The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

c. $. Cock is the Mayor elect of san Marcos.
SURVEYS for water works are to be made at
Laredo soon.
THE Mmo National bank Mt Laredo has been
completed.
HOUSTON has a regularly graduated negro
physician.
a GENERAL outbreak of Indians at San Car
los agency Is unprecedented.
THE Houston Hook and Ladder company
propose To construct brick building.
GOVERNOR HUNT and the German Consul
General Intend taking II trip in Mexico.
AN AMERICAN has started distillery on the
San Juan de Sabinos in Coahuilo, Mexico.
j. Il. Thompson died AT Dallas yesterday from
the effects of morphine, It is thought, mis-
taken.
STOCK cars are being constructed at the ma
chine shops OF the Texas Mexican railway in
Corpus Christi.
SENATOR GIBBS has introduced a bill TO pro-
vide for the efficient management of the peni
tentiaries.
The New York Legislature has favorably
considered bill TO prohibit the production of
the Pas ion Play.
W. Il. SANDERS shot and killed W. L. Lessen,
publisher of the Capitolian Advocate, ut Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
BOTH Legislator Chenowith, and Editor Card
we want TO light but each is reluctant of TAX
ing the iuigtivc.
L. n. HENRY, late of Cleveland, Ohio, tele-
graph operator, was accidentally drowned at
the mouth of the Pecos yesterday.
The Marion Trust company OF Chicago and
indianapolis is declared blythe Postoilce De-
partment TO he Il fraudulent concern.
A MAN thought TO be on the Texas border,
john shed, the murderer of Policemen Walsh
in st. LOUIS has been arrested in Chicago.
Wanted, boy 4 to 10 years old, that writes
good hand for office work. Address by let ter,
stating salary expected, "A. B.," this office.
THE assistant Postmaster of State Center,
Iowa has confessed he robbed the office of
valuable letters. His name is Granger Center
The Senate has refused to adopt Joint reso-
luton prohibiting garnishment of current
wages, except for physicians bills and neces-
sarles.
a JOINT resolution has been rejected by the
Senate which provided for the appointment OF
three Commissioners TO regulate rates on rail-
ways.
ONEefect of the Indiana law prohibiting the
employment of persons under IL years OF age
will be the taking OF work from nearly 1900
children.
| The fourth day of "a Socialist Convention in
| Denmark the leader was ordered to close the
proceedings and members from foreign coun-
tries To leave Denmark.
| THE German Government will justify the
| arrest Of Deputies to the Reichstag by declar-
| ing the men arrested were under suspicion of
| having brought contraband writings into
| Germany.
| COLONEL W. II. BURGESS created II sensation
| during the Strings investigation yesterday by
| stating that he did not want to furnish the
| names OF persons he had seen playing cards
| and drinking In the rooms of Colonel Cunning
| ham, one OF the penitent AIRY less G a they had
| told hiul they promised before they went To
| Austin, not TO conduct themselves in such a
| manner,
TIE President has made the following APP
| pointments; A. W. Sheldon, of MARYLAND,
| Associate Justice of the supreme court in the
| Territory OF Arizona, vice W. w. Hoover, sus-
| pended; ). f.. snyder, Agent Of Indians at Fort
| Peck agency, Montana, vice Nathan Porter,
| resigned; ID. Is. Russell. United States Marshal,
| for the Eastern District of Kansas; Henry
| Ward, Indian Inspector, vice William j. Pol
lock, resigned.
The Mexican Central railway has begun
work On the line of its proposed Pacnc di vision
| with GOU labOrers and will complete the main
line irnm the City of Mexico 10 the United
states before the expiration of the next year.
The sum of the net pr, tits of the Mexican
division last year was S3l3 1856. One hun In, d
and seventy miles were opened on this division
and ;i25 in OPERATION at the end. In the Chihua-
huu division US miles were in operation ut the
end OF the yeari 2OD miles of track were lai 4
during the ear on the Tampico division ~
miles completed grading, and Al finished. Inc
route Is cleared 100 miles ahead. San Bias Is
chOs n as the Pacific terminus with Tepec as
the intermediate station.
EXCITING events crowded closely on one
another in Europe yesterday. complete
summing up of the surprises include the UNI
curihing In London of the most important dyn-
amte factory ever discovered, the first four
min breeders in London, and one in Birming-
ann. an attempt on Il uOV0rliment magazine
in ireland; the reception of an incendlary let-
ter ~ London, and the discovery Of an astOund-
log HDd auda' iOus scheme of Nihilists to blow
up the CZu's residence IN Moscow. In London
prec iutionary measures have been adopted IL
is stated there in official circles that there Is
reason 10 believe that the whole incendlary
nnd dynamite conspiracy there and In America
win now laid bare, and the number of ar.
rests will shortly Increase,