San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-28
State News Condensed.
Hearne has a private bank.

at Dallas, tomorrow, The ~.
A new postoffice is established at
A berdeen, Collingsworth county.
The salary of the mayor of Houston,
is cut down to 81 800.
Beaumont and Jasper have sub
scribed largely for railroad.
Weatherford has had a fine rain
which will benefit growing wheat.
A great deal of property is chang
ing hands at Quanah.
Wheat prospects OF Chillicothe were
never more tlattering.
Several large deals of city property
have been consumated at Hearne.
J. &. Peacock, county commissioner
dies at Waelder.
There are many severe cases of la
grippe at Del Rio.
The FL Paso Tribune is sold to f. L.
Russell, formally city editor of the
Times, of that city.
The iron safe of the Sulphur Springs
Ice company was burglarized of
small amount.
Walter Bauer, bricklayer, fell from
the new cotton factory in Galveston,
sixty feet, and is fatally injured.
Mike Shea, a railroad man, fell dead
OF heart disease in the Capitol saloon
at Texarkana.
Farmers are getting To work at
Crockett and their outlook is encOur-
aging.
China protests against the exclu-~
sion acts of congress as contravening
the Chinese treaty.
The ways and means committee
finish the cotton schedule; the demo-
Gratis alwaysvoting the Mills tariff:
Phoebe Cousins is census agent to
collect statistics of st. Louis recorded
Indebtedness.
The annual meeting of the South
west Texas Live Stock association .
takes place in Cuero, 18th February,
J. l.. Hickson, news and music
| dealer Of Gainesville has filed deed
! of trust.
Bob Carthorn, white lad, living
| in the BrazOs bottom, shot and killed
Ed Johnson, cOlored.
The teachers and pupils of the Pail
High school of Galveston have raised
| SIS TOR the Confederate home.
A steamer going down Red river,
struck the Cotton Belt railroad at
Garland City and did great deal of
damage to it.
The remains of Henry johnson, a
boy who was lost while duck-hunting
in Sulphur Bottom, December 81, are
found in the Sulphur river.
The money is now all raised for the
| Fort Worth Spring Palace. The plans
will be on a grand scale and Gitmore's
full band will be there for three weeks
Contract will be awarded this week
! for the erection of mammoth pa
! vilion for the Waco cotton exposition
and thermo-aquaramo.
The Henderson pottery is we'll
nigh completed. Already the mills
are turning out a fine quality of
brick
At Collinsville, James CALVARY drew
pistol on John Reed, the latter
wrenched it from him and handed IL
to by-stander. Both were arrested.
Prof. Hill, pro- ssor of geology in
the state, thinks that by boring addi-
tiOnal wells, Taylor will have water
enough to supply city of 200 900 in
habitants.
Giuseppe Tore, an ambitious young
bootblack, who started three years
ago in Galveston, now owns seven out
fits, and expects to open fruit store
in the spring.
Mr.. Joseph Friedlaender, of Del Rio
claims to have guessed to a minute
the time of Nelly Bly's journey around
the world and, if so, gets the prize Of
fered by the New York World.
J. A. Echols and John Geigher had
quarrel at San Angelo, the former
was slightly wounded, the latter fa-
tally shot. Both were prominent citi-
Zens.
The subcommittee of the executive
committee of the Texas Press associ-
alton met in Fort Worth and prepared
libel bill, which will be urged on
the legislature.
Lieutenant Schwatka is in Ell PasOs
accompanied by about a dozen cave
jewellers from the Sierra Madre noun
tains. He will exhibit them here and
in Europe and will then turn them
over to Buffalo Bill.
The Texas and Atlantic Railway
company, with principle office at Tex
arkana, has applied for charter. The
object is to make it connecting link.
with other roads for the transporta-
ton of lumber.
The Recorder.
There were Is cases before the re-
corder this morning. Two were