San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-02
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lex, have pledged themselves to accept
no honors at Queen Vic's hands during
| jubilee year.
Blackstone. discount clerk of Canal
National bank, at Portland, Maine, has
absconded with $4,000.
Four car loads of mules left Kyle for
Memphis Yesterday. Several car loads
of horses have lately gone into Georgia
and returns are quite satisfactory.
Major J. 4. Rector, of Kyle, is dead,
at noon today.
The rumored advance of % per cent in
bituminous coal is denied by all the big
coal men of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Laredo officers made a haul of four
| cattle thieves and three notorious snug
glers up the river yesterday.
J. C. Cannon, the big saddler, of lay
lor, has gone under. Liabilities about
1000; assets $500.
A relief assessment of % cents per
member has been levied upon all MEM
bers of the X. of j..
Four hundred X. of l.. assembled at
Chicago and denounced the sentencing
Of the anarchists as an outrage on free
speech and free assemblies of the peO-
pie.
The Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers will not join the X. of l..
Archbishop Walsh, though at first
shocked and grieved at the anti-rent
movement of the Irish league, has be-
come convinced of its necessity and
equity. He thinks social order In Ire
land depends upon the success of the
movement.
Gen. GurZoni, secretary and Diog-
rapher to Garibaldi, is dead.
Baron Seckendorff's death, reported
yesterday, was induced by brain soften
ing, caused by over study in high math-
ematiCs.
Ex-Secretary Chandler writes a
long letter explanatory of the Arthur
Blaine-Edmunds unpleasantness. The
relations between these men was not
suspended as reported, only somewhat
strained. Edmunds' late letter, how
ever, was direct attack upon Blaine
and this he resents.
The four negro murderers Of George
Taffe, whose dead body was found in the
Indian Nation, near Red River, last Sun
day, have been lynched after GOnfessing
that the deed was done to hide crime
committed by them, of which Taffe had
knowledge.
McLane replies to the petition of the
Paris municipal council for the Chicago
bomb throwers, assuring them that
men are not punished In America
for political offences, but only for LotOr-
ious crimes. The petition will be for
warded to Oglesby.
An attempt was made to burn up Tenn
pie on the night of November 30 The
fire was set, but the officers were on the
alert, and one of the inGendiaries refus-
ing to stop when called upon was shot
dead in his tracks.
Galveston has all her high-heeled
shoes on waiting for December %, when
that divine-dollar-deity, Patti, appears
Interest due on the Reading railroad
securities was not paid at maturity, yes
terday.
Cortes has unanimously voted an eX-
ira credit of $40, 100000 to improve the
navy, the principal part to be devoted
to the purchase of torpedo boats and
cruisers. The money is to be raised by
the sale of state forests and other gov
erpment lands.
During the past week there have been
so cases of cholera and ten deaths from
it at the infantry barracks at Belgrade.
A settlement has been effected be-
tween the cigar manufacturers of
Havana, and their employees and work
has again been resumed.
Grover has the rheumatism and is con-
fined to his room.
The car has accepted the resignation
of M. DeGiers. foreign minister, and APP
pointed as his successor Prince La
banof.
A st. Louis syndicate is TO establish
an immense cattle ranch in Mexico of
l.250,000 acres. 1t will be located in
what ia known as the free zone, State of
Chihuahua, and will cost $500,000.
In the Spanish chamber Of deputies
the government presented bill provid-
ing for trial by jury.
The pope has invited the editors of the
Catholic papers throughout the world
to send their publications regularly to
the press office of the Vatican.
Prince Alexander will come to Eng
land to attend the baptism of the infant
son Of Prince and Princess Henry of
Battenberg
Emperor William received the presi
dent and new president of the reichs-
tag in such an impressive manner that
the deputies were impressed with the
physical and intellectual vigor with
which Emperor william delivered his
speech.
The anti-saloon temperance conven-
tion Of New York, in session at Cortland
changed its name to the New York
State Temperance Republican associa-
ton, and the opinion was expressed by
a delegate that it wouldn't do to pam
der TOO much to the prohibition party.
The engine of the Central up-train
from Galveston exploded its boiler near
MoDade, In Bastrop county, killing John
Hart, the fireman.
1t ia announced that James G.. Blaine,
Jr., has secured position on the staff of
the Pittsburg Times.
The total occupation tax of Bexar
county amount to S3l ,486.25, Of which
amount liquor dealers paid $40, 200.
class merchants Chose assessed for over
100000 stock of merGhandise) having
81 first-class.
A drunken negro, at a private dancing
partyfh Austin, trying to kiss young
white lady, caused sensation.
The fourth story of the new capitol
| will soon be under way.
In Paris, France, a young girl named
| Brittany was horribly tortured to death
| by her sisters, who thought she was pos.
sessed of devil.
A Fatal Ride.
| A passenger from Del Rio reports that
when the California train arrived at De
Rio on Monday. man was seen to roll