San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
LIGHT FLASHES.

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as available timber for mayor.
There will be business meeting
of the First Baptist church tonight.
Officer Brown has returned to
duty after temporary absence
through illness.
-Halff& Bro, are erecting three
story brick building at the northwest
corner of Navarro and Market streets.
Willie didn't turn up at business
this morning. Too much calling"
did it.
The San Antonio Singing and So
cial club plug hat brigade were out
calling yesterday in full force.
Mrs. Schramm, wife of the pro-
prIetor of a saloon on the east side of
Alamo plaza, died last night
There was a New Years dance at
Gambrinus hall, Market and Garden
streets, last night.
All the railway fIeight offices
We're closed yesterday and so were
nearly all the stores.
The additions to Odd Fellows
hall will be commenced Immediately.
The excavating has already been let.
"A call has been made upon Mr..
Joe Boelhauwe to run for alderman of
ward No. 5.
Western Union Telegraph office
in this city has reduced its rate for
messages 25 per cent.
1t is said that Mr.. J. p. Newcomb
will run for the position of alderman
in the fourth ward.
Rev. DR.. Howard, Baptist minis
ter of Austin, is coming to San Anto-
Mo to reside, it is said.
Marriage licenses: G. w. Saun-
ders and Ida Friedrich; S. E. Gillett
and Jennie l.. Barr.
John Fest, the we'll known mer-
chant on South Laredo street, died
this morning.
District court reconvened this
morning and set the grand jury to
work. Then the trial of BartolO Con
zales, for burglary was begun.
-Supers with fine looking legs are
in demand at the stage door of the
opera house. They were badly needed
last night.
On Monday night the Lotus Lodge
reelected its old officers for the ensu-
ing six months. The lodge could not
have made a better selection.
Albert Persch was afraid that
LIGHT man would require stimulat.
ing after his New Years eXertiOn, so
he sent him a bottle of No whiskey.
Thanks.
The thermometer registered the
mercury down to freezing point, 80
degrees this morning at o'clock.
This is the coolest of the season. A
heavy frost fell this morning before
day.
The first passenger car of the
Cross Town railway made short trip
over the partly completed line from the
brewery to Dallas avenue Monday
evening.
The bad condition of Laredo street
caused two hacks to break down there
this morning, and a suit for damages
against the city is the probable out
come of the mishaps.
The Alamo Glee club will give a
concert and hop at Muench's hall
Saturday night, January 9TH, the
net proceeds to be donated TO the
Second Baptist (cOlored) church.
Tickets % Genus.
Emil Krause, having spent the
New Year festive day in San Antonio,
has returned to his home in New
Braunfels.
A man who stole a box of tobacco
from A. b. Fauk's warehouse Monday
last, tried to sell it to Mr.. HIM, at
Gambrinus hall, for 81. Being sus-
pected by that gentleman, he LETT the
box and jumped the back fence.
Mr.. l.. /. Marx, local agent of the
New York Life Insurance company,
this morning received telegram of
generalization and thanks from the
head of his company in New York, for
the fine business he got them during
1855.
Ed Heusinger, a I3-year-oId San
Antonio boy, presented very clever
crayOn landscape of his own work to
Mr.. l.. Guerguin as new years gift.
The San Antonio boy gets there every
time.
Robert Becker has taken a posi-
ton as Pullman car conductor on the
Mexican National railway between
Laredo and the City of Mexico, and
left this morning to assume his new
duties.
w. r. Pollard was arrested for
stealing a slicker from Zawalsky's
store on the Military plaza. When
arrested he had the impudence to say
that he was FLIGHT" man, but that
of course is lie.
Last night Mr.. Archer, ex-man-
ager of the Morgan City Oyster COM
panY. was knocked down by rob