San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-12
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

The Medina river is on a boom.
Wolfe City will build $4,000
school house.
Contract is let to build the McLane
hotel on Main street. Seymour.
Two of Fort Worth's census enume,
rators have retired to the hospital.
A new national bank to be opened
at Sweetwater.
The annex of the Amarillo hotel
has been completed.
Oats are now planted for the first
time in Fort Bend county.
Five hundred and fifty beeves are
shipped from Bartlett to Chicago.
Six days land sales at Beeville
amount to $500 acres.
The Atascosa river is higher than
for five years.
The work will soon begin on the
hotel at Clarendon.
l.. d. Smith ofMcKinney suicides.
by taking morphine and strychnine
Train dispatchers are in annual con-
vention at st. Louis. .
The Mexican colonization society of
Lower California denies all compile
ity in the filibustering schemes.
The wool receipts at Ballinger will
probably reach three millions OF
pounds. this season.
A progressive club is formed at Co
lumbus to advertise the city and
county.
The Russell Harrison party were
entertained at the Beach Hotel, Gal
weston, last night.
The commencement exercises of the
San Marcos Coronal Institute took
place June9.
The Uvalde Base Ball CLUB is prac-
ticlng for the Fourth of July games at
Bracket.
a barn is burned at Sulphur
Springs. Loss about 500; no insur-
ance.
The bridge over the Lavacca river
near Hallettsville has been washed
away by the heavy rains.
The Texas and Pacific extension
will be built this summer from Sier-
ra Blanca to FL Paso.
Cook, anti-commission and work
ing clubs will be organized in Parker
county.
The papers in Sac & Fox Indian
purchase are ready for the secretary
of the interior. The Indians are jul
bilant.
Train robbed in Arkansas between
Camden and TeXarkana, $4,000 eX-
press money taken and the messen-
ger killed.
A crazy convict at Huntsville who
threw himself from the gallery of the
hospital, broke his legs and had them
The second annual meeting of the
Texas Wool Growers association
met at the Cotton exchange in Gal
weston, on the 10th.
Ed. Harris. colOred, attempts sui
eide at the Richmond Jail, where he
was placed for attempting to kill an
other negro.
Brick is being placed on the ground
for the erection of several large bust
ness houses and residences at Wichita
Falls.
The troops throughout the state are
meetings to determine
whether or not to attend the San
Antonio encampment.
Supreme court of California re-
verses judgment of lower court grant
ing counsel fees and alimOny to Sarah
Althea in her divorce suit against
Sharon.
The Espuela Cattle company has
sold a herd of steers at Amarillo that
brought the highest price this year.
The twos sold for $3.50 and the
threes for $2l.50
There is a nine-mile line to be built
from Texarkana to Sulphur river to
connect with New Orleans by water
The company will be
known as the Two Town Railway and
Co.
The Cotton Belt train between Tex
arkana and COrsicana was held up by
robbers, the engine derailed and the
express car robbed of $1,000. Lee
Neblett, the messenger who resisted
them, was shot three times. The
passengers were not mOlested.
Rafael Lopez Mendore, prominent
lawyer of the City of Mexico, with
wife, eight olive branches, a servant
and a satchel, embarked at Galveston
for Europe, but in the worry of keep
ing the procession together, the
satchel holding $2l2, gold watch
and other valuables was lost, it was
subsequently found, but minus con-
tents.
An Exception to Every Rule.
"Everythlng goes"