San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-15
WRENOHED FROM THE WIRES.

1t is expected that the convention
will close it's work on Friday.
Comal county Democrats pass
strong resolutions against free silver.
Manchester market reports demand
for cloths good, but trifie steady.
Mrs. Ike Hickman horribly burned
by falling into the fire at Rising Star.
r. C. Barton goes to the Austin In
| sane asylum from Hayes county.
Alabama. South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi negroes declare for Reed.
Two white men fatally shot in the
dark near Caldwell.
Ii Hung Chang is in Berlin and is
received by the Emperor and EN-
press.
Kruger says that Cecil Rhodes es-
capped his acts as though he was edg-
ing on bull fight.
The liberated members of the re-
form committee are warmly welcom-
ed back to johannesburg.
Teachers on the 1. & G.. n. and the
SAP will be given reduced rates to
tnelr summer nOrmalS.
British house of commons is in a
| tangle over the Irish land bill and
must modify it to pass IT,
Kruger gets about S5.OOO,OOO from
the fines imposed upon the Johannes
, burg reformers and their tool
Quarreymen on a strike. mostly
foreigners, make things riOtous at
Cleveland and North Amhurst, o.
Two firemen fatally burned while
fighting fire in the White Mills distill-
cry, Louisville, Ky
Young man giving his name as c.
f.. pruner dies suddenly at Fort
Worth.
Fifty British sailors of the Medi-
terranean squadron attend mass at
Rome and the Pope blesses them.
j. C.. Stanley, Houston blacksmith,
falls from second story window
while asleep and breaks his neck.
Sound money men at Waco declare
they will never vote for a free silver
lite.
Havana water supply cut off by the
insurgents and the acqueduct partially
destroyed by explosives.
During the heated term in Cuba
the Spanish forces will act purely on
the defensive.
A well equipped filibustering expedi-
ton is about ready to leave Phila.del-
phia for Cuba.
Governor Bradley has taken his fl
nal leave of the presidential stage
and actually withdraws.
Clarkson will not again be candi-
date for membership on the national
committee.
Indiana delegates are instructed not
| to mention Harrison's name during
| the convention.
Rodney Fiske. three years a mil
lionaire, dies in lodging house in
South Boston.
Cuban women are stripped and
nude by the Spanish soldiers and sub
mitted to foul indignities.
| Hogg wants Texas delegates in
| structed for the strongest silver man
at Chicago, and favors Altgeld.
There is little doubt now that Tel
Ter and his conferees will try and
| force a solid gold plank.
| The national committee rejected
| contestants for Mckinley in go in
| stances.
State delegations will meet this af-
| ternoon and select their members for
the several committees.
The Texas delegation is broken up
the back and split down the middle
| in its chaotic state.
Plat is badly demoralized at the ac-
ton of the committee in seating Cor
| nelius Bliss.
Sunday was boisterous day in st.
Louis playing cards and general hi
larity making night boisterous.
There are four New York candi-
dates for governor in attendance upon
| the st. Louis convention.
Senator Cullon is at Canton, Ohio.
He says it is Mckinley on the first
ballot.
All signs point to rapid closing out
| of business before the convention,
when it gets down to work.
There is substantial agreement
among all parties at ST. Louis as to
the platform, except the money plan.
How much to do for silver, how lit
| tie for gold is the problem at st.
| Louis.
There is probability of the COM
mittee on credentials accepting there
! port Of the national committee on
contests.
A Spanish man-of-war is following
| the Laurida outside the three league
limit from Jamaica. and British war
vessel follows the Spaniard.
Six convicts make a break from the
| Collier camp Mumford and two OF
them are shot. two others captured
and two at large.
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