San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-23
State News Condensed.

Property in and around Jackson
vile is changing hands rapidly.----
Sherman appears just now to be
favorite place for forgeries.
The Waco Day was six years old
last Sunday.
A mail route is contemplated to
Garlic Springs.
Gen. Handy, manager of the Aus
tin Statesman, has resigned.
Yesterday was Knights of Pythias
day at the Dallas fair.
The cotton crop of Llano county is
nearly all ginned. S-sr - -
The ladies of Georgetown have or
ganized the Cemetery association.
b. G. Hendricks pleads guilty in
Pearsall court to carrying pistol and
was fined $25. - -
The corn crop of Texas, is said by
statisticians, to be the largest on
record.
In a saloon row at Bolton, VIM. Par
nell was badly bruised up and died OF
his injuries.
w. E. Penn, the Texas evangelist
has Just closed q two weeks revival.
at the Texarkana Baptist church,
John Southern of Sherman received
q kick from a horse which broke some
of the homes in his forehead.
New Birmingham will before long
be q cotton market of no small pre-
tensions.
The Fort Worth compress has
pressed about 1000 bales since re-
Stunning work this season.
Beeville's prospects are frightening
all the time and before spring a great
increase in settlers is expected.
The comptroller has purchased
ST., 900 worth of Arkansas Coun ty school
house bonds.
The $4,000 subsidy for the Fort
Worth a. Albuquerque railroad is
raised.
Permanent organization of the q,
Building and Loan association of Bee
vile is affected.
The Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express of
Chicago has filed copy of charter in
Austin. Capital $3,OOO,OOO.
A train load of Hillsborro cotton on
the NJ. X. & T. siding at Fort Worth
took fire and burned. Loss s., 800
which falls on the railroad company.
The public school at Palestine will
be heated by two large hot air fur
naces with all the latest improve
ments.
A railroad official who is authority,
states that it costs 80 per cent. more
to run a vestibule train than an Or
binary train.
The Abbott brothers at Graham
plead guilty to charge of unlawfully
cutting timber in the Indian territory
and are fined 81 each.
Two little boys at Hillsboro. aged
five and six years, have up to date,
picked altogether 5000 pounds of
cotton.
A small boy of J. w. Harper's at
Itasca, who weighs Sc pounds him
self, picked 253 pounds of cotton in
one day last week.
Walter Warner, 14-year-old boy,
in attempting to jump on all H. & II.
G.. engine at Austin, had his leg
crushed so that it had to be amputat-
ed, he is doing we'll, however.
A burglar was seen jumping from
the window of Mrs. Fitzgerald's resi-
dence at Sherman, he was promptly
collared by a man who was passing
and turned over to the police.
Mrs. Lee Pope of Cotulla, whose
husband was killed in a difficulty
with another man some time ago, re-
Gently had one of her two children
burned to death. In trying to save
it, she nearly lost her own life.
At an exhibition of the Fall of Paris
at Oak Cliff, Dallas, the magazine at
tached to it took fire and five kegs of
gunpowder and about $500 worth of
firecrackers exploded. No one was
| bart.
The following charters are filed in
Austin st. Louis Type Foundry, of
Missouri; III. Halter Manufacturing
company, Of Louisiana; Keystone I'm
plement company, of Missouri, and
Fort Wayne Electric company, of In
diana.
A Ser6nade,