San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-24
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS WEDNESDAY. JULY a.
State News Condensed.

| IOunu HOallng III tne river AT DALLAS.
An Odd Fellows lodge is organ lied
at Goldthwalte.
I. & G. N. passengers kick against
the ten hour lay over at Taylor.
An effort is being made to org aniZe
a stove factory at Fort Worth.
Weatherford City and Suburban
Railway Co. is chartered.
Texas ball games: Austin II, Hous-
ton A. Dallas 8, Waco 0.
! Two MeXicans are found murdered
at Isleta, IA miles from Ell Paso.
1t is insufferably hot at Rusk and
rain is badly needed.
The Colorado river is falling at Co
| lumbus.
The Mineral Wells street railway
way company is Incorporated
The Methodist quarterly conference
has closed at Giddlngs.
A colored mems state convention is
called to meet in Chicago Aug 20.
Houston Waterworks Co. is supply
ing artesian water to all its customers.
Clay Mann, prominent cattleman of
Colorado, Texas, has died in Denver.
Stephenville is vertically ON q boom.
Salvation army continues to warm
up the sinners at Terrell.
Del Rio reports quail in great abun-
dance, both blue and bob white.
Kennedy camp meeting closed Sum
day night July 81.
A big hotel is talked of for Eagle,
Pass.
Laredo court sentences Marteriana.
Aria to four years in the pen and Will
liam Nichols to years.
Col. MCGEE, living several miles
from Lewisville, has had his arm bro
ken and badly mashed in his press.
Thos. Dargan, put in Jail at Pitts
burg for carrying pistol, made his
escape.
Drs. ssAtlee, Berg and Randolph, of
Laredo, are pharmaceutical eXamin-
ers for that district.
Fort Worth board of trade organ
lied by electing B. b. Paddock presI-
dent.
Rev. Martin IS friends at Fort Worth
will send him forth to preach his lib
eral doctrines.
Sam Rowland, near Seaville, shoots
one Fisher through the leg and sui
cides.
Two cow thieves are shot by cow
boys in the Morrison pasture, 80 miles
from Midland, Howard county.
Honey Grove has had a heavy
thunder and lightning storm, accom-
panied by wind and rain.
Two young men who had gone to
Hot Springs, in Preside county for
their health, were shot in camp.
The first bale of new cotton is sent
to Houston by Mrs. Hauseman of De-
Witt county.
Churches and schools are being de-
stroyed in Van Zandt county by I'M
known iLcendiaries.
At a game of craps in Boliver coun-
ty fight ensued and Isiah Jackson
and Lincoln Miller were killed and
several others severely cut.
The Denver & Fort Worth have cut
rates and the trans-Missouri roads
have applied for permission to meet
the cut.
w. A. Cathey, convicted in Bell
county in 1886 to serve a term Of five
years for manslaughter, is pardoned
by the governor.
Trains which have been very irreg-
ular ON the Southern Pacific for the
last ten days now pass Uvalde on
schedule time.
Gus and George Windus, Kinney
county, report the loss of valuable
stock from camp on DEVILS river,
strayed or stolen.
A negro living in Cass county is
hanged by posse of men for poison
ing the water in the well of his en-
ployer, Mr.. Shaw.
Charles Brown, in blastin q we'll
near Pana, burned himself so terribly
with powder that he seized a rifle and
shot himself to end his misery.
In a difficulty at Spring Branch,
Comal county, Henry Bender shot
Christian Bush. He was arrested on
his way to town to give himself up to
the authorities.
A young lady while shooting at a
target at the Moss Springs, near Big
Springs, Howard county, had the gun
to discharge and injured her foot very
badly. She will be crippled for some
time.
Henry Brown, the colored porter at
the Santa Fe depot at Goldthwaite,
was called out of his house by three
men who said they wanted him to
load cattle at the stock pens; they
then told him they had once ordered
him out OF town, and proceeded To