San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-05
Telegraphic Brevities.

The Georgia farmers are organizing
to kill the Bagging Trust.
The dressed beef bill is killed in
Wisconsin,.
The report of the death of the King
of A byssinia is confirmed.
Earthquake shocks have been ex-
perienced in Cuba.
Boulanger paid visit yesterday to
NJ. Berneart, the Belgian prime
minister.
Mr.. Robt. II. Lincoln will sail on his
English mission about the 18th of
May.
Rains, which have been of great
benefit to the crops, have fallen
throughout New South Wales.
Congressman Breckenridge is assist
ing in the search for the assassin of
Clayton in Arkansas.
There is great excitement i'm Louis
vile, KY, over the natural gas finds
in Meade county, lying 80 miles west
of that city.
The government of Chill has formal
ly signifed its intention to participate
in the congress of American nations
to be held in WashiD gton this year.
Mr.. Robert Garrett has returned to
his home of Uplands ear Catonsville,
Baltimore county, Md. He looks pale
and ill.
Edwin Booth has in great measure
recovered from his stroke of partial
paralysis, which the doctors say is
due TO excessive smoking.
The British man-of-war, Calliope,
which escaped destruction in the cy-
clone at Apia, has arrived in Sidney,
n. S. w. She left Samoa on the 2lst
of March.
The French chamber of deputies
of the bureau for the purpose of elect
ing a committee on the position of
Gen. Boulanger.
Asa Kellogg, who suicided in st.
Louis on Sunday by taking laudanum,
left note in his room which read as
follows: 1.-THE world is losing game
and I've had enough of it. A fool is
as well off dead as alive"
The University of Pennsylvania
has lately received various gifts of
money, historical documents, etc.,
among them an autograph letter of
Henry Clay.
There is a rumor in London that
Count Herbert Bismarck is in love
with a young English girl whom ne
met in Berlin last summer and on
whom his father severely frowns.
The house of lords elected the Earl
of Morley liberal chairman of COM
mittees, rejecting the marquis of Sal
isbury's candidate, Lord Balfour.
The Peruvian ministry has resign
ed on account of the impossibility to
conciliate the minority in respect to
the payment of Peruvian bond
holders.
The fine residence of Mr.. L. H.
Drake, at Dallas, is burned to the
ground, he and his daughter, who
were the only occupants barely es-
capped with their lives.
Many Nihilists have been arrested
at Wilma, in Russia. 1t is learned that
the bombs discovered at Zurich were
intended to be used during the czar's
visit to Berlin.
The coffin containing the remains of
Crown Prince Rudolf will soon be
placed between the sarcophagus of
Maria Theresa and that of the EN-
peror Macmillan of Mexico.
Canadian Orangemen in mass meet
ing have resolved that a Protestant
League, embracing every munich
pality in the Dominion should be Or
ganized.
Thieves broke into the old state
house at New Haven, Conn, and en-
tering the rooms of the New Haven
Historical society, carried away the
sword of Admiral Foote, held as a
relic. 1t was studded with jewels
and precious stones valued at $4,000.
The recent hurricane in the South
Pacific ocean swept over 1900 geo.
graphical miles, embracing in it's
track the Society group ofislands. The
American ship Red Cross was
wrecked at Raratongo. The crew was
saved. The American ship Ada Owen
was wrecked at Onara.
Labor Strikes Still on.
BUFFALO, April 5.-The three labor