San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-29
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Methodist general conference at
Cleveland adjourns.
East st. Louis relief committee i.-
sue an appeal for aid.
Senate further discusses the bill
prohibiting the issue Of bonds.
British ship Black Bass puts in
to Montevideo in leaky condi-
ton.
Alex Epson gets five years at
Galveston for killing Nettie WILL
Jams.
Two more trains in Cuba are re-
ported destroyed by the insur-
gents.
DR.. Duff Brown of Llano is Sc
riously hurt by his horse falling
on him.
Dan Stuart is not telling Corpus
Christians anything of his plans
at present.
Culberson's nomination without
any serious opposition is accepted
now in Texas.
Firebugs destroy a school build
ing in Austin, and have set several
others on fire.
Davis, negro porter, at Lockhart
depot Nj. X. d T., is arrested for
stealing from the till. He has
taken In the past six months $3.50.
Alto Vista hotel, on the blud be-
low Corpus Christi, is to be con-
verified into a sanitarium.
Dallas is again moving on Wash.
ington In behalf of Trinity river
navigation.
The national prohibition conven-
tion dominates j. p. lowering, of
Maryland, for president.
Platform Of the prohibitionists
includes only the prohibitive
plank, leaving out free silver and
suffersge.
There are threats of q boltin the
prohibition party on account of the
rejection of free silver.
Boilers representing 25 states
leave the prohibition camp, headed
by st. John, and organize.
U. s. engineer corps are ordered
to give all assistance with their
boats at st. Louis that is possible.
Fire breaks out In the Kremlin,
Moscow, but 1t is put out without
much damage resulting.
Cap. Napier's column meets a
force of 1.500 Matabeles in the
INA district and kills 200 Of them.
Animated discussion on the
indian appropriating bill takes
place in. senate, upon criticism OF
the conference report.
Hays county populists will make
q strong effort to nominate Glass.
cock again In the next convention,
Williamson county populists
will support DR.. Reddin Andrews
for congress in the convention.
A. Dumont arrested at Houston
charged with firing the furniture
house of HI. Waddell.
Culberson addresses a crowd Of
1000 at the Valentine picnic and
races, Marshall " EE
The Gar replies in the most
cordial terms to the congratula-
tions Of France.
Austin is to have a skilled elec-
tricisn and machinist at the head
of her water and power plant.
The mayor of Laredo calls a
court OF inquiry to look into
charges made against him by @. G.
Pierce.
House concurs in senate amend
ments to the sundry civil bill ap-
propriating $685. 900 for st. Louis
public building and $43, 900 for Lit.
tie Rock building.
Jim Tubs kills CARING Downing
at a farm q few miles from Bates
Vile. Both were convicts.
Rev. H. G. Rogers is jailed at
Bowie, Tex, charged with criminal
outrage on a 7-yesr-old child.
United Commercial travellers
open session at Cincinnati with a
large attendance.
Excellent wheat crops are re-
ported In the counties along the
Kerrville line OF the SAP and
north.
Weyler orders joan Augustine
shot. He was caught trying to
pass the Spanish line.
Nearly all the leaf tobacco that
Cuba has for expectation is already
out of the country.
English newspapers report the
loss of the steamer st. Louis in
stead of the town.