San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-09
STATE NEWS.

Politics and religion are the topics
in order at Stephenville.
Beef and mutton shipments from
Sweetwater are quite lively.
Very little Shipping is being done
from LaSalle county.
A trestle between Dallas and Eagle
Ford was burned on Monday night.
A great deal of sickness, principally
congestive chills, is prevalent at Ell
gin.
Preparations for the district fair to
be held in October, at Abilene are
actively going forward.
Mayor Connor, of Dallas has issued
a prOclama ton requesting everybody
to decorate for the convention.
The champion farmer, Uncle JEFF
Carter, brought to Elgin its first bale
of cotton.
The prospects are most favorable for
the best cotton and corn crops ever
made in Jackson county.
The Association of the Interior Com
presses of Texas met Tuesday, in the
Windsor hotel. Dallas.
Farmers at Mt. Pleasant are very
uneasy over the appearance of the
army worm in great numbers.
Preparations are being made for the
grandest barbecue ever before known
in Rusk.
Ounce Wilkerson, the supposed
slayer at Temple, of Will Blake has
not been captured yet.
The book and stationery establish
ment of J. r. Stiedman, of Sherman,
was closed by execution yesterday.
Ell Paso has been suffering from an
ice famine, for the last two days, with
the thermometer at 100 in the shade.
Parsons Texas cavalry brigade met
yesterday morning at Midlothian,
three-quarters OF a mile from town.
AS yet the ravages of the cotton
worm have been comparatively slight
at Brennan. This is due to the very
hot, dry weather.
Gov. Ross will be in Dallas on the
18th to the 18th, and by invitation of
Col. A. J. Houston, will review the
state troops.
Flags on the public buildings at
Austin have been at half mast for two
days as a mark of respect for Gen.
Sheridan.
F. w. Man, of Ell Paso is shot and
fatally wounded by John Sherman
The ball passed through Mans stom-
ach and liver, going clear through his
body.
The employees of the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas railroad are very
indignant over the burial of one OF
their comrads who died in the hospi-
tai of the road at Tyler. The body
was found to be naked, with only
coarse cloth covering it, and in a cheap
coffin.
The annual convention of the Broth
erhoOd of Locomotive Engineers and
Firemen of Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas, will be held in Tyler, August
10 and Is.
An east bound mixed train on the
H. and It. G.. was derailed eight miles
west of Waco on Tuesday night by
Instructions placed on the track. En-
gineer killed, fireman injured.
J. r. s. Sterrett, P. HI. d. of the
Austin University, has received let
ter from Mr.. Gladstone, thanking him
for a copy of his Biographical Journal
in Asia Minor.
Three places have been entered by
burglars in Dallas. One entered the
Office of Ennis q Co. and walked Off
with a type writer. Another stole a
gold watch and chain from a saloon
and still another attempted to rob NJ.
r. Maltney's place on HarwOod
street.
Ben Evans. w. B. Boyd, and Dick
Middleton, of Sherman, plead guilty
to carrying pistols, and were given
each twenty days, and assessed fines
of S25.
For the past month, a wonderful
change has taken place in the price of
steer cattle in Western Texas. The
price has advanced sufficiently to
produce broad smile on the counte-
nances of stock men.
The Black Jack Post, published at
Black Jack Grove, contains an article
over the signature of y names stating
that they cannot support candidate
who does not announce in that paper