San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-06
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.

Witherington, the engineer in
charge of theCuanhtemOre brewery
in this city, was experimenting
the letting down of a pump into a
well, the rope attached to the
pump slipped from the men aud
WitheringtOn's left leg got caught
in it and tore it off at the ankle.
Doctors Geo. :. Stell, FraZierS, Fer
nandez aud Leal We're sent fOr,and
after examining the leg they found
the bone fractured 50 they ampu-
tated it few inches above the an
kle.
Mr.. Joe Schneider, the superin-
tendent of the brewery, had him
removed to his house, where the
best of care is taken of him.
SHIPMENT OF MARBLE.
Messrs. j. r. Il w. W. Price, of
this city, have had large force of
men cutting black marble at the
Topo Chico quarry for the store and
residence of AdOlfO ZambranO, of
this city, and the Mexican custom
house at TampicO, and on Monday,
May LIST, they commenced to ship
it. The marble is cut and dressed
at the quarry and hauled from
there over Major Jules y. Randle's
street car line to the ZambrinO
building, and to the Monterey and
Mexican Gulf dept, and will be
hauled by that road to Tampico.
They have shipped to TampicO,
during the month of April, 30 car
loads of black marble.
A NEW SHELTER.
Benavides Mining and Refining
Co., of Cerralvo have commenced
the erection of a fifty ton smelter
at their mines which are situated
near Cerralvo. The machinery
transferred from the cars
to the wagons at the machine
shops of j. r. and W. w. Price on
Monday last.
THE LIGHTS BURNING.
On the night of the - December,
1892, the electric light works in
this city were burnt to the ground.
Col. Casper ;. Bather, the general
superintendent, telegraphed at
once to Philadel phia for a new
plant, and set men to work to re-
build. BY the first of March he
turned on the arc lights, and on
the night of May first he turned
on the incandescent lights, so that
the city is no longer in darkness.
MILLIONS OF BRICK.
Since Messrs. j. II. and W. W.
Price established theSaddle noun
tain brick yard, there has
been great demand for
brick throughout the border states.
So great has been the demand for
hard brick that they had to put in
new plant. Last week they COM
pleted the same, and are now test
ing the machinery. The capacity
of the new plant is 100000 brick
per day.
TAMPICO NOTES.
The following steamships ar
rived in port the past few days,
loaded with lumber, coal, coke and
general merchandise, for the Mon
terey merchants, shelters and local
points on the line of the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf railway: The
MerjuliO, the Marion and the Sara
tOga, and a number of SChOOnerS.
At , p. IN. Monday, there were
eighteen and a half feet of water on
the bar.
SHIPMENT OF BULLION.
From the 10Th to the 3Oth of April
the Gulf road hauled from the
Guggenheim smelter 60 car loads
of bullion; 400 bars of 100 lbs. to
the bar; total $4,000 bars. During
the latter part of last week they
hauled from Wilson Smelter, 20
cars of bullion, 400 bars of 100 lbs.
to the bar to Tampico.
The Gulf road hauled to Mon
terey 300 car loads of ores, and
hauled away from here 80 car
loads of ore for the FL Paso, Texas,
smelters.
A NEW TIME TABLE.
On the 10th the Mexican Ma
tlonal Railway will issue a new
time table, effective that day. This
Will shorten the time two hours be-
tween Laredo and the City of Mex
leo.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. and Miss Mary Fest, of San
Antonio, are at Topo Chico hot
springs, taking course of baths.
Mrs. +. r.. Glass who has been
sick the past six days, is much i'm
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