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STATE NEWS.


be in operation at Greenville.
Steve Porter was killed by Tom
Cochran at Trickham recently.
There is some talk of glass
factory being started at Jewett.
An effort is being made to or
ganize silk farm at San Antonio.
Columbus is erecting large
tabernacle for a Methodist revival.
The San Antonio Farmers ALI
ance have endorsed the alien land
law.
The Stuttz theatrical company
are entertaining the people of Cor
pus Christi
Hunt county has 100 school
houses and total scholastic popula-
ton of IS, $50.
Geo. Swan while on his way to
Galveston with load of watermelons
was shot at by an ambushed assas-
sin.
"A. Y. Curtis, of st. Joe, acct
IDENTIFY shot himself through the
bowels Saturday while cleaning a
pistol.
The Alliance roller mill at
Greenville is paying IS cents per
bushel for all good wheat brought
to their mill.
The Sherifs Convention at
Lampasas adjourned Thursday to
meet the first Tuesday in May at
Austin next year.
Twenty thousand dollars per
month is paid out by the New Biz
mingham Iron aud Improvement
company in wages.
Hunt county has six newspa-
pers and four national banks, with a
combined capital of 100000, exclu-
sive of surplus funds.
-Artesian well No 8 at Bolton
has flow of nearly million and
half gallons of water per day. Oh,
for such one at BRENNAN.
Boil worms are depredating
upon the cotton in Hunt county,
and the farmers are administering
liberal doses of Paris Green vermi-
fuge.
Rev. W. S. westly, known as
the cowboy" preacher, will pitch
his tent at Round Rock for the pur-
pose of conducting a Methodist re-
vival.
The Reporter says that from
ten to fifteen hundred dollars are
paid out daily at Abilene for wheat,
and the farmers are happy in conse-
quence.
AN attempt to assassinate Juan
Malunlez at Gonzales Thursday re-
suited in his receiving a ball in the
forehead but his skull was not
broken.
oil Spradling was jailed at
Mt. Vernon, recently, charged with
stealing fifty head of sheep near
Saltillo from John Sparks and sell
ing them in Paris.
The post-ofice at lakewood was
burned Tuesday, together with J.
q. Holby's drug store, B. A. Kim
ble's store, W. G. Hooker's grocery
store, and two buildings, the prop
erty of Mrs. Woods, all the work of
an incendiary.
"A military company with SO
members has been organized at
Henderson, E. W. Winson was elected
captain, Dick Neal first lieutenant,
R. Norrell second lieutenant, Geo
Rankin first sergeant, Sam Lacy
second sergeant.
Two boys by the name of Waits,
aged IL and 16, charged with rape
were arrested near Mt. Vernon re-
Gently. They waylaid two girls by
the name of Bishop age Ia and Is.
AS the girls approached the oldest
boy caught the oldest girl and threw
her down, and while he had her
down the youngest boy stood the
other girl off with a knife They
became frightened at the approach
of some one before they fully ac-
complished their purpose,
There is a great scarcity of
money in all the lower Rio Grande
section of this State. There has
been no rain to speak of for
eighteen months The ranchmen
are all in debt and the farmers have
been unable to raise enough for
their actual needs. The scarcity of
money and the impossibility of OBJ
tanning it in any quantity was en-
phasized Thursday at Roma. on the
Rio Grande, where 278 young, fat
and healthy sheep, capable of grow
ing four pounds of wool annually,
sold for SO cents.
Joint application of the Gull,
Colorado and Santa Fe and the
Texas and Pacific railways for leave
to apply rates on flour, grain; hay,