San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 159, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume Vlll—Number 1 59.
gaihj gight.
Office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
San Antonio about holds her own
in Texas league and is as often the
upper dos in the fight as the under
one. The constant report of her club
in the base ball columns of the great
dailies is a good advertisement for
this city and will doubtless return
good money for the outlay.
WILLINGTON R. BURT
Nominee of the Democratic and
Greenback Parties for Gov-
ernor of Michigan.
A fusion arrangement has beaten
the republicans in Michigan before
and the democrats and greenbackers
try it again this year. They consider
that they have a good show for the
governorship. Their candidate Wil-
lington R. Burt of East Saginaw is
very popular with the Knights of
Labor of whom he has a large
number in his employment.
Mr. Burt was born in Genesee New
York August 26 1832. When he
was about seven years old his parents
removed to Jackson Michigan a place
which was then quite out in the
woods and comparatively a wilder-
ness. Mr. Burt was twelve years of
age when his father died leaving him.
the eldest of the family geneeal
manager and provider on the farm.
His life on a farm was a
stern reality to him in youth
and manhood. During his time of
“roughing it” on the homestead Mr.
Burt somehow managed to secure
three years good schooling. A year
after he had attained his majority he
left farming to see the world. Sub-
sequently as sailor miner and con-
tractor he visited many countries.
In three years’ time he returned to
Michigan satisfied that there was a
brighter outcome for him there than
elsewhere. He went to work in a
lumber camp in 1857 on a salary of
thirteen dollars a month. At the end
of the first month he was made fore-
man at twenty dollars a mouth. He
worked on for five months when his
employers’ failed and he lost his five
months’ wages and some money he
had loaned. But he went to work
again with might and main and made
money enough to buy timber land and
go into the lumber business on his
own account. In the course of time
he acquired mills of his own and be-
came identified with the salt business
and shipping interests of the North-
west. Since 1873 Mr. Burt has been
President of the Michigan Salt Asso-
ciation.
For some years the candidate has
taken an interest in political and state
affairs. As a republican he was elect-
ed Mayor of East Saginaw in 1867
and was a delegate-at-large to the re-
publican convention of 1880. Since
1881 he has been voting with the dem-
ocrats. As he is very popular with
all parties in his state his nomina-
tion is believed to be a very strong
one.
Building Permits.
Mrs. E. H. Power lumber kitchen
corner San Marcos and Lopez streets;
H. Haubold lumber addition to
tannery east side South Laredo
street;
Otto Gerlachlumber kitchen north-
west corner Ruiz and San Marcos
streets; J—.
C. Magerstadt lumber stable cor-
ner Barrera and Camargo streets;
Anton Samanuqe brick dwelling
corner Colorado and Delgado streets;
Jacob Wetzel rock dwelling corner
Ninth street and Avenue D; $lOOO.
San Antonio Daily Light.
Published at San Antonio. Bexar County. Texas and Registered at the Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Associated Press Dispatches and
Specials Up to the Hour of
Going to Press.
Weather Bulletin.
Washington August 15.—Indica-
tions for eastern Texas : Generally
fair; nearly stationary temperature;
variable winds; generally easterly.
Yellow Jack in Cuba.
St. Jago De Cuba. August 15.—
There were twenty deaths from yel-
low fever in this city up to the 28th of
July largely among the military. New
food in furnished in the disease by
a lot of freshly arrived Spaniards
who are working at the Paraguay
mines near the city. The weather is
favorable for a yellow fever epidemic
in that Island. Reports continue to be
received from the interior. Many chil-
dren and native Cubans are dying of
yellow fever.
Chlcasro Post Office Robberies.
Chicago August 15.—The post of-
fice inspectors having in charge the
letter box robbery affair have com-
pleted a partail list of checks drafts
money orders and other negotiable
papers which were found in Von
Oberkampf s rooms and say thus far
it foots up over $25000. The inspector
is satisfied as to the aggregate. All
the stolen documents which were re-
covered will be fully 7 million. There
is no means of telling how much cash
Von Oberkampf secured as many
people are in the habit of sending
small amounts through ordinary let-
ter mails. The inspectors think it is
the most colossal mail robbery ever
known.
Turkey on the Financial Stretcher.
London August 15. —A crisis is
reported in Turkey between the sul-
tan and his ministers. The trouble
is due to the refusal of the sultan to
sanction the grand vizier’s proposal
to borrow 1500000 pounds from the
Turkish banks. This amount is d( -
manded by the minister of war and
the minister of marine to purchase
goods and to pay soldiers’ aud sea-
men’s w’ages which are long overdue.
The Earth Trembled.
Winthrop Me. August 15.—One
of the severest earthquake shocks
ever felt in this vicinity occurred at
8:20 last evening. A report like a
heavy cannon continuing 30 seconds
shook the earth violently swaying
the buildings aud rattling dishes and
furniture. A second shock was felt
about midnight and was somewhat
lighter and of about the same dura-
tion.
Blaine's Distinctions on Tariff.
New York August 15.—A Wash-
ington special to the Herald says
there will probably be no senate tariff
bill after all. Blaine has been heard
and he wants the issue made distinct
between what he calls protection and
free trade. He does not w ant it clouded
by the necessity of defending a repub-
lican bill. These views are not
publicly avowed but there is good
reason for believing they represent
Blaine’s wishes. His opinion is said
to have been made known to the re-
publican senators by Senator Hale
who has just returned to Washington
from a conference with Blaine in New
York.
lowa Citizens Versus the R. R’s.
Davenport la. August 15.—A
meeting of jobbers and manufacturers
of every commercial city in lowa was
held here last evening to consider the
new tariff proper by railroads. Sev-
eral speakers among them Gov. Lar-
rabee and W.H. Ferbert of Dubuque
asserted that the railroad had filed
papers with misrepresentations
charging the people of lowa
with efforts to ruin their prop-
erty. All this was stamped as
untrue and the railroads denounced
in bitter terms and charged with un-
just treatment of the business men of
lowa. Gov. Larrabee made an asser-
tion that the railroad companies had
determined to punish the peopleoflowa
for daring to assert their rights and
the mana ers of the roads are resolv-
ed that the shippers and masses of the
people shall not exercise a right or
privilege in this matter of controlling
freight. He had carefully investi-
gated the new schedule prepared by
the state commissioners and was satis-
fied that it was not unjust. A com-
mittee was appointed to draw’ up a
plan of action against the railroad.
No secret is made of tiie fact that
steps are being taken for a legal
fight.
Honor in His Own Country.
Augusta Me. August 15.—James
G. Blaine accompanied by his son
Walker and a large gathering of poli-
tical admirers left here on the 10:50
train for Portland where he is to be
tendered a reception this afternoon.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15. 1888.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The qujen of Servia has gone to
Versailles to reside.
The death is announced of Theodore
Juste the Belgian historian.
The Tamaulipas Mex. cotton crop
is excellent.
Advices from Chihuahua Mex. say
a terrible disease is prevailing among
cattle causing sudden death.
The French papers say that the re-
tirement of Gen. Von Moltke is a tri-
ump for the German war party.
Blaine and party yesterday arrived
at Augusta receiving most hearty de-
monstrations of welcome.
A fine statue of Gen. Gordon has
been unveiled by Lord Wolseley in
Rochester cathedral England.
His eminence Cardinal Gibbons
has arrived at South Bend Ind.
where he was received by a delega-
tion of Catholic societies and an im-
mense assemblage oi citizens.
Thirty convicts en route to Siberia
made a* desperate attempt last night
to escape. Eleven were killed ten
wounded and six escaped.
The emperor iias received the man-
anger of the Nortxi German Lloyd
Steamship company and consented
to allow’the new steamer to be bap-
tized “William II.”
Two men one of them a Mormon
bishop have been arrested at Salt
Lake City by United States marshals
charged with a murder committed 29
years ago.
Representative J. Campbell of New-
York yesterday introduced in the
house a bill placing on the pension
roll General Sheridan’s widow at the
rate of $5OOO a year.
A system of wholesale letter box
robbery extending over a period of
two years and involving over $lOOOOO
has been discovered in Chicago. Ar-
rests have been made and more are
likely to follow’.
Col. Jas. L. D. Morrison formerly
known as Dan Morrison the noted
democratic politician has died in St
Louis.
The Holland society of New York
attended a concert in the palace of in-
dustry Amsterdam. The orchestra
played Dutch and American anthems.
In accordance with an imperial de-
cree the empress dowager of China
will retire from government next
March when the emperor will as-
sume sole responsibility.
The Parnell-Times trial will begin
in November at the earliest and pos-
sibly may not take place until after
the Christmas recess of the court.
The president has issued an order
placing Major General Schofield in
command of the army with head
quarters at Washington.
Two thieves who broke into a New
Orleans feed store; and opened the
safe got $3OO in confederate notes for
their pains.
Mr. Parnell has retained Mr. J. B.
Balfour formerly lord advocate of
Scotland and Mr. Asher formerly
solicitor of Scotland both in Mr.
Gladstone’s administration to con-
duct his suit in the Scotch courts
against the Times.
The merchants of Clinton lowa
under the influence of the “Q”
strikers have been boycotting that
road. The officials of the road re-
taliate by notifying the merchants
that unless the boycott is raised they
will stop running trains there.
The Latest
News is that a young and tolerably
fair looking married woman whose
husband has been out of town on a
ranch for some time has eloped with
a young clerk much younger
than herself. When her husband
returned he found his wife gone leav-
ing her one child behind her. The
clerk has been boarding at the house
and in this way gained the erring
wife’s affections. For the present the
names are withheld.
Connecticut Republicans.
Hartford Ct. August 15.—The
convention nominated the Hon. Mor-
gan G. Bulkley for governor by ac-
clamation. Gen. S. E. Merwin nomi-
nated for lieutenant °rovernor also by
acclamation. R. J. Walsh was nomi-
nated secretary of state.
Attention S. A. R.
You will appear in full dress uni-
form at 8 a. m. sharp tomorrow for
parade in the Reunion procession.
By order
First Lieut. W. L. Herff
Commanding.
Parents Criminally Liable.
More than half of all deaths occu
before six years of age. An army of in-
nocent lovely children are swept
needlessly away each year. Parents
are criminally responsible for this.
The death rate of children in England
is less than half this. Acker’s English
Baby Soother has done more to bring
this about than all other causes com-
bined. You cannot afford to be with-
Oit it. For sale by Raglan Co. 9
STATE NEWS.
At Bryan is the 15th annual meet-
ing the state grange.
The Erath County Fair has filed its
charter.
Martin Woessner of Corpus Christi
has been released on $2000 bond.
Only seven prisoners are in the jail
of Jolinson county.
A meeting has been called at Vic-
toria to elect delegates to the Denver
deep water convention.
The first grand democratic rally in
Tarrant county will take place at
Mansfield on Saturday.
Mangum Greer county was visited
Saturday night by a terrific wind
storm which blew down some houses.
The governor attorney general
and secretary of state have left Aus-
tin for Dallas.
T. J. Parrish fell from the rafters
at the pavilion in Fort Worth and
had a compound fracture of the ankle.
The safe of the Texas Express Co.
at Whitewright has been robbed of
$111.50.
Twenty-four bushels of wheat and
fifty-five of oats to the acre have been
raised in Hardeman county.
There was a Farmers’ Alliance pic-
nic at Greenbriar near Lewisville
last Friday.
The Fort Worth and Denver is im-
proving the stock shipping facilities
all along the line in anticipation of a
heavy business.
Dr. W. F. Buck of Pecos City has
committed suicide by cutting his jugu-
lar vein His wife and child died at
Pecos City some time ago.
Harry Stanford an old citizen liv-
idg near Brazos Point fell in his cellar
and received injuries that will prove
fatal.
A telegraphic order has been re-
ceived at Laredo for 50 blocks of un-
improved Laredo property showing
that the Laredo boom is heard of a
long way off.
Au attempt was made in Fort
Worth to burglarize the store of W.
Goldstein but the burglars were
frightened away by an alarm of fire
and firemen coming up the street.
State Health Officer Rutherford
who is at Lampasas Springs today
telegraphed the governor that the re-
port of yellow fever at Texarkana is
false.
The commissioners’ court of Cle-
burne have allowed old Asa Bullard
who has reached the age of 100 years
a pension of $8 per month.
The Cisco Round-Up will issue a
special addition of 10000 copies on the
first of October for distribution at the
Dallas State Fair.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over Kyle on Monday which at one
time looked as if it would devastate
the whole place.
Mrs. Harris the wife of a tenant on
the farm of Mr. M. B. Sadler
McKennan county has been terribly
gored by a cow whose sharp horns
laid open her hip to the bone. She
has small chance of recovery.
Dr. G. H. Huddle of Paris has mar-
ried his divorced wife Mrs. Alice E.
Norris. They had been separated
about two years but met wooed and
were wedded again.
At the Tennessee colony Palestine
Ed. Ross colored who had been
separated from his wife demanded
that she should return and live with
him. On the woman’s refusing Ross
drew a sixshooter and fired on her
shooting her eye completely out.
Sixty three head of cattle belonging
to Sellars & Harris of Tredell are
found lying dead in a pasture sup-
posed to nave been poisoned from
drinking the water from an old dip-
ping vat in which Cooper’s sheep dip
was recently used.
An Italian employe of Sitterl’s
saloon. Victoria while intoxicated
fell off a gallery to th® street below a
distance of 20 feet but with the pro-
verbial luck of drunken men and
babies escaped with slight injuries.
Mr. D. H. Hart clerk of the U. S.
court in Austin whose fence in Milam
county was recently cut received the
following “You will please leave this
gate unlocked or you will get your
d—d wire cut yours as ever” (signed)
Texas Cowboys or Wirecutuers.
Notice to Gentlemen.
Now is the time to buy your summer
suits for the least money. Pants $6.50;
fine English French or German goods
in fast colors from $8 to $lO. Fits
guarantee l . Full - uits from $25 up-
wards. The old reliable tailor next
to Commerce street bridge.
6-23-tf Val. Lorr a.
Her Thanks.
Mrs. A. W. Morrison desires to re-
turn sincere thanks to her marv new-
ly made friends who so kindly and
tenderly assisted in caring for her
late husband in his last illness to the
physicians who attended and the
brotherhood of Masonry for the
Masonic burial given him.
—Solid silver and plated ware at
bottom figures as Jess M. Bell’s. 6t
On'v $5 a Year.
IN BURNET COUNTY.
What is BelnuDone There and Ex-
pectations of the County.
Burnet Aug. 13 1888.
Editor San Antonio Light:
I have had a delightful stay in Bur-
net and must say that! am favorably
impressed with it. lor unquestionably
the mineral developments prove that
this is the richest section in the state
and what is of more advantage to us
is that it is tributary to San Antonio.
And it will remain so if she is wise
but if not mark my words another
citv will rise in Burnet county that
will over-top anything in the state
and be the Birmingham Sheffield
and Newcastle of Texas all combined
in one.
The capital city is rather dead at
the present time but the business
men nave a justified confidence in the
future not only of the city but the
county.
The corn and oat crops are good
and a large quantity of sweet potatoes
are raised in the county. The cotton
crop is all that can be desired and if
rain falls soon a bale to an acre is as-
sured.
The Lithographic stone quarries
created much excitement and reason-
able expectations are indulged in for
this ston® is of great density and is
excellent in every way. Judge Brook-
er and Fitzgerald are here splitting
rock on Mr. Davis’ property aud the
results are being eagerly watched.
Cadwallader of the Maverick Litho-
graphic establishment has been here
after lithographic stone but couldn’t
make any terms for it.
There are many prospectors here
working quietly in the mining re-
gions. Of course they are wisely si-
lent but you can bet your sweet life
they are satisfied with the results of
their investigations.
At Marble Falls a boot and shoe
factory has been organized giving
employment even now to sixty men.
There ought to be one in San Anto-
nio.
The population is mainly American
and some of the ladies present the
high test type of beautious American
womanhood.
Dr. Avard state grand commander
of the Knights of the Golden Rule
has been here and organized a new
castle.
These are facts the humorous
side of the picture remains
to be told. That the “schoolmasters
is abroad is apparently indicated by
such public signs as “Boot and shoe
doktor” and “Cash paid for Hydes”
but the people as a rule are education-
ally the equal of any other city.
I was amused the other day to see
a country boy handling for the first
time a piece of ice. After looking
carefully at it for some time aud ex-
amining it he said: “Well if that
don't beat anything I ever saw and
to be so cold in this hot weather”
and he giggled quite as badly as his
honor does when he gets a point on
Gallagher. More anon.
Yours respectfully
Georgious Caenacus.
THEY DON'T LIKE IT.
The Jokers Claim a Game that Is
Awarded to the Mackeys
A special meeting of the directors
of the Amateur base ball league was
held last night at Mission Garden for
the purpose of determining whether
the game between the Mackeys and
Jokers on the sth inst. should be
counted in the championship contest.
It will be remembered that on Sun-
day the sth inst. the Little Jokers
and Mackeys played at the Springs
and during the game the appointed
umpire without authority delegated
his power to another at the instance
of the Mackeys aud the Little Jokers
tacitly assented to this by playing un-
der the new umpire. They are de-
feated and now they claim that the
game was illegal and should not be
counted. It was agreed upon to leave
the matter to the decision of the presi-
dent who decided that according to
the facts and the merits of the game
and that the Jokers were the first
to raise a complaint against the
umpire appointed by the presi-
dent it was his decision that
the game should be considered a fair
one and should be given to the
Mackey’s. Although the decision
was not strictly in accordance with
the National League rules the presi-
dent thought it a just one as there is
no rule especially governing an in-
stance of this kind. An appeal was
taken from the decision of the presi-
dent after it was agreed upon by all
that his decision should be final and
the matter is yet unsettled. There
will be a regular meeting of the direc-
tors Thursday night.
For Fort Davis.
The sheriff of San Saba county
passed through San Antonio last night
en route to Fort Davis having in
charge a cowman named Jones who
is charged under four indictments
with cattle theft and has also a charge
of murder against him. He killed the
deputy sheriff of San Saba county
while resisting arrest for the crime of
cattle stealing around Fort Davis.
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