San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-12
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. s, 1891

Bauman u 20 WHOLESALE anu reUall
milliners, doing business in Fort
Worth and Dallas, made an assign
ment last evening. 1t is said Bau-
man & Co. did the largest millinery
business in Texas.
Notwithstanding the long drouth,
we are reliably informed that the
past was good crop season In and
around Dallas county. And never
were crops so easily harvested, and
why these"hard times"we cannot see.
1t is kind of chronic complaint, that
goes from one to another. The Girls
by's have won. We loose our home,
with thousands of others. IL is really
lizard times" with us. We will trust
in the Lord hereafter to provide
another. We have lost it, and
than others stand their prosper
ity. We have drawn all breath
sober since the jury returned YER
dict in favor of the plaintiff, while
some not sin the SOUP" have scarce
ly drawn sober one. We would
like to know the use OF jury-twelve
men sworn to do their duty-when
the judge says, in his charge to same
return verdict pro or con" as he
desires the casce to be decided. We
inquire why not let the people con-
stitute both judge and jury?
The rustling Dallas reporter learns
that Mr.. Speaker Crisp's father, who
was an actor OF repute, died at the old
Crutchfield house in this city in 1875,
and that Hon. Chas. F. Tucker was
one of the pail bearers. He is, or
was, buried in the old Masonic ceme-
terry, but his grave cannot be found.
II may be that his bones have, with
those of many others, been trans.
planted to the Trinity cemetery.
Some two years it was decided to have
all except the graves of the Masons
removed, and the old grave yard
fence was decsyed and gone, except
that around the portion set apart for
the Masons, till some one shamed the
city, when 1t was replaced by a new
fence.
Chief of Police here received tele-
gram from Chief of Police at Fairview,
Wash, to the effect that D. 81. Long,
formerly of Dallas, had murdered his
wife and son-in law. The wife of the
murdered man telegraphed for her
uncle, Jas. Russell, who resides in
this country to come to her at once.
Nothing can be learned rs to what
lead to the killing.
In the office of Simpson & Huffman
their book keeper, r. n. Tonge sent
bullet whizzipg through his brain
that sent his soul to the great
beyond. When found yesterday
morning he was cold In death, a As
calibre lying beside him. On the
table was note saying "the pistol
belongs to Hama. God have mercy on
my SOUL" No signature was affixed.
His accounts were o. k. No crease n
is known as to why he took his life,
but it is supposed by those who were
closely associated with him that he
had some domestic trouble that
preyed heavily upon his mind. He
was sixty years old and had been in
in the employ of Simpson & Huffman
for year, prior to which time he had
been book-keeper for White & Co.,
cotton buyers.
The decision of the court of appeals
in the case of A. G. Rogers, the
ravisher of the little nine year Rhoda
Dexter, sustains the finding of the
lower courts, and Rogers must hang.
He still protests his innocence.
Sheriff Lewis says he will not finch
from his duty should the job of hang
ing fall on him.
A little boy found an old tin box
which he took in the house to his
mother, she examined it but could
not open it. The boy got an ak to
force it open. An explosion followed
and it como near being the last of
that boy. A doctor dressed the little
fellows gashed and bruised face.
John Van VIE, an old resident and
hard drinker, died in his room, on
Elm street, last Saturday. Van VIE
was formerly in the grocery business,
was 40 years old.
At the residence OF DR.. Lewis, Jno,
]. Ford, well digger, lost his life by
the dirt caving In on him.
M. V. Chapman, who was shot by
Geo. Bachelor, died in his room at the
Windsor Hotel. His mother and stem
father, Mr.. and Mrs. Lang, of Ferris.
were with him when his spirit took
its flight. His remains were taken to
Ennis for burial. Bachelors bail was
placed at $4,000, signed by his father
and brothers. A woman was the
cause of the killing.
Mr.. A. J. Williams, aged 76 years,
was found dead at the rear of a store
in Oak Cliff, where one of his sons
clerked. Mr.. Williams had been WIS.,
itiDg his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Rodgers,
who lives in Whitney, Texas. His
return was not known till the porter
found his remains. The corpse
showed evidence of having come to
its death through accident; a deep
bruise over the eye, two holes cut
through the lip and both legs badly
bruised. The only solution is thar In
attempting to get off the Oak Cliff
train, while in motion, he fell and