San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08
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athletic club today. The obj is
| to discuss new league to promote
purer amateur athletics.
/ MILWAUKEE, Jan. S.-Eugene
Debs will receive rousing recep-
ton here today IL the plans do not
| fail. The laboring force will unite
and bury differences to make the
visit of the strike leader memoir
able.
OKLAHOMA City, Jan. S.-A
statehood convention will be held
here today. Most of the district
conventions have been we'll attend
ed and the people are united in de-
claring for immediate statehood.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-The General
Society of the United States Daugh-
tiers will hold its annual meeting
at the Everett house today. Mrs.
Flora Adams Darling, the founder
of the society, will today retire
from active work, owing to the
deafness which rules her out OF all
public offices.
PREsQUE ISLE, Me-, Jan. S.-The
Maine State Pathological society
and the State Board of Agriculture
will join in holding a union fruit
growers meeting today and tomor-
row. The program will consist OF
lectures and papers upon the fruit
industry of Maine. There will also
be an exhibition OF Maine fruit.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. S.-A
state convention Of school direc-
tors will be held in this city in the
Supreme court chambers today
and tomorrow, to discuss the ques-
ton OF school management and
consider the proposition to organ
ize a permanent state association
OF school directors.
NEW YORK, Jan. SC. Oliver
Iselin sails in the Normania to-
day for the yacht racing season or
the Mediterranean. Quite q num-
Der of New York yachtsmen will
gather there during the regatta
season in March. William X. Van
derbilt and party will be there.
and +. ID. Morgan, the third MEM
Der Of the Defender syndicate, will
probably also be over there.
CHICAGO, Jan. S.-A meeting OF
the joint committee, composed OF
the presidents and general man.
ayers of eastern lines, has been
arranged for today in this city,
with the end in view Of passing
upon the decisions Of the commit
tees OF eleven each from the freight
and passenger departments OF the
Central Traffic association thst
these departments should be con-
tinued.
JACKSON, Miss, Jan. S.-Hathorn
and Wade, who murdered the for
mer's wife, will be hanged here to-
day, unless there is an eleventh
hour communication or reprieve.
Their crime was one OF the most
atrocious in the criminal history
of the state. Wade claimed that
he had killed the woman under
fear of death at the hands Of Ha-
thorn. Mrs. Hathorn had borne
her murderous husband eleven
children.
ALBANY, Jan. S.-The State
Board of Charities will consider to-
day the charges against SuperiR-
tendent Pierce, OF the Westchester
Home fer Destitute children. The
charges arose from the running
away of an inmate, fourteen-year-
old Harry Weeks, who walked ten
miles with heavy irou letters on
his legs. The boy claimed TO have
been cruelty treated. After the es-
cape OF Weeks other stories of
cruelty in the institution were cir
culated.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. S.-Elab
crate preparations have been made
for the Inauguration of Governor
elect Lowndes today. The Fifth
Regiment Veteran corps will act
as escort. The ceremony will be
in keeping with the importance OF
the occasion, 1t being twenty-eight
years since republican filled the
chair of the chief executive of the
state. The Young Mems Republi-
can club will play a prominent part
in the inauguration, and many
other republican clubs will be pres
emit.
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