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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

w. A. Coward, by Sheriff, to ]. t.
Brown, lots and 6,block Z, east of
San Antonio river; SS.S5.
S. Rabe to George c. Saur, quit
claim deed, part of lot 6, block SS, on
avenue ID; 5000.
Louis Volcker to r. B. Neighbors
and r. A. Serna,, part of south half
of block 2, west Of San Pedro creek;
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PRIzE-FIGHT JAW WORK.
Bob Will Give Corbett His own Med
icine.
Snecial Mire to SUNDAY Light,

Special Wire to Sunday Light,
New York, Sept. 25.-"If COrbett
comes here to see me he will get little
satisfaction" said Robert Fftzsim-
mons today. A reporter had told him
the ex-champion would visit him ana
demand that he either fight or relin-
quish the title Of champion. Fitz said
he was intending to go away but he
would stay at home to meet Corbett.
If he came.
why should give up the title TO
the championship" asked Fttzsim-
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BIDS FOR TEXT BOOKS.

BY special wire to Sunday Light.
Austin, Tex, September 25.-The
State Text Book board will meet Mon
day to pass upon some legal points in
the matter of how bids are to be sub
mitted by book firms.
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TENTS FOR QUARANTINE.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 25.-Adjutant
General Mabry today shipped quite a
number of tents to Marshall, Texas,
to be used in the quarantine station
there.
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NEWSPAPERS NOT NEEDED.

When a man or a woman becomes
the common talk of the town it is
not necessary for the newspapers to
give the particulars.
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LICENSED TO WED.

HilHard Brown and Fanny H. Ches,
ter.
Jose Guerra and Petra Barrientes.
Refugio Flores and Anita Garcia.
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NO DEATHS.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Edwards, Miss, Sept. 25.-There are
five new cases today but no deaths.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26
MURDERER MUST HANG.
First Execution in The History of a
County.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Bristol, Tenn, Sept. 25.-The Su-
preme court has affirmed the decision
of the lower court in the case of VIII
Mayes, who was sentenced to be
hanged for the assassination Of G. d.
Massengill, a prominent citizen of
Bluff City, in August. The execution
will take place Nov. II and will be the
first legal hanging in the history OF the
county, although numerous homieides
have occurred.
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NO TRACE FOUND.
Spring Tells How He Defeated the
Robbers Purpose.

OAKLAND, May 23.-No trace of the
robbers who held up six men in Jacob
Springs saloon at Emeryville, Saturday
night has been found, though posses
were organized and started in pursuit.
Spring risked his life to save SO that
he knew was in the till behind the bar
Il was sitting at a card table," said
Mr.. Spring, when the doors flew open
and two men entered. Each pointed a
pistol at us and ordered US to throw up
our hands.
Then they compelled us to line up
along the wall. The shorter of the two
men stood near the front door and kept
his pistol pointed at US. His companion
walked behind the bar, and with one
hand tried to open the cash drawer,
keeping his pistol pointed at me. 1
started toward him twice, and he step
ped out and drove me back. Then /
concluded l had best try to escape by
the side door. Slowly / edged toward
it. AS | felt the door give, / threw my
self back. The robber fired just as the
door swung open. | felt a bullet whiS-
tie by my head. AS soon as I realized
that L was uninjured, back I started,
shouting, Murder The robbers had
disappeared by the time 1 got into the
saloon
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An Interrupted journey.

He entered a Myrtle-street car-an
agreeable fellow, whose face is a per-
petual indication of good nature stored
within-and sat down beside a little
girl whose mother was on the other
side of her Possibly he might not have
fallen into trouble had he let the child
alone, but his congeniality got the bet
ter of him and he said:
$50 you are going down town, are
your"
The child moved closer to her mother
and made no reply.
II wish 1 had such a nice little girl
as you are was his next smiling re-
mark.
Mamma whispered the child, 'fs
this a bad man over here?''
Hush, Nellie" replied the mother in
an undertone.
But I'm afraid he's a bad man.,
mamma"
''No-keep quiet"
But you said bad men talked to
strange ladies on the cars and 1 thought
he was one. l wish you'd move that
way
But it wasn't necessary. The good
natured man lost his smile, and sudden
ly remembering that he had an errand
ersing, he bounded up and out like a
flash, victim of his own desire to be
friendly.-Detroit Free Press.
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BUCKET-SHOP CLOSED.
Crusade of the Stock Exchange Has
Its Effect.

NEW YORK, May 23.-The Herald"
says: One of the best-known bucket
shop wire systems in the country, that
of Baldwin & Co. of Wall street, has
been doing no business during the last
four days, and neither member of this
firm has been present to answer the
many inquiries of persons who have
sought information.
The distrust which has been OCCASION
ed by the crusade of the Stock Ex-
change against unauthorized brokers
and the raids upon bucketshops doing
business openly in Wall street have
convince Baldwin & Co. that it would
be advisable to cease business for a
time.
The members of the concern are said
to be wealthy, and the business done
by them has been of the most extensive
character They have a system of
agencies or correspondents extending
all through the New England States,
through the Middle West and in many
parts of the South.
The members of the concern are Chas.
A. T. and Frank Baldwin. They began
in 1892 a bucket-shop in Boston, which
failed on April IS, 1895. with liabilities
of $4,000 Then they came to New
York and started a bucket-shop, which
failed with more than a million dollars
represented on it's sheets.
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THE DIAMOND FIELD.
Fortunes of the Various Clubs That
Played Yesterday.

ST. LOUIS. May 2A-The Louisvilles
had a walk-over with the Browns to-
day. Attendance 5000. Score: St.
Louis 6. base hits 6, errors 3; Louis
vile IA. base hits Is, errors 4. Batter
ies-Hart. Evans and Murphy; Hill
and Wilson. Umpires-Donahue and
Dexter
CINCINNATI, May 23-The Brook
lyns made their first appearance in
this city to-day and defeated the Reds
in an exciting game. The playing OF
Shindle and Anderson of the BrooklynS
was the feature of the game. Attend
ance 1000. Score: Cincinnati 4,
base hits 10. errors ); Brooklyn ., base
hits 8, errors g. Batteries-Dwyer,
Ehret and Schriver; Daub and Grim.
Umpires-Sheridan and Emslie.
CHICAGO, May 23.-Taken in all to-
days game was about the worst exhi-
bition of the season. Briggs was again
an easy mark for the Senators. The
farce ended with a disgraceful scene,
Lang and O'Brien coming to blows,
both being fined and put out of the
game Attendance 5000. Score: Chi
cago -, base hits u, errors 4; Wash
ington 16, base hits IS, errors 1. Bat
teries-Briggs and Donahue; Mercer
and Farrell. Umpires-McDonal and
O'Day.
CLEVELAND, Nav 23.-There was
no attempt TO play baseball here to-
day. No game was announced. the
managers of the club evidently pre-
ferring to await the outcome of the
case of the arrested players in the Po-
lice Court. 1t would have been impos-
sible to play, even if there had been
a desire to do so, for it rained nearly
all of the afternoon.
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Reed was placed under arrest and an
inquest was held upon the remains of
Brown
1t developed that Reed and Brown
were both drunk yesterday. AT p. m.
two cattle herders came to their cabin.
Reed invited them in. Brown asked
Reed who they were, at the same time
rising up in his bed. Reed told Brown
they were his friends and pushed
Brown down on the bed. Brown rose
again, this time with his pocket knife
open and cut Reed in the left groin.
Reed then went out of the cabin and
Brown followed him with knife in his
hand. Reed seized a stick of wood and
dealt him a blow on the head, from the
effects Of which he died few hours
later. DR.. Mardis took several stitches
in the cut in Reeds groin.
Both men We're shakemakers and
have worked together for many years.
Reed was held for examination before
a Justice of the Peace and is now in the
Forest Hill iail
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Luxuries of Royalty.

Royalty enjoys many luxuries and
has many special provisions made for
its comfort. Grand Duke Paul of Rus
sia is so tall that no hotel bed is long
enough for his comfort and he has
one built in sections, which he carries
in his luggage, and which is put up
by special mechanic, under the SUI
perintendence of the royal valet wher-
ever the Grand Duke goes. The EN-
press of Austria and many other great
ladies carry their own beds and bed
linen, blankets and quilts, and always
a macintosh sheet to spread over the
mattress to guard against dampness
from lack of sufficient airing in transit
from place to place
The late Sultan of Morocco was also
among the luxurious monarchs. He was
an invalid q good part of the time, and
had a strongly rooted objection to be-
ing carried UP and down stairs. So q
railroad was built from his bed cham
her to the ground. The rails We're
eighteen-inch gauge, and were made in
three-feet lengths. The road was built
on a gradual curve, and the carriages
We're beautiful easy chairs With Hanged
wheels. convertible into couches. Room
was left on either side CT the track for
the passage of the attendants.-West-
minister Gazette.
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JOHN DRINKHOUSE DEAD.
The Man Who Wrote "The Days OF
Forty-Nine."

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-The pi-
oneer who claimed to have written and
in fact copyrighted the lines THE days
of old, the days of gold, the days or
forty-nine," John Adam Drinkhouse,
President of the J. A. Drinkhouse Com
many died to-day. He came from his
native State, Pennsylvania, on the bark
Maria. which he and ten companions
had laden with building material, which
they sold on their arrival in san Fran
cisco Bay in December, 1919. The
business he established in this city was
swept away by fire. But Mr.. Drink
house had resources. He could play
the violin. He played in a theater for
an ounce Of gold day. He played his
way all over the State and on the
Fourth of July, in Stockton, made Sl00
by his music. Finally he engaged in
business in this city as wholesale
dealer in cigars and tobacco.
For time he was interested in mines
on the Reese River, Nevada. Mr..
Drinkhouse had beautiful country
place in San Andreas Valley, San Ma
tco County. and there he successfully
made the experiment of growing to-
bacco.
The funeral services will be conduct
ed by the Society of California Pioneers.
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THREW A WOMAN IN.
A Man Tried to Drown Her, But She
Was Rescued.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 23-Several
persons on the wharf at the foot of
Third street this morning saw a woman
hurled into the water from the end of
the pier and man run away, leaving
his victim to struggle in the ebbing
tide. Boatman James Peterson jump
ed into his boat and rescued her.
The woman is Mrs. Mary Miller. The
man who is charged with attempting
to drown her is William Herrin, who
was locked up in the City Prison on a
charge of assault to murder Herrin
refused to make any statement, but
Mrs Miller asserts that the assault was
the result of a feud of long standing.
the two families having once occupied
different floors of the same house
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WHITE MAN LYNCHED.
His Negro Confederate Was Left to
the Operation of the Law.

HOUSTON CTex.), May 23-R W.
Stuart, a prominent merchant of Lin
dale, was recently enticed from his
home by negro and murdered Eff
fie Jones, negro, was arrested for the
murder and in a confession implicated
Will Jones, a white man, prominent in
the community. Jones was arrested
and placed in Jail.
Shortly after 1 O'Clock this morning
a mob appeared at the County Jail at
Tyler and, on the refusal of the Sher-
iff to admit them, broke in the doors,
went to Jones' cell and shot him to
death as he sat on his cot. He told
them they were killing an innocent
man, but the leaders answered that
they had proof of his guilt. They re-
fused to kill Effie Jones, the negro who
killed Stuart, saying that as he did not
have the means and influence. to es-
cape punishment, they would let the
law take it's course.
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Gypsies in Hungary.

A census of the gypsies in Hungary
was taken on the last day of 1898, and
the results We're published yesterday.
The total number of the race was 274,-
$40. About half of them We're settled
in towns and villages, while the other
half led a constantly wandering life,
Altogether there We're 104, $50, gypsies
who professed Hungarian as their
mother tongue 6T,O46 Rumanian, 9,S57
the Slovak language, 1851 the Servian,
1896 the German, and zoos the
Ruthenian language. The number
speaking only the Czigany or Romany
tongue - that is, the gypsies who did
not amalgamate with other nationalities
was S2,045. or about 80 per cent. of
the whole. In the case of the wander
ing gypsies, the percentage speaking
only their vernacular Asiatic language
rose to 62 in the 100. Out of $4,000
children of school age no fewer than
40 600 managed to escape all schooling,
although the law requiring their attend
ance is exceedingly stringent. AS to
their religious confessions, 4S per cent.
were Roman Catholics, II per cent.
Greek Catholics, over 13 per cent. Greek
Orthodox, and % per cent. Protestants
of different denominations. = London
Standard Vienna Correspondence
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VELODROME RACES.
Jones Beats Zeigler Two Races Out
of Three.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-The BIZ
cvcle races at the Velodrome to-day at
tracted a large crowd. The event or
the dav was a match between Otto Z1e-
gler of San Jose and Allen Jones OF TINS
city. The match was run off IN three
races. a half-mile, mile and two miles,
the winner of two races to win the
match. The half-mile was won by Zle-
gler in 1:06 4-5. The mile and two-mlle
races were won by Jones in 2:22 80 and
4:40 3-5, respectively. The races We're
paced. The half-mile professional ham
dieap was won by Bert Elford 60 yards
by half a lap, McCrea 20 yards second,
and Davis Is yards third. Time
1902 3-5. The half-mile open, amateur,
was won by J. Z. King of San Jose, T.
A. Deacon of Oakland second and Nor
ris Cook of Los Angeles third. Time
1:05 1-5.
The two-thirds of a mile professional
was another victory for Jones, who
outsprinted a field of six. Davis of san
Jose took second place from McCrea OF
Los Angeles by a foot. Time-1:36 20.
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A PICNIC'S AFTERMATH.
An Italian Stabs Fellow Country
man i'm the Back.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23-As an
aftermath of the picnic of the Italian
Reali Carobnieri Military Society, held
at Harbor View Park to-day, Samuel
Damonte, a bootblack. is at the Receiv-
ing Hospital with a knife wound in his
back and Joseph Merino is at the City
Prison charged with assault to murder
The cutting took place at Garibaldi
Hall tonight about 7:30 O'Clock. A
meeting of the society was in progress
and Merino attempted to get in. Da-
monte endeavored TO prevent him. some
words ensued. and then. Damonte saws,
Merino stabbed him in the back, in
fiicting a serious wound.
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Major John w. Thomas, President of
the Exposition Association, is a man of
push and energy, and is thoroughly
committed to the interests of the ex
position. He is President of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail
road The White City is built on
ground once soaked with blood of Fed
eral and Confederate alike in the bat
tie of Nashville. Now the stars and
stripes float over a new scene, illus
trative of the arts of peace. This sum-
mer the veterans Of the q 4. Il. and
the remnants of gray-ciad brigades
will camp again on this historic ground
in all arlity
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Business in the Blue Grass Region.

The blue grass Colonel relates an Incl
dent which well illustrates the shrewd-
ness OF the Kentucky grangers in busi-
ness affairs. 1t appears that farmer
lost a calf, and neighbOr pastured 1T
until the bill amounted to about the
value of the animal. The owner foHnd
out one day where his missing calf was
and went after it.
s.How about the bill for this?" he in
quired.
"Wen, I've been thinking about that"
was the reply, "and I've concluded that
if you'll let me have the calf I'll call the
matter square"
The old man thought over the situa-
ton for awhile. Then he said Bill, the
calf is really worth more than your
claim. but I'll tell you what I'll do; il
you pasture the calf for four weeks more
for nothing, you may have it."-Chicago
Times Herald.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-Martinez
Chick of San Diego is the pigeon shoot
ing champion of the year. The title
came to him with the Fay diamond med
al. which he won to-day in the State live
bird tournament at Ingleside. ChcK
killed nineteen birds out of twenty in
the medal race, and then straight
string of five to decide a tie with Rice of
Visalia-
Twenty-Five men competed for the
medal, and Chick and Rice were the
only ones who got through the match
with the loss of but one bird.
The Fay medal has heretofore been
competed for in squad shooting, each
man having a known trap. Five plrds
were shot in this way to-day, and then
the conditions were changed to one man
UP with five unknown traps.
Chicks only miss was scored on the
twelfth round. AT the beginning OF the
thirteenth round Rice was the only man
who had a clean score, and 1t looked
then as though the Visalia crack would
duplicate his performance of the pre-
yious day in winning the GoldduSt med
al. The thirteenth round however, saw
Rice back in company with CHICK
Ruhstaller and the others who at the
stage of the game had scored but one
miss.
Rice's miss gave a chance for the
medal to "Slade,' Chick, Ruhstaller,
Otto Feudner and Fred Feudner
.'Slade" went out on his fifteenth bird,
and retired for good. Fred Feudner lost
his eighteenth bird out of bounds, and
on the nineteenth round starred cipher
cut off Otto Feudner's chance for the
medal. Rice and Chick alone killed out
to the end.
In the shoot-off of the tie Rice lost his
first and fifth birds. Chick, with
first high gun took the medal.
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A DANGEROUS TOY.
She Wounds Two Men With Her
Little Pistol.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-Mrs.
Matte Toy this afternoon shot and
wounded James f. Duff, proprietor of
a saloon at 12h Eddy street, and
Charles L. Richardson, the bartender
About two weeks ago Duff gave the
woman a beating.
They had apparently patched up
their differences but quarreled once
more, and Duff threatened to strike
her. She dared him and took a pis-
tol from the pocket of her dress, saying
she would shoot. Richardson attempt
ed to disarm Mrs. Toy. She pulled
the trigger. The bullet passed through
Richardson's hand and struck Duff in
the right arm.
On the afternoon of November 4,
1894. Mrs. Toy shot Robert Ojeda,
marine engineer, at 6S Everett street.
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your silver coin is legal tender for any
amount. 1t is the dishonest debt pay
ing and not the purchasing power of
money that can be fixed by statute The
purchasing financier was a bit ratified,
but queried: DO you mean to say that
this exchange of your goods for my
coin at par is governed by no law save
your own sovereign will?" The ready
answer was: None whatever, except
your own and the unwritten laws of
trade. The goods and price marks are
my own, and your money is yours, to
keep or spend without compulsion"
Driven back to the point from which he
started, the free silver advocate said:
What, then, is the good of legal tender
laws?' And the trading gold bug said:
Possibly to rob the creditors, but not
to change the price current or intrinsic
value of anything on earth" To have
the last word the silverite picked up
his bundle and said: "A fair exchange
is no robbery. Good-by."
The record-union., 1897-05-24
PACIFIC COAST STUDENTS.
Third Day of Their Convention at
Pacific Grove.

PACIFIC GROVE, May 23.-The Pa
cific Coast students opened the third
day of their convention with Bible
class talk by Robert f. Lewis Of Chi
cago The subject was THE Tempta-
tions of Christ
At 10 o'clock platform meeting in
the Epworth League lecture room be-
gan by song service led by F. L. VIII
lis of Omaha. At the regular morning
service of the NJ. E. Episcopal Church,
Noel II. Jacks Of Oakland addressed a
large audience A. II. Needham, pas
tor of the church assisted.
AT the afternoon session, which was
conducted by c. c. Michener, College
Secretary of the International Commit
tee Young Mems Christian Association,
the subject was Prayer"
AT the evening session after devotion
al exercises. addresses were deliverd by
II. J. Mccoy, c. c. Michner and +. L.
Willis.
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If Men Were
More Particular.

Women would not have half the
the patience men have in wearing
i'll fitting clothes. If men were
only more particular in this respect
it would help our clothing business.
There is a first-class tailor on the
premises whose business it is to make
the garments we sell fit perfectly.
He looks after the s. SO quite as
carefully as he does after the $50
ones, and often insists on changes
after the customer has said Never
mind. This is good enough as it
is.
We have a reputation at stake,
and are anxious that our Clothing
should be not only right in PRICE,
right in QUALITY, but also right
in FIT.
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NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE.
Statement That the Indemnity Will
be Reduced.

LONDON, May 23.-The correspond
ent of the "Standard' at Constantinople
says: The peace negotiations continue.
1t is asserted the amount of indemnity
will be reduced to 100000 lire, 2O0O,-
600 to be paid IN cash to Turkey and
$6,000,000 to be accepted by Russia as
part payment of the indemnity owed
her by Turkey.
1t is said here that after the suspen-
sion of hostilities, the Greeks, under
pretense of washing their linen, crossed
the bridge at Arta and were attacked
by the Turkish commanders, who drove
them back after heavy fighting for ten
hours.
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queens against bob-tail flush. This
enraged him and a fight ensued. Doug
lass then went to his house and re-
turned with "a gun. The crowd rushed
indoors to escape him and he fired
through a door, hitting Albert Grier,
killing him instantly. Douglass fled,
pursued by a crowd, but was captured
in the woods, and they We're about to
lynch him when officers appeared and
rescued him and brought him to Pitts
burg jail.
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wi als[SIlI5Il llllals fsSSD
Fine Dress Laces.

Like the last strokes of brush
on a painting, Lace adds to a gar
ment softness and completeness. 1t
Is becoming to young and old, and
especially SO this season, in the
soft, cobwebby effects.
We can suit ell tastes and purses,
and our Lace salespeople are rarely
idle. lust now interest seems to
center on Deutelle Oriental Laces,
with pointed or wave borders. The
patterns are taken from very fine
goods. Prices, I2tc to 25c.
Other Dress Laces, 55c, soc,
Csc and 75c yard.