San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-31

STATE NEWS.

Marienfeld, Mineola and Iredell
have had heavy snow storms.
A brick yard has been established
within three miles of Cuero.
Beeville is said to be infected with
gamblers and sneak thieves.
Bracket is having spring weather
and everybody is tree planting.
Two more bridges across the Quad
alupe river, are spoken of as certain.
The new annex building at George
town is nearly completed and Is very
handsome.
A new bank to be called the Ma
tional bank OF Commerce is to be open
ed in Dallas.
The lunch room at the Union depot
mornings ago.
Two cab drivers had fight at Ter
rell, and one broke the skull of the
other with blow.
Cattle on the plains are looking
very sleek and fat, they will enter
upon spring in fine condition.
A jewelry store in Piedras Negras is
vi ID bIlOuSdUu
worth of watches and jewelry.
A little boy of Mr.. G. B. Archer, at
Beeville, swallowed a copper cent
piece. 1t, did not appear to affect
him.
At mass meeting IN Waco resolu-
tions were made concerning the pro-
posed new charter before the legisla-
ture.
G.. A. Henderson is killed at Nava-
sofa by falling between the freight
and his derrick car he was trying to
jump on to.
Excitement is increasing in Calves
ton. Last evening 20 cases of small
pox were reported and 80 people in
quarantine.
In Sherman there are 200 well-to-do
and respectable citizens ready to
march to Oklahoma at the word from
Pawnee Bill.
Mrs. Henry Gregory who lives four
miles north of Rusk, is found drowned
in well near her house. She COM
mitted suicide.
The citizens of old Montgomery
county do not favor the creation of a
new county at the expense of por-
ton of her territory.
Kyle is now having fine weather,
but it will be week or two before
the roads are in condition for load
to be hauled over them.
Carrollton has had rain almost
every day and night. The wagon
roads are almost impossible. All
farm work at a standstill.
Western hidemen will take steps to
memorabilia congress to provide an
adequate duty on the importation of
hides. A conference was held at Del
Rio yesterday.
A big blaze in Galveston yesterday
morning destroyed the Santa Fe
roundhOuse, containing new machin-
cry at sec, 900, and valuable documents
and private papers.
Charley H. Balch. near Walnut
Springs, shot his young wife, TO whom
he had been married only two
months, and then himself. Financial
trouble probable cause.
Big Foot Wallace, of Frio county,
the celebrated Texas Indian fighter is
in Austin to see il the legislature will
do anything for him in acknowledge
ment of his service to the state.
Emma Logan, Charlie Williams
and Emma Harrell, the alleged muir
deGers of A. S. McCarty at Texarkana,
on Christmas night, are convicted of
cruel and unprovoked murder.
John Craig, a white man, is ar
rested at Palestine for bigamy. He
has grown children two months ago
he eloped with 16-year-old girl, forg-
ing marriage license. He has two
other wives.
John Palston, young tenant farm
er at Moody, IS arrested upon war
rant from Falls county, charging him
with the murder of E. A. Tull, Octo-
Der 1888, near Mooresville. Palston
pleads self defense.
Mr.. g. S. Boutwell,, of Cotulla, bled
to death from a shot in his elbow,
which severed the main artery. He
had his gun between himself and one
of his boys on wagon seat and it was
accidentally discharged.
The question now asked by every
one in Dallas is, Do the White Caps
mean business. 1t is certain that such
all organization exists in the county,
but up to this time notices circulated
IN the city have been regarded as a
joke. They are no respectors of per-
sons.
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