San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-21
DALLAS LETTER.

CoiOred Department State Fair
Chapter of AcCidents-Camp
Meeting-Alliance Work.
From Our Regular Correspondent
DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 10.
To the LIGHT.
The catalogue of the colored de-
partment of our fair contains list of
premiums amounting to $4,000.
Heretofore the exhibit of the colored
folks has been q most creditable one,
their needle work being particularly
well done. Mrs. Sydney Smith has
in charge the Ladies' Department"
and solicits correspondence from
those desiring to exhibit. Catalogues
will be sent to all applying.
The passengers on Oak Cliff train
luckily escaped what might have
been horrible accident. The loco
motive and one of the coaches jumped
the track near the Oak Cliff park.
No one was hurt.
The picnickers had a royal good
time yesterday. An admission tee of
25 cents was collected at the gates;
within the gates everything was
free. After the "spread" the pro-
visions of various kinds W ere distrib-
uted among the Dallas poor. Roping
| of wild mules and riding same was
the most exciting sport of the day.
Mr.. r. n. Capers and his sister
were out driving; on bridge the
horse baked and backed, breaking
the ratings of the bridge, the occu-
pants of the buggy fell some fifteen or
/ 70 ka no Ill
Mr.. Caper's leg was broken, the
buggy smashed, the horse badly
bruised and skinned. The lady es-
csped injury, except few scratches.
Camp meeting at White Rock,
twelve miles from Dallas, is going on.
The Seventh Day Adventists are
| holding forth at Oak Cliff, and
preachers in city churches are call
ing sinners to repentance. ''Sin
| Killer" Griffin, colored, holds forth
| alternately in Dallas and Fort
Worth. Trinity river is going to be
navigated, for fact. Stock to I'll .
amount of $l5, 900 has been subscribed
to further the enterprise.
Last Friday morning young Ben
Stemmons met with severe accident
which resulted in his death that p. M
at 5 o'clock. He, with his fifteen
year-old brother and two other gen.
tlemen, were fishing with dynamite
in Five Mile creek, ten miles from
Dallas. One of the cartridges in his
hand exploded. AS soon as his COM
panions recovered from the shock
they had received they rushed to Mr..
| Stemmons who was some 20 feet dis
tant. His leg was broken, arm and
face blown all to pieces. After suffer-
two long hours the poor creature be-
| came unconscious, and then for three
hours he raved in a wild delirium,
when death came and his mangled
remains were brought to Dallas by
his sorrowing companions and
brother.
Saturday last a frail creature
hailing from Fort Worth committed
suicide at the American House on
Camp street.
Rylie Caldwell wanted to go to
Hutchins barbecue. He had no horse
bride or saddle, but that was no
draw back. He borrowed horse
without the knowledge of owner
bride and saddle, turned the horse
loose, sold the other and pocketed the
money. Rylie is in Jail.
Col. Jot Gunter went to San Anto-
MO to attend the Hogg convention,
on leaving the sleeper he made grab
for his valise, and got another mans
instead of his own; he Is willing to
exchange.
Mr.. Lingam OF San Antonio, is in
Dallas in the interest of the san An
| tonic fair.
A gen tleman from New Orleans
Is In the city trying to get the Dallas
man interested in the Lichtentag pro-
cess of making stone for street paw
ind and building purposes. The gen.
tleman hopes to meet with sufficient
encouragement to warrant establish
ing a plant in Dallas. If this manufac-
| tured stone is good for paving, "a
word to the wise" should be suffi-
| cient.
The executive committee of the
Alliaece have been kept busy since
their arrival here. The newspaper
fiends have tried in vain to inter-
view president Fields, but the nom
committee gentleman declines with
thanks, and refrains from expressing
his opinion in regard to the SUBJ
treasury bill or any other matter
| likely to come before the Alliance
| convention.
Rev. Edwin Wickens has returned
from his tour to Colorado.
Mrs. Olive B. Lee, of the Round
| Table" is again at her post after sew
eral months absence in the north.