San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-20
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete Bpitome of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and BoilediDown, up
to Time of Going to Press.

Bryan will speak at Cleveland on
the 31st as he returns home.
Democratic convention at Fort
Worth nominate the present state Off
GERS.
The face gets too hot for Mccall for
railway commissioner and he draws
out before balloting is done.
Chairman Dudley retTres from Of
flee, caned for his services, and Blake
gets it by reclamation.
Prof. Waggener, of the state uni
versity at Austin, dies in Colorado.
Cleveland officially announces the
Heather Ii the guest of the Nation.
Italian courts decide that Spain has
a right to purchase the armored ship
Garabaldi as against Argentina.
Iron mills and rolling mills at Iron
ton, o., resume work with 1,200 men.
Mexican dollars are down to 81
cents and silver bullion weak and
dull.
Argentine bank, state bank at Ar
gentine, Kan, passes in its charter
and closes doors, with $125,000 due
depositors and $4,000 of other debts.
Republicans have a. fay raising at
Portland, Me-, and Tom Reed is sere-
naded.
New York state Prohibitionists
make temperance the only issue.
Col. Sawtell is appointed quarter
master general vice Batchelder re-
tired.
Carlists who attempt to stir up
strife against the United States in the
Spanish chambers are squelched.
Pacific print works at Lawrence,
Mass, shut down.
Bourke Cochran is invited to speak
on the currency in Omaha by the Ne
braska gold standard league.
The Germans of Rockdale have set
apart October 9 as German Day and
a large celebration will be held.
Russia has ordered the making of
Vkadistock, a commercial port, and
engineers will commence work at
once.
Mrs. McAtwood, for 60 years res
ident of Travis county, is dead.
Dallas courts will have to decide if
negress can recover the property of
her white husband to whom she was
regularly married in Arkansas.
VIII Loser shot and seriously injur.
ed by Miss Rosa Walling, who is also
dangerously wounded by Losers gun,
at Killeen. Private quarrel over the
alleged Islander of the girl.
John Dennery and Philip Bodet
both of San Diego, file deeds of trust
to protect creditors. =
Burglars force a provision store in
Llano and carry off a wagon load of
edibles.
Tom Watson is in Dallas, or going
to be on Labor day.
Populists resent the insinuation that
they were after trade with the Dem
ocrats at Fort Worth.
]. NJ. Smith is in the congressional
race of the Eleventh district for the
Populists to stay to the end.
Call is out for a meeting of the
Democratic Congressional convention
of the Eleventh district at Corpus
Christi, September 10.
Nansen will make another try for
the pole, this time on sledge.
Ten of the crew of the British bark
Flora H. Stafford burned at sea
Five buildings in Buffalo and about
$4,000 worth of property goes up in
smoke.
Filemaker, the noted high jumping
horse of Madam Marantette, is dead
at Galveston.
During the artillery practice of the
French squadron off Toulon the flag
ship was riddled with fragments OF
shell.
Cleveland will not meet Ii Hung
Chang at Washington, but elsewhere
Bryan is reported to be contem-
plating stamping tour of New York
state.
Sound money Democrats of New
York hold convention August 81 to
send delegates to indianapolis.
Thurston says that Bryan's word
goes with him if he says that he was
not in the employ of the silver mine
owners.
Notice is received at the treasury
department of coming gold from Eu-
rope.
American Bar association is in ses-
sion at Saratoga.
Kentucky gold standard Democrats
meet today in state session.
WAR IN CONGO