San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
STATE NEWS.

Tyler has assheavy norther.
Snow has fallen at Whitesboro.
The wheat in Baylor is in fine con-
dition.
Beeville has had steady rain for
"a hours
The Jail at Lampasas has but two
inmates.
The weather at Midland continues
mild as spring.
Cotton bales are still rolling in
the Bellville market.
Considerable money has been made
out Of hogs at Pearsall.
The Winona institute opened it's
doors for business yesterday.
Beeville had brisk norther, but it
subsidized without a freeze.
The remains of a white baby are
found in the river at Dallas. No clue.
Sheep have sold this fall for fully
twice as much as they did 10 years
ago.
The county organization of the
Farmers Alliance convened in Waco
yesterday.
Joe Lane, a 9-year-old lad of Hills
boro, had his leg broken while trying
to rope a calf.
The number of cotton bales shipped
from Dewitt county will probably
number $1,000.
Owing to heavy rains the Guada-
lupe river is higher than for several
previous years.
A gentle soaking rain has been fall
ing at Pearsall; every one counts ON a.
bOuntiful year.
Tom Collier is elected sheriff of
Graham to fill the place of NJ. ID. Wal
lace, deceased.
The Central Texas Medical associa-
ton met in Waco on Tuesday in it's
regular quarterly session.
Terrell and Rhome have been hav-
ing very bad weather, but the rain is
acceptable to the farmers.
= The delegates to the immigration
convention of the twenty ighth sena-
torial district met in Ell Paso yester-
day.
Small groupings of stone coal have.
been found in the bed of Duffau's
Creek, about a mile from the house of
Duffau.
The sheriffs have raided a number
of up river buncos, at Brownsville,
and were aided by the Mexican au-
thorities.
The Dallas and Oak Cliff railway
has received six coaches after the pat
tern of the New York elevated rail-
way coaches.
Brentwood citizens are coming to
the front with subscriptions for the
right of way of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande.
The Bricklayers' union have effect
ed permanent organization in Dallas,
and adopted the standard scale of so
cents all hour.
Cattle rate to Chicago from Fort
Worth will be advanced $3.50 per
standard car, from Colorado City SIS,
and from Ell Paso $40, beginning jan
uary 10.
The special inspector of the light
house board is seeing about the pur-
chase of Point Isabel light house
property and the relighting of the
beacon.
D. r. Webb, connected with the
ieoN WHO iethSl COulpdu vi SdlldudH
county, gives most encouraging &C
count of things in that part of the
country.
A telegram received from Washing
ton at Gainesville, announces that
the government has settled the
Chickasaw gubernatorial controversy
in favor of Byrd.
Texas cattle on the Chicago market
have become a minus quantity, but
their rivals in the shape of cows and
their butchering steers do not seem
to bloom materially.
The steamer Vanetta is a total loss
on Red river, eight miles north Of
Texarkana. The boat struck snag
and sunk In a few minutes.
At board of trade meeting in La
redo, the plans and specifications for
the large hotel to be erected, were
submitted and accepted.
The 13-year-old daughter of Mr.. J.
B. Bronson, visiting friends at Null
len, was caught in the shafting of q
gin, and mangled to pieces.
Bill Brown, who lives five miles
from Burlington, is killed from am
bush by party of II men, headed by
Foote billiard, a citizen of the terri
tory, who is considered bad man.
Baptism.