San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-25
State News Condensed. c


Arbor day was generally observed
in Laredo.
Miss May Beck and Mr.. Lucius
Joyner elope at Rockdale.
Over dozen new houses are going
up at Floresville.
Fayetteville claims population Of
500, mainly Germans and Bohemians.
Thirty carloads of cattle are being
shipped from Runge.
The lumber yard at Runge Is taxed
to its utmost capacity all the time.
The Waco cotton manufacturing
company is organized.
Nearly 500 shade trees were planted
at San Angelo on Arbor day.
II. B. Rabenburg will be released
on bail from Floresville Jail.
Fishing and hunting are at present
all the rage at Victoria.
While laying a water pipe at Vic
toria, a skeleton was unearthed,
A new court house is discussed for
Victoria county.
Archer county is badly in need of a
railroad.
Fairfield has another attack of rail-
road fever.
There is probability of the Sabine
and Trinity being shortly extended
to Jasper.
Hez. Johnson is tried and acquitted
of the murder of William MiIlican in
in June 1866, at Meridian.
Mr.. Campbell of Bosque county is
establishing a horse ranch In Chill
dress county.
A team driven by w. A. Boyce at
WaXahachie became frightened,
threw him and broke his ankles.
A telephone lire between Ballinger.
Paint Rock and MeuardvIlle is being :.
constructed.
s. w. Titus & Co. boring for gas
near San Angelo, have struck a very
fine quality of lubricating oil.
The funeral of the late .H.H.
Link at Palestine, was the largest
ever seen there.
The colored teachers OF Waller
county have held their second insti-
tute.
The Swedish farmers have pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land near San
Angelo.
The Concho Valley FAIR association
announce that they will hold their
next fair November to IL.
Laredo Loan and Trust company
and Western Building company, Of
Gainesville, file charters.
A camp of counterfeiters is found
on the banks of the Trinity, near Dali
las.
The Southern Pacific is gravelling.
raising and ballasting the entire road
between Victoria and Rosen berg.
j. F. Ficklen sells his interest in the
waters of Eagle Lake to F. Walker
for $4,000.
Twenty women have been cared for
during the year in the Home for Des-
titute Women, in Galveston.
Subscriptions to rebuild the Coro-
nal institute at San Marcos are SWELL
ing rapidly.
Husy and Ben Washington, colored.
had row in a Galveston saloon and
Washington will probably die.
A Mexican wood-chopper attempted
to enter a laundry at Temple and was
shot by the proprietor.
Inc san Antonio and Arkansas Pass
people have changed the schedule of
their regular freight trains.
J. A. Hughes of De Kalb files suit
against the Texas & Pacific railroad
for $4,000 actual and 10000 exem-
pIary damages.
Rev. Dixon Williams and his sin
ger, Prof. d. b. Towner, are invited
to hold revivals in Dallas.
Ell Paso will issue city bonds. Sew
enty thousand dollar water works
will be erected.
A petition is signed by Colorado
citizens, requesting that Colorado be
made a common freight point on the
Texas Pacific.
In variety melee at Corsicana, Bob
Mclaughlin was badly beaten by
Jim Hanlon and Hanlon was pretty
well lacerated himself.
The cotton mill to be built at Deni-
son will he two hundred feet long by
one hundred feet wide. Four stories
and basement.
An accident occurred to Mrs ID. J.
Henderson at Jasper. While riding
with her three children they were
thrown and the lady was badly in
jured.
A Humane Effort