San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-29
TEXAS A NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.


Waco board of equalization has in
creased assessments over $500, O0O.
Electric motor transit is now an as
sured fact for Galveston.
Hogg has carried Freestone county
almost unanimously.
Moore Iron Works company of Fort
Worth files charter.
A SIS, 900 hotel will be erected at
Henrietta this fall.
Seed cotton is coming in fast to
Cuero.
The grading on the new sidetrack
at Bowie is nearly completed.
Work is commenced on the Hous-
ton creOsote works.
Fully 1000 people attended the ex-
confederate picnic at Mckinney.
Albany, the county seat of Shackle-
ford, is having her streets macadam-
lied.
The vessels which were stolen from
st. Patrick's church, Dallas, were
found In the brush by q boy.
Flows and scrapers are going in the
direction of the NJ. X. and Il. extern
sion at sherman.
Tyler is to have a factory for the
production of all kinds of scroll work
and interior decoration.
Subscriptions to the Waco cotton
mill are $50, 1000. A Site is being
chosen.
st. Paul's Episcopal church at
W~axahachie is dedicated by Bishop
Garrett.
Some people of Denison who attend
ed a picnic at Pilot Point, were made
very i'll by bad water.
Lille Murphy, a demi-monde of
Waco, attempted suicide by hanging
with a strong cord. She was rescued.
Hon. George Mccormick, of Con-
zales, withdraws from the congress
sional race.
Mrs. George Mallory, an old resi-
dent of Victoria, Is adjudged in
sane.
Roger @. Mills was rendered q fish
ing party at Corsicana. He will re-
turn to Washington this week.
The Cuero waterworks are in de.
mand. Mains are oeing laid to resi-
| dences all over town.
The melon crop has taken the place
of the peach crop In Texas this year,
as the latter has been q general fail
ure.
The head of a darkey at Jefferson Is
literally torn from his body, by the
accidental discharge of q gun, belong
| ing to another negro.
The 10-year-old girl of o Mr.. Smith,
living les Anita, while making the
fire with kerosene, set fire to the
house, and is now a little roasted
angel.
Rev. DR.. Mitchell, the Presbyterian
minister charged with forgery, is still
in Jail at Fort Worth, being unable to
make the $4,000 bond.
MI. II. A. Hall, a merchant Of
Gainesville, is thrown from his buggy
while attending a barbecue and prob
ably fatally injured.
Burglars entered the business house
of F. G. Moore, at Dallas, and secured
$40 in money and $4,000 in valuable
notes.
A negro, disturbing Sunday SER
vices at Longview, was killed by
Constable Cooke while resisting ar
rest.
A boy dies at Victoria from eating
watermelon out of a cotton patch
where poison had been used to kill
cotton worms.
Oscar Lecone, a candidate for sheriff
is shot in the mouth and probably
fatally wounded. The shooting was
done by a deputy sheriff.
Lone Star business College of San
Marcos, University Place Improve
ment Co. of Dallas and the Pastoriza
Printing and Lithographing Co. of
Houston, file charters.
Two hacks on their way to Mineral
Wells with passengers from the Mill
sap train, were held up by q lone
highwayman and the occupants were
robbed of their money and v%alaables.
Mr.. Cravens, of Waco, who was
suffering from dementia and was re-
moved to Browns hospital, has made
his escape.