San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-22
STATE NEWS.

INOChudIS has llhu SNNA SitN"
ers of rain.
Dallas, Holland and Hillsboro have
had fine rains.
Cotton worms are plentiful at Bas-
trop.
Delegates to the Farmers Alliance
convention at Dallas, are coming in.
The Union Baptist association has
just closed one of its most successful
meetings, at Navasota.
A Mexican is run over by the Inter-
national, at Austin, and has his legs
cut off.
The capitol furnishing commission
is called by the governor to meet in
Austin next Saturday.
Governor Ross will probably make
a campaign speech at Gainesville, on
the 18th of next month.
The sheriffs' convention at Fort
Worth was rendered a grand banquet
in Fort Worth last night.
Commissioner Foster will appoint a
state geologist and start the new bu-
reau going next week.
So far 81 counties have sent in their
assessment rolls. Nearly all show in
creased values.
Georgetown has had an excellent
rain, which will insure a good cotton
crop.
The alleged telephone exchange of
Corpus has withered up under the
August sun, passed in its checks and
yielded over the divide.
Sailing parties are the order of the
day at Corpus. Fishermen are repair
ing their boats and getting everything
ready for the oyster trade.
A negro in Houston, named Isaiah
Watson, attempts to cut the throat of
his wife with pocket knife, but was
prevented by neighbors.
A party of journalists, en- route to
the Pass, passed through Corpus
Christi ON Monday.
Messrs. Ringler and Moore, who
have been prospecting for coal and oil,
have struck fine vein of coal near
Queen City.
John 5. Melton, a young man at
COmanche, for years great sufferer
of rheumatism, commits suicide by
shooting himself.
A bunch of horses sold from the Doc
Grounds pasture, near Abilene, are
pronounced by Judges of horsetlesh to
be very fine, and doing credit to any
country.
One thousand head of cattle and
two thousand head of sheep have been
sold and driven out of the neighbour
hood of Bandera in the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Martha Thompson, at Aubrey,
committed suicide last evening by
blowing her brains out. Insanity is
supposed to be the cause. A husband
and several small children are left to
mourn their loss.
The boiler at Scott & Jackson's new
saw mill, two miles west of Atlanta,
exploded last evening. Cause I'M
known. A negro and white man
were killed; another was seriously
wounded.
The democratic senatorial convention
for Tyler convened yesterday and
nominated Hon. w. Cone Johnson for
state senator by reclamation.
The trial of s. E. Lane, in Dallas,
continues. The most important wit
ness was Miss Barbara Sanders,
Lanes fiancee, whose statement cor
responded with that made by Lane
yesterday.
Sherman Risley, a young farmer at
Gainesville, shot and wounded a
house cat, and in order to dispatch
the crippled animal, he struck it
about the head with his revolver,
when it discharged, making mortal
wound in the abdomen.
In thunderstorm that passed over
Relamhazo ranch, Hidalgo county.
Sustacio Beldez, an employee, while
riding an oX-cart, was struck by light
ming, and both he and the horse were
killed instantly.
Senior Loaza, Mexican collector of
customs at Paso del NOrte, has re-
luctantly rescinded the order given
some time ago that American teams
should not be allowed to cross the Rio
Grande, except on the street car
bridge and paying heavy tolls. Teams
are now allowed to cross anywhere.
There seems to be some dissatisfac-
ton in western Texas with the action
of the state convention at Dallas over
the shelving of Maj. Geo. B. Zimple-
man, of FL PasO county, the western
Texas candidate for state treas urer.
Gov. Ross has refused requisition
from the governor of Illinois for a
merchant of this state, charged by a
merchant of Chicago with Obtaining
goods under false pretenses.