San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-26
Telegraphic Brevities.


Congress authorizes the bridging of
the Arkansas river at Fort Smith.
The Blair educational bill is still
the subject of senatorial oratOry.
Mexican exhibits to the st. Louis
fair this fall will be admitted free.
Fearful storm in Montana, cold in
tense, and cattle men uneasy.
The CaIl-Chandler episode calls
Sherman to his feet in a singing re-
buke to Call and Call apologies.
Senator Reagan introduces bill for
general irrigation system in the
West.
Fearful storm in the Mississippi val
ley cuts off wire reports and news is
impossible to obtain.
A car load Of provisions and cloGhing
has lett Kansas City for the destitute
in Stevens county.
A fearful storm rakes lake Tahoe,
New. wrecks the wharves and buries
the logging camps,
Baird and Bullock are held in
900 bail for wrecking the Ian
sing, Pa, national bank.
ure over the selection OF Chicago IS
the site of the worlds fair.
Memphis pool rooms are closed, the
selling of pools on races outside the
state being declared unconstitutional.
The Ohio river at Wheeling, Va, is
rising rapi lily, weather cloudy and
mild
The NJ. +. church membership is
5000, 90 today against 700, 900 forty
years ago.
Russia has been aroused and steps
are being taken TO mitigate the con-
dili0n Of Siberian prisoners.
Montgomery, Minnesota, reports a
double murder and suicide with jea'-
Ousy as its moving cause.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made to take Walton to Montreal
from st. Johns, n. B.
Cashier NanZandt, the LennOX bank
wreCker, is indicted for perjury and
forgery.
Thirty-eight workmen buried at
Hamburg by the falling of the iron
cupOla of Flora hall aud five killed.
Gladstone will strongly support the
adoption of the report of the Parnell
commission.
Athens, Ga, merchants sign agree
ment to boycott Wanamaker for a col
Ored postmaster appointment.
Particulars so far as received from
the Walnut Grove dam confirm the
worst fears.
Hooker's motion to include the
Cherokee outlet in the Oklahoma bill
is lost.
Denver workmen hold large mass
meeting in The interests oc the eight
hour day.
Germany now admits American
pork at Kiel, where very rigid sys-
tenn of inspection is pursued.
Called news concerning OrIe ans is
He is reported pardoned
and also sent to another prison.
Cable, in the commons, threatens o
move the condemnation of Salisbury
in the Parnell matter.
Drs. Grant and Black burn, of Louis
vile, indicted for rO6bing the graves
i'll New Albany cemetery.
Ia mage wants to raise $50, 900
tor his new tabernacle by 80, 900 sub
scriptions of $1.50 each to his n ewspa
per, donating S1.0O and running the
paper on the so cents.
George Holman, of Rochester, will
be national bank inspector tor IT,
diana.
Food, clothing and fuel are badly
needed in Stevens county Ks and a
of relief is in Kansas CITY
soliciting aid.
Committee on library appropriation
800. 900, for monument at
Fort Bend to the first President Har-
riSOn.
The Arizona dam burst was owing
to faulty construction, pointed out
over a year ago by Engineer Wagner,
Of San Francisco.
Anthony Thomas, colored, shoots
and kills Miss Celia Lottin, of Smith
county, Miss, aged 1G. Lynching
prevented by the sheriff.
The Storrs divorce case, New York,
reveals an unsavory mess. They
were son and daughter-in-law of EN-
Dry Storrs, Chicago.
The Worlds fair bill will be recon-
mitted and amended to suit the Hi
nois members before coming up for
passage.
In the second elections between lib
eral and government candidates in
Germany, the socialists are ordered to
support the liberals.
A conference of prominent union
laborites with the executive commit