San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-18
LATE KILOGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE
SPECIALS AND OTHER
SOURCES.

loss 6,UOO.
Captain Westbrooke, Of Hearne,
dies at Mineral Wells.
President Diaz formally opens
the Mexican congress.
Mills is booked for his long de-
Iayed speech on silver Tuesday.
Sunday attendance at the
Worlds fair was about as usual. y
The insurgents are making good
Roadway with their bombardment
of Rio.
Mason horsemen who took stock
into the territory report sales at a
fair profit.
Light rains and a change in the
wind checks forrest fires at Merrill,
Wisconsin.
Ben Burton shot in his store at
Hillsboro, presumably for purposes
of robbery.
The executive of Georgia makes
an appeal for the destitute at
Brunswick.
This is the centennial of the lay
ing of the corner stone of the ma
tional capitol.
Laredo enrolls sos children in her
public schools, an increase of 20
over last year.
The strip is today one of the
most uninviting sections of the
entire country.
Cattle men in some sections of
Hays county are driving stock s
miles to water.
There will be little done in Sen
ate this week outside of the repeal
of silver debate.
Yellow fever declared epidemic
at Brunswick, Ga, and people are
fleeing the town.
The yard crew at Eagle. Pass is
discharged and the train men must
do the switching.
Water is scarce in the strip, food
very dear, prairie fires sitting and
dust everywhere.
Three negroes lynched in Jeffer-
son Parish, Louisiana, for the MUIR
der of Judge EstOpinal.
Levine Bros, Waco, go to the
wall for large amount. Preferred
credits take the assets.
Wells are failing at Shavano on
account of drOuth and cattle are
driven 7 miles to water.
Two murderers arrested in Frio
county, for crimes committed in
Webb and Kerr counties.
Mason county has very dry
weather and the thermometer
stands at 1O7 in the shade.
Heavy sand storm followed by
rain sufficient to lay the dust is re-
ported in Maverick county.
Exhibits at the Bell county fair
showed improvement in every de-
partment over former years.
The Democrats in the House
have about decided to stay in line
and take up the Tucker bill.
Galveston X. of p lay them
selves out to give a knightly well
come to their Palestine fraters.
StockdaIe complains of great
drouth, but cotton is turning out a
better crop than was expected.
The forest fires in northern Wis
consin are devouring everything,
and rain is anXiously looked for.
Cholera in the camp at Bankitz-
ka has caused the postponement
of the Servian army maneuvers.
The influence of the President
and his advisors in national legis-
Iation is deprecated at Washington.
The time set for hearing testi-
mony by the Ways and Means
committee expires, on Wednes-
day.
Texans at Chicago had a good
time opening Mrs. Tobins building,
for which she has made plucky
fight.
Diaz, in opening congress, states
that Mexico is at peace, elections
quiet, schools prospecting, manu-
features increasing and public
roads and other improvements
in progress.
Gladstone opens his campaign
against the House of Lords on
Wednesday, and then the battle
between the commonors and the
aristocracy will be on to no more
end until the lords are broken as a
political power.
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