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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Storm Results in Pennsylvania.

PITTsBURG, May 11.-Reports of
damage by last nights terrible storm
are coming in today from all points of
the Allegheny country and in fact
from nearly every place in eastern
Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
The loss however cannot be approx
mated at this time. Farms were
washed out, houses, fences and trees
along the banks of streams were
swept away and landslides occurred
on nearly every road leading out of
Pittsburg. So far but two deaths
from drowning have been reported.
Two children of Conrad Schaeffer,
aged 8 and 7 years, of Spring Garden,
north of Allegheny, were swept away
by the flood and their parents mar
rowly escaped the same fate. This
morning, East street and Madison
avenue, in Butchers Run district, are
complete wrecks, while mum berless
cross streets are completely
filled with debris. The cars
are lying on the tracks unable to
be moved and completely hemmed in
by rubbish. The water in the run
rose so fast, that residents feared a
repetition of the disaster of 1874,
when 200 lives were lost, and immedi-
ately made preparations to vacate the
premises. A large number of butch
ers are heavily damaged, their
slaughter houses ruined, while their
stocks of meat are destroyed. The
same tale of terror and destruction
comes from Saw Mill Run, Woods
Run, CHARTERS Valley, the west end
and south side of Pleasant Valley and
Lawrenceville district.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Fired His Pistol.

Geo. Wilson, night Waterman at
Col. Wright's building on Travis
Park, thought he would empty out
his old cap and ball pistol yesterday
evening about o'clock at the build
ing and put in new charges. This he
did, firing five shots into some cement
sacks. Detective Crawford, who was
at home near by, heard the shots and
thinking from 50 many shots there
was some trouble, ran breathless to
the spot and nearly broke his leg in a
fall on the way. When he found
what had occurred he arrested the
man for discharging fire arms in the
city limits contrary to ordinance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
A Drunken Deed.

Thos. F. Quin was found by some
parties last night drunk and asleep
across the railroad track at the
Southern Pacific crossing on Nolan
street. They picked him up, and just
in time, for freight train came
laundering by few minutes later.
He wanted to 60 back and lie down
again, and his captors then had to
telephone for the police, who arrested
him and took him out of danger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
MOrIu airy.

May 9-Clifford Collins, aged 45
years, hypertrophy of heart and asth-
ma. Ward 2, DR.. p. W.'Johns.
May 10-Melchora Hernandez, aged
% years, consumption, Ward 8, no
physician. Infant of Mrs .Podewlis,
stillborn, Ward s, Mrs. R. Reininger,
nurse. VIM. Blankenship, aged "A
years, cerebral hemorrhage. De-
ceased was brought to the Bexar
county poor house in an unconscious
condition and never awakened.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
A Word from Vox Populi.

Editor Daily Light.
Your remarks under the caption,
"Open Up or Shut Up," are timely,
and if the fair shall fail this autumn
the responsibility will rest, and rest
solely, on the city council. Had that
body given theNRapid Transit COM
pany an opportunity to build its two
proposed lines to the grounds three
months ago when asked for the work
would now be well under way and
there could be no doubt about the
question of transportation; and then
there would be no necessity for the
Arkansas Pass, nor any pretext for that
road, to run into the cen tire of the city.
The city council will reap it's harvest
in good measure for its folly before
this matter is done with, while the in
terests of the people suffer.
VOX POP.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Real Estate Sales.

Sarah f. Eager to Rose Williams.
lot T. block ,, original city lot 1906,
range t, district /; 500.
Augustine Morriset Mondran to Dan
Sullivan, lot 50 % varas on South
Alamo street, next to the Terrell pro-
perty; $1,000.
p. Gonzales and wife to Antonio
Monroy, lot 2, block 60, 20 varas front
on Castro street; $3.50.
Antonio Monroy to Nicasio Lugo
Vlna, the same property; $500.
ID. and G. w. Huth to Sophie Louisa
Huth. lots 9 aid 10 on west side of
Pereida street. g, 500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Three Greasers Cook a Man.

TUCSON. A. t., May LIT has been
definitely ascertained that Cady, who
was killed and roasted on a stove sew
eral days ago, the murder being
charged to Apache Indians, was kill
ed by three Mexicans who had quar-
relied with him during the day; he
was killed, roasted and mutilated.
Not single Indian has left the reser-
walton or was even in the neighbor-
hood,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
For the Little Orphans.

General Manager Yoakum, of the
Arkansas Pass railway, has invited
both the Catholic orphanages of the
city and the Protestant Orphanage to
free picnic over their road to River
side park. The Catholics have decid-
ed to hold their picnic on the 18th but
the Protestants have not yet set the
date for theirs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
French Weavers on a Strike.

PARIS, May II. - Ten thousand
weavers employed in the cotton fac
tories at Thisey, department. of the
Rhone have gone on strike. Fears
are entertained that the strike will
extend to Lyons.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Condition of Winter Wheat.

WAsHINGTON, May 1.-THE condi-
ton of winter wheat has advanced
from "a to SO. Offspring pasture, 96.6;
of moving lands, 96.3. Winter wheat
of the Ohio valley, while fully main
tanning it's average position, has had
a scant supply of moisture, aud fears
of future decline of its condition are
entertained.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11

President Goes Down the Potomac.
WAsHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-THE
president and party started down the
Potomac on the Dispatch this MORN
ing and will return Monday after
noon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Weather 6uIIeIIn.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 11.-Indi-
cations for eastern Texas: Light
rains, southerly winds, cooler in
northern portion, stationary temper
ature in southern portion.
For Arkansas: Rain, preceded IN
eastern portion by fair, slightly cooler
variable winds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
James D. Fish Released.

ALBANY, Y. Y, May Thames D.
Fish, ex-president of the Marine bank,
was released from prison this morning
and in company with his two daught-
ers started for New York. He is in
the best of health and refused to be
interviewed,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Struck a Woman.

Louis Hauser keeps small store on
South Presa street. He is now under
bond by Indictment from the grand
jury on the charge of making an
aggravated assault and battery with
a chair upon Mrs. Theresa Hauer,
for some trivial cause. Justice Nc
Allister heard the affidavit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Foreign Labor.

In the federal court this morning
argument on the demurrer of the de-
PENDANTS was being made in the case
of the United States VS.. the Rio
Grande and Eagle Pass Railway COM
pany, charged with unlawfully inn
porting foreign contract labor into the
United states.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
A JOllV Picnic.

The First Baptist church Sun
day school picnicers were a
jolly set, as they halted in
front of the LIGHT office this morning
for inspection. The procession con-
sisted CT seven wagons, six of them
loaded with children and teachers and
the seventh containing the commits
sary supplies. The wagons were
coupled like train of cars and an
eight-mule team was the motive
power. They were booked for River
side park, and formed a very attrac-
tive sight as they moved through the
streets. They looked. as though they
were out for a days fun and did not
intend to get left.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
LOBBYISTS

Whether on pleasure bent or bust
ness, should take on every trip bot
tie of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most
pleasantly and effectually on the kid
neys, liver and bowels, preventing
fevers, headaches and other forms of
sickness. For sale in SOC. and::S1 90
bottles by all leading druggists. 1y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Administrators Notice.

Having been appointed at the March term,
1889, of the probate court of BeXar county,
Texas administrator of the estate of p. n
Ward, deceased. notice is hereby given that al
persons having claims against said estate shall
present them within the time prescribed by
law. ID. SULLIVAN
deceased.
2. o. San Antonio, Texas. 5-9
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Explosion Of Fire Damp.

PITTsBURG. May 1.-THE mines of
the CHARTERS Block Coal company. at
Toms Run, a,few miles from CHARTERS,
were the scene of a terrific explosion
of fire damp this morning, resulting
in the instant death of four Hunga-
rian miners and great damage to the
miuaS
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Posted on Drinks.

The man who is posted on drinks.
always asks for the New xxx City
Pearl beer, and drinks no other.
There is no beer so good as this in the
market. stiff
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
ES AND STATE SPECIALS
Uo to the Time of Going to Press
The Pope is Ailing.

ROME, May 1.-THE pope is indis-
posed. His holiness is suffering from
the effect of the sirocco, which has
been prevailing for some days.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
"Never Had the Big Head"

The gentleman who made this re-
mark sat at table in one of our
principal saloons with glass of City
xxx Pearl beer in his hand. He
spoke by the card, for he spoke from
experience. He said he drank only
Pearl and used it as tonic with bet
ter effect than resulted from any
physicians prescription.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Grand Opening OF Muth's PavilIic n

Grand Opening OF Muth's PaviIIic n
Sunday, May Il. Grand vocal and in
strumental concert. First appearance
of Siegtield = braham, the English
and German comedian-the man with
100 faces. Miss Annie Schultz. the
great operate vocalist direct from New
York City. Mr.. Henry Messer, Ger
man comedian. Concert commences
at 1 p. M, and every night during the
weeF, except Mondays and Tuesdays,
at S O'clock. Admission free. Street
cars leave every five minutes until II
o'clock, without extra charge. 1t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Games Tomorrow.

Little Jokers VS.. Little DiXie's-At
the Springs.
Mackays VS.. San Antonio Picked
Nine-At the Mackay's grounds.
Young Blues VS.. Young JOkers-At
Stucke's.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Citv.Rill Distributor.

If you want your printed matter
we'll and judiciously distributed, en-
gage John G. Rivers; office at Rische's
Bottling Works, or at Washington
theatre. 4-23-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
Recorders Court.

Thos. Griffin, disorderly, S..
Geo. Wilson, discharging fire arms,
continued.
John F. Quin, drunk, So.
Florida Jones, theft over 500, trans
ferred.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11

Mr.. Joseph J. Hauck and Miss
Josephine Hutzler have secured a
license to marry, and the happy event
will be celebrated tonight at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, on La
vaea street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11

Are You Going to Europe?
Finest steamers; lowest rates; apply
to Olsen & Son, 4lG E. Houston st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11
When Thew ArriVa.

The Belknap Rifle team will be
back tomorrow evening at 1885. The
Maverick Rifles and the Belknap
company that staid at home will meet
them at the depot. Mr.. Claud
Wright, one of the reception commit
tee, has gone to Galveston TO meet
them and the others of the committee,
Messrs. Buckley, Everett and Simp-
son will meet them tomorrow at Ed
gar, seven miles this side of Yoakum.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-20
VEGETABLE BUTTER.
A Family of Plants Which Takes tn
Place of Cows in West Africa.

a Family of Plants Which Takes the
Place of Cows in West Africa.
Butter is the name given, in a
chemical sense, to all oleaginous SUBJ
stances which remain solid at tenn
perature of seventy-one to eighty-six
degrees Fahrenheit, For popular pur-
poses it is a misnomer, as all the fatty
matters included in the term could
hardly be used by modern housewives
even for culinary purposes. The
plants yielding the butter, although
not confined to one country, nor even
to one natural order, are nevertheless
more abundant in West Africa and
India than in other parts of the world,
and are mostly of the order Sapotaceae.
The BGSSiG Parbti, plant indigenous
10 West Africa, and which derives
It's specific name from the renowned
African traveller, Mungo Park, is
particularly rich in the product,
and is source of great utility and
profit to the natives. The fruit itself
when ripe is eaten by them, and is said
by travellers who have tasted it to be
not unpleasant. 1t is about the size of
large prune, rather sour, but other
wise of an excellent flavor.
The butter is obtained from the
seeds. The following is the manner
in which the fruit is collected and
treated: The crop commences at the
end of May and finishes during the last
days of September The women and
children go each day into the forests,
especially after storms and tornadoes,
and fetch large baskets or calabashes
to the village filled with fruit which
the wind has brought down. They
throw them into cylindrical holes, that
are found here and there in the Bam-
barra villages, even in the middle OF
the roads. Whilst in these
holes the fruits lose their flesh,
which rots off; they are left there dur
ing several months, sometimes for the
whole of the winter. The nuts are
then placed in a kind of vertical oven
a fire is kept up under them, and this
causes them to lose their moisture.
AS soon as they are dried, the shells
are broken, and the white kernel il
peeled, and then ground and made into
homogeneous mass. TT is theI
placed in water which j l. boiling.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-20
EYES OF MUMMIES.
The People of Peru Have Them Sat an
Wear Them as Ornaments.

The People of Peru Have Them Sat and
Wear Them as Ornaments.
A man called at the Philadelphia
Inquirer Office the other day with a
handful of what looked like dull red
dish golden eye-balls. They were of
various sizes. ''Dc you know what
these are?" said he. You will never
guess, nor do l believe there are many
persons who can tell you. They are
taken from the mummies of the Incas
of Peru. When l was stationed out
there some years ago, when in the
naval service, l got a whole lot of
them. The mummies were thrown up
and in some cases destroyed by seismic
commissions. There are thousands of
them about, particularly near
Arequipa. These that show you are
taken from the skulls, and are believed
to be the real eyes of the Incas, and
are respected as such. The women
wear them made up into necklaces,
scarf-pins, and other articles of jew
elry. As a matter of fact, however,
they are really the eyes of the octopus
or devil fish. They are thoroughly
dessiccated, or rather mummifed, by
the air, and were put in ages ago to
take the place of the natural eyes,
which the aborigines found would not
last in that climate In having them
set as a piece of jewelry you must be
very cautious. The workman in trim
ming them down must beware of get
ting any of the dust in any cut he may
have. If he does so blood poisoning is
sure to set in and the termination may
very likely be fatal.
by the way" continued the ex-
naval officer, "rll tell you a queer
thing that happened down there. l
have no doubt you -recollect the great
tidal wave of about twenty years ago.
The United States storeship Fredonia
was sunk and the man-of-war Wateree
lifted bodily and deposited several
miles inland, crossing a railroad in its
flight When it was proposed to get
her to the beach again the natives
wanted such an exorbitant sum for
cutting out about the railroad that the
scheme was abandoned. Some time
afterward another earthquake took
place which lifted the Wateree bodily.
carried her back over the railroad
tracks, and deposited her on the beach.
1t was found, however, that her condi-
ton was such that it would not pay to
do any thing with her, so she was left
to rot and be broken up by the inhab'
itants."
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-20
WELL WORTH KNOWING.
Ten Domestic Notes of More than Ordl-
nary Interest.

All housekeepers should know:
L. That salt will curdle new milk;
hence, in preparing milk porridge,
gravies, ETC., salt should not be added
until the dish is prepared
2. That clear boiling water will
remove tea stains and many fruit
stains. Pour the water through the
stain, and thus prevent its spreading
over the fabric.
3. That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from white cloth;
also from the hands.
4. That tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with white clothes will aid in
the whitening process.
5. That boiled starch is much i'm
proved by the addition of a little
sperm, salt or gum arabic dissolved.
6. That beeswax and salt will make
rusty flatirons as clean and smooth as
glass. Tie lump of wax in rag and
keep it for sthat purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with the
wax rag, then scOur with paper Or
cloth sprinkled with salt.
z. That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions and ap-
piled to the bedsteads is an unfailing
bedbug remedy, as coat of white
wash is for the walls of a Lighthouse.
s. That kerosene will soften boots
and shoes that have been hardened by
water, and render them as pliable as
new.
9. That kerosene will make tin tea
kettles as bright as new. Saturate
wooden rag and rub with it. 1t will
also remove stains from vanished
furniture.
10. That cool rain-water and soda
will remove machine grease from
washable fabrics. Sanitarium.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-20
When to Feed Livestock.

How often should animals be fed?
This is matter of Importance, as
feeding involves considerable labor.
AS rule, feeding quickly forms a
habit, and animals will become accus-
toned to whatever manner may
be adopted so long as the digestive
functions are not disturbed. Two
meals daily, at intervals of twelve
hours, are quite sufficient, and are
probably better for the animal, giving
the digestive organs full time for the
performance of their functions, than
three, at intervals of six hours in the
day and twelve hours in the night.
There is no doubt that any herd or
flock will thrive just as well with two
feeds IN the twenty-four hours as with
three in twelve hours and a twelve
hours fast American Dairyman.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-20
JEWELLERS IN ROCKS.
Lieutenant Schwatka Discovers Quee
People in Mexico.

People in Mexico.
All doubts as to the existence of the
cliff and cave jewellers, concerning
which there has been so much con-
troversy for many years, to say moth
ing of an expenditure from various
sources of over five hundred thousand
dollars in efforts to prove that the race
was extinct, have been set at rest.
Lieutenant Schwatka, the noted eX-
plorer, arrived here a few days ago.
During his trip he has made discover
les that in an archaeological sense are
important. His party has been sue
cessful beyond all expectations in their
explorations, and especially in South
western chihuahua. Here living cliff
and cave jewellers were found in great
abundance, and as wild as any OF the
Mexican tribes before the Cortes con-
quest. The abodes in which they live
are exactly similar to the old
abandoned cliff dwellings of Arizona
and New Mexico, concerning which
there has been so much speculation
and so much money spent in investi-
cation. 1t was almost impossible to
get near them so wild and timid were
they, being moreover exceedingly
frightened by armed white men. The
cliff jewellers of the Barranca Del
Cobre are most of them stark naked,
wearing only, as Schwatka says, ga
wild look and pair of rawhide san
dals." Upon the approach of white
men they fly to their caves or cliffs by
notched sticks placed against the face
of the cliffs if too steep, although they
can ascend vertical stone faces if there
are the slightest crevices for their
fingers or toes. At one point woman
entirely devoid of clothing, fed
to river bank upon being surprised
Being unable to cross she climbed a
notched stick twenty feet high, and
then assembled a perpendicular cliff
fully fifty feet high, the alternate hard
and soft strata, forming inches an inch
or two in depth, which she had utilized
in climbing. A flock of children, upon
being surprised, fed to the rocks and
low brush like so many quail. The
notched stick, or monkey ladder, lead
ing to the cliff dwellings, as seen in so
many places in the Sierra Madres,
may account for the cliff dwellings
in Arizona and New Mexico being
pronounced inaccessible, the sticks
having rolled away and left the
buildings unapproachable to the dis
coverers The cliff jewellers discov-
cred by Lieutenant Schwatka are sun
worshippers, throwing their newborn
children out in the full rays of the sun
on the day of their birth, and showing
by many other forms their devotion to
the great luminary. They are unusu-
ally tall and we'll formed, with skin of
blacklist red, very much nearer the
color of the negro than the copper
cOlored Indian of the United States.
From information secured it is esti-
mated that the cave and cliff jewellers
number from 10000 to $4,000. They
are armed only with horns, arrows and
stone hatchets. -Deming IN. NJ Let
fer