San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-20
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Home and Foreign Politics-Crimes and
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Congress and Cholera-War,
Wages and Work

attempt to force passage of their
trains.
The Mahoning Valley coal miners will
soon press their demands for increased
wages.
District Assembly 723, knights OF La
Dor, will raise $50, 900 for the Southwest
ern strikers.
All the New York street car lines are
out with the exception of the Eighth
and Ninth Avenue lines:
Ex-President Arthur's health is i'm
proving, and he is now able to leave his
room, but not his house.
Gatesville suffered $1,000 loss by fire
which occurred early yesterday morning,
supposed to be incendiary.
A serious cutting aflray took place in a
Galveston livery stable last night be-
tween two colOred hOstlers.
Race paint works at Gatesyille were
closed by attachment yesterday. The
Indebtedness is placed at $1,000.
During the GAINESVILLE fire yesterday
morning Cracksmen drilled a hole in
Tungate's safe and got away with $500.
The Austin revival ended last evening
with 100 accession to the Methodist
church, and harvest for some of the
others.
The Baltimore and Ohio men on strike,
at Chicago, have returned to work, and
the non-union men have been sent out
on the road.
No non-union men were seen about
the yards or trains of the Baltimore and
Ohio when the road fully resumed opera
tions last night.
Tho EIm,ro Diyio;nn Of Da;Imo, 10.
ductors has heartily congratulated the
Southwestern conductors for keeping
aloof from the strike.
William Higgins, an old-time rail-
roader and yafdmaster, dropped dead in
yesterday. Cause, heart disease.
Men who have been induced to take
strikers places in Chicago, because they
were destitute and hungry, were pro-
vided with meal tickets and skipped.
The Lake Shore road will make this
strike test Of the rights of non-union
men and the right of the company to re-
tain them and afford them protection.
Two young men, sworn friends, at
Summerville, Mass, quarrelled last Sun
day while drunk, and one beat the other
so numerically that he died last night.
Uncle Sans mail was made to cover
the movements of a freight train which
left the Twelfth street yards at Chicago
yesterday, and no interference was at
tempted.
An unknown negro, bearing evident
marks of having been murdered and
thrown into the BraZos river, was found
floating near Navasota yesterday. No
clue by which he could be identified.
Dewitt Perry, aged q, of Binghampton,
New York, returned home intoxicated,
and dragged his 80 year old brother,
Richard, out of bed. Richard seized a
gun and shot Dewitt, killing him in
stantly.
Business in Chicago is entirely sus-
pended in the yards OF the Michigan
southern roads, and has been since the
late switchmen's strike. Chicago bust
ness men are very much dissatisfied with
the tie up.
Two Mexicans were killed and an
American badly wounded in a scrim-
mage at Murphyville, 400 miles west of
here on the Southern Pacific road. The
American was Ed. Millington, formerly
of this city.
The Chicago strikers have appointed
a committee of safety to look after the
company's property. No violence is at
tempted, but as fast as trains are made
up they are uncoupled and no freights
are suffered to move out OF the yards.
When the freight train that left the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
yards, at Twelfth street yesterday, had
gone as far as the stock yards, 1t was
taken possession Of by the strikers, the
brakes set and every coupling pin taken
out.
The Chicago Trade and Labor Assem-
bly, have issued another S-h0ur circular
calling upon all trades unions to inaug-
urate the S-hour day service after May
/, wherever it is possible, and accept
where necessary corresponding reduc-
ton OF wages.
The congressional committees are
growing alarmed over the accumulation
Of unfinished business. The river and
harDor bill Is on deck Tomorrow, and
will probably take two or three days,
when it will give place to the diplomatic
appropriation bill.
Three Weaver brothers, arrested for
completely in the murder of Abel
Sheaves, at Danville, Kansas, some two
months since, when brought into town
to stand their trial were taken out OF the
hands of the authorities by a mob and
literally filled with bullets.
The habeas corpus trial OF Ed Isham
charged with the murder of Dick Town
send, one Of the guards on the coal train
during the Fort Worth riot, came up to-
day, but was waived, at the request of
the defense, until May z, the time set for
the trial under the indictment.
The Bishop Of Madrid Spain, was shot
on Sunday by a priest whom he had re-
Gently dismissed and refused to reinstate.
The Bishop was ascending the steps
leading to the cathedral when the fatal
shot was fired. The Queen is much con-
cerned over the occurrence, and the
Pope has telegraphed his blessing. The
assassin has attempted suicide.
Athens continues warlike. the Greek
Minister of War has withdra wn his resig-
nation, and the garrison of the capital
will go to the front. The Greek general
refused TO withdraw his troops from the
heights of Sarkos at the demand Of the
Turkish general. and now the two armies
confront each other. The ball may open
any moment.
The right-of-way in the Senate is be-
ing vigorously fought for. Edmunds
and Morgan want the doors shut until
the business OF the Foreign-relation
Committee is disposed of; Cullom insists
on the discussion Of his Interstate CON-
merce bill; Blair blaZes away about his
arbitration bill and his general and pri-
vate pensions; Sewell is marshalling his
forces for the FitZ John Porter bill; Van
Wyok will push his bill taxing railway
lands; Hoar is looking his bankruptcy
bill and the beehive Is on the hum.