San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-24
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at Pittsburg. Three thousand men will
resume work on the basis Of last years
wages as soon as furnaces can be
heated.
George II. Bartholomew, the Hartford
Conn. defaulter, will be thrown into in
sOlyency, thus removing all attachments
and prior claims. His outstanding
paper is put at from 100000 upward.
The Mexican congress has appoint
q commission to study the silver ques-
ton, and a special committee has been
appointed to study the question Of how
| to replace the state customs tariff with
some system which will prove less bur
densome to commerce and equally add
vartageous to the revenues Of the sew
eral states. The chamber of deputies
| has approved the settlement of the
English debt. The president having re-
commended that the government take
action looking to the development of
the gold mines of the republic as one
means of meeting the silver crisis, re-
newed interest in explorations is shown.
Very heavy rains are reported
throughout Mexico; streams are rising
rapidly.
Two handred pounds OF nitro CIV er-
| me and gun-COttOn exploded near West
Barley, Cal. The works were orlV
slightly injured. Two less Cinnamon
are living on the Pacific coast.
Secretary Manning has not decided
definitely whittier he will return to the
treasury department or resign office
In the Supreme Grand Lodge, |. o. q.
f., at Boston, the appeal of II. A. Lnin.
from the action OF the texas Grand
NlOdge, was sustained.
Grover is on deck for duty, slightly
tanned and some what tishy, but all right
side up gastTOnOniCally.
The national banks are m king n vigOr-
Gus kick against the withdrawal of the
three per cent bonds. The question
now is, are these bonds available as
basis of bank circulation after interest
upon them ceases? The conundrum is
still an open one.
Virgins doctrine of cOnjunCtiyity has
subjected him to so much ridicule that
he is now trying TO wiggle out of his
earthquake prediction. He mas located
it in South America and lets this country
out with only high tides, which will not
be felt within 40 degrees of the equator.
The Pompeii explorations have
brought to light another street of tOmbs,
near the eastern gate.
Americans Will be appealed to by Par
nell to assist eviGted Irish tenants to
hold out against the landlords.
General Villacampa. the leader OF the
late Carlist insurrectiOn, was found con-
cealed in mill near MOblijas; 70 arrest
ed insurgents reached Madrid under
guard yesterday.
Ed. Solomon. Lillian Russell's hus-
band ia charged with bgamy by his first
wife, who denies that he was divorced
legally.
Six thousand persons were supplied
with food by the relief house, recently
opened for the Mandalay sufferers. The
rush for food was SO great that II per-
sons were trampled TO death.
Two Americanized Germans, visiting
friends in Keelh Holstein, have been or
dered to leave the country not later than
October Sth.
The knights Templar's parade at St.
Louis was all that the big bridge city
could engineer successfully. The pro-
cessiOn was three miles aud q half in
length, and there were 81 bands accom-
panying it. Inc trades display was
brilliant, but the brightly Illuminated
streets detracted from the effect. The
election of officers resulted as follows:
Sir Knight Chas. Roome, of n. Y. most
Eminent Grand Master; Sir Knight John
p. S. Goblin, of Pa, Right Eminent
Grand Master; Sir Knight Hugh Me-
Curdy, of Corunna, Michigan, was made
Grand Generalissimo; Sir Knight War
rem Larue Thomas, of Louisville, Grand
Captain General; Sir Knight r. II.
Lloyd, of San Francisco, Grand Senior
Warden; Sir Knight II. B. StoGdard, of
Texas, Grand Junior Warden; Sir knight
II. n. Lyons, of Connecticut, Grand
Treasurer; Sir Knight W. B. Isaacs, of
Wisconsin, Grand Recorder, The en-
campment appropriated S2,OC0 to aid
Sir Knights who suffered in the Charles
ton earthquake. The Knights will close
their business to-day and adjourn.
Canadians are making persistent
move for better trade relations with the
United States.
The Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton is in session at Chicago. Complaint
is made Of Improbable business and
great risks.
A negro named Oliver Thomas was
shot and killed at Cameron, upon suspi-
cion Of being implicated in the attempt
to outrage two white women. There
was no proof of the fact, and the act was
a dr. .ardly murder.
In the criminal court of st. Louis yes
terday the date was fixed for the eXecu-
tion of Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias Walter
ii. Lennox Maxwell, the chlorOfOrmer
add murderer.
Last night about Z O'Clock, while the
TeXarkana jailer was gone after supper
for the prisoners, seven negroes confined
in cell sawed bar and made their es-
cape. The prisoners were Sam COhkell,
assault; Joe Brooks, Henry Petit, VIM.
Odds, John Alexander, Henry Webster,
and Ed. Porter, all for theft.
Delegate Clifford was renominated by
reclamation in the republican territorial
convention Of Dakota yesterday.
The democratic convention of the
eighteenth congressional district, VIr-
ginia, nominated Gen. w. ii. L. Leon on
the first ballot.
The republicans of the fifth Kansas
district nominated Major WIN. Warner
by reclamation yesterday for reelection
to congress.
The deceased and exposed cattle in
Chicago. will all be slaughtered and
stringent measures taken to prevent any
portion OF them being offered in the
market as food.
The Charter Oak is out sly, 900
through Bartholomew, and some esti-
mates place his Indebtedness as high as
S2,OOO,OOO. Failures of several business
houses is predicted as the result of this
heavy defalCation, which falls severely
upon Hartford.
There are 10000 acres Of University
lands in the vicinity OF Ri Paso, between
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