San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-07
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Elgln, Is destroyed WIN all lUS con-
tents.
The business portion of Roberts,
just south of Quinlan, is wiped out
by fire.
George n. Aldridge, one of the
best men in North Texas, is at the
point of death in Dallas.
General inspection of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe is being
made by the officers of that line.
Rio Grande at Laredo is falling.
The overflow insures good crops
next spring on all the low lands.
English member of Parliament
issues an address in.favor of pro-
lection.
Healyite candidate in the south
division of Kerry is knocked out
by the Mccarthy candidate.
Treasury reserve. at the close of
business yesterday was one and a
half million short.
September 21st is officially an
nounced as Blue and Gray day at
the Atlanta Exposition.
Baker and Hatley, cattle thieves,
are arrested at South McAlester, 1.
T., and Jailed.
William Henry Hurlburt, noted
American author, born in Charles
ton, s. c., in 1927, is dead in Italy.
Frank Sharpe marries Sarah
Simpson at Manchester, Tenn. He
is go and she ID.
Snyder holds local option cleo
ton on the 18th September. 1t
goes wet and dry alternately.
The Boston bruisers O'Brien and
Wolcott are held in $1,000 each to
answer to the Superior court.
The trial of the Dallas pugilists,
Cavanaugh and Clark, is set for
the 10th September.
General Campos has sailed from
Cuba on the Villa Verde for
France.
The Defenders time allowance
by the Valkyrie is less than half a
minute, being 29.10 seconds.
J. X. Britain, wanted in Chero-
kee county for rape, voluntarily
surrenders at Dallas and goes with
| the sheriff to his old home.
The leader of the gang that
robbed Wells Fargo Express Of
$40, 900 at Cripple Creek, has been
arrested at Leadville, Col.
Tin plate manufacturers fear a
general shutting down of all the
United States plants on account Of
the advance in steel plates.
Railroad commission values Rio
Grande and FL Paso road at $4Sl, :
S34 and so reports to Secretary of
State at Austin.
Texas State university regents
meet, but do not elect a president
and law professor, as was ex-
pected.
The merchants of Victoria and
Lavaca are about to build a long
wharf at the latter port, for cotton
shipment by water.
DR.. Depew thinks that the
British conservatives are as ready
to give Ireland Home Rule as the
liberals are.
Contract let for building all the
bridges on the National Tehuante-
peck line, Mexico. Contract is for
50, 5000
There has been nothing as yet
seen of the assailants of Constable
Butler, they have pil<ed for Mex
leo.
EX-collector of customs at Port
land, Ore, is fined $4,000 for con-
spiracy to admite Chinese contrary
to law.
William Henry Grain says that
the report, that he said he would
again run for Congress, is lie
positive an unequivOcal.
Robbers near DenisOn are
tracked and followed, but stand
the posse off with their guns and
get away:
Aguira has been released by the
Spanish authorities at Havana,
Sanguilla will be given an imme-
diate trial. This is official.
Senior Emilio CASTELAR, highly
compliments the course and cour-
age of General CampOs in the con-
duct of the war in Cuba.
Tramps in the vicinity of Crest
line, Ohio, make life burden to
the farmers and to the people OF
the small towns. Stealing and
violence are common.
Seven fraudulent concerns have
been barred from the mails by re-
cent order. Among them are the
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