San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-03
ghe Daily Eight.
TUESDAY, JULY, 3,
STATE NEWS.


The crops around Marion were
never in better condition.
Ell Paso has raised $1,000 for the suf-
ferers from the floods in Mexico.
Sales in cattle are lively at Albany.
The wool market also moves on salts
factorily.
Hallettsville was voted for incor-
poration by large majority last Fri
day.
The Texas summer school of
Methods in Fort Worth opened yes
terday.
Stephensville is elated over the pros
pect of an early extension there of the
Fort Worth & Rio Grande.
B. Waddill, who killed the In
ternational and Great Northern negro
porter, is proved to be crazy.
1t continues to rain almost inces-
sanity at Eagle Lake. The cotton
crop has been materially damaged.
Mrs. John Patterson, of Dangerfield,
commits suicide, by shooting herself
with her husbands pistol.
The Corsicana nine and the Waco
club play game at Padgett's park,
Waco, before about 800 spectators.
Waco won.
Crops in the vicinity of Benton City
are as fine as ever known. Nearly
everybody in that place belongs to the
alliance.
The Arkansas Pass Land company
Yesterday closed by contract with
Messrs. Van Alstine and Doolittle for
the erection of $50, 900 hotel at Rock
port.
A state convention of nOn-partisans
known as the farmers and stock
raisers' party is being held in Fort
Worth.
A prominent republican of Mime
apolis writes complimentary letter to
Gov. Ross on the spirit Of his reply to
the Gettysburg reunion.
Mrs. Cora Mass, of Hampstead, was
fearfully burned yesterday by can of
kerosene exploding in her hands,
while she was trying to start a fire in
stove.
The rain supply at Menard has been
well regulated so far this year, conse-
quently grass and stock of all kinds
are in fine condition.
Camp meetings are now announced,
and one will take place about the
middle of the month at Sulphur
Springs, and another on Brushy next
Friday, between Terryville and Hope.
both OF the Methodist persuasion.
A grading outfit is encamped on the
west bank of the Guadalupe river,
preparing to commence work on the
Beeville extension as soon as the
work of locating is finished.
1t is learned later that Langlett, the
man who shot the train employe at Ell
PasO, is notorious stage and train
robber. He was released on bond to
await the action Of the grand jury.
A young German named Croft is
killed while training at the race
course, "Big Foot" His horse threw
him and fell on him, breaking his
neck.
The body of an unknown man, with
his left arm apparently cut off with a
sword, was found in the river at No
gole's ranch; below Brownsville.
Frank Lincoln, of Chicago, the
world-renowned humorist and carica-
turist, has arrived at San Marcos, and
will appear on the Chautauqua plat
form.
The son of John T. Harris, of
Gainesville, in trying to shoot his
father with whom he was angry for
having reprimanded him, shot and Sc
riously wounded a negro woman.
Prof. Charles A. Herb, leader of
Herbs Light Guard band, has died
in Houston from the effects of his in
juries received on the 23d of May last
in barge accident.
Jas. Barton, a young man living near
Vaughn, got into a fight in which he
was bitten on his little finger. Sep
ticaemia and gangrene set up in the
wound. The finger and metacarpel
bone had to be removed. He is still
in a critical condition.
The ball game yesterday between
the Dallas nine and the Galveston
club, was witnessed by one of the
largest crowds that ever assembled in
Beach park. The game was holly con-
tested. The game was a tie after
playing II minutes.
A man while walking across a rail-
road bridge near Paris, is hurled off
by the train into the Arkansas river.
He was deaf and did not hear the
train. He was rescued with only
slight injuries.
AS Oscar Langlett, bartender of
Ell Paso was going home, a man APP
preached him and ordered him to
stop. Thinking he meant to hold him
up, Langlett shot him dead. The man
was identified as railway employee.
1t is thought he was drunk and had
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