San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-31
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NAL.
The Salado Baptist association is in
session at Taylor
State A. o. U. w. adjourns to meet
next year in Dallas.
Texas Bar association is holding
session in Galveston.
Bryan's cousin is nominated for
treasurer of Oklahoma.
Democrats issue chart claiming
the earth for free silver.
Schrader is in Texarkana. and his
manager" is with him.
Republican headquarters in New
York are formally opened.
Work begins on the Mexican line
from Juraez to Mazatlan.
Galveston will close her saloons on
Sunday hereafter three hours.
Catharga, member of the Starr
gang, is hanged at Fort Smith.
Sewan smiles at the very absurdity
of the idea that he would resign.
Chicago has fifty cases of sunstroke
in hospital, ten of whom will die.
California bankers issue a pamphlet
against the policy of free homage.
Rate clerks, representing all the
Texas lines, are in session at Dallas.
Randolph Clark is the Prohibition
list candidate for governor in Texas.
A protective league has been formed
at New York by the American sports
men.
The Seaboard Air line withdraws its
cut rate of July Z, to take effect Aug
ust 8.
Grover denies that any arrange
ments for a new bond issue have been
made.
No arrangements for the disposition
of Kate Fields body have yet been
made.
North Carolina Democrats offer the
Populists a fair share of the electorial
ticket.
A cattle thief, a murderer and
highwayman break Jail at Alva, Okla
homa.
Eagle Pass Populists pass resolu-
lions asking Gatewood to run for con-
gress
Hail storm in Minnesota beats grain
into the ground over an area six miles
by ten.
Team of horses in Houston step on
live trolley wire and are instantly
killed.
That Galveston bomb, over which so
much fuss has been made, was not
loaded.
Lucas Johnson and wife fired on
from ambush near Augusta, Ark
and killed.
The louisiana sugar Republicans ig-
more overtures from the colored men
of the party.
National party, Bentley, presiden-
tial nominee, is getting ready for cam
paign work.
Heavy thunder and rain storms are
reported in Ohio, Pennsylvania ana
in New York.
Labor union delegates at London
have got rid of the Reds and are tran
sacting business.
House of commons will appoint a
committee to investigate that South
African company.
Kearby has not withdrawn from the
race for governor, but is still in the
middle of the-road.
Kelso is anxious to have Col. Fitch
nominated for congress and VIII
stump the district for him.
Treasurers report, l.. A. w, shows
a membership of nearly $4,000 and
s14, 545 in the treasury.
Strikers drive the Waterman away
from the old Pittsburg coal mine, Sui
Ivan. Ind, and set the mine on hre.
DR.. Carl Peters, formerly chairman
of the Colonial German society, quits
Germany for good. =
William Goode, engineer on the
Sunset, dies from heat as he left his
engine at Crosby.
Father Martenelli is announced as
the successor of Satolli in America.
He is in Augustin.
President Diaz is going slow on the
granting of concessions for any pub
lie works.
Two Frenchmen and three English
men, travelling in Madagascar, are
murdered by the natives.
Dreyfuss, Kuehen & Co., silk com
mission men, assign, with $4OO,OOo IA
bilities, New York.
John Dabney Morris, attorney gen,
eral of Texas while republic, is deau
at Hopkinsville, Ky.
San Antonio gets an allowance OF
s12. 300 for postoffice clerical labor and
Dallas $23,472.
Cleveland is out with another proc
lamation enjoining neutrality in Gu
ban affairs.
Wholesale charges of corruption
against the Chicago police are sus-
tanned by evidence secured.
Middle-of-the-road Populists con-
troll the convention in Missouri, now
in session.
Henrietta Webb arrested in Will
hanson county for beating her two
babies to death.
Four people killed near Nashville by
rowing into the path of a picnic
chute"
Explosion in a firework factory in
Vienna kills five, Injuries eighty ana
wrecks the town hall.
Thurston, of Nebraska, will open