San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

ceedIng $500 from cents to cents.
The Fitz John Porter bill Is made tn,
senate order for next Thursday.
The senate passed bill authorizing
the free transmission Of weather reportl
through the mail.
House spent Friday on committee o
the whole on naval appropriation bill.
An ARRAY between guard of prison.
ers and some members Of a nationa
battalion at Bogota, Columbia, resulted
in the death Of one general, several Of
ficers and thirty soldiers.
A serious ARRAY on board the Ameri.
can bark, Don Justo at Colun, Panama
resulted in the death Of three persons
and the wounding Of several others.
The Canucks don't like the British at.
titude in the fisheries question.
Wisconsin has two political labor con-
ventiOns called to nominate state of.
ficers.
Gladstone reports from Edinburg
everything in good order. The premier
is in excellent health and fine spirits
He addressed an immense audience last
night and speaks again Monday night.
sir VIM. Vernon HarcOurt in address
ing his Derby constituents said the
British people could not expect that the
Irish would quietly submit to the Tory
policy of Twenty years Of resolute and
unflinching government"
The French Opera company Chilli are
meeting with poor houses, and losing
money.
The elections in the Talea and Curico
provinces, Chill, favor the liberal party.
OF the 81 officers wounded in the Chi
cago haymarket riot, only Is have re-
turned to duty. Seven have died, and
16 are confined to their beds.
Raw wool at the Interior markets has
risen two or three cents this week.
Jack Williams, the noted Texas horse
thief, for whose apprehension $1,000 was
offered by the Willbarger stock associa-
ton, was captured near Miles City,
Montana, and has been returned to
Texas.
Young Thompson the New York bride
murderer and would-be suicide is still
alive, but cannot recover.
A patent medicine crank Of st. JOS
eph, Mo-, imagining that his lawyer had
defrauded him, assassinated the lawyer,
J. W. Strong, manager of the Herald,
and then blew out his own brains.
The public reception at the White
House last night, was a gorgeous jam !;
5000 people were present in line when
the doors opened. The bride did the
hOnors Of her station charmingly.
ingalls, proposal to lengthen the pres
ent presidential term to April 30, 1889,
and make that day and month instead Of
March 4, the commencement of the
presidential, has passed the senate by
two-thirds vote and goes to the house.
The house committee on education
will only hold one more session, and that
not for the transaction of business. This
dispOses of the Blair educational bill.
Palestine democrats. after sharp
controversy, endorsed Terrell and Swain.
The Seguin city council, have con-
traoted for water-works, to be in opera
ton by April next.
Ell Paso is alarmed over the reported
sale of the Texas and Pacific to the At
Gibson, Topeka aid Santa Fe, regard
ing the latter road as hostile to the city.
A camper travelling towards Fort
Worth, was killed about miles from
that city, by the falling Of a tree upon
him. He had cut the tree across, but did
not look to see which way it was falling
until 100 ldte 10 escape.
The st. Louis races this week have
been very successful In point of numbers
in attendance, and sport enjoyed.
Gladstone's speech in Edinburg last
night occupied an hour and half in the
delivery. He was heartily cheered at
its close and during the delivery. A
vote of confidence in the government
was carried unanimously and with great
enthusiasm.
The sales of town lots by the Midland
Town Company, Texas, has been very
satisfactory; $12,795 was realized yester-
day.
United States Minister Jackson
reached FL Paso on his way to Mexico
to resume his official duties.
George Annesser, son of wealthy
Fort Worth miller. attempted to commit
suicide by throwing himself from the
bridge over Sycamore creek. He was
not Killed, but may die. His health was
very poor.
A telegram from Saigon says two
French officers have been killed with
poisoned arrows at Thauksa. There
have been fresh massacres Of Christians
in AMMAN. The rebels have burned
some villages near Tourane.
Germany has assented to Switzer-
lands proposal to revise and renew the
commercial treaty between the two
countries, which otherwise was des-
tined to be annulled at the expiration of
its term.
Louis Laurent Simonin, the French
engineer and traveller, is dead. He was
So years of age.
In the chamber of deputies Count
Robelant, minister OF foreign affairs, de-
precated the proposition to send an ex-
petition to Hanoi simply to avenge the
massacre of Count Parroso's expedition.
1t would eventually annex Hanoi If trade
advantages should prove sufficient in
ducement, but the government must be
chary of embarking In a policy Of Afri-
can adventure.
By order Of the Secretary Of war, the
army post, known as Camp Grant, will
be abandoned on June 80. The post Is
beside the tomb of General Grant, in
Riverside park, and part of the regular
army has been maintained there ever
since the body was laid there year
ago.
The Hancock murder trial is still the
Austin sensation. The evidence of
Hancocks sister-in-law is dead against
the prisoner, Hancock, as the we'll
known enemity of that side of the house
led the public to expect. The evidence
SO far does not bear against Hagey q
perceptible atom.
The Texas Traffic association, in ses-
sion at Galveston, has adjourned. The
result of their work was to destroy con-
nections at Houston so that passengers
over the Southern Pacific for New
Orleans will be subject to a weary de-
tention at Houston.
The Sealey Rifles, Galveston Artillery,