San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-15
TELEGRAPHIc BREVITIES.

co. reduces street price 10 TWO cents.
Stephen A. Douglas, son of the lit
tie giant, is an enthusiastic supporter
of Judge Gresham.
The Shermanites report the capture
of the New York delegation for their
candidate.
II. Plank, of San Francisco, is elect
ed president of the International Iy-
biographical Union.
Miss Jennie Chamberlain the Amer
lean beauty has sailed for Europe.
New Orleans custom house wants
congress to appropriate Sl67 $50 for re-
pairs.
Baltimore's recent census, including
late additions to the city is 4l6, sos.
OF these GA 500 are colored.
Allan, of Mississippi, introduces a
bill into congress practically abolish
ing fourth class mail matter.
The lord mayor of London, lunches
the delegates to the Protestant Mis-
sionary conference.
Eady and Rosette, Indian half
breeds hanged at Regina, Ont, for
the murder of northwest settler.
The Ascot gold cup was won yester-
day by Captain Machelps chestnut
colt, Timothy.
The Queensland ministry has re-
signed, and McHuraith is trying to
form a cabinet.
The French senate rejects the bill
of the finance minister, making July
1st the opening of the fiscal year.
Seventeen-year locusts have made
their appearance in Illinois, and are
expected in certain sections of Wis
consin, Michigan and Indiana.
Count Zedlitz Trutzscheler, presi-
dent of the province of Posen, is men,
toned as probable successor to
Minister Won Putkamer.
John Lawrey, West Point, ILL.,, kills
A. p. Clark and his own wife whom
he suspected of undue intimacy with
the former.
The double Garfield wedding of
which so much has been published,
came off according to programme at
Mentor yesterday.
A quantity of dynamite stolen from
dered not to pay rent, or they would
be dynamited.
John Bigelow, American commits
sioner to the Brussels exhibition has
arrived. His address, ne says, is
Bigelow, Brussels.
Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, has APP
pointed S. G.. Root, of Nebraska, dele
gate to the national prison congress,
which meets in Boston, July IA.
Five horses in pasture near Marshall,
Texas, knocked senseless by the light
ming, recovered, but are all stone deaf,
otherwise they are as well as ever.
King Kalakua, in opening the Haw-
ain Legislature, refused to deliver the
speech prepared for him by the minis
tiers.
A three-hours' rain at Fresnolo,
Mex, causes the death of three per-
sons by drowning and falling of
houses.
Mr.. w. a. Elliott and Miss Maggie
Stuart drowned at Harpersville, Ala,
by their horse taking fright and run
ming into the river.
The deaf and dumb institution at
Jackson, ILL.,, with 600 pupils in at
tendance closes its exercises for the
current year. 1t is second to none in
the world.
The governor of Jalisco, Mex. has
issued orders prohibiting the deliv-
cry of freight unless tax receipt is
shown. This is equivalent to a state
custom house establishment.
Prominent citizens of Moline, Ill,
are in Washington to urge a govern
ment appropriation of 1915, 600 for the
rebuilding of the Rock Island dam,
washed out in the late rise in the Mis-
sissippi.
In a quarrel over 90 cents discrep-
ancy in the sale of cattle at Las We
gas, n. NJ, revolvers and winchesters
were freely used, and when the smoke
of Is shots had cleared away it was
found that one man was killed, one
MORALLY wounded, one had his eve
shot out, and another his arm torn.
The steamer General Terry, with
four companies of the United States
infantry on board, bound for Texas,
struck one of the stone piers of the
Omaha bridge and sunk in less than
five minutes. No lives were lost, but
the engineer who stuck TO his post
like little man, was standing in the
water up to his shoulders when the
pilot showed her nose against the
shore.
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