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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
More Pearl Bryan Evidence.

CINCINNATI, February 1.-TWO
morning papers, publish startling
statement made to them by Miss
May Smith, of Louisville, who ia
acquainted with the accused MUIR
derers, Jackson and Walling. She
says she was In Cincinnati, Janu-
airy "a and took supper with Jack
son at Heider's restaurant. Jackson
told her that his friend, Will Wood,
at Greencastie, Ind, had gotten a
girl into bad condition, that
Wood was going to send the girl
here and he would put her out Of
the way. Miss Smith said she eau
toned Jackson Of the danger of
discovery in such an enterprise.
He said he was too smart to be
discovered. She said after the
murder of February !, Jackson
wrote ty her saying that he had
disposed OF the girl-meaning
Pearl Bryan by -. The long
dash in the letter was left for Miss
Smith to fill in from her memory
Of the conversation at Heider's on
January "a. She says that she
left that letter securely hidden.
II that letter in Jackson's hand
writing can be obtained it will be
damaging evidence. IL what she
says about its hiding place is true
the letter will be had tomorrow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Mrs. Schunke Inferred.

The last cad rites over the re-
mains OF the late Mrs. Ed. Schunke
took place yesterday afternoon
from the family residence, on North
Flores and Marshall streets,and at
the old Lutheran cemetery, Rev.
Mr.. Ulrich officiating. The funeral
was the largest seen in this city In
many years and was perhaps one
Of the most sad. The pail bearers
were Messrs. Julius Tengg, Fred.
Santleben, Albert Hutzler, Ben.
Varga, Chss. List and Gus. Klamt.
The honorary pail bearers were
Mrs. Louis Dreiss, Misses Emily
Heuermsnn, Hulds Becker. Annie
Tengg, Hulda Koerps and Peetz.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
A BRUTAL DEED.
Eleven Young Men Arrested as Tramps
and Inhumanly Treated.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. ia special
from Ocsla, Fla, says: After ten
days OF torture at convict camp,
whittier they had been sent as
tramps, eleven young men were re-
leased on writs of habeas corpus
issued by Circuit Judge Hooker.
The young men gave their names
of George Sanders, Charles Smith,
Kentucky; Jack Ingrim, Ohio /;
Oscar Wagner, Missouri; Thomas
Cummings, John Davis, New York ;
Thomas Forbes, Pennsylvania ;
Jack Ryan, Louisiana; Don Clint,
Illinois; John SOPHIA, Texas ;
Joseph Stone, Massachusetts,.
Two weeks ago, the party reached
Ocala. They were well dressed
and said they were walking to see
the country better, as we'll as to
hunt and fish. They had lot Of
novelties for sale. They did not
ask aid, but the day after their
arrival they were arrested. Judge
Clary sent them to the convict
farm as tramps. They were chained
to negroes and given impossible
tasks. Upon night coming, and the
task being unperformed, they were
stripped, tied across logs and whip
ped with rawhides till the blood
gushed. Last night, the coolest OF
the winter, the guards drove them
into a pond shouting: "You have
been wanting a bath, now get it,"
Twice a day they were given bread
but no meat. AT Judge Rockers
request they barred their backs,
which were found raw. Five OF
them may not recover. In dis.
charging the young men, Judge
Hooker said their arrest, sentence
and treatment disgraced civiliza-
ton, and every one concerned in it,
should be severely punished. The
haheas corpus proceedings were
brought by Ocala citizens, The
victims of the outrage will bring
heavy suits for damages.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Religious Schools or None.

WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 19.-The
proposal OF the Greenway govern
ment to settle the school question
by making the schools absolutely
secular and eliminating all religi-
Gus exercises, has aroused storm
among the clergy. Both Protes-
tant and Roman Catholic clergy
men bitterly oppose the establish
ment Of what they term goddess
schools. Roman Catholic clergy
men say they would rather SUBJ
NIT TO the present system, while
the Protestant clergymen say they
would prefer that the Roman
Catholics have their own schools.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
House passes the agricultural
bill; $3,l1S,392.

House passes the agricultural
bill; $3,llS,392.
Secretary Morton entertained
the President and cabinet at din
ner yesterday.
Two appropriation bills, the
military academy bill and a pen
sion bill were passed by senate.
The pension bill calls for $40, 000,-
600.
Senate transacted little actual
business, but there were several
warm interchanges of so called
senatorial courtesy on the part of
some of the senators.
Star Mail service is established
twice a week on routes Apple
Springs to Groveton and Travail to
Groveton, Trinity county, from
March, l6, 1896 to June 30, 1896.
A considerable increase in the
mum Der of battleships in the navy
will result if the views prevailing
in the subcommittee of the house
naval affairs committee, having in
charge the preparation of the naval
appropriation bill, ARE adopted.
The fifth annual congress of the
Daughters of the American revo-
luton began Tuesday at the
church of our Father. The most
important business was the read
ing of the president generals, Mrs
John w. Foster, wife of the ex.
secretary of state, report. II
showed that within six months
fifty-seven societies had been or.
ganized.
The subcommittee of the house
committee on interstate and
foreign commerce engaged in the
consideration of the Nicaragua
canal question, held meeting the
time being devoted to a close study
of the characteristics of the country
through which it is proposed to
construct the canal. 1t is the hope
of the subcommittee to complete
bill within two or three weeks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
A Fearful Explosion and Loss of Life.

n L OolIu bAplOolOu anu hVoo VI hllO'
NEWCASTLE, Col, Feb. l9.-Ex-
plosion in Vulcan mine, Elk noun
tain, entombs three or four score
miners. Only one man has come
out alive and he was near the
mouth and blown out terribly man.
gled. Other mines in the vicinity
are shut down and the men are at
work trying to reach the entom bed
men, none of whom are likely to be
alive. 1t Is supposed that the ex-
plosion was caused by the work
men breaking into gas pocket,
with which the whole mountain
abounds.
All last night the mouth.of the
wrecked Vulcan mine was crowded
around with weeping women and
children. while the rescue party
worked manfully. They succeeded
in getting in about 200 feet, but
were driven back by black damp
and gas. John Evans went down
300 feet in the main slope and re-
ported timbers in good shape, and
that the mouth of the slope only
was wrecked. A new fan to sup.
ply fresh air was put in operation
today, and there are hopes of the
rescue OF the seventy miners
entombed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Makers Eyes.

Ell PAso, Feb. 19.-The condition
OF Makers eyes is reported this
morning as improved over yester.
day, and he will today go through
his regular routine OF training. He
will be compelled to wear goggles
for a day or two, but 1t is reported
from his training quarters that he
will be in condition to enter the
ring Friday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Stock Markets Today,

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-Cattle mar
ket 10 cents lower and weak /;
Texas steers 1915 to $685.. Sheep
weak and 10 cents lower.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1S.-Cattle mar
ket easy but not lower. Texas
steers $3.50 to 1915 for grass and
fed steers. Sheep steady, southern
$3.50 to 1885,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
More Republicans Wanted.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. ia
plurality Of S0,903 was given yes.
terday for John l.. Kinsey, repub-
lican candidate for city solicitor
Democrats only have three out of
thirty-four members Of the select
council, loss flour.
Altoona elected Fl. G. Barr, re-
publican, mayor.
Williamsport elected a prohibit
ton mayor, in three cornered
fight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Murdered for Robbery.

LAWRENCE, Kas., Feb. ID. t.
Lsmbern, wealthy farmer, was
found murdered in his house In
Fall Leaf, northeast Of here. The
body was literally chopped to
pieces. There were evidences Of
robbery.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
Renubliean Meeting,

CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-The exc
cutive committee of the League
will meet this exening. This will
be the last meeting before the st.
Louis convention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-19
rWRENCHED FROMTHE WIRES.

Sexton resigns his seat in palia-
ment.
Gold in paying quantities has
been found at Perry, o. T.
Cleveland chamber Of commerce
blackballs Andrew Carnegie.
Texas state congress of farmers
is holding session at Cleburne.
Apollo hall, one of the old land
marks in Troy, n. Y, is burned.
Hord & Harris, of Waco, as
sign. Debts in excess of $1,000.
Shipments of fat cattle from
Texas to Chicago are increasing.
Russia is at the bottom of the
recent killing of Corean ministers.
Steamer Dartmoor, drawing Il
feet of water, goes over Galveston
bar.
Amelia Rives Chanler was mar
ried yesterday to Prince Troubet-
skoi.
Makers eyes are reported better
and he will be in the ring on
Friday.
Fitz and Corbett are Ginning at
each other again, but this is moth
ing new.
Market street bank, San Fran
cisco, robbed of $500 in broad
daylight. ...
Marsovan in Eastern Turkey is
said to be in danger of general
massacre.
An appeal is talked of in France
against the vote of the senate, to
the country.
President of Ecuador addresses
the queen regent Of Spain on be-
half of Cuba.
Another rebellion has broken out
in Corea, owing to an order to cut
of their ques.
1t is regarded possible that no
special election will be held in
Grains district.
Lower house of the Jap parlia-
ment passes bill insuring free
dom of the press.
Transvaal authorities admit all
the reform committee prisoners to
bail in ST. 900 each.
Cleveland promises to answer
the third term question soon, but
how is not stated.
Southern lumber association In
session at Memphis will probably
adopt the Texas scale.
Heavy earthquake rumblings
disturb Cuba and terrorize the in
habitants Of Santiago.
Fitzsimmons says that he is
ready to fight Corbett before the
London club or elsewhere.
The total OF American relief for
Armenia so far forwarded by the
American board is $70,552.
Two engagements are reported
by Gen. Weyler in Cuba in which
the insurgents lost heavily.
Culberson inquiries into the de-
,tention Of Andrew Love, at Gal
weston, on charge of lunacy.
Press comment in England is
favorable to joint com mission for
enquiry into Venezuelan facts.
Sentence of Michael Corey, AL
bany, n. ", to be electrocuted,
held up and new trial ordered.
Washington warns London not
to delay over the consideration of
Joint Venezuelan commission.
DR.. Carl Peters is elected presi-
dent of the German Colonial socie-
ty. Peters believes in expansion.
Four persons seriously hurt and
others less seriously, in broken
rail accident, on the Vermont Gen.
trail.
All the powers but England as
sent to the recognition of Prince
Ferdinand OF Bulgaria by the
sultan.
Capt. McGarvey, of Houston,
contraband captain of Cuban craft,
has returned. He says the Cubans
have As, 900 men under arms.
A package worth $3S, 900 held at
Cleveland, o., under suspicion as
having connection with the recent
diamond smuggling at Pht'adel-
phia.
Murad Boy, Turkish imperial
com missioner, at one time, Is
charged with treason and has fled.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-28
AT ST. LOUIS.

A little discussion respecting the re-
publicans who should be chosen to rep
resent Montana in the st. Louis con-
vention has its start in a letter recent
ly written by Congressman Hartman,
who thinks that, by all means. Mr..
Carter and Mr. Mantle ought to be
there.
The Standard has neither part nor lot
in this matter However, our hope is
that, quite apart from political con-
siderations, Montana may be heard
from when the clans gather. IL Carter
and Mantle are sent, b. seems TO us
that Hartman should go, too. He's a
pretty good fighter himself
Our sympathies are with any repub-
lioans from this state or from any other
state who try to lift the silver banner
at st. Louis. They will fare hard.
They will find the convention hall the
loneliest spot they ever sat In. Prob
ably they will be howled down IL they
attempt to say a word. We are not
concerned over what the St. Louis con-
vention will dot will be red-eyed for
the single gold standard.
But we are deeply interested to know
what Montana's republican delegates
will do when the convention knocks
them completely out. as Vt surely will.
1t will be a very warm June day in
the southern belt for these Montana
men. UP to date, Mr.. Carriers conten-
ton Is that he and Mantle and Teller
are the representatives of consistent
republicanism and that the rest of the
party is made up of backsliders from
the platform of 1892. That is a good
enough claim TO set up for now. But.
at st. Louis. June 1s. old platforms
viii pass away and all things repubIi-
can will become new. Then, once more
the dog will wag the tail: what will
the disaffected tail do about IL?
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QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

A young woman OF Lyons, who had
| probably read "Boccaccio," but not Rog-
| ers' "Ginevra," shut up one lover in a
| trunk when another knocked at her door
She then went out and forgot all about
| the matter until the next day, when she
| found the man in the trunk dead and the
| police unwilling to accept her explana-
| ton.
| The average number of working days
| in the year in various countries is as fol-
| lows: In Russia. PSI; in Britain. 27S; in
| Spain. 290; in Austria, POS; in Italy, 29S;
in Bavaria and Belgium, 300; In Saxony
and France. BOP; in Denmark, Norway
and Swttz erland. 3OS; in Prussia, aO6; in
Holland and North America, 3O6, and in
Hungary. az.
| The lost article room Of the elevated
road system in New York receives about
1000 miscellaneous depositsa year. Near
ly 10 per cent. are umbrellas and rank
ing second are the satchels. About half
the articles are called for and the re-
mainder, after being held for six months
or a year, according to the value, are
sold at auction.
1t is asserted that Kentish gentle
man is in possession of the head of Oil
YER Cromwell preserved in a box. Docu-
mentary evidence does not fully substan-
tiate the claim, but there are traditions
which give IL some show of reasonable
ness. Furthermore, the head strikingly
resembles portraits, busts and the death
mask of Cromwell
The second oldest sailing craft In the
world is the so-called Gokstad ship, a vi
king craft which was discovered in a sep
ulchral mound on the shores of Christi
ania ford, and is now exhibited in a won
derfully perfect state of preservation in
Christiania. 1t is craft of the ninth
century, A. D., and is therefore nearly
/ 900 years old.
Rats, according to a Snowman who ex-
hibits a tame troupe of the little beasts.
are more easily taught than dogs; they
have more retentive ear for language
and greater adaptability than any other
animal. Louise Michel, who is also fond
of rats, has discovered many virtues In
them. They have respect for the aged,
family feeling and compassion for the un-
fortunate.
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SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1896.
FOR SPEAKER REED.

In Massachusetts, McKinleyism did
not show its head yesterday-it was
Speaker Reeds convention. 1t now
seems clear that New England will be
In line for the man from Maine.
The resolutions adopted yesterday
cover the range of subjects that are
receiving the attention of the nation.
Too much stress was not laid on the
tariff issue, but Cuba received SYM
pathy, immigration was mentioned, the
Monroe doctrine was upheld and the
national banks defended
Those who prepared the Massachu-
sets resolutions wrote by the card
when they referred to the reciprocity
policy of James G. Blaine" The effort
lately has been TO make II appear that
TO Mckinley belongs the credit for hav-
Ing inaugurated the scheme for reci-
procity with certain foreign nations.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth.
Blaine had to fight for some sort of
show for reciprocity at the time when
the Mckinley bill was pending in con-
oNNSS' DioihS diu nOl ike the Mchln-
ley bill, and he said so. He publicly
predicted that il would cost the repub-
licans the country i'm 1892. 1t will be
remembered with what zeal Mr.. Blaine
addressed the senate committee on this
question; he was in the Harrison cabi-
net then. II was on that occasion that.
in his earnestness, he drove his fist
through his silk hat that stood on the
table near him. Mckinley resisted re-
ciprocity; Blaine fought for 1t. Yet we
are hearing now that a lot of people
are for Mckinley because he stands
sponsor for reciprocity.
What most interests Montana Is the
Massachusetts announcement on the
silver question; the friends of silver
had been warned what to expect. The
redeeming feature in the conduct of the
Massachusetts republicans is that they
were outspoken-they made no coward |
ly attempt to hide behind meaningless
phrases, as did the Ohio republicans. |
The chairman of the Boston convention |
said that ii is due the friends of silver
TO tell them frankly that Massachu- |
sets is opposed to them. Addressing |
the convention, Senator Lodge averred |
that the republicans had been "easv
with the silver men," but that the mar
" proposes hereafter TO be aggressive
I'm its opposition. The resolutions are
a gold-standard declaration.
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was not successful. nor is weyler scor-
ing victories.
1t is expensive warfare for Spain
The first year of the present rebellion
cost Spain more than $4,000. 900, and
the expense will be still greater for
this year. Figures which appear to be
reliable show that. since February OF
last year. Madrid has sent 10000 SOL
diers to Cuba, and new enlistments are
now progressing.
The methods of the insurgents have
wearied General weyler. He came to
Cuba with a flourish. he was the man
who could win where Campos failed.
One of Weyler's first proclamations is
not forgotten. He served notice on the
insurgents that. after a given time, he
would treat as bandits those who were
found in arms against Spain.
Weyler is out in another proclama-
ton. He complains because the Gu
bans do not fight the style he prefers
and he announces that. from now out
he will deal with them under the terms
OF his former proclamation. The reign
OF terror in Cuba is to begin.
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IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

A special dispatch from Chicago de.
tails the Incarceration of one Rudolph
Diemel in the county prison at Joliet
for the non-payment of a judgment OF
$500 obtained by g. New York Arm
Diemel and his brother had been in the
furniture business and failed 1t ap-
pears that under the Illinois law the
creditor can put his debtor in jail for
as long a period as six months, pro-
vided the creditor will pay forty cents
day for the prisoners board, and
provided also that the debt is not paid
before the expiration of six months.
New York state. also has a law per-
hitting Imprisonment for debt-a law
under which many outrageous abuses
have been committed. The theory is
that a debtor will pay rather than suf-
fer imprisonment; but this presupposes
that all debtors are dishonest, whereas
the proportion of dishonest debtors
men who are willfully and deliberately
defrauding their creditors-is very
small. A rigid enforcement of the law
would punish ninety-nine innocent per-
SOns 10 TedCn one guilty one.
In two or three of his novels Dickens
dwelt upon the horrors and miseries of
the debtors prison and succeeded in
creating so much sentiment against the
institution as virtually to destroy it,
OF the law in New York, the Journal of
that city says: THE recent disclosures
as to the misery caused by the brutal
and outrageous law authorizing impris-
onment for debt in this state should
cause a careful investigation into the
subject. New York is behind the times
in good many things. but in none
more conspicuously than in the main
tenance of the odious procedure-near-
ly always actuated by a malicious de-
sire for vengeance-which delivers the
poor debtor over to the untender mer-
cies of an official jailer."
Here in Montana our constitution
provides that mo person shall be i'm
prisoned for debt except in the man.
ner prescribed by law upon refusal to
deliver up his estate for the benefit of
his creditors, or in cases of tort, where
there is strong presumption of fraud"
That is a common sense provision. No |
valid objection can be raised to II. I
But the laws of New York and Illinois. I
and probably of some other old eastern I
states, on the subject, are a relic of .
Still President Cleveland is
convinced that there is little or no law
and order I'm the West.
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CURRENT COM EMIT.

King Prempeh's crown has been taken
to London. Doubtless the Ashantee mon
arch is thankful his head did not go with
it-New York Press.
The statement appears in the New York
papers as coming from ex-senator Plat
that "a delegates first choice is not near
so important as his second choice In a
national convention" Is the boss giving
his game away?-Indianapols Journal.
Commissioner of Agriculture Morton
thinks that Mr.. Vanderbilts North Caro-
lima farm is away ahead of the depart
ment OF which he is the head. Wander
bits farm is no fake. and the depart
ment of agriculture is.-New York Mer-
curry.
Senator Vest never loses an opportunity
TO chastise Mr.. Cleveland with his caus-
tic wit. and yesterdays scarifying on the
subject OF the presidents slurs on the
West was in the most singing vein. The
ghost of the Presbyterian meeting is a
veritable Banquo for Grover.-Boston
Traveller.
The Carlisle boom in Kentucky is not
taken very seriously except as 1t indi-
Gates that the administration would like
TO control the delegates. AS a cabinet
officer Carlisle can control more federal
officials in Kentucky than any other man,
and there is already abundant evidence
that the federal office holder is soon TO be
employed IN the great WOrk OF Selectlng
delegates to the democratic national con-
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
One of these days, under the stimula-
ton of British enterprise and British cap
ital. Burmah may be a serious competitor
OF the United States and Russia in the
markets of the world. oil
wells have been worked there for 1900
years. hut in a rude and primitive man
ner. Now they are turning out many
million gallons a year and the quantity
is increasing in a startling ratio. The
quality of the oil is also very fine. Evil
IDENTIFY the ancient realms of the East are
by no means yet worked out."-New
York Tribune.
Silver men in the West will understand
what kind OF a fight they will have on
hand I'm ST. Louis from the remark made
In the New York convention on Tuesday
As an Endorsement Of Governor Morton
for president. the fact was recalled that
among those in congress in lS51-1S who op-
posed the Bland free coinage measure in
the house OF representatives was Levi T.
Morton 1t is clear case that IL he is