San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-15
State News Condensed.

A granite building will be erected
at Marble Falls for a college.
The ballasting of the Santa Fe from
Dallas to Paris, progresses.
A gentleman from Waco thinks of
opening nusery garden at Beeville.
A private bank, with $780, 900 capi-
tai, will be Incorporated at Abilene.
An election to organize Armstrong
county will take place Sth OF March.
Real estate moves are active at Pal
estine.
The Island City Savings bank, of
Galveston, have changed hands.
Taylor citizens protest against j. Z.
Hutchinson as postmastef.
Kaufman county has redeemed SlO
600.
Denison has broken ground for the
new 500, 900 cotton mill.
The cotton mill and gin at Laredo
will be ready to operate next week.
A great many visitors are looking
up Beeville's. advantages.
Boerne has been setting out shade
trees on the plaza.
Work on the LAREDO foundry Will
soon be finished.
Mr. John d. Mayfield and his book
keeper, MIR. Hinstead, of Waco. held
u SIS 900 lottery ticket in the Febru-.
ary drawing.
Mr.. VIM 4. Tompkins takes charge
of the Hampstead postoffice.
A club of ladies is organized to dec
crate the Fort Worth Spring Palace.
A Royal Arch chapter is organized
al Trinity.
Commissioners court is in regular
session at Franklin.
Abilene has brisk real estate mar
ket just now
The college boys of Arson have Or
ganized a debating club.
Everybody seems jubilant over the
recent cold wave and the snowfall.
The railroad fever is redhot at
rhurber.
The mines of Thurber are doing q
flOurishiug business.
The union passenger depot at Cisco
IS nearing completion.
Weimar OH the Sunset, is a little
town OF thrift and general prosperity.
DR.. Fred w. Simonds is the new
professor of geology III the state uni
VersIty.
Headquarters of the traffic depart
ment of the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas will be removed to TexarkanS.-
Two negroes had a cutting Array at
Greenville. and one was pretty badly
carved.
Burglars hold the fort at Cleburne,
having raided no less than nine places,
mostly saloons.
Subscriptions to the Johnson coun-
V park fair association have reached
$1,000.
The name Of the San Marcos real
estate association is changed to the
San Marcos Chautauqua.
The contracts for street paving and
water works at Waco, amount to
about $4,000.
The storehouse of Messrs. A. Loes-
san q Co, at Cedar, is burned down.
The family barely escaped.
A. Vock is awarded 1000 damages
against the II. P. at Dallas. Other
parties got $3.50 and $500 respectively.
The hammer and saw can be heard
in all parts of Seguin; improvements
are going on rapidly.
The Morgan waterworks are being
extended and an ice factory will
shortly be built.
Freight receipts of the T. P. at abb
lene for January broke all previous
records.
The Amarll Collegiate insttut
will erect college building to cost
about Sll 900.
Corsicana offers bonus ofS20, 900
for the planting ola $500, 900 cotton
factory and guarantees 20 years ex-
empuon from taxation, the parties
who will put it there.
Queen City citizens have given q
bonus of $4,000 and 5000 acres of
land TO a Kansas City company to
erect blast iron furnace.
A drug store at Trinity is burglar
lied. The pOstC flee in the same
building was gone through and all
the letters broken open.
The residence of Rev. R. G. ARM
strong, Fort Worth, was entered and
burglarized, but they did not get much
plumber.
Prof. Cooper favors the idea of col
lecting Texas rocks and minerals fer
illustrating the study of geology in
the high schools of the state.
Mr.. Conger, of Waco, forwarded his
postmastershio $40, 900 bond to Wash
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