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

The Southern Interstate Railway
Association is in session in st. Louis.
The heavy rains in Alabama have
seriously damaged cotton crops.
Three fourths of Illinois corn crop
is safe from frost.
G. d. Graham goes over Niagara
falls in his barrel and comes out alive.
South Carolina is preparing to make
cotton baling from pine needles.
New York state prohibition conven-
ton met in Syracuse Sept. 4.
Turkish troops have occupied Sc
lines in Crete without resistance.
The sixth annual display of the st.
Louis exposition opened Sept. 4.
George Gould and his wife have
gone to Paris.
Burglars unsuccessfully attempted
to rob the residence of Vice President
Morton at Roundout, N. Y.
The convention for improved west
ern waterways has begun its Sth
meeting in Cincinnati.
The live stock exhibit in the Iowa
state fair is the finest ever seen west
of the Mississippi river.
The Massachusetts, state prohibition
convention met at Worcester, Mass,
September 4.
The first democratic state conven
ton of South Dakota, met September
4th.
Waldemar Meyer, the violinist
pays $4,000, for Stradivarius made
in ZIG for King George Est.
A Chicago gambler named Gufon,
works a Kansas City cattleman for
$1,000.
Highway robbery on the Mexican
Interoceanic railway is becoming
chronic.
President Diaz has received Count
de Folk. the French minister to Mex
leo.
The expedition for the relief of
Emin Bey has been defeated. DR..
Peters is recalled.
1t is said that Empress Augusta
of Germany, has Joined the Roman
church.
The government of San Salvador
has obtained loan in London of
e300, 900
Pennsylvania democratic state con-
vention meet at the opera house in
Harrisburg, September 4th.
The Dervishes and friendly tribes
have fought near Suakjm, and the lat
ter were defeated.
Charles Farrar, son of Canon Far
rar, has come to this country to study
in several scientific institutes.
Mr.. Albert F. Chilas, of Ohio, is APP
pointed chief clerk of the census Of
flee.
The police charged upon the strik-
ers who were Obstructing the work of
loading vessels at the London docks,
fatally injurlng one.
Max Jacobson, smart European
sharper, is arrested in Chicago for en-
bezzlements on the Fidelity & Casual
ty Co.
West Hereford Brown has just de-
livered himself up IN Fresno, Cal,
and asks to be sent back II MISSISSIPPI
pi to be tried for murder committed
II years ago.
Suits are threatened against we'll
known firm of New York cigarette
manufacturers for using the photos
of young ladies on their packages.
Baseball Cleveland 8. Washing
ton 7. Brooklyn II, Cincinnati l.
Baltimore 2, st. Louis 2. New York
7, Pittsburg 2. Louisville 8, Column
bus 6. Chicago Is, Philadelphia 8.
Gov. Humphrey, of Kansas ,pardons
Mrs. Henrietta Cook, Of Osborne
county, confined in the penltentiary
for IS years for murder of her hus-
band.
The first witnesses in the habeas
corpus trial in the case of Deputy
Marshal Maggie, who killed Judge
Terry, were examined in San Fran
cisco, September 4th.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has received petition signed by
9,S62 railway employees asking for
automatic brakes and couplers on
cars.
The Anti-Alcohol congress in Paris
passes resolutions that the govern
ments of the world ought to be asked
to place prohibitive duties on alcho-
hol and exempt tea, coffee, etc.
Darwin Henry, superintendent of
construction for the East River cleo
trio light company was instantly
killed by a charge of electricity.
The Sneezers of the United States,
known as the Hay Fever association,
have just completed their sixteenth
annual session at Bethlehem, n. H.
In the L. s. district court OfSt. Lou
is, Judge Thayer decides that counter