San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-12
Telegraphic BrevitieS.

lJolu pe'OiOh VI
the turf, is dead.
Gen. Boulanger has issued q fresh
manifesto to the people of France.
A gigantic glass trust is being
formed in Pirtsburg, Pa.
The French chamber of deputies
meet to-day.
Admiral Krantz, French minister
Of Marines, has resigned.
Russia has adopted the Lebel Rifle
and smokeless powder for her army.
A session of the Montana legisla-
ture is called for Nov. %.
Washington territory is made a
state of the union.
w. r. Bell, registered from Calves
ton, Tex, suicides at the Grand Cen
trail hotel, Helena, Mont.
Mr. Gladstone is writing a paper
on 1.-THE Impregnable Rock of Holy
Scripture"
The harbor and bay facilities of the
bay of Kiel, Germany, will be in
creased.
The report Is now confirmed of the
massacre of DR.. Peters and party by
natives near K0kora, East Africa.
Miss Francis E. Willard is re-elect-
ed president OF the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union.
Austria and the Porte will not re-
gard Prince Ferdinand as ruler of
Bulgaria.
Secretary Proctor has taken active
measures to remedy the evils that ex-
listed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
The new U. s. man-of-war Chicago,
collided with a tug in East river,
N. Y. She was not injured, but the
tug was.
A banquet is given in London to
sided. An earthquake has occurred in
runis.
A freight train on the Mobile &
Ohio road was deralled near Ken ton,
Tenn, and the engineer and brake
man were killed.
The Countess OF Meath, who is the
founder of the Ministering Children's
League, is now on q visit to the
branches of this society in America.
Prime Minister TrIcoupis of Greece
confesses he has been derided by the
Turks, but that Greece would one day
vindicate certain rights.
The relations between the sultan of
Zanzibar and the German East Africa
company are again strained, over the
rent of the concession.
Mr.. Robert Bonner has purchased
the great 2-year-old Sunol from Sena-
tor Stanford of California. He is g.
year Fold and his last mile was trotted
in 2.10 l-3.
The gran6est military event, ever
witnessed in Toronto, took place few
days ago, when seven regiments en-
gagged in sham battle and other mil
itary maneuvers in High Park.
The Pan-American tourists pre-
TERED their accommodations on the
splendid train provided for them,
rather than 60 to the most elegant
hotels in the various cities in which
they stopped
The Canadian minister of finance,
Hon. Geo. Foster and his wife,
Chicagoan, divorced from her first
husband, are purpusely sighted by
81 r John and Lady Mcdonald. This
ostracises them from Canadian So
ciety.
Gen. Carona, ex-minister to Spain,
was stabbed in Mexico Oh his way
to the theatre In Gualagana. Mexico,
by a mailman, from the effects of
which he died. His wife also re-
ceived a STAB, but not dangerous
one.
Capt. Brooks of the Arizona, from
Liverpool sighted the steamerQueens-
more, which signalled II am ON fire."
He offered all assistance in his power,
but as to tow her, was impossible, he
was compelled to leave her. She
went down in a fog since off the
Irish coast. Crew were saved.
Progress in Alabama.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The total taxable values in Alaba-
ma by the recent assessment is $242,-