San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-14
Telegraphic Breyities.

III BRUSSELS, Gnent ana Llege.
The new City hall of Waco, which
cost 500, 900, is dedicated.
Total number of dead by the
Armagh school train disaster i'm Ire
land is 75.
Mrs. Harrison, accompanied by her
father and grandchildren, left June
IA for Cape May.
Cardinal Manning has entered the
25th year of his episcopacy. He is 81
years old.
The American seed trade associa-
ton is holding annual convention in
Washington.
The Iowa state bankers association,
representing S40,OOO,OOO capital, is in
session at Cedar Rapids.
st. Louis horse and mule market
for first-class stock is firm, and in
good demand.
The police discredit the report of
cartridge being thrown at Mr.. Glad
stone in Cornwall.
Mr.. Gladstone addressed 5000 per-
sons in the market place at Falmouth,
June 10th.
President Carnot presents the new
arch bishops of Paris, Lyons and Bor-
deauX, with their hats.
The Montenegrin army will be reor-
ganiZed and put in readiness for SER
vice at the shortest notice.
One of the most tremendous thun-
der and rain storms known for years
has visited Jefferson, Texas.
The Duke of Portland was married
to Miss Dallas Yorke, June II, in Lon
don.
On June 10th, 1000 persons Wis
tied the Paris exposition $4,000 as
cended the Eiffel tower.
LIE Paris says France has given
assent to the conversion of the Egyp-
tian preference debt.
The sister of Mrs. Leland Stanford
marries David Hughes at the STAN
ford residence, San Francisco.
The 18th annual tournament of the
Iowa firemen's association is in prog
ress at Council Bluffs.
The Southern Hedge company, an
organization for substituting hedges
for farm fences, lis organizing the
state of Mississippi.
The East st. Louis Dressed Beef Co.
has sold out entirely TO the Fair
banks Canning Co., of Chicago, for
$500, 900.
The rainfall at Tyler, Tex, in the
last few days has been fearful. The
artificial lake owned by the Piscator
ial Society was swept away.
Western Pennsylvania miners order
a general strike June 10, against the
company stores, where operators in
sist on the miners buying.
The Illinois state board of agricul
ture has secured flock of African
ostriches as novelty for the coming
fair.
The peace conference to be held in
Paris June 90 and 80 creates great in
terest among the human itarians in
Europe.
The lord provost of Edinburgh, re.
fuses to confer the freedom of the city
on Mr.. Parnell. The senior magis-
trate will officiate.
The hearing of Mrs. Maybrick's
case in Liverpool is concluded. She
is committed for trial at the next as
sizes.
The Methodist conference in Lon
don has decided to join the move
ment in favor of an encumenical con-
ference in America in 1891
Sitting Bull, the famous and VEN
cradle Sioux chieftain, has been very
i'll of pneumonia and is gradually
sinking.
The steel torpedo depot ship Vul.
can is launched at Portsmouth, Eng.
She is the largest vessel the govern
ment has ever built, of $500 burden
and $4,000 horsepower.
Wyman w. Stanley, major of the
1st regiment state troops, was killed
by Chicago & Grand Trunk train
three miles west of Lansing, Mich,
while riding home.
The unification of all the Edison
Electric Light companies is COM
pleted. The new company is known
as the Edison General Electric Co.,
capitalized at So, 100000.
Rain Stopping Work,
JOHN SHOWN, June 14.-RaIu has