San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-13
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The Prince of Wales has started for
Carmes by way of Paris.
Eight w0rkmen were killed near
Hallex, Germany, by passing train.
Mr.. Gladstone has taken a town
house for the coming season in Lon
don.
1t is said that Pittsburg is now the
cleanest of all the large western
cities.
The plumber secured by the mob in
the recent riots in Rome is estimated
at Els 200.
1t is stated that King Milan intends
to have pompous coronation in May
at Monastir.
A syndicate of capitalists is trying
to buy up the street railways of Nash
Vile, Tenn.
Mr.. O'Brien was taken from Tralee
to Milachy yesterday. He looked
hBggard and ill.
The first vestibule train from New
Orleans arrived in the City of Mexico
Sunday. 1t made the run in seventy
three hours.
The Velocite company has arranged
that vessels going to La Plata shall
touch regularly at Tangier.
Mr.. Pendleton, United States min
lister to Germany, will preside at the
coming Samoan conference.
Mr.. Charles Spurgeon has sent
letter to his congregation, saying he
hopes to be with them soon.
The snow has been foot deep in
Berlin and in the Bavarian highlands
it has fallen to depth of six feet.
The American residents in the City
of Mexico are making preparations to
celebrate Washington's birthday.
Col. Hughes-Hallet, NJ. P, who
figured so prominently in a London
society scandal last year, lies par
alyzed in both legs, and can hardly
raise his hands.
The battlefield of Sharpsburg has
been sold to R. D. Fisher, of Jeffer-
son county, w. Va, by the son of the
was fought.
The home committee on military af
fairs has authorized Mr.. Cutcheon to
report favorably his bill for the reor-
ganization of the signal corps.
Prince Bismarck attack of neural
gia is complicated with rheumatism,
want of appetite and insomnia. He
continues to work against the advice
of his doctors.
A storm of exceptional severity has
been raging in Holland. The rivers
are greatly swollen and many of the
principal cities have been inundated.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse pub
fishes a letter from Sir Arthur Sulli-
van protesting against the piracy of
his operas by theatrical managers of
that city.
The governments of the Australian
colonies unite in inviting Canada to
send delegates to Australia to con-
slider the question of closer cable COM
municrtion, instead of Australia send
ing delegates to Ottawa.
John w. Norton of st. Louis, has
instituted a suit for divorce against
his wife Emma S. Norton, who ran
away in July last with Henry w.
Moore, editor Post-Dispatch.
New mas been received of the MUIR
der of Miss Sophie Preston, of Sara
natives in China where she went as a
two years ago.
The correctional tribunal at Nice
decides that Mr.. Sellon, who recently
eloped with the young American,
Miss Wilcox, cannot be arraigned UNI
der the French law, as Miss Wilcox is
over sixteen years old and ran away
of her own free will.
The Mississippi River and Ocean
company, who contem-
plate running steamers between st.
Louis and other inland river cities and
Central and South America, are mott
fled that 10000 shares of stock have
been subscribed for by Central and
South American merchants.