San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-11
TELEoRAPHIc BREvITIES.

at Monroe, Conn.
Galveston appoints deep water lob
byists to go to Washington.
Texas traffic association meets 10 New
York for three days session.
The big steel gun for Uncle Sam will
be cast at Pittsburg today.
The Louisiana democratic convention
lie in session. Nichols will probably be
nominated for governor.
Operatives sn Clark's o. N. +. thread
works, Newark, New Jersy strike against
a superintendent.
Mr.. Wilfred Blunt on being taken to
Jail yesterday, donned the prison garb
under protest.
The death 10 announced OF Bonamy
Price. n. A., professor Of political
economy In Oxford university.
The crown prince has repeated his re-
quest that the court fetes be held as
usual.
1t takes thirty-six OF the large pages Of
the Minneapolis Tribune to tell the story
OF the growth OF that marvellous city
during the year.
A I-foot vein OF silver has been struck
In the lcOnoclast mine, near Kingston,
N. N. The find Is one Of the richest re-
ported In years.
Isaac Holmes Of Tyler county, W. Va,
recently sold a lot OF we'll seasoned rail-
road ties. They were some OF lot he
cut and hewed forty years ago.
The wire mill at Rankin Station, near
Pittsburg, has begun to turn out steel
lath, which, 1t is said, will be q great
Improvement over wooden lath.
The Nepaul rebels have been defeat
ed. Runbir Jung. the leader of the
rebels, and his suite have fed from the
British territory.
A dispatch to the Presse from Bucha-
rest says that the Russian reserves in
the Odessa district have been dis
missed.
A swine plsgue prevails in the south
Of France. Thirty thousand animals
have died In the Marseilles district
within q month. Professor Cornu has
gone to study the ailment.
Dispatches from the Congo country up
TO December 10 have been received at
Brussels. They make no mention Of
Stanley.
San Martin peak, In the state OF Vera
Cruz, Mexico, has been belohlDg forth
dense smoke for some time. 1t is
thought the mountain will become an
immense volcano.
Doyle, the only Irish invincible re-
leased by the authorities, has departed
for America. Doyle was given a ticket
Of leave In April last.
The Frankfort Zeitung announces that
DR.. Bramann is about to return to Ber-
lin from San Reno, as the operation of
traoheotomy on the crown prince is not
likely to be necessary.
A woman living near Wells Bridge, n.
Y, had the tombstone taken from the
grave OF her deceased husbands first
wife and dressed over to mark the grave
of her husband.
1t has been folnd that the stone used
In the erection Of the new city hall at
Waco, Texas, 10 unfit for building pur-
poses. and It is believed that the struc.
ture will have to bs taken down.
Mrs Margaret Toody, OF Mineral Point,
Wisconsin, will be LOG years old in four
months. She Is described as q vigorous
old woman, able to read without glasses
and not looking to be over sixty years
old.
The pastor of a wealthy New York
church recently received as a fee for
marrying q young couple handsome
iocket on which were the initials OF the
PASTORS wife set In diamonds, Inside
of the locket was a 800 bill.
Elisha Maieen, of Lexington, Indiana,
while driving along the road to Saluds
was precipitated, with his team, over a
cliff to the valley below, q distance Of
$50 feet. He escaped without injury and
his horses were slightly hurt.
A Port Huron mich J young man,
who is something OF an artist, made up
as a tough for recent masquerade, and
was so successful that when he present
ed his ticdet at the door an officer was
hastily called to throw him into the
street.
Workmen who were digging q we'll at
Genoa, Neb., recently discovered at q
point thirty feet below the surface OF the
earth q number Of sticks OF timber
which the local scientists think were
used In the construction OF some prehis-
toric house.
Count Debanine, the French ambasss-
dor to the vatican, Monday handed the
pope an autograph letter from Presi-
dent Carnot, In which he wished his
holiness prosperity, and expressed the
hope that good relations between France
and the pope on the basis Of the concor-
dat would long continue.
The Riforma announces tnst italy has
conceded to Spain for fifteen years ter
rItory on the bay of Asssb, suitable for
Q cosling station, reserving, however,
the right to use Ii herself, to the eIolu-
sion Of others In case OF war.
The pope received Monday 1000
Spanish pilgrims. He afterward re-
ceived Emperor Williams envoy, to
whom he expressed the great
pleasure with which he regarded the
latest proof OF the emperor's az
lection and the excellent relations ex-
listing between Germany and the Vat
lean.
A dense fog prevails on the Irish
coast. The steamer Wisconsin was IN
able to land the mails at Queenstown.
In collision between the steamers
Shoreham and Coldstrup of Dover, the
former was sunk and seven persons were
drowned.
The correspondent OF the News at
Constantinople says: 1.-The Porte learns
the Lord Salisbury has Informed the
German government that II war shall be
occssioned by an attempt Of Russia to
occupy Bulgaria, England will send two
squadrons to the Black Sea, but that II
the occupation OF Bulgaria be abstained
will remain neutral.
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