San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-21
CHR 9utlu eight.
MONDAY, JANUARY q, 1895
HOUSTON HAPPENINGS,
Dished Up for the Light By Our
Special Correspondent.
HOUSTON, Jan. Il, 1895.

and Mrs. w. ID. Cleveland, cOmpli-
mentary to their daughters, Misses
Aline and Tina.
Rev. l.. d. Lamkin, pastor OF
First Baptist church, of this city,
occupied the pulpit of DR.. Lamars
church, at Galveston, while the lat
ter named gentleman discoursed
from Rev. Lamdin's church pulpit.
1t is current in this city that ex-
Sheriff Ellis will be the next crimi-
nal district clerk.
Hugo Danielson, an old Housto-
MAN, died suddenly Tuesday night.
He was 6S years of age.
The members of the Light
Guard rendered their friends a
musicale at their armory Thursday
night.
The grocery stock and fixtures
belonging to r. +. Bell was sold by
Deputy Sheriff w. II. Crank to w.
B. Chew, for Carson, Dewall & Co.,
Tuesday last.
Tuesday at the morning session
of the county commissioners, bids
were opened for building the new
Jail. All bids then submitted were
rejected. New ones will be adver-
tised for.
An oyster roast was given Tues.
day night at Burners hall by the
Ladies' Aid society. 1t was de-
clared great success socially and
financially.
w. B. Ochiltree, better known
here as "Colonel Bill" has opened
new auction and commission
house here.
Billy Layton is in this city and
will train here for his fight with
Doyles, which is advertised to take
place in Galveston on February 2.
On the 2Sth instant Dick O'Brien
OF Boston, and Biddy Bishop, of
Frisco, will KNOCK" off six-round
glove contest before the Houston
Athletic club.
Ted Sullivan, manager of the
Houston base ball team, has not
yet selected grounds for the nation
al game. Coombs' park cannot be
secured, and it is probable that a
field will be selected in the south
ern portion Of the city.
The county commissioners Of
this county will present a protest
to the legislature against having
part of this county cut of and an
nexed to BraZoria county.
About 4 O'Clock Wednesday af-
ternoon Officer Tom O'Leary was
called into the saloon of J. n. |
Mayfair, on Congress avenue, near
the Santa Fe depot, to quiet dis
turhance, and soon discovered the |
proprietor to be the "leading man"
The officer demonstrated with Mr.. |
Mayfair, who in return dashed at |
him with knife and slashed away |
on the officers anatomy with no
degree Of mercy, when the guardian
OF the peace drew his gun and fired |
at him two or three times, trying
to wound him in the legs, but |
missed his aim. During this eX-
citing time Officer Mike Hartnett |
appeared on the scene and |
was shot through the fleshy |
part OF the right leg, but not |
seriously hurt, and Mike Bonatz, a |
brakeman on the Santa Fe road
was shot near the ankle. The |
struggle continued until the two
men clinched, when O'Leary fired |
two shots at his antagonist, who
fell to the floor. DR.. clarendon was
summoned, and after an examina-
ton, found that the balls had
pierced one thigh and the left side.
Mayfair expired shortly afterward.
OLeary only received slight cut
on one side of his neck and in two
places the knife blade cut through
his overcoat and coat and vest. At
a preliminary hearing before JUS
tic Hussey, O'Leary was given the
privilege OF bail in the sum of $1,000,
and was released.
Wednesday night Mr.. Frank @
Lumm and Miss Annie Carr, were
married. The groom is a membe
of the commission firm of Lumm
d Clayton, and the bride the
daughter Of Mr.. j. O. Carr, pay
master for the Central railroad.
Mr.. Beauregard c. Carson and
Miss Josie Buckley were married
Wednesday evening. The groom
is a member Of the firm of Carson,
Foley & Co. cav,
Last Saturday morning Sheriff
Erickson was assaulted by Walter
Davis, prisoner. The weapon
was small piece Of iron supposed
to have been left in the cell by
workmen repairing the jail. Davis
is one OF the men who escaped from
Jail here December 5, last, and re-
captured by Marshal Griffin at
Hearne on the Sth. He was in on