San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

The Royal Opera house at Pesth is
in flames.
The French Ambassador at Berlin
will be transferred to st. Petersburg.
DIR. D. D. Bramble, of Cincinnati,
has purchased Libby Prison, Rich
mond, Va, at auction for Sll 900.
An American company has leased
A boukir Bay from the Egyptian gov
eminent, TO grow oysters.
The total amount received at the
mayors Office for fever sufferers is ST.
$3.50.
r. Grant, of Newark, o., who came
into Louisville, KY, from Decatur,
Ala., has developed decided yellow
fever.
Book-maker James Mahoney, of
New York, has authorized the clerk of
the Hoffman house to bet S2O, 900 to
SIG, 900, that Cleveland will be elected.
Capt. A. r. Williams, for 80 years
engineer and captain of steam boats on
the Mississippi river has died in st.
Louis, aged 20.
The centennial celebration of ALE.
ghany county, Pa, was begun yester-
day morning and will continne three
days.
Alexander Blaine, serving term of
six months in the Londonderry Jail,
for melting tenants to violence, is re-
leased, owing TO the bad condition of
his health.
Farran, Henry NJ. Stanley's Syrian
interpreter has arrived in London. He
,,nli ron law
Emin Bey, and thinks he is safe.
\ banquet is rendered Mr.. VI. w.
Fuller, the new chief justice of the
nations highest tribunal, by hum
dreds of friends in Chicago, previous
to his departure to Washington. +
The four immense brick columns o
the courthouse DIT Mobile, and their
foundations, said TO weigh 800 tons,
have been successfully moved by the
contractor.
Grand Master Forester, Of the
united order of Odd Fellows, has
postponed the meeting OF grand
lodge at Nashville, Tenn, from Oct.
,, to Nov. -, on account of the yellow
fever in the south.
The steamship Louisiana, which ar
TlNtO new OlISdIIo " -NCN L III
reports that on the 18Th, when in the
gulf of Florida, she sighted a large
newly copper bottOmed ship floating
keel upward. 1t is supposed the i'll
fated craft overturned i'll the recent
cyclone.
An alarm is sent out from police
headquarters in New York, warning
banks to stop payments of check for
81, $50 drawn by D. D. Withers, to the
order of George w. Hearst, the Cali
fornia senator. 1t has been either lost
or stolen
The Mississippi river and harbor
commission met in New York and
made the following grants to harbors
Columbia, $4,000; Hickman, 5000;
Helena, $1,000; Greenville, Miss,
$1,000; cksburg, S150,000; New Or
leans, S200,O00; Atchafalaya and
mouth of Red river, $3.50, 900.
The norther in Jacksonville has
been succeeded by a cold, drizzling
rain. New cases continue in abun-
dance. The report yesterday showed
113, of which So were colOred, and 2S
whites. Total cases to date, 1891;
deaths, 217. 1t is impossible to APP
proXimate the number Of cases that
have not been reported to the board
of health.
The New York World says of the
Jacksonville telegraph force: IF it
were not for the work of these heroes,
who, on meagre pay, are fighting as
bravely as ever a soldier fought at the
front, the country would hear nothing
from the plague-stricken city, and
hundreds OF refugees could learn
nothing of the fate of friends and rela-
tives left behind. The World pro-
poses to raise special fund for the
brave workers of wires in the pest-rid-
den city.n