San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Prof Huxley is travelling in Switzer-
land for his health.
Fourteen riOtOus coal miners arrest
ed at Tacoma, Wy.
The NJ. X. & T. depot at Boomsboro,
Mo-, broken open and robbed.
The poet, Swinburne, aged so, is
living in retirement at Fulham.
Alphonse Daudet is at work on a
new novel to come out in the fall.
Sparta, H., will celebrate the dis
covery of natural gas on July 4th.
The Mississippi river commission
complains Of too small appropriation.
Kansas City officials prevented the
contemplated horse racing there last
Sunday.
The Nord, Brussels has received bad
news of Stanley, and fears of his safety
are increased.
The NJ. S. of the original Faust
Legend has been discovered in a rag
shop in Berlin.
The new Texas Air line has been To-
Gated from Galveston to Kernes, in
Navarro county.
The remaining four companies of
the u. S. infantry, is en- route from
Omaha to Kansas City.
Gilmore County, Ala, is swept over
by cyclone. Forests, corn, and cot
ton are seriously injured.
Hon. NJ. NJ. Estee, of California, has
been selected permanent chairman for
the Chicago convention.
Lord Robert Grosvemor, son of the
duke of Westminster, has died of ty-
phoid fever in Constantinople.
Lawn tennis tournament for the
championship of the western states,
will be held in Chicago, July 4th.
The superintendent of the Dixon,
ILL.,, waterworks shuts off the sup
ply, and great row is the cOnse-
quence.
Stockholders of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande authorize the increase of
capital stock to three and half mil
lion.
Fruit prospects throughout the
country have improved during the
past week. Meadows and pastures
remain unchanged.
The emigrant waiting-room at Kan
sas City is thronged to it's utmost Ca
pacity, mostly Germans from Schwa-
ben, Schiller's home.
Steamer Robert Mills collides with
the schooner Kler, loaded with 1900
bushels of corn and sends her to the
bottom of Lake Michigan.
A Galveston fisherman has cap
tured a sea monster which appears to
be cross between an ill-begOtten dog
and an immatured devil fish.
Uncle Sans custom officers have
run down the gang of smugglers who
have been operating some time near
Nogales, Arizona Territory.
The directors of the Fort Worth re-
frigeration company have elected E.
E. w. Taylor, president; r. E. Mad
doX, e-president; Ike Pryor, gen.
eral manager, and j. Roche, secretary
and treasurer.
The Lumber Dealers association in
session at Waco, propose a mutual in
surance company, and cOnsOllda-
ton with Missouri and Kansas deal
ers.
1t is reported that Senator Vest will
move to have the senate's committee
ON judiciary renewed OF all 1arGner
consideration of the Fuller case. This
will bring the matter directly before
the senate.
Dubois depot, Pa, nearly wiped out
by fire and 5000 people homeless;
500, ZOO, 900 worth of property lost, and
several casualties, none however, re-
llting in loss of life.
The Missouri State Sportsman's shoot
is being held in st. Louis this week.
The tournament embraces eight class
shoots, including the st. Louis Gun
club medal; value $500.
The Catholics of Cairo, ILL.,, are in
dignant over forcible entrance into
their convent, in search of a missing
girl, who at the time, was in st.
Louis, having run away from home.