San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-19
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
LATEST OFF TIE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete BpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.

Spain embarks 1900 troops for
Cuba.
State Senator McComb dies at his
home in Conroe.
Populist Watson is in Denver con-
ferring with Waite.
Hill & Co.'S lumber yard at Dallas
is damaged $4,000 by fire.
Tom Coe bitten by a RATHER near
Luling and is likely to die.
Kansas gold standard Democrats
select their electoral ticket.
Gladstone. favors petitiOning the
car in behalf of the Armenians.
Eleven trainloads of railroad peo-
pie leave Chicago to visit Mckinley.
Western railroads agree to advance
rates on freight to all Mississippi
river points.
Bryanites in Kentucky expect to
fuse with the .Populists, but have not
so done as yet. .
Seventy trainloads of people num-
bering $4,000, were landed at Canton
before noon yesterday.
Sound money Democratic campaign
opthS III ny NCll.
ner being the chief speaker.
There were 100000 present at Can
ton, Ohio, at the opening of the RE
publican campaign yesterday.
Several short speeches were made
to the different delegations by Nc
Kinley at Canton Yesterday and Thurs
ton and Bushnell addressed as many
as their voices could reach.
Bynum, chairman of the ound
money Democratic committee, places
the New York majority for Mckinley
at 100000.
Senator Smith, of New Jersey, can
not swallow the Chicago platform
and resigns. He is POpocratic state
chairman.
Elkin Cadets, of Wheeling, West
Virginia, call on Major Mckinley and
are heartily greeted.
Russia is inspecting the forts at the
Dardanelles, in the interest of Tur-
key.
First United States cavalry join the
chase for the Mexican bandits who
are raiding Mexican custom houses.
Private bank in Vinton, Iowa, of 40
years standing, fails for $4,000, with
S250,000 assets.
Lee Mcdonald, charged with MUIR
der at Red Lake, is run in at Ard
more.
Explosion of gasoline stove in
Galveston causes the burning of two
cottages.
Bryan is swinging around the circle
and reaches Richmond, Va, where he
is enthusiastically received.
Bryan claims that the gold stand
ard Democrats are not honest and
advises them to support Mckinley.
Reviews show no improved condi-
lions of business, but the outlook is
for improvement.
Three negroes arrested at Dallas
for disposing of mortgaged property
in Williamson county.
Stokes and Kent, arrested at Cuero
for the murder of the demented girl,
Jailed without bail.
Walter Slaughter surrenders at
Kennedy, claiming self-defence for the
shooting of H. Williams.
Demented girl who walks in the
middle of the road" found wonder
ing around Texas capitol grounds.
Austin is happy because four men,
bers of the state Republican cam
paign committees are from there.
1t is expected that Judge Cavin's
term will be renewed by the COVER
nor. 1t expires shortly.
The excursion steamer Ben Hur
at Austin makes the last lake eX-
cursion of the season.
Dallas cotton mills are having
trouble with their operatives over the
question of wages.
Dallas is making elaborate prepa-
rations for the Sovereign Lodge, l. o.
o. F., next week.
Simmons and Krausnick, st. Louis,
wholesale milliners, assign with
$4,000 liabilities, nominal assets
100000.
Japan has designs on the Phillip
pine islands and flags and arms of
that nation have been found there.
Bollingbroke club, London, offers
$4,000 for the Corbett-F itzsimmons
fight and $1,000 each expenses.
Wild engine collides with pay car
in Indiana, and engineer, conductor
and two firemen are killed. Paymas-
ter badly hurt and the other engineer
not likely to live.
VIM. Edmunds, aged IL, arrested
at Texarkana upon charges of bur
glary.
Lord Chief Justice Russell visits
Mount Vernon and the tomb of Wash
ington.
Navy department is trying to figure
out which is the lowest bid for the
new torpedo boats.
Awards are made for the three bat