San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
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BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE, SPE-
cIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

The Cspitolian, democratic.
U. s. legation at City of Mexico
congratulates Diaz on his birthday.
The Brussels labor congress will
not fix day for the strike at present.
Kansas bakers advance the price
of bread on account OF rise in flour.
The mail service to Ellis from
| Bracketville is made tri-weekly.
Nueva Laredo has an elaborate pro-
gramme for Tuesdays celebration.
Worlds Fair commission is in ses-
sion at Chicago. A director general
will be balloted for today.
The dock companies at Southamp-
ton are reported locking out all old
laborers.
Schooner Comrade of Cleveland lost
with her crew of eight men on lake
superior.
Foreman of the Fort Worth Gazette
is compelled by Typographical union
to tender his resignation.
Prof. Watson of Kyle is being urged
as candidate for secretary of state
under Hogg.
Hays county raises the cry of too
much water and asks suspension of
the downpOur.
Bad crops and no prospect of col
lections carry under two mercantile
firms at Dotham, Alabama.
Sixty-sixth annual session Sover-
eign Grand Lodge, 1. 0. o. F., is be-
ing held at Topeka.
Hale, who shot his brother in-law
Knowles in Montreal last June gets
off with $500 fine.
The $4,000 debt of the Athletic
base ball club will be raised and the
schedule played out.
United States senate authorizes
Eagle Pass Company to carry their
pipes across the Rio Gr>nde.
The renewal of the triple alliance
puts a check on Russia's movements
into the Balkans for the next seven
years.
The Hopes, convicted at Columbus
of the murder of the Staffords, secure
change of venue to Austin for new
trial.
Lowell and Potter are arrested
charged with EN- bezzling SO, 900 bonds
of the Eagle Hill Furnace Co., Phila-
delphia.
Assistant professors having charge
of district schools in the Texas Uni
versity will hereafter vote as adjunct
professors in faculty meetings.
The new mess hall at the state uni
versity, costing Sl6,0 900, gift of George
Breckenridge of this city, will be
opened in November.
Turpin and Duskin, two Alabama
youngsters, kill each other in a duel
without seconds at Newbert, Hale
county, Ala.
Cinnamon unlawfully found within
the United States are TO be returned
10 China and not to the place from
whence they entered this country.
River and harbor bill will be for.
warded to the president at Cresson as
soon as the bill is signed by the
speaker.
McKinley's resolution eXpediting
consideration of the tariff bill passes
the house, and house refuses con-
currence in selate's amendments 120
to 50.
Ray Hamllton's widow has eleven
nurse Donnelly. She thinks there
will be no difficulty in her securing
her share of the estate.
Chicago city council pass ordinan ce
giving Worlds Fair all of Lake front
that they desire for exposition pur-
poses.
New York board of trade memoir
ialiZes congress against against any
change of duties on goods arriving in
the country before the law takes eff
feet.
The Kansas prospectors have set
their stakes in A tascosa county and
the colony will come down in Deem
Der.
Chairman of Webb county demo-
cratic committee is not inclined to
call a conven ton to nominate county
officers, but a convention will be
held.
Postmaster Conger's widow at
Waco fills the vacancy caused by his
death until his successor is appoint
ed.
A monster la Dor demons tratiOn in
favor of universal suffrage will be
held all over Belgium on the day pre-
ceeding the assembling of parlia-
ment.
The session OF the Portuguese cor
teZ, before which the AnglO-POr-
tugese treaty was being read became
so stormy that the reading was i'm
possible and the cOrtez was dismiss
ed.
Ship Challenge, sighted in distress