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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL CLOSES.

Georgetown, Tex, Dec. Especial.
The protracted meeting at the First
Baptist church closed last night after
four weeks Of the greatest religious
awakening ever had in Georgetown.
Rev. Mr.. Mitchell, Of Austin, preached
every night during that time and is
is due to his eloquent sermons that
success crowned this meeting. There
were many conversions and reclama-
tions. Fourteen converts were bap-
tized by immersion in the San Gabriel
river Sunday, in the presence OF
large number Of spectators. More
will be baptized next Sunday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
DIRECTORS ELECTED.

At the meeting of the San Antonio
Saloon Mems and Butchers associa-
tion stockholders last night the follow
ing II directors were elected:
A. A. Zizik. w. Lemke, Ben Kiol-
bassa. Pat O'Toole, t.. S. Greenlay,
Henry Fest, A. A. Gittinger, ]. A.
Bitter, Peter Jud, Me Peters, A. w.
Seeligson, Geo. Icke.
The directors will elect officers at
their next meeting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
FOR MALPRACTICE.

Arkansas City, Kas., Dec. S.-Dr.
Ezekial Fl. Noble, wanted ut Bedford,
Mass, for performing an unlowful OPP
Grafton which resulted in death, has
been arrested here. The crime was
committed a year ago and the officers
have been after him nearly ever
since.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
SUICIDES TO ESCAPE THE GAL
LOWS.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Dec. S.-Abra
ham Eckert, who was to have been
hanged today for the murder of Fred
erick II. Bittenseer, July Z, 1895, took
poison in his cell this morning and is
diving
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
THREE DROWNED.

Muskogee, I. T., Dec. SIN attempt
ing to cross the Verdigris river, fifty
miles north of MuskOgee, last night,
Will Venable and two McKinnock
girls. all children. were drowned.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

Georgetown, Texas, Dec. ESPECIAL.
Steele and Sparks, private bankers,
since 1878 went into voluntary liquida-
ton this morning turning their depos-
its over to the First National bank
of this city. Steele and Sparks re-
tain the notes.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
THAT POISONED BREAD.

Milwaukee, Dec S.-Detectives have
discovered that Baker Flegeslers
flour was doctored with an ounce Of
arsenic through which two dozen
lives were imperiled. Investigation
will be continued today.
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CONVICT LEFT A FORTUNE.
And His Creditors Will Try To Cap
fure II

Trenton, N. j., Dec. SAN execu-
ton has been issued out of the FEEDER
nj court for $2,362, 974, against Oscar
l.. Baldwin, OF Newark. A judg
ment for the amount was secured
against him in 1886 by Frederick FIRE.
linghuyson, receiver OF the defunct
Mechanics National bank, Of New
ark, but never collected.
Baldwin was cashier Of the bank
and caused its failure by loaning It's
funds to persons who failed to return
them. He was sent to state prison
and sued for 100000. Now that he
is coming, or has already come into q
large fortune left by an English rea-
tive. an effort will be made to salts
~ the Judgment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

Chicago, Dec. Seattle: receipts
5000; market quiet, but steady; Texas
steers S2SOd4.20. Sheep: receipts s.
600: market stronger.
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Toll Stations in the Central Office,
Hotels and Other Convenient Locations
M. F. THOMAS, Local Manager.
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saaee about the speedy parting of fool and
MS money. Comic opera is seldom comic and
always expensive to the auditor as we'll as to
the producer and is fast falling into innocuous
desuetude Burlesque is one of the new
ferns of popular amusement which appear TO
be increasing in favor, and that fact is prin-
cipally DUE in my opinion, to the introduction
or many of the vaudeville features. No, de-
pend upon 1t, the coming thing in the theatri-
cal world is modified vaudeville burIesque
type, which will make money for it protectors
and will also afford amusement for the masses
at less than the Vanderbiltian prices which
some managers now appear to have tendency
to exact from their patrons
-HarrY Morris
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Mrs. Ponderbury's Past" has a unique
riot, in which a knife figures. Mrs.
Ponderbury claims that she was once
obliged to defend her honor with this
knife, which she keeps elaborately
framed and hung upon a wall in her
morning room. She has no ancestry,
no past greatness Of ancestry of which
she can boast, and perforce she must
have something upon which to build a
romance, and the knife is made to an
sWer the purpose. And, although it
hangs harmlessly upon the wall, it
causes him as much misery as If it
were sticking between his ribs. What
the sword was to Damocles, the knife
is to Matthew, and in mortal dread
of 1t he treads life's pathway. In the
end it does fall, not upon the sub
m1ssive husband, but upon poor Mrs.
Ponderbury, who neglected the fact
that secret too often is told. So it
transpires that as complications, each
more amusing than it's predecessor,
pile up, the secret is told, and poor
Mrs. Ponderbury is covered with NOR
tification and completely humiliated in
the eyes of herself.
Mrs. Ponderbury's Past" will be
given an elaborate production at the
Metropolitan for three nights. begin
ming tomorrow evening. The play
scored success during its run in the
Garrick theater, New York.
Frank L Perley, manager Of Mod
jeska and the Bostonians, has secured
from Charles Frohman the sole Amer
lean rights to ''The Sporting Duchess
for next season, and will send the play
on tour Of the principal cities. He
has also secured all the scenery, prop
critics and costumes of the original
production Of the melodrama, and R.
A. Roberts, who staged the play for
Mr.. FrOhman, will do the same for
Mr.. Perley. Several Of the actors in
the present cast will remain with him.
In the review of Mrs Burnett's new
est novel, ga Lady Of Quality" printed
in the New York Times, says the
dramatic editor of that paper, the
prophesy is made that the novel would
speedily be dTamatized. The reviewer
builded better than he knew. Mrs
Rurnetts own dramatization of her
story was acted, for copyright pur-
poses, in Ladbrooke hall, London, al
most simultaneously with the publica-
ton of "a Lady of Quality in Eng
land and America. The play will Ger
tainly be seen here next season. Mean
while, why do we not hear more of tbs
novel? 1t is original, powerful, dar-
ing and absorbingly interesting. Few
books of fiction lately published have
been worthier of popularity. Clorinda
Wildairs ought to be a striking figure
on the stage.
The diamond tiara presented last
"Wednesday evening, in New York, tc
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mond-set crown from sinking into the
hair. This band is only round wire
of gold, and at it's ends are loops into
which hairpins or ribbons may be
fastened to secure the coronet to the
head. Above this base is the base
proper of the tiara, a double line Of
diamonds, about seventy-five stones.
enclosing row of larger stones.
Above this on either side is scroll
work of diamonds, conventional grass
es, and between these conventional
flowers, all of diamonds. The tira
stands very high IN front. The center
piece is an open, graceful cluster of
sprtgs and flowers, containing sixty
six diamonds. The tips of the sprigs
contain the largest stones il the tiara,
each sprig holding single stone, and
the centers of the conventional flowers
are also formed Of single stones of
large size
The idea of making a gift to Nine
Nordica is said to have originated
among some Of her admirers at the
Waldorf, but it did not take definite
shape until James Otis took it in
hand. He invited the singers friends
to contribute for the purpose, but linn
tied the contributions to $40 each. -.
Sarah Bernhardt has a marked fond
ness for music, and she is always on
the lookout for the latest accession to
the musical world. She WaXed quite
sociable in Boston, and at her after
noon tea party at the Vendome, the
first week of her stay there, she was
shown md
unique instrument, in shape like the
either Her fancy was so smitten
with the harmony of its strings that
she Immediately laid claim to the
property. Indeed, she refused to re-
turn the harp to its owner, merely
explaining that she was in love with
the instrument and meant to keep it.
The owner had to give in, and Bern
hardt is now the undisputed owner of
the harp. She began at once to famil-
iarize herself with the instrument, and
if her lessons were not interrupted she
would now be competent to operate the
chords. If there be any afternoon
Bernhardt teas or receptions given in
Detroit, that city gain by Boston's loss.
AT a recent dinner in honor of Joseph
Jefferson, that genial youngster told
story Of being stranded with his
company in Springfield, ILL.,, many
years ago. The town was in the throes
of religious revival, and his theatri-
cal license had been revoked. There
was no way Of getting out of town.
and the company finally appealed to
struggling young lawyer in the place
to intercede for them. The lawyer went
before the council, got license, and
they gave their performance. The
body of that lawyer, said Mr.. Jeffer-
son, is now buried just outside of
Springfield, and over his grave is a
monument erected to the memory Of
Abraham Lincoln.
The Mirror tells story of a friend
who questioned Col. William E. Sim,
the famous Mantauk manager Of
Brooklyn, about local color for plays
Don't you think" queried the local
color man, that dramatists hit upon
the right idea when they visit the
scenes Of their plays to study the real
locality? James A. Herne went to
Maine for Shore Acres David Belasco
to Maryland for THE Heart of Mary
land Franklyn Fyles to Kentucky for
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19
OFFERS $500 FOR A WIFE.
Texan Has a Matrimonial Agent I'm
the Field.

Lue f1eIUs
DELAWARE, o.. April 18-August Lob
mann, of Butler. Freestone county, Tex, re-
news his offer of $500 to Real Estate Dealer
George A. Baker, of this city, for a wife for
himself or husbands for his two daughters.
Lohmann is the owner of a 1,260-acre ranch,
we'll stocked, and valued at $50, 900. He also
owns store, which yields an income, &C
cordlng to his own statement, of Sc 900 a year.
He is ffty-four years old, five feet six inches
in height, and weighs las pounds.
AS an extra inducement he offers Baker
over and above his $500 commission pay
ment OF 10 per cent cash of the wealth of the
applicant If marriage takes place.
In a letter to Mr.. Baker, dated April r.
he describes himself as "a handsome, diligent
man, hfty-four years of age, but Just so
young as thirty, having large remembrance
able to keep 1000 thoughts in my head at
once. He says he wants to marry "a good
healthy, stout, earnest reliable economy.
faithful, true woman, mild character"
He gives as a reason for taking this way
to find a wife for himself and husbands for
lis daughters that s'the womens here who
are raised and borned here, and also the
mems, are very slow and lazy, and nearly all
cheW and tip snuff. I would not have a
woman or mems for my daughters who tin
snun-it Is very bad passion
Mr.. Baker has one applicant maiden
lady aged thirty. and resident of Columbus
0. She is possessed of considerable wealth,
but desires that her name be suppressed until
the marriage to August-takes place, which
In all probability, will be in few weeks A
forfeit Of $500 is placed for fdlflIment of con-
tract. soqT
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The Governor Of Kentucky Joseph
Arthur to Indiana for Blue Jeans
Augustus Thomas to Missouri for In
Mizzoura,' and so on. Don't you be-
heve that every truly great playwright
must have done so in the past?''
We'll, 1 don't know" replied the
colonel. How about Goethes 'Faust?"
Lovers Of vaudeville will no doubt
be pleased with the announcement
that the attraction at the Grand this
week, commencing tonight, is Gus
Hills Novelties" The organization is
said to be strong ore. Gus Hill. the
protector of this organization and di-
rector of other successful vaudeville
attractions, heads the company. He
is admittedly the best manipulation of
the clubs in this country. In addition
to the act presented by Mr.. Hill. NAV
be mentioned specialties by the RONALD
brothers, two young Englisnmen aero
bats, whose gymnastic feats are inde-
scribable, and who have the distinc-
ton of having appeared before Euro
pean royalty and creating a furore in
all the European capitals. They make
c0lln-
try with this company, and are known
in the vaudeville profession as ex-
tremely high-salaried artists: Lew
Hawkins, the Chesterfield of min
strelsy," as he is sometimes termed
will introduce new specialties. and
Fred H. Leslie will exhibit his $40. OOo
challenge troupe of performing dogs:
Other specialties will be contributed
by Bently and Cameron, two musical
artists; McCale and Daniels. Celtic
comedians; Gray and Conway, German
''dialecticians; Bonnie Lottie, de-
lightful little lady who sings sweetly
and dances gracefully; DAILY and De-
we're, eccentric comedians; Miss Es-
tella Wellington, young character
singer and dancer, better known as
the fashion plate of the vaudeville
world. Miss Wellington is of the Cissy
Fitzgerald type, and her kick is said
to be as seductive as Cissy's wink.
The programme closes with a farcical
one-act sketch, entitled, 1.-The Twen-
tieth Century Barber" The engage
ment includes the regular Wednesday
and Saturday matinees.
Lewis Morrison, expected this to be
the last year OF his dffFaust' produc-
ton, but his BUSINESS with 1the piece
has been SO satisfac act6ry. .ethat all his
future plans have been laid aside, and
Faust" will be the play again next
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19

season, but that will, 1t is said, be
positively the last year. At the be-
ginning of the season following Mr..
Morrison will produce in Boston, Har-
rison Grey Fiske's romantic play, "The
Privateer." This production will en-
list the services of the well-known
electrician, Mayrhoffer 1t is said that
all the modern resources of stage craft
will be used in the production of THE
Privateer."
The presentation of "The Rivals" in
May with star cast, headed by Jo-
seph Jefferson, will be the event of the
theatrical year and will brilliantly
close a season which. taken for all in
all, has been singular!y barren of
great achievements says the New York
Herald. There have been a few nota-
Bile events worthy Of grateful record
for some actors and actresses of high,
intellectual and histrionic attainments
have been seen upon the local stage.
But sensational melodramas, bolster
Gus rather than witty comedies, and
plays that have laid bare the fostering
sores of social life have been thrust
upon the public so continuously be-
tween November and April that one
looks forward to this May revival Of
pure comedy in THE Rivals as one
welcomes the coming of springtime
after a long and dreary winter.
Sheridan's famous comedy is to be
played by a company gathered with
the single idea of having each char
acter not only played by star" but
by that actor or actress on the Ameri-
can stage who is peculiarly fitted for
the part.
What added charms Sheridan's lines
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Paris has a new sensation. 1t is Mile.
Conesdon. She is the Cassandra Of France
or the modern Jeanne dare whichever you
please. She is hysterical, cIairvoyant,
and quite medieval. She goes into the
trance condition and tells ner visitors the
most profound secrets about themselves. She
prophesies, too. Emile Zola, the great mas
ter Of the realistic, called on her anu ex-
pressed himself as unsatisied with the
seance, but most of the others who have seen
her say she is really wonderful. She claims
that 1t is the angel Gabriel who speaks
through her. and the predictions she makes
are startling. She prophesies a general Eu-
ropean war, in which England ani France
are to be overthrown. She predicts that a
war is coming between the United States and
Spain, but does not say which country VIII
be victorious. Mile. Conesdon is the dargh-
ter of illiterate but weIl-to-do Breton parents.
She was always of pious disposition and
spent most of her time at churches and
cathedrals. wrapt in prayer and ecstscy. She
is tall. rather pretty. slender Her head
is gracefully poised 7fhe has curling dark
haae ianes ann and 0iaGh ntens La sii 'I she
changed from the merely devout 70
the speetacularly theatrical. She fell into
frances and spoks in harsh tone, loud and
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19

do not doubt, and belve that if the ventures
are properly managed from the business end
they are practically certain to succeed I am
grat1hed with the part have played in bring
ing about this reformation, because without
something of the sort the vaudeville aggreea-
uon which travels about from town to town
would soon have got deeply mired in the
slough of despond and 1aight have never got
out.
In speaking of the elemeuts which have
resulted in the demand for better vaudeville
entertainments 1 accidentally overlooked the
CONTINUOUS performance houses. These places
are sprinsing up all over the country, and
Trey are patronized so literally at the mod
crate prices charged for admission that thew
are enabled to hire the best people in the
vaudeville profession. The general public,
or at least that portion which oestows its
patronage upon the travelling so-called bur-
iesque shows, naturally expect something
more than the ordinary turns which may be
seen Tor much less money at the continuous
performance theaters.
This is making all Of us alive to the neces-
sity OF giving better things and most of us
are oolng 1t. l know that a great many
managers are now carrying shows about the
country which are built upon the lines de-
seribed above, and it is an encouraging sign
OF the times that most of these are meeting
with success showing that it is a condition
and not theory which 1 have described +
nave not the slightest doubt that within a
year or two we shall have vaudeville shows
Whlch Will be made up entirely of a well
written burlesque containing good music OF
course, even in this event. it will be impos-
slple to ignore the fact that a large number
OF theater-goers like specialtes but these
may be easily introduced-and logically, too
without interfering with the action of the
plot OF the operetta, which is more than apt
to be rather nebulous, in any event.
L do not wish to have the impression get
abroad from what l have said in the fore
going that l consider that vaudeville Is on
| the decline. On the contrary, I think that
| the appetite for it is stronger now than
! ever before. The continuous performance
| houses have introduced this form of enter
| tainment to a large class of persons who
| were previously totally unfamiliar with it,
| and the demand for good speciality people
| is for that reason greatly increased, but,
! as 1 have already explained, the old timers
! who are used to vaudeville must have some
thing new, as they have become stated. There
| is no denying the fact that what Is known as
the Legitimate" is, dead far, at least, as
| this country is concerned. Whether it will
| be revived is problematical, but there has
Been gradual reduction in the patronage ac-
| corded to it for several years, until now there
Is practically none left to bestow. Melodrama,
with the foolish hero, and the putty, and some
! times pretty, heroine, has also enjoyed brief
season of prosperity, but is now unquestiona-
! bly, on the wane.
| Comedy, without a star with strong per-
sonal following, is about one of the very best
| methods that know of to exemplify the old
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19
STEAMER OUT FOR TROUBLE.
The City of Para May See Some Fly
ing Bullets.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1S.-It is more than
likely that a shot or two will be fired across
the bow Of the Pacific mail steamer City of
Para before she again returns to this port
The vessel will sail for the turbulent Central
American ports today, and Capt. Russell will
be instructed to make an effort to enter the
ports held by the Nicaraguan insurgents, for
the purpose of landing freight. AS the result
of the revolution, which has been in progress
for several months, the Pacific mail steamers,
as well as other steamers, have been denied
entry at San Juan del Sur, Corinto and sew.
eral less important harbors.
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gruf, entirely different from her own low.
musical voice. In this condition she told
the people who came near her their past and
future. She announced that she was pos
sessed of the angel Gabriel, and her parents
consulted a physician. The doctor advised
change Of scene and air. but this prescription
only made her worse, II the change can be
properly described by that word On their
return to Paris the Conesdon family took
up its residence appropriately enough, in
the Rue de Paradis. Here mademoisollo con-
tinued to fall into frances and prophesy for
all who came to see her. Har revelations
were startling. and her clientele go great as
to block up the street and compel the police
to order the family to change it's dwelling
place. This happened cnly the other day.
The Partisan sibyl charges no fee for her
time and talks In trance to any enc E,ho
seeks her aid or advice. When NJ. Zola called
she could tell him nothing, and he went
away unconvineed. Her most enthusiastic
clients have been the priests. So many of
the clergy called upon her rs toiieanso talk
aud to induce the archbishop of Paris 10 is-e
sue an order 10 thelc TO keep away, To 1efa
she said: 81 know. but cannot say" Ply
sicians and hyDnotists who have seen her
say that Mile. Conesdcl Ia suffering with an
extremo attack OF hysteria-
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19
STUART ROBSON TO PRESENT "HRS.
PONDERBURYsS PASTE AT THE
METROPOLITAN.
NINE. ,RHEA AS NELL GWYNNE,
IN a NEW ROMANTIC-HISTORI
DRAMA OF THE RESTORA-
TION.
HILLS VAUDEVILLE ES."
y This Company Will Offer Many Nov
elites at the Grand-GOssip of
1he Stage

In Mrs. Ponderbury's Past" Stuart
Robson is said to have a character
equal in every respect to "Bertie the
Lamb" If this be true, then Ponder
bury must be an entertaining character
creation. 1t is said to afford Mr.. Rob-
son wider scope than any other of his
portrayals. This is the first time in
many years that he has appeared as
an old man. Ponderbury is suscep-
tible old man. He falls in love at six
ty~five, and, like the old-time villain,
pursues the object of his alteration
into the studio of an artist friend,
when he is discovered by his wife.
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