The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The total cost of the Vanderbilt
fancy dress ball the other night is es
timated at 100000.
The trotting stallion Jerome Ed.
dy, with record of 1.l6I, changed
hands vt Chicago the other day. The
price paid was $4,000.
The Lemoyne furnace at Wash.
ington, Pa, has Just cremated it,
eighth human body, that Of the late
Charles Sochuer, Of Indianapolis.
"A feud between eattlemen cul-
inflated in fight near Fort Huach
cua, on the Mexican border Of Arizo-
ma, in which six men were killed.
Near Charleston Arizona, party
Of coal prospectors we're set upon by
band OF twenty Apaches, who killed
several of the party and wounded
three.
1t is said that S5,O0O,OOo worth
Of precious stones, silks, velyet9,
laces, ETC., were worn by the attend.
ants at Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt's fan
cy dress ball at New York.
Forsyth Street NJ. +. Church, at
New York, where originated the prac-
tce Of inviting penitents to the alter,
celebrated Sunday as its ninety third
anniversary. Many prominent per
sons attended the services.
IA train on the Bound Brook rail.
road, drawn by locomotive burning
Goal dirt, arrived at Philadelphia,
after a l20-mile trip, on time. The
"coal dirt" consumed cost 81 .05, one
seventh the usual expense.
The survivors Of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition, left in Siberia by
Engineer Melville and Master Danen-
hover TO continue the search for
Lieut.. Chips boat, have reached
New York IN charge of Ensign Hunt
Judge Lawrence, of the Treasu-
~ Department at Washington, has
promulgated an opinion that the pro-
vision in the new Tax and Tariff bill
for a rebate upon manufactured to-
bacco and snuff does not extend TO
dealers.
Cleveland will try to wreet from
Cincinnati the honor of being the
musical center of tho United States.
One of her citizens offers 100000 to
start a fund for the erection of mu-
sic hall and the organization OF fes-
tval society.
The British Minister at Wash
ington, does not apprebend strained
relations between America and Eng
land because of the violent utterances
OF certain Irish citizens regarding the
London explosion. He says the
present feeling is very cordial.
More than twenty men were
killed by the Apaches in Arizona last
week. 1t is expected that the Indians
are concentrating at point about
forty miles from Tombstone. They
have set fire to the grass, and the
country thereabouts is in a blaze.
"A letter has reached Ottawa,
Ontario, from a resident of Moose
Jaw, Northwest Territory, stating
Virgins storm materalized in that
section on time; that the wind blew
at the rate Of seventy-fve miles per
hour. and that many buildings were
wrecked.
"A call for n convention to be held
at Philadelphia April 25th has been
issued by the Central Council of the
Irish-American Land League.
Messrs. Painell and Eagan will be
present ut the convention, at which
in all probability action will be taken
placing the movement in behalf of
Irish freedom on wider basis than
heretofore.
AT 4 o'clock on the afternoon of
March 20 six miners descended the
shaft Of the Diamond at Braidwood,
penetrated its reeesses, and found
six bodies, which were brought to the
surface about midnight. They were
in an advanced state of decomposi-
ton and fnghtful to behold. All day
crowds thronged the scene Of the hor-
ror and remained all night to view
the remains.
Stephen W. Dorsey testified in
his own behalf in the star-route case
at Washington, entering a general
denial of the charge Of conspiracy to
defraud the Government. Previous
TO swearing the witness, Mr.. Mernek,
of counsel for the Government, de-
manded of Mr. Dorsey statement Of
his views as to the future state, but
the court ruled that such statement
could moi be required, and Mr. Dorsey
took the oath in the usual form.
Foreign.
The death is announced OF the
Right Hon. Sir George Jessel Master