San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-20
STATE NEWS.

The streets of Cuero are being
greatly improved.
The Waco grand jury adjourns to-
day.
The Farris hotel at Tyler is de-
stroyed by fire.
Spofford has had quite a cold
norther in the last few days.
The A. & NJ. College at Bryan is
allowed Sl9, 800 out of the general fund
and $500 out of the university fund.
There is heavy docket. both civil
and military to be disposed of at
Uvalde this term.
Pearsall had wind storm on Sum-
day and Monday, which amounted
almost to hurricane.
The Marble Falls extension of the
Austin & Northwestern r. r., is 60
ing quietly on.
The brick masons of Laredo are on
strike; several large contracts are
at standstill.
Two Pullman car porters from the
city of Mexico to Laredo were taken
with smallpox.
A literary and musical entertain
ment was given in Fort Worth for the
benefit of the Parnell defeuse fund.
Two hundred quarts of straw berries
have been shipped from Alvin TO Gal
weston and western cities.
Mrs. Plynn, an aged widow, is
found murdered at Crockett. There
is NO clue to the perpetrators of the
deed.
The negro Bill Skies, alias Joe
Washington, who escaped from Jail in
Montgomery is in Houston, and Off
GERS are on his track.
jim Rochelle, a brakeman on the
Cotton Belt road was killed at Gar
land, a car ran off the track and he
was crushed between the car and the
platform.
Green Lynch is sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary for the
killing of A. J. Griers in the northern
part of Fannin county.
AlvaradO business men are in high
spirits about some recent develop
ments, one of which is, that the NJ. X.
and T. train dispatcher's office has
been moved from Fort Worth there.
The committee appointed on the 4th
at Bolton to solicit subscriptions for
the Texas Grand Trunk r. r., re-
ports $25, 900 already subscribed.
At meeting of the Navarro Fair
association at Corsicana, it was de-
cided to pay off the debt of the asso-
citation and continue the annual fairs
with increased capital and energy.
Judge Hamblin, of Harris, proposes
to offer an amendment to the apprO-
priation bill setting apart $500 for the
purchase of marble bust of General
Sam Houston.
The hearing of the application for
the appointment of receiver of the |.
and q. n. railroad, and for writs of
injunction, etc, at Palestine, is fixed
for April l..
A large quantity of rolling stock for
the new road from Monterey to the
gulf port of TampicO, is arriving in
Laredo, and is being forwarded over
the Mexican National.
The charge of swindling against A.
NJ. Ewing, who has been the cause of
so much legal trouble in Galveston of
late, is dismissed for want of evil
dence. He is still in Jail as fugitive
from justice.
Albert Larning of Galveston, L. S.
consul at Bremen has had an inter-
view with Secretary of State Blame
and has been returned to the same
post.
An old man living near Eastland,
became enamOred, it is said, of little
13-year-old girl who was living at his
house and attempted to run away
with her. 1t was fortunately found
out by the child's grandfather who
put stop to it.
A ranchman of Gonzales county lost
fifty head of cattle during the recent
rise in Peach creek, a branch of the
Guadalupe. Another stockman lost
about 300.
The people of Spoftord will try to
prevail on the Southern Pacific Rail-
way Co. to continue their work on the
artesian well already commenced
there, but for some reason discOn-
tinued.
Neal Bryant, a l7-year-Old boy, is
on trial in the district court at Bon
ham for numbering his father. The
father had evidently acted with
harshness in driving the boy from
home, and when he came back to get
some clothing a scuffie ensued, with
above result. The heart broken