San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-25
Telegraphic Brevities.

the aged workman insurance OIL.
The Samoan conference meets again
Monday.
A Young Mems Institute is organ
lied at Meridian, Miss.
Mr.. Henry George addressed
meeting of the Lands Restoration
league in London a few days ago.
A conservative Irish lady living
near Dublin who died recently, be-
queathed $4,000 to Mr.. Parnell.
1t is stated that the car has re-
called the banished Grand Duke Con-
stantine.
The Kentucky republicans nomi-
nate John Z. Barrett for state treasu-
rer. Election in August.
The Marine Fire ms ursnce Co., of
London, is suing the Iron Mountain
R. r., for $4,000.
Prof. Virgins claims to have dis
covered that the earth is steadily re-
ceding from the sun.
1t is believed that the post of lord
lieutenant of Ireland has been offered
to the duke of Westminster.
The Italian steamer, Cita di Bari,
has gone ashore on Alderuey, one Of
the Channel islands.
The Russian church is destroyed by
fire in San Francisco, supposed to be
incendiary.
The argument in the famous New
York Stewart will case is fixed for
June 10.
The yachts Valkyrie, Yarrana and
Trek sailed another race yesterday,
and the Valkyrie again won.
Mrs. Mary A. Jordon, of Texas, gets
a 5000 clerkship in the patent office,
Washington.
Florida legislature passed bill for a
board of medical examiners and regu-
lating the practice of medicine.
Severe hail storms in Virginia;
snow fall and covered the surround
ing mountains.
Walter French, a young jeweler
from Newark, n. j., is drowned at
PablO-Dy-the-Sea, Fla, while bath
ing.
A Philadelphia child brings suit for
damages sustained before its birth,
which resulted in its being born all
epileptic.
Two hundred New England capital
lists left Little Rock Wednesday after
noon for Texas on a tour of observa-
ton.
Miss Rucker and Miss Betty Kyle,
of Huntingdon, w. Va, fought a
bloody battle with knives over a
young man.
The czarina and grand duchess re-
ceived the shah of Persia yesterday.
A banquet was afterwards given at
the Winter Palace.
The military and civic parade at the
unwilling of the monument to the
confederate dead, at Alexandria, Va,
was mile long.
John Carson, business man of Mil
waukee, while suffering from Jim
jams, jumped into the canal, but was
fished out.
The train conveying the emperor of
Austria, from Wies baden to Vienna,
met with an accident, nobody was
hurt but footman.
Advices from st. Pierre, Martinique,
state that two fishing vessels which
left France for Newfoundland, have
been lost, and the 175 men are proba-
bly, drowned.
John E. Dockendorf, a graduate of
Yale is married clandestinely to Miss
Goodyear, a New Haven heiress.
They will go to his home in South
America.
The most disastrous May storm and
freshet that has occurred in many
years was experienced in Saltwater,
n. Y. The canal overlooked and
crops on the lowlands were ruined.
Laura Bridgman, the educated
deaf, dumb and blind woman, made
famous by being one of the subjects of
Charles Dickens American Notes, -
has just died in Boston, aged sixty
years.
The west bound train on the st.
Louis and San Francisco, which left
st. Louis, was wrecked by train
wreckers three miles west of Sullivan,
Mo-; forty-five persons were injured.
Base ball: Philadelphia 4, Cleve-
land 5. Boston 5, Indianapolis 3.
Washington I, Pittsburg 8. New
York 9, Chicago I. Columbus o, Gin
cinnati 4.
Mrs. Gladstone is presented by the
Women's Liberal Federation of Lon
don with a diamond brooch, contain
ing miniature of Mr.. Gladstone
copied from Sir John Millais' portrait
of him.
Will Contest for Boulanger.
SONDON, May 25.-At a meeting of
Gen. Boulanger's supporters held to-