San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-05
State News Condensed.

street railway at Longview is dead.
Board of trade officers at Beaumont
are elected for the ensuing year.
Bonham is jubilant over the success
of her first attempt at fair.
Property ON the heights at Laredo
is being sold rapidly.
Contract is let for the Mills county
court house.
A negro shoots himself in the cellar
of drugstore at Marshall.
A large number of strangers are ar
irving in Laredo.
The asylum commissioners are in
Castroville.
The new we'll at Spofford will soon
be completed.
Mr.. Foster of HillsborO, who was
shot by his little son, Is dead.
The Pecos City News will make its
appearance, October II.
The irrigating canal at Pecos CITY
will water the town in about month.
Some prisoners from the Giddings
Jail have escaped.
The interior towns of Edwards
county are improving.
Palestine has had an unprecedent-
ed cool spell.
A large corps of skilled workmen
have arrived to work on the Jefferson
iron furnace.
The Franklin county wool growers
association have sold their wool, 25,-
600 pounds, for % IA cents per pound.
Some very fine rice has been grown
in the vicinity of Fairview, near Ter
rell.
The Grimes county fair has ended
and was very successful undertake
ing.
The town of Black Jack Grove is
Improving itself with new brick build
ings.
Sheriff and posse are in pursuit of a
gang of horse thieves who have raided
the Nueces canon.
The fourth day of the Alvord fair
opened with fine weather and increase
of visitors.
The general State Baptist conven-
ton was called to order in Houston,
October 4th.
The trade for $4,000 acres of land to
large German county is closed in
Cooke county.
Y. NJ. G.. A. of Hous ton, will hold
annual meeting and elect directors
next Thursday.
Cotton picking, corn gathering and
hay moving are all progressing at
Edna.
Since first of July, 100 carloads of
cattle have been shipped from jack
son county to New Orleans.
Numerous heavy suits against the
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas in
stituted by citizens of Sherman are
going on IN the district court.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande, by
next Monday will have construction
trains running within half a mile of
Stephensville.
Collector Rentfro of Rio Grande
City, has appointed his tather-in. law
deputy at Point Isabel and his broth
er-in-law is deputy at Roma.
At Texarkana, Mrs. Frank Evans
files suit against the 81. Louis, Ar
kansas & Texas for $1,000 for loss of
her son, killed at Pine Bluff.
The money for the establishment of
branch of the st. Louis Republic at
Dallas is not yet secured, but proba-
bly, soon will be.
The jury at Fort Worth in the case
of w. F. Suddeth, charged with kill
ing John Chrisman, were unable to
agree. They stood six for conviction
and six for acquittal.
Mr.. Contreres, an old resident at
Rio Grande City, has been killed by
the accidental discharge of a rifle in
the hands OF George Decker, a promi-
pent merchant.
The 9-year old daughter of a ranch
man % miles from Eagle Pass, had
her cheek torn and her finger shot off
by the discharge of a rifle with which
her little brother was shooting.
Senator ingalls, opened the deep
water convention this morning with
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