San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-14
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Ii Hung Chang is at Vancouver
The Maine state election occurs to-
day.
Ex-Consul Clausinius at Chicago is
dead.
Ex-Lieut-Gov. Sheehan of New York.
repudiates the Brayn ticket.
Gold assaying $4,000 is reported lit
tie south of Rawlins, Wyoming.
Battle is imminent between the Der
wishes and the Egyptian troops.
Republican managers claim 10000 ma
jority over all, in today's election.
Alabama steamers hung up on ac-
count of low water at Hurricane Bluff.
Gladstone is billed to speak at Ches-
ter in favor of Armenian intervention.
Five prisoners esape from Jail at
Waco. and leave Letter for the sheriff.
Nashville cotton mills shut down for
six weeks, claiming that cotton is too
high.
Careful estimates place the probable
majority of Mckinley in Nebraska at
5000.
Speaker Reed consents that Bryan
shall speak from the National Capitol
steps.
Delegates to the national convention
of Locomotive Firemen assemble in
Galveston.
Chairman Jones is in Washington,
and Bryan is in st. Louis. Mckinley
is at home.
Watson is in Bryan's home, Lincoln,
Neb., but declines to say a word on
politics there.
Henry Warford and his four sons
are drowned in the Straits of Belisle,
Newfoundland.
Cincinnati Enquirer Mclean is not
pleased with the conduct Of the free
silver campaign.
There is trouble at Blithe, Ca, over
the shooting of a negro for profanity
by white man.
weyler has lost his head and is ar
resting the leading citizens of Havana
by the wholesale.
Train goes through the Mad river
bridge in California, with six carloads
Of passengers, killing two.
The silverites are fearful of losing
Alabama to the combination of Popu-
lists and sound money men.
Lynch, McKinley's first political OPP
ponent, when he ran for prosecuting
attorney, is out for sound money.
Democratic honest money committee
of New York publishes an address to
the Democracy, against free silver.
The legend of the Virgin of Guada-
lupe is causing animated discussion
in the City of Mexico.
Mrs. Ingram who has tasted 164 days
at Battle Creek, Mich, is beginning
to take a little nourishment.
Washington county people are tear
ing out all the toll gates in that Blue
Grass section having voted no tolls and
taxes to pay the companies.
Chicago cabmap finds a bag with
$4,000 in bonds and $97 in money, which
he returned and got $40.
Postal clerks are arriving at Denver
to attend the congress called for to-
morrow.
Opponents. to the saloons are trying
to burn the town of Shelbyville, Ind.
Ellsworth Chaplin, doing time in Peo-
ria for trying to aid prisoners to escape
gets away over the fence.
Signs of an approaching crisis in
Turkey multiply, but the Turks only
plan another massacre.
Troops are doubled in the quarter
of Constantinople containing the resi-
dences of the British and French en-
bassies.
Mrs. Parnell denies that there was
any political significance in the at
tempt to kill her IS months ago.
Advance in the Bank of England
rates has forced prices down all along
the line of stocks.
DAILY, released from Portland prison,
is accorded an ovation on his return
to Dublin.
London Times is not ready to see
England go to war for the pacification
of Armenia.
1t is rumored that the sultan is in
danger of assassination by the palace
minions.
Leopold of Belgium. explains to Will
liam of Germany, his reasons for his
movements in the Congo country.