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MEXICAN PRESS REPORT.

There is great rivalry between
, the railroads for travel to the ex-
position.
Ramon Fernandez, minister for
Mexico to France, has arrived. 1t
is rumOred that he will be re-
moved.
There is rich mining boom in
AmargOZa and CarriZo districts in
Chihuahua.
The chamber has approved the
budget for the ensuing fiscal year,
which has gone to the president
for his signature.
The concession to r.. Pate, Of
st. Louis, Mo-, for breeding farms
and racing circuit has passed the
chamber definitely.
The deputies are discussing the
bill to grant 100000 for the re-
mainder of the present fiscal year
and 100000 monthly the next ffs-
cal year for completing the work of
draining the valley in which Mex
leo City lies.
Work on the iron mines of and
the railroad to Zacatlan will be
commenced soon. The money has
been secured in England.
At Jucatan the troops pursuing
the bandits overlook them and in
the fight which ensued the bandits
lost four killed, two wounded and
three prisoners. The troops lost
one killed and one wounded.
Francisco Cosmos, one of the
most intimate friends of the late
General Gonzalez, has published a
letter denying that any such thing
as the Gonzalez party ever exist.
| ed.
Friday the American colony will
banquet Minister Gray.
The governor of San Luis Potosi
is dangerously i'll.
The earnings of the InteroceaniC
railway the past week We're $43,.
2S3.53.
The government has granted
eXequutOr to the new American
consul general, Crittenden.
The Mexican Cable cOmpany's
traffic has been interrupted be.
tween Mexico City and Vera Cruz
The chamber of deputies this af-
ternoon granted permission to
Rodet Nunez to accept the position
of sub-secretary of finance, vice
Limantour, promoted to minister
Joaquin Carasus, Mexican dele,
gate to the Brussels Monetary
conference, arrived in New
York yesterday with the
ashes of Altamirano, late Mex
lean conul general at Paris
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SPECIAL BARGAINS
In Farm and Ranch Property

In farm anu ndncn property.
ll,2OO acres in Bandera and Medina
counties under fence, good water. SITS
per acre.
10000 acres in Atascosa county all
fenced fine pasture land. $3.50 per acre.
1000 acres in Williamson and Burnet
counties all fenced, large portion of this
tract is fine agricultural land. $500 per
acre.
1000 acres in AtaScosa county all fenced
good water. 50 90 per acre.
1900 acres in La Sale county, fenced
3 windmills fine ranch. $3.50 per acre. Q
$3.50 acres on San Antonio river. 5000
per acre.
24OO acres on the Llano river ,'all fenced
house, etc, 9 miles from junction City.
$500 per acre.
1000 acres on San Miguel creek, Atlas
coSa county. all fenced, house, stock pens,
etc. 1915 per acre.
1920 acres In McMullen county, wind.
mill, house, cribs, etc. $1,000.
1000 acres on San Antonio river, under
fence, well improved, IL miles from San
Antonio, $1,000 per acre.
1000 acres, 10 miles west of city, all
fenced. Good house and other improve
mentS. $500 per acre.
96O acres between Moor and Pearsall,
wells, large barn, house & etc. 800 per
acre.
$50 acres 211 miles from Bandera, under
fence, large hay meadow, so acres in cul-
tivation, good barn, hay press and other
machinery stock, good water. $500.
Cal on address,
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Increased Telegraph Facilities.

T. p. Cook, superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph SER
vice in Texas, C. HI. Bristol of Chi
Cago, superintendent of construc-
ton and A. G. KeckinsOn it's store
keeper, also of Chicago, came in
last evening on an inspection tour.
Mr.. Cook says extra wires between
San Antonio and Dallas will be
strung and the general telegraph
service here be increased.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-17
WASHINGTON AND AUSTIN.
Happenings at the State and Ma
tlonal Capitals.

tlonal Capitals.
The Chinese question is the all
absorbing topic at the National
capital and occupied the attention
of the cabinet yesterday to the eX-
clusion of all else. The president
did not anticipate any such de-
cisiOn by the court and is all
abroad. The situation is perpleX-
ing as the law is imperative, and
there has been no provision made
for deportation. Some scatter
brains think there will be war with
China, but it is all talk for politi-
cal effect on the part of those who
condemn the exclusion measure as
Republican scheme.
Investigation into the office of
commissioner of patents unearths
some irregularities, and he will
find some difficulty in explaining
them away.
Arrangements acceptable to
Spain have been completed for the
reception of the Infanta Eulalie,
and all courtesy and consideration
due her rank will be paid her by
the United States government. She
is expected at New York Friday
and will come directly to Wash
ington where she will be dined by
the President and Mrs. Cleveland.
The Cherokee strip contract will
be signed today. The regulations
for settlement will be substantially
the same same as those adopted
for Oklahoma. 1t is not thought
that the strip will be really opened
to settlement before the middle of
July.
The late presidential appoint
ments are:
A. G. Baker of Arizona, chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of the
territory of Arizona.
Edward l.. Hall of New Mexico,
marshal of the United States for
the territory of New Mexico.
Benjamin. p Moore of New York,
collector of customs for the dis
trict of the Alaskan territory.
w. H. Pugh of Ohio, commits
sioner of customs, vice S. V. Holli-
day of Pennsylvania, resigned.
r.. NJ. Coussar of Tennessee, dep
uty first auditor of the treasury.
Secretary Carlisle today appoint
ed Samuel Reads, Jr., of Marble
head, Mass, chief of the stationary
division of the treasury. depart
| ment.
The president today appointed
w. H. DimOnd, superintendent of
the United States mint at San
| Francisco.
The good people of Austin flock
| by thousands to the dam to see
| the water fall over. The dam has
widened the river bed to over a
quarter of mile for distance of
nearly 80 miles up stream. The
oarsmen are busy training, and
testing their ability to approach
the dam without being carried
over.
Next Sunday is Jewish cOntirma-
ton day at the Synagogue. There
are 7 candidates for the rite.
The terms of the new supreme
civil courts open September LIST of
each year and the session may con-
tinue until the lst of the following
July. The counties embraced in
the 4th district, which holds court
at San Antonio, are: FL Paso, Low
ing, Winkler, Reeves, jeff Davis,
Presidio, Brewster, Buchel, PecOs,
Ward, Crane, Upton, Crockett, Val
Verde, Schleicher, Sutton, Ed
wards, Kinney, Maverick, Menard,
Kimble, Kerr, Bandera, Uvalde,
Zavala, Dimmit, Webb, Encinal,
La Sale, Frio, Medina, Duval, Nc
Mullen, Atascosa, BeXar, Kendall,
Gillespie, Mason, Guadalupe, Will
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$50 LOTS FOR SALE.

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ACT PROMPTLY

And attend "the Panic Sale" of
Carpets this week at JOskes'. 30
cents and more in your purse on
every dollar you invest. Great re-
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the "Joske Bulletin Board" ) 10 st
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-17
HANCOCK HoNoRED.
The Retired Superintendent will
Now Wear Diamonds.

NO"
The LIGHT published the fact
that George A. Hancock had re-
signed his position of superinten-
dent of motive power of the Aran-
sas Pass to accept similar service
with the Santa Fe system. This
resignation of course takes him
away from San Antonio and his
new station will be at Galveston.
His friends and associates before
his departure, desired to express
their appreciation of his worth and
their regard for the courtesies he
had shown them, and last night
they invited him Unexpectedly in
to the parlors of the Maverick
hotel where a committee consist
ing of 7. s. Riley, chairman, John
Hall and Chas KOpke, represent
ing the engineers, Charles Seabrook
and ID. S. Houth, the machinists,
and Thomas Howden and John
Mcdonald, the car department,was
in waiting.
AS Hancock appeared, and when
he reached the center of the par
Tor, amid cries of "Oh! George"
Tom Riley, who was the spokes-
man, stepped forward and said
"George, the boys all know you are
a good man, made of the right
kind of stuff, and ought to wear
diamonds. You have their best
wishes wherever you go. They are
sorry to part from you and have
told me, because l don't know how
to talk, to tell you so, and present
you with this" Here Riley opened
a moroccO-bound, satin-lined cas-.
ket, and taking therefrom costly
and elegant diamond ring, grabbed
one of Hancock's digits and slipped
the ring on, while there was a
match to the jewel glistening just
below the corner of each of Han
cocks optics. Hancock tried tC
speak, but great big sob came ul
and, somehow or other, it
got caught in the frog
of the switch in his tho
raX, and it took several minutes tC
remove the obstruction from the
main line. When he was able tC
talk George said: "Boys you all
don't know how much | thank
you for this expression of your
good feelings towards me. | am
very sorry to have to pass from you
and this makes me even SOrrier.
am not a speaker but you must
understand how | feel when | know
exactly how you feel. | know from
the way the ladies are weeping
that they are all dry, and lets SEE
if we can't get Mrs. White to fix us
up a little spread" Then the boys
took cold tea and champagne, and
the ladies had cake and chicken
salad, and they all gathered
around George and admired him
and his ring until it was time 70
break up the tea party.
PROPOSALS FOR ORDINANCE SUP
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LATE KILOGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE
SPECIAL AND OTHER
SOURCES.

Dental association formed at
Waco.
Ike Walker kills John Hall near
Kerens.
The Pinkertons are shut out of
Michigan.
New York ships a million in
gold today.
The Southern Baptists meet next
year in Dallas.
T. H. Lancaster acquitted of MUIR
der at Colorado.
Houston sends 60 tin-horn gam
blers out of town.
Unknown vessel lost in collision
off LowestOtf, Eng.
Sotirupilous is premier of the
new Greek cabinet.
Bank of the Carolinas, Charles
ton, S. c.. suspends.
An alligator gar 5 feet long
caught near NueceS.
Strike on the Texas Central road
satisfactorily settled.
IlLLlt w
Galveston for murder.
Brutal prize fight in Belmont
county, West Virginia.
South Texas development assO-
citation meets in Houston.
Another vote on Irish home rule,
Gladstone wins 304 to 247.
All Webb and Encinal counties
are abundantly watered.
All the western country reports
good corn, cotton and grass.
La Sale county reports $4,000
cash deal in land and cattle.
Louisville's richest man, A. ".
Dupont is dead aged 60 years.
Session of National Editorial
association opens at Chicago.
Wheat and corn are slightly ad-
vanced and market stiffened.
Sir Charles Russell continues
argument on Behring sea case.
Godfrey & Clark Paper company
confesses judgment for $S5O,OOO.
Houston knights of Pythias keep
decoration day on Sunday the 18th.
Grand Lodge of Knights of Ply
thias (colOred) meets at Galveston.
Ed Nichols found guilty Of rape
in Travis county, aggravated case.
H. Abbott hangs at Concord n.
H., for the murder of Christie War
den.
Laredo sends another batch of
prisoners to San Antonio Federal
court.
Clark, Chicago real estate man,
missing; his accounts are $4,000
short.
Green & Jones, merchants, Bal
linger, assign. Preferred credits
$S,573.
r. C. Nc Mahon gets three years
for stealing sheep in Val Verde
county.
That Minneapolis failure may
stop the north Galveston railway
project.
Cold and wet make the days
very gloomy on Worlds fair
ground.
London is depressed over bank
failures and securities are de-
pressed.
First, National Bank of Cedar
Falls, Iowa, suspends. Liabilities,
$4,000.
Erastus Wyman, of New York,
makes general assignment, debts
100000.
Lightning strikes Laredo street
car wires and does considerable
damage.
Rio Grande rising at Eagle Pass
and now covers the island under
the bridge.
Exchange bank of Norval, near
Bloomington, ILL.,, suspends. De-
posits, $4,000.
Grand Lake crevasse is now 500
feet wide. 1t will flood the best
Louisiana lands.
Body of H. r. Merchant, marine
engineer, found murdered and
robbed at Houston.
Cumberland glass company fail
to make out a case against en-
ployes for conspiracy.
Houston gets the best of Shreve-
port in the cooking main, and Lou
isiana's feathers droop.
Paris police find very destruc-
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JOB PRINTING

In all It's branches done with neatness
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Job Office.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

there is a tendency to work on new
lines. The bust of Bessie, an eXqui
site piece of sculpture, reflects the un-
folding of an independent spirit, as
necessary in art as in any other de.
partment of human labor and achieve
ment.
The art institute of Chicago is the
most distinguished and successful of
all the undertakings for an advanced
culture IN thu city. 1t had a struggle
to maintain life in the early years of
its existence, but has triumphed over
all the difficulties of its checkered
career and has at last reached a height
of achievement scarcely hoped for by
its founders and friends, who are
proud of its progress and resolved
upon greater advance in the future.
The commendable feature of the Chi
cago Art school exhibit is the truth
fulness of its work, the absolute
freedom from bizarre and theatrical
effects, the purity and refinement of
motive. Should a great national
school OF art be established in the near
future it would not be mistake to
place it in the wonderful city on the
shore of beautiful inland sea where
not long ago art was welded to indus
try and where to-day we have as the
fruitage of that union the marvellous
white City," the greatest triumph of
the skill and genius of man.
The st. Louis schco oil of fine arts,
of which Halsey Ives, chief of the
fine arts department at the Co
lumbar Exposition, is president, has
a fine exhibit adjoining the Chicago
school. 1t was reorganized under the
Washington university in 1879 when it
entered upon stage of rapid progress
and great usefulness 1t gives a wide
and careful training in all the depart
ments of drawing, painting and m odel-
ing with instructions in anatomy,
perspective and composition and has
life classes for both sexes in drawing
from draped models. The treatment
of flesh tones, shows thorough training
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
M AKINO 1T CLEAR.
Electric Street Cars Bothered Him and
Explanations Made 1t Worse.


An old man from somewhere boz
yond the suburbs stood on a Forty
seventh street corner watching a troll
ley car moving swiftly eastward with
a heavy load of passengers, says the
Philadelphia Times.
That's one of these 'lectrio cars,
amt it?" he said, turning to bored
looking man who was leaning against
telegraph pole.
"Yes.
81 don't see how Electricity can.
make a car full o. people Flip along
over the ground like that
You don't?" exclaimed the other,
becoming Interested. "Why, it's
easy enough to see through whom
you once understand it."
III 'xpect so, but I've never heard
enough about it to understand it,"
at is all matter OF watts. A
watt, don't you see, is fraction of a
horsepower, expressed in tho tech
nical language of electrical engi-
neering. You know what an ampere
is, don't you?"
"a whatp"
"An ampere. 1t is a quantity OF
electricity that goes through tho
wire and developes the watt The
electricity comes from tho central
dynamo through that wire you see
running overhead, runs down through
that iron POKE. and goes to the motor,
which is an ingenious but perfectly
simple arrangement Of wire coils
with revolving frame. acted upon
by the current which sets it to spin
ming, and thus puts in motion q small
cog-wheel that engages another cog
wheel that communicates tho rotary
movement to a third cog-wheel
fastened to the axle OF the car. It's
as plain as day when you get tho
idea.
"Yes, but how"
don { you understand it yet?
there's sort of wire brush that
presses against a copper plate con
nected with the motor and the wire
is wound around the frame | was
telling you about, so that when the
current enters the motor it can go
either way, and part of it goes ono
way and part the other, so that the
pressure is applied in opposite di-
rections, and that's what makes tho
jigger revolve and sets the wheels
in motion. The current goes back
through the underground wire. See
through it now?"
"Y-yes. / think kind o. get tho
idee."
The affable stranger strolled down
the street and the old man took
another look at the overhead wire,
gazed earnestly in the direction in
which the car had gone, took OF his
hat and wiped his forehead
What I'd like to know" he NUT
tered, lis how in thunder the cleo
tricity makes the car gow