San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-17
State News Condensed.


The Little Rock & Memphis will
build to Paris.
Archer City is moving vigorously
ahead.
Right of way is given the NJ. X. e.
T. through the city of Sherman.
Galveston is to have a new passen-
ger depot.
Cuero waterworks are nearing COM
pletiOn.
Austin will organize a team and
join the Texas league.
Two prisoners escape from the JEFF
ferson Jail by overpowering the jailer.
The Rio Grande at Laredo is very
low.
The mutton market of the ConchO
country is on boom.
Center has broom factory in full
blast.
Mrs. Feltin commits suicide by
hanging at CastrOville.
Local option election will be held
throughout Camp county, March IA.
The school at Troy is in flourish
ing condition.
A carload of corn fed beeves is sent
from Troy to Chicago.
A Spansh-American republican
weekly is to be started at Laredo.
A 81, 900 clock will be put on the
Jasper courthouse.
The pine lands around JaspsS Ara :
increasing in value every d.
The Houston Post announces ito
speedy appearance In a new dress.
Louis Batzenic, the slayer of Tom
James at Dallas, of the prize fighting
gang. Is given his liberty.
There is a proposed new cattle
quarantine line against Texas for
splenic fever.
William Carey, the negro who con-
fesses he broke open Il box car on the
Fl. q 7. c. at Sherman, is jailed.
Henry Pendleton, charged with
cattle theft and assault to murder is
jailed at Midland.
A saloon fight in Houston, Trairs
Montgomery, son of the Texas veter-
an, was badly cut in the neck.
For 1889 statistics show that 126, 500
tons of coal and $3.50, 600 of silver bull
lion were mined in Texas.
Alvord merchants report better
trade than ever before, and building
goes on apace.
The people along the line of the
Texas Pacific, west Of Fort Worth,
want local passenger train.
The hooking Klub of Honey Grove
gave an entertainment to pay for the
publishing of their "Kook" book.
A. R. Mabry, dealer in guns and
fire arms, Fort Worth, assigns. Assets
$4,000, liabilities $1,000.
Tom Green county boasts of having
the smallest debt of any county in the
state.
One of the dry kilns of the Oklaho-
ma Lumb Der Co., five miles from Gill
mer, is burned.
A negro woman employed in a.
family at ROckdale is found murdered
mile from town.
a barn containing corn. fodder, and
several horses is fired at Omaha and
d 'strOyed. No insurance.
A foot of snow fell at Junction CITY.
Said to be the heaviest fall there in
the memory of the oldest inhabitants.
Citizens of Rusk invite Attorney Gem
eral Hogg to open the gubernatoriaI
campaign at that place.
The Tyler Sporting club is organ
ICED. Two building and loan ass0cia-
lions have also been organized.
#. Severhahn, a Houston merchant,
dies IN the greatest agony of lockjaw,
resulting from driving a nail in his
foot.
Mr.. Walker Fore lies at the point of
death, s miles from Pittsburg, from
injuries received from runaway
team.
G. G. West, of Tyler, was attacked
by one man and several women ON
his way home, who mistook him for
another fellow.
J. G. Gage, of Sherwood, Irion
county, files suit for $4,000 damages
for injuries received in the Santa Fe
wreck near Brentwood.
The cooking range in the kitchen of
Dallas boarding house explodes,.
hurting the cook across the room and,
smashing up things generally.
At Beckville IA year-old lad was
taking a shot gun to be mended;.
thinking it was unlOaded he snapped
ii at his little sister and young lady.
| The child was fearfully laCerated and
will die and the girl will probably
die.
Directors are elected in Galveston
for the Texas summer normal. The
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