San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-10
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete BpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and Boiled.Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.


in London.
A man killed by electric wires at
Tam ico, Mexico.
Kansas City sound money demo-
Gratis hold big rally.
Bryan and Sewal club is organi-
zed at Corpus Christi.
Prospects OF wooden mill being
constructed at Laredo.
Chas. Mill, constable, way laid
and killed near West Point, Tex.
Hanna starts for Chicogo to be-
gin campaign operations FOR the
west.
Massachusetts state democratic
convention meets in Boston, Sep
TENDER 26.
The seventeenth annual l.. A. w.
race meet of Louisville, KY, be-
gins today.
1t is said the commercial treaty
between Germany and Japan has
been approved.
Henry Taylor fatally injured by
his horse falling on him, at juno
ton City, Texas.
Effie Smith, a Fort Worth sport
ing woman, attempts suicide by
taking laudanum.
Bryan, in Chicago, received cal
lers all day yesterday, aud kissed
hundreds Of babies.
Four men caught in the under
tow and drowned while bathing in
Benton Harbor, Mich.
Three men drowned by capsizing
of boat, caused by heavy wind
storm, in Detroit river.
E. f. Anderson goes a mile in a
minute and two seconds, awheel,
on plank path, in st. Louis.
Charley Ferguson, the Republi-
can colored leader thinks Grant
will get the state craftsmanship.
Thermometer registers 80 at MIL
waukee yesterday and eight fatal
cases Of prostration is the result,
Bert Claridge wins the cham
pionship at the Dupont powder
shooting tournament at Chicago.
Electric car becomes wild, jumps
the track, kills three people and
Injuries several others in Colum bia
Pa.
Reports from over the state
gathered at Austin indicate that
the cotton crop will be unusually
good this year.
Ninety.eight degrees Is what the
thermometer registers at Spring.
field, Mass, yesterday, the hottest
for many years.
Meeting will be held in Waco,
first Saturday in September to de-
wise ways and means for the pro-
lection Of fish and game.
Miss Alice May, OF San Diego,
and Miss Julia WATERFALL, OF Rock.
port, appointed to Sam Houston
normal for the ensuing term.
Eleven cars on Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway ditched near
Copeland, Texas, and Sam Wallace,
brakeman, is seriously injured.
American Tin Plate company re-
duce wages 10 per cent, which tho
union men will not accept. Nom
union men will fill their places.
Philip Singer, who shot his wife
dead, at Houston, and then at
tempted suicide by laudanum, is
still alive in jail, but very weak.
Three Italians found hanging in
a shed in Hshnville, La, the result
of a mob's vengeance, for the MUIR
der Of an old Spaniard several days
ago.
Standard bank of Toronto, gives
notice that after date all United
States silver certificates will be
discounted 10 per cent. Other city
banks will follow.
The st. Paul, one of the Pacific
coast steamship compsny's steam.
ers, goes ashore at Point Pilos, Cal.
The Santa Rosa goes from San
Francisco to her assistance.
The heat was intense in New
York city yesterday as well as in
all northern cities. Fifty-foul
deaths are reported in New Yorl
city; nineteen in Brooklyn anG
eighteen in Philadelphia, and more
or less in all the others.
A we'll man was taken to Schrad
er, the "divine healer" at For
Worth yesterday, whom he pre-
tended to cure. The man jumped
up and told him there had beer
nothing the matter with him. Tn
crowd jeered and threatened I,
make his "holiness" walk on tn,