San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-03
wRENOHED FROM THE WIRES.


for Mckinley.
Recent storms in North Queens
land have done $1,000, 200 damage.
British admiralty want $4,000
600 this year for naval increase.
No event in years has so stirred
Europe as the action in recognize
ing Cuba's belligerent rights.
Dallas celebrates the 10th ami
versary of the foundation of the
republican party.
Galveston Historical society and
the Daughters of the Republic cell
brate Texas Independence day.
Charles Carlton Coffin, noted
war correspondent, is dead, at his
Boston home.
Spain will send four cruisers
and a gunboat to Cuba without de-
lay.
Madrid newspapers are filled
with the strongest protests against
the action of the United States.
Barcelona is still greatly dis
turbed, and only the activity of
the police prevents mob violence.
Spaniards in Havana are indig-
nant over the action of the United
States senate, and talk war.
Brazil wants to arbitrate with
France the dispute over the Anal
pa country.
Nine republicans and eight DEM
ocrats voted against the endorse
ment of the Cuban resolutions.
Heavy floods are reported in
Mesopotamia. Great loss Of life
and property.
The United States war steamer
Alert has been ordered to Corinto,
Nicaragua.
Public debt increase for Febru-
airy was within a small fraction OF
sixteen millions.
United States is arranging for a
coaling station in the vicinity OF
the Cuban coast.
Cleveland officially announces
that he would not accept either a
nomination or election to his pres
ent seat.
Republican congressional con-
ventiou to elect delegates to the
Austin convention has all the
elements of the party represented.
Vienna journals think that Spain
will keep her hands off the United
States, and that her only hope is in
victory over the Cubans.
1t is reported that Russia will
expel, at the request of the porte,
all English and American mission
aries from Asia Minor.
The house of representatives
passes the resolutions recognizing
the rights of Cubans by vote of
263 to II.
United States Supreme court de-
cides the Stanford case adversely
to the United States, and in favor
of Mrs. Stanford.
English journals are comment
ing to the disparagement of the
United States, on the recent action
in the senate.
The students in Madrid are tur-
bulent and extraordinary precau-
tions are taken to prevent an out
break.
Seventeen vessels in the port of
Townsville, Queensland, foundered
in the recent gale; one went down
with passengers and crew.
Frank Irion, absconder from
Houston with funds of the H. f.
& w. Il. road, is arrested. He will
not be prosecuted.
German papers regard the action
of the United states as indicating
an intention to figure more in
international politics.
1t is thought in Berlin that
Spain will find European allies in
her war with the United States, if
war results.
j. p. Massey, late cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants National
bank, is under arrest, with j. b.
Tucker, for misappropriating $4,000
of the bank funds.
Senate refers a resolution asking
Information as to the torturing of
a Spanish citizen in Cuba to eXtort
information against a citizen Of
the United States.
The Spanish minister at Wash
ington says that the Cuban rebel
lion would have amounted to moth
ing had it not been egged from
this country.
After six hours hard fighting
the Nicaraguan rebels are defeated,
leaving 500 dead and wounded.
A portion of their artillery was