San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-17
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS TUESDAY, JULY H. 1883
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

toria, B. c., are in revolt.
Chevalier Blondin will give several
of his high rope exhibitions in Cincin-
natl during the exposition.
Nearly 700 persons were present at
the National Prison convention in
Boston.
A bill to extend the limits of the
port of New Orleans is reported and
passed.
Mr.. J. Barney Brigham, of Louisi-
ana, consul at Jamaica, w. l., is
dead.
The captain and four of the crew Of
the Norwegian barck Magnolia, from
Rio JaneirO, died of yellow fever. The
vessel is in quarantine at Ships Is
land Station, Mississippi.
The bill appropriating 49, 900 for the
purpose of erecting a monuement to
Gen. Lee Rogers Clark in the city Of
Louisville, has been reported and
passed.
In the house of representatives,
Jackson, of Pennsylvania, bore testi-
mony that the wool manufacturers of
Philadelphia were uncomprOmisingl
opposed to free trade.
President Carnot has sent to M.
Freycinet, minister ofwar, letter ex-
pressing his admiration of the martial
bearing Of the troops.
A murderous attack has been made
by native Kamschatkans on the coast,
on a British otter hunting schooner.
Three men killed, others injured.
Emperor William has agreed to the
proposal that his mother should bear
the title of empress, and Queen Fred
erick.
A learned Hebrew, Rabbi Joseph,
recently from Russia, is stirring up
the New York Jews to closer observ-
ance of the Mosaic law.
John Ray, of Little Rock, shoots
his brother who came to his room in
the dead Of night in state of SOM
nambulism, for an assailant with
whom he had quarrelled.
Eleven Wabash switchmen at Des
Moines, strike ON account of the re-
moval of Yardmaster Floyd, and the
substitution of nOn-union man
named Griggs.
Chas. E. Hess, president of the Hess
Elevator company. Chicago, owing to
unfortunate speculation on the board
of trade is now a raving maniac.
There was the usual Saturday con-
fiict in London between the police and
the people in Trafalgar Squared rising
from the attempts of the people to
hold a meeting, and the determination
of the police to prevent them.
The Mail and express train between
Berlin and Strasburg, carrying the
grand duke and duchess of Olden-
burg, ran off the track near Gotha.
They were much shaken up but con-
tinued their journey.
DIR. Pepper says of Gen. Sheridan:
"The danger is far from removed, but
the favorable conditions under which
he is now placed will enable restora-
tive treatment to be pursued with far
more hopefulness."
A cowboy walked into the bank of
La Junta, Kan, yesterday, and cover
ing Rufus Phillips, the cashier, with
a revolver, ordered him to drop all the
funds of the bank into a bag he held
on the counter. The robber secured
from $4,000 and upwards. There is
no clue to him.
Powell Clyde, a 14-year-old boy of
Lakeview, Tel; inspired by reading
dime literature, gives himself the
title of Cloudy Clyde de King, and or
ganizes a bandit gang of boys, and
they make an excavation under lum-
Der yard office and secrete themselves
and their plumber, consisting of silver
spoons, crockery and empty pocket
books. They are all arrested.
THE case of Fuller for confirmation