San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-01
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that Okefenokee canal through Florida
to the Gulf of Mexico.
General Butler accepts the position of
under secretary for Ireland, rendered
him by Sir Machel Hicks Beach.
Baron Seckendorf, professor of agri-
culture in the Vienna university, shot
his neck off with revolver.
Cardinal Manning received into the
Catholic church and ordained Lord
Thomas Thyme, aged %, formerly a
canon Of the English church.
Hearing in the Dillon case has been
postponed until December IL.
The South American cholera scare
subsidies. 1t is not the full-grown ar
ticle-only cholerine. Red cholera is re-
ports are conflicting.
Mexico has concluded treaty of
peace with France.
Patti is billed for the City of Mexico
early in January next.
The Mexican Central railway will be
rapidly pushed to TampicO and Guada-
lupe.
The American opera company have re-
piled TO the structures of the Ministers
alliance OF st. Louis. Their card ia a
neat one, and as an advertising dodge is
immense.
KniftOn, the English wouId-be-heavy-
weight-pugilist, has backed out of his
match with Jim Smith.
The message will be ready on time
and next Saturday Is the time.
House committee will be ready to
hear the report of subcommittee on APP
nominations naYt MnnHaU
The American consul general pro.
nounces the consuls OF this government
in England all o. X.
The cOnferees on Interstate commerce
are getting down to work, reading up
for the after consideration of the bills.
During November the public debt was
not sensibly diminished.
The French spoliation claims are on
the carpet and the first IA cases submit
ted for discussion. These are test cases.
The salvage on the burned cotton at
Galveston, schooner DTumadoOn, VIII
probably reach 400 bales, mostly in fair
condition.
The norther propheoied for Wednes-
day night materialized, but it was not
severe.
Burke, the Galveston treasurer, de-
camped, has been seen at San Francisco
Wheat market at Chicago is more ac-
tive and firm. Beef quiet; values
weaker. Hogs without change.
New York dry goods market is quiet.
but the undertOne OF business is strong.
Cotton market weak.
"A. Hill 81 Co., of the Chicago Board
of Trade, have failed. They cut quite
figure in the market.
L. D. Davis, leather dealer of New
York, has failed.
The Denver cattlemen forming the
International Range association have
memOrlaliZed Cleveland asking that his
message deal with contagious bovine
diseases.
The Colorado cattlemen endorse Rea-
gan's Interstate commerce bill.
The Baltimore and Ohio Express
takes the traffic of the Adams express,
between Cincinnati and New Orleans.
David Harris, of Indianapolis, shot
his wife at her fathers supper table, and
then made hole where his own brains
were supposed to be. Both will die.
Congressman Grain Is brevet mayor of
Galveston, during the reunion of the
mayors convention at Washington.
Robert Treat Payne is building small
dwellings at Boston to sell at cost to
actual residents of small means.
Nedder, the artist so long at Rome,
returns to New York. bringing many
newly finished pictures.
Land office fees last month were
$4,000.
Colonel Swain will go into the law.
land and loan business in Austin.
Grading is growing steadily towards
Harbor Island; track laying TO York
town will be completed this week: the
iron will be put down owards Ingalside,
taking about five days. and then the
northwest extension will receive due at
tention.
Corpus Christi fire department cele-
brated their 10 anniversary yesterday.
The new dam at Langlay mills, on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta track,
has given way and half a mile of the
road bed washed out.
Madame Fursch Madi is in a pet, the
managers of the American opera are
ditto and the p. d. IL laid off for the
present.
The American branch of the irish
National League is urgently called upon
by President Fitzgerald to continue its
work OF organization that it may in
crease its funds and extend its work of
aiding Ireland.
Thos. Within gets $1,000 damages at
Fort Worth for the knocking down of
his six year old son by the street cars.
Green Smith, president pro TEN of he
Indiana senate, eDjoins the secretary of
state from transmitting to the Indiana
house of representatives the votes on
lieutenant governor. The case will come
before the courts and is of great interest
in determining questions in the next U.
s. senatorial contest.