San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-24
Telegraphic Breyities.


great hospitality In Hayti.
Russell Harrison is visiting Colonel
Kerens in st. Louis.
Great interest is being taken in the
iron market just now.
Sixteen miners are buried alive in
a mine in California.
Three more Austrian minister have
the influenza.
Right Rev. Joseph Barber Light
foot, bishop of Durham, is dead.
The Bulgarian budget shows a de-
ficiency of 81 100000.
The remains of Henry Grady will
be Inferred tomorrow, Christmas day.
The Mexican press association ban
quet their retiring president.
Slavin challenges Sullivan to a fight
either in America or Australia.
A y hours international go-as-you-
| please walk is started at Pitts burg,
Pa.
Jake Kilrain and Felix Vanguelin
will have siX-rOund glove contest
ia New Orleans January, 10.
Toledo and Rochester are ADM tied
to theAmericanBase BallAssociation.
| Other cities and towns want to get
| in.
Editor West, of the Chicago Times,
| is convicted of fraudulent over issue
of the cOmpapy's stock. He is given
! five years and fine of $1,000.
Elk U. S. states marshal F. H.
March will be the chief of Chicago
police, vice Geo. Hubbard who is
reduced to captain.
The president was invited to tlN
dinner of the New England society
in Philadelphia but could not at
tend.
Two lads II and Is years of age be-
came involved in quarrel at Mead
vile, Mo-, and the younger cut up the
other with knife.
Senior Gomez, Portuguese minister
of foreign affairs, will be urged to con-
sent to International arbitration in
the African territory dispute.
A committee appointed by the
French government will examine
plans tor a bridge between Dover and
Calais.
The anarchist, Frattini, who threw
a bomb from the chamber of deputies
into the Piazzi Callona, Rome, in
August last, was sentenced today to
fifteen years imprisonment. AS he
was led from the dock he cried:
Long live anarchy"
New YORK can take the cake for
the epizotic and the fog but the
Worlds Fair is beyond the reach of
her cable tow.
The Randall club of Pittsburg will
attend Governor CampbeIl's inaugu-
ration at Columbus. This is fitting.
Randall was the exponent of protec-
ton among the democracy in congress
and Campbell was elected as protec-
ton democrat.
THE defeat of the tenure of Office
act does not please even those who
voted for it, A man appointed to
office should hold position for some
definite term, and should be secure in
that position until that term expires
unless he is removed for cause suffi-
cent to GUST him had he been elected
to the same office. speaking of this
the Nebraska Journal says.
''There is no use trying to argue
around that proposition. If this policy
is carried out by both political par
ties in good faith, hereafter, the
country will be better governed and a
member of a new administration will
not be made candidate for the lun-
attic asylum by the pressure made on
him to turn out hundred thousand
men from government positions the
first week of his rule and appoint
hundred thousand others in their
places"
Correct your are Mr.. Journal. but
there is unofficial term to most of the
appoin tive offers.
, JANUARY begins the first mum Der of
the 18th volume of Scribner's maya
zine. Expiation, a new serial by Oc-
tave Thanet, is begun and Harold |
Frederic's In the Valley continued. |
Electricity in the Household, is a sci
entific chapter by the chief electri-
clan of the Edison laboratory, and
Water Storage in the West, gives IL
Illustrations and descriptions of dams
and the building of them in California
and Arizona. The Beauty of Spanish
Women, Is from the pen of traveller
and ardent admirer, Henry Finck, &C.
with illustrations from
photos of Spanish danes of high and