San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-13
Telegraphic Brevities.

The archbishop of Vallodolid will
preside at the great Catholic confer
ence at Madrid in May.
The propeller Oswego, left Buffalo
for Chicago three days ago, being the
first departure of the season.
Ray II. Mcintosh, of Minneapolis, a
boy OF II years, was struck OH the
chest by a horse and instantly
killed.
Gen. Mllen, the we'll known Irish
agitator, has just died in New York.
He was on tie Herald staff.
Many improvements of a substan-
tial character are taking place at
Cuero.
United States Marshal Fricke has
qualified and entered upon his du-
ties.
A heavy thunder, wind and hail
storm has visited portions of western
Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and
Maryland, doing considerable dam
age.
The funeral of Alexander J. Nc
Dowell, late auditor of the Mexican
Central railroad, took place at Steu-
benville, o., yesterday.
During the prevalence of a heavy
rain storm at Weatherford, thunder
bolt struck the residence of Mr.. Penn
doing slight damage to the house and
seriously injuring one man.
DR.. Thomas Keith surgeon of Ed
in burgh, Scotland, is on visit to his
SON, who own a fine ranch at san
Angelo.
Robbers entered the post office at
Centralia, Ill, and were discovered
by policemen, when a pitched battle
ensued. One fell wounded, the
other escaped.
The queen will make a visit to
Sandringham, the residence of the
prince of Wales the last of this
month.
Bishop Kean, the president of the
Catholic University, i'm Washington,
is meeting with small success in en-
gagiDg professors in Germany for the
new institution.
held a reception in the new club
house of the Manufacturers club, in
Philadelphia, and shook hands with
800 representative men in every walk
of life.
Efforts have been made by the duke
of Edin burgh, commander-in-chief on
the Mediterranean station, to float
the British war ship, Sultan, wrecked
last month near Malta.
Geo. Patterson came into Smith
vile, dFnk too much whisky and on
his way home ran a race with a
neighbOr, his horse ran into the
woods with him throwing him
against a tree and instantly killed
him.
The Oldest living graduate of Yale
college, the Rev. DR.. Joseph Dresse
Wickhann, of New York, will prob
ably be about the oldest spectator of
the coming centennial; he was born
in 1897.
New York yachtsmen are just now
earnestly discussing the proposed de-
Tense of the Americas cup against
Lord Dunraven's cutter Nalkyrie.
Designer Burgess believes that the
New York yacht club will eventually
decide to build a new yacht for the
occasion.
Louis Fl. Neebe, of Chicago, is IN
Springfield, ILL.,, securing signatures
of the general assembly to a petition
to pardon his brother now serving a
12-year sentence in Joliet for COM
plicity in the noted Haymarket mas
sacre.
The United States grand jury at
Port Townsend, w. t., have found %
against William Harmed,
special deputy collector, eleven
against Herbert F. Beecher, treasury
agent, and Y against Quincy A.
Brooks, for stealing from the govern
ment.
Beginning May l the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph compa-
MES will charge uniform rates for
messages, the Western Union lower
ing it's rates in some instances and
the Postal raising its tariff to other
points to correspond with the West
ern Union price.
The contractors for furnishing the
new capitol have not yet obtained
final settlement as the furnishing
board has found some of the wooden
stipulated and have found plain mir
TOTS III SOlHe cases NIleIe llue b6Neleu
mirrors were required and other de-
feets.
Meredith Stanley,a we'll known ath-
lete and bridge jumper, who has
challenged Brodie, Of New York,
jumped from the famous high bridge
on the Cincinnati Southern road, over
the kentucky river. The height is
$50 feet. The bridge is the highest in
the world, save one. He selected a