San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-11
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL II. 1888.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Az Duuuy's roIEys M uH., TWO uOtOIl-
GUS horse thieves have been captured.
A severe tornado has done great dam
age in the native quarters of Dacia, CAL
cutta.
The cattle of Wyoming wintered ad-
mirably, none of them we're affected by
billiards..
Lillian Oloott, the actress, died Sun
day morning at the Westminster hotel,
New York.
Total cash balance In the state treas
ury, April l, was $3.50, 7Ss; total bonds,
$7,l6O.24l.
Billy Gill a notorious deperado has
been caught and shot in the Indian
Territory.
A destructive wind and rain storm
passed over Union and Livingston coun-
ties, Kentucky.
A six days gO-as-you-please walking
match began at the mammoth rink, Den
yer, Col, at midnight Sunday.
The flagship Richmond, with Admiral
Luce, Of the North Atlantic Squadron,
arrived at Pensacola yesterday.
King Humbert has signed decree to
establish Italian consulates in Denver,
Philadelphia and New Orleans.
ucSIO WOmdn, COuSlCtcu VI tuo huI-
der of an aged negro man, has been sem
At q wedding ten miles west of Bon
ham. the contracting parties were Ma
jor Sevils, aged 81, and widow aged 30.
The department of Nord continues
hostile to Boulanger's candidacy, in
spite of the oanvassing for him.
In the fight between John p. Glow
and Mike Conley, the Utica giant in
Minneapolis, Glow was badly whipped.
Cross and White the sbsconding pres
ident and and cashier of the State
National bank have been brought back
from Canada to Raleigh, N, c.
A.number OF dervshes have pillsged
Debood near Assouan. Captain Bessnt
afterwards attacked them and routed
them.
A courier from Shswneetown to Okla
homR, l. r., reports fierce battle be-
tween negro horse thieves and the su-
thorities.
The name Of Chas. De Blanc of New
Orleans, has been presented to the
president for the vacant cODsulship at
Demerare.
The Elbe is subsidiDg slowly. Prince
Bismarck's Varzin property has been
damaged to the extent Of several
thousand dollars by the flood,
The Rev. DR.. N. w, Pridgeon, q min
lister of the Christian church, Georgia,
preached his own sermon. He Is 81
years old, and very eccentric.
The Church of the Latter Day Saints
has total membership of 2O,67S, nearly
all in the United States. This church is
strictly opposed to polygamy.
Roscoe Conkling Is still In precarious
condition. but his physicians expect him
to be much better in day or two and
prescribe complete rest and quiet.
The Georgia railroad commission
holds that railroads must furnish COL
Ored people accommoda atoms in every
way equal to those furnished white peo-
pie.
The Fort Worth and Denver and the
Southern Kansas were connected yester-
day, on the Washburn tap of the Fort
Worth and Denver, through Washburn
to Panhandle City.
A member of the Belfast corporation,
has been arrested on the charge of forg-
ing death certificate for the purpose
Of defrauding the Equitable Insurance
company, Of n. Y.
A telegraphio union has been effected
with Guatemala, and now messages de-
posted with the federal telegraph lines
in Mexico can be transmitted to any
part Of the sister republic,
Thirteen persOns have been poisoned
by arsenic in Union County, Iowa. 1t
is supposed to have been spread through
the corn by man who was recently dis
charged by the owner of the corn mill,
the meal Of which the family had eaten.
The third day of the Mormon CON-
ference was devoted mainly to appeals
to the saints not to sell their lands to the
Genfiles and not to part with their in
heritanoe in Zion reserved for them by
God from the beginning of time.
The Star, a newspaper Of Montreal
has created sensation by hiring pick
and shovel brigade to clean the streets,
having taken out a mandamus against
the city council, which refused to act,
because the specific appropriation had
been exhausted.
The organization of veteran soldiers
and sailers which terms itself the Veter-
an Association of the Regular Army and
Navy of. "a, United States, has recently
been Lying tGsecure bounty lands and
mess.hs for improvnIGs the same from the
Mayor Hewitt has ira mltted 20 the
common council, a stirriI message
tho ng the resolution takUs mbat
faos :n 'ne power of directipt, cItv
buildings. N upon the
dsSub horrible murder of his MARI teo q