San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts OF the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.


Grover is getting the bulge on his
| rheumatic govt.
The Ell Paso freight pool is regarded as
virtually broken.
Missouri Pacific declares dividend for
the quarter Il per cent.
Attica, Ohio, burned S150000; insur-
anoe, 80 per cent. of loss.
The International cable conference
adjourns until next July.
John Black, farmer, near Palestine,
took the strychnine route.
The Russian Press are prohibited from
| reporting army movements.
Twelve members OF the 49th congress
have died; an unusual mortality.
Mail will be carried to Corpus Christi
| over the Arkansas Pass railroad next
week.
The bond holders in the Wabash
Gould case, like muddy coffee, do not
| settle.
Geo. French, Corpus Christi liquor
dealer, assigns; $4,3C0 liabilities; $4,000
assets.
Rus is withdraws her objections and
comedies the validity OF the Sobranjle
elections.
Missouri Pacific increases its capital
$4,000, 900 and its bonded Indebtedness
| S5,0C0,000.
The fire cracker and tin-horn fiends
will be suppressed in New Orleans on
Christmas.
The competition between the ocean
steamship lines has reduced steerage
rates to SIS.
Tho nrinoa op1 n.ipnaao IF WoIao ara
invited to open the Melbourne EXPOSE
tion of 1888.
The.St. Louis, Salem and Little Rock
becomes branch Of the st. Louis and
San Francisco.
Boston democrats revolt against the
despotism of certain members of the
central committee.
When parliament meets a coercion bill
will be immediately introduced; also to
suppress bOycotting.
The Porte will not send second note
to the powers on Bulgarian matters, as
previously announced.
The Merchants national of Fort
Worth, capital $500, 900, has received
permission to organize.
The $4,000 damage suit against the
Little Rock (Ark.) Daily Democrat
yielded the prosecution $25.
The postillion and guard on Rus.
sian mail train murdered, and 10000
r0ubles OF crown money stolen.
The herds of A. Cain and j. w.
Thompson, at Dallas, have been at
tackled with pleuro-pneumonia.
New Orleans ranks second as an ex-
porting port and seventh as an import
mo nil
Democratic representatives are trying
to systematic business in congress.
An Anthracite coal vein 7-teet in
ches through, has been struck in North
west territory, Dominion Of Canada.
Tommy Warren, the great western
featherweight, was knocked out by q
local New York sport in five rounds.
The steamer Avondale, bound for
Philadelphia, was wrecked off Holy
Head, Island of Anglesea; crew saved.
According to law, most of Tilden's be-
quests, being to those beyond the second
generation, are subject to a 5-per cent.
tax.
a large find of coal in Henderson and
Smith counties is pronounced on trial
superior to the best Indian Territory
samples.
Gladstone does not approve the anti
rent policy Of the Irish national league,
but will go the entire porker for Scotch
and Irish home rule.
The Curtain investigation committee
on southwest strikes hold an adjourned
meeting January 3rd. They do not
promise any report, however.
Fort Worth has sensation caused by
respectable married women being
found seven miles from town drunk and
her saddled pony grazing near by.
Russian government agents are
accused OF robbing the publishing house
at Geneva, Switzerland, to prevent the
circulation Of socialist documents.
Judge Walker, of Austin, rules that
masonic property as belonging to be-
nevolent institution is exempt from taxa
ton. The decision will be appealed
from. ' - n
Duffey, the New York squealer, was
numerically squeezed by Attorney
Newcomb, in Doodle Alderman Nc
Quade's trial, The witnesses memory
was little shakv.
Evidence In New York courts shows
that some of the police in that city re-
ceive regular subsidies from liquor deal
ers for permitting them to keep back
doors open on Sunday.
Webb county gets away with the rest
OF the state and crowds an average of
400 days of school into year Of 365 DAYS
all told. So say the telegraph reports,
but do not inform us how 1t is done.
The Dallas street railway company
cannot be compelled to pave the street
between its tracks and the 16-inch mar
gin to which it is entitled outside the
rails; 80 says Judge A. Il. Watts in an
exhaustive opinion.
An AnsOn lawyer, convicted and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary two years
since, was taken from Jail under a writ
of lunacy and hasbeeD quietly practicing
law ever since. This is q feat impos-
sible outside OF Texas.
The diseased cattle at Dallas were on
the fair grounds there, and there Ia no
knowing how far the infection may
spread. Texas has no law under which
action by the governor can be taken.
Let the next legislature see to 1t.
Horrible details of the stoning to
death of ten-year-old white boy BY ne
gro thieves comes from Columbia, S. C,
There lie an organized gang, who are
sworn to murder any one who catches
them stealing. Several arrests have
been made.
Recorders Court.
Willie SQueeler, drunk. 81.