San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-06
State News Condensed.

Duck, geese and quail are found at
Marble Falls in large numbers.
Virgil Maxey, "the boy evangelist"
is raking IN the sinners at Palestine.
A cold norther accompanied by rain
is blowing up at San Angelo.
A big bear is roped in onDevils riv.
or in the COncho.
A heavy frost at Midlothian has
killed unmatured cotton.
Property sales are lively at Marble
Falls.
Work has begun Oh the city water
works at Cuero.
The First National bank of Cuero,
the third in the town, has opened.
A fine vein of natural gas is struck
in Eagle Pass.
Fort Worth will begin at once on
a ST., 900 high school. This cost Is
exclusive of ground nd furniture.
A very fine residence at Abiline,
belonging to Mr.. Odom, is destroyed
by fire.
At Whites switch, 6 miles from
MIllican, someone entered store and
secured $50.
| Pecan hunters of Burnet county
will send off more of them than any
county in the west.
Both the Central and Santa Fe at
Brennan are doing an immense bust
ness.
The Houston, East & West Texas
railway is putting up many improve
ments in and near Livingston.
Bishop Grant of the colored Metho--
dist church in Texas, has been lectur--
ing in Dallas.
1t is rumored that Major Nalle and
a stock company, of Austin, will start
8 new morning paper.
| A man named Evans was stricken ar
Palestine with black jaundice and
died in two hours.
A tenement house at Victoria
caught fire, but was saved by prompt
aid of the firemen.
Hearne is said to be one of the
healthiest towns on the Central rail-
road.
Fire was discovered in the cotton
on British steamship lying at GAL
weston. By hard work the flames
were controlled.
The governor advertises for plans
and specifications for the southwest
asylum to be submitted at bis office
August 5. 1890.
A boy living 20 miles above Hous-
ton, was killed by a tree he had set
on fire, burning in two and rolling on
his chest as he slept.
A freight train on the Southern
Pacific II miles east of Houston ran
over and killed a young man who was
walking on the track.
The governor issues proclamation
raising quarantine except at such
ports and localities as the health
officer judges it necessary.
The passengers injured by the re-
cent wreck on the Santa Fe, are doing
well. The three supposed to be fatal
ly injured will recover.
A young German girl near Bren ham
while getting supper, had her clothes
catch fire and she was burned to
death.
Mr.. John Batter, was struck by a
piece of ornamental woodwork blown
from the roof of the telegraph office
in Galveston, thrown through the
glass door, his face was cut to pieces.
The steamship Clinton of the Nor
gan line has begun her bi-monthly
trips between Morgan City and Vera
Cruz, and will touch at Galveston GO
ing and coming.
G. n. Gill, the defaulting cashier of
the st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Rail-
way, pleads guilty at Waco to embez-
element Of s., 900, and gets two years
in the pen.
A l3-year-old boy at Brenham
walked along the Santa Fe track on
his way to school, he fell through the
trestle about 20 feet and had leg
broken and other injuries.
A furious storm, the heaviest i'm
years. at Galveston, has almost threat
ened the island with submersion.
Vessels were driven ashore or collid-
ed with each other. Business of ey-
cry kind in the city was brought to q
complete standstill. Much damage
to wires, etc.