San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-15
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Texas, Jan. Is, 1892.

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. IL, 1897.
San Antonio DIGIT:
About noon yesterday the snow began
to fall. Early this morning the ground is
covered three inches deep, and were the
sun not shining it would soon be many
inches thicker, for il is still falling.
Rogers who is sentenced TO be hanged
March 18th, still hopes he will be spared
the hangman's moose He has telegraphed
to San Antonio for his wife and Atty. l..
II. Hughes of that city. A petition is be-
ing gotten up to have his sentence com
muted to life Imprisonment.
Col Jno.F., Elliotts friends were dteply
panied to learn of the sad death of his
Jan. 18th. Mrs. Elliott had never re-
covered from an attack of La Grippe she
had last winter. and had gone to San An
tonic in hopes of being benefited. Her re-
mains were brought to this city and
buried in Trinity cemetery.
Alex Ross, the foreman at the new
court house, fell from the third story to
the ground, the distance of eighty feet.
Just what the extent of his injuries are.
is not yet known, but he was considered
dangerously hurt.
The eX-foreman at the Dallas packing
house was viewing the ruins over yester-
day, and while walking on plank fell
from the second story TO the first floor.
When picked p it was found he could not
walk on account of a broken leg. His in
juries are not of fatal nature.
DR.. j. M. Black, who suicided at his
residence by taking morphine, had lived
In Dallas for many years. He had been
laid up with inflamatOry rheumatism and
unless it was fear Of recurrence of this
disease no one can SurmiSe what prompt
ed him to take his own life.
One OF the negroes who assaulte ChaS
}. Grant, cashier of the Nalior al Bank Of
Commerce, has been Identified by Mr.
Grant. Mr.. J. w. Barton, who resided
near by. ran to Mr.; Grants assistance in
time to get good look at his aSsailants.
The following day Mr.. Barton boarded a
Dallas train for Mckinney. On the same
train was negro whom he identified and
had arrested. The negro was brought to
Dallas ana taken before Mr.. Grant. who
also recognized him.
DIR. S. s. Thompson, of Caddo, 1. T..
arrived in Dallas with roll OF bills
amounting to 800 He had not been here
long before pickpocket relieved him of
his money. The doctor reported his loss
to chief Of police, but he had no idea
when 1t was taken.
The property owners on Ervay street
are fighting the payment of paving tax.
Eryay street, like many other streets
has been paved once, and the people have
been taxed for same and rebel against
further taxation. Each property owner
has pledged himself to pay his pro rata of
lawyers fees.
The Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to
the Geo. ii. Thomas post will hold public
Installation ceremonies at their hall on
Elm street tonight. special invitation
has been extended to the various posts In
the state and to the Woman's Relief
Corps OF the department and to mem bers
of the ex-confederate organizations
Lunch rendered by the Woman's Relief
Corps after the ceremonies.
Miss Julia Teele, pleasant lady from
the Alamo City, who has been visiting
friends here, was pleasantly surprised by
a party OF her friends Saturday night at
the home Of Mrs. Geo. Doyle, East Dali
las. 1t is hoped this will not be Miss
Teele's last visit. +'