San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-31
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

Admiral Porter is lying quite ill at
his cottage at jamestown.
Maggie Mitchell, the actress, is to
build theatre on the property she
owns in Harlem, n. Y.
James r. Randall author of Mary
land, My Maryland" is about to re-
turn 70 Georgia journalism.
Barry Sullivan, the we'll known &C
tor, is sick, beyond recovery, in Lon
don.
The Shah of Persia intends to reach
Buka on September 20, and thence
to make tour of Europe.
1t is announced that the car and
czarina will found a monastery at
Abyssinia.
The German consul in Pueblo, Mex,
yesterday committed suicide, owing
to financial troubles.
The Crystal Slipper" is still BOOM
ing in Chicago.I 1t has reached it's Tooth
performance. The receipts for the sea-
son are estimated at about S120, 900.
Pensacola, Florida, is in a very
healthy condition, there being no
serious illness whatever within cor
pOrate limits.
Mr.. John Doane, aged 80 years, was
swindled by trucksmen out of $1,000
at East Cleveland, o., on Saturday
last.
Officials at the German embassy at
Paris, are satisfied that the man Gar
nier, who fired shot at the porter of
the embassy, is insane. The incident
therefore closed.
The last span in the great bridge
across the Hudson at Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, was completed yesterday even
ing. The event was celebrated by the
firing of cannons from the top of the
bridge.
The proposed agreement by which
all western, northwestern and south
| western lines were to be embraced in
| a reorganization of the western states
passenger association has fallen to
the ground for want of agreement.
The old confederate cruiser, Shen-
andoah, is being fitted up at San Fran
cisco for service in the coal carrying
trade on the Pacific coast.
Pitts burgh knights of Labor are con-
sidering the introduction of a resOlu-
ton prohi biting any but American
citizens from becoming members of
the organization. This would reduce
the membership one-fifth.
Arrangements for the reception of
Judge Thurman in New York, and for
a mass meeting to be held at Madison
Square garden, September 9th, are
nearly completed.
The Princess of Schleswig-Holstein,
aunt of the present German empress,
is in Newport. She will make an eX-
| tended tour of the west, remaining
until October.
A special to the New Orleans Picay-
une from Jacksonville, says, the situa-
ton here with regard to the fever is
not only no better, but it is worse.
Queen Christina of Spain, presided
at the hosting of a flag at San Marcos
Mount on the first of an extensive
series of forts on the Pyrenean from
tier.
Among the passengers who reached
New York by the last trip OF the
Etruria, was the Russian artist and
trader, Verestchagin. He will visit
various parts Of the country.
Memorial services for the late Bish-
OPP Harris, Of Michigan, were held in
Westminster Abbey. The bishop of
Minnesota preached the funeral SER
mon.
United Ireland says the rampant
American senate, in rejecting the fish
cries treaty, gave England terrible
proof of the power of retaliation of the
greater Ireland across the sea, whose
vote Mr.. Balfour's coercion policy has
aroused.
Robert Coulton Davis, who was be-
Iieved to be the oldest druggist in
Philadelphia, and who was celebrated
as the possessor of the most complete
collection of American coins, auto
graphs and autograph letters of his
torfcaI personages, died in that city
on Friday last Of consumption.
Mrs. Robb and her daughter, Miss
EdWina, have returned from their
trim through the northern States