San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-28
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe Con-
dsnsed and Boiled Down.

Eagle Pass reports big Christmas and
| good trade.
Madame Adele Efquiros, novelist of
| Paris, Is dead.
Patti and her troupe saw the Paso del
NOrte bull fights.
Hoaglan beat O'Leary In the heel-snd'
toe 300-mile walk.
Mormon elders are proselyting in
Western Mississippi.
Harry NJ. Holmes, OF Mason county, 10
Governor Ross private sec.
Galveston was again scorched. Sunday
morning at 2 a. N. Loss, $4,000.
Ten carloads of Saltillo and Monterey
excursionists are at Nueva Laredo.
Houston will repeal her city charter in
the hope Of repudiating her bonded
debt.
Growers relapse was brought on by
not keeping quiet as ordered by his ply
stefan.
Walter G resham. of Galveston ia not
candidate for speaker of the 5Oth legis-
lature.
Joe Jefferson starts for Orange Island.
La, January l, and will spend the WIN
ter there.
All sorts of checks and paper money
issued by individuals are prohibited in
| Monterey.
Pinkerton's detectives again imagine
that they have Jim Cummings. Vain
imaginings.
The Berlin snow-storm gave some
thousands of idle people work In clean
ing the streets.
Antonio Cisneros, IKE famous poet of
Merida, Yucatan, died in Mexico City a
few days ago.
A bandit named Nestor Hernandez re-
Gently murdered the chief of police at
Chico, Hidalgo.
The marquis of Harrington is en- route
from Rome 10 London to see Salisbury.
After that, whst9
Ellen Fox, pick-pocket, owner OF yalu-
able st. Louis property, has been Or
dered away from that city.
A row at Texarkana resulted in the
| accidental shooting of a plumber named
Bonner, who has since died.
Waco adds one to the death list by
the hand OF violence; j. b. Garrett muir
derer, A. w. Robinson, victim.
The states that desire admittance In
| to the union are agitating the congress
Liege and Namur have petitioned for
the demolition of the citadels In those
cities, which are useless for defense.
The Miss Daisy Siddons recently en-
| gagged by Barrett is eat-greHd- daugh-
ter to the celebrated English Siddons.
Altogether 81, 542, POI pounds of cocoa
were received in Guayaquil, between
January LIST and August 3lst, OF this
year.
The Austin concert for the confeder-
ate home called together twice as many
as could gain entrance TO the opera
house.
Strokel beat all competitors in the six
| day 72-hOur match at Philadelphia, max
ing 1856 miles and 30 laps, an average of
81 miles per hour.
Recently a duel on horseback was
fought near Guerrero, between Miguel
Alarean and Silvestra Monuie, In which
both were wounded.
The strikers on the Gary street car
line, San Francisco, are resisting the ef-
forts of the police to clear the line and
two rioters were shot.
VIM. Garrett, of Tyler, fell from his
loaded wagon under his horses feet,
while driving down a steep hill, and
WAS tranpleu 10 uedtn.
Redfield, the Cisco postmaster, re-
fuses to turn over his Office to his sue
cessOr, NOEL, until the new appointee is
confirmed by the senate.
Smallpox Is raging among the child
rem OF Ihilpancingo, Guerrero, owing to
the stubborn opposition Of the parents
| to have them vacciDated.
Nearly $1,000 was sent to the Charles
ton sufferers, from Washington and New
York, with which to make themselves
comfortable through the holidays.
Rumors, uncOnfirmed, are rife OF
shooting at Elinda, on the line Of Falls
and McClelland counties, In which five
men were killed and three wounded.
| Guadalupe Hidalgo will erect statues
| to the memory of Juarez and Hidalgo.
| The models are almost completed, and
will be submitted for decision shortly.
| General Logan's funeral will probably
take place In the senate chamber and
his remains be taken to Chicago for in
terment. Coincidence kilograms reach
his widow from all over the United
~tates, friend and foe alike testifying to
his manhood and sterling worth Of char
acter.
| Governor Ireland offers a reward Of
| S0UU TOT Inc mur0erers OF SherlH Mckln-
ney at TwOhig on Sunday evening
The assassins were Bud Crenshaw and
| Jim Mccoy, and the murder as cold
| blOoded one as, was ever perpetrated.
| Hundred of armed citizens and officers
are after the villains.
c. p. Huntington proposes to Ply the
| over due coupons on the first mortgage
| main line bonds of the Texas Central,
and the over due January coupons in
cash, leaving the mortgage as 1t now
| stands to be paid at maturity.
Commissioner Colmsn replies at
| length TO the statements Of Swinburn,
Of New York, concerning pleurO-pneu-
| monia ami charges Misrepresentation
upon the member from New York. The
commissioner closes long communics-
| tion to the chairman of the house COM
mittee on agriculture with the urgent
request for such national Legislation as
Will leave the department untrammeled
| by state laws or state authorities in
employing measures to fully eradicate
the disease.
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