San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-07
State News Condensed.

Mrs. A. Gibson of Blum has become
insane through religious excitement.
That confederate reunion at Sher-
man is postponed until the 18th inst.
Mrs. John Taylor of Paris is de-
through religious excitement
Several persons killed by lightning
in the northern part of the state.
The new Houston postmaster takes
charge of the office Monday.
That Beach hotel trade at Calves
ton is hung up for the present.
Cleburne is going to work in good
earnest to secure a supply of water.
The pennant Of the Texas state
lea que has gone to Austin.
Atascosa cotton is considerably re-
tarded for want of rain.
A trade of 900 one and two-year old
steers has been made at Blanco.
Total number of arrests in Dallas
for the last month was AT.
Live stock is again beginning to
move freely out of Houston.
The Chicago & Alton will proba bly,
establish city office in Fort Worth.
lucTt Is a ISdt uCal VI
going on at Wolfe City.
Subscriptions are being taken for q
joint stock company to build hotel
at Corpus.
Express companies are feeling the.
acceleration of the business rush
which has struck Texas.
The finest bridge in Texas is said
to be that of the Southern Pacific,
across the San Jacinto river.
At Laredo, a brick building occu-
pied by lawyers collapsed, damaging
their books and furniture 5000.
An election will be held at Baird
September 10 to decide the special
school tax question.
The Waco Day takes the prize for
the best display in the free bridge
trades display.
Waco city council awards contract
for so blocks street paving: 81 As per
yard for blocks; 81 "a tor Telford.
Galveston will receive bids for
building her new cotton mill, on next
Monday.
Austin raises it's broncho heels and
kicks San Antonio on account of fair
delays.
A general fight has takes place at
Hidalgo, up the Rio Grande, between
custom guards and smugglers.
Paris has been visited by heavy
wind and rain storm doing some dam
age.
The farm ers curse Hogg since he
rates a farm ers' trust the same illegal
thing as any other trust.
The Fort Worth Mail is sore be-
cause southwest Texas is to have an
insane asylum.
Texarkana is in a sweat because
the colored people persist in visiting
the public park.
The senatorial committee on arid
lands and irrigation arrived at Ed
Paso September 6.
Lytle and Pearsall play ball for the
4th time and for the 4th time Pearsall
was knocked out.
A little boy fell in to a tub of boiling
water at Hondo City and died of the
scalds.
The Dallas, Archer and Pacific will
begin tracklaying about the lst of Oc-
tober at Aurora.
The Corsicana merchants pay good
prices for cotton to keep prices stiff
against the combinations of outside
buyers.
Rev. Sampy's house, Timpson,
struck by Tightening, burned, family
shocked and would have burned to
death had not the neighbors rescued
them.
The Pilot Point Horticultural socie-
ty held it's monthly meeting at Pilot
Point, September 3rd. They will
contribute to the Dallas fair.
Suit fled at Sherman by w. C.
Eastman, formerly an engineer of the
II. p. for $50,750 damages for being
crippled by collision.
Members of the Taylor Rifles of
Vernon, who raided a melon patch at
Fort Worth, all plead guilty, except
one.
A difficulty occurred at Eagle Lake
between g. f. Johnson, station-mas-
ter and Doctor Longmire, in which
the former was cut by the doctor
with pocket knife. He claims self
defence.
The state treasurer, in obedience to
the act of the last session of the legis-
lature, has stamped all the bonds and
coupons held by the special funds
mot transferable"
The house of Rev. w. A. Sampy,
at Timpson, was struck by lightning
and burned down. Two ladies in the
house were badly shocked.