San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-08
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Rains In England lessen crop pros
poets and stiffen prices Of grain.
Government of Tamaulipas author
ICES loan.
The Interoceanic railway opens
formally on Thursday the 10th.
State of Puebla, Mex, contracts for
new public buildings.
Ramon Fernandez, Mexican minis
ter to France, Is home on leave.
Two killed and seven wounded by q
mine explosion at Zacatecas.
Emperor William is making a tour
of the Norwegian coast.
Senate votes against taking up tar
if bill Immediately.
Supreme council X. of P. opens this
morning, the Sth. at Milwaukee.
Elk's Grand Lodge is holding sss-
sion at Cleveland, O., with closed
doors.
Gov. Nichols vetoes the lottery bill
and implores the legislature not to
pass it over his veto.
Conference report on consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill Is
agreed to in senate.
London police threaten . general
strike on account Of dismissal of the
Bow street force.
Mexican delegates to Berlin medi-
cal congress leave New York We'd
nesday.
A Texas excursion train is derailed
near Kankakee, ILL.,, seven cars leav-
ing the track; no fatal injuries.
Archer, state treasurer OF Maryland,
pleads guilty to charge of embezzle-
ment and gets five years.
Russia will appoint consuls at all
East African points from Cape tIwn
| to Liberia.
The commander of the body guard
of the ruling prince of Mon tenegro, is
killed in private quarrel.
| Superintendent of the Santa Fe
system is considering complaints Of
grievance committee.
The new British fleet in Behring
waters will consist of six ships carry
ing SO guns.
News from all over Dakota shows
q very severe wind and rain storm,
unroohng many houses.
The freight handlers strike at Gin
cinnati is on. and no signs Of settle
ment.
The weather clerk promises Chicago
and the northwest another scorchiDg
spell.
Later advices from Fargo show 7
killed 10 seriously hurt, hundreds of
houses unroofed and immense des-
truction to property.
Mile race, best in five heats, for
So 500 arranged between the trotters
Palo Alto and Jack whose record is
2:l5.
New York bridal parties take
honeymoon trips of hundreds of miles
on horseback, by canoe, and on tri-
cycle.
The American riflemen in Berlin
and elsewhere in Germany are roy
ally entertained and are very popu-
lar.
midas crop deficiency compared
with estimates is 100000 bushels
wheat; England's deficiency is A.
600, 900.
| A young Texan named West shoots
a man dead at Berkeley Springs, Va,
and when his capture was certain, he
blew out his own brains.
| Rumors are afoot that Fargo Da. is
almost swept away by cyclone.
Miles of wire and poles are down and
no news can be had.
| A train just pulling out of Wah-
peton, n. D. was blown from the
track, twelve coaches overturned and
over q score of passengers very seri-
ously hurt.
The Alaska commercial company's
franchise will make seal skin trade
brisk, and the competition with North
American Company will cut prices.
The state department at Washing
ton denies all knowledge of any ulti-
matum from England concerning
seizure of sealers.
High wind at New Orleans wrecks
telegraph poles and trees, floods the
streets and unroofs the federal build
ing letting in tons of water.
There Is every reason to believe
that the reports of England's armed
interference in American sealing
waters is a canard.
An agreement is reached on the sill
yer bill. 1t provides for the coinage
of 4, 500, 900 ounces monthly at the
market price of ST for 375 25-100 grains
pure silver. The certificates to be re-
deemable in coin and good for all pub.
lie and private debts, customs, etc
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