San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-25
State News Condensed.

Texas game: houston 10, AUSTIN D.
Prospects tor crops in Mason are
fiattering.
Water works are being established
at Amarillo.
San Angeloites are working to get
Artesian water.
A building and loan association is
organized at Jefferson.
Considerable farming land has re-
Gently been sold in San Angelo.
Lizzie Jordon, negress of Hous-
ton, shot another in the shoulder.
The boy Andrew, who killed Tom
Harris in Coke county is released.
After a controversy of two years,
Paris has accepted the waterworks.
The country around Spofford re-
joices in abundant grass and water.
For the last fifteen days the weather
at the Salado has been splendid for
farmers.
The Evening Herald, new daily
paper, has made its appearance at
DenisOn.
The Ellis county pioneer association
will hold its annual meeting August
6, at WaXahachie.
The II. P. coal company is perfecting
its plans to build railroad from
Thurber to Dublin.
Mr.. Wagner, of Donley county has
thirty acres of corn from which he,
| expects 500 bushels.
Henry Knox, charged with the
murder of John Marchbanks, is ac-
| quilted at TeXarkana.
A brakeman on the New Orleans &
Texas road at Houston, fell from the
cars and broke his leg.
J. p. Anderson is arrested in An
derson, charged with embezzling the
funds of the Masonic lodge.
The electric railway between Deni-
son and Sherman will be in operation
in less than twelve months.
The Bulls mines in Presidio are re-
ported to be turning out silver bricks
at the rate of 500, 900 per month.
Gov. Ross offers 5000 reward for cap
ture of parties who dynamited some
negro dwellings in Llano county.
The burned wooden bridge on the
Mexican National at Laredo Is re-
paired and trains are running as usual.
An Austin bride deserts her hus-
band after the honey because he
| refused to transfer to her all his prop
erty.
The son of J. NJ. Jones. prominent
lumber man of TeXarkana, was fatally
shot in a difficulty III La Fayette
county.
Jeff. d. Hagler, of Montague county,
owns the smallest mule in the world.
1t is only SO inches high and is per-
fectly formed.
The family of Frank Colbert were
| poisoned at Denison by eating canned
blackberries. 1t is thought poison
was put in the fruit.
The remains of a small infant,
| wrapped in sheets, with strings round
its neck, were found while blowing up
round house at Brownsville.
After a prolonged spree, John
Brady, Galveston workman, at
tempts to straighten up by cutting
| his throat. He was removed to the
hospital.
| Adolfo Torres, a young Mexican,
suddenly fell dead on the Main plaza
at Nueva Laredo, it is supposed from
the effects of dangerous wound re-
ceived year ago.
B. H. Campbell of the Cherokee
live stock association, has been
through northern Texas and the.
Territory and reports cattle in good
condition with good water and grass.
While at work in the mandatory
of w. G.. Schwartz, In Houston, H. G.
Morehart was bitten by tarantula.
1t was thought he would die, but
heroic treatment has resulted in q
change in his favor.
| AS the coast steamer Friendly was
passing down the bayou at jefferson,
she struck one of the Chicago iron
syndicate's barges. Two men were
knocked over board, but reached the
steamer unhurt, the barge sunli.
Nearly all those injured by the
wreck on the Mexican Central near
Chihuahua have been discharged
from the hospital. The newsboy
VINO had his leg amputated is get
ting on well.
Mayor Connor of Dallas received
postal card from carpenter, stating
that he wished work and a wife, and
requesting the mayors assistance as
he was stranger. Says he is not
particular as to looks provided she
can work, and that he is democrat
in politics.
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