San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

TELEoRAPHlc BREvITIES.
Election riots have occurred at
Boom, Belgium.
Mr.. Randall was taken ill, and for
a time in imminent danger.
The half-breeds of Battoche, Mani
t0ba, are threatening the government.
Many shops in the market place at
Athens, Greece, are destroyed by fire.
Governor Morehead gives Mrs.
Brooks and her daughter an inter-
view.
Clan Gordon's memorial to the hero
of Khartoum has been unveiled at
Aberdeen.
The nationalist, Vaudeville, ne
phew of O'Mahoney, the Fenian in
America, is dead.
A. H. Combs, of New York, has $780,
600 to put up on Cleveland offering the
odds of 500 to $50.
Emperor William will banquet the
ambassadors and foreign ministers at
Potsdan. on Thursday.
Princess Viroque of the Mohawk
tribe, Six Nations, gives temperance
address in Washington.
A family of mother, father and
three daughters, at Princeton, ILL.,,
all 60 insane on the same day.
The man who swindled the Disconto
Geselschaf by means of forged checks
is an American named Pierce.
The convention with Columbia Sc
cures to the vatican the protection of
Catholicism as the state religion.
The single span bridge to be built
across the Hudson river at New York,
will be the biggest in the world.
Irish Catholics attack an Orange
procession, at Manchester, with
hatchets, knives, pokers and bottles.
All the brakemen on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road at Kan
sas City, struck at 11:3o yesterday
morning.
The Savannah steamers for the
month of June delivered almost a
quarter of a million of watermelons in
New York.
Henry A. Caulfield, noted desper-
ado, the hero of hundred fights, is
run over by train and killed, at Sac
ramento, Cal.
Grand Duke Vladimir says he is
convinced that Emperor William is
Austria's friend and prepared to be-
come her ally.
Preparations for the reception and
entertainment of Lord and Lady
Churchill are being made by their
friends, at Newport.
Miss Blanche Marsden, the only
daughter of Fred Marsden, the play
wright, who committed suicide, is
contesting her fathers will.
Sam Price, charged with being one
of the most notorious "Wild Caters"
in Roam county, is captured at Chat
anooga at the point of the revolver.
Well informed persons in Vienna
arrived at between Austria and Rus
STA regarding the eastern question.
Robert w. Flack, of Syracuse, N.
Y, met his death at Niagara Falls in
attempting to shoot the whirlpool
rapids in a life-boat of his own inven-
ton.
New York police have captured a
gang of river thieves, who have been
Systematically robbing the cotton
lighters of the Ocean Steam Naviga-
ton Co.
In the cycling tournament at Sche-
venigen, near the Hague, the half
mile bicycle race was won by Temple,
of Chicago. Alard, of England, was a
second later.
A final and scientific effort is to be
made to fish up the treasure which
went down with his Britanic majes-
ty's sloop of war, Braak, in Delaware
Bay, May Is, 1898.
At the Pan-Presbyterian council,
London, Mr.. Murkland, of Baltimore,
presided. The proposal that the next
meeting be held in Toronto was unan-
imOusly agreed to.
King Milan has abandoned his at
tempt to procure q divorce from Queen
Natalie on con dition that he is grant
ed separation. The crown prince re.
mains with his father, but will be al
lowed to visit his mother once a
year.
Herr Deitz, an Alsatian railway of
fetal, his wife and a railway assist
ant, charged with selling state Sc
crets to the French government, are
sentenced to Imprisonment, and to be