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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
PROPELLER sUAn.
The Emma Z. Thompson on Bottom at
Grand Haven.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich, Aug. 18.-The
propeller Emma E. Thompson sunk
in harbor this morning. Following
are the particulars: She left Muskecon
at B O'Clock last evening, for ChicsCo,
heavily loaded with hemlock lumber
At 7:90 two feet Of water was disccv-
cred in the hold. The pumps were
manned, but the water gained a foot
an hour. At TAO O'Clock she changed
her course and put for this port. At
Sis O'Clock she gignaled the pro-
peller Annie Laurie, which towed
her into this harbor. At go
the water had gained so that her fires
were put out. She made fast to the
south pier at II O'Clock, and at l she
sank in thirteen feet OF water at the
bow and eighteen at the stern, where
che row lies. Her stern and part OF
her deck-load are under water. The
Emma E. Thompson was built 81 Sag
inaw City in 1875, has net tonnage Of
1874, and is owned by S. Cobb, OF
Chicago. Capt. w. @. Phelps ia her
commander. Insurance men have
been notified and protest made at
the custom-house.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
CHOLERA IN COREA.
Twenty Thousand Deaths from the Dis
ease In One District.

The steamer City Of Sydney arrived
at San Francisco on the night OF the
21st, with Hong Kong news to July
26, and Yokohama news 70 August 3.
Cholera is raging in Corea. Twenty
thousand deaths are reps ted in Keis-
hodo alone. The natives call IL a
Divine visitation, and refuse to give
medical attention 70 the patients.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
BURNED By HER SONS,
Horrible Fate of an Aged Widow, 4
Franco.

FRANCE.
An imbecile widow named Leboi,
residing in Selles, st. Denis, France,
met with a horrible death. Her sons
endeavored to obtain admission for
her in a mad-house, but failed. They
did not want to support her, and so
they tied her to a stake, built fire
around her and burned her to death.
While the woman was suffering the
sons sprinkled holy water over her,
and when arrested told the police that
they had burned their mother because
OF religious motives. The woman was
so years OF age, and had the reputa-
ton OF being a sorceress.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
PANIC ~ A TENEMENT.
An Explosion of Flour Dustin Now York.
Many Narrow Escapes

MAny Nsrrow Escapes.
Sixteen families living in a large five
story tenement house at Washington
and Horatio Streets, New York, were
thrown into q terrible panic, on the
morning OF the 10th, by a sudden ex-
plosion, followed by outbursts OF suf-
locating smoke and flames that filled
the premises from cellar to garret.
The miraculous escape OF a number OF
children was due to the presence OF
mind and hard work OF neighborine
storekeepers and clerks. The explo-
sion ana fire were caused by the com
bustlon OF fiour-dust in the basement
which Is occupied by NJ. Bulloun as q
flour mill. His loss Is $4,000 and
the damage to the building $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City
save baggage, expressase and So carriage
bire. and stop at the GRAND UNION 10
TEL, opposite Grand Central Depot.
SIX hundred and thirteen rooms. fitted
up at q cost OF one million dollars, 81 and
upwards yer day. European plan. Els
vator. Restaurant supplied With tbc best
Horse ears, stages aud elevated railroads
60 ~ Ceyots. Fauilitz al i've better FOR
res u5oI.es al TIE Grand Jr.;aE Bo;ri II tiar
n 8f Cfi-s.f fst-t. c3qFS i-atf-i IN -'i. city
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
sTEPT 4TV4Y BY FLOODS.
Not a House Left Standing in the Town
of Sartc, sonora.

News has been received that the
town OF Saric, in Sonora, Mexico, was
entirely swept away by floods. The
place had a population OF 700. Not d
house Is left standing. Grain fields
were hattened to the ground. No es-
innate OF the damage or loss Of life is
Owen
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
ANNEXED BY GERUAYY.

bismarck Selling Territory in South Pata-
Eonis.
The Berlin North German Gazette OF
the 21st states that Prof. Brakenbusch
has made a large annexation in South
Patagonia on behalf OF Germany. The
Standard, commenting on this, says it
thinks that Bismarck will have to
reckon with Chill and the Argentine
RaDublic-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28

To brighten up plain white flannel
dresses used for tennis or yachting, a
dark blue or scarlet silk handkerchief
is worn around the sailor collar. One
side OF the kerchief is passed around
the neck, the two corners are fastened
under the collar, and the rest falls in
a loose puff on the chest, where it Is
tied down by narrow white ribbon.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28

WIKEE COLLINS Is holding back his
new novel till autumn. His pen ls
now plotting a Christmas tale.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28

ARMASD-"Come, fl with me, i'm
ploreyou !" Camille Never, sir; you
insuit map' Armaud-''Whatl you
viii not go?" Camille-'I VIII resist
you with all the strength OF my
woman's nature Il you would tear
Zoe from this place you must first drug
me and render me unconscious. You
wili ind bottle OF Cbi5rCiorH on The
bureau over there. ."-Chicago Tribune.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28

Below viii be found the stsnding OF the
contesting mines n the Northwestern
and National Leagues and American As
soeistion up TO August 13;
NoRIHwEsxEaN LEAGUE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
THE ALAMO IRON WORKS.
An Important Factor in the Makeup Of
Our Prosperous City.

The cry of hard times has long since
ceased to be the watchwOrd of the practical
and successful business men of the country.
Working upon the principle that the man
who lOOseS his grip upon business to cry
panic, invariably gets Il panic, if only in
imagination" Messrs. lIolmgreen IL Sons,
proprietOrS of the Alamo Iron Works, have
ever applied themselves to business with
that asSiduity which is a successful barrier
to the effects of hard times" Since Holm
green II Sons assumed proprietOrShip of this
foundry, its business has grown from almost
a wreck to an industry Of wonderful magnl-
tude, and which is today, one among the
most important industrial concerns Of this
city.
These works are situated on the Southern
Pacific railroad, near East Commerce street.
The buildings, erected after the plans of the
prOprietOrS, though a success in plan and
convenience, are, at times, Inadequate to
accommodate the increasing demands. A
few figures will be necessary to give the
reader an idea of the working capacity of
these works. A blast furnace of 5000 pounds
CAPACITY per hour is one important feature,
with foundry 40XS0 feet, a cleaning room
35x40 feet, an office and store room 2OX55
feet, machine shop 3OXlOO feet, and an en-
zine room 3Ox4O feet. Here casting in all its
peculiar branches is done; engines built and
overhauled, and all kinds of machinery re-
paired and adjusted. One of the many
specialties is the manufacture of artesian
well work and pumping machinery. The
presence of this foundry among us, renders
it unnecessary to send north or east for
work in their line, but gives all an OppOr
tunity to patrOnize a tirst-claSs home indus
try, thereby keeping a large amount of
money at home that would otherwise be lost
to the community. MeSsrS. HOlmgreen II
Sons are also manufacturers agents for all
other classes of machinery and supplies per
tanning to their line of business, which they
furnish at factory prices, with freight charges
added
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
TIMOTHY WINEBRUISER.

Among the mirth provoking volumes
issued from the American press during 1895
San Antonio claims one which, first receiv
ing daylight through the LIGHT office, has
long since passed the milestOnes of local
fame, and is rapidly journeying towards
celebrity as one of those truly amOOsing"
volumes whose business it is to steal away
our leisure hours. This volume, Timothy
Winebruiser, is from the pen of }. n. Gal
Iagher, who certainly did not miss his call
ing when he adventured into the ranks of
humorous literature. Timothy" is pre-
eminently reliable book. Its situations
are as original as sin. Its prose is as pathetic,
at times, as its poetry is piouant, and it
would puzzle born critic to decide which is
the richer. Its illustrations are peculiarly
the authors own, and might easily have been
patented. You read the book and the laugh
comes i'm spontaneously; you simply cant
help it," The situations are racy, the lang
uage fits them to a dot, and to begin the
volume is to read it to the ''finis." Found
in all the book stores, and should be in the
hands of all good fellows who know good
thing when they see it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
ELMENDORF s. CO.



The firm of Elmendorf IL Co. is one of the
-, b. 49, .;t,. Thoir h,,s;,o,, oo,,ar,
oioes' III 'ie oi's' ino" BUSINESS oo,oi'
every department known 10 hrst-clasS
hardware and implement house. Their place
of hroinoso 10 Of tba corner of West Com
vi BUSINESS % ~ VI w o't I'm
merce street ana Nam plaza, WIN Drahch
mouse al no: ~ alal nt rlaaa. Inc ware
tenslve, ana packed win thelr wares. Inc
company are agents lor al, the popular
makes or engines Teapers, plows, mowers,
gins, scales; etc. Inc store at Commerce
street ana Main plaza Is packed 10 us ut
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
San Antonio Light.
For the LIGHT Holiday Edition.
HOME JOYS.

BY IRVING j. 4. MILLER. ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MARsHALTOwN, UAD ELECTRIC LIGHT.
How sweetit is when work is Ger
With wearied footsteps feet so numb:
| wend my way toward the door,
Where loving wife waits me to come.
Sweet May runs forth with arms so small.
And greets me with her chat, so gay;
While Rob ne'er waits for me to call,
But comes to meet me half block way
When after have slipped my 0ea-
Sit down beside the glowing fire:
Fond May then climbs upon my knee
To hug her dear old loving sire.
Rob with his toys, sits down and plays,
While Lizzie does the dishes clean;
These are the best OF happy days
The brightest ones TO mel ween.
When time has come to 90 to bed,
Each kneels beside his cushioned chair;
While Lizzie with IA dOwnbOwed head.
Sends up to God the daily prayer.
There is no place on earth as dear
when one is weary of hard toll
As hOme-where loved ones linger near
Away from business wild turmoil
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
How TO Find Amusement.

There is no question that the Fashion
theatre ia one of the hSndsOmest. and
most complete and orderly variety
theatres In the south and the manage
ment take great care that the stage is
continually filled with new attractions
that delight the audience and enhance
Its popularity. The programme is at
all times strong and varied to suit the
public taste. Charming lady vOcalists
and dancers. comedians of merit and
clever specialists appear nightly, and by
their ability ''catch the boys" but the
programmes are strengthened weekly
by the Introduction of good stage plays
that are mounted or played in manner
that discounts many of the travelling
combinations that take the peoples
money away and disgust them. If you
want pleasant evenings amusement
to pass away time. Danish melancholy,
or TO drive away care a night, at the
Fashion theatre will at all times do it in
an agreeable way.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
Why She Was Arrested.

From the Merchant Traveller
81 see that the police have arrested
the floating lady at the dime museum"
said one Cincinnati travelling man to an
other.
What for?" was the very natural
question.
"For being without visible means OF
support"
Then they gave the gentleman with
the white apron and diamond shirt stud
q Job.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
Written for the LIGHT Holiday Edition:
NOTHING BUT LIES.

b ISLEt. THE BOHEMIAN tOF THE CHICNGO
DNIIY NEWS
This world Is made up of Shams and frauds.
And the very things we expect to find
Pure and untarnished, are by odds
Tue yeriest shams Of all their kind:
The things that we love return us hate,
And the things we hate return us smiles:
Our wants and desires are denied by fate
Our best intentions beaten by wiles.
War is nhuman; Religion, too pure
To live in a land where Gold is God;
Science, too wonderful to endure.
Politics an Internal fraud!
Hate is mOckery; Love is "A lie;
Honesty won't pass. you know:
Virtue and Truth may rule on high,
But Vice and Policy rule below.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
All Annual Melancholy.

When the cruel winter winds are cOldly
blowing, blowing, blowing,
And the snow begins TO pile up
In the street,
Then fear upon the poets mind is
growing. growing, growing.
And his heart is dull and heavy with his
knowing, knowing, knowing.
That pair Of low-cut shoes is
on his feeI;
And his misery's complete;
Yes, complete.
: Tid-Bits.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

Voice from the head OF stairs. Mary,
has the morning paper come yetG
Mary (who has just begun to say good
bye to George. How shall answer him
my dear?
George. Tell him OF course the paper
hasn't come yet, as we are just going to
press now!-Texas Siftlngs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

A Wonderful Transformation.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle
See that little dsrky there ~
Yes"
BLACK as coal, isn't he o.
quite"
swell. 1 change his color by a simple
performance
"How ?"
81 can box his ears and make him yell
,Ow
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

Bsgley. Say no more, Aurells, for
bid the match. Young Spriggs may he
a gentleman. but he is poor.
Aurela. But he is one OF the heirs TO
the great Hogg estate of So, 000,O
Nothing of the sort, girl. He Is de-
ceiving thee"
"Why, pa, I'm sure he told me that he
is one Of the lawyers engaged to defend
the will Philadelphi Call.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
A Sign of Increasing Age.

why, my dear, what's the matter ?"
kindly asked a lady of her friend.
sob, feel I'm beginning to look quite
DID," was the mournful reply.
"Nonsence! Whatever put such an
idea into your head?"
Because" was the reply. 81 notice
that whenever l cross Broadway the
policemen never take my arm as they
used to do.-TLife.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

"Do you think Lucie will succeed in
winning Algernon9" asked the high
school girl.
"No, indeed" replied Amy; "she has
not ghost of a show"
my dear" protested the high-school
girl; "please don't use such horrid slang
az ghost of show Say 'apparltion OF
an exhibition"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
At the Ball
From Texas sIftings.l

Host to Miss Chalkly daughter of a
wealthy milkmsO). Why, my dear Miss
Chalkly, do you not join US in the ball
room?
because I've been insulted."
"Who insulted your"
"One OF those gsloots asked me IL my
dress was watered silk. Watered, In
deedl Pa never waters his silk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
Not That Kind of an Enoch.

Omaha Man. You did not stay long
in Chicago after your long absence.
Chicago Man. No, l am q sort of an
Enoch Arden, [ am.
swell, well. went home, found your
wife had married again and came quiet
ly away? 1 deeply
sit wasn't just that. 1 left because l
found she hadn't married again.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
Knew Him at Once.

Woman Ito office boy). want to see
the editor what wears the eyeglasses.
Office boy. Several OF the editors
wear eyeglasses, madam.
Woman. The one want has a green
forehead.
Office boy. Oh, yes, that's the night
editor.-Life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
ROMANTIC RELIGION.

Would you know now first | met her
Shining like an evening star
She was selling pretty triiies
At 1 certain church bazaar
And said my soul shall win her
Spite of any earthly bar.
cold and gratitude gave her
For that certain church bazaar.
Bought the things that least needed
Guessed at bCauN within a jar.
Followed where her bright eyes drew me,
At that certain church bazaar.
And think our IT." together.
Nothing righteOu~ly could mar
since the place met and owed her
Was At A certain church bazaar
NATHAN LUrIN.
New York sept. 18th. 1875.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

Man:
send up another tor OF coal;
The nights are getting very chill.
Coal dealer:
Another ton nay. by my soul.
Until you pay your last years bill
boston Courier.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
An Impulsive Husband.

And do you love me ms well as ever,
John?" the wife asked of her somewhat
testy husband, after they had made up
subsequent TO what is usually termed "a
little spat."
"Why, of course do, and better"
"Are you sure. dsrling"
"Sure. or course am. Hang it, don't
tell you SOP"
Yes, but you are not deceiving me?"
"Certainly not. What do YOU want to
aggravate man for?"
II am not aggravating you"
ayes, you are, and | tell you plainly
that love you madly, and II you ask me
that question again Pm blessed II don't
go out and stay our altogether. love
you dearly, and now just shut up or 1t
will be worse for you. Asking me II l
love you when | do to Distraction Get
out, you idiot You are nothing but
dsrned fool, anyway"
Wife subsidies, highly delighted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20

Poetry at the Telephone.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
The Foes of Society.
Albany Argus.

Albany Argus.
There is decided misconception OF
the strength of the anarchist element
in our large cities. It's so powerful in
Chicago that, notwithstanding the
shock produced on the public mind by
the horrible haymarket butchery Of
last May, there are grave fears lest the
enormous influences at work to save
the seven condemned murlerers may
succeed, to the everlasting shame Of
that city. The terro rism exercised
by this element in the Lake Shore
railroad strike shows that it is as
active as ever in Chicago and it's en-
virons. The strength OF this element
in New York has been considerably
underestimate. A meeting held un-
der its auspices, recently, was at
tended by no less than Z, 700 persons,
who listened attentively to speeches
recommending the abolition OF the
present order OF society and govern
ment and the substitution of the COM
mune and the glorifcation OF the
vagabond. Those imported disturbers
OF the peace-for communism, social
ism and anarchy are not of American
growth-place the reconstruction of
society and the redistribution of prop
erty as the basis OF their new system.
They wish to be excused from the
respo visibility OF self-support, and
they regard industry and success in
business as crimes against what they
call "labor."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
Those Newly Cultivated Persons.
From the Octo her Atlantic.

From the Octo Der Atlantic.
The nouveaux riches, as class,
have been a good deal before the pub
lie. But there is another class in
modern society, equally noteworthy
and in some respects even more pre-
posterous and disagreeable, that seems
to have escaped classification. It is
that species OF person whom we may
denominate the nouveau cultive.
Sprung from illiterate stock in some
uncivilized region, he has suddenly
been plunged into an accidental pen
umbra of culture when we'll aleng in
years. He has been ':caught late"
He has, accordingly, a most vivid APP
probation of those things which seem
to him to mark the difference between
his present advanced position and his
previous backward state. He is won
derfully sure of the received verdicts
on work of literature and art If you
happen to question any of them, or
intimate a preference for some new
man, it is comical, and yet q little
vexing, for all your philosophy, to see
how your lifelong WEAKNESS of the old
orthodox judgment is taken for
that ignorance OF it from which he
himself has so lately emerged. On the
other hand, it is with an exquisitely
benevo lent ondescension that he gives
you the last twaddle as superseding
your view Of some one OF the immor-
tails.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
Wealth of London.

"Carp," the well-known correspond
ent of the Cleveland Leader and Her.
aid, who is now making a tour of Great
Britain, thus writes of the wealth of
London: The value of the property
in London outvies the widest dreams
of the wealth OF Monte Cristo or the
Arabian Knights. The land in the
city OF London proper which makes
only about one section 1852 acras)
of the 700 sections, or the TOO square
miles of the city, has, during the day,
population of 100000 business men
and their employees, and 10000 We
hicles enter and leave this territory
daily. The traffic here is one perpet-
ual jam, and the property is the most
valuable in London. A peice sold there
the other day which brought a price
equal to $1O,OOO,OOO an acre. Lon
don property has doubled in value in
twenty years, and this increase still
goes on. There are l, 500 churches in
London, and if all the people wanted
to attend, only one-tenth of them
could be accommodated. The railways
of London have 759 miles of track,
and the underground railways alone
carry every year more than twice as
many passengers as there are men,
women and children in. the United
States. There are nearly thousand
omnibus drivers, and all of the omni-
buses have seats outside ON top, and
lnside as in America. Each bus ca rms
ON an average $40 a. week, and the
average fare is five CENTS. There are
also 700 tram cars, andiit is estimated
that each bus driver makes eighty miles
every week, equal to, a distance around
the world every six years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
Proportions il, Growth.

At birth the height of a child is about
three tenths- of the. adult stature.
The head ola child one year old is
nearly one-iourth of the whole height:
that OF the adult is about two-thir-
teenths, or, in other words, the one
year-old is four heads high. and the
adult SIX and half heads high. Dur-
ing the first year OF life there is an
average gain OF about eight inches.
say from twenty Or twenty-one inches,
at birth totwenty-eight or twenty-nine
at one year. During thu second wear
the gain is about four inches, and
then the child is nearly half his adult
stature. At eleven or twelve years
the annual growth rarely exceeds two
inches q year Hereditary peculiarities
govern growth TO a considerable de-
gree.-Babyhood,