The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-22
TELEGRAMS CONDENSED.


THE Ohio river continues to recede, but the
Mississippi is rising and great damage being
done.
THE United States steamer Ashuelot has
been lost near Hong Kong and IL of the crew
drowned.
A WRECK occurred on the International rail-
way near Lindale yesterday, but little damage
was done.
RERDELL denied during the Star route trial
yesterday that he received any consideration
for his affidavit.
GENERAL EDWARD MCCOoK of Colorado
protests againstthe Mexican reciprocity treaty
as wrong upon the labOring men of this
country.
p. Il. BARNUM wants the loan OF 20 Pawnee
Indians for show purposes. The Interior de-
partment has the novel proposition under con-
sideratiOn.
FRANK JAMES continues TO plead not guilty.
The last time he pleaded was at Gallatin, Mo,
where he is charged with the murder of Con-
ductOr Westfall.
PROTESTS have been lodged at the American
French and Spanish cOnsulates at Casabianca
against the brutalities of the Moorish overnor
| there toward the Jews.
PROHTBTIONIsTs intend to hold a conven-
tion at Austin in April If a prohibition
amendment be ratified prohibition party will
enter the political arena!
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS, it is stated, will step
down and out before adjournment in order
that yice-preSident may be chosen in view of
there being no called session.
THE President has nominated Algcrnon s.
Badger to be Collector of Customs at New
Orleans and John ID. Roulson to be Collector
OF Internal Revenue in Virginia.
THE Emperor. William has personally devoted
much attention to settling the difficulty in re-
gard to the Danes in Schleswig- II olsteiu Ne
gotiations have been opened for a convention
on the question.
STATE SENATOR JONES has introduced resO-
luton requiring the calling of a convention to
"A "a MI ing
for geological survey of the State and the
appointment OF State Geoogist.
The American coast survey party on the
steamer Blake found the deepest place in the
Atlantic, about 1909 northwest of the Island of
st. Thomas. 1t was 456l fathOms deep. The
deepest English sounding is 1862 fathoms.
NIENTEMILLA's rule in Ecuador is u reign of
terror. When his soldiers saw that they could
not hold Esm eraldaS against Il besieging force
they pillaged the town and then burned it, and
now they threaten Guayaquil in like manner.
THE disclosures of nfOrmers in Dublin have
anabled the police to sieze other persons con-
nected with the crime OF numbering Cavendish
and Burke. Since the disclosures, many Irish
orleans and farmers are leaving for Amer
lea.
BLANCHE DOUGLASS, the abandoned wife
who, as a syrcn, figured so cOnSpcuOusy i'm the
New Haven murder mystery, was drunk in
Mulberry street, New York city, opposite the
Police Central office, on Wednesday afternoon
last.
A SOCIALIST pamphlet which has been pub
lished in Altoona, Prussia, abuses sOyerigns and
challenges Democrats to lberate the countries
oppressed by their rule. Eleven socialists have
been arrested, and a number of seditiOuS works
have been seized.
T.. J. DEGROFFENEID and Miss Lille Graves
eloped from Falls county to Waco. They were
intercepted by kilograms from the lady's guar
dian forbldding the marriage. on the ground
of her minority, but yesterday they received Il
license and were married.
81, boz lnn
the New Orleans Mint in November are
slightly below the limit of fineness prescribed
by law, and that $4,000 of these coins were put
in circulation before the error was discovered
The loss is about p cents on each 500.
a BILL is pending in the State Senate TO D ro
vide for the organization of school districts in
counties and for local tax for the "enetit of
schools and another TO require railroads to
allow passengers to travel on freight trains
where two passenger trains are not run each
way daily.
A GIRL of IA years, Christina Malcolm, has a
bullet in her left cheek the receiving of which
she says she deserved because she event back
on" her lover. He is lying in hospital, suffer-
ing from sef-inllicted wound, but will prOba-
bly, recover. Their marriage is expected to be-
the sequel.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS is said to have accu-
INFLATED in the Bank of England for the heirs
of Colonel Bradford, the Governor of the
Plymouth Colony in 1921, and Mrs. McIrath,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and J. p. McIlrath, of
81 u.
Kentucky, are heirs.
The State Senate Committee on Constitu-
tiOnal Amendments has reported faVOrably re
speeding the proposition to submit To the
people Il prOhibtOry amendment. As a favor
able report on the subject was previously
made by Il House committee the proposition
will probably be submitted.
AN ALTOONA (Pa.,l special dispatch says ::
John l.. Mcdowell, treasurer of the Young
Mems Christian Association, and Il prominent
commission merchant, has abscOndcd with
800 of the associations money and between
100000 and $4,000 belonging to parties dealing
with him in the commission business.
IN THE British Parliament yesterday O'Brien
argued that crime in Ireland was dist inctB-
traceable to eVictiOns and the tyranncal admin
istratiOn of law by the Dublin castle officials
Hisspecch was mostviolent, and was cheered by
the Parnellties, other members remaining 81
lent. The others propose to make mo further
concessions to lawless agitation.
WILLIAM HANDY and james Rafferty, en-
cOuntered John Sandusky, Il boy aged H. in u
lonely locality near the Union Stock yards,
Chicago. Handy and Rafferty, asked Sandusky
for a drink of the beer which the latter was
carrying in . pail The father of Sandusky
appeared, and demonstrated with the men, and
during the alteration Sandusky stabbed
Handy twice, from the effects of which he died
in 10 minutes.
Miss PEAKE, the divorced wife of Mr.. HOff.
man and a member of highly respected
family of New York, hired a sleigh at Flushing,
New York, and directed to be driven to her
mothers house. The driver took her elsewhere
and finally, ON the pretcnce that il would warm
her, induced her to drink some liquor, which
made hrr unconscious. She hardly remembers
anything else until, awakening the next morn
ing, she found herself in q room with several
men.
A DEBATE was had I'm the State Legislature on
| the bill to fix the school tax at - cents. In the
Senate Intellectual efforts were made by Ches-
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