San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-02
FOREIGN si AND DOMESTIC.
LATEST OFF 1.-THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete BpitOme of the Days Happen
e ings, Briefsd and Boiled Down, up a.. a.
to Time of Going to Press.

Watson, is reported about to drop
out of the race, retiring in disgust,
but it is not confirmed.
Gen. Harrison is billed to speak in
Richmond, Va, and in Charleston, w.
Va.
Arkansas Republicans in the Sec
ond and Sixth districts nominate can
didates for congress.
Fire at Ladonia causes the loss of
three lives and 100000.
Two Hill county merchants feel the
pressure and assign, filing deeds of
| trust.
Dallas shows up and claims to pay
as high prices for cotton as any mar
| ket in the state.
Reports from the low lands visited
by Tuesdays storm in Georgia, show
considerable loss of life.
Bill Mcdonald, cold black, member
of the Republican committee, resigns
sooner than fuse.
Marion Martin says that 100000
Populists in Texas will vote for Nc
| Kinley.
Agreement is reached in Dallas for
Pops and Republicans to fuse all down
| the line.
Nine thousand people are reported
dead of malignant fever that is raw
aging Turkestan.
The Russian ironclad Alexandra ii
has arrived at Athens.
Dam breaks at Staunton, Va, and
eight lives are lost and the town
flooded. Twenty business houses
were destroyed, 80 horses drowned
and damage to the extent of $780,
| 600 done.
Property losses from the flood in
the city of Washington are placed at
S55S,O0O
Cedar Keys, Fla, was almost en-
tirely wiped out by the Tuesday
storm.
Savannah counts up her total loss
in life at II and property loss at ST.
100000.
Five persons drowned and part of
the town of Benson, Arizona, lost in
a cloudburst.
Turpentine and lumber camps in
Florida suffered loss of half mil
lion by the storm.
Bryan is in West Virginia, and
Harrison will follow him to undo
his mischief.
Proclamation issued at Austin a.
gainst counties in which cattle are in
fected with splenetic fever.
Mckinley continues to address large
masses of voters who come to call on
him at Canton.
Culberson at Center Point tries to
explain the state treasury deficiency
which he says he inherited from the
Hogg administration.
Culberson actually confesses that
there is danger to the Bryan electors
in Texas through fusion.
The cattle disease at Paducah, KY,
is pronounced Texas fever.
Louisville race meeting is open and
| IS races are on the card for the three
days sport.
Pepper estate stock sold at Frank
fort, KY, and Acolyte is knocked
down for $4,000.
Uncle Sam sues the French cable
companies for Overcharge.
Four tribes of Indians pass resolu-
tions condemning the treatment of
Bryan at Yale.
Medical department of the Univer-
sity of Texas opens with $50 students
in attendance. -
Two clothing houses and a crock
cry house burned in Milwaukee, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
Steamer Albgoa, from Rio Janeiro,
the largest that ever entered CALVES
ton harbor, is loading there.
Galveston is sore over the manner
of her sewer construction and seeks
to annul the contract.
Conductors on the Texas Central
discharged en- mass for not collecting
cent fare of those who do not pur-
chase tickets.
Trains are now run through Gin
cinnati to San Francisco without
change of sleepers.
Galveston and Western railway
people get no relief against that mar
row gauge decision from the court of
Appeals.
| Capital of the bank of London and
Mexico, in city of Mexico, isincreased
to $10,000,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. III. Drake are mar
ried for the third time at Perry, o. II.
| JNhav have bann twice divorced