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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Light Flashes.

In the county commissioners court
this morning, the plans of the archi-
tects for the new county conrth 0use
were still undergoing examination.
Three more plans were examined this
morning.
"A meeting of the southern base
ball club will be held tonight.
The name of Mr.. Ben Ellinger, on
the committee in charge of the Mis-
sion Hose company picnic Sunday,
was omitted in yesterdays report of
the picnic, through mistake.
The boy named Kuntz who was
brought to the city from the Helotes
for medical treatment for a rattle
snake bite in the foot, is improving
and will recover.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
FEDERAL COURT.

Antonio CURE, convicted of showing
the queer" was sentenced to three years
at hard labor in the house Of correction
at Detroit, Mich, and pay fine of 81.
Rafael RamereZ, alias Juan Hernandez,
was sentenced TO two years confinement
at hard labor in the Detroit, Mich, house
ofcorrection, for having in his possession
and passing Counterfeit money, and also
pay fine OF 81.
Santos Lopez was sentenced to eight
months in the county Jail for smuggling.
The court thereupon adjourned 10 ten
o'clock tomorrow morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Florida Senatorship.

TALLAHASSEE, May 12.-That the
result of the contested election has
had depressing effect upon the Call
men cannot be denied, and the fur
ther fact that on the last two ballots
he received less than half of the en-
tire caucus vote adds to their discom-
future. The friends of Mays fully
recognize that they now occupy the
vantage ground and are not only con-
testing every foot Of the field, but are
making q bold and determined CAM
paign, with moro than half the Al
lance members in their ranks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
A Poor Guide for Youth.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, May 12.-Prof.
w. A. Miller, a Calhoun County
school teacher, was arrested in Gads-
den Monday for stealing q negro
woman's pocket book. He belongs
to q good family and his friends re.
fused to believe 1t. Rallying to his
relief, q crowd of them surrounded
him in q music store, where he was
awaiting to get his bond approved.
He was sitting on q piano stool and
was caught trying to slip the pocket.
book under the cover. His friends
fled and Miller is in Jail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Madam BlaVatsky.

NEW YORK, May 12.-W. Q. Judge
telegraphs from London: $50 many
rumors and statements having ap-
peared to the effect that Nine. II. P.
Blavatsky died three weeks ago, and
that the death was concealed until
yesterday, I beg to say that a cable
just received by me from the private
secretary of Nine. Blavatsky states
as follows: She died Friday. the Sth
of May, at 2:25 in the afternoon
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
For Train Wrecking.

HASTINGS, Neb., May l2.-John
Dor, alias John Grimes, tough look
ing tramp, was arrested today for
attempting to wreck q train four
miles east of Hastings, on the Kansas
division of the Union Pacific, last
evening. He was before the police
justice court this afternoon, waived
examination and was bound over to
the next term of the district court in
the sum of $1,000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
The Master Plumbers.

The third annual meeting of the
Master Plumbers association of this
state begins tomorrow in this city, at
Mission Garden hall. The first days
will be devoted to business, the re-
mainder of the time the members
will be in this city, will be devoted to
sight seeing and in drives about the
city. On Thursday night q fine ban
quet will be served. From Seventy
Ave to one hundred delegates are ex-
pected to attend.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
AND3STATE SPECIALS.
vPro THE TIMe:oF GOING TO PRESS
The Westinghouse settled.

PITTsBURG, Pa, May l2.-The af-
fairs of the Westinghouse Electric
company have been satisfactorily
settled. The negotiations for the
placing of the preferred stock have
been completed. Pittsburg parties
have taken $500, 900; Boston people,
81, 400, 900, and New York capitalists,
among them August Belmont, Jr.,
have promised to take the remaining
81 ,00O, 0C0.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
His Platform.

Next Saturday, May 10th, there is an
election in the Sixth ward for alderman.
Henry III. Hunt was, at the last election,
the nti-administration candidate and
today stands on the same platform, and
if elected he will do what he
can for the Sixth ward and the city at
large. King Bryan is doing all he can
against Mr.. Hunt for the well known
reason that he or no one else can bluff
him from doing what he thinks is right.
In the election of Mr.. Hunt there will be
one ward represented in this city. This
alderman won't say yes or no as the
king winks at city council meetings,
and for this reason King Bryan has his
candidates in the field to cut up the votes
i'm the Sixth ward in order to defeat Mr.:
Hunt. But il will be seen II the voters OF
this ward will let themselves be beaten by
his election trickery.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Fatal Accident.

ASHLAND, KY, May 12.-While
four workmen were engaged in dis
mantling the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, preparatory to re-
building, the ceiling and timbers fell,
precipitating the manager, J. B..
Stephenson, aged IS, killing him in
stantly, and fatally injuring the three
Cumbo brothers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
More Scared Than Hurt.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May II.
While the crowd was applauding the
remarks of President Harrison last
night from the balcony above, por-
ton of the porch below, which was
thronged with people pressing their
way into the parlor, gave way with a
crash and precipitated thirty men
and women into the area below, a
distance of s feet. A scene of great
confusion ensued. All wers soon res.
cued and no one found dangerously
injured.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12

Executive committee of State Press
association meets and adopts pro-
gramme at Corsicanna for the session
which opens today.
Admiral WALTON thinks large ocean
steamers should make detour and not
come too near New Foundland banks,
as it endangers the fisherfleet.
Cipher kilograms received at Mad
rid represent general panic IN Portu-
gal.
The Esmerelda, which conveys the
Itata, is of the same build and arma-
ment as the Chsrleston, aud fight be-
tween them would prove interesting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
In Ouod for the Sun.

TOPEKA, KS, May 1z.-The county
authorities have caused the arrest OF
C.L.Swartz, indicted by the grand jury
for circulating and corresponding for
the Kansas City Sunday Sun. Swartz
is printer by trade and has lately
been employed on q free.love sheet
printed here, and known as the Lu-
cifer,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
A Good Haul,

NEWCASTLE, Ind, May l2.-Wm.
Wrightman, living near Middletown,
who has kept several hundred bushels
Of wheat stored in mis- barn for q year,
while moving the wheat for market
found in the grain an old pocketbook
containing 81 500 in gold coin and
paper currency. How the money
came there is q mystery.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Does Not Want War

LONDON, May ia very uncom.
Portable feeling exists in England
over the prospect of another Boer
war, which may involve the disap-
pearance of Mr.. Goschen's surplus,
besides being very uncertain as to re-
suits,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
lrnn To England.

ADMISSION, Ala, May 12.-The first
iron ever shipped from Alabama to
England was forwarded from this
point. 1t was billed direct, and will
be used in making chilled rolls. The
Jeniber Iron Company has signed a
contract to turni. h a certain quantity
of iron per month to the same compa
ny receiving the Shipment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Roosevelt and Reform.

ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE Hon. The
odore Roosevelt, of New York, a
member of the United States Civil
Service Commission, will be here on
Monday, 18th instant, as the guest OF
the Missouri Civil Service Reform
Association. He will lecture on that
evening in the Memorial Hall on the
subject of civil service reform.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Both Drowned.

FORT SMITH, Ark, May 12.-Wal-
ger Murrell, prominent young mer'
Mooney went out driving, and in at.
tempting to ford swollen stream
were both drowned, together with
the horse they were driving. Murrell
was an expert swimmer, but lost his
life in trying to save his companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
The PapaI Consistory.

ROME, May 1.-THE Vatican has
written to Cardinal Vannutelli, num-
clio at Lisbon, announcing to him
that the consistory would take place
on May IS, and informing HIM that
he will be expected in Rome on this
date. 1t Is not, however, considered
likely that the consistory can be
ready at this date.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12

Sanitary Inspector Norman says
he did not recommend SHINING &
Co. to Col. Terrell, but only told him
only measured the vault down to the
night soil, and informed him OF the
legal rate for removing same.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12
Mallory Line Office, | Commerce St.
" J. y0UNG, Gent South'n Pass'r Agent.
An Old MiSer.

CAIRO, ILL.,. May l2.-Coleman Mat
thews, farmer, alleged to be 80 poor
that he could not keep up his farm,
revealed on his death bed that he
has $500 cash in an old hair trunk,
and $1,000 in bank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-12

DIR. Hicks has been called to
Shreveport, to attend his father, VINO
is seriously Ill.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Married the Family.

A story of Florida man who married
three wives from one family is going the
rounds as something remarkable, but
there was family in Maine consisting of
six girls, and of the six three married
men named Bickwell, three married to
the name of Young, one married Liver
more and one never was married. An
other paradoxical feature IS that there
were only five husbands in all. The ex-
Dlanation is that two Of the Bickwells
died, leaving widows, and Mr.. Young,
who had two OF the sisters before, took
one of the widows. Then MIR. Liver
more took the other. So that there
were seven weddings in the family, and
only five men and five women concerned
in them. Mr.. Young had lost one wife
before he began on this tamily.-Na"-
chester Union.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31

The Moscow correspondent OF the
London Neaos says: To-day l witnessed
the departure for Siberia of the first
batch of convicts this season. They
stood in marching column at the railway
station, surrounded by guard of about
100 soldiers with drawn swords. At the
head came the worst class Of convlcts,
about 800 in number, all having leg let
tiers and chains. Many had the right
half of the head shaved, an indication of
long-service sentences. Then came about
100 without letters, convicted or sus-
pected of lighter offenses, most of them
being without passports, and therefore
liable to punishment. Next follow about
100 women, some convicts and some
prisoners wives. 1t is pathetic to see
little children and some infants starting
on this long and terrible journey Of ex-
lie. The dress worn is gray, with yell
low diamond on the back. The by
! ISLANDERS threw money to them to enable
them to purchase comforts on the jour
| new
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
A. CHILD'S LAUGHTER.

Ali the bells Of heaven may ring,
All the birds Of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
J All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
rSweeter far than all things heard,
Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sound Of woods at sundawn stirred, -
yelling waters winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather.
One thing yet there is that none
Hearing ere its chime oe done
Knows not we'll the sweetest one
Heard of men beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light
Heard from the mornings rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills chiid's clear laughter.
Golden bells Of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours 50 blithe in tones so bold
As the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
If the golden crested wren
We're nlghtingale-why, then
Something seen and heard Of men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs a childof seven.
A. G. Stoinburne
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Caused by Excessive Rain.

The temporary trestle Of new Pan
Handle Railroad bridge across Cork's Run,
eight miles below Pitts5urg, Penn, was
washed away by sudden food shortly be-
fore noon the other day and three workmen
drowned. The body Of one was recovered and
identified as that of Thomas Coleman The
two others were foreigners.
About the same time an immense landslide
came down the hill below Duquesne Heights
and fell on a CHARTERS street car. The roof
was crushed in but none Of the passengers
were injured 1t had been raining bard since
IL O'Clock that night and considerable dam
age BY washouts and landslides was reported
ali along the lines-of the railroads.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
JACKSON IN BRONZE.
A Statue of the Confederate General
Unveiled ut Lexington, Va.

The statue erected to "Stonewall"
jackson, by the jackson Memorial
Association of Confederate Veterans
who served under the General, was
unveiled at Lexington, Va, on the thirtieth
anniversary of the first battle of Bull Run.
Ten thousand strangers gathered TO attend
the ceremonies and the quiet little village IN
which General Jackson spent the greater
mart of his life was unable to accommodate
them ALL though every house was thrown
open to them and every hospitable building
was filled.
The public buildings, business blocks and
private residences were handsomely decor
ated with National, State and Confederate
flags No less than 80, 900 eX-COnfederates
were in town, and probably not less than
900 OF the boys who wore the blue were
also there.
Upon the speakers stand were, among
others. General Wade Hampton, General
Fitz Lee, General Gusts Lee, General Eppa
Hunton, General Ransom, General Bradley
T. johnson and Governor Fleming, of West
Virginia, and staff. All these were seated
in a group surrounding General Early,
them sat Miss Mary Lee, dressed in white
and wearing a number of Confederate
badges: Miss Daisy Hampton. daughter of
General Wade Hampton, and Miss Lucy
Hill. daughter of General A. Z. Hill.
General Wade Hampton presided and by
his side sat Mrs Jackson dressed in black. In
her arms was her little granddaughter, J ulla
jackson Christian, attired III white and hold
ing her little brother, Thomas Jackson
Christian. by the hand Mr.. Christian, the
father, sat in the same 81 pup.
The Rev Dr. A. c. Hopkins, who was the
Chaplain Of the Stonewall Brigade, offered
prayer. A. VIII.
| Military Institute. recited three poems
''Stonewal JackSon's Way" over the
| opI C. n Battle
General Wade Hampton introduced Cen
eral Jubal A. Early, who spoke on the life,
character and military achievements Of Jack
son. From the college the spectators
marched to Jackson's tomb, when Juila
jackson Christian, granddaughter OF the
General, unveiled the bronze figure.
The SCULPTOR is 4 Nirginian, Edward V.
Valentine. who designe the Lee monument.
The statute is of bronze, heroic In size and
| Dortrays jackson with uncovered head,
| leaning on his sword and left leg
and looking out upon field OF battle In
| his right hand at his side is held glass.
| The figure is clad in the full uniform or a
! Confederate Lieutenant General, with the
| GOLD lace on the sleeves distinctly visible
| and with heavy military boots and spurs
The scabbard of the sword upon "nlch
the gauntletted left hand rests bears the
letters, UNITED States" a historical tac5,
own sword The statue proper measures
eight feet and surmounts granite pedestaL
ten and half feet high, consisting OF q
base course, die and capital: On one
face the die bears the inscription. I
jackson, 1S24-1863 On the other Ii
the single word ''Stonewan," the
sobriouet given Jackson by his chief,
General Lee Beneath the pedestal Il
a vault containing six sepulchre chambers,
surrounded by a circular grass plot, around
which is driveway with four approaches
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Canning Grabs.

a thriving industry at Hampton, Va,
is the canning of hard-shell crabs, which
was first begun in the year 1878. About
the LIST of April the season for these
crustaceans opens and continues until
June During that month and July the
crabs are found with spawn and unfit for
canning purposes. Then in August the
work begins anew and from that time
until about the LIST of November the
canneries are kept very busy.
The crabs are caught chiefly with trot
lines and nets. Beef tripe is used for
bait and each line is attended by one
man in light skitf The average daily
catch per man in Hampton Roads is from
sixty to seventy-ive dozen, although $50
dozen catches have been occasionally re-
ported.
Large boats go out every day and
| collect the crabs from the fishermen.
Upon arrival at the cannery the dead ones
and spawners are thrown away. The
others are placed in open slat-work cars
and conveyed to a wooden steamer hav-
ing capacity of $50 dozen into which a
car is rolled. Steam is then turned on
and the crabs cooked until they turn red,
when the car is rolled out and the con-
tents shoveled into baskets. These are
delivered to men technically termed
'.strippers, who remove the shells,
small claws and entrails. These men
pass the cleaned portions to force OF
women and children called ''pickers, "
who take out all the meat and place 1t ID
large pans. The large claws are crushed
and the meat deity extracted. AS these
pickers receive but from two to three
cents pound, it naturally follows that
they must be quick and agile workers.
The most rapid pickers can generally
prepare about twenty-five pounds day,
but the average is about sixteen pounds.
The hard parts and other refuse are
dumped into sheet-iron barrels, placed IN
scows and sold to the neighboring farm
ers for fertilizing purposes. The upper
shells, which the shippers remove, are
carefully cleaned and used as receptacles
for deviled crabs, being packed up and
sold with the cans containing the meat.
After being weighed, the crab-meaS Is
taken to the :'fillers," who pack it in
one and two-pound cans. Each pounC
can is estimated to contain the meat ex-
tracted from thirty eight crabs. In order
to prevent spelling in the cans, the con
tents must be very thoroughly cooked
and consequently after being sealed these
receptacles are placed in boiling water
for half an hour. Then they are taker
out and vented by piercing a small hol'
) in the top of each and Immediately re
sealed. After this they are given tina
hot water bath, in which they remain TO-
: two hours. Another process consists IL
, placing the cans in a strong solution o
chloride of lime water.
Upward of II, 100000 crabs are thu
, canned each season in the Hampton es
Establishments, and find a ready sale in al
parts of the United States.-Detro't IRE
preSS
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Eleven Killed by a Train.

The terrible accident that occurred on
recent morning on the line Of the Manches-
ter Ship Canal by which a train passing
along the railroad running near the canal fell
over the embankment near Liverpool, Eng
land, killing eleven men VINO We're Work sll
under the beading and injuring many other
workmen, was due to the fact that the
pointsman, boy seventeen years of age, mis-
took the points and turned a railroad train
consisting of twenty-five wagons loaded
with ballast, into siding leading into CUT
buffer at the end OF the cutting and toppled
over upon the men at work below the EN-,
bankment The bodies of the men killed
were horribly nlutilated.
The boy poinJsman ran away Wnen ne ga"
tho accident hut was captured later in the
dav and was charged with manslaughter.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
CnSter's Last Sword.

The sword which Custer used in his
campaign against the Indians, and which
he lost with his life at the battle of the
Little Big Horn, is now in the possession
of q Chicago man. Its battered blade Is
as flexible as whaleDone, and It looks as
though it had been through many a
hand to-hand encounter. 1t Is covered
with innumerable designs of drums,
6ars. cannons and other implements OF
warfare.-Indianal0lis Journal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Crime of a Mother.

Mrs. Maggie Kramer, the young wife OF
the boss of a Camden q. j. brewer, and her
six-months-old babe were found sticking IN
the mud near Poplar street in the Delaware
..arlv the other morning off Philadelph "a.
Both were dead. Mrs. Kramer was the
mother of five children and became insane
from brooding over the birth of her last
child.
1t was found that she had not only con-
mitted suicide. but that she might take the
babe with her she tiedit 10 her bosom with a
large handkerchief. made it fast with several
safety pins, and then jumped into the river.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31
Grasshoppers in New Jersey

The grasshoppers have made their appear
ance in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and
very serious damage has been done by them,
CROPS being ruined on many farms. The
country in the vicinity Of Middlebush has
suffered more than any other section, but
the insects are appearing elsewhere, and
their visits are worrying many farmers.
The farms at which the greatest damage
has been done in Middlebush are those of
Stewart Carriell, Miller Hoff, Aaron Plum
lev. the Mortimer Whitehead estate and
the poor-house farm. At each of these
crops have been destroyed to the
amount of 5000 or $3.50 while other
farms have suffered in a less degree. At
Mr.. Carrielrs the hoppers completely de-
stroyed an eleven-acre crop of hay, and did
great damage to vegetables and to standing
oats At the poor-nouse farm the nay ana
potato crops were DESTROYED, and the lnsecIS
are now attacking the corn
This is the first serious trouble the farmers
of this section have had with grasshoppers.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-31

passing, rushed forward 10 PICK up her
mangled body from the ha-Stoass. To his
amazement the child, seated on the smashed
remains OF window screen was cooinE AMI
laughing.
~ The little tot had carried ". Iii her this win
dow screen. which reach 81 the ground first
and broke the force Of her fall. 4 physician
was called, and after examination pro-
nounced the child TO be wholly fres from in
Jury