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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-01
LIGHT FLASHES.

-dl lIOSS, dN dhe-
ned from torpor by the unusual
quantity of water on our streets
and throughout the city, trans
formed San Antonio last night
into a squawking village.
Ladies we just received a very
handsome line of dresses for school
children, come and learn our prices
on them for Monday and Tuesday.
81 st
Part of the filling to the north
side of the Convent street bridge
caved in yesterday during the rain
and this side of the street is impas-
sable. Bad drainage for storm
water is the cause of the washout.
Pointed wood toothpicks at 5
cents per box. KYPFER & SENG.
The West End dance to have
been held last night, was post.
poned, on account Of the weather.
San Antonio Quartette club
rehearsed last night.
Beethoven Maennerchor will
resume rehearsals next week.
100 packages medicated paper,
damaged by water, usually sold for
IA and 20 cents, are offered next
week at 3 cents per package.
KYPFER & SENG.
Mrs. Mary E. Crow las begun
an addition to dwelling at No.
127 Mulberry avenue, Ward 4, to
cost 5000.
The Ivy social club dance at
st. Albert's hall is postponed from
tonight.
Ladies we will sell you a ready
made dress for your girls cheaper
than you can buy the cloth. Mon
day and Tuesday. 913t
&C. E. Abbey has resigned the
collectorship of the Retail Grocers'
Protective association.
Hugh Flaherty, aged 80 years,
died today at No. 1l3 North Leona
street, ward 3.
The new Smith bank building
is completed and the bankers
moved in today.
There was 81 foot rise in the
river yesterday afternoon.
Special sale for Monday and
Tuesday in hats and caps for school
children, 300 assorted colors sailor
hats, sold elsewhere at 25c. Rough
and ready hats new shapes for
Monday and Tuesday log. 275
black hats l3c 9l3t
During the month Of August
there were 60 deaths in this city.
There were 50 calls for the
mounted police from central sta
ton during the month of August,
and at Alamo station 175.
The embargo on dogs in this
city closed with today, Sept. 1st.
During the three months in which
licenses were required there were
2,277 licenses issued, whic h at so
cents each, Melted the city the sum
Of 81 ,l3S.50.
About $4,000 were collected
by City Collector Rische during
the month of August, Just closed.
A portion Of this was paid the
First National Bank and portion,
$4,000, to the Lockwood bank, for
money loaned the administration
during last year.
Fred Houston and another
hickman known as "Eatemupgeo-
rye" had fight this morning, and
the man with the long name came
off with very black eye.
There were 122 calls for the'po-
lice patrol wagon during the month
OF August.
Mr.. Pat Kneelandis now in
stalled as one Of the clerks in Col
Reuters establishment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-01
ROBBING A BANK.
How it Was Done In An Interior
Mexican Town.

Mexican Town.
1T wo years ago." said mining
engineer, who spent the past four
years in Mexico, to a LIGHT man
yesterday, "there occurred an affair
in one of the larger towns OF the
state of Guerrero, in Mexico, that
aptly illustrates the difference in
the modes of operation of the Mex.
lean bank robber and his Ameri-
can brother. The approved west
ern style is, 1 bel ieve, for the
gang to ride up to the bank
building with Winchester rifles
Two men enter the building and
cover the bank officials with re-
volvers, demand the cash on hand,
while the remainder of the gang
take position on the street, shoot
ing at everybody and everything
In sight, both for protection from
without and for intimidation with
in.
ain Mexico. however, it is differ
ent. The thing is noiselessly &C
complished, and generally with
very satisfactory results, as far as
the robbers are concerned. On the
occasion of the robbery of the bank
in Guerrero the town was in holiday
attire, one Of the numerous relig-
ious festivals being in progress.
The plaza was one mass of tents in
which all kinds of games of
chance were being run wide open.
Shoemaker shops and small
stores on the square had
been temporarily turned into
eating booths and liquor
stands, while old women sat in
groups at various places on the
sidewalks selling tortillas, tamales
or roasting ears, which had been
boiled in the shucks.
In the centre Of the plaza stood
band stand in which concerts
were given in the afternoon and
evening. OF course the large plaza
was one mass Of humanity. The
rich went from tent to tent, some-
times in groups, sometimes singly.
The common pelado played the
games, or having lost all he had,
stood at the corners, gazing on the
multitude that passed him right
and left.
"The GarZa-Lopez gang of ban
dts, which in a sense corresponds
to our Dalton combination, took
advantage of this state of affairs to
effect their we'll planned robbery.
They came to town, mingled with
the crowd and soon got in their
work. The bookkeeper of the
bank, who was known to car
ry a key, and the cashier,
who was thought also to have a
key in his possession, were soon
spotted. The cashier was standing
near the band stand listening to
the music, when a fairly we'll
dressed Mexican with a costly
blanket carelessly thrown around
his shoulders, lightly laid one
hand on the cashiers shoulder and
placed the other, in which he held
under cover of his blanket bright
bladed dagger, in front of his
chest in the region of the heart.
"The cashier looked around as
the stranger laid the hand on his
shoulder, and the man in the blank
ct gave the quiet order, keep still
Don't you say word or make any
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-01

Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
WOrId'S Fair Highest Medal and DlpIomH.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-01
New York and Europe

The Mallory SIS. Line offers TO the travelling
public the cheapest aud most delightful suR
mer route to New York in their fast and pow.
erful iron steamers. having cabin and steer.
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DAY and Saturday morning.
EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS
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route, making close connection in New York
with all the transatlantic lines. Passengers
booked through to and from all points in
Europe at reduced rates. For tickets sailing
plans Of all steamships, reservation of rooms
and correct information in detail, apply to
W.. YOUNG,
General Agent Mallory Lire and Agent for
oil Transatlantic lines. 5l7 Z. Houston ST.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
A Jubilee Celebration.

Fifty years is a long time-much more thar
the average lifetime. Men, therefore, natu
rally note such periods. Just now Messrs
Perry Davis & Son. of Providence, R. l., tn,
proprietors of Pain-Killer, are celebrating the
jubilee of that good old household remedy
and have doubled the capacity of their bottles
without increasing the price. This will Of
course make Pain-K more popular than
ever: For fifty years it has been the family
medicine chest in countless henes in every
country on the globe. Once given trial, i
stays in any home, where, when anything hap
pens, the bottle is reached for.
When one reflects that two years is the aver
age life of patent medicine, these fifty year:
prove very plainly that if Pain Killer had no
been all that it claims, it would have gone into
oblivion long years ago. The old limitations
of Pain Killer have gone the way of all sub
stltutes. and the never Just as goods are fol
lowing on, for as long as some things are rec
ognized as better than others, Pain-Killer viii
be recognized as the best and quickest relief
for internal or external pain.
When anything happens to you or yours
nine times out of ten you can cure it yourself
with Pain-Killer.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
Trial of Mrs. Minnie MccauIey.

The testimony in the case of the Common
wealth VS.. Minnie McCauley charged with the
the killing of her husband, Dixie McCauley
on the 18th of June last, at the residence Of
Neal Hoy, her brother, in the BarterbrooB
neigh borhood about miles from Staunton
by shooting him in the breast with gun load
ed with bird shot, from the effects of which
he died the next morning, was commenced
Friday morning of last week. McCauley was
U. S. soldier, and was here on furlough, anc
had been at Neal Hoy's from March 26th. Hi.
wife, it seems, had possession of his watch
and when he demanded it, she refused to LEI
him have it, when he threatened that he would
destroy her clock. She then pointed the gun
at him, when it was discharged, with the re
suit above stated.
Mrs. McCauley is "a years of age, and wa:
married In 1885,
A large number Of witnesses were examined
and their examinations were not concluded
till Monday evening Tuesday morning was
consumed in debating the instructions to the
Jury. The argument in the case was com
menced yesterday-Tuesday- noon. II
was opened by Richard S. Ker, assisting the
Commemorative Attorney in the prosecution
who was followed by VIM. E. Craig counse
for the prisoner, and was concluded by Meade
F. White, Commonwealth Attorney.
Mr.. White concluded at half past 6 o'clock
p. m, when the case was submitted to the
jury and the court adjourned to meet this
morning at O. clock when, it is supposed, the
verdict of the jury will be rendered.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03

Mr.. Mckinley refuses to see the pre-
posterousness of the attempt to make
this nation prosperous by having it
produce more manufactures than it's
own people can possibly buy, and at
the same time driving away the best
customers for its great crops, SO that at
last it's farms are in the same predica-
ment as it's factories, and both are I'M
able to sell the surplus results of their
capital and labor. But the plain peo-
pie see it. The saw it in 1892, and we
believe they see it palmer now than
then. Mr.. Mckinley dwelt dolefully
at Findlay on the increased imports
that would follow the new tariff law.
Let them come. The official returns of
past years prove conclusively that more
imports and more exports never fall to
go hand in hand. Trade is two sided
or it is not trade. If we buy more we
sell more, and as we shall only buy
what we want and sell what we do not
want, we shall profit on both transac-
tions. That is the nature of trade. 1t
blesses him who takes and him who
gives. We must be buyers or we can
not be sellers. McKinleyism has plung-
ed us into a morass, but the democratic
tariff policy::is the only way out.-BaH
Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
Burning of the Kroder Brass Works

The Kroder Brass Ornament and Curtail
Pole factory, the property of Mr.. John Kroder
of New York, was burned about O'Clock
Tuesday night of last week after we had gone
to press, and could make no notice of it in
the paper of last week. The main building
was large three-story frame building erected
four years ago on land donated by the Staun-
ton Development Company during the boom
period. This building with its costly ma
chinery, together with large dry kiln and
some outbuilding and carload of finished
products ready to be shipped, and a large lot
of seasonedatimber, were destroyed, infiicting
a loss Of $4,000, on which there was insur-
ance to the amount of $4,000, divided between
four or five different companies. He had en-
gagged to put $4,000 more insurance on, but
the fire occurred before it was perfected At
the time of the fire Mr.. Kroder was on his
way here from New York, and arrived here
the next morning.
There were thirty-tive hands employed in
the factory who are now thrown out of en-
ployment. This is unfortunate for them and
their families embracing $50 persons. 1t is
not known yet whether Mr. Kroder will re-
build his factory.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
offett'S Creek.
EDUCATIoNAL-FARM DoINGs-PoLITIcAL

| L..
g. MoFFETT's CREEK, September %.
The New Providence Academy has opened
its sixth session under very encouraging, cir
cumstances, about 40 scholars having already
matriculated. This school is under the eff
Gent management of Prof. ]. H. B. Jones OF
Washington & Lee College and Miss Helen
Foil of Catawba College, n C. Our people
are beginning to realize that education is truly
the most permanent and enduring of all in
yestments.
| Our husbandmen are busy sowing wheat
They do not seem to be dismayed at the ex-
ceedngly low price of this cereal, but continue
to SOW good acreage. The corn is being cut
up It is considered far below an average
crop, being cut short by the continued
drought.
| We are sorry to report that Mrs. William
Taliaferro, who has returned home from treat
ment in hospital of Baltimore, is unm-
proved.
Miss Mamie B. Crst is i'll with fever Chas
B. McKemy is also quite sick, we are sorry to
report.
Mrs. Jas. D. Anderson, of Lexington, has
returned home from visit to relatives of this
section.
Miss Ada McCutchan has matricuIated at
the Old Fort Seminary. Her brother, B. b.
McCuthan, has returned to Richmond to re-
sumo his medical studies.
Mrs. DR.. George and daughter Miss Lizzie,
have returned home from a visit to Culpeper
friends.
Chldrens day will be observed at st. PauPs
Reformed Church of this place on Sunday
next.
Charles Yeago has finished saving big bill
of lumber for Charles G. Berry. Mr.. Berry is
having lumber sawed preparatory to building
a handsome barn.
W. l.. Martin & family are visiting relatives
at Farmvile
Some lovers of King Alcohol broke into J.
Frank Clemmer's distillery and relieved him
of about 90 gallons of that beverage on FRI
day night last.
Our people are beginning to manifest con-
siderable enthusiasm over the present cam
paign, Judging from the present indications.
Newport precinct will roll up good major
ity for Congressman Tucker who has repre-
sented his district so faithfully honorably
and conscientiously for the past years. He
has made for himself record which the con-
sttuents of his district need not blush to own;
and why not return him to Congress by
handsome majority. For certainly our coun-
try has reached an Epoch in her history
when she needs her very best and wisest men
in her halls of legislation.
And with such men and Harry Tucker at
the helm of our mighty ship of State we have
nothing to fear w. E. B.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
NUMERICAL And FINANCIAL
THE GRAIN TRADE-CRops, sc.

The Cincinnati Price Current of September
9th, says
1.-The late information furnishes no occa-
sion for reducing crop estimates of either
wheat or corn, but in fact gives encourage
ment to the view that the corn crop is quite
as likely to reach 1500, 100000 bushels as it is
to not exceed 1, 4OO, 100000. There continue to
be eyider ces of better yields than have been
expected, IN various regions In the instances
of wheat and oats the progress of the season
unfolded better results than had been antici-
pated, and it begins to look as if the final con-
illusions concerning corn may likewise be
more satisfactory than apprehended on the
approach to the maturing period.
Fair weather has prevailed most of the
week in the West, and toward the close lower
temperature was experienced, but severe
frosts have not occurred. 1t is evident that
but little of the corn crop is in sufficiently i'm
mature condition to be susceptible to much
injury now from frost.
The rains of the past month, besides being
more or less helpful to maturing corn in fill
ing out the grain and increasing the yield in
many sections, have made great change in
the pasturage which is now in good shape
generally. And they have favored the prog
ress of autumn seeding operations, so that
wheat has had an excellent start. 1t is too
early to speak with defniteness concerning
the relative area in autumn sown wheat but
the indications now are that it will not be en-
larged, and not greatly reduced.
The offerings of wheat in winter grain Sec
tons continue limited. There is liberal feed
ing of this grain to ANIMALS, but no reliable
estimate of the extent of such absorption can
yet be offered. The movement of wheat in
the Northwest is naturally of good volume at
this season.
The grain markets have shifted downward
quite decidedly the past week. For corn the
decline seemed quite reasonable. For wheat
the break appears to be without justification
either in the relation of values or the prospec-
tive plentifulness of supplies"
FINANCIAL.
From the financial review of Henry Clews
of September 10Th, it seems that there has
been and is still in New York "superabund-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
Attempt at Highway Robbery.

About II o'clock last Saturday night as Mr.
Rudolph Kinzley, of the firm of Kinzley &
home from the market-house, just as he
entered the gate to the yard of his home OPP
posite Thornrose Cemetery, man confronted
him with the demand-'your money or YOU
life''-and at the same instant struck him or
the head with sand-bag. Fortunately the
blow did not knock him down, and he gave
an alarm and ran. This alarm caused the
robber to run, but he fired two shots at Mr.
Kinzley, who, however, escaped injury
was raining at the time and the night wa
dark SO that it is not known whether tn,
highwayman was white or colored.
The small sand-bag was left at the place O.
The assault
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
Rom ance.

The October Romance which contains its
usual quota Of ten choice stories for dime
has for its special feature group Of Folk Lore
Tales. One of these, an original compilation
from Irish Folk Lore by the late Urania Locke
Bailey, is highly humorous; the other two are
interesting studies from the Bengalese and
Japanese. The number opens with love
scene in modern Greece by Edith r. Crosby
and there is also a love story of the wild
Southwest by r. L. Ketchum, with others by
Francois Coppee and Vast Riconard. A dash.
ing military story by Erckmann-C hatrian, an
amusing New. England character sketch by
Jennie Cotton, and clever anonymous story
complete, an uncommonly fascinating issue OF
the magazine Romance is issued by Romance
Publishing Company, Clinton Hall, Aston
Place, New York, at 10 cents a number: sub
scription price, 81 year,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
RENEWAL OF OUR LIBERAL
PROPOSITION.

To accommodate those who failed to avail
themselves of our proposition when open t.
allow all who paid up arrearages and veal
scribers, to have the SPECTATOR for the sue
ceeding year at only one dollar, we now renew
it that all may avail themselves of the op
portunity to get the paper at half price. Thost
who fail to avail themselves of this oppor
tunity will have none but themselves tt
blame. We renew the proposition for theil
accommodation, and whilst this is published
they can get the advantage of it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03

1t is stated in Berlin on what is con-
sidered good authority that the Gar is
suffering from mild type of Bright's
disease of the kidneys, aggravated with
a tightness of the chest. There is no
immediate danger and the Car started
for the Crimea Monday, where he is to
spend the winter.
Foreigners are warned not to proceed
to Pekin because of the hostile feeling
to Europeans. At Tien -Tsin a Japan
csc invasion is feared. In Manchuria
the japanese army is said to be rapid
ly approaching Moukden
The Rio Grande river is out of its
banks at several places. The bank has
caved to within three feet of the Fort
Brown administration building, at
Brownsville, Texas.
The President of the Olympic Club
of New Orleans telegraphed Jas. l..
Corbett on Monday that, if he did not
accept the challenge of Robert Fitz-
simmons by Thursday, October 4, we
will declare Robert Fitzsimmons the
champion heavyweight of the world.a
Two white men, James N. Wood and
Jack Snow, escaped from Jail at Luray,
Wednesday night, by saving through
an iron bar in the window of their
room, by means of which they reached
the wall around the yard in the rear,
and thence to the ground on the out
side by using the blankets on their bed
G. H. Anderson, who was thrown
from a Chesapeake and Ohio train at
Eagle Rock a few months ago and bad
ly injured, has brought suit in the
Botetourt County Circuit Court for
$4,000 damages.
: Three white men and four negroes
were arrested at Newport News, Va,
by Special Inspector r. G. Ould on the
charge OF smuggling two barrels of
whisky from the British steamship
Alicia.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Rio Janeiro sends word that
there is no truth in the sensational re-
ports recently published of bloody
riots in that city.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03
Personal.

Robert O'Ferrall, son of Gov. Chas.
O'Ferrall, passed through Staunton last nigh
on his way to Richmond. He has been visit
ing at Harrisonburg.
]. Stacy Palmer, Of Staunton, left on Mon
| day morning to accept position with K. M
Sutton & Co., in Baltimore.
Rev. J. w. Rosebro D. D., of Tabb stree
Presbyterian Church, Petersburg, pastor Of
Messy Creek Church in this county some
years ago, is confined to his bed by sickness
He has been in bad health ever since he re
turned from his summer trip.
Cards are out for the marriage of Capt. JEFF
ferson Randolph Kean, of the medical corps
United States army, to Miss Louisa Hurlbut
Young, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mason
Young, of st. Augustine, Fla. The wedding
will take place at Trinity Church. st. Angus
tine on Wednesday next, October 10th, at 3:3(
O'Clock.
Mr. Charles Herndon, banker, and Miss
Resale Marshall St. John, daughter of the
late Gen. J. NJ. st. John, were married in
Fredericksburg last Wednesday.
A dispatch from Paris announces the death
in that city of Mrs. Agues Rebecca Corbin, of
Virginia, at the age of ninety-three years
Geo. S. McKeever, of this county, was on a
visit to relatives in Greenbrier county, w. Va,
last week.
DIR. William c. Nowlan, of Talcott, Sum-
mers county, w. Va, and Miss. Leila Flesh
man, daughter of R. R. Freshman, of Lind
side, Monroe county, W. Va, eloped to IRON
ton, Ohio, on Thursday, the 18th ult., and
were married at the HotelDenison there, by
Rev. w. V. Dick.
1.-THE Greenbrier Independent says =
Parental objection necessitated an elope-
ment, and the Doctor stole the BRIDE from her
home and the two drove siXty-one miles to
Hinton, where they took the train for Iron
ton Several kilograms pursued them but they
ran the gauntlet of inquiring officials success
fully. They returned home to receive the
parental forgiveness and blessing"
Rev. Edward M. Craig, who preached at
Basic City several summers ago. will be mar
ried to Miss Leila Lynwood Glenn, at Rust
burg, Va, next Wednesday, Oct 10th.
Hon. D. s. Henkel and Mayor R. f. Leedy,
of Basic City, have formed partnership in
the practice of law, under the firm name of
Henkel & Leedy.
The marriage of Mr.. Thos. Leftwich Waters
to Miss Emily Voss Southall, daughter of Mr..
S. " Southall, at Christ Church, Charlottes-
yille at IL o'clock A. NJ, Oct. 18th.
The engagement of Miss Gretchen Parsons,
daughter of the late Col. H. c. Parsons, of
Natural Bridge to Edward Grafton, of Den
yer, Col, is announced.
Mrs. J. W. Newton, of this city, has been
re elected State Organizer of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03

ARBITRATIoN.-T United States
commissioners appointed to investigate
the Chicago strike have prepared re-
port which will be submitted to the
President in October. The commits
sioners, it is understood, will recon-
mend general scheme of arbitration
for similar difficulties that may arise
in the future.
This is well as far as it goes, but how
is the award of arbitration to be en-
forced How can an employer be
made to pay higher wages than he
thinks his business will justify, and
how can a laborer be compelled to
work for less wages than he is willing
to accept?