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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1897
Page
4
A Special Inspector’s report to the Georgia governor details inhumane conditions and brutal treatment in private convict camps. It cites high mortality, forced leasing of misdemeanor inmates, chained sleeping quarters, and suppression of abuses in several counties including Macon and Glynn.
Cheyenne Aug 21 United States Marshal McDermott reports the attorney general has ordered the reward doubled to 500 dollars for the arrest and conviction of the captive stage veteran in the National Park. The increase follows yesterday's department of justice offer.
In New York on August 21, the daily price of a transportation fuel driver fell to 24 points, the lowest decline since yesterday. The New York price was quoted at 517-8. Mexican dollars are quoted at 48 cents.
Kasthi Texas Aug 24 Special Wire to Sunday Light reports Ilving In South Casas writes to the governor with a photo of herself and newborn triplets asking if a bounty for increasing the population exists. She fears the picture may be returned as she has no claim without it. The image suggests the mother and triplets appear well though details are unclear.
War department eyes extending franking to army post exchanges or their mail transporters as exchanges, run on a cooperative model, reported last year $8,000,000 in business. Internal Revenue Service doubts taxation, while supporters note post canteens reduce drunkenness and improve soldier morale near military posts.
Special wire from Seattle reports scrip price jumps to 35 and 15 cents per acre as rush to Yukon fields boosts demand. Large blocks sold, aiming to locate claims at Skagway amid Mount McKinley optimism and prospecting excitement.
Wire to Sunday Light from Washington notes Attorney General Meikennan prepared harbor plans for San Pedro. The decision bypassed normal channels and may have been sent to Secretary Alger, with Melville replying. Information on the decision’s nature remains limited.
Georgetown Aug. 21 The new prohibition law goes into effect today in this local option town. It has busted the beer club and halted solicitors taking orders for jugs. The Leer club once had about 200 members but rarely more than 25 attend meetings. The law imposes hardship on the poor who cannot afford bottle beer kept on ice. Penalties include a minimum fine and possible jail time.
Articles filed for a Los Angeles and Pasadena railway company with Chicago and Pasadena investors and General M. O. Sherman of Phoenix as incorporators. The project plans a railway from Los Angeles to Pasadena at an estimated cost of $1 900 000.
The Wrightson Toute company, assets $15,000, was assigned to DL Carroll due to insolvency. The recent death of Thomas Wrightson, founder of the business, contributed to the failure and the firm faced financial collapse.
Arthur B. Connoly, chief of police in Atlanta, Ga, died yesterday morning at 4 o clock after a long illness. He started as a patrolman, rose to captain, then served eight terms as chief and was a prominent member of the National Association of Police Chiefs, known nationwide.
In New York a romance tale recounts William Minekoy Du Bose of South Carolina, heir to plantations in Georgia and Carolina, who courted Miss Wingate of the Darlington region. A dramatic balcony meeting near a Wingate plantation ends with a mutual confession and engagement.
A fragment recounts William Du Bose’s family and the chase for heirs to a Texas land grant. He joined the Voxan unit and was killed at Goliad. The 1850 Texas Legislature granted a bounty to heirs, but locating rightful successors remains uncertain amid Civil War era turmoil.
A Dekalb county grand jury indicts for violation of the state law in raming of freight rates on Sunday. Offenses alleged to have occurred on Volume Ist with and Bet of this year. County attorneys work with railroad officials to settle due for tuying the cage.
Nashville Tennessee August 2 0 Jor das s session of the national conference of state boards of health read a paper on retailers of National and State Quarantine Medicine Dr Swearingen Texas read a vapor on mandatory ness in dealing with menses whooping cough leprosy and tuberculosis
In Chicago on August 21 the Paris wheat market showed a price around 44 cents per bushel this morning before the dollar recovered and caused a brief pullback.
Aug 21 Diego reports the steamer Metropolis arriving from New York with a cargo of 1,800 tons of wheat aboard. City of Athens departed Liverpool carrying a large wheat shipment.
Five year old John Conway was abducted in Miliany New York on a Sunday before being recovered near dawn after private detectives and Argus reporters traced the case. Arrested suspect Henry Hardy faces kidnapping charges while accomplice H. Blake fled but later surrendered. police continue pursuit.
A New Orleans probe reveals extensive theft and reuse of cancelled and uncancelled judicial stamps from court documents. A stamp dealer on Bonbon Street was arrested after admitting sale of stamps. indictments await trial amid rumors of a court official as ringleader in a years long scheme.
Aug 24 Fayetteville W Va In a jailbreak Albert Yoicra a noted member of the Lewis gang escaped from jail just before daylight. Sheriff and posse pursued as Jerry Brown awaits execution with Foiers both set for hanging next Tuesday Security details tightened at the jail amid this dramatic break.
The Rev. De. Haughton longtime pastor of St James Episcopal church in Tyrone was found dead at his residence yesterday morning. He had served two years in Tyrone after starting at Salt Lake City and earlier served at the Episcopal church in Tyrone, Pa. The death occurred in the early hours, with authorities noting no immediate cause.
In Chattanooga Tennessee a suit begins to challenge the segration of coaches. U Wo Wonghe and wife allege they were forced to ride in a white car after attempting to board a Nashville Chattanooga train. The justice court awarded them damages of 150 dollars and the case will proceed to the Supreme Court. Separate coach law dispute centers on treatment of colored travelers.
Attorney Louis Litus begins his third college year at the University of Calicornis. A wife acts as proxy in classrooms while he studies near the bay area. He aims to complete all examinations with credit and graduate by year’s end.
The Rev. Mer ry Hopkins, a 75 year old bishop in the American African Union Methodist church, died in New York on Friday after years of preaching in the city. He formerly belonged to Robert Gamble, a planter from Maryland, who freed him and brought him to the city about five years ago. He was known for preaching on the "Systeries of Dent."
Congress man Warren B Tooker chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors and James M Sherman of Utica N Y have arrived in San Francisco from the north. Tooker attends a coast waterways inspection tour while Sherman is on a pleasure trip.
A Lake Erie and Western freight collided with an excursion near Lima Ohio. Five people were fatally hurt and twelve seriously injured as two passenger coaches were wrecked. The dispatch reports the crash occurred August 24 and lists numerous injured passengers.
In Washington on August 21 the chief of recast and gendetic survey answered a question on the Klondike region’s country. He stated the Klondike region is beyond dispute British territory and noted boundary issues between Alaska and Canada should not alter current map depictions. He mentioned Dawson City lies east of theMap boundary within a wide zone.
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