San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-24
State News Condensed.

III ROOu WOrhlnS oTuer.
Fifty-two quarts of straw berries
were shipped yesterday from Alvin.
A gentleman at Alvin recently sold
his garden farm of ten acres for $ll00.
Mr.. Charles Sosse, a German farmer
of De Witt county, suicides.
A large brick kiln Is opened at
Cuero.
Floresville farmers are busy prepar-
ing for their spring work.
La Grippe has laid up abont 800
Austinites.
Taylor has an abundance of pure
sparkling water in the artesian well.
Weimar is being canvassed for a
first national bank.
Texas public school expenditure
last year was 81, POO, 900 and scholastic
population 52S, 600.
The meeting of the baseball league
at Waco was very harmonious.
The citizens of Lewisvill went ae
bank.
Building goes on very lively in all
parts of FlOresville.
Little Ioakum is booming and will
soon be quite a railroad center.
Two prisoners at Orange sawed the
bars of their cell and escaped.
Gaiensville's prospects are bright
for securing a federal court
The Terrell collar factory is running
with more orders than it can fill.
State Senator Kimbrough's boy.
! Jake dies at Mesquite Of congestion Of
brain.
Substantial Improvements are being
made and property is increasing liz
value at Jacksonville.
Additional attachments are filed or
the attached stock of ). Hellborn of
Texarkana.
The negro who assaulted a school
| girl at Wolfe City has been caught
He narrowly escaped lynching.
A carload of rich ore has arrived in
FL PasO, from a mine in Mexico which
belongs to lady of that city,
A German falls down Oh the streets
of TeXarkana from stangulating her.
MIA and will probably die.
A joint stock company has pur-
chased the telephone line from Bal
linger to San Angelo.
About 80 pupils of the public
schools of Palestine are down with
the grippe.
The bear which killed its keeper at
Paso del NOrte is still at large He
has been seen near Fort Bliss.
Rangers are wanted in Hardman
county, trouble being apprehended
at the next county seat election.
Will Cornell, who was shot by Ros-
| borough at a dance near Marshall, is
| dead.
c. f. Bebee gets s., 1000 for being
placed on the black list by the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway Co. at Fort
| Worth.
The National bank of Dallas, capt.
| tai 100000 and National bank of
Amarillo, S5O,OOO are authorized to
begin business.
| The large stable connected with the
| Burnett hotel is burned with twovalu-
! able horses, harness and feed. Loss,
| $500; no insurance.
Miss Maggie Miles commits suicide
at Lutkin. She recently attempted it
at the Hutchins house. Houston, but
was frustrated.
Parmly Post G. A. II. and the La
dies Veteran Relief corps, of Fort
! Worth, gave ball for the benefit of
the ex-Confederate home at Austin.
Andrew and Charles Biermann,
charged with assault on Mr.. Apelt at
Comfort, will have an examining trial
February l.
George Share OF Fort Worth, let
fall pistol he was handling when it
went off and the ball struck inward,
fatally injuring him.
The IO-year-old son of Major Epping
has been run away with by his horse
at Abbot and had part of his skull
fractured.
The session of X. OF l.. Just closed
in Houston was very harmonious
They endorsed the platform adopted
by the National Farmers Alliance.
The express robbing prisoners at
BrownwOod have been fully identi-
fed and they are held on trial for
murder. In default of bond they
have been put in Jail.
Corsicana is very anxious for the
! extension of the Fort Worth e. Alex
andria railway. 1t would open up
the .pineries to an immense lumber
trade.
Two years ago while in one of the
boats of the Houston Navigation Co.,
Mrs. Markham was struck by a flag
staff and died of her injuries. Her
husband gets 81, 275 out of $4,000 he
sued the company for.