San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-03
CONDENSED CLICKINGS.
Burdened with Strikes the Wires Wall
YEARLY. News Grist Scarce.

The cable rate war continues in Lon
don with undated vigor.
The News and the Standard make
savage attacks on the rival companies,
The duel between General Cebalos, OF
Mexico, and Salvador Diaz Miron, is of.
Colorado State officials passed FL
Paso Saturday, on junketing tour to
Mexico.
Brooklyn Produce Exchange has
posted 10000 bushels OF corn IN store
there as damaged.
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
stock has taken another sharp tumble,
going down to SIT.
Chicago mass meetings were held all
over the lumber district on Saturday.
No serious disturbances.
The strike at the Glendale Zinc Works
was prevented, the proprietor promising
TO consider their demands.
Senator Jones will return to his seat
in the Senate and abandon his bootleg
quest for Miss PALMS hand.
The Southern Pacific has again cut
rates to California. First class from Ell
PasO, $50; second class, $40.
The conductors of the Texas Pacific
u
Shreveport, La, on May q.
The Dublin Nation says, Gladstone's
measures mean peace to the Irish
throughout the whole world.
st. Louis planning mill men will keep
their machinery running 10 hours, and
the men strike In consequence.
The investigation into the St Louis
Railroad strike reveals the fact that
business there is still paralyzed.
The Milwaukee brewers are all out on
strike, and the total number of strik-
ers in the city is now fully 10000.
Louisville furniture makers will shut
down and lock out unless eight hours
pay is accepted for eight hours work.
The Mahoning Valley miners will
probably go out. the mine owners refus-
ing the 10 per cent. increase demanded.
Fort Worth takes eight hours work
frsm her carpenters for full days work.
Contracts will hereafter be taken accord
ingly.
The furniture men In Pittsburg and
Allegheny City are out and the carpen-
tiers probably followed suit this after
noon.
The director general Of the inter-
oceanic canal, M. Boyar, is dead. His
loss will be severely felt by the canal
company.
The conviction of Maxwell for the
murder Of Preller Is declared impossible
by the prisoners counsel, Hon. John
j. Martin.
The proprietor OF the Penacook Mills,
Concord, n. H., is frightened about his
property and has appealed to the Select
men of Boscabel for protection.
New York is quiet and business con.
tinued undisturbed Notwithstanding the
rumors of strikes. The eight-hOur law
is being agitated, but no serious rupture
is threatened.
There are not many men out in Gin
cinnati. The furniture manufacturers
and the billiard makers, some 600 in all,
are out, but all other industries are as
yet undisturbed.
Detroit brewers have gone out; all the
breweries have refused to accede to the
demands Of their men, with the excep.
ton OF five. These give ten hours pay
for nine hours work.
The Minneapolis and st. Paul
plumbers are out. The wages offered
by the bosses and demanded by the men
were the same per hour, but the men did
not want to work 10 hours.
Dominion customs show falling off
of ST 500, 900 for the nine months just
closed, as compared with corresponding
months Of last year, which was itself
reason Ofgreat depression.
The st. Louis demonstration on Satur-
day was quiet, but very respectable in
numbers and character of address. Red
flags and Jay Gould's efiigy were shown
suspended from gallews.
The great Chicago Packing houses are
on the eve Of closing, but none of them
seem DESTROYS of initiating the move
ment. Some of them are quite willing
to make eight hours a days work.
Boston will have 5000 men on strike
to-day unless the demands Of the Union
of the Carpenters Brotherhood, the
Carpenters and J0urneymen of America
and the Plumbers UniOn-are complied
with.
The house bill has passed providing
as pilot engineer, mate, captain or other
officer OF any steam vessel carrying the
United States flag. 1t will probably
pass the Senate.
Justice Mccarthy is authority for the
statement that the granting Of Home
rule to Ireland by England would make
them friends and not foes and refers to
the pages of Irish history to corroborate
his opinion.
A race conflict is imminent in Smith
county, Tenn. The difficulty grew out
Of the killing Of an Innocent negro by
white man, who supposed the negro to
be the one who had attempted to kill
him. Several assaults have been made,
repeated attempts at assassination have
followed, houses have been fired and
regular reign Of terror inaugurated.