San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

their support 10 the Lone Sldr Inc.
The cotton worms are making mis-
chief in the Mississippi cotton fields.
State bar association of Texas is
holding session in Galveston.
The new tariff does not permit to-
bacco importers to weigh tobacco when
1t comes out of bond, it is weighed as
it enters.
Cabinet discusses the sending of
troops to Alaskan station, but finds
the matter impracticable, as neither
the president nor governor could issue
orders that would reach them in case
of an emergency until too late.
The armor plate companies stand in
together to refuse to supply the armor
plate at the price fixed by Congress.
President leaves for his summer va
cation, and will examine no papers
during his outing.
The battleship Indiana will be sent
to the Halifax dock to be docked and
cleaned. 3
Labor chiefs in session at Wheeling
denounce the injunctions of the courts
against assemblies of the miners and
arrange to hold meetings to extend the
strike in West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania.
Uniformity plan of settlement of the
strike meets the opposition in the oper-
ator's meeting.
Secretary Gage at the banquet of the
Boston business men speaks of the fl
nancial and industrial outlook most en-
couragingly.
State Chairman Blake of the Texas
Democracy denies his intention of re-
signing that office.
Tyler organizes a storm tossed
Democratic club with $50 members.
State Democratic committee meets in
Waco Friday to make up their pro-
gram.
Mercury at Temple rises to 107 in
the shade. Government instruments
show 104.
First sunstroke ever recorded at
Lampasas occurs there and results ia
tally.
New York exchange rises to 120 in
Mexico owing to the drop in silver.
Big fire in Yonkers destroys two hat
factories. Losses aggregate 100000.
Little town of Barstow in California
is wiped out by fire.
Santa Fe figures out drop of 2S
cents a bale for that road on cotton
transportation under the new schedule
of the commission.
Austin reports good rain, thought
to be general in that section.
Prof Ellis, of Massachusetts, is cleo
ted to the chair of Peabody at Aus
tin.
Five officers and fifty-siX men leave
Seattle for Circle City, Alaska, Aug
ust 5th, with provisions for year.
It is thought that a company of u.
S. A. soldiers will be sent from Califor-
mia to Alaska.
may be placed on all the gold taken
out at Klondike.
Bishop Potter sails for the United
States today.
The operators meeting was not call
ed to take measures to settle the strike,
but had refernce only to future uni
formity among themselves.
Pana, Illinois, miners are forced by
the strikers to quit work.
Southwestern lines will meet at St.
Louis on the 29th to discuss rates.
Ex-students of University of Texas
meet at Galveston, and elect officers.
American makers get the contract
for the material for the London trac-
ton road.
Miss Allen, of Chandler, o. T., is on
preliminary trial. charged with poi
soning her rival.
Hollow logs, supposed to contain
matter contraband of war seized at
Havana.
India railway contractors saved s4S,
800, or nearly Sc a ton by buying in
the United States.
Judge Noonan scores three postoffice
appointments for his old district.
Harvey Montgomery of Corpus, re-
instated as Chief Clerk of the railway
mail service.
Treasury officials think that the new
tariff is singularly free from ambigui-
ties.
Bolivian minister, Senior Louis Paz,
presents his credentials to President
Mckinley.
Bull fighters fined at Monterey, after
being arrested for cowariice in the
ring.
Rains last night covered large
part of the state. Fall insignificant
in San Antonio.
Yoakum celebrates her tenth birth
day birthday today.
Mexican dollars are quoted at Asa
in New York.
The Daniels killing, in Waco is
thought to have been a case of suicide
for insurance.
Martinez the Floresville rapist is to
hang Friday.
Houston man gets excited in scrap
and dies of heat. W. S. Miller is his
name.
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