San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-08
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SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.


SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES.
Idaho senatorial contest will prob
ably be argued in senate this week.
Philadelphia will ship 300 tons of
relief food to Russia this week.
Kansas democratic state convention
is called to meet March 5.
Georgia democrats are afraid of an
alliance and republican union.
Alabama farmers are desperate over
low price of cotton.
Capt. VIM. Whitehead will COM
mand the U. s. steamer Baltimore.
Committee will probably report q
free and unlimited coinage bill.
Senate memoriaJized for more lib
eral waterway appropriations.
Money order facilities extended to
all Offices with $500 salary or more.
Three men washed over board from
| the smack Daisy, in British waters.
Heavy floods are again devastating
North spain.
Greek steamer EN- bisecos lost off
Scilly Isles and nine drowned.
New York state grange favors canal
around Niagara falls.
Worlds fair committee in House
will fight for jurisdiction in the fair
investigation.
House coinage committee will try
and reach vote on the Bland bill this
| week.
Steamship Polynesian. ashore on
Cape Henry Friday night, is now
afloat.
Boy abducted at Woods Run, Pa,
probably by his father, John Kane,
W no has lett his wife.
Thayer, of Nebraska, writes Boyd
| to come and take charge of the state
government.
Seattle building company sues
Western Farm, Mortgage and Trust
| for $43, 900 due on bonds.
Three men killed and property de-
stroyed by wreck on Chicago and
Alton, Larabee, Mo.
George Painter will hang at Chica-
90 for the murder of his common law
| wife.
The democratic Crisp faction in
| congress is lively but not very nu-
merOus.
Walthall, OF Mississippi, is senator
until next century, his term expires
in 1901.
Judge Chandler, first assistant Sec,
| interior, is mentioned for the supreme
bench of Kansas.
Reports concerning cessation of
work at Nicaragua canal are author
itatively denied.
The war department is worried
over the CARA matter and will in
crease the troops.
Mexican government will not be
permitted to extradste any American
| citizen.
Capt. Schley is given charge of the
Bird lighthouse district, headquarters
| Staten Island.
Motion made In Lisbon chambers
| for impeachment of ex-miDister OF
| finance Ca valho.
Stirum's sentence Is considered
threat to Bismarck, or at least warn
ing.
The will of John Crenan, giving
Sc, 900, 900 to found a Chicago library,
| is sustained.
Armour, Morris, and Swift take so
| per cent of the offerings of the Chi
cago stock yards.
Liverpool is glutted with cotton,
having 49, 600 bales more than the
excess of this year over last.
The sectariaH educational bill in
Germany is creating great dissen-
sion.
New York democrats, many of them
favorable to Hill, protest against the
early convention.
Republican members of Iowa legis-
lature in caucus agree to stand by
prohibition.
Count Stirum is deprived of his PEN
and title as minister, for publishing
| articles against the German CONNER
cial treaty.
James G. Blaine notifies Chairman
Clarkson that his name will not go
before the republican national con-
vention.
Harmon, an Englishman, jailed at
Seattle for larceny, released and par
doped, the charge being trumpet
up one.
Hotel Royal, Sixth avenue and 10th
street, New York, burned, and eleven
persons cremated. The number may
reach 80.
The Shooters Dance.
The Jaegerlust Shooting society held
loi. nd irTal SATURDAY.