The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

| Inc ilouSIoN NolKS1eSt is 10 De held May
| and 4.
IT IS said the Legislature will adjourn the
first week in April.
| HARDNESS in dispatching business is
charged to the House.
INDIANS have murdered 81 persons in Ore
gon during the last seven days.
| ONTARIO students are organized to compete
at American college rowing matches.
Young bucks in the San Carlos Indian
reservation are restless and talk of JUS VIC
tories in Mexico.
THE Stste Senate yesterday refused to take
up the special order resolution revoking the
penitentiary lease.
| HELLO! says Sherman to Denison and Den
ison to Sherman. Telephone communication
was established yesterday.
| TWELVE of the Armagh assassination society
are under sentence to terms of penal servi-
tude varying from five to 10 years.
| GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT WAGNER, of
the Wagner Sleeping car company, is at
Houston talking of Introducing Wagner cars in
Texas.
CARTER. HARRISON is renominated for
Mayor of Chicago, John Dumpy is named for
Treasurer and Julius S. Grinnell for City
Attorney.
A RAILROAD is to be constructed from
Oshkosh to Council Bluffs. and the Hannibal
and ST. 10 will extend its lines from Peoria to
Chicago.
| FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS are debited to the
Treasurer of the Town Board of Crystal alls,
Mich. He is registered in Jail as Asa II.
Leopold.
| FORTY engineers of the Nickel Plate road
abandoned their engines at Chicago yesterday
because ordered to work IL hours instead Of
10 as heretofore.
| NICKELS worth S32, 900. coined in the city
of Mexico. and intended for circulation in the
State of Chihuahua, have passed through the
Galveston Custom house.
Crouch ON RATS" is the name of the
mixture Thomas Hackett drank at Waco yes
terday. He had been carousing and wanted
to suicide. He may recover.
| AYREs made an unsuccessful attempt in the
House last evening to secure the postpone
ment of the occupation tax bill. The bill was
unchanged, but will be again considered.
| INSPECTOR GENERAL d. B. SACKRTT, who
recently passed through San Antonio on an
inspecting tour with General Sheridan, has
been stricken with apoplexy at Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
A COMMITTEE of the Irish National Land
League, sitting in Dublin, repudiated the
charge that the League was connected with
| O'Donovan RoSsa's dynamite party in this
country.
THE Supreme court has decided that the
| District courts have supervisory jurisdiction
over all other courts in the way of granting
writs of injunction without regard to the
| amount in controversy.
DAILY beat Morris in the fourth game of the
baulk line billiard tournament at Chicago.
The score was: DAILY, GOO; average 10 1880;
highest run, 90. Morris, 536; average
10 3655; highest run, ga.
Four HUNDRED CREEK INDIANS, head ed
| by Spiochee, are camped on Leeper creek,
near Anadarkoit, Wichita agency. They are
armed with Winchester rifles and Colts re-
volvers and have considerable stock.
AvERDICT for defendant has been returned
in the suit of George B. White and wife,
against the Louisville Courier Journal for
$4,000 damages for publishing that Mrs.
Hite had a liaison with her cousin Jesse
| James.
| THE President of the Cincinnati, Green
River and Nashville road says the plans of the
company are to build to Nashville and through
the State southwardly, making through line
from ocean to ocean, requiring several million
dollars expenditure.
| FRANK BYRNR, of whom Carey, the in
| former, swore he was a member of the Irish
assassination society, arrived in New York
from Havre yesterday and said he believed
that, if the assassination society existed as de-
scribed, Carey.was the controlling spirit and
"Number One" myth.
| THE body of Postmaster General Howe was
buried at Kenosha, Wis.,, to-day. Secretaries
Lincoln, Chandler and Frelinghuysen and
Acting Postmaster General Hatton were in
attendance. Lincoln, Teller, Hatton, Senator
| Hill, Governor Rusk, Horace Ruble and
Chief Justice Cole we're pall-bearers.
IT IS reported that indictments have been
returned against J. B. Colegrove, mail con-
tractor, and John l.. French, Brady's chief
| clerk, for Star route fraud. Colegrove is said
| 10 have underbid other contractors and then.
| for consideration, thrown up the service SO
that temporary contracts might be awarded by
French at exorbitant figures.
In THE Senate yesterday Davis moved TO
strike out the $4,000 appropriation for the
purchase OF the Alamo and the appropriations
r erecting monuments to the San Tacinto.
Refugio, Dawson and Goliad heroes. and
Gibbs moved to use the Alamo appropriation
TO erect on the capitol grounds monument
TO all Texans Who f.ll in the struggle for indie
Pendance, both of which motions were lost.