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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05
CYCLoNED CISCO.

CYCLoNED CISCO.
THE returns from Cisco show
that while the destruction to life
and property was appalling, the
loss of material substance was on
ly about one-half that originally
reported. The property destruction
is now placed at $35O,OOO, an enOr-
nous sum for one small town to
have carried away in an hour. 1t is
not possible, however, to measure
this loss in dollars and cents. Side
| by side with the actual loss must
| be placed the loss of all business
and the total humiliation, for the
time, of all the means whereby
the grist of daily doing is ground
out. 1t is highly creditable to the
grit and fortitude of the
people of this little town
that they have met their
overwhelming disaster with such
courage of soul and equanimity Of
mind; and no less creditable to the
State that it responds so nobly to
the call that is made upon it for
relief. The cash receipts, to date
of last evening, We're in excess of
$4,000, and this amount will be
almost doubled before another
week is ushered in. Texas has not
been appealed to in vain in this
extremity. Such incidents as this
reveal the depth of generous feel
ing that lies slumbering beneath
the surface ripples of our
apparent Indifference and ac-
quisitivenesss. With all the
DESIRE. among our people to ac-
quire wealth and advance their
fortunes, it is never so strong as to
close the heart to the appeals of
real suffering, or the pocketbooks
to the demands of true necessity.
The people of this great state are
to the full as hospitable and warm
hearted as any of their fellow
Americans, and their sympathies
and help are ever at the command
Of the truly needy. For COM
mon, everyday shiftlessness,
for the restitution born of laziness
and imprOvidence, they have
neither sympathy nor shekels, but
the first wave of a real calamity
that rolls over the country eVOkes
at once their charity of heart and
deed. This sore disaster that has
OVertaken Cisco has not been with
out its lesson Of good. 1t demon
strates that below the surface rip
pies of our selfshnesS and acQuiSi-
tiVenesS there flows an undercur-
rent Of mighty feeling, full as the
floods of the spring tide fresh
cts and reSistleSS as the
rapids of the Niagara. 1t
is refreshing to note that the old
Alamo City is no whit behind the
chiefest of the cities of Texas in
the response that she has made to
the distress cry. In addition to
the donations made by the benevO-
lent orders, the sum of $1,000 was
forwarded yesterday evening and
this is by no means the end of the
work. That the milk of hui
man kindness flows uncurdled in
the breasts of Texans is we'll known
to all who know the large-hcarted-
ness of the people, but to strang-
ers it is not so well known, and
this little Cisco incident will
abundantly prove that while we
can and do raise hell and long
horns we can raise as much money
for a genuine charity with as little
fuss as any people on top of the
sod.
TIE impression continues to
creep increasingly near the scalps |
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

IT WILL not be easy to make the
country belive that the restoration
of the duty on sugar is in the line
of free trade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE Old Alamo City has more
electric line in operation than any
city in the State, and is today con-
structing more additional miles
than any Of her sO-called rivals.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE advocacy of an income tax
finds general favor with the peo-
pie, because the taxing of all in
comes in excess Of $4,000 leaves
the weasel skins of the great ma
iOrity untouched.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TEXAS can strain at smaller
gnats and swallow larger camels
than any state that e'er was.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

SCRAPING the mud off Alamo
street does not repair it any more
than washing a Kids face mends
his torn pants.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TIE only advantage to the state
from the trial of McGaughey will
be that it will give an opportunity
to review the acts of one of it's
public servants. That conviction
will result no one expects.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE McGaughey trial will soon
be over and the accused if not a
wiser and better man will be a
sadder and madden one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

ISAAC PUsEY is in the capital of
the MOntezumas with an annual
pension of $1,000. There is moth
ing green about Gray.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

Announcements for State and County
>ffcers ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TIE city council hang fire on
that cngineership worse than an
old tiint-lOck musket.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE cup of rain water that
Southwest Texas has drunk only
increases here drinketite.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

CLAUS SPRECKLES is in Hawaii.
hell bent to oppose annexation to
this country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TIE festive strawberry does not
rOOst as high this week as it did
last week.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

To the northern frost succeeds
the flood. Terrible risky country
that.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

BETWEEN the late freezes and
the early floods Ohio has not had
much rest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE banners of the rain king
still stream out upon the sky.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

For those garbage furnaces and
that fair this city looks longingIy
and eXpectingly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

UNCLE SAM seems to be getting
the best Of that Behring Sea bust
ness.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

Louis WORTHAM as a host is a
whole host in himself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

SAN ANTONIO minds her own
business and keeps on building.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THIS weather is a little cool for
cotton, but it fits comfort to a hair.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

DENVER gets to the Worlds fair
and returns for $2j. Always a
lucky town.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE worlds center of gravity
and attraction has shifted and is
now at Chicago.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

THE commission cases 90 over
and the commission salaries 90 on.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

REAGAN hit it in the middle
when he accepted place on the
dO-nOthing commission.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

HAS the Sunday agitation
knocked out the San Antonio Fair?
1t is no more heard Of.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

NEW YORK city will only be a
side station this season, with Chi
cagO for the terminus.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

ENGLAND ana France are drying
up and Russia is freezing up.
Tough for the Old World.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

WITH Tom Watson for guberna-
torial candidate and the state gov
eminent mOnopolizing the sale of
whiskey it is no wonder that the
safe bOurbOns think it is hard
Shedding for the old party.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1898

WE did respond to the distress
cry on behalf of Cisco.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

SAN ANTONIO will have an opera
house with some desirable attract
ions next season. She needs it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TIE New York papers are re-
specially informed that when the
state of Texas concludes to divide
up she will set apart a section about
as big as her meddlesome eastern
neighbor for public park, and
invite the state of so called Empire
in the east to see how it feels to be
dumped into a single county of the
state of real Empire in the west.
New York is over anxious about
the division of Texas. This state
is like the great American Union,
one and indiVisiblC.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

WHEN that electric line is fin
ished to the Southwestern Lunatic
Asylum it will be a pleasant even
ing recreation to run down to the
sulphur springs, take a dip and
return by the light of the stars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

RUSSIA and France are still
welded in the bonds of mutual
affection, to Grrmany's chagrin.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

CE- All contracts or hills must be ap-
proved by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05

TIE attempt to cut Off the sup
plies from that idle railway COM
mission fails in the state Senate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-05
TO. CORRESPONDENTS.

TO. CORRESPONDENTS.
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LIGHT will not be responsible for the
statements OF its CORRESPONDENTS.
FRIDAY, MAY ), 1898
WE did respond to the distress
cry on behalf of Cisco.
LOUIS WORTHAM as host is a
whole host in himself.
THE banners of the rain king
still stream out upon the sky.
san ANTONIO minds her own
business and keeps on building.
THIS weather is a little cool for
cotton, but it fits comfort to a hair.
THE commission cases 90 over
and the commission salaries 90 on.
To the northern frost succeeds
the flood. Terrible risky country
that.
UNCLE SAM seems to be getting
the best Of that Behring Sea bust
ness.
TIE festive strawberry does not
rOOst as high this week as it did
last week.
BETWEEN the late freezes and
the early floods Ohio has not had
much rest.
DENVER gets to the Worlds fair
and returns for $2j. Always a
lucky town.
CLAUS SPRECKLES is in Hawaii,
hell bent to oppose annexation to
this country.
THE worlds center of gravity
and attraction has shifted and is
now at Chicago.
For those garbage furnaces and
that fair this city looks longingIy
and eNpectingly.
THE city council hang fire on
that cngineership worse than an
old tiint-lOck musket.
NEW YORK city will only be a
side station this season, with Chi
CagO for the terminus.
HAS the Sunday agitation
knocked out the San Antonio Fair?
1t is no more heard Of.
REAGAN hit it in the middle
when he accepted a place on the
dO-nOthing commission.
ENGLAND ana France are drying
up and Russia is freezing up
Tough for the Old World.
SAN ANTONIO will have an opera
house with some desirable attract
ions next season. She needs it.
RUSSIA and France are still
welded in the bonds of a mutual
affection, to Gcrmany's chagrin.
TIE attempt to cut Off the sup
plies from that idle railway com.
mission fails in the state Senate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
LOST HALF ITS MEN.
Company d Sadly Decimated by
the Holocaust.

CHICAGO, July 10.-At the little white
fire station between machinery hall and
the terminal station the remnants of
Company d gathered to rest themselves
after their terrible days work in the
lower floor of the building. The COM
pany at 1:30 numbered twelve men; to-
night just half that number were pres
ent.. Capt. Thomas P. Barry was re-
ported as being IN the emergency hos
pital suffering from serious internal
injuries, while his brave followers,
Phil Breen, Paul Schneider and Will
lam Denning, were dead. John Cahill
was thought to be under the pile of
blackened debris. which occupied the
space upon which, but few hours ago,
the handsome cold storage building was
standing. John Mcbride, the driver of
the truck, was in the hospital, but his
comrades could not speak of him, for
his injuries were reported to be
fatal. The brave firemen had made
the jump with his fellows, and, while
not going to instant death, was slowly
being tortured out of existence Both
the poor fellows legs and one arm were
broken Ill several places, and he was
badly, burned about the head. The men
had made the terrible leap as the only
possible chance of saving their lives,
and landed on the tar and graYeled
roof only to be so solidly embedded in
the sticky, yielding composition that
they could not have eXtIicated them
selves had they been granted the
strength to do so. Thus imprisoned in
this Qulcksand and on the roof they
were held firmly until the huge tower
crashed upon them and sent them down
into the fiery furnace underneath. The
survivors of the company, who were
lucky enough to escape with coats
burned Off their back, were too unsettled
from the horrifying ordeal to give any
further detail, and Capt. Hyams asked
that the men be allowed to rest for the
balance OF the evening.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
JAILED AT DEVILS LAKE.
The Determined Sheriff Runs His
Man Through the Mob.

Special to the Globe.
DEVILS LAKE, n. D., July 10.-Mur-
derer Baumberger is In the Jail here,
and though there is great excitement
about the town, the majesty of the law
is still preserved intact. Feeling runs
high against the brutal and wanton
murderer. but unless some hot spirits
arrive from Cando, there is no fear of
the intervention OF the remorseless
Judge Lynch. Word reached here this
morning that Murderer Baumberger was
expected. A crowd of seventy-five gath
cred in front of the court
house 10 await his arrival. At
IL o'clock team with Sheriff
McCune, Jim McCanna and Baum
berger drove up to the court house Oh
the gallop, followed by several other
rigs which had gone out to meet them.
On arrival at the court house, shouts of
Hang him." Lynch him" went up,
but large force of deputies had been
sworn in by Sheriff Barton, and when
the prisoner jumped out of the rig,
Sheriff McCune ahead, Sheriff Barton
behind, and several deputies surround
ing, they pushed him into a dead run
into the Jail, where he is now confined
in a cell.
Sheriff McCune had rifle which the
mob supposed was loaded. McCune is
a determined man, and the sight of his
rife was the only thing that deferred
them. The prisoner is probably safe
here, unless tbs mob from Cando fol-
lowing arrives.
Company d, North Dakota National
Guard, was called out by request of
Sheriff Barton, under orders from Gov.
Shortridge, and detachment sit on the
court house steps with loaded guns
guarding the jail. Sheriff McCune had
a long, arduous chase, and reached
DelOraine just twenty minutes behind
Baumberger, who was eating.
Looking up the latter said, Hello,
Jack, gave you quite chase" He
was perfectly cool and collected. In a
little memorandum book he had noted
the time of his arrival at Bosserain and
Whitewater. AT Bosserain he bought
lunch, played pool and bought novel
with the title, ''Old Stonewall, the Colo
RADIO Detective" On July Z, the day of
the murder, he wrote in memorandum
| book: "My name is A. F. Bomberger,
Lebanon is my dwelling place, and |
hope that Campbell town will be my
resting place when die. A. f. Bonn
berger, Lebanon city, Lebanon county,
Penn"
He admitted the murder, saying the
impulse came over him while he was
currying the horses. He intended killing
the whole family, but the eldest girl
pleaded so hard he concluded to let her
live, after forcing her to submit to him
twice. He said to the youngest one,
after shooting her: Lay there, and
die like cat"
Sheriff McCune used considerable
strategy in getting away from mobs,
throwing them off his trail at every
town. When at Cartwright he said to
tie prisoner: I'VE are liable to have a
hard time of it getting through. Had
we better start tonight?" Bomberger
replied: "Thats your business. Pm
supposed to be dead"
McCune had no rest since Friday. He
got the prisoner across the line without
extradition papers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
PENSION SUSPENSIONS.
Many Must Prove That They Are
Unable to Work.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-1he pepsi on
bureau has notified great many PEN
sioners throughout the entire country,
who are drawing pensions under the
act of June 27, 1890, known as the de-
pendent pension act. that payment of
their pensions will be suspended for
sixty days, during which time they
are required to show cause why they
should continue to draw pensions. The
testimony necessary to prevent their
being dropped from the rolls is the Ger
tificate of reputable physician. .attested
by two witnesses. to the effect that the
pensioner Is precluded from active labor
owing to injuries or disability not
the result of his own vicious
habits. In case no attention is paid to
the department notification within
sixty days the pensioner will be dropped
from the rolls. On the other hand,
should the necessary certificate, prop
erly drawn up and signed, 6e forwarded
to the pension bureau, the penSioner
Will be requested to appear before the
local board of medical examiners for
examination as to his condition. This
action is pursuant to the recent ruling
of Secretary Smith that a pensioner
under the act of June 81. $780, drawing
a pension for total disability,
must be shown to be physi-
cally incapable of manual labor.
The board of review appointed to
carry into effect that decision is now
going over all of the cases of June 81,
1890, probably 100000 in number, and
selecting those cases which show in the
record that the pensioner may not be
incapacitated for manual labor. In the
cases thus selected the pensioners are
notified, as before stated, to prove their
total disability to the department or
cease to draw pensions. Under Secre-
tary Smiths ruling the department
holds that man who can work should
not draw pension for total disability.
1t is estimated at the pension office, al
though the work has but recently been
begun, that something over 1000 sus-
pensions have already been made.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
RESIGNED IN TIME.
A Board of Examiners Marked
for the Slaughter.

A Board of Examiners Marked
for the Slaughter.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-Drs. r. S.
Miles, w. Smalley and II. K. Dressner,
who make up the pension examining
board at Glencoe, have resigned. This
action simply hastens by few days
their separation from the service. as
Judge Lochreu had already decided to
remove them as he did the boards at
Faribault, Austin and Preston. The
board at Glencoe was named on the IN
dorsement of Hon. Dar S. Hall early in
1889. Miles, the senior member, who
seems to have urged the resignation
upon his associates, was a Democrat
prior to 1886, when, falling to secure
the nomination of the Democracy of
Mcleod county for state senator. he
bolted and attempted to defeat the reg
ular nominee, Hon. E. A. Child. by run
ming as an independent candidate. In
1888 he blosSomed out as a radical Re-
publican, and his abusive remarks con-
corning Mr.. Cleveland were enough to
insure his removal. Other designations
from examining boards are DR.. l.. ii.
Munger, st. Cloud; DR.. f. L. Pusfer,
Monticello, and DR.. A. Eggers, Grand
Forks, n. D.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
SAVED MANY BUILDINGS,
Good Work by Brave Men in Hot
Air and Smoke.

GoOu w Ork by Brave Men in Hot
Air and Smoke.
CHICAGO, July 10.-While the bulk of
the fire-tighting forces were engaged in
their hazardous work in the doomed
building, scene of great bravery was
enacted OH a little shed between the
barn and the color department in the
rear of the cold storage building, directly
III the path of the hot air and dense
smoke, swept southward by the wind.
Capt. William j. Sanderson, of the
Columbian guards, assisted by ten of
his company, Engine Company No. SO
from the stOckyards, aud several will
ing visitors, had placed three leads of
hose upon the shed, and in the midst
of a storm of fire and smoke
stood their ground fighting like de-
mons to keep the fire from the paint
shop filled with inflammable paints.
oils, varnishes and flimsey material
used in decorations. Had the fire
reached the paint shop it would have
quickly spread to the store house of the
Wellington Catering company, and
from then on there would have been no
breaking the progress of the destructive
element until it had burned its way
through the train sheds and dairy barns
to the south edge of the park. The
men stood their ground for an hour.
and, after seeing their object achieved,
retired with blistered faces and burned
clothes. The act was cheered by thou
sands of people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
SACAZA AT SAN DIEGO.
The Nicaraguan Says He Is Still
the President.

ehO
SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 10.-Among
the passengers arriving at this port by
the Pacific Mail steamer Colon was
Roberto Sacaza, of Nicaragua, who, in
company with his wife and two sons,
Is en- route to Chicago, Washington and
New York. The party embarked at
Corinto, the steamer Colon being first
to visit that point since revolutionary
disturbances commenced in that CITY,
Saeaza says his present visit to the
United States is for recreation and in
struction merely, and that with his
family he intends to spend some time
at the worlds fair. He ascribes
lie revolution not to personal
unity toward himself, but to
strong jealousy existing between the
cities of Leon and Granada. He gives
great credit to Minister Baker, of the
United States, who, he says, was the
Sne who finally succeeded in bringing
the rival factions together near Granada,
where provisional treaty was made.
AS to the terms of the treaty, he saws
positively that his withdrawal from the
presidency was not demanded.
81 was still constitutional president of
Nicaragua" SAID he. ''and have left the
chair only for the time occupied by this
visit, which will consume about five
months. During my absence my
trusted friend, Senator Machado, will
act in my place. 1t has been agreed to
hold convention within four months
to revise the constitution. The matter
will be settled, therefore, before l re-
turn home."