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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
PYTHIAN DAY.
To Be GloriousIy Celebrated at oul
Big Fair.

To Be Gloriously Celebrated at our
Big Fair.
The two lodges OF the knights of
Pythias in this city, Elk and Lotus
lodges, are doing all in their power
to give their visiting brethren of this
rapidly growing order in this state
and elsewhere, a grand time at the
fair in San Antonio this year. Com
mittee from the lodges have been APP
pointed and have waited upon Mana
ger Workman, OF the fair, for the APP.
poin tment of Knights ofPythias day.
He has set apart Tuesday, Nov. 18th,
as the day for the Knights and on
that day every Knight of Pythias who
happens to be in the city will be we'll
taken care of, never fear. Besides
free admission to the fair and every
thing the word hospitality implies,
transportation to and from the
grounds and about the city will be
free and other arrangements for the
proper entertainment of the guests of
the order are now being made.
There are 81 lodges in the state and
each and every member of these
lodges may consider themselves cor
! daily invited. All the railroads have
given reduced rates and the local
lodges will have not only reception
committee to meet each train coming
in, but will also have q committee on
public comfort added to these COM
mittees, to see that all are properly
and comfortably housed during their
stay here.
Besides a grand street parade in
which all the societies of San An to-
MO will be invited to Join on Knights
of Pythias day, there will be two or
three well prepared lectures in the
afternoon at the Grand opera house by
prominent Knights, a grand reception
and carriage ride to points of interest
about the city, a drill by Uniform
Rank, and a grand reception. All
members of Uniform Rank through
out the state are especially invited to
attend.
The committees of arrangements
are as follows:
Elk Lodge-T. w. Mullaly, chair
man; G. w. ShOff and J. d. Burnett.
Lotus LOdge-Dr. J. p. oldham,
chairman; G. B. Frank and Julius
Tengg.
Mr.. 7. w. MullaIy is busy sending
out invitations to all Knights in the
state, and says he feels confident that
500 knights may be expected.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
An UnluCky ParSOn.

MONTICELLO, Ills, Oct. 2l.-Rev. P.
Schlinkman, a prominent German
Lutheran preacher arrived here from
Richland. Ills, yesterday. He says
while at Vandalia, Ills, where he
changed cars, the barber that shaved
him invited him into a neigh boring
saloon to get a glass of beer. The
beer he thinks was drugged, as he
Immediately became insensible and
knew nothing until the next morning.
When he came too he was at the de-
pot but he had been robbed. He was
in a nearly demented condition when
he arrived here, where he was to
preach.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
PRO MlNENT PEOPLE.

Sir Lyon and Lady Playfair are
visiting in Boston.
Abraham and Irving Garfield are
Williams freshmen.
Admiral Porter leaves Newport for
Washington today.
James Whitcomb Riley has recov-
cred sufficiently to 60 to New York.
Miss Emma Juch, the singer, is reg
istered at the Parker house, Boston.
Gen. Robert G. Schenck, of Ohio,
was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York, yesterday.
Labouchere is pointed out as the
probable successor of Mr.. Gladstone
in the leadership of the English Lib
erals.
The late king of Bavaria left debts
which Will be paid off at the rate of
S275, 900 year. The last payment
will be made in 1905.
Brown University alumni will give
a testimonial dinner to President An
drews on the evening of October 30th
at Providence.
James G. Blaine, jr.. has returned
w w dOCl NlIlO, Vhc.
in the machine shops of the Maine
Central railroad.
Stanley's latest movements in Afri-
ca are said to be intimately connected
with a large ivory speculation, in
which he is interested.
The youngest bank president in the
country is probably Abraham Levi,
who directs the affairs of the bank of
Manning, S. G. He Is twenty-six
years old.
NJ. Osiris, who gave the prize of
1907 900 francs for the most useful
work in the exhibition, has q mania
for statues and proposes to erect many
in Paris.
Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Booth, who was
elected one of the secretaries of the
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
last week at a salary of S., 900, has re-
fused the office, preferring to remain
with his church in EnglewoOd.
Pierrepont Edwards, who has just
spent a year abroad, has just returned
to his home, bringing with him a
choice collection of rare prints and
curious old editions of valuable books.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
Mine Explosion in the Territory.

ST.NLoUIs, October 21.-A disas-
trous explosion occurred Saturday in
the coal mine at Bryant switch, on
the San Francisco railroad in the
Choctaw nation. A miners lamp
came into contact with keg of pow
der, the explosion of the powder
caused the explosion of coal dust
which set the mine on fire. Sixteen
men were in the mine, the shaft of
which is 500 feet deep, The work of
rescuing the unfortunates was COM
pleted at dark last evening. All of
them were taken out more or less in
jured, four horribly burned, and at
last accounts not expected to recover.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
A Lynching inquiry

CHEYENNE, Oct. 21.-The Carson
county grand jury, which has been
investigating the lynching of Jim
Averill and Ella Watson adjourned
Saturday until the 9th instant with
out returning indictments against
those accused of the lynching. The
only witness to the lynching, young
man named Buchanan, has forfeited
his bail and disappeared The men
accused of lynching are wealthy
cattle owners and rapchmen whose
herds had been robbed by Averill and
the Watson woman.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
The Cronin Complexities.

CHICAGO, Oct, 21.-The morning
News says Yesterday afternoon, a
young Englishman from South Chica-
60, called at the states attorneys
Office. He wanted to see Judge Long
necker and wanted to see him badly.
To the deputy sheriff on duty, the
man gave his name as James B. Harm
range. a mason. He was accompanied
by his wife, who wept aud attempted
to disuade him from telling what he
knew. Judge Longnecker was not
present and the man would not COM
municate his story to the reporter.
He claimed to be in possession of
information that would expose
the conspiracy which resulted
in Cronin's death. care you men,
Der of Clan-na-Gael, camp %" asked
the reporter. "No, sir, 1 am not a
Clan-na-Gael man, nor am connect
ed with any of them. I am an Eng
lishman and a Free Mason" do
you connect the Free Masons with
the conspiracy" "That's just what
l do. The English branch of it. [
was sent here on a certain mission by
the Free Masons, but once here, I
have refused to do as l was hidden.
[ am in possession of the essential
facts in the plot from the very begin
ming. II was in an English lodge
that the scheme was first cOncOcted
and if Longenecker wants my story
he can have it,"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
The Suffering Corored Brother.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.-The colored peo-
pie of this city filled to overlooking
yesterday, the different churches
they attend, and passed the day in
fasting and prayer. The colored pas
tors preached sermons and prayed for
the power of the Almighty to relieve
the colored people of the south from
oppression and wrong. Yesterday
was the day set apart by the recent
convention of colOred clergymen at
indianapolis, for prayer and supplica-
cation on behalf of the suffering ne
grOes in the south.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
Let Them Come to Texas.

ST. PAUL, MIMI, Oct. al. B. Rea,
of Miles City, Mont, a member of the
Montana Legislature, who is in the
city, says: "In western Montana the
grass is literally withered away for
want of rain. Many thousand head
of cattle have starved to death for
want of grass, and are famished for
water. Ranchmen in that part of the
state are paying $40 and S25 for ton
of hay, and in a week or two it will be
impossible to get at any price. Water
is being hauled IN some cases twenty
miles, and several ranchmen have
made preparations to 90 farther west.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
State News Condensed.

Giddings' building boom grows.
Trade is brisk at Palestine.
The Texas stenographic association
is meeting in Dallas. .--.-.
Miami has had. five days of steady
rain. ..y,... ,..x
Cooper farmers are busy gathering
their crops.
The La Grange Waterworks and
Electric Light company is organized.
An electric light plant is contemp-
lated for Baird.
Giddings farmers have gathered
two-thirds of their crop.
The freight discrimination has been
removed from Eagle Pass.
The Ell Paso National bank will
open in Paso del Norte.
The proceeds of a supper given by
the Ladies Aid society at BeeVllle
were about $l20.
Two British steamers ground
while trying to cross the Galveston
bar.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Texas Press ASSOCIATION was
held in Dallas Saturday.
The decOmposed body of an un-
known man is found in the weeds of
a vacant lot in Houston.
Reports from some portions of the
state are that corn is so plentiful as to
be unsaleable.
The Texas Base Ball League met at
Dallas last Saturday, and salaries
were fixed and officers elected.
Large tracts of land have recently
been sold in Bee county by pasture
owners to farmers.
Saturday was children's day at the
Dallas fair. There was a tremendous
crowd of people on the grounds. Fort
Worth sent the largest delegation.
The Sweden borgian convention met
in Dallas last Saturday. President,
vicepresident and secretary were
elected. ....ssr1,s.s.aza
The Hopkins county wool growers
association sold $50, 900 pounds of wool
last week at % cents. They Vera
fancy woods.
The son of Col. Parrot, of Waco, is
very seriously injured by his pony
rearing up, falling over and crushing
lis CilSSG'
Fire at Honey Grove partly destroy
ed building occupied by the Pacific
Express company and a milliner and
confectioner.
The farmhouse of Mrs. McCathen,
living seven miles from Palestine is
destroyed by fire, with a stable, crib
and lot Of fodder.
j. w. Brown, conductor ON a special
to the Dallas fair, was shot, through
the heart on his train at Sherman by
tramp whom he told to get off the
train.
Mrs. H. NJ. King, the widow of Capt.
Richard King, the "cattle queen of
Texas" has over 100, 900 head of cattle
besides horses, mules and sheep. Her
Cameron county pasture S 40 miles
square.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
NaturaIGaS Struck.

CHICAGO, October 2l.-A vein of
natural gas was opened yesterday by
two workmen, engaged in sinking
the shaft at the intermediate cassion
of the new tunnel, about two miles
out in the lake. The gas ignited by
lamps in the workmen's hats. There
were five men at work in the shaft
all of them seriously burned. The
injured workmen were finally rescued
and sent ashore on tug boat and
then to their homes in carriages.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
Telegraphic Brevities.

The st. Louis exposition has closed.
leroi are on a strike.
Naples has been partially inundat-
ed by violent storms.
The Servian skuptschina has formal
ly opened.
A German steamer recently wrecked
in the Red Sea was looted by Arabs.
India rubber trees are to be planted
in the state of Oajaca, Mexico.
A great many small lncendiary fires
have lately occurred in Kansas City.
Lord Salisbury has returned to Lon
don in better health. The British
cabinet meets today.
The Italian government refuses to
receive the ambassador to Italy which
the Porte wishes TO send.
Count Dillon says he never was Oh
more affectiOnate terms with General
Boulanger than at present.
Emperor Francis Joseph assents to
the demands of the Hungarian cabinet
regarding the army.
The report that the governor of
MED.
While Prince Wilhelm, of Wurtem-
burg, was driving to church, he was
fired at, but fortunately was not hurt.
Queen Victoria telegraphed a mes
sage of coincidence to the son of the
deceased King of Portugal.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Count Okuma, japanese minister Of
foreign affairs.
The King of Portugal died October
10. His eldist son, the duke of Brag-
ANA succeeds him.
The returns of the Spanish cleo
tions indicate strong government
majority.
The pope has given an audience 10
party of French pilgrims. He is
very feeble.
Yesterday, Sunday, the Pan-Amer-
lean eXcursionists, fairly worn out
with sight seeing and feasting, took a
much needed rest.
The miners refuse to descend the
Bentole colliery in Staffordshire, on
account of the stencil arising from
the dead bodies of the victims and
their horses.
Eighty chiefs have recognized the
authority of the Congo state and will
assist in suppressiEg human slaUgh-
ter there.
The second game in the worlds
championship serious was played in
Brooklyn before crowd of 1G, 172
persons. The score was ) to / in
favor of New York.
Cincinnati has a baby giraffe, born
at the Zoo, in that city. 1t is nearly
five and a half feet high and weighs
about 80 pounds.
The desire of the Canadian govern
ment to establish u fast steamship
line between there and Europe, seems
to be frustrated at present.
Mr.. August Belmont has secured
Anthony Hamilton, the most success
full Jockey of the season of 1859 to ride
for him during the season of 1890.
The Tooth anniversary of the adop-
ton bv North Carolina Of the consti-
tion of the United States will be OBJ
served November 81.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
Coming Home.

a telegram was received this morn
ing by Mr.. Leopold Guerguin, an
nOuncing the safe arrival in New
York of his father, Alderman Guer-
gum and his family, on the steamer
Gascogne. They will remain in New
York a few days and will be home
next Sunday or Monday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21

Henrik Ihsen, the Norwegian dram
atist, is sixty-One years old. He is
man of rude features, with piercing
eyes and firm mouth. His beard is
white and his hair tumbles over his
head in a way that suggests the need
of a barber.
emperor William of Germany is
much dispIeased with the models
submitted to him for a monument of
his grandfather, William I. He has
said that not one of them deserves a
prize. Many of the most famous
sculptors in Germany refused to COM
pete, claiming that the prizes were
too small a reward for the labor re-
quired in the preparation of models.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
He has DeCamned.

TUCSON, Ariz., October 2l.-George
III. Stevens, treasurer of the peniten-
tiary board has decamped. He is
over $4,000 short in his accounts. Dill
igent inquiries for two weeks have
failed to discover his where's bouts.
When last heard from he was at Ia
coma, Washington Territory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
PRESS DISPATCH
ES AND STATE SPECIALS
Up to the Time of Going to Press.
Weather Bulletin.

Weather Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, October 21.-Fore-
casts for Eastern Texas: Fair, slight
ly warmer, winds becoming southeas-
terly. For Arkansas: Fair, southeast
erIy winds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21
Wapted TO Rent :

a house from to rooms near
Main or Alamo plaza by a good ten
ant. Address Box "X," Light office.
1921 st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-21

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 21.-Rev.
w. B. Johnson, colored, OF the second
Baptist church, preached a sermon
here yesterday in which he
Iikened the negro to Sampson,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
THE RIVAL MOTORS.

While Pittsburg is extending its system Of
traction street railways other cities are de-
veloping, to a considerable extent, systems
of electric transit. Our community was one
of the pioneers in the early experiments in
the electric line. and some of the primitive
efforts have developed into the electric
roads which will soon connect Pittsburg
with Allegheny and its northern suburbs.
Nevertheless it is an interesting illustration
of the different ways in which the same SUBJ
ject may be looked at by practical men.
that while Pittsburg is tending away from
the electric method of propulsion other cities
are strongly setting in its direction.
Cleveland has put in successful operation
an electric line on what was previously its
principal street railway line, and the results
of experience on that line have led to a
general adoption of electric cars on all the
street railroads of that city. In New York
the storage battery system has been under
experiment for several months, and news
paper reports credit it with great success.
1t is a conceded point that if electrical
roads can be operated with the same prac-
teal success and anything like parity Of
expense with the cable roads, the much
smaller amount of capital required for them
will insure their success. The hills which
most of our street car lines are required to
surmount may make factor largely in
creasing the cost of producing adequate
electric power for this purpose. With due
allowance for this difference, it is still a
singular feature of the times that while
other cities are largely going into electric
lines, Pittsburg is largely going into the
traction system.
The respective wisdom of the two policies
can only be determined after years of ex-
perienee, b ut Pittsburg can at least lay this
consideration to her credit, that she has a
system whose utility is demonstrated be-
yond question. Even if electricity should
in the future prove to be the superior and
most economical motive power, our city
will possess roadways and conduits that are
adaptable to electricity and superior in
solidity to those of the ordinary electric
roads
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

French school has not. The essence of his
contention is that the English idea, because
it is generally speaking moral, is lower than
the Partisan ideal, which is artistic.
Setting aside the question as Mr.. Hamer-
ton asks and answers IL, we may pause to
inquire whether after all it is not gain to
art to be allied to the pure and truthful?
Mr.. Hamerton would have us believe that
it is not Evidently he believes that the
products of the Partisan ateliers are i'm
measureably superior to the work of En-
glish artists, and why? Because they are
devoid of morality, because they are not
pervaded with passionate affection for ma
ture, and because they are altogether, so
Mr. Hamerton says, of the kingdom of art
In a word this critic exalts paganism
as a roof to the temple of art, Morality is
a dreadful thing to him-to be kept out OF
the artists studio, out of his heart, his i'm
agination, his palette, at all hazards. Poor
moralityl Mr.. Hamerton and his friends Of
Paris are doing their best to warn their
brethren all over the world of your terrible
attributes The truly artistic Parisians
have cast her from them and she is supposed
to have fallen like Lucifer to rise no more.
All the same we shall be surprised if she
does not find a home still in England and
the United States. We have not learned
yet 10 regard morality as a certain unmen-
tionable potentate of the neither world is
said to look on holy water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
RATHER LATE FOR RELIEF.

To the public generally-to those who put
money in rival telephone enterprises only to
be enjoined, particularly-the news that the
Government now feels pretty confident OF
having good case against the Bell monop-
oily comes tinged with an autumn melan-
choly. The Bell people have had control Of
the market until the patent is nearly run
out They have got the courts to shut up
every other company. Every city has its
"reminiscences of other telephone enterprises
upon which the strong and asphyxiating
hand of the law was laid as soon as started.
The Bell Company also has watered its
stock indefinitely and levied charges on the
public to the extent the directors pleased.
The "hello" service in places and at times
has been as exasperatingly Indifferent to GUS
toners needs as monopoly service of any
sort is apt to become on occasions. What
poor comfort can now be extracted from the
intimation that the Government thinks ii
has sure case against the Bell concern on
the ground of fraud in getting the patent,
must surely smack Of irony.
This view is not lessened by the added
statement that it is by establishing the
priority of the telephone of Daniel Draw
baugh that the Government hopes to succeed.
This is the same inventor who was hustled
out of court when he originally contested
for the honor 13 years ago. 1t is late
recompense that is promised.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
New York Ciry,s Generosity.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Hold the Worlds Fair OF 1892 in New York
City2 Certainly. All alone and unassisted, its
citizens have succeeded in raising the stupend-
Gus sum of about SO, 600 to defray the expenses
of the Fair; they have graciously decided to
allow Congress to pay the balance and have re-
fused to allow the buildings to be erected in
Central Park for fear the grass will be spoiled.
Such unexampled generosity should not go un-
rewarded.
If these reasons are not entirely sufficient, a
glance at the citys past record will at once dis
pei any faint lingering doubt which we might
entertain in regard to her capacity to take care
of and make success of the Fair. 1t shows she
has always been of the same unselhsh and
liberal disposition. How quickly was raised the
necessary funds to build a monument to Gen
eral Grant; what excellent care she Is now
taking of his tomb!
With what unselfishness New York under
took to build pedestal on which to erect the
Goddess of Liberty statue, an" with what
sweet assurance and unexampled GOODNESS she
asked the citizens.o the United States to pay
for 1t; meanwhile claiming the entire credit.
How pressingly the metropolis invited the
Pennsylvania State troops to take part in the
Washington centennial parade, and with what
kind hospitality, when they accepted and came,
she told them to lodge and board themselves
or starve! What great managers lew orkers
have shown themselves to be! What grand
success the Washington centennial ball was
and with what great propristy it was con-
ductedl
What honest and incorruptible Judges and
officials that city possesses! How can we
conscientiously refuse her cool and modest re-
guest? By all means give the tair to New
asks for it. Don CARLOS.
PITTsBURe, September 8.