San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-16
Telegraphic Brevities.

tlng against Spain.
Large deposits of sulphur are dis
covered near Dodgeville, Wis.
A large convention of Missouri
stockmen are meeting in Sedalia, Mo.
Montana has no debt and cash in
her treasury.
Cattle are perishing with cold and
drouth in Wyoming.
There is a great sale for Serpa Pin
to's photographs.
Advices from Brazil are disquiet-
ing.
A slight earthquake shock has been
felt at Columbia b. G.
Filley and Schaurte both knocked
out in the st. Louis post office fight.
The late Congressman Kelley be-
queaths all his property to his wife
and two children.
Walker Blaine, eldest son of the sec
monia induced by la grippe.
Certificates of return to Chinese la
borers going home are now refused by
orders from Washington:
John B. Harlow is looked to as the
dark morse in the st. Louis postoffice
contest.
Massachusetts school houses are
ordered hereafter to fly the national
| flag by action of state senate.
Senator Plumb will have the Alas
ka company investigated by the
finance committee of the senate.
Mrs. Hutchins wife of the pastor Of
| fashionable church at Los Angeles,
Cal, browns herself.
A bark which left Puget Sound,
December End, is ashore ON the
Hawaiian Islands.
A boiler explosion at New Brigh-
ton, Pa, kills one man and Injuries
| several.
Dubuque, Ia, has a severe case Of
blood poisoning, induced by coal gas,
from the open top of bare burner.
Artola brothers, bankers, with bus
mess in London, Paris and Madrid,
fail for 100000.
Persons were arrested for parading
the streets of Lisbon, yelling Down
with England"'
The Iowa republicans are in doubt
Of their ability to organize the legisla-
ture. The house Is tie.
The Khedive has conferred orders
on four members of the Stanley ex-
petition.
The United States squadron has
! left Gibraltar to vi lit points on the
African coast and will return.
Students have paraded the streets
at Lisbon, making noisy demonstra-
tions.
The H. & T. G. depot at Houston
has a pretty flower park which is
being improved.
The Texas Swine Breeders associa-
ton will hold their Institute at Col
lege Station, February 25.
Kansas City will build the biggest
railway depot west of st. Louis on
| Fourth street between Oak and
| Locust.
The Nebraska law levying tax for
INDECENT soldiers of one cent
for every 1888 of property in the
state has gone into effect.
The general manager Of the G.. B. Il
| @. warns employees of that road to
keep out Of saloons under pain of dis
| missal.
John H. ScbOenburger's will has
been admitted tc probate, which be-
| queaths over 81 1000, 600 to found
memorial hospital in Pittsburg.
The pope in his encyrical says
Catholics must obey the state when
such course does not entail disobe-
| dience to the church.
Bills for public buildings presented
in congress. st. Paul 81 $40, 200;
Sioux CITY Ia. $4,000; Cedar Rapids
Ia. $4,000.
/, The czar is fast getting to he crazed
| by the chronic state of alarm for his
| life. He takes good deal of NOR
phine to quiet his nerves.
Miss Barcus, of Danville, Ill, went
to sleep on New Years day, could not
be aroused and died on the 18th with
out ascertainable cause.
A Philadelphia girl of % sues a Co.
year-old New Yorker for 500. 900 for
breach of promise. Colonel Bob Inger-
soil for defendant.
A steal of Turkish city bonds and
Mexican bank shares was made while
the property was in transit from Paris
to London.
There is big fight among the In
dianapolis roads over eXcursionists TO
| New Orleans Saengerbund. Penn
! sylvania Central touches bottom fig
ures with $1,000 rate.
Some good church ladies secretly
! playing cards in st. Louis during the
! i