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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

uproar, so to speak, and ghost talk is
everywhere heard. The newspaper
correspondents are busy imparting
the information to the rest of
the country. Their stories are read
with avidity even where they
are laughed at as fakes. 1t would not
be safe for skeptics to go into Mitchell
or Upton and attempt to throw cold
watero on these stories. The whole VI
try there is practically united on the
subject of ghosts anc want the rest OF
the country to understand that there is
no fake about it.
The Mitchell ghost holds forth on the
farm of Yohann Remmey, near the
western outskirts of the city. One
night last week some Mitchell boys,
who were passing through the farm,
were almost frightened to death by the
apparition, which rushed into their
midst, made hostile demonstration, and
vanish. One of the boys is said to be
diving as a result.
For many years the Remmey farm has
been known as connected with ghosts
and spiritual mediums. In the old
house that is now used as a summer
kitchen mediums once held their night
ly and communicated with the
spirits of the invisible world, and the
owner of the property thinks that the
spirits hat had formerly visited the
old building have gradually come to
pay their visits to the new one which
has been erected near by. The resi-
dents have queer superstitions of the
noises hat they hear on the walls of
the building, and say that in every in
stance they can tell when any of the
family are going to be sick. These have
been so common about the house that
very little attention is paid to them any
more, but sometimes queer incidents
happen that scare even those who are
accustomed to these things.
One night the owner of the house
went to the door of the summer kitchen
and was startled to find, as he claims,
standing on a plank in front of the
door, a man with his head hanging on
his shoulders, blood running down
upon his breast and a Ratchet up-lifted
in his right hand. All this he tells as
solemn truth, and he says that he
knows that he was not dreaming. At
one time the occupant hired a man to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

.ALExANOER ToHgSG Ghost
tn. uext day he began to arrange to 60
to Missouri, as he claimed that there
was something that haunted him every
night from the time that he slept at
Yohann's house. The family of Yo-
ham have often been awakened by the
shaking of the house, and one night
when the boys anne in late from gath
eriux corr the corn-crib where they
hung their harness began to shake as If
by an earthquake, and continued to
rattle until 10 o'clock, soaring the
chickens from their roost, and making
a dismal din by the climbing of the
chains and farming implements.
At another time Yohann was stand
ing at the gate and thought he saw his
daughter coming from the spring with
a bucket of water, but after he waited
for her for ten minutes he found that
she had vanished, and upon going in
the house to question her he found that
she had not been to the spring at all.
All these things seem strange, but they
are vouched for by those who have
lived at the house.
The Upton ghost is supposed to be
the departed spirit of Alexander Yohe,
who committed suicide in the gas fields,
a year ago. He cut his throat with a
razor. His farm was afterwards leased
by the Diamond Plate Gas company.
OF late drilling has been carried on
night and day with two crews. The
night crew, not knowing anything con-
corning the Yohe suicide, saw a strange
form appear at the engine for several
nights about midnight, and from there
it would go to the derrick and mysteri-
ously disappear. This caused an alarm
among the men, and the neighbors
we're called upon to witness the scene,
and at midnight to their surprise there
appeared Alexander Yohe, holding h
razor in his hand and the. blood
streaming out Of the deep ugly cash
across his throat, as natural as If living
and about his usual work. The ghost
so frightened the night crew that it
abandoned work, and the drill is only
operated during the day. The strange
mani ~festations will undoubtedly be in
v~estigated by the Society Of Physical
Research.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

ishing dwellings which were saturated
with foul disease, London has gradual
ly, though spasmodically, attempted
to raise the people from the slough of
squalor which has been the inheritance
for years. Apathy in the past and
ignorance of sanitary laws have made
the process marvelously slow, but the
London of to-day is in many ways al
most m~iraculously better with all the
appalling ills that still EXIST than the
London of thirty years ago.
As, however, with the human body, so
with that agglomerated mass of life
which we call a city, all chronic slow
disease is more easily subdued than
those fiercer forms of sudden, violent
disorder which shatter and break down
nervous and vital force by their rapidity,
so we must admit that the fact that evil
in New York in it's worst form should
exist after less than one hundred years
of civilization, is in itself a greater
symptom of deep seated mischief and
threatens more ultimate destructive i'll
than that which is the slow growth of
cumulative misery.
The actual pressure of population in
New York is admittedly greater in the
congested districts than in the older
city, and this is the more serious be-
cause as London spreads her, immense
network of houses until gradually h
~encroaches on four counties, New York
by her geographical position is sea-lim-
tied as to her existing compass.
The tenement-house system in New
York is admittedly a failure. Whether
possibly by cheaper locomotion,
smaller, more homelike dwellings
could be procured for the laboring
classes in the future it is impossible
for a stranger to predict.
The lodging house difficulty remains,
so far as l have been able to gather,
still untouched. The family lodging
house is always the very stronghold of
vice and sin. The scent bed is also an
unmitigated evil. In London lodging
houses have been opened with great
success, not only philanthropic but pc
cuniary, to meet this necessity, provid-
ing bed and locker in a cubicle, shut in
|, by a door with a lock and key, for 8
cents a night; in the basement there is
a large kitchen in which the occupants
may sit, providing a place for meals and
possibilities for cooking. The Salvation
Army shelters in London are also of un-
told value and no more successful work
has been done by that indefatigable
body.
Perhaps the distinctive feature that
strikes a stranger most in first visiting
the slums of New York is absence of
the constant stream of life which rem
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

work for them and he slept in the sum
mer kitchen, but he could only standit
for a short time, for every night just
before ~ o'clock he claimed that the
door suddenly opened, and he could
plainly see the visage of a man come
and bend low over his bed. A short
time after this, as he was com-
ing home on Sunday night,
he was suddenly confronted
by a form which he could not make out
but which he claims was surrounded
with blue, red, and yellow light m
times rising as a flame. With headlong
speed he rushed along the country road
on his horse until he reached home, and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
H INDIANA GHOSTS
MAKING THINGS LIVELY AT
MITCHELL AND Upton.
A HEADLEss MAN AT THE FORMER
PLACE
While the Departed Spirit of Farmer Yohe
Is Supposed to Be FORMULATING at
Tipton-The Two Neighborhoods All
Torn Up.

Indiana has been troubled with vista
tions of all varieties from the serpent,
80 feet long, to the dark silouhette of
Satan which for weeks held nightly
carnivals in mid-air over one of the GEN.
trail cities of the State. Since the latter
disappeared Indiana sensations had
been growing somewhat dull until last
week, when a headless ghost made
its appearance some fifteen miles
from Mitchell. Almost simultaneously
the ghost of a suicide materialized in
the gas fields in the vicinity of Upton.
The whole State is consequently in an
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
SANG IN COURT.
Pathetic Scene Created by an Alleged
Murderer.

Pathetic Scene Created by an Alleged
There was a scene in a New York
court the other day when Noah Rich
ards, an ignorant colored man
was on trial for killing a po-
liceman. The evidence against
him was circumstantial but strong.
AS he felt the coils lightning he said to
the court:
"Some one else done commit dat muir
der. When dat man was killed l was
sitting in my thinking of my dead
mother, and l dun begaE to think then
of a son 1 made up after she died. 1t
went this way" Then the prisoner
closed his eyes, and seemed for a mo-
ment lost in thought. Suddenly a smile
crept over his black face, and in a rich,
clear, mellow voice he began to sing a
plaintive negro melody. Louder and
clearer rose the notes of the song until
they seemed to fill the whole court
room with a weird, ghostly melody.
The hands and feet Of the singer began
to beat time in rhythmical measure.
The effect upon the spectators was
wonderful. The heads that had been
craned forward to catch a glimpse OF
the alleged murderer were now bowed,
and tears trickled over scores of cheeks.
The judge and the jury were also
strongly moved. Uninterrupted the
prisoner continued his song. His body
.swayed backward and forward and the
tears trickled down from his closed
eyes. He was singing the song OF
death. But the fear of death was all
gone and the prisoner was back again
with his old mother. Perhaps he was
only acting, perhaps he was trying to
gain sympathy with the jury, but so
it was more sublime acting than was
ever seen on a theatrical stage.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
BODY AND MIND.
A Michigan Girl Lives While They Are
Separated.


Constantine, Mich, is agitated over a
queer case Of paralysis that developed
there last week. 1t seems that on
Dec. % Edna Rosebrook, a pretty
girl of II went to bed in the best of
health and spirits. She did not
awake until three days later.
Then her mind only was awake.
The body refused to act. Physicians
who have called pronounce her condi-
ton as most remarkable. The body is
dead to the girls will to move her limbs
and there she must lay without any
hope of recovery. 1t is the first case of
the kind on record and no remedy is
known. Her three days sleep was a
dreamless one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

answer which tells us JnaJ n ola
world has given to America its ne'er-do
wells and Migrants, but the short
sighted policy which had admitted them
will have to be expiated by the wise
philanthropy that deals with the exist
ing evil without ignoring its magnitude
and with a firm determination to profit
in the future by the experience of the
past. ISABEL SOMERSET.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

The broad aspects which present
themselves to ones mind in consider
ing the corresponding evils of London
and New York are undoubtedly the
fact that the greatand crushing misery
against which we are battling in the
worlds largest metropolis is the slow,
hereditary growth of years. Since the
day when the great fire did for
our city what no other or lesser
could have accomplished
and partially purified the plague
stricken districts of London by demol-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
She Had All Her Buttons.

Loving Wife-George, dear; what are
those round pieces Of ivory that l picked
up on the floor this morning? Theyfell
from your coat.
Embarrassed Husband-Why, my
dear, they are buttons l bought for
your winter cloak. When 1 reached
home | discovered that they had no
holes with which to sew them on, and l
thought I'd take them back tonight
and change them.
Loving Wife (inquisitively)-I should
think that you would have noticed that
they were not on a card.
Embarrassed Husband--I had some
others that were on a card, but l lost
them.
Loving Wife--You had better take
these back tonight and put them on a
card. If you win those that you lost
last night just bring me home a cloak.
Never mind the buttons. I've got all
my buttons.
IN new YORK SLUMS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

poor, from the dlStlnctly SO-calleO
criminal classes, are, / should say,
more degraded than the average inhab-
liant Of corresponding quarters in New
York. This distinction is chiefly due
to all absence of public sentiment
against female drunkenness and the
extreme leniency with which the most
open immortality is regarded by women
who themselves are neither drunkards
nor immoral. The utter lack of any
standard produces a state of society
from which the most ordinary ~self-re-
spect. is conspicuous by its absence,
even among those who are compare
lively virtuous.
In working among the factory girls
the real struggle is to give them
the most elementary notions of pro-
priety and decorum, and it has often
been almost despairing to know how
to persuade them that the first princi-
pies of modesty forbade them from kiss
ing the railway employees at every sta
ton during a journey taken for the
purpose of giving them a summer Holt
day.
Women and children habitually fire.
quent the gin shop and the long bars,
and often with tears in my eyes | have
pleaded with mothers in these places
not to give te~aspoonfuls of spirits to
the babies they held in their arms.
The absence of all women in the sa-
looms of New York, ave those of whom
fair fame and good name are only
memories, is certainly very striking,
and although L understand that the
saloon attached to the tenement-house
supplies perhaps an almost equal
amount of liquor to the inhabitants OF
those dwellings, the very fact that
public opinion is still respected and an
outward show of responsibility pre-
served, is, while it lasts, of UNFOLD
value. And, indeed, / understand that
drunkenness among American women
is everywhere uncommon.
There is, however, one a~ggravation OF
this misery in New York, which rem
ders it more grimly terrible than in
London, and that is the greater rent
demanded out of their wretched earn
ings by the landlords, a fact which re-
duces their condition to one of even
more helplessly chronic restitution
than in London.
In the cellar of one wretched tene-
ment house into which l went, ap-
preached by a ricketv stairway drip
ping with water, three men were sleep
ing on beds composed of boards laid on
the tops of barrels containing the fruit
sold in the streets. The floor was so
damp that the water stood in small
puddles, and for this shelter each man
was paying 35 cents a week--one shill-
ing and sixpence in u English money.
As 1 stood in that Don l felt truly
that those evils in the old country
which have made it necessary for Gen.
Booth to appeal to the pity of the
public to provide for men that which
is considered a bare necessity for the
beasts that draw our hack cabs are no
greater than the evils in this. Still L
confess it strikes a chillinto ones heart
to find in this new country, with all
it's real and great aspirations toward
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

poor, apartfrom the distinctly so-called
criminal classes, are, l should say,
more degraded than the average inhab-
liant of corresponding quarters in New
York. This distinction is chiefly due
to all absence of public sentiment
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
HELP! HELP! THE LADY FAINTS.
"'Tis the twink Of an eye,
TITS the draught Of q breath,
From tho blossom of health,
To the paleness of death"

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

HANDSOME SIDE BOARDS
For S14.00 at l.. p. Peck 4 Co., ~ anU
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

the universal brotherhood of men, and
under the very shadow of the new
made millionaires of this great city,
such restitution, such appalling, abject
misery as does already exist.
That is undoubtedly plausible
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
IN new YORK SLUMS
LADY SOMERSET'S VISIT TO
THE DIVES DESCRIBED.
SHE TELLS OF HER ADVENTURES
WITH HER OWN PEN.

Scenes of Misery and Woe In Darkest
New York-The Dives Compared with
Those of mountaineering Liquor to
Babies.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01

ders our great London thoroughfares
almost as crowded by night as by day.
The law which allows no vagrant to
pass the night on a doorstep or under a
railway bridge clears the streets of,the
visible signs of homeless misery which
impress themselves SO indelibly on ones
mind in London.
The difference which, however, I
should unhesitatingly emphasize lies
mainly in the fact that the London
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE.

RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE.
l.. g. G. NJ. Railroad.
DEPARTURES.
For st. Louis via Iron Mountain or
For St. Louis via Iron Mountain. 500 p. m
For Laredo 1855 a. m
ARRIVALS.
From st. Louis via Iron Mountain
and M, K. and T.. 9:35 a. m
and M, K. and T, 1000 p. m
From Laredo 5:35 p. m
Southern Pacific Railroad.
THROUGH EXPRESS EAST.
Leaves for New Orleans, Houston
and Galveston 9:15 a. m. and y p. N
ARRIVES FROM THE EAST.
Arrives from New Orleans, Houston
and Galveston Ia. m. and $3.50 p. m
THROUGH WEST.
leaves for San Francisco, Ell Paso
and Eagle Pass 4:2O p. m
Arrives from San Francisco, Ell Paso
and Eagle Pass S:45 a. m
S. A. & A. P. Railroad.
DEPARTURES.
Leaves for Kerrville, daily except
Sunday 500 p. m
Leaves for Galveston, Houston and
Waco, daily except Sunday = 9:55 a. m
Leaves for Corpus Christi, RockpOrt
Beeville, daily except Sunday : 80 p. m
ARRIVALS.
From Kerrville, daily except
FROM fomua Corpus Christi, Rockport ''' !"
Beeville, daily except Sun. : 2:55 p. m
From Galveston, Houston and
Waco, daily except Sunday : 6:40p. m
Mallory Steamer sail from Galveston
every Wednesday and Saturday.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-03
An Inebriate's Fate.

John Wolenstencraft, a well known
Moline character, an enebriate of long
standing, died suddenly Monday evening
in tie tremens. He was AZ years of age
On Friday last he applied at the Morrell
institute for the liquor cure. He &C.
knowledged having Lesrt trouble and
kidney complaint, having tendency at
times to tropsy. He was seen to be in a
decidedly critical condition, and to be
suffering from delirium tremens. He
was advised that he would suffer greatly
should he take treatment in the condi-
ton in which he was. But he insisted,
saying that liquor was killing him at any
rate, and he ould not live much longer
without help. He was sincerely anxious
to throw off his bondage to the liquor
habit His case was taken in hand. and
medicines were given him TO brace his
nerves, and to prepare him for vigor-
Gus treatment later. The liquor cure
had been given him only in very small
doses Suffering from tremens, as he
was, whisky was prescribed to be given
him every three hours. but his daughter
thought it not necessary to give it to him
so often. but it was apparently too late to
effect cure.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-03
TWAS BEAUTIFUL BALL.
This Mornings Contest at Twin
City Park.
A Tie score From the sixth to the
Eleventh Inning When the Locals
Cfnch the Game Brilliant
Work Both In The Box and
Eield-The ScDre

The locals won another game from the
Jacksonviiles this morning, the prettiest
game that has been played on the home
grounds this season. Cunningham and
Clark were The opposing pitchers. and
both worked like confidence men to
win the game, while the balance of both
teams played with snap that brought
Joy to the hearts CT the fans and put the
game on record as one OF the finest. The
field work was clean and pretty, while
the home team in particular played with
dash that, had it been on a Sunday
with the park full of people. they could
willingly have had the town. Nultons
work at third and Pat Wright's at second
were the features of the game. Below is
the score:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-03

clare the fight a draw than he had to
award it to Joun L. Sullivan, 1000
miles away. There is no earthly end to
be served in reading repetition of the
rounds. They were all alike all Rvan's
clearly. unequivocallv. honestly. Wilks
couldn't hit him. while he landed on
Wilks' raw frontispiece at will The St.
Louis man resembled stuck pig rather
than a man, clear from the fifth to the
closing round.
This was the seventeenth. Wilks
was bathed in blood from head to foot.
and so groggy that but one more feeble
punch. possibly, was all that was neces-
sarY to knock him out. The chief of po-
lice of South Omaha doomed up at the
side of the ring and declared that it was
Sunday morning, and the fight must
cease. At this time it was just 90 min
utes of 12.
The referee without a moments delay
declared the fight draw.
The big crowd howled in derision at
the idea. and for few moments it looked
like trouble. But in prize fights there is no
going behind the referees decision. and
thus ended Ed. Johnson's last prize fight.
1t might be well to add here that every
blow Ryan delivered the Wilks follows
ers shouted foul. and Ryan saw that he
must be doubly guarded.
CATION.
Billiariist Billy" Cation has arrived
in New York from Paris. He got in on
the French steamer Oh Saturday and is
going back to Paris to rejoin Schaefer
with whom he sailed in June. when
Schaefer went to Paris to play Ives fol
the worlds championship emblem. Cat
ton came over to take Schaefer's wife to
Paris. He says there is great deal OF
money to be made in billiards in Paris
now, confirming Slosson's assertion in
his recent letter. Cation has played
some good billiards on the other Size.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-03
ElnbrOiderieS.

Have been slow, some think very slow,
all this season. In fadt they haven't
gone as freely as we should like to see
them; this week we shall MAKE them
move. On Monday a. m. at s o'clock
and for six days, until closing Saturday
night we shall give discount from the
bottom of yur bill of 25 per cent on
every yard of embroidery bought at our
store.
We want this to be lively week not
only at our embroidery counters. but
throughout our entire stores, and we
know of no way to accomplish this enor-
NOUS discount in one of our most popu-
lar departments. We shall expect very
rapid sales and no doCb. later in the
week the assortment will be much re-
duced.
This is an opportunity seldom offered
in the middle of the season.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-03
j. E. REIDY. T. Il. RElDY.
REIDY BROS,
THE POPULAR
Real Estate
Insurance.
AGENTS.

We now have some firstclass bargains in cal
estate which will net all the way from to IL per
cent the Investment. Ii will be to the interest
of pa ties who have their money placed at II less
rate of interest call and examine these targains
Room q. Mitchell & Lynde building, ground
floor, in rear of Mitchell * Iynde bank.