San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-21
LATE TELEGRAMS.
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE,
SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

The shortage in Europeon bread
| stuffs is greater than reported.
Nothing farther reported at Laredo
of the socalled Mexican revolution.
John Reid killed in Houston run
away.
Drouth has cut cotton prospects in
Tom Green county so per cent.
Ex-congressman Scott of Pennsyl-
vania is dead.
Cara is on the retreat closely fol-
lowed ny Mexican troops.
The State University has a new
chemical labratory.
The tunnel under st. Claire river
was opened Saturday.
Hotter Septembe weather than the
Northwest has known for 80 years.
Gen. Rob. f. Lees old adjutant
Reietledge is dead.
John Shearn; Houston grocer, as
signs, liabilities ST. 1873.
The rain making experiment at FL
Paso is failure.
VIM. Zacharas and wife divorced at
Brenham after so years welded life.
Cotton burned in Alliance yard,
Pittsburg; fire incendiary.
Northwest prairie fires have proved
destructive to wheat and timber.
Twenty-one miners killed in COL
| liery explosion in Belgium.
News from Central America is not
reassuring, war is dangerously near.
Beeville's artesian well is down
| 900 feet and still going down.
Wisconsin Methodist conference &C.
cepts women as lay delegates.
The Holy synod, Russia, orders
food distribution regardless of creed.
| Balmaceda is reported dead in Val
| paradise, having suicided in despair OF
escape.
Balmaceda has been in hiding at
legation Argentine Republic since
sept. End.
There is no danger from starvation
in the Spanish centers destroyed by
flood.
There have been 1881 bodies buried
at Almeria and 1865 at Conseugra,
Spain.
Crops almost totally destroyed in
| V lie Franco and Camanus districts,
| Spain.
| The cowboy preacher winds up at
| Floresville. He pitched into the reg
| ular preachers savagely.
Directors Concho Valley fair are be-
| sieged with applications; large at
| tendance is expected.
The arrivals of home seekers at
] Guthrie knock out Sunday, and bed
| lam is let loose.
Uncle Sans troopers are on hand
| in the new territory and peace will
be preserved.
Cotton ranges in the extreme west
ern part of the state are suffering
| from routh.
Stockdale reports % per cent more
! cotton there than the estimate OF
month ago.
American troops are patrolling this
| side the river to prevent the rioters
recrossing.
Gov. Hogg has been requested to
send rangers to aid in pstrolling the
| river.
Wood repair shops of the South
western railway burned at Tyler; lots
light.
The enlargement of the deaf and
dumb institute doubles its capacity,
| it can now take 400.
Fosters frost predictions for mid.
die September have signally tailed OF
verification.
| Col. Rose, president of board OF
A. & NJ. college, is chief of agricultural
department for Texas at Worlds fair.
Timely rains have saved Wisconsin
| Gran berry marshes from destruction
by fire.
Bee county reports good rains, fine
fall garden prospects, good grass, ana
prospect of top cotton.
| Sheep thief arrested with q stolen
| flock in Webb county resists and is
shot In the arm.
A modification of the lumber tariff
is being prepapared by the railway
| commission.
There will be no discrimination
against colored men in stalking claims
! in the Territory.
Melbourne, the rain maker, con-
tracts to furnish Sherman county,
Ks, with rain, for $500.
Russia will not force her way to the
Bosphorus, finding England pre-
pared to resist.
The American agriculturist places
the worlds food supply short 200, O0O,-
| 600 bushels wheat and rye, assuming
235, 900, 900 bushels for United States
and Canada.
| Decision by commission reversed,
and railways can carry lumber for
church building free or at reduced
| rates.