San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-20
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Bill IN commons looking 10
adoption of general arbitration,
passes to second reading.
By ruling of secretary of the in
terror, Guthrie City, Ok, retains
title to Noble Park.
Cutters and garment workers
strike in Chicago will throw 10000
people out of work.
Bill Nye. American humorist,
is dying at his home in Asheville,
North Carolina.
James B. Wells is not a candi-
date for congress and refuses to eX-
press a preference.
Walters pardon is probable. His
papers are before the French pres
ident for signature.
Alsatians desert the German
army and pass over the lines into
France at Tries.
Call issues for meeting Of the
sound money democrats of Travis
county.
Hays county prohibitionists call
a meeting for March II, to orga-
nize the county.
Half a hundred persons burned
in a mask ball in Lisbon, and "a
bodies have been recovered.
Clara Barton is rapidly perfect
ing her arrangements for visiting
interior Armenia with relief.
Wealthy Kansas farmer killed
for purposes of robbery, near his
Lawrence farm.
Slossc. Thomas, OF the Chicago
Journal, transfers his services to
the Evening Post.
st. Petersburg Geographical So
ciety is not prepared to deny the
report of the pole discovery.
Colony Of mechanics for Mexican
colony is being organized in Cleve-
land, o. There will be 90 families.
Plans are being discussed in
England for joint Venezuelan
commission.
Harris county republicans split
and there is free for all among
the colored brothers.
1t is understood that the sound
money democrats are to refuse to
go into the Dudley primaries.
Chicago is going to try sterilized
air instead of ice for preserving
foods. Contracts signed.
Maher is said to be all right for
business, his eyes only slightly in
famed.
There were over sixty miners
killed in that Newcastle, Col, ex-
plosion.
The schooner Willie Ann, over
due. two weeks at Galveston, is
supposed to be lost.
Jackson and Walling will not be
moved from Cincinnati Jail at
present.
Columbia, Harvard, Cornell and
Pennsylvania universities arrange
for a four-cornered boat race.
Nine-year-old daughter of far
mer Barton, near Dallas, burned
to death.
Twentieth annual bench show of
the Westminster kennel opens in
New York.
Terrible storms are reported on
the coast of Maine, and in Mis-
souri, it is the coldeSt of the sea-
son.
Westminster Gazette wants Eng
land to reply speedily to the Amer
lean proposition for joint commits
sion.
1t is reported from Venezuela
that England will accept the boun-
Diary fixed by the American COM
mission.
Lily White committee meet at
Waco and select Houston for the
state convention, which is to meet
on April 20.
All the powers have, at the re-
quest of the sultan, recognized the
legitimacy of Prince Ferdinan d in
Bulgaria as ruler.
The Fifth congressional district
of Texas has a harmonious repub-
lican convention. Delegates were
Instructed for Mckinley.
Cuban funds to the amount OF
$l5,OO0,000 can be negotiated on
condition that United States ac-
cord Cuba belligerent rights.
Brownson Literary society of st.
Edwards college, Austin, passes
resolutions of respect to the men,
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