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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-27

THE nomination of Levi P. Morton
to the honorable office of vice presi-
dent upon the republican ticket gives
great satisfaction in New York. His
ability and integrity as a man of af-
fairs is so universally conceded in the
commercial metropolis of the country
that it carries great weight with it.
He is a man of broad and just views
of business. A man accustomed to
take in a wide range of interests in his
daily thoughts or men and things,
and quite familiar with the industrial
and commercial movements of the
world. Intensely American in all his
ideas and views, his four years resi-
dence at a foreign court as American
minister has made him unusually well
acquainted with the situation abroad
and he will come to his work in case
of his election well furnished for his
office as president of the senate of
these United States. The country is
to be congratulated upon the prospect
before it of having as it's vice presi-
dent a practical man of business rather
than mere politician. We are a COM
mercial and an industrial people and
it is high time that our business in
terests found recognition and repre-
sentation. That they have SO found
in the person of Levi P. Morton is
without question:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-27


LLANO is most anxious to have rail-
way connections with San Antonio
via fredericksburg, by Arkansas Pass
extensions. A prominent citizen of
that county writes to this city urging
meeting in the interests of such ex-
tension, and proposing to hold same
in connection with delegates from
Llano and Fredericksburg. The road,
when opened, would almost necessi-
tate the building of smelter here for
the reduction of Llano county ores.
The project is a vital one and COM
mends itself to the business interests
OF our people. All that is necessary is
to go to work, and with the hearty CO.
operation of the Arkansas Pass people,
the road could be secured. 1t would
add hundreds of thousands to our
trade within year after the road was
opened.
SAN ANTONIO is not acting wisely
in letting the Confederate reunion
that was appointed for this city go,
by default of subscription for it's main
tainance, to Fort Worth. The Unionists
of this city, the old boys in blue, have
not been backward in coming forward
with cash to help out the reunion of
the boys in gray, and the old confeds,
who stayed at home and banked I'D
fortunes during the war, should put
their hands in their pockets and put
the thing upon it's feet.
The Antartic Refrigerator handles
the Carothers fatted cattle only. 6-4tf
Another car load of the Alaska.
Refrigerators, at Newton & Weller,s
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-27

IF you want first-class concert and
dance music, call on Zottarelli's or
chestra, No. 341 Acequia street. Inn
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-27

ENTERED AT PosToFFICE AT SAN ANTONIO
TEXAS, AS sECOND-CLAss MATTER
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
LOST LAKE MICHIGAN.
Capt. Paul Boyton Battles Fifteen Hours
With Ice and Waves.


CHICAGO, March 29.-Capt: Paul Boy
ton, the noted swimmer, had an ex
perience in Lake Michigan Tues
day that he thinks he will not
forget for some time. Tuesday
morning at o'clock he left Fullerton
Avenue for swim to South Chicago and
return, and met with the most thrilling
adventure OF his lie, in which he bat
tied for hours with a great ice foe, was
carried many miles out into the lake,
stripped of his navigating instruments,
and lost for fifteen hours in the cold,
bleak waste of drifting ice, hanging
clouds and struggling ducks and gulls.
From Z o'clock in the morning
until midnight the Captain was
without food or drink, and the chill of
the icy waters had driven him to the,
desperate resort of hard work all that
time to keep up vigorous circulation,
so that he would not chill and perish in
the lake. At midnight he was rescued
at the crib, his vitality almost
gone Stimulants were applied
and the daring navigator put
to bed. A telephone message was
sent to the police that the captain was
saved and by them taken to his little
family-a wife and son-who were dis
tracted by his long absence and sup
posed he had persisted Capt Boyton
was in bed when a reporter called at
his home last evening. He was exhaust
ed, the reaction from his desperate ex-
element of the day before having made
him weak and sick.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Shattered His Health.

Conductor J. w. Stillwell, who had
charge of the Toledo, Peoria & Western
train that was wrecked at Chatsworth
in August last, has changed from jolly,
whole-souled fellow, full of health and
spirits and strength, to white haired
and feeble man, cofrmed and gloomy
invalid. He was at Ferris, ILL.,, recently
in charge of the pay car, and his old
friends could hardly recognize him.
Stillwell was for quite a time carried on
the payroll of the company, and sent
from one health resort to another in the
hopes of restoring his shattered health
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04

nently In yesterdays riot, was taken
before Justice Scully to-day. The case
against him was weak and he escaped
with a S. fine.
At a meeting Of railroad employees
which was in session until early on the
morning of the LIST it was decided that
strike should be inaugurated in the
city at midnight on the Lake Shore, Chi
cago q Alton, Pan Handle, Fort Wayne
and Santa Fe roads. Strike following
strike in rapid succession was the result
of the BurHngton's first attempt to re-
sumo forcing freight on the other roads.
Almost at the very outset a strike oc-
Cured on the Fl. Wayne system, IN
volvlng for the first time an I'M
doubted extension Of the trouble
to the roads leading east from
Chicago. A leading Western line. the
Milwaukee & ST. Paul, had been com
pletely tied between midnight and day
light. At 10 A. NJ. came the initial step
by the Burlington in what seemed a
programme OF aggressiveness to transfer
the seat of war to the lines of the other
roads A train of fifteen cars was made
up and quietly trans erred to the Fl
Wayne, while at about the same time
another train of twenty-five cars was
made up for the Lake Shore road
and started out with forty Pink
erton men aboard, who had pro.
vided themselves with rocks to
use III an emergency. No strikers
were to be seen and the transfers were
made without the slightest hindrance.
Then came the question as to how long
the TT. Wayne and Lake Shore roads
would allow the Burlington cars to re-
main untouched on the tracks. 1t was
not until P. NJ, that move in this d.
rection was made. The train stood up
on the ''V' at Sixteenth Street and the
Fort Wayne officials ordered their men
to take it and pull it upon the Fort
Wayne tracks. The men promptly re-
fused and ran their engines in. All
freight and suburban traffic was tied up,
people living out Of the city being
obliged to find other means of convey
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
The Credit Mobilier.

A decision has been handed down by
Judge Shipman, Of the United States
circuit court, dismissing the suit against
the great Credit MobiIier. The suit was
begun fourteen years ago in New York
by Rowland Hazard and other stock
holders of the concern against Sidney
Dillon as trustee. An accounting for the
work done in the construction of the
Union Pacific Railway was sought for.
The defendant demurred to the COM
plant and the matter has since been
pending in the court. The demurrer
was sustained by Judge Shipman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
PROFIT OF BELLS PATENT.
Interesting Facts From the Telephone
Company's Report.


Boston, Mass, March 27.-The report
of the directors of the American Bell
Telephone Company, made public to-
day, shows that the business Of the COM
pany for the year 1887, wason the whole
satisfactory; that the receipts for royal
ties show a reasonable increase and that
the licensed companies, with but few
exceptions have improved and extend
ed their plant The number of ex-
changes is 743. Total miles of wire, 49,
1872, of which 5000 are under ground.
The total number of subscribers
was 1912. The number of
instruments in the hands of licensees I'M
der rental is 3SO,277, an increase of 26,-
759 over last year. The number OF ex-
change connections daily In the United
States is estimated at 1,01l, 517. The
scriber shows an increase of 9 per cent.
The treasure1's statement shows that
earnings from all sources were 50, 453,-
O27.70 and expenses 81 ,242, 430.89. The
dividends paid during the year were Is
per cent. on the capital stock. The sur
plus December 81, 1887, was 81, U29 ,035.
Concerning the supreme court decls--
ion the report says: "All the cases on
all points are determined IN favor of
the company, The scope OF the patent
for which We have commended was sus-
tanned by the court. Justice Bradley in
behalf Of himself and Justices Field
and Harlan expressed an oral dissent
on the question of the fact concerning
Drawbaugh's priority of invention.
Otherwise the opinion expresses the
unanimous opinion of all the members
of it,"
1t appears that bills for the regulation
Of telephone rates have again been in
troduced but the result Of the Indiana
legislation bad been SO unsatisfactory to
subscribers that the directors hope that
no such measures will be adopted.
The long line service which has al
ready been extended from New York
to Albany and to Boston, total of $50
miles of pole lines and 10000 miles of
wire is to be still further increased by
the construction of lines westward from
Albany towards Buffalo and from Chi
cago to Milwaukee at an estimated cost
of 81 900 OU0
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
1T WAS A FAILURE.
Chicago's Cooperative Packing Concern
Goes Into a EeceiYer's Hands.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 29.-On Deem
Der +, 1856, representatives of the labor
unions of Cook County met and organ
lied the Chicago Cooperative Packing
and Provision Company, the intention
being to prove to the big packing
houses that their men were entitled to
more money for their work by
showing that it was labor and
not capital that earned the
profits. To-day the directors
of the company went into the superior
court and asked for receiver, an ac-
counting and an injunction. They say
that after the company YVES organized,
H. Jacobson secured control Of the bust
ness by virtue of his Offices as president
and manager. He continued to control
the business, they claim, until recently,
when the directors met and re-
solved to GUST him, selecting
Henry Larson in his stead. They
claim that Jacobson mismanaged the
business, squandered the funds and was
about to involve all of the stockholders
in law suit. Jacobson will therefore
be required to show what he has done
with the funds and a receiver will take
charge Of the company's affairs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
THE BIG MUDDY BOOMING.
Continued Rise in the Waters of the Mis-
souri, River.


from above Sioux city state that people
living opposite the month Of the Big
Sioux are leaving their homes because
of the encroachment of the waters of the
Missouri. A big gorge at Cottonwood
Hill, thirty miles above this city,
still holds, and is growing larg-
er and stronger every day. The
big fiat near jackson, D. T., is over
flowed to a depth of several feet, and
some stock has been lost DR.. Commit
returned from Elk Point and brings
news Of an overflow near Jefferson, D..
T., that has driven the settlers back
from the lowlands. The gorge there
still holds. Advices from Yankton say
that big gorge is forming near that
city. The river is running full above
Yankton
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
House.

MONDAY, March pa number of
bills were introduced, among them one
for the organization of the territory of
Alaska. District of Columbia business
occupied the balance of the session.
TUESDAY, March 27.-In the consider
alton morning hour the House took up
the Union Pacific Railroad funding
bill. Mr.. Cultivate co., chairman of
the committee on Pacific railroads,
opened the discussion of the measure,
which went over pending further de-
bate. The military academy appropria-
ton bill was taken up and passed. The
speaker laid before the House the fol-
lowing communication from the mar
shall of the United States supreme
court: Il am directed by the justices
of the supreme court of the
United States to inform you that
in accordance with the reso-
luton of the House of Repr esentatives.
ceremonies Of the late Chief Justice
Waite will be held in the hall of the
House of Representatives March g. at
noon. The members of the House and
Senate are respectfully invited to attend
on that OCCASION" The House adopted
the resolution of the committee on cleo
tions in the contested election case of
Worthington VS.. Post from the Tenth
Illinois District. The resolution con-
firms the right of Post, the sitting men,
Der.
THURSDAY, March 29.--The House went
into committee Of the whole to-day on
the Indian appropriation bill. The COM
mittee was addressed by Mr.. Nelson, of
Minnesota. Mr.. Enloe (Tenn) re-
ported adversely resolution calling
upon the postmaster-ge for in
formation. The resolution was after de-
bate tabled. The bill to prohibit aliens
from acquiring title to lands in the
United States was reported and placed
on the calendar.
FRIDAY, March 30.-The House took
up the bills granting a pension of $4,000
year to Mary S. Logan and increasing
the pension of Mrs. Blair, to $1,000
year, and passed them both The vote
on the former was l54 to 95 and on the
latter AS to 81. There was no session
of the Senate.
SATURDAY, March 31.-The Union Pa
cific funding bill was taken up in COM
mittee of the whole, and Mr.. Anderson,
of Iowa, addressed the committee. Mr.
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, also had
something to say. Pending discussion
the commits, rose. A bill was report
ed and placed on the calendar for the
erection of a public building at Saginaw,
Mich. Mr.. Blanchard reported the
river and harbor appropriation bill and
it was referred to the committee of the
whole.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Haunted by a Fire Demon.

There seems to be something super
natural about the very ordinary house
owned by Lewis Hildebrand and situat-
ed on Center Street, Freeport, Ill. For
over week he has been the victim of
the most mysterious fires which would
break out in all parts of the house in
the most inconceivable manner. The
walls, ceiling, floors, door and window
sills have all taken fire in this way, and
on several occasions the flames have
suddenly burst forth in the presence of
the family and neighbors. So far there
is no plausible explanation of the phe-
uOmona
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
BACK INTO SOUND SLEEP.
Herman Harms, the Utica Wonder,
Takes Another Nap.

UTICA, Mimi, March 3l.-Herman
Harms, the noted sleeper who has st-
tracted much attention by his prolonged
maps, has taken to his bed again. He
went to the fields to work on the after
noon of March %, and went to sleep at
his work. Not returning, his friends
searched for and found him sleeping
soundly. He was taken to his home and
has not made any movements since. tits
generally supposed that he is in swoon
from which he will not awaken soon.
He now sleeps more soundly than in
his former maps. One of his children
very mysteriously died on the 18th inst,
which is supposed to have caused the
second and more violent attack.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Killed His Fathers SLAYER

CARLINvILLE, H.. March 27.--The r.
was murdered by William Wine1 last
fall, last evening avenged the death of
his foster father. Dietz on his dying
bed told the boy never to rest until
he killed Winel. Meeting the man on
the street last evening, the youngster
coolly drew revolver and shot him in
the side, inficting fatal wound The
boy is in Jail. He is cool and self-pos-
sessed, and acknowledges that he shot
Winel because Dietz had told him to do
So
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Demands of Statesmen.

The statesmen of Pittsburg have pre-
sented resolutions to their employers,
asking that the stores be opened at 1880
o'clock A. NJ, and that on holidays they
be given the whole day instead of half
day as before. They also ask the firms
that. when hands are to be employed,
members of their assembly be given the
preference. It is said that the firms are
forming an alliance with the Union Pro-
tective Association, and will not concede
the demand of their employees. A strike
may rasult if the demands of the sales
men are not complied with.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
B0ULANGER CONVICTED.
The French Military Court Decides
Against the Noted General.

The French Military Court Decides
Against the Noted General.
PARIS, March 26.-The hearing before
the court of inquiry in the case of Gen.
Boulanger was held to-day. Counsel
for Gen. Boulanger occupied but ten
minutes in stating the defense. Gen.
Boulanger then departed for the resi-
dence Of M. Laguerre.
The court afterward gave its iudg-
ment, but the nature of the decision
will not be divulged until after it has
been submitted to President Carnot.
1t S reported that the court decided
against Gen. Boulanger. The cabinet
will discuss the decision tomorrow. A
crowd which had gathered cheered Gen.
Boulanger when he departed from the
court room on bis way to the house of
NJ. Laguerre.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Two Ministers Killed.

The Rev. Clayton Mumma, of Reading,
Pa, and Rev. John Corners, of Denver,
Lancaster County, while walking on the
railroad track, on the 1st inst, were
struck by an engine and killed. They
were watching another train and did not
see the approaching engine. Mr.. Con-
Mennonite church the same morning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Demolished by a Cyclone.

The town of Ninneseah, Kingman
nado. Only three houses remain stand
ing in the whole place. Two churches,
five stores and fifteen dwellings were
torn to pieces, and the flying timbers-
killed three persons and manned seven
teen others. The victims are: Killed
Mrs. J. C. Williams and infant; George
S. Hardesty. Injured-James Williams,
both legs broken and several bruises,
will probably die; Charles Gordon, in
jured in the back, supposed to be fatally
Injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04

quantity Of dynamite in the factory at
the time was very large, and as it all ex-
ploded together the noise and concus-
sion were frightful. The air was filed
in an instant with white cloud, which
almost instantly turned to dull gray
color, and after hanging over the ruins
for few seconds foated away slowly.
Then sticks and stones and ali manner
OF debris fell likes fierce shower OF hail.
q cyclone could not have made more
complete wreck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
BURIED MINERS.
Terrific Explosion in a Missouri Mine-Es-
cape Cut Off,

Terrific Explosion in Missouri Mine-Es-
cape Cut Off.
A dispatch of the 29th from Rich
Hill, Mo-, says: The mo st horrible
mine disaster that has ever occurred in
the West happened at noon to-
day in Keith u Perry's No. 6 mine,
and, as a result, large number of men
are entombed and thousands of dolla r
worth of property destroyed. Just
at the dinner hour, when the
men were ascending eight at a time
on the cage, terrific gas explosion oc-
Cured, filling every entry with flame
of fire which shot out of the shaft dis
lance of 900 feet. 1t cannot be ascer-
tanned tonight just how many men are
in the mine. At II o'clock tonight one
man had been taken out dead. The
work of removing the debris and clean
ing out the shaft had been going on all
the afternoon, but it will be several
hours before much can be done toward
entering the mine proper.
A later dispatch says: There were
about hundred men employed in the
mine but at the time of the explosion
only about thirty or forty men were in
the shaft. Attempts were at once made
to rescue the unfortunates and eight
miners had been brought to the top
dl1N0 Wu0u SSCOuu explosion occurred
at $3.50 O'Clock. at which time
Supt. George Sweeney and five miners
were in the shaft at work, all of whom
were more or less injured Many of the
miners were negroes, who came from
Springfield, Ill, when the mine was
opened less than year ago.
Rich Hill is located in Bates County,
about siXty-four miles south of Kansas
City, on the Missouri Pacific road. It is
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
MAY BECOME ANARCHISTS.
Mrs. Stanton's Threat on Behalf of tn
Women of America.


WASHINGTON, D. c., March 80. :
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's address,
yesterday afternoon, is the gen
eral topic here to-day. Mrs. Stan
toms exact words as reported at the
time were as follows: ''I have often
said to men of the present day that the
next generation Of women viii not
stand arguing with you as patiently
as we have for half a century.
The organizations Of labor all over the
country are holding out their hands to
women. The time is not far distant
when, if men do not do justice to wom-
en-, the women will strike hands with
labor, with Socialists, with Anarchists
and you will have the scenes of the
Revolution of France acted over again
in this republic"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Made a Fuu Confession.

At San Francisco on the 29th, in the
trial of Ferdinand Ciprico and E. A Nc
Lean, exclusion inspectors, who were
recently indicted with W. A. Boyd for
fraud in dealing in Chinese return
certificates, Boyd made full confession
in which he said that he and his fellow
conspirators usually sent out about 100
bogus return certificates by every steam
er. They were sold in China and the
money divided among Ciprico, Mclean,
Interpreter kipp, A. Hanz and himself
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
CHOLERA At NANTCCKET.
The Wrecked Steamer Canonbury Brings
the Disease to MSsSa chusetts.

the Disease to Ms.ssa chusetts.
NANTUCKET, Mass, March 30.-Robert
Williams, of North Wales, 81 years old,
one of the crew of the British steamer
Canonbury, which went ashore on this
island and sunk Wednesday afternoon,
died to-day He was i'll when
the wreck occurred. DIR. Kite, of
Nantucket, and DR.. Sharp, the latter
professor in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, examined the case and found the
symptoms of the mans disease were
those Of cholera. 1t was decided to
quarantine the entire crew of twenty
three men for time, and the old rail-
road station at Suriside has been assigned
as quarantine station.
BosToN, Mass, March 30.-The steam
er Canonbury, wrecked at Nantucket,
was valued at,Sl56, 600 and is total loss.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
Ayery's Heirs Defeated.

At Chicago on the 2Sth. a verdict for
SIS, 900 recovered by the heirs of Charles
A. Avery against the Royal Arcanum
was set aside by the appellate court on
the ground that Avery fraudulently con-
cealed from the medical examiner of
the society that he had cerebro spinal
meningitis and was subject to convul-
sions. Avery was member Of Allen
Council, of Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-04
FLOODS IN ALABAMA.
Many Railway Bridges Washed Away
and ALI Trains SuSDAnded.


MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 28.-The
train which left here for New Orleans
last night returned this morning and
was abandoned. The tresties over
Rocky and Panther Creeks are badly
damaged and impossible. The only
road open out of Montgomery is the
Louisville & Nashville. Specials to the
Advertiser to-day from all over Alabama
report tremendous rain fall and over
flow. The Coosa and Warrior River are
both booming. The Tennessee is up
and the overflow has damaged Musse1-
shoals Canal near Florence to the ex-
tent of 100000