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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THIS state should take interest
enough in that dam regatta to
turn out en- masse to it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27
SATURDAY, MAY y, 1898

THAT Carlisle boom will wither
if it is picked too green.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE Infanta has been more
polite since her entry into this
country than many of her critics.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

CLEVELAND thinks that patron
age pastry is little too rich for the
cOlOred blood.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE plea for southern savings
banks grows louder and more in
Sistent. They are coming.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

IT is almost time to hear how
TerrelPs mule is cavorting among
the ConstantinOple ours.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

Announcements for State and County
Ifficers ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

GALVESTON has had bad cast
of election fever. The crisis will
pass in about two weeks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THAT Negro Democratic league
ask for a little of he patronage
pie on a colOred plate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

SOUTHWEST TEXAS has her ear
to the phone waiting for San An
tonic to hello, FAIR, but shr hears
not.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

PREPARING for a FAIR should
not be considered a foul proceed
ing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

HOGG'S veto of the sugar bounty
has no sweetness in it for the Tex
as tax payer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE south will pluck up cour-
age three years hence and demand
the presidential candidate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE wealth that man wants is
sometimes a heavier burden than
that which he has cOrraled.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

AUSTIN has the finest state
house and the biggest dam west Of
the Alegheney mountains.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE Trinity will find the burden
of the Harvey as great as Balaam's
ass found that of his bulky MASTER
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THERE is nothing small about
that Worlds fair, not even the
quarrels among the women.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

F All contracts or kills must be APP
proved by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27
FINE RANCH. A BARGAIN.

$4,000 on easy payment, will buy the
finest and cheapest ranch in BeXar cOun-
ty, thirteen miles west of San Antonio. on
the Cuiebra creek. Excellent meadows,
farming and pasture and timber lands, al
fenced, and containing $500 acres It land
with two fine wells of permanent water
and two large tanks well distributed;
three dwelling houses. stables and colt ais.
For further information call upon }. V.
Dignowity, over Texas Nationa bank II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

UNCLE SAM has no apology to
make for the passage of the Geary
law, nor for it's enforcement.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

CLEvELAND's cabinet occupy his
attention and his time to the
exclusion of the pie pleaders.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

PRAYERS are offered for those
Australian banks. 1t will take
strong financial faith to save them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THE levee that holds against tie
volumes of water that now swell
the Mississippi is a good one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

THAT International mining con-
gress seems inclined to invite
trouble. 1t will come soon enough.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

AUSTIN has the finest state
house and the biggest dam west of
the Alegheney mountains.
Houston Posi- had better clean
up before sending for that New
England cotton committee.
TIE wealth that a man wants is
sometimes a heavier burden than
that which he has corraled.
THERE is nothing small about
that Worlds fair, not even the
quarrels among the women.
UNCLE SAM has no apology to
make for the passage of the Geary
law, nor for its enforcement.
CLEvELAND's cabinet occupy his
attention and his time to the
exclusion of the pie pleaders.
THE levee that holds against tie
volumes of water that now swell
the Mississippi is a good one.
THAT International mining con-
gress seems inclined to invite
trouble. 1t will come soon enough.
PRAYERS are offered for those
Australian banks. 1t will take
strong financial faith to save them.
THE Trinity will find the burden
of the Harvey as great as Balaam's
ass found that of his bulky master.
THE Infanta has been more
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-27

| Australian banks. 1t will take
strong financial faith to save them.
THE Trinity will find the burden
of the Harvey as great as Balaam's
ass found that of his bulky master.
THE Infanta has been more
polite since her entry into this
country than many of her critics.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS has her ear
to the phone waiting for San An
tonic to hello, FAIR, but shr hears
not.
THOSE dam bonds are not
damned by any dam injunction.
The courts say that they are all
o. k.
-=--=-=-
PHOEBE COUZINS is a good kick
er. In this Worlds fair business
she stands on nothing and kicks
high.
THOSE who have considered the
consequence of Chinese occupation
the least condemn the exclusion
act the most.
DALLAS saloons close on Sunday
wi l.
They do not want too much circus
on that day, all at once.
TIE farmer who tends to his hoe
handle and only stops scratching
to wipe his brow is getting to the
head of the row in good shape.
HOUSTON closes up the dives I'M
til the Bayou is cleaned out. 1t
could not stand the double damna-
ton at one and the same time.
THAT lone highwayman who
freed a Texas train in her western
wilds, has been caught and the
wild and woolly west breathes
freer.
CISCO has only received about
fifteen per cent of her losses in the
contributions sent in for her relief.
Texas should have done better
than that.
THOSE who complain that the
Worlds fair is a failure do not
know the alphabet of the univer-
sal language in which it's unQues-
toned success is written.
DALLAS is banking on water
rates for freight on account of the
navigation of the Trinity. San An
tonic can start a bigger river out
of the bungs of her beer barrels.
THAT Cherokee strip will be
opened after the harvest is over.
Till then the walters on the verge
of that long promised land can
suck their thumbs for sustenance.
THAT Galveston meeting among
the railroad passenger agents did
not pan out anything for the Texan
who asks low rate to the Worlds
fair. Tickets are still in the clouds.
THE Michigan Democrats COM
plain that Dickinson has bundled
them all into one batch, tied them
up and labeled them "DOn,"
claiming them as his personal
property.
THE efforts of the San AntOni-
ans to catch a glimpse of the chris
tan Sabbath are not as, agOnizing
as those of Houston to catch a
Whit of pure air amid the pestif-
erOus eXhalatiOns of that bayou.
This moral reflection is affection
ately relegated to the cOnsidera-
ton of the Post.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
GERMANY's ARMY BILL.
The Whole Question Again Discussed
at a Cabinet Council.

at a Cabinet Council.
Berlin, May l7.-At cabinet council
held to-day Chancellor Won Capriyi, Gen.
Won Kaltenborn-Stachau, the Prussian
minister of war, and Herr Won Maltzahn.
the imperial secretary of the treasury, are
reported TO have spoken at length con
corning the attitude of the government
the new Reichstag in the matter of the
army bill. The decision is understood to be
that the government shall present bill
drawn on the lines of the Huen compro-
mise The money required by the increase
of the peace effective the government
hopes to obtain by raising the taxes on
beer and spirituous liquors. Brcsaular
Ieitung says that government has post
poned until July the maneuvers Of. the
reserves and landweir, in order that the
men may be free next month to vote.
While speaking to veterans associa-
ton III Heidelberg Tuesday evening the
Grand Duke Of Baden urged the obliga-
ton of German citizens to be loyal and
trustful toward the government. At the
same time, says the Buerger-ZeitUng he
should direct attention to the fact that
the war 1870-'T was won more by superb
ority Of training than by superiority OF
numbers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
A ROW IN BOMENIA'S DIET.
The Czech and German Interests in a
Big Fight.

The Trouble Started by the Filibuster-
ing Tactics Resorted to by the Czechs
Against a Municipal BiI-One of the
Speakers Forcibly Elected From the
Tribune-TnkstandsF Fly in the Row
That Follows
Prague, May 17.-The Bohemian diet
was the scene to-day of n display of VIC
lence and disorder unparalleled in the
protracted and bitter struggle for supre-
macy between the Czech and German
elements, A bill was before the diet
which conferred upon the local tribunal
at TrGutnau, town of Bohemia twenty
five miles from Koniggratz, certain pow
ers intended to strengthen the position of
the Germans as against the Czechs. The
young Czechs carried on resolute ilibust-
ering TO prevent the passage Of the bill.
Prince Lobkowitz, president Of the
diet, who is an appointe of the Austrian
emperor, and therefore attached to the
German interest, rebul1ed the flibusters
for their obstructive course and insisted
that Herr Funcke, whom the committee
had selected to report tho bill should be
a-Ne'A't' AA1A = l. NAAN nc tAlNACh bllC u AAbhAAt
and began speaking
Czech deputy named Blzordod felt
offended at Herr Funcke's utterances
and, without appealing to the chair,
climbed to the tribune and assaulted Herr
tmcke and elected him from the tribune
Herr Euncke continued his remarks upon
the floor, but a general row followed, in
which inkstands We're thrown and the
stenOgraphcrs were malucated. Prince
Lobkowitz himself, was menaCed with
personal violence and declared the sitting
closed. The prince has since been occu-
pied IN preliminary arrangements for
duels with several OF his antagonists.
The scene in the diet caused great ex-
element throughout the city. The stud
ents Of the university broke out in a riot
ious demonstration and wrecked the win
doWs of club houses and mansions of
people obnoxious to them. The police are
guarding the streets in the vicinity of the
diet. The diet will probably be dissolved
1T IS stated that the bill opposed by the
young Czocds proposed virtually to separ-
ate the northern districts of Bohemia in
order to give the Germans control over
their local affairs.
Emperor Francis Joseph telegraphcd to
Prague this evening an order closing the
present session of the Bohemian diet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
The Jury Says Walter Williams Did
Not Murder Mrs. Martha Brockett.

The Jury Says Walter williams Did
Not Murder Mrs. Martha Brockett.
Bainbridge, Ga, May 17-The trial of
Walter Williams for the murder of Mrs
Martha Brockett in this county in 1881
was taken for trial in the superior court
Monday Williams escaped, and, after
eleven years absence, was captured by
Sheriff Patterson last year and brought
back to the scene of his crime.
There was quite a number Of witnesses
sworn. but less than half dozen Of the
number were introduced. The principal
witness for the defendant was his brother,
John Williams, who, two weeks ago,
in an effort to make his escape from the
penitentiary, was shot in the neck and
died
The case was closed Tuesday The
prisoner made his statement and in doing
so protested innocence.
The speeches were exceptionally fine.
At 80 o'clock the jury retired and in
less than an hour returned verdict Of
mot guilty"
The scene that followed is seldom wit
messed anywhere, as the defendants
wife, mother and sister threw their arms
around the necks of their attorneys and
wept for JOY.
After an hour or so Of Misunderstanding
Williams succeeded in getting away from
his friends long enough TO go to the tele-
graph Office and send telegram to his
children in Arkansas
Williams win return to Arkansas and
resume charge Of his business there.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
RUSH OF THE RIVERS.
Tho News From the overAowed Dis
tricts DiBcouraging.

Memphis, Tenn, May 11-The news
from the overfowed districts In Arkansas
and Louisiana is Of the most discomaging
character. Specials to the Commercial
from points on the west side of the river
below Memphis report n distressing con
dition of affairs. The water, which has
been flowing around the head of the levee
system above Osccola, Ark, has inundated
st. Francis basin, farmers being com
PEELED to abandon all hope of raising a
cotton crop. Almost every foot of land
in Chicotcounty, Arkansas, 200miles below
Memphis has been flooded by water from
the Lakeport, Brooks mill and Grand
lake crevasses. The Grand lake
creyasse> was reported TO be 600
feet wide at 3 o'clock this afternoon and
still caving rapidly. The water from
the crevasSe is flooding the northern por-
tion Of Louisiana and is making sits way
across the swamps into the Red river
country. The Red river is already very
high and disastrous overflow in that
section is regarded as certain.
The river at Memphis began falling to-
day. The gauge tonight showed &c. feet
above low water, q fall Of one inch in
twenty-four hours.
The heavy rains in the Ohio valley and
on the upper Mississippi and Missouri
have created considerable apprehension,
as it is feared that the fall here will be
checked ana the river go higher.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
Australia's Crisis still Acute.

London, May 17.-Advices from Aus
tralia show that the financial crisis is
Of Queensland, limited, had suspended
The stock exchange opened to-day with
better tendency, but afterward weak
ened. Grand Trunk Of Canada consuls
were a fraction better. Buyers were
scarce and there were many liquidations.
HARD TIMES HOLIDAYS.
Brisbane, May 1.-THE government of
Queensland has proclaimed q holiday for
ono month in the gold fields in order TO
enable the mine owners and others EN-
barrassed as 10 their business by the
recent failures to make new arrange
ments as 70 their financial affairs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
DUPLICATED PAY ACCOUNTS.
The Court-Martial Condemned for
Treating the Matter Lightly.


Washington, May 1.-THE findings Of
the general court-martial convened at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, for the trial of
Capt William Johnson, retired, and their
recommendation in the case have been
disapproved by President Cleveland. The
court-martial was presided over by Col
James W. Forsythe of the Seventh cavalry
and Capt Sidney w. Taylor of the Fourth
artillery was Judge advocate The gem
eral charge against the officer was con-
duct unbecOming an officer and a gentle
man, to which there were three specifica-
tiOns. Each specification gives ease in
which Capt Johnson became indebted to
persons or banks, which indebtedness
he failed to pay. The second and
third specifications state that he
also duplicated his pay ac-
counts. The third specification, the
only one on which he was found guilty,
states that Capt. johnson assigned and
transferred to II. Forbes & Co of Boston
his pay account and claim for pay for the
month of January, 1898, and also assigned
and transferred his salary for the same
month to the Central National Bank of
Springfield, Mo. The accounts were pre-
sented for payment by both assignees on
the same day, and because of the double
assignment and presentation payment
was refused and Secretary Lamont
ordered Capt. Johnson's pay for the
month wholly stopped. The court find
him guilty of the third specification only
and of the general charge not guilty, but
guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline. The court
sentences him "to be reprimanded by the
reviewing authority"
Following is Secretary Lamont's order
in the case:
In the foregoing case of Capt. w. c. John
son, retired, the findings on the first and sec
ond specification and upon The charge and
sentence Of the court are disapproved by the
direction Of the President In private life a
person tried and adjudged guilty of assigning
property as collateral ana then appropriating
its avails to his own use. or of Transferring
for value received the same property TO two
separate persons. would be subjected to Sc
we're and humiliating punishment. That a
courtmartial comprising officers of rank and
experience should so lightly regard similar
oftenses here fully established and found is a
reproach to the service, and the proceeding
Is in marked inconsistency with the duty of
protecting and maintaining the high sense of
personal honor, which has long characterized
the reputation Of the army.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
CoLUMBIA's CARNIVAL.
The Prize Drill Brings Out a Kick
AEainst the Judges.

ABulnSb Cn6 Judges.
Columbia, s. c., May l7.-Columbia's
carnival was inaugurated to-day under
very favorable auspices, there being
large crowd Of visitors in the city and the
weather being all that could be desired.
The features of the day were the address
of Pleasant A. Stovan of savannah and
the military prize drill, which was won
by the Darlington Guards. MIR. Stovall
made a splendid impression on the Caro-
lima people, who were won by his elo-
quence and poetic diction-
There We're four entries for the prize
drill-thc Sumter Guards of Charleston,
Darlington Guards Leo Light Infantryof
Chester and Gordon Light Infantry of
Winnsboro. The judges were: Col. John
p. Thomas OF Columbia, Capt. Thomas
Martin OF Ashville, and Capt. John Bate
man OF Columbia. The green where the
drill was held was filed by a dense mass
OF people, who were much excited over
the prospects of their favorites. The
prize of 5000 was awarded to the Darling
ton Guards, who made fifteen errors, the
Sumter Guards coming next with twenty
five. errors. The latter are very much
worked up over this defeat and have filed
protest and will publish a
card They claim that only
one of the judges has any
knowledge of the new tactics; that the
Darlington company only put up fancy
drill and that they should have lost on the
single point that their captain, Henry II.
Thompson, stood in front of the company
during the firing, while the tactics pre-
scribe that he shall stand behind the men
The individual drill was won by II. S.
Foster of the Sumter Guards, who was
awarded a handsome gold medal
Tonight society is oniOViuQ itself he
tween the reception and german rendered
the alumnG of the South Carolina College
by the faculty and the german club of the
AnNnrnnr1s Il1nr.do
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
CHICAGo'S FAIR.
The Action Taken in Regard to Sun
day Oneninc

. Chicago, May 17.-The action taken by
the local directors in regard to Sunday
opening was put before the national com
mission in writing this afternoon The
correspondence was referred to the
judiciary committee with instructions to
report tomorrow, The matter thus goes
over for one day.
The national commission adopted the
report Of the music committee ordering
the director general to request the resigna-
tion of Theodore Thomas as director of
music. The vote stood yeas 80, nays 49,
There was an attempt by friends Of
Theodore Thomas to secure reconsidera-
tion but it was defeated. The director
general will be ordered to secure Mr.
Thomas resignation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
Mobile and ohio niractora.

New York, May 17.-Holders Of the
general mortgage bonds Of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad to-day selected the follow
ing directors, to be elected at the annual
meeting in Mobile, Ala, on May %: A.
Iselin. Jr., G. c. CUyler, II. b. Plant, A.
II. Stevens, +. D. Tappen, James NJ. Mas
son, 9. Sidney Sheppard, Thomas E.
Clark. e. S. Knapp and w Butler Dun
can. They also approved the construc-
tion of the extension Of the road to Mont
pOTnerN. Ala
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
LAND OF TIE cHERoKEEs.
The Contract OF Purchase Signed by
the GoYernment's Representatives.

The Contract OF Purchase Signed by
the Governments Representatives.
Washington May 7-Secretary Hoke
Smith, on behalf Of the United States, and
Chief Q. j. Harris, Treasurer e. E. Starr,
D. w. Lipe and J. 7. Cunningham,
authorized representatives of the Chero-
kee nation, this afternoon, in the presence
OF Chief Justice Bingham of the supreme
court of the District Of Columbia, signed
a contract which is the final step in the
proceedings by which the United States
becomes owner of the Cherokee strip.
The number of acres ceded is 6,022, 754,
and the price to be paid for the same is
SS,595, 13b. OF this amount S295,736
IS to be paid in cash and the balance in
hYe equal annual installments, cOmmenc-
ing March 4, 1895, and ending March I,
1899, said deferred payments bearing
per cent. annual interest. The sum of
S35O, 900 of the amount to be paid in cash
IS held by the Cherokees to pay for the
improvements of intruders on the terri
tory of the Cherokee nation proper, which
Is TO be appraised by a board to be ap-
pointed by the President. The sum of
Sl,6GO, 900, the amount of the first annual
1nstallment, is to be retained by the
government to pay The Delawares,
ShaWnees and freedmen for any
amount they may recover in the courts
on their claim for participation in the
proceeds of the sale of the outlet and the
proceeds OF the grazing privileges thereon
received by the Cherokee nation. Secre-
tafy Smith said to-day that he hoped by
eXpedlting in every possible way the
preparations for the opening of the strip
TO have everything in readiness for the
PreSldentS proclamation on Sept 10.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-18
STEVENS NOT IRRITATED.
He Entertains Commissioner and Mrs
Blount at Dinner.

San Francisco, May 17.-The steamer
Oceanic arrived from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, via Honolulu, this morning.
She brings the latest advices from the
Hawaiian Islands, dated May TO- Lorrina
Thurston was appointed minister to
Washington May to succeed j. Mott
Smith.
Minister Stevens has definitely an
nonced that he will leave for his home
in the United States on May p. Mr.
Stevens has been quoted as feeling very
bitterly toward Commissioner Blount on
account of the latter's hauling down the
American flag, but as Mr.. Stevens last Sun
day gave an elaborate dinner to Mr. and
Mrs. BlounJ, at which all present seemed
to enjoy themselves thoroughly, that
feeling has apparently changed AS re-
CARDS the situation both sides are playing
waiting game.