San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-20
LATE TELEGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE. sPe-
cIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

Texas traffic Association will restore
rates September l.
Spring wheat yield will fall 3,OO0,-
900 bushels below last years crop.
Yoakum compress has started bust
ness for the season.
The office of the Colorado Citizen at
Columbus, Tex, is burned out.
More timely rains are reported
throughout North Texas.
Plumb introduces bill looking to
the exclusion of all liquors from the
senate wing of the capitol.
No amendments were made to the
tin and wire schedules in the senate's
discussion on tariff.
| Benevolent Irish Catholic Union
opens three days session in ST..
| Louis.
| After balloting $50 times for state
senator the Goth Texas district nomi-
mates Carter, a dark horsse.
Ell Paso republicans elect delegates
to the state convention which meets
in San Antonio September 3rd.
State Farmers Alliance are in ses-
sion at Dallas. They endorse the
Hogg and commission act.
Vice-President Webb is managing
the railroad end of the strike accord
ing to his own discretion.
Beeville, Yoakum and the section
lying between have had abundant
rain.
Rain interrupts races and base Eall
| at Chicago, st. Louis, Louisville and
Cincinnati.
DR.. Rutherford and the state quar-
anime boat Bessie Ross arrives at
Rockport.
Ex-confederate association, of Mis-
souri,, is holding two days session at
Nevada.
The cutting at Ropes Pass is ad-
vanclng about 100 feet day in hard
clay.
gives cent rate to all parties of
10 or more travelling on any of its
lines.
The Mississippi plan is state appor-
tionment by large districts; the dis
tricts to elect and the governor to ap-
point all county officers.
The Brazos people are arranging
for line of steamers to Liverpool,
New York and the West Indies.
Deep water there is an assured thing.
The democracy of the Fifth congress
sional district are having a warm
time. There will be republican
candidate in the field.
Del Rio is buildings beautiful stone
school house to cost $4,000. The
town also strikes good supply of
strong medicinal W alter, 460 feet down.
Colombo government has under adj
visemept the proposals of the Panama
canal company.
The Bishop of Birmingham cele-
brates high mass over the body of
Cardinal Newman.
The cyclone that wrecked Wilkes
barre, killed fifteen persons at Sugar
Notch and ten at Mill Creek.
The Grand Lodge, colored, A. F. &
A. NJ, is in session at Paris to contln-
ue until Friday.
The American schooner Macheca
from New Orleans for Balize is ashore
on Glover Reef.
1t is reported that peace has been
arranged between Guatemala and
Salvador, but internal revolution
still threatens Guatemala.
Train wrecked on the Cape Cod and
Woodhall line, at Quincy, Mass;
three persons killed and 20or 80 scald-
ed.
Arkansas Pass got away with Gal
weston in the regatta on the 18th inst,
the Alice taking champion cup and
two purses.
Region, of Texarkana, sitting
asleep on the railway track Is run
over and dies from the effects of his
injuries.
Crit Watkins, of Fit. Worth, repre-
sents himself as g. Lyons and re-
ceives 500 money order belonging
to the latter. Watkins is headed for
San Antonio.
Webb's persistent refusal to arbi-
trate Central strike may result in
calling out all the men on the road.
If the firemen strike the engineers
must quit as they cannot work with
non-union men.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is struck by cy-
clone; hundreds of houses unroofed;
all electric light, telegraph and tele-
| phone wires are down; trains blown
over; more than q score of persons
killed and the wounded will reach
into the hundreds.
In its criticism upon a recent article
| Of tho onant narty faof tha