San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-14
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Heavy rains have fallen between
Alice aud Brownsville.
At Roma custom house 27S fat
sheep sold for "a cents each.
The ex-confederates at Gainesville
ate rs oeeves for dinner Thursday.
State Grange at McGregor consid
ers "women's work in the Grange"
State grange enthusiastically en-
dorses the alien land law.
The opening meeting of the illinois
third partyites was fizzle.
Democrats and alliance discuss the
sub-treasury scheme at Mt. Vernon.
The Trieste failure and the Russian
grain ukase affects stocks in Europe.
Germany's crop prospects are i'm
proved according to late reports.
DrOuth has ruined cotton and grain
prospects in Burmah.
JObn Chinaman strikes on the gov
eminent works at home.
The hot wave has passed New York
but there were 6 deaths yesterday.
The Tex rs Trunk railway does not
60 into hands of receivers just now.
Out of 800 teachers examined for
summer normal certificates 254 pass.
Austin carries all the amendments
save local option.
Southern Lum bermen's convention
lowers prices slightly.
The lumbermen will not make q
unified exhibit at Worlds fair.
New York money per cent on call;
silver 80 IL.
Steamship Parthian arrives at New
York with cargo of new Japan teas.
YOakum receives machinery for
artesian we'll.
Live Oak county valuation $685.
473; increase of $249, 016 over 1890.
Ed. Lynch, Mexican war veteran,
died suddenly at Hallettsville.
Cuero wants rain very much. Her
cotton gins are both busy.
A train of 80 cars of smelling ma
chinery passes Laredo for Monterey.
Corpus Christi Jail will be built of
Laredo brick.
st. Johns and Marsh lumber com.
pany assigns at Chicago; liabilities
$l46, 900, assets 1888, 900.
A first.class country road is to be
established between Eagle Pass and
Del Rio.
Sioux City Trust company of Iowa
sues the Manhattan Trust company
of New York.
Aldipe postoffice, Uvalde county,
discontinued Aug. 81. Mail goes to
Heard.
Texas cotton report shows Is per
cent better and 10 per cent larger area
than last year.
Lumbermen appoint committee to
secure more car facilities over Cotton
Belt road.
Lum bermen's convention at st.
Louis agrees to continue the Memphis
gauge.
Over IL per cent of the lumber
statistical report.
The knife and the pistol do their
work in Coleman and Tom Green
counties.
A Denver couple unable to agree
in life suicide and want to be buried
together.
Lee county tax rolls show S92, $50
increase in taxable values over last
year.
Russia's ukase prohibiting exporta-
ton of cereals sends up prices In
Liverpool.
Southern Railway and Steamship
association reflects old board of off
GERS.
The beginning of the end of the
Union Pacific financial troubles has
come.
Central traffic association abandOn
its hostility t0 harvest excursion
rates.
Starr county has ST., 200 bonded
debt and $4,000 floating indebted
ness.
U. b. marshals at FL Paso with
Cinnamon for San Francisco, are
stopped by habeas corpus proceed
ings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Jamaison sue
M. K. & T. for SIC, 900, for injuries sus-
tanned.
Los Angeles victimized $1,000 by
National Savings association of Chi
cago.
Sherman republicans are working
to secure the state delegation for
Blaine.
Relief measures are being rapidly
pushed at st. Petersburg for the dis
tressed provinces.
All future promotions in U. 8. civil
service will be made upon compete
tive examination.
Dudley Frayser of Memphis chloro-
formed and check for Sc, 900 extorted.
Payment of check was refused.