San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Miss Hariett E. Coffin is still after
Kyrle Bellew with sharp stick.
Cleveland ssloonists very generally
obey the Sunday closing law.
There were 1890 emigrants landed at
Castle Garden last Saturday.
Dupuis and Hsbert, Paris art critics,
fought duel and Dupuis was killed.
Lester Wallack's long promised bene-
fit takes place in New York May 81.
lola, the novelist, has just completed
his 4Sth year.
The largest grain fleet that ever left
Chicago at the opening OF navigation,
left that port Sunday night.
Ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, and
the duke of Marlborough were in the
same steamer from New York Sunday.
Some sanguine Tammanites are en-
deavoring TO start Hewitt boom in
New York.
Chief Arthur thinks that the Boston
stockholders Of the 20" will bring things
to time in few days.
No reference was made to the be-
trothal question in the interview be-
tween Bismarck and Queen Vic.
sections. so says the Washington weather
crop bulletin.
Clearing house receipts show a falling
of In Galveston business Of 1872 per cent
below corresponding period OF last year.
Mrs. Brown Potter is doing poor BUSH
ness In California and getting poorer
stage notices.
In the recent examination st St. Louis
for cadetships, not candidate for An
napolis naval academy appeared.
st. Louis is looking hopefully for a big
gas fight between the Lsclede and the
Trust, which the Laclede refused to join.
The crown prince of Germany has
four sons and is expecting a daughter
shortly.
Freddy Gebhardt has purchased
$500 acre ranch in Lake County, Cali
fornia, for fancy horse raising.
Advices from north Texas show
greater losses by high water than was
at first reported.
New York has started kick against
the high prices charged for admission to
base ball grounds.
The Gutenberg diet meets May 8, to
grant subsidy for port at Nodenham
to compete with Bremerhaven.
The pope's brief Is the theme of dis
Gus sion on all Catholic and Irish circles
in Groat Britain.
Large crowds visited the Unit ed
States war ships Ossipee, Galena and
Yantic while they were lying of Mo-
bile.
The Sunday snow storm was quite
general in Minnesota, Dakota and Wis
consin. Thermometer stood about
freezing point.
The prison school at Trenton, N. j.,
ia marked success. Those who have
attended show marked improvement in
behavior. 1t will be continued.
Dixon, Illinois, has her hydrants shut
| OF by the Water company for refusal to
pay rental. Insurance men have been
notified.
A Pittsburg, Pa, boy chastised by his
mother for refusing to do his chores
went into the wood-shed and hung him.
self.
Assistant Cashier Chas. Il. De Baum,
of the National Park bank, New York,
has got away with $95,0C0 and the d.
rectOrs are mum.
The leading New York journals. IN
CIuuluS Cuui llee, w OIlu huu L TlDUn6,
have advanced Sunday rates to cents.
The Herald charges cents.
A company is 10 be formed for the i'm
provement Of navigation in the Pearl
river between Jackson, Miss, and it's
mouth.
Coupons of the International and
Great Northern railway have defaulted
and receiver is talked Of. Controversy
will arise.
The state democratic convention of
New Hampshire endorses Cleveland.
Col. Noyes refused to serve as dele
gate.
The question OF color in the Episcopal
churches of South Carolina, threatens to
dismember some of the churches, par
ticularly DR., POrter's, Of Charleston.
The Massachusetts republican con-
vention to nominate delegates to the
national convention, went wild over
Blaine. No such scene was previously
witnessed.
Surgeon Remus Persons, U. S. N, has
been ordered to take temporary charge
OF the Army and Navy hospital, at hot
Springs, Ark.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, writes that
his becoming an honorary member of
the G. A. r. was merely an expression
of his appreciation of the contributions
OF Union soldiers to the Confederate
Home, at Richmond. He says there is
no animosity between the northern and
southern soldiers.
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