San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-11
State News Condensed.

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at Jasper.
The jeff Davis Rifles bazaar at Jasper
was a financial success.
The Texarkana Call is a new paper
just out and independent in politics.
The laying of the sidewalks pro-
crosses rapidly at San Angelo.
The BRENNAN pulp factory will soon
be in operation.
Eagle Pass wants we'll organized
fire company.
Ground will be selected at once for
the opera house at Eagle Pass.
The little town of Wellborn is stead
lily and rapidly improving.
State Geologist Dumble has return
ed from his official trip north.
Cattle smuggling is lively trade
along the Rio Grande.
An immense brewery is on the tapis
for Fort Worth.
Dave Porter, a stockman of Goliad,
commits suicide at Floresville.
improvements at Denton are OF q
substantial nature.
Castroville city election has taken
place. James Paul elected mayor.
San Angelo has had heavy sand
storm.
Water pipes are being laid in the
courthouse and Jail yards.
placed on her streets.
The First Baptist church of Baird
is now completed.
Furniture is being placed in the.
Terrell asylum extension.
A Grand Army post is to be or
ganized at Marshall.
The Lone Star iron works of Jeffer-
son, give big contract for iron ore.
Maggie Particle, of Jefferson, pleads
guilty to intanticide and gets five
years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Salie Mabrey, OF Denison,
while playing with a loaded pistol
was killed by its discharge.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
firemen have organized a lodge at
Laredo.
Immigrants are coming into Texas
at more rapid rate now than at any
time in the states history.
Messrs Yates and Rhodes store at
Kempner, was burglarized of 5000
worth of goods.
Coleman today has more firms doing
business and carrying larger stocks
than ever before in its history.
The extension of the corporate limits
of Luling has increased the attendance
at school.
A strict quarantine declared
against places in Mexico along the
Rio Grande, infected with smallpox.
Grass is as high and green as in
spring, at Colorado; cattle are getting
tatter and fatter.
Charles Kinsbach, Houstonian,
went on hunt and the report is that
he is blown up.
The Left Handed Fishing club, of
Houston, will launch their steam
yacht next week.
Lum Boatman is killed at Abilene
by a Texas Pacific train while switch
ing.
Fire at the Santo Tomas coal mines,
twenty-six miles up the river, from
Laredo, destroyed a large tenement
house, belonging to the company.
J. r. Cook is arrested at Dallas OF
charge of assault with intent to kill
on Deputy Sheriff Deacon, of Erath
comfy, six years ago.
The largest cotton transaction of
the season was consummated at Sui
phur Springs, 400 bales, the check
amounting to $4,000.
Capt Gammage has leased his Vine
yard, one and half miles south OF
Palestine, to an experienced vine Gull
turist.
n acogdoches is progressing favor
a bly, with the New Year, old build
ings are being replaced with substan-
tial brick ones.
The wife of J. w. Curry, a business
man at Sherman, left home on a visit
and her place was promptly filled by
a Mrs. Bowie, charming grass widow.
When the wife returned, there was an
explosion of opinion.
Daniel Schook dies in Houston from
wounds inflicted by J. II. Brock as
they rode in a wagon on their way
home. Brock gave Schook stab with
a long knife which passed through
one lung and came within an eighth
of an inch of his heart.
The managers of the bazaar for the
Houston Light Guard have made
tn cir report and show that nearly
Sc 900 was Melted, enough to complete
the payment for the armory site.
Thirteen miles from Blanco, two
m asked men held up the San Marcos