San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-12
by Special Wire to the Sunday LIeur.l

BY Special Wire to the Sunday LIGHT.l
DoDoUssAT's FATE SETTLED.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1.-THE Su-
preme court handed down a de-
cision this morning dlsmissing the
application for writ of habeas
corpus made by Ambrose Smith
on behalf of Numa Dodoussat,
member Of the city council con-
victed Of accepting bride OF one
hundred dollars, and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary at
hard labor. The application was
made on the ground that at the
trial the judge did not fine and
imprisou the defendant as pre-
scribed by statute.
The Supreme court holds that il
a portion OF the sentence was legal
and executed the defendant has
no right to discharge on account
of any illegal portion Of the sem
tence.
A LOW ESTIMATE OF LOSS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. u.-Senor
Dupuy De LONE, Spanish minister,
sent a cablegram to Havana in
quiring what effect the destruction
of the sugar crops will have on the
government resources. The fol-
lowing dispatch was received:
"HAvANA, Jan. 1.-THE sugar
will not pay direct taxes. Sugar
now only pays port duty or per-
NIT to load, OF seventy-five cents
per ton. II the total sugar crop Is
lost and the average expectations
OF GOO, 900 tons is made impossible,
the loss to the treasury will be
$3.50, 600; less one per cent for war
expenses"
Senior De LONE, in giving the in
formation, said iU jould he proved
by inquiripg OF THOSE Interested in
the sugar industry in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, and
pointed to the fact that the rebels,
in their efforts to ruin the island
by burning the cane fields of Span
iards, Cubans and foreigners, have
deprived the Spanish government
OF less than half a million dollars
taxes.
A LOYAL WIFE.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-THE
whereabouts of Benjamin John
son, the missing stock broker,
whose disappearance was chroni-
cled yesterday, are unknown at a
late hour tonight. No trace of him
since his flight of Tuesday has
been discovered, but detectives are
at work on the case. The exact
amount of his shortage is not
learned, but it will exceed fifteen
thousand dollars. Mrs. Johnson,
wife of the missing man, commu-
nicated with Kendall & Whitlock,
the New York firm of which
Johnson was the resident men,
Der, offering to do all in her power
to make good the shortage of her
husband. AS she is possessed of
considerable property in her own
right, probably a large portion, II
not the entire amount of the short
age, may be refunded in this way.
ROBBED AND LEFT TO DIE.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. ia
dispatch from Marysville, Ohio,
states that on Thursday night
John Ramague, eX-auditor of Della
ware county, was robbed and while
unconscious was thrown on the
railroad track. A train coming
along sooniafterward cut off one
arm and one leg. He will probab-
ly die. He was at the railroad
depot waiting for train and went
out to get cigar. Three men as
saulted him, knocked him down,
and took his watch and a pocket
book containing forty dollars. The
robbers evidently intended cover
ing up the crime by murder.
YELLOW BACK BANDITS.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. H.
A dispatch from Ringgold, Ca,
says two white boys, James Kelly
and William Roach, were arrested
there Friday for a murderous at
tempt to wreck the Washington
vestibule train on the Southern
railway last December at Cleve-
land, Tenn. The youths had been
reading stories of train robberies
in the border states and were am
bilious to become famous outlaws
by wrecking trains and robbing
halnless passengers Being unable
to give bonds they were committed
to jail.
VENEZUELA ATTACHED AT HONE.
HAVANA, Jan. 1.-THE recent