San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-20
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Boiled DOWN FROM PRIVATE,
SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

Mason county has shipped over 49,
600 head fat cattle this season.
Pfeffer and Powderly addressed inn
mense crowds last night.
The trans Mississippi congress meets
in Denver.
Seven men severely hurt in an cleo.
trio explosion at New York.
Texas has 10 per cent more cotton
acreage this year than last.
Gustemals:s new loan inspires con-
fidence and quickens business.
Honduras election will be close be.
tween Gems. Levia and Domingo.
The National Union Conference in
Cincinnati is in full blast.
The south is very slimly represent
ed in the Cincinnati conference.
Karnes county prisoners are taken
to san Antonio for safe keeping.
Australian federation is abandoned
and each colony goes it alone.
Grover Cleveland and wife summer
at Tudor Haven.
Mexican InterocCanic has an inn.
mense freight business.
The Esmeralda is trying hard to
coal secretly at Acapulco.
Dallas day at the Maifest brings
over several hundred Dallas people.
Karnas city held it's first religious
service sunday night.
Railroad conductors will hereafter
meet every two years instead Of year
ly.
The o. r. C. are nearly $4,000 in
debt; they will increase dues and
give up their journal.
Hamilton is held at Fort Worth
for 81 900 robbery committed at
Helena, Ark.
Esmeralda gave the Itata all er
coal and the steamer is far on her way
to Chill.
Pacific mail Co. refuses the Esmer-
aida coal and she threatens to take 1t
by force.
Sinner building and loan associa-
ton finds defective title to $40
acres of the town site.
GAINESVILLE, Bonham aud Trinity,
Texas, report severe hail and wind
storms seriously injuring crops.
The Sunday night storm wrecked
Bissell saw mill and three persons
seriously injured.
Eseta, commander of Salvador, is
moving army headquarters to Santa
Anna.
Late rains have greatly improved
the western ranges and corn is look
ing splendidly.
Col. Gaines of Austin is dead, aged
SO, he has been a resident of the state
since 1885.
The Texas press association had q
royal time at the gulf. They left the
coast this morning.
Losses by Jacksonville fire were
$500, 200; insurance as far as known
$54 900.
Dallas strike is over. Men get $1.75
for 10 hours work payable weekly,
until July; then $3.50 for nine hours.
Ohio has declared for third party
of the action of the nation
al convention.
Committee of one from each state
was appointed to prepare platform
and convention adjourned.
Senator Pfeffer is chosen permanent
chairman of the third party conven-
tion.
The vice presidents are one each
from the X. of L. the Alliance and the
reenbackers.
King Simms, OF Waco, has been
found out as the murderer of Ed.
Brandon, whose dead body was dis
covered Sunday.
Lieut.. Gov. Pendleton goes to Aus
tin as an attached witness, probably
to tell what he knows about that ex-
text book bill.
Three men fatally wounded in Mad
ison county, Tenn, in a fight over q
beautiful girl whom two of the VIC
Tins were counting.
Mrs. McCurdy, wife of the Presby-
terrain minister at Cuero, is dead. The
church grants him three months va
cation.
Four Americans and fourteen Ital- |
ans killed near Tarrytown, n. Y, by |
dynamite on car; the train was blown |
10 atoms.
Texas state prohibitionists meet at |
Corsicana, and resent the treatment |
received by them in the late legisla-
ture.
Strege, resisting arrest about 10 |
miles south of Seguin pulls his pistol
and shoots, but gets his death wound
1t the hands Of the officer.
Italian Hot Heads.
ROME, May 20.-A duel, growing |
,ut of a dispute originated in the
stormy debate in the chamber of dep
lties on May Day, when radical men,
naro hIopoad the onvarn mant for the /