San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-09
TelegIaphic Brevities.

~ dhCh III
Peruvian congress has been convok-
ed for May 20.
A perfect panic prevails near Perci-
val, Iowa, on account of mad dogs.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, is
very ill.,. His trouble is erysipelas.
Spring rains have at last set in and
will exiting uish the prairie fires in Da-
kota.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week end
ing April 6, was S366,97S.
By the great fire at Surat, India,
Il, 900 persons are rendered homeless,
and cholera has broken out.
The Ameer of Bokhara is about to
send his son to Russia to be edu-
Gated.
The robbers who held up the train
in Canon Diablo, New Mexico, a
month ago, have been captured.
The duke of Nassau has accepted
the regency of the duchy of Luxem-
bourg.
The worst storm ever remembered,
set in at Fortress Monroe, Va, last
Saturday.
The war between the Merchants
Bridge Terminal Co. and the Trans
fer r, r. Co. wages warmer in st.
Louis.
The secretary of state is informed
that Ecuador will be represented at
| the conference of American states to
meet in Washington.
Officials in charge of the Eiffel
tower at Paris say that from the top
of the tower view can be obtained
of 40 miles.
The emperor of Germany will make
| the voyage to England on board the
imperial yacht Hoolhenzlern, which
also took him to Russia.
Louis Napolean, Sing Sing con-
Wet, has just escaped from that pris-
on after serving 10 years of 20 years
sentence.
The Albany, n. Y. Evening Jour
nal has Just been purchased by Mr..
William Barnes, a grandson of Thur
| low Weed, who founded the paper.
The Tennesseeans are mad at Gov
ernOr Taylor for vetOing a bill for the
removal and rebuilding of the state
penitentiary.
Miss Ella White, an Elmira music
teacher, is arrested for defrauding
various people in that city of sums
aggregating $4,000 on fictitious min
ing and silk stock.
Harry D. Darby, registry clerk in
the postoffice at Washington, is ar.
rested for rifiing valuable registered
letters.
The department of state has been
informed by the United States con-
sui at Ottawa that the licenses tc
fishing vessels will continue to be is.
sued this year by the Canadian gov
eminent on the same terms as last
year.
Madame Lehomme Bouglinvale, al
educated and refined woman abou1
20 years of age, a passenger on the
French steamer La GascOgne to New
York, is found to be insane. A phys
ician says her malady is incurable
She comes of excellent Irish family.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Parks, inspector il
the New York customs, seized from 6
Mrs. Davis about three pounds o.
wooden yarn, which she had quilted
into one of her petticoats, Is yards o
dress goods in another, and twenty
yards of flannel wrapped round he
little daughter.
Since the suspension of the work OF
the canal there have been over 5000
laborers exported from the isthmus
Some deaths from starvation are re
ported. The British consul has beef
trying to relieve suffering. Coco
order prevails.
The following telegram has beer
received from the Norfolk Navy yard
"A northeast gale set in about mid
night Saturday. The water rose sud
denly and was higher than eve
known. The Pensacola was lifted
| from the blocks. Divers report Their
is no injury to the bottom"
At the meeting of the Ohio Societ.
in New York, Gen. Henry L. Burnett
severely criticized the coast defense
: and asserts that should the countr.
get into a difficulty with foreigl
power, the army and navy would no
: be equal to any such emergency.
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