San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Blaine boom is growing in Chi
cago.
Gen. Sheridan is progressing by
steady, though very slow degrees, to-
wards convalescence.
The Chicago convention have agreed
on platform, with the exception of
anti-saloon plank.
Balloting for candidates in the con-
vention will not be reached before to-
morrow.
The Mullane Tunnel, Montana, re-
Gently closed by fire, has been opened
for traffic.
Black Hill district are in session in
Sturgis City.
Last months gales off the coast of
Iceland, wrecked thirty French YES
sells, and drowned 400 seamen.
The 10th annual session of the Otta-
wa, Kansas S. s. Assembly is in ses-
sion, with $40 tents.
The spring racing meeting at Waldo
Park, Kansas City, collapses for want
of funds.
San Diego, Cal, closes a big camp
meeting with several sinners snatched
from the burning.
The late election in the department
Cherente, France, is considered by the
conservatives, a coup de grace for Bou-
LANCER.
Count KalnOki says the recent
change in the Berlin government is
the most important event in recent
political history.
The Texas delegation at Chicago
organized with John B. Rector, chair
man, Web Flanagan, vice-president,
and E. H. Terrell, secretary.
st. Joseph's Catholic orphan asy-
lum, near Newport, KY, which was
burned three years ago, has again
been destroyed by fire. No lives lost.
The river Tolimas, near Queretero,
Mexico, is overlooked, producing great
loss to agriculture and preventing
running of trains.
The Laredo delegates to the con-
gressiOnal and state senatorial con-
ventions have gone to Corpus Christi.
Grain will be nominated.
A. G. Hunt, manager of the Laredo
electric light plant, is con tracting
with Monterey and Saltillo, for the
lighting of those cities.
Mrs. Josephine Mouch, Allegheny
City, Pa, strychnines her three child
rem, and then herself, with fatal eff
feet.
Mormon converts to the number of
200 from Alabama, Tennessee, and
Mississippi, left Memphis this morn
ing for Salt Lake.
Lucy Parsons, female anarchist of
Chicago, is arrested for placarding
the streets with life size crayon of
her husband.
Berlin Post declares that there is
no foundation for the fears of either
Russia or France, that the new en-
peror's policy will be hostile to them.
The appeal of Mr.. John Dillon, Irish
agitator, from the six months SEN
tence of the court was refused and
the sentence confirmed.
A. D. Amber, of Chicago, RECEIVERS
from his partner, R. NJ. Whipple, the
sum of 81 ,0O2, 49l, debt and interest ON
a partnership deal.
Timothy Williams, aged 76, at Lee
banon, Conn, fell out of a tree which
he had climbed to secure a swarm of
bees, broke his leg in falling and was
stung to death.
The tenth annual meeting of the
Missouri State Pharmaceutical asso-
citation is now in session at Pertle
Springs.
Advices from Zanzibar discredit the
report of Stanley's death. No news
concerning him has been received
there.
James G. Blaine, interviewed at
Newcastle, England, declines to say
whether he will or will not accept the
nomination of the republican party
for president.
Silao, Mex, is flooded. Heavy
rains have prevailed for several days
and the dykes have given way. The
river has broken in through the north
end of the town and destroyed several
of the principal houses. Fears are en-
tertained that the entire city will be
swept away.
The New Members.
The following gentlemen have been
elected members of the Belknap
Rifles: Nicholas F. Corr, E. J. Davis,
Frank James, Eldred Holt, George
Dashiell, John Baskin, Tony True
heart, Tom Franklin, w. Muth, Jr.
Justice Barnes this morning at
o'clock performed the ceremony of
marriage between G. L. Robbins, of