San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-17
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FRommoUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

The grading of the railroad : to
Bracket is nearly completed.
Fifteen carlo ads of cattle. have left
Runge in the past week.
Baseball: Fort Worth 8, Austin ),
Waco S, Dallas :.
Rockport is. to be Incorporated un-
der a general state charter.
Ballinger's warehouses are over
flowing with wool.
Greenville city council grants fran
chise for sewerage system.
The Brazos. is slowly falling at
Richmond.
Municipal officers are elected at
Morgan.
Joe Marcelus, cOlored, OF Carthage,
is held for breaking his wife's neck.
The Taylor county cotton acreage Is
largely increased.
R. p. Lundy, a colored preacher is
arrested at Paris for beating his wife.
A violent storm has passed over
Del Rio, no particulars are known
yet.
The first passenger train on the
Wichita Valley r. r.. will run May
9th.
k0pperl was thoroughly canvassed
by burglars few nights ago, but
they gained little of value.
The Red river is falling rapidIv
at Jefferson and all danger from
floods are over.
The Galveston Wharf Company
offers the Texas Packing company a
big piece OF ground for nothing.
The commencement exercises OF the
Floresville academy will be held on
May %, % and "a.
Attic Ice Co., of Hallettsville and
Quanah Roller Mill Co., file charters,
also Temple board of trade.
The gauge of the Texas Western is
to be made standard, and work there
on Will commence next week
The foundation Of the new court
house at Columbus is to be raised a
foot higher.
Seventy-nine car loads of cattle
have been shipped in the last ten
days.
The good people OF Brownwood are
particularly energetic in their efforts
to aid the Confederate Home.
A number of contractors are putting
in bids tor construction of the Wealth
erford, Mineral Wells and Northwes-
tern r. r.
The Ladies aid society of Leonard
are looking hard for the three church.
es, buying bells and organs and
otherwise improving them.
Many farmers of Seymour estimate
100 bushels of oats to the acre. Grady.
on the Wichita Valley road, is within
thirteen miles of Seymour.
An excursion will 60 from the
spring palace on May 2lst. to Corpus
Christi to take look at the deep
water of the future.
A fine vein of coal, % inches thick
is struck at Strawn, at a depth of l25
feet. This is the fifth coal mine in
PalO Pinto county.
The knights TempIar of Ma shlll,
LOngview, MineOIa and Queen @ tv
celebrate Ascension day at Jef; rs)n.
Bonds to the amount of S1l, 500 a-e
ordered issued at Beeville, to pay Tor
four iron bridges to be built by
August LIST.
mo oOOhhoepeI OF Jdpn6J ~ 90.
Of Houston who was murderOuslv
assaulted, is slowly recovering con-
sciousness. The police can find no
clue to the robber.
Simon Ingram, a young negro COLI
victed of criminal assault on an old
white lady at DenisQn, is sentenced
to death. The verdict is universally
approved.
State GeOlOgist Dumble has some of
the proof sheets of his forthcoming re-
port and a new geological map of
Texas, showing the progress made in
the present survey.
A stranger called at Jake Banard's
place at Granger, and asked leave
to turn bis horse in the pasture Now
the stranger, his horse, and six horses
of the host are missing.