San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-13
State News Condensed.

Influenza has hold of Dallas.
J.C. Carpenters residence at Deca-
tur is destroyed by fire.
Now comes a cool spell and...how
the Texas hogs will squeal.
There is some talk of newspaper
soon being established at Sabine Pass.
There are indications of an immense
wheat crop at Childress.
A lot of fine Hereford cattle have
been imported into Calhoun county.
The Baptist church at Floresvllle
has received fine new bell.
The meeting of the Texas ball league
at Waco is postponed.
Duval county will double her cotton
crop next year.
A peddler is arrested at Palestine
for pawning a stolen gold watch.
Cueroites- have severe colds, but
they don't call it grippe.
The Terrell road committee is at
work again.
A great many children at Cle0urne
are suffering from the grippe.
Prospectors con tinue 10 come in to-
Nolan county and land sales are good.
Col. J. H. Hayden, Texas veteran
dies near Dresden, Navarro county.
Treasury receipts at the capital for
three days were $4,000.
A number of new buildings are 60
ing up at Kerrville.
Grade work on the S. A. p. has
been finished through Rockport.
Wichita Falls is to have double
daily train service from Fort Worth.
Several bridges near Anderson
have been swept away by the high
water.
The lumber trade of southwest Tex.
as was never in healthier condition
than at present.
A severe rain and wind storm al
Waco blew down fences and OUT
houses.
Business outlook for the coming
year at Bryan is excellent. The city
waterworks will soon be completed.
The Alvarado Hardware and Furnf-
ture company have opened for bust
ness.
The city fathers of Dallas and the
water works contractors are still at
loggerheads.
The typewritihg contest under thu
auspices of the Dallas shorthan,
society was won by Miss Nellie Hayes.
The American Horticultural associ-
ton, which convenes in Austin next
month, is invited to visit Dallas.
J. NJ. Burgain, wealthy farmer,
is found murdered Oh the highway
near Hawkins.
A boy of II years of age accident
ally shot off the head Of small col
ored girl at Texarkana.
Farmers and citizens unite to exter-.
inmate the wolves on the BosGue
which are very destructive.
The Laredo Power company are
doubling their motor power by du-
plicate engine.
Laredo postoffice business melted
nearly $4,000 for the week ending
January II, 1890.
Orange shipped IS cars of lumber
on the first Monday in 1890. Same
date last year her shipments were IA
cars.
Little Edgar King, who ran away
from his parents in st. Louis and
rode on an engine to Fort Worth, has
been sent back. -
Sabine Pass and that vicinity neeta
a direct railroad outlet to Fort WORTH
and the great stock and farming coun-
try around it.
I'm Ellis returninO IN biS homo .ix-
miles from Plano was thrown off his
wagon by his team taking fright and
was horribly crushed.
The East Texas Horticultural and
Live Stock association have selected
grounds and will commence work Oh
their buildings and track at Tyler.
A heavy freight train on the Mexi-
can National went to pieces at Moja-
ma, sixty miles from Laredo. No one
was hurt.
A young woman who registered
with her husband at the Hutchins
house, Houston, attempted suicide by
swallowing bottle of chloroform.
She is likely to die.
s. B.'McGill, of Sulphur Springs.
was called to his door by two men,
and so badly shot that he will prob
ably die. The men were arrested
Their motive is not known.
The mail sack between Spoffordl
and Bracket is robbed of S734 in sill
yer and gold and also a regi stored
package. Only the postmaster at
Bracket and the mail carrier had
anything to do with the package.