San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-14
WRENOHED FROM THE WIRES.


Van Sickle Is elected alderman
in Galve ston to fill vacancy.
Fitzhugh Lee goes to Cuba to re-
place Consul General Williams.
Taylor county fair will have as
its special feature poultry show.
Georgetown Methodist church
raises $1,000 and pays all it's debts.
Irish parliamentary party are
not pleased with the new land bill.
Austin STATE lunatic asylum is
on fire, but damage is only obout
800.
There is meat famine in the in
terror of Cuba, and prices advance
in Havana.
Damon Jones gets fifteen years
at Houston for killing Prank King
last August.
Spain Is hot because American
juries fail to convict the filibus-
terers brought into court.
Judiciary committee Of the sem
ate report indefinite postponement
on the Maybrick resolution.
Crisp withdraws from his de-
bates with Hoke Smith, he says on
account Of his health.
Cullom says that he has not
withdrawn from the presidential
contest.
Congressman Clark OF Alabama
thinks that he is sure of the nom-
ination for governor.
Corbett says on the Chicago
stage that he is after Fitzsimmons
and hopes to force him to fight.
Rafael Negrette, Mexican, charged
with attempted rape on little
Mexican child at Galveston.
Small fire at the International
stock pens in Laredo is extin-
guished without much loss.
Prospects are favorable for the
erection of that Hancock opera
building at Austin.
1t is thought in legal circles that
the treason indictments in Pre-
toria will be quashed.
1t is reported that the Ninth
lancers have been ordered from
England to the Soudan.
The Russian press scores the
American attitude toward Spain
as unnecessarily unfriendly.
Gold bug democrats are alarmed
at the strength of the silver men
as seen in the delegates elected to
Chicago.
Cuban news has been suppressed,
but rumors are afloat OF real bat
tie in which the insurgents were
victorious.
Another cargo of rifles and
large quantity of ammunition and
dynamite landed in Cuba for the
insurgents.
New Irish land bill offered in the
house of commons. Ultimate pur-
chase by the tenant is the feature
of the bill.
Delinquent taxpayers in Atlas
cosa county are reported at 400,
OF whom not more than ten per-
cent are known.
Five men killed by the breaking
through the trestle Of a train on
the Bedford quarry road, near Bed
ford Junction, Ind.
New Mexico is almost buried
under terrible snow storm, &C.
companied with winds that pile up
the snow and block trains.
New York clergymen are pro-
testing against the arrival OF i'm
migrants In such numbers as to
interfere with American labor.
Cuban horses have been levied
on by the Spanish army authori-
ties and they will take all they
want. II not given up they will
be confiscated.
Spain thinks that diplomacy can
avert trouble with the United
States. She would be willing to
hear what autonomy this country
asks for Cuba.
H. Graves, Of New York, sues for
the delivery of 81, 100000 of the re-
cent advertised bonds that he bid
for, his bid being accepted. Car.
Isle is summoned to show cause.
Miss Linnett, Of Chicago, kills
Miss Throwbridge, of Elgin, ILL.,,
and then herself. Miss Linnett
had conceived a violent passion for
Miss Throwbridge, whic h was not
returned.