San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 4, 1890 Page: 1 of 8
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San Antonio Daily Light.
Volume X—Number I 1
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ALAMO BREWING
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Best Pale
VIEALVA
Lager and Bonled Beer.
Orders promptly attended
and delivered to any part of
the city free of charge.
JOE MC ALLISTER
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES
And Cash Headquarters for
Stone Coal Charcoal Austin White Lime
Portland and Rosendale Cements
Plaster Paris Hair etc. etc.
A trial solicited. Free delivery wagon. •
Telephone 163. 20 1 S. AlamoSt
ALEX. SARTOR.
Has on hand a large assortment of
Fine Jewelry Walches
Onyx Clocks.
— No. 18
W. COMMERCE ST. SAN ANTONIO. TEX
Agents Wanted.
We have an original plan in dealing
with our agents which they greatly
appreciate. We furnish them with
any quantity of our catalogues witn
their name printed on each as exclu-
sive agents for their county.
Agents have merely to see that the
catalogues are properly distributed
and the result is marvelous. An agent
in this way can establish a large mail
trade.
Full particulars mailed on receipt of
four cents in stamps.
Lester Payne & Co.
1-25- d&w Im Battle (.'reek Mich.
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Children n oy
The pleasant flavor gentle action
and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs
when in need of a laxative and if the
father or mother be costive or bilious
the most gratifying results follow its
use so that it is the best family rem-
edy known and every family should
have a bottle. (8)-4-19-tf
Published at San Antonio. Bexar County. Texas and HeHl.tervd at the Post Office as Second-Class Mall Matter.
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH-
ES AND STATE SPECIALS
Up to the Time of Going to Press.
The Colored Brother Convenes.
Washington February 4.—The
Colored men’s Convention was in ses-
sion until an early hour this morning
and after a stormy scene finally
elected Bishop A. Waggman. as per-
manent president. His chief compet-
itor was ex-Senator P. H. B. Pinch-
back.
River Pirates Worsted
New Yokk February 4.—Thieves
and river pirates fared badly here
last night. One while trying to sack
a canal boat on the Fast river was
shot dead by the captain. In the early
morning a burglar was surprised in
the act of breaking into a Firstavenue
saloon. He tried to murder the police-
man and in return was clubbed into
a state of insensibility.
The Sixth National Resumes
New Yokk Feb. 4.—TheSixth Na-
tional bank resumed business this
morning under the direction of Presi-
dent Leland and a new board of di-
rectors. A few small accounts were
drawn out but the large body of de-
positors seemed to feel perfectly con-
fident and before noon business was
going on as if nothing had happened.
European Immigration Scheme.
Ottawa Ont. Feb. 4. —It was re-
cently stated in the newspapers that
British and Dominion governments
are encouraging Baron Hirsch’s
scheme for bringing some hundreds
of thousands of Russian Jews into the
northwest; that the Baron will
spend 50000000 francs in the project
That London would be the center of
the movement and that oatches of
five hundred families will come at a
time. The Dominion government has
heard nothing of the scheme.
Honorably Acquitted.
London Feb. 4 —The Star (T. P.
O’Conner’s paper) in an article on the
victory of Mr. Parnell in his suit
against the Times says Parnell has
legally reinstated his character in the
face of a tribunal packed by his ene-
mies on the treasury bench. If he
had failed to establish his case he
must have quitted the house of com-
mons. Having succeeded he must be
reinstated with appropriate honors.
The Star further says that the first
duty of Mr. W. H. Smith govern-
ment leader in the house of commons
is to propose a resolution acquitting
Parnell of the charges made against
him and summoning Mr. Walter pro-
prietor of the Times to the bar of the
house for a grave breach of privileges.
Secretary Tracy Recovering
Washington Feb. 4.—Secretary
Tracy continues to improve slowly.
Many prominent people called at the
house during the morning and
were informed that the secretary was
getting along nicely. His son Frank
B. Tracy is now with him. having ar-
rived here about 1:30 o’clock this
morning on a special train. Heis the
first member of his family the secre-
tary has seen since the awful calamity
of yesterday morning and his pres-
ence was an unmistakable source of
joy and hope to the bereaved parent.
The president sent over early in the
morning to inquire after the secretary
and Private Secretary Halford called
in person about 10 o’clock to consult
with regard to the secretary’s removal
to the white house.
Physicians attending Mrs. and Miss
Wilmerding said this morning that
their patients passed a fair night and
are better todaj. Mrs. Wilmerding
suffers a great deal from her bruises
and at times this morning was hys-
terical as she began to realize the ex-
tent of her terrible loss. Miss Wil-
merding is decidedly better having
passed a restful night.
A Cloud Over the Festivities.
. New Yokk Feb. 4.—Thesadevents
of the last few days at Washington
including the sad loss in the Blaine
family and the more tragic affliction
to the home of Secretary Tracy have
dimmed considerably the celebration
of the centennial of the federal judi-
ciary that was inaugurated this
morning: The weather too seemed
designed to cast an additional gloom
over the great affair for as the morn-
ing passed away a disagreeable rain
set in growing heavier as the hour
for the exercises approached. The
attendance at the literary exercises in
the Metropolitan opera house was the
most noted that ever filled the mag-
i niflcent building.
—
Ante-Mortem Statement.
Justice McAllister was called upon
this morning to take the ante-mortem
i statement of Harry Adams the lad
' who was run into by Louis Kratt the
I butcher and seriously wounded Sat-
| urday evening. This is done in the
j event the boy dies when such being
the case Kraft will be prosecuted by
I the state authorities for murder.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4 1890.
Telegiapliie Brevities.
President Diaz says he will do noth-
ing to hamper the border trade.
The queen will sign her speech Sat-
urday.
lowa house is still dead-locked over
the speakership.
Senate adjourns out of respect to
Blaine and Tracy.
The Smith-Jackson contested elec-
tion ease is resumed in the house.
The Patti party have left Mexico
for San Francisco.
Carlisle prepares his statement of
democratic objections to Heed.
Carter Harrison supports Speaker
Reed’s rulings.
The U. S. supreme court knocks out
Mormonism.
Chicago Presbytery votes in favor of
revising the confession.
The Loudon Times pays Campbell
£9OO and all costs of action.
The London Times pays Parnell
£5OOO and the suit is settled.
Secretary Tracy’s only son has gone
on to Washington by special.
Influenza is bad in Zacatecas and
smallpox epidemic on the frontier.
Barnett secretary of state for Geor-
gia is dead.
Steamer Jersey City arrives at New
York having lost three men ma gale.
Arkansas corn yield for ISB9 was
45503809 bushels.
The masonic grand bodies of Mis-
sissippi meet on the 11th.
Probate Judge of Cherokee Co. Ala-
bama dismissed for drunkenness.
The Mississippi rise threatens the
new levee at Vicksburg.
A Polish church row in Buffalo N.
Y. requires 200 police to quell it.
Persia will establish a marine
station at Liden to cost 13000000
roubles.
The Russian ambassador has been
summoned home to confer concerning’
the Anglo-Portuguese dispute.
The ballot box forgeries committee
in Ohio go for Murat Halsteads
scalp.
The committee on commerce close
hearings in the Warmouth confirma-
tion case.
The City of Mexico has imported
machinery from Spain for a large
paper mill.
Fl Sol a new Mexican paper is
printed in the interest of English
commerce.
The third annual chess tournament
of the United States opened in St.
Louis this morning.
Matters are unchanged concerning
the Sixth National and Lenox bank
failures.
Depositors of the broken New York
banks hold excited meetings and
threaten trouble.
The murderer of Constable Bopp
Sumner HL last December has been
arrested in Kansas.
Coroners jury of Philadelphia find
that BankerDittman was accidentally
drowned.
New York legislature adjourns out
of respect to the afflictions of Blaine
and Tracy.
The New Mexico bar wants two ad-
ditional associate justices in that ter-
ritory.
Silver and copper in paying quanti-
ties found near Plainfield New Jer-
sev.
George Francis Train will try and
beat Nellie Bly’s time around the
work!.
Secretary Tracy bears the bereave-
ment nobly aud his condition is im-
proved.
One thousand Carolina negroes en-
route for Texas and Louisiana pass
through Alabama.
The 30 mile cycle race at New Or-
leans is won by Cason in 3 hours 39
minutes 20 seconds.
Marquis de Mores shoots Dreyfus of
France in a duel on the Belgian fron-
tier.
Mrs. Langtry is very ill with pneu-
monia but her symptoms are regard-
ed as favorable.
President and cabinet will not at-
tend thecentennary celebration of the
supreme court in New York owing to
the deaths in the cabinet families.
Hunting Party.
A. Hornung Thos. H. Abbott and
Geo. Caen returned from a week’s
hunt near Pearsall yesterday. They
report game in abundance but the
timber is very thick with briars in
every direction which makes shoot-
ing bad; nevertheless they say they
killed 26 turkeys 18 ducks and any
amount of quail.
Weather Bulletin.
Washington D. C. February 4.—
Forecast till Ba. m. Wednesday for
Eastern Texas slightly warmer
southerly winds; fair weather.
Mocked by the Irish.
Dublin Feb. 4. —The Freeman’s
Journal calls the denoument in Mr.
I Parnell’s action “the Times Sedan’’
t nothing in history it says is more
j craven than the course of the Times.
S. A. & A. P.
The RoacJProsperous and Country
Building up.
Mr. C. A. Merriam general superin-
tendentof the S. A. & A. P. has re- ।
turned from a week's tour of inspec-
tion over the whole road. He was j
seen yesterday evening by a Light j
reporter and is enthusiastic over the i
signs ot prosperity which he reports.
The farmers are everywhere san- I
giineover the prospects of another
good crop year. Stock is in good |
condition.
Emigrants are coming in rapidly ।
and settling all along the line. The
road itself is in splendid condition i
and is experiencing unusual prosper-
ity.
The work on the Waco extension
is being retarded on account of
the slow arrival of mater-
ial. The station at the new
town of Lott in the centre of Falls
county a rich agricultural district is
to be opened some lime tills week.
Lott promises to be one of the best
points on the line some Waco peo-
ple having already made preparat ions
to open large business houses there.
Lott is a rich cotton district and ship-
ments are expected to reach 20000
bales the first season.
The road from the south is now at
Lexington which leaves a gap of
some thirty or forty miles which will
be closed in about 60 days. «
The road bed is constantly being
improved and the increased volume
of business has necessitated new roll-
ing stock orders for which are said to
have been placed.
Grading on the line east of Houston
is progressing slowly having been
carried several miles beyond the city
limits.
A spur line from Rockport six
miles in length is now almost ready
to receive the rails. The terminus of
this spur is on the sea beach where a
fine notel is to be erected around
which a city is expected to grow up.
The road enters on the new year
with increased prosperity aud the
good will of all South and Southwest
Texas tor which it h;is done so much
Inspecting Bridges.
County commissioners and judge
were out at San Juan crossing yes-
terday inspecting the bridge. Today
they are Inspecting the bridge at
Losoyo crossing and tomorrow will
inspect the bridge at Boregos cross-
ing. Thursday they will insnect the
Leon and Medio bridges and Friday
will inspect the Fredericksburg road
and the iron road rollers. Complaint
is made that they are not heavy
enough. They weigh 7(D0 pounds
and there are four.
Regular Boom
There was an unmually large at-
tendance at the Washington theatre
last night only standing room being
left. The bill was an attractive one
with a number of new artists in the
cast. Charlie Knight’s first part was
nicely arranged while his afterpiece
entitled “A Night’s Adventure” kept
the crowd in a roar of laughter.
Among the new features of the enter-
tainment is the snake charmer Miss
Nellie Allie with her den of live
snakes. The seemingly recklessness
in which she handles these danger-
ous reptiles fairly makes the the blood
curdle in yourveins.
There seems to be no let-up on the
large patronage at this house and
Manager Shackiett will soon make
money enough to build in San Anto-
nio the largest opera house in Texas.
There is no discounting the fact that
Shackiett is one of the best show
managers in the south.
Not the Light.
Louis Kraft has a card in the morn-
ing paper in which he says the even-
ing papers have made false state-
ments regarding his action in the ac-
cident of Sunday last on Goliad
street saying he ran into the brush
after the accident. The Light made
no such statement and made no false
statements about him and he should
be a little more particular. The card
reads as though written by some em-
ploye of the Express hence is not
worded correctly.
Important Meeting.
A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Protestant Home for Destitute
children will be held on Friday next
the 7 instant at 10 30 a. m. for the
purpose of deciding over the selec-
tion of a building site for the Home
and the transaction of other business
of importance. A full attendence is
urgently requested.
Mrs. A. C. Cresson
_ Secretary.
Birthday party.
Miss Annie McCamley celebrated
her 16th birthday anniversary last
night al. the family residence on Ave.
C. which was a very enjoyable event.
She was the recipient of many pres-
ents. The following parties were pres-
ent and helped her to celebrate the
occasion: Miss Mamie Jeffries of
Austin; Miss Lucile Stapp Lillian
Wynne; Bessie Kirkland Lida Bas-
kin Effie Lewis Messrs. Joseph
Dobbin Ed. Stapp Chas. Wynne
Ben Bee Nat. Green Harry Hoefling
Wm. McCamly and others.
‘•Portugal in Africa” a circus pan-
tomime in Lisbon caused the wreck
of the circus and a general row.
Price $ 5 a Year
State News Condensed.
The odd Fellows meeting in session
in Dallas are 400 strong.
Sidney Ketchum a miser dies near
Longview
Carrollton farmers are busy sowing
oats.
Work progresses on the Pilot Point
canning factory.
Work on Pilot Point’s fifth church
will soon commence.
The Belton Davis monument fund
has raised nearly $2OO.
It is said tlie M. K. &T. will build
from Belton tn Llano.
A grain elevator is projected at
Weatherford.
A pork packery will probably bees- .
tatdished at Sherman.
A tine school building is going up
at Wylie.
A new dry goods house will open at
Denton about the middle of March.
A horticultural society is organized
at Belton.
It continues very dry in Wilson
county. Crops need rain badly.
Edwin Gould is at Tyler on rail-
road business.
Corn is being shipped in largequan-
j titles from the Panhandle.
A colored man had his hand crush-
| ed in the oil mill at Sherman.
Prospects are good that Mineral
Wells will soon have a railroad.
| The Avenue hotel Austin has
I been renovated and reopened.
The soil around Galveston is said to
be peculiarly adapted to rice culture.
Coal of good quality and in great
quantities is discovered in Parker
county 20 miles from Weatherford.
Chas. Wolf who was shot by his
demented roommate in Galveston
will recover.
The free zone question still excites
I great interest at Eagle Pass and
| Piedras Negras.
[ The town ot West has recently'
taken UK) acres of outlols
boundaries.
Geo. Harrison vs. the T. P. R. R.
gets $135 for a mule killed on the
road.
A collision and wreck occurred at
Gordon by which both engines were
demolished. One engineer was hurt.
Methodist Conference.
The West Texas Methodist Confer-
ence (colored) will convene in ses-
sion in this city Thursday February
6th Bishop Walden will preside. A
large attendance is expected and
much business of importance will be
presented to the conference.
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Hit Him Hard.
Louis Kraft was tried before Record-
er Devine this morning for careless
and reckless driving in running over
the Adams boy and lined him $2OO.
An appeal was taken. I'he boy is dan-
gerously injured and can hardly
survive says tne attending physi-
cian.
W. C. T. U. Convention
The Women’s Christian Temper-
ance Union convention opened at the
Trinity M. E. church on Avenue C.
with a meagre attendance to-day. A
Light representative called and pre-
sented his card but was informed that
the morning meetings was exclusively
for ladies but that masculine humani-
ty would be free to come all the sub-
sequent meetings. Only 7 delegates
are in attendance viz: Mrs. Bella
French Swisher of Austin; Mrs.
Julia Little of Seguin; Mrs. M. L.
Wells of Virginia; Miss Ida Clothier
ot Boston; Mrs. Liscomb of San An-
tonio; Miss Nellie Desalle Maine and
Miss Emma Meader of New Jersey.
Owing to the illness of the family of
Mrs. Elizabeth Fry who was the or-
ganist the music will be rendered by
Prof. Harper and wife. The conven-
tion is to sit tor three days the 4th
sth and 6th and morning afternoon
and evening sessions will be held.
♦ ♦ ♦
Architect Albert F. Beckman for-
merly of San Antonio is in the city
from Piedras Negras.
—Mr." M. Rhein was made the
happy father of a fine ten pound baby-
girl today.
—The courtyard of theMenger hotel
is being shaved and its hair cut. A
negro with a lawn mower and another
with a pair of sheep shears are the
barbers.
—Great bargains are offered this
month only in several lines of ladies 7
and gents’ shoes at Lucchese Bros
next to Maverick hotel. 2-4-lm.
—The alarm of lire at 6:10 yesterday
evening was a chimney burning out
on Ninth and Austin streets. Engine
No. 2 and hose reel got there Eli.
—A surprise party in honor of the
19th anniversary of the birthday of
Miss Jesusa Cardenas was given last
night at her parents’ residence on
Monterey street.
—A house aud lot on South Laredo
street owned by Augustin Torres
was sold by the constable today in
front of the courthouse.
—The Maverick Rifles held a drill
at their armory on Losoyo street last
night. Some of the enterprising mem-
bers are getting up a Zouave team.
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