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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 02, 1885

Page

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Immigrant Mormon Emigration and U S Railway News

July 1 dispatches report a riot on Chicago Madison street streetcar line as 4 600 to 5 000 demonstrators confront police and wreck cars while 641 Mormon converts from Sweden and Denmark arrive in New York aboard the steamship Wisconsin to settle mainly in Utah and other notes cover Mexican railway rate enforcement and Washington post office vacancies.

Crtcaco West Division Street Car Company Madison Street Western Avenue Halstead Street Jefferson Street Union Street Reserve New Yor Wisconsin Liverpool J. Hanson United States Utah Salt Lake City Mexico Europe City of Mexico Mexican Central Railway Company Robinson Central Road Albion G. Bradstreet Tehaantepec Bradstreet Washinton Morant McGreeon Washington Colonel Dent

Ground broken in Dallas for large cracker factory

State news reports a Dallas ground breaking for a large cracker factory. Other items note a 730 pupil scholastic census in Waco, plans by Boston capitalists for an elevator and mill in Daas, and various local crimes and incidents across Texas.

Dallas Waco Boston Daas Eon Blum Sealy Rifles Lampasas W. H. Stephens Wills Point L. H. Belock Marlin Stich Cleborne Belt Copper Mining Company Hardeman County George Stanley Mose Gate Texarkana Stanley John S. Morgan Fort Worth Denver Bowie Alabama

Grand Canyon of the Colorado Tour From Utah Rail Journey

Regular correspondent from Salt Lake City reports scenery along the Grand Canyon of the Colorado from Castle Gate to Provo Utah. The trip describes vast canyons Price River Valley Castle Gate walls pine forests Wasatch mountains and the Mormon stronghold of Provo with its tabernacle as a 19th century press note.

Salt Lake City Grand Canyon The Colorado Scott Utah Desert Price River Valley Price River Canyon Castle Gate Puebla Castleveer Wasatch Mountains Pleasant Valley Junction Wasatch Soldier Summit Spanish Fork Canyon Utah Prova Mormon Tabernacle Uintah Zion

Disgusted Farmer Destroys Melons After Low Offer

A country farmer returning with a wagon of cantaloupes met a town hawker offering one cent each, claiming higher value in the market. Infuriated, the farmer smashed all melons on the wagon wheel and blamed town folks for the insult, then returned home in disgust. The text ends with garbled lines about opera posters and avoiding injurious imitations.

Resolutions of Respect for Brother John Hennesy

The San Antonio Lodge No 11 1 O F notes the passing of John Hennesy born in Peru Indiana at about thirty. He lived by Friendship Love and Truth and died of yellow fever in a foreign clime. The lodge offers sympathy to his parents sisters and brothers and requests publication of these resolutions in the city papers.

San Antonio John Hennesy Peru Indiana San Antonio Lodge No Ak Lockwoop W. A. Bonynag D.P. Sarrn

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