San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-26
ELECTRIC CULLINGS.
News Gathered in Both Hemispheres and
Digested.

France sdvices Greece to disarm. She
will probably hear and obey.
John Delaney ia Special Inspector Of
Foreign Steamers at New Orleans.
The Augusta cotton mills will not be
closed and the strikers won't strike.
The Yellowstone Park syndicate are
building quite number Of fine hotels.
Labor Investigating Committee will
not come west before the middle Of the
week.
The stock of cattle in Queensland de-
creased 100000 head the last twelve
months.
Master Workman Powderly is now in
Hamilton, Ontario. on Knights Of Labor
business.
Colonel Dennison, formerly of the Ire
mont hotel, Washington, confesses to
forgery Of $500.
Australia will send team to take
part in the Wimbledon shooting con-
tests of July next.
A labor demonstration with 1900
men in line took place at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, Saturday afternoon.
New England capitalists have formed
an offensive and defensive alliance
against striking employees.
The Helena crevasse will not flood to
exceed 600 acres Of land and the rest Of
the levee is in good condition.
Dilke's woman. Fannie, has returned
to London and will testify in the Dixie
Crawford divorce scandal suit.
The Stry fatalities foot up lbs; loans
on private property $500, 600; cost of re-
building estimated at 81, 2O0.0OO.
Eastern Wisconsin is terrorized by a
band of horse, hog and cattle thieves. A
posse of officers are on their trail.
Manchester, England, dry goods trade
is quiet, and but little manufacturing is
being done for the China market.
The report on trades unions has been
laid before the Interior Department. 1t
is very incomplete in its statistics.
The war on rates to California is
ended. First-class rates from st. Louis,
unlimited, are S65.50; limited, $3.50.
The New York G. A. X. endorse
Cleveland's recognition of veterans in
making appointments to public service.
The $4,000 seduction suit of Miss
Elsie Combs, of New York, against John
w. Ball, is the latest Gotham sensation.
The Senate Committee have reported
favorably the house bill forfeiting the
land grant Of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad.
The striking employees of the Missouri
Car Foundry. at st. Louis, get cold COM
fort from Mcmillan, President of the
company.
From 20 to % car loads of passengers
leave Kansas City for San Francisco
daily, and the freight business is unusu-
ally heavy.
Six Italian laborers on the Erie rail-
way were creHated in their shanty at
Alton, Pa. The building toppled over
and took fire.
The debate on the Anti-SOclalist law
in the German Reichstag called out
Hon. Liebkneoht, and his speech has
stirred up the whole Empire.
Hanlan proposes an international row.
ing match on Toronto bay, June Sd to
9Th. Single scull prizes: $500, $500, 500;
double scull: 500, $50, SlC0.
The Congressional Committee on
"drummers' tax" report in favor of
nOn-taxation. The tax is considered rs
interfering with freedom of interstate
commerce.
Buffalo has beaten the record on dog
race. Drake Carter takes the feather,
leading the English record one-quarter
of a second, and the American record
three. quarters.
Germany acknowledges the increased
strength of the French military sine
1871 and says France will embrace the
first opportunity to renew hostillties in
revenge for Seldom.
Congress imposes fine of $1,000 and
gives five years in the penitentiary to
horse thieves In the Indian Territory;
stealing in the same territory is punished
by same fine and term Of 10 years.
The custom-house officers at Odessa
have been detected in defrauding the
government. The populations have
been going on for years and several
million roubles have been embezzled.
A prominent farmer, drunk, attempt
ing to enter the residence of S. e. Misel,
Of Port Huron, Mich, during a heavy
storm early in the morning, was mis-
taken for burglar, shot and instantly
killed.
The differentiation of rich mems pro-
perty In New York is attracting atten-
ton; also the differentiation of impe ited
goods, particularly German clothes, but
tons and braids. The matter will be in
vestigated.
The American Cotton Oil Trust Com
pany has gObbled up the Honauer Cot
ton Mill Company, of Memphis. The
big stock holders secretly sold out, leav-
ing the little ones out in the cold This
is the biggest oil concern in Tennessee.
The peasantry of Gallicia are danger
ously excited over the rumor that gov
eminent intends to restore the forced
labor laws, and that the mobiles are or
ganizing to massacre the Polish peasants.
The mobiles are fortifying their castles
and general uneasiness prevails.
Janeway & Co., Of New Brunswick, N
j., have recovered $l79,sO6 from the
Pennsylvania Central for loss of property
and trade OccasiOned by the carelessn ess
Of the railroad company. There WAS q
collision on the road, some oil barrels
were set on fire, and the flames COM
municated to Janeway's establishment.
Warden Lairolette, of the st. Vincent
de Paul penitentiary, Quebec, had
desperate battle with convicts who had
obtained possession Of arms belonging to
the guards. The warden was fatally
shot and several guards and five prison.
ers seriously wounded, but no cOnvicts
escaped.
The London Lancet and other promi-
nent English medical journals are urg-
ing the government to see to 1t that the
seaport towns are Immediately put in
the best sanitary condition possible, and
that the quarantine service be made
rigid and effective. The Lancet expects
the cholera to make its appearance
,..l "a lie