San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-15
EVENTS TODAY.
THE BROOKLYN HANDICAP.

opens today, to last through to
June 4, stakes being run Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. In the
Brooklyn handicap, the first great
race OF the season, the track has
magnet that should crowd it to
the gates. The managers have not
been content with this feature,
alone, however, for they have added
the Expectation stakes, which Is at
half mile, for two-year-olds. The
event is of the guaranteed cash
value of $1,000, and as the very best
two-year-olds in training are en-
gagged in it, the result should be a
splendid race. For the handicap
DR.. Rice, Ramapo, Rey ell SAINT An.
ita, Leonawell and other crack
horses will run.
AN HISTORICAL SILVER JUBILEE.
ORANGE, n. j., May 15.-The
twenty-tifth anniversary of the
Now England society will be cele-
brated this evening. Wendell P.
Garrison will give a historical
sketch Of the organization, and
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of
Harvard University, will speak on
puritan Politics."
COTTON MILL IN THE SOUTH.
ATLANTA, Ga, May l5.-Work is
announced to begin today on a
10000 spindle cotton mill. The
mill be established on the Chatta-
hoochie river, six miles from this
city, by the Whittier Cotton Mill
company, Of Lowell, Mass, assisted
by local capitalists. w. B. r.
Whittier and Paul Butler, of
Lowell, are principal stockholders,
with several Atlanta capitalists in
the deal.
AMHERST COLLEGE ATHLETES.
AMHERST, Mass, May l5.--The
college athletic associations field
day occurs today. The field events
will be pole vault, putting To-
pound shot, throwing IS pound
hammer, running high jump and
running broad Jump. The track
events will be: 300 yards dash.
1O0-yards dash, mile run, half-mile,
hurdle race, 440-yards dash, mile
bicycle race, relay race and half
| mile walk.
SILVER STATES WILL CONSULT.
SALT LAKE CITY, May I5.-The
mining states are going to get to-
gether on the silver question, and
will hold q convention here today
for that purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S BIRTH
DAY.
LONDON, May Is. - Florence
Nightingale will celebrate her sew
enty-flfth birthday today. Her
friends all over the world will send
congratulations to the distiu-
guished benefactor Of the race. She
is now living in quiet retirement.
TO GREENLAND's ICY MOUNTAINS.
New YORK, May I5.-Professor
L. l.. Dyche, the naturalist of the
coast Arctic expedition, which
ended so disastrously last summer,
announced he will sail today or to-
morrow for Greenland in the
schooner Golden Hope, Captain
Harvey Gaduor, to make collec-
ton OF fauna.
FORESTY ASSOCIATIONS MEET.
CAPE MAY, n. j., May l5.-The
American Forestry association has
accepted the invitation OF the New
Jersey Forestry association to come
10 South Jersey from today to the
10Th. Its first meeting will be held
in this city'today, and it will 60 to
Cape May tomorrow evening.
Prominent people from all over the
United States and Canada will
comprise the party.
sEMBRICH TO SING.
PARIS, May l5.-In the month
that begins today Sembrich, the
great singer, will appear eight
times in opera here. She is to sing
Media in "Pagliacci," Susel in
"Amico Fritz" for which part Mas
cagni will write a new grand aria,
and also as Rosina in "Il Barbiere."
From June 20 to July % Sembrich
is engaged by Sir Augustus Harris
for his Covent garden stagedom.
In London she will also sing eight
times, her principal appearance be-
ing as Juliet in Gounod's Romeo
and Juliet"
OHIO MEDICs' sEMI.CEOTENNIAL.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 15.-The
semi-centennial Of the Ohio Medi-
cal Society will be held here from
today on the 18th. At the opening
session this afternoon Governor
Mckinley will welcome the visit
ing physician at the Capitol build
ing. Many prominent physicians
from fhiS q nd nkhnr az q tnn nil IIn