San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-24
Telegraphic Brevities.

pressed in Kansas City.
Mr.. Snowden, U. S. minister to
Greece, will sail in few days.
Great forest fires have been ragln g
in Prince Edwards island.
The Danish Rigsdat will open
October 9TH.
Robert Garrett has come back TO
Baltimore with restored health.
The New Mexico state constitutional
convention has closed.
King Menelek is preparing to be
crowned emperor Of Abyssinia.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in Biz
mingham, Eng
Mexican authorities find it hard
work to suppress brigandage.
Advices from the Congo state that
the Arabs maintain a cordial attitude
and navigation is not interrupted.
Project to establish a postal tele-
graph will be presented to Mexican
congress.
Stevedores on the East Indian dock
at Liverpool have again gone on a
strike.
Cattle afflicted with pleuro pneu-
monia are being killed in New Jer-
sey.
Snow is is inches deep on the sum-
nit Of Mt. Washington in the White
mountains.
Several of the bodies of the party
drowned in the Leo, in Lake Erie,
were robbed.
Pope congratulates Cardinal Man
ming upon his successful efforts IN the
strike settlement.
Mr.. Gladstone receives a deputa-
ton of liberals from Hyde at his
place at Hawarden
A total of 1885 deaths from the
cholera are reported from Messopo-
tamia.
st. Louis millers ask NJ. X. & T. for
same rates on flour to common points
in Texas as on wheat.
Several Italians have been pros
pecting at Pearsall, Texas, with view
to buying lands for grape culture.
The will of the late Hon. S. s. Cox
is filed for probate. He leaves every
thing to his wife.
Funds for the Worlds fair at St.
Louis have reached $4,000 OF the
100000 guaranteed. Total will be
nearer S6,000,0O0.
Two hundred pounds of the richest
gold-bearlng quartz yet taken from
the Ishpeming, Mich, gold mine are
brought into town.
Gov. Lowry receives a letter from
Mississippian who is the father of
frinIntS avnlai ninn flot ha ig
and desiring to know if the state pro-
vides any bonus for such service.
A l5-year old girl Carrie Meyers,
has unaided, designed and executed
the frescoing for a number OF the
finest rooms in the Southern hotel, st.
Louis.
A party of thirteen going to pic
mic at Erie, Pa, were driven over an
embankment by drunken driver
and all were badly injured. Two
will die.
Jack Benton, cowboy, corralling |
cattle at San Carlos agency, had his |
horse disembowelled by an unruly |
steer, and was dangerously wounded, |
by the horns being stuck in his own |!
n eek.
AT a party on the farm of Sam
Jones, colored, near Culpepper, Va,
a negro woman kissed a coIored man,
her husband seized gun.
shot and killed her.
1t is said the Spanish gunboat Coo
odrilo was fired upon by natives on
the Moorish coast and that the gun
boat fired back destroying some hou-
SEES.
H. NJ. Flagler. the standard oil
nagnate, who runs the finest private
ear on wheels, has given orders for
'he most magnificent steam yacht
hat can he built.
Sallie Lyle. a 14-year-old girl at
NorristOwn, Pa, was struck and
killed by an express train as she
md her sister were walking the
rack. She seized her sister and
pushed her off, sacrificing her own
ife.
Samuel Murray of Louisiana, No.
S shot and killed by his own son,
u self defense. Murray while drunk
ttempted to brain his younger SON
nd then attacked the other.
Fighting for the Fair.
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