San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-25
TEXAS A NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

A cotton gin is to be erected at Iowa
Park.
May Mcdonald suicides by NOR
phine at Texarkana.
The long drouth is broken at Co.
lumbus.
There are seventeen prisoners in the
county Jail at Beton.
The Houston canning factory will
soon be in full blast.
The Presbyterian church at Kerr
VILE will be begun at once.
Smuggling along the border at Del
Rio is increasing every day.
Shipping of hogs to Mexico con-
tinues.
Yoakum's First National bank will
erect a two-story brick building.
Greenville furniture factory is near
ing completion.
Yoakum is painting for an ice fac
tory.
The bottom has dropped out of the
live stock market in Fort Worth.
George Madden gets two years for
THEFT at Mckinney.
"A DlS IdllIodu piCulC Will u0 uclO
tomorrow at Pilot Point.
Dirt is broken at Kemp on the Dali
las and New Orleans railroad, and
there are twenty-six teams grading.
R. c. Cleveland, living near Hills
boro, administers poison with intent
to kill, to his wife.
Louis Jones is killed by a man
nonaI StorHS with whpm ha bod
drifted into politics, at Texarkana.
The Nueces Land and Cattle COM
pany has been making large stock
purchases.
Contract is let for building an iron
bridge across the Medic, on the Re-
fugio road at Beevllle, for $3.50.
Some small boys at Seymour, hunt
ing for prairie dogs, found the dead
body of q man.
Bastrop citizens hold a meeting to
form a stock company to build a wa
terworks system.
The dead body of a man, identified
as a tailor named White, is found one
mile from Giddings.
The Beeville Gun club are making
preparations for their first annual
tournament on September 8 and 4.
The contract for q couple of new
bridges in Jefferson county has been
let to be completed by November LIST.
Chas. B. Cook, of Houston, ill of
consumption, puts an end to further
misery by blowing his brains out.
The Arkansas Pass is still hauling
heavy trainloads of rock daily to the
mouth of the Brazos.
There is general and profound re-
joicing over the rains, which have
greatly benefited crops, especially
cotton.
Thomas Monaghan, the Galveston
pugilist, married the girl Annie
Wild, whom he was charged with
raping.
The new bridge over the Red river
at the Colbert ferry crossing from
Denison is being constructed as rap
idly as possible.
A negro while trading a horse on
the streets at Bryan, was recognized
as an ex.convict and was clapped in
Jail.
Mrs. Clinton Leith, of Ell Paso, had
llcT ucCh UIOheu ny Uu6 uOTse SI6 Was
driving, dashing away and throwing
her out against a large tree.
All necessary arrangements are
progressing for the reunion of Par
sons brigade at Weatherford, August
6 and Z.
Enos Hurst, of Gainesville, was
killed by a horse which he was riding,
falling over a COW, then falling on
himself, breaking his spine and mash
ing his lungs.
Russell Harrison and a New York
syndicate pay $780, 900 for one thous-
and acres of land and seven building
blocks south of Corpus on the Port
Arkansas cliffs.
The governor has committed SEN
tence of Frank Bell of Dallas, sent up
for murderous assault to expire next
Christmas and has %pardoned A. G..
Taggard, given Is years for horse
theft.
A few nights ago the tailor shop Of
B. w. Thomas, of Navasota was bur-
glarized and four or five pairs of pants
were stolen.
The new Jail at Seguin has been
delivered to the county by the con-
tractor. Contract for the new iron
fence round the court house has been
given out.