San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-28
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WEDNESDAY MARCH, 81, 'ss.
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Matamoras ships 70 bales Of cotton t.
Monterey.
No new developments In the Burling
ton strike.
Pipe laying for the Kyle water works
commenced yerterday.
Several Of the leaders Of the assault
on Llera have been captured.
Mercantile library building, Peoria,
| ILL.,, burned; 10000 volumes saved In q
damaged condition.
The reported marriage of the Indian,
Chaska, with Miss Fellows, is very
probably q canard.
Congressman Mills is not nearly so
sick as the sensational reporters would
make it appear.
Col. Fred Grant scores Badeau most
numerically and gives the direct lie to
some of his statements.
The German papers affirm that pres
ent movements in France tend to either
reaction or revolution.
Two hundred barrels OF whisky, the
property Of the absconding state treas
| urer of Kentucky have been levied upon.
A Gibraltar steamship arrived at New
York Sunday, with j cases Of smallpox
on board.
A French government agent is now in
California studying the diseases OF the
grape vines.
San Angelo reports late planted fruit
trees doing well, and no injury as yet to
the fruit crop from frost.
Cleveland recommends congress to
prohibit the importation Of swine from
Germany aud France.
Paddy Mcdonald knocked Mike Car
roll out In TWO rounds at Tower, near
Duluth.
The Woman's Board OF Missions for
the Presbyterian church for the south
west Is in session at Leavenworth.
The trial of Reuben Stillwell, charged
with killing the Porter Bros. at Bryan,
results in acquital.
Gold has been discovered in the Nipis.
sing district, Township Of Carter, Ont,
within q mile of the Canadian Pacific
track. The ore assays $500 per ton.
At s a. m. yesterday the powder mills
at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. exploded, doing
much damage. Two wOrkmen were
torn to atoms.
A Car load Of cotton seed has been Or
dered for free distribution among the |
farmers OF Tom Green county this
spring.
Smallpox is reported spreading in |
st. Louis. There are Is cases 10 the |
hospital, six Of them reported In two |
days.
The new life saving station At the |
mouth OF the Brazos river has just been
and turned over to Uncle
Sam.
The labor party of Alabama out--loose
from democracy and giving the cold
to republicans come out with Q
party of their own.
The Empress Victoria in reply to ad-
dresses presented to her by seventeen
Of which she Is patroness,
says her foremost and most sacred duty
will be the care Of her suffering hus-
band.
The appropriations for Texas water
ways and harbors, are. for Galveston
$500, 600; Sabine Pass $250,0OO; Arkansas
Pass Sl00, COO; and for Galveston bay
100000. This bill is the largest of the
lind ever brought in.
Kyle puts in nomination, the follow
ng, for city officers: G. d. Hargis,
mayor; w. G. Weatherford, marshall; DR..
Martin, II. G. Wallace, G. l.. Sledge, S.
;. Glascock and w. K. Roach, aldermen.
A dispatch from Tangier says: Moth
ng is known here regarding the report
hat the sultan Of Morocco had proposed
hat Spain act az mediator in the dis
ute between Morocco and America"
Advices from Massowah say tn at an
arly attack by the Abyssinisns 10 ex-
'ected, Ras Aloula, the Abyssinian
eneral. has arrived at Ghenda. King
ohm is at Aznefas.