San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-25
STATE NEWS.

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Coal is being again imported from
Mexico at Eagle Pass.
Farmers at Millican say they are
needing rain very badly.
Governor Ross and his staff will at
tend the horticultural fair at Tyler.
The recent eclipse of the moon was
witnessed at Corpus Christi by at least
1000 people.
The weather has been very hot at
Wichita Falls, as high as 102 degrees
in the shade.
The S. A. p. for Fredericksb burg is
considered a certainty, for SIS, 900 are
already secured towards it.
R. w. Trezevant dropped dead at
Corrigan Monday evening. Excessive
drink was probably the cause.
Sam Hing, the wealthy chinaman
of Ell Paso, says 81 and all my
countrymen are solid for Harrison"
Mr.. G.. G.. Adams dies at Orange
from the effects of a wound inflicted
by w. r. Sells last Saturday night.
The Burr pasture few miles south
of Beeville, is considerably damaged
ny IL" oho glass puihou III hhiioo
around.
John Cole and w. NJ. Felker, of
Hampstead, quarrel over game of
billiards, and the latter is shot in the
abdomen.
On Monday, the last of the five
prisoners who escaped from the Bon
ham Jail, was captured at Ravenna,
near Red river.
Mrs. Garner, of Rusk, is drowned
while attempting with her husb to
cross the ford at Hatchett's ferry, on
the Angelina river.
A Presbyterian church, the result of
several years of meetings at sui
phur spring some or 10 miles from
Rockland, has been erected.
Mr.. J. E. Savage, in charge of the
government harDOr improvements at
Arkansas Pass, has been assigned to
Galveston for duty, by order of Major
Ernst.
The wheat of Jack county is nearly
all threshed, and the yield is i'm
mense, but the cattle are not as fat as
might be expected, for though grass
is abundant, it is watery.
"A lleW SDOyS SUIlhe w DIS
in Dallas yesterday morning. They
refused to buy papers unless the price
was reduced from cents to 2 and 1-2
cents per copy, which was refused.
The Albany Milling Co., are having
their mammoth $50 barrel roller mill
thoroughly repaired and renovated,
and are advertising to pay the best
market price for wheat and grain.
Fred Davis, pressman of the Hutch
with party of friends up the Per-
denals river on hunting expedition,
carrying his gun in his buggy. In
some way it was discharged, the en-
tire load entering Davis shoulder,
making dangerous wound.
Col. Chiffon has sent dispatch to
Major Waldo, and other members of
the Texas traffic association, which
meets in N. Y. today, impressing on
them the necessity of giving low i'm
migrant rates to Texas.
Thomas Aston and son, of Fit. Worth,
who were thown TO the ground below
from a defect in the bridge they were
crossing in the city, sued and got a
verdict. The Judgment not having
been satisfied, an execution has been
levied on 800 acres of land belonging
to the city, and will be sold to satisfy
the claim.
At the Chautauqua, San Marcos,
the Rev. NJ. B. Chapman, d. D., of
Hannibal, Mo-, is lecturing on India,
and the Holy Land. DIR. Heidi lee
tured on Women and the University,
and DR.. F. L. Yoakum on Geology.
Miss Emma Wells, of Texarkana,
on her way to her home at Gainesville,
has her trunk stolen by a negro at the
depot, who represented himself as a
porter and pretended to take charge
to check it to it's destination. 1t was
afterwards recovered.
AS the north bound Santa Fe pas
senger was nearing Dallas Sunday
night, a number of shots were fired
from both sides of the road by parties
in ambush. Several balls passed
through the coaches, but no one was
hurt.
The skeleton of a woman is found
on the lonely banks of the dry Llano,
by Mr.. J. D. Pippin of Edwards Co.
Whether she was there by suicide, or
by murder is mystery. She was
partially clothed, and around her
were strewn parts of four or five
dresses, quilt, mattress, and other
things of clothing. This skeleton, it
appears had been discovered by
ranchman and his son last January,
and they cut off the head and pre-
served it as curiosity, but said no
thing about it.