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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1900
Page
6
An archival fragment promotes a travel service claiming rapid, economical options and convenience. It highlights the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company as providing telephone based travel arrangements and convenience for staying at destinations.
March reports a lively Comfort with Union park progress as dead trees are replaced by hackberry and a plan to create a premier state park. Farmers busy planting corn predict a strong crop year. Town residents receive paint, new trees, and fresh facades. Local officials and visitors frequent Comfort while several residents travel to San Antonio and Boerne for health and social events.
The article details a major Spring Carnival push with arches to span Commerce Street, a high profile encampment for the San Antonio battalion in Travis Park, and a school day April 17. It notes bids awarded to W G Schuwirth Co, printer street notices, and efforts to attract Governor Sayers and prominent secret society leaders to a parade and public events.
In Naples on March 24 44 a thief attempted to steal from two American Indians Mire and Mrs Burgess of Beaton. The woman Burgess grabbed the thief’s purse and defended herself by knocking him to the ground then calmly asked him to desist. The report notes the event as a bold act of self defense and restraint amid danger.
New Orleans dispatch reports a memorial window for the late Joh Albert Moy, ordered from royal Barvaplan by Mrs. Jobi Ai Marvis. The window will depict St Matthew chapter 25, opening into a transom, and bears the inscription about serving the least of these brethren.
A damaged OCR fragment quotes a speaker vowing to sever ties with the South Western institution over statements about the New York Medical College. It asserts the college is young, thrifty, and destined to become a temple of inspiration and a tower of strength for medical students.
A New Orleans meeting of representative citizens discussed inviting Admiral Dewey to visit the city. A committee was appointed to extend the invitation and determine a convenient date, aiming to showcase the city’s welcome. The general sentiment favored Dewey’s presence, with efforts to coordinate an appropriate visit time.
Washington reports the president will not intervene in Kentucky as Governor Taylor sought intervention weeks ago. Nashville notes farmer Giles Baker was fatally shot at Old Hickory, a country post office in eastern Donelson. John T. Browne withdraws from Democratic primaries, plans independent mayoral bid after previously backing nominees.
Southern Pacific faces high water delays at Columbus and San Antonio. A west end crew and five new locomotives join the service push as passenger engines from Pennsylvania arrive for the Bermaun Sons convention. Traff ic disruption lasts hours while bridges and Colorado river flood the line.
Special to the New Orleans paper reports Indianons Ole ferrport duties protected for the month of March with the largest slips of this port. Collections from March are projected near one million dollars, with dyes from ship arrivals and general duties driving the total. January duties reached about 1.6 million dollars, the year’s high. April 1872 duties stood at $614,718.35, while the port record later topped $690,519.14.
A historic San Antonio adobe homestead near Soledad street, old as the Alamo and three feet thick, faces demolition after a bid to fetch thousands of dollars. The property at 214 216 and 218 Soledad runs 76 feet on the street and 182 feet to the river, with a modern brick and iron replacement planned for completion in the near future.
Walter Plunkett appeared in Justice Sweeney's court on an assault and battery charge stemming from a fight at a Sixth Street house. Plunkett was bound over on a $200 bond. Andy Williams faces trial tomorrow as the key defendant, while Williams claimed he struck Plunkett in defense after an insult in the incident.
At the Bexar County Teachers Institute session it was decided that a summer normal will be held in San Antonio, with exams for teachers certificates on April 20 and 21. The faculty includes Pratt Wilson conductor, Prof. R A Hall, Prof P F Stewart, Bliss Ames Cotton and Bill Belle Dvawan.
Firemen and city workers washed mud from Avenues C and South Alamo Street yesterday afternoon. Street grading crews removed soft mud from Fifth Street to allow steam rollers to work, improving paving conditions in the area.
The New York Tribune reports on Kruger and Steyn as leaders pressed to leave Santa Vie after battles. Prison and exile loom for both amid talks of dispersing Boer leadership. Allies fear retreat to Portuguese territories or Europe as a risky refuge amid turmoil.
Special to the Suntuy Lighty Orange reports that M r Newton of New York arranged a sale of pine land holdings in Newton county Texas under a scheme involving pledges and forged papers. The public sale yielded a surprisingly good price, but details were little known at the time.
In Savannah Georgia March 24 special to the Sundry Light reports several conspirators in a nationwide fraud scheme pleaded guilty. Daniel AL Tyson received five years in the state prison at Nashville. Others, including W J Tuteliason and Leon, faced various terms and fines. Wheeler Hutchins and Watts received months in jail and fines.
In New Orleans a man faced charges of fraud for falsely claiming to be a U S Navy captain and marrying Miss Warken of Cincinnati during a carnival. The defendant Aaronson and three co-conspirators allegedly used forged identities to defraud, with Moysa pleading guilty in the proceeding set for next Thursday.
The Sun reports Secretary of State for India George Hymitton says Cuillon famine affects a vast territory with a sixty million donation planned. Five million people receive relief while four and a quarter million are employed on government works. Relief cost in 1889-1900 was two million pounds sterling and three million pounds may be required this year.
Special to the Sunday Light El Paso Tex March 24 the wreck? remains of Dr Wo 37 Yandell state quarantine officer at the point who died last night by his own hand were brought to Seguin Tex where interment will take place.
Texas truck growers announce the formation of the Texas Truck Growers Association to secure favorable freight rates, counter speculative practices, and gain access to the latest market information. Lead spokesman JT W Merton of Stith County outlines stock sales, a San Antonio headquarters, and safeguards against stock pooling. The group aims to level prices and expand profits for local growers through organized action and preferential shipping.
The tale concerns PS Melntyre a former chaplain on the battleship Oregon whose retirement followed remarks about superiors He married Paen dena years ago though the world did not learn of it Now the couple seek public acknowledgment of their marriage risking legal and financial consequences The widow of Robert Gordon faces loss of a fortune tied to her late husband’s Australian estate if the marriage is disclosed
Washington reports a new naval and postal arrangement binding the United States to the republic of Nicaragua. The system is seen as highly beneficial to merchants and manufacturers trading in Central America. It follows recent recommendations by the commercial congress in Philadelphia and takes effect on the first day of May.
A misspelled and fragmentary report from Holly Springs Mississippi dated March 24 notes Governor Stone of Mississippi is seriously ill. He suffered a back head limp from an injury, doctors suspect a delirium and a recent bout of sipelas has unsettled his recovery.
Special to the Smulay Light from Austin Texas dated May 21 reports a virulent Smallpox outbreak. A local resident on Congress Avenue who contracted smallpox was admitted to the pest house. Mrs A Mc Cauley of Austin received a call stating her son, Henry A Taylor, had died at Mania.
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