The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

PIPE for the Taylor waterworks is being
laid.
GENERAL SHERIDAN and Major Sumner went
to Monterey.
SECRETARY FOLGER has mysteriously quilted
Washington.
NEW three-story j0-room hotel has been
opened at Taylor.
DENIsON has granted Il franchise for furnish
ing it with water.
THE President proposes rccreatiny. at the
Soldiers Home.
THE lower Mississippi river overflow has
almost entirely disappeared.
THE Mexican Central railway now extends
10 miles south of Chihuahua.
PERAITAS Mexican opera company has been
playing to crowded houses in PusO del NOrte.
BRUISERISM is to receive an impetus, Sulli-
van and Slade having made Il match for $1,000.
The leper whose arrival at Salem, Mass, was
noted by one of the LIGHTS correspondents, is
dead.
THE nomination of DR.. Swearingen as State
Health officer has been confirmed by the
Senate.
WILL act as general manager Of the Toledo,
CINCINNATI and st. Louis railway President l..
Ii. Phillips.
THE 1000 marks sent from Germany for
German Hood sufferers in this county has been
received.
the AsheulOt when it was lost, is to bc court
martialed.
LAREDO Aldermen have ordained that no
ferries shall be maintained within the limits of
that town.
AMERICAN gold and greenbacks are reported
held in Monterey at Il premium of Ii per cent.
over Mexican silver.
AN ORDINANCE is pending before the Calves
ton City Council apprOpriating SlUO,OOO for
harbOr improvements.
W. B. Fry, who served with Terry's rangers
during the war and was n prisoner at Johnson's
Island, is dead at San Marcos.
J. ID. LONG attempted suicide by the rope
route at Fort Worth SATURDAY, and was still in
Il precarious condition last night.
POLICEMAN X. T. SNOW died at Houston
Sunday from gunshOt wound received at the
hands OF an unruly negro at Il dance.
LEGISLATOR GRAVES has introduced a rcso.
luton permitting the Legislature TO sit l2U days
at the regular pay per diem OF s..
FRANK RILEY and Thomas Cronan were bad
" injured by Il switch engine at Galveston
yesterday. 1t is thought CrOnan will die.
THE red flag of the Commune waved def
antly in Cooper Institute, New York, yester-
day at Il meeting in memory of Karl Marx.
FROM Windsor, Conn writes Emilne Meaker
to her husband and daughter, directing them
TO visit her before she is legally " murdered /"
for the murder of Il child.
FOUR of the oldest locomotives i'm existence
among them the first ever run on a railroad
are TO be exhibited at the Chicago National
exhibition of railway appliances.
MANY members of the Legislature have
signed petition for the appointment of Hon
A. j. ROsenthal, of Fayette county, to be Gus
toms Collector at brownsville.
STANTON and John Taylor, brothers, as
sauted William Keys, Il farmer, near Green
field, Ohio, because he had accused Stanton of
stealing lap robe. He killed them both.
THE Senate yesterday cngrosSed the House
joint resolution fixing the State tax AT b cents
and providing that counties shall not levy Il
tax exceeding - cents for roads and bridges
AT Fort WORTH, p. ID. Rooms married a
Miss Morton, lived with her father, refused to
work, and, when she set his clothing in the
street, broke into the house and whipped her.
He is now in arrest.
THIS is the 18th week of the Star route trial.
Merrick, for the prosecution, says the case
may drag along until the Judge who finally
passes upon it will not remember the one now
engaged in trying 1t.
JAKE SHAFER, the Kansas City blliardst
ran 247 and averaged 81 in GOO points in Il baIk
line game while practicing in Chicago yester-
day for the coming tournament. This is the
best performance of the kind on record.
DEATH claimed l.. G. Michael, ut Galveston,
yesterday. lie was member of the firm of
Greenleve, Block Il Co., wealthy, Vice Prcsi-
dent of the congregation of the Synagogue,
Secretary of the Harmony club, and one of the
American Legion OF Honor.
ST. LOUIS weather: Thermometer at o clock
last evening, II degrees; at III O'Clock last night
below freezing pOint-and an inch of snow Oh
the ground. DEMONSTRATION for the summer,
predicatcd on the weather in previous sum
merS From 80 to lO4 degrees in the shade.
THE Galveston Council has confirmed c. T.
McMahan as City Clerk; G. McKeernan, Chief
of Police: l.. G. Fisher, City Collector; f. NJ
IIatrick, City Engineer; Neddcr, Assessor;
Behrman, Auditor; Cahill, City Sexton: Messrs
Smith, Van LEW and Peacock, Port Wardcns.
In THE Senate yesterday the substitute
House joint resolution amending the COnstilII-
ton relative to the school tax was amended SO
as to provide that County Comm sSiOners may
divide their counties into school districts and
fix the tax at Is cents, the rate fixed by the
original resolution.
SCENE: A mining camp near LeadviIle.
Dramatic persons: Mansfield, his wife and n
fair unknown. Enter Jealousy in hideous
guiSe and Love takes the traditional congo
Several acts. Curtain fails over the dead bodies
of Mansfield and his wife, the latter holding a
smoking pistol in her hand. Fair unknown
speaks opOgue to newspaper men, receives
plaudits of auditors, and, after the play is over
drives IL tandem or SO of Washers.
Poor Emma Bond was found lying i'm an
unconscious state ON the ground near her
fathers house ut Taylorsville, III. Ii is be-
lieved that AN attempt to abduct her was made
TO prevent her from appearing before the
Grand jury investigating the circumstances
attending the outrage on her last summer. She
was pretty, highly accomplished and had
most pleasing diSpOSitiOn. Since the alleged
abduction she has been in Il critical condition.