San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

j. NJ. Drake OF waco, Une muTueIer
of Prof. Quinn, is granted $4,000 bail.
The division and statehood conven-
ton at Huron, OAK, has completed it's
work.
David Ashley, of Plattville, Neb.,
has just died of hydrophobia from the
bite of dog II years ago.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Editorial association completed
it's labors in Cincinnati yesterday.
The house committee on manufac-
lures has decided to continue its in
vestigations into the subjects of trusts.
A coal oil lamp exploded in the
livery stable of Harvest Bros, Deni-
son, burning the building, feed and II
horses.
It is semi-officially stated that the
Berlin correspondence regarding the
treatment of Empress Victoria is with
out foundation.
A freight train at full speed ran off
the track at Lanark yesterday morn
ing, making a fearful wreck of Is cars
and the engine.
An instruction has occurred at
Port au Prince. The insurgents have
burned 500 houses, including most of
the public buildings.
The house of Eta Clark, Ell Paso,
and place of i'll repute, was burned
to the ground yesterday morning.
The inmates barely escaped with their
lives.
The excitement created throughout
Germany by the reports of the Ger
man doctors on the emperor's case,
and their criticisms OH Mckenzie, is
intense.
1t is now 80 days since Gen. Sheri-
dan had an attack of breath failure.
He is sleeping well, and the only
change in his condition has been in
nervous system.
A passenger train on the Virginia
Midland goes Though a trestle 14S
feet high, between Orange courthouse
and Barboursville. Five were killed,
about 25 injured.
The Queen Regent of Spain, while
passing through Valencia, is requested
by the students of the university to
suppress the German language in
Spanish universities.
The Oerin Bros. circus, from the
City of Mexico, while playing in New
Laredo, had their that struck by
whirlwind and the whole sea of can
vas collapsed. 1t was empty and no
one was hurt.
E. B. Shaw, of Chicago, the rich
young married man, whose trip east
with May Yohe, a handsome member
of the Chicago Opera House company,
which caused SO much talk, is being
sued for divorce.
Reports from all parts of New York,
New Jersey and New England, show
that terrific rain and wind storm
has ragged there in the last twenty
four hours. No large loss Of life, but
considerable to property.
Prof. G. Hagan, teaching at San
Angelo, at the hour appointed for his
marriage with Matte Doffmeyer,
came not. He sent a note to the
young lady saying that his financial
circumstances would not justify his
getting married.
To the Knights of Pythias, says the
Cinncinati Commercial Gazette, be-
longs the credit of having furnished
the largest and best equipped parade
of any benevolent or civic society that
has ever been seen in Cinncinati. The
Hastings division won the first drill
prize. Per cent. 1854.
Hanged for Killing His Sweetheart.
COLUMBUS, o., July 13.-Ebenezer
Stanyard, the Youngstown murderer,
who killed his sweetheart, Alice Han
cock, early in 1887, was hanged in the
penitentiary annex at l o'clock this
morning. He played his ACCORDION
before going to the scaffold, and ap-
peared to be at his ease, talking q
great deal, and meeting his fate with
more nerve than many supposed he
would. The crime for which he suf-
fered was the brutal murder of the
pretty young girl, she being shot from
behind, and all on account ofjealousy.
He claimed to be temporarily insane
at the time of the shooting.