San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-25
TOpAYs EVENTS.


The Southern Baseball league will
hold a meeting here tod ay to elect
officers for the coming season and
make out the schedule Of games.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Jan. 25.-The
Father Elliott Temperance society,
claiming to be the largest temper.
ance organization in Ohio, will cele
brate its first anniversary here to-
morrow. A number of prominent
Catholic clergymen will be in at
tendance.
Boston, Jan. 25.-An indoor ath-
letic meeting, under the auspices
Of the Massachusetts Ninth Regi-
ment Athletic association, will be
held tonight at the armory. The
entries are all open to any one be-
longing to military company In
America.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 25.-The
championship skating race Of the
National Amateur Skating associa-
tion in connection with the winter
carnival will begin Monday and
last three days. Champion j. s.
Johnson will not attend, and it
looks as II the contests would not
be decisive.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 25.-The
republican "love feast" here Mon
day and Tuesday will be by far
the largest in the history OF these
biennial assemblages. The city is
already swarming with.narty men,
as on the evening of inc 9th the
meeting Of the State Central COM
mittee will be held.
Boston, Jan. 25.-The annual
meeting Of the New England milk
producers union will be held here
today. Every town shipping milk
to Boston has been invited to send
representatives to the meeting.
Some action will probably be taken
on the alleged discrimination Of
railroads against shippers.
Ell PAso, January 25.-The City
Ministers union has sent circular
letters to all religious papers in
the United Stats calling on pastors
of evangelical churches and Christ
ian Endeavor societies to unite in
prayer tomorrow that God may
prevent the er-Fitzsimmons
fistic carnival from coming off, ana
save Ell Paso from disgrace.
NEVADA, O., Jan. pa rather
unique feature OF western political
methods is the "straw vote" which
has been called to take place here
today, to express preference for
presidential nomination and TO ex-
press by ballot the voters views on
free silver. Every qualified voter,
regardless OF politics, is entitled to
vote.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 25.-The
state board OF agriculture expects
to be in session here today despite
the tangle in which it has been in {.
volved. The last legislature took
steps to abolish the board, but the
members refuse to be abolished.
The governor may refuse to recog-
nize the board.
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 25.-The most
important duty that will fall upon
the directors of the American
Whist league when they assemble
here Monday will be the decision
which they then must make in re.
gard to the system to be adopted
in the tournament for the Hamil'
ton and American Whist league
trophies at the Brooklyn congress.
CHICAGO, January 25.-That the
presidential campaign is on is
shown among other ways by the
fact that a meeting will be held at
the Great Northern hotel today for
the purpose of organizing the
Business Mems Mckinley club Of
Chicago. Arrangements will also
be made to receive Ex-Governor
Mckinley when he comes here as
the guest of the Marquette club.
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 25.-The sew.
enth annual banquet Of the Rhode
Island Business Mems association
will be held this evening at the
Narragansett hotel. Among prom
inent guests will be Mayor HI. s.
Pingree, OF Detroit, who has been
a shining light in originality dur
ing his term of Office, and whom
his friends slate for every position
from governor Of Michigan to pres
ident.