San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-22
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 20, 1895.
From Our Own Special CORRESPONDENT.

meeting. When Mr.. Moody began
to talk, he requested the entrance
to be closed, thus ingress and egress
were checked. The room became
unsufferably warm, the twenty
stoves got red hot. The air became
sitting, and several persons got
deathly sick, some tainted. The
meeting is going to be a glorious
one. The weather is pleasant and
the house commodious. An igno-
rant Dallasite asked in Mr..
Moody's presence, "Is he a good
preacher" The gentleman said
to his nearer that good hearers
make good preachers"
The contribution came in slowly.
People hate to bid goodbye to
their nickles, when it comes TO pay
ing church debts. Mr.. Seasholes
announced, las soon as the eX-
penses for fitting up the hall are
paid for, we are going to stop the
collections"
The Divide Musin Concert COM
pany hold forth in the City hall
auditorium tonight for the benefit
of the Y. NJ. G. A.
In the Kearby-Abbott contest
Major Kearby is still ahead. The
last ballot box opened and counted
was the vote of the Sixth ward.
This ward originally gave Kearby
1856 and Abbott 235 votes. The re-
cent count gave Kearby 4Ol, and
Abbott 233 votes.
One of Judge Abbott's warmest
supporters says, she Judge Abbott)
is bound to come out O. X. That
two precincts that gave Kearby the
greatest majority did not deliver
the ballot box within the
prescribable time, and these
can be rejected altogether, if
Abbott wills it; butt continued
the gentleman, abbott is a broad
minded man; he knows those pre-
cincts preferred Kearby; that he
was their choice, and | dc not be-
lieve he will object to the counting
of these in the contest"
Mr.. Mich Gray, administrator of
the Cockrell estate, petitions the
city council to rescind the franchise
granted the Terminal railroad. Mr..
Gray has filed suit in theFourteenth
Judicial court asking that said
road and the Union depot company
be restrained from laying tracks on
streets which petitioner claims are
the Cockrell estate. The case will
be heard next Friday.
S. H. Etter, who was hurt by be-
ing crushed the night the Waters
Pierce Oil company had their ware
house to burn, died from the effects
of the injuries received. His re-
mains await the order Of his rela-
tives at Dayton, Ohio, who were tel
egraphed to at once.
H. j. Hester, who was brought
here from Denton county to be
treated for fracture of the skull,
caused by a runaway team, died at
the city hospital.
Mr.. +. p. Season died at the res
idenCe Of his daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Wendelkin.
Mr.. Session came here from Denver,
Col, last November, to spend the
remainder of his life with Mrs.
Wendelkin. Deceased was 20 years
old. His remains were carried to
his former home, Galesburg, ILL.,,
to be inferred.
Henry w. Owen and wife filed
suit against the Houston and Tex
as Central Railroad company for
$4,000 damages. The petitioners
set forth that as they were leaving
the city on the Goth Of December,
in a two-horse wagon, they were
run into by one Of the defendants
special trains, knocking the plant
if, Mrs. Owens, out Of the wagon,
breaking her left arm, and per-
manently injuring her health.
Should the descendants Of the
Holmes estate realize what they
hope to, two heirs in Dallas will re-
ceive $23,O0O,O00 each. Judge r. E.
Burke and his sister are direct de-
scendants Of the Carolina branch
of the Holmes family.
The civil service has been APP
piled to this internal revenue dis
trict. At the last examination
twelve applicant for carriers took
the examination. All of them
failed to pass.
Rev. Frank c. Algerton, of Bos-
ton, a spiritual evangelist, is here
on lecturing tour.
The Mirror, society paper, has
changed hands, and is now being
published by Mr.. Binz-Hall.
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