San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-06
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.
SHOWING IN NEW YORK.

weather is expected today. Con-
siderable rain fell in this vicinity
and the surrounding counties are
in the same condition. This makes
voting difficult.
THREE INCHES OF SNOW.
ALBANY, n. Y, Nov. CA snow
| storm ragged in the Catskills last
night, fully three inches Of snow
falling in Pine Hill and many
other places. High winds and cold
rains prevail today.
MCCOsH OF PRINCETON ILL.
PRINCERoN, n. J., Nov. Eek
President McCosh, of Princeton
University, is critically i'll at his
residence on Prospect avenue. He
has been becoming more and more
| feeble all the fall and the weakness
resultant from old age, has been
increased by a heavy cold which
threatens pneumonia. DR.. Wy
| COTE and a trained nurse are in
constant attendance.
AN AGED AMATEUR.
New YORK, Nov. 6.-The Rev.
Samuel Charles Worth, we'll
known English amateur astrono-
mer arrived in this city last night
having come to this country to OBJ
serve the transit of Mercury which
occurs next Saturday. Mr.. Worth
is 20 years old.
DASTARDLY MURDER.
PARIS, Tex, Nov. Ga band of
masked men went to the house of
an Indian, Silas Washington, and
fired into his house, killing Wash
ington, his wife and mother.
| Officers are at work on the case.
NEWS FROM PANAMA.
PANAMA, Culumb ia, Nov. G.
Nicaragua is obtaining in France
new arms and ammunition. Hon.
duras proposes a central annex
position in Tegucigalpa in 1896.
The American capitalists will es-
tablish bank in Puerto CorteZ.
On account of her Central Ameri-
can interests, England is pressing
Mexico for immediate settlement
Of the Balize boundary dispute.
BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
WHITEHALL, n. ", Nov. g.
Dispatches from Rouser Point,
Plattsburg, Ausable Forks, West
Port and other points on Lake
Champlain state that it stormed
hard last night. A heavy snow
storm has ragged in the vicinity of
Saranac Lake all night. 1t is four
inches deep.
FRENCH STEAMER SEIZED.
YOKOHAMA, Nov. 6.-The French
steamer, Sydney, which sailed Sep
TENDER 10Th, from Marseilles for
Yokohama, and which arrived at
Singapore about October II, has
been seized on suspicion Of having
contraband of war on board.
YOKOHAMA, Nov. 1.-THE French
Steamer Sydney, from Marseilles,
| which was seized on suspicion Of
having contraband of war on board,
has been released and has left Kobe.
1t was supposed that she had con-
traband that had been trans-ship-
ped from the British steamer Gael
ic from San Francisco, which was
also seized and subsequently re-
leased. A search of the Sydney
failed to reveal the presence OF con-
traband. Three Of her passengers,
however, were arrested and now
|! are detained at Kobe. Two are
Americans and one Chinaman.
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Nov. g.
| Advices from Tamatave of date Of
November 3, are to the effect that
the government of Madagascar has
refused to grant the French de-
mands. NJ. LeMeyer de Villers, the
French special envoy and all the
French residents Of Antananaivi
arrived at Tamalave on Novem-
, Der 2.
5 The war ship Hutton has gone
along the coast to pick up refugees
All the British residents Of the
capital remain, the government
promising them full protection,
;. VIRGINS Is ICE BOUND.
=. LONDON, Nov. GA dispatch
a from Christiana says: The Rus
: sian government has chartered
h the steamer Lindesnaez to search
t for the steamer st. German or
d which Captain Virgins, the Arctic
d explorer. left Henezeisk on Sep
s tember 10, with his other crew
S numbering so in all. 1t is believed
t Virgins is ice bound. The cap
tain of the LindesnaeZ hopes to gel
p tidings of Virgins at Chabrrown
/, Should he fail to do so, he will
). send parties overland to the ST