San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 261, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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San Antonio Daily Light.
Volume Vlll—Number 261 .
The gaily giyht.
Office N 0.4 East Commerce Street.
GRAND : OPERA : HOUSE
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
T. W. MULLALV
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS
—AND—-
SATURDAY MATINEE.
MR. - A.-M.-PALMER
Will present the Great Success of Two Seasons
at Madison Square Theatre New York
ENTITLED
“JIM - The - Penman”
Written by Sir Charles Young.
Mr. Palmers Company Includes
F. C. Bangs. Wriirht Huntintrton J. D. Otto-
meyer Hardee Kirkland. Guy Lindsley John
Mathews John T. McKever Benj. Singer
Clara Lipman Miss F. C. Jacksen Vida Croly
and May Brookyn.
The time of the play is the present.
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES:
Acts I. and 11.-Mrs. Kalston’s nppartment
in the town house of the Ralstons in Regent
Park. Conservetory at back.
Act lll.—Library of Ardleigh Court Ral-
ston's country house.
Act IV.— Small reception room at Ardleigh
Court with breakfast room at back.
t3F*Sale of Seats commences Friday morning
at 10 o’clock.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
T. W. Mullaly Manager.
December 16th and 17th 1888
The Enigma
OF THE
19th Century
Washington: Irving: Bishop.
The Original end World Eminent Demon
strator of the
PHENOMENAL POWER OF
Mind-Reading.
(The distinguished American song wilter
Mh. Harrison Millard will during Mr.
Bishop's Seances sing selections from his
popular ballads.)
Mystery for the Mystics
Science for the Scientists
Music for the Musicians.
AND
Unbounded Entertainment for Every bod".
Washington Theatre
Cor. Laredo & W. Commerce St.
C. SHACKLETT Proprietor.
THE ■ LARGEST - AND - BEST - VARIETY
THEATRE - IN - THE - SOUTH.
40 ; PERFORMERS.(4O
NEW STARS EVERY WEEK 1
Good Order and Polite Attention.
Everybody Welcome.
ADMISSION TEN CENTS.
For Holiday Goods
CALL ON
Newton & Weller
Nos. 262 Commerce street and 255 and 257
Commerce street San Antonio.
Importers and Jobbers and wholerale and
retail dealers in
House Furnishing Goods
Crockery
Lamps Glasswaie
Toys Express Wagons Velocipedes:
Bird-Cages
Dolls. Dolls. Dolls.
Published at San Antonio. Bexar County Texas and Registered at the Post Office as Sedond-Class Mall Matter
LATEST TELgGB a PH IC NEWS
Associated Press Dlstalche= aid
Specials Up to the Hour of
Going to Press.
Weather E alletln.
Washington Dec. 14.—Indica-
tions for eastern Texas and Arkansas:
Fair warmer southeasterly winds.
An Indian Execution.
Atoka Indian TerritoryDecember
14.—Lyman Pusle a fratricide was
shot yesterday near Tuskahomma in
the presence of several hundred Choc-
taws iu execution ofjudicial sentence.
Pusle met his fate stoically. He sat
erect and cool on his coffin while his
hands and feet were bound and his
eyes bandaged and he did not appear
to flinch when the executioner gave
yie order to fire. Death was instanta-
neous three bullets from as many
Winchesters piercing his breast near
the heart.
Osman's Letter.
Cairo December 14.—1 n a letter
received at Suakim from Osman Dig-
na and which is supposed to have
contained the announcement that
Emin Pasha and a white traveler
(probably Henry M. Stanley) had fal-
len into the hands of the Mahdi
were enclosed copies of a dispatch
from a Dervish leader at Lado to Kah-
lifia Pasha giving the date of
Emin Pasha’s surrender as October
10 and a letter to Emin Pasha from
the Khedive which was later handed
to Henry M. Stanley when he was at
Cairo. It is rumored that Osman
Digna in his letter expressed a will-
ingness to surrender to Emin Pasha
and his white companion provided
Egypt would agree to abandon Sua-
kim. If this proposal is not accepted
it is believed both captives will be
killed. The British cabinet is now
discussing the situation.
The Times and the Commission
London December 14.—At the sit-
ting of the Parnell commission today
Attorney General Webster counsel
for the Times requested the court
should sit Tuesday next iu order that
he might make application as
to what course the court would
pursue respecting Wm. O’Brien
and on an article which
had appeared in his paper United
Ireland in which it was stated that
the time has arrived for plain speak-
ing in regard to the forgeries of the
commission. We do not intend to
wait until the forger allows
us to speak we do not care
two pence for the opinion of
the judges who were especially
selected in the teeth of the justly in-
dignant liberal protest by the forgers’
friends and accomplices. Presiding
Justice Tanner indicated that the
court had arranged to adjourn taday.
He added that if he could he would
instantly relinquish his seat in the
commission but he had a duty be-
fore him which it was impossible to
evade.
Recorder’s Court-
Mary Grimshan vagrant $5.
Ida Statt vagrant $5.
Matilda Barnhart vagrant $5.
Tempy Brown disorderly §7.
Nellie Morris disorderly $7.
Arthur Faro vagrant dismissed on
promise to leave the city.
Luz Garcia abusive and insulting
language dismissed.
J. Ryan drunk on street $5.
8. Chenault abusive and insulting
language $3.
Kam Irnett vagrant $5.
Patents Granted
To citizens of Texas during the past
week and reported for this paper by
C. A. Snow & Co. patent lawyers op-
posite United States patent office.
Washington D. C.:
R. 8. Munger Dallas cottin press.
Michael H. Shanley. Granbury
kitchen cabinet.
Emil Vogtsberger Austin harness
saddle.
Frank Winn Dallas direct acting
steam engine.
Jno. N. Lyle Waco oil distributor
for harbors etc.
A Strange Case.
On Wednesday afternoon a pol’ce-
man found a little boy crying on the
streets and interrogating him the
boy said that on the night previous
his father a man named Stout resid-
ing on Austin street had run him
from the house. He passed the night
in the street and the next day had no
fend. The policeman took him t > the
police headquarters and Captain
Shardein ordered the boy t? be turned
over to County Judge JWurzbach
which was done.
—The North Texas Medical associa-
tion which has been in session at
Sherman has adjourned to hold its
next session at Paris this state.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS FRIDAY DECE VIBER 14 1888.
The Dublin authorities have seized
1033 copies of Zola's works which
were shipped there from England.
The Swiss federal council has rati-
fied commercial treaties with Ger-
many and Australia.
In the Hungarian chamber of depu-
ties there is a growing dis< intent over
the army bill.
A bold attempt by two men is made
to burglarze the People’s Savings
bank at Denver. One was captured.
The orison physician at Columbus
Ohio tninks E. L. Harper’s insanity
is of a dansrerous type though he is
of op’nlon that with care he may in a
great measure rc jover.
The tr< ips have all left Birming-
ham. Ala. and only a small force of
deouty sheriff's are now guarding the
jaii. All is quiet.
The postmaster general has ordered
to be es'ablished a full railway post-
office line between St. Louis and
Nashville on the Louisville and Nash-
ville road.
The wife of Geo. W. Edmonds one
of the wealthiest ci l izens of Providence
R. 1. aged about 50 has eloped with a
young music teacher.
A New York syndicate is said to
have arranged for the purchaseof two
of the leading street railway lines of
St. Louis.
Pittsburg is arranging t) have all
the northern ore used in that city
brought there by water. The idea is to
build immense ore docks at St. Pau!
and there load in light draft barges.
The chamber of deputies rejected
the proposed commercial treaty be-
tvyeen France and Greece despite the
energetic support given the measure
by M. Goblet minister for foreign af-
fairs.
The conference of the bi-metallic
league in London has resolved to en-
deavor to secure a return to the bi-
metallic system prevailing prior to
1873.
The pope refuses to bless models
and reliqueries sent to Rome by I”ish
nriests and intended for distribution
in Iceland. He says “'The people of
Ireland are disobedient; they seein to
prefer the gospel of Dillon and O’Brien
to that of Jesus Christ.”
The situation in Servia is critical.
The strong radical majority in the
Skuptschina threatens to reject King
Milan’s revised constitution.
Mme. Boulanger in an interview
denied that she had refused to
live with her husband. She com-
plained that he was trying to play
Napoleon and make her iiis Jose-
phine. She then burst into tears and
begged to be excused from answer'ng
further questions.
Postmaster General Dickinson says
within the last few weeks he has re-
ceived the resignation of a consider-
able number of presidential and
fourth class postmasters with the re-
quest that republicans whom they
name and recommend be appointed in
their places.
Confirmations: Perry Belmont of
New York envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Spain vice J. B. McCurry
resigned; Wm. J. Harkins Chicago
post chaplain of the United States
army vice K. Endic relieved from ac-
tive service.
Lincoln Neb. December 14.—The
attorney general of this state is up in
arms against the proposition made Jn
congress to extend the time for the
payment of the Union Pacific debt.
In a communication to the governor
he alleges the Union Pacific has
taken by purchase and condemnation
proceedings large tracts of valuable
land in the state outside any rights-
of-way granted by congress and from
this he argues that the road should
be amenable 11 the state. Consider-
ing the bill now pending iu congress
to extending the time for the payment
of debt of this road the attorney-gen-
eral after speaking of the great
wrong which he claims could be done
to the p< iple of Nebraska by the pas-
sage of such an act savs: “If this
deot should be extended it will only
prolong the burden now resting on
the people of this state. The only
fair method of solving this great
Union Pacific problem is for the gov-
ernment ti order the road to be sold
for cash. Then the state could con-
trol it and allow such rates for trans-
portation as will yield a fair percent-
age on its cash value.”
Died on Thursday evening- Decem-
ber 13th 1888 Mrs.'M. F. Ellis wife
ofF.M. Ellis on Encinal Texas at
Dr. Cross’ infirmary on Soledad
street. The funeral will take place
from the residence of Dr. Cross on
Avenue C at 3p. m. today Rev. Dr.
Neil officiating. Friends and ac-
quaintances are invited to attend.
Cleveland Akron Ohio and Syra-
cuse N. Y. papers will please copy.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
St4v Vs. th Railroad.
Funeral Notice.
STATE NEWS.
A meeting of the directors of the
Llano and Burnet cott >n yard and ex-
change is called for December 29.
The Red River Sabine and West-
ern R. R. Co. has been organized at
San Augustine
The erection of the Light Guard
armory is the t >plc of the day in Hous-
toi .
The middle Concho bridge a. Hors
head crossing near San Angelo Is re-
ceived from the contractors.
W. L. Br< jk the Cotton Belt train
robber at Texarkana is given three
years in the penitentiary.
A. F. Spears father of the youth
who murdered Dr. Beidler has been
indicted as accessory.
E. A. Johnson a portrait painter of
Houston has mysteriously disappeared
and his friends fear foul play.
Cotton is com ! ng in slowly again to
Kyle with extra teams attached to
wagons t) drag through the muddy
lanes.
Company D of the state rangers
have returned from Starr county ana
are camped on Leona creek about tan
miles from Uvalde.
Geo. Herzog a brakeman on the
International railroad was killed at
Houst »n last night by fall.ng be •
tween the cars.
A recent dec’sion of the supreme
court it is feared will seriously affect
a number of school land titles in Tom
Green county.
At Palestine in the case of W. D.
Young charged with the murder of
C. C. Rogers last July a verdict of
not guilty is brought in.
Henry Meßuffin an old negro liv-
’ng on his own farm east of Terrell
kills Louis Jackson who was work’ng
for him iu self-defense.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hall parents o f
the little newsboy Edgar Hall who
was run over ana killed by a switch
engine in the T. P. yards at Dallas
bring suit against the road for 325000
damages for gross negligence.
Abner Taylor of the Chicago syndi-
cate has returned from his investiga-
tion of the mouth of the Brazos and
its possibility for a deep water port.
He reports such as entirely feasible
and says it will be had.
The establishment of Dr. L. A.
Owen of Waco dealer in agricultural
implements was set on fire it is sup-
posed with the intention of takmg
Dr. Owen’s life. He was rescued in
an unconscious condition. Loss $15-
009 covered by insurance.
John Bull continues o play it fine
on Uncle Bam. About six weeks ago
250 Chinamen landed in Vancouver
Irland British Columbia. They paid
a capita tax of $59 each making $12000
and then quietly stole over the borders
i ito the American territories and left
John with his $12000 profit no Celes-
ti ils to take care of and be cursed
with while Uncle Sam holds the
empty bag and passes laws restricting
Chinese immigation. Deport every
Chinaman who cannot show a special
license and rid the country of this
“heap John peU. John is a nuisance
a id on sener: 1 principles all nuisances
should be abated.
D .n’t Want tn be Annexed.
New York Dee 14.—An Ottawa
special says regarding Congressman
Butterworth’s annexation resolution
the text of wb’ch was published here
Mr. Howell minister of customs.said
last night it was the greatest rot ever
propounded by a man who had any
pretentions to being a statesman. In
the first place said Mr. Howell rhe
p >ple of Canada do not want annex-
al on with the United States a forci-
ble illustration of which we have had
in the recent Dominion election
which were run on either commercial
union or unrestricted reciprocity lines
one remove only from annexation
which in reality either implies. Do
you suppose the dominion govern-
ment dare propose a commission as
suggested by Mr. Butterworth for
consideration of the question? Any
member of the cabinet who ventured
to make such a proposition would be
drummed out of the country. The
annexation sentiment has no exist-
ence in Canada save among a few
he odiums who are endeavoring to
gain notoriety through advocating
the movement. No one of any respon-
sibility joins in it.
The one-horse character of the Tex-
as constitution crops out in many un-
expected ways showing how very far
from compassing the. future of this
state were the framers of that instru-
ment. Its peculiar cussedness al-
ways was and always will be its hos-
tility to a registration law. While
open to objections H many ways in
this it is open to unqualified con-
demnation as affording constant in-
ducement to ballot box frauds.
Only $5 a Year.
WHY HE WAS PARDONED.
Die ; Brannon'" Alleged Crime and
the Arguments in Favor of
His Innocence.
As briefly announced in the Light
Dick Brannon who was serving a life
sentence in the southern Ill'tiois peni-
tentiary for mail robbery has been
pardoned by President Cleveland.
Dick was “sent up” for robbing the
post office at Smithville Burnett
county Texas in which it was said
that Dick participated. He had a
tough reputation and was one of the
Pitts-Yaeger gang that murdered poor
Hal Gosling. There were eight wit-
nesses of doubtful reoute to prove an
alibi at the trial but Postmaster Cox’
testimony was inclusive and could
not be shaken. Upon this mainly
Brannon was convicted.
Last year friends of Brannon began
working for a pardon and placed the
matter in the hands of Col. L. N. Wal-
thall of this city. A petition was got
up signed by 67 well known citizens
among whom were George Paschal
ex-Uolle?tor Ramsay Justice J. B.
Chavagneux and that petition was
sent to representative J. D. Sayers.
In his letter Col. Walthall said that
Dick Brannon was innocent and that
the real robber was his brother Joe
Brannon who hail confessed and who
as letters proved proposed to give
himself up rather than allow his
brother to suffer for the crime of which
he was guilty. Joe however was
wanted himself and after a longvhase
the officers caught up with him. Joe
resisted capture and was shot to
pi; ?es before he could make a formal
confession exonerating his brother
Richard.
U. S. District Attorney Klebe’g
who investigated the charge against
Ditson for tiie same offence said that
although Postmaster Cox was positixe
as t > Richard Brannon’s identity as
one of the tobbers he was persuaded
that D'ck Brannon was innocent of
participation in the crime.
Mr. W. Spitler Clerk of Burnett
county was however satisfied of Dick’s
gnilt and asked Mr. Sayers to oppose
the release.
Tue papers were all filed in the de-
partment of justice and in report!
thereon to President Cleveland Judge
A. R. Boteler pardon clerk says :
“There was evidence t> show that
he was more than 3C9 miles away at
the time from the place of occur-
rence.” He then quotes the opinion
of United States Attorney Kleberg
to the effect that he was strongly im-
pressed with Brannon’s innocence.
Extracts from Walthall’s letter in re-
altion to the written confession of Joe
Brannon and his avowed intention of
surrendering himself as the guilty
party are also incorporated in the re-
port. Col. Walthall is also quoted as
a highly respectable gentleman who
had seen a letter from Pitts (now-
dead) in which he declared his inten-
tion to acquit Richard Brannon
of the crime; that he knew Richard
was not there but he would by
falsely accusing him get the officers
on the wrong scent. “On the other
hand” continues the report to the
judge “Cox. the post master is said
to be a most excellent old man who
w >uld not knowingly make a mis-
statement; and he persists he was
not m’staken when at the trial he
identified Richard Brannon as one of
the robbers of his store and the post
office. But the friends of Richard
Brannon claim that it is a case of
mistaken identity; that the post mas-
tec must have taken Joe for Richa d
and that such a mistake might readi-
ly occur tn a man of Cox’s age he be-
ing S 3 years of age at the time of the
trial and never having seen Richard
Brannon before and never after the
robbery except on this trial.”
“Under the circumstances which
surround this case” concludes the
report “there certainly are some
doubts as tn Richard Brannon’s guilt
and b’s friends naturally claim that
he is entitled to the benefit of that
doubt.”
This matter was pro forma referred
to the attorney general and after ex-
amining the papers he endorsed them
as follows: t
“As this man has already suffered
nearly five years’ imprisonment and
as there is great doubt as to the iden-
tity of the man with his name who
committed the act. I am willing and
do recommend that he have the bene-
fit of that doubt and be pardoned.
“A. H. Garland.”
In due course the papers came be-
fore the president and were by him
autographed as follows:
“The facts presented in this case
and the opinion expressed by the dis-
trict attorney to the effect that he is
impressed with the belief that this
convict is innocent caused me to fear
that the conviction of this convict is
based upon a mistake of his identity.
“G. C.”
This settled the matter and a par-
don was issued in’favor of Richard
Brannon who is now at liberty.
At Cookville La. the dwelling oc-
cupied by J. R. King his wife and
six children was burned with all its
contents. The whole family were cre-
mated. It is believed they were first
murdered and the house set ou fire.
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