San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-05
State News Condensed.

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Several new iron bridges are to be
erected in Tarrant county.
Criminal court commenced at Gal
weston yesterday.
There Is shortage in the trust
funds of the penitentiary at Rusk.
The Uvalde grist mill is not work.
ing at present, needing repairs.
Atlanta is enjoying building
boom.
Artesian water at q depth of 100 feet
Is struck near POttsbOrO
A telegraph line is wan ted between
Beaumont and Sabine Pass.
Work on the Houston and AIexan-
dria branch of the s. A. P. has begun.
The crying demand on all the
freight lines is for more freight cars.
The Santa Fe pays out over s2s, 900
monthly, atTemple.
Several more large land sales are
on foot at Beeville.
Some heavy cattle transactions are
on hand at Floresviile.
Ex-Postmaster Kinney ia appointed
assistant postmaster at Austin.
Emigration continues to pour into
Taylor county.
A large acreage of wheat is being
sown at Richardson.
The Bell county teachers associa-
ton Is meeting at Salado.
Anson had housewarming in her
new school house building.
Ground IL broken for the Mer..
chants and Farmers national bank at
Abilene.
The Sherman and Denison electric
railway and power company is Or
ganized.
Beeville and county are hustling to
get their fair exhibits to San An
tonic.
Mr.. Gillette brought to Gonzales a
stalk OF cotton seven feet in height
with 465 matured bolls on its stem.
The Mexicans connected with the
Methodist denomination at San Mar
cos will erect church at that place.
The Young Mems Progressive Asso-
citation, OF Jefferson, discuss reorgani-
cation of the city.
Tom Morris, a contractor, is found
dead in his bed at Dallas, from hem.
Orrnage OF the lungs.
Mr.. Latimer made 1000 gallons of
molasses from twelve acres of cane on
his farm near Clarendon.
Mrs. Vineyard, of Hillsboro, has
raised a second crop of potatoes this
season on the same ground.
A disease, supposed to be swamp
fever, has broken out in Fannin coun-
ty.,
The sale of lands for taxes in unor-
ganized counties began yesterday in
Austin.
Gov. Ross has not yet returned
from his quarantine inspection trip
down the Rio Grande.
Col. II. B. Chamberlain of Denver,
makes an address in Fort Worth on
the growth of cities.
Mr.. Brown of Fort Worth has paid
his creditors $4,000 so far. All
claims will be satisfactorily settled.
An old gentleman named Berry is
accidentally shot while he and his
friends were turkey hunting out from
Decatur.
A prominent stockman named Rob-
erts, of Ell Paso, had difficulty with
q man whom he had employed and
both were fatally shot.
The demand for dwellings at
Weatherford is so great that a branch
office of the American Building and
Loan association is established there.
The Farmers and Mechanics Ma
tional bank of Fort Worth has lost
five boxes of silver dollars, 81 900 in
each box.
Gov. Ross has purchased block
of Laredo real estate on the heights.
An artesian well is being bored ON
the heights.
| Hands are so scarce at Waco, that
one firm employs its Office artizans on
manual labor on an urgent job. Pro-
prietors have their coats off in many
| places.
Commission men in Kansas City
claim to believe that the prices of beef
cattle will be better during November
and December than at any time dur
in the year.
Texas cattle are now selling in the
Chicago market for less money than
the common canning stock sold for
during the hard times of the drouth
year.
A man is caught by one hand in
the bagging factory machinery at
Galveston and his body gradually
drawn in and wound around the
windlass. He was SO fearfully crush
ed that survival is almost impossible.