San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-05
TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1889.
State News Condensed.

The races at the Spring Palace be-
gin today.
Queretaro, Mex, announces her
population at 10000.
Burgess, of Seguin, is coming to the
front as a congressional candidate.
The Y. Nj. C. A. of Laredo is organ
lied.
Mr.. Fulton is elected mayor of Gal
weston with plurality of S47 votes.
Del Rio has had a splendid rain.
Groveton crop prospects were never
brighter than at present.
Houston postoffice handled 24S,S sos
pieces of mail during May, 1889.
Pearsall is once more agitating the
boring of an artesian well.
The FL Paso Light Infantry is or
ganized.
Figs are ripe and plentiful at Eagle
Pass.
The Texas wool growers associa-
ton is meeting at Galveston.
Much needed showers have fallen
at Uvalde.
Baseball Fort Worth 8, Calves
ton 0, Austin 6, Waco, 0.
Charley Gaines, a barkeeper, is
shot and killed in his saloon in
Waco.
Col. Will Lambert has resigned as
one of the directors of the Austin Con-
federate home.
The % Baldwin locomotives ordered
for the II. p. Ry. are leaving the shops
and will be on the rails in few days.
A member of the Brennan Artillery
has invented a new friction primer
and will apply for patent.
Houston's new directory is Just is
sued and she figures a population of
AZ, 10 from the returns.
Galveston will probably be selected
as the best location for the wool eX-
change.
DR.. T. J. Warrington, dealer in gen.
eral merchandise at New Boston, is
attached for s., 800.
The Concho Valley Fair Association
will meet TO take steps toward getting
more stock to hold fair in the fall.
A train of s. cars passed over the
Laredo International bridge on Mon
day, June 3.
Two MeXicans are arrested at
Brownsville on charge of stealing an
OK.
A young man on the Wordsworth
ranch at Uvalde has had his leg brok-
en- by kick from horse.
The soldiers at Fort Bliss, FL Paso,
have deserted, and it is supposed they
have skipped into Mexico.
Ranchmen of Webb county report
rabies prevalent among wolves out on
the range.
The homeopathic physicians asso-
citation of Texas are in annual conven-
tion at Fort Worth.
The Howard cotton seed oil mills at
Dallas are sold to a New Jersey Co.,
tor $4,000.
Prof. Cummings, assistant state
geologist, is again at San Angelo,
looking into the mineral resources of
that region.
Mr.. f. X. Schuyler made trip down
in jeff Davis county ninety miles
after some horses, lost his way, and
was four days without food, until he
finally came upon ranch.
Governor Ireland, Congressman
Grain and others will deliver oratiOns
at Goliad on the Goth in honor of the
completed railroad there.
A man is killed at Belden by lot
of rails falling on him which he had
put up against a tree to protect him
from the rain.
A heavy wind and rain storm is re-
ported in northern Texas. No lives
lost, but several people injured. Crops
and property damaged.
The heaviest rain known there for
years has visited the country around
Gilmer. Six miles out of town a water
spout broke, damaging crops.
State Geologist Dumble and Mr..
Foster, commissioner of statistics
have ended their voyage down the
Rio Grande and sold their skiff.
Alamo Day at the Fort,
The old Alamo city, thanks to the
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