San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-01
State News Condensed.

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Hearne is drawing to a close.
A carriage and wagon works is to be
established at Laredo.
Various large business blocks are
nearing completion at Laredo.
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Dallas Il, Galveston IL.
The corner stone of the Bellville
Turn-Verein hall is laid.
Cotton crop at Lyons and Montgom-
cry will be short.
The iron boom is still alive at Rusk.
Rain IS beginning to be needed at
San Marcos.
Stock cattle in Tom Green county
are selling at $3.50 per head.
Tyler will erect a $4,000 school
building.
Public road work is going on at
Belden.
State normal school has opened at
Mineral Wells.
The Bracket light infantry drills
twice week.
Andrew Ballar is fined in the county
court at Terrell 500 and costs for COLI
veying a threatening letter.
The general offices of the T. P. will
be built at Marshall at cost of from
$40, 900 to SD, 900.
Merritt Hart, of Abilene, is fatally
cut by Louis Hillmer; both are scarcely
more than boys.
Imports to Mexico through Laredo
for the fiscal year just closed exceeded
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A saloon at Denison was entered by
burglars and quantity ofliquor and
cigars were stolen, also S25.
Two year old steers are rapidly in
creasing in price and demand at San
Angelo.
The burnt district at Montgomery
is being rapidly rebuilt with much
better class of buildings.
Rev. w. A. Brock, of Holland, aged
So, is arrested for alleged attempt at
outrage on his neice, Mrs. Hilliard.
The strike on the S. A. P. seriously
affected comfort and business inter
ests at CuerO.
The farmers Alliance will build a
roller mill and cotton gin at Graham
at once.
Mass meeting is held at Huntsville
to devise means for supporting the
confederate home in Austin.
Forty-one colored hands have left
Brennan to work at the mouth of the
BraZos.
F. F. Alden, travelling man for
Dallas house, was run over by train
at Ennis, severing one leg from his
body and crushing the other.
The caterpillars and boil worms
have appeared in the Brazos bottom
lands and planters are preparing to
poison.
Two train loads of Tom Green and
Territory steers on the Kansas City
and Chicago markets sold for $50 per
head.
The Panhandle is reported as in q
tlourishing condition, large crops in
sight and a lively stream of immigra-
ton pouring in.
An aggregate of 700 acres of subur-
ban property at Weatherford is trans
ferred to a syndicate of eastern cap
italists for 100000.
While hunting at Beeville, Gustave
Wittle accidentally sho his brother
Charles with load ofgravel, instantly
killing him.
The 18th annual session of the Fan
min county Sunday school association
convenes to-day, August l, at Lado-
mia.
The farmers of McLenna county
have pledged about $4,000 in SUBJ
scriptions to the road improvement
association.
Since the subsistence of the recent
heavy rise in the Brazos, work on the
jetties at the mouth is again In full
swing.
A section boss on the Mexican In
ternational was killed at Aura station
by o Mexican wnom he had dis
charged, slipping up behind him
while at dinner and plunging knife
in his throat. He shot and instantly
killed his assassin just as he expired.
Sweet Serenaders.