San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-24
WRENoHED FROM THE WIRES.

I ptudiC ldhtS up UhO NSS ASA"NA'N
appropriation bills.
Negro lynched at Emporia, Tex
as, for insulting ladies.
Pension case of Judge Long has
been restored TO the docket.
A fire destroying half million
of property occurs at Colon.
Populists are ready for fusion at
Austin with the republicans.
Minnesota republicans are in
session today to elect a state dele
CATION to st. Louis.
New MexicO's delegates to the
republican convention at st. Louis
go uninstructed.
Tennessee democrats will hold
only one state convention, for all
purposes.
District conventions in Illinois
and Massachusetts, declare for Nc
Kinley.
B. D. Knox q Co., of Greenville,
assign, with about $50, 900 preferred
credits.
Kendall 4 Jones, one of Hous-
tons oldest liquor houses, is closed
by attachment.
John Mills Burlington dies at
Philadelphia, aged 81. He was the
hero of four American wars.
Chief Civil Service Examiner
Webster is dead. He was 81 years
of age.
Virginia districts, as they hold
their conventions drop into line for
Mckinley.
Terrible explosion in mine in
the outskirts of Duboise, Pa, kills
fourteen.
Consul Waller consents to waive
all claims for damages and will be
released.
Tom Reed is to come out on a
| gold platform to offset McKinley's
bimetalism.
New York republicans are in
session and will put MOrton's name
squarely before the people.
Bayard will not be officially
notified of the vote of censure
passed, unless Olney does so.
House takes up the bill to ahol-
ish the death penalty, save in two
cases, under the statutes.
Bill passes to authorize the leas-
ing of Arizona lands for educa-
tional purposes.
The Cuban resolutions in senate
are committed to the conference
committee without debate.
Three boys killed by the cannon
ball train three miles west Of
Brownsboro, Henderson county.
Quincy announces as candidate
for temporary chairman of the
state republican convention.
Reporters are excluded from the
meeting of the republican eXecu-
tive committee at Austin.
Judge Makemson, of William
son county, says that the party is
in a hell of a fix at Austin.
J. W. Dearmond, in the peniten-
tiary at Brooklyn, n. Y, is to be
returned to Texas for a Territory
| murder.
Naval appropriations commit
tee temporarily passes the build
ing of three dry docks; no funds
the cause.
House committee on elections
reports favorably the bill for cleo
ton of United States senator by
the people.
Executive committee of the re-
publicans of Texas adjourned last
night without naming the tenn
porary chairman.
Mckinley boom is launched in
New York at Cooper union. Meet
ing large and enthusiastic. a Nc
Kinley league was formed.
Olney is before the foreign rela-
tions committee as to damages to
British citizens through seizure by
United States authorities of seal
trespassers.
| PopuliSt convention TO noml-
nate congressman for the Eleventh
district vacancy meets in Beeville
tomorrow. Elgin will probably be
nominated.
John Rutherford convicted of
the murder of ThoS. Dwyer, at
BRENNAN, last January. His three
accomplices are on trial and will
be convicted.
Employees of the treasury de-
partment outside Of Washington
will hereafter be allowed leave of
absence in the same manner as