San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

will shortly be started in Vienna.
The Ohio legislature reports adj
versely the 2-cent-a-mile railway
bill.
Mr.. S. Spencer st. John, English
minister to Mexico has left for Eng
land.
An Indian tribe is perishing of
virulent epidemic at Cold Lake, Man
itoba.
Extensive land slips have occurred
at Fleurier, a village of the Canton OF
Neufchatel
The vote in the West Virginia legis-
lature stands, Golf ~, Kenna AZ, ne
cessary to choice 10.
A monument to Father Matthew is
to be erected in Central Park, y. Y.
| by Catholic temperance societies.
Empress Frederick is about to COM
pile the memoirs of her late husband,
which will make four octave vol
| umes.
Orders have been issued on the
Pennsylvania road that no freight
except perishables shall travel on
sunday.
\ New York Chinaman has started
an evening school in New York City
to teach his countrymen the English
language.
The German missionaries have not
yet been released from Zanzibar, ow-
ing to hitch in the negotiations for
their ransom.
Lord Aylesbury has begun suit tor
divorce from his wife, who before her
marriage to the Marquis was known
as Dolly Lester.
Gen. Alger has bought the Pitts
burg and Lake Superior company's
iron mine for $500, 900, including 1900
acres of iron land.
EX-secretary Teller states that he
has no desire to enter the cabinet, and
so far as he knows, Harrison has no
desire that he should.
Some excitement has been caused
on the Isthmus during the past ten
days by canal rumOrs from Europe
and by local questions.
1t is officially announced that the
Westphalian and HanOverian armies
will be the opposing forces in the
coming military man9uvres.
The Baptist church is to found
large university either in New York |
or Washington city, the endowment |
fund OF which is to be $50, 600.
NJ. Rochefort has been challenged |
to fight a duel by Mr.. Pilotell, |
French artist residing in London, but !!
has refused TO accept the challenge.
The underground electric railway in
London will be only twelve feet below
the street level and the root will come
within about two feet of the surface.
Gen. Harrison was waited on YES
terday afternoon by the committee
appointed at the recent meeting of the
shipping and Industrial League at
Washington.
y company has been formed in New
York which proposes to make ma
chimes for the delivery of postage
stamps automatically by dropping a
coin in the slot.
The will of Lieut.. Gov. Mcdonald,
of Michigan, who was killed the other
day in railroad accident, left $780,
600 to his nephew, a ticket-taker in
Boston museum.
A tidal wave struck the French line
steamship La Gascoigne the day after
she left New York. Thousands of
tons of water fell on the steamers
deck. One sailor died from his in
juries.
An organization known as the Per-
sonal Rights League has been formed
in Chicago. Its object is to resist the
prohibition movement as a menace to
the rights guaranteed by the federal
government.
The trial of the Rt. Rev. Edward
King, bishop of Lincoln, England, for
practices is in progress be-
fore the Archbishop of Canterbury.
If King is condemned.a ritualistic Sc
cession is threatened.
Russian papers state that the Rus
sian branch of the English family of
Lesley has inherited in England G1O,-
600, 600, but the members have been
requested to become English subjects
before the money is paid.
a number of italian laborers have
arrived at Albuquerque, n. NJ, from
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts aud it
is supposed work will soon commence
on the eastern division of the road to !
a junction with the st. Louis and San
Francisco.
Alter the Wrong Man.
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