The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-12
TELEGRAPHIC
RECORD OF GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
FOR A DAY
German Immigrants Arrived---Dorsey--
0OOO Coal Miners out OF
Employment.

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Courteney was reelected. The Democratic
nominees for Aldermen and the School Board
were elected without opposition.
SUE, December II.-There is great excite
ment at Sualsm in consequence of the ex-
pected night attacks. The English gunboat
Ranger is throwing rockets over the town TO
scare the rebels.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, December ia State
convention of colored citizens has been called
in this city for December 40 to organize for
the elevation Of the race aud the better pro-
lection OF their civil, political and other rights.
especially in the South.
WHEELING, w. Va, December II.-"Bg
Hilr' Kinney, acquitted Of murder at West
Union yesterday, was taken from jul by a
mob and hung last night. II is reported that
the mob started for Clarksburg, where Kin.
ny's cousin is in Jail, convicted Of man
slaughter.
CHICAGO, December II A Vicksburg,
Michigan, special says Mcrraver Helms
Colored Dramatic company appeared here
this evening They were refuses accommo-
dation by all the hotel keepers, add were
obliged, after the performance, to take the
FIRST train for Kalamazoo.
CHICAGO, December IA meeting Of
barbed wire manufacturers Of the country for
the purpose of securing reduction in the
royalties charged by wsshburn X Moen,
pa,entees, was held here to-day. AS the
representatives Of the palentees were not
present an adjournment took place until to-
morrow.
NEw ORLEANS, December STA Las
Vegas special says This morning, in dig
ging the foundation for a new court house,
one Of the laborers. an old miner, saw
symptoms Of pay dirt. They Immediately
gave it a trial, which resulted in striking it
rich. There is great excitement, and every
body is stalking off claims.
WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE Presi-
dent sent large number Of nominations to
the Senate, mostly recess appointments, among
them Walter Evans for Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue, and Benjamin Butterworth,
Commissioner Of Patents. II is understood
that the O'Donnell case will he considered at
cabinet meeting to-day.
BERLIN, December 1.-THE North Ger
man Gazette, referring to the statement that
the Government is willing to cooperate with
England to protect their subjects and interests
in China in the event Of war between France
and China, says, the sole object of such CO.
operation is the protection OF Europeans in
the event OF an outbreak like that at Canton.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, December 1.-THE
Republican State Central committee met and
elected ex Governor Clayton as Chairman,
vice Terrans, deceased. The committee
unanimously declared that S. w. Dorsey is
no longer citizen Of Arkansas, and recon-
mended Powell Clayton for the vacancy on the
National Republican committee, caused by
| his removal.
FRANKFORT, KY, December II.-Reports
from Fields still house, on Columbia river,
say that last week four men, all drunk,
began to fight. w. II. Fields separated them
and ordered them to leave which they refused
to do. Fields then drew his pistol and sho,
all four Matt Knight was killed instantly,
| Jerome Sargent died the next day, and Major
Day and John Jenkins cannot live Fields
escaped.
IRoNToN, Mo-, December II.-Advice
from Brewngton's distilIery, in the southern
part of Madison county, says that in a quarrel
growing out Of an old feud, on Saturday,
William Boyer shot William Berry in the left
breast, Burt Kelley in the head, and was him
sell shot through the head and instantly
killed. Kelley died on Sunday and Berry is
not expected to live.
PTTTsBURG, Pa, December 1.-THE an
nouncement was made tonight in the coal
mines along the Monongahea river that they
would suspend operations this week indefinite
", owing to depression in the coal trade. In
the four pools there are IS pits, and II these
close over 6ooo men will be thrown out OF
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unreasonable weather and overstocked mar
kets. The operators say there is no demand
for coal and they cannot afford to sell at the
prices. The miners are much depressed at the
turn affairs have taken, as many of them, not
having saved anything, will be without the
necesSaries OF life.
WASHINGTON, December II.-Sherman' S
bill for the commercial relations with the
South American States provides that the
President be authorized and requested to in
vite the Republics OF Mexico, Central Am erica
and South America, and the empire of BRAZIL
to send delegates to the convention at Wash
ington in 1854, to consider the best mode o
establishing a firm and lasting basis for a
peaceful and reciprocal commercial relation
and to adopt measures considered the mos
practical to promote the construction OF an in-
ternational railway to connect the countrie!
named with the United States. The sum o
$4,000 is to be appropriated to defray The
expenses of the convention.
GALVESTON, December 1.-THE German
immigrants, who arrived on the steamship
Weser were landed this afternoon, and will
leave tomorrow for their future homes in tn
interior of the State. They are in the main
we'll to- do looking class of people. The fol