San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-17
Telegraphic Brevities.
The Earl of Sydney is dead.

Repuollcan1sm Is greatly Oh tne IN
crease in Portugal.
Major Wissman's troops at Zanzi-
bar are to be reinforced.
General Rodriguezis appointed gov
ernor of Cuba.
Bill to organize the territory Of Okla
homa is reported favorably.
The 9th National Saengerfest will
be held at Cleveland, o., in 1893.
The Count of Paris and Due de
Charities have arrived in Havana.
Petroleum is discovered on the
Pacific coast of Mexico.
All levee breaks belowNew Orleans
are repaired.
Columbus, Miss. is to have a new
opera house.
Chicago fears an ice famine, all the
big ice houses are empty.
Premier of Victoria. is empowered
to re-assemble the confederation con-
ference in 1891.
Secretary Blaine will accompany the
president to open the Carnegie Libra
ry at tsburg, Pa.
The loss at Toronto university will
exceed 81 100000. The valuable Ii
brary was consumed.
Sir John Mcdonald opposes con-
struction of railroad from Saulte Ste.
Marie to Hudson Bay.
Congress shows little disposition to
take up the Worlds fair matter and
settle it.
Senate committee finally agrees to
Fry's bill, refunding Union Pacific
debt.
The agents of the East African
company count upon the support of
the new sultan of Zanzibar.
Seynoid Ali, brother of the deceas-
ed sultan Of Zanzibar, is his success
sOr
Emperor William is most earnest
and sincere in his plans to ameliorate
the condition of his working classes.
Bride, groom and ten members of
wedding party, were drowned Pom
Wy France.
The miners in Westphalia and 9TH
or provinces of Germany hold mass
meetings to discuss socialism.
Mr.. Steevers. African correspondent
L n
ed by the Savage club, London.
The w. G. Il. U. of Missouri contin-
ue to smash up saloons, spill the
whisky and waste the beer.
Bill introduced to appropriate $780,
900 for purchase of presiden tiaI
mansion.
The awful details of the Siberian
more fully every day.
Eighty-tifth anniversary of the
Economic society of celibates is cele-
brated at Economy, Pa.
Mexican towns on the borders of
Texas will protest to President Diaz
against the adjustment of free zone.
Capt. Alphers Tramler, only sur
viving officer of the Mexican war in
Maine, has just died.
switzerland Will take part in the
convention in Spain to devise means
to protect industrial property.
Every thing is quiet at Zanzibar, no
trouble has arisen over the sultau's
death.
Russell Harrison has been enter
ia ned by the Capitol City club, at
A tlanta, Ca, and made speech.
Senator Davis introduces bill to
pension all women army nurses during
the war, at $25 month from March
1899.
Nine. Sigida, the Siberian exile, did
not suicide, but actually died of the
treatment received from the
officials.
William WitZel, teamster of Wis
consin, is suffering from CHAMBERS,
caught from his horses afflicted with
that disease.
Grover Cleveland grows facetious
in an after-dinner speech at the Medi-
cal college, New York, at the expense
of the learned profession.
Escaping gas from a furnace near
ly asphyXiates scores of children in
the Westminster, Md, Catholic
Increase of wages according to
length of service is made feature of
the new German workingmen's pol
Icy.
The death of Mrs. Vail, ofSt. Louis,
by the accidental discharge of pistol,
arouses suspicion, as she had $500
accident insurance.
John Roberts, English pool player,
American players to any
of games, half to oe played in
half in the United States,
to the respective national
methods, for $500 or $1,000 side.
An international regatta will be
held in August, at Port Arthur, Ont.
The leading professional and amateur