San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-03
State News Condensed.

Gently caught near COtulla station.
Work on the new court house at
COnroe progresses.
Sam Jones has begun his harvest at
Tyler OF sinners and shekels.
An oil mill and national bank are
in contemplation for Hampstead.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande is
located to Corsicana.
A college for boys will be built at
Bolton.
LAGRANGE is making forward
strides.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Wheeler is
candidate for governor ofTexas.
George Blaisdell suicides at Dallas
by cutting a vein in his arm.
The charter of the Waco summer
normal is forwarded to Austin.
TIC. Sparks, of Waco, dies after Il
surgical operation.
Five buildings are destroyed by fire
at Ballinger.
West Texas wants another train on
the Texas & Pacific. = -
Stone is being hauled from the
quarries near Granbury.
An epidemic of measles has pos
session of Comanche.
The Fort Worth packing house pro
ject moves bravely on.
Palo Pinto county redeems 81 900
bonds.
The machinery for A 6ilene's p,sner-
al woodworking establishment is be-
ing placed in position.
Veterinary Surgeon +. J. Bailey is
shot by Earl Reagan at Pearsall.s.. He -
will probably die.
Cameron, Castles and Storey, large,
wholesale grocers of Waco have sold
out.
Lightning struck church five
miles from Van Alstyne and burned
it down.
The Granbury dramatic club are
preparing the Lancashire Lass for
presentation.
The Cotton Belt promises a double
daily passenger service from Fort
Worth on April 18th.
Lovelady and surrounding country
have been visited by terrific wind
and hail storm. -.
The storehouse of r. G.. Holbert
with its contents is destroyed by fire
at Cisco.
The sugarcane crop throughout the
state has been very badly damaged,
if not destroyed.
About twenty-five employees Of the
NJ. X. & II. machine shops at Denison
have stopped work.
The man EngeI, who died at the.
Dallas boarding house, was thought
to have been murdered for his money.
At Petty, a small station near Hon.
ey Grove, Captain Hill fell dead of
heart disease while chOpping wood.
All gardens are about demolished
Oy the cold snap in Austin. Many
water pipes burst.
A Houston firm has the contract for
puttingup the tower clock in the court
house at Jasper.
Early gardens at Bolton and other
places are completely ruined by the.
severe cold.
A brick loaded with gunpowder
was thrown into the parsonage OF the
Baptist church at Beaumont. The.
family were in the room but no one
was hurt.
Percentage of Fort Worth bank
clearings increase for the past week,
to week corresponding of last year is
SO.
A house occupied by Mr.. Fleig
caught fire and was burned at Bren-
ham, the inmates escaping out into.
the freezing cold night.
1t is reported that large quantity
of silver and lead has been discover
ed in the Chlckasaw nation, ten miles
east of Stonewall.
Waco cotton factory, Waco Fair and
Driving Park association, Pecos River
Railroad Co. and Jack County Fair as
ISOLATION file charters
Captain Storey, of Waco, who had
stolen from him two years ago thir-
teen pieces of sIlverware, has it re-
stored by a lad who found it buried
on the east bank of the suspension
bridge.
There is much controversy occa-
stoned at Fort Worth by the screeds
of Dickson Williams who is conduct
ing rivIvals there against the crime
of dancing and similar amusements.
An attempt was made to wreck
passenger on the Arkansas Pass, ten
miles east of Sublime. No one was
seriously injured. Engine and two,
cars were derailed.
Racing on Avenue -.
Yesterday afternoon, a bout clock,
Of lIe,