San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-13
wRENoHED FROM THE WIRES.

New York assembly passes the
Raines liquor bill 81 to SO.
No news from the missing
steamer, City of Rio Janeiro.
League is formed in Germany
against agrarian aggression.
Gen. Baratieri arrives at Mas
sowah worn out in body and mind.
Sherman and Hill were the lead.
ing factors in the Cuban debate in
the senate yesterday.
Sherman is still pressing for an
early vote in the senate on the Gu
ban question.
Senate passes a bill creating an
art commission for the United
States.
There is little prospect Of a vote
on the Cuban resolutions being
reached this week.
Contested elections occupy the
attention of the house during the
greater part Of the session.
Monterey is talking of sewers
and a city water supply from the
mountains nine miles out.
Several Texas congressman show
a disposition to keep out of the
nomination fight this year.
Bill before senate to incorporate
maritime canal to connect Hudson
river and the great lakes.
Brakeman Cradle crushed to
death at Fort Worth, on the Santa
Fe tracks, caught between cars.
f L. Dunlap, of Victoria, will
enter the field as candidate for
Grains seat.
Paris democrats, vote down the
proposition to hold primaries, by a
large majority.
All the agreement reached in
Venezuelan matter is for the joint
commission.
Brazil offers to buy an Italian
cruiser, the one with yellow fever
on board in Rio harbor.
Dunraven concludes 30 make no
formal reply to the sentence of ex-
pulsion against him.
The exclusion of British and
American missionaries from Asia
Minor is practically decided on.
German floods continue, rivers
are overlooked, and many families
have been obliged to flee.
Italians are leaving home in
great numbers to avoid military
duty in Africa.
! Minister Willis, Of Hawaii, has
been granted 60 days leave from
his post.
! Heavy snow storms are reported
in Mississippi, as well as in New
York and Pennsylvania.
: Mail-Telegraph managers al
, Fort Worth are assaulted for ar
! ticles that appear in that paper.
Capt. Cook, prominent stock
| man az Quinlan, is dying from
, overdose of morphine.
Duestrow is sentenced to hang
az st. Louis for the murder OF his
wife, date of hanging, April %.
Hattie Powell gets $4,000 dam
ages against II. E. & w. 7. rail
road for the killing of her hus
band.
Madrid papess console them.
selves with the reflection that
Cuban recognition in congress is
dead.
Nebraska wells and streams
show higher water than usual,
with less precipitation for the
winter.
Exports Of breadstuffs for Feb.
ruary, 1896, are nearly 100 per cent
greater than for February, previ-
Gus year.
No settlement has yet been
reached on the Venezuelan mat
ters, but satisfactory result is
expected.
La Sale county will elect dele
gates in mass meeting on the Dist
to the democratic convention at
Corpus Christi on the oath.
BY the aid of cathode ray a scis-
sors' blade was extracted from a
woman's hand at Baltimore, that
had been embedded there twelve
years.
1t is expected that the Egyptian
troops will move up the Nile and
occupy Dongola. This will be a
check to the advance Of the der
wishes.
Ballington Booth was removed
from the command of the Saliva
ton army here, because he would
not consent that the fund for dis
abled soldiers should be diverted