San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-03
TELEoRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

will be reopened Feb.7
The dispatch OF French squadron 10
Beyrout has been countermanded.
The Journal de st. Petersburg denies
that the Russian legation at Bucharest
has severed relations with Roumania.
The London Geological Society has
conferred the MurchisOn medal upon
DR.. Newberry, Of New York.
The Hungarian press, records with re-
gret an alarming increase 10 imnigra-
ton from Hungary to America.
The queen will hold drawing rooms In
Buckingham palace, February "a and
March ..
The bi-centenery of the founding OF
the Russisn.navy will be celebrated May
3, the birthday Of Peter the Great.
Herr Haupt has arrived In Berlin to
report to the chief Of police the details Of
the arrests at Zurich.
At a political meeting at Dundee the
Uniouist candidate for parliament was
Kissed and booted. The meeting broke
up In disorder.
The harbor Of Revel, Russia, Ia closed
by Ice, navigation IL suspended. Vessels
bound to that port are obliged to pro-
coed to Liberau.
The car has approved the plans for
new Notifications at Warsaw and for
tresses at Koono, Ossowetzk and Ba-
toum.
1t is reported that the copper ring has
captured the Gillian producers. The
price Of Chill bars has advanced four
pounds.
After quiet has been restored at the
Russian universities the government
will remove the chiefs Of departments
who proved obnoxious TO the students.
The Coptio Patriarch 10 about to send
a mission to the king and clergy OF
Abyssinia with the object OF preventing
war with the Italians.
N. Stourdz failed to obtain the wished
for guarantee OF Germany and Austria
for the territorial neutrality OF Rou-
mania.
Advices from Craeow assert that the
Russian government will soon order the
troops at Lublin to withdraw twenty
two miles further from the frontier.
1t is officially announced from Mssso.
wah that the Italians will occupy Saahi
tomorrow, and that Gen. San Mariana,
cOmmander-in-chief Of the italian ex-
peditiOnary corps, will transfer his head
Quars thither..
A report is current is diplomatic cir
cles at Vienna that ornaments still pro-
ceeding In the interior Of Russia will
shortly form the subject OF q formal in
quiry on the part Of Austria.
The Swiss Bundesrath has Informed
the states outside the Copyright Union
that an international bureau has been
formed to protect literary and artistic
property, and 1t will be ready to receive
their adhesion any time.
The French authorities stopped the
inquiry into the case OF Mcneil. The
man who was arrested on suspicion has
been released. The authorities are con-
WINGED that Mcneil was not murdered.
The prison officers have made no
change In their treatment OF Wilfred
Blunt. the distinguished prisoner Is
still confined In a cell, Notwithstanding
the advice Of the prison doctor that he
sent to the hospital.
1t Is reported that Bismarck In re-
cent conversation with an eminent
banker, expressed the conviction that
the international situation would IN
dergo prolonged but peaceful solution.
The new military bill now before the
German Reichstag states that the loan
asked is needed for arming zoo, Geo extra
troops. in order to be prepared before
hand for declaration OF war and to
avoid confusion.
Private advlces from the frontier say
the principal contractors OF Russia haye
been ordered to report what quantities
OF equipment and provisions they can
supply in an emergency.
Frank X. Stockton is still In Washing
ton and at work upon new novel,
which he thinks Is the best he has writ
ten. He says that 1t will have decided
plot and the scenes will be laid In the
North and 10 the South, near Mason
and Dixon's line.
Tolstoi has just pLblisded his thir-
teeDtb volume Of bis works, "Sur La
Vie." This last has been seized and
suppressed by the censor. Ii was done
upon demand OF the clergy.
G. NJ. Loomis, OF New Haven, Conn,
recently asserted that In the last %
years he had sold more than IL, 900 pi-
amos. He has since appealed TO the au-
thoritles for protection.
Senator Palmer's desk In the senate
chamber was covered with flowers last
Wednesday, which was bis birthday.
The senator Is So years old, and his
Michigan friends remembered him on
the occasion of the anniversary.