San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-18
LIGHT FLASHES.

-Chas. L.. Davis, the original
and only "Uncle Alvin Joslin,"
gave one night farewell engage
ment to a fairly large audience st
the Opera house last night.
Luther Benson lectures on
Temperance again tonight at
Travis Park Methodist church.
Lecture at 1880 o'clock. Admission
free. In this lecture Mr.. Benson
delivers his celebrated tribute to
water and gives description Of
/ the home of the mind.
Next Friday night an sold
folks concert" will be given in Y.
M. G. A. hall.
-Four children were baptized
at the First Cumberland Presby-
terrain church yesterday.
M. Green, a colored waiter of
the Menger hotel, found $40 bill
on the dining room floor yesterday
after dinner, and was arrested for
theft later in the day, on COM
plant of a travelling salesman
named Stevens who says he lost
the money.
-One of the sewer trench dig
gers was hurt last Saturday by a
rock falling on his head on River
avenue, inflicting a severe scalp
wound, which had to be sewed up.
The marble yard on Alamo
street has been removed.
| Detective Shoaf has arrested a
colored man named John Jones,
on the charge of burglary and
theft from the residence OF d. X.
Bell.
". M. @. A. will have a foot.
ball team.
Luther Benson, the famous
Indiana Temperance lecture, spoke
to large audience at the Metho-
dist church on Travis park yester.
day afternoon.
The Lewis mill dam in the
river has been opened while the
sewer siphon is being laid, conse-
quently all back water as far as
Navarro. street has run off, giving
the river very little water in it's
channel.
Hoods Pills have won high
praise for their prompt and efficient
yet easy action.
MIR. Napoleon B. Mitchell, an
old citizen Of San Antonio, died
last night at his residence, No. 21l
Kingsbury street, from brain dis.
ease, after arriving at the ripe age
OF 60 years. He leaves wife to
mourn for him.
"A meeting of the Business
Mems club will be held tomorrow
afternoon to consider sidewalk paw
ing matters, in the interest of
asphalt.
-Schulze Bros. Manufacturing
company, composed of Otto, Carl
and Paul Schulze, of this city, has
been chartered, for the purpose of
making sash, blinds, etc.
Avoid pneumonia, diptheria
and typhoid fever, by keeping the
blood pure, the appetite good and
the bodily health vigorous by the
use Of Hoods Sarsaparilla.
j. M. Puete reports the theft of
$35 from him Saturday night by
sneak thief. He lives on Guenther
street.
The fire department was called
out last night about s :43 o'clock on
an Unnecessary run through our mar
row and crowded streets to the GEN.
ter Of the city, on a test alarm
turned in by the chief.
Complaint is being made of
men using dynamite and line to
take fish from the preservers near
the head OF the river.
The Alamo Brick company, of
this city, has been chartered.
-Lsguna Madre horticultural
company, of San Antonio, has Sc
cured state charter.
--Messrs. Atlee Ayres, Louis
Degen, Eugene Webb and John
Ryan, are contemplating an over
land pleasure trip to lower Cali.
fornia.
John S. Hord, of Rio Grande
City, a delegate to the recent Irri-
cation convention held in San An
tonic, was married Saturday night,
In Austin, to Miss Lille r..
SchultZe.
The office of General Manager
Monserrate, of the Arkansas Pass
railroad, is being repapered, and
Purchasing Agent Palfrey's office
has been enlarged.