San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-17
State News Condensed.

A wet norther has set in at Corpus.
Beeville has an enterprising anna
teur minstrel troupe.
Rain has retarded attendance at
the Dallas fair.
The black weevil has destroyed
great deal of the corn crop at Salado.
A young farmer commits suicide
near McGregor.
The Anderson Jail has no occu-
pants.
Reports from the jetty works at the
Brazos are encouraging.
1t is said the Atch!son plan is an
assured success.
Rain is needed at Lufkin, stock
water is getting scarce.
Ground is broken for the artesian
we'll at the capitol grounds.
jeff Watson at Floresville, dies
from being lacerated in gin.
Greenville's new city hall is we'll
under way.
Agent Watkins of the st. l.. A. &
Il. at Greenville, loses package con-
tanning 81, 900.
Fort Worth citizens meet to consid-
or a proposition to build a road from
Fort Worth to Albuquerque, n. M.
All the railroads centering at Hous-
ton, and they number l3, are rushed
with business.
There is much discussion as to the>
site of the proposed Light Guard
armory in Houston.
The Southwest Texas Colonization
company will undertake to colonize
10000 acres in Duval county.
The building activity at New Birm-
ingham is SO great, that demand for
lumber far exceeds the supply.
There are nearly 200 workmen now
employed in the Mexican National
shops at Laredo.
The cotton crop at Hico is going to
be 90 per cent. better than was ex-
pected.
A Mexican woman who kidnapped
an infant at ElPaso is given two years
In the penitentiary.
A freight engine and tender are
ditched at Orange by running off an
open switch.
The McGregor fair is over It was
great success, far beyond the eXpec-
tations Of its managers.
Dozens of cars of machinery are ar
living daily at Jefferson, for the iron
furnace.
Ben Blocker, tried at Texarkana, is
adjudged not guilty and liberated
after being three years in prison.
The heavy rain has been general
oil oln ha C,
Ell Paso.
A T. p. freight ran into a washout
west of Sierra Blanco and the engine
and some cars were wrecked and en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman killed.
The vicinity of Toyah has been in
undated by heavy rains. Tracks are
submerged and bridges swept out of
line.
Christian Fitzgerald, wealthy
stOckman OF Runnels county, is found
wandering about in deranged men,
tai condition.
Stevenson and Smith, of McGregor,
have assigned. They were connected
with Leasing, Solomon & Rosenthal,
who collapsed at Waco.
The Laredo board of trade has re-
ceived a communication from an cas-
tern glass factory, relative to estab-
fishing one there.
Two carpenters working on build
ings in different parts of Fort Worth
fell from the scaffolding and both sus-
tanned serious injuries.
The st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas
asks permission to pay the interest
and take the property out of the hands
of the receiver.
Col. Kal. Sugg, formerly of Fort
Worth, who shot and killed his ranch
boss recently, is arrested at his ranch
in the Chickasaw nation and taken to
Paris for trial.
One of the guards of the convict
camp at Luton accidentally discharg-
ed his gun, the bullet passing through
plank wall, struck a young man who
was passing and caused his death.
Counties along the line of the Dem
yer road in the Panhandle will send
delegates to Austin to confer with the
attorn in relation to titles
of lands owned by the III. & T. C. RR.
company.
Tapped the Till Again.
Adam Tips, charged for the third