The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-16
TELEGRAMS CONDENSED.

PECos COUNTY is to have new court house
and jail.
EX-GOVERNOR EDWIN ID. MORGAN, of New
Y Ork, is dead.
MAILS are taken to Tyler six hours earlier
than formerly.
THE total number of passengers by railroads
last year is 27O,OOO.OO.
LOUIsvInLE's cotton exposition main build
ing is to cost $4,000.
MISSOURI grangers want Secretary of
Agriculture created.
OFFICER Shelly shot at q negro wife beater
ut Dallas, but missed him.
RABBI VoORSANGER of Houston, is opposed
10 the exclusion of the Chinese.
GEORGE FRANK, while coupling cars i'm the
East Dallas yard, was badly mashed
OMIT DAY and Oscar Prigen, notorious horse
thieves, have been arrested at FlatOna
THE Creek Indian factions have not settled
their differences and a fight is imminent.
MINEOLA, Texas, claims that its business this
year exceeds that of last by 70 per cent.
FOUR men fought in u log house near Ora
ham. One was killed and the Others wounded.
CITIZENS of Walker county protest against
the ratification of the lease OF the peniten-
tiaries
SHIRLEY BREwIN, a railroad man accident-
ally shot himself in the hand ut Tyler yes
tcrday.
BUT one out of every 4, 900 railroad passen-
gers was killed last year, and but one out of
1911 employees.
ONE man was instantly killed and two
seriously injured in railway wreck near
AvOndalC, Ohio.
In A ROW in an East Dallas bagnio, John
Eaton shot Fred Humphreys, of Scyenc caus-
ing Il slight wound.
STATE SENATOR FERRY has introduced bill
to prohibit election officers from becoming
suretics on bonds.
,LABATT's bill! providing for the surrender of
charters of Incorporated towns WAS passed nv
the House yesterday.
Mr.. w. a. MCCORD, of Nashville, Tennessee.
was married ut Bastrop yesterday to Miss
Sallie Il. Powell, OF that burg.
MIR. BYRNE, of the Eagle Pass Times. is
authority for the statement that there are only
two marrageable ladies in his town.
THE English Government intends TO intro
duCc bill in Parliament authorizing members
TO be indicted into Office on affirmation.
HUNTINGTON has purchased the late Charles
Morgan interest in the Houston and Texas
Central. 1t is supposed To be below $S0OO,OOO.
PITTS, the negro VINO shot and killed Marshal
Hammpe, is recovering from his wound The
citizens are still furious, and talk of lynching
him.
ROBERT DUMENIL, a promising young man
OF New Braunfcls, mysterOuSly disappeared
and was subsequently found dead in Comal
river.
NJ. DAMALA, Sara Bernhardt's husband, will
retire from the stage. He is arranging for the
formation OF foreign legation to serve in
Africa.
j. S. MCNAMARA, ticket agent of the Mis-
souri, Pacific system, and Miss Willie Lid
stone were married in Houston yesterday
evening.
PRINCE NAPOLEON declares the French Re-
public has never pOlcd Il clear majority of
registered electors, and is therefore governed
merely by virtue of popular apathy.
SUNDAY morning, near Hutchns, two men
named Peter Bass and Louis Miller had dill
NAh Int. IL.
several times, and his recovery is doubtful.
THE State Senate concurred i'm the HOuse
amendments to the bill providing for the cree
ton OF Il branch lunatic asylum in North
Texas, and the bill only awaits the Governors
approval to become Il law.
Mr.. CRAvENs declares hydrophoba TO he in
creasing in the State and wants his fellow
Legislators to take into consideration the
eXpcdiency of levying such tax on dogs us will
tend to reduce their number.
A WOMAN was killed, another and three men
badly injured by IL railroad wreck near Chicago
yesterday morning, and i'm the afternoon a
second wreck occurred by which three men
were fatally injured.
REERDELL, one of the Star route defendants,
created sensation in Washington yesterday
by Withdrawing his plea of not guilty and
throwing himself on the mercy of the court
He has not yet been sentenced.
CLARENCE VERTCH, alias Bones, railroad
man, who set fire to sky rockets in a cOnfec-
tiOnery store ut Fort Worth causing the Death
by burning, OF Mrs. Lizzie Swim, has been in
dcted by the grand jury.
The Ohio floods are undated and great
damage is being done. Voluntary cOntribu-
tiOns for the benefit of the sufferers at Cincin-
natl reach $4,000. The firm of Robert Garrett
Sons, Baltimore, contributed 5000.
AT GREENvILLE the Old,cOurt house property
was sold at auction for $3.50. and at the same
time J. ID. LasSatOr sold his brick store, ON the
southeast corner of the public SQUARE for
5000. The building cost him, including the
lot, $1,000.
agitatod over the introduction of a bill i'm the
Missouri Legislature looking to the suppression
of pool selling. Such u bill was introduced i'm
the illinois Legislature year ago but met with
speedy death.
A PENDING House bill in the State Assembly
contains the following items: Quarantine
$lS,759; judiciary, S2l}; State affairs and clerks,
S:}g5S; Adjutant Generals Office, $50 William
Seaman, cX-Sherin of Cameron county, for
services, SiljS.
FRANK b. HAAF, well known lawyer of
Kansas City, telegraphed G., c. TalbOtt a client
at Westchestcr, Pa, that he would arrive AZ
that place on the LIST of February Since then
there is no trace of him. He had 5000 belong
ing to Talbot
A CHARTER has been granted by Pennsylva-
mia for the consolidation of the Buffalo, New
York and Philadelphia railroad the Olean
Salamanca, Oil City and Chicago and the Buff
falO, Pittsburg and Western, with a capital
stock of S20,SJOOOO.
The State Senate has resolved that the sale
or lease of public lands shall be under the CON
troll of board composed of the Governor, the
Attorney General, the Comptroller, the Treas
urer, the Secretary of State and the Land Com
missioner, and that leases shall be entered into
for 20 instead of 40 years.
INFORMATION from the lower MississipDi
shows that the lcvces protecting the parishes
AF..nN Dat ll..s..a -.