San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
LATE TELEGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE, SPE-
GAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

James R. Foley, of Mass, is assis-
tant naval secretary.
Bill introduced in senate and refer
red for limited postal telegraph.
The Indian appropriation bill calls
TOR s., 1851.
John G. Fremont is laid to rest In
old Trinity cemetery, New York.
The Teutonic arrives at New York
from Liverpool in 3d., 21m., 55s.
The alarming reports from Senegal
are authoritatively denied.
Ed Ryder shoots his brother, Tom,
at Louisville, KY, apparently with
out provocation and is arrested.
Mrs. John Hamlet and four chill
dren burned to death in their resi-
dence at Valparaiso, Ind.
The Tennessee democrats in state
convention are still balloting for gov
ernor, with no choice.
Minnesota Farmers Alliance will
unite with the labor party and take
independent political action.
The wires are very generally down
in southeast Minnesota and rumors of
wrecked towns lack confirmation.
Denver and Rio Grande declares a
semi-annual dividend of 1-2 per cent.
on preferred stock.
Manager Ball, of the Bedding, CAL,
soda works, is murdered and the
works fired to conceal the crime.
Saltwater, Marine and other places
reported injured in the Minnesota
storm received little damage.
Argument in the Breckenridge cleo
ton contest is closed and committee
adjourned.
Appropriation for surveying gov
eminent lands is raised from $200,00
to 5000, 900 in appropriation bill.
Interstate commerce commission
will reduce grain rates west of the
Mississippi to st. Louis and Chicago.
Forty strikers are reported killed
in the nitrate district of Chilli, in an
encounter with troops.
That Mexican railway subvention
is in the hands of the finance minister
and beyond that nothing is known.
Cocoa crop in Tobasco is short, and
on Yucatan it is endangered by
drouth.
An electric light plant has been
shipped from New York for Juan
Batista, Tabasco.
The months long coal strike of
1000 miners in the Smithton, Pa, re-
gion is broken.
After shooting Is negroes and kill
ing seven of them, the white men of
Bastrop, La, induced the rest of
the poor victims to return to work.
If Gen. Goshorn, director general
of the Philadelphia centennial can be
induced to accept he will be made
director general Of the worlds fair.
Baptist Missionaries in Cuba ar
rested while holding revival services,
and the American consul at Havana
has been appealed to.
The State Temperance League of
Kansas denounces the original pack
age and comes out strong for state
rights.
Civil service candidates for exami-
nation for department service in
Washington and for railway mali
service are wanted in the south.
A Peach Orchard, Ark, youth ac-
cuses a young woman of theft and in |
the fuss that followed, shot the girl |
and her defender dead.
The wreck of two yachts, supposed |
to have been wrecked in Sundays |
storm, are reported in Lake Michigan. |
The report indicates that at least five |
lives were lost.
The Indians in Chiapas refuse the |
new copper coin of Mexico, and |
trouble is experienced in getting it
circulated.
The girl who swore an outrage on
Lane, of the Oklahoma Journal, one
year ago, claiming to be Is wears old,
now swears that she is past Is, and
new trial will be demanded for Lane,
who got five years.
The 600 Washington clerks who
had to pay Is cents each oath fees in
from the several departments
to the record and pension divisions,
are mad about it.
The "Bear" flag, hoisted at Mon
terey in 1847, is flying at half mast
from the quarters of the Associated
Pioneers Of '4S, Boston, it will fly
there until after Gen. Freemont's
lnterment.
Judge Foster, of the United States
district court, refuses habeas corpus
In the case of original package ar
rests and remands the prisoners to
the sheriff.
The missing bodies of the Lake
Gervaise cyclone, % in number have
been found close together in marshy
portion Of the Lake, 200 feet from
shore.