San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-01
State News Condensed.

Business is very brisk at Gonzales.
Terrell has had heavy wind and
hail storm.
Fall cattle shipments have begun at
Midland.
The Standard Oil Co., has been
buying beeves in north Texas.
Crawford has now about three hun
dred inhabitants and fine school.
A large tract of pasture land is
burnt at East Bernard.
Contractors and bricklayers are bad
ly needed in Laredo.
Stockmen of that section want a
beef refrigerator at Dallas.
The safe of butcher in Dallas was
blown open and about $500 taken.
Cotton picking is about over at
SaladO.
Jas. Wilson, section hand at
Hearne suicides by morphine.
O. aries Armstrong, of Dallas, shoots
his wife in mistake for burglar.
Gov. Throckmorton spoke at the
San Angelo fair.
The Guadalupe fair at Seguin has
closed.
There are now only two gangs of
bandits left on the frontier and they
are being holly pursued.
Two men are drowned in Galveston
bay. one was lying asleep on the deck
of a bark and fell overheard.
The gin house and so bales of cot
ton are destroyed at Cheapside. Loss
$4,000.
A force of the Fifth cavalry routed
q party of bandits near the Copenser
ranch, Matamoras.
The thing on all the capitol floors.
had been so badly laid that it is
putting up in many places.
1t is said the Fort Worth and AIbu.
querque will establish two depots in
Tarrant county.
Five pigs eight months old, aggre--
gate weight 1440 pounds are raised at
Pottsboro.
Work horses and mules have been
shipped from Holland to Vicksburg,
Miss.
While shooting quail, Mr.. Calwell,
of Vernon, received load of bird
shot in his face.
The purchase of the Blankenship
and Blake, wholesale dry goods house
at Dallas is contaminated.
Charlie Newman, a Houston school
boy was badly bitten by a snake near
the bayou.
A man named James Roach fell out
of a window in a hotel at Houston
and was severely injured.
The contract between the citizens of
Comanche and the Fort Worth & Rio
Grande railroad is signed.
Business is dead at Grapevine and
few people ever come to town, it is 60
ing to start newspaper.
The attendance on the third day of
the San Angelo fair was as large as
ever.
Jack Holmes, alias "Texas Jack,n
is caught at AshtabuIa, Ohio, with
full counterfeiting outfit.
A young lady at Sherman swal-
lowed cookie bur, the physicians
have been unable to remove it and
she is in a dangerous condition.
A disastrous wind and thunder
storm has passed over Longview, it
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buildings.
The work on the Galveston ietties is
being seriously retarded by the glut in
freights which prevails on all rail-
ways leading into Galveston.
Captain Rosborough of Texarkana,
while giving provender to fine Hol-
stein bull was attacked by him and
badly gored.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of Davis at Fort Worth, convicted
of the murder of merchant Evans, Is
overruled and notice OF appeal given.
Between Houston and Fulcher on
the s. A. P. four gangs of men each
numbering from so to 60 men, are at
work.
DR.. Dean of Hillsboro was held I'D
by highway robbers, but escaped
with the aid of his horse, who became
unmanageable when they laid hands
on him.
Deputy Sheriff Ed. Tidwell of Tex
arkana, had pistol accidents tally dis
charged in his pocket by being struck
by clothes brush with which he was
busting his clothes.
A Compliment.
The members of the KrieSer Verein