San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-07
State News Condensed.

at Glddings.
A stranger at Bryan does up num-
Der of merchants with bogus checks.
The oat crop of Grayson county is
seriously damaged.
An artesian we'll is to be bored at
the Galveston cotton mill.
The standpipe of the Galveston
waterworks leaks badly.
Hailstones broke number of win
dows at Chappell Hill.
Coal and iron are found on private
premises near Tyler.
Mr.. George Dillcy now has charge
of the Palestine postoffice.
There are thirty-two free schools in.
Jones county.
The new Catholic church at Beeville
is nearing completion.
The Ladies Improvement Society is
organized at Clarendon.
The Terrell asylum has no vacant
rooms for any more candidates.
The Alvin hotel is crowded and new
residences are going up all the time.
The general revenue fund, Texas
has increased to over 100000.
Seguin property is rapidly advanc-
ing and changing hands.
Jay Gould and party will be in Tex o.
arkana today.
Austin sends a committee after that
democratic state convention.
The water works project grows big
and strong at Uvalde.
Texas female seminary, Presbyte-
rian, OF Weatherford, files chapter.
Theree fishers at Rockport caught
$1,000 pounds fish in one day.
The new grist mill at Beaumont
mas begun its grind.
The carpenters on the Mcleod
hotel, Dallas, are on a strike
College Hill Institute of Parker
county files charter.
Hail fell six inches deep at ConrolT.
Dirt is flying on the Conanche ex-
tension.
Jumbo well, No. 2, is down 1900 feet
on Bells Hill, Waco.
Iowa Park has organized a fire de-
partment and good band.
There is talk of building q bridge
over the Red river at Quanah.
The Lone Star Iron Co. of Jefferson
expects to begin smelling in few
days, 80 tons of ore per day.
Regular passenger trains will he
put on the Sherman section OF the
Cotton Belt about April Is.
A very heavy hail fell few miles
southeast of Brennan, the stones
were said to be as large as hens eggs.
A negro bootblack of BRENNAN is
shot by young man, who keeps o
chile stand.
The contract is closed to build a
solid granite college to cost from $l2,-
QUO to $4,000, at Marble Falls.
The Farmers Alliance have sold out
their interest in the water power at.
Marble Falls.
The people of Beeville will demand
a rigid enforcement of the road laws
of the state.
Sherman will make application for
a revision of her charter, or else an
entirely new one.
Miss Rosa France, a girl of 10, liv-
ing at McGregor, shot herself III the
right breast, but may recover.
1t was reported at Dallas that Wal
ton, the express embezzler, had been
brought back, but it was half denied.
Several large teeth, evidently be-
longing to some prehistoric animal,
are found near Greenville.
Daniel r. Nelson, a carpenter, of
Dallas, takes twenty grains of NOR
phine and dies.
Straw berry plants are again bloom
ing at Alvin, after the set back by the
recent freeze.
Mr.. 5. S. Van Ness and Mrs. NJ. g.
Hooper, aged respectively 20 and 60
years, marry in Houston.
Mrs. Kirk Roser, of Milan, seized
with vertigo, fell into the fire and died
Of her burns.
Oyster beds are being located at
RockpOrt. Game is very plentiful in
and around the town.
The beef refrigeratlng establish
ment to begin operations at Column
bus will have capacity of $50 beeves.
per day and employ 100 men,
John J. SydOn, of Fort Worth, gets
$4,000 out of a $4,000 suit against the
Western Union Telegraph company
tor nOn-deliVery of q message