The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
RIoToUs laborers have torn up 500 feet of a
railroad track at Chicago.

IT is estimated that the decrease of the
public debt for February was So, 100000.
RHODE ISLAND had an earthquake day be-
fore yesterday. No great damage was done.
THE Missouri Legislature has severely sat
upon prohibition movement in that State.
CROWDS Of famished people besiege the
houses of priests in Longhra, Ireland, and
clamor for food.
THE State Senate has passed bill provid-
ing for the counting of votes at elections as
soon as received.
CITIZENS of Germany have subscribed sew
eral thousand marks to aid the sufferers by
the floods in the Ohio valley.
LEGISLATOR DAVIDSON, of Arkansas,
jumped into the river at Little Rock while
drunk and was drowned yesterday.
MRS. ALFRED G. INMAN was recently killed
near Summerton, Emanuel county, Georgia.
A coroner's Jury said her husband did it.
CONGRESS is still worrying over the question
Of the prerogative claimed by the House to
originate all revenue bills.
DALLAS authorities think an organ
lied band of railroad car robbers are plying
their vocation there and in Fort Worth.
A GANG Of burglars infest Washington city,
One of them has confessed to participating in
20 burglaries in the last two years. The
police seem to be poweress.
RAILROAD companies are to be required to
make sworn statements of the valuation of
their property to the Assessor of the county
in which the principal Office is located.
BECAUSE of disagreement as to the own
ership of some land Pete Wilson shot man
named Scott in the back of the head and
killed him, near Bandera, last Monday.
BENITo GONZALES, the Sheriff of FL Paso
county, is said to be short in his accounts
from $1,000 to $1,000, and his bondsmen have
filed motion OF withdrawal from his bond.
VENERABLE PROFESSOR LISTING, of Coffin
gen, died in that city recently in his 18th year.
He numbered many friends among his pupils
in this country, and his death is sincerely re-
GREETED.
THE Massachusetts Assembly has, by a
vote of I27 to 60, defeated bill giving female
citizens the right to vote for city and town
officers, to hold city and town Offices and vote
in town meetings.
THE requisite two-thirds vote was not re-
ceived when the resolution for submitting the
prohibition question to the people was put on
its passage by the lower branch of the State
Legislature yesterday.
FROM FL Paso comes the information that a
band of rancheros attacked an Indian camp
west of Chihuahua, killed 10 bucks and cap
tured 20 squaws. 1t is said they were in
Chihuahua Monday and wore the scalps of the
dead Indians.
AS Mr.. KUHNE and his son were crossing
the International railroad, near New Braun
fels, in wagon, yesterday, the north bound
train struck the team. Mr.. Kuhne was badly
injured, the wagon was wrecked, but the child
escaped unhurt.
WITH its $50 millionaires the total amount
of subscriptions in New York on the 18TH
inst. to the funds for the relief of sufferers by
the Western floods was S7462. William H.
Vanderbilt gave $4,000. There are I5C New
Workers worth over Sic, zoo, 900 each.
Miss ADA LEIGH says that infant suicide in
France has destroyed twice as many lives in
four years as her orphanage in Paris con-
trived to save in eight years; 1913 boys and 30
girls under the age of ID destroyed themselves
in that time. No other country in the world
can show such a record.
LAST week, at Comitan, in the State o
Chiapas, Mexico, some Of the troops pro-
nounced in favor of Senior Sebastian Lerdo de
Tejada. The disturbance was quickly queled.
Six revolutionsts were killed and nine
wounded The troops who rose were 100
men of the Tenth battalion. On the rising
being put down many of the mutineerS made
their escape into Guatemala.
GENERAL JAMES A. BRIsBAN, who sue
ceeded General Custer at the battle of Little
Big Horn, said in a recent lecture that Custer
was alone to blame for the massacre of him
self and his command. He declared that if
General Custer had not disregarded the in
structions of General Terry from desire for
glory and for promotion, che and his COM
mand might be living to-day" His remarks
produced great sensation.
ST. LOUIS society has been startled by the
intelligence that Mrs. Joshua X. Sabina, a
good looking blonde who always appeared in
fashionable attire with diamonds flashing in
her ears and on her fingers, had abandoned
her husband and left with her two little chill
dren for her mothers home in Alton. Mrs.
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