San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-04
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete EpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.

Oh dSoih.
Gen Sanchez is dead. Former re-
ports are confirmed.
Reported treaty between Denmark
and Russia is denied.
Cardinal Satolli gets his red hat in
Rome, at the consistory.
French chamber rejects the Drey-
fus petition for new trial.
Reported disagreement between
France and Russia is denied.
Cumberland Presbyterian presby-
terry is being held in Austin.
England offers to lend the money to
reimburse the Egyptian fund.
National Council of Women of the
West holds session in Boston.
Sothern, the actor, and his leading
lady, Virginia Harmed, are married.
Mrs. Sarah Mink, president of the
Woman's Auxiliary, G.. A. r., is dead.
River tug at Memphis is held there,
suspected of being in Cuban employ.
New York National Democrats take
steps toward permanent organization.
Consul Lees son has seen the Com
petitor's prisoners and they are all
well.
Italy accepts the American regula-
tons as to Italian immigration pleas
antly.
Arguments in the Ward trial at
Memphis will probably be concluded
today.
Ellis county man sues the sheriff Of
that county for $11, 900 false impris-
onment.
The British Empire league holds a
meeting that elicits no enthusiasm, in
London.
Office of Home Brewing Co., st.
Louis, held up in daylight and robbed
of $500.
Gross governmental abuses are al
legged as the cause of the Uruguayan
rebellion.
Spanish press protests against the
American residents and their Cuban
sympathies.
Chippewa Falls is nearly out of dan
ger, the river tunnelling channel I'M
der the ice.
Masonic bodies at Houston postpone
the location of the Widows and Or
phans home.
The late storm on the southeast
coast of the United States was unus-
ually severe.
The Texas battle ship is not sue
cess and will probably go out Of COM
mission soon.
That Scotch whisky man denies that
he is engaged to the Astor daughter,
Mrs. Drayton.
Senator Gear, of Iowa, thinks little
congressional business will be trans
acted this session.
Corbett wants to fight either Shar-
KEY or Fitzsimmons, or both, first
come first served.
The strikers and warehousemen at
Bremen settle their strike. Hamburg
strike is not settled.
A socialist in the German reichstag
says that the emperor's ambition for
navy is too great.
Physicians in San Francisco are not
of one opinion as to Sharkey, some
think him shamming.
Three physicians who have careful
ly examined Sharkey say that he was
unquestionably fouied.
A column of Spanish troops aban-
don, their post and join the Cubans,
20 miles out of Havana.
Missionary Diaz, returned from Gu
ba some time since, has word of bril-
liant insurgent successes.
The courts will tell Sharkey wheth-
er he can have the money or not
Opinions are against him.
Wool Growers association of Texas
is called to meet at San Angelo to
send delegates to Washington.
Bank at San Francisco refuses pay
ment of the check for the Sharkey
fight under orders from the club.
Reports of the pope's displeasure
with the political utterances OF GER
tain American ecclesiasts are false.
That insurgent attack on GUIANA
baco was successful in the extreme.
The whole Spanish force was killed.
London wants to make a farewell
Christmas present to Bayard, but
does not know If it would be in order.
Contracts have been placed at Cleve-
land. o.. for lake steamers to cost
50, 2S5, 900. Seven steamers and nine
barges.
Senator Quay refuses to confer with
Philadelphia Business league as to
the United States senatorship from
that state.
1t is reported that Weyler, who
again went out after Maceo, has been
driven back with the loss of two rail-
way trains of supplies.