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

sion in Madrid.
There are four cases of small pox at
Nashville, Tenn.
The Little Rock Electric street rail-
way is completed.
Lord Calthorpe recently paid e10, 900
for nine Blankney yearlings.
The validity of the Maxwell land
grant is soon to be put to severe test.
The Leon sufferers are receiving ala
from all parts of the Mexican repub-
lie.
The Swiss residents at Nashville,
Tenn, join warmly in celebrating the
4th.
The Americans lead the Canadians
at the International cricket match at
Toronto.
The Swatara arrived in n. Y. harbor
last night. The General in favorable
condition.
The municipal authorities of Messi-
ma deny that cholera has broken out
in that city.
Jacob Baltz, Jr., son of the Million
aire brewer of Philadelphia, is drown
ed in the Schuylkill river.
Master Frank Boring, of Julien, San
Diego county, CAL, shoots huge
vulture, nine feet from tip to tip.
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson and
family leave San Francisco in DIR.
Merritt's yacht, for seven months
cruise.
Bishop Leo Haid, of North Carolina,
was consecrated in the cathedral in
Baltimore on Sunday last by Cardinal
Gibbons.
The New York and Omaha Cloth
ing company closes its doors in
Omaha. The Seligman-May failure
was the cause.
At liberal unionist meeting Earl
Derby was elected leader in the house
of lords, and Earl Camperdown was
elected whip.
Rev. Thomas Rambaut, aged IS,
a well known Baptist clergyman,
now in London, is married to Miss
Mary L. Bonney, aged 20.
Thomas Harrison, the boy evange-
list, has just concluded a revival of
% weeks in the James street Metho-
dist-Episcopal church, N. Y.
The United States steamship, Enter
prise, which went ashore at DrOkek,
Sweden, remains stuck fast. Assist
ance has been sent from Horton.
VIM. G.. Mitchell, proprietor and
manager of the Peoples theatre, St.
Louis, while riding on the cable road
fell into the grip of the Car and was
killed.
The electrical storm which visited
the vicinity of st. Paul last Sunday
was of intense severity throughout the
northwest. At least half dozen per-
sons were killed.
The Tammany society of New York
celebrated for the Tooth time the 4th of
July. Owing to the fire at that place,
they were obliged to assemble at the
Academy of Music.
An attachment is granted against
the property of the Union bank of
Huntington, Pa, in suit brought by
the Huntington manufacturing COM
pany to recover balance of 1885.
A strike on the street car lines in
Chattanooga, was the result of the
company demanding that the men
work 16 hours per day, and clean their
own cars. After few hours they re-
turned to work.
The commissioners in charge of the
Niagara Falls reservation are planning
a roadway down the bank of the river
to the Whirlpool Rapids andssthe con-
struction of q bridge at that point to
the Canadian side.
A train wreck occurs on the Penns-
ylvania railroad near Nantichoke.
Two passenger trains run into each
other, demolishing both engines.
Some thirty were injured, none fatal
ly hurt. Train dispatcher's mistake
caused accident.
A terrible conflict takes place be-
tween parties of Poles and Hungar-
ials, at Jessup, Lackawana county,
Pa, the result of bitter race feeling,
owing to some trouble at the mines
where they were employed.
At 5p. m. Saturday last, the OPEN
ing of the st. Louis Smelling and Re-
filming works was q great success in
Monterey. Mrs. Joaquin Maiz christ
| ened the enterprise by ringing the
bell, pulling the throttle and setting
the vast machinery in motion.
The Rev. w. Howell Buchanan,
formerly pastor of the Madison Square
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