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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1885
Page
4
Local brief list notes August Voght and Mr William Kypfer recovering from dengue. Stores advertise clothing and fabrics at Joske Brothers and F Sheets, plus new sales on shirts and ties. Job ads seek six carpenters and a driver. Fire, crime, and public notices include a murder arrest and a back-driver grave marker, with school dengue cases prompting closures.
A long list of prominent arrivals including W Rand Chicago Colonel John Baker and wife Uvalde J D Smullen Texas W E Ford New York Edward Strand New Orleans H Jacoby New York Charles Bruner Galveston A H Atwood Portland Leonard A Mayer St Louis Charles Halton A Steinhbard New York B S Perry Boston Mrs Michel Chicago Mrs W F Carrall Annapolis W H Peckham Albany R F Smith Palestine R A Rose Texas at the Maverick hotel. A Fourth ward citizen meeting next Saturday plans to discuss the aldermanic election with support for Louis Bergstrom and issues like water works and sewers.
The Ligur staff received an invitation from Foreman Harry C. Miller of Mission Hose to a Saturday banquet at Rupertsburgs garden to celebrate the companys new apparatus. A jolly time is looked for and Ligur will be represented.
A gathering of friends last evening at the residence of Mr Landa to amuse his daughter Miss Sarah. Guests included Abe Cohen Harry Baum A Raas Morris and Harry Landa Dave Koenigheim Aaron Frank Julius Zork Hugo Nadler Joe Baum Annie Zork Hennie Halff Harriet and Hannah Koenigheim D Schwartz Bertha Frank and H Baum.
The Eagle Pass Waterworks Company is raising rates, prompting a meeting and actions to build other works. The frontier town’s people, though largely Mexican, press for enterprise, not resignation, in San Antonio’s wake.
The Express reports a valuable early Spanish colonist relic uncovered during nearby excavation. Mc Cosgrove claims to have planted it over 300 years ago, noting the Damas cus steel spear head was forged by Fritz Russi from a horse-shoer's rasp. The spear head should go to the Smithsonian Institute as proof of the Express editorials on water works.
Fire crews battled three small incidents yesterday. At Haibaum & Bro on East Commerce street about 20 bales of cotton were damaged. Campbell's feed store near Alamo plaza saw a bucket water extinguish a minor blaze. Neumann & Langley's gin on Starr street caught fire but was kept under control as cotton seed ignited briefly. Overall loss deemed trivial. Alarm systems reportedly unreliable.
William Stone, a brawny colored man, fought with a woman he calls his wife in a corral area on North Laredo street. Jealousy is suspected as the cause. A crowd gathered, Officer Brown stopped the melee, and Stone was fined five dollars after assaulting the woman. The incident ended with the woman’s injury from a hot flat iron.
A crowd of children at a Casino hall entertainment by Prof. Leon and Madam Austin erupted yesterday afternoon. Delays in giving promised presents led to shouting and a mass scramble, with chairs broken and windows smashed. Captain Hughes tried to calm the youths, who mistook him for the professor, and the affair concluded with the officers dispersing the crowd amid accusations of a bogus giveaway.
Firemen fault telephone dispatches for mis reporting the location of yesterday and last night fires. They cite no message about a blaze on East Commerce street and note a brush fire on Prospect hill was mis logged. An alarm for the cotton gin went to Fourth ward, corrected by Mr. Fritz Schreiner who knew it was in Third ward. San Antonio needs an electric alarm system with district zoning.
Mr Udo Rhodius hunted down a thief depredating his coop after neighbors were watched and an arsenic bait used. The culprit, a raccoon with rings on its back, collapsed near the henhouse door and died. Coroner's jury has not decided whether it was escaped pet or wild.
James Bland, a colored man, was arrested for beating his colored sweetheart Annie Taylor after a noon quarrel on the corner of Cameron and West Commerce. Annie could not be located by police. an attachment is issued for her appearance before the Recorder's Court tomorrow morning as Captain Shardeir vows swift justice.
William Froelich, a German resident, was picked up from a ditch on North Flores near Jose Cassiano's home around 11 p.m. by Officer Martin and taken to the police station. He had a deep head gash and was very drunk, unable to identify himself or explain the wound. A local resident claimed Froelich forced entry at his door but was refused, then disappeared. The cut may have been made with a sharp instrument. the man remained untreated and wandered city streets. He was later released by the Recorder without a fine. Found items, business notices, and various local advertisements follow in the notice sheet.
The notice touts Tar and Wild Cherry as the basis of Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup with several other effective ingredients. It claims the syrup is highly reliable, priced at 50 cents and 1, samples available free, and lists sellers H. L. Fowler, R. Cohn & Co., 3 D. Devine, J. Clavin.
A historical note recounts the Bastile’s 1369 construction to guard Charles V against Burgundian raids. It tells of Parone Dr. Mannette a prisoner found in 1789 after 62 years, a wrecked survivor who begged to be left alone as vermin and blood marks covered walls. The discovery at Emerson’s shop in San Antonio reveals battered wall inscriptions detailing goods and moneylending, then shifts to C H Mueller’s Art Gallery at 205 Commerce Street selling paints, frames, and decorative materials with imported items and wallpaper.
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