San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-16
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

at Columbus.
The rush to the Panhandle increas-
es.
OvercOats and fires were in reQuisi-
ton at DentOn day before yesterday.
May Is, % and 80 will be Cotton
Belt days" at the Spring Palace.
The Central Texas teachers qssocia-
ton meets at Hampstead on the 18th.
The Corsicana improvement assO-
citation have changed its name to the
Corsicana board of trade.
Two Santa Fe freights collIded
south of Temple and G. W. BrOclus
was killed.
Waco has formed a campaign club
to be known as the business club of
Waco.
Bishop Johnson will in a few weeks
dedicate the new Episcopal church at
| Cuero.
A consignment of large turtles is to
leave Galveston by one OF the NAL
! lory steamers to New York.
A brick warehouse is being built al
Cuero $50 by 40 feet, near tie :. a. Z.
depot.
A number of HiiloborO citizens So
licit Hon. Seth Shepard 10 become a
| candidate for Governor.
Jack Carpenter, living seven miles
from Pittsburg, suicides by shooting
himself.
Mr.. ROgg, a prominent business
man of DenisOn is found dead on the
floor.
Several levees had to be built some
miles below Richmond to protect the
plantations from the Brazos overflow.
The waters have at last subsidized at
Hampstead, and farmers are able to
get to work.
The Duvall Engine Company, of
GAINESVILLE, o., propose to remove their
entire plant to Sherman.
II. d. Sherry, a carpenter falls from
bridge near jefferson, and had his
neck broken.
Wheat is scarce at Corsicana, and
the mill cannot obtain sufficient for
the best grades OF flour.
More than $4,000 will be expended
upon the NJ. +. Church in Fort Worth
whose corner stone was laid yester-
day.
Another lot of immigrants has just
arrived from New York to Galveston
to distribute themselves in various
parts of Texas.
There is great rejoicing at Tampa
sas over the action of the Austin peo-
pie in subscribing 5000 toward the
Burnett and Lampasas railroad.
Frank Cassidy is arrested for shoot
ing George Edwards at a coon ball at
TeXarkana. The cause was the belle
of the ball.
NJ. S. SINNERS residence at Sunset,
with all its contents is destroyed by
the upsetting Of a lamp which ig-
nited it.
A JOINT stock company is talked of
to buy the Thompson mineral we'll
and property at Sunset, and build
fine hotel.
A heavy piece of timber, being
raised at the Galveston cordage fac
Dry; fell to the sidewalk; injuring
several little boys, one little fellow
will probably die.
Meetings have been held at various
points in North Texas and resolutions
adopted expressing great regret at
the withdrawal of Gov. ThrockmOr-
ton from the gubernatorial race.
Little Ray Booth of Fort Worth
was thrown by his horse against the
iron fonce of the court house. His
skull was fractured and he is in a
precarious condition.
Ben Stokes, while picking up fire.
wood at W1nsbOrO was bitten
by a rattlesnake. Miss Tuck was
thrown from her buggy, had
her arm broken in two places
and was otherwise injured.
Farmers Alliance representative,
DR.. Nc Cune, presents his arguments
on depOts for agricultural products
under government supervision, be-
fore Ways and Means committee.
Three officers of the German Navy
convicted of taking brides from con-
tractors are sent to p-isOn for two
years.
Mayor COttrel, of Cedar Keys. re.
ferred to in yesterdays dispatches,
has terrOrized the town for years.
His pal, the marshal, is under arrest
and Cotttrel fugitive.
"A. J. Anderson of Fort Worth, who
keeps gun store while walking
quietly along the street was deli bera-
tely shot at by +. B. Whitseli, res
taurant man whose reasons are I'M
known. Anderson's body was not
touched by the bullet, but it went
through his coat.
Capt. Mike O'Neal, of the sloop
/ little Willie il nraSantad with an