San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-08
State News Condensed.

Beeville has a deluge of buyers and
prospectors.
The Western Union telegraph line
is now completed to Beeville.
Base ball: Austin II, Galveston 6,
Fort Worth S, Houston 5.
The Corsicana Courier is suspended,
but will probably be resumed soon.
Chappell HIPS first bale has come
| in.
The FL Paso custom house will have
Marble Falls granite trimmings.
Rain is greatly needed at Bastrop
| for the cotton.
| ProspectOrs are at Utopia, looking
| towards establishing a large ranch.
The artesian well at the Laredo
electric works is down 80 feet.
Washington county is talking up a
| fair for this fall.
Brennan Banner says the cotton
| crop in the east end of that county is
a failure.
The decomposed corpse OF man is
| found near Forney. His skull and
jaw-bone were broken.
Danny Hardeman, a farmer living
few miles from Aubrey is kicked to
| death by a mule.
At Bedias. Mrs. Arch White lighted
| the fire with kerosene and was burned
| to death.
The state grand lodge knights of
| Honor, in session in Paris, have cleo
| ted officers.
will C.. Johnson of Kildare, was
cruhsed to death by large log rolling:
| from his wagon on him.
The Polk street bridge at Jefferson.
which spans the bayou, fell in, for
tunately there was no one on 1T.
Active movement is being made at
| Texarkana to obtain relief from the
| excessive freight rates.
A residence at Dallas just COM
pleted, value So, 900, and no insurance,
is destroyed by fire.
What is supposed to be a gun cot
ton bomb has been found on the roof
of a house in Dallas.
| Mr.. Boiling of Carauchua bay, has
killed big alligator, which for some
time had been killing his sheep.
| Ell Paso complains that the clubhouse
nuisance endangers the health of the
city.
| A pegro was arrested at Sherman
with $93 in bills he had stolen hidden
in his shot gun.
| Boil worms are in Grayson county
cotton. No serious damage done as
yet.
| District court of Webb county has
| finished it's criminal docket and adj
journed Tuesday the Sth.
Ex-Governor Hunt has contracted
at Memphis for a steamboat to run
| between Laredo and the coal mines
on the Rio Grande.
| Mrs. Laura Foute, editor Ladies'
| Messenger, who has spent her sum-
mer vacation in the Black Hills, has
returned to Houston.
The deadlock in the Ell Paso coun-
Gil between the democratic mayor and
republican majority continues and the
city is without police force.
| DISTINCTIONS were found along the
track by passenger train to Laredo,
between Twohig and Encinal stations
on the 1. & g. n.
The Galveston baseballists are very
likely to play a series of games with
Houston and Dallas after the regular
season closes on the 10Th.
| Inc w eaUn6rlOru MlneEdl w Oils N
Northwestern R. r. is under way, it
will probably be completed IN about
60 days.
Twelve of the Cedar Creek rioters
are sent to Jail, five were dismissed
for want of sufficient evidence against
them.
A Holiness band, holding forth
north of Bonham was fired at by
party of armed men. The fire was
returned and battle ragged, no one
was badly hurt, but further trouble
is expected.
Hector Slaughter, love-sick swain
of Joshua, on finding the young lady
of his choice engaged to the other
man, sawed his throat and swallowed
pounded glass. He did not die at
once, but will probably not recover.
A small negro boy kindled the fire
in the kitchen of Mr.. Rosser, living
just out of Floresville, with coal oil,
which exploded setting the house on
fire. destroying it and the barn. Loss
between S4, 200 and $1,000; no insur-
ance.
Mr.. Bostwick an elderly gentleman
leading bull by rope through
the streets of Waco, had his thumb
torn off by the bull getting FESTIVE
and pulling on the rope. He may die