San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 160, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 31, 1889 Page: 1 of 8
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San Antonio Daily Light.
Volume IX—Number 160
Lockwooi • National
BANK.
BAN ANTONIO - - - - TEXAS.
CAPITAL ©300.000
J. 8. Lockwood Preeidt: B. T Cable Vice
President; J. Muir Jr. Cashier. 4-51 y
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Do not Waste your Money and
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an inferior article or Old
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And be happy. The only perfect
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The provision chamber always dry
sweet and clean; Call and see them;
Sneak for themselves; Needs no ex-
planation:
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Agents for Southwest Texas: at 262
Commerce street. We also keep every
thing you want for housekeeping ho-
tel and bar use. We make the prices.
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The Purest and Best. Deliv-
ered to any part of the city.
DR. G. W. JOHNSON
Office 307 Main nlaza San Antonio Texas
over the West India Drug store.
Special attention given to diseases of the
CHEST THROAT AND NOSE
Office hours; from 9to 12 am. and from
8 to 5 p. m. 61-6 m
San Antonio Mal Parlors
277 west Commerce street.
DR. R. L. MUNROE PROP'R.
Graduate of Baltimore College of Dental
Surgery.
In order to bring my work before the pub-
lic for the next sixty days I will work for
the following prices:
Full set of teeth upper or lower on rub-
ber $8.00; gold fillings SI and upwards;
Amalgam fillings SI; teeth extracted2sc.
Teeth extracted without pain by the new
Anaesthetic process. No charges for exam-
ination and advice. Only best material
used ami work done at eastern prices. 6 161 y
Cold Water Officers.
A meeting of the Independent Order
of Good Templars was held at their
lodge room last night and the follow-
ing officers elected:
Chiet Templar—G. W. W. Smith.
Vice Chief—Miss Clara Seay.
Recording Secretary—M. H. Red-
wood.
Treasurer —Miss Ida Seay.
Financial Secretary -Mr. Heasted.
Chaplain—Miss Rosa Houston.
Marshal—Mr. Bryant.
Inside Guardian—Miss Eva Seay.
Outside Guardian—Mr. Hansel.
Past Chief Templar—W. T. Pan-
coast.
A committee was appointed to draft
resolutions of respect to the memory
of Mrs. Speer.
It was decided to have a literary
and musical entertainment and water-
melon party at the residence of Mr.
Silsbee on Fourth street August 9th
to which all friends of the Good Tem-
plars are invited.
Published at San Antonio. Bexar County. Texas and Registered 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
Louisville July 31.—Charles Dil-
ger the murderer of two policemen
last August and Harry Smart mur-
derer of Meisner Green and wife were
hanged at 6:05 this morning.
Gone to See His Grandmother.
Berlin July 31.—Emperor William
left Wllmshaven to-day for England.
He was accompanied by a squadron of
warships.
The Fatal Boiler.
Fairfield Ills. July 31.—A saw-
mill boiler exploded at Golden Gate
seven miles east of this city last eve-
ning instantly killing Frank Peters
son of the proprietor and fatally in-
juring Joe Wallace and Wm. Fox.
Financially Embarrassed.
Philadelphia July 31. — Much
surprise is created by the announce-
ment that the National Bureau of En-
graving one of the most extensive
lithographing establishments in the
country is in financial distress. The
two hundred hands employed in the
works were recently discharged.
For Killing a Consul.
Washington July 31. —A dispatch
is received at the state department
from John P. Campbell consul at
Tamatave announcing the result of
the trial of Captain J. Duvarge for
killing consular agent Victor F. M.
Stanwood at Andakade Madagascar
last November. Duvarge was found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced
to imprisonment for ten years and to
pay fine. He will be brought to this
country to serve out his sentence.
Badly Battered :Brutes.
San Francisco Cal. July 31.—
After the Murphy prize fight last
night the men were taken into a
room and examined by a doctor. It
was found that Billy Murphy had a
fracture of the radius of his left arm.
Frank Murphy claimed that he was
badly disabled but the doctor found
no fracture though the left
wrist was badly swollen and
discolored and there were large
lumps over his left eye and on his
left ear. Billy Murphy’s condition
will preclude any possibility of the
fight being continued for some time
and referee Cook stated that as the
club did not sanction betting parties
having wagers could settle the ques-
tion among themselves.
Want to Control the Whole Thing.
New York July 31.—The World
says: “The latest development in
trusts is an English syndicate which
is trying to corner the enamelled and
Eatent leather trade of all America
letails of the transaction have been
kept secret with religious care but it
is ascertained that the Englishmen
who are trying to buy out the factories
and their good will regard not so
much their cost and actual pres-
ent worth as the profits of
the past three years. If this
difference is once adjusted and it
probably soon will be the patent
leather and enamelled leather tradeof
America will be owned and managed
by Englishman. There are in the
United States 26 factories that put
enamelled and patent leather on the
market; 23 of these are in Newark
and their output is 95 per cent of the
total production. Their total capital
is $5000000. They employ about 4000
men.
Egyptians Drive Out Dervishes.
Cairo July 31.—C01. Wodehouse
reports the main body of insurgents
under command of Wad el Jumi en-
camped on the hills three miles north
of Abu Simbel. Wad el Jumi has
formed water depots. Active skirmish-
ing still proceeds between the Egyp-
tian patrols and Dervish outposts.
The Dervishes who had occupied the
village of Toski were driven out by
the Egyptians leaving the bodies of
six of their number who had been
killed. A number of Dervishes are
captured. Gen. Grenfall and staff
have left Norsko for Toski.
Made Him Deaf.
Mr. Phil Manger sr. of the Sunset
Hose company is totally deaf in his
left ear the drum of which is frac-
tured by the stream of water encoun-
tered by him at last Sunday’s fire
which was thrown by company No. 2.
He says he called to them four or. five
times to stop throwing the water on
him but they would not. He thinks
of suing the company for damages for
the loss of his hearing.
Four women are on the warpath for
Charles Lews defaulting purser
of the steamer City of Albany.
Three claim to be each his wife and
the other expected to be.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1889
Telegraphic Brevities.
Sixty houses are destroyed by fire
in San Luis Cuba.
France has sent two men-of-war to
Crete.
Greece hopes for a peaceful settle-
ment of the Crete muddle.
President Diaz banquetted the di-
plomatic corps July 27.
The tobacco crop in a section of
Wisconsin is ruined by hail.
Five men are to be hanged at once
in New York August 23.
The finest timber belts in Idaho are
being destroyed by forest fires.
A dam at Plainfield N. J. burst
destroying a great deal of property.
The 68 anniversary of the indepen-
dence of Peru was observed with
great enthusiasm.
The town of Leon Nicaraga has
contracted for the introduction of
waterworks and electric lights.
The contract for the northern rail-
road of Guatemala has been guaran-
teed in Paris.
Mr. Lansing B. Mizner U. 8. Min-
ister to Central America has been
officially received.
In the house of commons the royal
grants bill passed its first reading
without a division.
A big fight occurred at La Palma
ranch Matamoros Mexico which
grew out of a horse race.
A little boy in Wichita Kansas
was burned to a crisp by becoming
entangled in an electric wire.
Gen. Grenfell commander of the
Egyptian forces is moving southward
and has reached Johaki.
Engineer Corfell of Chicago is at
Tampico Bay Mex. engaged on plans
for the opening of the harbor.
Forest fires in the neigborhood of
Gunnison Col. have destroyed vast
quantities of timber.
The G. A. R. will try to boycott the
railroads by non-attendance at the
national encampment next month on
account of their refusal to reduce rates.
Andrew C. Drumm in full charge
of the cattle commission business of
A. Drummond & Co. Kansas City
skipped with $15000.
The insurgents in the East African
war have blocked the way to Mawapa.
Three French mission runners were
killed.
Russell Armstrong an old citizen
of Kansas City in attempting to
board an elevated train fell and had
his legs severed from his body.
Horse stealing has so increased at
Nebraska Gity Nebraska that the
old vigilance committee will be re-
vived.
Steamer Dora brings two survivors
of the whaling bark Little Ohio
wrecked at Point Hope Alaska Oc-
tober 1888.
The governor of Idaho is authorized
by the government to spend $7500 in
employing aid to subdue the raging
forest fires.
A cyclone struck portions of the
the Highlands along the Hudson
New York injuring a number of
persons and destroying property.
THATWEDDING ROW.
An Exhaustive Investigation by the
Recorder To-day.
In the recorder’s court this morning
Joe Herman Julius Herman Ed Mc-
Ginty G. Koenig and W. Frosch
were on trial for the part they took in
that wedding row on East Nueva
street Monday night which was re-
ported in yesterday’s Light. The
evidence was identical with the re-
port of The Light though more vol-
uminous as it occupied nearly all the
recorder’s time from 9:30 to 12 o’clock
in hearing The bridegroom Frosch
was in court but the bride was not.
Her aunt Mrs. Herman and Mr. Joe
Herman were present as was also
Mrs. Koenig living at Mrs. Herman’s
and all the other witnesses including
many of the guests at the wedding
and neighbors Joe McAllister who
fired the pistol shots and neighbor
Friedman who blew the whistle.
After the causes leading to the row
the jealousy of Mrs. Herman the
aunt the fight between Joe Herman
and Louis Felder the charivari the
bride’s character and a lot of other
things had been told about the re-
corder fined Messrs. Frosch and Joe
Herman $5 each and dismissed the
cases of the others.
Grand Opening
of the Turf saloon on south Flores
street a few doors south of Military
Plaza next Saturday night at 8 p. m.
An elegant lunch will be and
everybody is invited. " 31 3t.
Little Girl Hurt.
Two little daughters of fir. Charles
Hugo were thrown off a horse they
were riding yesterday afternoon at
the corner of Blum and Bonham
streets and one of the children was
hurt severely upon the head. The
harse shied at a flag stuck in a hole
in the middle of the street.
JOH.N BOYLE O’REILLY
Of Boston Poet of the Dedica-
tion.
John Boyle O’Reilly was born at
Dowth castle Meath county Ireland
1844. He received a good education
from his father and early in. life
learned typesetting at Drogheda.
Alter serving some time as a sten-
ographer in England lio returned to
his native land where he assisted
the Fenian movement then active.
He enlisted in a cavalry regiment of
the British arm” and I efore long
was condemned to be shot for trea-
son. His sentence was commuted to
twenty years banishment to Aus-
tralia. Be arrived in Western Aus-
tralia in 1868. A year after his im-
prisonment began he gave his over-
seers the slip and after several weeks
had elapsed from the time of his es-
cape was picked up in an open boat
at sea by an American ship of New
Bedford*. He landed at Philadelphia
in 1869. Finding employment at
Boston he made his residence in that
city. In 1876 he secured an interest
in the Pilot a newspaper with which
he has been connected from the be-
ginning of his work in America. He
has written much good poetry and is
a successfal editor. Mr. O’Reilly
possesses superior skill as a boxer.
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Report of the First Quarterly Meet-
ing This Morning.
First quarterly meeting of the West
Texas Medical Association was called
to order by first Vice President Cross
at Scholz* Hall July 31st at 10 a. m.
Present Drs. Cross Cuppies Chew
Johns Hertzberg Kingsley Watts
King Oldham Hays Fennell of Se-
guin Berry Spring Frominger Mc-
Girk Howard of Devine Tutwiler of
Flatonia Williams of Cotulla Har-
din of Pleasanton and Crisp of Za-
valla county and Field of San Anto-
nio. Dr. Cross stated theobjectof the
meeting which was to organize quar-
terly meetings of the association in
order to induce men from the sur-
rounding counties to join and
asked the hearty co-operation of the
profession of this city and the west-
ern section of the state generally.
The minutes of the last regular
meeting of the West Texas Medical
Association were read and adopted.
Dr. Kingsley moved that on account
of the central location of San Antonio
that the quarterly sessions of the so-
ciety be held in this city.
Dr. Cuppies amended Kingsley’s me-
tion to read that the first two quarter-
ly meetings be held in San Antonio
and the losation for the remaining
meeting be left optional with the so-
ciety; amendment accepted and car-
ried.
Dr. Berry moved that the next
quarterly meeting of the society be
held conjointly with the regular an-
nual meeting on October 30th; car-
ried.
The following gentlemen were elec-
ted to membership: N. E. Field
San Antonio; N. H. McGirk San An-
tonio; I. Burg San Antonio and
Richard Dart of Brackettville.
The applications of Drs. Howard of
Devine. Williams of Cotulla Tutne-
ter of Flatonio and Crisp of Zavalla
county were referred to the board of
censors.
The association then adjourned till
sp. m. when they will be entertain-
ed with a paper by Dr. J. V. Spring
on suppurative incarnation of theliver
and one by Dr. J. M. Hays on anti-
septic surgery.
In Judge Noonan’s Court.
In the Thirty-seventh district court
the following new suits wert filed :
San Antonio National Bank vs.
Aransas Prescott on note.
George W. Brackenridge vs. C. L.
Dignowity on note.
First National Bank of Marshall
Tex. vs. S. A. & A. P. R. R. Co. on
accented draft.
Fannie Richardson (colored) vs.
Hanford Richardson (colored) divorce.
Baseball: Baltimore 5 Kansas City
2; Washington 5 New York 1; Pitts-
burg 1 Chicago 5; Boston 13 Philadel-
phia 6; Columbus 4 Cincinnati 3.
Only $5 a Year
State News Condensed.
Baseball: Dallas 2 Galveston 0;
Austin 12 Fort Worth 10.
J. A. Mcßride cook of a Tyler res-
taurant. has gone aloft via morphine.
Fire at the drying kiln of the Beau-
mont Lumber Co. resulted in a loss
of $6000.
Work is to be resumed immediately
on the government building at El
Paso.
Corn crop at Brownsville is made
and notwithstanding the lack of rain
cotton looks fine.
About 1600 of Mr. Brady’s shee]) in
Frio county were drowned during
the recent fiood.
Edgar Daniels a 12-year old bby at
Austin was drowned while trying to
rescue a comrade from a like fate.
Charters of Oak Knott cemetery of
Bellville and Clark & Stuyvesant
Grocery Co. of St. Louis are filed in
Austin.
At Santa Maria Nicolas Reyes
while riding along the road was shot
at by three men. His horse was shot
through the neck. Reyes returned
the fire but ineffectually.
One of the murderers of the two
young men at camp at Hot
Springs Presidio county has been
caught and has made full confession.
Before Justice McAllister.
Justice McAllister has affidavits
pending against Evelin Wilson for
abusive language; Vale Wilson for
assault; Dan Creegan assault; C.
Shacklett assault; Juan Gonzales and.
Locario Polinarls for making threats.
For Forgery.
A woman who Is charged with for-
ging a check for $35 in the name of
Mr. A. Scholz July 13 and obtaining
a $35 dress from Mrs. Quinlan has
been traced to Dallas by Detective
Gehardt' and papers for her arrest
have been forwarded there. She Is
also wanted for forging the name of
C. Shacklett of the Washington
theatre fora small amount forwhich
she hau a new dress made by Miss
Myrick.
A Card-
Having accepted a professional en-
gagement which will require my
presence at Piedras Negras Mexico
this and other circumstances compel
me to discontinue my business in
this city for some time. In making
this announcement I beg my numer-
ous friends and patrons to accept my
hearty thanks for courtesies extended
and the confidence placed in me in
the past and while I will change
my location temporarily I will still
be prepared to accept and carry out
any orders for plans with which I
might be honored hereafter especial-
ly as it is my intention to make fre-
quent visits to San Antonio.
Very respectfully
Albert F. Beckmann Archt.
San Antonio July 31 1889.
Building Permits.
R. J. Thornton stable Soledad
street ward 5.
G. M. Maveriok office Avenue D
and Houston street ward 5
T. W. Flannery stable Nolan
street; Ward 6.
Real Estate Sales.
Elizabeth B. and S. P. Maury to A.
T. Stevens lot 37 west side Avenue
B Mrs. E. B. Maury’s subdivision;
$1276.
Juan T. Cardenas to A. A. Gittinger
all interest in lots 34 and 35 on Ceval-
los street; $25.
F. H. Saldivin W. P. Anderson and
G. W. Russ to Arthur C. Johns; lots
12 34 5 6 block $3200.
Elizabeth B. Maury and husband to
A. T. Stevens lot 37; west side Ave-
nue B for $1275.
Col. Moore Mentioned.
William P. Hudgens for four years
special treasury agent in this district
has forwarded his resignation to
Washington and announces that he
will vacate the office at once. He
speaks of Col. R. M. Moore as his
probable successor. The appointment
of Col. Moore would be one most
proper to be made as the Col. is every
way qualified a staunch republican
an old army officer and familiar with
the special work of the office having
previously filled the office with credit
to himself and the government ser-
vice.
An Adjustment Made.
General manager Y’oakum of the
San Antonia and Aransas Pass road
was closeted with the employes of the
line last night from 8:30 to 10:30
o’clock. The meeting was held with
closed doors and at its close Mr. Yoa-
kum announced that arrangements
had beenmadewith themen whereby
the traffic of the road would be at once
resumed and go on uninterruptedly.
He also said that future complica-
tions of this kind would be prevented
and no trouble similar to that nowem-
barassing the road would be permit-
ted to occur. Passengers and mail
coaches were sent out to-day as usual.
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