San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-15
wRBNoHED FROM THE WIRES.

House does rushing business
passing pension bills.
Ned. Pettigrew kills his stepson,
George Betson, at Honey Grove.
G. G. Walcott, safe agent and a
high flier, leaves Houston in time
to escape arrest for forgery.
Plat has instituted war to the
death against Mckinley, and it
will be fought out.
Colored republicans in the south
meet in secret session to organize
against the lily whites.
Foster is declared the governor
elect OF Louisiana, by the legisla-
tive canvass OF the vote.
WidowFitzpatrick, insane, hangs
herself and her four children at
Ripley, o.
Thousands of settlers are wait
ing for the hour that opens the
Red Lake reservation, MINI.
M. E. conference will not in
crease its house bishops at this
session.
Secretary Ashley, of the Balti.
more Building association, arrested
f2r $4,000 enlightenment,
Spain is Respondent over the is
sue in Cuba, not being able TO Sc
cure the volunteers she expected.
England is proceeding very GIN
gerly in her remonstrance against
the Russian grab.
Chief Makali Of the Matabeles is
captured and so of his people
killed.
West Virginia instructs the state
delegates to vote for Mckinley at
st. Louis.
st. Louis convention committee
arrange for the distribution OF the
press seats.
Wolcott will not go as delegate
to st. Louis, retiring in the inter-
est of harmony.
The Wyoming republican con-
vention is in session and is a free
silver body.
The advisory board Of the A. P.
A. is in hot water over the ban
placed on Mckinley.
Texas state dentists choose Waco
as the permanent home Of the asso.
citation.
Employees of Salem knitting mills
are on a strike, owing to reduced
wages.
Peace conference committee calls
on President Cleveland and he
says he is with them.
Senate does not agree to conclude
the Dupont election case one way
or another.
Supreme Council Essenic order
closes session in Louisville and adj
journs.
Jury in the Jackson case return
a verdict OF guilty in two hours
after going out.
Scott Jackson's mother is pros
trated by the verdict that hangs
her son.
Cashier of the Buffalo, ILL.,, bank
gagged and bound and $1,000
taken in broad daylight.
Supposed remains of Lon Cham
bers, missing since early in March
found near Ft. Worth in a well.
Daily and Reed, Boston firebugs
confess to 65 fires, causing loss Of
81, 100000.
ALI Morris shoots Phil Harris al
Paris. Georgia Rose, the woman
in the case, is also arrested.
Spanish reports of the killing Of
hosts Of insurgents are again pub
lished.
Oregon makes 1878 knots OF
her trial trip and secures $175,00
bonus.
Spain protests to the power
, that the Cubans fire explosive bull
lets, and that they are bought il
the United States.
r Another wholesale arrest OF Ar
; menians is reported, following tn
: demand for the patr iarch's resie
: nation.
, County commissioners are il
: session considering free bridg
,, across the Colorado at Marbl
Q Falls.
l. The drill at Savannah goes brave
ly on. Washington and August
; are the contestants for the gres
prize.
The British steamer Woolwicl
:. ashore on the coast of Arabia
Is afloat, having been PARTIAL.
g lightered.
% Germany and France cannot q
n for their subjects, captured in O.