San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Charles Roland and Annie Smith ar,
In Jail at San Marcos charged with tn,
murder Of Missy johnson, coloreC
woman.
Emancipation day was very generally
celebrated throughout the state.
Duval county board Of equalization
raised a very considerable proportion
Of the appraisements made by the asses
sor.
Judge David Davis, OF Bloomington
ILL.,, is hopelessly i'll. His physicians
have given him up.
Boston had $4,000 fire Monday
with considerable loss of life. Two
bodies were taken from the ruins and
several others are missing. The build
horse cars, and only one of the 400 in the
building was saved.
The senate committee on rules report
favorably the amendment OF Edwards to
allow debate on motions 10 reconsider.
Congress is getting after the Union
Pacific railway company for Issuing col
lateral trust bonds, contrary to law and
without authority from congress. A
resolution has been presented directing
the encouragement to prosecute all Off
vi NldL EOdu anu the OT6ROu
line, civilly and criminally against whom
evidence sufficient to warrant a verdict
can be secured.
Galveston elects full Grain delega-
ton.
Spain has taken measures to increase
her navy.
Chamberlain is bitterly attacked by the
London Standard.
The Island city had a cutting affray
over woman, between two commercial
tourists Monday night, and W. Z. Jones
Is In Jail charged with attempt to muir
der.
1t is feared that the schooner, Edna e,
which left Galveston just previous to
the big storm, has been foundered and
her crew drowned. She has not been
heard from.
Galveston city council authorizes the
drill ground managers to enclose and
improve the same. Entries for drill
from outside the state are numerous.
The president signed 80 private pen
sion bills on Monday and vetoed IL. He
also vetoed two other bills presen ted for
signature.
Curtains labor committee will hardly
get in its report during the present SEES
sion Of congress. Hoxie Is too Ill to ap-
pear before the committee, which was
in session yesterday, reviewing Gould's
testimony.
The house committee on invalided
pensions has agreed to amalgamate the
substitute for the Blair bill pensioning
disabled soldiers with the bill to increase
the rate Of pension of soldiers who have
lost leg or arm, and attach to the COM
bined bills clause imposing an income
tax to meet the expenditure involved.
If the bill can be passed to-day, under
of the rules, it is expected
by the committee that it will prepare
the way for favorable action on the bill
to extend date within which claims for
arrears of pension may be presented.
TEXAS no longer makes a poor mouth
over her crop prospects.
The Parnellites left Tuesday to super
intend the Irish campaign in the sew
eral localities to which they were as
signed.
Bishop MoQuaid, of Rochester, headed
the Parnell parliamentary fund subscrip-
ton with 500.
The miners at DecaZeville, France,
charged with numbering Superintendent
Watfin, were convicted and sentenced
to Imprisonment.
The Bavarian diet has unanimously
confirmed Prince Luitpold as regent.
Sir Charles Edward, son Of Archdea-
con Trevelleyan, is dead.
Lord Randolph Churchill airs his
Jealousy of Gladstone in a long mani
festo.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach pronOunces
Gladstone's home rule measure disaster
GUS to Ireland and disgraceful to Eng
land.
A crazy father at Preston, ILL.,, cuts
the throat Of two Of his children and then
kills himself.
San Francisco has $4,000 fire.
The fire on the Washington dredge did
not prove so disastrous to life as was re-
porI ed. Only one victim.
There is little hope of the Panama
canal bill passing the French chambers.
The English yacht Galatea. leaves for
New York Saturday to take part in the
regatta.
Congressional committee reports IA
vorably the bill to bridge the Mississippi
at Memphis.
A Hamburg, Germany, sugar factory
burned; loss, $3.50,
King Ludwig was not buried in the
sacred plot in which the Bavarian kings
are inferred.
Minneapolis has street car tie-up be-
cause the drivers are not allowed to sit
down during driving hours.
The London Standard shows no mercy
to Joe Chamberlain.
The Cubans have made move to be
allowed a larger share in their own gov
eminent.
The excursionists from the east who
have been exploring the Rio Grand Valley
with view to possible investments, re-
port themselves much pleased with the
outlook.
The house refused to recommit the
naval appropriation bill, 113 to 80.
A Moreland dispatch on the Texas and
Pacific reports water nearly four feet
over the road bed, one mile west of that
Water in Bayou Boeuf is slowly
subsiding, but is still higher than ever
known before.
Travis County Democratic Convention.
The Travis county democratic conyen-
ton held on the 10th, nominated the fol-
lowing officers. County judge, William
Won Rosenberg; CO nty attorney, ii. Il.
tax-collector, Ben s. Pillow:
county assessor, E. G. Sprinkle; county
treasurer, Matt NJ. johnson; sheriff, NJ.
M. Hornsby; county clerk, Joseph b.
Rogers; district clerk, James p. Hart;
animal and hide Inspector, X. Z Car.
penter; public weigher, DIR. j. r.
White, county surveyor; John E. Camp
bell.
A full list of delepstes were alantna 20