San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-31
State News Condensed

Forty culored IabOrers have arrived
at Eagle Lake from North Carolina.
A counterfeit silver dollar is detect
ed at the postofiice at Carthage.
Georgetown university is full and in
a prosperous condition.
Three Mexicans got in row at Del
Rio and were more or less carved up.
The lumber traffic is proving bon
ANA to Houston.
Governor Ross has recovered from
la grippe.
Two men were thrown out OF wag.
on at Del Rio; one was badly hurt.
There are said to be 600 cases OF the
grippe at Palestine.
Mineral prOspectOrs are inyestiga-
ting near FlOresville.
Burglars carried off $3.50 worth of
goods from a store at Van Alstyne.
The Amarillo Collegiate institute
wants to erect a $4,000 building.
New York Presbytery very general
w faYors a revision of the confession
of faith.
A building for the fire department
will be erected at Navasota.
La grippe victims are numerous at
Midlothian.
The town of Bruceville on the NJ
X. & T., twenty miles south of Waco,
has doubled its area.
The Lockard house of Whitesboro
is entirely destroyed by fire with all
its contents.
Geo. Southers, the brakeman in
jured in the wreck three miles east
of Santo, has died.
McFarland's grain house and coal
bin at Vernon, are consumed by fire.
Loss is $4,000. No insurance.
Madisonville says she will soon
have one of the best equipped hard
ware stores in the interior.
There are number of strangers at
Arkansas Pass with view to invest
ing.
A drunken section boss at Hoakum
was run down by a freight tain and
killed.
The member of Mexican band is
stabbed at Fredericksburg by his
drunken wife.
Eagle Lake has shipped thirty-four
carloads of pecans, which has Melted
the place $4,000.
Total amount of taxable roperty
within the incorporated limits of San
Angelo is 81 100000.
Two little sons of MID. Pierce who
lives u miles from Waco, were
wounded by birdshot fired by hunts
men.
A four-year-old boy of Mr.. Frank
arN 4 L., oEL ,,r l.,
his kindling fire which ignited his
clothes. The mother was badly
scorhed.
At dance two miles from COMA
! les, Dick Hargis was shot and
killed by John Blain, who gave him.
self up and claims he did it in self
defence.
F. l.. Carroll, of Waco, files suit
against the S. A. p. for 5000 dam
| ages and against the city of Waco for
$500 for cOndemning property.
Thomas Johnson is convicted at
! Georgetown and sentenced to six
years for killing Constable Evans OF
| Granger.
Mr.. Nining, OF Georgetown, patents
! a new watch spring which he thinks
will make great change in that
| trade.
The case of Johnson and his wife, of
! Galveston, for conspiracy to defraud
an insurance company, has ended by
mol PROSE-.
Some Ken tuckians with their dogs
will have wolf chase at Weather
ford against Texas dogs for $500 a
side.
Mr.. J. p. Garland is fined $40 and
costs for violation of the Sunday law
by allowing an operate performance
in his opera house at Waco.
Work on the electric wires in tine
capitol is being pushed. The arte-
sian well on the grounds is down 200
feet.
Horace Cone, who assayed the role
of Jack the Ripper" in variety
show at Dallas, andwas thought to be
fatally injured, has recovered. He is
a son OF the late Judge Con g of Hous-
ton.
The Texas Mexican Electric Light
and Power company's plant, which is
to light Eagle Pass and Piedras Ne
gras, is about ready to commence OPP
erations.
A hanging lamp in the boarding
apartments of the Chappell Hill fe-
male college fell and scattered fire,
which caused quite panic, but the
flames were quickly smothered.
Archbishop Fabre, of Montreal, or