San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-17
State News Condensed.

Hogs around Cameron are dying
with cholera.
The pecan crop in Eastland county
is unusually heavy.
The hotel man shot by the con due
tor at Ell Paso will recover.
Waco offers ground and free water
for the NJ. X. and T. railroad shops.
Mr.. A. l.. Cashell is appointed dep
uty U. S. marshal at Del Rio.
Cuero weather 8 clear and favorable
for cotton.
There will be an alliance picnic at
Alvarado, July 10.
Baseball: Galveston 3, Waco 1;
Houston 2, Fort Worth 5.
Contract is let to build nine iron
bridges in Tom Green county.
A negro stealing ride on freight,
fell and was ground to pieces as it
came into Mt. Pleasant.
A gang of negroes at Mt. Pleasant
have been Systematically robbing a
dry goods merchant.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Burch is arrested charg-
ed with setting fire to the residence
of E. Burch at McGregor.
Bosque county peach crop this year
is valued at $50, melon crops at
S4l25.
Last weeks rains left bridges and
roads in Kaufman county in bad con-
dition.
Alvarado citizens petition the city
council to issue bonds for high school
building and street improvements.
The Duffa mills and gin have been
bought by man from Wichita Falls
who will soon start them again.
The weather at San Marcos is now
all that can be desired and the cha
tauqua is great success.
Herman Lehman, a section hand on
the H. d T. c., is run over and killed
at Texarkana.
The Fannin Guards will challenge
the Grayson Rifles of Sherman to drill
them at Brennan for $500 side.
The waterworks system at Calves
ton has been tested aud works adj
mirably.
Supreme Camp of the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans at Lampasas, files
charter.
The Galveston water commissioners
and fire department have tested the
new water works for fire purposes.
The three men, Reeves by name,
who assaulted Mr.. Driver in the
Preston bend country, have been ar
rested and taken to Pottsboro.
The first annual tournament to be
given under the auspices of the Eagle
Lake Improvement company will be-
gin July %.
w. r. Jester, his wife and four
children at TeXarkana, were poison
ed by strychnine being put in their
food by unknown parties.
J. G. Allison, of Galveston is ap-
pointed business manager of the state
prohibition paper, the publication of
which will commence in Dallas about
September Is.
Miss Virgie French, of Whitesboro,
was roasted by explosion of coal oil
can. Several persons who tried to
rescue her were severely burned.
The Colorado river at Columbia is
81 feet high and still rising, crops are
entirely ruined. People are moving
to the highlands for safety.
Tom Andrews, the boy who killed
young Harris in Cooke county, has
been caught. He claims he killed
him in self defense.
Henry Springer, the elder of col
ored church in Houston, is under ar
rest for threatening his wife's life and
assault and battery. He attempted
suicide.
A freight wreck occurred July 18th
at Sierra Blanca on the G. h. & s. A.
Engineer and firemen terribly in
jured.
Installation of new officers at the
Georgetown Chautauqua occurs amid
bon-fires, parades, speeches and
toasts.
Some white men went to the house
of respectable negro, II miles from
Bolton, called him out and began
shooting at him. He killed one man
and was in turn fatally wounded. No
cause is known for the attack.
Architect Vail who is i'm this city
inspecting the government building
by authority of the Treasury depart
ment at Washington is proceeding
quietly with his work. He is as ST.
lent as an oyster and all that San
Antonians will ever know concerning
his examination is what they will
find out at Washington after his re-
port has been filed. He was sent
here to examine and report to the de-
partment, not to the citizens of San
Antonio.