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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
NATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS
A Missouri Warden Speaks His
mind Regarding False North
ern Sentiment.

Austin, Tex, Dec. 6.-(SpeciaD'
AT this mornings session OF the
National Prison congress the re-
ports of the standing committees
on "Prison discipline" and PRISON
physiciano were both submitted,
showing marked progress in both
departments. A considerable dis
cussion was had as to whether IL
was more advisable to teach hand
power in prison Industries or
machine power and the general
opinion was that machine power
was more abreast OF the times and
hence was decidedly advantageous
to convicts who upon being re-
leased were better able to get en-
ployment.
The old question OF corporal
punishment bobbed up again ana
during the course of the discussion
Warden Starke of Missouri said
that rapists, incendiaries, murder
ers and robbers were sent to penl-
tentiaries and yet to hear the
northern brethren talk one woul
think that nobody, but Sunday
school children were to be found
in penitentiaries that in Missouri
no man was punished until he
needed it; that the way the north
ern brethren talked the convict
was the finest thing in the land
and should not be touched.
A resolution was finally adopted
along the line providing that at
the next meeting OF the congress
in Indianapolis each state shall
make an exhibit OF penitentiary
work and discipline in order that
all may be benefited thereby.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The betrothal OF Miss Lille
Half, daughter Of Mr.. M. Half, Of
M. Half & Bro, and Mr.. Jesse ID.
Oppenheimer, oldest son OF Mr..
Daniel Oppenheimer OF the firm
Of ID. & A. Oppenheimer was made
public yesterday. The contract
ing young couple are highly con-
nected and well known in social
circles.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
NAY BE BLoODSHED.

Kingston, Jamaica, 6.-Advices
received here today from Port au
Prince show serious trouble is inn
minent i'm Hayti. The streets OF
the capital are placarded with
SHOWN with the Government"
and troops have been ordered into
barracks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
WILL CLOSE.

1t is stated that the principal
merchants of the city will agree
to close their business houses for
half OF next Thursday to give their
employees and the shopping public
a chance to attend the opening
OF the races.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06

With fast new presses, new type.
latest type setting machines, skillful
printers, we are the Best Equipped Of
flee In West Texas for turning out all
kinds of first-class work.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
FATAL FIRE.

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 6.-Fire
broke out 10 the Lake House at
2:3O this morning. Sixty people
were asleep in the hostelry and
five persons were injured Charles
Patterson, dock leborer lost his
life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNED

Rome, Dec. 6-The cabinet this
morning formally rendered its res
igpation to King Humbert, who
reserved his decision 1t is ex-
pected the Marquis Di Rudini,
sent premier, will be entrusted
with the task of reforming the
ministry.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
COLDER WEATHER.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 6.-Fore-
cast for Western Texas: Fair to-
night and Tuesday, Cooler to-
night; westerly winds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-06
AT AN ADVANCED AGE.

Mrs. Apalonia Brown died yes
terday morning at 1913 New
Braunfels avenue. Deceased was
50 years of age and was a native OF
Hert, Germany. She leaves "a
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Kahn
bach, wife OF Chief Kalmbach, of
the City brewery. The funeral
took police yesterday afternoon
from st. Joseph's church and was
largely attended.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
VICTIMS OF GASOLINE.

Stove Explodes in st. Louis Four
Dead and Several Injured.
St. Louis, Mo-, May 22.-Friday a
gasoline stove exploded in the upper
rooms of 2341 Menard street, occupied
by Gustav Mohr and family. Four per-
sons lost their lives and three others
were badly burned. The victims are
as follows: Mrs. Ada Mohr, 33 years
OF age, and Baby Mohr, IS months old,
burned to crisp and their bodies taken
tc the morgue; Hugo Howard, Is
months old, died after removal to the
hospitals. Mrs. Bessie Howard, % years
cid, at the hospital, cannot live; Will
liam Howard, five years old, died at
the hospital; Max Gumpert and Henry
Surman. painfully burned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

IT is true that in every large city
there IS a deal of unnecessary noise.
There is more, changing of bells, for
example. more bowling about rags,
iron and strawberries than the end
justifes; still this fact does not war.
rant any such prosecution as New
York practiced a. few days ago upon q
poor drayman who was hauling a load
Of changing iron through the streets
there. The authorities arrested the
offender and fined him $25 for disturb
ing the peace. The ground taken by
the prosecution was that the rails
could have been so loaded az not to
make noise.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

The supreme court of Illinois has
just decided that the boards of ed uca-
ton in that state, acting for the state
board OF health, have no right to- in
sist upon children being vaccinated be-
fore they are admitted to school Its
declaration is that the state board of
health is without authority to pre-.
scribe conditions upon which citizens
may exercise rights guaranteed to
them by public law, and as the right
to send children to the public schools
is one of those so guaranteed, tho
rule of the board is arbitrary and il.
LEGAL
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

A PHILADELPHIA paper having stated
that the tomb of Gen. Hancock stands
in the corner Of the cemetery at Nor
ristown, Pa, forgotten and neglected."
q local veteran writes that for some
years he has been intrusted with the
key OF the Enclosure around Hancock's
tomb and that every year he places
thereon floral offerings sent by mill
tary organizations from different parts
of the country, and that the tomb is
neither forgotten nor neglected. There
is no danger that it will be as long az
any of the veterans survive, nor, prob.
ably, afterwards.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

The longest turntable in the world
was completed recently at East AL
bany for the New York Central. It is
intended not only for locomotives, but
for sleeping and long private cars. It
is 6S15 feet in length and its construc-
ton required 4S1 yards of concrete in
the center of the table. AS an evil
dence of how nicely it is adjusted, a
boy IA years of age can turn one of
the company's heaviest locomotives on
it with but little effort, so perfect is
its mocha meal adjus tment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Hopeful Evidences Of Improvement
in Trade Centers.
Receipts of Money Exceed the Ship-
ments-Exports of Finished Pro-
ducts Increase-Sales of
Wool Increase.

New York, May 22.-R. G. Dun & Co.,
in their weekly review of trade, say:
"Unmistakable evidence of Improvement
loans. mostly for eastern merchants or
companies, though some well-known
houses in the middle west appear with con-
siderable rediscounts from the south. Not
for a long time have commercial loans been
fully half the whole. The distinct change
gives proof that new business has been
larger than many have supposed. Receipts
OF money from the interior exceeds ship
ments sl,500,000. mostly from the middle
west. Exports of gold have no influence
and only signify the Willingness of Russia
to pay a price for the gold needed. The
excess of merchandise imports to answer
demands for half a year to come involves
greater excess Of exports when the an
ticipatory movements end and crops begin
to move, which fact renders large outgoes
of gold less likely, and gives the country
a stronger position in international mar
kets. Meanwhile there is a continuing in
crease, distinct though gradual. in the VOL
ume of business in demand for products Of
manufacture, and, considering the time Of
year, in movement of grain and produce.
Wheat again cheated hopeful buyers
and fell nearly four cents, closing 3k cents
| lower for the week. Corn was shade
| weaker. Cotton once more hopefully ad-
vanced to IA cents, but fell back to TX
cents, with poor support here or abroad.
Both the volume Of stocks and the condi-
ton of domestic and foreign markets for
goods hinder advance. and later acreage
reports are better. The iuon industry has
quite an increase in business, though not
in all branches. Part was due to the rup-
ture Of the steel beam pool, and the fall
in price from $1.55 to SIPS. The Carnegie
works are now turning out 5000 tons Of
rails daily, nearly all on old orders. and
exports of finished products increase.
"Sales Of wool increase. though still
greater than when all the mills were busy,
but manufacturers are doing scarcely any,
thing, most of their possible demand for
months ahead having been supplied. West
ern holders begin to offer at l to ~ cents
lower than Of late. Wooden goods are dull.
but prices are firm. The strike of clothing
hands here somewhat restricts the new de-
mand. Cotton goods are without change
in prices, print cloths still at the low
est on record, and the demand is still in
different, with talk of temporary closing
of mills at the south.
Failures for the week have been 24S in
the United States, against N7 last year, and
81 in Canada. against % last year."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

The recent discovery that plants can
be made to grow with great rapidity
under the influence of chlFoform fore
shadows changes in the customs of the
farmer: Instead of rising early in the
morning to hoe his potatoes Or plow
his corn he will go forth with chlo-
reform bottle and a sponge and start
those crops to growing so rapidly that
they will smother the weeds in brief
time and thus save labor. People who
want to live long in order to see what
will happen may count this among the
developments of the future.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

A WE'LL known scientific gentleman
of Cincinnati made the unpleasant
discovery not long ago that his
children at a very early age were
losing their teeth. He attributed it at
once to the quality of food they were
eating. They were not getting enough
of the phosphates which go to make
bone, and he determined they should
have it. He at once cast about for
-four that is made from the whole
wheat and thereafter no bread was
consumed in his house that was not
made of this kind of flour.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
END OF THE FLOOD.
NO Further Danger from High Water
Loss Over Sl4.OVO.OOO.

No Further Danger from High Water
81 -Loss Over $14,OUO,OOO.
New Orleans, May 20.-The rapid fall
of the Mississippi at all points from
Memphis to the gulf gives notice that
the flood. of 1897 is over. Tho total
area, including wild lands, overt1cwed
was: Arkansas, $500 square miles;
Mississippi, $3.50 square miles; Lou
isiana, 975 square miles. Much of the
land was swamp.
An estimate of the actual damage
done in the loss of stock ard crops.
houses destroyed and swept away, and
the railroad track injured is: Louisi-
ana, $1,975,00o; Arkansas, $4;325, 900;
Mississippi, $s,22o,ooo; total, $14,52o,-
900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Strike Cost Over $1,OOO,OOO.

Pittsburgh, Pa, May "a. The strike
of the American flint glass workers.
union, which was inaugurated four
years ago, has been declared off. The
dispute was over working the Gun
limited turn" and of the $500 men
connected with the American flint
glass workers union, 1900 struck
The strike cost the glass workers union
over $1,000,00o and during the four
years 400 strikers died. Now that the
strike is over it is said the United States
Glass company will reinstate large
number of men,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
SENT TO LONDON.

Gen. Miles Ordered to Take Part In
Queen. Jubilee Ceremonies.
Washington, May 24.--By direction
of the president, Secretary Alger sent
a cable message to Maj. Gen. Miles, COM
handing the army, who is now at Con-
stantinople, instructing him to be in
London not later than June Is, to repre-
sent the United States army at the cere-
monies in honor of the sixtieth ami
versary of Queen Victoria's accession
to the British throne. AS has been
stated, the United States navy will be
represented at the queens jubilee by
Admiral Miller on the armored cruiser
BROOKLYN.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

HENRY ERWIN and wife, who live
near Beverly, Kas., are the father and
mother of the smallest child in the
country. It is baby girl, is two
months old, and weighs only two and
half pounds. The child is just Is
inches long, and its legs are no larger
than its mothers forefnger, while its
fingers are like wheat straws. In spite
of it's diminutive size, however, little
Miss Erwin gives every indication Of
holding on to life
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Immense Coal Fields Found.

Washington, May "a. - The discov-
cry of one of the largest coal fields in
the world is reported to the state de-
partment by the United States consul
at Cartagena, Colombia. The fields are
in the department of Bolivar in Colon
bia, eight to twelve miles from the Bay
Of Cispati and 4s miles from Cartagena.
The coal is semi-anthracite and anthra-
cite and is good steam coal. The fields
contain about 10000, 900 tons. and COM
prise 215, 900 acres.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
The Yerkes TelescODe Lens.

Chicago, May 2o.-The largest astro,
nomical telescope lens in the world ar
rived in Chicago Wednesday. 1t came
in state, having whole special Wagner
palace car devoted to it's use, and being
accompanied by a guard of honor, COM
posed of it's maker and special corps
of attendants. The lens is to be in
serted Immediately in the Yerkes tel-
escope at the observatory of the Chi
cago university at Lake Geneva, Wis.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

A JAPANESE correspondent says that
the burdock, which the Japanese call
''gobo," is a valuable food in Japan.
The tender shoots are boiled with
beans, the roots are put in soup and
the young leaves are eaten as green's.
The plant has been cultivated for cen.
turtles, and the annual value of the
crop is about 100000. This will be
very surprising to American farmers,
who look on the burdock as 'pesky
weedO
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

DR.. MAYS, of Philadelphia, who had
practiced the drinking of plenty cold
water and the use of ice congresses as
cure for pneumonia in several hum
dred cases, reports an average NOR
tally of but four as against an aver
age of 20 or Is when stimulants, NOR.
phine and the other ordinary remedies
ara apDlied
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

New York, May "a. - Julian Haw-
thorne, who was sent to India to de-
scribe the scenes of the famine and of
the bubonic plague, has returned. He
said: 81 spent only 30 days in India,
a fortnight in Bombay and a fortnight
in the famine district among the ma
tive villages. Millions of Hindus and
Bengalese died from starvation, and
the government figures represent one
sixth of the actual deaths from the
plague
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


The First national bank of Orleans.
Neb., failed with liabilities of over
100000. =: .,@..',.T ~ . ~
: A fire in Jersey City, N. j., caused a
loss of 100000 and made 60 families
homeless.
+. Fire at Hoboken, N. j., caused loss
of $650,00O and $50 families were rem
dered homeless.
Gov. Black, of New York, vetoed the
graduated inheritance tax law passed
by the legislature.
The one hundred and ninth general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
met at Eagle Lake. Ind.
Cambridge university, by a vote of
1,7l3 to 662, has rejected the proposal 10
confer degrees upon women,
White caps shot and killed John
Mitchell and his stepbrother, Jack Cotf-
man, near Mountain Grove, Mo.
e. S. Fleisher, a well-known real es-
tate man, was robbed and murdered
near his home in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The National Bank of Commerce of
Kansas City, Mo-, and the Metropolitan
national bank have consolidated.
Stephen Greene, of Massachusetts,,
has been elected president of the Amer
lean Baptist Home Mission society.
William P. Ross, Is years old, COM
mitted suicide at Camden, N. j., because
he could not stop smoking cigarettes.
The Randolph county courthouse at
Beverly, w. Va, was destroyed by fire
with all the official records for 100
years.
George Hobson, clerk of the courts in
Cincinnati for only six months, has
been found $23,464 short in his ac-
counts.
Richard T. Grant, teacher of Ian
guages, poet and writer, died rather
suddenly and in poverty at his home in
New York.
Abe Donaldson, Mrs. Shreves and
Miss Martin were drowned in Beaver
creek, near Clarksburg, w. Va, while
attempting to cross on log.
The Barber memorial school for ne
gro girls at Admission, Ala, tablished
last fall on grant from wealthy Bos-
tonians, was destroyed by fire.
Gen. James r. Mccormack, died at
Bonne Terre, Mo-, aged 70 years. In
1866 Gen. Mccormack was elected to
congress and was twice reelected.
William Jones, charged with the MUIR
der of r. w. Stewart, a prominent mer-
chant of Lindale, Tex, was taken from
the Jail at Tyler by mob and shot.
Cabel Daniels shot Blanche Suther-
land, 20 years old, at Rossland, B. c.,
and then killed himself. Daniels left
a letter saying he was in love with the
young woman.
The noted distiller, William Tarr, as
signed at Lexington, Ky, to R. P. and
j. S. Stoll. Liabilities, unknown; as
sets, 100000. Tarr & Co. assigned also.
Liabilities, $4,000, of which $4,000 is
in first mortgage bonds.
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that the courts are not obliged to rec
ognize requests of parents expressed
in wills as to the guardianship of chill
dren, but the court may exercise its
discretion to the child's interest.
For the first time in the history of
Missouri woman has been found guilty
at St. Louis of murder in the first de-
gree and will be sentenced to hang.
The woman is Pearl Waters, who de-
iberately killed Lillian Waddell, both
colonel.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Election Riots in Hungary.

Agram, Hungary, May 24--The cleo
ton for the Croatian and Slavonian
provincial diet took place Sunday.
era] towns. At Bosnyaczsi there was a
terrible riot. The military were or
dercd to fire upon the crowd, with the
result that IA were killed and 80
wounded.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Bank Messenger Caught,

Pennington, Me-, May 24.-Albert M.
King, the Boston bank messenger who
disappeared on Tuesday with $780, 900 of
the banks money, was arrested here.
King reached here on a train from
the Rangeley lake region at 11:15 a. m.
Wien searched at the Jail all the money
taken from the bank was found in
packages in Kings pockets.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Aged Murderer aanred.

Fulsom, CAL, May 22.-Benito Lopez,
70 years old, partially paralyzed and
very feeble, was hanged in the state
prison here Friday for the murder Of
George Washburn. a wealthy ranch
owner. Lopez and Washburn were
neighbors, quarreled over their water
supply and after an alteration Lopez
shot Washburn. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

SURGEONS will appreciate device
recently patented, consisting of a
broad band to go over the forehead,
held by strap at the back and fitted
with funnel-shaped reflector, with
an electric light in the back for the
purpose of giving the best possible
light to the weaver without shining in
his ewes so
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Need Only &45.OOO.

Pittsburgh, Pa, May 24.-The Bap-
lists of the United States have raised
$2O5, 900 of the $25O,00O needed to Sc
cure like sum from John D. Rookie
Teller to cancel the debt of nearly $780,
600 now burdening the missionary So
cieties of the church. In the list of
contributions 80 states are represented
pledged or paid.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Failed to Pass,

Washington, May 24.-The colored
youth, John w. Smith, named by Con-
gresham White, of Chicago, for cadet
at the naval academy at Annapolis,
failed to pass the entrance examination,
making the required grade in only one
etudy-spelling. -.. .A.4.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Historic Church Burned.

Savannah, Ca, May "a. - Christ
church, the oldest church in Georgia, in
which John Wesley preached before he
promulgated the Methodist faith, was
burned almost to the ground shortly
after midnight Saturday. The build
ing contained all the records of Savan-
nah ard practically Of Georgia since
1928, most of which are a total loss.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

Springfield, ILL.,, May 22.-Gov. Tan
ner has pardoned James Scruggs. Of
Pulaski county, from the southern III
inois penitentiary, serving 20-years'
sentence as an accessory to the murder
of William NJ. Napier, 1893. The gov
ernor states that Scruggs has been pun
ished enough.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27

MERCEDES, princess of Asturias, who
for six months, between the death of
her father and the birth of her BROTH
er, was queen of Spain and will be
queen again should Alfonso XIII. die
before he has children, is now II years
of age. She rides an English bicycle,
the gift of her step-mother, Queen
Christina.