San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-18
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schools.
Parker county reports over 81 ,OOO,O 0t
decreased assessment since last year.
A white barber shot negro at Tyler
last night for no ascertainable cause
The murderer, Nevens, is in Jail.
Herrera and some citizens of Tampa
sas, Mexico, met and killed FL Coyote
and seven of his men yesterday.
killed.
The Mexican deserter, arrested at Ne
Laredo yesterday, was released through
the Intervention Of friends and returned
to this side Of the river.
The Dallas prohibitionlsts made no
nomination for congress.
There ia a very fair sprinkling OF la
dies among the l34 students enrolled in
the state university this term.
Land Commissioner Stockslager de-
cides that the homestead claim of an
Indian to lands occupied by him prior to
land grant for railroad being issued
is good rs against the railroad company.
This decision covers a great many SINH
lar cases in Washington Territory.
The centenary of the PRONUNCIATION of
the constitution Ofthe United States will
be held at Philadelphia September II,
1877.
The spouting springs of Cuba are be-
coming dangerous and with the tate hur-
ricane are causing great depression and
uneasiness.
Another negro rapIst was lynched ear
Rogers, Ca, for crime committed three
weeks ago.
Three hundred and eighty-tive Chira-
oahua Indians have been sent to Flor
ida where they will be given reserva-
ton.
New York passenger rates will be re-
duced from 81 to 81 on all southern and
southwestern tickets; so agrees the
pool.
John Green, claiming to be son of
the mayor of San Antonio, was arrested
at Waco charged with stealing $50 The
green fool did not know his own faith
er's name, according TO the above. The
mayor of this city is by no means
Green.
Home secretary Matthews In the house
of commons this afternoon denied that
Joseph Chamberlain. the radical seceder,
would be guarded by any police inspec-
tors during his contemplated trip on the
continent.
1t has been resolved TO prOlOng the
state of siege in Bulgaria; also to court
martial Is officers lnculpated III kidnap-
ping Prince Alexander in order TO re-
store the discipline and morale OF the
army.
Colonel c. S. Stewart, of the engineers
corps of the army, by direction of the
president and at his own request, h.
hpan rlaapH nDOD fhp ret irp1 lisT
Edward G. Buskirk, of Indiana, and
Daniel e. Gutchie, of Ohio, have been
nominated for principal examiners in
the pension office.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the First National bank of
Comanche, Texas, to begin business with
a capital of 100000.
The annual congress of German scien-
lists opened in Berlin yesterday at the
same place that the German scientific
exhibition was inaugurated. Two thou
sand seven hundred professional scien-
fists attended the opening session.
Gen. SchmettorO, who led the celebra-
ted charge of Bismarck s Cuirassiers at
Viahville, is dead.
There were six deaths from cholera
during the "A hours ending yesterday, in
Toronto, and l6 new cases. In all the
other infected districts Of Italy there
were 81 new cases and 10 deaths.
The democrats of the Tenth Tennessee
district to-day nominated Jas. Phelan,
proprietor of the Memphis Avalance. for
congress by reclamation.
W. E. Robertson was nominated tor
congress by the democrats of the Sixth
Louisiana district over A. b. Irons, the
president incumbent.
The democratic convention of the
Fifth Louisiana district to-day nomina-
ted c. Newton for congress, over King,
the present incumbent.
A number of suspicious fever cases, on
board the British steamer Boendin at
New Orleans, are pronounced malarial,
not yellow fever,
Sullivan and Heard will spar for
science and sheckels at fittsb Irg to-
night. This is no bloody smuggling match
but semi-pious scientific exhibition of
pugilistic skill in the interests of physi-
cal humanity.
There was u row on the Louisville,
KY, race track yesterday, the western
agent Of Dwyer Bros. attempting to
shoot Crannin, the owner of BOotblhck.
The difficulty was adjusted.
There Is reported crookedness of mo-
little extent in the Pine Ridge Agency,
Dakota, and the Indian commissioner is
going for agents scalps. Hereafter
agents must attend strictly to business
and not travel outside the line of their
prescribed duties.
The Bulgarian assembly votes $780,
600 to purchase Alexander's property.
OF this amount 100000 liquidates the
princes Indebtedness to the National
bank. The 500, 900 becomes his person.
ally.
Anti-Jewish riots have broken out in
Roumania. Houses were plundered
and scores Of rioters have been arrested.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
assassinate the Bulgarian prime minis
ter, Braleano Kaufman, on Thursday
evening. A member of the chamber Of
deputies was wounded. The would-be
assassin was arrested.
Boycotting cigar maker working I'M
der United states license is interpreted
as an infringement of the United States
revised statutes, and the extreme penalty
is 10 years imprisonment and $1,000
fine.
Mrs. Della Parnell has sailed for
Queenstown, Ireland.
In an interview with Bismarck, De-
Giers, Russian foreign minister, dis
tlnotly promised that Russia would not
occupy Bulgaria. Russia has demanded
for the Corean government the harbor
of Kankyek for naval station.
Inquiry at the customs department
shows that the American fishing
schooner Pearl Nelson was seized at
PrincatoWn for having landed ID men