San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-13
State News Condensed.

othei goes on at all times in Cleburne.
West End company OF Waco files
charter.
f. G. Thomason's fine sandstone
quarry at Sunset Is sold Tor S2'OO
Vote for special municipal school
tax at Longview is defeated.
Five stone business houses are con-
tracted for at sunset.
The Eagle Machine works OF
Weatheriord resume work.
Dallas citizens meet tonight to Or
ganiZe u base ball CLUB.
DR.. Jim Boyle is a candidate for city
health officer of Houston.
Farming operations are far and ia
vorauly advanced at Brenham.
Trinity is coming to the front sub
stantially.
A Maltest and stock show will take
place at Caldwell early in May.
The building boom goes on at Cald-
we'll.
The new opera house at Halletts-
vile is nearly finished.
A broom factory will start at Hal
letsville.
Four cars of cattle shipped to New
Orleans from Uvalde.
A fire proof vault is to be put in the
court room at Uvalde.
Muraw Halstead is non-partisan,
writer for the Cosmopolitan.
A foot of snow has fallen at San
Angelo.
Dallas electric railway Co. files
charter.
A cold norther and heavy rain has
swept over Beeville.
The residence of DR.. J. A. Cuilom
and all its contents are destroyed near
Mesquite.
]. Turner is arrested in Waco for
Obtaining money at Terrell under false
pretenses.
A man working in a stable at Wax
ahachie ran the prongs of hay fork
through his hand.
The lowest cold weather recorded
this winter at ROckpOrt was on the
10th of January, A degrees.
Fort Worth is already beginning to
prepare for her big cattlemen's con-
ventiOn next month.
Rev. J. p Pritchard, q prominent
minister of the early days of Texas,
dies at Crockett, aged 81.
The demand is very great for bust
ness and dwelling houses at Con
Zales.
The Brenham Light Guard and
Brennan Field artillery are erecting
= handsome armOry.
The Southern Pacific railway is i'm
proving it's road between CuerO and
Rosenberg.
f. d. COnger OF Waco, will assume
his duties as postmaster, March
LIST, under $40 600. bond
Several saloon men are arrested at
Laredo for violating the Sunday law. O.
It. Was made a test case and they
we're declared not guilty.
John Taylor, wealthy Scotchman
living alone. two miles from Denton
-uicides, md his body is found sever
ii days after.
The 10 of this month is the Goth
anniversary of the X of p. over the.
world and Texas will join in the gen.
eral celebration.
Resident of Dmmitt county have
heen played upon by surveyors with
tricks that are vain. in similar
vein to those practiced upon the I'M
~uspecting Tom Green grangers.
Mr.. James J. Cannon. president of
the Dallas Brewing company resigns
and Mr.. Klein, vice president takes
his place.
d. J. Anthony has the contract to
furnish the North Texas insane asy-
lnm with several thousand cords of
wood.
A very cold norther struck north
west Texas generally. Snow fell at
Colorado City, at Abilene to the depth
of 13 inches, at Sweetwater 10 inches
and at Coleman 6 inches.
A woman from GAINESVILLE, works q
bogus "sister of mercy" scheme on
the HousiOnites; In the garb of that
order she attempted to obtain money,
under plea of receiving it for the
church.
The Scott Volunteer Guard will give
a ball at the Agricultural & Mechani-
,al college at Bryan, February ID, in
compliment to their sponsor, Mise
Hassell.
A man working on an engine on the.
turntable at the NJ. X. & #. shops at
Denison fell fifteen feet below on the
rock bottom, intiicting probably fatal
injuries.
At San Luis Potosi, Mexico, several
hundred miles south of Laredo, the
heaviest storm in fifty years, with
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