San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20
STATE NEWS.


the rate of geo bales per day.
ST. Edwards college corner stone is
laid in Austin.
The crops that have been raised in
Edwards county this year are the best
for years.
The Corpus Christi Browns went II
Rockport on Sunday and crossed bats
with the Blues of that city, resulting
in a victory for the former.
The Big Foot gin is doug a thriving
business; $50 bales have already been
ginned, and there will be at least 700
more.
The republican delegates - the
state convention at Fort Worth ar
rived last night.
The San Angelo celebration has
closed with races and target shoot
ing.
Sunset is quite excited over the ac-
cidental finding of a large vein of some
| kind of mineral ore, while digging a
public well on one of the streets.
Grain men of Bartlett are complain
ing that they cannot get cars - ship
| grain.
The northern portion of Texas has
been visited by a severe electric
storm. The electric lights of Deni-
son were put out, and one of the large
| dynamos was almost destroyed.
Ben Fry, charged with carrying a
pistol and displaying the same at the
negro church near Marquee, was ar
rested by the sheriff.
The weather at Weimar is such as
sends gladness to the heart of the
farmer. Cotton picking is being
pushed right ahead.
The female college at Chappell Hill
has made full opening this session,
and is in more fiourishing condition
than for years.
A section hand at Alvin was bitten
on the thumb by moccasin snake
and suffered considerably for while.
until the effect of pint or more of
good snake bite antidote got in its
| work.
The slaughter house of Alvin is fur
nishing the Galvest IN market from
| ten y twenty carcasses daily with w
creasing demand.
Cotton is coming slowly iuto Oak
"oOuSs w vi lldNO dp-
pearance in nearly all the country
| around.
The engineers of the I. and G. y.
have located the grounds for the
Union depot at Laredo, just east of
the Mexican National.
Mrs. Byrd Smith and daughter, of
Devine, who were so badly burned in
| trying to put out the fire that burned
| her children II death, are both doing
well and are thought to be recover
ing.
Steam was raised and trial made
of the new machinery at the new gin
and mill at Beeville yesterday.
Everything moved off nicely.
The second day of the trial of the
millionaire Tom Bean case took place
at Bonham yesterday. The object of
all the evidence was to establish the
fact that Bean had always been the
name of the deceased millionaire, and
was not, as stated by J. w. Saunders,
assumed on account of a murder COM
mitted in Tennessee back in the thir-
ties.
The case at Athens against A. A.
Hines, for the murder of John Law
renee last sprjug, was given to the
jury last night at 10 o'clock. After
fifteen hours they returned a verdict
of murder in the second degree, as
sessing his punishment of So years in
the peniten tiary.
A school be TX war is threatened in
Galveston. AS there are nearly SOC
children Of scholartic age in the city
the recent change in the hooks vii |,
amount TO lump sum ofS15 900. This
falls principally on parents who can
ill afford it. 1t is openly charged the
change was made in the interest of a
! certain book concern, and that many
| teachers are acting as agents, receiv-
ing 10 per cent com mission.
The American analyst announces
that much of the so-called ivory now
in use is simple potato. A &C ID,
sound potato washed in diluted sui
phuric acid, then boiled ju the same
solution and then slowly dried, is all
| ready to be turned into buttons, and
in other things that ivory was form
erly used for.
A lady singer whose voice was not
so good as it used - be, failed to
please a London audience. They
Kissed, whereupon a person in the
gallery called out: "Let the bic om-
iu' old cow have fair play" Then the
lady came down to the footlights, and
with marked distinctness expressed
her satisfaction that in the assembly
before her "there was at least one true
gentleman"