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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29
The Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1898
A CROOK IN TOWN.
Attempts Made to Swindle Local
Merchants of the CITY.


A rather slick trick was attempted OF
posed TO be merely the tool of designing
frauds, but it did not work. The boy
went to MeSSrS. Kalteyer Il SChuchardt
on Houston street. and, seeing Mr.. kalt'
eyer presented the following note:
MIR. KALTEYER:
Will you please let me have SIS by
bearer. as | have purchased some things
and have not enough TO pay for them
Will hand 20 you as pass .lBy dong so
yO1 will greatly oblige.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs. Is. j. MACERMANN.
please excuse me asking you this, but
it is so late that l cannot get it now and
holieve that Won know my husband, Mr.
Ben J. Mauermann."
OF cou>e Mr.. Kalteyer knew Ben
Mauermann. who was partner with his
uncle. &. H. Kiteyer, in the Alamo
Cement company, and knew that he was
good for thousands of dollars, but the
Observation-Disclosures not that Of a lady, and
as Mrs. Mauermann'S credit was good
anywhere the circumstances were SuSpi-
cji1ns, Being alone in the store he could
not give the boy the money and follow
him. and he could not telephone for the
police without awakening the suspicion OF
the boy. On questioning the boy he said
was standing in front of the Alamo Flats
waiting for the answer. Mr.. kalteyer
then told the boy to go and bring the lady
TO the store He left promising to do so
but he never came back.
Subsequently the letter was shown to
Mr.. Mauermann, who pronounced 1t to
be an impudent forgery and that 1t bore
no resemblance whatever TO Mrs. Mauer-
mann'S handwriting.
A similar order was presented to Har-
niSch Il Baer'S and the boy was arrested
on the charge OF being a suspicious char
acter, bat after the officers found that he
either could not or would not give any
Information, as regards the real Grimm
ais he was released after being held in
On toby four days.
A note was also sent to a prominent
business firm on SOledad street request
ing the loan nf money, and signed by Mrs.
Albert Beckmann. 1t was presented
bv another boy about the time of the
arrest of the first lad. He
was also arrested, but nothing could be
aScertained from him. and he was re-
leased. A singular fact is that all Of the
notes were written alike and by the same
person These are only few of the
many attempts made to obtain money in
that way. and. in some cases, the thief,
whoever he may be-. has secured the
money. There is a suspicion that a man
residing in the tranS-San Pedro district,
who j. vagrant with good clothes, ana
who has at times cared for these boys, is
the guilty party. The police, however,
have their ewes open and they now enter
tain hopes OF locating the Swindler.
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He Made Serious Charges.

Miss Mira Jackson is nice looking ne
gro woman who sews for a living. She
was met by a colored man named Sam
Williams yesterday, and he called her a
prostitute, owing to the fact that she
would not permit him to loaf around her
house. She gave him tongue laShing
and he made an affidavit against her for
disordcrly conduct. She was arrested nd
this morning Judge McAllister dismissed
the case. She stated that Williams was
never known to have done days work,
and the recorder advised her to make a
charge against him for vagrancy, which
she did. He will be tried Monday.
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Reward for any White or Domes-
tic, made in the last % years, that
| can't rebuild and make do as
good work as when new. All kinds
of sewing machines repaired. All
work guaranteed for three years.
4 80 st H. F. CLIFFORD,
With y. & NJ. INsTALLMENT Co.,
Corner Houston and Navarro.
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IN THE COURTS.

The trial OF the damage suit of Sam G.
EckleS. for $4,000 damages, for the in
Fiction of personal injuries. was concluded
in Judge Kings court last evening, the
jury giving EckeS verdict against the
Southern Pacific railway company, for
Sl2.5OO.
In the probate court this morning the
bond of the exPcutrix MedarO Bundren,
of the estate of. Bendren, deceased, was
apnrOved.
In Judge Noonan's court the appeal
ha> been filed in the case of p. L. Riply
against j. LandC,a suit on claim bond.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. T. II. Bates, of st Louis, is at
the Southern.
Mr.. and Mrs. Easley, of HOndO
City, are at the Southern.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. r. Moore are
entertaining Mrs. l.. NJ. Martin, of
kerrville.
Captain James A. II. HOsack has
removed his family to Houston,
where they will in the future re-
side.
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A GRAND OPPORTUNITY.
Life Sized Crayon Portrait Free

We take pleasure in announcing
to our friends and customers, that
we have perfected arrange
ments with a Chicago pOr-
trait house, whereby we are en-
abled to otfera life sized crayon or
India ink portrait free to all of
them. For further information,
call at our store. J. \. FREEZER,
Corner Main plaza and Acequia St.
t % st
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A Watch Thief.

Sam Johnson, colored, resides
with his family on Victoria street.
Last evening he was seated in the
kitchen where strange negro
knocked at the door. He was adj
mitted and given seat. John
son had occasion to leave the
house and left the negro talking
to his wife. Mrs. johnson repaired
to the front portion of the house
to answer the call of a sick boy,
and the strange negro was miss
ing when she returned. The house
was searched as there was a sus-
piciOn that this negro was a
crook, and it was soon learned that
a handsome and costly gold watch
belonging to Mr.. Johnson had
been stolen. The negro has not
been seen or heard of since his
visit and sudden departure.
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Nav Day Demonstration.

NEW YORK, April 29.-The May
Day demonstration, under the aus
pieces of the Central Labor Fedora
ton Of New York, will take place
today. Thirty organizations will
be in the parade, and the march
will be through the east side dis
tricts to Union square, where the
masses will listen to speeches from
the labor leaders Of the city.
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Their Names and Occupation


Paste this in your hat:
j. R. Fleming, lawyer and church
collector.
G.S. Simmons, real estate specu-
latOr.
Jay Adams, town lot boomer.
r. w. Andrews, r. r. pass. agt.,
S. A. p.
j. n. Groesbeck, real estate
agent.
James Anderson, bookkeeper.
w. w. Boone, lawyer.
w. II. Booth, commission mer-
chant.
j. T.. Burnett, undertaken.
NJ. j. Bleim, Homeopathic NJ. ID.
Ben Collins, not known, eX-R. r.
man.
G. B. Davis, Baptist.
II. p. Drought, lawyer and money
broker.
w. p. Finley, lawyer.
Ed Haltom, reformed lawyer.
O. B. Love, tooth puller.
f. r. Lane, lawyer and pOliti-
clan.
R. NJ. Moore, holds a government
job.
c. O. Mcclure, saws and sells
wood.
J. H. Rhea, eX-sec. Y. NJ. G. A.
J. F. Roundtree, lives at West
End.
James Duryea Stevenson, lawyer
and Sunday school talker.
j. b. Taylor, an NJ. D., nOn-resi-
dent.
A. G. Thomas, not advertised.
Sidney b. Wood, from Arkansas.
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REPAIRED, REPAIRED.

We have secured the services of
the best sewing machine repairer
in Texas, and if he failes to make
your machine do as good work as
when new we won't charge you a
cent for his work.
y. d VI. INSTALLMENT Co.,
st cor. Navarro and Houston.
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$50 REWARD.

We will pay the above reward to
any person that can purchase any
better sewing machine oil or
needles in this city than we sell at
DC per bottle or 2Occ per dozen at
any price.
y. d VI. INsTALLMENT Co.,
st cor. Navarro and Houston.
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Ladies',

Look at the handsomely trimmed
hats in the windows of Wakeman's
Bazaar at - and So, for Monday
and Tuesday only. % 2t
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JUST THINK OF IT.

Fine dinner service, y pieces, on.
~ SIS; 100 piece service $40, at
% st n. d NJ. INSTALLMENT Co.,
224, 23S and 240 f. Houston street
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TIME SAVED,

No use to 60 all over the city, as
we have every thing you need in
house furnishings.
&. \. SHOWERS FURNITURE Co.
I - st BOB W. Commerce street.
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REFRIGERAToRS,

We handle the Pierce, the best
in the market. Prices way down.
80 3t n. q NJ. INSTALLMENT Co.,
224, 23S and 240 f. Houston street.
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E. Farris, charged with steal
ing chickens, was arrested at =
o'clock this afternoon by Officer
Porter, and taken to the county
jail on the charge of theft under
$40.
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New Industry.

Resilvering looking glass, gliding
on wood and metal. All work
guaranteed. II. GAUDIN,
IT. fl SOledad street.
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Monday and Tuesday.

500 trimmed hats for - and 81
at Wakeman's Bazaar, Monday and
Tuesday. i % 1t
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This week we have devoted several
counters on the left side of our store to
the display of wash goods at the uniform
price of Ioc, including printed mousse.
lines. Never sold for less than I4c.
Wash silks sold elsewhere for I5c. White
goods with lace and satin stripe, usually
sold for u &c and I5c, and hundreds of
per yard.
See our new lot of Irish lawns in stripes
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Special Sale

OF trimmed hats at Wakeman's
Bazaar Monday and Tuesday. 1t
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NEW GOODS. NEW STYLES.

New prices, at f. c. Arnold, sue
cessor to Young & Arnold 30 I'm
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NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS

And our prices will convince you,
we are cheaper than any house in
the city.
G. a. SHOWERS FURNITURE Co.
t % st 203 W. Commerce street.
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EASY TERMS

On all goods bought from us.
G. A. SHOWERS FURNITURE Co.
429 st 203 w. Commerce st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29

Mrs. II. BOerner. who has been visiting
friends in Galveston, has returned home.
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S. Hats for So

At Wakeman's Bazaar Monday
and Tuesday only. t 80 1t
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Leaders this week fail to attract the attention
shoppers Our bargains greater and grander than If
YOU come mail order system. Mail Orders
Ceiyeprompt and careful attention
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$1,000 SuIUBV puB

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pnoI u! s9pom QoueII 10 se!doo peleIe5
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Blooming Spring !.
- BRINGS -
Booming Business,
OUR STORE NOW
BRINE full of BARGAINS!

Every department full of new spring and summer goods
We are selling them too. To exemply this statement
invite you and the crowds of buyers and
ten chances to one you too, will join the procession.
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SPECIAL.
SPECIAL.

Figured French sateens, in beautiful
designs, of both dark and light grounds,
seldom sold for less than 4oc. This week
THREE YARDS FOR $500.
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DRESS GOODS
Special Values in
French ChaIIieS.

For this week only we are making
great reductions in our wool challies. If
ever there was a sacrifice this is one.
French challies with cream ground and
beautiful figures reduced from Csc to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-11
PERSONAL.

Congressman Reed arrived home last
evening.
Hugh R. Chaplin, Esq, of Bangor, was
in the city yesterday.
Tristram Goldthwaite of Biddford, was
at the United States hotel yesterday.
Hon. Harrison Hume of Boston, was at
the Falmouth yesterday.
Mr.. E. W. Wilbur, late principal of the
Peaks island school, is teaching in
southern Massachusetts.
Governor William E. Russell, Col. Chas.
H. Taylor, editor of the Boston Globe,
and a party Of eight, went through here
yesterday On their way toPoland Springs.
President Gallagher-the new president
of Kent's Hill Seminary-will preach at
Chestnut street church tomorrow after
noon.
General John F. Anderson of Boston
is visiting Portland. General Anderson
was adjutant of the Boston Corps of Ca
diets when the war broke out, and went
to war in the regiment, the 54th we
think, that was called the Cadet Regi-
ment because it was differed from the
Cadets. He was afterwards on General
Fosters staff, and attained the rank of
general. He is brother of Mr.. W. Fl.
Anderson and Mr.. Horace Anderson of
this city.
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Fire Department. Matters.

The committee on fire department
held meeting yesterday afternoon. 1t
was voted that the chief engineer be in
structed to have a hydrant placed at the
corner of A and B streets, the estimated
cost being about 800.
The matter of transferring the boiler
lately taken out of the High School to
the central station was discussed, and
the chief engineer requested to get fig
ures on the cost of the work.
The matter of lighting the engine
houses was put over for the purpose of
getting more figures on the cost.
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Music at High Street Church.

In recognition of the services of
Charles Francois Gounod to church mu-
sic, the music for the Sunday evening
lecture at High street church will be Sc
lected entirely from his compositions.
This will be the programme:
Organ Prelude, Feierlicher Marsch
Anthem. Send light, o, God
Anthem. Glory to Thee
Bass Solo, Nazareth
Organ postlude,
From "Messe Solennelle'' in G.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-11
An Important Witness.

James Simpson is the name of an i'm
portant witness in the Staples robbery
case. He it was who heard the men
talking about the division of the booty
and who afterwards met and recognized
Kneeland. Some Sundays ago Simpson
was quietly lodged in Portland Jail and
he remained there until yesterday when
Officer Firth took him to Alfred and he
was bound over to appear as witness
at Kneeland's trial.
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The American Cadet Band
will furnish music.
Galleries Reserved for Ladies.
Sisters of Football.

The High School girls have met and
organized the "Sisters of Football an
association to help in arousing interest
in the game, and also to help in paying
the expenses of the team. Miss Lucy
Brown, '94, was elected president; Miss
Effie johnson, '95, vice president; Miss
Foster, secretary and treasurer; and
Miss Holmes '94, Miss Harrington "a,
and Miss johnson "a, executive commit
tee. The Sisters will take charge of the
benefit sociable and entertainment to be
given by the school Friday evening.
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Mechanics Association Drawing School

The free drawing school of the Nee
hanics Association opened at the rooms
of the association last evening for the
winter term of four months, under the
instruction of Mr.. Dorticos. There was
a large attendance. There were over
thirty applications for the mechanical
class, twenty for the architectural class,
and twenty to twenty-five in the ad-
vanced class. The evenings devoted to
the classes will be Monday, Tuesday and
Friday.
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Struck a Heavy Sea.

Captain Melton, of the schooner Ellen,
bound to the eastward. put into the low
er harbor Wednesday night, to repair
sails and pumps. When off Thatcher's
Island light, Monday, heavy sea struck
the vessel and ripped up the forward
hatch, the water pouring into the hold.
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DR., Blanchard,s Lectures.

The Rev. DR.. Blanchard will begin his
twelfth annual course of lectures next
Tuesday evening, in the vestry of Con-
gress square church. The general SUBJ
Ject will be "The Religions of the
World. = The first will be on 'Buddha
and Buddhism All persons interested
are cordially invited to attend.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Cancellation of Trains and New Train
Put On.

@On Monday, November Goth, import
ant changes will be made, and the fol-
lowing trains will be discontinued for
the winter: The train now leaving
Portland at 10.2Oa. m. for Brunswick,
Augusta and Waterville, the "Flying
Yankee from Vanceboro to Portland,
and the 100 p. m. train from Bangor to
Vanceboro.
A new train will leave Bangor at 12.45
p. M, connecting at Waterville with
train for Portland, with which branch
roads will make the usual connections),
arriving in Portland at 5.25 p. M, and
connecting with trains for Boston as u.s.
ual.
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Williston Church.

The service at the Williston church
Sunday evening will be Song Service,
and will include solo by Miss Tarbox,
with violin otligato by Miss Goowdin.
The new committee of the Mems Sunday
evening club began their work last
week. Monday evening Miss McCobb
will give Shakespearean reading in the
chapel under the auspices of the young
ladies Mission Band.
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Electric Lighting.

The work of putting in the new electric
light plant is going forward rapidly I'M
der charge of Mr.. c. B. Dalton. Holes
have been dug for poles on Pleasant street,
Stevens Plains avenue and from Morrills
corner nearly to the bridge. The first
car of poles is expected today, and the
power house will be begun today. 1t
will be set at Marsh Bros. coal yard,
near the side track, and will be of brick,
25x50 and one story. The house lighting
dynamo has been. bought of the National
Electric company. 1t is a 500 light
dynamo. Next week there will be a crew
of Is or 20 men on the works.
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Heard the Phonograph.

The photographic entertainment given
by Mr.. ]. B. Bishop to the Y. P. S. c. E..
of Free street Baptist church last even
ing, was enjoyed by large number.
One of the most enjoyable features of
the evening was the talking and speak
ing into the phonograph by members of
the society.
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Struck on Kelp Ledge

Schooner Francis Coffin, Captain I. L.
Hutchins, of Bucksport, Me-, from Ban
gor to Boston, with lumber, while max
ing this harbor at 100 yesterday morn
ing, struck on ''Kelp' ledge in White
Head passage, and Immediately began to
fill, but was able to make the harbor.
Tug A. Demerest towed the vessel to the
rail way for examination