San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-22
RATIFIED OFF THE RAILS.
Talked by Telegraph, Told by Train
Men and Taken in Transit

General Manager Kruttsnichtt
came in from the west, in a special,
at six o'clock last afternoon.
A car of hogs and one of full blood
ed Holstein cattle passed oyer the 1.
d Ct. N. yesterday tor the City OF
Mexico, via Laredo.
John Gielke, stock yard foreman at
the L. & G.. N. is laid up with q bad
cold and Chief Clerk Barrett played
high muck-a-muck around the stock
pens yesterday.
Conductor Con. Roberts, of the s. A.
p, on the run between Corpus and
Rockport, we'll known here, has gone
to Mobile, Ala, to be married there.
A circular issued by the New Eng.
land car company, under date of Jan.
Is, 1891, announces that Mr.. l.. d.
Voak has been created superint tend
ent of that company, with headquar-
tiers at st. Louis.
The residents along the G. M. & St.
z. road in Iowa sympathize with the
striking operators and agents, to the
extent of Withdrawing their patron.
age from the road and refusing to
supply the new men who have taken
the strikers places with food.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Pacific railroad loses q suit in the
district court at Shreveport, La, in
stituted against il by the district
attorney for not posting bulletins of
the arrival and departure of trains.
The U. s. supreme court up
holds the injunction granted to
the city of ST. Louis and
the st. Louis, Kansas City and Col
Orado railroad restraining the Wa.
bash Pacific from preventing the
former road from using the track of
the latter road, through Forrest Park
to the Union depot In st. Louis.
A new time table issued by the
Pecos Valley company shows the
following stations open for business:
Pecos, Brant, Lucerne, Lomena, Riv-
erton, Hagerstown, Murray, Red
Bluff, Kirkwell, Francis and Eddy.
The distance from Pecos to Eddy is
shown to be 1913 miles.
The LIGHT has received al invita-
ton to attend the eighth anniversary
ball and banquet of the David Crock
EFT lodge of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen, to occur atss Casino
hall.
TheBrotherhood of LocomotiveFire
men of Yoakum have kindly remem-
bered the LIGHT with an invitation
to their second annual ball to be
given in YOakum Thursday eve, Jan.
Goth. The ball promises to prove a
great affair, as have proven all of the
balls given by this order.
A circular has been issued, creating
Mr.. E. s. Davidson travelling
passenger agent of the Erie Railway
System, comprising the New York,
Lake Erid and Western r. r., New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio r. R.
Chicago Erie r. R., Buffalo and Soul b
Western r. r., Tioga r. r., and the
N. Y, L. E. and Western Coal and
r. r. with 2053 miles of road. his
headquarters are at Kansas City. Mo.
The Raymond Whitcomb excursion
No. 3, which left Boston Jan. 18th
and comes through Texas via New
Orleans, will come in tomorrow morn
ing at seven O'Clock over the Southern
Pacific. The excursion train, which
will consist of ten elegant vesti-
buIe sleepers and two baggage
cars, comes in under the charge OF
Conductor Reed. While here, the
party separates, portion going tc
the City of Mexico, and the balance to
California. Those going to Mexico
leave here the same noon at l:
o'clock, giving them but five hours
stay in this city. Those who go tt
California, can remain longer, as they
leave here at IL o'clock midnight.
Capt. Bill Davis, the we'll known
old railroad man Is in the city, hav
ing returned from the business cen
ters, of the north and east where b,
had gone In company of the presiden
of the Corpus Christi and Browns
Vile railw ~ to purchase rolling stool
| for the road. Capt. Davis who ii
erintendent OF the proposed line
says that twenty miles of road hav,
been built. He has bought eight
eight wheel engins, as he does not
believe in the ten wheelers.
News has just reached this cit,
that Louis DE Ham, prominen
| young engineer, well known here
who takes passenger run on tn
Mexican National, has died of injurie
sustained in a wreck at Golondrinas
Station, eighty miles from Laredo, or
the Mexican National. 1t appear
that DE Hams train was pullin,
along at good speed when he no
ticed, but too late, that the switch
was open. He kept his post Will,
the fireman jumped. The engine cap
sized and DeHam was fatally injured
dying q short time after. Tha
afternoon the young enginee
was to take his mother and siste
over to Monterey, but when the trail
arrived they were informed of the sal
news of the engineers fate.