San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-02
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEPED AND
BILLED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

Whitelaw Reid and wife are special
ly invited to meet President Mckinley
and party.
Captain and crew of wrecked Amen-
can schooner Belle Hoffer, arrive in
New York.
Three prisoners saw their way out of
the Uvalde county Jail.
The peaceable character of the strik-
ing miners, even when assembled in
masses of thousands is causing most
favorable comment.
Production in the West Virginia
mines and along the Baltimore and
Ohio lines greatly decreased.
United Labor league will raise pro-
visions and money for the strikers.
Puddlers and manufacturers at
Youngstown agree as to scale.
Members of the Jewish trade unions
join the Debs Social Democracy.
Pants Makers strike affects $50 shops
in New York city.
New Jersey pottery men want an adj
vance in wages.
Four citizens of Carlisle, Ind, are
drowned and one ground fine under a
locomotive wheel.
Miss Davy, the parachute jumper,
at Austin, comes down in the dam lake
and has a close call.
Bike crank riding a wire stretched
70 feet above the ground is killed at
Brooklyn, N. Ys
The League of American Wheelmen
meets in Philadelphia this week.
Reports Of the insurgents attack on
the suburbs Of Havana confirmed.
Steamer Alki arrived at Seattle from
Alaska, reports large colony at Dyea
for the gold region.
Golden Rod Silk company of Patter-
son, N j., closes doors on account of
labor troubles.
Feast of Portiuncula celebrated by
the Catholics in st. Joseph's church,
Galveston.
European comment is very general
on England's remuneration of the Ger
man commercial treaty.
A new commercial treaty between
Germany and England is thought very
probable.
Germany considers England's aban-
Comment of the commercial solverein
the first step to protection.
Reports from Simla show that the
revolt among the natives is spreading
and the British reserves are ordered
out.
Allied fleet will prevent by force the
landing of Turkish troops at Crete.
Native tribes on the Nile have a
pitched battle in which thousands are
reported killed.
Danube floods are not abating and
great damage to crops and river prop
erty has been done.
Porte presents new articles for the
peace agreement and it is not yet
| signed.
Money is very cheap in the London
market and loans are made at low
rates.
Portuguese are cleaned out by the
natives in the vicinity of Delagoa bay.
Great Britain abrogates its CONNER
cial treaty with Belgium, but is ready
to negotiate another.
British forces make complete head
way against the natives in South At
RIGA.
Japan contemplates the abolition of
all export duties after this year.
Several pirate junks sunk by the
Chinese fleet.
The Beers are charged with supply
ing the Matabeles with arms.
Maulvia Sidayat Rasoul, Indian
prince, who assaulted Queen Victoria,
is jailed for year.
The protest of certain of the Euro
pean nations against the new tariff are
being published.
Gov. Hastings is after Matt Quays
| seat in the Senate.
Hubs is arrested at Scottdale, Pa.
charged with the murder of a non
union man.
Rate Of exchange at Monterey Is
raised to 225
Sunday was hot day. in several OF
the states the mercury touching the
century mark.
A more general strike of the West
Virginian miners is predicted early
this week.
Forty life saving stations on the At.
lantic, out of service for two months
are remanded.
Mrs. French. of Moorestown, N. J..
celebrates her 103d birthday anniver.
| sary.
Santa Fe Hospital at Temple, is t.
have an X-ray apparatus.
Heavy cargo of freight and $50 golC
hunters sail from Portland to Dyea.
Mineral lands are patented in Alas
ka under the United States laws, nj
change.