San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-17
LATE STATE NEWS.

must aolue oy action OF primaries and
other conventions instructing them.
Fort Worth reports snow and sleet,
fruit killed and stockmen despond-
| emit.
The body of diver Wilson, at work
| on the Lamar, was recovered yester-
day. His armor had become entangled
in the wreckage.
Doggy has q IS year old father and
10 year old mother. the parents of a
quartette of brunette girl babies Is
days old and doing we'll.
Runge democrats instruct for Roger
@ Mills.
Karnes county will decrease cotton
acreage so per cent this season.
Llano commissioners are opening
bids for that central bridge.
Llano reports all hotels and board
ing houses full to overlooking and
prospectors everywhere.
John Johnson. hard citizen, sus-
pected of being leader of a gang that
outraged q girl in Denton county last
fall, is arrested at Paris.
Georgetown fruit growers are des-
pondent over the fruit prospects.
Peaches are Killed.
Georgetown has many Clark follow
ers, but Hogg leads in that town.
Georgetown favors Chiffon for SEN
ate but thinks Mills will be elected.
Rockdale has fire doing Sl2, 500
damage. The new waterworks, just
finished, saved the town.
Cnarley Vines, colored, convicted of
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Morgan,
of Bowie county, and will hang about
May LIST.
San Angelo jockey club Is making
satisfactory progress, and $1,000 in
purses will DO held up for the A pril
races.
San Angeles postal receipts last
year were $1,000 in excess of priyious
year.
Gonzales canrass shows citizens pre-.
ferences. Mills 1872: Chiffon 6; Culber-
son 9; Hogg 81; Clark 80.
Grand Lodge X of P continues in
teresting session at Galveston, elects
grand officers and selects San Aato-
MO as next place meeting.
! LEGISLATIVE AND CAPITAL NOTES
Gov. Hogg res pites Doc. Brother
| ton, sentenced to hang st Wichita
Falls tomorrow, until new evidence
| in his case is examined.
Specimens of Upshur county fax,
in Commissioner HollingswOrth's
| office, show fine fibre and estimated
profits are S45 per acre.
San Antonio stands to secure one OF
Il l. a - - - ~, l..
thorized by the late constitution.
House of representative had only
one hours session yesterday. Bills
we're introduced making McLennan
county the 10th Judicial district;
leaving choice of school books with
directors and trustees of each school;
making railway receivers personally
responsible for damages to individu-
ais; and, q resolution to consider the
report Of the International investi-
eating committee.
Passage of the per diem and Mil
cage bill was announced in the SEN
ate and received with applause.
| Memorial presented in senate by
Dallas school board, against text
book bill: The names of Senators
Lubbock, Messenger and Potter
were proposed as additional members
of the respportionment COMMITTEE, but
after discussion the committee was
constituted of the senate as a body:
Resolutions passed requiring district
courts to report to the legislature the
number of cases, criminal and civil,
filed and disposed of in 1901: Reso-
luton passed calling on governor for
Information as to loss in cotton
weight from interior markets to port
of shipment: Bill appropriating $685.
zoo to pay bonded state
dance with governors message, was
passed under suspension of the rules
Bill accepting money due state under
direct taxation was amended to make
comptroller, treasurer and attorney
an auditing board: Carter intro
duced bill dividing the state into
t three supreme judicial districts, with
courts Of civil appeals in each, aud
makes Fort Worth the seat of the
second district, leaving the others un
, named.
Senatorial possibilitie and proha-
bilities occupy the legislative mind
, to the exclusion of other matters
G Mills is far-snd-away in the lead thil
week and that Is all that can b,
said.
4 The Chiffon men had evidently un.
ii; derrated Mills strength and are quit,
y surprised and visibly desponden
over the situation.
Patsy, the Tramp-Please, will vol
J. give q poor man something to dr!v
r the wolf from the door