San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-19
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

AND STATE SPECIALS.
The Colorado river has gone down
at Eagle Lake.
A building and loan association Is
organized at Crockett.
A heavy land sale is expected 10 be
consummated at Uvalde.
Building operations increase at
Cuero.
The schools at Ross have Teen closed
Oh account of the measles.
Over 200 900 pounds of wool have
arrived at San Angelo this season.
The Laredo Light Guards are to
have an outfit of Springfield rifles.
A rain storm which struck Cotulla
did considerable damage.
An Anti-railroad Commission club
is organized at Pittsburg.
Arrivals at the Lamrasas hotels
are numerous.
Hallettsville's public schools have
closed
The subsidy of $4,000 asked for the
brewery at Fort Worth will be grant
ed.
The school children at Abilene sent
TWO ldISe UOAeS pdCheu Will llO" els
to the Spring Palace.
l.. G. Chriss, of Ell Paso, complains
that Prof. Esterly, superintendent #
public schools, cruelty beat his son.
Trinity Drug company of Dallas,
and Pilot Point Manufacturing COM
pany of Denton county, file charters.
There are prospects of discovering
iron in large quantities within a short
distance of rhurbur.
Gov. Wheeler, pro tenn, has par
doned three cOnvicts since he has
been in office.
The foot of a woman Is found in q
pasture near Tyler. 1t had been
amputated just below the ankle.
Baseball: Houston 6, Galveston J,
Dallas 8, Waco 2, Austin 4, Forth
Worth 3.
Hugh Warburton, riding on rail-
road velocipede at Houston was run
over by switch engine and killed.
Y. n. Cole, cashier of the First
National bank at Honey Grove, while
standing with a target gun IN his
hand, pointing downward, had his
foot shot by its discharge.
James Rankin, one of the contract
Ors of the new bridge in Laredo, fell
twenty-five feet off the bridge Oh a
pile of rock breaking his arm and
otherwise injuring himself.
There is great indignation in Dallas
over the appointment of negro
teacher in one of the public schools to
be census enumerator.
The BRENNAN field artillery are
considering proposition to combine
literary and social feature with
their military organization.
Sixty New England capitalists are
on their way to Fort Worth, where
they will be banquetted at the Ellis
hotel.
Two colered women being refused a,
nickel by an old colOred man in Hous-
ton, attacked him and bit him on the
arm.
The store and safe of H. w. Rankin
at Hampstead was burglarized; about
ol5O in cash was taken with various
other articles of value.
The body of lad Is years of age,
Arthur Eckmann of Richmond, is
found in copse at Galveston, at
which place he was attending school.
mere were no marks of violence
about him.
Bill Thompson and his brother Pete
who had quarrel with their brother
m-law, Johnson, near Smithville,
went to his house with the intention
of taking away their sister, Johnson,
however, killed Bill and wounded
Pete.
On Saturday the gold medals were
awarded at the Spring Palace. Wich-
ita county took one for the best ex-
hibit of the products of the earth from
any county, and Taylor county for the
best orchard and garden display from
any one county.
E. B. Watkins, editor of the Even
ing Register at Gainesville, was as
saulted by a deputy United States
marshal and two deputies. who
knocked him down, kicked him bru-
tally and broke his lower jaw. The
trouble is said to be the outcome of an
article in the paper which called q
number of marshals outlaws.
Houston HuStlings