San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01
State News Condensed.

Sweetwater wants a fair in the fall.
North west Texas Press association
will meet at Wichita Falls Feb. 10.
The new patent roller process -four
ing mill is at Jefferson running.
Mckinney Cotton Ginning and
Manufacturing company files charter.
The eastern cattle market has been
steady this week for Texas cattle.
Several new business houses will be
built at Bolton.
Foundation is laid for the Ballinger
national bank.
Weather at Sunset is springlike
and farmers are busy.
State treasury receipts for January
amount to SIj, 900.
The Grand Windsor hotel at Dallas
is sold for $2Sl, OCO.
\ fine storehouse, just completed at
Elkhart, is burned; loss $4,000, insur-
ance $500.
\ third lumber yard is established
at Ballnger.
Survey is commenced on the pro-
jected road from Center to Teneha.
race track in the state.
Troy is agitatiug the bank ques-
ton.
Street railway track at Vernon is
nearly completed.
Johnson county is noted for its fine
fruits and pure water.
Houston wants better umpiring in
her league games than she hal last
year.
The prosperity OF Victoria is steadi-
ly increasing.
The dogwood is in bloom at Center.
Cuero is falling into line with the
rest of ambitious candidates for sea-
son of grippe.
Houston real estate transfers are
brisk
Work is rapidly progressing on the
iron bridge across Elm Creek, north
of Ballinger.
Loyal Lodge No. 81, X. of p. will
celebrate their first anniversary at
GOakum on Feb. 10.
\ thirteen mOnths-Old baby fell
down well at San Augustine, but
was rescued and revived.
Directors of the New York, Texas &
| Mexican railroad are elected in Vic
| toria.
There is a good demand just now
| in the Fort Worth make for Texas
raised mules.
Quotations for hogs in the Dallas
market are higher than in Tarrant
county
The NJ X. & T. will run a Pullman
train into the City of Mexico next
month on an excursion.
The Waco Tannery and Horse Col
lar Manufacturing company is organ
| lied at Waco.
Terrell is in earnest about shade
tree planting. Whole blocks will be
encircled by the time spring opens.
The case of J. A. Cole against the
M. p. Railroad company is decided at
Dallas in favor of defendants.
The safe in G.. B. Cowan's store at
Dallas was blown open and $500 got
away with.
f. B. Caraway 4 Co., of Sherman
have failed. Assets $4,000, liabilities
$4,000.
At Grandview the corn shelter
and shelter house OfG A. Harrell were
destroyed by fire. No insurance.
l.. c. Adamson is given six years in
the pen for forgery on plea of guilty
at Galveston.
The recent reduction of grain rates
from Kansas to Texas has raised q
Juror among Texas elevator men and
grain commission merchants.
State School Superintendent Cooper
has sent out circular letter to the
teachers of the state on county insti-
! tute work.
President Black of the Albuquera-
| que road will on his next visit to
Fort Worth tell the people positively
whether he will build to there or
not.
II. A. Walker swallowed eighteen
grains of morphine at Waxahachie,
but the physicians kept him from dy-
ing.
j. w. Echols, ex-county assessor
who was shot at San Angelo by J. TT
Gieger, has died and Gieger is diving
of the bullets in his lungs.
Deputy marshals have arrived at
Paris with several prisoners from the
Cherokee Nation, charged with MUIR.
dering and old man.
Henry Williams escaped from the.
Terrell asylum and attempted to muir
der his whole family at Blossom Prai--