San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
Telegraphic Brevities.

sue bonds for S25, 900 for building.
M. Durnovo, director of charities,
will probably succeed Count Tolstoi.
The senate committee will expedite
its labors in order to conclude inquiry
of the Boulanger case.
The statement that NJ. Gounod was
coming to this country, is denied by
the great composer himself.
The houses of l6 members of the
Boulangerist party at Neuilly, have
been searched by the police.
The main building the Lut heran
Orphans home, at Salonople, Pa, is
destroyed by fire. No one hurt.
1t is said that General Revino has
received charter for q railroad from
the City of Mexico to Matamoras.
May Goth has been set down for the
trial of those concerned in the alleged
electric sugar frauds in New York.
Seventy families are rendered home
less by fire which swept over the
subur ban village of Moreland in Chi
cago.
The senate committee investigating
the interstate commerce law resumed
its labOrs in New York yesterday
morning.
The pallium was conferred yester-
day upon Archbishop Jannssen, in
New Orleans, by Cardinal Gibbons, of
Baltimore.
The Kentucky associations spring
meeting which had been in progress
at Lexington for twelve days closed
yesterday.
A conflict occurred between strikers
and the military at Essen, Germany,
in which several of the former were
killed and wounded.
Robert Walter Weir, \. A, U. 8.
A., the venerable painter and profess
sor of drawing, at West Point, died in
New York in his seth year.
In the election fraud cases at Little
Rock, Ark, the jury announced their
inability to arrive at verdict and
were discharged by the court.
A large party of Pine Ridge Indians
led by Grass Hopper, have come into
the Tongue river, Mont, to get up a
sun dance among the Cheyennes.
The twenty-eighth international
convention of the Young Mems Chris
tian association met in Philadelphia
yesterday: 1000 delegates are present.
The steamer City of Paris, of the
Inman line, has broken all records
from Queenstown. Her corrected
time is five days, % hours and seven
minutes.
The argument in the big land suit
of the state of Texas versus the q. II.
and S. A. Railroad company, was con-
cluded yesterday and taken under ad-
visement by Judge Key.
Mrs. Carrie Farrell, wife of Sib-
ley, Iowa, farmer, was foully MUIR
dered by some unknown parties,
while she was riding on horseback to
visit her parents two miles away.
A storm which had been gathering
force since last Saturday reached its
elimination in heavy gale mt st.
Paul, Mimi, yesterday, and in great
measure all over Dakota, Manitaba
and Minnesota.
A glass coal oil lamp exploded in
the hands of Mrs. Catherine Barkins,
at Hollidaysburg, Pa, setting fire to
her night clothes, and she was burn
ed to death despite her husbands he
roic efforts to save her.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, DR.. Scott, a
wealthy physician of Pittsburg, alb
ducts his son from his wife, who had
left him twelve years ago, and mar
ried a carpenter named Welshone.
The boy was bell boy at the Grand
hotel.
With reference to the interstate
commerce investigation, President
Chas. Francis Adams, of the Union
Pacific road, thinks that a common
railroad law between Canada and the
United States and a legalized pool
would be good thing.