San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIBFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

the situation, and the Greeks will
abandon Crete.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee will
resign his office in October to take the
lecture field.
Railroad commission bill passed by
the Florida Legislature is a law with
out the signature of the governor.
Governor Rogers of Washington
makes wholesale removals from office.
Fee bill will be reported today at
Austin as a radically different measure
from the old one.
Increased mail facilities for the sub
urbs OF large cities are to be intro
duced.
| House will continue in session this
week to consider Senate amendments
to sundry civil bill.
| Senator Morgan will try to get a
vote on his Cuban resolution this week.
War steamer sent to Honduras to
look after American interests there.
River is reported rising at New Or
leans, but no serious fears are enter
tanned of safety.
Mexican cattle are being rushed over
| the border prior to the new tariff law
| taking effect.
Governor has appointed commission
ers for the purchase of the San Jacinto
battle ground.
Major Pollock's daughter at Fort
Clark is married to Senior Ignacio Bor-
da, City of Mexico.
Capt. Romeyn will only be repri-
manded for knocking down Lieut..
OBrien.
Major Mcnamara, Kansas City, sui
cides to avoid creditors.
Committees are appointed and ar
rangementS are under way for the Gold
miners convention in Denver.
Bill Headspeth, cOlored shot with his
own pistol, at Kyle is in critical con-
dition.
United States steamer Chase cOllides
with a schooner, but little damage is
done the schooner.
The dethronement and expulsion of
the Danish dynasty from Greece is de-
sired by Russia.
Greece is said to have asked the Sn-
PREVENTION of all the Powers, but it
lacks confirmation.
Greece asks permission to withdraw
some of her forces in Crete.
Turkey will not relinquish her hold
on Thessaly' without recompense, and
Russia will back her
Turks want another battle before the
Powers can intervene and stop fight
ing.
Greek squadron has rescued many
women and children on the coast of
Epirus from the Turks.
VassOs has escaped from Crete, but
ho hnI no r1 n 1nHL-a tho allied
Heet '.iN RTsIS,i$ - ts&
The indemnity asked for by Turkey
will not be less than $SO,OOJ,0O0
w. Hallett Phillips, prominent law
yer and clubman of Washington,
drowned bathing in the Potomac.
Mrs. Duerling in a frenzy of religious
excitement shoots four people at Low
ell, Ark.
Money in London is easy and seek
ing investment in every quarter.
Bill abolishing capital punishment in
Nicaragua is signed by the president.
william of Germany is trying to
strengthen his cordial relations with
France.
Paris unknown sends e37,5OO to the
bazaar in which the fire happened last
week.
Paris textile DneTCHArttS are lAoI o1
the new tariff bill in Congress.
Stables of the circus Meolire at Paris
are burned.
Serious riot with loss of life at Ma
drid elections.
Spain will endeavOr to borrow $780,
900, 900 with which to continue the Gu
ban war.
NJ. Faure, president of France. aban-
dons the idea of visiting st. Peters
burg.
The st. Louis Turnerbund closes its
sessions in a driving rain.
Shoe factory in North Dakota burn
ed: also large malt house in Detroit,
Mich.
Two locomotives smashed into old
| iron in a collision in Houston yards,
during fog.
Steamer Benedict arrives at st. John
after being a week in an ice foe.
The ship Frances, New Bedford,
burns to the waters edge off New
Jersey. Crew saved.
Burlington limited makes IS miles in
70 minutes, with one full stop.
Judge Thomas Ewing. of Pittsburg.
is dead. after 70 years on the bench.
The steel beam pool is reported col
| lapsed.
Waco is making extensive prepare
tions for her May queen carnival.
Henry Smith of Baltimore, tries to
lower the "a mile record and is ahead
of the record on the 14th mile about
four minutes.
Rev. Seasholes, pastor of the First
Baptist, Dallas, resigns Unexpectedly
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