San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Kansas journeymen bakers have struck
for 10 hours work instead OF u.
The senate had the bankruptcy bill
under consideration yesterday.
Galveston is disgusted because her
Washington guards only took second
prize.
Eighty roof composition workers Of
st. Louis are on strike for eight hours
time.
Six hundred Cincinnati harness max
ers are on strike for 10 per cent ad-
vance in pay.
Officer McNulty, the seventh victim
OF the Haymarket bomb, was reported
dying this morning.
Galveston is going to pave fremont
street with wooden blocks from Church
street to Avenue X.
The main building of HarrisOn's
chemical works, Philadelphia, was
destroyed by fire yesterday.
Galveston digs 20 large cisterns out
side OF her fire limits as a reservoir to
draw water from In case Of fire.
The special session OF the general as
sembly of the X. of l.. opened at Cleve-
land to-day with full representation.
William Alexander. for eight years as
sorting mail clerk of the Louisville Of
flee, has been arrested for rObbing the
mail.
Forrest fires are raging in Glare COun-
ty, Mich, and at last accounts Chippewa
station was In imminent danger of de-
structiOn.
A ThOmpsonville, Ca, farmer, knock
ed his wife down with hoe, cut her
throat and deeamped. II found he will
be decapitated.
The three St. Louis anarchists. Berge-
msnn, Frioke and JaOorisky, charged
with incendiary language, were run In
by the police yesterday.
George II. lines, colOred school
teacher of Harrisburg, Pa. announces
himself as candidate for lieutenant gov
ernOr on the republican ticket.
A Cincinnati police officer and his
family were poisoned by drinking coffee
into which rat poison had been put.
No deaths resulted. No clue to the mis-
creants.
General Santos has been elected presi-
dent OF the senate of Uruguay. This
makes him viCe-president of the repub-
lie, and will eventually place him at the
head OF the government.
The funeral Of Mrs. George Pendle-
ton took place this morning from lions
church, Madison avenue and Thirty
eight street, New York. The body will
be buried at Woodlawn.
Another important battle with the
Apaches Is reported. No one hurt.
The hostlles are still on the war path.
and the troops rejoice in the capture OF
a Mexican boy whom the hostiles had
stolen.
The Chicago grand jury is asked to-
believe that a conspiracy to attack the
city and lay whole districts waste has
has been unearthed by the police de-
tectiVes who give particulars of the sup
posed conspiracy.
Quite find ofdynamite cartridges was
brought to the notice Of the police Mon
day by some boys who found them while
hunting for lost ball under the side
walk in the vicinity of Robey street and
the old BlOemingdale railroad.
The steamer Dean Adams. of the Lee
line, was burned at Memphis yesterday
by the explosion of an oil lamp in the
barber shop. Her original cost was
$500. This is the second boat of this
line that burned at Memphis within IA
months.
Captain Shack, of the Chicago police
force, gave some very sensational evil
denCe before the grand jury of Cook
county, yesterday, in relation to the late
finding of dynamite bombs, cartridges
and ammunition and explosives Of that
character.
At Meyers works, near Mount Pleas
ant, Pa, in the absence of the parents
at the christening of their babe, the
three young children left at home poured
kerosene oil into the CRATE, and setting
their clothes on fire were burned to
death.
A strike in the Houston rolling mills
resulted from the discharge Of an en-
ploye for using insulting language to
the foreman. The prop ietors offered to
leave the matter to X. of l.. arbitration,
but the offer was refused. Twenty men
went out and the mills are running with
new force on hslf-time.
A drunken rough, named Dawson,
who refused TO pay his fare on the
Greensboro and Nashville road on Sun
day night was elected from the cars
near Russelville. AS the train moved
of he fired his revolver through the
cars, three Of his shots taking fatal effect
in A. G. Clinton, farmer passenger.
Dawson was captured, Jailed, and may
be lynchsd.