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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1885

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Foraker leads as Hamilton county tallies roll in

Cincinnati reports unofficial county results with Foraker leading over Hoadley and Leonard in Hamilton county. The Times-Star shows higher totals for Foraker statewide, while Ohio and Indianapolis dispatches estimate Republican majorities in the Senate and House outside Hamilton county. Officials warn of irregular counts and promise probes.

Columbus Ohio Republican State Executive Committee Foraker Democratic Committee Hoadly Hamilton County House Senate Republican Committee

Waterworks hydrants drive city billing and policy

The Waterworks company refuses to lay new mains without city orders for hydrants at 50 a year, boosting hydrants from 100 in July 1883 to 320 in two years at a 16000 annual cost. Aldermen defend the scheme as a means to extend pipes, but critics call for public control and caution on city governance.

San Antonio

Mexican poet Yturbide causes drunken confrontation and arrest

Francisco Yturbide, a Mexican poet known for heavy drinking, entered a East Street home and threatened a woman with a knife. He chased her into the street, then moved to a nearby store, causing disruption until Officer Brown arrived. He fled, discarded the knife, and was later arrested in Washington Square. Recorder fined him seven dollars.

Francisco Yturbide East Street Santa Rosa Washington Square

Bank Presidents Alarm as Smallpox Fears Hit Montreal

In a tense scene a bank president learns from a visibly ill cashier that he has just been vaccinated for smallpox, sparking alarm about an outbreak in Montreal. Directors hurry to the room to assess risk as the news spreads.

K. P B. P Montreal Free Press

Ferdinand Herff City Treasurer of San Antonio

Ferdinand Herff, born November 29 1852 in San Antonio, built a career as a banker rising to Assistant Cashier at the San Antonio National Bank. He serves as Treasurer and director of the Waterworks company, active in local clubs and societies, and was appointed city treasurer by Mayor Callaghan in January. He married Zulima Lacoste in 1875 and has several children.

Ferdinand Herff F. Herff Ferdinand Darmstadt Germany Geneva Switzerland Alamo City H. Grenet Crockett Street San Antonio National Bank Waterworks Company Hook and Ladder Company Turner Society Casino Schutzenverein, Beethoven and Mendelssohn Singing Societies San Antonio Club Literary Society

Death by Suicide of Julia P. Sebring at East Houston Gallery

Mrs Julia P Sebring a photographic operator at the East Houston street gallery died last evening of poisoning self administered by a decoction of colchiium. Dengue fever illness and morphine relief preceded a deep slumber from which she did not awaken. An inquest was ordered with a jury to reconvene this afternoon. She was from Adrian Michigan and had been separated from her husband, who is accused of cruelty and has since deserted her with their child, now in Alabama. A divorce suit is pending in the county district court.

Cincinnati Hamilton County Foraker Hoadley Leonard Times-Star Robert Harlan Bushnell Republican State Committee Senate House Columbus Democratic State Executive Committee Republican Committee Democratic State Committee House of Representatives Board of Control Julia P. Sebring East Houston Street Adrian Michigan Alabama

October 15 1881 to 1884 Past Events Highlights and Notices

Record of events from 1881 to 1884 listing Deputy Marshal Carter cleared of witness intimidation in 1881. Booth fair sales postponed. 1882 inspection trip by Major Converse. elbow fever report in New Mexico. Dan Onnett named Customs Inspector. 1883 reporting dispute over Volksfest prize and a cave discovery by E J Quirk. Booths Feast at Temple Beth El. Zadich Schuwirth engagement. 20,000 Ohio Republican private con. marriage of Thomas Elder and Katie Devine. Saltillo excursion return. Nelson Plato indicted by Federal grand jury.

United States Carter Booth Converse New Mexico Dan Onnett Liegur and Beobachter Volksfest E. J Quirk Temple Beth el Zadich Schuwirth Cone Ohio Republican Thomas Elder Katie F. Devine Saltillo Mexico Nelson Plato Federal Grand Jury

Disputed Market Notes From New York Trade Ledger

A cluttered excerpt reports on late 19th century market figures from New York with references to Liaur by 8. 8 eer & Co and prices for stock markets wheat lard and corn. The fragment lists daily figures and dates including October November December and May with varied numbers and stock exchange notes as well as receipts and bales.

New York Metheld Northwest Delaware and Lackawanna Saint Paul Mans Park Brendy

Miss Katie Wood In Runaway Case In Las Cruces

Miss Katie Wood daughter of Judge Wood and Vassar graduate ran away from Las Cruces New Mexico with Louis Madril a Mexican worker on her father’s fruit farm. A warrant for her arrest was issued before she returned home with him. The Mexican threatens force if the girl is not delivered.

Katie Wood Judge Wood Vassar College Las Cruces N. M Louis Madril

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