San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-15
LATE TElEGRAMS.
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE.
SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

Holman will be chairman of house
committee on appropriations.
Pfeffar is chairman Of one and placed
on three other senatorial committees,
Sherman is chairman of senate COM
mittee on foreign relations.
Raum will be farther investigated
present session of congress.
Culberson will accept inter state
commission appointment If rendered.
Justices Brown and Lamar are both
sick.
The Sage dynamiter's head is still
q subject of mystery.
Pueblo, Col, reports the worst
storms ever known there.
New York money is 8 per cent and
silver So.
Alliance lecturer Scott takes the
field to instruct the sub-lecturers.
A decline of several points lie looked
for in the cotton market.
Illinois wheat crop for 1892 prom
ises poorly, owing to drouth.
Ex-President Pierce's old law part
ner, Josiah Minot, is dead.
For the first time on record Kansas
City has over l OK 900 bushels wheat
In her elevators.
Bill for reclamation of Arid land 8
presented by Senator Dolph, Oregon,
ltcontemplates govt. loan.
Senator FELTON,, Cal, introduces bill
removing all trespassing Chinese to
China, not Canada.
Sage's dynamiter's brain examined,
and shows positive evidence of de-
mented condition.
Crisp will appoint a northern demo.
crat chairman OF ways and means
committee.
River Mersey England ,overflows it's
banks aud does great damage, flood
ing parts of Manchester.
Work for Improvement of Columbus
Tap, Velasco to Houston, is com.
menced.
Foreigners in Chilli are anxious and
do not share the Gillian view OF af-
fairs.
Bill introduced In senate defining
futures and options and taxing deal
ers in same.
Brazil coal miners to the numb Der of
10000 are on strike and the outlook is
gloomy.
Federation of labor in Birmingham
reports 256 charters during year, and
IS, l56 in treasury.
Balmaceds was betrayed 20 his
death by the Argen tine minister, who
gave him away to MOntt.
Cuba merchants petition Spain for
financial relief, asking for q general
bankbill redemption measure.
Michael Davitt still in the ring and
will stand for the seat made vacant
by the death of Richard Powers.
Grand jury at Pittsburg find true
bills against the Post for libelling
Quay.
Suits filed against bondsmen santa
Fe, N. M. county officers TO recover
$40, 900 shortage in taxes.
Conven ton called at Montgomery,
Ala, Jan. 6, 1872, to consider decrease
of cotton area.
Rain Sunday night averaged one
inch over all Kansas, Indian Terri
tory and Western Missouri.
st. Paul will build an immense
auditorium for the democratic national
convention if it can secure 1t.
Milwaukee offers 100000 for ex-
penses of democratic national conven-
ton In order to secure 1t.
Republican senate caucus completes
its work, but its report has not been
submitted and approved.
The situation at Crested Butte
mines, Col, grows desperate. Miners
starving and operators will net arbi-
trate.
Missouri Pacific system reports
Sc, 223 ,647 total income and 5000, 643
net income; per cent dividend on
common stock.
There is trouble among telegraph
operators from New Mexico to New
Orleans, and general strike is
feared.
The lfters of that 10000 sample
case of diamonds, at Dayton, Ohio,
Nov. 10, have been arrested, evidence
direct.
Indians elected from apportioned
lands in Montana and their claims
jumped. u. 8. marshal will protect
the Indians
The Hunzs Niger tribesmen of In
dia, though defeated and driven to
the mountains, are carrying on a
guerilla war.
Missouri and Mississippi river inn
provement convention meets at Kan
sas City today, to consider western
waterways.
Mexican volcano, Coliua, threatens
to be vioently active and the villages
in the neighborhood are ordered
vacated.