San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-15
The 1ai1y Eight.
Office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
STATE NEWS.


The Van Zandt county Veteran
society is organized in Canton.
The shell road to Harrisburg may be
considered certainty.
A Cleveland and Thurman club is
organized at BRENNAN.
Malarial fever is almost epidemic in
Paris.
The baseball fever is running high
above blood heat in Waco.
The Texas Pharmaceutical associa-
ton is visiting the capital today.
Grasshoppers and cotton worms are
in large numbers in Lamar county.
The wool growers of San Saba will
give grand banquet and ball tomOr-
row.
All round 4-cent fare will be made
to Austin next week for the UNIVERSE
ty commencement.
The American Cattle Trust has
chosen Col. r. G. Head to market it's
cattle in Chicagoin the future.
Preparations are being made in San
Angelo for grand 4th of July cele-
bratiOn.
In the Sanchez murder trial at Eagle
Pass the jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty.
J. E. yGalbraith succeeds w. b. Nc
'Cullough as general passenger and
ticket agent of the international and
Great Northern.
The new boat owned by the citizens
of Jefferson is launched. 1t will make
regular trips to and from the lake be-
low.
Dallas comes to the front with a
society to prevent cruelty to animals,
and to protect destitute widows and
children.
A big colored revival is being held
in Dallas by A. L. Dobson, colored
evangelist, who has an immense
tabernacle tent shipped from st. Louis
for the occasion.
improvement goes on at Bastrop. A
large saddlery establishment is under
construction, and four brick buildings
will soon be built.
There is too much rain in Omaha,
and the farmers are getting behind
/ with their work. The grass worms
are playing destruction to cotton.
Carson county has taken her place
as an organized county among her
sister counties in the great state of
Texas.
The contract for the Arkansas Pass
road bridge across the Colorado river
just below Austin is let to a Cleve-
land, Ohio, company.
Officer Heidingsfelder, formerly of
Houston, is shot and almost killed
while in the discharge of his duty in
Dallas.
A carriage accident in Houston in
lures Mr.. Ben Rice and Mr.. Robinson,
foreman in Rice's brick works. The
latter will probably die.
judge White, of the court of APP
peals, has withdrawn as a candidate
for the federal bench, vice Judge
; Turner.
Mexia, and in fact the whole of
Limestone county, is all excitement
about the question of moving the
county seat from Groesbeck to MeXia.
In two days last week the transcon-
tinental division of the Texas and Pa
cific, handled three hundred cars of
Texas stock.
The attorney general of the state no
titles the express companies at Austin
to lower their express charges on
fruits.
The government has allowed the
postmaster at Hampstead a sum of
1908 to compensate him for money
stolen from his office by burglars.
r. B. Gentry, a Philadelphia show
man, has purchased second Buffalo
Bill outfit, and has left for the Quaker
city with forty Indians and fifty head
of the widest horses he could secure;
also an interpreter.
n. III. Lame, TeXarkana, assaulted
by furious negro, had one of his
hands permanently crippled before
he could succeed in killing his as
saulter.
In carelessly handling his sixshoot-
er, Jack Hodges, of Mckinney, shoots
piece of his finger off, the ball then
entered his wife's side, from which
wound she will likely die.
Over so head of cattle were killed in
the Kennedy Junction smash-up, re-
ported yesterday. The Corpus Chris
ii train was delayed seven hours by
the wreck.
A family feud between the Raines
and Terrell families, of Jacks oro, cul-
minated in a fight on the 18th, in
which a Terrell was shot in both
sides, and two Raines' killed.
st. Louis is no nearer a solution of
her telephone difficulties than she was
three days ago. Mayor Francis holds
the fort and the telephone company