San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-04
DALLAS LETTER.
THE TOWN STILL BURNING UP
AND SHORT ON WATER.
The Mock Marriage-Busted Opera
Company-A Starving Woman
and Other Sensation.
DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 2. 1S9

DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 2. 1891.
From our Special Correspondent.
Another fire! The inmates of y
boarding house on Carter street mar
rowly escaping with their lives. Some
were dragged out more dead than
alive by men who rushed through
the spreading flames and smoke. The
boarding house was owned by Mr.. c.
M. Wheat, and was valued at $4,000.
Insured for $500. Mrs. Caruthers
proprietress, had her furniture in
sured for $500, it was valued at $4,000.
In trying to rouse . little boy Mrs.
Caruthers was overcome, and fell in
sensible; she would have persisted in
the fire had che not been found and
carried safely down the fast burning
stairs. Mr.. G. H. Ballinger returned
to the burning building in search for
his little girl; he 700 was
overcome, and came near be.
ing cremated, and as it is
may die. He was taken to the
hospital, where he lies in an I'M
conscious condition. MIR. and Mrs.
Ballinger had been here only a short
time. Everything they had, including
500 in cash, was swept away. "A
| house on the corner of Hord and Car
ter, belonging to VIM. McCutcheon,
was burned. Two buildings owned
by MI. Sullivan were laid in ashes,
| and the real of the three-story brick
belonging to Bower and Lennon,
was greatly damaged by heat.
Yesterday morning as Mr.. HALEY
Smith, the day dynamo man, was
| explaining some change that had
been made in the circuit, TO MIR.
| Better, who had come to relieve him,
he unconsciously took hold of the
| positive and negative wires. The
| current was so strong that it killed
| him instantly.
The patrons of the city schools
and citizens generally, are still pro-
| testing against the change in text
| books, as recommended by Supt.
| Harris. A meeting Is called, to be
held in Shady View park next Thurs
| day to take steps in. regard to this
| change. Times are too hard just
now, to require patrons to go to this
| expense. But u superintendent
| wants to do something during his
term OF office to cause his name "to
| 90 laundering down the ages" as
Giteau said. The r the time
| comes for opening the city schools,
| calling for this useless outlay of
| none for new school books, the
| more enraged do people become.
Supt. Knight, of the Oak Cliff
elevated road notified those in the
| employ of said road to ''call at the
office and get their time" Not an
old employe was left in service, a
clean sweep was made. The dis
lcharged claim to be ignorant OF the
causes of this wholesale dismissal.
We presume there was no ''mock''
! marriage that led to the discharge OF
| these ticket %punchers, as vas the
case with the clerk of Hotel de Camp
Strothers. An orphan girl from
| Palmer was passing through Dallas,
| on her way to visit a sister in Caddo.
| She was compelled to remain q night
In Dallas; she put up, as she had
| done on previous trips, at Mr.. Stroth-
| ers' hotel at the Union Depot. The
| The clerk, whom she had met on
| several occasion, persuaded her to
| marry him then and there. After
| many soft and endeariDg words she
consented. Next morning the oily
tongued clerk told her it was all q
farce there had been no marriage
license, the man who pretended TO
perform the ceremony was no priest
ataIl. 1t was all only a joke, he said.
He knew the girls past was
| not spotless. He knew her child was
| living with her married sister. She
| had confessed all her dark past to
| him. The groom, to quiet the wretch
| ed girls tears and fears, told her to
| 20 home aud rs soon as Mr.. Strothers
returned from Kentucky, he would
marry her. To make q long story
short, the clerk, who had been In the
employ of Mr.. Strothers for five years,
was given the G. b. Supt. Daffan, OF
the Houston and Texas Central road,
by which company the ''priest" was
employed, gave the good father" his
walking papers. The "best man"
was the last to suffer for the little
racket. He was an operator in the
Texas and Pacific Office; he claimed
to take no part in the illegal proceed
ings other than stand by and see the
other two fool the girl. The trio have
left the town for a healthier one
Sunday night the Manhattan Opera
company betook themselves to the
Union depot to taxi the train. While
awaiting its arrival an officer appeared
with several writs and attached their
trunks and baggage for debts, as fol-
lows: S~chroeder's band, for music
furnished, SIG; ]. r. Worley, for
printing, SIS; Miss Rita Selby, for
salary, $50; John Swenson, Sl25. This
company was brought here several
weeks ago by Mayor Connor, whose
desire it was to establish a summer
opera in the music hall at the fair
grounds. The Elks will come to the
company's rescue.
In q fit of frenzy J.. L. Lyme shot