San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-17
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assessment or cents on the 500, as the
county is out Of debt, and can be run on
the lower assessment.
The Val Verde County Democratic
convention fell into line with no instruc.
tions for state officers 5. w. Lanham
was Endorsed for congress; Col. j. L,
Blvens for.-senator, and Col. M Il. Mer-
riweather for representative.
Latest returns from the cholera dis
trict of Italy show for the twenty-four
hours then ended 200 new cases and 81
deaths.
The Jury, in the murder trials incident
| to the shooting Of policeman Gardner In
the late Belfast riots, haye failed to
agree.
The French chambers vote %, 900, 900
francs for expenses in Madagascar.
Abbott primaries instruct strongly for
Marion Martin for governor. The cOun-
| ty Is considered certain.
James Dacey, for the murder OF AL
derman Michael GaynOr, in the alder
manic election of 1874 in Chicago, paid
the extreme penalty of the law on yes
terday. He tried the insanity dodge in
effectually.
The drop fell at shreveport La, at
2:25 D. IN. yesterday and Geo. Harrison,
who shot q. K. Allen dead on his own
doorstep, was launched into heaven,
according to his own statement.
Sam Roland and Geo. Solomon, two
ebony hued murderers, were baptized at
Donaldsville, Thursday, and hung yes
terday, after inviting their friends to
meet them on the golden streets.
Four cars Of Forepaugh's circus train
went over an embankInent near Vassa-
tor, Ohio, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday.
Twenty-Five horses we're killed and sew
eral men injured. Two men are missing
supposed to be beneath the wreck.
Kerr county has raised within $4,000
of the amount required to Clinch north
west extension. The rest will be rapidly
raised.
All North Texas is grooming under q
hot wave that sends the thermometer
up from 1929 to l07 > in the shade.
Charlie Mitchell, the English pugilist,
night, carrying with him $25, 200 more
than he 'ad when he came to Hamerica
three years since.
Garlic spring are booming, building
is brisk and prospects excellent for
The secretary of the navy has decided
to construct one of the new cruisers on
the plans and designs of the Naniwaken,
recently built abroad, and another on
the plans of the bureau of construction.
The Greer county boundary, commits.
sion finishes its work. The Texas COM
missiOners report the north fork as the
boundary line; the United States COM
rannrf IN boundary line nm
the south fork. Greer county remains
for the present with Texas.
Terrific storms are reported in the
province of Ellis, Greece. Much damage
has been caused to property and crops,
and the people are in great distress.
Mr.. Ruskin shows symptoms Of seri-
GUS illness. His friends are anxious.
The jury in the Shaw murder case at
Mckinney, Texas, brought in verdict
of guilty.
The Indian leadership scandal is get
ting aired In the senate Of the United
States, by Pratt's committee. 1t seems
at present to be as much Il quarrel be-
tween two traders as anything else, but
time will develop its true character. II
there is not something crooked 1t will be
a new thing in Indian traderships.
The difficulty which has been brew
ing between Cobb, Of Indiana, and
Laird, Of Nebraska, eliminated in the
lobby of the house yesterday, when the
Nebraska republican tapped the smeller
of the Indiana democrat and brought
blood In stream. Friends prevented
farther fighting, but the end Is not yet.
The lie, adjectively qualified, was freely
passed end blood and temper were at
fever heat.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days num-
Der for the United States, l63; for Cs NADIA
20; total, 1873 compared with total of
179 last week.
very low at the Bloomingdale asylum,
and the doctors have give up all hope of
prOlonging life.
Edwards county is in fashion and
sends uninstructed delegates to Calves
ton.
The anarchist trial has fairly opened
in Chicago. and witnesses are being ex-
amined. Inspector Bonfield was the
first witness sworn. His testimony was
long since public property as 1t Is merely
repetition OF the press dispatches at
the time.
Through some carelessness q loaded
nine inch shell was sold by the military
authorities at st. Petersberg for old
iron. When the junk dealer was I'M
loading his scraps the shell exploded,
killing l6 persons and wounding several
others.
The Dixie scandal has had re-air-
ing. Dixie and his servants and coach
man all swearing point blank to Sir
~ n h.
tain from the sentiment Of the people
will be the old Scotch verdict of "guilty
but not proven"
Tarrant county convention has put q
ticket into the field with which they
claim to to be able to Scoop the anti
monopoly hosts by at least LOCO. The
convention didnot endorse anyone for
governor, approved the candidacy OF
Collier for school superintendent, and
Hon. Hyde Jennings for supreme court
bench.
Judge Terrell telegraphs to the Fort
Worth Gazette his emphatic d enlal OF
Hancock's charge that he was the paid
attorney of the Galveston Wharf CON-
pany, and charges that the report Is cir
culated for political effect.
The senate voted AZ to IA to reduce all
appropriations on the river and harbor
bill % per cent, and passed the naval
appropriation bill as amended In com
mittee Of the whole.
By vote Of 1872 to Ill the house re-
coded from disagreement with the SEN
ate amendment increasing the clerical
force OF the civil service commission.
One pension veto was overrid en- in the
| house yesterday; that OF Joseph Ro-