San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-28
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete EpitOme of the Days Happer-
ings, Briefed and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.

Iron Gate canal opened at Orsoya.
Servia, today.
Anti-Masonic congress begins SEES
sion at Trent.
Colorado river is running five feet
over the dam.
Anglo Egyptian expedition proceed
ing up the Nile.
Two men killed in railroad collision
near Wilton, Pa,
John Slomas' jewelry strOre robbed
of $3.50 at FlatOnia.
Miss Willard appeals to Amenri-
cans for Armenian aid.
Joseph Z. Summer, railroad clerk
dies of congestion at Houston.
Sympathizers of Irish political pris-
Oners met in Tiperary yesterday.
Two business blocks burned in Mer.
rimac, Mass, caused by cigar stump.
Odd Fellows excursion to Mexico
stops over to see the dam at Austin.
French ambassador at Constantine
pie notifies the sultan that reforms
must at once be put in force all over
the country or his government will
take a hand
American securities are in strong
demand with an upward tendency in
London.
Dowager CZarina starts on her re-
turn home from a visit to her parents
the king and queen of Denmark.
Tom Watson receives a threaten
ing anonymous letter which he gives
to the press for publication.
Gen. Huston. ut Austin, says all
is harmonious with the state Repub-
leans now.
knowledge of Republican-POp. fusion
in this state.
Ira ii. Evans, fifth man to decline
the legislative nomination. on the
fusion ticket at Austin.
Bryan spent yeterday at SewalPs
home in Bath, Me-, and left this morn
ing. accompanied by his host, for
New York
Consul General Lee secures re-
lease of two American prisoners,
Small and TOlOn, in Cuba.
j. w. Henderson, Cincinnati city
official and prominent politician, ar
rested for embeZZlement.
Wolf & Bro, biggest wholesale dry
goods house in Little Rock. are push
ed to the wall by creditors.
Parkhurst preached ut his church
in New York yesterday for the first
time since returning from Europe.
He took politics for his sermon and
says that free silver and Reputation
is treason.
Rev. L. +. Russell, Unitarian, quits
the pulpit to take the stump for Bry-
an and Sewall.
DR.. Merritt shoots DR.. Lock at Hen
derson, Tex. for calling at his home
three times in one night presumably
with murderous intent.
Thomas Kidd, aged Z, shoots and
instantly kills Carl McIlhenry, a Grip
pie, mt Wooster, Ohio, for striking
him with his crutch.
Main building Mount Holyoke fe-
male college, South Hadley, Mass,
valued at $150,O00, burned to the
ground. 1t will be rebuilt.
San Francisco sporting clubs wont
put up necessary amount for Corbett-
Sharkey fight and it will probably be
declared off.
! Carrie Homer commits suicide at
990uBg lou 5sngo9q PIX tIslSu!uns5M
wants to put off their wedding,
William H. Burns & Cos. under
wear factory burned at WOrchester
Mass. Incendiary origin.
Nine box cars wrecked and brake
man killed on Baltimore and Ohio
railroad near Washington.
Two men overturn a lamp while
fighting near Lansing, Iowa. and are
both cremated.
Eta Hawkins commits suicide in
hotel at Hartford, Conn. Unre-
quilted love the cause.
No lives lost in Saturdays water
spout at San Marcos, but property
damage amounts to $4,000 and the
river rose % feet.
End of wagon bridge at Prairie Lea
Caldwell county, across San Marcos
river, washed away.
Congressman Mcguire, of Califor-
MIA. addresses the Trades Union at
Dallas.
Harris Boone, negro, shoots Au-
gusta, Ga, city marshal, and is mobb-
ed by angry citizens.
Good rains reported in almost all
sections of the state.