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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1885
Page
1
Miss Minnie Hasson is praised as a vocalist and the San Antonio Rifles form a minstrel group rehearsing for a public show. A proposed amateur opera, with Mikado as a possible title, draws local talent and bold plans amid social event previews and health association notes.
Washington December 11 The Republican Senators met in caucus at 1 o clock today Senator Sherman resigned the chairmanship and Senator Edmunds was elected to the place The action notes no senator can be Chairman and Presiding Officer of the Senate at once and Sherman adheres to precedent The caucus ratified committee arrangements and discussed how to handle Presidential nominations with a general favor toward confirming capable Democrats unless predecessors were removed on baseless charges The caucus adjourned promptly.
Washington December 11. During Richelieu Robinsons visit to the President this morning the appointment to the pension agency at New York was referred to. The President indicated the decision would not be made for a couple of weeks and will not grant exceptions. He believes pension agents should be ex soldiers and will not deviate in this case.
A general order from Grand Army of the Republic headquarters announces Washington as the site for the proposed monument to General Grant. Posts must prepare rolls listing donor name rank regiment and post, funds to be held by a trust company for erection costs with engraving and roll printing funded by the association free of charge.
The Supreme Court is expected to formally decide tomorrow to reverse the Circuit Court in the Cincinnati election cases. Certificates of election will be issued to Democratic candidates for senator and representative, contrary to the Circuit Court ruling. Judge Johnson dissented on the clerk of Hamilton county returning the election abstract. The State Canvassing Board adjourned to Monday evening to complete canvassing and issue the commission.
Secretary Lamar asks Congress to authorize 12 500 of a 50 000 appropriation to supply food and necessities to distressed Northern Cheyennes along the Tongue and Rosebud rivers in Montana. The department reports the Indians lack food and adequate clothing and need temporary relief.
A meeting at the bank of O Connor Sullivan outlined plans to establish union stock yards in San Antonio with 50 acres bought. With 12 000 subscribed and 3 000 more hoped for soon, work on sheds pens and offices is slated to begin before mid January, backed by Uriah Lott Dan Sullivan Anson Maher and J W Ballentyne Patterson. The venture aims to serve cattle feeding like St Louis Kansas City or Chicago, aided by the Aransas Pass Railway to ensure freight competition.
The report lists several local notes including Conrad Seffel’s discharge from the county poor house, Lucy Nance to be tried for lunacy, and judges idle this morning. It mentions a new electric light company, property transfers west of San Pedro creek, and widespread city darkness after unlit gas lamps and mud. Additional items cover arrests for drunkenness, a boy fined for stones, juvenile firecrackers injuring a child, lunatics’ enclosure at the poor house, visitors from Milwaukee, and an old Virginia man claiming accidental intoxication.
Dr Blondin, a dentist, woke at 2 am to aNoise in a back room at his King William and Garden street home. The burglar fled with an overcoat and sleeve buttons, leaving no card in the rain.
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