San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-06
State News Condensed.

in Hunt county.
First Nationl Bank of Rockdale will
be open for business January2.
A crazy Frenchmen commits suicide
at Sweetwater.
The old court house at Montgomery
to be sold at auction.
The Saint Isabella Irrigation Co.,
Of Reeves county has chartered.
The Austin confederate no now
has AZ inmates.
All the Ell Paso railroads are doing
big business.
The survey of the S. A. p. to Lare-
do is completed.
Great preparations are going on at
at Laredo for the coming fiesta.
A car load of registered Herefords
is received at San Angelo.
The electric moter railway at Lare-
do has been satisfactorily tried.
Large quantities of Laredo coal go
to Mexico.
Mr.. Anderson, an attorney of Wa
co, was horribly gored in the face by
cow.
VIM. Holland, of Baltimore W i'll be
manager of the Dallas team next
year.
1t appears to be settled that the st.
Louis Republic will be established in,
Dallas.
The new gin at Floresville built
on the site of the burned one will
soon be ready for use.
The new assembly hall of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college is
now finished and in use at Bryan.
Six of the men arrested on suspicion
of train robbery in the Territory are
reclaimed on having proved alibis.
The Bell water company of Waco
! will boon have thirty miles of mains
laid.
Mr.. Conklin, head of large whole
sale drug house and an old citizen
dies in Houston.
There are $50 Masons in Houston to
attend the meeting of the Grand
Lodge there.
A row of two story houses is burned
in East Dallas. Very little of their
contents was saved.
George Kimbrell, a cowboy on a
ranch at Midland, was badly gored
by an angry steer.
Mr.. Crook of Hampstead, mourns
the loss of two of score of fine, fat,
imported porkers, enticeG out OF
their enclosure.
The Ocean View Hotel company of
Arkansas county and the San Antonio
& Arkansas Pass telegraph company
file charters.
During November the land office
leased Is, 440 acres of university and
1876, 651 acres of school lands, and sold
IL, 200 acres of leased lands.
A pasture two miles west of Pleas
anton is burning. 1t will be rem
dered almost worthless for the win
ter.
The trial of Dick Spring field,
charged with killing Steve Alchi in at
Hampstead, begins next Monday in
Houston, on change of venue.
The mixed train due at Waxaha-
chic jumped the track and several
freight cars were wrecked. No one
was hurt.
J. Lewis, of Waco, is given $1,000
damages against the National Com
press company for injuries received
Wnlle WORKING Inere.
While G. E. Frye, a carpenter, was
digging in his cellar at Big Springs,
part of the earth fell on him and
broke his right leg.
The Bacchus, an elegantly fitted
saloon at Ell Paso, owing to the sup
preston of gambling has closed its
doors.
A negro woman living six miles
from Hillsboro left her two children
in the house, and when she returned,
the house and two pickaninules were
in ashes.
A beer saloon and lunch stand at
Hampstead, was burglarized and half
a large western cheese and roll of
bologna were taken. A large limbur
ger cheese was not molested.
Mrs. Charlotte Thedens VS.. the Tex
as & Pacific railway at Fort Worth,
gets $4,000 damages for the death of
her husband, killed in that lines en-
ploy.
A young man hauling brick across
the Trinity river bridge at Dallas
was thrown under the horses feet and
wagon wheel passed over his neck,
breaking it.
Two gentleman were held up by
two foot pads on one of the principal
streets of Houston at o'clock in the
evening. One got off without loss,
two other was robbed of $40 and his
gold watch.