San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-14
The Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, JUNE IA, 1890.
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

Qogs.
The Corpus Christi Caller is not for
Hogg.
The Lavaca county convention is
instructed for HOgg.
1t has ralned for three days at Rio
Grande City, and the river is flooded.
Greenville is to have an artesian
we'll.
The new gin at Pleasanton is ready
for work.
The testimony in the Cross murder
case, at Paris has so far, been very
damaging to the defendants.
Ex-Governor Hubbard will not
speak at Austin at the University ex-
ercises.
The Pacific Express company has
opened up their new stand at Wlch-
tia Falls.
The census enumerators at FL PasO
are at a standstill tor want of proper
blanks.
It. A. Collier, clerk of Coke county
was tried and acquitted at San Ange-
10 of arson.
A. NJ. Brotherton of Sutton county
has four-horned sheep and a six
legged hog.
Texas is credited by the depart
ment of agriculture with 1903
horses.
Messrs. Jackson and Hudman have
received the mail contract from
Weatherford to Graham.
Latemus league, a bartender at
7 onH ElllpH ThnE Me-
Graw, a brakeman.
At a negro dance at Greenville,
Dave Younger and Jim Pierce were
everely wounded.
The report for 1889 shows that
Grayson county has handled 3l9
prisoners.
CAPTAIN w. NJ. Chummy, of Eagle
Lake accidentally shot himself while
on his plantation below this place and
died of his wounds.
Albert Dorman, an S-year-Old by at
Hillsboro. had two tines of rake
pass through his foot and lies in
critical condition.
The business centre of Potts boro
has been wiped out by fire, the work
of incendaries. Total loss is $50, 900;
insurance, $1,000.
The Lavaca National bank and the
First National bank will be in opera
ton at HallettsvIlle by the lst Of
July.
Two Mexican brickmasons were Sc
riously injured by fall from the new
building near the International and
Great Northern depot at Laredo.
+. J. Evans, citizen of Benton
vile, fell off a loaded wagon, cut a
long cash over his eye and almost
severed his ear.
1t is thought that Hon. Oscar
Cooper can have the presidency OF the
Bryan college If he wishes 1t.
The charter of the Corpus Christi
and South American railroad is filed,
also the charter Of the Sherman and
Northwestern Railroad company.
Two soldiers returning to camp
from Rio Grande City where they had
been playing monte, were knocked
down and robbed by a Mexican, of
500.
A large rattlesnake bit James Ter
rell, of Carrollton, who was drunk,
and it died about twenty minutes
afterwards.
The Daniel Baker college at Brown
wood will be completed by Septem-
Der lst, 1890, and the main building
of the Howard Payne college will be
completed by October lst.
The incorporatOrs of the North
Texas and Gulf road, chartered to
run from Jefferson to Saline Pass, say
that work will be commenced imme-
diately.
A. L. Stuart sues for divorce from
his wife at Fort Worth, on account
of her cruelty. The divorce market
of that town is reported steady and
quiet.
The scholastic census OfGreenVille,
| Hunt county, shows 1887 names, an
| increase of 227 over last year, mainly
in white children. The entire cOun-
ty will show about 500 people.
Some Observation-Disclosures person
started a report on the streets of Pal
estine, that the dam of the reservoir
of the water works had given way.
1t created great excitement, but there
was no truth in the matter.
HOGG Is Dis man, IN MS own esLl'
nation; Hogg is large man, as the
tailor measures men; Hogg Is heavy
man, on the scales Hogg is broad
man, viewed from the rear, but he is
not big enough, nor large enough, nor
heavy enough nor broad enough to
stop railroad.
THE Galveston News of Friday was
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