San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The first session of the colored Ma
Educators is in session in Nashville,
Tenn.
Surgeon General Hamilton says the
yellow fever in Florida is dying out
for lack of material.
There is a-gentleman at Eagle Pass
making preparations to start soap
factory on the other side.
The shaft of the bi-metallic silver
mines at Phillipsburg, Mont, is on
fire; the shift are all below.
Mrs. Cleveland and party left Ma
rion, Mass, at 7:04 yesterday evening
by special train, Ell route for WASH
ingtOn.
The 18th annual convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union Of
America met at the fremont Temple,
Boston, Yesterday.
James O. Johnson, the life long
friend of Henry Clay and executor
under his will, died yesterday at
Lexington, aged S4
Over 800 Italians, dlsgusted at not
being able to obtain work in New
York, sailed for home today on the
steamer Alsea, of the Fabre line.
Senators ingalls, and Sherman have
been visiting the summer home Of
Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren on South
Mountain near Middletown Md.
Gen. Booth, the commander-in-
chief of the Salvation Army will leave
England for this country shortly. He
intends to reorganize the army in the
United States.
The larger towns in the northern
| Mexican border states are in deplOr-
able sanitary condition, the death
rate in comparison with the popula-
ton is very high.
Arthur, the little son of James
King, who was crushed to death two
months since at the Birmingham iron
foundry, Conn, dies of grief and
pining for his father.
No funds were provided yesterday
| in New York to meet the interest in
the consolidated mortgage of the NJ.
| K. and L. road due, and the coupons
on the bonds were forfeited.
O'Rourke, a ball player of New
| York is about to enter an action
against the Philadelphia Times for
libel, that paper having stated that
he was there on tear with several
local players.
| While driving over the railroad
crossing of the Terre Haute and
Peoria, at Atlanta, ILL.,, Mrs. Frank
Barr and her son were run into by
freight engine, and with their team
instantly killed.
The family of James Johnson, liv-
ing at Bowling Green, Mo-, made
some ice cream, and in compromising
the mixture favored it too highly
with vanilla, and the result was that
in less than half an hour, seven of
them were in commissions. 1t is
thought they will recover.
An eight-year-old negro boy is
found on the st. Louis, A. and T. r. r.
at point four miles north of Waco,
| who had run away from the Ill treat
ment of his foster parents. A warrant
has been issued for their arrest. He
was in a hut regularly housekeeping
and had mended his shirt with a
! "ulinter for needle.
| The new Inman line steamer, City
of New York, left Liverpool yesterday
on her first visit to New York. She
carries 900 passengers. Among the
number are James G. Blaine, his wife
and daughter, the Earl and Countess
of DonoughmOre, and Ladies Hely
and Nora Hutchinson.
| Bob Rogan is assaulted by E. w.
Enochs, James Enochs, and Charles
Cochrane, at Pittsburgh, Miss, over a
business matter; he procured knife,
and pretty soon laid out his assailants;
one killed, the other two mortally
| wounded.
In consequence of the increasing
feebleness of the Duke of Manchester,
his son, Viscount Vaudeville, has re-
appeared in society, preparatory to
his near eXaltation of rank, which it
is hoped will condone his social Of
| lenses.
The new letter carriers S-hour law
went into effect in New York yester-
day. Many carriers are dissatisfied at
what they claim an evasion of the
| law, for their hours are so distributed
that they begin early in the morning,
and do not get through until late at
| night.
The property of the late Father Con-
| way, vicar general of the Roman
Catholic arch diocese, Chicago, goes
half to his neice, and half to charity.
Who Was the Brute?
A man who gave the fake name of