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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1900
Page
4
Washington dispatch traces William Jennings Bryan's shifting stance on tariffs silver and imperialism. It contrasts his anti tariff rhetoric with his later support for free silver and expansion, cites U S actions in Puerto Rico under McKinley and argues the imperial policy benefits locals while fueling class conflict.
The real creditor class includes working men and women across business walks and savings bank depositors. They deserve the best stable money, for a fluctuating value brings poverty and loss, and savers should receive equal value when drawing their funds.
A July death tally from the city health office lists causes across categories such as general and nervous system diseases, heart and respiratory conditions, digestive and urinary issues, infancy diseases, old age, external violence, and undefined cases under investigation. Notable entries include scarlet fever, tubercular meningitis, bronchitis, diarrhoea infantile and tubercular, nephritis, senility, various blows from violence, and overdoses. The record aggregates totals by cause with occasional figures and descriptors.
The population schedules were received by the Census Bureau in Washington July 31 and with few returns ahead of ours, the results will likely be made public at an early date. Officials note the count is the Uncle Sam census. Local Antonians anticipate the official population figure.
City Detective B J Crowther nabbed two young burglars red handed after they entered the Guenther warehouse at 255 Washington Street and stole sacks and other items. They fled toward the Arsenal bridge and were arrested after jumping into the river with the plunder and coins found on them.
Attorney John O'Connor injured May 7 while returning from Corpus Christi on a Brotherhood of Railway Train Men excursion sues the San Antonio and Aransas Pass for 50000. He claims partial paralysis in the left leg brain injury and total blindness in the right eye from a collision as the excursion train entered the depot during the memorable storm that caused the Trust Building collapse on West Commerce Street.
James Raley sues Benke and Benker in the fifty seventh district court for trespass to try title to 160 acres on Helotes creek near San Antonio. A debt suit was filed in the same court yesterday. F P Olcott seeks rent from 8 B Jones and S H Nay on Lipscomb county grazing land.
The general committee organizing the Mexican Independence celebration met yesterday and contracted fitworks and a music program. Prof. Carl Beck's and Sociedad la Union bands were engaged to perform.
Mr. FE Meurin joins Bull Bros. bar at Alamo Plaza. Gus Gintbel to take the 8 pod watch at the Menger after Sept. Paul Magadieu resumes at Louis Mueller's after European tour. Hermann Koopp of Strayhorn's Diamond recovering from malaria. Ernest Ginbel on watch at Iron Pron saloon.
The San Antonio blue label councilmen face a scheduling mix up as bids for street paving to be opened September 3 fall on Labor Day. No meeting is planned tomorrow, but the vacation ends this month and aldermen will resume weekly meetings thereafter.
A railway yard accident left a J. and Rutledge tynkeman with an injured foot after a Worth bound freight train derailment incident Friday. Earlier a cotton truck toppled onto his right foot at Media station breaking a toe and dislocating another.
George Alverson known as Happy George dies at 1:80 p m in the city jail where he spent much of his life The cause is suspected to be alcoholism He collapsed after eating bread and coughing witnesses say he died during a fit The coroner viewed the body and it was sent to Burnett s for burial He was 65 and a familiar figure in San Antonio society and police circles often in trouble but in good humor, loved by friends who supplied him drinks.
The contract for installation of the electric plant at the fairgrounds was let to William G. Schuwirth & Co., the noted electrical firm of Southwest Texas, for the project.
United States Weather Bureau data compiled for September over fifteen years by Major Allen Buell show a warm average temperature around 78 degrees with a high of 103 degrees on September 11, 1803 and a low of 46 on September 30, 1890. Precipitation averages 2.68 inches, with 8 or more days of measurable rain. the record monthly total reached 10 inches in 1893, and 4.71 inches fell in a 24 hour period on September 8 and 9, 1800. The area sees 12 clear days, 11 partly cloudy, 7 cloudy, with southeast winds and a peak gust of 36 mph on September 29, 1801.
The city clerk issued permits to plumbers to dig trenches and lay or repair pipes in South Flores near Arsenal for Waterworks, Madison for Franklin, Sheridan from Madison to Alamo, Alamo from Sheridan to Adams for San Antonio Gas, Ak T10 Boothy Leona for Mrs Mashler, 601 Crosby for Lt Mayes, Main area for Geo Witte, and the block between Bowie and Live Oak for Ben Mavermann.
Kinpey Anderson secured a permit from the city assessor to erect a one story Tronclad addition on South Laredo Street at a cost of 150 dollars. Senora Garza obtained a permit to erect a water closet on T18 North Frio Street at a cost of 5 dollars.
Two insanity cases were filed in the court yesterday. The defendants named are William Potter and Ada Brook, the latter having escaped from Jedasyhon and was brought in from the India Perr i.
The notice states Grandma's Tea regulates the fiver, 250 at all druggists. The wording implies distribution and price positioning across drugstores, with emphasis on widespread availability and standard pricing.
State notes report Icarnes City has ginned 250 bales of cotton, placing the town at the head of the list. Construction has begun on a new steel bridge over the Trinity at Porter’s bluff near Corsicana, while a suit for damages over a desecrated family graveyard has been filed against the county.
San Antonio is not alone in fatal accidents to workmen. Otto Zahm fell from a roof in Cuero and broke his neck. George W. Thomas, of Galveston, the oldest mechanic of the Island city, met with a similar accident and died soon after.
The gins at Victoria have turned out nearly 100 bales of cotton. The crop in that section is not reported very good owing to so much rain in the spring that planting could not be done. The Houston Press reports that the body of Liliana Spaulding, the young woman who committed death by own action in San Antonio, was buried in the Hollywood cemetery.
The Fort Worth Register critiques Texas libel law as hindering essential news. An averaged dispatch mentions a man in trouble, dies at home, and is jailed, highlighting how legal wording blocks conveying the core fact.
Dispatch from Hallettsville reports a Sang Antonio expert opened the county treasurer's vault finding a broken screw in the combination. Schulenberg plans a new iron bridge over Hast Navidad Creek between that town and Weimar. A Buffalo Texas fire injures Miss Tex ana Grey seriously. Gonzales cotton mill site chosen with building to proceed. Monser rate of Aratsus Pass offers to build necessary switches. Saul and Kruger plan vitrified brick plant at Sherman for local use and outside sale.
Little Otto Buchel of Ouero fell on a scythe and badly cut his leg. Hue the Record notes El Paso rejoicing in prospects for an early inauguration of the electric street car system. El Paso shows progressiveness. H. M. Marks & Co. and other creditors have filed a petition in bankruptcy court.
A bankruptcy case has been filed in the federal court at Galveston against I M Richardson & Co a leading lumber firm in the area. The action seeks relief under federal bankruptcy law and outlines assets and liabilities to be determined in the proceeding.
D P Mitchell of Bee county reports a watermelon crop earning $492.50 this year. Official figures show 223,535 acres of Texas public school lands sold during July.
A guard transporting a young man named Costles from Waxahachie to the Southwestern asylum in San Antonio left the car to drink water. The patient awoke, leaped from the train, and vanished. neither he nor his body has been found. Atascosa reports unusually high cotton prices but a shortage of cotton pickers.
In Houston a black preacher named K. Smith warns of another flood after extended rain. He claims to have built an ark and urges his congregation to prepare covered boats for protection from rising waters.
Under Major Durham's direction the Steiner convict farm prisoners form a literary and debating society. It provides instruction and amusement and leads to more orderly and satisfied inmates.
M D Haygood a well known Marble Falls reporter died after a barber cut a neck boil with a razor leading to blood poisoning. The incident occurred at a local barber shop and Haygood passed away within days.
W. R. Pollard of Gonzales reports pears from his orchard weighing 18 ounces and measuring 12 inches in circumference in a local fruit note.
Miss Minnie Winstead sister in law of Dr R H Smith of Ayle married W S Miller of Fort Worth in Ayle. They left for San Antonio to spend their honeymoon.
The Bicinal Sentinel features Colonel J C Leccenctive Carr with his portrait and reprints his address on Old Frontier Days delivered before the South and West Texas Press association.
San Antonio and Dallas compete for top fall success, with hopes for record achievements. Local optimism centers on reciprocal support as both cities pursue historic performance this season.
Seven years after a Karnes county murder indictment, Mexican national Kossuth Cano was shipped to Mexico. He has now returned and is jailed pending proceedings.
The Devine News reports a rumor that Devine may source cotton from southeast Atascosa County extending toward San Antonio. The plan would involve paying merchants to ensure every cent of cotton value is captured locally to boost town trade that would otherwise go elsewhere.
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