San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-02
Telegraphic Brevities.

every effort to be well represented at
Samoa.
Emperor William gave Bismarck
hound as a birthday present to re-
place his, which died.
The Pittsburg, Pa, strike over re-
duction of wages in the coke regions
has failed to materialiZe.
Advices from Belgrade show the
rapid growth of the strength Of the
Russian party since the departure.
Nj. Bonchez, the French public
prosecutor, is opposed to the prose-
cutting of Boulanger.
Keokuk, Iowa, gets over the prohi-
bition law and it is defeated in the
contest over its enforcement.
The German cruiser Sperber and
the corvette AleXandrine will depart
for Samoa to replace those wrecked at
Apia.
The Roumanian minister of war
has asked the chamber of deputies for
an appropriation of So, 900, 900 to con-
tinue the work on Notifications
around Bucharest.
The stage from Murphys to Milton,
Cal, was held up by lone highway
man. The passengers were not mo-
Tested, mail bag was not touched,
but a treasure box was robbed.
The Mark Lane Express, in it's
weekly review of the British grain
trade, says there is no demand for
English wheat. Foreign wheat has
depressed owing to heavy Russian
shipments.
Alta colored church in Paris, KY,
one darkey became so enraged with
another for taking his seat, that he
fired on him wounding him perhaps
fatally.
The U. S. ship of war jamestown,
now at Norfolk, Va, being ready for
service will be put in communication
at once. The Dolphin has arrived at
Hong Kong, China.
Three U. S. ministers took oath of
office yesterday; VIM. H.. Scruggs for
Venezuela, Lansing B. Mistner for
Cen trail America, and John Hecks for
Peru.
Capt. Robert Plat, commanding
the Z. S. fish commissions steamer
at Charlotte Harbor, Fla, has sue
cessfully Matched 100000 eggs of
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record of artificial Matching of that
important food fish.
There has been a notable exodus of
Russian students from Zurich since
the discovery has been made that
bombs were being secretly manufact-
ured there.
The French bark Lecoq, which left
Scranton, Miss, went down in the
gulf, by springing leak and sudden
ly sinking. The captain, his wife
and child, and nine sailors were lost.
There was only one sailor rescued.
The contract between Kansas City
r. Co., relative to the building of q
viaduct has been signed. There is
now nothing in the way of construc-
ton.
The treasury committee appointed
to count the stamps in the vaults of
the Internal revenue bureau, have
completed their work. Two hundred
million stamps of the value of $45, 000,-
600 were counted and every cent was
accounted for.
The difficulty of obtaining tele-
graphic news from Samoa is very
great. The recent dispatches were
taken from Apia to Auckland, New
Zealand, by steamer, and from there
by telegram to Australia, thence to
Singapore and half dozen Indian
towns, thence to Suez, to Alexandria,
Malta, Gibraltar, Lisbon and Lon
don, and thence finally to New York.
The following telegram was receiv-
ed at Washington, dated Gibraltar,
March 81. To the secretary of the
Navy, Washington: The officers of
the English Channel feet sympathize
with the American navy on the terri
BILE loss of life from the wrecks at
Samoa. An acknowledgement was
returned to the admiral of the Eng
lish fleet,