San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The fiestas of Montclova, Mex,
have commenced.
Jay Gould and family arrived yes
terday at Saratoga.
The yacht Minerva has left the
Clyde for Boston.
Parties returning from Mexico re-
port yellow fever in the state of Vera
Cruz.
Ninty deaths from cholera occurred
in Hong Kong during the week pre-
ceeding July 2.
The Texas railroad meeting in N.
Y. has adjourned. Nothing but routine
business was transacted.
The notorious bandit, Joe Barber is
captured By Capt. Charles LAHORE, of
the 1. II. police near Vinita.
l.. S. Elmer, who murdered Mary
Merbel, at Wappeton, Oak, was
lynched by a mob of 100 men.
The municipal council of Paris has
granted ground upon which to con-
struct the jaws Atlantic balloon.
Their Graces of Marlborough have
had their marriage recorded in Lon
don, and the legality established.
A thousand miners, employed in the
coal mines at st. Etienne, France,
have struck. tits expected the strike
will spread.
Mr.. Dean, an Englishman, formerly
Gently killed in the Congo state in an
elephant charge.
While blowing on one of the his
torical mounds on his fathers farm at
Delton, Wis, Sidney Meyers comes
upon petrified human body. ~
The report of the currency commits
sion is nearly finished. 1t is expected
that it will give the bi-metallic move
ment in England a great impetus.
Mr.. JOS. E. Brosig, mayor of New
Laredo, Mex who was arrested and
held, charged with embezzlement of
city funds, has been released by order
of president Diaz.
The people of Lakeview, Chicago,
were startled yesterday by the loud
report of an explosion. The frag-
ments of an exploded gas pipe bomb
were discovered on the sidewalk.
Mr.. Randall continues to improve
rapidly. He will leave for Wayne,
near Philadelphia, today, with ply
sician and his wife and daughter. A
private car is at his disposal by the
Pennsylvania railroad.
James Reagan, a prominent young
man of Warsaw, Ill.,, was married
about two weeks ago to Miss Ella
Vincent, an estimable young lady.
He was found few days ago shot,
and his bride in the death agonies Of
poison. 1t is supposed they quarreled
and suicided.
A scientist calculates with great
precision what a musquito could do if
it were as large as a human being.
There is no utility in such figures. A
musquito can do about 400 times too
much now.-Baltimore American.
In spite of the popular belief, it
isn't true that the rain falls alike on
just and the unjust. The just gener-
ely get the most of the shower be-
cause the unjust have coolly walked
off with their umbrellas.-Detroit
Free Press.
Emperor William, accompanied by
King Oscar and Crown Prince Gustof,
of Sweden, Prince Henry of Prussia
ana COunG herDerU BlSmarcK drove TO
a number of points of interest yester-
day morning in Stockholm.
J. P. Johnson Howard, a negro,
whose reputed wealth gained him the
title of 1.-the black prince" in N. Y,
and who has for many years been &C
tive in Brooklyn politics, was yester-
day imprisoned for perjury.
Miss Clemenz, a wealthy New York
lady, left Connahook Park in a cabin
boat to Newport, r. L. The boat was
upset in a squall, and though the
captain dived until exhausted, to
rescue her, the craft went down, and
she was drowned.
Charles Fredericks, a German, liv-
ing in Chicago with his wife in 1886,
was badly injured in the Haymarket
riot and reported killed. A year af-
ter his wife married q man named
King. Fredericks now appears and
demands his wife, who refuses to live
with him and clings to king.
The king of Sweden is expected to
arrived in st. Petersburg, August 8.