San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The Western Hotel, Burne', Is burned.
Less 81, 800.
Smallpox is rapidly dying out in
Havana.
The duke Of Montpensier has gone to
Seville.
Grevy takes Wilson's sentence coolly
terity.
Gen. San Mariana telegraphs from
Msssowsh that he expects an Abyssin-
Ian attack shortly.
An avalanche covered the village Of
Steerpone, near Irera, Italy, and thirty
lives we're lost.
The French chamber has decided to
restore the credit for the embassy at the
Vatican to $40.
Gen. Boulanger offered to come to
Paris and submit to an examinat alton.
but was enjoined not to leave his post
without orders.
The railroad coal operators OF western
Pennsylvania and the Hooking Valley
have Joined together In q fight against
the railroads Of the west.
The death OF Capt. Vandervelde has
had the effect OF delaying advices from
Stanley. Lieut.. Haneuse has been sent
to replace Vandervelde at Stanley Falls.
Three arcades In the side Of Castle
CapunO, Naples, used by the court OF
justice, collapsed yesterday. Serious
damage was done, but nobody was hurt.
Several avalanches have occurred In
Oviedo, Spain. destroying q railway
bridge and q number OF houses. Eleven
persons were killed at Psjsres.
1t Is rumored the Austrian govern
ment has issued decree giving mining
companies three years within which to
stop the practice Of open air exclamation.
The Pope yesterday received 600
Rhenish pilgrims including the aroh-
bishop OF Mayence and three members
Of the Reichstag.
The custom house near Revere, Italy.
was destroyed by an avalanche. Three
guards and four other persons were
Killed.
The Allgemaine ZeituIg. Vienna, says
that the Coesack Ashinoff has stored q
quantity Of ammunition In the Russian
convent, at Galata, preparatory to max
Ing great raid into Bulgaria.
The papers say that Austria and Ger
many regard the African campaign as
purely an Italian matter, and are con-
viDced that q few thousand men on for
eign service will not ieopardize Itsly's
military position.
Furnacemen Of the Mahoning and
ShenangO valleys have decided that IN
less the railroads reduce their present
rate on pig iron. all furnaces will be
banked on March 10.
In the French chamber Of deputies La
FerrOnnays criticised the concessions
made by England In the settlement of
the New Hebrides and Suez canal cues
tiOns.
1t is rumored that the empress has de-
cided to 60 TO San Reno. Another ru-
NOR 10 that the emperor has signed a de-
cree for the enforcement OF article So of
the Prussian constitution, 10 the event
Of bis becoming incapable Of ruling.
Such decree would make Prince VIII
liam regent.
The Austro-Hungarian government Ia
arranging for considerable increase OF
the army. The present military law,
which expires in 1889, fixes the strength
OF the army at SEQ, 0C0 men, exclusive of
the landwehr.
Martin Irons, the head Of the st. Louis
strike two years ago, is now on trial In
that city on q charge OF destroying
telegraph wires.
Mrs. George A. Peck, OF Boston Com
monwealth, Is the only woman In New
England who 10 the managing editor
OF q newspaper.
Edmund Gosse lie lecturing at Trinity
College, Cambridge. on Literary Crit.
oism Of the Age Of Queen Anne"
Byron's Manfred" will be presented
for the first time In this country as q
musical drama at New York next Sat-
urday evening.
Lord Lonsdale has sailed for New
York. He intends to 20 to the northern
part Of the American continent on
long sporting tour.
James 8. Mason, the originator Of
Mason's shoe blaoklng, and the senior
member Of the firm engaged in the man
ufacture Of that article, has just died at
Philadelphia, aged " years.
An old log-oabin that was built by
George Washington and occupied by
him while surveying part Of the Shen-
nsndoah Valley is still standing In fair
state Of preservation a few miles from
Winchester, Va.