San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-17
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bling houses at Navasota.
Corbett purchases four racers
and will establish a stable.
Failures are reported at Cotulla,
Pilot Point and Texarkana.
10 Chamberlain receives an ova-
ton at Birmingham station.
Buenos Ayres passes bill grant
ing bounties to sugar exporters.
Peru moves for an offensive and
defensive alliance with Argentina.
Holmes grocery store and the
Wise hotel burned at Smithville.
Mrs. Lucy Clemmons suicides at
Fort Worth because the man Of her
choice was not willing.
Postoffice at Nevada, in this
state broken into and robbed of
$3.50.
Oscar Allen arrested and jailed
for attempted outrage near Gains
vile.
Chicago captures the democratic
| national convention and July 18th
is the date Of meeting.
Whitney, Harrity and Hill are
charged with conspiracy to nomi-
nate Cleveland for a third term.
Meeting Of the Texas state re-
publican committee is called to
meet at Dallas on the 30th inst.
Populist national committee is
in st. Lonis to select the place for
their national convention.
1t took twenty-nine ballots for
democratic committee to select
place to name their candidate in.
New Canadian cabinet sworn in
with Sir Mckenzie Bowel as pre-
mier.
Uncle Sam thanks John Bull for
his kind offices in behalf of Ameri-
cans in the Transvaal.
Many San Salvador exiles arrive
in New York; among them fourteen
women.
German reichstag discusses the
proposed grain monopoly, but
there will be none established.
Between fifty and sixty arrests
have been made for treason in the
Transvaal.
The pope makes a Semi-official
proposal to act as arbitrator in the
Venezuelan affair.
Queen Vic's letter to the sultan
in behalf of the Armenians was
couched in the mildest terms.
The Anglo-t rench agreement as
to Siam is signed, and both powers
refrain from armed advance.
Jamison and his crowd will be
handed over on terms approved by
the British government.
Italians in Fort Makalah are out
of water and the Abyssinians have
them at their mercy.
Stanley says it is arbitration Of
| the Venezuelan matter or war
with America sooner or later.
Business men in Samoa rise in
rebellion against President
Schmidt.
Eight members of the democrat
ic national committee favor third
term, and nine want Whitney.
Williamson county prohibition
lists meet to perfect county organi-
zation.
The deadlock in the Mississippi
Legislature over senator continues
unbroken.
Collamer Clothing company, of
Waco, executes deed of trust to Sc
cure $l0,741.
The w. G. L. U. select San
Francisco as their meeting place in
October.
Mexico hot heads want war with
the United States because she SYM
pathizes with Cuba.
New York legislature has a bill
for the representing of the state at
the Mexican exposition.
The examination of Superintend-
ent Whatley, of the Texas peniten-
tiary, is in progress at Richmond.
DIR. T. G. Moore, drunk and disor-
derby at Oglesby, is shot by Con-
stable Lawrence, who gave himself
up.
New York democrats declare
that they have neither presiden-
tial candidate nor platform to put
| out.
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London Graphic proposes to
make the Monroe doctrine matter
of treaty between Great Britain
and United States.
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