San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-11

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GEN. REYES GONE To SALTILLO.
On the morning Of August 81
Gen Bernardo Reyes returned
from Montclova, and on Friday
morning he weRt to Saltillo- His
mission to that city was to bring
about settlement between
thu two political factions which
has caused some bloodshed
in Coahnila. In this he has been
successful. On Monday last, word
was received in this city, that
Governor Galan notified his friends
that he would withdraw from the
race and that he would not be q
candidate for reelection. If this
report should prove true, the OppO-
sitiOn will elect their man without
any further bloOdshed.
COLLEGE OPENED.
On Monday last the Laurens In
stitute was opened. This Institute
was built by the ''ROSe Bud Child
rem society of the Methodist EpiS-
cOpal church, south of the United
States. The building is a two
story brick with a mansard eleva-
ton, which makes it a three story
building. The east or front is 20
feet with a projecting partua
which raises 10 feet above the roof
the south side is 81 feet and the
north side 43 feet. Each story is
divided into t rooms and a ten foot
hall through each story. The build
ingis erected on a block of ground
about midway between the MeXi-
can Gulf railways, and commands
a fine view of the city and the sur
rounding mountains.
Mr.. Leon j. Geraud architect and |
builder of this city erected it, at a
cost of $4,000. Rev. B. G. Marsh |
is the principal and is assisted by |
corps of teachers.
Mrs. f. S. SchwarZ and Mrs. L.
Smith opened private school for
girls Monday morning.
SHORT STOPS.
At 1910 Monday morning as a
freight train on the Monterey and
Mexican Gulf railway, was coming
in to Caderelta, tWenty-fOur miles
east of Monterey, the boiler eX-
plOded, and threw the fireman,
Oliver Cromwell, out of the cab
distance of about 100 feet. His
shirt was torn clean off him and
the flesh scalded from his wa st up'
His pants, down his left leg, was
split open and his shoe torn off and
thrown to the opposite side of the
train, and the flesh scalded so that
it peeled off in places. Notwith-
standing that he was thus scalded
and burned, he lived until 4:30
p. IN. He told the conductor, Mr..
]. a. COnnan, that his father work.
ed in the machine shops at TT.
Worth, and that his mother was
dead. The engineer who was sit
ting at his post with his hands on
the throttle did not receive a
But as soon as he saw
what had occurred he put out for
,he United States.
The engine was new and was
)nly short time on the road, both /
ends of the boiler blew out, the fire !
DoX dropped on the track sped the !
rack add broke the iron CRATES as
.hOugh they We're clay pipe stems
strange to say that the engine kept |
he track and the whole train went !
safely over.
On the first of every month the t
miners to the number of from four
% six hundred who are employed !
)y MaiZ Bro, at the San Pedro
mines come. in to the city to be
paid off. Last Friday morning
hey wCry seated on the bencl @ on
lie Zaragozo plaza, men, women
md children, and they presented a
appearance in their
costumes.
Governor Bernardo Reyes has
ssued the annual programme for.
he celebration of the - and Is Of I
The celebration this
year is expected to surpass any
previous one in this city, as on that
the new statue of Hidal-
20 that has been erected on the
HidalgO plaza will be unveiled.
PERSONALS.
Saturday last Mr.. John Grace,
he general superintendent of the
and Mexican Gulf rail-
way, and d. w. Linsay, the private
secretary of J. A. Robertson, the
general manager left for Chicago on !
business, and will take in the
Worlds fair.
This evening Nat Turner, the
thief engineer of the road, and fam /