San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-01
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train to the dam site.
Governor Hogg approves the San
Antonio charter.
The La Sale operators will sign the
scale and work will soon be resumed.
Indiana miners are out until the
scale Is signed, not for s hours a day.
Pittsburg carpenters are out for an
eight hour day and $3.50 day.
Pittsburg masons are out for eight
hours and As cents an hour.
Bismarck leads in the supplement
tary election and is probably elected.
Qoeen Victoria has reached Wind
sor castle.
Webb county will have over 1000
acres in cotton this season.
Del Rio records horrible murder
with revolving accomplishments.
Houston Y. M. c. A. Is $1,000 be-
hind and salary of secretary unpaid.
Dominion accounts show q surplus
for works previously designated.
Smallpox is causing many deaths
in Guatemala since rain set in.
Canadian liberals will take an
aggressive position in parliament from
the word go.
Minister of foreign affairs says all
reports of disturbance in Guatemala
are false.
Gold at Buenos Ayres is quoted at
$50 per cent premium.
Rudini lays before italian parlia-
ment the papers in the New Orleans
case.
France says she has no designs on
Hsyti, and respects her indepen-
dence.
Capt. Varney, alias Wilson,
attempted seducer, is held for trial in
SIS, 600 by the London police court.
Attempt is being made to unity the
German and Austrian railway sys-
tenn.
Circus tent blown over at Tiffin, O.,
one lady killed and two city officers
injured.
Col. Ropes is reelected president of
Corpus Christi and South American
road.
The Corpus Christi aud Brownville
road is waiting for iron, when track
laying will be pushed.
The Brazos has fallen rapidly at
Hampstead and will soon be within
banks.
The Presidents party visit Monte
rey, Cal, and takes the famous Is
mile drive.
Blair goes to Washington on tele-
gram from Blaine, his diplomatic
future Is uncertoin.
Murphy, express messenger at Gal
weston, charged with fraud, is held TO
answer in $500 bonds.
Portuguese occupy Massi Reese,
South Africa, and British settlers
leave.
Pittsburg contractors will not yield,
and sign iron clad articles of fedora
ton.
Bituminous coal miners in Indiana
strike against ten cent reduction per
ton.
Weather and crop bulletin for the
state shows prosperous condition of
fruit and crops.
Mines at La Sale, Ill, shut down
and 1000 miners are waiting for scale
to be signed.
State health officer declares the
quarantine against Rockwell u unnec-
essary.
Waco needles decide that in future
all differences between mem bers must
be settled outside the association.
Secretary of Agriculture for Kansas
reports bad farming the cause of fall
ure of wheat stand in Russell county
DIR. Joseph Leidy, eminent Phils-
delphia physician and naturalist, is
dead.
Cotton market somewhat RECEIVERS
its tone and prices advance and 8
points.
New York money market is'strin-
gent owing to May settlements, but
stringency is temporary.
The 500, 900 offered for the capture of
Manuel Garcia, Cuban bandit, goes
begging.
The miners threatened strike in
Ohio will probably be compromised,
and work continued.
Mart Copeland, the notorious Texas
horse thief gets 5 years at Waco,
and more to follow when his term 10
out.
New York legislature reports that
the sugar trust paid ten per cent divi-
dend on $4,000, 900 watered stock,
the legitimate stock being only ST.
600, 900.
Forrest fires in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey destroy millions of feet of
valuable timber, thousands of acres
of fire wood, and scores of farm
houses. Port Republic, West Pleas
antville, Pleasantville, and Bailey
town are all surrounded by fire.