San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-27
State News Condensed.

Bowie national bank Is organized
Over 200 cases of la grippe at Terrell
The I. 4 G. n. railroad has ordered
500 new box cars.
The Johnson county park and fair
association is organized.
Farm work at Bolton is at stand
still from heavy rains.
The present attendance at the Sam
Houston Normal at Huntsville is 800.
A mad cow killed several horses at
Fort Worth.
The tower for the waterworks at
Cuero is being put up.
The town of Baird is steadily build
ing up.
The Rio GranGe is very low at
HidalgO, and rain is needed.
A good many stock shipments have
gone out from SpOtfUrd.
The Alamo Brewing Co.'S ice house
at Eagle Pass is nearing completion.
Peach trees and cotton are in full
bloom at Hallettsville.
A building and loan ASSOCIATION is
organized at Childress.
Weather is cloudy and disagreea-
at Cuero.
George BoOthe is acquitted of the
murder of j. NJ. Fly, at Gonzales.
The country around San Angelo is
rapidly filling up with solid farmers.
Work is progressing on the. sam
Jones Tabernacle at Tyler. ws~--
Straw berries are being shipped
from Alvin by the crate.
The Dallas Grand Windsor hotel
company files charter. .. r.----1
Every body at Grapevine wants
good county roads.
Attendance at the Bolton public
schools is good and the discipline is
excellent.
Geo. Black burn is jailed at Nacog-
doches charged with the murder of
Dow Saunders.
A new Corliss engine is made for q
the foundry depaT tment of the Hunts
vile penitentiary,
H, w, Mcfarland is arrested in
Galveston for working the. fraudulent
check racket.
A bold attempt was made to fire the
town of Waelder. They started it in
new stOrehOuse.
w. B. Mclaughlin is appointed
vice consul In place of Judge Crosby
of FL Paso, resigned.
Fire broke out in drugstore at
Whitney and destroyed it and several
other buildings.
The little girls of Huntsville sent
SO to the governor for the Confederate
home.
1t is expected that the salary of the
mayor of Houston Will be cut down
So, 900 to 81 800.
Robert Thompson gets $4,000
against the Fort Worth & Denver for
injuries received on that road.
State rangers killed colored team
ster in Castro county. The teamster
fired on them while in camp.
A drygoods house is destroyed at
| Tom Bean. Loss $4,000. Insurance
$1,000
On the 3rd of February Beeville
will have her incorporation election.
| There are now ! 800 inhabitants i'm the
| town.
Deputy Marshal Laid kills the
noted deperado Eastman Battsie, in
the Choctaw nation while he was re-
sisting arrest.
A. Kent, a railroad man of Fort
Worth, and j. A. Stevenson had a
fight, and Kent finally bit Stevensou's
ear off.
A murderous assault was made OH
Mr.. A. G.. Pickett, Jr., at Floresville,
| by Mexican who had begged money
from him, which he refused to give. q
A young man named Harrington,
fell into the Elm river near Denton
and being i'll and unable to swim, was
| drowned.
State Geologist Dumble is prepar-
| ing bulletin to be sent to the press
on the artesian we'll area which lies
| l, 400 under the surface at Austin.
DIR. w. Derby Johnson, bishop of
the Mormon colony located at DiaZ,
reports great improvement going on
there and says that 500 immigrants
arrived last month.
l.. Crowley is indicted at Bonham
! for carrying pistol. Two brothers of
the same initial and so exactly alike
as to be very puzzling as to iden tity,
answered the call in court.
AS freight train was passing four
miles east of Dublin, boys threw rocks
at the caboose. The conductor fired
at them, which they returned with a
Winchester, nearly hitting the brake
map.
A GRITTY woman huntS II n n or unrth