San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-20
State News Condensed.

The Farley & Philips Loan agency,
of Ellis county, is incorporated.
A $4,000 opera house is to be built
at Palestine.
Progress is being made on the M.
X. & T. depot at Dallas.
Six carloads of beeves have just
gone to Chicago from San Angelo.
The directory of the Sabine Chan
mel Co., has elected officers.
Two st. Louis ladies have purchased
residence sites on the Laredo Heights.
One of the prisoners who recently
broke Jail at Gilmer has been caught.
A colored man ofJefferson is robbed
of $40 by four tramps.
The rebellion against the Big Four
is growing in Texas every day.
Tom Coffell, who has been confined
in the Brentwood Jail for nearly a
year, makes his escape.
The Mayor of Taylor invites pro-
posals until the 23rd of December to
build schoolhouse.
A crazy Frenchman suicides at Cis..
co by placing himself on the railway
track.
A large planning mill and furniture
factory, at Paris, is destroyed by
fire.
A barn with large amount of fod-
der and valuable stallion is Destroy
ed by fire at Kyle.
The G. II. & s. A. railway compa.
ny will build bridge across Adams
bayou at Orange.
A call is issued to Texas confederat-
es to organize and solicit subscript ons
for the Davis monument fund.
The Union Pacific-Fort Worth deal
is being considered, to be put into
shape and executed.
The Bankers and Merchants Natf
bank of Dallas, capital 100000 has
organized.
Boge Campbell is convicted of cattle
theft at Weatherford and given two
years.
Eagle Pass coal is beginning to at
tract considerable attention from for
eign capitalists.
Greer county citizens will memorial
lie congress to speedily settle the dis
puted boundary line
A lamp exploded in a school house
at Baird, which caused a fright, but
the fire was quickly extinguished.
There will be no bull fight at San
Angelo on Christmas day as at first
stated.
Hon. Il. B. Wheeler, Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, may seek the NOM
ination of governor.
A colored man is called out of his
house, nine miles from Hampstead,
and shot dead by assassins.
All the capital stock has been sub.
scribed to the Denison manufacturing
Co.
A large vein of iron ores has been
discovered, it is reported on the east
ern slope of Mt. Franklin, Ell Paso.
The new wharf at Sabine Pass 4oo
feet long will be completed by Janua-
ry LIST.
The interstate cattle convention
which will be held in Fort Worth
next spring will be the biggest thing
Of the kind ever known in the state.
J. w. Weathers, wealthy citizen
Of Coke county, is killed by a blow
rom Bud Allen, deputy sheriff, in a.
quarrel about horse, which the for
ner accused the latter of stealing.
The engineers en- the G. H. & S.A.
1t Ell Paso threatened to strike in con-
sequence of the discharge of an enpip-
Der by the master mechanic for an Of
ense that the Brotherhood considered
insufficient.
X. L. Springfield tor the murder of
steve Allchin is given 25 years in the
The case was conclud-
n Houston.
Mr.. Gill, of Hills Prairie found a.
legro in possession of his horse and
n the difficulty which ensued. he
hot the negro, killing him instantly.
Beginning tomorrow the It. p. will
un through coaches from Fort Worth,
ia Memphis and New Orleans to
atlanta and southwestern points.
In some parts of Texas, owing to
he warm weather, the grass is grow
ng rapidly and cattle are taking ON
lesh.
Judge Henry A. Fowlkes, one of
he most prominent lawyers in West
'exas and pioneer settler of Colo
ado, Tex, has died in that city.
DR.. Robert Blair, of Dallas, was held
Up by two white men. One he laid
n his back with one blow, the other
utlaw attacked the doctor with, a
.nife, one stab only stopped short of
lis heart by lodging In package of
etters from his sweetheart, carried in
he vicinity of that organ. This is
ase where constancy was it's own re-
Yard.