San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-02
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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

Worms seriously impair prosPecVe
of Egyptian cotton crop.
No quorum in the house, and the
Breckenridge case undisposed of.
That Houston bale for orphanage
sells in Chicago and realizes $2,O34.75.
Sensational reports of starvation in
the Soudan are still sent out.
The Frye postal subsidy bill will
be reported favorably by house COM
mittee without amendment.
The leaders of the recent postoftice
strike in London are in starving
condition.
Blair thinks the time has come for
the senate TO adopt some rules con-
trolling debate.
Chill and the Argentine Republic,
50 say London dispatch, scorn trade
alliances with the United States.
Editor Walsh of Cashel Ireland is
imprisoned for publishing a speech
delivered at prohibited meeting.
st. Louis meets the reduced freight
rates made by New York to Texas
and Mexico.
Turkey agrees to the Brussels act
suppressing slavery in Africa; Hol-
land has not as yet.
Germany has not been allowed to
establish protective tariff on Zanzibar
main land.
Sultan of Zanzibar signs agreement
to allow no trading monopoly with
in his domain.
Mexican capitalists are organizing
To-, o,naro finno In, tho Raatnni-
las district, Chihuahua.
President Diaz reiterates his denial
of any interference by Mexico in the
Guatemalan squabble.
Union Cattle Company's plant, four
miles from Omaha, Is burned, causing
$3.50, 900 loss.
A Philadelphia firm purchases dis
tilling properties in Kentucky and
will war against the trust.
Rio Janeiro has formed a company
with foreign agencies to give stability
to the coffee market.
The tariff schedule as considered in
the senate remains practically I'M
changed.
Count Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata is
excluded from the United States
mails for it's indecent character. The
decision will be appealed from.
England and France will demand
sle,OO0,00O from Bnenos Ayres for
damage done property of their sub
jects during recent bombardment.
Baker, of New York, offers in the
house for consideration by committee
on foreign relations protest against
Russia's proposed Punishment of the
Jews.
CARPENTER bosses at Chicago open
war on carpenter council for alleged
failure of agreement, and lock out
union men.
Secretary of war is called upon by
resolution of the house to furnish re-
port of government work in Calves
ton harbor.
Milwaukee brewers will test the
legality of the double license they
pay, at place of manufacture and at
place of sale.
RIvas, the traitorous San Salvador
general, is shot. The troops are now
ready to resume operations against
Guatemala.
Freemont's will describes him as
John Charles Fremont, Of Mariposa,
CAL, and leaves all he has to his wi
dow.
Uncle Sam now owes, less cash in
treasury, the sum Of $S76, 1886, 113. The
Understanding debt is now 500, 799,-
800.
The Armenian patriarch formally
resigns his Office because the attitude
of the porte towards his people Is
such as to make his office unendura-
BILE.
The congressional conventions of
the Tenth and Eleventh Ohio dis
tricts, one democratic, the other re-
publican, cannot agree upon candi-
dates and adjourn.
Private letters from Russia affirm
the reports of increased severity TO-
wards the Jews, aud even those over
| the borders in Austria and Germany
have to move farther into the coun-
try for safety from plumber.
New York imports continue very
heavy; high prices of food products
have checked exports; trade reports
are satisfactory; clearing houses all
show increase; money is easy and
rates moderate; business failures less
than for corresponding period of 1889
and 1888.
The case of the Doggy Bayou cut
tiers in Arkansas Is before the courts.
The cutters claim that the bayou was
natural outlet. 1t is q peniten tiary
case if they are convicted, and money
for dafense will not be shared