San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-26
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Bugs and lice are devouring vast
acres Of cotton in Brazoris county.
johnson, the American cyclists
is again beaten at Paris, coming in
! third.
Failure of two Houston firms is
announced; liabilities $4,000 and
$1,000.
Major William Warner declines
to be q candidate for governor of
Kansas.
The projected cotton states ex-
position at Chicago is indefinitely
postponed.
James Boyken, in self-defence,
kills Tom Ivey at Orange. Boyken
was lighting switch lamps at the
time.
The cyclone that swept Iowa on
Sunday night reaped AZ victims,
principally in Jasper and Polk
counties and McGregor town.
There are five reported dead at
Durango, Iowa, drowned in the
depot, where they had fled from
the storm.
Oxford, Mich, is said to be liter
ally wiped of the earth by a cy-
clone. Death list unknown, may
reach several score.
Gslena, ILL.,, il damaged 500, 900
by the storm, but only one was
killed there.
Thirty houses demolished in
Mount Clemens, Iowa, but only
one person killed there.
Four persons killed and several
severely injured by storm at Rock
ford, Wis.
The victims that went down in
the storm near Pontiac, Mich,
number eleven, and may exceed
that.
| Reports Of additional victims to
the rising streams in Kansas and
Missouri are at hand.
Mrs. j. n. Powers, of Knicker-
booker, is arrested for the murder
Of her husband, killed last Deem
Der.
Alumni reunion of Sam Houston
Normal is being held at Hunts
vile, and proves most interesting.
Supreme court sustains the val
idity Of the sugar bounty acts of
the Mckinley tariff.
Supreme court holds that In
dams on their reservations are
amenable to the state game laws.
There was a clash between the
ministerial and lay delegates and
q stormy session Of the M. f. gen.
eral conference yesterday.
Southern Presbyterian general
assembly continues to do harmo-
NOUS work at Memphis.
The old Union depot and the
freight houses adjoining and the
hotel burned at Fort Worth.
Senator Hawley's fine home at
Woodmont burned, and the whole
place threatened.
Populists OF Lavaca county ig-
more the colored man entirely in
their convention.
The death list OF the Sherman
cyclone now reaches 81 and will
not exceed 65 when all is over.
Mayor Walters, of Hot Springs,
Ark, is held in the sum OF $4,000
for killing Harry Martin.
| Jefferson National bank closes
its doors. Could not realize on its
securities. Depositors will be paid.
Paris did not meet the PROPOSE.
tions of Midland Railway Green,
and the road will not 60 to Paris.
Mexico will admit free Of duty
$500 tons of corn for the states Of
Tamaulipas and San, Luis Potosi.
The latest slate is Mckinley for
president; Morton, vice president;
Quay, chairman OF the national
committee; Platt, boss Of New
York state.
The general deficiency bill is
passed by the senate as 1t was
amended, 1t adds 100000 to the
amounts Of the house bill.
House debates bill to repeal the
free alcohol for the arts, provision
of the Wilson tariff.
Comptroller of the treasury
Bowles, will Immediately pay the
sugar bounty ordered by the su-
preme court.
Huntsville prisoners make a bold
attempt to escape by dynamiting
the prison, but fail and one OF
them is shot by guard.
An Arkansas negro beats Mrs.
Ingram into insensibility and out
RACES her and her 10-year-old child.
Frank Norton, who is wanted in
hall q dnzan TaNaa COMMITTEES for