San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-15
State News Condensed

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Groes beck will shortly have bank
A building a loan association will
soon be organized at Luling.
Big sales of farming implements at
Sealy look like business.
This years cotton business has been
immense at Houston.
Local option at Cotulla was ousted
at the recent election.
The cotton gin and warehouse at
Laredo is being rooted.
Some fine coal specimens have been
found near Tyler.
Burglars have made several good
hauls at Navasota.
La grippe has brought down three
fourths Of the good citizens of Miami.
The electric light plant in now sue
cessfully running at Victoria.
The First National bank Of Victoria
has elected officers.
Melasky & Co, clothing merchants
of Austin have made all assignment.
The I. & G.. N. will build anew pas
senger depot at Palestine.
The erection ofanother hotel at Fort
Worth is talked of.
Georgetown and HillsborO will
have good hotels soon.
Luling is doing an immense lumber
business.
The Central Republican League OF
Houston has 1877 mem bers and is In
a prosperous condition.
A young man named Fowler is ac--
cidentally killed at Goldthwaite by
Andrew E. Turnbull.
The Texas 4 Pacific hospital st
Marshall will be completed this
week.
The district court at Clarendon in
the Panhandle has the largest docket
on hand that iU has had for years.
The present cold snap has been of
of hog killing.
The Spring Palace soliciting COM
mittee OF Fort Worth has obtained
$40, 900 in subscriptions.
A severe wind and rain storm at
Bells blew down the stables at the
parsonage and four or five barns.
The Standardization Mortgage
company, of Fort Worth, has filed a
charter.
The Rio Grande and Pecos coal
mines at Laredo have secured two or
ders for coal from Mexico, one being
1000 tons, the other for 200 car loads.
Tyler enthusiasts of the order OF
Sam Jones will erect O big shed,
where the fiery warrior can be heard
for several weeks consecutively.
George S. Marsh, a journalist of
Sioux City, Iowa, dies of pneumonia
at Fort Worth. He was in destitute
circumstances.
While riding an unruly horse
stockman of Forney collided with a
COW, was thrown, broke his arm so
that it had to be amputated.
A Frenchman of the state geological
survey, in the Sierra Blancas, strayed
from camp and is feared to have per
ished in the cold.
The residence of Mr.. Berdenstein,
county surveyor, four miles from,
Boerne is destroyed by fire, with its
furniture and fine library.
Three men are in the Brown W God
Jail, charged with the murder of q
brakeman and robbery of q train at
Barge on the Goth of December.
A man employed in loading the
steamship Eastern Prince, at New
Wharf, Galveston, has his leg
broken.
Joseph Siecler is arrested at Austin
for attempting assault upon Mrs.
Lensing. He declares his intentions
were not evil, that it was simply q
way he has Of joking.
The grain elevator, property of the
Northern Cent trail R'y in Baltimore, is
in ashes. A British steamer lying
near the wharf was destroyed by
flames from the burning elevator.
Other vessels were damaged and
many seamen were injured.
w. T. Matthews, a very pleasant
hammered young man, former en-
ploye Of the santa Fe, ia caught at
Midlothian in the ticket office, under
very suspicious circumstances.
The tornado which recently swept
over portion of Texas, swept away
the tents of a camp of gravel diggers.
on the BraZos. A Swede woman was
badly hurt.
At Harrison, 8 miles from Waco, a
freight train stopped, because of
two burning carloads OF cotton. The
flames could not be subdued and the.
two cars were burned, also the plat
form and building near by.
Rev. NJ. II. Martin, deposed from
the First Baptist church at Waco for
heresy and installed at Marlin, was,
so annrOvedof nv theIatter chnroh tha r