San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-05
HOUSTON HAPPENINGS.
Houston, Jan. 1, 1894.

anu VIII DS Completed Wltuln inc
next six months. 1t is reported
that real estate and other promi-
nent men of this place are interest
ed in the ENTERPRISE.
Forty-one idlers and unfortunate
men of all nationalities were run
in" by the police Wednesday night,
and charges OF vagrancy lodged
against them.
Sheriff Erickson, of this county,
and Sheriff Davis, of Bastrop, yes
terday made what they think an
arrest. They arrested
three men on the NJ. l.. & T. train
who had purchased tickets for
Waco. The men were heavily
armed and had considerable money
with them. Sheriff Erickson &C
companied Sheriff Davis to Bas-
trop,and their prison ers were iden-
titled as the men who had blown
open the postoffice safe there some
time ago, and are thought to be the
gang who have been operating all
over the state.
Police report Of city and state
convictions for December is: state
cases, lis city, $50.
The Turn Verein hold their
forty-first anniversary in Turner
hall on January IA.
Two MeXicans, escaped convicts,
giving their names as Antonio
Martinez and Solomon Baraz,
were captured in this city on the
18th ultimo.
A. H. Geisler, of the firm of Dun
lay & Geisler, of this city, died in
Ell Paso last Thursday. His re-
mains were taken to New Orleans
for interment.
Last Thursday the county COM
instructed the county
judge to advertise for sale the
present county Jail.
Chief of Police Prewett enter
tanned the members of his force,
the press gang, who could find
time to participate, and other
friends with a bountiful dinner at
the station house on New Years
day.
DR.. M. Pearl, a we'll known ply
stefan of this city, died very sud
denly from a stroke of paralysis
Most every day reports come
to police headquarters notifying
them Of some store being burglar
lied.
There was railroad wreck in
the NJ. X. & 7. yards in this city
last Monday, when fourteen cars
were derailed and several consider
ably damaged. A negro named
Nose Washington, an old employe
of the III. & T. G. shops was found
dead in the debris.
Tuesday the Texas Western road
was "put up" at auction 30 be sold
to the highest bidder. The high
est figure offered was $l3, 200, by
Charlie Dillingham; of this city.
Mr.. Geo. H. Breaker, solicitor for
the complainant in the case, then
asked for a pOstponement OF the
sale in accordance with the decree,
which was granted, and set for the
first Tuesday in February.
The Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen's ball given at Turner
hall New Years eve, was brill
liant affair, and was we'll attended.
The Y. NJ. G. A, kept "open
house." New Years day, and report
they entertained | 200 visitors that
day.
MAfter a long and bitter fight in
the City Council of this city be-
tween the members opposing and
favoring asphalt paving, the latter
won the victory after heroic de-
tense, and soon some of HoustOn's
principal streets will be paved
with that material.
The clothing firm Of Lewis &
Rosenberg, of this city, distributed
clothing to the poor and needy
boys of Houston.
Conservative authorities place the
actual mercantile business Of Hous-
ton for 1894 at fully 100000, 900.
Bank clearances exceeded S255, OOO,-
600, real estate sales into the mil
lions, gross receipts Of cotton this
season to date exceeding 100000
bales, and building permits to the
amount of $S65,O00.
Friday afternoon, last, about 4
o'clock, Mr.. ]. f. Polk, who for
short time during the recent state
political campaign published a
Democratic newspaper in Corpus
Christi under the guise Of a Popu-
list standard bearer, fell through
t he elevator shaft Of Cummings &
Sons printing house. He received
painful bruises and cuts, and one
leg was broken above the knee.
Nearly 100000 bales of cotton
have already been compressed here