San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Chr 4ntlY eight.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II, '94
DALLAS LETTER.
Spicy Local Gossip From Our Own
Correspondent.

Had Ii been left to the voters OF
Dallas, Major Jerome Kearby
would be our next representative
in Congress. AS it is, there is talk
of his contesting the election. For
the present he has nothing to say
upon the subject, except that he
will not cOncede that Abbott has
been elected. Judge 10 Abbott has
a strong hold upon the voters Of
the Sixth district, and while the
Populists made a close run, the
friends of Mr.. Abbott declare he is
elected. And as one defeated cam
didate expressed it, sit makes no
difference at all to the defeated
candidate how many votes it took
to defeat you, you are defeated and
that is all there is to it. Why, l
was defeated by only one vote,"
said the speaker, sand / was as
completely kept out Of office as
though the vote against me had
been hundreds instead of the unit"
When a man gets nearly there it
is sad to think ait might have
been"
At meeting of the city council
last night Alderman Cour suggest
ed the propriety of the council
showing a party of visitors from
the north over the city.
Pat O'Keefe sprang to his feet,
as though he were afraid some one
would get ahead of him in what he
was going to say, and proposed a
resolution to the effect that $25 of
city funds be appropriated to pay
for hacks for the visitors and city
'dads" to ride in. 1t went against
the grain with the mayor and he
had no h9sitancy in letting it be
known.
Another Alderman, to get ahead
of Mr.. O'Keefe, wanted the resolu-
tion amended and the amount APP
propriated to be $50 instead Of
$25. The amendment was then
adopted "agin the voice and
vote" of the more conserva.
tive mayor. 1t is so easy to be
flush and play bountiful when it
costs somebody else. All of our
aldermen are not thus profligate
with the city funds. Were it so the
city and people would, indeed, be
bankrupt. 1t was suggested by
some who opposed this appropria-
ton, for each man to 60 down I'm
his own pockets to defray the ex-
pense Of entertaining the visitors
they were so eager to honor. The
enthusiastic were not in it then.
DR.. c. w. Macune, who has been
in the city for some days, says of
the late election, at shows fully as
great Populist gain as expected
in fact, l regard it as great vic
tory for u.s."
Mayor Bryan T. Barry says the
Republicans have absorbed one
end of the Democratic party and
the Populists the other end of it.
DR.. Macune says Mayor Barry is
about correct in this statement.
The doctor attributes the recent
Democratic defeat to Cleveland's
policy, and the evils it has brought
upon the country, and he claims
that his party predicted these evils
when Cleveland was elected.
G. M. Swink, the receiver for the
firm Of Langdon, Gill q Parish, has
filed suit in the district court
against the Equitable Life Insur-
ance society of the United States
for the sum OF $4,000, life insurance
of W. G. Parish. The plaintiff rep
resents that on Nov. 10th, 1898, w.
G. Parish assigned his right in the
policy to the firm Of Langdon, Gill
& Parish, and that within sixty
days after the death Of Parish, the
plaintiff applied to the life insur-
ance company for the necessary
blanks for making out death GER
tificate to present the company,
and was refused.
Moore & Evans, the firm for
whom the unfortunate man, Henry
wilkins, was working last Sunday,
when, through mistake, he drank
cyanide Of potassium when he was
eating his lunch, gave the family
of the dead man $50.
A negro prisoner created a good
deal of commotion among his
fellow prisoners by gnashing his
teeth and cutting other frantic
antics. The other prisoners yelled
frantically for protection. A doctor
was summoned and when. he ar
rived the man had quieted down
considerably. He represented him
self as being subject to fits.
The corner stone Of the new col.
ored Odd FelloWs' hall was laid