San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-26
STATE NEWS.

south of GAINESVILLE, is destroyed by
fire.
The charter of the San Angelo street
railway is filed with the secretary of
state.
There is some sickness at Waelder,
mostly chllls and fever. Rain is
much needed there.
There is quite gloom cast over the
community of Bandera, by the death
of Sheriff Hamilton.
The new telephone company OF
Eagle Pass expect to have their ex-
change in operation by August l.
The next regular meeting of the
Central Texas Teachers association
will be held at Calvert on Friday.
The Southern Pacific announces
heavy reduction in freight rates be-
tween Ell Paso and California points.
At the grand Union Alliance picnic,
three miles south of Whitewright, last
Saturday, 1000 people were present.
The Salado cotton crop has done all
it can do without rain, and unless
rain comes will soon commence to
throw off.
Mr.. Aaron Chinn, employed on Hen
nessey & Thomas ranch, in Calhoun
county, was seriously gOred by an in
furiated bull, while trying to saw off
his horns.
Galveston's "first bale" arrived yes
terday from Aneckeville, De Witt
county, and is shipped via New York
to Liverpool.
An Inn fioc In oil in
the Dallas county Jail with the other
prisoners, for want of accommodations
in the asylums.
Joe Huff, while catching behind the
bat in a colored base ball game at
Sherman, was struck III the head and
perhaps fatally wounded.
The 5-year old son of DIR. J. L..
Bailey at Ba Hey Station is accident
ally poisoned by being given a dose of
creosote inste ad of quinine.
A Young man named r. J. Osborne,
a resident of Gilmer, Texas, while at
Texarkana, fell on the street overcome
by the sun, quickly expired.
Work on the Marshall terminus of
the Paris, Marshall and Sabine Pass
road will be begun in few days, and
the road built TO Gainesville before
fall.
Nothing of the whereabouts of J. T.
Lunn, the man who mysteriously dis
appeared from Fort Worth, is known.
1t was reported he had been seen in
Louisville. His wife believes him
drowned.
The wife of r. NJ. Burrus, a farmer
near Blooming Grove, while attempt
ing to light the fire with kerosene, is
burned to death, and her aged father,
who tried to save her, was badly
burned.
At Vernon, while the lunar eclipse
was in progress, a ball of fire about
the size of flour barrel fell. 1t
emitted blue blaze. and was some
time in falling, and made the earth
shake when it finally reached it.
The fatted calves have been slaugh-
tered, swine, mutton and kid have
been prepared. and the work of barbe-
cuing 1850 to 5000 pounds of meat
has begun at Arlington. 1t is expect
ed the biggest crowd ever present will
be there.
A carefully prepared summary of
this years crop report for Texas
shows: Oats, As bushels per acre;
wheat, Is per acre; corn, 80. The hay
and fodder crop will be 2 1-2 tons per
acre; cotton acreage is SO per cent;
saccharine, sorghum and sugar cane
are about so per cent above an average
in acreage,
A man at Belden, while digging a
well, feeling himself becoming over
powered by the fire damp, called on
his companions to draw him up,
which was promptly done, but he fell
back when near the top, and the men
present could not relieve him; he was
taken out, but all efforts to restore
him were useless.
Cipriano SECURE is stabbed and
killed at the San Mateo Ranch by La
faro Saldovar, who crawled up behind
him and plunged a knife into his
heart. The victim had formerly given
the murderer q sound licking, which
prompted the revenge.
Alex Mitchell, a leading colored man
of Tyler and one of the county com.
missioners, has appealed to Sherfl
Marsh for officers to be sent to appre-
bend the assassin who shot him from
ambush. This was done but the of
fender has not been caught.
About 4 miles from Flatonia, yes
terday morning the front train of q
freight broke in two, and the lattel
ran into the rear end, totally demol.
ishing eight cars, one caboose and tn,
engine. No one hurt.
Mrs. Ann Hardin, who has just dice
in Hillsboro, was historically one o
the most noted women in Texas. Sh,
came with her father to Nacogdoche
county in 1927. She was captured b,
the Indians when a child and rescued
and was the first white woman mar