San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-30
Telegraphic Brevities.

Is gTedD lIlU6TeSU III
on the opening of Oklahoma.
Chas. H. P. Patrip, chief of the Lon
don postal telegraph service is dead.
Three thousand persons reviewed
the remains of Mr.. Bright yesterday.
The senate has not yet confirmed
Murat Halstead to be minister to Ger
many.
Ex-Queen Natalie has promised
that she will not return to Belgrade
at present.
The Hebrew Orphans home, built
by the order of B'nai Birth, is dedi-
Gated in Georgia.
The Mexican National railroad
shops are being built as rapidly as
possible at Laredo.
Minister Pendleton does not i'm
prove very rapidly, he will never be
able to work again.
The strike in Yucatan continues and
threats are made to treat with vio-
lence, imported labor.
The Mail Printing company, of Tor
onto, Canada, is preparing to fight
the Jesuits for all it is worth.
There is large force of men work
ing to complete the bridge over the
Brazos river at very early date.
Lord Salisbury expresses himself as
gratified at the nomination of Mr..
Robert Lincoln to be minister to Eng
and.
The Mississippi Board of Health is
in session at Biloxi to investigate
some matters in reference to the coast
quarantine.
A whale is captured on the beech
near Chelsea, n. J :, by the crew of the
government life saving station, after
severe struggle.
The Submarine Telegraph company
has accepted the offer of the British
government for the purchase of that
company's cable.
Constable Montague is killed at Ell
more, Col, by three cowboys whom
he attempted to arrest for disturbing
the quiet of the town.
The U. S. consul at Pernambuco,
Brazil, reports that the province of
Card has lost II, 1891 inhabitants on
account of the summer drought.
The greater part of the property
damaged in the riots at Chan Kiang,
China, was British. The estimate of
entire damage done is 100000.
Adam Forepaugh has sold a fine
African lion to Charles T. Yerkes, of
Chicago, which the latter will present
to the Chicago geological gardens.
A Papal rescript will be issued Civ
ing the new Catholic university at
Washington a monopoly of the SUI
perior education of the clergy in
America.
The proposed Parnell banquet is re-
ported to be abandoned owing to the
inability to obtain any building in
central position large enough for the
occasion.
Henry w. Raymond, editor and
proprietor of the Germantown Tele-
graph, pa has received the appoint
ment as private secretary to secretary
of the navy, Tracey.
Mrs. Virginia Taylor on trial in the
Accomac court, Md, for poisoning her
husband, is given verdict of murder
in the second degree and five years
in the penitentiary.
Fifty bodies have now been recov-
cred from the wreck of the steamer
Occotlan, which foundered near
Guadalaiara, Mex. Efforts are beirg
made to raise the steamer.
The newspapers of the principal
cattle breeding sections of Cuba, urge
cattle men to devise some plan by
which the surplus of their herds may
be exported and especially to the
United States.
AS the Santa Fe passenger was
pulling out of Ell Paso yesterday
morning, Mexican seized bag of
Mexican dollars from passenger and
made haste for the river bank. He
was captured.
The English cabinet has decided to
propose at the next session of parlia-
ment land purchase scheme for Ire
land. The ministry has also resolved
to introduce in 1891, au Irish local
government bill.
1t has been decided that Emperor
Williams coming visit t. England
will be made the occasion of a grand
display similar to that which accom-
panied the reception of Queen Vic
toria in Berlin.
The Hague parliament will assem-
BILE on April 2, for the purpose of
receiving a communication from the
ministers in which formal announce
ment will be made as to the kings in
capacity for government.
In the house of lords the Marquis of
Salisbury, speaking of Mr.. Bright
said: He had special qualities for
which he will be admired and noted
in history. He was the greatest mas
ter of English oratory in the present