San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-25
State News Condensed.

Vernon street tramway Co. files
charter.
Wheat has not done well at Chico
on account of dry weather.
The town of Chico is on the i'm
prove.
A board of trade is organized at Or
ange.
The establishment of II coOperage
factory is thought of for Tyler. rr.s,.4-.
The Fort Worth odd Fellows con-
template erecting 42,C0o building.
\ number of eastern people are
prospecting at Baird.
La grippe has spread rapidly at
Tyler.
The Thurber mines are steadily. inn
proving.
\ big furniture stock is opened at
Sweetwater.
\ foot peddler is arrested at Bart
lett for insulting young lady.
La grippe has WhitesbOr and
nearly every other Texas town.
Changers look for big crops at Troy.
The Texas Sugar Planters associa-
ton is organized in Houston.
The Dallas banks, national and pri-
vate, have organized clearing house.
The city council of Dallas 6as,
adopted the revised code of criminal
! and civil ordinances.
An explosion took place in qua.--
ry near Waco and one mau was fatal
| ly wounded.
: Charter of the Fort Worth Nursery 49,.
/ Seed and Canning company is filed.
The farming lands of the state are
| in good condition generally for spring
work.
\ party IS prospecting at Vernon
with a view to starting a furniture
factory.
The NJ. *. & T. will have their new
depot ready at Dallas by the 10th of
next month.
Honey Grove is excited over re-
| ported discovery of a lead mine, four
! miles from town.
1t is estimated that 2G0, 900 hogs
were killed in Texas in the recent
! cold snap.
The Leon County Bar association
! held its regular annual meeting at
| Centreville.
1t is an accepted fact that southwest
Texas is to be great grape growing
country.
\ small boy playing around the
cars at FL Paso, fell between and had
his leg crushed.
The extension of the Washburne
and FL Paso road will soon be COM
menced.
A travelling man had his pocket
! nick al nf S1DT at tha HanOt in ('OrSi-
cana.
Mrs. Cathcart of Houston, on her
way to the theatre, was obliged to
turn back from illness and at her
gate dropped dead from heart d.
seaSe.
\ wealthy citizen of Cherokee coun-
ty recently killed a hog weighing 54S.
pounds; one killed at BrOwnwood
weighed 80.
The committee on the Alamo mon.
: ument to be placed on the capitol
grounds have opened their plans, II
in number.
Mr.. J. H. Bunney and Miss Clara
Scallan, of the Kiralfy company, are
married in Houston. Texas has had a
matrimonial effect on most of the.
companies lately.
Andreas Ugarte, toIlkeeper at the
Laredo foot and tram bridge, was cut
in the hand oy a Mexican " no at
tackled him when he went to collect
his fare.
Mrs. f. L. Campbell is appointe
inspectress at the bridge between FL
Paso and Paso del NOrte. Collector
Clarke is determined to stop the
smuggling.
, The quo warrantO proceedings TO
test the validity of the incorporation
of Colorado as a city end in the Judge
declaring the Incorporation illegal.
Fort Worth says she wants a hotel
, that will compare with any in the
, south and that it is her one great
: want.
J Operating expenses of Texas rail-
3 roads last year were S24 900, 900; inter
= est on bonds, Sl3, 900 900; total charges,
. S37, 900, 900, and total earnings, SOS,
3 900, 900
, The Texas conference of the MethO-
dist Episcopal church north has been
in session at Palestine, Bishop Wal
don, OF Cincinnati, presiding.
: An S-vear-old Indian girl is found
> murdered near Ysleta. Her two
y grandmothers had been quarrelling
o over the possession of her and it is in
. ferred that one or the other of them
'. thus settled the matter.
i Jury in the Pete Hammond murder
s case, at Laredo, render verdict o
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