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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1896
Page
4
The report notes a robust timber demand with dealers reporting steady orders and shipments soon to show a permanent revival. Mills are busy, loading from planers and yard stock, prices steady, shingles in demand, and exporters handling cargoes as export demand remains strong.
In Winnipeg Manitoba on March 28 two sessions of the Manitoba and Dominion school commission met but failed to reach a conclusion. Federal representatives reportedly made a definite proposal to the Manitoba minister now under consideration. Earlier a public protest demonstration opposed a remedial school bill passing the house at Ottawa was delayed by rain.
Nearly a dozen residences and three quarters of the village's business district were destroyed by a midnight blaze lasting about three hours. The town of nearly 1,000 has no fire department. Estimated total loss is 40000 dollars, partly insured.
A Fort Sill gambling riot after Apache Kiowa and Comanche annuities were paid led to at least two Indians dead and a federal soldier wounded. About six miles from the fort a horse race track on the prairie hosted twenty races with heavy wagering and a riot that involved accusations of doping a horse and random buffets injuring bystanders. Agent Woodson investigates the affair as wages and payments earlier in the week totaled $125,000 across tribes.
In a March cabinet session led by Senor Canovas Del Castillo the Cuban war aftermath was discussed with optimism about future relations with the United States. Both the premier and the foreign minister conveyed calm confidence in President Cleveland and the American people, noting no signs of new friction. A separate dispatch from Tusk, Texas reports a jail sentence for R J Juston, who accepted a two year term for manslaughter after killing his daughter's seducer. In Providence Rhode Island, Rhode Island cotton mills face no general cutback, with Jerger corporations denying broader reductions.
In Dallas on March 28 the Court of Criminal Appeals discharged J C Kearby in a contempt case and adjourned for the term. The term decided 223 cases: 149 affirmed, 76 reversed. 72 felonies and 75 misdemeanors affirmed. Forty-three misdemeanors and 33 felonies reversed. All felony docket cases moved to Austin where court meets on the first Monday in April.
Ex Governor Thomas Seay lies very ill and unconscious in Greensboro Alabama on March 24. Doctors fear death as he suffers a grippe illness. The report notes his serious condition and imminent risk of death.
Special wires report Sir Hercules Robinson confirms murder of Police Inspector Jackson Doeraton by native Matabeles. Bulawayo needs arms and ammunition. Lobengula’s banished son returned to incite the uprising. Also two charters filed in Austin Texas for Leeper Hardware and Tozan Yellow Pine companies.
The Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley is seriously ill with a brain fever, the March 28 dispatch from Syracuse Indiana reports. He deteriorated Thursday night and lies delirious as physicians monitor his condition with care.
The Law and Order Society of New York drafts a bill to license houses of ill repute in certain city districts. Fees range from 250 to 500 dollars yearly per inmate count. Unlicensed keepers face fines up to 1000 dollars and up to six months in jail. second offenses bring up to five years. Surplus funds support an asylum or reformatory for reforming inmates or aiding the indigent. The circular promotes the crusade against vice amid city-wide outrage and youth harms.
Special wire reports from Brevitte Louisiana describe armed white men patrolling streets to deter Black voter registration in St Landry Parish. In a four hundred Negro and twenty white male town population, the force aims to suppress the press and influence wards. The same tactic is expected elsewhere in the parish.
Charges of fraudulent registration and padding targets the First, Second, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards in Chicago. Officials report stolen registration books, break in raids, and alleged schemes by Republican and Democratic factions. Police chief handling contracts and arrests expected within 24 hours.
Vincennes De Vito, an Italian banker of 83 Mulberry Street New York, sues the Press Publishing Company publisher of the Evening World for 100000 dollars alleging libel in four counts. Attorney Luke Stapleton says damages total 23000 per count. The suit cites articles accusing him of banking fraud and political crimes and notes a perjury complaint and an indictment later set aside.
New Orleans March 28 The board of pardons refused to commute the death sentence of boy Arthur Schneider. The plea of temporary insanity was rejected and he was deemed sane and responsible for the crime. He is to be executed April 10 unless clemency intervenes.
Special wire despatch from New Orleans says Democrats lead the state ticket by sixty thousand votes versus Republicans by twenty five thousand, with conservative Republicans conceding the state to Democrats by twenty thousand. In New Orleans, the Citizens' League opposition may carry six of seventeen wards. ring Democrats expect fifteen thousand margin. Mosphere clashes anticipated. weather across the state reports a blue mood.
Obscure Boston trader Thomas Ti. Butler & Co. wholesale and retail instrument dealers in Opblina see him flee with thousands in embezzled funds. He duped a widow, purchased diamonds, bought a house, then vanished after plans and stock were seized. Atlanta police chased him after a $2700 bank draft failure. He weighs 110 pounds and carried a pistol.
AY Special Wire from Knoxville Tennessee reports Bacon a prominent Roan county figure in business and politics killed himself with dynamite after a perjury indictment during the Sims murder trial. Neighbors found him blown to pieces, leaving no explanation. Fort Worth debates and political notes from Houston and Cameron follow with local endorsements and delegate counts.
A chaotic dispatch reports multiple violent events including a fatal shooting over an allotment in Anadarko with Frasse dead and Kline wounded, a white mob attack on a Negro near Juliso Kelly’s house with killings, a white man named Atonas Foutoust killed in a parish, a rape arrest in Romo Texas with bail denied, and political maneuvering to depose Grant. A Fort Worth game ends 8–9 as St Louis defeats Fort Worth, plus Democratic primary plans and actor Henry Dixey facing legal woes in New Orleans.
Augusta Georgia visitor Patrick Walsh urged Mississippi lawmakers to back a Chicago Southern States Exposition next fall. He argued the project would benefit the state as counties prepare to appropriate 1500 dollars each. The Jackson convention drew regional leaders despite modest attendance and Walsh received support from Governor McLaurie and others. In Ladonia Texas, women charged in Dr Hansock’s cowing case pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and were fined 25 dollars each.
The all war men of McLennan county held a large meeting with wide precinct representation. J W Tilake attended and endorsed the state convention’s policy. Resolutions bar the county executive’s financial reports and lay out delegate selection and primaries participation by Democrats. Gov. Hogg volunteers to defend Peach Simpson in the baby dropping case.
An eventful incident in Ellisville Mississippi ends in a fatal wounding after a confrontation involving Jack Gladwell Oliver Jamison and whisky cited as the weapon. Police details are sparse and the case remains under investigation with no arrests reported yet.
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