San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-26
State News Condensed.
}oerne has baseball fever.

| There has been great deal OF sick
ness at Chico.
There is no let up to the lumber
traffic in Houston.
The city cemetery at Weatherford
has been greatly improved.
The election to incorporate Eagle
! Pass was unsuccessful.
The first five miles of the Wichita
Valley r. r. has been graded.
The range in Jackson county is well
stocked with tat cattle.
Work is begun on....the new Jail AT
Seguin.
The architects association sof Texas
will meet in Dallas May IL. - -
Cameron city bonds, ST., 900 are re-
| gistered for building school house.
The worst Of the spotted fever at
Aurora is over. S.--,--.r,.. -.
A farmers institute will be held at
Paris Dist and 22nd of March. -
The dredge boat is at work on the
Jefferson bayou.
The Republican league club of
Houston decides to put out a full re-
publican ticket in the spring.
A girl of fifteen elopes with a mar
ried man from Echo, Bell county, but
her father overlook them.
1t is thought that $4,000 can be
raised for the blackstone, Heurietta e.
Gulf railroad.
There are twenty-eight houses 60
ing ~ at Wichita Falls, and contracts
are let for as many more.
The International bridge at Eagle
Pass Will be completed in about two
months.
The Juvenile dramatic club of
Beaumont gives All entertainment for
the pubic school
The Waco team is fully made up
and consists Of - players. Chas.
Lewis manager.
There VIII be lawn tennis tour
nament at the spring palace grounds
for the championship of the State.
Two funerals took place at Conan
che in one day, being those of two
Of the oldest settlers.
J. NJ. Limpo pleads guilty to man.
slaughter at Decatur and gets two
years.
Mr.. Kimbrough, OF Decatur. who
fell thirty feet down gulch, is recov-
e-ing.
Gainesville has been swept by
hurricane which did considerable
damage.
The extension of the NJ. X. & II.
to Archer and Seymour brings many
prospectOrs in TO Henrietta.
The auction house of Stanton and
and hundreds of dollars worth of
goods stolen.
The most rigid regulations will be
enforced with regard to the shipment
of Texas cattle shipped to the north.
Tom Hays, living near Gainesville
was killed by shotgun dischargiug
by the iOlting of a wagon which he
was walking behind.
a three-story brick dry goods store
is destroyed In Houston. Stocks of
parties in an adjoining building. were
heavily damaged.
The race at Coleman between Jack
sons Shelby, of that place, and Free
mans Billy, of Fort Worth, for $500
a side, is won by the latter.
The plant and machinery of the
lSAdS-NlSAlCiu IIl6ClIlC LlpuG ana
Power Company are being put up at
Eagle Pass.
G. II. Martin, recently married,
takes fifty grains of morphine In the
house of his mother-in-law in Hous-
ton. He was pumped out, and says
he didn't mean to.
Two young men entered G. w. Hen
derson's store Dougherty, and with
siX-shOoters held up the manager and
clerk, and relieved them of their
watches and chains and took between
$500 and S400 from the safe.
A very severe ram and hail storm
struck train five miles west of Sher-
man and another fell between Col
linsville and TiOga. Several glasses
in the express car were smashed.
Mrs. c. f. Sappington, of Sherman,
sues for $500 damages against w.
f. Gregory, transfer men of Calves
ton, for injuries received from an acct
dent to one Of their omnibuses.
The citizens of Aurora, who have
been afflicted with such a terrible epi-
demic of spotted fever, Indignantly
deny the statements that DIR. BealI
has Cleaned up and burned the filth
of years" They say their town is as
clean as any in Texas.
The New Orleans clans are gather
ing at Washington for the approach
ing fight over that big bridge bill.