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San Antonio Daily Light.
Volume X—Number 147
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Sugar Rates in Statu Quo.
Berlin July 16. —The Reichsanzi-
ger says that the convention for fixing
sugar premiums is not likely to be
ratified before the Ist of August and
that any increase in the sugar duty
must depend upon the decision of that
convent.on.
A Cholera Canard.
London July 16.—The correspon-
dent of the Times at Madrid tele-
graphs that the reports that cholera
prevails in the City of Valencia are
absolutely false. He says there is
not a single case of disease in tne city
nor is there a shadow of the panic
which has been alleged to exist there.
More Mahdi Mauling.
London July 16.—Intelligence has
been received here that an engage-
ment has taKen place between the
forces led by El Senoussi the Tunis-
ian Holyman and the Mahdists and
that the followers of the Mahdi were
defeated. It is reported that El
Senoussi has captured Obeid the
capital of Kordofan.
Blaine's Good Sense.
Bar Harbor Me. July 16.—1 n a
letter to Senator Frye Mr. Blaine
sets forth the fact that Spanish duties
make the barrel of flour that costs
$4.80 in New York cost $11.46 in the
Cuban market and objects to admit-
ting sugar free under those condi-
tions.
Change of Ministry.
Washington July 16.—1 t is under-
stood here that Mr. James R. G. Pit-
kin of Louisiana the present United
States minister to the Argentine Re-
public has been tendered the position
of minister to Brazil and that Mr.
Pitkin will accept the post. At any
rate Mr. Pitkin has been granted a
sixty days’ leave of absence and he
is expected here very soon.
Behring Sea Facts.
Victoria B. C. July 16.—The
statement that a Canadian vessel
which recently sailed out Haviland
bay was armed with guns and would
resist American revenue cutters is
said to be without foundation. Messrs.
Hall & Marwin who own four of 30
vessels running out of Victoria say
that the reports were sent out to
prejudice the foreign office at Lon-
don against the cause of the
sealers. “We are neither poachers
nor pirates.” The state officials
know our destination. The following
British war vessels are in Esqui-
mault harbor—Champion Esplregle
Daphne and Nymph. Captain St.
Clair of the Champion senior officer
in the absence of Admiral Holham
said: The reason of gathering here
in such force is to welcome
Admiral Holham who succeeds Ad-
miral Henage in command of tne fleet.
We have received no orders regard-
ing Behring Sea. The Espregle will
Srobably go to Honolulu and the
hampion to Callao and Nymph or
Daphne may go to Behring Sea but
only for a cruise as was done last
year.
Details of the Lake Pepin horor con-
tinue to be received but they show-
no new light on the terrible accident.
It does not seem that special blame
attaches to any one of the officers or
crew of boat or barge.
PUBLISHED AT SAN ANTONIO. BEXAR COUNTY TEXAS AND REGISTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER.
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
AND STATE SPECIALS.
UP TO THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS
Oporto July 16.—A collision took
place today between striking work-
men and the police. During the fight
one workman was killed.
Constantinople July 16.—The
fire on Saturday in the Stamboul
quarter destroyed a thousand houses
and ruined 125 lumber merchants. It
is feared many lives are lost.
Vienna July 16.—The Austrian
iron masters have decided to prolong
their agreement relative to the price
of iron for three years from January
Ist.
Halifax July 16.—The cable be-
tween Halifax and Bermuda was
opened for business on Monday the
14th inst.
Pesta July 16. —The floods in
Southern Hungary have caused much
damage along the Danube. Ten per-
sons have been drowned.
Washington July 16.—The presi-
dent approved the silver bill as soon
as it was received by him at the
white house.
Louisville Ky. July 16.—The
Gosport accommodation on the Menon
collides with freight No. 41 eight
miles south of Bloomington and ten
lives are lost.
Havana July 16.—The consul at
Key West wires that with the aid of
the American police he has captured
Manual Ramos the Cuban kidnap-
per.
Washington July 16.—Senator
Gibson today secured an amendment
to the sundry civil bill appropriating
$30000 to purchase a site for the new
public building at Alexandria La.
and to commence construction.
Landers Wyo. July 16.—Phil.
Hirsch and Samuel Davis aged six-
teen and seventeen years respective-
ly Saturday struck ore which essays
from $3OOO to $4OOO per ton near the
famous Buckeye mine. The miners
are flocking to the scene.
Vicksburg' Miss. July 16.—Lee
Johnson a colored waiter at the Ver-
andah hotel is fatally shot by A. J.
Kilpatrick a blind boarder whose
food Johnson was cutting at the time.
The murderer and his body servant
are in jail.
lowa City lowa July 16.—One
hundred and fifty women and chil-
dren poisoned at a church picnic a
few miles north of this city. Water
from a long abandoned well the prob-
able cause. No fatal cases.
Vienna July 16.—The elections
for members of the Salsburg Diet
have given the German Liberals a
majority. This indicates a revolt of
the peasantry against the landed
clergy interest.
Victoria B. C. July 16.—The
Caraboo stage was stopped by high-
waymen near Ashcroft last night. It
is not known how much booty they
secured as particulars are not yet
obtained.
Cincinnati 0. July 16.—The fol-
lowing is the list of those killed at
the explosion yesterday at King’s
mills: Mrs. James Deacon Henry
Reynolds Sam Stephens Mrs. James
Moss and child Mrs. Fred Keller and
child William Francy brakeman.
Ralph Williams Baby Elstin Nick
Snyder and an unknown man. The
following are injured: Lodie Beha
lost right arm; Ernest Collins skull
crushed will die; Mrs. John Schneid-
er scalp wound; Fred Killer night
watchman severely bruised about
the face will lose both eves;
Mrs. Ben Dowdell seriously burned;
Mrs. Elstine internal injuries she
will not live; Operator Hunt a scalp
wound; Harry Smith Frank Hunt
Miss Annie Schneider Miss Gillen
and Miss Aggie Hutchinson and sis-
ter slightly hurt.
A Police Riot.
That Stamboul Fire.
Iron Stands Ah It is.
Bermuda Cable Open.
Drowned by Floods.
Signs the Silver Bill.
Fatal Railway Collision.
Cuban Kidnapper Caught.
Bublie Building Site.
Two Lucky Lads.
A Cowardly Murder.
Poisoned at a Picnic.
Against a Landed Clergy.
Caraboo Highwaymen.
The Powder Mill Victims.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY JULY 16 1890.
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE SPE-
CIAL AND OTHER SOURCES. *
Typhoid fever is epidemic in the
Clarinda lowa insane asylum.
Abolition of division commands and
the recognition of departments only is
recommended in the army.
Congress appropriates $630189 for
clerical force to carry out provisions
of dependent pensions bill.
No news from the squadron of evo-
lution since leaving Rio Janeiro. It
is expected in the West Indies.
Bill is before house granting Mrs.
Jesse Benton Freemont a pension of
$3000 a year.
The canard that the state govern-
ment has abandoned Behring sea to
the British has no foundation in fact.
Cloakmakers’ strike in New York
ends with the discharge of all non-
union men.
Worm's Island in the Baltic is pur-
chased by Russia for a coaling station;
price 1000000 francs.
Explosion at King’s powder mills
thirty miles from Cincinnati kills six
and injures a dozen more.
Barnwell county is threatened with
a riot negroes and whites confronting
each other w ith rifles and shot-guns.
It is quite protable a strike will be
ordered in the Dunbar mine and work
completely stopped.
Security warehouse burns at Min-
neapolis; loss $1000000 on building;
$1300000 on stocks.
Twenty women and children have
a narrow escape from a burning rag
warehouse in Cincinnati.
The Wheelers have possession of
the state democratic convention now
in session at Nashville.
Five hundred workmen at the New
Jersey Steel Works Trenton struck
because the company has not signed
the Amalgamated scale.
The accident at Lake City Minn.
will be investigated by grand jury
the county attorney considering it
not a coroner’s case.
Fence cutting and white cap law-
lessness have reached such lengths in
New Mexico that the federal govern-
ment is asked to interfere.
William will not hasten his return
to Berlin owing to Balkan complica-
tions. He carries out his cruising pro-
gramme.
Five negroes killed in Morehouse
parish La. for attempting to leave a
plantation whose owner had paid
their passage from North Carolina.
Sam Jones tickles the ears of his
Virginia hearers “to whom he
preaches Christ and him crucified”
by denouncing President Harrison.
Special inspector has been ordered
from Washington to investigate cen-
sus complaints against St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Sherman introduces bill to the sen-
ate which would restore to iawful
trade the excessive accumulations in
the treasury.
Cornell’university is out $1200000
by the decision in the famous will
case of Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske.
The money must be returned by Jan-
uary let with 5 per cent.
Judge McClure of Arkansas ad-
dresses the house committee on elec-
tions in the Clayton case and charges
Breckenridge with inciting his parti-
sans to murder.
Paris July 16. —The Gaulois says:
An engagement has occurred between
the natives and the French expedition
to the Upper Niger and the French
were routed. It is feared that the na-
tives have blocked the line of the re-
treat of the French force.
Washington D. C. July 16.—Fore-
cast till 8 a. m. Thursday for Eastern
Texas: Fair southerly winds sta-
tionary temperature. For Arkansas:
Showers southerly winds warmer
temperature.
Santa Anna Cal. July 16.—Lieu-
tenant C. V. Donaldson Co. G. 24th
U. 8. Infantry stationed at Fort
Grant Arizona and Miss Lottie Spur-
geon daughter of W. H. Spurgeon
chairman of the countv board of su-
pervisors were drowned’ yesterday at
Newport beach a pleasure resort
nine miles from this place. A num-
ber of persons were bathing in the
surf and Miss Spurgeon who w’as an
expert swimmer went beyond her
depth when she was carried out by
the current. B. F. Hall and daughter
went to her assistance but they too
were caught by the current and car-
ried out to sea. Lieutenant Donald-
son plunged through the surf and
succeeded in rescuing Hall and
daughter he then returned to Miss
Spurgeon’s assistance but just as ne
reached her they both disappeared.
Their bodies were afterwards recov-
ered.
A man named Wm. Beyer who says he
is from El Paso astonished Officer Seffel
this morning at 2 o’clock by running to
him on Alamo plaza and begging for his
protection saying the Indians were after
him. He was taken care of and is now in
the jail as a suspected escaped lunatic.
LATE TELEGRAMS
French Forces Defeated.
Weather Bullet £.
A Gallant Officer Dies.
Probably Escaped.
THE EXODUS.
Travel from the City and Expected
Returns Next Fall.
The early months of the hot season.
May and June witnesses sights that
are highly pleasing to ticket agents
and proprietors of fashionable resorts.
In these two months in a continually
increasing number df families there
is strapping of trunks a hustling and
bustling and general mad rush for
the cool at any rate fashionable sum-
mer resorts of the country.
Judging from the number of people
who have flocked to these various
resorts trom this city one might
think that one-half of our mansions
and cottages would stand lonesome
and neglected or possibly bear the
well known signs of “to let.” This
however is not excepting a very few
instances the case.
When a family has determined to
leave its hearth for a few months it
generally is on the lookout for
some friend or suitable family
to occupy it until the possessor’s re-
turn. and the real estate man must
forego the pleasure of announcing
in heavy faced type the fact that
this house is “to let” by his firm.
The family that takes charge of the
new home often gives up its little
inconvenient house during the few
months in which it revels in the
spacious well furnished home. Thus
when the families return from fashion-
able resorts there will be a lively lit-
tle rush for houses but not
to the extent which we might sup-
pose. Although a large number of
buildings are under course of con-
struction they are being occupied as
fast as they are habitable and the
task of securing suitable homes in
September will not be an easy one.
In regard to the summering this
year the size of the travel and its dis-
tribution Milton Everett of the Ar-
ansas Pass road told the reporter
that this year’s summer travel bad
been the heaviest that he had ever
experienced. The people used to all
flock out of the state but now a
very large portion of them since
the better hotel and other accommo-
dations at Kerrville Corpus and Rock-
port visit these and other pleasant
Texas resorts for they are as fine and
enjoyable as any in the whole country.
A great deal of our people have gone
to resorts in Colorado and West Vir-
ginia this year.
Mr. Young the local agent for the
Mallory line speaks enthusiastically
over this year’s summer travel. “It
is undoubtedly the largest that we
have had for many years. The travel
to Europe though not as heavy as
last year is still very great. The
number of people however who
have gone to New York and
other eastern points is something
enormous. Our weekly steamers
have been unable to carry all the
people who applied for passage and
this rush for northern resorts will not
abate until near about September.
In view of the continual increase of
summer traveling the line will run
two steamers a week between Texas
and New York for passenger service
only.”
Mr. Geo. F. Lupton of the Sunset
ticket office says that this year’s
summer traffic has been very great.
Most of the travelers have for their
destination the well-known resorts
outside of the state. The traffic has
not yet slacked up any and he is con-
fident that August which always has
been a dull month will see quite a lot
of traveling on account ot the exces-
sive heat this year.
Because He Was Black.
BambergS.C. July 16.—News from
Kearnes a township in Barnwell
county is to the effect that there is
more trouble between the races. Over
300 negroes armed with Winchester
rifles are reported gathered there and
serious trouble is anticipated. One
negro has been killed and several in-
jured. At 9p. m. last night a white
military company left this place
for the scene of the trouble and
the whites will be reinforced byjthose
from the surrounding counties. No
cause is assigned for the trouble be-
yond bad blood between the races
caused by the riot some time age.
Latest advices are that the
riot was precipitated by an
attempt to arrest some negroes
concerned in an event of several
months ago. They resisted and one
white man was killed another fatally
wounded and a negro man named
Grant was killed. It is said that
Grant’s house was garrisoned by a
strong force of blacks. The scene of
the riot is twenty miles from the rail-
road or telegraph office and details
are meager.
G. A. R. Trouble.
New Orleans July 16.—A quarrel
between white and colored posts ot
the Grand Army of the Rebubllc has
resulted in an order from the com-
mander-in-chief for a court mar-
tial to try Capt. Jacob Gray
post commander of department of
Gulf on several charges preferred
by Joseph A. Mower president of
No. 1 and two members of the com-
mander-in-chiefs staff recently sent
here to investigate the status of the
rival posts. Court will meet July 24
and will be presided over by General
A. 8. Badger with Col. Frederick
Speed as judge advocate.
Price $5 a Year
NO SMALL-POX
Now in Laredo— The Town Haw
Quarantined.
Special to the Light.
Laredo July 16.—This morning I
was requested to find out all I could
about smallpox in Laredo and send
the Information.
I called on Dr. R. H. L. Bibb late
of Saltillo Mex. who has been ap-
pointed state health officer of this
port asking it he bad heard of a case
of smallpox or knew of one in the
city since he came here. He replied
that he did not hear of one and that
there was not a case In the city.
All reports that have been sent out
«bout smallpox being raging in
Teredo are false. There has not been
but one case here to my knowledge
since I came here last November.
That case occurred last week. The
man was a locomotive engineer run-
ning between here and MontereyMex.
On bis last trip he felt sick on his
way down and when he arrived here
he sent for Dr. A. W. Wilcox. He
examined him and found that he had
a high fever and symptoms of small
pox. He reported the case to Dr. J.
P. Arthur city health physician who
went to see him and had him removed
to the pest house which is situated in
the northwestern limits of the city
where the man died. The disease
was contracted in Monterey not in
this c’ty.
Dr. Rutherford state health officer
of Houston arrived here Friday even-
ing. examined the city and then went
to Monterey to see how much small
pox there is there. If I should meet
him when he returns I will interview
him. L.
Mr. Sparke ex-clerk of the Hotel
Hamilton has returned from the
Gate City and says there is no small
liox in Laredo now and that the city
las quarantined against Mexico.
THE RAILROADS-
Local Items from Ute Freight
Passenger Departments.
The Southern Pacific pay car is
billed to arrive on the 26th.
Conductor Marion Hess of the
Southern Pacific is very sick.
Mr. Frank P. English chief clerk
in the office of Roadmaster Thomas
of the I. & G. N. is sick.
Conductor Sadler of the I. &G.
N. is on the sick list and Conductor
Bird has his run.
The Southern Pacific depot platform
is being whitewashed which fact
causes the freight clerks to hold their
heads higher and walk with a prouder
step.
There is a well marked lull in the
stock shipping business just now
though it may revive shojtly.-
Receivers Macnamara and Yoakum
of the Aransas Pass left yesterday
fternoon on a tour of inspection over
theroad going first to Kerrville.
On account of “Alamo day” Friday
July 18th. at the San Marcos Chata-
qua the I. & G. N. has announced a
one fare rate of $1.50 rickets on sale
16th. to 18 return allowed to 10 p. m
Friday evening.
The volume of the tourist travel is
indicated by the number of wild-cac
scalpers who have opened business
in half a dozen places over the city.
Freight Agent Fay ot the
Southern Pacific railway yesterday
morning brought down to
the office a young mocking bird
which has been adopted by the en-
tire office force and which they take
pride in showing visitors.
During the absence of Commercial
Agent McMillan and Cow Coroner
Voelcker Mr. Ed. O’Brien fills their
places in the Southern Pacific offices.
Ed. makes a good commercial rustler
and as a cow coroner he is unexelled r
particularly when the subject lies on
the breakfast table.
One anti-Hogg argument in use by
the men who do not favor a commis-
sion is that in suite of the fact that
the “unlimited license to rob the peo-
ple” which the railroads are sup-
posed to possess the greater num-
ber of the best roads have been un-
able to escape the hands of receivers.
The Aransas Pass the Houston and
Texas Central the International and
Great Northern the Missouri Kansas
and Texas the Texas Trunk and the
Texas Pacific which has just escaped.
It does not appear that the railroads
were making piles of money.
Mr. W. C. Rigsby ticket agent for
the I. &G. N. at Houston has re-
ceived the appointment of city ticket
agent for the same road here. He ar-
rived last night and this morning
entered upon the business of his office.
Mr. Rigsby’s place at Houston is fill-
ed by Mr. George Nichols assistant
city ticket agent at Galveston.
The Mexican International railroad
have announced an excursion rate
from El Paso to Ho (for Parras) of
$l5 for round trip return allowed an-
til November 13.
Today's Weather Report.
U. S. Signal Service headquarters July
16th 2 p. m.
Highest temperature 93
Lowest temperature 72
Mean temperature 82
City Drug Store. July 15 : 7 p. m. 89;
10 p. m.. 84: July 16 7 a. m. 78: 2 p. m. 96.
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