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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
INSURGENTS CAPTURED.
Some Small Advantage Claimed in
the Weyler Reports.

Havana, Aug. 21.-The gunbOat
Aguila, while near a river on the
coast of the province of Pinar Del
Rio, captured a number of insurgents
concealed on a sloop. 1t is supposed
they were lowering near the coast for
the purpose of exchanging confiden-
tial dispatches between some of the
insurgents.
According to official advices re.
ceived here today, Capt. De Leon,
one of the insurgent leaders in the
province of Matanzas, has surrender,
ed to the Spanish authorities. Ameri-
cans connected with the insurgent
army recently destroyed the railroad
at the landing place of the village of
Benzes. This is a port from which
the people of Holguin obtain a con-
siderable portion of their supplies. An
engine was burned and a number of
cars as well as the baggage stored in
them was destroyed. A majority of
the insurgents are abandoning the
village and taking refuge in the sea-
port town of Gibara.
Capero, a naturalized American
citizen, alleged to be an insurgent
leader of considerable prominence,
has been served with papers by the
Spanish authorities which will result
in his transfer for trial to the Santa
Clara criminal court. Accordingly
Capero will be sent at once from
Cienfuego to the Santa Clara jail,
where he will remain until his trial.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
HEAVY SHUT DOWN AT WALT
HAM.

Waltham, Mass, Aug. 21.-The o.
Hara dial factory, employing over 100
hands, has closed for an indefinite
period.
The Boston manufacturing COM
pany's plant, employing 1000 hands,
has also closed for five weeks and the
American Watch company has also
decided to continue the shut down Of
it's immense factory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
4 BOOMING TOWN.
A Flourishing City Grows Up in One
Year.

Richmond, Va, Aug. 21.-President
Williams of the Georgia and Alabama
railway announces that at a called
meeting of stockholders of the two
companies which have just been held
resolutions have been adopted by
which the Abbeville and Waycross
railroad, extending from Abbeville,
Ga, to Fitzgerald, Ga, twenty-five
miles, the seat of the soldiers colony,
has been merged with the Georgia and
Alabama railway and will hereafter
be known as the Fitzgerald branch of
the Georgia and Alabama railway.
The latter company several months
ago quietly secured control of all of
the bonds and stock of the Abbeyille
and Waycross railroad, but up to the
present time the Abbeville and Way
cross has been operated as separate
and independent road. By this con-
solidation the mileage of the Georgia
ldLiloau 10
twenty-five miles, making a total Of
362 miles operated.
The city Of Fitzgerald furnishes a
marvellous example of what is going
on in the new South. Only year ago
there was scarcely house built or a
tree cut on the site that has now
grown into a f1ourishing city of from
six to eight thousand people. This
enterprising colony is now contemp-
lating arrangements for cotton and
corn palace exhibition which is to be
opened in September. 1t is estimat-
ed that ten or twelve more colonies
are on their way to the colony city
and are expected to arrive there this
fall and winter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
ROUND TRIP EXCURSION RATES

Denver, Col, Aug. 21.-The general
agents of the eastern railroads have
decided to recommend to their COM
panies the one fare round trip to Den
yer from Missouri river points, and
an eighty per cent rate from near
points for the festival of Mountain
and Plain, October 6, and s.
Notice has been received that the
Western Passenger association has
granted a rate of one fare from the
Mississippi river and intermediate
points for the Eisteddfod and of one
and a third fare from Chicago.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
BUILDERS STRIKE IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, Aug. 21.-Seven thousand
bricklayers and bod carriers were
represented in a mass meeting of the
Buildings Trades Council last night.
AS a result of the meeting work on
every building in the course Of con-
struction in the city, where the con-
tractors have not granted the laborers
25 cents an hour, is expected to stop
by noon today.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
TURKISH CONSUL MURDERED.

London, Aug. 21.-A dispatch to the
Times from Vienna says: 1t is offic-
tally announced here that the Alban-
ians have murdered the Turkish con-
sui at Vrania, Servia, near the Mace
DOMAIN frontier. Though this state
ment is officially confirmed no details
of the affair have been received.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
FREE SPEECH GOES.
Judge Refuses to Punish Parties Ar
rested for Discussing Politics
On the Street.


Indianapolis, Aug. 21.-For ten days
a great crowd collected ON the post
Office corner discussing the financial
question of the present campaign.
The discussion frequently lasted I'M
til midnight, and as fast as one speak
er wearied another filled the gap.
The police made numerous and fu-
tile efforts to scatter the disputants
and finally made several arrests.
Twice the cases came before Judge
Cox, of the city court, and the last
time with much impotence he dis
charged the defendants, holding there
was no decision by any court high or
low wherein it is held that q man
violates the law by discussing politt-
cal questions on the streets.
ION the contrary" continued the
court, "all the decisions are the other
way. The right of free speech is
fundamental in our constitution and
must not be denied. No police force
can stop it. 1t is the right of Ameri-
can citizens. This is a time when
public questions are exciting the peo-
pie. They are questions of impor-
lance to the common people. 1t is
only by the discussion Of questions
that confront them that they can
learn exactly how to use their right
of franchise. They have the right to
discuss these questions and the court
will protect them" .....
The court also criticized the persis-
tency Of the police in interfering with
these street conferences by using the
ordinance against sidewalk obstruc-
ton as an instrument Of torture. He
also told the officers that it would be
useless to bring up any more similar
cases as the offenders would not be
punished.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
A DOUBTFUL RUMOR.

London, Aug. 21.-The Daily News
this morning pronounces as doubtful
the rumor that Earl Cadogan, lord
lieutenant of Ireland, is to be re-
moved and that his post may be filled
by the appointment of the Marquis
Dufferin.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
swRDENBoRG CONVENTION.

jamestown, N. Y. ,Aag. 21.-The an
nual convention of the Swedish Cen
trail Methodist Episcopal church is
in session here. The conference is
composed of the churches of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. About $4,000 members
are in attendance. Bishop Walden, of
Cincinnati, is presiding.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF NEWS

TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF NEWS.
London, Aug. PA dispatch to the
Daily News from Athens, says that
there is reason to fear a renewal Of
the massacres in Crete by the insur.
gents. The Turkish garrisons scat
tered throughout Crete are being
withdrawn to the large towns. On
the other hand the French consul at
Canea, it is announced, has been as
sured by the officials that the Cretan
question will speedily be settled by
the foreign ambassadors at Constan-
tinople.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
MET THE oLEoMARGERINE CUT

Kansas City, Aug. 21.-The Wabash
and Santa Fe roads have met the 8
cent per 100 ON lard, tallow, oleomar-
garine, oil, grease and canned meats
from Kansas City to the Mississippi,
made by the Alton.
The Santa Fe followed suit in part
by making the same rate on oleomar'
garine, lard and tallow for export and
a rate of 1891 cents on other packing
house products. This is in the in
terest of the Atlantic as against the
gulf port shippers, and apparently is
the beginning of a very interesting
freight rate war.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
ANOTHER MEYLER ARREST.

Pensacola, Fla, Aug. 21.-Informa-
ton has been received that Pablo
Superville, a young Cuban, who &C.
cupied position in timber shipping
office here, has been arrested at Ha-
vana and imprisoned in Moro castle
as a conspirator against the Spanish
government.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
JAILED IN DEFAULT OF $500.

Salt Lake Utah, Aug. PA spe-
cial to the Tribune from Butte,
Mont, says: Harry N. Wing, cashier
of the State Savings bank and for
merly from Minneapolis, has been ar
rested and sent to Jail in default Of
81, 500 bail, on the charge of embezzle-
ment from the bank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
SIGNIFICANT FLAG RAISING.

London, Aug. PA dispatch from
Athens to the Telegraph says that the
insurgent Cretans have raised flag
at zipopolo, emblematic of the union
of Crete with Greece.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-21
TELEPHONE

Over the long distance lines Of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Tele-
phone company to nearly 1880 subscri-
bers in the principal cities and towns
of Texas.
Toll stations in the Central office,
Hotels and other convenient locations.
Ask Central for stations connected
and rates charged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

for himself and he will be astOnished at
the revelations that come to HIM.
One of the most experienced veteri-
nary surgeons in the country is DR.. Will
lam Sheppard or Sheepshead Bay. DIT.
sheppard IS a member Of the Royal Col
lege of Veterinary Surgeons, London, and
mas attended nearly all the big races in
the east for the last ten or fifteen years.
l had long talk with him on this mat
surprised to learn the extent to which 1t
Is carried on upon the OUTLAW tracks Of
the country. These are tracks that have
no license from the Jockey Club of New
YORK, and hence do pretty much as they
please.
:" Doping a horse" said DR.. Sheppard,
Is nothing more nor less than pouring
stimulants down his throat or introduce
ing hypodermic injections under the skin.
NO one who does conscientious and re-
liable work would resort to such prac-
tice- The effect of these drugs upon
horses is something like that of morphine
upon human beings. The drugs are cum
ulat1ve in their effects, and sooner or
later impair the health or usefulness of
the animal Cocaine is the principal drug
used. The idea is this: A man has
horse which doesn't do his best. For
some unknown cause he Sulks. In order
to liven him up, hypodermic injection
is administered Just before the animal
goes to the parting post. By the time the
horse reaches the starter the dope" has
its effect. The animal rushes off at a
desperate rate of speed If the jockey is
able to control him the horse under the
lhhuSuCt Oh l0S SlltnuldnI SeIeTdiiy wills
But there are a number OF cases on
record where the influence of the drug
has made the horses actually crazy. The
over-stimulation of the brain has caused
them TO jump or run through fences and
run miles without stopping.
"One of the serious effects of the use
or drugs is that it often produces a spas
modic contraction of muscular fiber, max
ing horses very stiff and sor& so that
they can scarcely move. These results
generally occur after the animal has re-
ceived several injections. / am convinced
that the practice of doping should be
d1scountenanced, even If the law has to
be invoked. The practice is not allowed
upon the jockey clubs tracks. If any
of dosing his horses. he is suspended or
expelled. The reason the practice Is
tabooed by the more reputable tracks
is that it is not only winning under false
pretenses, but also is cruelty to animals
l know cases where horses have dropped
Besides doping, electricity is some
times resorted to. Electric batteries are
carried by jockeys, as well as electric
saddles and electric whips.
" Doping was resorted to at the old
Gutenberg and Clifton track in New
l am told at st. Aspath, Alexandria Island,
East St. Louis. and Madison, Ill. The
| horses that run there are generally in
| ferior, hence they are dosed for speed.
There are so-called DOCTORS who
make a business of following third-rate
| tracks for the purpose of administering
| injections. They are not reputable vet
or $50 worth of tickets from the onwer
| If the horse wins, they are from 800 to
| $1,000 better off, according to the betting"
Francis Leon Chrisman.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
MIR. CARROLL's GREAT IDEA.
IL Puts n Man at His Best When He is
Held Up by n RObber.
From the Chicago Daily Tribun

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Taylor Carroll is engaged In devising
a formidable system of defense for lone
pedestrians when they wander in danger
Gus places where police protection is In
effective and the risk of being held up
is ever present His plan Is to convert
the erect human body into a miniature
revolving turret armed at four points,
and capable of dealing death in front,
rear or flank simultaneously or of send
ing four successive discharges In the same
Mr.. Carroll's design is still in its rudf-
mentary stage, with numberless minor de-
tails to be elaborated, but his central idea
is well developed. He says he has not yet
prepared diagrams or experimental APP
paratus, but has merely outlined It mem
tally.
worn in belt" he said yesterday, with
small copper wires running from II up
through the sleeves and connected with
each hand on the great or middle finger
with a copper ring the thumb cen reach
in the palm of the hand. When the thumb
touched the ring an electrical current
would discharge four batteries loaded
with ball, behind and in front. This dis
charge could take place when the hands
were being held under the threat OF an
armed robber.
"The ring should be placed beyond the
reach of the thumb, except in cases or
emergency, so the thumb will never dis
charge OF the battery ACCIDENTALLY.
Mr.. Carroll is not practical electrician
or mechanic, being an actor by profess
sion. He has not figured up the weight
of the storage battery to be carried on the
belt, nor is he adverse to considering the
advisabillty Of substituting a dry pri-
mary cell.
In his zeal for the application of scien-
tiic methods to the protection of the
citizen the inventor has apparently left
out of sight everything but the tacti-
cal ADVANTAGE Of the, lonely, pedestrian at
tackled in front by the bold marauder, or
clasped from behind by the lurking gar
roter. Thus, he has not yet figured out
how slim young man is to avoid as
Stunning unwieldly Falstaffian dimensions
when he braces storage batteries and ar
senals around his waist
Nor does he forecast the possibly tragi-
cal consequences that might some day
result from the clasp of q loving hand
upon the thumb and palm that carried
the potential copper appurtenances he de-
scribes, making inadvertent electrical
contact and producing catastrophe when
only endearment was intended.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

bootblaeks. coalheavers. with an occa-
slOnal longShOreman throw In.
Fortunately, l am starring in what is
known as a popular play 6his year. 50
u doesn't matter so much. The boot
blacks Will be upstairs. of course. / al
ways love playing TO bootblacks. anyway.
cooks that always Worry me.
You see. when a cook gets Autograph
position TO keep up. So she and her gen
tleman friend take their 'liths.' TO the
box office, pay an additional 30 cents
apiece and obtain seats in the orchestra
chairs That's where the rub comes in
don't care II three-quarters of your or
chestra chairs are filled with the most
aristOcratic persons in New York. and
the other quarter is made up OF cooks,
it's going TO be the cooks that will regu-
late the applause and enthusiasm every
time. II they like yOu-that Is to say,
II you play part that is in no way in
tricate, and which appeals directly TO
their ideas Of what a perfect lady should
be-nothing is too good for you. They'll
break their hands i'm your behalf il nee
essary. But II YOU should offend them
in any way, say smoke a cigarette. or
recall to mind some little trick of manner
ism recollection of their mistress, you
are doomed When the cook is out on a
lith. ticket. she's going to get her win
dOW's worth of blood. And the worst of
1t Is, they usually make their remarks
so loud that they usually reach the ac-
tress ears direct and without any as
sistance from those of her dearest friends
in front who may happen to have over
heard them.
clara Morris once put me up to a clever
dodge about the liths," continued the ac-
tress. Il was transforming then in Frou
Frou. Camille and all the other French
ladies. Take my advice. my dear said
Morris 10 me one day; whenever you know
you're going to have a heavy 18th. house
put up Camille 1t makes them pipe their
eyes every time and will be idoized in
every kitchen in town for months after
ward ! took Morris advice and 1t worked
beautifully. o course, in the play I'm In
now the liths. take to me rather kindly
anyway. I'm a heroine with lots of thrill
ing adventures, but no past. And then 1
get married in the last act in full view of
the audience. Still, even now, when I know
that there is going to he a lot of lths. in
the house always accentuate my house a
bit. But il is only when an actress is do
ing a really artistic piece which is more
or less caviare to the general that the
liths, become a whole bush of thorns in
the fash
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

ing she was instructed by her husband to
bring back some meal worms for the
hooking birds. In Frankfort she pur-
chased a. supply, and these formed the
nucleus of the farm at 1915 Seventeenth
street.
From the worms brought here by Mrs.
raised. The staple diet of the beasts con-
sists of beer, wooden blankets and meal
bran. over the bottom of each drawer IS
scattered a mess of bran, in which the
meal worm bug lays its eggs. Over the
bran is laid a section of thick wooden
blanket, above this more meal bran, and
over all heavy piece of linen. Between
the linen and the bottom OF the drawer an
interesting process of evolution Is going
on all the year round.
Where the evolutionary movement COM
mences is a question for abstruse, hair
splitting scientists, but in Acherts farm
II began with the worms. After lapse
of about three months his yellow, one
dnch-long worms grew a hard shell OF
brownish hue upon them and appeared to
be dead. Before coating themselves with
this armor they crawled out of the upper
strata Of the farm to the soft bran at the
bottom OF the drawer, and lay there ap-
parently without power of motion. A few
weeks more and each she'll bursts, giving
birth to an ugly black bug of small di-
mansions and possessed of horns and feel
ers in plenty. These things swarmed in
the meal bran until they nested all over
It and laid eggs. AS fast as a bug laid
on her back and died. If there are male
meal worm bugs the Acherts have not
become cognizant of the fact; all their
bugs lay eggs.
During the Matching period which lasts
about month, there is no evidence of
life apparent on the worm farm. AT the
end OF the month the lower stratum OF
bran crawls and quivers with the life of
innumerable small worms. Those thrive
upon the bran, then eat their way through
the blankets into the second layer of
bran, and finally appear in wriggllng
mass under the linen cover at the top OF
the drawer
When this occurs their diet Is varied
with an allowance of beer. Meal worms
fatten rapidly upon lager beer. 1t is
sprinkled all over the linen cover until
that becomes saturated, and the meal un-
der II becomes soaked. Beer-fed worms
are ready for the market after fort
nights guzzling They are sold by the
Acherts at the rate of 100 for % cents, and
300 hooking birds are supplied with daily
food regularly throughout the year. Each
bird eats from two to four worms day.
So the feeding comes cheap.
About three-fourths of the worms rails
ed on the Seventeenth street farm are
sold the remainder being kept for breed
ing purposes. When worm grows pref
ty fat he crawls back to the bottom of the
drawer, and begins his metamorphosis
TO larva, then to bug, then TO an egg.
and back to a worm again. Il. e. Achert
and his wife assert that theirs is the only
meal worm ranch in America.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

suggests the girls at the New Years ball.
] think they looked their prettiest IN me
dressing room, before they took on their
picturesque wraps. Queer how much time
and trouble and money a woman VIII
spend on a garment that she wears not
more than twenty or thirty minutes al a
time, one that nobody sees except as she
fits from her carriage TO the ball room,
and back again when her evenings trl-
umph is supposed TO be Overt But no
body knows better than she the power or
that last fieeting vision which her victim
gets as he escorts her to her carriage 10
bid her good night. II Is the nrsl I'M III,
preston and the last that are important,
says Madame ChumingtOn 20 her fair pu-
pills as she instructs them in the arts OF
cloak and the fimsy. lacey hood that
head.
The girls in the dressing room afore-
said formed a study for a charming pic
ture. One of the prettiest wore a snort
cape OF white brOcade, lined with a rant,
delicate pink notified silk; the dlsInS-
uishing feature was the large hood that
was wired at the edge to make II stand
out from the face so as not TO muss the
hair
Some wore marabout collars and stoles
that are particularly appropriate Tor eve
ming with dainty gowns. The maraDo1l
feather is becoming so popular, indeed,
and harmoniZes so prettily with dainty
colOrs and materials that they are lntro-
duced into the actual composition OF the
gowns themselves.
One of those which the removal of
wrap disclosed. had shoulder straps OF
the feathers, which made an agreeable
variation frim the much worn flower
and jewel straps which we have begun
to tire of.
The marabout feather is ousting the
ostrich in this realm, perhaps because
there is so much demand for the ostrich
plumes on the picture HITS and boas from
which we started.
Modistes still continue to trim evening
gowns with fur. There is a fancy to
finish fur straps with miniature buttons.
Short strips of fur are used and much
resemble the frogs on outside wraps.
The embroidery collars that were so
fashionable last summer are coming IN
again, with cuffs added to match them.
Stove pipe hats have clump OF fea-
theirs at the side of the crown to give them
a feminine touch.
The new gloves have purses in the
palm-Which is an old novelty resurrect-
ed.
The most elegant wraps are the coats
that do not fit; they hang from the neck
without the curve at the waist, and may
be either short like the box coat or long
enough to reach below the hips.
Finally. the spring things have begun
to appear, but it's too cold to talk about
them now. Annie Laurie Woods.