San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-25
Telegraphic Brevities.


The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
has started a locomotive firing school.
The death is announced of Farnie,
the librettist, in London.
The Guayaquil government is pro-
hibiting Chinese immigration.
Cotton is to be planted largely in
the state Of Vera Cruz, Mex.
The King of Greece and family are
in Vienna.
Sultan of Morocco makes state entry
into Tangier with 10000 followers.
The St. Louis expert opened So oys-
ters in 60 minutes.
Mississippi crop reports show inn
| provement in cotton.
A Harrison and Morton club of 400
colored men is organized at Green.
vile, Ala.
Locomotives are cheaper now than
than ever before, one can now be had
for SO, 900, formerly costing $4,000
The Graphic, a New York after
noon pictorial paper, has suspended
and is in the hands Of the sheriff.
Emperor Francis Joseph desires
| that official circles cease talking about
his coronation at Prague.
The italian government has ordered
| from Krupp number of masked
| towers for the defence of the Alps.
Governor Camano of Guaoaquil has
ninety days leave of absence to attend
the convention in Washington.
Distinguished visitors and dele
gates to the coming Spanish-Ameri-
can conference have arrived in New
York.
Gen. Powell, of Illinois, and A. B.
Williams, of Kansas, are possible
successors of ex-Commissioner Tan
ner.
Joseph Kemp, aged 70 years, is res
cued from the landslide wreck at
Quebec after being under it los
hours.
The Matamoras & Matsuhla railroad
in Mexico opens a rich mineral and
agricultural country, where there is
also much stock raised.
1t is rumored that Count Won Num-
ster, German ambassador to France.
wishes to resign on account of ill
health.
Two hundred and TWEEN ty-nine cre-
dentials of delegates to the deep water
convention at Topeka are filed with
secretary of state.
Crapville, Ala, cotton mills are
paying one-siXteenth of cent more
for cotton in cotton wrapping than in
jute,
Baseball-Pittsburg Is; Washing
ton s. New York Is; Indianapolis -.
Cleveland 6; Philadelphia 5. Boston
7; Chicago5.
Two children of six and nine years
while alone in house at Frederick, |
Md, lighted the fire with kerosene
and were burned to death.
George w. Howard, of Evansville, |
Ind, was elected Grand Chief at the
recent meeting of the Brotherhood of |
Railway Conductors.
Dutch Parliament will allow ves-
sells in coast trade in the Dutch East |
Indies sailing under a foreign flag |
to ship cargoes of sugar cane.
Syrians and Turks are coming in |
to Mexican ports seeking to make
their way into the United States
overland.
Mr.. T. V. Luster of Tennessee is
released from prison in Panama,
Mex, where he spent 1876 days for
having killed a Mexican in self de-
Tense. Evidence is entirely in his
favor.
A fifteen-year old colored girl is
found on an unfrequented road near
Evansville, Tenn, with her throat
cut. A white man is arrested on sus-
picion.
1t is said that Mr.. w. HI. Smith,
first lord Of the treasury, anonymous
ly paid for church recently erected
at Portsea, Eng, at cost of e22,OO6.
Gen. Boulanger and his adherents,
though keeping up bold front, are
much discouraged by the steadiness
of republican feeling in France, as re-
vealed by the recent elections.
Tommy Warren, Of Los Angeles.
and Frank Murphy, of Birmingham,
Eng, fought to finish at the Cali
fornia Athletic club, and the latter
was knocked out in the twenty-eighth
round.
General Boulanger declares the
government has stolen votes, that the |
republican majority would prove I'M
manageable and the country would
soon be calling him to power.
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