San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-05
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

AND STATE SPECIALS.
Fairview wants a cotton buyer.
Miss Stella Hicks suicides at Miami.
Mr.. l.. Norman's gin at Alvarado is
destroyed.
Arms strong Shoe and Leather Co.,
of Fort Worth, files charter.
A severe sand storm at Jefferson is
followed by much needed rain.
Jas. J. Parker is drowned In Red
River, 20 miles north of Whitesboro.
Elgin's first bale of cotton is re-
ceived.
f. ". Brooks residence at Sulphur
Springs is destroyed by fire.
At Victoria 1925 per 100 is being
paid for seed cotton.
Three colored damsels are arrested
in Houston for battering each other.
Houston's city clock is out of keller.
In Limestone county the drouth
continues. but cotton is doing well.
Henderson is going to erect new
school building.
Several carloads of fat cattle are
shipped from Edna to New Orleans.
Good showers continue to fall in
the Beeville farming region.
A lot of boxes have been imported
for the San Marcos postoffice.
Several substantial buildings are
being erected at Luling.
A Christian church camp meeting
is being held 10 miles from Centre
Vile.
The Peck Wiseman murder case at
Bolton is concluded and he Is pro.
nounced not guilty.
A Greek fruit dealer in Galveston
is bitten by a huge tarantula, con-
cealed in bunch of bananas.
Tighluan Graham has made q de
sign for the AL Hsyne monument at
Fort Worth.
The Samuel Holden Hines lodge
Knights OF Pythias installs officers at
Waco.
At London there is room for q doc
tor, as tbs nearest one is twenty miles
away.
Frank F. Bates, the slayer of A.
E. Frazier of Houston, is in Jail, but
will make application for bail.
Bob Lefors has his collar bone
broken while penning cattle at the
Miami stockyards.
H. P. Gull, the book publisher of
Dallas, Is at liberty under $3.50 bond
for shooting Swami, who is recover
ing.
The Saturday Night Social club is
the name of new society organized
in Houston.
The census numerator has given out
the population of Columbus to be 2, 800
although the citizens declare 1t to be
1000.
One of the boss men at work on the
iron bridge over the Navidad river,
east of Edna, fell rs feet and was
seriously injured.
Mr.. Johnson, attorney for Davis,
the murderer of B. G. Evans, of Fort
Worth, believes he will be able to
save his clients neck.
Three men were struck by light
ming at Mani, while holding q herd
of cattle, several of which were
killed. The men were only slightly
blurred.
The family of J. c. Broughton,
living three miles south of Santo, are
dang erously poisoned by eating of
beef which had been cooked two days
and left to stand in tin vessel.
Two darkies, differ on a question
of history, as to who was the greatest
general, and one fred several shots
into the other at Texarkana.
Mr.. Mercer of Pearsall went to dive
in what he supposed was deep pool,
struck his head on q rock, became
senseless and was drowned.
Constable w. A. Stubs and Mr..
Jim Tucker, of Hallettsville, are shot
down ON the public square by John
Smothers and Bud Kelly. 1t Is not
known at present what the true cir
cumstauces are that led to the shoot
ing.
Mr.. Aubrey of Fort Worth, was
felled to the ground by an electric car
trolley. He was rendered senseless,
but is not dangerously injured.
A young lady fell from the high
bridge that spans Mill Creek near
Whitewright striking on the rocks
thirty feet below and crushing her
skull.
Miss Meckie Southern, of well
known and respectable family at Sher-
man, is wanted on two charges of go
ing into the houses of residents and
taking articles.
Three ladies of color, who consid-
cred that their fair fame had been
roughly handled by an acquaintance