San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


young wife at Urbana, o.
Bi-Metalic league is called to
meet at Washington Aug. 10th.
John Van Horn, engineer, killed
in collision near Sandusky, O.
Platt favors a state ticket in New
York fused to defeat Tammany.
The San Marcos Chatauqua
closes it's services and sessions for
the season.
Money in London financial cir
cles is abundant, but lowest rates
have been touched.
Santos trial opens at Lyons on
the 81. The utmost precautions
have been taken.
Zimmerman, the American Bike
expert, takes everything in sight
in the Paris races.
A row over a can Of beer in Chi
cago lands six men in the police
station, three in the hospital.
Indian Territory miners are
starving and appeal for aid to the
people of Texas.
There is no settlement Of the
Rock Island trouble in the Terri
tory.
Over 1000 lives were lost in the
recent earthquakes in and around
Constantinople.
Ecuador suspends payment OF in
terest on her foreign debt, and
finances are in bad shape.
Twenty nihilists are arrested in
st. Petersburg, plotting to take the
Cars life.
Anarchist paper in Messina is
suppressed and editor jailed and
fined.
The colored Baptist Association
of Texas is in session at Crockett,
split wide open.
Gatliff, the life convict who es-
capped from Austin Jail, is rounded
up near Abbott, but not captured.
J. A. Stock fatally stabbed at
Center by the son Of McCauley
with whom he was lighting.
Senate is looking for the author
of the charges against senators
specializing in sugar stock.
Grover has decided on his strike
commission, and Lyman Trumbull
of Chicago is named.
The American Federation OF
labor is trying to raise funds for
the defense of Debs.
Debs says that his organization
is growing at the rate ST 600 day
and that he will win.
Cleveland's letter has rendered
the solution of the tariff contro-
versy more difficult.
Declaration ofwar between China
and Japan is reported, but not cred
tied.
China and Japan are nearly equal
in naval strength, but Japan is
most ready for prompt action.
China can put into the field four
times the number Of land forces
that Japan can.
Southern Pacific company will
not employ men who belong to the
labor unions in the future.
Organized Iaborers at Omaha
are organizing themselves into
militia companies.
Prices at Grand Rapids furniture
sale are % per cent below sales Of
last year.
Destructive forest fires have
ravaged northern Wisconsin, burn
ing out stores and families.
The settlement of the tariff con-
troversy is the great act on the
congressional boards this week.
The House and the Senate are as
undecided as ever as to mutual re-
Cessior.
Irregular train service stops hun
dreds of Mystic Shriners from COM
ing to Denver.
Official information is to the
effect that the plague now devas-
tating China is the worst known.
Pearsall reports splendid rain
that insures the cotton crop for
this year.
A Britisher claims to have been
victimized to the tune of quarter
million by sailed mine in Alaska,
and brings suit to recover at San
Francisco.
The Baptist convention in On
tario has drawn together the dis
tinguished divines Of that body
from all sections of Canada and
the United States.