San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-03
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

Yoakum wants railroad to Vic
toria
Fire-proof brick is found under the
coal at Bowie.
A block of fine stone buildings will
be erected at once at Cisco.
l t is said that tap road will be run
out from Bowie to the coal mines.
The NJ. X. & T. will come through
Sealy and the people are ju bilant.
A norther at Hearne, came very
near freezing.
The commercial bank will erect
building At Vernon.
An eastern company will erect a
cotton and wooden mill at Bells.
A flour mill is being erected at
Brentwood.
Eight carloads OF freight have gone
out from FL Paso.
A railro Dad is talked of from Laredo
to Brownsville.
Trains to Houston are delayed by
heavy washOuts.
A series of horse races are to be
held at the new track at Victoria.
A heavy and much needed rain has
fallen at Waelder.
Colorado City and west of there has
had a cold norther.
The criminal docket at Canton has
six murder cases on hand.
The new hotel at Archer City is.
nearly finished
The extensive wheat fields near
Archer City are in fine condition.
Cattle are now beginning to move
lively over the railroads.
A brisk norther with. rain struck
Edna.
A two-story auditorium will be put
up in Dallas.
The armory of the JEFF Davis Rifles
at Jasper is under contract.
Galveston real estate market is still
active.
Cattle near Bracket are reported
dying of some disease.
cial) files charter.
A fine rain has fallen at Flores
Vile.
Sparks from a passing train came
very near destroying the new Union
depot at Cisco.
6. A. Farley, section hand at Par
is, got on spree and then took an
ounce of laudanum.
The ladies of Palestine have organ
lied with the determination of raising
$1,000 for the Confederate home.
Miss Gentry, of Sealy, was painful
ly wounded in the knee by an acct
dental pistol shot.
Ell Paso city clerk will receive
proposals until April IS, for the sink
ing of all artesian well.
A bill is passed in the senate to
construct bridge across the Brazos;
near the mouth.
An Englishman about sixty years
of age shoots his brains out at Bloom
ing Grove.
The big brick courthouse at Jasper
is finished and county officials will
move in next week.
Marquee is gradually recovering
from the damaging effects Of the re-
cent freeze.
The steamships of the Morgan line
betw cen Galveston and New York are
switched off for the season.
The dry spell in northern and
western Texas is broken by copious
rains.
The presbytery of Western Texas
opens its sessio in Corpus Christi to-
day.
Twelve carloads Of beeves will be
shipped from Eagle Pass for Chica-
go.
The electric lights in Houston were
eXtingulshed by sharp thunder and
lightning storm. Rain fell in tre-
mendOus volume.
Mrs. Mary Stocksbury, of BONN nam,
brings suit against the Texas Pacific
and 50 citizens of the county to try
title and for $4,000 damages.
The dwelling and all its contents,
belonging to q. H. Yancey, at Walton,
twelve miles from Canton, is DESTROY
ed by fire. The family were away.
The drummer, Michaels, reported
missing from Ell Paso, has not bee.
heard of. 1t is feared he met with
foul play.
The Home Land and Cattle compa-
ny are preparing to moves from their
pastures in Texas and New Mexico,
200 head of cattle to the northwest.
George Good, of Rockwell, fell over
the balcony of the Capital theatre at
Dallas, struck on the back of his head,
| broke three chairs and is dangerously
injured.
The Alamo monument to be erected
! on the CaDitOl grounds will he ri feat