San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-22
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Il. +. Church Is confirmed postmaster
at Calvert, Texas.
The pensions appropriation calls for
S76. 254, $40
Congress will adjourn over the holi'
days; senate takes u recess until Jan 4.
Colorado City got out 30 cars of cat.
Il e yesterday.
The Ira'ian budget of 1857 shows O
deficit of S., 0OO.O0O.
Cincinnati will put municipal work
ingmen's ticket In the field next April.
The Philadelphia six day tramp began
Monday, with full field of starters.
J. Fl. McCaen, of the New York stock
exchange. succumbs TO the pressure felt
by the house last Wednesday.
Uncle Sans vaults are not large
enough to hold his money and he wants
bigger ones.
Nine round fight near New York and
Filings worth, who fought ut 1873 pounds
Knocked out Cassidy, weight I43.
PowdPrly will not again speak at po-
litiCal meetings while he holds his posi-
ton as presiding officer OF the X. OF L.
Jake Sharpe bankers after change
OF venue, a change that will change the
regulation boOdler verdict.
The. president reappolnts Matthews,
formerly rejected, TO be register of deeds
In District of Columbia.
On Sunday last there was very
heavy fall OF snow in Ireland. liz seri-
ously impeded travel.
The Lloyds are building new
steamer for their line. to surpAss in size
lnanH
Vice Admiral Rowan and Rear AID.
miral Worden are retired on highest
grade pay.
Government compromises its claim
against the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis railway for Sl53,O00
Parnell says no plan of the coming
campaign in the commons has been yet
outlined.
The London board of trade exhoner.
ates the officers of the stranded PavOnia
from all blame.
Minister Manning, at Mexico, denies
the charges made against him, and ex-
plains in detail.
Every house in Vilomas, Faulkner
county, Ark, was burned by incendia-
ries early yesterday morning.
Rumors are current th 1t revolutionary
agitators are projecting another revolt
in Spain.
The Spanish senate has approved of
credits OF $45,000,0OO for naval arms-
ments.
Two freight trains collided at West,
IL miles from Waco, shattering two
trains and doing great damage to track.
South Carolina has a bill before the
legislature to prevent colored laborers
from organizing as Knights of Labor.
Corpus Christians are moving for a
line of steamers direct TO New Orleans,
via Galveston.
At Gemsah, Egypt, a fine flow of
petroleum has been secured at q depth
of 125 feet.
In January French employees on the
Alsace Lorraine railway will be dis
missed and replace by Germans.
Cardinal Jacobini resigns his papal
secretaryship owing to ill health, but the
pope has not accepted it.
Pardo has been nominated admins
traitor Of the customhOuse of Campeche
He some time ago was In the custom
house of New Laredo.
There is a general belief that the can
didacy of Prince Ferdinand of SAKE Co
burg Gotha for the Bulgarian throne has
collapsed.
The Bulgarian delegates are greatly
satisfied with the result of their inter
views with Count Herbert Bismarck
yesterday.
The Craftsman ia down on public
printer Benedict like a thousand of
brick, maintaining that he is not a prsc-
teal printer.
The working girls of England will
give Queen Vic. memorial offering on
the completion of her 90 Years of queen
ship.
IL United Ireland is suppressed, the
publication will go on secretly. All
books and papers have been removed to
that end.
The Milwaukee Arbiter Zeitung edi-
tor gets thirty days at hard labor for a
scurTilous poem rejecting on the court
and it's integrity during the riot trials.
A terrific railway collision occurred at
Clarkow, Russia, Saturday, resulting in
killing 10 persons and injuring 80
Others
Three farms belonging to Parnell's
brother were sold at auction at Armagh
for 80 per cent. less than valued at three
months ago.
The Dublin court refused John Dill
Ions application for stay OF the order
against him to furnish bond In the sum
OF GlOOO, with two sureties in the sum of
$1,000 each. for his future good behavior
pending the outcome Of the appeal from
sentence.
Houston council and taxpayers are
considering the financial status of the
city with an eye to surrendering the
charter, In order 70 defeat the collection
OF the y tax levy ordered by Judge Par
dee.
A freight was wrecked on the Trans
Continental road near Clarksville last
night, and Engineer G. II. Geiger was
killed. The wreck was caused by q
part of the engine truck breaking. -Four
cars were smashed.
Salvador Mortabelle, native of Malta,
has begun a seventy-twO day fast at
Phillipeyille, Algeria. He was former
ly In the British navy. Being ship
wrecked once, he was cast upon a desert
island and tasted no food for seventy
two days.
A new naturalization bill is before
the senate. Under its provisions foreign
ers cannot vote until they have been
resident here five years, nor can they Sc.
cure citizenship until they are able to
speak the English language.
A dispatch from the City OF Mexico
says: Information reached here today
from the police department of Havans
that they had a man there who seemed
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