San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-14
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Copenhagen masons strike for more
pay and less time.
The Red river is falling at Shreve-
port.
A La Crosse, Wis, bar-keeper kills
a man for 40 cents.
Buckner and McCreary are crowd
ing Carlisle hard.
The Mississippi falls eleven inches
in the past twenty-four hours.
Hamburg has another strike, the
gas men are out.
George Francis Train sails for
America on the Etruria.
Slavin, the Australian, offers to box
Corbett for 1000 at London, Eng
land.
Mckenzie plays twelve chess games
simultaneously, losing two, drawing
one, and winning nine,
Judge George NJ. Sabin, United
States district judge OF Nevada, dies
! at San Francisco.
Mgr. O'Connell, rector of the Ameri-
can college at Rome, is the guest of
Archbishop Ryan at Philadelphia.
Caprivi's speech before the reich
stag is pronounced an intellectual
effort of the first order.
Riotous strikers in Hamburg as
sail the street cars and are dispersed
by the police after stubborn fight.
The Women's National Board of
Foreign missions is in session at
Martinsville, Ind.
Friends of direct tax IN congress are
| hopeless of carrying their measures
| this session.
Senate committee hears opinions on
| best method of improving the Missis-
| sippi channel.
Attorney General Miller resumes
work at Washington after two weeks
absence owing to i'll health.
The London head of the great Roths-
| child house is under treatment tor
excessive obesity.
A freight collision, near Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, kills four and seriously in
| juras three others.
The ST. Louis NJ. E. conference re-
jects memorial for ordination of dea-
| conesses.
Caprivi says he would not send a
| single man or mark to East Africa
more than was absolutely necessary.
A fine vein of coal has been struck
Is miles north of st. Joseph, Mis-
| souri,.
The levee system, as against the
outlet system, gains favor with the
| Mississippi commission.
Troops have been summoned to
IL i.,i,, hot Dol
excuses of 5000 riotOus strikers.
Judge Hicks decides that a news
! paper can publish llbelous maGter, if
| done without malice.
The vote on revision among the
| PresbyTeries stands 1873 for, SO against
ana not heard from.
Louisiana Senate Will not commit
| itself exclusively to the levee system
in dealing with the Mississippi basin.
Speaker Henry makes no changes
in the standing committees of the
Louisiana lower house.
Gladstone acknowledges that free
traders have lost great deal of
| ground in the last twenty-five years
NJ. Ferry publishes a work on Ton
quin indicating French acquisition
of that territory
A confiding cattle man from Texas
is buncoed out of 81, 100 at Battery
park, New York.
There is sheol to pay in Cedar Keys,
! Fla, between the citizens and
| drunken mayor and marshal, who
hold the town.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy are
selling tickets from st. Louis to Kan
sas City for 81; to Omaha, $; Denver,
$3.50.
| Government accepts So, 900 and costs
as compromise in the case of Mexican
steamer Montrerat, claims against
which were So, 900.
R. H. w. Bays, accused of immor-
atty before Holston conference, was
sustained in his appeal before the st.
Louis conference and is acquitted.
Coleman, of Louisiana, and Peters,
of Kansas, will not vote in favor of
the sugar schedule of the Mckinley
bill.
Booth and Flynn, the large Pitts
burg contractors are supplanting Ital-
ians with colOred laborers and find
them more satisfactory.
The repeal of the Sunday law and
| the penitentiary will both come I'D
before the Louisiana Legislature this
| session.
Torrents of rain and wind driving
siXty-five miles an hour at Jefferson.
Kansas, do damage to crops and
buildings.
John Slater sued for rent of land by