San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-10
State News Condensed.


A mail route has been applied for
between San Angelo and Sweetwater.
Grain is coming in lively to Van
Alstyne.
School tax of % cents on 500 worth
of property is voted at Hillsboro.
The East Texas Canning Co. of
Overton, is in full blast.
The Laredo foundry project seems
to have dissolved in the shades.
The west wing extension of the Ter
rell asylum is nearly completed.
Jasper. Burnet, Anderson, BrazOs
all report late falling off of cotton.
The sanitary condition of Palestine
IS being improved.
Several bales of new cotton have
been received at Calvert.
New Braunfels received her first
bale AugustS.
The public park at .Minneola is to
be fenced.
Gov. Ross has consented to deliver
the opening address at the Dallas
state fair.
All subscriptions for the purchase
Marshall are in.
A furious gale prevailed in Calves
ton all day August 8. Damage along
the water front $4,000.
The s. A. p. construction crew is
building a temporary bridge over
Plum creek, four miles from Lullng.
The city council of Greenville orders
issuance of $1,000 worth of per cent
3O-year bonds to build a city hall.
Gonzales has organized branch of
the National Building, Loan and Pro-
tective movement.
The 4th National bank of Dallas
has placed it's $500, 900 stock and will
soon re-organize with S6OO,O0 capital.
An 11-year-old negro boy living east
of GAINESVILLE, threw his 2-year-old
brother in the well.
All the stock, 500, 900, has been
subscribed for the Galveston packing
house.
The new hotel Hamilton at Laredo
will be lit with 100 incandescent
lights.
Fort Worth cattle market is having
a holiday, no sales made and no in
curry IOr CdGIle.
: Galveston's new we'll at the oil
mills, at a depth of l 300 feet, flows
half million gallons day.
r. NJ. Upshaw killed Bob De Berry,
saloon keeper at Gainesville in dis
pute over bar bill.
Collector Quincy, of Galveston, has
made his bond and filed it with the
department at Washington.
A Hardware merchant Of Bonham
has sold over 5000 tin lamps for trap
ping boil worms.
Sherman is about ready to make
contract with consumers for incan-
descent and arc light service.
A local tax will probably be levied
at Baird for the maintenance of the
high school for longer term than
heretofore.
Decatur, Graham, Fort Worth,
Waco, Corsicana and LAGRANGE,
Houston, Pilot Point and Cedar Hill
report exceptionally fine outlook for
cotton.
A Brennan merchant has an cleo
trio alarm attached to his hen-coop
and keeps shotgun within easy
reach.
The government contractors for
lefty work at Galveston have made
assignment, liabilities, So, $40, assets
$4,000.
1t is said that Attorney general
Hogg has ruled that the Farmers
alliance can not organize against
iute bagging without paying tie
penalty under the antitrust law.
J. Hart and Geo. Robinson charged
with illegal Enclosure of land not their
own are convicted in Travis county.
This is the first conviction since the
law was passed in 1884.
J. F. Cleveland of high standing
and character is arrested at Temple
charged with forging the name of a
merchant of Moody and passing same
on the Waco state bank.
The entire country west of Del Rio
has had phenomenal atmosphere, so
dense and with 10 smoky appearance
which rendered the sunlight upon the
ground yellow. 1t was also intensely
hot.
There are not more than a dozen
orphans in the state asylum at Corsi-
cana at present, though applications
have been made for nearly 200. The
superintendent says the Legislature
failing to make funds for the transpor-
tation of orphans is the cause.
The Free Trade Dinner-?ail Empty.
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