San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-11
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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

The railway strike in Wales, report
ed settled, is in force,
Heligoland will be made part of
Prussia.
The Spanish government abolishes
its legation at Berne.
Germany will maintain the present
sugar tax.
Chicago is arranging to place 80, 900
men in line on labor day, Sept. /.
Conductors on Georgia Pacific rail-
way will receive an advance of $40 per
month and pay for overtime.
Drouth in the Azores destroys crops
and impoverishes the people so that
they cannot pay their taxes.
There are 632 American representa-
tives at the medical congress in
Berlin.
State consta bles have seized the
original package houses in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Washington park Chicago is now
proposed as the place tor holding the
Columbia exposition.
There IS little prospect of any
change being made in the Senate's
rules this session of congress.
Several Hun garian villages are re-
ported as burned and all grain stores
destroyed.
General Smythe takes command at
Gibralter and the Duke ofCOnnaught,
now in command, goes to Portsmouth.
Sunol trotted trial mile at Buffalo
last Friday on a slow track against a
head wind on home stretch in 2. IL IA.
The original order OF recount of
st. Paul's population Will be carried
into effect.
Italy, with the consent of Germany
and England, will acquire important
territory south of Zanzibar.
Exercise and fruit diet have pulled
down ex-President Cleveland's weight
20 pounds.
House passes senate's joint resOlu-
ton accepting a statute OF Grant from
the G. A. r.
Blaine positively denies any disa-
greement with the president, and
says he is with Reed heart and soul.
The anti-Jewish law will not be en-
forced in Russia this year. Perhaps
it never will be.
Prince Waldemar's name is with
drawd as candidate for the throne of
Bulgaria.
Trains of all kinds were ordered out
on the New York Central this morn
ing. The strike is practically over.
John Boyle O'Reilly, poet and ed
Ia
Sunday afternoon.
The national greenback convention
holds its session August q, at In
dianapolis.
Donivan, chief Of police; and AL
ocar, lord mayor, have resigned their
seats as directors in the national
bank, Buenos Ayres.
A syndicate of Argentine bankers
announce that they will make
loan of $40 ,000, 900 to government.
The recent campaign in the Indian
Territory was too much for Kicking
Bird, the big chief, and he died Sat
urday night from exhaustion.
Twelve months more and then
comes the end of the world, says a st.
Paul corn doctor; date, August 81,
1891.
William and the English royal
family were denounced as German
blood suckers, at working mems
mass meeting held at London Satur-
day.
There is a movement on foot in
England to revoke the pensions
granted to foreign princes who have
married into the royal family.
Sundays dispatches were mainly
devoted to particulars of the Saturday
strike on the New York Central
which has already collapsed.
Defaulting ex-Treasurer Tate is re-
ported dead in China over one year
ago. Circumstantial evidence of this
fact is said to be conclusive.
Warden Durston, of Auburn, says
the official report will show that
Kemmler's death by electrocution
was complete success.
The sanguine are prophesying
general European peace as the result
of Emperor Williams visit to Eng
land and Russia.