San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-19
State News Condensed.

plOWlDS anu piantlns.
A Georgia dealer Is in Fort Worth
after two carloads OF Texas horses.
The new postmaster of Dallas has
taken the postoffice in charge.
Dallas has had crisp norther.
There is loom for Employment in
the pecan region near Cisco.
The Sunday law is being enforced to
the letter at Columbia.
There is too much rain at Overton
for cotton picking.
The Bosque river Water Mill Co.
has filed charter.
A large shipment of beef cattle has
gone to Mexico from Duval county.
The S. A. P. has force of Is carpen-
tiers and 40 laborers at work in their
yards at Houston.
The indianapolis car works have
contract to build 800 box cars for the
NJ. X. & II. road.
Thos. White is killed by his BROTH
er-in-Iaw, Zett Roberts, in Red River
county over family trouble.
The East Texas immigration con-
vention assembled at Tyler Septem-
| Der IS.
During the month 234 bales of cot
| ton and SO car loads OF cattle have
been shipped from Edna.
Mr.. Anderson and Gen. Handy are
the latest names suggested for mayor
of Austin.
Two young men driving at Fort
Worth went over the Trinity river
bluff and were badly hurt.
| An unoccupied balloon is seen
drifting in the air southwark Of.
Paris.
| The second day of the big state
shoot at Fort Worth was great sue
cess.
The remains OF Capt. Shapley p.
| Ross are inferred in lakewood ceme-
| terry, Waco, with Masonic honors.
Hon. r. B. Rentfro has taken pos
session of the office of collector of GUS
toms at Brownsville.
w. Habel, a painter, shot and killed
| a waiter in the Mascot saloon Dallas,
in dispute over the price of bottle
| of beer.
X. f. Gray, at Troy, trys suicide by
shooting himself near the heart. He
will probably die, leaving a wife and
two children.
Pate, the farmer arrested for forgery
at Sherman, whose bond in all the
cases against him amounts to S., $50.
has failed to secure it, and goes to Jail.
A brakeman fell asleep on the track
while waiting for train at Howth,
and was knocked in the back by the
/ engine and thrown off the track. He
was painfully, but not fatally injured.
An important order mas been issued
from the adjutant generals office, re-
| organizing and remodeling the vOlun-
teer troops of the state under the
amended militia law.
| An aged man, proprietor of lodg-
ing house near the depot at Ell Paso.
is nearly murdered by persons I'M
known, for his money.
Horace Arnold while horseback
riding at Greenville was thrown
about 80 feet by his horse and inter-
nally injured.
Burglars made a raid on the resi-
dences of several prominent citizens
of Houston and secured some valua-
BILE plnnder.
Engineering corps of the Taylor,
Bastrop d Houston railroad is now in
| Houston running lines to select a
place for entering.
| Hanson, who was so badly shocked
by coming in contact with an electric
wire In Houston, has died of lockJaw,
the result of the shock. -.
| Several persons at Terrell have or
ganized poultry association. They
have started with the finest breeds
Of chickens.
The Stephens Changers beat the
Cisco Crescents at baseball, in score
of IA to IS. Hickory Grove played
Longview with big victory for the
| latter
The ,djutadt general of the state
has o, Tered the E. w. Taylor Rifles
of Fort Worth TO disband. Cause of
order is that the company went into
another county without permission
and behaved in a rather undignified
manner.
Hon. Oscar H. Cooper respectfully
declines to "resign his present honor
able and better paying position, for so
subordinate place as mere assistant
professor at $4,000 salary, even in the
University of Texas"