San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-22
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Farmers alliance ut Galveston en-
dorses Bryan.
Charles Dickins, the son of the great
novelist, is dead.
Rockport is trying to recuscitate the
| Arkansas Yacht club.
Bryan visits Omaha and is accorded
a splendid reception.
Commercial treaty has been signed
between China and Japan.
Severe fighting with the Matabeles
is reported at Matappa hills.
John Wesley Harper, senior of the
Harper publishing firm, is dead.
Debs wires the middle of the road
men that he is coming to st. Louis.
Sutro, mayor of San Francisco, says
that the Populists must unite on Bry-
an.
Populists are as little united as ever
over the program and bolt is prob
able.
The New York Times will be sold
on August 3 and the paper reorga-
nized.
Buffers selection is not considered
a victory by the Bryan and Sewall
crowd.
Bryan's friends will accept the APP
pOintment of Butler as temporary
| chairman.
Cooper wins the bike race from
| Sanger in two straight heats at To
| ronto, Can.
Williamson county will hold Repub-
lican convention at Round Rock on
September 1.
Ten lives and much property lost
in cloud burst at Benson Greek, near
Frankfort, Ky. :.
| Hoke Smiths honest money journal
| at Washington.
Beeville reports another generous
rain and cotton prospects the bright
| est ever known.
Middle of the road PopuliSts hold
| Il mass meeting, but there is no def
mite action taken.
| A IS to l gavel is presented to the
| Georgia delegate.
Miss Margaret Lloyd, Cincinnati, is
| married to her bethrothed on his death
| bed, at his request.
Wreck on the Chicago and Texas at
| Murphysboro Injuries twelve persons,
| two of them fatally.
Western Union is working 20 wires
out of st. Louis to supply the east
| with convention news.
Majors Opera house burned at
| Terre Haute and most of the block.
Loss over half million.
Silver convention is held in Music
| Hall today, it will endorse Bryan
| and Is to / and adjourn.
Mckinley is resting quietly in Han
| mas home at Cleveland. He will not
| take the stump this fall.
Bryan would not accept the st.
Louis nomination with Populist
yice-president hitched on.
Populist convention assemblies to
| day in the hall where Mckinley was
nominated five weeks ago
| Ignatius Donnely would take the
| nomination of the middle of the road
| Populists, if rendered him.
Houston takes the first prize in the
| B drill, X. of F., at Galveston and
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Middle of the road Pops. meet at
Texas headquarters and denOunce
| Butler, but agree on nothing.
Bryan gets a 47-pound watermelon
| from Georgia, and Mrs. Bryan caryes
| it for the home press gang.
Dallas county issues two calls for
| Republican convention and organizes
a Mckinley and Hobart club.
Fifth district Democratic commit
| tee meet at WhitesbOro today: conven-
ton at Pilot Point August %.
Kearby is proposed as the middle of
| the road candidate for temporary
| chairman of the Pop. convention.
| Some packages of dynamite seized
| in Havana. give color to the report
| that the insurgents intend to blow up
| the city
| There is a row over the allotment
| of convention tickets at st. Louis dis
| elimination being made against those
from distance.
Meeting of gold standard Democrats
being held in Chicago to decide the
matter of another convention. Ten
states are represented.
Populist nominee of the party for
| governor of Maine denounces Sewall,
as supporting gold bug Democratic
candidate for governor against him.
Butler, of North Carolina, is slated
for temporary chairman of the Popu-
list convention by the Bryan faction.
He will be opposed in the convention.
Passenger and freight rates are
tumbling on account of rivalry be-.
/ tween Seaboard Air line and Southern
Railroad company in Maryland and
Virginia.
The poor half world of Fort Worth