San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-28
State News Condensed.

| A Masonic temple to cost $50, 600
will be built at Tyler.
Del Rio business is on the increase.
The First National bank bull ding
at Stephenville is nearing completion.
The grade of the Dallas, Pacific and
Southeastern is finished at Grapevine.
Galveston will subs titute fountain
for the Toulouse in Cen tral park.
Trinity county has redeemed all of
her outstanding bonds.
Pleasanton is sinking an artesian
well on the plaza.
Local option is re-established at
Pittsburg.
Contract is let to build an iron
bridge across the Trinity at McKin-
ney.
Paris is holding tabernacle meetings
at which a thousand to fifteen hun
dred people gather nightly.
Seguin buyers ran cotton upas high
as IL cents last week end drew sup
plies in large area Of country.
The Austin Dispatch complains
cotton buyers driving the cotton trade
away from that city.
ne HISb Ddlt Vi COUJOu ever RlDneu
in La Sale county is baled in the new
gin at Cotulla.
The Austin Greys have adopted an
amendment abolishing their name.
At present they have no name.
The Merchants Exchange of Dallas
pass resolutions favoring st. Louis for
the worlds fair of 1892.
Two families of Brownwood were
poisoned by eating ice cream, but are
recovering.
VIM. Bell a painter of Waco, is bad
ly stabbed in the abdomen by Stella
Ferguson, woman of bad character.
Miss Sallie Cornelius, OF Weather
ford, commits suicide by taking rough
on rats at Vernon.
The Marshall National bank is au-
thorized to begin business, capital
| 100000.
Additional arrests have been made
at Richmond of parties taking part
! in the recent riot.
The boil worm is reported rapidly
disappearing from the cotton fields of .
| northern and central Texas.
J. II. HUMPHREYS of Navarro county
| is given three years in the penlten.
tiary for fence cutting.
f. Arp, the leader of horse steal
ing gang in Falls county, Texas, is
| shot down in the mountains near
Rome, Ga.
Thomas Muse of Mckinney, has
marketed 900 bushels of onions and
| expects to gather more. Some of them
weigh two pounds piece.
A splendid company of Spanish
bull-fighters is engaged for the COM
ing tiestas III September and Deem
| Der at Paso del norte.
Webb county land owners propose
to encourage cotton growing in that
county by distributing cotton seed
among the ranchers.
Charles Munday an English lad,
was taken with cramrs while bathing
Ill the Guadalupe at Gonzales and was
drowned.
The home of jeff Henderson at Ire
| dell is destroyed by fire, his three
children were so badly burned that
one of item died.
Very general disappointment is ex-
! pressed from all points in the state at
the failure to materaliZe of the San
Antonio Fair.
E. d. Strong, postmaster at Fisher,
is being tried in the commissioner
court at Graham OH charge of purloin-
ing a registered letter.
Fire in a dry kiln of the Jeffer son
Lumber Co., at Kildare burned all
the choice lumber in the yard. Loss
es S75, 900. A man was dangerously
| injured.
A man, three boys and dog, TAX
ing shelter from the rain in stack
of corn stalks, mile below Matamo-
ras, were struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
Miss. Swearington of Austin has fin
ished her three years course at the
Conservatory of Music in Austin and
is elected principal of the depart
ment of music in the university Of
Geor getown.
Commissioner Hall says a number
of squatters have taken possession of
lands owned and occupied by real
| purchasers in the Panhandle in de-
fiance of law. He will have them
reported to the next grand jury.
A pupil at the school house at Car
bon being informed that one of his
schOolmates would whip him when
school was out, prepared for the
emergency and attacked him, stab
bing him in the bowels. He then