San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-10
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Bryan and Sewall club organized at
Hondo City.
Commodore Perry's statue is unveil-
ed at Erie, Pa.
Ahmed Ben Mussen of Morocco is
reported poisoned.
Hill as yet has given no sign of his
political intentions.
Annual confederation Hoo Hoos is in
session at Nashville.
Theater Del Progresso burned at
Monterey. Total loss.
New United States torpeo boat
launched at Bristol, r. /.
Vice President Hobart gives his letter
of acceptance to the press.
Heavy freight wreck on the Texas
Central near Clear Creek.
Batesville school opens for the term
of seven and a half months.
Cleveland keeps as mum as an Oys-
ter over all matters political.
Wages to be advanced on the Lon
don dock or strike will follow.
Dr. Nansen returns to Christiana,
Norway, and is royalty received.
C. o. Orrick, county clerk of Live
Oak county suicides at Houston.
The rumor of a new campaign in
Abyssinia is without foundation.
Two Mississippi farmers fight a duel
with winchesters and one is killed.
Chairman Jones goes to New York
to see Hill and Treasurer st. John.
Silver men of all parties are holding
concurrent conventions in Colorado.
Special train of Vermonters make a
trip to Canton and call on Mckinley.
The American delegates are on hand
for the trades congress at Edinburg.
News by DIR. Castillo in person from
Cuba is favorable to insurgent success.
Teller addresses large crowd in the
Grand Rapids, Michigan opera house.
Bank of England advances the price
of bar gold. American gold unchang-
ed.
D. NJ. Smith, of the Fourth Kentucky
District is nominated on the 10O1st bal
lot.
Pennsylvania regular Democratic
convention will support Bryan and Sew
all.
Indications are that there were 50,-
900 fraudulent ballots cast in Arkan-
sas.
Secretary of War Lamont casts in
his lot with the sound money Demo-
Gratis.
Bourke Cochran declines a proffered
nomination to congress by the Repub-
licans.
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts
put out two full tickets state and ma
tional.
Rebels are said by the Spanish to
have been defeated in the Philippine
islands.
John Ridley burned to death in the
burning of the house of ]. Stevens, at
Forney.
The annual parade of the Sons of
Veterans at Louisville was an impos-
ing affair.
Juarez is alive with Mexican soldiers
to repel the reported raid on the Gus
tom house.
DIR. Miller, of Dallas, convicted of
malpractice and sent to the pen for
seven years.
A host of Democratic guns of greater
or less calibre are announced for the
western field.
Connecticut will put full sound
money state and electoral ticket in the
field this fall.
Car and Czarina are in Copenhagen
and are received 'by the King and
Queen and notables.
Sam Jones is out in an open letter
to the Georgia machine directors in ia
vor of fair ballot.
Blockade on the Carthagena rail-
road is raised. The port of Colon is
blocked with cargos.
Severe storm raging on the New En-
gland coast. The first West India
hurricane of the season.
Land Commissioner says there is no
need of hiring agents to transact your
business with that office.
Galveston Judge holds that the re-
corder has the right to try state
case. Decision appealed from.
Democratic convention at Corpus
Christi is in session. Will endorse sill
yer and nominate Kleberg.
New Jersey Democratic convention
whistles down the attempts of gold
standard delegate to speak.
Nearly one hundred assignments as
speakers for the Republicans in the
west have been made Of late.
John, son of Maj. J. B. Armstrong,
had his leg broken on the Santa Ger
trudes ranch, below Corpus Christi.
w. S. Foreman of st. Clair, accepts
the nomination to the governorship OF
the Illinois sound money Democrats.