San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-26
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receiver Is 8pplleu lOT III Iue
case of the West Fort Worth Electric
street railway.
G.. c.. Durr, Colorado county, sui
cides; inducing cause, grief at the
death of his wife and dependency.
HaIIettsville has marketed 1900
bales of cotton and is receiving l75
bales daily.
Lavaca county is moving to put a
first-class exhibit into the San Anto-
Mo Fair and Exposition.
B. Stith, of San Marcos Press,
sells out, disguised with Texas and
returns to Missouri.
Hayes county republicans will send
a good delegation to San Antonio next
week.
Heavy rains have fBllen IN the vi
cinity of Columbus, Tex, but none in
the city.
House adopts conference report on
sundry civil service appropriation
bill.
Senate adjourns out of respect to
Watson after appointing three sena-
tors to attend his funeral.
Brick masons strike on Houston
opera house over the discharge of
boy.
Chicago switchmen's strike is end
ed. Engineers 80 cents per hour and
firemen Is cents.
James Sheeferd commits suicide at
San Angelo fearing that he might fill
a drunkards grave
President Diaz, OF Mexico, reiterates
his declarations of neutrality in the
Cen trail American affair.
National Mexican railway will soon
send another excursion into the Unit
ed States.
The annual encampment of the
Sons of Veterans is being held at st.
Joseph, Mo.
The Council of the United Order of
Railway employees will not order out
to aid the strikers on the Central.
The state borrd of Arbitration will
meet at Albany, n. Y, next Thurs
day to consider the strike.
J. P. Stevens, contractor at Fort
Worth, appropriates the $3.50 given
him to pay labor and takes train for
the east.
Cotton worms are doing some DAM
age in the height orhood of Halletts-
vile and planters are actively at
work with poison.
The deadlock in the Pittsburg ju-
dicial convention, Fifth Texas dis
trict, continues firm. Over 200 bal
lots taken.
Texas has but one member in the
team for the division shoot at Camp
Douglas, Wis; Mcclure, Company d,
Eighteenth infantry.
A well at Goodland, I. t., gives out
such intense heat without flame as to
scorch everything that is held over
its mouth.
Lewis F. Watson, representing the
9th congressional district of Penn
sylvania, drops dead of heart disease
in Washington.
Gov. Ross appoints Prof. H. G.
Pritchett, nominee of the democratic
convention, as state superintendent
of education, vice Cooper resigned.
Arch bishop Casanova is banquet
ed at Valparaiso for his services in
settling the political disturbances
there.
There is no change in the situation
of affairs on the Central road. Trains
are moving slowly and under great
difficulties. There is no disturbance
Bill is reported in the house com.
polling railways to equip all cars
with automatic couplers and brakes
so that brakesmen need not 60 be-
tween cars to couple.
The commissioners in the Red
Wing disaster revoke the captains
license and present him for prosecu,
ton.
The Union labor party of Missouri
has split, and as neither faction has
per cent of the state vote 1t is doubt:
ful if under the new ballot law they
can put state ticket in the field.
Engineer Blair of the Central is
arrested at Corsicana to answer the
charge of criminal carelessness in the
Howe railway accident.
Dennis Cologne, the periured wit.
ness in the Houston oil mill arson
case, who lit out after the grand
jury dismissed the case, has been ar
rested at San Francisco and is on his
= way back tor trial.
Beats the Record.
A remarkably good score with /.
rida was made last Sunday nv Mr.