San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-08
Telegraphic Brevities.
The Nile is falling rapidly.

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The upper house of the Hungarian
diet has adopted the army bill.
Joseph J. Mcdowell, prominent
grain broker of st. Louis, is found
dead in his office.
A terrible storm has visited south
ern Hungary, demolishing many
houses.
Ex-Secretary Endicott, with his
successor, Secretary Proctor, paid a
visit to the president on Friday.
Over 81. 600, 900 of property has been
destroyed in Savannah, Ga, by the
fire which is still raging there.
The twenty-third anniversary of
the birth of the G.. A. r. was cele-
brated at Decatur, ILL.,, Saturday.
The semi-annual Mormon general
conference began at Salt Lake on
Saturday.
The restoration of friendly relations
between the members of the German
imperial families seems to be perfect.
News of rich placer diggings in
Bear Paw mountains, 80 miles north
of Fort Benton, Mont, has just been
received.
The Belgian government is prepar
ing circular convOking an interna-
tiOnal conference on the slave trade
to be held in Brussels.
The death is announced in st. Louis
of Count Armand Francois Robert
de Giverville, Il French nobleman
who came to this country about %
years ago.
Deputy Costa, a socialist. is SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment
for being concerned in the street riots
at Rome in December last.
There is a general shove of ice in
the river at Montreal, leaving con-
sidera BILE streak of open water. An
early opening of navigation is pre-
dicted.
Labor strikes are spreading in Ger
many; 5000 brick layers are out in the
northern districts, 800 tallors in Wal
burg, and 800 house painters in
Cologne.
The trouble between NJ. ROchefOrt
and NJ. Thieband has been amicably
settled by friends and the proposed
duel will not take place.
The barge Sunrise, bound from Nor
folk to New York with coal, anchored
in Delaware bay, during heavy gale
sunk. The captain, his wife and two
children and seaman were lost.
Telegraph wires are broken down
and all trains delayed along the Ches
apeake and Ohio and Richmond and
Danville roads by the recent storm.
Preparations are being made at the
San Francisco naval yard for the re-
ception of the sick and injured officers
of the crews of the ships wrecked at
Samoa.
Masked robbers entered the Office of
the Canadian Pacific and Dominion |
Express companies at Indian Head,
and placed a revolver at |
the head of the telegraph operator.
who suddenly blew out the light ard |
opened fire with his own revolver.
Bill Moran, desperate outlaw, the
terror of the Flat Top coal region, in |
after desperate fight. He put eight |
bullets into his captors before he was
overcome.
Pat Feeney, a popular Irish COM
edian, who not long ago gave $4,000 |
to the duchess of MarlbOrough's
fund for the reiefOf misery in Ireland,
Is now so reduced in circumstances,
owing to illness, that he depends on
a benefit at Dublin to keep him from
Mrs. Wilson, widely known by her
maiden name of Ida Lewis, the hero
me of Newport, has added another to
the long list of lives saved by her in
Newport HarbOr, that of her uncle, all
Did man of 20 years, who fell over
board from his boat From Lime Rock
lighthouse, of which she is the keep
er. she saw the accident and putting
out in her boat rescued him.