San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-04
Telegraphic Brevities.


Hon. John H. Pope, Canadian min
lister of railways, has just died.
Mr.. Martell the head of the great
distllery at Cognac, France, is dead.
Countess Josephine Radesky COM
mits suicide in Vienna, by shooting
herself.
A free bridge will be built across
the Tennessee river at Chattanooga,
at cost of $780, 900.
The prince of Wales has accepted
an invitation to drive with Mrs.
Mackey.
Ex-President Cleveland and party
will leave jacksonville, Fla, today
for the north.
1t is stated that British syndicate
has offered to buy the concession for
the building of the Simplon tunnel.
Statues of Prince Bismarck and
Herr Won Moltke are unveiled at Stuff
CART
The president received great many
callers on business yesterday, but the
rush was not so great as last week.
The Sultan of Morocco is to pay
personal indemnity to Great Britain
for the Cape JUDY affair.
The ten six-inch guns for the
Charleston, have been tested and
found perfect in every particular.
The rumor is current in Paris, that
Gen. Boulanger may be banished from
France by the government.
An extensive Nlhilist printing es-
20 III Iioonunro1 in,
Warsaw, and many connected with it
are arrested.
The widow of Stonewall Jackson
has been offered the postoffice either
at Richmond, or Charlotte, North
Carolina.
Arrangements are made in London
for a public debate between Henry
George and Samuel Smith, NJ. p,
some time in May.
The Queen of England sent cable
dispatch to Emperor William express
ing her sympathy for the Samoan dis
aster.
The Rev. John A. Maher, curate of
Lug Garcurran, Ireland has been serv-
ed with three summonses for offenses
under the crimes act.
Frederick Windsor, lately superin-
tendent of the fire department at st.
Johns, n. F., has eloped with Mrs.
Garrett, leaving a wife and four
children.
Mr.. Hanstedt, of JimmeneZ, Han
stedt & Co., of New York, represent
ing Hypolyte, says it is probable
peace will soon be declared in Hayti.
Edwin Booth was stricken with
paralysis during his appearance in
night, and is dangerously i'll. A later
every hope OF his recovery.
In compliance with the wishes of
the state council, the Hague parlia-
ment has agreed to the establishment
Of regency, owing to the unfitness OF
the king of Holland to reign.
Prof. Swift, of Warner Observatory,
Rochester, n. Y, has received tele-
gram from the Lick Observatory, in
California, announcing the discovery
by Prof Barnard of new comet.
The government of Trinidad, w. l.,
has subsidized a semi-monthly line OF
steamers between Spain and New
York, for the convenience of fruit
trade.
Editor Reber, of the State Tribune
of Charleston, w. Va was again at
tackled by Gov. Wilson, while he was
standing in a grocery store. The
Governor threatens him for the critic
ism on his actions which appeared in
his paper.
The Evangelical Alliance have pre-
pared a petition to the queen setting
forth that the federal government has
failed to do it's duty in the Jesuit mat
ter, and asking her majesty to inter-
pose in behalf of the PrOtestants of
Canada.
The German naval secretary said IN
the reichstag that the wrecks at
Samoa would he replaced as soon as
possible, as the United States govern
ment was about to send out three
cruisers, to take the place of those
they lost.
A fiendish attempt was made to
wreck the Pennsylvania limited ves-
thule passenger train at Louisville,
near Canton, night before last. The
train was unusually full. Eight
pieces of iron were tightly wedged in
to the switch. They Jared an east
bound train, which reported to the
operator, who investigated and pre-
vented an awful disaster.
At Work on the Lydecker Case.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 3.-Maj.
Davis Judpe Advocate of the I,y-