San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-17
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe, Con
densed and Boiled Down.

The News fairly bubbles over with
Barlow at both ends.
| Missouri has A democratic majority
on joint ballot, not q MS previously re-
ported.
A terrible powder FIX plosion at Calves
ton yesterday wrecked the gun store Of
VI. Hughes and probably fatally in
jured clerk who was loading cartridges
when the accident occurred.
Burke's accounts at Galveston show a
possible shortage of $1,000.
The creditors of Joseph Selski, La
redo, will probably be paid in full.
A ghost is said to haunt the bridge
over the Pecan bayou, near Brown wood,
and the train men run over ii but can
find no traces OF anyone being hurt.
l.. Kaiser, Hampstead grocer, has
failed for $4,000; assets, 5000.
Fotherlngham was arraigned at St.
Louis for that 100000 express robbery
and pleaded not guilty.
FlOresvile academy reports very
large attendance.
A new bridge has been contracted for
| at Floresville.
The gap on the Mexican National be-
yond Saltillo will soon be filed and
through trains will be running to the
capital Of Mexico.
Corpus Christi reduces the speed of all
loaded drays and such to walk; pleas
ure riding or driving to slow trot or
pace.
Eastern ROumalia Is In a ferment. Rus
sian agents have been getting In their
work.
N thrnafans 70 Dial. -.
1t were consummation most devOutly
to be wished.
The Seabright divorce case In London
Is ended; the judge declaring that no
valid marriage ever was consmumated,
and Mrs. Seabright regains her liberty
and her property.
French armOrers have been detected
shipping arms to Irish moOnlighters in
County Kerry.
British anarchists meet on the 23rd
inst. in London to express sympathy
with their Chicago pals now under death
sentence.
Vienna Is drouth struck. Water for
hydraulic supply and baths has been cut
of for week and now the supply for
flushing mains will be curtailed No rain
has fallen for weeks.
Fremstein, Canton of Berne, Switzer-
land. has been destroyed by fire and sew
eral lv es lost.
Uncle Sam seized 56l Illicit stills and
arrested l,2l4 persons employed in
them for the fiscal year ended June 80
1886.
A bill for the conversion of the ma
tiOnal debt will be introduced at the
next session OF the German reichsEag.
The French chambers are considering
the prOpriety of granting 1000 franc
pension to the widow of each officer and
soldier killed in the Tonquin war.
A monument to Burns Highland
Mary is to be raised on Castle Hill
Dunoon.
The continued hostility of the Arabs at
Stanley Falls, on the Congo river, has
caused that station to be abandoned.
Boulanger says France is continually
preparing for war as the best guarann.
tee OF peaoe.
The fifth cave in of the river at Pla-
quamine, La, has just occurred, render
ing the new levee practically useless. A
new one farther back from the river
must be built.
The Detroit Evening News has sued
the Free Press OF that city for $4,000;
libel suit.
The Butter, Cheese and Egg associa-
tion Is now said to have downed Morri-
son for his opposition to the oleomargar-
inc steal.
Blue Mountain, near Hamburg, Pa, is
on fire, and great destruction of timber
Is feared.
Durham, the great North Carolina to-
bacco town, was damaged by fire $780,
600 early yesterday morning. The loss
in tobacco was 800 600 pounds.
A young Canadian caught in fiagrante
delictO shot the husband of his para
mour. shot her father, Drained her
mother with chair, killed her two chill
dren with club, and stabbed the wom-
an to the heart. He then fired the house
and fled, but was caught.
The Santa Fe road will have 5000 miles
of track west Of the Mississippi river by
next May. Their air line from Chicago
to Kansas is no bluff.
The Jersey legislature contains 40
democrats, 40 republicans and one labor
representative, who holds the balance Of
power. Who will the senator be?
There were ninety and nine whom the
La Crosse police took in for violating the
Sunday law. The full hundred was too
many for them, or else the other fellow
had put up his shutters.
The New York boodlers have demand
ed the opening before the court of the
grand jury minutes which held them for
bribery. The district attorney opposes
the motion. Judgment reserved and de-
cisiOn deferred.
Samuel Grudes, aged 81. of Chester.
Ind, goes to Switzerland for a $3.50, 600
fortune.
Army officers not absent far their full
term OF leave, shall be credited for the
unexpired term and the accruing leave
will be good for fonr years.
Cabinet meeting yesterday considered
the coming message and reports Of de-
partment heads.
The civil service reform association
will probably Investigate the charges
against the Philadelphia postmaster.
The light house board is ordered to
pass upon the utility OF the Barthodi
statue as beacon, and the president Of
the American system Of electric lighting
offers to light 1t up free Of expense to
the government
Ward Lamont, the Choctaw attorney,
gets $3.50, 900 fee for securing Judgment
against the United States in favor of the
tribe.
The beneficiary fraternities have or
ganized Congress OF Fraternal Bene-
ticlaries. The fraternities are seventeen
In number and aggregate over $4,000
members.
Burke, the Galveston County Treas