San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-24
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Sunday civil appropriation bill
discussed but not voted on.
Ohio is very high at Cincinnati bu
nothing disasterous has occurred.
Clerk of Kansas house loses the
bill fixing highest passenger rates.
Kansas City has s25O,OOO fire on
Main street, caused by electric wires
Navigation will be resumed Wed.
nesday at Cincinnati il no more rain
falls.
Agricultural and Mechanical col.
lege burned at Lexington, Ky. Loss
$50, 600.
Confederate monument at jackson
Miss, will be unveiled by Miss Davis
June 8.
Washington took afternoon holiday
yesterday, in memory Of its patron,
George.
MARQUIS of Lorne says the Canadian
colonies are practically independent
nations.
Blair's silk culture bill is before the
senate, as amended by agricultural
committee.
The new fee and salary bill of the
Kansas house cuts all county salaries
25 per cent.
Parkers burg is knockrd out of gas
and water by the Ohio flood, and has
q coal famine.
Five miners rescued from the No. II
slope, Evansville, Pa, after being en-
toned IS days.
House strikes the $4,000 relief for
Oklahoma from the deficiency ap-
preparation bill.
In the Ohio valley 5000 men have
been thrown out of work and 81, OGO,-
600 damage done.
The banking house of Doddridge
& Co.. Corpus Christi assigns. State
ment not yet made.
Senate passes bill authorizing
building of bridge across Arkansas
river at Van Buren,.
Mob stops work in Jackson park
Chicago, for the Worlds fair, until
police dispense them.
Hawaii's new ruler gives the
natives more voice in the government
than her brother did.
Senate of the U. 8. receives resolu-
tions of Texas senate as to terms of
federal office holding.
Waco reports two fires. The prop
rietor of the "My Office Saloon" Is
under arrest for arson.
A type writer for the use of the
blind has been invented by a teacher
in the Austin asylum.
Railway conductors on the Miss
ouri Pacific system organize gen.
eral grievance committee.
England does net propose any ad-
vance into the interior of Egypt
beyond her present posts.
1t was declared that nothing in the
immigrant act excluded persons con-
victed of political offenses.
Arizona has been fearfully storm
swept and water washed. Salt river
is up II feet above ordinary.
New York city is denied q recount,
and an adverse report to recount of
all cities is made to congress.
The striking miners will camp
around the Rainey works, Pittsburg,
until the union men quit work.
Continued rains are causing the
rise of the upper tributaries of the
Ohio and more trouble is feared.
Covington factories are not inter-
fered with blythe high waters, but low
portions of the city are submerged.
A porter in Rice & Co.'s dry goods
house, st. Louis, is under arrest for |
large quantities of silk.
"Cowardn and "Liar" are inter- |
changed in Arkansas legislature over
on Woodruff's shortage.
The Southern Pacific track is wash |
cd out for 90 miles east of Yuma Ari.,
and tracks are five feet under water. |
The list of the dead in Springhill |
mine is so far 100. Immediate relief |
Is called for by the mayor and relief |
House directs that such system of |
inspection of immigrants be adopted |
on the Canadian frontier as will not |
impede travel.
Crowds visited Sherman's grave on
Sunday which was guarded by one
officer three non commissioned officers
and twelve privates.
Mrs. Francis E. Willard opens the
first triennal congress of Women ever
held, by an address, in Albrough's
opera house, Washington.
Elliot and Osborne, Columbus o.,
shoot on the street. Os-
borns and an bystander are dead.
Elliot is slightly wounded and four
others were struck, none fatally.