San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-20
WRENCHED FROM THE WIRES.

naval estimates !
Tarrant county republicans in
struct for Mckinley.
The dervishes may be heard OF
at Kassala at any hour.
General Weyler is in no mood to
resign his command in Cuba.
Frost has Destroyed the fruit
prospects around San Angelo.
Vote will be taken in the house
on the Bayard resolutions today.
In Oklahoma the primaries in
dictate a certain delegation for NC
Kinley.
Hon. &. 4. Levi, Victoria, is
mentioned as candidate for
Grains seat.
Mrs Corie Martin, suffering ON
account of i'll health, suicides at
Fort Worth.
France is not bit better pleased
with the British movement up the
Nile than at first.
Spanish soldier attempts the as
sassination of. American consul,
, Hall, at st. Johns.
British steamer Ethelred chased
by Spanish cruiser on her way
! north from Jamaica,
Brewster has not yet signified
his acceptance or rejection OF the
congressional nomination.
Texas street railway men close
session at Galveston, and w: FL.
Sinclair is elected president.
New York republicans are get
ting mixed and Platt is not havin
everything his own way.
Administration democrats in Ne
braska refuse to hold primaries on
the silver question.
Six Indiana conventions have
been held and three are uninstruct-
ed, and three for Mckinley.
France is disturbed seriously
over the agreement of Germany to
the Egyptian program.
All the dervishes on the right
bank OF the Nile are ordered to
concentrate around New Dongola.
Texas Cattle Raisers' association
create the office of traffic manager
and elect w. V. Newlin.
Charles Hoffman, switchman in
the Santa Fe yards at Galveston,
cut in two in the yards.
Cuban affairs were the order in
the senate, and the scene was a
lively one.
National conference called at
Washington to consider interna'
tional arbitration.
Orders out for the seizure of the
Bermuda by the American navy il
caught within limits.
| Germany agrees to the Nile ex'
petition, to please England rather
than France.
The sultan proclaims amnesty tC
Crete, including common law of.
tenders, as well as political ones
Three Cuban steamers loaded
with arms and ammunition will
be dispatched within six weeks.
Paris attorneys indulge in d
scrimmage with law books as am
munition and are fined by the
court.
Attempted train robbery in Cali
fornia and one officer and one rob-
Der killed, at Tulare. Four arrests
followed.
Private dispatches state that the
recently reported Spanish victory
in Pinar del Rio was a terrible de-
feat to Spain.
The arousing of fanatical war
spirit among the Soudanese will
initiate against the designs OF
France in the upper Nile country,
France, as a member of the fam
lily of European creditors of Egypt,
is not willing to pay any part OF
the present war expenses in that
country.
Justice Brewer is Of the opinion
that the Venezuelan difficulty will
be settled without disturbing the
relations existing between Great
Britain and the United States.
Benjamin Milliken, charged
with house-breaking with intent
to rape Miss Gertrude Phillips,
puts in a plea of drunk and utter
ignorance of what he was doing.
| The radical press in London bit
terly reproach the government in
to being led blindfolded into an al
lance which sacrifices Armenia,
and antagonizes Russia and
France.
Senator Gray makes hit on
Hale, whom he called the Senator
from Spain, and contends for the
original senate resolutions on Gu