at the agricultural and mechan-
ical college near Bryan, and two pro-
fessor's residences, was awarded to
Messrs. Garth, Nash & Robinson for
$13,S75.
Suit is filed in Houston by James
Grayson and wife against DIR. E. L. E.
Castleton and Messrs. Conklin, Geo. |
and Gaines, druggists, for $4,000, on
the charge that the death of their |
their child was caused by prescrip-