San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-10
STATE NEWS.

nearly every section of the state.
There will be large delegation
from Austin to the Dallas convection
The Fl. Worth and Denver road has
completed its stock pens at Amarillo
Prof. Geo. w. Dole, of Fort Worth
is lecturing at Bolton.
The oat crop in Brown county is
very large this year.
The owner of the collapsed Ell Paso
opera house has decided to rebuild it.
The Rio Grande is rising and is now
two feet above low water level.
The shipment of Texas cattle into
Montana continues.
The Tyler paint factory after some
months of idleness will resume work
The North Texas Masonic conven-
ton is now in session at Bonham.
The Alliance cotton yard at Austin
is now ready to receive cotton.
There are between 500 and 1000
soldiers in the garrison at Fort
Brown.
Mayor Common, of Dallas, has been
officially informed of the eXistance in
the city of six cases of small poX.
A burglary occurred at the Leland
hotel, Elgin, in which were stolen,
towels, window curtains, &C., and
$40 from trunk OF one of the
boarders.
A vein of very fine pure coal has
been discovered on the river in Hud-
sons Bend, about % miles west of
Austin.
At Denison d peddler walked into
the parlor of a lady's house and made
himself at home. He left at the point
of pistol.
The Beeville Milling company broke
dirt on Wednesday for their new gin
and mill.
The all absorbing question at Paris
is, "Where will the new $4,000 city
hall be built?n
The state treasurer at Austin paid
the last of the school fund deficiency
warrant yesterday.
At Alveredo, Elisha Meredith, ho-
tel keeper, committed suicide by kill
ing himself.
"First bales" are being received
daily throughout central and southern
Texas.
The postmaster atCorsicana has APP
piled for the establishment of the free
delivery system at that office.
The tax rolls received by the
comptroller at Austin so far indicate
slight increase in taxable values.
Thirty-nine marriage licenses were
issued by the county clerk of Lamar,
during the month of July.
The American we'll works company,
through their agent, have begun the
erection of the derrick for an artesian
well in the city square at Corpus.
San Angelo complains that the
thermometer stood at 100 degrees
each day last week, and on Monday
went up to lOS degrees.
The cotton prospect of Comanche
county is fast losing it's brightness,
the excessive heat and drouth is
damaging it rapidly.
Work on the North Texas Land
and Timber company's railroad is
rapidly. Nine miles will
be graded by the lst of September.
Samuel E. Lane, a compositor in
the service of the Dallas News, shoots
]. w. Wilson the well known mer-
chandise broker of Dallas.
A second artesian we'll has been
one hundred gallons of water per
The deadlock in the 9TH senatorial
district at sulphur Springs was
broken yesterday after the 23Oth
ballot, by the nomination of J. w.
Crawford.
There are no new developments in
the Sherman-Man shooting at FL
Paso, the latter said he never had a
word with Sherman and knows no
cause for the shooting. He still lives.
but is unconscious. Sherman is still
Robert Hibbler, OF DenisOn, while
home in a wagon at dusk,
was met bv his brOther-in-law, Geo.
Gibson, who asked him to give him a
ride, which the former refused,
Gibson sprang upon him,
and stabbed him fatally.
Capt. Sam w. Allen, of Kentucky,
for 80 years we'll known citizen and
'anchman of Harris county, has just
lied of congestion of the brain,
caused by sunstroke.
The Texas Team and Lumber COM
Dany's Eagle mill of Beaumont, cut
.37, 43l feet of log scale of long leaf vel
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s probably the largest cut ever made
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