San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-03
State News Condensed.

n SOON1 "hN hiohy
house at Gainesville has failed.
A railroad is talked of between
Eagle Pass and Carrizo Springs.
Eight new charters were filed in
Austin yesterday.
Work on the federal building at Ell
Paso is suspended for lack of funds.
The college at Willis is moving
along with great success.
Everything is dry and dusty at
Nacogdoches.
A stockman from Gainesville is
struck by lightning at Richardson.
Richardson has had q light shower
of hail.
Corpus Christians have cotton on
brain.
The NJ. X. and T. promises Bruce
vile new depot.
TheTexas Cattle Trail Railway COM
pany is organized at Albany.
Rev. Thomas Gains is appointed
postmaster at Clarksville.
The old court house at Columbus
will soon be thing of the past.
The cotton crop throughout Walk
er county is now nearly all picked
and sold.
The corner stone of the ST., 000 pub
lie school building at Gonzales will
shortly be laid with Masonic honors.
The Eagle Pass development CON-
pany has struck an oil bearing stra-
tum in their we'll.
The Houston, East & West Texas
suit for foreclosure is still going on in ".
the courts.
Fire starting in a tailor shop at
Weatherford destroyed four frame
buildings.
A Chinese laundryman at Pecos City
is murdered with another Chinee, and
his house burned down.
1t is stated that ST. Louis capitalists
will form syndicate to manufacture
cement in Laredo.
clue to the murderer of conductor
Brown at Sherman.
The boring of the artesian well on
the capital grounds at Austin has
commenced.
The American Horticultural society
will hold its next biennial meeting
somewhere in Texas.
The citizens of Lockhart celebrated
the arrival of the S. A. p. in their
town in royal style.
The Navarro County Fair and Fall
race meeting have begun at Corsi-
cana.
Captain Goode, chief engineer of the
U. s. geological survey for Mississippi
pi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas is
finishing up the work of the survey
ors at Albany.
Mr.. Peter Vogel, boot and shoe
merchant of Gainesville, is reported to
have committed suicide at New Or
leafs.
The surveying corps of the Red Riv-
er, Sabine & Western r. r. are in
camp few miles west of Nacog-
doches.
A difficulty occurred at a cotton gin
house at Thornton between two
farmers. One was killed and the
other escaped.
Fire was discovered in a large
wholesale grocery house at Waco, be-
lieved to be incendiary. 1t was soon
quenched.
w. A. Hearn, apprehended for steal
ing twelve barrels of sugar from Can
non & Co., at Galveston, has had an
examination.
Five fiat and two box cars are
wrecked between Fort Worth and
Handley. The brakeman was badly
hurt.
A switchman in Houston was rnn
over by a freight and his legs were so
badly injured they will have to be
amputated.
Webster McClintock is crushed to
death in cleaning well at Beckville,
by keg of gravel and mud falling on
him through the carelessness of the
man who was helping him.
The National bank of Jefferson has
garnisheed the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande railway company, the Inter-
national Construction Co., and the
International Equipment Co., for ST.
$50, due the bank.
Captain Brooks, commanding Com
pany +. of the state rangers on the
lower Rio Grande, announces the
capture of several of the Mexican
bandits.
Alamo Monument Exhibit.
The ladies having in charge the,
Alamo monument exhibit are work.
ing energetically to present all pos
sible relics and articles of historic in
terest connected with the old citadel
and its defenders, at the fair. At
yesterday afternoons meeting it was