San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-04
Telegraphic Brevities.

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Iowa house is still dead-locked over
the speakership.
Senate adjourns out of respect to
Blaine and Tracy.
The Smith jackson contested cleo
ton case is resumed in the house.
The Patti party have left Mexico
for San Francisco.
Carlisle prepares his statement of
democratic objections to Reed.
Carter Harrison supports Speaker
Reeds rulings.
The u. S. supreme court knocks out
Mormonism.
Chicago Presbytery votes in favor of
revising the confession.
The London Times pays Campbell
5000 and all costs of action.
The London Times pays Parnell
$4,000, and the suit is settled.
Secretary Tracy's only son has gone
on to Washington by special.
Influenza is bad in Zacatecas and
smallpox epidemic on the frontier.
Barnett, secretary of state for GeOr-
gia is dead.
Steamer Jersey City arrives at New
York having lost three men IN gale.
Arkansas corn yield for 1889 was
45, 500, 500 bushels.
The masonic grand bodies OF Mis-
sissippi meet on the 18th.
Probate Judge of Cherokee Co. \ la
bama dismissed for drunkenness.
The Mississippi rise threatens the
new levee at Vicksburg.
A Polish church row in Buffalo, y.
Y, requires POO police to quell it.
Persia will establish a marine
station at Liden to cost 100000
| roubles.
The Russian ambassador has been
summoned home to confer concerning
the Anglo-Portuguese dispute.
The ballot box forgeries committee,
! in Ohio go for Murat Halsteads
scalp.
| The committee on commerce close
hearings IN the Yarmouth contirma-
| ton case.
The City of Mexico has imported
machinery from Spain for q large
paper mill.
FL Sol, a new Mexican paper, is
printed in the interest of English
commerce.
The third annual chess tournament
of the United States opened in ST.
Louis this morning.
Matters are unchanged concerning
the Sixth National and LenOX bank
| failures.
Depositors of the broken New York
banks hold excited meetings and
threaten trouble.
| The murderer of Constable BOpp,
Sumner, H., last December, has been
arrested in Kansas.
Coroners jury of Philadelphia find
! that BankerDittman was accidentally
drowned.
New York legislature adjourns out
of respect to the Affections of Blaine
and Tracy.
The New Mexico bar wants two aG-
diJional associate justices in that ter
ritOry.
Silver and copper in paying quanti-
ties found near Plainfield, New Jer-
sey.
George Francis Train will try and
beat Nellie Bly's time around the
world.
Secretary Tracy bears the bereave-
ment nobly, and his condition is i'm
proved.
One thousand Carolina negroes en-
route for Texas and Louisiana pass
through Alabama.
The 80 mile cycle race at New Or
leans is won by Cason in hours 80
minutes 20 seconds.
Marquis de Mores shoots Dreyfus of
France in duel on the Belgian from
tier.
Mrs. Langtry is very i'll with pneu-
mOnia, but her symptoms are regard
ed as favorable.
President and cabinet will not at
tend the cen tennary celebration of the
supreme court in New York owing to
the deaths in the cabinet families.
Hunting Party.
A. Hornung, Thos. H. Abbott and
Geo. Caen returned from week e
hunt near Pearsall yesterday. They
report game in abundance but the
timber is very thick with briars in
every direction, which makes shoot
ing bad; nevertheless they say they
killed 26 turkeys, IS ducks and any
amount of quail.
Weather Bulletin.
WAsHINGTON, D. G., February A.
Forecast, till a. m. Wednesday, fol