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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-21
Republicans at Houston.

The Republican League State
Executive committee meet at
Houston tomorrow. A good at
tendance is promised. A special
car Of Texas delegates to Cleveland
is on the program. San Antonio
delegates will leave tonight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-21
WANTED.

A nicely furnished house for five
or six months, we'll located and
ventilated with all modern i'm
prOvements, with six or eight
rooms. Address Northerner, LIGHT
office. Is 5t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-21
BRoDIES AMBITION.
The Bridge-Jumper to Have But
Ter, q Chief and a Valet

Ter, a Chief and Valet.
The last heard from Steve Bro
die, bridge-jumper, Bowery sa.
loon-keeper, actor and financier
generally upon such peculiar and
out-of-the-way lines that no one
could have prognosticated his sue
cesses, is that he Is very soon to
make vigorous endeavor to get
within the pale Of the 600" Ste
phen has purchased brown-stone
front at 106th street and Licking.
ton avenue, New York city, and
made other arrangements for his
debut.
Says New York paper: "Brodie
is to have a colored butler,a French
chief and a valet to look after his
own comfort. The Brodie children
are to be cultured by a French
governess and a stiff-backed, putty
faced English coachman will drive
the Brodie carriage, on the panels
Of which will be painted a family
coat-of-arms-a bridge quartered
with barkeeper couchant and the
head Of the house rampant. The
lower left-hand corner will show
Brodie's Bowery saloon and the
motto will be "By this | got ye.'"
Brodie appears to be living de-
monstration that nothing succeeds
like success. The first time | ever
set eyes on him was something
like fifteen years ago in San Fran
cisco. There was big six-day
pedestrian contest and Brodie
came on from the east, entering as
"The New York Newsboy." Gus
Guerrero was in it, too, which was
the first time before the public for
both of them. Brodie, though
showing considerable sand, didn't
pan out hardly up to expectations
as long-distance walker, but he
got back in other ways. He got
irritant early in the struggle and
turned the tables on the rail-birds,
who were wont to guy the walkers
he guyed them back with Bow
cry slang and to make sure that
it took occasionally hoped over
the railing and slugged them.
He also had several scraps with his
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who showed a
disposition to squirt when he did
not desire to squirt.
ANY one who has ever had an
attack Of inflammatory rheumat-
ism will rejoice with. Mr.. j. A.
Stumm, 900 Boyle Heights, Los
Angeles, over his fortunate escape
from siege Of that distressing all
ment. Mr.. Stumm is foreman Of
Merriam's confectionery establish
ment. Some months ago. on leav-
ing the heated work room to run
across the street on an errand, he
was caught out in the rain. The
result was that when ready to go
home that night he was unable to
walk, owing to inflammatory rheu-
matism. He was taken home, and
on arrival was placed in front Of a
good fire and thoroughly rubbed
with Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
During the evening and night he
was repeatedly bathed with this
liniment, and by morning was re-
lieved of all rheumatic pains. He
now takes especial pleasure in
praising Chamberlain's Pain Balm,
and always keeps bottle Of it in
the house. For sale by F. Kalt-
eyer & Son, Chas. Campbell and
James Clavin, druggists, San An
tonic, Texas. tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-21
SHAFER & RRADEN.

Plumbers, 125 w. Commerce, are
headquarters for Electric Fixtures,
Fans, Chandeliers, etc. Carry the
best stock of Garden Hose in the
"ityk 4 30 II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-21
HOME RUN MEAT MARET.

3l5 Z. Commerce ST., has changed hands
| keep the choicest meat in the city.
Come and see for yourself.
5 colin JOHN c. FELLMAN, Manager.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
CAPTAIN GUM A LEPER
A Wealthy Hawaiian Afflicted
With the Disease Was
Here.
After Living in a Fashionable Hotel
He Escapes to the
Orient.

Captain Hugh Gum of Company B,
First Infantry of the Hawaiian Guard, has
been here and taken his departure. He
was in hurry to get away, as DR.. Lawlor,
the Quarantine Officer, and the Board of
Health were on his trail, on the suspicion
that he is leper.
Captain Gum came here on the bark
Hesper, which arrived last Sunday. He
went to fashionable boarding house on
OFarrell street, and when DIR. Lawlor
called there and made inquiries as to his
reason for leaving Hawaii he at once an
nounced his intention of sailing for the
Orient on the next steamer. He was as
good as his word, and Dr.. Lawlor saw him
away on the Rio de Janeiro yesterday.
Ellis ears and face were affected" said
the Quarantine Officer, land he is I'M
doubtedly in the first stages of the disease.
Opinions as to its being infectious are
divided, and |, for one, don believe it is
1t will be years before Gum will be thor
oughly under the control OF the disease,
and as he was leaving the country volun-
tarily | saw no reason for OBTAINING him.
By keeping him here he would have been
an expense to this State all the rest of his
life"
Captain Hugh Gum was one OF the lead
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ART AT THE BAR.
Craze for Pictures and Curios in Modern
Saloons.

Craze for Pictures and Curios in Modern
Saloons.
Pictorial and other TART attractions of
the modern saloon have evidently been
found to pay their way as drawing cards.
Some of them are really extraordinary.
In pictures the subjects range all the way
from those high-wrought specimens in
which the "preponderance of the nude" is
the main feature to the highly improper
specimens from French publications. The
intermediate ground knows all shades and
colors. One saloon keeper has had living
pictures as Darkroom attraction. An
other man makes speciality of old theater
programmes. Still another. in whom the
soul of Aubrey Beardsley must echo, has
taken to displaying posters whose decadent
tendency would make Max Nordau weep.
The chophouses, whose proprietors seek to
persuade the swell young man that they
are the Savarins of Bohemia and their re-
sorts its middle distance, have long been
noted for collections of old paintings, pro-
grammes and paraphrased notices of good
cheer.
The character of the habitues of many a
place is shown by the photographs which
cover the walls; if theatrical, or pugilistic,
or musical, or political, you know just the
kind of people who drink there. Even the
place the furnishings of which are charac-
teristic of his famous hobby. Up on the
Kingsbridge road is a saloon whose owner
goes in for relic-hunting. He displays
many Indian and revolutionary relics.
One saloon-keeper in Harlem has a fad
for collecting canes. He gets them from
his customers He has many old shillelahs
ano aboriginal war clubs. There is cane
which belonged to John Boyle O'Reilly,
cannon-ball found twenty feet under
ground when the excavations for the Pull
itzer building were being made, a
beaded Indian vest which belonged
to "Johnny- on the Spot" a cowboy
who was in Crooks corps when the Custer
massacre took place, and watch which
was found at Hinckley after the fire and
melted into lump. There are foils which
belonged to Edwin Booth, others which
belonged to Davenport, stiletto which
figured in the Second-ayenue riots some
years ago. a pair of trousers worn by Den
man Thompson in the "Old Homestead"
a crooked stick presented to Bill Hoey in
ST. Paul and an old shoe that was used in
1.-THE Flams." Here you may also find
baseballs used by the New Yorks during
the last three seasons. Many other things
are also on exhibition.-New York World.
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'ioint' in Oakland within twentv-four
hours, and moreover keep them closed.
When l made my short raid | had abso-
lutely no one to aid me, and still | got
ten prisoners within forty weight hours.
'iSome time after had gone back to my
beat, which was at that time near the bust
ness part of the town, l had reason to sus-
pect an agency [ had raided when I made
the big haul was running again and sent a
man to investigate.
''He was told that no tickets were being
sold just then. but after the first day of
the succeeding month the place would be
running full blast and that he could get all
the tickets he desired. On the day before
the date set for the opening 1 was trans
ferred to an outside district. That may
have been simply chance"
Within a radius of ten blocks from the
intersection of Seventh and Broadway
there are at least ten lottery agencies run
ming in full blast day and night, paying
winnings on Two drawings per day, one in
the afternoon and a second at night. They
are easy to pick out, because the only sign
of business about them is a dingy box of
cigars propped up in the window when the
place purports to be a cigar-factory or a few
cheap china jars when the sign states that
Chinese and japanese fancy goods are to
be found there, and a Chinese lookout
stands at each door to answer questions
about tickets. The locations of the agencies
mentioned are as follows: 3471S Twelfth
street, All Eighth street, 4l9 Tenth street.
l714s4 Seventh street, 1872 Seventh street,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
A TRAGEDY IN OAKLAND,
Jean Thome Attempts to Muir
der His Wife and Two
Daughters.
BLOODY WORK WITH A KNIFE
The Drink-Crazed Father Wounded
His Children and Commit
ted Suicide.

Jean Thome, cobbler, with an imag
mary grievance against his family, at
tempted to murder his wife and two grown
daughters yesterday morning at lao Sar
Pablo avenue, Oakland. He stabbed and
about the body and hands, and finished by
plunging the knife into his own breast six
times, with fatal result.
His daughters will recover, SO the doc
tors say, as it is believed that the knife die
not reach vital spot.
Thome had been a heavy drinker fol
many years. His daughters started g
laundry at LAO San Pablo avenue, and had
their mother, who left Thome, live with
them. Thome opened small cobbler-
shop on Washington street, near Seventh
but he spent all he earned in liquor. When
drunk he was vicious and abusive to such
an extent that many believed him to be
insane.
After nights debauch he went to the
laundry little after g o'clock yesterday
morning. The mother and daughters,
Henrietta and Annette, live in the rear OF
the laundry. When Mrs. Thome opened
the door Thome sprang across the thres-.
hold with a revolver in his hand, and
W 4
Now / will kill your
Mrs Thome is a large, powerful woman,
and she saw that she had to fight for her
life. She grasped the revolver over the
hammer which prevented its being used
by the maniac. Back and forth they strug-
gled, the woman shrieking for help. Her
two daughters sprang from their bed in an
adjoining room and ran to help their
mother. In the struggle the four burst
through a door into hall that leads to
Mrs. Thome's bedroom in the rear of the
house. At last they reached the bedroom
where Mrs. Thome succeeded in wrench
ing the pistol from his grasp.
run for your lives she cried to her
daughters as she dashed out of the front
door and into the street, shrieking 'mur-
der and police as she fed She gave
the weapon to a butcher across the avenue
and told him to call the police.
During her absence q bloody tragedy
was being enacted jill the little rear bed
room. The young women started to
escape from the room when the Infatuated
man rev from his pocket knife
that Il, bad ground to a point.
''1hs is for you, he shouted, plunging
the a. n blade into Annette's breast.
And nat is for you," driving the knife
into lt~nrietta's abdomen. The two
Young man reached the door, but ne
S lied them and threw them back into the
room. again they grappled with their
Iarent, Who siaShed right and LETT with
the lleen-cdged blade. Both women were
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chants and professional men what they
thought of the proposition of allowing the
Chinese to take many thousands of dollars
each month out of the city and also as to
the moral aspect Of the case.
In every instance the answer was the
same. He was told that it was not right
from moral point of view and was also an
injustice to the business community.
As these opinions coincide with the
Mayors views, Chief Schaffer was told
that the lotteries must close.
81 propose to see that every lottery joint
in Oakland is closed and kept closed" said
the Mayor yesterday, land have instructed
Chief Schaffer to carry out my instructions
at once"
Since the Mayor ordered him to close
the lotteries week ago, Chief Schaffer
has arrested or assisted in arresting four
lottery agents, two of whom forfeited $50
bail each and went back to business again.
Chief Schaffer's excuse for allowing the
fifteen or twenty agencies to run as they
have been running is that it is impossible
to get into them to make arrests or that
the difficulty of gathering evidence is very
great
Other officers who have made raids have
shown greater ability, have experienced no
such difficulty, and have succeeded in
making arrests in rapid succession and in
getting fair share of convictions.
Officer William McCloud is an instance
of what intelligent and energetic work in
that line will do.
Early in April, 1894, he was asked by ex-
Mayor Pardee to spend part of ten
days vacation which he had Just been
granted in looking into the Chinese lottery
nuisance, to see whether it could not be
abated.
In the forty-eight hours, including April
6and7 z, he arrested ten agents, experience
ing no difficulty in gaining entrance to the
dens or in getting plenty of evidence. Of
the Chinese he took into custody, ten
were convicted, paying fines aggregating
5000. Two were acquitted by juries be-
cause the witnesses failed to fully identity
the accused. Others had their cases dis
missed and escaped punishment because
the complaints in their cases mysteriously
disappeared about the time Walter Lam
bert, the absconding clerk of the Police
Court, left for Honolulu.
'Any Chief of Police who has the num-
Der of men and sources of information
that Chief Schaffer has," said Officer Nc
Cloud yesterday, 'can close every lottery
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
AT the Macdonough,
BERKELEY.

Immediate steps will be taken by the
University of California Boating Associa-
ton for the erection of new boathouse in
the place of the one burned last month.
The loss sustained by the fire exceeds
$4,000 upon which there was an insurance
of $500.
Considerable money has been expended
recently on shells and in the payment of
the coach, and there will not be large
amount on hand after these accounts are
met. It is expected that the fund for re-
building the house will be contributed
largely by the alumni and other friends of
the university.
Badly Bruised.
Bernard Shaw, a young man who drives
the delivery wagon for Grocer Adams, had
a narrow escape from death yesterday
morning.
While driving down Shattuek avenue
the horse became unmanageable and ran
away, throwing out the driver. He struck
the ground violently, and the wheels of
bones were broken, but Shaw was consid-
erably bruised.
His Wife Deserts Him.
Hugh Dykes of South Berkeley is much
worried over the prolonged absence of his
wife, who left home without warning
about month ago. On the date of her
departure she left a note saying that she
had taken her fve-year-old boy and gone
to Los Angeles. She wrote him letter
few days ago stating that she would leave
Los Angeles soon and go where she was
unknown. Dykes is in sad plight, as he
has several young children on his ha nds
to care for.
commencement Speakers.
The faculty of the university has chosen
Miss Catherine FELTON, and Messrs. Graves,
Gorrill and SeaTes as speakers for the grad
uating class on commencement day.
Professor GayIey's New Book.
A new book entitled IAN Introduction
to the Study of Literary Criticism" by Ed
ward Mills Gayley, professor of English
literature at the university, will soon make
its appearance.
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ing spirits in the revolution that over
threw Liluokalani and seated Dole as
President of the Hawaiian Republic. He
was member of the firm of Egan g. Gum,
and in the basement of the firms ware
house the companies of infantry which
accomplished the revolution used to regu-
larly drill. He is connected with some of
the best families in Hawaii, and it is said
that his departure for the United States
was connived at by the Hawaiian officials.
The exiles now in San Francisco state posi-
lively that they can name dozen people
now permanently residing in the United
States whose relatives are lepers, or have
died of that disease.
When seen on the Rio de Janeiro Gum
denied that he was a leper, but said he had
hidden good-by to his family forever, and
that he never intended returning to the
United States. He has good business
opening in prospect in the Orient, and ex-
poets to live and die there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
Chang Ben Bolt. -

Thomas Dunn English, author of sBen
Bolt" at the last session of Congress intro.
duced what he considered worthy meas
ure. Objection was made to it. however
and to get even he became for short time
the leading objector to almost everything
Unanimous consent" was asked for. This
naturally made the other members angry,
and to annoy Mr.. English the wags of the
House would go as near as they dared and
hum "Ben Bolt" every time he rose to
speak.
While in restaurant one afternoon a
quartet of his tormentors sat at the table
next to him and made the distinguished
author furious by singing Sweet Alice
Ben Bolt" in discordant keys. Jumping
up from the table, Mr.. English shook his
fist at his tormentors and exclaimed: "Oh,
hang Ben Bolt l wish [ had never writ
ten it.''-New York Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05

IN their night gowns, and every stroke was
followed by flow of blood.
Annette at last escaped and ran Shrek
ing out into the street and met her mother.
They called loudly for help, but no one re-
sponded as the street was deserted at that
hour in the morning. At last they went
into the house and found Henrietta on her
bed with blood flowing from half dozen
wounds.
Her father had made another assault
upon her, and then started in pursuit of
the two who had escaped.
On reaching the door he turned back and
went to his wifes bedroom. He threw
himself upon the bed and plunged the
knife six times into his own bosom in the
region of the heart. The last blow struck
that vital organ, and when Annette and
her mother entered the room again Thome
was dead.
DR.. d. W. Webster was called. Hefound
Henrietta stabbed three times in the left
breast, one wound being couple of inches
deep. her left hand and thumb are also
badly cut. Annette was stabbed in the
abdomen, but not fatally. Her hands also
are cut. The physicians say the young
women will probably recover. Thome
was 81 years old, and he and his wife
came from France thirty-seven years ago.
They own property in North Oakland and
San Diego. Thome mortgaged the latter
property and spent the money for drink.
He threatened to kill his family on sew
eral occasions, because they would not
give him the money to pay off the mort
gage. He was arrested several times for
abusing them, and last February was ex-
amined for insanity, but was adjudged not
dangerous. In his pocket were letters
showing that he intended to murder the
entire family.
The autopsy on Thome's body, which
was held last evening, developed the fact
that three of the six self-inficted wounds
had pierced his heart. In one case the
knife had gone entirely through that or
gan. The Coroner's jury brought in YER
dict in accordance with the facts.
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463 Sixth street, AGO Sixth street, $50 Broad
way, 1412 San Pablo avenue, HOS Thir-
teenth avenue and GIL East Twelfth street.
In addition to these one agency does busi-
ness in West Oakland and another at
Center street station. Nearly every Chi
nese store in the Chinese quarter is an
agency.
The most important agency on the list is
the one at All Eighth street, where Big
Jim, the wealthiest Chinese gambler on the
Pacific Coast, makes his headquarters. Big
Jim controls the larger portion of the lot
terry business of Oakland, and it was in this
headquarters that the willy gambler forgot
his caution one day and to an attorney of
Oakland said that the lotteries of Oakland
made $50 900 per month, and that it was
the best town on the coast for their bust
ness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
THE FAIR ESTATE.
Clearing the Ground for the Coming
Contest.

Clearing the Ground for the Coming
Contest.
On petition by the special administra-
tors of the estate of James G. Fair Judge
Slack has ordered all interested in the Lick
House to appear in his department on May
9 to show cause why certain repairs should
not be executed.
DR.. Marc Levingston has been given ten
motion to the opposition to the will of J.
G. Fair filed by Herman Oelrichs and
others.
The motions to strike out portions of the
oppositions to the wills of J. G.. Fair filed
by Herman Oelrichs Jr. ct al. and Margaret
Crothers ct al. will be heard tomorrow
morning in Judge Slack's court.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
LOTTERIES IN OAKLAND
Mayor Davie Orders Chief of
Police Schaffer to Close
Them.
A LIST OF THE AGENCIES
Officer McCloud'S Raid of q Year
Ago-Big Jim'S State
ment.

One week ago Mayor Davie gave Chief of
Police Schaffer explicit instructions to
close the score or more of Chinese lottery
agencies which have fourished in Oakland
during Schaffer's entire incumbency.
Mayor Davie, who is aware as well as
every other business man of Oakland, that
these lottery agencies have been running
in open violation of State as we'll as NUM-
cipal law, recently began to make quiet in
quiries regarding them. He asked mer-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
In Old Hands

The well-known Sparta Restaurant at
Sansome and Merchant streets was the
scene of brilliant gathering last night.
Camarinos is again in charge of this popu-
lar place, and proposes to run it upon old
lines, affording frst-class service in every
respect. The many expressions of salts
faction and congratulations offered the
genial host last evening indicate that the
old patrons appreciate the fact that the
Sparta is once again itself.