San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-02
STATE NEWS.

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houses in Terrell.
Rumor says Denton will have two
more newspapers.
The water works supply of Fort
Worth is shut down.
Rockwell is at last incorporated.
The vote standing 81 for, and 60
against.
Something like 300 bushels of
wheat were received in Fort Worth
yesterday.
A festival is given in the court
house, Beeville, for the benefit of the
Baptist church.
The Wheeler club of Cisco, will at
tend the state convention in honor of
Gov. Wheeler.
The new we'll at the Colorado water
works has been tested, and gives
great satisfaction.
Navasota has received its first bale.
1t was raised by Julius Scales, of
Washington county.
Perry Wilson, who emigrated from
Big Foot in the spring, to Lower Cali
fornia, is on his way back.
Mr.. Robert WIRES one of the old
soldiers whose deeds helped to win
the independence of Texas is dead at
Abilene.
A subscription is started at Sher-
man to raise $4,000 for the construc-
ton of an exchange and board OF trade
building.
The saloon of Mecom & Co., Cald-
well, was entered a few nights ago,
and % gallons of whisky, and 600
cigars stolen.
The Southern Pacific at Rockport
has sold to NJ. Sternberger its wharf,
and all appurtenances including some
land for $500.
Mr.. Allen, formerly U. S. Consul at
Piedras Negras, has been appointed
consul at Kingston, Jamaica, vice Har-
vey Brigham, deceased.
The Fort Worth and Denver is do
ing heavy, passenger business from
Fort Worth tourists seeking the
mountains of Colorado.
The project of organizing build
ing and loan association at Baird is
now being discussed by the citizens,
and will doubtless be effected.
There is some talk of another SAM
ping works being erected by a st.
Louis firm at Eagle Pass. What the
place wants most is smelter.
The Texas Pacific is making every
preparation to handle an immense
quantity of coal from mines on the
line of the road west of Fort Worth.
Campbell Taylor, for more tnan 40
years citizen of Bastrop, is dead. He
was member of Capt. Jose Billings
ley's company in the battle of San ia
cintO.
Mr.. Bradley of Hillsboro, while cut
ting hay drove into a humble bees
nest. which frightened his team. He
was thrown and had his shoulder dis
located.
A citizen who has suit against Fit.
Worth for defective sewers, has
successfully raised his damage claims
from $2O, 900 to 100000 in amended pc
titions of SO, 900 each.
Mr.. J. B. Simmons, aged %, and
Miss Simmons, aged sweet Is, a run
away couple from Rockwell, crossed
over into Colbert, in the ChickasaW
nation, and were married.
The Hampstead post master is in
structed concerning the Junius circu-
lars which he received and which
created such a stir, that he must dis
tribute them, as the author is the
only responsible party in case of VIC
lation of the law.
Little Ella Rhome at the place of
the same name, is badly scalded while
watching the workings of an engine
contrived by her little brother. The
safety valves he had fixed refused to
work, and it exploded.
Rev. G. Harrison, an aged and re-
spected minister of the Methodist
church at Sherman, after deliberate
preparation, shoots and kills his SON.
in-law at Cannon, and then shoots
himself, and swallows a quantity of
morphine. The trouble was about
property.
The settlers of Hemphill and Lbs
combe counties in the Panhandle are
stirred up over the fact that some
herds of southern Texas cattle are
about to pass through there, and they
fear the germs of Texas fever may be
deposited along their route.
George NJ. Sigler. of Galveston is
stabbed by Sam Tinney of Corpus
Christi, at the latter s. residence,
where they were gathered before a
justice of the peace, for the marriage
of Sigler with his daughter. Sigler re-
fused to marry the girl whom he had
disgraced.
The little daughter of Arthur
Robinson, at Orange, was filling a
lighted lamp and the oil feeder