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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
A BIG GRAIN ELEVATOR.
To Be Erected In New
Orleans.
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
RAILROAD TO BUILD A
PRIVATE ONE.
Beside This They Will Erect New
Docks, StOrehOuSes. WharfS And
Other Needed improvements,
Preparatory For The
Coming RnSh.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
New Orleans, Aug. 2S.-The Louis
vile and Nashville railroad is making
arrangements to build a large grain
elevator here and has determined upon
spending more money than it has ever
done at this port. The fact has
dawned upon the management that
New Orleans has bright future
ahead of it;that all grain of the coun-
try is drifting this way, and it has de-
termined to get into line with the gen.
eral movement. The Louisville and
Nashville handles great deal of grain
to this port and the management be-
lieves that it is a permanent bust
ness.
The road needs facilities for hand
ling this business and can only secure
them by building an elevator, all
elevator room of the port at present,
being spoken for. 1t will be remem-
bered that pending some legal formal
tiles, work was suspended at the new
terminals of the Illinois Central on
River front recently. The magnificent
Stuyvesant docks were fitted up for
business, but wharves, warehouses,
etc, which are necessary part of the
work were discontinued.
The chief engineer of the Illinois
Central has arrived here and has
started up the work ON the wharves
and warehouses and for the next
month or so a large force of men will
be employed there. The particular
work which the company will now
push rapidly forward is the building
of six hundred odd feet of wharfage
from the present dock to Louisiana
avenue. This work will require hun
dredS of men, in order to have it COM
pleted by the middle of October.
When the wharves are completed
work will be started upon the ware
houses. 1t is the intention of the
company to push rapidly forward in
these Improvements.
"These improvements explained
an official of the road, ARE so badly
needed right away that they must be
made. There is the, largest movement
of freight the road has ever seen, on
the way here, contracted for and in
sight. Otherwise there is frenght for
expectation, and we must have facili-
ties for handling it. This export
freight does not include grain. 1t is
miscellaneous freight, packing house
products, meal cakes, etc, and host
of other stuff which requires plenty of
wharfage room. We have no wharves
here for this business"
1t is the intention of the company
to have the new whaTves complet-
ed withnig thirty days, or forty-five
at the outside, and all energies are
being expended in this direction.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
NEW ORLEANS LEvEEs.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
New Orleans, Aug. 2S.-The New Or
leans levee board had an important
meeting last night with the dock COM
mission and wharf lessees. The OBJ
ject of the meeting was to discuss the
ACCESSIBILITY of raising the levee along
the commercial front, in view of the
necessity which the recent food has
shown for abandoning the old grade
of 1875 feet. 1t was decided that the
new grade shall be one foot above the
highest flood figure. The meeting al
so Endorsed the project Of national
levee control.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
4 QUICK DEPUTY.
Avenges His Chiefs Fatal Injuries
and Kills Desperate.

Avenges His Chiefs Fatal Injuries
and Kills Desperate.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 2s.-A spe-
cial from Cloudland, n. c., says Geo.
Pritchard, brother of Senator Prit-
chard. of North Carolina, and sheriff
of Mitchell county was fatally wound
ed today, while attempting to arrest
Monroe Garland, a noted desperado,
near Cloudland, Sheriff Pritchard
had warrant for Garland and with
a deputy went after him. The desper-
ado fired on the sheriff, one bullet
penetrating his lungs and another
through his neck. Garland, after he
had shot Pritchard, turned on Deputy
Blalock, and began firing, but Blalock
was too quick for him and shot twice,
either one of which shots would have
been fatal. Garland died in a few
minutes and Pritchard was taken to
a house near by and surgical aid was
sought His wounds are regarded as
not necessarily fatal. Pritchard is Al
years old and has a large family.
Officer Blalock was slightly wounded.
The affair has created great excite
ment in the neighborhood of Bakers
Vile. n. c., where Pritchard lived.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
BASEBALL.
The orioles are Now Getting a Cinch
on First Place.

Inc orioles are NOW GeJllHS ClHcn
on First Place.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
At Baltimore r. II. E.
Baltimore ....O0O04201x-7 10 .
Cincinnati -. .O1O10OOOO-2 6 ?
Batteries-Pond, Robinson and
Clark; Dammon, Ehret and Peitz.
At Boston r. III. e.
Boston 1O21O400-11 ii 4
Cleveland ..3OO02OOOO- 10 4
Batteries-Klobedanz and Bergen,
Young and thinner.
At New York r. II. E.
New York ....1000005Q-6 10 3
Chicago ....1OOO230O-6 0 2
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Warner,
Thornton hlttridge and Donahue.
At Philadelphia r. H. E.
Philadelphia .OOOOOOO25-7 IL 2
Pittsburg .....O2OOO22OO-6 10 8
Batteries-Dunkle and Mcfarland,
Tannehill and Sugden.
At Brooklyn r. III. E.
Brooklyn ...OO02OO20O- ) 6 4
Louisville .O2OOO0700-11 II
Batteries-Kennedy and Burreil,
Frazer and Wilson.
Second game K. II. Il.
Brooklyn .....2OOOO01O2-5 IL )
Louisville ..3OO1OOOO2- 8 3
Batteries Clark and Wilson, Fisher
and Grim.
At Washington X. ii. h.
st. Louis .....01O43O21 II Z
Washington .0215107I20 10 .
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
A VERY GRACEFUL. WITHDRAW
AL JUST IN THE NICHE
OF TIME.
Believes His Party Will Need The
Free Silver Democrats, And He
Likes None Of Them is
Engaging As An An
thor Now.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 2S.-It is an
nounced, on authority, that Thomas
E. Watson, late Populist candidate
for the vice presidency, will soon sell
his paper to western politician and
forever retire from politics. Mr..
Watson is led to this determination
by the belief that the Populists Of the
west will combine with the free sill
yer Democrats and that the southern
wing of the party will not be able to
stand alone. Again, he has made
thousands of dollars recently in his
law practice. and wishes to divide his
time between that and his literary eff
forts, having now in construction a
history of France and Joan of Are.
He expects to conclude the negotia-
tons, which he has had under way,
in n few days, and then he will put
his present plans into execution. His
| action comes as a thunderbolt to
those most intimate with him, as just
few days previously he had declar-
ed his intention of stumping the state
| in the fall elections. Some local poll
ticianS allege that Watson is infuenc'
ed nj his action by some controversy
which has been. proceeding between
himself and Senator Butler, for the
last few months, but Watson denies
this. He says that the demands fol-
his assistance as legal adviser are
daily growing SO strong that he can
not, consistently with personal inter
est, ignore them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
THE JAPs' LAST PERFORMANCE.

The excellent troupe of japanese ar
fists who are now giving performance
lin Scheuermeyer's park will close their
very satisfactory weeks engagement
tonight.
They will give a matinee this after
noon, introducing several specialties
omitted during the week owing to the
lack of necessary light.
Tomorrow they leave for Nashville,
where they have signed a contract
for a two months engagement at the
Centennial, refusing to sign another
weeks contract with Mr.. Wakefield.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
GRAIN DOORS FOR CARS.
Special wire to Sunday Light.

Special wire to Sunday Light,
Alexandria, La, Aug. 2S.-The Big
Greek Lumber company's mammoth
saw mill, at Pollock, La, eighteen miles
north of here, on the Iron mountain
railroad, is running on full time and
today cut $4,000 feet of lumber. 1t
has very nearly averaged that cut
daily. They have crew of men work
ing day and night, making grain doors
for freight cars of the Iron Mountain
system. They have just completed
10000, and yesterday received an or
der for 1900 additional doors which
certainly proves that western grain
this year will go through this place to
New Orleans.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
PROSPEROUS FARMERS.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
Washington, Aug. 2s.-Assistant Sc
eretary Brigham, of the Agricultural
department says that the Amer
icyan farmers will receive in the ag-
gregate for four TO five hundred
million dollars in excess of that re-
ceived last year for their farm pro-
ducts. This seems vast sum but
sustain fha estimate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
NEEDS AN INSPECTOR.

A COW recently was butchered at one
of our butcher pens and supposedly
sold as good beef, which had dropped
dead in the pen while waiting to be
slaughtered.
A horse which had died up on Jo-
sephine street not long ago and was
hauled out into the bushes above the
poor house was pounced upon by poor
Mexicans living in the neighborhood
and was cut up by them and the meat
eagerly carried away.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
ORDINANCE vIoLAToRs.
Recorder Lewis After the Plumbers.
Other Cases Disposed Of


Other Cases Disposed of.
Recorder Lewis has become justly
incensed at teh manner in which per-
incnesed at the manner in which per-
sons are deliberately tearing up the
streets of the city in laying water
pipes and making sewer connections,
failing afterward to put the street
back in condition, and he is determine,
ed to enforce the ordinance against
them.
He fined Jim Williams and w. @.
Craig SO each yesterday morning for
this offense, although they were not
the principals, West & Gutzeit being
the ones who were having the digging
done. Warrants were issued for their
arrest and they will be tried Mon
day.
They were tunneling under the block
paving ON Commerce street to connect
the Diamond front saloon with the
sewers.
The recorder also fined Jas. Brown
and G. NJ. Mccall, two disorderlies, ar
rested by officer Quintana, So each.
The case of Stella Templeton, charg-
ed by Officer Joe Khouri with being
disorderly, was continued till Monday.
Otto Bernhardt was also before him
for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk
His case was marked dismissed" on
| the docket.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
TEXAS AT OMAHA.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
Austin. Tex, Aug. 2S.-Acting Gov
ernor Jester today issued a proclama-
ton calling a state convention for Oct.
9Th. at Galveston to take steps look
ing to having Texas represented at the
Omaha exposition next year.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
THREE HANDED ROW.

Manuel Gutierrez and Catarino
Ruiz were arrested yesterday after
noon by Police Officer Shelburn for
beating and striking Cipriano Pena,
and Pena was also arrested for fight
ing. Gutierrez was also charged with
carrying an ugly looking dirk clasp
knife. The parties are rival chile res
taurant men.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
ANOTHER WORLDS RECORD.

Special wire to the Sunday Light.
Denver, Col, Aug. go. b. Hook
enburger rode to Evans and returned
today, a distance of 100 miles, in five
hours and fifteen minutes. He started
at 4:05 this morning and returned at
1925. The record is official, he having
been regularly timed. This establishes
a new worlds record.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
A PAIR OF QUEENS.

Mr.. VIM. Quinn, the genial proprie-
tor of Cooley's Register saloon, was
Friday evening by his wife,
with twin babies, both girls. Billy is
doubly happy over the event and in
the parlance of High Five is delighted
at drawing a pair of queens.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
POLICE CALLS.

Thus far during the month of Aug
ust Mounted Police Officers Mitchell
and Van Ripper have had 11S calls
Officers Brown and Beck have answer
ed 81 calls. The former are day men
and their duties included the serving
of great many messages to aldermen
and other errands, while the night
mems calls were in the regular line
of peace duty.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
NORMAL PAPERS EXAMINED.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
Austin, Tex, Aug. 2S.7The State
Normal Board of examiners, after a
two weeks session, concluded their
labors today. About 2,100 eXamina-
ton papers were passed upon and of
that number about 1.400 will receive
certificates.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
COTTON UNCHANGED.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
New York, Aug. 2S.-The cotton mar.
ket was active today, but showed no
change for near months. Other months
were five points higher.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
WITH HORSE THEFT

Pedro Mendoza was arrested yes
terday on a telegram from Blanco
county, charging him with the theft of
a horse and was brought in from the
Leona and placed in the county Jail.
Mendoza has hal a charge of theft
of horse lowering over him in Bexar
county the past six years and has been
out on bond in the sum of $500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
FIGHTING TRUSTS.

Special wire to the Sunday Light.
Kansas City, Kas., Aug. 2S.-Atty.
General Boyle will shortly begin ac-
tive warfare on the coal companies
in this state to break up an alleged ex-
listing trust.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
REAGAN WILL GO.

By Special wire to Sunday Light.
Austin, Aug, 2S.-Judge Jno. IL.
Reagan has written friends in Sher-
man that he will certainly be there
on September II, to the old Veterans
meeting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
HIS BADGE SAVED HIM.
Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago,
jagged as a tramp.

OuSStu dS a lidAiDs
Special wire to Sunday Light.
Chicago, Aug. 2S.-Carter III. Har-
rison, mayor of Chicago, was arrested
as a tramp yesterday at Negaunee,
Mich. SO was his brother. The town
has been infested with tramps. and
they have grown so bold that Chief
of Police Huhlala, resolved to arrest
all tramps on sight. Mayor Harrison
and his brother have been fishing near
Neguanee. and were wearing their old
clothes. Chief Huhlala, who is stur-
dy Finlander, promptly took them into
custody, refused to believe their ex-
plantations and released them only
when the mayor exhibited his official
star, which was attached to his sus-
pender.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
A DENIAL.

Special wire to the Sunday Light.
Austin. Tex, Aug. 2S.-Acting Gov
ernor Jester has received a letter from
the sheriff of FanniH county with re-
ference to the Leonard race war case
denying in many particulars the re-
port of negroes being forced to leave
their homes.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
THE MARKETS.

Special wire to the Sunday Light
Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 2S.-Cattle are
quiet and unchanged and sheep are
steady.
st. Louis, Aug. 2S.-Cattle are steady
to strong with Texas steers $50
$3.50 sheep: Unchanged.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
\ QUIET DAY.
Special wire to Sunday Light.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 2S.-One Of
the quieteSt days President Mckinley
has spent since on his present pleasure
jaunt, was today. He was at Winder-
mere, Senator Hanna's beautiful
summer home. He did not leave the
house during the day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
MERLEs EXAMINATION.

The examining trial of Jake Merle,
who is now in the county Jail charged
with the murder of John Murtaugh,
will be heard before Justice Grill
Jones tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
PACING RECORD BROKEN.
Special wire to Sunday Light.

Special wire to Sunday Light.
Readville, Mass, Aug. 2S.-Star
Pointer, the celebrated pacing horse,
paced mile on this track today in
$50 Il. This breaks the worlds record.
The track was in fine condition and
the horse made the record with appar-
ent ease.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28
That weeping mother mourned her husband

That weeping mother mourned her husband
slain;
Bent DER her babe, her eye dissolved In
dew
The big drops mingling with the milk ne
drew.
What sad presage of his future years
The child of misery baptized in tears
What could be more sweetly, sadly
pitiful. No wonder that Burns shed
tears when he looked at the print that
had been made of the scene. Why has
not some great artist taken the hint
and painted it to the life-the mother
seeking her dead husband among the
slain on battlefield and weeping over
her child as he nursed from her breast
-''the big drops mingling with the
milk he drew" 1t is enough to make
an angel weep. 1t is enough to en-
phasize General Sherman's pitiless re-
mark that
"War is hell"
The poet Rogers said the prettiest
thing about tear. He wanted to find
a chemist who could crystalize one SO
that he could wear it as a gem next to
his heart for a talisman. Shakespeare
calls the tears of an old man ''honor-
able dew that silvers down thy cheeks, !"
anh another poet describes man as "a
pendulum betwixt smile and tear. !"
So-we will let these old soldiers weep
il they wish to. It will do them good,
for they are not tears of sorrow nor
grief. They are the yelling up and
overflow of sacred memories. 1t is like
INTO man after years and years of wan
lering going back to the home of his
youth and greeting his kindred and
bis schoolmates and communing to-
gether about the joys and sorrows of
the olden time. These veterans all
.hared common peril and it is but nat
dral that they should love to get togetb
er and talk of it. So let them meet an
talk and weep if they feel like it, ana
curses be upon the heartless set who
coff at it and say, oh, let the old war
Owe are tired of it.-BILL ARP, in
tlanta Constitution.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28

one night herder in our employ,
boy from one of the middle Western
States. came running to the ranch
house good deal frightened, and
complained that mountain hon Had
chased him. He had had long run,
and the creature had followed him to
within fifty yards of the house.
with the morning light the boy re-
covered courage and went out toseh his
herding again, but he mulled over the
run and the scare the lion had given him
and vowed he would get even with the
beast. Along the creek that bordered
the range was good growth of timber,
and the boy, remembering his rabbit
snaring feats in the East, rugged up
jump-up' trap on large scale fer the
benefit of the lion. He built ON in
closure that could be entered only by
passage on one side. Then he bent
down stiff sapling and secured its
top to q notched tree stump in such
way that if it were moved, eyer so little,
/ it would fly up. To this top he at
tached stout rope, with slip moose
SO arranged that any creature enter
ing the Enclosure would be caught by
the moose and at the same time cause
the sapling to spring upright. When
everything was ready he put lamb in
the Enclosure at night and waited.
'"The lambs bleating attracted the
lion, and at midnight the boy, who
slept in an outbuilding, came to the
ranch house to tell us the beast was
caught. Once awakened we needed
no telling of the fact, for the lions
cries came plainly to our ears from up
the creek. We got our guns and
started for the trap. The night was
dark, and as we foundered along
among the trees and brushwood the
foremost man nearly ran bang into the
lion, hanging by the rope to the sap
ling. The beast had evidently tried
to leap through the moose, for he was
caught, not by the neck, but round
the body, just forward of the hind
quarters. As he 'dangled from the
sapling, trying to turn so as to bite off
the rope, his clawings and contortions
were something wonderful to see, and
at every failure he let out screech
that could have been heard mile
away.
''Turn and twist as he might he
could not get to the rope with his
teeth. But lest something might slip
or give way and let him loose We lost
no time in backing off to safer dis
lance, and then we finished him with
our firearms. We were all mighty
pleased to get rid of him, butt reckon
the boy that trapped him got the most
satisfaction out of the business-and
he got the skin and bounty"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28
A Policeman's Daring Feat.

Peter Tanning and Samuel Hodges,
New York truck drivers, had race
up First avenue from Forty-second
street the other afternoon. Tanning
drove his truck in the car tracks, with
Hodges on his left. They sent their
horses up the avenue neck and neck,
screaming at each other and having
the best time possible.
When they reached Fifty sixth street
Bicycle Policeman Black saw them.
"Stopp' he shouted.
''Stop us, said Tanning and Hodges,
grinning cheerfully at the policeman.
Black mounted his bicycle and put
after them. There was scarcely three
feet clear way between the rushing
horses. The policeman steered for
this as he rode between the two wag-
ons. He caught up with the horses
when they had reached the middle of
the block.
When he was at their heads he let
go the handles of his bicycle and
grabbed rein of Fanning's near
horse near the bit with his right hand
and rein of Hodges's off horse with
his left. He hung to the reins for
dear life, and was lifted off his bicycle
and over the handle bar. As his BIZ
cycle fell to the pavement Black2drew
the horses heads together and let
them support him. They at once be-
gan to slow down. When Fifty-sev-
enth street was reached the horses
were at standstill.
ST did" said Black to the drivers,
who had stopped grinning. .sNow
drive to the police station.
He followed them on his bicycle,
which had not been injured, to tho
East Fifty-frst street station where
they were locked up for reckless driy-
ing.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28

A remarkable movement In CHINA,
which promises to have widespread
results, il the anti-foot- binding agita-
ton recently started by q prominent
member Of the Chinese literau In Sui
IN, a great city Of Szechuan. The lead
er of this movement In Chon, a literary
graduate and scholar Of means and
influence. His home Is leading city
in the richest province Of China. While
the district examinations were being
held there recently every one was
amazed at the appearance Of large
posters on all the dead walls contain
ing an appeal to all educated Chinese
to abandon the torture Of their young
daughters by foot-binding. The proc
lamation was signed by Chon and
half dozen other prominent graduates
and officials.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28
Trapping a Mountain Lion.

TT was when was sheep ranching
IN the Hermosa district, in southern
California, that was, in way, con-
cerned in very queer trapping oper-
elton" said James Smith, of Geneva,
n. I. 81 was partner in big ranch,
AID We were getting along swimmingly
when one spring mountain lionscame
into the neighborhood and set to kill
ing our sheep aud lambs. We tried
hunting, traps AID poison to rid our
selves Of the beast, but could neither
set him nor drive. him away. The
beast not only killed our sheep, but