San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHlC BREVlTIES.
Mrs. Mary A. Miller has been appoint
ed state librarian for Iowa.
Three more executions at Fort Smith,
Ark.
The Chicago Alarm organ Of the an
archists suspends for lack Of funds.
GAINESVILLE, Ga, puts saloon license up
to 5000.
A meeting Of barbed-wire manufac.
turers is called for St. Louis next week.
Queen Vic expresses her qualification
at the friendly welcome she received in
Berlin
Mrs. Dis de Bar continues to aeitats
the New York courts over her ability as
q spiritualistic medium.
The District of Columbia anti-pool
selling bill has been engrossed and sent
to the president for his signature.
President Cleveland still sticks to
Phelps as his candidate for chief jus.
tice.
Last weeks output Of flour in Min
neapolis was the..largest on record, be-
ing us, 200 barrels.
The.Boulanger episode appears to have
created very little feeling, or interest 10
Russia.
About five million immigrants have
arrived In Texas in the last twelve
years.
The union depot at Texarkana burn.
ed last night, all the offices were con-
sumed.
The queen has returned to Windsor.
Bismarck has declined the honor of the
title Of duke, offered him by the en-
peror.
A young lady OF Schulenberg was
lately bitten by q small spider and her
life hung in the balance, but she Ia now
recovering.
Heavy frosts with ice are reported
from the vicinity of Lynchburg, Va,
and great fears are entertained for the
fruit crop which Ia thought to be
ruined.
The Illinois Woman's Suffrage oonven-
ton In session this week took vely
strong ground against the present petit
and grand jury system.
A pelican has been killed at Rancho,
measuring eight feet and half from tip
to tip OF wings. 1t had pocket under
meath its bill large enough to hold q
peck of shelled corn.
Pole Langley has been jailed for alb.
stracting money from the mails while
mail carrier between Burnet aud
Blowant.
A st. Louis firm has fashioned per-
feet facsimile OF the exposition building
In lace; $500 yards of lace, $50 yards OF
ruohing, and 1900 pins are used in it's
construction.
The Texas and Pacific railroad has
cut into the Santa Fe territory In New
Mexico, and rates are down between Ell
PasO and Las Vegas.
Four republicans have been dismissed
from the government depot, Jefferson,
Ind, by order Of the war department.
Some Of them have grown gray in the
service, but they are not Of the right
political stripe to draw meagfe salary
OF $l20 per month.
The Irish county government bill was
rejected by vote OF 2S2 to 1885, Speak
ing of the bill, Gladstone said, any man
who refuses to vote for this bill, be-
comes party to the declaration, that
no locei government bill will receive the
support Of government party in this
house,
The general managers of the lines be-
tween Chicago and Missouri river
points, have held meeting for the pur-
pose Of agreeing upon a basis Of division
with the lines west of the Missouri river
on through business under the new
tariff.
The U. S. senate committee order
favorable report on joint resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the cOnstitu-
tion forever prohibiting the manufac-
ture, importation, expectation, trans
portation and sale Of alcoholic liquors IN
the United States.
Judge McCord, of Canton has passed
sentence on a boy of 16 for horse theft.
The boy Is an orphan and seemed so
overcome with repentance that the
judge has promised If his conduct is
good while In prison that he will inter-
cede in his behalf.
A small cyclone near Hubbard City
cleaned out W. j. Keith and Gee.
Powell. Their buildings were torn to
pieces and their crops nearly ruined,