San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-22
WRENOHED FROM THE WIRES.

to consult Mckinley.
Washington press train reaches
home from st. Louis.
There are 1000 factory hands on a
strike in st. Petersburg.
Three men killed and one hurt in
train crossing in New Jersey.
Dowager, empress of China, mother
of the present sovereign, is dead.
Three people drowned in crossing the
Muskingum river near GAINESVILLE, o.
Spain is greatly troubled over the
declarations of the st. Louis platform.
Altgeld has the state of Illinois grab
bed and the convention Will be run by
him.
Mckinley passes a quiet Sunday
and attends church at his own place of
worship.
Whitney is in favor of bimetalism
and says that all Europe is getting
ready for it rapidly.
New York State Democrats are in
session to elect delegates to the Chica-
go convention.
Flower, Murphy and Hill will be
three of the New York state delega-
ton to Chicago.
Illinois Democratic convention has
every thing in readiness to carry out
llS 10 " ploSiaii'
Hobart sees nothing in this cam
paign but Mckinley and protection.
He says Hobart does not count.
Nominee for vice-president, Hobart,
is enthusiastically cheered on his prog
ress through the state,
No arrangements as to campaign
headquarters for the Republican party
have been made as yet,
hn Ennw
whether Mckinley will make any cam
paign speeches or not.
Brice will be conspicuously absent
from the Democratic convention to
| meet in Chicago.
lot Gunther is loaded for Land ON
! missioner Baker and will fire into him
| at the convention.
Williamson county delegates are a
little mixed over the financial plank
| of the Democratic party.
Joe Sayers is conceded to have a
| walkover for the nomination in his
district on a silver platform.
The storm at Poughkeepsie had little
| effect on the boat houses of the racing
| crews.
Brooks comet is discovered on it's
periodical return by the Nice observa-
| tory.
France takes in Madagascar out Of
| the wet and the island is a French
| colony. Slavery is abolished.
Great demonstrations in London
over the arrival of the foreign fire bril-
| gades for the fire tournment
Canadian elections held Tuesday.
| The school question is the all absorb
| ing one.
The rebel Mahonas are burning and
| looting in the neighborhood of Sails
bury.
Madrid Liberals will introduce a mo-
| ton to censure the United States into
| the chamber of deputies.
Three persons killed and several
| others injured in a riot among butch
| ers at a convention in Council Bluffs.
The oil can will be freely used in the
Texas State Democratic convention
| this week.
London Daily News urges the gov
| eminent to promptly settle the Vene-
| zuelan business.
| Budd Orr lynched for outraging the
9-year-old child of Gwynne Tucket
near Chattanooga.
Trouble on the Newfoundland fish
ing banks between the natives and
| French fishermen.
| British do not relish the foreign re-
| lations' plank Of the st. Louis plat
form.
Mollie Moore jailed at Schulenburg,
charged with killing her s-year-old
child.
When the car returns 10 st. Peters
burg 10000 workmen will, on their
knees, memorabilia him on account Of
| their grievances.
The Pops in the Ninth district are
more disgruntled over the nomination
of Parson Andrews than they were
over that of Glasscock.
Doodle and southern jealousy are de-
clared to be at the bottom of Evans
failure TO secure the vice-presidential
nomination at st. Louis.
Katy and Santa Fe roads in Texas
are slashing excursion rates. Fares
down to 81 from Waco and Temple and
a meal thrown in at the Beach hotel.
Kelso does not satisfy Judge Gate
wood by his letter in reply to Gate
woods demand for certificate of fair
dealing on his part at the New Braun
fels convention.
Crowded cars passing each other on
parallel tracks in Philadelphia su-
burb jam the crowds hanging on the
sides against each other and 20 people
are injured, nine of whom went to the
hospital.
William Whitney, who still declines
to be a Democratic candidate for pres
dent, or even a delegate at large to
Chicago, issues a paper covering the
present financial foolishness of the
party.
Lorenzo Dow Mckinney orders his
funeral while in good health, and the
funeral is conducted right throughsave
the coffin and corpse business at Ports
mouth, Ohio. There were 5000 present
to do the old mans bidding and bid
him goodbye, after which he and they
went home.
Capt. r. G. Ware left for Austin
this morning.