San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-27
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SATDURAY. JULY 90. 1889. o.
State News Condensed.

Two cars of horses are shipped from
San Angelo to Kentucky.
At Greenville crop reports are en-
couraging.
New bank at Coleman will open
next month.
A number of local enterprises have
started into life at Putnam.
The state grand temperance coun-
Gil convened in Cleburne July "a.
Lockhart gives the 5. A. p. till next
October to reach that city.
Governor Ames is very i'll at North
East ton, Mass, of heart disease.
Rats are playing havoc in the corn
and cotton in Atascosa county.
The summer normal school at Waco
has closed its sessions.
The summer normal for that section
is in session at Paris.
A two story school building is to be
erected at Paris.
A beautiful grove of acres is Sc
lected as the site for the II. p. rail-
road company's hospital at Marshall.
The largest yield of both wheat and
oats is now being harvested in Cole
man.
Between killing dogs and cutting
weeds the Waco policeman has hard
time.
The colored normal at Marlin has
an attendance of 80, with prospects of
doubling the number.
The artesian we'll on Dickey hill,
Waco, for the waterworks, is down
400 feet. They expect to 60 1900.
Thermometer in the office OF the,
Gate City, Laredo, stood 106 at 3p. H.,
Thursday, July %.
Baseball: Dallas 5, Austin 8; Hous-.
ton Z, Galveston 8; Fort Worth g..
Waco0.
One hundred and fourteen head Of
steers are purchased at San Angelo
for the highest price this season, $24.
Mrs. Barr, wife of farmer in Travi
county, was fatally gored by pet
Jersey bull.
Construction train, will begin on the
Waco branch of the S. A. p. about
the middle of August.
Reunion of confederate veterans at
Fort Worth is postponed until Sep
TENDER LIST.
The Gulf, West Texas and Pacific
railroad has reached Beeville. Stock
yards will be erected at once.
The Jefferson Light Guards have
decided to attend the fair at Shreve-
port, La, in October.
The surveying corps at Sherman
have begun to lay OH lines for the
street railway.
l.. J. Mcdonald killed r. J. Will
lians while cut ting saw logs ut Hunts
vile. He surrendered himself.
The local dealers of San Angelo
have shipped $4,000 pounds Of wool to
st. Louis and Boston in the last week.
The cotton crop was not so badly
damaged at Wallis as at first re-
ported.
The alderman of Palestine, charged
with embezZling masonic funds has
been expelled by that body.
A man named H. F. Gray is arrest
ed in Brownsville for swindling a
shoemaker.
Frank Heller, a 17-year old boy in
Galveston, is arrested for issuing
forged order for $40, in the name of
one of his employers.
Tom Hart, living south of Cleburne,
was beating one of his children. His
wife objected, but as that had no
effect she threw pair of shears at
him, which cut an artery and he bled
to death.
The negroes living in the neighbor-
hood of Geo. Lewis, who was lynched,
are arming and trying to mob the
whites. The whites are organizing to
defend themselves.
Unknown persons went to the tent
of Geo. Linley, colored man at
Wolfe City, dragged him out and kill
ed him. 1t seems the only charge
against him was that he was a gam
bier.
A darkey settlement four miles
from Denison is greatly wrought up
over the nightly appearance of the
ghost of an old colOred preacher who
used to live and labor there.
Bunch Williams Arrested.
A new move was made yesterday
evening in the Albert Harry Newton