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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-22
CANNON EXPLOSION.
Sad Accident and Death at Fort Sam Hous-
ton,

Sad Accident and Death at Fort Sam Hous.
ton.
Yesterday afternoon about :3C
while the light battery of the Third
artillery, commanded by Captain
Potts, was firing a salute of twenty
one guns in honor of the anniver-
sary of San Jacinto battle, the
breech block of piece number one
flew back instantly killing Corpo'
raj George B. Parkhurst, of the bat
terry, who was gunner of the piece
The breech block then hit the left
front wheel of the timber chest,
breaking the rim, splintering one
spoke and bending the tire. Sever
al pieces of broken iron and splin-
tered wood were sent flying around
some OF them wounding Black
smith Graham and Cannoneer
Pagan, both OF this battery.
Neither of these men are injured
| seriously, however, although Fa-
gan received a terrific blow in the
region OF the stomach, which
doubled him up for the time. The
breech block literally went
through the body of Corporal
Parkhurs, disemboweling him. The
body was also severely powder
burned.
Yesterday afternoon the Battery
received the order to participate in
full dress at the Battle of Flowers,
and previous TO so doing, to fire q
salute of twenty-one guns on the
lower parade grounds. The
men claim that they never
saw the horses act 80 restless
and so strangely as they, did when
being hitched up, the plung'
ing,being something,unusual. When
the battery took up the position Of
action front previous to firing the
salute, several of the old veteran
horses absolutely refused to ap.
proach the guns and one OF the
cannoneers remarked, "What is
the matter with the fools anyhow!
Something is going to happen"
The first gun ordered to fire was
piece number one, Corporal Park.
hurst, gunner. The charge failed to
explode, so a second primer had to
be inserted, and the regular turn Of
the piece had to be awaited. After
the other three pieces had fired
piece number one again was
ordered to fire and this time with
success. The next shot was also
discharged regularly. After firing
this shot, the corporal evidently
was in too much of a hurry to in
sert the neyt charge, not giving
the piece time enough to clear
itself of the remains OF the pre-.
vious load. The corporal must
have inserted the last charge
while some Of the burning remains
of the other charge was still in the
chamber, for before he had time
to turn the locking lever Of the
breech block, after, closing same,
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Sick

and all run down and my health was so
poor could not get out of doors. was
not able to do anything, being troubled
with asthma and heart disease. l was
nervous and could not sleep nights. 1
had become completely discouraged when
I happened to read an advertisement of
Hoods Sarsaparilla and concluded to give
it trial. After taking the first bottle
felt better and since taking five bottles
am so much improved that feel like a
new man. / am now able to do a fair
days work and sleep
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-22
WRENCHED FROM THE WIRES.

Sheriff Goodwin, Of Live Oak
county, resigns.
State democratic convention Of
Alabama is in session.
Baron Hirsh, of Austria, dies at
his estate near Komoron.
B. Bradfute arrested for the muir
der OF his wife near Kosse.
Barney Gibbs speaks two and a
quarter hours at Wa xahatchie.
Rhode Island democrats endorse
Russell of Massachusetts for presi-
dent.
Luke Jones, brakeman, terribly
mutilated by the cars at Petty, and
will die.
Cotton acreage is increased in
Texas this year over last about IL
per cent.
Cobb, democrat from the fifth
Alabama, district is. unseated by
the hous Sc.
Trial of Scott Jackson, for the
murder of Pearl Bryan, begins at
Newport, Ky.
Official investigation ordered at
Chicago to determine suspected
case of cholera.
Tennessee state republicans are
in session today, and enthusiastic
cally for Mckinley.
Massachusetts democrats en-
thuse over their endorsement Of
Russell for president.
Senate has a spirited debate over
the Indian appropriation bill,
without finishing it.
Senate passes bill establishing
custom ports at Pueblo, Durango
and Leadville Colorado.
New Orleans election shows that
the city boodlers have lost their
grip, defeated by over 10000.
1t is feared in certain democratic
quarters that the populist-republi-
. can combine carries Louisiana.
Abandoned military reservation
of Fort March, N. M, is granted
for sanitarium, to invalid society.
Mrs. Teresa, wealthy, City of
Mexico lady, leaves $1,000,000 for
the erection of public hospital.
Brine has changed his mind
and will attend the Chicago con-
vention and fight the free silver
ties.
Sheriff Ealiss acquitted of the
charge of negligence in permitting
Martin McGrath to escape from
Fort Worth jail.
Prominent business men OF the
City of Mexico dine President
Search of the Manufacturers asso-
citation of the United States.
Sound money democrats in
Texas will organize every county
aud see that five speeches on
sound money are made in each.
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Corner South Flores Street and Military, Plaza.

Item bulletin board contains the
following: "Pharr has been elected
governor. The Item will prove
this fact by the evidence Of 270
Pinkerton detectives present yes
terday at poll where fraud was
carried out" Berwick, La. 81
have been elected governor by
votes that were put in the ballot
boxes and will be inaugurated on
the second Tuesday in May"
(Signed1 j. Il. PHARR.
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Claiming the Dogs Of War.

WASHINGTON, April pa ma
tional confidence will be held In
this city today, with view to
bringing about the establishment
OF a permanent system OF arbitra-
tIon between the United States
and Great Britain. The call is
signed by we'll known men In New
York, Chicago, New Orleans, st.
Louis, Philadelphia, Boston, San
Francisco, Washington and else
where.
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PERMANENTLY CURED.

That is what you want. Many persons who
nave been receiving medical treatment state
that their disease comes right back az ain as
soon as they stop treatment. This is especially
true in those delicate diseases peculiar to men
and women, and are private In their nature
Where Is no excuse for the d ctor who cannot
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-22

Pharrs Election Claimed.
NEW ORLEANS, April 22.-The
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-22

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02
NIGHT OF FEAR
Aboard the Doomed Craft on Tucker.
muck ShOaI.
THE SEA WAS SWEEPING OVER
HER DECKS.

When Aid Arrived at Dawn of Day
Steamtug Mercury on the Scene First
Wreck Proves to be that of Schooner
CarIotta-U. s. Cutter Dexter Puts in
Timely Appearance.
Vinal Haven, January 1.-The three
masted schooner reported ashore ON
Tuckernuck shoal last evening proves to
be the Carlotta of st. John, Capt.
Gale, with cargo of lum ber, from St.
John for New York.
While coming up over the shoals Mon
day night she touched on the northeast
corner Of Tuckernuck shoal, and then
anchored In the lee of Shovelful and
Long shoals during the southerly blow.
Early yesterday monring the wind
shifted to the westward and came down
with such hurricane force that her an
ohors could mot resist, and she began
dragging about 10 a. m., and struck the
shoals at once. She pounded heavily
all the afternoon and soon began to fill.
Signals of distressEw Ewere set immediate
ly, but. as stated before, it was impossi-
Bile for succor to reach her. The captain
and crew improvised a shelter aloft,
where they transferred their effects and
spent the day, but when night came they
went on deck and spent the long hours
on top of the vessels house.
The schooner rolled much, and the seas
made clean breach over her. The ar
rival of the gray dawn lifted from all q
tedious weight of dread and anxiety.
The tug Mercury, with wreckmaster
Cook, left this port very early and reached
the unfortunate vessel in good time. On
account of the high seas and only hav-
ing short crew they could not launch
Gross rip 1ightship. The captain and
crew responded cheerfully.
The Mercury towed their lifeboat., and
soon reached the wreck. They were
about to transfer the luggage, etc., from
the top of the house, when the revenue
cutter Dexter hove in sight As the lat
ter had extra good IifebQats and all IA
cilities, work was suspended until her ar
rival, when the entire crew and there
effects we're taken from the wreck and
saf3ly landed at this port.
The Dexter deserves credit for hersas-
sistanee, but the captain and crew of the
lightship deserve more than passing no.
tioe for their cheerful response and
efforts.
1t is thought the Carlotta can be hauled
off. She was built in 5S3 and is $50
tons register.
The steam tug Tanrus is here and
reports seeing nothing Of barge P. G.
Merriman.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02
MIR WRIGHT AT THE PRESENT TIME.
REV. WILLIAM CARRUTHERs.

REV. WILLIAM CARRUTHERS.
Rev. William Carruthers of Holyoke,
Mass, was introduced as Mr.. Wright's
former pastor and the one who preached
his installation sermon 25 years ago.
Following is an abstract of Mr.. Carruth
ers's remarks:
1S71-1S96 Twenty-Five years between
those two dates. Twenty five years the
pastor of one church. The fact is pheno-
menal; Really unique in the ministerial
life of the times we- are living in. The
average pastorate is too short now-a-
days. Ecclesiastical divorces are SO many,
and come in most cases SO very soon
after the wedding. Here is a man who was
married to this church quarter of CEN
tury ago, and hereswe ale tonight cele
brating the silver wedding. No bill of
divorce has ever been applied for by eth
eer party to the marriage contract. The
fact is luminous one; it rays out in
great brightness; the radiance is wrapping
us in tonight.
think it has slipped from my brother
Wrights remembrance. but my memory
has kept fast hold of 1.-THE text from
which I preached his installation sermon
back there in 1871. This was 1T 'tHe
went down to sacrifice and preached
Christ unto them.'' That sermon never
was preached again. Finished to make
its repetition impossible, SO gave it to the
fire. wanted to have 1T associated ever
afterward in my thought wholly and
solely with my friends entrance into
this pastorate. Preached Christ unto
chem. That is just what he has been
doing all these years, Though am very
sure his conception of the meaning of
the phrase has gone on broadening and
deepening all the while.
l knew the quality of the man who
l,nno hot ,ir,rx j,,t
We had found one way to each Others
hearts. Dot by any long and torturous
road, but by the short, straight way of
mental sympathy and spiritual affinity.
Our friendship struck Its roots deep. It
is among the indestructible things It's
fruit has been most abundant-fruit
wholesome and precious.
I knew him so well that I was very
sure he would never desecrate his pulpit
by being in it mere theological anato-
mist, mere dissector of dead body of
theology: bringing a skeleton into his
pulpit just to show his people how skill
fully he could take the bones apart, and
how deftly he could put them together
again. l do not believe that through all
these 25 years he has written a sermon
without thinking of Christ's living way
off, talking to weak, tempted, erring
human hearts, and without longing to
make his speech, in the spirit of it, like
the speech of the Son of Mary. In 1871
he oonsecrated his Portland pulpit to the
cheering, encouraging, inspirating of
those to whom he should minister, and
on this first evening of 1896 that same
conservation is in his heart, only 1t must
needs be fuller than it was then, seeing
that the experiences of 25 years have
widened the horizon of his sympathizers.
Rev. George D. Lindsay, pastor OF
the Congress street Methodist church,
was introduced as co-worker and very
dear friend OF Mr.. Wright He spoke
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02
VERY ENGLISH.
A Harvard Professor Bitterly Arraigns
the Presidents Policy.

Washington, January 1.-Representa-
tive Samuel W. Mccall of Massachusetts,,
by permission of the House embodied in
a speech. delivered by him in the House
of Representatives, December ~, which
will appear in tomorrow's Congressional
Record. some very interesting letters
from leading professors Of Harvard on
the Venezuela question.
S. M. Mac Vane, who holds the chair
of Professor of Ancient and Modern His
tory in Harvard University, writes: !" In
my opinion the administration commit
ed criminal blunder in its appeal to
warlike feelings The House of Repre-
sentatives, instead of interposing a de-
mand for moderation and care, has given
way to foolish excitement and reckless
haste, and it looks now as if with the
return of your bill with amendments,
you may have an opportunity to recon-
slider the case. l beg you to do what you
can to prevent the passage of the COM
mission bill in any form. IL can only
complicate and rstard rational settle
ment. We have diplomatic machinery
fof dealing with foreign countries and
collecting information regarding any
question that affects our interests. Eng
Land can hardly recognize the commits
sion. The very appointment OF it would
be an affront which she could hardly fail
to resent 1T would put the whole sys.
tem on wrong basis; and would create
about it an atmosphere of irritation
highly dangerous to the peace of the two
countries. The chances are strong, ii
would draw us into position from
which no escape could be found short
of war. The men who get us into waI
with England over the question of the
in Guiana and Venezuelans will un.
doubtedly be held to sharp reckoning.
The people of British Guiana are as
much Americans as VeneZuelans. One
spot of South America in which men oi
our own blood and language have set up
free government and rule of law Is al
much entitled to our support as are the
unruly Spanish of Venezuela. If they
have carried teutonic enterprise into un
occupied wilds about the headquarters oi
the Essequibo they have done no more,
think, than our own people would have
done in, the same circumstances. Thai
their government should have followed
them can hardly surprise anybody who
knows there would otherwise have beer
no government there. The absence OF
Sc titled boundary has always been the
primarily fault of Venezuela in making
demands so gross and sweeping they
could not be entertained. That England
should now refuse to submit to aIbitra
ton the question of handing over hel
colonists in their new home to the tender
mercies of Venezuelan rule seems te
me highly oreditable to her. That this
other great anglo-Saxon should threaten
her with war for doing SO, can only be
due to error and misapprehension. When
our people understand the case, they will
know what to think = the Presidential
any who weakly follow him."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02
What the journal Promises.

Boston, January 1.-The Boston Jour
nal will say editorially tomorrow: "The
Journal returns today to its former man
agement. This means a stalwart support
of the principles and public policies for
which it has stood for more than gen.
GRAFTON. 1t will continue to represent
fully in New England, the Republican
party of the country. 1t will voice the
Republioanism of New England in Its
broadcast sence. Its national reputation
for clean, aggressive, conservative edi-
'torial opinion on all subjects will never
suffer. The Journal will represent the
best commercial interests of Boston and
New England. First of all the journal
will be newspaper. 1t will not descend
to cheap p-sensationalism nor will it injure
itself by prudish methods The editor
and publisher in whose hands the man
agement will rest, knows the Journal
and it's readers, from actual experience
with it and them, of more than 20 years.
He realizes in the present day a news
paper will not succeed if it offers an in
ferior product
Stephen O'Mearer, who becomes again
editor and publisher of the Journal, re-
signed last March. He was for six years
auditor and treasurer of the New Eng.
land Associated Press.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02

MIR. WRIGHT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
People must have confidence in his hon.
esty and piety.
Ali these qualities you will recognize
rs belonging to dear Brother
Wright. On all occasions that bring the
ministers together, know no one of us
is heard with moro interest and respect
than your pastor.
In regard to long pastorates, it is true
that now there is too much haste in dis
missing q pastor, as sort of of'reaotionsirom
the long pastorates Of former days. The
is some special cause, it is better that
a pastor should be retained. The longer
the stays the more valuable become his
services. He learns to know his people
better and better. 1t becomes a very
sacred tie between them, which cannot
grow up in night can speak from
my own experience that every year has
strengthened the ties to my parish.
1 want to say that it is good thing
that you've done il purchasing the Con-
gress rink lot for the site of a church.
1 think you should have made this an
occasion for a subscription for the new
church. I hope you will take one and
that you will not forget me. You ought
to build new church for your pastor.
It's due to him.
DIR. Dalton spoke of the modern ten
denoy of the different churches to
be tolerant of each others creeds and to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02

day for Now England: Hai-, warmer,
southerly winds.
Local Weather Report
Portland, January 1.-The local
weather bureau office records as to the
weather are the following:
Sa. barometer. 20. 702; thermome-
ter, $50; dew point, 20; humidity, rs;
wind, SW Velocity. 10; weather. clear
SD. m.-Barometer. 80. 872: thermome-
ter. 800; dew point 20; humidity. 49,;
wind, W; velocity, g.; weather, cloudy.
Mean daily Thermometer, 800; maxi-
mum thermometer, 34.3; minimum ther-
mometer. 24.9; maximum velocity of
wind, q. y; total precipitation, g.
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GEN
ERAL FORECAST.
There has been a suddenly sharp rise in
pressure in the northwest. The pressure
is. higher along the Atlantic coast and
has fallen in the Mississippi valley a nd
the southwest Higher temperature pre-
walls IN the lake regions central valleys
and southwest and southern Rocky re-
gion. A cold wave has developed in the
northwest and will advance eastward to
the Mississippi tomorrow and southWafd
to Kansas and Missouri.
Light SHOWS are reported at few scat
tered points in the northwest in most
cases accompanied by high winds. Hair
weather is indicated throughout the east
and south and partly cloudy weather in
the northwest with scattered snow falls
The temperature will rise in the Atlantic
coast districts and lower lake regions
1t will continue to rise III the states
bordering the Gulf during most of the
day followed by sudden fall in the west
Gulf states at right Lower temperature
is indicated in the Upper Mississippi
valley and the lake regions and districts
to the eastward.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-02
A BATTLE FOR BEER.
Polish and German Residents at Bridge
port Struggle for the Staff of Life.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, January 1.-The
central police station is filed today with
party of Polish and German residents
who desperately resisted the authorities
early this morning when raid was
made upon the halls in VIII ioh they were
celebrating the arrival of the new year.
The most desperate encounter and one
which nearly resulted in loss of life oo-
Cured at Sedler's hail, in the foreign Sec
tion of the sixth ward. There the Kos
ciusoo Guards were holding jolification,
and beer and liquor were being sold in
violation of the law. Armed with writ
of seizure, Sheriff Doolen and six men
entered the place and attempted to seize
the stuff.
Many of the guards We're armed with
sabres, and they resisted the efforts of
the shorif and his men. They attacked
thu intruders furiously and after a sharp
struggle drove them. out
Word was sent to the police station and
Roundsman Haokett and twelve officers
responded.
Then furious battle ensued.
The doors of the hall were broken
down and the police sprang into the ang-
ry crowd welding their clubs vigorously.
But the men inside did not weaken.
They had the women huddled together in
one corner and they fought the police
men in the center of the hall. The latter
finally subdued their opponents, but not
until many of the guards were pounded
severely. Some of their faces looked
queer today, but none of them are dam
gerously injured.
At this place II men and one woman
were taken into custody. The woman
made a sad wreck of Roundsman Hack
ett's face after she saw him strike her
nusband.\ 1t took two officers to subdue
her.
All the prisoners were locked up and
their bonds fixed at $50 each, except Capt.
Joseph Kozoski, who made a wicked fight
against the officers aud did considerable
damage. His bonds were placed at s125.
Officer Taylor's arm was severely hurt
and Officer Fishers clothes almost torn
off.
At the Germania hall the officers met
with another determined resistance, but
the fight here was brief and six men
We're M arreseea Ior assault upon the police.
eating liquor.