San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-29
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Maceo's forces are on the alert and
moving in the direction of Mariel.
Kentucky distillers agree to discon-
tinue production for IS months.
Damage in Lafayette, Ind, by the
late storm is put at $4,000.
oklahoma stage robbers have not
yet been caught.
Del Rio Populists would like to
fuse on Gatewood and drop McRae.
A. o. U. w. of Texas is in session
at Fort Worth.
Dallas will ratify the Chicago NOM
nations on Saturday night
Swiss attack the Italians in Zurich
and cleans it out.
Hail i'm Indiana ruins crops over
tract ten miles square.
German steamer Itilis lost in China
waters with all on board save ten.
Pillaging Turks at Adomati, Crete,
are repulsed by the Christians.
Sentences of Irish political prison
ers will be mitigated
Situation at Buluwayo is considered
increasingly serious.
Harvest is short in the South Rus
STA grain district.
House of commons has an all night
session over the Irish land bill.
Bryan sends his picture but neglects
to send Watson's.
Michigan Pops, Silverites and Dem
ocrats mediate fusion.
Bryan keeps mum as to what he will
do with the Pop nomination.
Kentucky sound money men will
hold a state convention, August 20.
Reno Gazette, Nevada, is out for
Mckinley and Hobart.
Nebraska gold standard Democrats
will organize and fight Bryan at
home.
Gaudaur beats the oarsmen, includ-
ing Hanlon, at his ease in the Halifax
races.
Subject of international arbitration
is warmly endorsed in the Grunewald
conference at Berne. Switzerland.
Turks have pillaged and burned
many churches and raided villages in
Crete, numbering as they raid.
The Reds again raise a riot and
stampede the Socialist convention
being held in London.
President Pierola, of Peru, sends a
most encouraging message to con-
gress
Dynamite bomb picked up on the
table of the Four Seasons restaurant
in Galveston. No owner found.
Chicago seamen on the lakes give
shipmasters their option of a scale or
a strike.
1t is said that Cleveland at last rec
ognizes that the United States should
interfere in Cuba.
Wyler offers $4,000 reward for in
formation that will lead to the seiz-
ure of filibuster steamers.
Federal injunction against freight
war ON the Seaboard line is thought
to be faulty.
Commercial fire insurance company
of Providence, r. l., forbidden to do
business.
Mark Hanna is holding Republican
conference and experience meeting in
New York today.
Republican campaign hand book
will be out in a few weeks, the finish
ing touches are going on.
Chicago university presents McKin-
ley with his own bust, by Nierst, the
sculptor.
Tennessee Populists in convention
stand by Tom Watson. 1t is Watson
or no Bryan.
Sewall and Watson will be left to
take their chances in the electoral col
lege.
Mark Crawford, section foreman,
lynched near Upton, Mo-, for at
tempted outrage on a young girl.
]. +. Greenwood kills his brother
in-law, Puryer, at Rockdale, and sur
renders to the sheriff.
Reports continue to be received at
Pittsburg, Pa, of the awful work of
the late storm.
Miners boarding house swept away
by the flood and several are drowned,
near Cecil, Pa.
Sunny South lumber mills near Tex
arkana destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
600.
Nelms, of Georgetown, says that
Bryan is Populist in fact, Democrat
only in name.
Gatewood, of Eagle Pass, is being
boosted for candidate for congress by
the Democrats.
Marion Williams claims to have
measured Bryan and he fills the Pop
ulist measure.
Sayers has selected Col. JEFF. john