San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-21
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS SATURDAY, JULY FL. 1888
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The earl of Earne has been elected
grand master of Orangemen through
out the world.
No toasts were given at the state
dinner given in honor of Emperor
William at Peterhoff.
The Russian press are unanimous in
their beliefs that the meeting of the
emperors inaugurates q new era of
peace.
The Iowa courts include gingerale
among the intoXicants and declare it
must go.
A shilling cable rate will 60 into
effect Aug. 18th. There will be no
pool, but. this is a general agreement.
Tomorrow there will be bull fight
at Santa Cruz, Mexico, by amateur
bull fighters. Proceeds for the flood
suffers.
A conductor is killed and several
train hands injured by the collision
of coal train and New York fast
freight in a tunnel near Whitehaven.
The sultan of Turkey refuses to give
permission to Ismail Pasha to 60 to
Germany for the benefit of his health.
He is kept almost a prisoner and hard
ly sees his old friends.
Mr.. Crawford, the British commits
sioner in Hong Kong has been arrest
ed on charge of bribery and corrup-
ton made by Brahmin.
The Liquor Dealers association Of
the state of N. Y, held a meeting at
Rondout, N. Y. A vigorous campaign
was marked out for the coming fall.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Association Of Democratic
clubs, meets at the Hoffman House,
New York, Aug. End.
A family at Kilrush, Ireland, de-
Tended their home against an evicting
party until a battering ram was
brought into use and the building de-
molished.
The exercises of the Cambridge,
England, university were distin-
guished by the conferral of honorary
degrees upon Bishop Potter, of New
York, and the bishops of Minnesota,
and Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The chamber of deputies has decid-
ed to postpone until the next session
the government measures assuring a
deposit of rentes as guarantee for
the redemption of the Panama lottery
loan.
President Carnot has been attend
ing the celebration of the revolution
at Grenoble, where he was heartily
received, and all along the route.
King Milan is preparing an answer
to Queen Natalie's statements for sub
initial to the powers, and that in it he
will deny that he has any intention
of re-marrying, and will say that his
main object in seeking a divorce is to
remove his son from the influence of
Queen Natalie.
The flood at Wheeling, w. Va, was
unprecedented, rising three feet in so
minutes. New fatalities are reported
every hour, and the list is already
swelled to half hundred.
The first government vessel ever
launched on the Pacific coast was sent
off yesterday from the shipyards of
the Union Iron works, San Francisco.
She was christened the Charleston, by
Miss Alice Scott, daughter of the gen.
eral manager of the Iron works.
President James Campbell of the
Universal Federation of window-glass
workers, and other gentlemen leave
for Europe from Pittsburg today.
They are the delegates from this coun-
try to the biennial convention of their
organization at Charleroi, Belgium.
This convention will be the most inn
portant ever held. Efforts will be
made to organize all the glass workers
i'm E,urOpe.