San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-21
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

AND STATE SPECIALS.
a grand ball is arranged for May 80
at the Spring Palace.
A terrible rain storm has done dam
age in Bowie county.
Fort Worth scored to Waco's > in
yesterdays game.
Gov. Ross leaves Washington today
for New York.
Mr.. Culberson, of Dallas, will be
candidate for attorney general.
Freight at Trinity, long delayed by
high water is at last moving.
The Jefferson bayou is rapidly fall
ing.
The Northwest Rrailroad assOcia-
ton visited Fort Worth.
Within sixty days Halletsville will
have two national banks.
Hon H. d. Mcdonald withdraws
from the gubernatorial race.
The Casino hall at Laredo will be
built on the heights.
The college building at San Mar
cos has reached its first story.
The Palestine public schools will
| close on the olSt.
| Visitors are beginning to arrive at
the Elkhart mineral wells.
Miss Bomar, of Gainesville, had her
left arm badly torn by mad dog.
Tom Green, a bad negro, is lied
| by officer Lamar in East Dallas.
Fence cutters have totally wrecked
$50 acres of fence northeast of Sulphur
Springs.
The Northwest Editorial association
arrived in Galveston last night. A
number of ladies are in the party.
A frame dwelling with all it's con-
tents, property of Captain Dillon, is
destroyed by fire at Waxahachie.
Ex-Governor Adams of Denver,
Col, has been the guest of Mr..
Brownson of Victoria.
The Hallettsville ice factory stock
is all subscribed and the plant will
be soon In operation.
The Ward manufacturing company
of Laredo expect to commence bust
ness by lst of June.
Omaha parties want to purchase a
lot at Austin for a 100000 business
building.
+. S. Salyer, cOnfectioner, is
robbed and murdered in his store at
San Angelo.
The waters of the Brazos are still
falling at Columbia, but there are
several miles OF track under water.
The annual meeting of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas stockholders will
be held at Parsons tomorrow.
Dave and Bill Harrison nearly lose
their lives down we'll at Sherman,
by being strangled by the smoke of
blast.
Clovecy Smith, who was hit on the
head with an andirOn by her hus-
band at Jefferson, has died of the
wound.
There are no developments as to
the cause of the death of young Ar
thur Eckmann, found dead in the
chaperell in Galveston.
Professional burglsrs blew open the
safe OF the Fort Worth Land and
Street Railroad company, and took
500.
The survey of Marble Falls for a
dam is completed and the engineer
reports that an 5000 horse power dam
can be safely and cheaply constructed.
1t is announced on good authority
that all bonds necessary to build and
equip the PecOs Valley railroad have
been placed in New York.
Fire, supposed to be spontaneous
combustion, broke out in the Cock
rell building Dallas, which is a new
one and damaged it somewhat.
The carpenters of Dallas swear they
will not put a nail in a piece of
10-hour mill made lumber in Dallas
or suburbs after that contracted for
is used up.
Dan O'I.eary, the Chicago walker,
has accepted the challenge of Capt.
Charles Gay for a l5-mile heel and
toe squirt, $500 side. and it will be
contested at Dallas, June 6.
1t is reported that Ed. Spears, the
youth who killed DR.. H. NJ. Beidler,
of TeXarkana, and who was acquitted
of it, has killed man in Hot Springs,
Ark.
Found IN the Newspaper.
From the CresCO, Iowa, "Plaindealer," 1--WE
have never, as our reader for nearly thirty
years in this county can testify, written a
puff" of any patent medicine. Duty as well
as inclination impell us to depart from this
studied silence. to say TO our readers and the
public that, having been completely pros
trated with violent and distressing cold,
after three days fighting it with ordinary
remedies and getting no relief from their
use, we obtained bottle of Clarke's Extract
of Flax [PapillOnI Cough Cure, obtaining al