San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-25
DALLAS LETTER.
Spicy Local News Furnished By Our
own Correspondent.

The timely efforts Of the fire de-
partment saved the building and
stock of iewelry of S. Becks. At 3
o'clock the night Waterman dis
covered the room was full of
smoke. An alarm of fire was in
stantly turned on. Just as the fire.
men arrived the flames were al
most bursting through the closed
building. A strong stream was
turned on. The damage to goods
amounts to $4,000 or $1,000, on
which there was $4,000 insurance.
The building was damaged several
hundred dollars.
The Vargas Opera company has
been in a "sea of trouble" ever
since they pitched their tent in
Dallas. First it was the prima
donna, Senorita Maria Acosta had
eloped with an admirer I'M
known to the company. This was
most positively denied by the Gun
known" who materialized in the
person of George DeQuoy, who, in
the presence of the Spanish sing
er's husband, said in plain Eng
lish that the lady's absence was at
tributable to insulting language Of
fered her by Sr. Vargas. Oil was
poured on the troubled waters,
and the company was reunited to
appear before the footIights ,of the
Oak Cliff theatre, and now the
company is stranded and want to
get away. Mrs. Earl has attached
their baggage. The company re-
bel against this, claiming their
wardrobe is their individual prop.
perty, and that Sr. Vargas had no
right to give a lien on it. The
trunks that are being held to Sc,
cure Mrs. Earl for money adj
vanceed, are thought to be emptied
of all that is valuable.
Miss Nora Estes hrs inst return
ed from the, White Rock camp
meeting. She brings the sad in
telligence of the drowning of two
friends whom she was visiting at
Scottsyille. The party was re-
turning in carriage from the
meeting, when the vehicle was
overturned in the creek which was
swollen by the recent heavy rains.
The horses were drowned. Three
of the occupants succeeded in
reaching the banks, but Misses
Emma Hart and Battle Webster,
aged l6 and IA years, found watery
graves. Both the bodies were re-
covered.
During the Democratic conven-
tion Major Feby, of galveston, was
relieved of two handsome diamond
shirt studs worth $500, and Mr.. III.
a. O'Neal, of Atlanta, was touched
for $23. These were all the losses
reported, and it is said there were
some of the worst crooks in the
country on hand
Little George Cordell, who lives
with. his friends on Suriss avenue,
is a quiet, we'll behaved little boy
of IL. None of the neighbors dread
him. He stays closely at home.
Last Thursday this little boy was
picked up right near his home by
some boys, whose ages were from Z
to - years, who were driving
span of horses. Child-like he got
in the buggy with them. The boys
then drove in the direction of the
fair grounds when near the Queen
City park they administered to
him a severe whipping and told
him to "git."
George made all haste home.
His parents and the neighborhoOd
is quite enraged over this disgrace
full affair.
An old woman, apparently 60 or
20 years old and seemingly de-
crepit and infirm, has been going
over the town with few handler
kerchiefs, impOrtuning you to buy
often times telling you to buy just
one to enable her to pay car fare
back to Oak Cliff; at other ii mes
she will say, 81 had not a nickle
with which to buy my breakfast
this morning. All one can extract
from her as to her personal history
is, in the years that have gone,
when Dallas was young and pros
porous, she had a son who lived in
Dallas, speculated and lost, and is
now a wanderer, she knows not
where. But day after day one can
see somewhere on the streets, this
old soul plodding her way, molten
sive and kindly spoken, even tho
you fail to buy. There is man, a
more pitable looking object, even,
than the old woman, going about
the streets selling a little book it
Is only - cents. His tale runs like
this, "money, wife and